i think this is done, but i need a nap.



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i was convinced that the reason hillary clinton kept coughing and fainting all of the time is that she is a drunk and a prescription drug addict.

it's interesting to see theresa may go through the same problem, almost like it's scripted - right down to holding up the cough drop.

i promise you that that isn't actually a cough drop, but some kind of nerve calming drug that she's having a physical withdrawal to.

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selling s-400s to saudi arabia is far more disturbing than selling them to iran.

i'm actually usually cautiously supportive of russian geo-political strategies, as they are designed to create balances of power that make conflict less likely. putin is purposefully trying to create a permanent stalemate, and that's a far better idea than the neo-con push for global hegemony. america used to do this, itself - the american term was 'mutually assured destruction'. peace is of course preferable, but in the absence of it due to the war economy, i would love to see america get back to this. as it is, the world should be thankful that vladimir putin exists to present a counter-balance to the war criminals in the pentagon. if it weren't for putin, america would be bombing in a dozen places on top of the dozen places it's already bombing.

this is taking the situation a step further, as the saudis are the most dangerous regime in the region and the one that the world should be ensuring can be toppled, if necessary. if america ever gets a sane government, one of the first things that is going to happen is an attempt to modernize the saudi state. i might even go so far as arguing that the democratization and secularization of saudi arabia is the single most important pre-requisite to a lasting peace in the region.

putin will take the money, but what this move is designed to do is give the saudis a little bit of independence from american military dominance - these systems can take down just about anything that doesn't use stealth technology, and while the american military has the technology to overwhelm them, it doesn't have the hardware on hand to do it. it's an effective deterrence. and, that's a problem.

there's an upside to it, which is that if the saudis can accept russian supremacy then they might stop funding isis. maybe putin's got his eyes on something longer term, and maybe he's balanced this out. but, i'm uncomfortable with this, and that's rare, coming from them.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/putin-opens-talks-saudi-king-kremlin-50297785

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One early estimate by Moody's Investors Service puts Puerto Rico's damages between $45 billion and $90 billion. 

this is literally impossible.

it's bail or bust.

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well, just from a logistics point of view, there's almost not another option - the island is going to cost billions of dollars to rebuild, so, what do you do? add another 20 billion dollars of debt? can they even get credit, when they're 130 billion dollars in the hole already? so, then what else do you do - let the island sink? there's really only two choices for puerto rico, right now: debt forgiveness or total evacuation.

remember: trump is somebody that understands bankruptcy quite well.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=388tq5nE9gM

 

 

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so, what they seem to want out of this is to put the electoral system under the oversight of the secret service, which would be the end of american democracy - as tenuous as it already is.

this is a power play by the deep state: claim the russians are interfering, and then use it as an excuse to take control, themselves.

it's absolutely transparent. completely obvious.

you can't even be thinking of supporting the democrats right now. they are the threat to american democracy. and, they must be stopped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_1AMD1OngU

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the clinton war machine has locked into it's target and is set to 'destroy'.

he can't be serious, though.

dude: you're like 35.

go fuck your wife.

http://observer.com/2017/08/dear-democrats-unless-you-nominate-mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump-will-win-in-2020-fake-news-media/

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the democrats are sure treating him like he's going to.

https://www.gq.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-probably-isnt-running-for-president

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i'm not really a fan of mark zuckerberg, but it's really ironic the way they're going after him - as though he's a russian oligarch that is threatening putin or something.

his actual crime is not being a democrat.

i think the last person they went after like this was bill gates, and he had to put his money into a trust and step down from his company in order to get them to stop. all for refusing to adhere to the party.

it's disappointing that most americans can't see themselves in the mirror, or realize that this vilification of russia they're being bombarded with is just a projection of themselves.

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oct 4th, 2017 vlog, where i close some discs in the morning (inri036-inri037), and go over to detroit to fix my bike, then go see sadie dupuis & deerhoof at the magic stick.

so, i got a new flavour of doritos on my way home - sonic sour creme. it's doritos, so it has the superlative adjective..

i don't know the global availability of the product.

but, i'm thinking that i'm kind of the perfect test subject for doritos, as i'm contemplating how it came to be that the only bag in the store is placed in my target area.

then, i start thinking - it's true, consider the economic benefit of these spin-off industries. but, then i realize that these are industries that the state is trying to suppress.

the ideological way out is through decriminalization. there are, in fact, good reasons why the state ought not want to be involved in manufacturing, but they are not good reasons for prohibition.

it has to be the end point. this is just a fight against history.

or a cynical ploy to maintain votes through a slow unravelling. and, unfortunately, it might work.

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