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"Anyone who actually contributed to social security, please report to the 10th floor at 2 pm today. Before doing so, please email a bullet point summary of what your contributions have been in the past ~6 months, along with up to 10 screenshots of the most salient pay stub deductions."

Care to summarize his points? I hate youtube and especially hate rando video links from the internet.

We were the economic and military hegemon. Perhaps it wasn't as bad as you say.

> A company spokesperson indicated that Corleo is a long-term vision, with a potential market release by 2050.

The video looks all cgi. Headline bait.

Note this isn't an announcement of a new factory but rather moving production of their most popular model out of Japan.

TIL Nissan considers the Rogue their flagship model and they still make vehicles in Japan.

> Furthermore, Russia has no plans to invade any NATO country.

Not only are you attempting to prove a negative with "trust me bro" but it's especially laughable given recent history. Please tell me how many days before the Ukraine invasion Russia had "no plans to invade".

> this war is not how you describe it: said 'much smaller country'

Personally I consider 1/3 the population "much smaller" but you do you.

> it's not a 1x1 war of big Russia vs small Ukraine: Ukraine got help from all over Europe, G.B., U.S. and Canada.

Exactly why the US remaining in NATO prevents a large scale conventional war. Because Russia is pathetic unless it is bullying smaller neighbors or threatening nuclear war.

The Kremlin can come up with a rationalization for whatever their territorial desires are.

Haha please describe the NATO invasion of Russia. This sounds entertaining.

Or it's just his newest promise to give voters something for free. Like the wall that was partially built and paid for with DoD funds. He advertises tariffs as free money from other countries. For some reason people buy it.

Care to explain your rationale? Seems like Russia is in no position to invade any NATO country unless the US leaves the alliance. They've proven themselves wholly outclassed in Ukraine, against a much smaller country with refurb gear.

He doesn't know either.

What can be done?

Interest rates are high enough that holding cash isn't terrible, particularly if you expect the administration to reverse course on tariffs yet again.

Powell said the Fed isn't changing its plans to keep combating inflation from Trump's first term.

TLT is worth considering, though maybe we'll see Elon decide the treasury will default on bond payments.

I think less 4d chess and more Erlich Bachman school of negotiation. Bullying people in inferior bargaining positions has somehow worked thus far.

It's not 'overriding democracy' except by your straw definition.

Not sure if it is the same in India but in the US there needs to be a supermajority of both houses and the amendment must be ratified by the states. Since the first ten amendments are considered more or less integral to the constitution, I have a hard time believing even this court would consider itself above amendments.

And even then, term limits would be a weird hill to die on, since it would open the door for future courts to strike down constitutional amendments.

I don't think he is condoning it or saying it's legal, simply that it was a campaign promise being fulfilled.

Did they say "you shouldn't be allowed to say those things" or did they say "you shouldn't say those things"? Pretty big difference.

Considering the impact of the immunity decision last year I'm thinking that adage isn't actually true.

Can you link us the indictment please?

Yes but we've also had ten years of flooding the zone. I am inclined to believe this is the latter. He will get everything he needs from this term - primarily an escape from his Jan 6 and classified documents charges.

I don't believe scotus can invalidate an amendment. The best they can do is interpret it in a way that allows a third term.

That's at least 50% on you guys for bundling it with a lot of other conspiracy stuff.

There are a few things that are on their way to SCOTUS. Be prepared to react to the elimination of independent agencies or the legalization of impoundment.

Yes, the noise is to make you exhausted/miss the important things. Probably safe to ignore talk about invading Greenland.

I think he has to be vague in the economic policy front considering the spending and monetary policies of the first term followed by the current tariff whiplash.

Nothing he's done so far is outside of campaign promises so if anyone's pleading ignorance they went well out of their way to avoid information.

One would hope the arrest of US citizens without a warrant or probable cause wouldn't be considered political. But here we are.

I believe the term is "to John McAfee".

> Neighbors say the agents announced "FBI, come out!" over a megaphone. A woman came out of the house holding a phone.

Then they are really selling the ruse that they don't know where he is.

Seems like it'd be difficult or legally troublesome to fire someone (in his role) who has been afk for a couple of weeks.

Hah well .gov timeouts are a growing hallmark of this administration.

Maybe I have a skewed vision of science because I work in industry but I picture it as efficient, individual work that is thrust (published) into a vast bureaucracy (peer review) that roots out flaws. I'm not sure what's broken about science.