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I can’t remember how to write 1, 1000, 51, 6, and 500 in Roman numerals, I M LIVID
I can’t remember how to write 1, 1000, 51, 6, and 500 in Roman numerals, I M LIVID – politicalbetting.com
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And yes, I agree.
https://x.com/jaheale/status/1895498336213639542
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/27/trump-gold-card-visa-hidden-tax-benefit.html
..Currently, U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and green-card holders are required to pay income tax on their U.S. earnings as well as any income they earn overseas, including in their home country. The U.S. tax on worldwide income has traditionally made U.S. residency or citizenship far less attractive for the global rich, who have businesses spread across the world and often sheltered in tax havens.
Trump said gold-card holders would not be subject to taxes on their overseas income. The provision means that gold-card residents will be able to purchase a tax benefit not available to U.S. citizens. Advisors say they’re waiting on clearer directives, since the program could create dual classes of taxpayers among the American wealthy.
Yet the international income carve-out makes it far more attractive to the world’s ultra-wealthy.
“This would be a big departure” in tax treatment, said Laura Foote Reiff, an attorney at Greenberg Traurig who specializes in business immigration. “There are many wealthy individuals who are invested in U.S. companies or have families here that do not become permanent residents because they don’t want the tax consequences.”..
Remember the Steel dossier by the ex-British spy which said the KGB has kompromat on The Donald who had paid Russian girls to urinate on Obama's hotel bed? Well, if Steel knew about the tape, surely there must be a copy in an MI6 safe. That explains why their meeting went so well that Trump is coming here.
His father was a concierge at the Caledonian hotel in Edinburgh and he was given some ridiculously expensive whisky by a guest and his father passed it on to him to save it for a special occasion.
Many years later he invited some lady to his flat, told her to grab a drink, she picked that one, and the truly worst thing, she added Pepsi to said whisky.
Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
I'm hearing from experts around the world about what the destruction of USAID is meaning: "a global health massacre," in the words of a doctor who has devoted her life to humanitarian work on the front lines. Millions of malnourished children left to starve. Pregnant women not getting micronutrients to prevent neural tube defects. Programs against schistosomiasis abandoned. HIV positive patients left without ARV's. Water no longer purified. Surveillance against Ebola and bird flu set back. TB patients unable to get medicine. I've long argued that USAID should be reformed, but this Trump/Musk demolition is cruel and incompetent and benefits China, while killing children just as wonderful as our own.
https://x.com/NickKristof/status/1895189825466311070
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1895512451342299292
A more accurate measure of GDP would exclude government spending.
Otherwise, you can scale GDP artificially high by spending money on things that don’t make people’s lives better.
For example, you could shift everyone who is building cars to working at the DMV. That would result in no cars and a much worse standard of living, but GDP would appear to be the same
https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/uk-workers-put-ps31-billion-worth-unpaid-overtime-during-last-year-tuc-analysis
Lefty workers doing Britain down – £31 billion unclaimed wages means £31 billion off gdp and that assumes they'd keep the cash under the bed. If they'd spent it there'd be a multiplier as money circulated. And £16 billion in tax and NI would put foreign aid back on the Cabinet table.
Part 94 in our series, all economic statistics are rubbish.
But if you're just having a background to other activities: that's basically the radio's job. Or Spotify (or if, like me, you haven't really left the noughties, an ipod).
XXXXVIII Panzer Corps
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXXVIII_Panzer_Corps
All my momento of Wilbur are gone now except the photo’s. He was on Amoxy for breathing, and died in my arms, still with his eyes wide open looking at me, so for a long time I couldn’t accept he was gone. And I was told that despite what he died of, he would still be safe to eat!
And the den and run gone like they never happened. But I got the photo’s. Wilbur had a snout infection. I then heard over and over selective breeding to create ornamental pets concentrates genetic mutations making health problems.
Shit Autumn. Shit 2024.
That's too long, each way. I think it may be an error as they adjust odds.
Edited extra bit: lay of 12.5 is available on Piastri on Betfair exchange.
iirc from TRiE (and I probably don't) it's because the streamers paid megabucks to suck up all the creators and talent.
So, when government spending is cut, private sector GDP falls too. (And there are myriad knock on effects: government employees and contractors no longer able to make mortgage payments, means that house prices fall, mean that all people save more, and that the implied rent component of GDP drops too.)
It turns out modern economies are quite complex. And -yes- we should cut wasteful government spending (and over time there's probably quite a lot of it), but to think that going in and taking an axe to spending does not have an impact on *all* of the economy demonstrates a quite extraordinary naivete.
Now, 100id was also in that game though.
New Amsterdam it's become much too much
Till I have the possession of everything she touches
Till I step on the brakes to get out of her clutches
Till I speak double dutch to a real double duchess
Usually YouGov tacks questions like this onto the end of the main polling questions.
I'm hoping he rips Hojo's face off in the remake.
Trump - Zelensky gambling with World War 3
Trump to Zelensky - you ether do a deal or we are out
Though I would add it to the continuing list of evidence that Musk spends all his time on the internet, believing pretty much anything he reads, and communicating in internet focused ways rather than how he would (or use to) communicate relating to business and other matters.
Keir has finally done a good thing today- cutting the aid budget.
And this is the main thing with Trump - any issue boils down to not showing him sufficient respect, which is abject grovelling most of the time (hence creatures like Vance trying to enforce servility even from a Head of State who, though needing to be subservient given his position, still deserves respect in turn).
It is my experience that people who cry about being disrespected the most are usually the ones showing the least respect to others. Same thing with a lot of the time with civility.
The more I think about it, the more odder it gets.
*I'm not dissing whisky and coke, mind. Just a cheap whisky is as good as any other here.
https://x.com/komadovsky/status/1895526183858798972
Thanks DfE.
Not a love in
He wants to be praised by everyone, even those he is forcing to lick his boots.
Just embarrassing and very worrying
What she did was shitty. You don’t help yourself to other peoples stuff especially unopened. I don’t have a high opinion of her anyway and this just reinforces it.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdwR9_QweI0_MOEhW2yFpPW9qfq7ls87U
Breakdown happening live on tv
Why are they arguing with him live on TV?
I suppose Trump thinks the whole presidency is just another episode of Apprentice.
I am waiting for Zelensky to walk out
He's compromising our royalty with that invite. I hope all Labour MPs are out on the streets as they promised.
I hope Starmer has thought this through.
I find the level of reaction to the story to be utterly hysterical to be honest.
Trump just said this is great television !!!!!
Vance really ought to be booking a long appointment at the confessional.
(Do they have separate queues for big confessions, as opposed to five sins or less?)
The USA is already holding the whip hand over Ukraine, there's no need to crack the thing in front of an audience to boot.
As a reminder, at least 50% of americans love it. Well, have they even officially invited yet or merely promised to invite?
It'll still happen though. Ukraine was yesterday's issue, once Trump is done with it it will just be that place the Russians stole land from that everyone feels bad about but can do nothing about.
They’re behaving like teenagers.
A lot of Americans are going to be embarrassed, mortified, horrified.
Full 50 mins conference live on Sky if you can bear to watch
He openly admits his wife has to try and calm him down on occasions (I think from memory there is a roadrage incident retold in the book).
Where is she today?
Presume he views Trump as 'family'.
It is hard to think what Zelensky could have done to cope with that any better, sadly. He had nowhere to go.
How many GOP figures will offer even token criticism of the display? Maybe a handful. EIther because the rest all agree with that type of display, or think the public will. And they will be right.
Neither of us can believe what we are witnessing
And neither can the media
Shag your blokes and drink your beer.
Don't mess.
Very sorry, double booked. Dental appointment. Need a crown