Sounds like the 21st Century version of an indulgence.
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My first thought was “how very Catholic of them” . . .
All we need now is a (new) Martin Luther to show up . . .
She thinks it’s currently named after the South American country, doesn’t she…
Admittedly, it was a comment on a retweet of bragging over having bombed ISIS in Somalia…but it’s disturbing that the administration is quite so bloodthirsty.
Snyder is one of three Yale profs who are moving to the University of Toronto. JD may want to look in the mirror if he is looking at embarrassments to Yale. Excerpt from Globe and Mail article.
”Prof. Snyder has written extensively on tyranny. In January, U.S. Vice-President JD Vance tweeted that he was an “embarrassment” to Yale after the professor criticized the nomination of Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense”.
Lauren Boebert has suggested the possibility of renaming the District of Columbia to the District of America. Which makes me wonder if she thinks it is named for the country of Colombia.
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It strikes me that DC is currently named after and Italian. Changing it to DA would name it after a different Italian. ( Columbus vs. Vespucci)
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Honestly, I wouldn’t mind there being fewer things named for Columbus.
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Hudson!
Erickson!
Caboto!
De Leon!
Maybe they could also rename Denali Dante’s Peak.
Clown show
He was right. It was a minimum of 10%
Well he says he was wrong:
https://x.com/Geiger_Capital/status/1907621008283988321?t=dn_BCgf3orlj3HLB6pRgrw&s=19
While true some countries are 10%, the largest trade partners are much higher leading to a weighted average of >20%
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