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Dan Pike

@bigpiclongterm

former Mayor of Bellingham, WA sustainability wonk, public transportation advocate, good government geek

Gaia เข้าร่วม Ocak 2014
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@Angry_Staffer Probably wasn’t a good idea to question if the Iranian diplomat spoke English. They just can’t help being insulting.
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Angry Staffer
Angry Staffer@Angry_Staffer·
JD Vance: we have not reached an agreement
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Dan Pike@bigpiclongterm·
@Angry_Staffer Seems like a short stint at the table. Hope they have some experienced policy and negotiation folks to bring in in D.C. to help plan out some actual strategery for a 2nd round. Or is it back to bluster and pretend?
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Angry Staffer
Angry Staffer@Angry_Staffer·
Vance is headed back to the US with no agreement.
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🇦🇪 Sheikh Khalid الشيخ خالد
They give you $2 million. You got 20 minutes to spend it or it's gone. Can't buy cars, planes, yachts, or houses. No gold or diamonds either. What you buying?
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Dan Pike@bigpiclongterm·
I think he's done, regardless. The only path to get a deal involves repatriating $6-7 billion in Iranian assets currently in Qatar. It looks like Trump was willing to let them go, but balked when Iran publicized the deal. They'll probably take a page from Trump's negotiations for his Apprentice show. He demanded a million $$/episode, and NBC coutered with $80k, final offer. DJT immediately accepted, as long as he could tell everyone he *got* a million $$/episode. Fo Iran will allow Trump to lie that he didn't let Qatar send the billions, as long as they actually ot the money. You can't stop Trump from lying anyway.
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QE Infinity
QE Infinity@StealthQE4·
Observation: This is JD Vance’s moment. Get a comprehensive deal done and he’s a major player in the 2028 presidential race. Fail and he becomes irrelevant.
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mariana Z@mariana057·
What’s something you can say during sex, but also at a family dinner?
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Dan Pike@bigpiclongterm·
@lanechanged I *knew* it! Very scary, and scary smart.
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Dan Pike@bigpiclongterm·
@proto_bit @wolfmiloember @VeryBrexitProbs If we escort ships through the Strait, we'll lose ships and naval personnel. Iran has let some Asian and Euro ships through; they have control. DJT has asked others now, because he's discovering it's a tougher problem that he thought. He should have made a coalition 1st.
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Bit the Proto🇺🇲
Bit the Proto🇺🇲@proto_bit·
The only opening and closing of the straight is terrorists threatening to attack civilian ships and laying mines, it doesn't affect the US other than lowering global oil supplies, and could be forced open if we were to escort ships through it, which is pretty much what the don was asking Europe to do because some of them actually buy oil from that area, and asia to do because they buy most of their oil from that area.
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Very Brexit Problems
Very Brexit Problems@VeryBrexitProbs·
MAGA thinks Europe can't defend itself without America. Here's what they don't know. 1. France and Britain have 515 nuclear warheads and 8 nuclear missile submarines. 2. European defence spending hit €481 billion this year. That's more than Russia and China spend combined. The EU's ReArm Europe plan is mobilising another €800 billion. 3. European countries have over 1.7 million active troops. Russia has 1.3 million. 4. EU and UK air forces fly over 1,400 combat aircraft. Their navies have five aircraft carriers, over 60 submarines, more than 120 frigates and destroyers. 5. Europe has over 6,000 artillery pieces and that's before the biggest rearmament wave since the Cold War. Poland alone is adding 212 new howitzers. 6. The British SAS invented modern special forces. The US copied them to build Delta Force. From France's Foreign Legion to Poland's GROM, Europe's elite units are among the deadliest on earth. 7. Europe already has joint military commands ready to fight. The UK leads a 10-nation rapid reaction force across Northern Europe and the Arctic. Finland alone can mobilise 900,000 trained reservists all prepared to fight in arctic conditions. 8. Europe has its own satellite navigation (Galileo), its own defence programme (75 active projects) and is building its own rapid deployment force. The "helpless Europe" story was never about defence. It was about keeping Europe dependent and buying American weapons, relying on American intelligence, following American foreign policy. Thanks to Trump, that now ends.
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Dan Pike@bigpiclongterm·
@proto_bit @wolfmiloember @VeryBrexitProbs The Strait of Hormuz was open. We attacked them in a sneak attack, and they closed the Strait. Now we cannot get it open unless the Iranian Guard allows it. For a fighting force defeated a couple dozen times per Trump, seems they're doing okay.
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Dan Pike@bigpiclongterm·
@Angry_Staffer At some point--which we are approaching rapidly--there is no sanewashing possible. The closer you are to Trump when that point is breached, the more sh*t will be indelibly attached to your character and reputation.
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Angry Staffer
Angry Staffer@Angry_Staffer·
Watching the last handful of MAGA grifters try to sanewash this administration and hold the money train together is really something. Everyone else realizes the ship is sinking.
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Dan Pike@bigpiclongterm·
@tenn_buckeye @JBellSATX @Scaramucci Thing is, I've followed politics my whole life. Been directly involved at a number of levels. Respected most players at some level, because they respected the system, i.e., the US Constitution. Trump is the exception, as are most of his Cabinet appointments.
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Buckeye
Buckeye@tenn_buckeye·
@bigpiclongterm @JBellSATX @Scaramucci You all whine and complain about absolutely everything. No one is surprised or cares that you don't like a Cabinet member. Thats very easy predict.
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Anthony Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci@Scaramucci·
Will Hegseth make the weekend? Both Rubio and Vance want him gone.
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Stephen King
Stephen King@StephenKing·
Someone on threads yesterday said that Stephen Miller is what happens when you bury a dildo in the Pet Sematary.
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Dan Pike
Dan Pike@bigpiclongterm·
@LisaLeveler @Cthulhu4Prez Thanks. Been in this fight my whole life, almost. Including getting thrown in prison once for a week for peacefully protesting. I thought we were making progress, especially when Obama was elected. Trump proved me wrong. So we fight on for what's right.
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Lisa Leveler
Lisa Leveler@LisaLeveler·
@bigpiclongterm @Cthulhu4Prez We are rooting for you. The US wanted to lead the world and now you are leading the world into suffering. Hope you get your house in order.
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Vinny’s Corner
Vinny’s Corner@VinnysCorner1·
Age yourself by naming an MLB Catcher you grew up watching….. I’ll start: Gary Carter
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Dan Pike@bigpiclongterm·
@TrueFactsStated I imagine Melania's sweating bullets. I don't care, do you?
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Claude Taylor@TrueFactsStated·
She sounds pissed…
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@LisaLeveler @Cthulhu4Prez We've been taking to the streets, we need to do more. Elections this fall will be a critical. We need more folks engaged now, as war and Trump's idiocy help more folks see sanity. It's embarrassing he got elected once. Humiliating it happened again. GOP complicity makes it worse.
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Dan Pike@bigpiclongterm·
@JBellSATX @Scaramucci Barack Obama, along with 80 million Americans who voted D.Along with the Americans who boycotted the vote, Canadians, the entirety of the EU excepting Orban & Fico, all of Latin American, Australia, most of Asia and Africa. So, yeah, hard to predict.
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@Scaramucci Best chance to get out of this mess. Topping incompetence with Christian Nationalism makes ending the war impossible as long as Pete's still there.
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Rock Photography
Rock Photography@Photomusicrock·
Should Artists bring politics into their Art?
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Dan Pike@bigpiclongterm·
@WajahatAli Amanda needs to stay away from windows.!
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Wajahat Ali
Wajahat Ali@WajahatAli·
Follow this thread. Most likely, and of course, all speculation right now, this is why Melania did her 6 min statement today. Amanda Ungaro was brought here as a 17-year-old model. She flew to NYC on Epstein's private plane. Paolo Zampolli, the modeling agent who allegedly introduced Melania to Trump in 1998, fathered Ungaro's child. They were engaged in an ugly custody battle. Zampolli leaned on ICE and his Trump connections to DEPORT Ungaro. Zampolli also allegedly represented Melania when she was a model...
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