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Goredho

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  1. That's cool, it's obviously working for you, so carry on.
  2. Hard to not go CR with this, but I’ll try. I understand those thoughts and their allure. But if Trump, all of his followers, and most importantly the people handling (manipulating?) him are all idiots incapable of a plan and only reflexively and repeatedly shooting themselves in the dick, what does that say about the opposition and their following that includes you and I? Has the opposition’s collective classifying of TrumpCo as morons helped bring about a meaningful change in our nations trajectory at his direction? You are of course free to ignore the obvious answers to those questions, but I’ve got a family/retirement nest egg to try to protect, and writing off everything from TrumpCo as the random chaos associated with a government of, by and for morons isn’t helpful to that end.
  3. Hey, it at least makes some rational sense and matches the actions of the administration. I mean, I think we are all sane and can agree that the motive for tariffs on Canada are not to stop any significant amounts of Fentanyl from coming into the country. Ok, then what are the motives? If you understand the motives, you can maybe make a more calculated risk with your investment money. Also, intent is just that. It does not guarantee success, it does not guarantee the ability to stop momentum when whatever goal is attained and it does not guarantee there are no negative butterfly effects. If we are swinging our big economic dick around to tank the world economy so as to refinance our debt at a manageable rate, fine, but that's gonna come with significant consequences beyond everyone's 401Ks. Is anyone gonna want to lend you money again if you just show that you'll tank the world economy to get out from under its weight?
  4. Gonna be hard for this to not be the meme of the day.
  5. Do you have a link to this?
  6. Colorado has entered the chat. https://cdphe.colorado.gov/press-release/one-measles-case-confirmed-in-colorado-resident-with-recent-international-travel?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2-u_dfJmY4ofyuHPd2GQ4MmKdVHez3Obymin-WDzW-klrgt0mbF7z0vw8_aem_Wgw9-iChTRkTO2zZVTHExg
  7. Not that I wholly disagree, but this looks and reads an awful lot like a Trump post. DO SOMETHING!!
  8. And people who have suddenly become have nots through a financial collapse become amenable to working on the terms the haves dictate as a matter of survival.
  9. I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it is. There is an unseen/unspoken motive involved with wanting to send the world into a recession if not depression.
  10. Spent three summers of my 20s as a fishing guide out of a Yellowstone-area fly shop. All those towns stand to be hit hard. Their economy is built on the disposable income of outdoorsmen.
  11. You all keep bashing Trump, but he's literally able to bend time to his will and transport us all back to the 19th century. That's what is called omimpotents, libtards!
  12. Elect a clown the antichrist, expect a circus the apocalypse. One of ya'll can offset your financial losses by getting that bumper sticker made.
  13. Eh, I think he’s more cut out for this…
  14. Sire taking a page from the PRS Silver Sky playbook
  15. You overthrow the national party apparatus with a grass roots movement that is more exciting and compelling to voters than the Republican's MAGA movement that overthrew its national party apparatus. Until such a thing emerges from the ashes of the Clinton/Pelosi/Schumer Democratic Party, continuing to support their candidates is simply choosing to help stifle its rise.
  16. On the plus side, American society and governance is being remade in such a way that fools who believe bullshit on the intardnet will sort themselves out of the biosphere in fairly quick order. See West Texas measles outbreak. If they don't, well... I guess they will prove they were right all along.
  17. What I can't figure out is why anyone talks about democrats in the present tense. People like Chuck Schumer, they aren't interested in being a real opposition to what is going on. They are happy to provide a non-threatening facade of choice in exchange for secondary power and influence post-Republic, but they aren't really going to try to organize any sort of meaningful stand against anything. The Democratic Party, at least in its current form, is a senescent forest of old, unhealthy trees that is stifling the growth of the grass (roots movements) beneath its canopy. It needs a good cleansing fire to make way for the growth of something new.
  18. In a somewhat similar situation, though likely not needing it as quick unless I have to take deep pay cuts to keep working, which does happen for people in my industry 55+. My guy recommended we start getting some equity out of the market and into tax free municipal bonds. Getting 4% tax free with the interest paid every 6 months. We shifted from 100% stocks/funds to 60/40 stocks to bonds. The interest dividends can be used to either reinvest or as tax free income to offset a hit to my salary while working age 55+. I have no idea how sound this is, I'm just a dude with some money following his financial advisors advice, but I definitely have less anxiety not having all of my retirement nest egg tied to the stock market roller coaster right now.
  19. Enjoying Dark Winds after 2 episodes.
  20. Pedal tuners are definitely nice.
  21. This hits close to home. I got tipsy and a little high last night and was killing time waiting for it all to kick in fully before going to bed, so I asked ChatGPT what would have if the Yellowstone Super Volcano erupted, but instead of spewing ash, it spewed an equivalent amount of the psychedelic compound from bufo alvarius (toad) venom. This is what it had to say;
  22. Witnessing violent/traumatic death is no joke. I was driving next to a small airfield in a suburb of Salt Lake City with my then infant son in his car seat in the back. I noticed a small plane that had just taken off kind of rising and falling erratically before stalling out and plunging into the ground. No explosion, but it caught fire quick and by the time I was pulled over, the whole plane was on fire. This was about 30 yards away from me on the other side of a security fence. I pulled over, got over to the fence, and I could see the pilot burning inside. The first vehicle to arrive on the inside of the fence was just a civilian car, and a young woman got out and got within maybe 5-10 yards of the cockpit and just started wailing in a way I had never heard before. Emergency vehicles arrived pretty quickly, but they couldn't do much. Plane burned down super quick, and the pilot certainly was dead by the time they got there. I read in the paper the next day that he was just a local pilot who flew advertising banners over sporting events. He was taking off to go fly something over a minor league baseball game when he had some sort of engine trouble and boom he was gone. That event fucked with me for quite awhile, and recalling it now, I can still see the dude in the cockpit. I hope it does not stick with you like it did me, @Ghost of LL. Here's a photo of the aftermath and the news article:
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