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    Quote Originally Posted by hullexile:
    I am wondering if the takeover would pass due diligence? Is the USA a sustainable business?
    Not with the current management- but they have cleverly required management to step down to facilitiate the transfer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hullexile:
    I am wondering if the takeover would pass due diligence? Is the USA a sustainable business?
    A government doesn't have to be run as a business and when it is (meaning by conservatives), it usually ends poorly for the majority of people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SirNotAppearing:
    A government doesn't have to be run as a business and when it is (meaning by conservatives), it usually ends poorly for the majority of people.
    Umm, pretty sure it's a joke, since what you posted is "takeover" like a business and mostly due diligence before shareholders approve the merger and such.

    Yes, doesn't need to be run like a business but also doesn't have to dig itself into a deep, deep hole by spending like a drunken sailor and then just printing some more money, feels unsustainable in the long term.

    But, hey, sell off Alaska or Hawaii (Japan easily buys the latter) and all our debts could be wiped out tomorrow...

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    Quote Originally Posted by MABinPengChau:
    Umm, pretty sure it's a joke, since what you posted is "takeover" like a business and mostly due diligence before shareholders approve the merger and such.

    Yes, doesn't need to be run like a business but also doesn't have to dig itself into a deep, deep hole by spending like a drunken sailor and then just printing some more money, feels unsustainable in the long term.

    But, hey, sell off Alaska or Hawaii (Japan easily buys the latter) and all our debts could be wiped out tomorrow...
    Can you sell something that wasn't yours in the first place?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elegiaque:
    Can you sell something that wasn't yours in the first place?
    Hey, we're not asking the big questions here.

    And, as far as Alaska, we bought it fair and square from Russia...maybe they will take a belated return...
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    Quote Originally Posted by MABinPengChau:
    Umm, pretty sure it's a joke, since what you posted is "takeover" like a business and mostly due diligence before shareholders approve the merger and such.

    Yes, doesn't need to be run like a business but also doesn't have to dig itself into a deep, deep hole by spending like a drunken sailor and then just printing some more money, feels unsustainable in the long term.

    But, hey, sell off Alaska or Hawaii (Japan easily buys the latter) and all our debts could be wiped out tomorrow...
    "Debt" is just what one arm of the government owes to another. How did the US pay off the debt from WWII? It didn't. It's all political jousting and posturing. $34 trillion sounds like a lot, and it is. But not in comparison to the GDP. And the truth is the US collects a much smaller percentage of its GDP in taxes than other wealthy nations, so a solution is easily had given the political will. I'm more concerned about tackling climate change than short-term nothing-burger problems.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elegiaque:
    Can you sell something that wasn't yours in the first place?
    Flog it in a dodgy pawnshop.

    Selling countries you don't own has a precedence,
    Spain sold the Philippines to the Americans even though the Philippines had declared independence.

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    Was homelessness a topic in the election?

    https://politiko.com.ph/2024/12/28/u...exo2oRMR7sMhyw


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    Indirectly. They were part of Trump's gang of illegal, border-crossing, fentanyl-pushing rapists and murderers coming to take jobs from housed, well fed people.

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    A question regarding the speaker. If say 99% of Republicans want Johnson out can the Democrats plus the 1% vote to keep him? I assume he would resign if that was the case.


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