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Absent some magical reduction in the cost of oil and transportation flowing though the economy almost instantly, none of Trump's campaign promises will likely result in a reduction in the cost of living anytime soon. He knows that. Everyone knows that. That's why he is now "demanding" that interest rates be lowered. And yet it's almost a given that the bond market probably won't cooperate. So it won't be Trump's fault. He tried. Greenland would be a god deal for the USA. I'm npt sure what it would cost, but it would probably be a bargain. Edit: Keep in mind, I'm not an economics wizard. Lots of things could crash the economy and result in lower interest rates. Commercial real estate loans going bad. A real estate crash. Massive layoffs of people due to AI. It's going to be crazy. Another Great Depression.

You absolutely have a point, but companies exist in the legal realm, not necessarily in reality. Neither Apple nor any other company files their taxes based on "reality." That's not how it works. They act in the company's best interest. In the best interest of the owners, the shareholders. If that means that Apple Computer rents out a small office in Dublin for their IP headquarters, so be it.

Do you really think Trump needs a "political ploy" at this point? He won the election. He can't run again, absent some change in the Constitution. I think he just sees it as a strategic move for geopolitical purposes. In the best interest of the USA.

Am I mistaken, or has Ireland already addressed some of these issues via legislation? The effective tax rates there will no longer be so low? Either that or there have been some significant court cases. Maybe both.

The WEF is fading away. Becoming irrelevant. The plan was to infest world's governments with "Young Global Leaders." Carefully groom them and indoctrinate them into a scheme to establish a "New World Order." The plan: most will eat bugs, own nothing, and be happy living in 15 minute cities, while the elite will continue to eat steak, drink champagne, and jet around the world on one big vacation. Two distinct classes of people, two sets of rules. And it all includes a massive reduction in the world's human population. It's no big secret who will be earmarked for the planned population reduction. The useless eaters. The "floating island of garbage." What was Hillary's term? "The basket of deplorables"? That was the actual mindset. They believed their own nonsense and thought they were invincible. The scheme has taken years to unfold, beginning well before the WEF was ever envisioned. But somehow, the man behind the curtain has been exposed. Lies can't survive in the light of day. The truth is coming out. The Wizard is not great and powerful. Just some sad old man. That wasn't part of the plan, though.

Just out of curiosity, I wonder how many transgender prisoners exist in the system today? Two? Three? Whatever it is, can it really be that much of a big deal? Put them in their own ward. Simple. I'm pretty sure that could be accomplished.

Official text? Do they not have the woman on video tape, explaining what she did? You won't see that on the CBS Evening News or whatever, but it's out there for anyone who wants to look.

You may be closer to the truth than you seem to think, for all practical purposes. I know what I know, and one thing I do know for sure is that if you get your "news" from the legacy media, you know nothing. Have you ever gone back to catalogue all the lies they told people? One lie after another. I could make a big long list. It was like a bad movie. And the lies continue, to this day. Perhaps that's one reason Trump told all the public health services to shut up for the time being. Anyway, I wasn't a victim, except for the few years of my life I was trapped in the USA with not much to do, and at this point, none of it is my problem. I'm out of there. We'll see if they go for Round II. Bill Gates has already promised that the next "pandemic" will "get people's attention." It wouldn't surprise me if he didn't already own the patent on the vaccine for the next virus.

Too many ridiculous assumptions. For anyone paying attention that day, a lot of things didn't add up. Protestors ushered into the Capital by cops, as if they were going on a guided tour. I saw that on TV. Giant vault-like doors magically unlocked from within. It's as if someone was handing out free tickets for a guided tour of the Capital. And yet shortly before, the President was on camera, imploring people to be peaceful. It was all a poorly orchestrated Deep State fraud. If Trump was guilty of anything, he was guilty of trusting Nancy Pelosi. They've got her on tape at this point, right? And hey're still suppressing all the video evidence of the whole thing, no? What are they trying to hide? All the government actors in the mix that day? And let's not forget the congressional J6 committee. They destroyed all the evidence they compiled. Trump gave out all those pardons for a reason.

And they were on their way the capital, when George HW Bush put a stop to it all. So the object wasn't to win? Or rather, that was never the goal in the first place? They were once the verge of cleaning up the mess, and yet they left that task for another war, another day. Better to have a continual war than one that's over and done with? To this day, the entire region is still a mess.

In the District of Columbia, yes. That's always the case. Authority? 1. Command Structure: The National Guard of the District of Columbia is always under the command of the President, even when not federalized. The President can deploy the D.C. National Guard for law enforcement purposes without needing to follow the procedures outlined in the Insurrection Act, which applies to the states. 2. Or, see Executive Order 11485, signed by President Richard Nixon in 1969, regarding the supervision and control of theD.C. National Guard.

Large language models. It's all evolving, and they've usually inserted a political bias. Anyway, depending on how you phrase a question, you can get seemingly contradictory answers. At the end of the day, you're just getting a summary of the gibberish it was trained on. Take it with a grain of salt. Sounds like wherever you were was fairly normal. I was stuck in the USA during COVID, and it was the same there. Some areas were more nuts than others. A first, nobody knew what to think. But after a few months, it became clear. The powers that be were running. a scam. For anyone paying attention, it was obvious. Nothing can be done about it now, although I do realize that Dr. Fauci and the Gain of Function Clowns ruined a few years of my life.

If I had to fault the first Trump presidency, I would say he was entirely too trusting of the "establishment." Then again, you can hardly fault him for that. In DC, that;'s all there is. Imagine having no real experience in the political arena, and then being elected to be the President of the USA. Even before day one, the vultures descend. Lobbyists, donors, lawyers, NGOs. They're always there. Mistakes were made. This time around, Trump has had plenty of time to reflect and improve. He'll still make some mistakes, but I'm sure he learned a few lessons. He'll have a better team this time.

I think the best thing that people can do at this point is to forget about it. Maybe consider it a lesson going forward. No one can turn back the clock. Anyone who was paying attention beginning in 2020 probably witnessed a lot of nonsense. It was truly amazing. Paranoia beyond belief juxtaposed with people who seemingly ignored it all but had no real choice but to go along with some of the nonsense. Closed restaurants and bars, masks, partially closed medical facilities., arrows on the floor of grocery stores telling you which way you could walk, FDA nonsense. Media propaganda. It was a mass hysteria.

In my opinion, arguing with some people about COVID is an act of futility, especially after they already fell for the scam. You might as well be talking to a brick wall.

That's assuming a believe that the official government statistics have some connection to reality. A dubious assumption, if you ask me. What's more likely: the COVID jabs destroy your immune system. The more you have been jabbed, the more screwed up you are. That's the design of the things. Think depopulation. And don't forget the blood clots coroners keep pulling out of otherwise healthy young people who shouldn't have them.

I don't know about toilet seats, specifically, but I'm sure you've seen some of the congressional hearing where they question witnesses about what the government pays for nuts and bolts for aircraft?

Have you ever been to a DC strip club? All I can say is that they're very strange. I checked out a few one time when I was waiting for a haircut appointment. I got the impression they did a good business, just selling food. Anyway, I never much bothered, as I lived down the road a ways in Virginia and only came into DC once in a while. As Secretary of Defense, Hegseth would probably have the good sense to find other places to hang out. You can probably find more than a few people that work on the Hill in those places, though. They would just blend into the crowd.

Cutting funding will only give them less personnel. Less of an ability to get to the bottom of anything. Remember, the big military contractors pull all the strings. Nobody is going to cut their funding, given the current political environment. If anything, the defense industry will be getting more money. That will probably include some AI systems to identify current waste and fraud. That's a distinct possibility. Sos some improvement is possible. Better bookkeeping, going forward.

I'm not an accountant, but, based on my observations, "getting down to the bottom of this" probably isn't going to happen. Unless they can digitize every government financial transaction, synthesize the data from multiple databases, identify discrepancies. and trace those and synthesize the results, no one will ever know. Maybe someday they'll have Super AI run by quantum computers capable of all that. Maybe then. Otherwise, if they have to rely on current technology and human beings, it isn't going to happen. Someone will shrug their shoulders and say "Why bother?"... " If the money is gone, the money is gone. If it's not, then no harm done. Start keeping better track of how the money is spent."

What's "fraud"? Congress appropriates money for a certain purpose. Toilet seats, for example. And yet the powers that be divert some or most of that money for a secret program. Is that "fraud," or just a permissible way to hide certain expenditures from the public? I'm not say that happens, but what if it does?

I'm pretty sure the Pentagon's accounting systems have been less than ideal for years. Discrepancies are simply kicked down the road from one year to the next. Money seems to be missing in this program or that program, but nobody can figure out why. Nonetheless, someone signs off on a questionable accounting opinion and life goes on. The process repeats the next year. Anyone trying to "audit" the system to account for all funds appropriated over the years is in for a surprise. Where's the missing money? Good luck with that.

They haven't been allowed to "win." The powers that be don't want to win. They just want the game to continue. So long as they have a war going on somewhere in the world, they're happy.

Here's my take: consult a legitimate Thai attorney. Get a will drawn up. It can't possibly cost too much.

I don't know if anyone has done the math, but if there are millions of illegal immigrants in the USA, flying them out one planeload at a time sounds like an exercise in futility. They might have better luck paying them to leave.