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dissonant1's avatar

Capital controls are indeed coming shortly. All we need to see that is in the BBB:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/30/us-set-to-weaponize-taxes-on-foreign-investors-via-section-899.html

If they don't get them through this bill they will get them another way. Just another case where trying to bail water out of the boat will not plug the leak.

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Stephen McIntyre's avatar

India and Pakistan are the two countries in that part of the world that have nuclear weapons along with Israel.

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Its Just Me's avatar

Disturbing display of angry rhetoric from Trump and Elon today.

I'm leery of the "Big Beautiful Bill."

As I've said before, "The only thing worse than a Democrat is a Republican. The only thing worse than a Republican is a Democrat."

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dissonant1's avatar

It is just the Uniparty with two different (but coalescing) faces.

https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/uilu43/the_united_states_is_a_one_party_state_but_with/

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Joe's avatar

.O'Reilly said he and his son (age 21 I believe) traveled to China to meet w. top officials to pass along Trump's views which were that if China stopped supporting Russia, helped to isolate it from the world, this would please Trump and possibly gain a Nobel Peace Prize for both China and Trump.

- it's just bizarre - it's like they live in a fantasy world -

Despite being a complete waste of time, The only good thing to come about for China is the great laugh - I can see them telling this story for years:

' and then O'Reilly said, if we just isolated Russia, we could get a Nobel Peace Prize '

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[[[ Who paid for this rediculous trip - I hope not US tax dollars ]]]

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Mark Wauck's avatar

LOL

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susan mullen's avatar

Iran would long ago have been justified in bombing the US. NY Times, 2012: Obama's Stuxnet attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities in 2009-10 achieved "with computer code, what until then could be accomplished only by bombing a country or sending in agents to plant explosives....“This is the first attack of a major nature in which a cyber attack was used to effect physical destruction,” said former CIA chief Michael V. Hayden....It is only a matter of time, most experts believe, before it [the US] becomes the target of the same kind of weapon that the Americans have used, secretly, against Iran."...June 1, 2012, NY Times, "Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran," David E. Sanger: "Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks...even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts...gave it a name:

Stuxnet.

At a tense meeting in the White House Situation Room within days of the worm’s “escape,” Mr. Obama, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time, Leon E. Panetta, considered whether America’s most ambitious attempt to slow the progress of Iran’s nuclear efforts had been fatally compromised."...https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

? Pakistan, but who’s the second?

There are rumors Saudi Arabia has a relation to borrow Pakistan Nukes.

Turkey does not have them, but the U.S. has some based in Turkey supposedly.

India has nukes and a large Islamic population.

“ At least two of Iran’s neighbors — both Islamic nations — already have nuclear weapons. “

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