History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme. Indeed.

I expect he's happy about it because he's getting a cut.

Just straight up fleecing the American taxpayer so he can get a small percentage.

Even if you explained it to him, with crayons and circles and diagrams and arrows and cartoon characters, he wouldn’t get it and even if he did, he wouldn’t care.

The casino thing I've had explained to me (not by someone who was making excuses for Trump).

I can't remember the detail hut basically it was some massive scam by Trump.

Probably to get out of taxes or dodge a debt or something. Or just to defraud someone.

But it does seem like it was done deliberately. The guy is a fraudster at heart.

My high school history curriculum was one year of World History, followed by two years of U.S. History. I always thought that was completely backwards. There's so much more history in the world than in the U.S. Besides, we'd already covered pretty much everything except the 20th century in elementary and middle school, making the first U.S. History class basically a rehash of stuff we already knew.

Pug, we need historians like you to remind us what normal should look like.

And who else would remind us about the Eternal Glory of Rome that even modern empires in decline still look to for inspiration?

Best case scenario AMOC shuts down and we don't learn what happens down the rest of this timelines.

Please don't be such an arsehole towards the train driver.

Also, what /u/lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world said.

The Treaty of Versailles was the treaty that ended WW1. It required Germany to pay huge reparations to the rest of Europe.

Trump just signed the Memorandum of Understanding that "should" lead to the end of the war with Iran. And the US is required to pay huge reparations to them.

It's a bit "on-the-nose".