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Maybe's avatar

How much do you want to bet that trump didn't propose grabbing a slice of the company for himself?

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Maybe's avatar

trump can't afford any Dems.

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Maybe's avatar

SARS 2.0

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Maybe's avatar

Technically you didn't say what would be in the vaccines.

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Maybe's avatar

I don't disagree, but I do think trump on the ticket is our best weapon for huge Dem turnout.

And that helps down ticket too.

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Emil Muz's avatar

heheheh. Still never hurts to reassure oneself.

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TXDem1945's avatar

Yes

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sgt. jmk de la résistance's avatar

Oh, but I'm sure it wouldn't be for himself... it would be for Don Jr. or Eric, totally disinterested, not-grifty outsiders (who would then turn over the profits to Daddy while still burbling madly about Hunter Biden).

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

there were reports in media down unda that he'd been confirmed positive for covid-19

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richardgrabman's avatar

IN related news, Spain nationalized private hospitals. Pharma companies? You're next.

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richardgrabman's avatar

I'm trying to think of a precedent for this kind of US arrogance. The one I can think of was back in 1854, when the US congress just decided all islands covered with bird shit that weren't already claimed by some other country was ours. Yup, the US was looking to control the bird shit market (Spain, England, and France got into a proxy war, fought by Bolivia, Peru, and Chile over bird shit rights a few years later).

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Clark_Nova's avatar

After the war, we sold surplus Monitors to SA countries so they could continue the shit fight. Some were still in use in the 1930's.

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Clark_Nova's avatar

Saw a rat stalk, kill, and eat a cat in Viet Nam in '68. Gave me a 'you're next' leer the whole time. However, I had an M-14 and made said rat explode before he had a chance.

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richardgrabman's avatar

Over-over-over time: I ran a second hand bookshop in Mexico for a time, and for no paricular reason, one slow afternoon, ended up reading an (unsalable) history of the Chilean Navy. Chile had the world's first all steam powered navy... simply because in the 19th century a lot of countries just hired their Admirals, and the Chileans hired a Scots admiral who was a friend of James Watt, and got steam engines at a discount.

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I wonder if that wasn't the thinking behind the attempt... or to hold it back from the "wrong kind of countries"... black and brown ones.

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