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Been buying bitcoin since 2018. I particularly like http://river.com. The Bitcoin White Paper http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Christ is Lord.
Replying to Avatar HoloKat

It’s strange how things work out sometimes. I met my wife through a mutual friend who happened to be dating my brother at the time. I was invited to go with them to the beach one weekend afternoon. I really didn’t want to go, it was a long drive and I didn’t feel like swimming or anything. It was mentioned that another girl would be coming along but I knew my friend was trying to hook me up and I was annoyed more than anything so I said no. Then as they headed out the door, I thought.. well, what the hell else am I going to do today? So I said, fine, I’ll go, give me a minute. We pulled into her driveway and she came out of the house. I was instantly attracted. We spent the rest of the day talking non-stop. I could not believe she was into me as much as I was into her. No one has ever shown as much interest in the past. I managed to get her email address.. because I was too dumb to get the phone number lol, but things ended there. We didn’t speak for another week, but I could not stop thinking about her, so I finally sent an email. To my shock, she replied within minutes saying she was thinking about me and wondering if I would contact her. But.. it wasn’t looking good, she had to leave the country to go back home. I couldn’t believe it.. here was someone I had a huge crush on and they were leaving the country .. not the city, not the state, but the continent ffs. We were both very young so it wasn’t like we hopped on planes whenver we felt like it. Things were different. Long story short, we kept in touch for weeks and she decided to come back and study in US again. I don’t know if I was part of that decision, but I suspect so. US was my naturalized home and I like to think we both moved half way around the world to find each other through an odd chance encounter. 

Alright, back to your regular programming…

Great story. Sometimes you just got to get into the car.

They could probably secure their border by pouring a half-mile wide strip of maple syrup on the ground.

while it's fun to banter about what the politicians are doing, in the end it's still political nonsense. the economy is still wrecked and people like Jerome Powell still think they run the show.

They are defeated when we trade their trash for bitcoin.

sure sure let's go with that. which is why Canada Castro only agreed to do it to get sanctions lifted.

Hope you're at least buying bitcoin so when all of these clowns are gone, you will be in good shape.

Canada's fascist premier did what Trump wanted by securing the border. It's the first step. Same with Mexico. Bowing the knee.

Replying to Avatar TBH

They will still be good either way.

A bully that props up their economy while they let fentynol through to harm are young people.

US Readies New $1BN Arms Sale To Israel As Netanyahu Arrives In Washington

US Readies New $1BN Arms Sale To Israel As Netanyahu Arrives In Washington

While the name of the game for Trump has been cut, cut, cut and put a halt to all wasteful and corrupt US foreign aid siphoned abroad, funds sent to Israel have remained untouched.

And now the Trump administration is readying a new $1 billion arms sale to Israel, including 4,700 1,000-pound bombs and armored bulldozers. Trump is requesting fresh Congressional approval for the potential sale.

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The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story Monday, wrote "The planned weapons sales include 4,700 1,000-pound bombs, worth more than $700 million, as well as armored bulldozers built by Caterpillar, worth more than $300 million, the officials said."

"The new arms requests, which would be paid for from the billions of dollars in annual U.S. military aid to Israel, come as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting Washington and set to meet President Trump on Tuesday to discuss the cease-fire in Gaza, a separate truce in Lebanon and tensions in the wider Middle East," the report continued.

This comes amid the backdrop of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's arriving in Washington D.C. on Monday, ahead of his scheduled White House visit with Trump Tuesday.

Crucially, Netanyahu will be the first world leader to meet with Trump since the Jan.20 inauguration. Israel remains America's closest official Mideast ally, and a meeting between a new president and Israel's head of state is typical spanning back multiple administrations.

But these are sensitive times, given the fragile Gaza ceasefire and hostage/prisoner swap deal is still ongoing. Some hardliners close to Netanyahu oppose it, even while families of the hostages have pressed for it to go all the way until all hostages alive and deceased are returned.

The Tuesday meeting in the Oval Office is expected to be dominated by these several issues:

Preserving the Gaza ceasefire

A potential deal to finally achieve Israel-Saudi relations

Moving forward with a total $8 billion in arms transfers

These issues are somewhat interlocking. Trump has stood with Netanyahu on the stance of wanting to see the final military eradication of Hamas, but Trump has also hailed the ceasefire as ultimately the product of his administration entering office.

As for the arms transfers issue, WSJ has detailed the https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-readies-new-1-billion-arms-sale-to-israel-6832aa26

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Netanyahu and other Israeli officials are expected to press Trump to move forward with a separate set of arms transfers that were initially requested by the Biden administration, totaling more than $8 billion in new bombs, missiles and artillery rounds.

The Biden administration https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-plans-8-billion-sale-of-arms-including-bombs-to-israel-6f184397?mod=article_inline

about that sale in January before it left office. The weapons haven’t yet received full approval because of a hold by some Democratic lawmakers, a congressional official said.

Last week, Trump within released a hold on a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel previously paused by the Biden administration.

And on Monday, the US has moved to cut all funding to the controversial UN aid organization present in Palestinian territories - the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The US has long sided with Israel regarding the accusation that it is compromised by local Hamas staffers, or Hamas-sympathetic officials.

https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden

Mon, 02/03/2025 - 19:40

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-readies-new-1bn-arms-sale-israel-netanyahu-arrives-washington

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Sorry man. The dip comes first.

I don't believe this is comprehensively true, although I do agree that grifters are attracted to bureaucratic govt. I live in a Texas county with a modest number of employees and little debt. People are honest and deal with one another with integrity. Now you can say that incentives function properly at this level, but there are a lot of people here who respect God and hold to a moral standard.