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March 4, 2020

I don't get it -- What does he mean by "permanently unavoidable?"

Ol' Glenn has been reading from his alt-reality dictionary, hasn't he??

https://twitter.com/Wilson__Valdez/status/1235228838407397376

March 4, 2020

This is the kind of everyday shit America has normalized:

https://twitter.com/Noahbierman/status/1234976588548018176

If Obama ever pulled this shit during the Ebola/SARS scares, most Americans would have been screaming about a "coverup" and there would have been widespread panic...
March 2, 2020

Brexit could cost the UK up to 30 times more than Trump trade deal

Brexit could cost the UK economy up to 30 times as much as the country hopes to gain back from securing a new trade deal with US President Donald Trump, official figures suggest.

The UK's Department for International Trade on Sunday evening published its objectives for talks with the Trump administration ahead of negotiations scheduled for later this month.

The department's analysis estimated that an independent new trade deal with the US — possible only because of Brexit — would boost the UK economy by as much as £3.4 billion, or up to 0.16%, over the next 10 to 15 years.

However, this figure is dwarfed by estimates of the cost of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal.

A UK government analysis published in November 2018 suggested that a modelled average free-trade agreement along the lines of Johnson's planned deal with the European Union would reduce economic growth by about 4.9% and up to 6.7% over 15 years.

https://www.businessinsider.com/brexit-will-cost-uk-more-than-donald-trump-trade-deal-2020-3

February 26, 2020

MEANWHILE, in Turkiye...

Take the Top 10 ugliest, bloodiest sports rivalries you can name, multiply them by 10,000 and you're still nowhere close to the Istanbul Derby:


https://twitter.com/oluwashina/status/1231645158359420928



HIGHLIGHTS: (The part where everyone loses their shit is at 0:20)

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