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15+ years in CRE Developement. Over $200m in completed office/retail projects with a focus on Single Tenant Build To Suit Development.
Texas, USA Katılım Mart 2023
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@excel_ranger @sweatystartup @shawngorham We’re lifting more sanctions and they still control the straight? Do I have that right?
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Is Trump going to backdown in the next 90 minutes?
Or are we escalating?
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@sweatystartup @shawngorham We just gave them 10x more money in sanctions relief than the cash you’re referencing…
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@shawngorham I think a deal is done. The new standard for how wars are fought.
Instead of sending jet airliners full of cash to terrorists we disable them quickly and move on.
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@shawngorham Explain the reflectors on the moon that can be hit with lasers from earth? How did they get there?
Please look it up before responding.
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Wait... did we really land on the moon?
My siblings were going down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole at brunch... must say they were making compelling arguments we never landed on the moon.
So... did we really land on the moon?
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@Timodc Yep. I could easily be talked into a strategic operation to dismantle Iran’s military capability… the regime is objectively evil.
But these simply are not serious people. I honestly hope there’s a good outcome, but hard to see how we’re not worse off when/if this winds down.
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Another way to look at it: even the OG necons think this is a total clusterfuck and the costs/risks geopolitically and economically swamp the value of those objectives from the US perspective.
Gummi@gummibear737
I listened to this interview and it's like we're living in separate realities 1) These are OG neocons and they sound exactly like Cenk and Tucker 2) They don't acknowledge the actual objectives (nukes/ICBM) 3) They judge the war on their invented criteria 4) Nonstop doomerism
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@CharmedHerring @Timodc @AGHamilton29 @sasimons Should be easy to be stand on principles without being thirsty for the approval of cranks with abhorrent positions. If young voters are vibing with awful streamers because they go out on a limb saying “war bad!”… engage with them on merits.
Williamson was thirsty for Fuentes.
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@Timodc @AGHamilton29 @sasimons I’m still confused why we are learning the very hard-learned lesson from Kevin Williamson’s attempted olive branch to Nick Fuentes. That’s what this looks like. You had nothing good to say about that - nor should you have.
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Is this complete lunacy and light bigotry? Yes!
Is it better that the nutbags are so despondent over Trump’s disastrous presidency that they just want a normal Democrat now? Also yes!
come on in 🎪
via @sasimons
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Lake Powell Dog
Honestly a boat thru could crush. Liquor, burgers or coffee though?
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@Timodc Look if the neocon Never Trump film critic doesn’t understand how to build a coalition wait hold on
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I think it's good to have this argument. (I am with Sarah on this one, myself.)
youtube.com/watch?v=UR-HzN…
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Sorry, Ari. I just saw your response.
I think it is hilarious that rather than actually respond to my point, you simply opted to double down on your practice of carrying water for Trump like a modern-day Gunga Din.
I think it's great that NATO is spending more on defense. I think Trump can be commended for encouraging it (though the turd-polishing of some folks on this front is often embarrassing. He primarily didn't do it to "save" NATO or even to make it stronger).
But all of this is irrelevant to the point you dodged. If you think Trump has handled the transatlantic alliance well since being elected to his second term, say so. Own it. Don't deflect.
But if that is your position, that's pure idiocy or dishonest spin.
Our NATO allies *should* step up. It would be in their interest. But Trump has made the politics of that near-impossible by threatening Greenland, claiming that our allies didn't really fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, (not Vance's Munich performance, dicking around with Ukraine) etc. Even the far right (outside of Hungary) parties hate Trump now.
Then, when Trump launched this war on Iran he said he didn't need any of their help because we already won.
Now, he's asking for help, but he can't concede error or even ask nicely. So he implies their all cowards who need to muster "delayed courage."
Defend that Ari. Hell simply acknowledge it.
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
Sorry Jonah. I actually sat in the room for the first half of the movie. For 24 polite years, Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama diplomatically asked NATO members to increase defense spending. For 24 years, it was one excuse after another, all focused in Western Europe on how they wish they could spend more, but their social welfare spending priorities wouldn’t let them. In other words, you the US will spend on defense and protect us. Along comes rude Donald Trump. Finally, someone made clear that if Europe kept freeloading the US was done. It took a bill in the China shop to move Europe. Diplomacy failed. Trump prevailed. That’s reality whether you or I like it. NATO self-withered after 75 years. If Spain, England, Italy and France won’t spend what’s necessary to have a real military, it’s time for something new.
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@SykesCharlie @Timodc trying is correct about Ossoff not spending energy on purity test… but @SarahLongwell25 is obviously correct on overall strategy. Trying to reach youngsters intrigued by fringe is worthwhile but cozying up to freaks is unnecessary and counterproductive. Feels simple.
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There would be a discourse about whether it’s ok to have John Podhoretz in the tent but nobody seems to want an unhinged loon shouting MURDERER at anyone who objects to a single action of Israel’s government or causes a slight delay in the Schnippers doordash order.
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Me: Wakes up and flips on the old twitter machine to see what’s happening in our stupid war.
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John Podhoretz@jpodhoretz
Hasan Piker would likely support Tim Miller’s murder on the grounds that he is gay man with children. And then support the murder of his children, as he supports the murder of mine for being Jews. Nice going, Tim. You’ve sold your soul. Enjoy the cash.
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@shawngorham Bentonville definitely being slept on. Headed there this summer with family… Arkansas is gorgeous
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A cycling friend has been in Bentonville all week riding bikes - he has raved about it
Are we sleeping on Bentonville?
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The actual Best Picture of 2025 is EDDINGTON. The best nominee is MARTY SUPREME.
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I saw PROJECT HAIL MARY yesterday and I don't think I've ever seen a more crowdpleasing picture in my life. It's going to kill with audiences. Just nailed every emotional and comic beat it wanted to hit. Perfectly Spielbergian pop cinema.
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@MrCArmstrong @financedystop Yes sir, I eat my Texas Toast with my coffee every morning…
Also, was this written with Temu AI?
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I'm a Texan, and I don't eat any of this junk. I'm also not aware of anyone else who does—the closest I've ever heard of as a signature Texan breakfast is Texas toast, and even then, I don't know anyone who eats it.
Texas is a big state, so it's easy to overgeneralize, but this? Tell me steak, BBQ, or Whataburger are Texan, and then I'll believe you.
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This guy is shocked by a Texas breakfast, basically a hot dog and cheese stuffed inside sweet bread.
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CY
It's wild but I have never in my life even once heard something like, "He's a conservative Republican who is anti-abortion and wants to put the Ten Commandments in schools, but he can talk to extremely liberal Democrats credibly." No one would say that because it's obviously stupid. But somehow the reverse comes around like clockwork every cycle.
Whoever said that the left has no basic theory of mind for the right -- just an utter inability to put themselves in the other side's shoes -- is spot on.
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That’s false imho. The benefit of Talerico isn’t that he codes conservatives it’s that he can talk about faith credibly-which a lot of us Democrats can’t do-and also that he went on Joe Rogan & impressed a guy who is where a lot of less political people are, esp. younger ones
Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo
Educated Dems keep falling in love with candidates--Kerry, Walz, Talarico--whose bios code conservative-friendly *to educated Dems*. They cannot see distinctions that are extremely visible to the folks they're trying to appeal to, or even imagine such distinctions exist.
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What is a movie that you've seen hundreds of times but still enjoy watching it?
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