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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • He didn’t understand that he couldn’t make deals with individual countries in the EU in his first term and badgered Merkel about it repeatedly despite being told. So he doesn’t understand it, wilfully or otherwise … but he’s also surrounded himself with people that don’t understand it either.

    People like Trump don’t use this type of talk to gain a better understanding or to communicate truth or ideas. They use it to get what they want, which is why his statements are jarring to people that pay any decent attention.

    “The strait is fine” is to try to calm the stock market – but – “NATO needs to help the strait” is to get other people to fix his fuck up














  • Total pedantry, but in that scene I don’t see why she just couldn’t say a quick sentence about what she was actually solving. Like, I know she was distracted about X or Y but it could have been cool just to do something like “the denominator approaches zero so the limit doesn’t exist!” at the end of that thought.