Of course, Trump is determined to stamp out drugs trafficking to the US:
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The two-faced hypocrisy never ends does it
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For the past month I have been browsing the well-known online retailer Amz.anon for potential Christmas presents. I am a long-standing customer, and they keep trying to fool me into joining their premium service, Pride.
Now in my view, only someone in the terminal stages of madness would pay a monthly subscription in order to use a shop. So I havenāt joined Pride.
Anyways. I had lined up a list of items I might buy. Then along came Black Friday.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that, as a āBlack Friday Dealā the price of items I had been looking at had doubled. Items that, a couple of weeks ago, had been Ā£15.00 were now Ā£30.00. Unless - as part of my āBlack Friday Dealā offer, I agreed to join Pride - in which case I could have the items for the old price of Ā£15.00.
Needless to say, I havenāt bought the items - nor have I joined Pride. I will wait and see if the prices come back down. If not, I will buy different items, somewhere else.
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I have heard for many years that prices go up for Black Friday. Thank you for confirming it.
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Iām not even arsed making fake emails for a free month of prime anymore when I do an Amazon order. And Iāve only ever ordered from them twice in 25 years. This isnāt laziness and moreso about just not giving my time to Bezos.
I take that back actually. Theyāre not fake emails. All email addresses are real and valid. That was mean of me to say about email. Sorry email <3
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I do remember that I took a free 30-days trial to watch one show on prime video that I was interested in. The major challenge was cancelling the subscription again before 30 days were over. It canāt be done through the UI, you have to write a mail. Then you have to get through a couple layers of automated responses before you get someone that can actually cancel your account. Itās really quite badā¦
I decided at that time that it was definitely overdue to let go of any qualms I might have left about piracy.
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Of course itās nothing new. Subscription book clubs were notorious for it, many years ago. In the 1990s there was an ongoing debate - āWhatās harder to get rid of - HIV or the Readerās Digest?ā
The difference now is that it seems to have become ubiquitous. Itās now seen as the standard marketing model, rather than the unethical practice of a few rogues.
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Magazine subscription services that sold you a dozen mags in a lump deal
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As someone who rarely buys non-essential items, I noticed that, on occasion, goods Iād considered purchasing were not any cheaper on special sale days. It is quite the clever scam & the large companies must make millions extra from this. I could do with a few extra million by having a āspecialā day.
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You may regret making that public. 230 lurkers just registered new businesses.
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Itās called āthe is-was methodā in marketing classes.
For example, I just posted an ad that says āHave legendary No Manās Sky player Mad Hatter name a planet after you! On sale now, is $300, was $999! Limited time bargain price!ā
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news but Mads partner already beat you to it.
For the low price of 250 a month for the Mad Tier on their Patreon Page, I get a signed piece of Mad Memorabilia that you either used or spent some time in itās vicinity, sent to me every month.
Itās been five years and Iāve yet to receive a single monthly gift. Highly considering dropping down to the 500 tier, unless you can give me some assurance they will arrive some time in the next 12-72 months.
No, I donāt know why the lower one is more expensive but it mentions something about cloning.
It came with your families patented ānot a scamā promise so I know Iām dealing with good honest people here.
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āThatās a standard thing. Heās got to sell this to Ukraine, heās got to sell Ukraine to Russia,ā Trump told reporters Tuesday. āThatās what a dealmaker does.ā
Trump accidentally lets slip with a truth. The objective all along has been to sell Ukraine to Russia.
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He has a real obsession with Russia and the Arabs
The Arabs I understand because they have gold palaces and are dripping in wealth.
Russia I donāt quite getā¦
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Probably. Its impossible to make a joke anymore without some sort of backlash.
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Some combination of a deep seated desire to be āpowerful like Putinā and a position of vulnerability due to back channel financing from Russian sources.
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Well, he is getting close to mastering the āGet rid of everyone who doesnāt agree with meā tactic. If people start falling out of windows or die after shaking his hand, he will have succeeded.
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I think one half of his brain is just re-runs of chuck Norris movies he has mistaken for his own reality.
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Too bad we canāt mark up in red, huh? 
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