Yeller_king

I got some when my dad died, so go me for beating the average.

I'm torn. I wanna go ahead and start chilling my champagne but don't wanna jinx it

Thank goodness she's still in Congress so she can help do something about it!

It's more likely he's had another stroke and is laid up in Walter Reed than he wrote this.

Being only the 8th largest economy would rule you out as a superpower from the jump.

He is going to 180 on this later today or tomorrow. He may have thought he'd get an easy win and leave like in Venezuela. Now that it's clear that won't happen, he thinks he can declare that he doesn't need a deal after all and leave.

This is not a real estate deal and he can't just leave. There are too many powerful people in the world who will find this outcome unacceptable. He is stuck and we are stuck there with him.

The reasoning would be: You're right. They don't care. But he will never voluntarily release them and it results in maximum embarrassment.

It wouldn't be a sincere negotiating tactic but it works because they don't need to negotiate.

I think I'm a competent person, but I definitely wouldn't be a competent soldier.

Could be a local minimum and not the global minimum.

I think that was the goal.

The broken window fallacy is so fucking back.

Yeah. But I mean dying pointlessly is kinda what he signed up for. Civilian deaths are far more tragic.