So you run it by James Paterson, Inc. (or the estate of Tom Clancy or whoever fits best) get his name above yours and now you’re contracted to release new novels at an absolutely breakneck pace, but you have your foot in the door and can become the more famous writer who can release their own novels.

VP is required to be eligible to become president, so he’d have to become VP two years and one day into a later president’s term. Assuming that we’re letting constitutionality get in his way.

New chapter for Art of the Deal just dropped. Peace in our Time, ghostwritten by Neville Chamberlain.

Human trafficking is probably the more promising direction.

If it’s under a certain dollar amount and not to be sold, sure, but this is probably not going to practical for a lot of things unless you’re pretty close to the border.

That’s not Booker. Also the house doesn’t do filibusters, it operates on straight majorities.

Shrinking their market share is a much bigger middle finger. If you use their product and shut off a bunch of features, you’re still using the rest of their product and its other features.

Probably intending to mean intellectual property (Customs is their middle name, after all), but considering the shit they get up to as an institution, yikes.

Look, with the tariffs going up but insufficient infrastructure to replace the imported goods, it’s only a matter of time before we have backyard steel mills. And with the spread of bird flu, you know they’re going to control it via ‘kill all the birds’.

For as much as they claim to hate Communist China, they’ll be doing Mao’s greatest hits in no time.

…those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

She first got elected in 2018. How many senators got there within three election cycles of their first office? Just because Obama went from Illinois State Senate to US Senate to President in a four year span doesn’t make such a climb normal.

When a group of his AI company’s investors sue to block the AI company’s purchase of Twitter (because in what world did they agree to that?), the Saudi solution goes back on the table.

Mercator Projection

Or

He’s surrounded by a bunch of people who play HoI for the wrong reasons.

With his drinking, he might just be Sterling without the plot armor.

They’re larping James Bond/Jason Bourne/Jack Ryan, they are the government, and they’re coming across as more Other Barry/Len Trexler (post Ludovico technique)/Nikolai Jakov.

Because the world wants to know how hard Polievre fucked himself by hitching his wagon to the trump train.

Also, with an election called in Canada, it probably doesn’t cost much to tack a question about current events onto a poll you were already going to conduct.

‘After [current guy], our turn’, while a nice sentiment to avoid giving up entirely, does not have enough historical evidence to support it as a strategy.

If you’re planing to ‘invest’ your lunch money and get returns big enough to pay for the lunch too, you don’t have a plan, you have a gambling addiction.

But we’ve made every payment on that debt since we started borrowing. If lenders can’t count on those debt payments, they lose some faith in the currency that undergirds the world economy.

This is quite bad, regardless of where you live.

Future borrowing, both public and private, becomes more expensive (higher risk demands higher returns). This is bad if you live in the US.

People involved in international trade start questioning if the USD is really what they want as the reserve currency (the Dollar is the go between for all other currencies, so if you’re in Europe trading with Japan, you exchange euros for dollars for yen, which while a bit cumbersome, is wonderfully predictable) and what they might want to use instead (euros? renminbi? rubles? The chaotic world of direct exchanges of currencies?). This is bad if the country you live in imports goods that you need or exports goods that other people need.

I’m pretty sure everybody on these websites knows they’re more similar to enlisted soldiers than to Vladimir Putin.