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Danglars
United States12133 Posts
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xDaunt
United States17988 Posts
On December 21 2017 11:03 Danglars wrote: https://twitter.com/yahoonews/status/943579419238641664 Haha, I love it when Trump swings dick on the international stage if for no other reason the reaction is always hilarious. | ||
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Gahlo
United States35165 Posts
On December 21 2017 11:07 xDaunt wrote: Haha, I love it when Trump swings dick on the international stage if for no other reason the reaction is always hilarious. He's just reminding people about how small his hands are. | ||
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Excludos
Norway8231 Posts
On December 21 2017 11:07 xDaunt wrote: Haha, I love it when Trump swings dick on the international stage if for no other reason the reaction is always hilarious. Oh god you made me read the twitter replied and now I have a brain tumor  "The last 3 weekz have been his best easily. One of the best in years. He hasnt been saying dumb things on twitter and made really good policy" "SAVAGE AF [America emoji]" "Good. They have no right to our money" "This is great news. Finally someone calling out global anti semitism" Didn't think it possible, but it does seem like people are getting dumber People seriously think he's showing strength.. All he's showing is his complete lack of diplomatic skills and willingness to fuck over the world (starting with his own country) if he doesn't get what he wants. | ||
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Introvert
United States4884 Posts
On December 21 2017 11:13 Excludos wrote: Oh god you made me read the twitter replied and now I have a brain tumor "The last 3 weekz have been his best easily. One of the best in years. He hasnt been saying dumb things on twitter and made really good policy" "SAVAGE AF [America emoji]" "Good. They have no right to our money" "This is great news. Finally someone calling out global anti semitism" Didn't think it possible, but it does seem like people are getting dumber People seriously think he's showing strength.. All he's showing is his complete lack of diplomatic skills and willingness to fuck over the world (starting with his own country) if he doesn't get what he wants.Last 3 weeks have been better for him though, that's true. There has been a surprising lack of WTF tweets. Does he finally have it under control? I'm curious to see how he acts in the next year. We can do strength without blowing up any more presidential norms. | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
On December 21 2017 11:12 Gahlo wrote: He's just reminding people about how small his hands are. The picture even shows his small hands. | ||
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On December 21 2017 11:19 Introvert wrote: Last 3 weeks have been better for him though, that's true. There has been a surprising lack of WTF tweets. Does he finally have it under control? I'm curious to see how he acts in the next year. We can do strength without blowing up any more presidential norms. Maybe he misplaced his iPhone. | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
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TheFish7
United States2824 Posts
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OuchyDathurts
United States4588 Posts
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Emnjay808
United States10665 Posts
On December 21 2017 05:36 WolfintheSheep wrote: Yeah, it's a shitty wage and shitty hours, but $13/h is not something anyone should be surprised exists. I work 3 jobs which all averages to about 15/hr. I have no dependents and my federal deductions are about 20% and I sometimes see it nearly double to 38% when I get bonus incentives, so it basically just cancels it out (one of my jobs is retail). Would just be nice to see more of my pay the more I work instead of it working against me the more hours I put in. It’s really odd how taxes work like that. | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14900 Posts
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GreenHorizons
United States23574 Posts
On December 21 2017 11:03 Danglars wrote: https://twitter.com/yahoonews/status/943579419238641664 That's pretty much the entire security council and something like ~90% of the countries of the world no? | ||
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Velr
Switzerland10833 Posts
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GreenHorizons
United States23574 Posts
On December 21 2017 16:17 Velr wrote: Probably about every country minus Israel. Feel like I saw a map showing it and it had Australia siding with us, but that's the only one I noticed. | ||
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Lmui
Canada6220 Posts
It literally would be laughable if someone praised a grown man like this if it were anyone but Trump. This is fucking ridiculous | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23574 Posts
On December 21 2017 17:20 Lmui wrote: https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/943561615135428608 It literally would be laughable if someone praised a grown man like this if it were anyone but Trump. This is fucking ridiculous I'm glad Trump's old and his kids lack the charisma and audacity to replace him. | ||
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iamthedave
England2814 Posts
All I know is the US gives an awful lot in aid money to a lot of different people. If Trump did withdraw that money would that sort out the tax cuts issue, for example? Aside the obvious attempt to bully most of the western world for daring to voice an opinion, is this smart from a purely nationalistic, protectionist perspective (which the US is clearly in right now)? | ||
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farvacola
United States18845 Posts
On December 21 2017 19:09 iamthedave wrote: While I doubt Trump would actually go through with that - given he constantly says he's going to do things but doesn't - what would the likely consequences be if he did? I'm foreign to the US and while I've always been interested in world politics I'm not much of an economist, so money matters elude me for the most part. All I know is the US gives an awful lot in aid money to a lot of different people. If Trump did withdraw that money would that sort out the tax cuts issue, for example? Aside the obvious attempt to bully most of the western world for daring to voice an opinion, is this smart from a purely nationalistic, protectionist perspective (which the US is clearly in right now)? The US has so many assets in so many different places that play a key role in facilitating military, commercial, and industrial influence; it'd be difficult to quantify all that, but I'd wager that it's not smart, not even in a purely nationalistic sense. | ||
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
On December 21 2017 19:09 iamthedave wrote: While I doubt Trump would actually go through with that - given he constantly says he's going to do things but doesn't - what would the likely consequences be if he did? I'm foreign to the US and while I've always been interested in world politics I'm not much of an economist, so money matters elude me for the most part. All I know is the US gives an awful lot in aid money to a lot of different people. If Trump did withdraw that money would that sort out the tax cuts issue, for example? Aside the obvious attempt to bully most of the western world for daring to voice an opinion, is this smart from a purely nationalistic, protectionist perspective (which the US is clearly in right now)? Total US foreign aid looks to be $51 billion. It's one third of the tax cuts (setting aside the massive problems with the tax cuts that go beyond increasing the debt). He also probably can't withdraw much of the money, maybe he could reallocate some; much of it would be set by congressional statute, and would be unlikely to change. US aid covers a large variety of things, so it's hard to get a full sense of what would change; basically a lot of poor countries would be mildly hurt by not having the thinsg they're currently getting. the US would lose a lot of international influence, and its alliances/friendships would be weakened. it's smart from a pleasing his base perspective; who like this tough guy attitude. protectionism is a bad idea; so it's hard for me to evaluate if something is smart from an inherently dumb perspective. it's probably dumb even from that perspective. the US has economic interests all over the world, it also has interests in peace which lets it make more profit from trade. and projecting economic power is generally alot more efficient than projecting military power, so mostly it just guts the more effective ways of dealing with problems before they become bigger problems. I imagine some of the US foreign aid is do-gooderism; but from a cynical perspective a lot of it is simply making markets more open/friendly to the US so the US can get more money out of them. | ||
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