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Trump is at heart an appeaser. Both with Putin and with Iran. He should have long ago have told Iran there is no linkage between Israel/Hezbollah and our conflict with Iran. He should have said we consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization and it would be wise for Iran to cut ties and settle the conflict with us. Instead he allows Iran to link the two conflicts and then encourages Hezbollah to lob missles into Israel knowing that Israel would have to respond and Trump would take Iran’s side. They’re playing him like a fiddle!

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He snuck out 100 million barrels of oil under their noses.

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I call BS on this. The only evidence is a statement from Trump. Has anyone else in the administration, in the military or from any Gulf nation confirmed this? I'm going to need more than Trump's ramblings at this point.

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Are these good eating? I’ve always wondered that.

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I've shot some on the Texas coast. They are good eating. Those suckers never decoy though so you have to be where they are flying past from one area to another. Or hunt the golf course!

If you're young with dependents who depend on your income, you should definitely have some term life insurance. If you're mega-wealthy, whole life can be used as a tax planning tool to minimize estate taxes. I had a friend when I was younger who said (facetiously I think) that he didn't want life insurance because it meant his wife would have to stay fit enough to find a new husband if he died and he would benefit from that if he didn't!

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Tudor, Ball and Longines are all good entry level luxury watches to me. I'll add Doxa for good, affordable dive watches, along with Oris and Hamilton, which have already been mentioned several times.

I hear Iran has been sending oil to china by rail now. They can’t send as much that way as by tanker and it’s way more expensive but it is a lifeline for them. I’d at least send over a few tomahawks to take out some railway bridges!

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The Democrats would likelly have done this with or without Trump's actions. It just would have been talked about less and probably barely noticed by the GOP

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This is just not consistent with the facts. California Democrats have been dominant there for decades and Newsom did not do anything about massively gerrymandered redistricting until Trump raised the Texas issue. Similarly with Virginia, Democrat Ralph Northam was governor from 2014-2018 and no massive Democratic gerrymander was on the table then. Sure, there is always some level of gerrymandering in every state, but not of the kind we have seen this year in the middle of the ten year census period to maximize one party's seats in the next congress. These are reactionary moves based on Trump's demands on Texas, not some pre-planned strategy.

Small, easily deployable EMP weapons. That strikes me as something some defense contractor can sell as a drone defense. Jamming won’t work on the fiber optic ones so we need somrwtjong like that.

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So one branch of government has to ask another for permission to build something that is privately funded?

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I mean, it's the White House. It's owned by the people of the United States, not by Trump. I'm no lawyer, but it doesn't seem out of bounds to say that Congress should have some say on major modifications to such an important building that is owned by the U.S. government.