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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

LOL!

You know they posted the truth so you and your buddies just admit it or be quiet.


13 posted on 10/23/2025 9:53:52 AM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: TexasGator
---- "LOL! You know they posted the truth so you and your buddies just admit it or be quiet."

What an amusing remark. Since I personally hold more to the individualist view than your collectivist, internationalist view, we would disagree. Cited to another, here is a quote from Hayek:

"There is no other possibility than either the order governed by the impersonal discipline of the market or that directed by the will of a few individuals; and those who are out to destroy the first are wittingly or unwittingly helping to create the second."

The marketplace moves slowly, not like a light switch thrown from on to off, or off to on. The remainder of the daily permutations of sanctions and market pricing and all is a matter of shifting tides by "nudging" -- a Sunstein idea -- or "manufacturing consent" -- a Chomsky notion. President Trump is triangulating all the streams of modern American politics, and each step is either 2) not enough for some, or 2) too much for some. Not "truth," so much as today's truth. I'll watch the markets and the long-term interests of all the parties, and we together will see what we will see, across time.

What has been heard in these last months from "truth" enthusiasts is that 1) driving prives down will weaken Russian exports, and 2) driving prices up will weaken Russian exports. I will stick with general skepticism, and watch markets and interests and nations do what they do. Globalists and internationalists think they -- on whatever side of a number of different sides -- will control markets and interests and nations. Somehow, time will tell. Not some headline. So many game changers haven't changed much as yet, in the manner we've been told in rthe headlines over years now.

But what is demonstrably certain is what your Marcus foretold in "truth":

"Putin’s botched invasion ends by Easter."
5 posted on 3/17/2025, 8:02:41 AM by marcusmaximus

19 posted on 10/23/2025 10:15:41 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: TexasGator; Worldtraveler once upon a time

To: TexasGator
Do you have to be an ass every day?
84 posted on 9/26/2015, 6:24:20 PM by Jim Robinson

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3341298/posts?page=84#84


31 posted on 10/23/2025 11:28:09 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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