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Either this is a based pope or this is a counter signal by libs, “see the new pope is American and he’s saying fags and rapefugees everywhere, take that Drumpf”
As i've said in the popewatch thread, if he'S globohomo then Vance will have a bit of work to make him bend the knee.
He's like 60, so we can expect a solid 20 years out of him
 
never figured out where in the bible it said
"Have a special ceremony where you talk in latin and act all overt the top with everything to elect 1 guy to be like top christian or somthing? idk just give him a fancy car and let him wave at people, this is HIGHLY CRITICAL TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE"
-John Chapter 1/2 Verse 20
 
Let's not forget another insane deal that UK signed with India just a week ago.

Any Indian nationals working in UK will no longer have to pay separately into NHS.

The US has a similar arrangement for foreigners.
For foreign STEM graduates there is an OPT F1 visa where companies don't have to pay the payroll tax for those workers for 3 years.
 
I'm seeing conflicted reports on how cucked he is. Someone knowledgeable on this subject please elucidate me so I know whether or not to laugh at Catholics for electing another retard.
He's more of a centrist figure within the Church, not terribly different to Francis but won't commit to either extreme.
 
I'm seeing conflicted reports on how cucked he is. Someone knowledgeable on this subject please elucidate me so I know whether or not to laugh at Catholics for electing another retard.


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There's like 3 pope threads bro.
Maintaining the 10% tariff allows America to compensate for not having a similar tax in place (unless VAT is present in some states and not others). I feel retarded for not considering this. Maybe Trump should bring it up more. I guess optics-wise it's not as bad as tariffs because it's applied indiscriminately to every company rather than entire countries, but it's still a tariff in all but name. It even applies to digital goods, at least in the UK, but at a lower rate (2% or 17%, can't find the actual figure). In a way it's worse than a tariff since it applies at any life cycle of the product/good being sold, rather than just being the entry fee for the good itself into the country. Crazy.
Don't feel bad, everyone has been programmed to accept rhetorical games. In geopolitics, economics, and the law, they still remember 'a rose by any other name.'
 
The last season of The Boys -- and Sausage Party come to think of it -- they were pretty explicitly "Fuck Trump" seasons.
Oh thanks you made me remember that the movie and show exist. The movie was funny for like 5 minutes and then the rest of the film happened and I was utterly bored, as for the show. Its like south park except minus all the good things people actually like about south park. Can someone explain to me why every fucking piece of media nowadays needs to have something about modern politics? Like Christ we get you show created “orange man bad” but can you please tell me a good story at least?
 
Overall I think the primary objective of the deal was diplomatic in nature. The UK rushed to get in first with negotiating something and show a willingness to play ball.

That said however, the UK's largest exports to America are engines and cars, the former of which we won't have to pay a tariff on at all apparently, alongside steel and aluminium. Cars will be charged a 10% tariff for the first 100k before rising up to match the level of everybody else at 25%. Not everything has been agreed on yet, such as pharmaceuticals (the UK's 3rd biggest export to America) or the digital service tax (which I'm sure Elon would be interested in seeing gone). Certain exports from America to the UK, such as beef, will see no tariffs up to the first 13k tons, which is likewise for UK agricultural/meat exports into America. It also still has to meet our food safety standards, so no corn syrup in soft drinks and whatnot.

If this enables local farmers in the UK to sell shit abroad easier and cut down on the costs of feed and fertiliser, then the outcome of this deal doesn't need to be contentious or viewed as an 'own' necessarily. A big issue with farmers in the UK is that it was always cheaper for foreigners to sell here than for us to sell elsewhere, if this lack of tariff on agricultural products up to a certain tonnage enables farmers to make a living again by allowing them to sell in American markets, then there's no reason for this to be contentious. It could be a win for the UK and the USA.
You still are getting a lot of new imports. Looks pretty raw to me bong. But it is better than that India deal I suppose.
 
The movie was funny for like 5 minutes and then the rest of the film happened and I was utterly bored, as for the show. Its like south park except minus all the good things people actually like about south park. Can someone explain to me why every fucking piece of media nowadays needs to have something about modern politics? Like Christ we get you show created “orange man bad” but can you please tell me a good story at least?

I actually really enjoyed the movie since I accepted it for what it was: A film created by and for people who are totally high. But yeah, the show was LITERALLY "orange man bad" and on top of that it was gratuitously gross and disgusting, and I'm fairly desensitized. But that show and The Boys last season were made in the leadup to the last election and "orange man bad" was far more important a message to impart than any actual story. Maybe in the next year or two people can lighten the fuck up in the writers' rooms, I hope. Not holding my breath though.
 
Fox News report: Satellite images reveal secret Iranian nuclear site. According to the report, the site has been operating for a decade and aims to produce tritium. This material is allegedly intended to assist in the production of nuclear weapons and is NOT related to civilian nuclear energy purposes.
Good on Fox for finding out what intelligent people have known for awhile now.

They grew up in a world that made sense. They're simply not equipped to understand the current one. This happens to all people who age, but i think it's particularly bad with boomers due to the internet split and the fact that they still assume the news has any incentive to be objective because it did when they were our age.
No, they did not grow up in a world that made sense. They only thought it made sense because they had no incentive to question things being fed to them. That notion didn't exist back then. However, the price for success and freedom is eternal vigilance and I won't excuse the generation that questioned nothing and took everything as fact just because they had filtered lenses to look through them. I won't excuse the generation who voted the Democrats into power sheely because voting Democrat was simply "the right thing to do". The tools were there back in the 70s to stop these things. People did talk about Soros. They were all labeled as crazies because normalcy bias turned them all into midwits. I think what a lot of you forget is that the Red Scare and Color War was in full swing when Boomers were 20. Most of your grandma's and grandpa's were hippies and communists and all victims of that brainwashing. It didn't just go away. That's why you see so many Communistic and Totalitarian old fucks today. They were the ones brainwashed by it.

I know a lot of smart Boomers and Gen Xers though and they saw nearly everything happening today coming years ago. Sometimes decades. All it took was basic thought and an ability to see actions and consequences and basic numbers. What they didn't see coming was the Deep State going full mask drop. What those intelligent people now are saying, is something I've had in the back of my mind for a long time. TPTB have no timeline, their only palpable threat is entropy. They can happily let this setback trend of populism happen, and give us our wins. In 20 years though, don't be surprised if our children end up right back where we started though.
 
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