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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · Sep 16

Nothing could honor the memory of Alfred Nobel more than letting folks know what everyone else will say about them when they pass away. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_P...

There is a popular story about how, in 1888, Nobel was astonished to read his own obituary, titled "The Merchant of Death Is Dead", in a French newspaper.
It was Alfred's brother Ludvig who had died; the obituary was eight years premature. The article disconcerted Nobel and made him apprehensive about how he would be remembered.
This inspired him to change his will.
Historians have been unable to verify this story and some dismiss the story as a myth.

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 2h

I mean, I guess Stephen might have told him that the video was AI or something, but eight months ago he was lucid enough to remember he didn’t agree with Reagan on trade. Just absolute poutine for brains stuff.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 3h

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Donald said Ronald was bad on trade back in March. youtu.be/s0sTUjDI-ow

President Trump Takes Swipe On Ronald Reagan During Discussion Of Chinese Tariffs

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 3h

Fucking Lasorda youtu.be/pmzeK6oAtkk

LA@MON: Lasorda gets Youppi! tossed from the game

YouTube video by MLB

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 3h

Threatening to sue for saying something that’s true, that’s Donald’s trademark move.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 3h

At some point they'll discover the Czech Public Benefit Of Smoking study.

(Short version: cigarettes are amazing for state finances, smokers generally live to retirement age able to work - paying normal taxes plus cigarette taxes the whole time - then tend to die quickly, incurably, and cheaply)

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 3h

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 3h

The Reagan Foundation threatened to sue… which is the tell that Donald threatened the Reagan Foundation that he would go after them if they didn’t play ball.

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 3h

The Reagan Foundation threatened to sue… which is the tell that Donald threatened the Reagan Foundation that he would go after them if they didn’t play ball.

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 5h

I think the current bundle is meant more to “win the day” and increase pressure on the congressional Democrats to fold on the CR. I can definitely see secret “funds” being passed under the table to get the military linked with Trump in corruption, but it would leaked if they tried that.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 7h

With these sorts of things, the main point is to secure good behavior from key personnel. For example, Nazi Germany had all sorts of secret slush funds, for Hitler himself, for party officials, for high-ranking military. But the point was to keep from having someone stuff you in a car trunk.

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, I like me some Woolrich duds but that’s me.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

“DONALD J TRUMP IS THE LEGITIMATELY ELECTED PRESIDENT CHOSEN BY ALL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND CLOTHED IN IMMENSE POWER oh shit he just posted another ‘truth’ AND I AM HIS SPOKESMAN”

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Miller will be pushing 100 by the time this Administration is over and it won’t be because Donald isn’t leaving

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

“The Scourge of God”

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

“A source close to the thinking of Donald Trump”

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

This was also said of the Dieppe Raid. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...

Although ABDACOM collapsed only in eight weeks without achieving its aims, it provided some useful lessons for combined Allied commands later in the
war and is still studied by
contemporary military analysts.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Better than the ABDA fleet for sure.

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Just say no to candy corn GMO

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Hope the golfers like the asbestos

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Will it cause American businesses to lose markets? Will it increase costs for American businesses as they lose affordable access to affordable parts and materials? Teach the controversy.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

As money kept flowing in, the plans got bigger, and they needed more space than initially planned.

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

54-40.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

But they promised to invest a quarter craptillion dollars in the United States.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

At this point, they’re thinking in terms of scoring political points to end the shutdown. They’re thinking that all they need to do with the military is purge a few malcontents and recruit replacements and the rest will fall in line. This doesn’t take into account why these folks signed up.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

The career folks are looking at the folks that are signing up for ICE and thinking they have a hard enough time recruiting quality people already.

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

You might have a volunteer, professional military, but it’s not primarily a career military. Folks leave all the time for civilian work, often in other branches of the federal government, and they’re seeing what’s happening there.

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