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BESSENT: The national emergency is avoiding a national emergency
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If one person says she was weaponising her car and another person says she wasn't it's not your job to quote both. It's your job to look at the evidence and find out which is true.
“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..
“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”
When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success"
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America today has lost its way.
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At the presser yesterday Marco Rubio spoke about a country with a free-falling economy and governed by "senile old men". Which country was he referring to?
A. Russia
B. Cuba
C. USA
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Today, he gave them Venezuela — home to the largest oil reserves in the world.
This new war is not only illegal and reckless; it is deeply corrupt.
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Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
i don't want to know the bad
You wonder how it happened
They just picked it up from dad
While faded old glory is hanging like a rag
Defenders, defenders of the flag."
Bruce Hornsby, Defenders of the flag
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1. Do not invest in wind turbines.
2. Argue that since wind turbines do not contribute to the grid, investment should be inn other technologies.
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Trump suggests Americans discovered Greenland 50 years before the United States existed
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For the third day in a row, Russia is striking the Port of Pivdennyi. Ukraine’s largest port is burning for the second day straight.
If this is a breakthrough, what does failure look like?
