Didn’t he write this about the first Iraq war

It’s easy to bemoan financialization and the rise of the service economy but like we’re an aging country and would you rather support ourselves with 25% margin design firms or companies that have to compete with Chinese companies making .4% profit margins

Exactly this. If you can afford a cracker jack legal team, our system is pretty fair! The problem is getting the legal team of that caliber, which doesn't apply here.

i thought this was easy to spot but gonna be real i dont think humans are wired for thsi. Like at all

Rubio and Miller sold him this project on that basis so yeah. Just because his grey mush upstairs is stuck in like 1985 doesn't make it untrue that for him that's exactly what this is about.

I’m seeing a lot of people claiming he’s doing this because the oil companies want it, which certainly doesn’t line up with any of the reporting from the oil companies or any of the things I’ve seen from people who work in and with the oil industry

It's crazy to me, because I remember being a teenager in high school in the 80's and seeing articles/news reports on his bad business dealings. Like, he was KNOWN for it?! (The other coverage I saw was Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous type stuff, or scandal sheet stuff about Marla Maples.)

this goes for his voters, it goes for powerful businessmen and women, it goes for congressional republicans, and it goes for international actors, without exception, the single most predictable outcome of making a deal with trump is that he'll renege on it, and yet it's been happening for decades

I can almost make an allowance for someone like Machado, who has the excuse of being in a different country during that time, after all. Everyone else just thinks they're the only one smart enough to be in on the con.

this is maybe the most inexplicable part of trump's legacy — powerful people in practically every aspect of both american and global affairs read the same news we read, but come to the conclusion that *they* will be the one that trump *doesn't* sell out.

i'm totally at a loss to explain it, i don't know that there's anything in recent history (or history *at all*) that you can compare it to. millions of people, over and over again, believing that trump's patting them on the back while everyone watching can see the KICK ME sign he's taping to them

Elon became jealous of that teenager who makes people black or Chinese on Twitter

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what you miss when you're offline

this must be how the people of gotham city felt when they were under occupation by bane's troops in the third movie

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the Nobel committee, like many europeans, were so relieved to see the back of Bush that they gave Obama the Nobel peace prize after just eight months in office, much to Obama’s bafflement

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