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  3. Good old school sub. Got a slice while I waited. Would recommend.
  4. Valmy77

    Senate 2026

    Platner is my kind of dude. I don't care what tattoos he has. Granted it doesn't matter what I think, I have never even been to Maine and as far as I am aware have not even met a person from there.
  5. I dont think dems want him removed at this point. He's so incompetent if they just keep him tied down enough to where he cant do anything but fuck everything up and make everyone hate him they can gain the most power. Well, if they also weren't compromised by corporate interests. The power play for republicans would actually be to impeach him. He's become a millstone around their necks and they have to increasingly debase themselves to cover up for him. Getting him out and working on manipulating Vance, who has no popularity whatsoever with the voting public, would be their best bet at turning things around for themselves for 2026 and 2028. They would also put dems in a tough position of having to vote for impeachment even if it doesnt benefit them just because of the optics. But republicans are completely incompetent and stupid as well so they'll screw it up. Also, could be corporate interests have instructed them to keep trump in for the time being.
  6. He was friends with Peter Thiel, so...
  7. ...you wrecked half the city!
  8. Love that copium. That is what I come here for. The Cope Room.
  9. Sørloth with 2 out of 3 goals for Norway so far. Haaland scored the orher 2, now 4-1
  10. When do we change the name from the Epstein files to the Trump files? Seems more fitting.
  11. Zonahorn

    Senate 2026

  12. Taco Bell is FINE if it's nearby and I'm leaving a bar and am a little bit hungry. But for the most part, that taco truck on the corner where I get 4 banging pastor tacos for $10 by a guy who doesn't speak a lick of English or a fat ass burrito for $12 that will put me in a coma is where it is at.
  13. Nice summary of the pitfalls and warnings from the Economist: Summary of the 7 deadly sins of our current economic era: Lust for Crypto Retail Envy Lazy circularity Furious dealmaking Debt gluttony Patriotic pride Avaricious fraud And what's coming: Judgment day For now, Wall Street expects the good times to continue. Credit spreads remain tight. Equity-market volatility is low. Retail investors show no signs of flagging. Last week Robinhood, an online broker, said that its clients’ borrowing had risen by 153% this year. The makings of a bubble often become clear well before it pops. Alan Greenspan warned of “irrational exuberance” in 1996, some four years before the next crash came. Yet in some corners the mood is beginning to sour. Take crypto. Earlier this year Strategy traded at more than double the value of its bitcoin holdings. As the price of bitcoin has fallen, the company’s shares have fallen even further. Its premium has eroded to around 20%. If it is unable to sell more shares, it may need to liquidate its bitcoin holdings to pay steep interest costs. As a large owner, and ever larger champion, of bitcoin, it risks ending up in a downward spiral. Worries about credit markets have grown, too. First Brands, a provincial manufacturer of spark plugs, borrowed more than $10bn before collapsing into bankruptcy. Its lenders now accuse it of fraud. Jamie Dimon, the boss of JPMorgan Chase, warned that more “cockroaches” would emerge. Since then a few have scuttled out from under lenders’ loan books. Some business-development companies, a type of private-credit fund, are trading well below the value of their assets. Shares in Blue Owl, a private-credit firm, have fallen by more than 40% from their peak at the start of the year. Markets and regulators have turned on Egan-Jones, one of private credit’s favourite rating agencies. The industry’s use of life-insurance policies to fund investments is also being scrutinised. Then there is the question of whether Silicon Valley’s colossal spending on AI will pay off before investors lose patience. If it does not, the punishment may be harshest for companies that have succumbed to the seven sins. The consequences, though, would ripple far beyond them. Losses for investors would spill over into consumer spending. Credit markets—and possibly the government—would also bear losses. Parts of the financial system that have hitherto been untested would come under strain. Engineers would be put out of work. But the financial engineers would be to blame. ■ One thing it left out was the transformation of the American economy, in large part, to a fasicst loyalist economy. Want to get your merger approved? Pay the vig to the regime. Want to get regulatory approval for a permit, license, etc.? Pay the vig to the regime. Want to keep the DOJ out of your obviously shady business? Vig. Etc. etc. etc. Large enterprises have to pay the vig both to obtain favorable treatment, AND to avoid punishing treatment. They must pay both protection money AND bribes, with the same dollars. That phenomenon skews the fuck out of the market. The correction crash here is going to be insanely chaotic and wide-reaching, and here's the cherry on top: when it happens, we have literally the least competent, least qualified regime and operators within it in our nation's history. Our plane is going to hit a flock of geese and flame out all engines, and instead of having Sully on the stick, we have a team of deranged monkeys in ill-fitting pilot suits in the cockpit.
  14. lulz. everyone in that video is fat.
  15. Exactly. 15, 18, to-ma-to, to-mah-to
  16. I suspect Kenvue lodged a complaint with the administration of the use of Tylenol versus the generic name. And probably mentioned that since Trump is the recipient of stupid amounts of license fees over the years, he should appreciate the issue.
  17. I mentioned earlier in the thread that a recent interview with Rhoades that I heard on the radio did not make him sound very smart. I should have said “he sounded like a meathead former player who somehow climbed the ladder in athletics administration”.
  18. That was always the case. The right wing focus on pedophilia and sex trafficking was always the replacement for calling their opponents faggots. As gay marriage became more accepted by society as a whole, pedophilia accusations is what they started attacking liberals with, despite there being zero evidence liberals are more likely to be pedophiles. They had to maintain this fantasy they were morally superior to the perverted liberals. And then they push into it into any kind of discussion of gay rights. I'm curious if the House can release whatever information they possess. I get they would need a law to compel the Executive Branch to release everything, but I wouldn't think the Executive Branch could restrain the House from releasing what they have. It wouldn't be a law, just a decision on how the House operates.
  19. I used this same defense in court.
  20. Well Disney better be careful or else Google is gonna just start/buy up some sports channel and get in the sports broadcasting business themselves. They have the $$ to do it and are not just gonna sit idly by and let their enterprise go bankrupt. Also I read least night that ESPN is not even the issue. Apparently they have come to agreement on that. The issue is ABC with Disney wanting some big premium for that which seems crazy to me.
  21. What frustrates me is that most of the Trump supporters I know would never tolerate Trump as a coworker or neighbor or family member. Yet, because of team politics, they’ve got undying devotion to him as President. It’s insane.
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