Pardesi
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Shoulda brought a blanket to The Cool Zone.
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3. Retributory targeting of the economy and employment in Trump voting or swing areas, which is what you save to roll out if there’s actually attempted military action by the US. The goal here is just to wreak as much havoc as possible, so go wild.
January 11, 2026 at 5:59 PM
3. Retributory targeting of the economy and employment in Trump voting or swing areas, which is what you save to roll out if there’s actually attempted military action by the US. The goal here is just to wreak as much havoc as possible, so go wild.
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2. Deliberate targeting of companies with the goal of causing the largest decline in US market capitalization with minimum collateral economic damage. Megacap tech would be the primary target here. This gets fired as the second warning shot if they escalate further
January 11, 2026 at 5:54 PM
2. Deliberate targeting of companies with the goal of causing the largest decline in US market capitalization with minimum collateral economic damage. Megacap tech would be the primary target here. This gets fired as the second warning shot if they escalate further
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If I was advising the EU—and I 100% should be—my advice is that you prepare three sets of sanction packages:
1. Deliberate targeting of personal/corporate assets of Trump, Musk, Andressen, Sacks, etc like they’re Russian oligarchs by doing stuff like seizing Gigafactory Berlin. This gets used first.
1. Deliberate targeting of personal/corporate assets of Trump, Musk, Andressen, Sacks, etc like they’re Russian oligarchs by doing stuff like seizing Gigafactory Berlin. This gets used first.
January 11, 2026 at 5:51 PM
If I was advising the EU—and I 100% should be—my advice is that you prepare three sets of sanction packages:
1. Deliberate targeting of personal/corporate assets of Trump, Musk, Andressen, Sacks, etc like they’re Russian oligarchs by doing stuff like seizing Gigafactory Berlin. This gets used first.
1. Deliberate targeting of personal/corporate assets of Trump, Musk, Andressen, Sacks, etc like they’re Russian oligarchs by doing stuff like seizing Gigafactory Berlin. This gets used first.
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BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...
January 11, 2026 at 11:54 AM
BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...
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For every non-detained person murdered by ICE, there are many more facing abuse and murder outside of the public eye. DHS is expanding these abusive detention centers walled off the public eye. I’ve had the chance to speak to a former constituent who was able to get out bcs he had a good lawyer.
January 11, 2026 at 5:22 PM
For every non-detained person murdered by ICE, there are many more facing abuse and murder outside of the public eye. DHS is expanding these abusive detention centers walled off the public eye. I’ve had the chance to speak to a former constituent who was able to get out bcs he had a good lawyer.
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I think the long term, playing-out-over-decades lesson here is that Republicans are a national security threat to the EU
January 11, 2026 at 5:57 AM
I think the long term, playing-out-over-decades lesson here is that Republicans are a national security threat to the EU
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Literally every paradigm of International Relations will have to add a clause that acknowledges we can't predict a country going batshit
January 11, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Literally every paradigm of International Relations will have to add a clause that acknowledges we can't predict a country going batshit
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I think this is it.
I want to believe the “nothing ever happens” bros prevail here.
But also the fact we are even having this conversation probably means NATO’s days are numbered as a functional alliance.
I want to believe the “nothing ever happens” bros prevail here.
But also the fact we are even having this conversation probably means NATO’s days are numbered as a functional alliance.
January 11, 2026 at 3:55 AM
I think this is it.
I want to believe the “nothing ever happens” bros prevail here.
But also the fact we are even having this conversation probably means NATO’s days are numbered as a functional alliance.
I want to believe the “nothing ever happens” bros prevail here.
But also the fact we are even having this conversation probably means NATO’s days are numbered as a functional alliance.
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Pre-emptively show strength, even. Ban every company that donated to his ballroom from operating in Europe.
He has conveniently given you a list of cronies! Punish them now and continue as long as he continues considering attacking Denmark!
He has conveniently given you a list of cronies! Punish them now and continue as long as he continues considering attacking Denmark!
i suspect there are a lot of morons in a lot of european capitals right now wringing their hands about the risk of escalation. here's the truth: the real risk is failure to escalate. backing down is showing weakness. trump will know it.
show strength instead.
show strength instead.
January 11, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Pre-emptively show strength, even. Ban every company that donated to his ballroom from operating in Europe.
He has conveniently given you a list of cronies! Punish them now and continue as long as he continues considering attacking Denmark!
He has conveniently given you a list of cronies! Punish them now and continue as long as he continues considering attacking Denmark!
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Look, you may think the Mail is probably exaggerating but the news side of Telegraph is legit: if Euros are considering this, there's smoke
European Union preparing sanctions on US companies if President Trump rejects EU proposal to deploy European military force to Greenland as an alternative to US control.-Telegraph
January 11, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Look, you may think the Mail is probably exaggerating but the news side of Telegraph is legit: if Euros are considering this, there's smoke
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I do not think anybody is prepared for how quickly and how thoroughly things we've taken for granted our whole lives could change
Look, you may think the Mail is probably exaggerating but the news side of Telegraph is legit: if Euros are considering this, there's smoke
European Union preparing sanctions on US companies if President Trump rejects EU proposal to deploy European military force to Greenland as an alternative to US control.-Telegraph
January 11, 2026 at 3:02 AM
I do not think anybody is prepared for how quickly and how thoroughly things we've taken for granted our whole lives could change
Welcome to the world of weaponized interdependence, farce edition.
Denmark makes like half the world's insulin btw. They can't stand up to us militarily, but they can hurt us bad - real fucking bad - if they want to.
January 11, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Welcome to the world of weaponized interdependence, farce edition.
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Truly, David Chase is a marvel. He was about 15 years ahead of the curve on this - getting Tony to weaponize the language of therapy in the defense of self-indulgence and cruelty.
January 10, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Truly, David Chase is a marvel. He was about 15 years ahead of the curve on this - getting Tony to weaponize the language of therapy in the defense of self-indulgence and cruelty.
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2024: You're overreacting. Things will be fine.
2025: Well, this is something of a sticky bit but we need to listen to both sides.
2026: Great Britain, Canada, and Australia are balancing against the United States.
2025: Well, this is something of a sticky bit but we need to listen to both sides.
2026: Great Britain, Canada, and Australia are balancing against the United States.
The UK, Canada and Australia are considering banning X.
And yet, the progressive movement and Democratic Party still haven’t figured out how to boycott it.
And yet, the progressive movement and Democratic Party still haven’t figured out how to boycott it.
January 11, 2026 at 1:42 AM
2024: You're overreacting. Things will be fine.
2025: Well, this is something of a sticky bit but we need to listen to both sides.
2026: Great Britain, Canada, and Australia are balancing against the United States.
2025: Well, this is something of a sticky bit but we need to listen to both sides.
2026: Great Britain, Canada, and Australia are balancing against the United States.
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The United States has done wrong, sometimes great wrong, but I believe it has, and will be again, a force for good in the world.
January 11, 2026 at 2:10 AM
The United States has done wrong, sometimes great wrong, but I believe it has, and will be again, a force for good in the world.
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I volunteered in the Peace Corps and taught English in Bulgaria during the height of the second Bush administration as the wheels were coming off and I regularly had people ask me if I was actually in the CIA and the people I met were still appreciative of what we were doing there.
January 11, 2026 at 2:10 AM
I volunteered in the Peace Corps and taught English in Bulgaria during the height of the second Bush administration as the wheels were coming off and I regularly had people ask me if I was actually in the CIA and the people I met were still appreciative of what we were doing there.
Other career highlights include going on The View and making clear to the panel that water-boarding was *absolutely* torture, and totally beneath the principles of the nation.
Also, kind of a shitty governor.
Complicated guy, definitely not normal.
Also, kind of a shitty governor.
Complicated guy, definitely not normal.
For you youngsters out there just finding out about him, Jesse Ventura is not "some kind of lake wizard" but was at one time the governor of Minnesota and before that a professional wrestler
January 11, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Other career highlights include going on The View and making clear to the panel that water-boarding was *absolutely* torture, and totally beneath the principles of the nation.
Also, kind of a shitty governor.
Complicated guy, definitely not normal.
Also, kind of a shitty governor.
Complicated guy, definitely not normal.
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“The Oglala Sioux Tribe is seeking answers after four enrolled members were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis.”
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
ICE detains and holds four Native Americans, tribal leader says
Oglala Sioux Tribe demands action after ICE detains four members in Minneapolis. Tribal attorneys work to confirm identities and secure release.
www.newsweek.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:39 AM
“The Oglala Sioux Tribe is seeking answers after four enrolled members were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis.”
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
This was at Powderhorn Park today.
I love my hometown.
I love my hometown.
Can't get enough of this.
Anti-ICE protesters sliding down a slope towards a demonstration today in Minneapolis
January 11, 2026 at 1:58 AM
This was at Powderhorn Park today.
I love my hometown.
I love my hometown.
Ok, so not to do weird Blueanon shit, but I think this is more of a possibility than most people give credit.
I am sure that Pope Leo has some complex feelings on the legacy of Pius XII.
Vance is so transparent that there might be real consequences when this inevitably blows.
I am sure that Pope Leo has some complex feelings on the legacy of Pius XII.
Vance is so transparent that there might be real consequences when this inevitably blows.
Just waiting for the pope to Excommunicate his ass….i doubt it’ll happen, but a boy can dream, right??!
January 11, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Ok, so not to do weird Blueanon shit, but I think this is more of a possibility than most people give credit.
I am sure that Pope Leo has some complex feelings on the legacy of Pius XII.
Vance is so transparent that there might be real consequences when this inevitably blows.
I am sure that Pope Leo has some complex feelings on the legacy of Pius XII.
Vance is so transparent that there might be real consequences when this inevitably blows.
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the Catholic Church being right about 60% of the time these days takes some getting used to
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
www.ncronline.org
January 11, 2026 at 1:43 AM
the Catholic Church being right about 60% of the time these days takes some getting used to
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the trans person, the migrant, the jew, the disabled person, the queer, the refugee, the crowd all trigger same kind of deep anxiety. their existence marks a kind of dissolution of boundaries, even if only imagined.
January 10, 2026 at 11:18 PM
the trans person, the migrant, the jew, the disabled person, the queer, the refugee, the crowd all trigger same kind of deep anxiety. their existence marks a kind of dissolution of boundaries, even if only imagined.
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the narcissism and myopia is genuinely astounding at times
January 10, 2026 at 9:23 PM
the narcissism and myopia is genuinely astounding at times
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aaand this is how Frey came shockingly close to losing as an incumbent to a little-known Somali-American state senator last November
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says 29 people were arrested in downtown last night during a noise demonstration at a hotel reportedly housing ICE agents: "For those that are taking the bait and causing property damage or otherwise, there are consequences. We're holding the line here all the way."
January 10, 2026 at 9:48 PM
aaand this is how Frey came shockingly close to losing as an incumbent to a little-known Somali-American state senator last November