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[nycfan]

Wonder how much Trump’s promise to provide financial relief and trade perks only if Milei wins has influenced voters.

 

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[BlooVooDoo]

Every one of them should be disbarred.

 

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[LeoBloom]

A friend of ours, who is a UNC professor, is on the shortlist for National Book Award for Poetry.

Creative writing associate professor’s book earns national honor | UNC-Chapel Hill

“The New Economy,” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, is a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry.

www.unc.edu

Awesome!!

 

[ZenMode]

We are apparently moving a carrier from the Mediterranean to the Coast off Venezuela

According to the AP the ships are there for a training exercise.

 

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[lawtig02]

 

[ZenMode]

What a week! America has definitely been made great again over the last seven days. This brilliant administration has, without limitation:

1. Torn down 1/3 of the White House without letting anyone know in advance;

It's a building. Who cares.

2. Kept the government shut down over an issue that almost 3/4 of Americans think should be resolved as the Democrats have proposed;

Unless I'm mistaken, Republicans have been offering a continuing resolution this whole time. In other words, they've been offering to do what the federal government does best and has been doing for a long time as it relates to the budget-kick the can down the road.

3. Accepted $130 million from an unknown source, potentially a foreign adversary, that will be used to pay our military;

The source is known and he's not a foreign adversary.

4. Committed multiple war crimes by using US military assets to blow foreign nationals out of the water without anything resembling due process;

This may or may not be true.

5. Deployed a huge percentage of our Navy to the oceans around Venezuela, which may be one of the least threatening places anywhere in the world;

The AP said some ships were deployed for a training exercise.

6. Attempted to force Ukraine to give up the entire Donbas in exchange for ... nothing? ... while Russia refuses to make any commitments whatsoever;

Trump has no power over Putin. He just wants to be able to say he ended another war. Either way, Donbas is likely lost.

7. Charged Letitia James for doing something that she did not do, but that at least two members of Trump's Cabinet did do;

That will be decided in court

8. Cut off trade negotiations with our largest trading partner and formerly friendly neighbor because they made an ad with an accurate video of Reagan calling Trump's economic policy spectacularly stupid;

The way Trump has handled tariff negotiations has been moronic since minute one.

9. Pardoned a guy who ADMITTED to using his crypto platform, which has raised Trump's personal wealth by billions of dollars, to facilitate massive amounts of money laundering; and

Another really dumb move.

10. Yet again, not released the Epstein files.

Congrats, Ram! Congrats Zen! Congrats Pandemic! This has probably been Trump's best week yet!

Well, the way YOU portrayed it - yes.

 

[lawtig02]

^ This is somewhat encouraging. If hardcore MAGA apologists like Zen can't come up with a way to defend 30% of Trump's actions after three days of 4chan research, maybe we're making progress!

 

[lawtig02]

According to the AP the ships are there for a training exercise.

You referring to this language from this article, which is not referring to the aircraft carrier?

US warship docks in Trinidad and Tobago, putting more pressure on Venezuela

A U.S. warship has docked in Trinidad and Tobago's capital as the Trump administration increases military pressure on Venezuela and its President Nicolás Maduro.

apnews.com

Government officials from the twin-island nation and the U.S. said the massive warship will remain in Trinidad until Thursday so both countries can carry out training exercises.

A senior military official in Trinidad and Tobago told The Associated Press that the move was only recently scheduled. The official spoke under condition of anonymity due to lack of authorization to discuss the matter publicly.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, has been a vocal supporter of the U.S. military presence and the deadly strikes on suspected drug boats in waters off Venezuela.

 

[ZenMode]

You referring to this language from this article, which is not referring to the aircraft carrier?

US warship docks in Trinidad and Tobago, putting more pressure on Venezuela

A U.S. warship has docked in Trinidad and Tobago's capital as the Trump administration increases military pressure on Venezuela and its President Nicolás Maduro.

apnews.com

Government officials from the twin-island nation and the U.S. said the massive warship will remain in Trinidad until Thursday so both countries can carry out training exercises.

A senior military official in Trinidad and Tobago told The Associated Press that the move was only recently scheduled. The official spoke under condition of anonymity due to lack of authorization to discuss the matter publicly.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, has been a vocal supporter of the U.S. military presence and the deadly strikes on suspected drug boats in waters off Venezuela.

Yes, that's the article. It doesn't say anything about the number of ships. I haven't seen anything describing it as a large amount ("huge percentage"), which is what you said.

 

[lawtig02]

Yes, that's the article. It doesn't say anything about the number of ships. I haven't seen anything describing it as a large amount ("huge percentage"), which is what you said.

The US Navy is deploying its largest aircraft carrier to Latin America. Here are all the ships it's sent to the region.

The deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, comes amid the US' escalating tensions with Venezuela.

www.businessinsider.com

"From destroyers packed with missiles to ships carrying Marines and aircraft, see 11 US Navy ships that have been deployed in the region."

Also, 14% of US naval power is now deployed to the area around Venezuela.

 

[ZenMode]

The US Navy is deploying its largest aircraft carrier to Latin America. Here are all the ships it's sent to the region.

The deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, comes amid the US' escalating tensions with Venezuela.

www.businessinsider.com

"From destroyers packed with missiles to ships carrying Marines and aircraft, see 11 US Navy ships that have been deployed in the region."

Also, 14% of US naval power is now deployed to the area around Venezuela.

Sounds like a small percentage.