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US Politics the 2025 trump presidency thread

We just made deals with China Japan and a few others that are paying more then the Americans. We're the 3rd largest country with oil and countless other rare earth minerals. We will be fine.

Do the USA have anything in place to see if trump or his buddies are buying up stock for cheap?
 
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Yup. There's a good documentary about it called 'The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire', and the book 'Empire of the City' by EC Knuth. It's one of those things that a certain percentage of the upper crust of British people know about in secret, especially in London, and the rest just turn a blind eye to the incongruency between London and the absolutely dire conditions of the rest of the country.. they know something doesn't add up, but 'you don't bite the hand that feeds you' sort of thing.

Stockholm syndrome though. We've been under occupation for a thousand years. We're Rome's little bitch.
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4DQSAR said:
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THE EMPIRE OF "The City" : E.C.KNUTH : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Five Ideologies of Space and Power 1. One World Ideology 2. Pan-Slavic Ideology 3. Asia for the Asiatics 4. Pan-Germanism 5. Pan-American Isolationism
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Here is the book.

Let's face it, the REAL reason the UK left the EU was to allow the City of London to carry on 'business as usual'.
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Espionage, tradecraft, 'soft' power - all traits of the British empire's cultural power and continued hegemony.

Also - the sort of thing that I respect the hell out of (even if I'm not one for imperialism).

In games like civilization or humankind - I always aim for Anti-imperialist cultural power.
 
kris66 said:
The people were friendly and we never had any negative experiences with the government on a personal level or feared for our safety, but we witnessed situations where we could see bribes being handed to police and became aware that their was corruption at a higher level. I know people would say we have that here also, but the feel of it was totally different. It was like people just accepted it without objection because they didn't know how to try to resist it, it was just part of their lives.
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I have friends born and raised in Russia. Most would argue it is a first world country. Bribery was as natural as eating and breathing. For businesses to operate, either domestic or from abroad, there is bribery to get things done. Part of life, unquestioned.

4DQSAR said:
Even in the UK the police can be bribed - often for trivial things.
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I think anywhere there will always be an element of authority willing to take bribes. Part of it likely depends upon how they percieve their position in life - are they underpaid? Is it normal with their peers that this occurs and is accepted? Can they get away with it, or perhaps are encouraged by higher ups that wish to have something on them because the higher ups are already compromised? Idunno, but I'm confident it exists everywhere.
 
Voxide said:
You said it, not me 🤭

But hey, long as I remain in my well paid position at one of them, sure
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It’s cute that you think 70 to 200k is well paid.

Some people can be bought so cheaply. And that’s why it’s the way it is.

The second you get sick or injured you’re cast out like a dog and medical expenses eat up your savings in a year . But hey you’re happy with the corporate welfare / slavery system
 
alasdairm said:
saw this today and thought of that post:



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Unfortunately this saying is popular because a braindead meathead stoner controls the minds of American men now.

Something tells me this saying didn’t become popular because Americans are so well read.

Men getting their mind filled by Joe Rogan explains a lot
 
TheLoveBandit said:
I have friends born and raised in Russia. Most would argue it is a first world country. Bribery was as natural as eating and breathing. For businesses to operate, either domestic or from abroad, there is bribery to get things done. Part of life, unquestioned.



I think anywhere there will always be an element of authority willing to take bribes. Part of it likely depends upon how they percieve their position in life - are they underpaid? Is it normal with their peers that this occurs and is accepted? Can they get away with it, or perhaps are encouraged by higher ups that wish to have something on them because the higher ups are already compromised? Idunno, but I'm confident it exists everywhere.
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I guess what got my attention was the way people just accepted it without comment or any form of resistance. I don't see people in this country doing that.

I don't see people accepting that they need to hand a bribe to the person at the DMV if they want to get their driver's license renewed. Or accepting they have to hand a bribe to the officer who just pulled them over if they don't want him to falsify charges.

Do we just shrug and say everyone does it? Or do we resist and call out corruption?
 
JahBeeuS said:
He has a point but he does also make jokes on the stuff they're asking him about.
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He's full of shit. I don't know why people can't see through the charade, it's like people have lost their intuition or something.. he isn't even funny and has the charisma of a rotten potato. Even Joe Rogan has more charisma than him (but no comedic value lol).

Doesn't follow the news. Yeah, like during covid, when he totally didn't rag on people for daring to suggest there might be something amiss with the shots? What a cunt.
“I’m not gonna be sitting here with no medical degree listening to you with no medical degree… All I do is watch the news every two weeks. Mask or no mask? Still mask. Okay!" - Bill Burr, on Joe Rogan
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Bill Burr is what Langley think passes for a comedian. And unfortunately they are right it seems. Give me Bill Hicks any day of the fucking week.
 
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He's full of shit. I don't know why people can't see through the charade, it's like people have lost their intuition or something.. he isn't even funny and has the charisma of a rotten potato. Even Joe Rogan has more charisma than him (but no comedic value lol).

Doesn't follow the news. Yeah, like during covid, when he totally didn't rag on people for daring to suggest there might be something amiss with the shots? What a cunt.


Bill Burr is what Langley think passes for a comedian. And unfortunately they are right it seems. Give me Bill Hicks any day of the fucking week.
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Everything that the vaccines cause, covid itself causes 10-20x worse. Many studies show this, ones that have been posted here as well
 
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Apparantly the above used to be taught in US schools when explaining the causes of the Great Depression.

Are any BLers old enough to be able to confirm or indeed refuse the above statment which I culled from Page 94 (The Private Eye Podcast).

It's also the case that it's a British podcast pointing out how BADLY Brexit turned out for us and maybe, just maybe, we should be the cautionary example...
 
someguyontheinternet said:
Everything that the vaccines cause, covid itself causes 10-20x worse. Many studies show this, ones that have been posted here as well
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Lmao. You know, that logic might have flown four years ago, but it's not even applicable today. Covid, if you still believe in such a thing, is akin to a cold now.. so your statement isn't even accurate. Colds don't cause myocarditis, strokes, clots, and all the rest.

As for 'the studies'. Do we have to do this dance again? Do we have to walk through the row-row-row-it-back vaccine safety studies and all the 'safe and effective' soundbites that are now completely inapplicable in the face of the actual real-world data?

Seriously man. Just give it up. We were duped.
 
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Lmao. You know, that logic might have flown four years ago, but it's not even applicable today. Covid, if you still believe in such a thing, is akin to a cold now.. so your statement isn't even accurate. Colds don't cause myocarditis, strokes, clots, and all the rest.

As for 'the studies'. Do we have to do this dance again? Do we have to walk through the row-row-row-it-back vaccine safety studies and all the 'safe and effective' soundbites that are now completely inapplicable in the face of the actual real-world data?

Seriously man. Just give it up. We were duped.
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The dance where you deny basic scientific measurement techniques in an attempt to discredit studies you don't agree with?

You're also conflating covid currently, after so many mutations, with the covid that was around when the vaccines were first being developed. Covid absolutely was causing myocarditis among a myriad of other symptoms, and at a much higher rate than the vaccines
 
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He's full of shit. I don't know why people can't see through the charade, it's like people have lost their intuition or something.. he isn't even funny and has the charisma of a rotten potato. Even Joe Rogan has more charisma than him (but no comedic value lol).

Doesn't follow the news. Yeah, like during covid, when he totally didn't rag on people for daring to suggest there might be something amiss with the shots? What a cunt.


Bill Burr is what Langley think passes for a comedian. And unfortunately they are right it seems. Give me Bill Hicks any day of the fucking week.
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Ah-ha...

I actually love Bill Burr and think that he's quite sincere. He's trying to be his authentic self as far as I can tell. Sure, could be an act, but as someone who reads people for a living - I don't read him that way. I read him as being true to himself and I find his earnestness endearing and authentic.
 
someguyontheinternet said:
The dance where you deny basic scientific measurement techniques in an attempt to discredit studies you don't agree with?

You're also conflating covid currently, after so many mutations, with the covid that was around when the vaccines were first being developed. Covid absolutely was causing myocarditis among a myriad of other symptoms, and at a much higher rate than the vaccines
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The covid that killed colleagues, patients, and friends of mine...

lest we forget
 
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