Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Fox Business" channel.

  1. Good job, Gov. Abbott. The US needs a strong and successful Texas. The world needs a strong and successful Texas. Keep doing what you're doing!
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  2. I cut way back on Chinese goods. The result: I now own nicer stuff—that lasts longer. So maybe it's cheaper in the long run. Also long-lasting: The pleasure of denying Xi my financial support.
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  3. Biden: Pro-EVs Musk: Pro-EVs, anti-Biden Fox: "Sorry Elon, this one's tough, but we gotta go against Biden."
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  4. Very, very impressed that Fox would criticize its parent company, Disney. 👏👏👏👏👏
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  5. This man must be heeded. He's a rare sane voice in the public sphere.
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  6. To pick up on Gen. Keane's comment, it helps in understanding Ukraine's challenges getting supplies across the country to know that it's roughly the same size as Texas.
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  7. That thumbnail of Biden eating ice cream just makes my skin crawl. Unbeatably creepy and cringy.
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  8. The premier of Alberta, whose province ships 4.3 million bpd of oil into the US, says a 25% tariff would raise the price of American gasoline by $1 a gallon. Now: $3.04 With tariff: $4.04
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  9. I'm very glad Gen. Keane is having his say in public. What he has to say is terribly important.
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  10.  @johnc3525  His comment alone may one day result in punishment of some sort.  That's the sort of thing people are discovering in China when they try to, e.g., book a train trip online. These people won't be satisfied with the persecution of Trump and quietly fade away afterwards. They'll feel emboldened and empowered and they'll intensify and broaden such activities immensely.
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  11. Choosing Russia and Saudi Arabia over Canada is simply the dumbest idea in the world. Any country that stupid deserves what it gets.
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  12. Michael Shellenberger is the best journalist in the United States. In part it's because he's independent, self-supporting and works for no one. But mainly it's due to his extreme intelligence and unflagging integrity.
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  13.  @micahasher7600  You don't get it. The 14.9% limit is for board members. As he has decided not to be on the board, there are no consequences for buying as many shares as he likes. It would appear he intends to do just that.
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  14. It's the Justin Trudeau formula: Use as much taxpayer money as you need to get yourself re-elected. Don't spend it on the country, spend it on yourself.
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  15.  @outsideview9052  Did you just liken Canadian democracy to Russian 'democracy'? With all due respect, give your head a shake. Something in there needs to be rattled back into place. As for a "hefty transfer fee", US companies import something, process it, then export it, and you think this is somehow the original country taking advantage of the US unfairly? Wtf! It's simply American companies being in business. Besides that, 80% of Keystone oil from Canada is used in the US.
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  16. It takes a unique sort of arrogance to say "You are on the right side of history," as though anyone can speak for the people of future generations. Future judgment is just too unpredictable. Even twenty years ago people couldn't have predicted that the voters of Minnesota would one day elect such a poor member of Congress as Rashida Tlaib.
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  17. How do you know that number? If it's known there are 50k, why shouldn't we suppose there are actually 500k?
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  18. It's a real question whether Xi will permit Americans to elect Trump.
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  19. Obviously a good lad. A standout, not a sellout.
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  20. My mind is made up: Gen. Jack Keane is a very smart guy and a great guy as well.
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  21. As you know, in all English-speaking countries but the US, the system of govt. is based more on the local party representatives than the national leader. People don't even vote for the PM, they vote for the local house member. The party that has the most of those (most seats) becomes the govt. Its leader becomes PM. So the Liberals won the most seats, so they won a 4-year term. Now their leader resigned, and since the system is party-based, the party is entitled to the balance of its elected term. I wouldn't say it's perfect but I don't mind it much, because in such a situation, the replacement PM soon calls an election. Consider this: Nobody voted for JD Vance to be president, but if Trump resigned, he would be president. (Clearly Vance would've lost to Harris if they were the two presidential candidates. After all, she only missed beating Trump by 1.48 percentage pts.) So there's no such thing as an early election in the US due to resignation or any other reason whatsoever. But there is in Canada! And there will be one, probably in April, maybe May. The more one compares the two systems, the less questionable Canada's seems.
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  22. 2001: US is attacked, within 6 weeks Canada sends its special forces to Afghanistan, 40,000 more Canadians serve there over the next 12+ years, total cost: thousands of casualties and $20b. 2021: Biden kills oil pipeline from Canada, then begs for oil from best frenemies Saudi Arabia and Russia.
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  23.  @nobrainsnoheadache2434  NDP also at 17%. The current seat projections by poll aggregator 338Canada are: CPC 229, Li b 51, NDP 19. CBC Poll Tracker says 218, 60, 24. You're welcome for the lessons! Any time.
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  24. I am Xi Jinping and I very much approve this curriculum change.
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  25. A well-conceived comment. Thanks.
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  26.  @franmahy5782  Don't be silly. It isn't a chip implant, it's a USB-kinda-like port. It's not a processor, it's something so you can plug into a processor. Stop spreading misinformation. Moreover, you should look into why he's even doing this. When you find out I think you should be glad he is.
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  27. China not attack Taiwan, Philippines, Japan, Vietnam why? Protective US military presence in East Asia ...that why. There, understand now Chanfun/Sergei/Farshad/whatever?
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  28. Thanks for pointing out the relative insignificance of the $6bn in unfrozen Iranian funds. It may have been unwise and badly timed as a signal to Iran and the Middle East, but it's still lunch money. Virtually all Iranian strength comes out of oil sales. As usual, Kudlow's perspective is one of the very best.👍 And what a great communicator.
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  29. If you mean Ukraine in particular, it's important to realize that it's really money spent on and in the US itself, and moreover it represents a 99% discount to what the US risks losing if Ukraine isn't aided and gets wiped off the map. Compared to that it's lunch money.
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  30. A role model for anyone.
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  31. They say being in opposition is easier, and I suppose it is. Even so, this was a real show of analytical and rhetorical talent. I'm in admiration.
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  32. Noisome.
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  33. California just dropped a ton of fast food jobs because of the $20 law.
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  34. You need to round out that list. How about geography, physics, computers, drawing and painting, history, and a second language? Otherwise your point is great.
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  35. 👍Definitely! The art of deterrence is the art of peace.
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  36. That's not just gibberish. It's coded language meaning that your children really belong to the government, not you. It's a million per cent sinister.
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  37. Not only does the US have a vacant president but, as I've been saying, the office of US president itself is vacant.
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  38. Nation to Harris: Buh-bye!
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  39. The US and the West should have made China earn recognition. The CPC regime was a hundred times worse than Castro's, so why should the mere hypertrophy of its population have merited it any automatic respect or status while Cuba remained isolated? If anything it should have been the opposite: China should have continued to be viewed as a dire threat until it had amply proven otherwise by holding multi-party elections.
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  40. Latest poll: Conservatives 47%, Trudeau's party 17%
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  41. You: "Build a wall along the border with Canada!" Canada: "🙄Yes, definitely. Right away, please! Start tomorrow morning!"
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  42. That reminds me of a cool story. The head of McDonald's in another country was a Jewish man who lived in a posh neighbourhood in the country's largest city. On arriving home from work one afternoon, he noticed his neighbour sitting near an open window reading his newspaper. He heard him blandly remark to his wife that the man was home, using an anti-semitic slur. The next day the man arranged for an anonymous offer to be made for the purchase of the neighbour's house. The owner promptly took the offer and moved out. The man then had the house demolished and replaced with tennis courts.
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  43.  @BIlliE572  "Helping"? They are indeed 'helping': in 2023 and 2024 Europe provided most of the combined money/arms which Ukraine received as aid. Taking arms in isolation, the US has provided over 50% during all three years of the war. This is what bugs me about Republicans (and please note that I've never supported a Democratic candidate in a very long time). They shoot their mouths off indignantly before ever attempting to find out the facts of the matter. They regard their own and each other's guesses as facts.
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  44.  @swervedriver5260  Take heart. Tesla's popular Model 3 costs $39,990...minus a $7,500 federal rebate. Presto, $32,490. Then in some states there are more rebates. In Colorado it's another $5,000, so you end up paying $27,490. In California it's another $7,500, so you end up paying $24,990. Meanwhile the average selling price of a new car in the US is $48,275. (Source: Cox Automotive)
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  45. 👏Larry Kudlow for the next Trump cabinet!👏
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  46. She recently said cloud data storage isn't in any way physical, it's up in the sky somewhere.😮 Seriously.
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  47.  @eclecticmusica  Instead of bullying insults, you are invited to offer reasoned points of argument, if you can think of any.
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  48.  @PURE0FHATE  National security is the government's business, d.s.
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  49.  @wolfu597  Re-post that as a standalone comment. 👋👋
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  50. Nonsense. Crumbling security in Europe will vastly strengthen China, leading eventually but directly to the impoverishment of America. Use your head. What is being spent in Ukraine is a fraction of a penny on the dollar compared to what an easy Putin victory would cost the US in time, which is many, many trillions. The allocation is $40 billion ($16bn spent so far) out of a 2022 GDP of $23,000 billion. Are you kidding me?
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  51. If he invented the issue I might agree with you. But he didn't; the story is all over the place. That puts him in a position of professional obligation to address it with her at some length.
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  52. O'Leary's right about Trudeau's non-existent future, but I don't know what he's smoking regarding a Canada-US "economic union." About 2% of Canadians would support that. The rest just want to recover the country's strength following Trudeau's disastrous tenure. Hey Kevin, get some rest, see your doctor, take a vacation!
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  53. It's true, the world needs more Elon Musk.
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  54.  @princessbouldermall3381  As a princess, you should have one of your servants look up the word 'literally' for you.
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  55. S. Dakota governor Kristi Noem just ended it in her state with legislation she signed a few days ago. Chinese nationals can no longer buy agricultural land there.
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  56. I cut way back on Chinese goods. The result: I now own nicer stuff. And it lasts longer, so maybe it's cheaper in the long run. Also long-lasting: The pleasure of denying Xi my financial support.
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  57.  neil menace  'Great entrepreneur' is a term for somebody who makes $100m. He's amassed over 2,500 times that. It appears you don't get him. He hasn't given up on or abandoned anything. The Boring Co., e.g., is about developing the engineering for large-scale tunnelling on Mars and is proceeding just as fast as he needs it to. Hypersonic air travel is something that would take even a large country many, many years to develop, so I don't see how it's justified to call that abandoned. I grant you the Tesla smartphone appears to be shelved, but I would disagree that it ever had the status of "project." I'd say more like he explored the feasibility of it. As for getting his kicks, he can do that at the same time as accomplishing more in a day than you or I will ever do in a lifetime, so I regard it as something to admire, not a reason to take him less seriously. Let's not let envy get the better of us. It's insidious.
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  58. Yeah, on the way into Canada. As usual. The amount coming into the US from Canada is like the amount of TV shows and movies coming into the US from Canada. Barely measurable.
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  59.  @LawrenceMarkFearon  Yeah, I agree it should be.
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  60. 'Journalism' in 2024.🙄
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  61. Hey, stop selling and be candid. It isn't as though supply will actually decrease. It's merely going to increase less quickly. And it already only increases at a glacial pace. The total number of BTC is irrevocably scheduled to increase by only 10% over the next 116 years. (!) So even the current rate is so minuscule it's basically undetectable.
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  62. @ In fact 49.8% voted Trump in. And 34% is not "a big number federally"! Anyway, it was 32.6% last time; 33.1% before that; 39% in 2015. He could never even crack 40.😂
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  63.  @JeffCaplan313  Don't pretend this is about regulating behavior, Chanfun. It's about removing a lever for Chinese government interests in America.
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  64. Absolutely, totally, completely false. They will continue to sell the overwhelming majority of their oil in dollars. Although they decided to accept other currencies as well, and these are expected to be a small fraction of the total for many years to come. Also, most of those receipts would most likely be promptly exchanged for US dollars anyway. (Note that Saudi purchases of US Treasurys have been increasing, not declining.) Finally, it is widely rumored that the US and Saudi Arabia are on the verge of signing a historic security agreement, pulling the two countries even closer together from a defense perspective. Saudi Arabia is not turning its back on the US or its currency. Far from it.
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  65. Kudlow for the federal cabinet in the next administration!
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  66. @rb239rtr All of that just amounts to insults with zero reasoning to back them up.
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  67. 1) That's beside the point. She's a politician and the issue is the political fallout. 2) Stuart's not a dope. His job is to ask about politically trending issues, including personal ones.
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  68. We didn't hear from Joe Rogan. Zero commentary on him either. We got his picture and the words "That's bananas." Headlines everywhere are collapsing into the worst habits.
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  69.  @abcdefg3214  50.0% Indian, unknown percentage black, unknown percentage white.
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  70.  @NATHANFREDERICK-rs7yb  Ok Farshad / Vitaly / Chanfun / Ahmed ... 😂
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  71. BC isn't in Western Canada now? In the 2021 election the Conservatives got 35% of the vote in Ontario, 33% in BC.
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  72. Standing by is the wisest response if you don't have enough guns at the ready. See Second World War, Allied involvement in the first two years of, history of.
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  73.  @sharonblue4742  No, you go, actual know-nothing girl burning with classic girl envy.
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  74. Is there a way his nitwit brother can be added as a co-defendant somehow? Let's get them both out of our sight.
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  75. Something to do with his Canadian roots, I'd say. His mother is Canadian; besides that, he went to university in Canada for two years, he worked in Canada, his first wife is Canadian, and his latest significant other and the mother of his two youngest children is Canadian. I'd call him an honorary Canadian—but he is in fact a Canadian citizen. And as he knows quite well, Canada was one of the freest countries ever, until Trudeau came into office. Musk recently compared him to Hi tler.
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  76. Energy & food imports from Canada & Mexico total ~$250bn a year. Look for the tariffs on oil alone to add about 1% to consumer prices. Gasoline is ~4% of the CPI and will likely rise by 75¢ to $1/gallon, or 25-33%. Then there's autos, auto parts, lumber... Remember, tariffs are paid in the importing nation. Enjoy!
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  77. I'm wiith you on that, my bitter anti-Twitter sister. Elon f'ed up though, suggesting Twitter might drop the 'w'. Shoulda suggested they might drop the 'ter'. 😜
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  78.  @JamesBonda-8621   "Supply chain is dynamic" You're telling me exactly what I'm telling you. The world is re-engineering its supply chain, and will succeed. Chinese manufacturers will see their share of world trade falling, and that they are being replaced. "China has the advantage" China is busy squandering its advantages, and merely to benefit Xi and his sycophants in the Party. Now is a good time to invest in the stock markets of other Indo-Pacific countries. "China has been sustaining a good lifestyle for Western nations" With tea towels, headphones that don't work, shoes that last six months, and Fentanyl, you mean? "But that might come to an end soon" I hope so.
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  79. In fact, polls on the trucker protest showed a clear majority of Canadians supported PM Peter Pan. They obeyed the left-leaning mass media, who backed him 100%. The mass media, not the politicians, are the leading power in Canada. The tide turned 18 months later in 2023, when media backing began to fade.
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  80.  @rongarcia2128  That's an unbelievably narrow take on it. Twitter is an extremely valuable piece of communications, cultural and civic infrastructure. Make no mistake: despite his having a laugh or two along the way, Musk is very much in earnest and regards it as a very serious matter. He does indeed have the future of the middle class in mind, and the other classes, too (unlike you, apparently). If you don't consider free expression vitally important to the future, I urge you to think about it more. For my part, I am thrilled that money is being invested in it, that Musk is willing to risk part of his fortune on an intangible civic good. Musk makes practically everything into an occasion for fun, no matter how sombre and grave. Others would be well advised to try doing the same.
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  81. ​ @HS-zk5nn  Yes, because their answer to every problem is to create a worse problem. E.g., so many people in prison for shoplifting and meth: stop arresting people for shoplifting and meth. Too many kids dropping out of school: lower the standards by half or more. Very nearly all of the worst social problems of the present lifetime are the result of well-left-of-centre 'solutions'. You realize it the instant you stop fighting the reality in front of your eyes, which I alas did for years, thinking it was all part of being 'nice'. (It isn't at all.) Cheers, HS.
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  82.  @Sam19509  33.1% and 32.6% of the popular vote in 2019 and 2021. Don't talk to me about history.
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  83.  @deepakbhana8937  Funny you should say "your party" when I don't have one. But if you meant the Conservative Party, they beat the Liberals in votes in both 2019 and '21. hahahahaha
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  84. 😮30% of Californians believe the border is secure. 😂Can you imagine their other beliefs?
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  85. When I watch a Kudlow video, there are never any other Kudlow videos in the tiled thumbnail suggestions after it's over. So here it is: They know I watch Kudlow videos. But they'll go out of their way to avoid helping me see any. That ain't right.
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  86. Potato isn't the greatest choice of word. Potatoes, after all, are quite popular. I'd say he's more of a turnip.
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  87. Nearly any watch costing more than a few thou is vulgar. So are the really large ones.
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  88. We will. Wait about 100 days.
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  89. It's pronounced "EE-lon", not "ə-LON". You also say "adult" strangely. The "u" sound is like the "u" sound in "null", not "pull".
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  90. Ford is struggling with EV production and loses gigantic money on each sale, so this Ford dealer could pretty much be expected to say all this. That point about bridges sounded extra-phony. Bridges have their limits but aren't sensitive to minor added weight like 1000 lbs. a vehicle.🙄 It's fine to hear her point of view, but let's be realistic about her interests. Come on, Fox.
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  91.  @shelleyhanson9793  My post was made to the original poster, not you. And since he used a mixture of caps and lower-case, it's plain that bad vision wasn't his reason. Btw, clearly you were able to read my reply to him, and his original post. Story doesn't check out, madam. Methinks the angry lady doth t ro ll a little bit.😂
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  92. One day soon it will be announced that X is vastly expanding its interface and other capacities to begin video hosting on a great scale. When that happens, this place is done.
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  93. Shameless exaggeration. Total US aid to Ukraine has been $109bn ($45bn/yr).* Please, honesty and accuracy are important! * Source: Kiel Institute Ukraine Aid Tracker, Aug. 6 data release
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  94. Right. Anything except letting Putin pick up Ukraine like a sack of carrots is war-mongering. Your evil rhetoric makes any decent person puke. Punk.
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  95. Trumpflation
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  96. Putin's 'concerns': "No country bordering on Russia shall be able to defend itself from my drooling, psychotic, paranoid rampages. That's because Europe and the US intend to invade and conquer Russia like the bunch of Russophobe Napoleons and Hitlers they are." "Ludmilla, pass me my drugs. Oksana, put on that ballet outfit again. No wait, the gymnast one. Oh, is that mic still on?"
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  97. Retailers should be forced to put a Chinese flag sticker on the front of every item imported from China.
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  98. No one knows what the unemployment rate is — because no one knows what the population of the country is. The reason, of course: The Emperor has no brain.
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  99. You're absolutely right.
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  100. Dems and "progressives" last year after taking over: "More stimulus is opposed by Republicans as inflationary and irresponsible. But Republicans are evil and I can prove it: here's a photoshopped illustration of Republican senators with horns coming out of their foreheads. Therefore, let the trillions fly." "Wow, we're so good, and so right."
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  101.  @promethiac2641  Considering just whom you're libelling, I must say that smacks a bit of fanaticism.
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  102. "Premiers" isn't prim-YERZ. It's PREEM-ee-erz. It's got nothing to do with the debut performance of an entertainment production.
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  103.  @jasonjackson5696  I would speculate it's once every two or three years. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.😂
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  104.  @ameliam7898  Yes. I have a great appreciation for him, too. I wish I'd known of them both many years ago, instead of only in the 2020s.
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  105.  @geeetube1  That's so rae of you. And also cyst. In fact Elon Musk emigrated from South Africa as a teenager to avoid having to enforce Apartheid as a soldier. He left the country and his father behind, took his $2,000 in savings, and never looked back.
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  106. Jojo should get back...to where he once belonged: on his front porch in Delaware, shaking his fist at clouds.
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  107. But it's the people's fault if they trash any politician or political group which steps forward to make this an issue. Saying that it's sad for them frames them as having a child-type dependency on the grown-up politicians when in reality, as voters, they're the grown-ups themselves!
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  108. The Real Poland: Abandoned? Ha! They spent their riches and spilled the blood of their best people to come help us.
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  109. Legit pro-Pootin oddball.
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  110.  mr oko  Do you boycott China 100% yourself?
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  111.  @1pcfred  Bull. American refiners make an absolute mint on Canadian oil. Do your reading.
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  112.  @georgehenderson7783  Five-plus minutes is very standard for a TV news interview of a public figure. Unless it's important, and this one really wasn't.
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  113. Biden fans simply do not exist.
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  114.  @josflorida5346  One, eh? That's quite a high number. As Paul Fussell would say, 'if you meet another, you may stuff and exhibit him. He's a rare specimen.'
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  115. Yes, because if he waited until hostilities began China would no doubt react by instantly expropriating Tesla's factory.
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  116.  @joehalliday6081  Pearl Davis calls them "crazy lady glasses"😂
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  117. No, he said best case scenario is $2trn, realistic hope is $1trn.
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  118. Considering how people are in 2024, it's not at all unusual that the Counter Sniper Team Leader failed to think of getting Trump out of harm's way. Everywhere, throughout every day, there are now vast numbers of people in all walks of life failing to realize what's sensible. It's all part of what I call The Great Dumbening.
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  119.  @JamesBonda-8621   As for scale, the capacity which Western and other countries paid for in China they can now pay others to create—and are. As for who those others are, to name the countries that produce alternatives to Chinese goods would take too much time and space. Concerning quality, you sound a bit undiscriminating for someone who calls himself James Bond.
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  120. @channelofstuff Sounds right. The wealth of 60 years ago was sustainable only through sensible and united action. That didn't happen. Half the country decided to take drugs, 'find themselves', explore their personalities, try new child-rearing techniques ("Yay! You're awesome! You can do anything! Yay!"), watch TV, play video games, borrow money, commit crimes, read junk, and so on. Meanwhile the rest of the world gradually got its act together. It all adds up to a much lower standard of living on its way very, very soon.
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  121. Oh but Biden does have horse sense. Only it's just part of the horse—starts with 'a,' ends with 'ss.'
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  122. What you said is incredibly condescending to poor people. My jaw just dropped. And I'm sure you don't even know why that is, either. No one who had the faintest idea of why it even might be so would ever come within a mile of saying it. No, I bet you couldn't come up with why if you wracked your brain for a whole morning and afternoon.
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  123. And not just in the heat exchanger. It would move right on to the wind turbines without missing a beat. Potent stuff, that.
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  124. And despite their many severe and glaring inadequacies they nonetheless believe that they're not only the most moral people of all time, but also the first, by a wide margin. They think it's not even close, that they invented high morals.
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  125. She said "flaunt" instead of flout. She said billion instead of million. And no intelligent person would wear the jacket she had on. Still better than a Democrat though.
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  126.  @vivienneb6199  😂That's not censorship.
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  127. I don't know if we can put all this down to real Russian incompetence. I suspect the dregs of recent conscripts and officers were quite deliberately sent in to soak up Ukrainian ammunition, reveal Ukrainian positions and strongholds, and generally set the stage for more serious operations later on. At this point they're doing a lot of knocking down of high-rises that would otherwise make for good defensive posts against armour and infantry in city streets. Another aspect of this is probably Russia, egged on by China, seeing what it can do to trigger an arms build-up in the West so expensive that it would bankrupt it.
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  128.  @ExpensivePizza  I suppose it's a matter of opinion up to some point, but I don't see how 450 coins a day will make a great difference when there are already 19.6m of the things, with close to 400k trading daily. Besides, the miners commonly hold the coins on their balance sheets anyway. (Or hodl, if you prefer.😄) I have a bit of the stuff myself but I'm strict about not fooling myself in any way. The halving may very well lead to a nice rally, and I hope it does, but it will have everything to do with sentiment and speculation, and little to do with a suddenly restricted supply.
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  129. National Association of Worms: "Hey, stop comparing us to Gavin Newsom!"
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  130. It only needs to put out one-third more energy to power every car in the country. That's a tall order, but there's decades to do it in. Like when oil replaced coal. The 2032 mandate has got to go, but the power grid needs updating anyway. And it will cost a few trillion, but that much will be saved as oil investment falls.
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  131. You are hinting that trying not to support a hostile and dangerous regime in China is futile. That's wrong. It isn't futile, nor does it spell war. That is hyperbole verging on histrionics. We built these economic ties and we can now dismantle them. Period. Be candid: what is your opinion of the CCP?
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  132.  @dennisbrower7959  I'm suddenly open to it.
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  133.  @laurens.2503  Tesla is the world's leading EV company, HQ in Texas. Their cheapest car is now ~$45k. So if the Biden proposal didn't unfairly exclude Tesla, you could get one for $33k. (I could be somewhat off on these numbers but I don't think so.)
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  134. True ten years ago but only doubtfully true today — and things are getting worse and worse. Like the 1936-1941 period, this is no time to be preaching complacency.
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  135. Canadians will understand when I say the same thing has happened in Canada. Peter Pan, who calls himself Justin Trudeau, is really Canada's first NDP prime minister.
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  136. Boston University: First they gave us AOC. Now, as if she wasn't enough of a plague, they're inventing one from scratch. Just send in a SWAT team, encircle the place to make sure no one leaves, consult the proper federal authorities on procedure, and start shutting this lab or labs down entirely. And do it now.
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  137. CCP, Putin, Kim, Iran, ISIS: "Excellent. Just excellent."
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  138. *premier
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  139.  @bayousbambino427  But it's not "premeir" either.🙄
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  140. He doesn't rank too high on the list of Residents of America either.
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  141. Every now and then a spacecraft passes behind the moon to take a look. When she implies we'll know at some point she is actually correct.
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  142. Don't forget San Francisco.😄
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  143.  @levidudley  So much mirth packed into three little words. Driest of the dry wit.
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  144. Trudeau, Starmer, Ardern, Albanese...authoritarians all of them. The Cackler will be another — if America is reckless enough to allow the media to install her in the Oval Office. She will attack freedoms with all the power at her disposal. Mark my words.
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  145. Putin's sole focus is on Russia's negotiating position. This does not represent a genuine escalation of the chances of direct Russia-NATO conflict.
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  146. And Bari Weiss. For a lefty she really isn't that bad at all. She obviously has some sense of fairness anyway, and some sensible vision of a healthy political future, or she wouldn't be doing this.
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  147. If she isn't too busy making huge coin as a pollster, give this woman her own show. She's really on her game.
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  148. ​ @jasonjamesbisson  Iran, Venezuela...and Iraq. All three are nice and friendly, just like Canada. Trustworthy too. I'm pretty sure.🤣
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  149. People charge their cars overnight, when the price of power is lower and most commercial, industrial and home power usage is low. It isn't nearly as bad as you think.
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  150. Your arithmetic's broken, Mary Huang. You sure that's your real name? $5,000 x 1 million = $5 billion And that's 10x what his legal issue is. He doesn't need the other $4.5 billion. Relieved?
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  151. In barely a decade US grid power went from 79%-fossil fuels/21%-other to 60/40 now. If we green-light more nuclear and keep adding renewables it can get to 40/60 in 2038. Then to 20/80 in 2050. Savings on oil investment can pay for building out a bigger grid. A massive turnaround, like when we went from coal to oil being #1 in a few decades.
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  152. Christian Bale and Joaquin Phoenix are about the right age and seem clever enough to maybe wrap their minds around that of the character. Hard to say. I say just don't make the movie at all. It seems bound to miss the mark.
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  153. Nice cheerleading for the Trumpflationary tax hikes!🙄Very bright.
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  154.  @lindajones4478  Seems plausible. Yet the elites also seem extremely determined that anyone with an IQ over about 110 be steered into the universities for indoctrination, lest they ever become a threat otherwise. I would love to see most of the universities shut down. They're economic inequality engines which work by sucking so many of the intelligent people out of the poorer half of the population. Oversupply of universities destroys social cohesion, blights small towns and makes reversing the blight in ghettoes practically impossible. Expansion of the universities after WWII also ruined the old and good ones. Kingsley Amis warned famously in the 1950s that "More will mean worse" and he was absolutely correct. If anything he should have been more emphatic.
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  155.  @The-Contractor  Yeah, docile is ok. But trembling with fear is the real preference.
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  156.  @johnnyllooddte3415  This is why you're a vet and not a psychiatrist. In my view her decision about the dog was a lifelong rancher/farmer thing, not a mental health thing.
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  157. Equal opportunity: Golden DEI and quotas: Toxic
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  158. Actually Forbes has batted .000 in winning elections Trump has batted .500 (Some would say 1.000) So....
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  159. Dem leadership in July: "Let's face it, we need a nominee with a working brain." August: "Problem solved!" September [patting selves on back]: "See?" Now [sotto voce]: "Omg, the working brain thing again." ☹
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  160.  @tritium1998  On the whole I'm glad that wasn't even coherent.
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  161.  @FarmToMarketRoad  Oh goody, a Dem speaking on the subject of decency here.😂
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  162. He was never a genius, now he's not even stable. He's so erratic that it's time he got himself checked out by a team of doctors.
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  163. I know you care almost exclusively about your agenda, Mr. Kudlow, and I favor quite a bit of it too, but take a minute to spare a thought for Ukraine. It stands on the verge of being swallowed whole by Putin. Don't deny that just because the government of the US is saying it.
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  164.  @CeeDEE-l8b  Part of the Russian empire, you mean. So were the Warsaw Pact countries for 45 years. So what?
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  165. * Fox (not Sky)
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  166. Funny you should put it that way, because I don't think he's capable of a reality check. I don't think he's all there. Seriously, he needs to have a proper examination for mental disturbance.
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  167. Spam thread, start to finish. Slicker than most, but this whole thing is just one bloody ad.
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  168.  @johngatsby1473  You're a good man, Gatsby, for warning people.
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  169.  @johngatsby1473  Yep. Three possibilities: One, it's an ok business making a pest of itself here, and deceptively so. Two, it's a real business providing some useful services, but an seriously untrustworthy one, since a trustworthy one is highly unlikely to ever practice deception. Three, total criminal scam not providing any beneficial services to anyone. Respective odds: 0.1%, 1%, 98.9%.
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  170.  @jamesb1969b  Also, organized mass do wn vo ting and fake reporting of y our po sts by foreign tee-rolls or domestic activists will do the same thing. So the whole platform is not only ker upped on the inside, it's being gamed on a massive scale from the outside.
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  171. Yes, and she deserved it.
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  172. Don't forget plutocrats. But yeah, technocrats.
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  173. Especially a certain one with a very narrow forehead and a face that could stop Big Ben.
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  174. @ They won't be in power. Try to keep up.
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  175. One trillion dollars is the economic output of around 13 million Americans. If that $1.3trn is just sitting around, it should be used to retire some US treasurys. A large part of it at least.
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  176. France is glad it went nuclear too. Germany had to panic in 2022 and build LNG ports at lightning speed or freeze in winter.
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  177. When I was young I imbibed freely from the liberal media. I thought I was supposed to or I wasn't a nice or intelligent person at all. They basically taught me that Newt Gingrich probably wasn't even a human. I eventually learned better, and now here's Gingrich telling me youth are systematically brainwashed into leftism (which is of course 100% true). Somehow that's so tidy.
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  178. The art of deterrence is the art of peace.
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  179. Smarter than Fox, apparently, who quote him saying "herding" as "hurting". That just shouldn't happen.
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  180. The man on the panel made a series of good points. The smirking woman in the green jacket added nothing of value.
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  181. Xi hands him a dirty wedding dress and a tube of lipstick. "Here. Put these on."
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  182. Dorsey ended up despising Twitter for its algorithms and policies. The board of directors forced him out over them. I don't think he ever wanted that stuff to go on and I seriously wonder if 'deep-state'-type Twitter staff prevented him from standing in the way of it or even knowing it was going on. Keep in mind he supports Musk 100%. I half-expect Musk to hire him as CEO before long.
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  183. Fair point, one which I've often made myself. Numerous famous people have been quoted as saying (in various forms) that "People in democracies get the government they deserve," including Thomas Jefferson.
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  184.  @BasedinReality1984  There appears to be something wrong with that word 'simp'. Whenever I see it, it seems it's used by a nasty person to level criticism I can't agree with
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  185.  @outsideview9052  I'm good with most of that, especially the 'Go get 'im Joe' bit. But there's nothing wrong with trading with Canada. Just zero, under any circumstances. Any American ever asked by anyone in the world "What do you want from our country, anyway?" can simply answer "Be like Canada."
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  186.  @jsnjcnt  U could be right, I just don't want to reread that thread. I can't remember what's in it. I might have been thinking of the Russian oil ban. Agree with you on your points. Cheers mate
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  187. Kudlow for the federal cabinet in early 2025!
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  188. I'm very glad to see HTC, which is a Taiwanese company, doing so well in this area. It's so important to the world that Taiwan not only remains strong, but gets stronger.💪 (And HTC still makes smartphones too. Please consider them before PRC brands.)
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  189. Minor correction: The Democratic convention is not 68 days away. It starts 51 days from now, August 19th.
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  190. The NYT says the Constitution is "Trumpian" and I hope they get total nationwide agreement on that. It's far likelier to result in a 2nd Trump win than repeal of any Amendments. Most Americans like and respect the Constitution. Anyway, I predicted 3 years ago that the left would soon declare freedom dangerous and destructive. Although it sounded outlandish then, it's certainly coming true. Told you. In times gone crazy, crazy predictions come true.
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  191.  @NS-tc9kk  By that logic, when the whole country tosses the Liberals out this year, Ontario will deserve all the credit and British Columbia none. All right, whatever you say.
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  192.  @js70371  "Europe doesn't buy crude" 😂 Europe buys crude massively.
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  193. @ You didn't say that. And it wouldn't have made any sense. It would be like me saying "That end of town needs a steakhouse. To get a good steak they have to go all the way across town" and you saying "But the people there don't go to any nearby steakhouses." 🙄Right, that's why they need one nearby!!
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  194. Noticeably a crank, though.
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  195.  @thelookanchannel2560  Yeah, an independent crank.
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  196.  @amalekita5009  Hahahahaha!🙄
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  197.  @PeopleHealthTru  He/she who made that post probably agrees but is just snubbing Musk's dad, whom Musk himself has made clear he regards as totally evil (and has had no relationship with since leaving South Africa in his late teens). So it was a comment meant for this specific instance, I'm pretty sure. (Mind you, I must add that the elder Musk is said to have been a first-rate engineer and serial entrepreneur, so no doubt he contributed to Elon's excellence in business whether Elon relishes the fact or not.)
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  198.  Sincere  The whole world knew several days ago that he sent Ukraine a good-sized shipment of Starlink dishes/transmitters. His support was not only practical help for Ukrainian military communications, it was also importantly a boost to Ukrainian public morale. Nice try, Vassily, Sergei, Ivan, whatever your name is.
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  199. The art of deterrence is the art of peace.
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  200.  @lukerichardson2404  Everything to do with Ukraine. Go do your own research.
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  201.  @MultiBallzofsteel  Then you're out of luck, mate, cuz I don't think you want your brain being Bluetooth-accessible. (Password or no password.)
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  202.  @apersonontheinternet8006  That's a fairy tale, Mr. Grimm. There's zero chance the US can pull 4m bpd out of thin air. "Easily ramp up production"😂 I can see someone knows very little about the oil business.  And remember, it has to be done at a profit.
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  203.  @Windsong-58  I'm saying that if this were some sort of important national issue, then the interview might have lasted ten minutes or something. As a story, this may be highly important concerning Noem herself, in the great scheme of things it is not. Thus, five minutes was appropriate.
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  204. Mark my words: In the lead-up to November, the frenzy of untruths—including but not limited to smears, false accusations, impossibly fevered rhetoric, and sheer fantasy—coming from Democrats, the liberal media, as well as just plain freaky people of every conceivable sort, amplified on Big Social Media, will be too immense for any words we already have in the English language. We'll have to invent new ones. Get ready to throw up over and over.
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  205. But then in certain countries how would every family still be able to have ten children?
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  206.  @slundgr  If you can't find an American-made version of something, there are 190+ countries in the world, so the odds are it's made in more than one of them.
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  207.  @andrewondon  Thanks for the Global Times point of view, Wu Mao.
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  208.  @TheJusnic82  "99%"? No, that is a gross exaggeration. I have not had real problems cutting my spending on Chinese goods by over half. As we do it, alternatives will sprout up in response. After all, at one time it was hard to find Chinese stuff, wasn't it? Consumer choices encouraged it. Just let Chinese stuff remain on the shelves and it will be replaced. That's how business and the world works. Cheers. Update: The guy at my sporting goods store said everybody's asking for stuff not made in China. At my favourite clothing store there was all kinds of stuff from Turkey, Pakistan, Kenya (!), Bangladesh, everywhere. I haven't seen that in 15 years.
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  209.  @andrewondon  Ok, Tongzhi.
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  210.  linkzable  Acer computer, made in Taiwan. HTC phone, Giant bicycle, made in Taiwan. Long live a free Taiwan.
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  211. ​ @justintyme2451  It's disheartening to listen to a clearly intelligent person repeating top Google hits and Kirsten Gillibrand talking points as though they constitute accurate information. It's years past the time we could trust the way we formerly could. Realizing that is painful, like adjusting to bright light, but the only other choice is to cover our eyes. And before you reflexively accuse me of being a Republican, far-rightist or Fox devotee, I'm none of those things. I'm politically homeless in the center. You risk a horrifying encounter with harsh reality like Germany has just experienced, and similar regret.
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  212.  @katwin659  I agree with all of that except your assertion that a switch to electric vehicles would devastate the US economy. That would only happen if it were accomplished by importing them from China, a thing which must be opposed and prevented at all costs. It must be remembered that a rapid and orderly move away from carbon energy depends entirely on prosperity and stability. As it is, the future of coal suddenly burns far more brightly thanks to Putin's stark raving lunacy.
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  213.  @gp7910  Actually Trudeau is very pro-oil sands and pro-pipelines. Never mind what he says for the ears of his supporters, nor his piffling revenue-neutral carbon tax similarly aimed at their sentimentalism. He supported the XL, he supports the Trans Mountain, he supported the Energy East, and he has no intention of letting Alberta oil sit in the ground. He's the slyest thing I've seen in Canada in my life. Do not listen to what he says. Watch what he does.
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  214.  @katwin659  No they cannot, but more affordable models will come. In the case of Tesla, its investments are being recovered from profits and its costs are headed rapidly lower despite current inflationary pressures. "Right now" are the key words in your question. Lower average after-inflation prices are on the way.
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  215. ​ @randychristensen7173  I can't stand that sort of thing. They wave it around during an election campaign and weak supporters eagerly lap it up and send them a vote, even if it never made it to the platform. It never comes to fruition, but the suckers say "Well, they couldn't bring it in because of rich people and Republicans." Meanwhile there was never any intention to institute it. Dumb suckers are going to be the end of democracy. The voting age should be raised again.
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  216. Govt's sometimes charge you tax on tax.🙄 Coming soon: Businesses try to make you pay a tip on your tip.😂 Yeah, it's out of control. Some cashiers want tips now and I won't go along.
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  217.  @kurtpena5462  For someone who isn't afraid to call himself smart you have little understanding of how and why, for legal and commercial reasons, companies come to be regarded as monopolies. It's almost as if you believe, as liberals do generally, that to be a liberal is automatically to be good, intelligent, learned and just plain right. Tell me honestly: if a liberal and a conservative both commit the same crime, which one deserves a worse sentence?
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  218. It amazes me that anyone wants to pay that.  I'd feel sick twice over: once from eating the food, once from knowing the money I just blew.
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  219. There's got to be a better way to say that. Musk is not a woman. (Try 'the smartest person in the room'.)
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  220. It was a massacre and the MSM call it a 'crash' .
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  221. Whatever Iran, Yale, Russia, Harvard, China, Berkeley, Syria, The Guardian, North Korea, Oxford, Venezuela, Stanford, Cuba, NYU, Nicaragua, the BBC, Eriterea, Rashida Tlaib, Ethiopia and Ilhan Omar howl that Israel, supported by its allies must not do, that is exactly what Israel, supported by its allies must do.
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  222. If they're bad people, yeah. But good people can handle money and not lose their heads.
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  223. ​ @BIlliE572  "Helping"? They are indeed 'helping': in 2023 and 2024 Europe provided most of the combined money/arms which Ukraine received as aid. Taking arms in isolation, the US has provided over 50% during all three years of the war. This is what bugs me about Republicans (and please note that I've never supported a Democratic candidate in a very long time). They shoot their mouths off indignantly before ever attempting to find out the facts of the matter. They hear untruths and (I hope) unintentionally but recklessly and carelessly repeat them, seemingly just to hear themselves talk and to make themselves feel better. They hold people in other countries in contempt, even despise them, without knowing a single thing about them. What is it about Republicans (the men appear to be worse than the women) and their lack of respect for the facts and the truth of things? Why do they put that lack of respect in the service of bad-mouthing the people of other countries? (Their latest target is Canada, which they are defaming as though it's an avowed enemy of the US right up there with Iran, Russia, North Korea and the PRC, even though it might actually be the only sincere friend the US has in the whole world.)
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  224. Buy a US-made Purism smartphone from $1,000. US-made. Or buy a Samsung. Korea is a great and dependable US ally. Or buy a Taiwan make. Also a solid US ally. Maybe there's other non-Chinese phones if you look into it.
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  225. It's bad to have a crippling trade deficit with the whole world, but any trade deficit with a single given trading partner may not be bad in the least. Economists would point out that everyone runs a massive trade deficit with their supermarket. It's not an issue. It shows they can pay for the groceries they need.
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  226. "America has now joined other ‘banana republics'." Yes, two years after Canada did. In 2022, Prime Minister Peter Pan invoked martial law to arrest, jail, and hold without bail his countrymen and -women who had the gall to protest his policies with traditional Canadian peacefulness and restraint in front of Parliament.
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  227. Up to a point, yes. But make no mistake, the real heavy lifting is done in dorms, campus coffee spots, club gatherings and student publications. Profs and the school administrators do set the stage and the tone; immature, self-righteous student enthusiasm does the rest.
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  228. Thanks for the Kremlin Foreign Ministry point of view, Peskovchik.
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  229. $40bn spent on Russian oil in six weeks? Sorry, no, that's about 400m barrels (!), which is vastly too high by at least 4x. Fox, please book only guests with at least a tenth-grader's command of arithmetic and easily researchable facts.
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  230. I love that that fired Twitter wokester is named Vijaya. Hahaha! See you next Thursday.
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  231.  @ajwiz0816  Trump and Biden both racked up huge debt during their respective pandemic years. So let's look at non-pandemic years. His first 3 yrs Trump raised the debt $1.05trn/yr. Now with the pandemic long gone we're still adding $1trn in debt per 100 days...$3.65trn/yr. 😮
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  232.  @user-gv8xf9ul5j  Ok, professor. Keep pining for that Nobel. 😂But keep your job flipping burgers.
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  233.  @user-gv8xf9ul5j  Ah, and what gives you that idea, Professor Rando? The same thing that makes you 98% sure that 129% is a healthy debt-to-GDP ratio? I suppose you think it's appropriate to run a central govt deficit of 6% of GDP during an economic expansion as well, two years after the "health event" is over. Gimme some fries with that, young lady, please.
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  234. We can safely assume everything Trudeau says is a lie. Find us something he's said that wasn't.
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  235.  @FinatikGames  I took it we were talking about Trudeau here. He has been making outrageous claims about protesters, including that one about taking food from homeless people. He's allergic to truth.
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  236. What was so great about the 1776-1790 period, and why did it end? Curious.
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  237.  @bretthines6893  Sounds more like it.
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  238.  @spidey5324  Those are to protect those countries from the PRC (and North Korea, the pit bull of the PRC). If the US left, they would all be invaded, encircled, dominated, enslaved by the PRC. Friendly government in Beijing and Pyongyang ---> No US bases. Simple formula. Authoritarianism is the problem. PRC, Russia, DPRK, Iran are the Authoritarian Axis.
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  239.  @kamsunleong6648  As a Korean, you should know far better than to say any of that claptrap. Unless you're in the DPRK, in which case it all makes sense.😂
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  240.  @铁子-x2g  I am glad to provide the following list of all the military conflicts which the PRC has been involved in, directly and indirectly. Direct Military Conflicts: 1) Korean War (1950-1953) 2) First Taiwan Strait Crisis (1954-1955) 3) Second Taiwan Strait Crisis (1958) 4) China-Burma border campaign (1960-1961) 5) Sino-Indian War (1962) 6) Nathu La and Cho La clashes with India (1967) 7) Sino-Soviet Border Conflict (1969) 8) Vietnam War (support role, 1965-1975) 9) Sino-Vietnamese War (1979) Indirect Involvement and Minor Engagements: 1) Battle of the Paracel Islands (1974) 2) Johnson South Reef Skirmish (1988) 3) Third Taiwan Strait Crisis (1995-1996) 4) Scarborough Shoal standoff (2012) 5) 2020-2021 China-India skirmishes
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  241.  @铁子-x2g  Silver medal for tediousness, gold for pomposity. [four slow claps]
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  242. The editorial board and the newsroom staff at the WSJ are like day and night. (The editorial board sheds the daylight. The newsroom staff are benighted with no-limits liberalism.)
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  243. She's somewhat dull of mind.
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  244. Most shocking of all, 18% of people told pollsters that Biden's policies "helped" them.😮
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  245. There = In that place They're = They are 🙄🙄🙄
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  246. Most shocking of all, 32% believe Kringela Harris is ready to be president. 🤯 I didn't think that many Americans had an IQ of 32.
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  247. Hating violence is racist.
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  248. Shocking twist: She copied her resignation letter word-for-word from the ex-president of Penn. Well ok, not shocking.😄
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  249. The evaporation of $336b is something to worry about. Where do you think jobs come from?
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  250. Skull so simian, face that could stop Big Ben itself, instincts of a Soviet commissar, intellect of a block of Velveeta, ego that dwarfs the Trump Tower, voice that makes ordinary people envy the deaf. Otherwise she's great.
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  251.  @ConcernedCitizenIn2025  Why have Congressional leaders if the caucus can simply vote on its own? Sounds like your quarrel is with the Constitution.
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  252.  @paulrasmussen8953  It was all thought out in hopes that enough authority could be concentrated when needed so that things could get done, while spreading the authority out enough to ensure it wouldn't be systematically abused. If you just go by the country it created, you have to say it's worked outstandingly well by historical standards. I'd say it should work well for any people worth its salt. But it won't save a people gone bad. A people gone bad has problems so enormous a constitution is mostly powerless against them.
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  253. Ah, but it's gravely serious world-historically-significant business at the same time. That's gotta be the great thing about being him: doing both at once.
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  254. It's true. Their nation has been hijacked by religion-obsessed yokels.
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  255. Turnout is all-important, because so did people who are total newcomers to the country. And how do I know that? Because I know the character of the other party.
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  256. First the headline says EVs produce "soot" (!) despite not burning anything. Then after waving around the term "junk science," the host trots out a lawyer to pronounce on scientific matters. 😂
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  257. Funny, coming from someone who sounds more like a two-bit shill for a raving, murdering, thieving psycho in high heels with a chin implant than a human being with the least bit of decency.
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  258. You don't believe others are fed up because you aren't. Breaking news: You're you, they're them. You think others care how much you make because you care so much. Breaking news: No one else gives af. But aside from tons of nonsense, great comment.
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  259. Not strange, unless one is clue-destitute. Putin knows that Trump has a bit of a hardcore streak in him that Biden and Obama have nothing of.
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  260. The meme is wrong, because it depicts the center moving. Actually it hasn't. It's just that the media and cultural elites claim it has.
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  261. Ah, Larry Kudlow. Will he be back in the federal cabinet in nine months? I hope so.👍
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  262. Interesting, but not so unique if you understand food retailing. A woman I know in the grocery sector says almost all items lose money. Any given chain is in business only due to the profits on meat, dairy and breakfast cereal, according to her. (Industry-wide, btw, overall net margins are typically 2%.)
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  263. Yeah, defoliating the American consumer's already beaten-up wallet.
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  264. Including the two people we just saw? They're in the media.
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  265. Let's not waste time naming every high political office and other important public and private institution they've deeply infiltrated. Save time by naming some they haven't. In the next 60 days I want to hear candidates in the upcoming election tell us what the hell they intend to do about this problem! And the media better start pushing them.
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  266.  @vivienneb6199  Just curious, what grade are you in?
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  267.  @vivienneb6199  Ah, 6th grade, I see!😂
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  268.  @vivienneb6199  Thanks. It's an honor to be insulted by the likes of you.
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  269.  @vivienneb6199  Now it's become entertaining watching you do this to yourself. So I'm honored and I'm enjoying some popcorn too.🍿😄 Wow, look at her go! Very energetic in her harassing. Tireless! 🤣
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  270. ​ @unnamedsomebodyintheuniver1761  That was a warning about Putin and Xi, who share a white-hot hatred of the West. It was not an expression of my desired outcome.
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  271. It's past time to start calling 'critical race theory' 'critical racist theory'. It's racism posing as anti-racism, a sick and criminal fraud.
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  272. They were 100% for it. They announced hundreds of billions of dollars worth of plans. Then Musk bought Twitter and the media narrative flipped. It turned on a dime. Suddenly EVs changed from being the best thing ever to the worst thing ever. Just in time for ICE carmakers! Because only Tesla is able to make them at a profit. The saddest part is how many conservatives they duped, as you can see here.
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  273.  @Christdeliverme  I have your answer, which was candid in spite of itself.
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  274.  @eyasulegesse6208  All quite true, but you forgot something: the US and China are kept company in the world by another 190 or so countries.
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  275.  @billm8442  Musk doesn't do "just business," my tardy friend.
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  276.  @rshenry1  That's a fair take on it, but I still interpret "the 3 Rs" as standing for "the very core basics" much more than "nothing controversial or moralistic".
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  277.  @SayChunJo  True, but it was actually 32%. And 33% the election before that. Even in his first election it was 39%. Dude never broke 40. He's never been very popular, he's just been backed 1,000% by the media and also the small farthest-left 3rd party. Sick situation but finally about to end.
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  278.  @rickymartin875  Yep. Far-lefties drop the word "nuance" and think they've ended the discussion in triumph.😂Remember those Ivy League ladies testifying to Congress? They liked that word, and also "context," and now they're gone.
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  279.  @SayChunJo  True, but it was actually 32%. And 33% the election before that. Even in his first election it was 39%. Dude never broke 40. He's never been very popular, he's just been backed 1,000% by the media and also by the small left ist 3rd party. Sick situation but finally about to end.
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  280.  @susangibson2706  The opinion of someone who can't write in her own native language above a 4th- or 5th-grade level is not worth my care.
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  281.  @laurens.2503  Isn't he planning to give $12k to EV buyers? (Except those buying Teslas—and purely for political reasons, of course.)
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  282.  @laurens.2503  Ok.
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  283.  @eda8612  "Years of subsequent investigations proved there was no such Russian manipulation". Oh? Says you? Correction: Investigation turned up no evidence of Trump campaign collusion with Russians. That in no way proves there was no Russian manipulation. Enormous interference could have taken place in the total absence of any cooperation and collusion with Trump or his people.
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  284.  @isaakchuk  Less trade with China—far, far less—would be a help to the future of the world. I am glad to be doing my part in that regard, as I have for years now. It actually wasn't hard to cut purchases of their stuff by 80%. It's fun!
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  285.  @isaakchuk  I'm no anarchist. I think if you don't have a government you don't really have a civilization. But yes, when government and big business merge in that fashion, liberty comes under fierce attack. I have no use for any of the companies you mention, nor Microsoft either. Cheers
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  286. I don't know, man. Even worse than Celine Dion?😂
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  287.  @LesliePeter  Sure. Praise the system that makes a child out of every Chinese person, living under their incredibly strict and violent dad. He beats his family, then brags about how smoothly his household runs. You like that, do you? You think the world yearns for that, do you? Then you're a little boy and want to remain one.
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  288. It's around $450 billion. If that's lunch money to you, I don't get why you're spending your time down here. Get out and live. Spend some of your trillions.
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  289. Concerning the need for and benefit of Canadian oil to the US, read up on the subject. That's all I can say. Do the reading.
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  290. Biden is taking orders from his boss-woman, the VP.
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  291. Canada is going to band together with Mexico and China? It's sad to see someone with a degree of intelligence so deeply unacquainted with actuality.
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  292. A patriot with the right outlook who has things straight in his head. He's not fumbling to figure things out, he understands them thoroughly.
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  293. He said "Auguste Comte" just as you'd expect by taking a look at him.😄 Should be oh-GOOST KOHNT. (Rhymes with 'oh boost don't.') Then he went on to interrupt his interesting guest over and over. That was rude to her and it deprived us of knowing what she had to say. Bit of a mess.
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  294. This smooth, affable, self-interested Twitter shareholder just wants his payday. He calls for Google to jump in as though he's never heard the word 'anti-trust'. Why on earth was he invited on this program just to see if he can get a higher offer by throwing in his spin? The host should have rudely put him in his place instead of smooching his hinder regions.
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  295. Basically Grandpa Simpson.
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  296. In fact we're expanding the existing export pipeline to the West coast. Has gotten good support from the fed. govt. and should be completed in 2022. However, Michigan's governor badly wants to shut down the line that is Eastern Canada's only source of oil from the West. It cuts through Michigan. Nice lady. Friend and political ally of the Potato in Chief.
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  297.  @alhutchinson3627  He was fine with it. It was the province of Quebec that quashed it.
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  298. Odessa is the last Ukrainian city that would ever fall. It's been avoided by Putin because he knows how intelligent, resourceful and totally hardcore its people are. Avoided, notice, not spared. I don't care who you are, in a fight between you and Odessa, I'm betting on them, not you. (Pronunciation: odd-YESS-a) Edit: what a bunch of putrid puke-making Putzin-Bots infesting this section. If you walk through this pasture, don't wear good shoes.
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  299. Elon Musk, please now expand Twitter into a huge all-purpose video hosting platform. You know why. We all do.
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  300. What's she wearing? A low-cut red sleeveless party dress for discussing war? Was she on her way out for cocktails? I wonder what she wears to funerals.
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  301. Going after Musk tends not to end well for many people. Bezos is really asking for it.
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  302. Why is there even such a thing as an "Independent Women's Foreign Policy Forum"? What can be its purpose be except to say 'Men are a group we don't agree with. They are icky. They do not meet our standards. We have to be separate from them. We must exclude them.' ? You can easily imagine how they would feel about a Men's Foreign Policy Forum. Thus I have no interest in the views of this or any other seks ist organization.
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  303. Biden does know what Iran is doing, but Hamas allies and pro-Hamas leftists in the West would have a field day over the sort of accusations Larry here asks him to make. The Hamas-apologist left media and paid propagandist internet commenters would demand the sort of direct proof which is either unavailable or would compromise US intelligence personnel and techniques to reveal. It could well even speed up Iran's plans. Bad idea at this stage.
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  304. I'd love to know how many basis points the rise in the dollar will take off the CPI in Q4. Just a couple, ten, twenty? Or will importers and retailers just be pocketing the whole thing?
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  305. Wow man, you commented on the wrong video. Uh, can I get a hit off that?
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  306. It is amazing that the academics and professionals who study and work with the data which indicate such things can know how much money everyone has and where they got it. But it is more amazing yet that you know better than they do.
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  307.  @Redsundog  Physician, heal thyself.
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  308. Sorry, I don't listen to Democrats.
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  309. "Marjorie Taylor Greene drops bombshell news" Hey Fox News, stop it with the disrespectful, manipulative headlines. Think about it for three seconds: That would not be an acceptable headline in a newspaper, for good reason. It's no more acceptable on your YouTube channel. Stop it. It's not just you, but start setting a good example.
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  310.  @geeetube1  Starlink has only been in beta service about a year. Nice t rye, t roll.
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  311. She has the ability to make Anthony Scaramucci seem like a more than first-rate guy. Say what you will, that actually is pretty amazing in its own right. :(
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  312. Pro tip 1: When making fun of someone's language abilities, choose the right word. That word you used does not mean what you think it means. Pro tip 2: Spell it right.
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  313. At least a few countries can. Probably more than is widely known.
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  314. Still waiting to hear about a ban on private jets. Because Democrats are all about the fairness and aren't hypocrites at all.
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  315. The Western world is slashing imports of Chinese goods. 4 things: (1) US imports, China's share: 22% in 2017, 13% in 2023.👏 (2) Volume: $536bn in 2022, $427bn in 2023. Least since 2012. Deficit $103bn lower. (3) EU imports, China's share: 21% in 2019, 9% in 2023. (!) (4) Canada once again #1 US trading partner, Mexico #2, China #3.👏
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  316. ​ @texasskyliner704  I think they meant that Trump may commit heedless blunders leading to a painful period of economic decline, currency devaluation and falling living standards, perhaps triggered by a Suez Moment. (Britain's, in 1956, soon resulted in all those things, plus vastly lower global influence.)
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  317. I'm very dismayed to see the level of factual accuracy on Fox coming down rapidly since Jan. 20, and before that since Nov. 5. Come on, Larry, the Republicans won. Making up stuff is a strange way to celebrate that. Go back to straight facts, please.
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  318. Equal opportunity: Golden DEI and quotas: Morally wrong and poisonously destructive
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  319. The president always sounds like an angry old man yelling at his wife.
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  320. Technically not right. He could buy all he wanted—except he would get the boot upon reaching 15%. But there was nothing stopping him from sailing past 15. Of course, if and when he hits 50.1%, he can use the current Twitter by-laws for buttwad. (And wouldn't we all?)
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  321. In a way it only seems fair, given that college loans are being forgiven by the tens of billions of dollars. Something for lower-earning people too, not just middle- and high-income earners. But for the most part I really dislike this. It varies, but commonly restaurant servers are overpaid anyway. What they do takes effort and attention, but little knowledge, training or skill. When I see how little they do to earn a $10 or $20 tip, it makes me feel sorry for all the countless others who do so much more for less. And they serve many, many tables in a shift.
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  322. Headline not representative of clip.
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  323. Dr. Jackson claims Bi g Tek searches are "complete garb ag e." Accurate claim.👍
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  324.  @robertcanavan2712  Diving into capitalism is nothing less than an admission of the inadequacy of communism. They're beginning to reverse course back to Maoism now, which shows you it's been about authoritarianism all along.
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  325.  @IB4U2Cme  How can you ask? How on Earth? Yes, it is good to deny financial support to the hostile, totalitarian, dangerous Xi regime.
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  326. ​ @IB4U2Cme  Thank you for your reply. In no order: 1. You may deal with the devil all you like; others may do it as little as they like. That's the nice thing about a boycott. It is an individual voluntary action. 2. Boycotting is not always about knowing the supplier and their dirty secrets. In this instance, for me, it's about not wishing to support the CCP and the Xi regime, which is hostile to my country and by extension to me. It has nothing to do with Chinese manufacturers and their secrets (although they most certainly have them). In like manner I would not have been buying German products in 1942, even if they were available (which they presumably weren't) or Soviet goods in 1975. 3. What I consider a reasonably non-exploitative wage depends on what food, housing and other normal purchases cost in the country concerned. 4. As for how much more I am willing to pay in order to avoid buying Chinese, 5, 10, and 20% all sound workable to me. But it isn't necessary in all instances. The shirt from Bangladesh costs no more than the Chinese one. But when my (Chinese) salad spinner broke this summer and I needed a new one, I paid twice as much for one from Italy ($28, I think) than the Chinese alternative next to it cost. It felt good. (And the salad spinner is certainly very nice indeed.) The story is similar for my hammer, pots and pans, headphones, and many other things I've bought in the past few years. Perhaps you just have warmer feelings about the government of China than I do. Cheers.
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  327.  @johnnykwon8173  Chinese people in the US are doing very well as far as I know. They have been welcomed into business, into universities, into all areas of life, into Americans' homes and lives as friends and as romantic partners. They enjoy security and prosperity and are widely admired for their success (although by one group in particular bitterly envied). As for opiates (actually, opioids), Chinese authorities (translation: Party headquarters in Beijing, and President Xi's office) have done nothing to stem the export of Fentanyl and Carfentanyl to the US and other Western countries. Online, their supporters crow about the sweetness of this revenge for Western actions in China one to two centuries ago. Nice try at painting the Chinese as victims of foreigners. It's exactly the strategy used in Germany in the 1930s to convince the people it was time to go to war. Thanks for the Global Times point of view.
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  328.  @IB4U2Cme  Thanks for your interesting reply. The question of whether it's good to buy from a country whose regime and labour practices one wholly disapproves of can be quite difficult when one considers that it might raise workers there out of deepest poverty. But I didn't understand your very last sentence fully. (Also, not very important to the discussion, but: Yes, boycotts are an individual choice, but not necessarily a strictly private one, or one which politeness forbids discussion of. A little debate or a little extolling a position is safely far from coercion, intrusiveness, or any impropriety, I think.)
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  329. Once the direction of the DoD has been 180'ed by Sec. Hegseth, he might be replaced before Trump's term ends. The best choice to succeed him might be Gen. Jack Keane.
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  330. Latest: Scarborough outdid himself again by complaining that butter is $3 a pound. When informed that it's actually $7 a pound, he was in a state of disbelief. He's simply out of touch with nearly all reality.
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  331. Intelligence and foresight are best, but cunning will do in a pinch.
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  332.  @Greatlakeskyle.  But that's like saying how well Bernie charmed all the other party guests in Weekend at Bernie's. The actual credit is due to his puppeteers. As for Trump, he is the opposite of Biden: less dumb than he seems. So say what you will, terrible a president in most ways as he was, I think Putin would have been less tempted to mess about in this way if he had remained in office. The calculations feeding into such a judgment are complex, but at any rate Putin evidently made up his mind on this war mere months after Biden's inauguration. In my gut I could always tell Biden was never going to do more than scold from a safe distance, while with Trump one never quite knew. (This doesn't mean I want Trump to run again in 2024. I most certainly do not.)
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  333.  @salvatoremartin1499  No cruelty is involved in criticizing a politician who has brought him or herself into the spotlight and invited the world to pass its judgment upon him or her. Rid yourself of the sentimentalism your question exemplifies. It is a form of cruelty you wreak on yourself.
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  334. Brilliant. You can run the Treasury in Biden's cabinet.
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  335. Look how these fundamentalists behave when they don't get their way. They'll do anything. Next they'll be secretly recording deliberations and releasing them. Hey, why not reveal the home addresses of justices who vote the wrong way?
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  336. It's more than a billion taxpayer dollars a year for that woke cesspool. Defund the CBC now!
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  337. Capital letters don't work the way you think they do.
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  338. Republicans need to find more candidates cut from the same cloth as Ron DeSantis. They're out there somewhere. Easy path to victory.
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  339. This obviously insincere move by Joe & Mika calls for a cold-shoulder response. If, as it seems, they are twisting in the wind at this moment, I'm good with that. I stand ready to wish them and their little show a hearty "Buh-bye!"
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  340. It was appalling how she talked down to those honorable servants of the community. There are just no limits to her arrogance and smugness. They're infinite. They stretch even wider than her expansive hinder region and her very wide face.
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  341. Both of Tesla's top two models cost less than the average selling price of a new car in America.
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  342. ​ @jasonjamesbisson  Shortages in stores due to a shortage of diesel for the national truck fleet would soon show otherwise.
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  343. That was an error to say Musk re-tweeted an anti-Semitic post. The post was merely critical of super-liberal/woke/far-left American Jewish communities for favoring bad policies, including racially-prejudiced ones. Nor was the post hateful. It was partly a warning that such left-wing policies are deepening anti-Semitism in America.
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  344. Nice GDP numbers are reflecting growing government and government borrowing only, not a growing private economy. "Sugar high" is too cute. More like endless adrenaline shots to a sick patient on a hospital table. (Adrenaline never cured or healed anyone. It can't.)
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  345. "Democrats facing a turnout deficit" 🤨Shhh! For heaven's sake, don't alert them.
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  346. Not only that, but think about the upper limits on support for him too. Is not a fanatical Joe Biden supporter nearly impossible to imagine? It would be a form of lunacy.
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  347. Ben's a good guy and quite bright. So it stuns me that he lacks the slightest clue about Ukraine. Russia's war on Ukraine is a war on us, on the West. It poses a grave threat to US power, wealth and national security. Compared with the many tens of trillions of dollars in American wealth it endangers, aid to Ukraine so far is lunch money.
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  348. For anybody wondering why he pronounces Xi as "see," he's right. That's the right way. How the English-speaking world ever came to settle on "shee" is something really weird. Same with "bay-zhing" for Beijing. It's "bay-jing." (How do you get 'zh' out of a letter j?) The whole Pinyin system of romanization of Chinese characters is messed up. In the reverse direction, Zhou is pronounced "joe."🙄
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  349. Guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Heavy crude from Canada wasn't a thing 25 years ago, let alone 50 or 70 (!). The big ramp-up was in the 2010s. Same for the refinery configuration to heavy crude. Get a proper expert.
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  350. ​ @HH-le1vi  Yes he is putting tariffs on food and energy. Look for the tariffs on oil alone to add about 1% to consumer prices.
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  351.  @HH-le1vi  Canada, Mexico and Wall Street missed it when he said he wasn't taxing energy or food imports.😂 Thankfully you can clear that up by sending them your source for that claim. (Can I see it too, please?)
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  352.  @seymorefact4333  I am Xi Jinping and I totally support your idea!!! If you're ever in Beijing look me up and I'll really take care of you.💖 (PS Do I know you or your parents?)
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  353. Perfect post from the Xi-bot perspective. Distract from the content of the video, foment anger at the US government. Nice job, Chanfun. Ban it! Ban TikTok now!
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  354. @ Check 338Canada for a round-up of polls plus the site's own seat projections.
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  355. @ Which conditions? Sounds like an interesting point but help me out.
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  356. Make AOC a waitress again.
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  357. All of Big Tek's errors bear a strong resemblance to one another. They're not errors.
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  358. I suppose any improvement is a good thing. But I don't see how a lot has changed. Vain then, vain now, vain by and by.
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  359. MSNuttBarrCentral.
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  360. Despite "going to university" for years, she has a profoundly, profoundly uneducated mind.
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  361. I expect China's military considers the entire US armed forces' pronouns to be "she/her" now.
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  362.  @The-Contractor  Well, hateful and despicable, anyway. They're turning the US into England in the time of Dickens. There's been an explosion of servants and it's only just begun. I have an expectation that 30 or 40 years from now, if there's even an America anymore, many rich families will have hundreds of them at each of their multiple estates. Far lesser families will have plenty of them too. And they'll be the lucky ones—so many more will be as impoverished as the street beggars in rags of India.
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  363.  @The-Contractor  I wish that comforted me. My worry is that's just more of the lack of worry (complacency) that allowed the slide in the first place. There's a force like gravity that acts on societies and brings them down, just like so many dinner plates the juggler had in the air just a second ago. I fear that waking up to reality is a far rarer act than you're counting on. It's to the point where it's guaranteed to get much worse before it gets better. Which calls for stanching only the worst bleeding and concentrating on the education of the young. There's nothing else for it because the elder generations have already proved their incompetence, so we await a more able one. By a huge effort beachheads can be won in the schools and universities. Otherwise nothing can be done. Trying to do it through elections and laws is trying to put the cart first. Most important is don't try to get the people you're opposing to like you. Let them know they're being counterattacked. All the rules in the world could never take the street-fighting element or nature out of it. Let them know you don't overestimate them. Don't wish them well. You do wish them well, sort of, but let their friends take care of that for them. You've got their dirty little number. Just opposing them takes them by surprise. They're quite sure you're showing up to surrender. Excuse the long reply which turned into instructions. It helped me to find out what I thought.
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  364.  @The-Contractor  I don't see that inertia. It all looks unmoored to me. This is why there's Bitcoin and an upcoming colony on Mars. It seems likely the US is about to have its Suez moment and then the Pax Americana and many other good things evaporate.
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  365. Around the world all this nonsense is doing heavy damage to America's reputation. People see it for what it is: banana republic-type political retribution. Throw in the daily woke enormities and US influence is quickly drying up. There'll soon be very few admirers left. Also very few top people who want to move to America and contribute their genius to it. Such people have been its secret sauce forever.
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  366. Rumor has it Lori Lightfoot is a human being.
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  367. Notice Trump he corrected himself on the fly for saying 'their' instead of 'his,' showing both verbal mental quickness and a continuing command of his own language. Meanwhile that leftover baked potato we call his rival can't keep major world leaders straight in his head.
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  368. Dear Fox News and fellow posters here: If you find yourself in agreement with The New York Times on any issue, and in disagreement with Elon Musk, it would be a good time for a head-soak in cold water. Alternatively, do some research with an open mind. But under no circumstances trust ideologues or hacks. It's going to take some work.
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  369. Am I seeing right? Those numbers add up to 22 million in four years.😮
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  370. Skull dubious, face that could stop Big Ben, instincts of a Soviet commissar, intellect like a block of Velveeta, ego that dwarfs the Trump Tower, voice that makes ordinary people envy the deaf. Otherwise she's great.
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  371. Problem is, you can't do things to correct the mistakes of the past 40-some years unless conditions have remained effectively the same. And it's highly arguable that they have not. (1) Iran has gotten much closer to China and Russia. (2) The nature of war has changed: besides the evolution of traditional kinetic warfare, we now have much cheaper drone weaponry and cyber warfare as major factors as well. (3) On top of all that there are now commitments to a major war in nearby Ukraine. The moment the US becomes stretched too thin it is quite likely to have its (UK in 1956) Suez Moment — times five or ten. That means it withdraws, loses all credibility as a guarantor of security, and the world is soon overturned. What I mean by that is that Israel and Ukraine become almost the least of the worries of the US and the Western alliance. All at once you could see the security of 50 to 100 countries up in the air, or an even higher number. (Taiwan is only the most obvious one.) Around the world there would be tremendous loss of freedom and a lot of bloodshed. Simultaneously the dollar would be severely devalued, because the reason for it being so overvalued, as it is now, is chiefly the standing of America as the world's leading power. American wealth would erode quickly and on a great scale. (To give you an idea, it could be tens of trillions of dollars a year for a period of some years.) We're talking about a collapse of living standards and global power in every sense.
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  372. ​ @agarbis6571  No, he wants to preserve global peace with a show of strength. I take it you want to see a weak US/Europe and a strong Authoritarian Axis (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and every other country with a garbage repressive regime). The choice is between those two contrary opposites. But the stronger the US and Europe (plus Japan, Korea, Canada, Australia and a few others), the longer the Pax Americana will last. By Pax Americana I mean the post-WWII period during which the world has enjoyed much less war than in the first half of the 20th century, as well as the greatest prosperity in history by far. During this era, parts of the world not subject to the influence of American power have been the areas with the greatest degradation of human dignity and the greatest loss of life. (E.g. under all the communist regimes.)
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  373. Various subjects covered, but not the one promised in the title: "Kathy Hochul faces calls for resignation after shocking response to NYC subway [horror]." YT has just announced a crackdown on this deceptive practice. They can't ramp it up soon enough. It's very bad treatment of viewers.
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  374.  @gr33kb0i  That isn't true. I can easily see you never asked that. Your reply is sitting right there for anyone to read.   You were bested and you replied with empty fake bluster.
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  375.  @SpringIsBACK  You are right. Issue permits.👍 Issue them last week! Boosting US production will put the deeply unappetizing trio of Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia in their place.  (Not to mention OPEC, which would be a mere bonus.)
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  376. Yes, raise US production now.
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  377. Most shocking of all, Joy Reid — yes, of all people, Joy Reid — decided to start throwing around the words "crazy" and "weird."😂
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  378. White House: "Please, OPEC, oh please produce more oil. We beg of you—please!" OPEC: "Did I hear something? I thought I heard something. Nah, I guess not." White House: "No response. Well, that's it. I guess there's nothing we can do." Canada [waving wildly]: "Hey, we're right here! 200 billion barrels of oil for sale! Hey! Over here!" White House: "I thought I heard something. Nah, I guess not. Well, I did all I could."
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  379.  @bobmex5362  That's a fantasy, I'm afraid. In 10 years demand is likely to be lower, but people will still be burning gasoline for several decades yet, especially in poorer countries. The growth of renewable electricity generation, which is 20% a year—meaning it doubles every 45 months—will bump gasoline out of first place maybe around mid-century. Some say later.
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  380.  @bobmex5362  Yeah it does. See the historical data in the EIA's Electric Power Monthly. Google will have you there in two seconds. I can't agree on your other point either. Try 250% for starters.
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  381.  @bobmex5362  Something sounds wrong there. Many thousands of terawatt hours a year are going to be added to the grid as transportation goes electric. There's great momentum for it. Notice that the world's automakers are sinking something like a trillion dollars into batteries and EVs.
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  382.  ITS ME 🤔 ANTIFA  You're the expert on lying and psychopathy, so ok.
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  383. Maybe most people who take multivitamins are already eating a good diet. That might well render their effect a minor one, or statistically mask any trace of it. It would be interesting to break out the stats on junk food addicts only, those who take a supplement versus those who don't.
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  384. Drawing a parallel between Alphabet having my data and the govt of China having my data is like drawing a parallel between a diet very high in sodium and smoking fentanyl.
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  385.  @gardent6641  No, 60% is right. It's also falling by a percentage point or two a year. See the EIA's Electric Power Monthly.
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  386. Dude wants to school you on economics. And he can't even spell economies: "economy's" 😂
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  387.  @pearladams4817  Yes. On "Every conceivable social media platform in the world," according to the Canadian UN ambassador in a speech to the General Assembly.
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  388. ​ @kellyw8017  What a clown. Your psycho is murdering his harmless neighbours and you have the nerve to talk to me about war mongering. Your solution for peace is to give him any country he wants so he can run it from the Kremlin like it's a Soviet oblast. Thanks for the Reich Chancellery point of view, Lord Chamberlain. Xi would heartily approve it too. And how generous you are, granting Ukraine its choice of merchandise trade partners. There's just no end to your high-mindedness is there?
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  389. premiere (preem-YAIR): a debut, as of an show-business production premier (PREEM-ee-er): a leader of a Canadian provincial government
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  390. What? "Starting"? It's at a full gallop.
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  391.  @robf1801  Such an important point.👍 A closely similar one: Let's say Brazil and Canada both sell the US lentils. If tariffs send Canada's up from $1 to $1.25, Brazil can quite safely raise its own price by 20¢. (And obviously should.)
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  392. Uh, the whole world except China, North Korea and Iran are blaming him.
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  393. "Believe all women. If they're accusing Republicans."
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  394. 'Foment' is the word. And yes, you're entirely right. Whatever improves the situation makes her less able to push the fraud that makes her rich, so it must be fought. So, so very twisted. Extreme corruption.
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  395. Economics degree from Trump University?
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  396. Yet elsewhere in the news, people who don't address someone by using "glixnrob" as a pronoun are the most evil monsters in history.
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  397. ​ @CeeDEE-l8b  Part of the Russian empire, you mean. So were the Warsaw Pact countries for 45 years. So what? The projection of US military power, besides meaning that billions of people around the world breathe freer, also has made you and the rest of the US vastly more wealthy throughout the present lifetime. It's a net money-maker for every American, not a net drain. It's time for more of it, not less, unless Americans decide that their priority is to impoverish themselves, which wouldn't be too bright.
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  398.  @CeeDEE-l8b  Also, the projection of US military power, besides meaning that billions of people around the world breathe freer, also has made you and the rest of the US vastly more wealthy throughout the present lifetime. It's a net money-maker for Americans, not a net drain.
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  399. ​ @CeeDEE-l8b  I knew an invasion of Iraq would be a colossal blunder, or worse, and joined the huge public protests of Feb. 2003 which preceded it. Btw, I happened to meet the Russian ambassador at one of them, and after we conversed he reached into a bag and handed me a terrific and rather large bottle of brandy as a gift. Marvellous fellow. I passed it around to my astonished fellow protestors. (Look that word up if you don't know it.😄) However, if we were to discuss Afghanistan, I would win.
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  400. I read Phil Flynn's sharp analysis of the oil market all the time on Investing [daught][calm]. If he's a new guest analyst here, I say Fox made a good score.
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  401.  @nobrainsnoheadache2434  The NDP also came in at 17%. Other parties totalled about 18%. The winner of the election is the party which wins the most seats. (If you're American, think Electoral Districts.) A clear majority win will be 172 seats. The current seat projections by poll aggregator 338Canada are: CPC 229, Lib 51, NDP 19. CBC Poll Tracker says 218, 60, 24. You're welcome for the lessons! Any time.
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  402.  @pabloandrew38  Also in 2011 and 2012. Also in the 1970s.
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  403. 0.094% in 2023 and 2024 combined, according to US CBP.
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  404. China: "If a country is bombed and invaded by its neighbor, it must not defend itself or retaliate. It must surrender in the name of peace." "This goes for any country, whether its name is Taiwan or not. China stands for peace! CCP forever! Thank you."
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  405. Just don't report what Obama says. I'd rather know Jimmy Carter's opinions.
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  406. Listening to Kringela Harris opens up new vistas of annoyance and nausea I never knew existed.🤯
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  407. Sounded great for a minute. But didn't Trump proudly pass laws intended to slash sentences and the prison population? I mean, wtf?
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  408. Whatever Iran, Yale, Russia, Harvard, China, Berkeley, Syria, The Guardian, North Korea, Oxford, Venezuela, Stanford, Cuba, UCLA, Nicaragua, the BBC, Eritrea, Rashida Tlaib, Ethiopia and Ilhan Omar howl that Israel, supported by its allies, must not do — that is exactly what Israel, supported by its allies must do.
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  409. What's with that bogus definition of nihilism? Never, ever trust any news channel to define words for you. Go to a good dictionary, making sure it dates from at least 15 years ago (i.e., from the pre-woke era).
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  410. If Americans are told which retailers are selling gasoline made from Russian oil, they will boycott immediately. 100% predictable.
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  411. Bad as they wanna be. The spree continues as we near the end of Year Four. And we're still being told it's all our fault because of how awful we are.
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  412. Very few do. Most people don't even know one person who ever has. Those who do are those with ample money who can pay for instant service rather than waiting weeks, months or (for the least urgent needs) a year or more. Having said that, the quality of Canadian health care seems to be falling.
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  413.  @5818fa1  Sure, and many Canadians go there for groceries, too. Also restaurant meals and visits to movie theaters. It's called old people spending the winter there.
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  414. ​ @5818fa1  Yes, and groceries, restaurant meals, wine and liquor, movie tickets, etc. It's called retired people spending the winter in lovely Arizona. Anyone who just wants a hernia operation three days after their consultation can far more easily visit a northern state.
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  415. "Someone"? It's on you, dude, to vote, and to influence every voter you know. When you run out of those, introduce yourself to some more.
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  416. How is that headline justified? Not only did the guest not say what it claims, in quotation marks no less, but when he did use the phrase "the mother of all bombs," it was in the context of some previous action of the president-elect, and he didn't even say which action he meant. [sigh]
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  417. Don't know this fellow but he's right, the choice of Greg Abbott would be a master stroke.
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  418. Is a US attorney not a federal appointee in a federal position?
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  419. Maria, there's no 'n' in restaurateur.
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  420. Use periods and capitals or no one's going to read you. Make sentences.
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  421. Imagine the intellectual deficiency of a mind that comes up with "sloped at its highest point"! Dwell on it for a moment. Such a person belongs in a very low-level, unimportant job, not a crucial leadership position. For appointing her, I call for John Mayorkas' immediate ouster. Get him out now.
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  422. Btw, later this month he'll be paying his 2021 taxes of not far from $20 billion, the most of any human in history by far.
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  423. De Santis 2024
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  424. This putz has got to go.
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  425. 🤣👏🏻 Clever idea but please tell me how could you possibly obtain such a thing as this "pipeline" you speak of?
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  426. The attitude of France and Germany explains perfectly why Trump always dumped on NATO: They need NATO. They use NATO. It makes them secure. It makes them rich. But they will not make any sacrifice for it. They're like a 24-year-old living at home who still thinks mom and dad's money is just "there," that they're entitled to it, that they'll never get kicked out because their parents couldn't bear to see them to struggle. So they live—and they spend their part-time earnings—as they like. Awful.
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  427. In fairness, Trudeau put $5b in taxpayers' money into the TransMountain oil pipeline expansion to the west coast. (When it's completed he'll put the govt. stake up for sale to get the money back, hopefully at a fat profit.) Yeah, he's definitely got to go, but he isn't a whack job on the oil business. He also supported Keystone XL.
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  428. So many asteroids whizzing past Earth. So many meteors landing in the ocean and unpopulated areas. And not one has the decency to do anything about Joy Reid.
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  429. Pinfold's dictum: The establishment which fancies itself immortal will soon answer the door and be asked to sign for its casket.
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  430. Madness.
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  431.  @chucklesthered2338  Usually if you Sort by Newest you see a lot more. I don't know what that's about. (Something objectionable, no doubt.)
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  432. He looks like he's on something. That funny-moustache guy who died in 1945 was doped to the gills too.
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  433. I do despise the NYT but in fairness, Stephens is probably the best of them. Now and then he qualifies as not bad at all. Also, are you really sure this is the first time in the last 3 weeks he's written such things?
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  434. I always knew it. The entrepreneurs were only a means to the end of raising their country's productive capacity. Now that's been accomplished, so off with their proverbial heads, or their literal ones. We'll see, but the party's ending. It's Party time.
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  435. Come on, don't make a segment out of the guy's jokes unless they have a serious and newsworthy aspect to them. And don't bait us with misleading video titles. It's very disrespectful. Shape up.
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  436. Ever see Bridge On The River Kwai? I feel like the doctor right at the end, when he just says: "Madness.... madness... Madness!"
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  437. Add a zero to that, probably.
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  438.  @MarthinusLourens-q6p  X posts say a lot of things. The actual powers-that-be in Canada aren't saying that. But a nice price increase would be fair and square, 25% for starters. Or hey, instead Trump can sign an executive order creating new rivers with gigawatts of hydroelectric potential.😂 Or America can put hundreds of billions into nuclear. Oh wait, govts. won't approve that. Also, most uranium imports come from Canada, now 25% more expensive thanks to the P**z-in-Chief. Any way you cut it, new generation takes years— decades —of planning, permitting, massive financing and construction. Easy, affordable fixes: [tumbleweed bouncing by]
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  439. You've heard of major shareholders getting board seats, surely? Boards appoint company executives. Even at 9% he will have influence, and if he wants another 9%, he can have it like an ordinary person can have a bowl of cereal.
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  440.  @curveball135  <--- Confession by prajexion.
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  441. I am Xi Jinping and approve the hell right out of this message.⬆
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  442. It's normal for a visiting head of state to meet with opposition leaders. It's always been normal and always will be, in the US and all over the world.
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  443. We should move on the deficit sooner. Still, really good guest. I overall approve of her take and her proposal. Not many people can communicate as well as her.
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  444. Kringela
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  445. Koh Vid and the outrageous and disastrous government response to it did this. The US standard of living, indeed standards of living across the Western world — as well as some of all our countries' most valuable social, political and legal traditions — were devastated. It will be the work of generations to restore all that was lost.
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  446. I'd like the president-elect to stop wasting his hardcore, tough-guy, 'take the bull by the horns' attitude on Canada — America's longstanding friend and ally, which poses zero or next to zero threat — and put it to work here. Let him for example make plans to ban Chinese ownership of US farmland! For god's sake, never mind Canada.🙄
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  447. "But" ?
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  448. Appreciate that. We all need a laugh.
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  449. Equal opportunity: Golden DEI and quotas: Morally wrong and destructive
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  450. Just as from the North Pole all points are South, from the Left Pole all points are Right. And I don't trust this author. Cunning is written all over his face and shines through his words.
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  451.  @vegas2881  You deplore "colored person", yet I bet you prefer or have no problem with "person of color." This is the absurdity of obsession over the names of things, which serves no other purpose than sanctimony. The black community has been renamed over and over again by people like you. In ten years they will give it yet another new name, which they will then try to command others to use, simply to show how wonderful they are. And one of them will write their own comment just like yours, telling you how backward you are.
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  452.  @jsnjcnt  The oil companies decide unless the govt steps in and decides for them, as is normal everywhere in the business world.
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  453. ​ @jsnjcnt  I said "unless the govt steps in and decides for them". I don't have the time to wade through 85 comments to see what you were referring to. What you are saying here is correct.
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  454. He can ask for and get a board seat immediately. Think Elon can wield influence at a board meeting by any chance?
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  455. I'm just happy to find out that I have no idea who the holder of the #5 Twitter account is. (Somebody or something called "Cristiano.") And please do not tell me either. Thanks, but I'm good.
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  456. I'm starting to admire you.
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  457. I praise the subtlety of that thought but I don't think so. Gunning for a Google bid is more likely to result in a Google bid than it is to forestall a Google bid.
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  458. Sorry, but there's a problem claim in this report itself: namely, that US inflation is the worst of all the major economies. The 12-month UK rate in April was 9.0% vs. 8.3% in the US. (The May number won't be released till June 22nd. US in May: 8.6%.)
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  459. Legacy carmakers simply have no idea how to turn a profit making EVs. So they go around reversing their plans to invest...and going on TV to  explain that the reason is that EVs are for a future time, not now. But really, they're just the dinosaurs and EVs are the comet that killed the dinosaurs.
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  460. There are pictures of the shipment of equipment arriving in Ukraine. As for recharging, that's for Tesla cars. The Starlink dishes/transmitters you simply plug in the wall. I would have thought a great-grandchild of Einstein would know that.
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  461. ​ @deafintheleft5741  What? You're skeptical of a Gen-Z "hippy chick"? The most brilliant demographic ever, and the first in history to achieve moral perfection? Come on, man!
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  462. I need closure on his final remark. Why cut off the video there? 🤔
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  463. Full of foreign fear-and-doubt trollbots here. All Y T is a swamp of them. Turn around and leave.
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  464.  @aghoover  Greater Vancouver is 3 million people out of the entire 5.5 million in BC. And Victoria elected 100% NDP/Green MPs.
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  465. Kilograms of Fentanyl seized in the past year: Mexican border: 9,500 US seaports and airports: 500 Canadian border: 20
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  466. ...despite that name full of highly titillating promise.🤣
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  467. Goebbels [in hell, jumping to his feet as he listens to her]: "Ja! Ja! Das ist gut! Wer ist das? Jawohl!"
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  468. Stuart Varney is the best.👏
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  469.  @alanmcintosh8087  Nay, you are the dust beneath his boots.
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  470.  @mollysmeow3455  Thanks for your reply. No, I don't have links to offer. The US, UK and Canada all did what they could in the first approximately 20 months (the US less so, I would say), but they couldn't save Poland, Holland, France, Norway, Denmark or any of the others, could they? They had largely disarmed following the First World War and had massive tooling up to do before they could really do battle with armed-to-the-teeth Germany. (Canada sent a battle-ready division to the UK pretty quickly, but (owing to Dunkirk if I recall correctly) it was actually the only one on British soil at the time. Imagine that, in a country that was still by global consensus in 1939 considered the world's leading power.)
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  471.  @js70371  Canada should sell oil to non-hostile countries, China should look elsewhere.
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  472. @Brian Z Musk is a self-professed centrist and encourages centrism in others. He wouldn't take kindly to your attempt to paint devil's horns on conservatives. It smacks of an extremism unbefitting clever people.
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  473. Absolutely. Btw, can you imagine how much evidence was destroyed the minute the Twitter sale to Musk closed?
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  474.  @maryintx4409  There are "portals" between the government and lots of things, like T-Mobile, Verizon and all the others, I'm sure. It depends what the portal is for. It could be for purposes that nearly everyone might consider ok, like compiling stats on terr a wrist threats. If it's to allow the government to 'control' things and spy on law-abiding people, and there's one that's still 'open' at Twitter, either Musk is on the verge of closing it, he's going to publicly reveal it in due time and probably soon, or he has no way of even detecting it. Why don't you tell us more about what you know, since you know so much? And don't leave out the part about how you know it.
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  475. What? Why is a story of global importance on the news? Are you serious? If it doesn't interest you, watch something else. Some of us would like to have a solid idea of what's going on in this world.
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  476. Canada underspends on its military, but the idea that it sponges off the US by selling it stuff is the silliest thing I've read in this very silly comments section. Congratulations, that's a real achievement.🤣
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  477. I love eating once a day. You have to really plan that one meal though, cuz it has to be complete. But they do say it's good for you. And if you prefer to add a small breakfast like oatmeal & milk, or 2 eggs & toast, it only costs about a dollar. (Where I live anyway.)
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  478.  @JPxLA-1  Alternatively he could buy Daily Motion off Vivendi and really turn it into something.
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  479. Nice Saskatchewan girl.
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  480.  @busybeedaily4068  Yes he did have a father growing up. You've been misinformed.
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  481.  @busybeedaily4068  "After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk mostly lived with his father in Pretoria and elsewhere, a choice he made two years after the divorce and subsequently regretted." —Wikipedia article on Elon Musk
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  482. What's with that can't-do attitude? Kinda un-American.
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  483. Sorry Mikhail Andrey, everyone is sick of internet Russobots.
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  484.  @lynette8234  Ok, Oxsana.🤨
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  485. I take it you mean the PM, but no, this was the Energy Minister of Alberta. (When Biden killed Keystone his first week in office, Trudeau expressed "disappointment", though.)
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  486.  kx8960  Try googling "cost to replace a Tesla battery". Clearly you haven't.
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  487. @trumps hairflap Musk in April is paying more taxes than any other human in history. Not far from $20 billion.
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  488. Actually, republic just means 'no king'. It doesn't mean 'democracy'.
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  489.  @keltecshooter  True. Just being in business with a location, staff, utilities, taxes, municipal fees and all the rest would cost you $3 just to sell an empty wrapper. I bet the ingredients cost 25 cents.
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  490. Oh no! How will he ever afford to buy more?
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  491. Eventually, but it'll take years to increase pipeline capacity to tidewater. Thank PM Peter Pan for cancelling one, the Quebec premier for blocking another.
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  492. Welcome to the 99% Pooty-bot comments zone. Hope you're not wearing good shoes.
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  493. Thanks for the point of view straight from your tattooed and pierced TA with funny eyeglasses and haircut, who in turn got it straight from the Russian and Chinese foreign ministry talking points. As for India, don't expect from it any of the cheap and cynical anti-Americanism you're peddling. It will show far more good sense when all is said and done than you're counting on.
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  494. But you write your own posts for public release!
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  495. Imagine, there's people who think Harris Faulkner is terrible. We really need to talk to those people. Yes, it will take years, decades to straighten out minds like that.
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  496. Good lord she is such a screamer. There is a fairly strong inverse relation between real confidence in what one thinks and the volume at which one announces it.
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  497. If EVs don't work in freezing weather why do I see them driving around all winter, including on the coldest days? EVs must be pretty great if people have to make things up to criticize them.
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  498. @ Battery life has two meanings: How many miles one charge lasts and how many years the battery lasts.
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  499. I think that if the Fed were actually "panicking" already, as our guest claims, Powell wouldn't have waited to cut until September. So, No, his claim is wrong.
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  500. @ I didn't say tariffs only harm the importing nation. I said tariffs are paid in the importing nation and I was 100% right, not half-right.
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  501.  @xcalibur1986  I believe the Canadian oil sector's reliance on US investment capital is lower than you suppose. Foreign investment has fallen by a lot over the past 20 years. The sector generally now funds itself and Canadian ownership has risen greatly compared to a couple of generations ago. It's a disappearance of US demand which would be of great concern.
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  502.  @xcalibur1986  Since Kinder Morgan threw up its hands and sold the pipeline project — to the federal government, as there were no other takers! — your reply hints nicely at the role the govt. played in driving out foreign money simply by worsening the investment climate via regulation. I think we can agree the whole government-industry situation is a mess, or at least could be far better.
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  503. Every activity in the world involves money. Internet prop a Ganda is making money. But of course you knew that...didn't you, Farshad?😂
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  504. Legit pro-Putin crank.
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  505.  @lukerichardson2404  I'm glad you find it embarrassing, because it's Kennedy's own narrative and I find it embarrassing myself. He is in total agreement with Putin.
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  506.  @lukerichardson2404  Omg, he said Putin's invasion was the fault of the US and NATO, parroting Putin. If he says it's the fault of the US and NATO, and also what you claim, then he simply blames everyone, which is preposterous. He's just a crank who enjoys taking his shirt off in public. Something's wrong with him. He reminds me of Trudeau, another son of a famous politician who accomplished little to nothing in his own life, and then after all that time waltzes in out of nowhere and wants to be the national leader. Trudeau has been a great disaster for Canada. Beware such privileged, unaccomplished offspring with entitlement delusions. Having said that, most of his supporters are Democrats, so I wish him the best! Let him come in 2nd!
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  507.  @lukerichardson2404  My brief, polite, non-incendiary and perhaps even bland reply to you is not being allowed. Edit: Maybe this edit will make it through: He agrees that the US and NATO are to blame for the war. He agrees with all Pn. says about the causes of the war. In my view something's not right with him. (Why does he remove his shirt in front of others on very little pretext?) Like the Canadian prime minister, he is the son of a famous politician. In contrast to their respective fathers, they led lives without any significant accomplishments for some decades, and then appeared on the national scene asking to be put in the nation's top job. (In the case of Canada, the results have been disastrous to say the least; so bad that strong approval of his job performance currently stands at 6% of Canadians.) To me both cases smack of ego maladjustment and a towering sense of entitlement which at the very least border on pathology.
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  508.  @tinamisner1322  It is correct. I watched in disgust and dismay as he said it all himself. He's a crank.
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  509.  @tinamisner1322  Very well. I didn't hear what I heard him say, as I watched hm say it. Now go. And do not come back.
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  510.  @tinamisner1322  Thanks for the harassment and forcing me to mute your account. I thought women were supposed to understand the matter of consent. [middle finger]
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  511.  @MultiBallzofsteel  It's more of a USB port.
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  512.  mr oko  Well clearly I touched a nerve and apparently you are uncomfortable being unable to reconcile your sanctimony with your financial support of the Xi regime. The stuff you buy generates taxes in China which help to finance the camps in Xinjiang, and you know it. You cast the stone, my friend, yet you are not without sin, to invoke the biblical analogy. I think that's called hypocrisy.
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  513. Have a sense of proportion. The $100bn has been spread over 2-1/2 years while GDP was $65 trillion. And it is 2% of the proposed $5 trillion (!) tax increase.
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  514. Sorry, Alberta cannot open any taps that would make 1m additional bpd available for export any time soon.  Gradually over a few years, yes, if the pipeline capacity is also there.  They would love that.  The problem with doing it far faster is that past a certain point of modest increases, ramping up output of Alberta oil is a particularly slow (and particularly expensive) process.
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  515. In a way I feel sorry for that Secret Service agent who had Trump's flank as they left the stage, whose job at that moment was to shield him. It was then that she must've realized "Omg, I'm one foot below his head wound."
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  516. He is one, yes. But he is a centrist with leanings in both directions (but not too far in either direction), depending on the specific issue.
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  517.  @BubbahotepEagle  That's one for Mother Goose.
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  518. Oh? You speak for them, do you? POS
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  519. The whole constellation of Democrats, liberals, wokesters and the left are intent on attacking our freedoms, destroying society, and lowering our standard of living. They have all the same fond desires for the future of America that Xi Jinping does. Donald Trump wants all the opposite things and they tell us he's the big threat.
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  520. As if any more proof were needed, this shows he just doesn't know what he's doing. How can he make a project economically untenable with his own policies and then urge that it go ahead? Some of his moves are good but right now compared to his campaign he looks severely clue-challenged.
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  521. Recalled? That's it? He should be prosecuted vigorously for his wilful negligence. If he even so much as has the nerve to remain a resident of that city, something's terribly wrong.
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  522.  @andrewondon  Not hatred towards China, but impatience with and distrust of its wicked and hostile government. Big difference, Tongzhi.
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  523. @Just Doit Nice.
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  524.  @SimonCU  Interesting. I'd like to believe it but I don't think so. I think when Xi sees a Chinese billionaire he mostly sees a big fat juicy neck. Only the Party can do anything about Xi. But maybe you have a response to that which I ought to hear.
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  525.  @SimonCU  Their Gini coefficients are very similar. I suppose you would say that won't last. Anyway, thanks for your reply. Best to you.
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  526.  @SimonCU  Thanks, your other replies were great too. But I am not convinced. I am not at all surprised that there is a potential for some struggle, but how can the outcome be in doubt? If it's in doubt then the Party must be quite weak, while from over here it looks like maybe the strongest institution in the world. If you're saying I won't understand things unless I read up on Chinese stocks then I'll do some of that. I admit I've been avoiding it. Your point of view is very interesting and I value it. Cheers.
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  527.  @stuartp4280  Yes, but that is beside the point, which is that an expansion was shut down. Well over 3 million barrels a day comes from Canada altogether, and it is no real consolation that none of it has been shut off, because more is needed. As for Keystone exports, they have been in recent months about 20% of the total, or 175k bbl/d, a fraction bound to fall now for obvious reasons, among them the inevitable shut-off of Russian imports (600k bbl/d).
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  528.  @justintyme2451  Your defence of the necessity of targeted government helmsmanship in a free-enterprise economy was a good one. It leads me to guess that you are facing mostly in the right direction. It shouldn't be long now.
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  529.  @OlympusMons1969  Which of my remarks is that in response to?
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  530.  @justintyme2451  I think you will be fine. Cheers
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  531.  @OlympusMons1969  Eating cake and having it.
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  532. Ok, Vladislav.🙄
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  533. * loser
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  534. Hahaha, look who's talking.
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  535. Prime Minister Cringe.
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  536.  @jonlee5531  Oh man, that really frosts my bananas.
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  537.  @rncgsu  They'll leave when there's an alternative platform getting the uploads and offering comparable technical services. It's not guaranteed but I think it's coming someday soon.
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  538.  @donpiland6605  It doesn't but it ought to. It has to do with its monopoly status as a high-level news release service and public square. If there were twelve Twitters, or even three, and together they accommodated nearly all points of view, then Musk and the rest of us could safely ignore them all. What can't be ignored is a company with a stranglehold platform that excludes not only large minority holders of opinions, but even large majorities. A privately-owned discussion site at the center of public and civic life can't be controlling the discussion to that extent. That discussion is all we've got standing between us and a boot stamping on our faces.
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  539.  @kurtpena5462  Your reply has nothing to do with what I said, so you probably want to re-post it to the correct person. Btw, since I am a liberal (a real one, not one of these excrescences upon liberalism which I call illiberal liberals) and a moderate centrist, I tend to disagree with both liberals and conservatives—whenever either type isn't moderate enough for my liking. I don't specialize, except to the extent that since conservative comments are bulldozed away at industrial scale from most platforms, there are fewer of them left to respond to. (I never, incidentally, spent even a single second on Twitter, having perceived long ago what a rhetorical cesspool and high-school cafeteria table crowed with mean girls (and boys) it was.) Whoever you are, your use of the cant word 'triggered' tells me instantly what sort of person you are: deeply boring, deeply unappetizing. Have a nice life.
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  540.  @Fucklifedeadshit  Like I care what a little kid thinks. Hey, your mom's boyfriend says to do his homework. He wants to pass his GED somehow.
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  541.  @bobshagit-io8lq  You can whip up beautiful, serious, 7 oz. burgers with nice old cheddar or other good cheese on sesame brioche buns with lovely pan-roasted crispy-a^^ garlic and herb potatoes at home in 30-45 minutes for about $12. Less if you shop really carefully. At least where I live. And I stress that I'm talking about for two people. Oh god, excuse me, I gotta go to my kitchen right now....😂
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  542. Shouldn't you be hustling Russian oil door-to-door in Shenzen somewhere?
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  543. I searched above for news about this. Number of search results displaying Fox News coverage: 2 Number of search results displaying independent vlogger coverage: 2 Number of search results displaying mainstream media coverage: 0 "No more results"
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  544. They come in every size.
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  545.  @jml9550  Anyone who really wants to know can search 6 or 7 passenger evs. There are several, and I bet no year will go by without additions to the list. I assume a Suburban is in the works, and in the fullness of time a Sequoia.
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  546. No! The Harris of the North. For years he and she were even childhood neighbours in adjacent wealthy areas of Montreal (Westmount and the Golden Square Mile).
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  547. That sounded like Kringela's veiled way of saying that Is r ael wasn't defending itself in these actions, i.e., that they were acts of aggression. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong. But I expect her at some point to declare Isr. an aggressor nation in the present conflict.
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  548. Fine. Whatever cynicism gets you through the night.
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  549. ​ @Bluematchhead  Yes I did read it as a negative, because it denies that he's sincere when he says he cares about people's scope to express themselves in the public arena (or 'space', as a hipster would put it). Perhaps you didn't mean it just how you said it. I also think he couldn't care less about the Twitter share price. Even if he bought a further 41% of Twitter shares (bringing his total to 50.2%) and they fell to $1, costing him ~$19bn at today's price, that would still leave him with ~$240bn. And of course they will not fall to $1. My own take on him not joining the Twitter board is that senior management gave him mega-attitude and vowed to obstruct him, so he went all Bugs Bunny on them, i.e. "Of course you know this means war." And just like Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd, they're gonna get it.
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  550. I don't know. It's a pretty bad beer but I think I could still manage to get one down if I had to.   I can't swallow anything coming out of present-day Harvard.
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  551. No lie detector machine would survive a Biden speech. It would smoulder, melt, and burst into flames.
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  552. Hzb. member answering walkie-talkie: "Yes, who is this?" Voice: "It's me, Allah." Hzb.: "Yeah right, I really believ—"
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  553.  @marykoch9315  Yep, far less. In 2023-24: 0.094% of total fentanyl seizures. Northern border: 45 lbs. Southern border: 47,800 lbs. (Put another way, that's a difference of 106,200%) Source: US Customs & Border Patrol
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  554. ​ @jaimeb1281  Canada isn't "real comfortable" with China. It's hopping mad at China. Relations are hostile. There's (rightly) been a major deterioration from five years ago. And just wait till the Conservatives are in power, soon.
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  555. Tell that to Xi.
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