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He's definitely bending the arc of history to create a closed economy and closed society. The power of accumulated wealth to create influence is a thing though. They gave out a lot of Sinovac and their debt traps are laid all over the place. I was amused when they tried to lay a debt trap on the former Afghan government. It was one risible outcome of the disaster. You can try to bind the elected government of Afghanistan but what do you do when they get on a plane with suitcases of cash.

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I have been told that Monticello has an excellent tour now which really emphasizes Thomas Jefferson slave's experiences

Matter of fact: my buddy and I were Ginger vs. Amber Lynn. I liked Ginger's sweetly pretty good looks and my buddy was into Amber's obvious curves. Ginger was like a tumble in the late summer hay in the barn where as Amber was like some gritty back alley on a rainy night in Tokyo where the stakes were life or death. Of course, Ginger's young lithe body was kept lean by copious amounts of cocaine so she was clearly not Mary Ann...

of course.

I miss young Ginger. I miss young Romad too

I love the refined history. I was going off what the Arlington tour guide told me and he’s gonna be biased.

Die Hard is a bit facile as meme content but i’ll allow this.

all the way from the far-left Syrian dictator approving part of Hawaii?

Tulsi who?

Lots of African Americans have no more Fs to give with white race supremacy.

this feels like the opposite of 2020 when dems thought they had it all locked up and the Qs voted on election day. If this makes more people work harder then all to the good. Despair serves nobody.

I'm dealing with a MAGA blowhard on the other side of a cubicle wall from me. He got me all wrong when he found out I was a shooter. My co-workers sorted that out for him. I mention my wife is going downtown to go to work and he'll throw in a quip about needing a bullet proof vest. I will pointedly ask him if he believes there is some reason why she would need to worry about crime during the day in a city. Trying to get the "because of all the black people" truth to come out. He tried to tell me about some story about a gun buyback program where some guy ripped off some city for a ton of money with fakes. I asked him if he routinely cheers on tax cheats too. He claims he is a libertarian. That's code for "white guy who works for the Federal Government who thinks wokeness is a huge problem"

I enjoy so very much that Arlington Cemetery was put in that man's front yard. If you are going to screw over your country and get away with it with your neck, might as well understand what you caused.

I think i agree. But, So defending her honor against any slight was why Melania was posing nude with the other lady?

Did the Detroit News endorse Tudor? Ok,

seems like a lot of money

https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1582784442284007424?s=46&t=XZvvgo6l_a0T8HHmpHQj6Q

I think ND has a significant role as an avatar of a certain type of blue collar sports fan. You can dislike the totems of that like i do. That person is starting to slip away demographically as organized religion ebbs and flows. I used to enjoy having M as the representation of Enlightenment values play their dark ages values and see who came out ahead.

its not a bad visual. She's an attractive lady. Crazy AF

had this conversation earlier today with a fellow M fan. Assume for a second that northern intimidation of SEC and other elite southern schools may be damaging to CFB overall. That's a beginning premise to this. Assume also that CFB viewership of northern schools is very strong nationwide because so many people went to B1G and other schools and have strong emotional attachments. So, the argument was proposed to me back when the bad thing happened and App State beat Michigan that App State winning that game was "great for College Football" The game happened as the result of M's arrogance, lazy coaching, poor citizenship, lack of moral fiber and any number of other things that could have caused such a comeuppance and was not by design of anything more sinister than whatever gamblers might have been interested in the result (JK). Not a conspiracy in the sense of the Protocols of the learned elders of Heisman or anything like it. I propose after some reflection that Michigan going into the dumpster and ceding the B1G to OSU for a decade and a half with MSU raising its nose out of the burning couch fires enough to be relevant was not actually good for College Football. It meant that serious talent went or stayed South. It meant that the highly valued TV product of B1G football was devalued. While Clemson and Alabama and an occasional LSU/Auburn team would show up basically the game was stuck with a lot of sameness. Similarly, I think in this vein that CFB needs a strong and relevant Notre Dame which it does not have. This is already too long a post but you get the idea. That the sport needs strong "Blue State" college teams. Its better when USC is strong. Its better when ND and Michigan are throwing haymakers at each other that first couple weeks and the result isn't going to destroy the loser. Here is hoping that M can get to a point where it isn't ludicrous to think it could challenge for a natty.

Huh. So, besides espionage they don't have much to do.

this is good news

All that is required for evil to triumph is for entitled douch canoes to be empowered.