Never had to pay for a key anyway. I just hopped on eBay and looked for machines that were “for parts only” where the seller took a very nice picture of the bottom of the computer.

It was very nice of them to share that software with me once they were done using it.

Also, don’t forget that a major part of the tariff declarations are pushed by his billionaire handlers and his family, to crash markets and buy in a fire sale. It’s the most blatant and highest scale insider trading scheme ever.

Pretty sure this is why he is fucking over federal aid for disasters. Hurricane wipes out a bunch of “poor” houses on the south-east seaboard, his billionaire buddies buy up the properties for pennies on the dollar, and then Trump is going to re-instate disaster aid to help clean up affected areas while taking about how the coast used to look so beautiful, and it’s Biden’s fault that all those people got forced out of their homes. Wealth transfer complete, and we even pick up the bill for rebuilding all the infrastructure on for the billionaires.

Fuck it. Send a letter back saying that you’re not going to have this pointless dick waving contest. You’re stopping all trade with the US and nationalizing US commercial and military assets in the EU. Effective tomorrow unless the US come back to the negotiating table with a zero tariff policy already signed and ready to go.

It matters to the cult that they were in.

Yeah, pull a China and say, we’re immediately on putting a 1000% tariffs on any American products. This will functionally stop any trade between our nations. Trump can retailiate with a higher one, but it would just be pointless dick waving. We’re fine with waiting until an intelligent and capable person is able to negotiate a trade deal with the EU on behalf of the USA.

Especially considering the rating of those bonds dropped after some ignorant spray-tanned chimp decided to skullfuck a functioning and stable economy.

A lot of words to say “I’m wrong but I can’t admit it.”

Rolling dice, flipping a coin, shooting a single photon through a split aperture.

Cute quote, but it’s dead wrong.

Also, I fully expect trump not to be impeached (this time at least) the goal isn’t to remove him here, the goal is to get these assholes to sign their names to his bad behavior, and to slow down congress, preventing republicans from getting legislation to the floor.

Oh well. If someone gets away with a crime then it’s totally pointless to go after them for subsequent crimes. It’s that one loophole that every prosecutor hates.

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The vast majority of people know for a fact that their vote mathematically does not matter

If a full third of people stayed home, that’s a systemic problem, not an individual responsibility problem.

You understand that in a two party system, these two statements are basically incompatible?

Especially when you consider that we have early voting starting a month before the election, along with mail-in voting being available in nearly every state. If you didn’t vote, it’s because you didn’t want to vote, not because you couldn’t vote. Yes, some degree of civic participation is expected, welcome to being an adult.

Someone commented just a few days ago that voting blue in OK was pointless. I brought up some stats that if every one of the non-voters in OK had voted in the last election, Kamala could have carried the state with 200k people to spare.

Well, they need to start by registering for the green party.

You can’t show up on November 6th and say “everybody should have voted for Jill Stein!” After she barely gets more votes than the worm riddled antivax conspiracy theorist that dropped out of the race and backed trump.

Would have been easy enough for them to be allies with Ukraine, but they didn’t do that, did they?

No, they want dependents. Allies have a choice. Dependents have an illusion of choice.

There are just as many countries between Iran and Russia as there are between Iran and China…

Then why would you say China is “right there” as an argument.

Also, the premise is not that Iran is a puppet state of Russia, but that they are dependent on Russia for security from other nuclear-armed countries. Russia doesn’t want Iran to get nukes because they lose that valuable bargaining chip.

Let’s sum up your arguments so far.

You think that Russia can’t maintain control over other nations, and I provided a direct refutation of that.

You think that China was geographically closer to Iran than Russia was, and that is refuted with Google maps.

You need to take a look at the players, their motivations and the “board” and then come back with an actual assessment instead of plainly incorrect and unfounded opinions

It wouldn’t work.

Look at that, it’s working.

Plus, China is right there.

I think you should look at a map sometime. Unless you are taking about Russia-China relations, but that doesn’t seem to be the context here.

Yeah. You think Russia is doing shit for free?

Glances at Belarus

Yeah. Okay.

You’re reading the play like Russia wants an ally.

What they want is a dependent.

If Iran gets their own nukes, then Russia loses a big bargaining chip.

Honestly, that’s probably the only reason why nukes weren’t used.

Musta missed 2019 when the US was caught with their pants down during a global pandemic, despite having a pandemic plan in place just a few years prior. Ultimately ended up killing over a million Americans… And the guy got re-elected.