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Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
Bozo_Casanova replied to Prepuce of Doom's topic in Lulz
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If only! The ethical crisis precedes Trump and goes well beyond Trump. He’s just one of many rich and powerful people who the legal system protects but does not bind. Good for them, though. May they fail valiantly and honorably, while their profession stands idly by.
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When you lose Richard Hanania
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
Bozo_Casanova replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
What about that one account Ted Cruz likes with Cory Chase?* Did you follow that or maybe pay for BLACKED?** *to be clear, I don’t know who that is ** Also don’t know what that is -
All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Bozo_Casanova replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
Do tell! A couple things: 1) if I was going to buy either I would buy both. How does it work to own both Units of a condo regime if one is a rental or STR? The lot is not subdivided. 2) In this environment, how hard of a bargain could I drive if I was willing to take down both? 3) we’d be looking at an October close. What does the crystal ball say I looking at as of right now with a 20% down payment? Could I homestead both? Would they have separate notes? -
All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Bozo_Casanova replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
Getting back to mortgages, my wife found a 1.2mm 3/2 spec house in east Austin she really likes, replete with a great view, the gentrification font on the numbers, and condo regime between the front and back units (also for sale, $775). It also has a sort of mini pool. The listing agent (who also wants to list my house) keeps checking out my LinkedIn profile. on a scale of 1-10 how fucked am I? -
All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Bozo_Casanova replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
No. I did that 20 years ago. You chose to believe otherwise. Setting that aside, was I wrong about what was going to happen (the end of surplus, explosion of deficits)? Oh my god we went over this 20 years ago. Stimulus stimulates. Nobody disputes that. The question is whether the stimulus pays for itself, which it didn’t, and 2017 didn’t either. Just because revenue increased doesn’t mean that it did, and if you have a problem with that, take it up with the CBO. That’s not even a matter of debate outside of politics. You keep banging on revenue going up because you’ve been taken in by bullshit artists. If that was an answer we wouldn’t be here. 2017 and this bill are a wealth transfer from your kids to me. Thank them, please. -
All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Bozo_Casanova replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
Oh, their definition. Got it. I don’t think that’s a smart goal but either way I agree it seems highly unlikely. I mean it’s probable that imports will fall for multiple reasons, but it’s also probable that the dollar will weaken and more importantly demand for the dollar will weaken, which means our debt is more expensive to service and the use of the dollar as a reserve weakens and so on. I don’t see how you can even achieve the stated goal without inflation, because a weaker dollar relative to the cost of imports *is* inflation, in trade terms. -
All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Bozo_Casanova replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
See my post above re discretionary spending. There is only one way out - lowering entitlement and military spending pretty substantially, and we are very possibly past the event horizon anyway. I’ve recommended Ray Dalio’s Big Debt Crises here when it came out and it seems especially timely now. But you can’t possibly pretend that the parties aren’t different and that one party hasn’t actively made the situation massively worse, and it wasn’t the Democrats. (And I am not a Democrat) -
All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Bozo_Casanova replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
False. In process right now. Dude. This is not how the debt works. Remember when I told you that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts could not pay for themselves and would add to the debt and you argued with me about it? Remember when I said the same thing in 2017 (I don’t remember you arguing about that one)? The CBO estimate of the current house bill is that it will add about $3.8T by 2034 and $5.1T if the temporary stuff (no tax on OT/Tips is set to expire in 2029 so they can make it an issue in the 2028 election). * That’s false. They are extending the 2017 and adding new ones ** I have no idea what you mean and I suspect you don’t either. It’s 2025 and tips are accounted for and taxed as income. Also false, at least based on the bill in progress and virtually all public statements of objective. Of course we don’t know what will ultimately wind up on the president’s desk because it will be negotiated behind closed doors and signed without full analysis, but it will almost certainly be more inflationary and cover less of the proposed spending. Not that we have a discretionary spending problem, though- you could cut every dollar of discretionary spending and we wouldn’t have a balanced budget, thanks to the 2001, 2003, and 2017 tax cuts. But sure, tell me more about inflation … Is there a thesis here? Tariffs are a tax on consumption and they function by raising producer costs for supply chains with imported inputs and prices for finished imports. That’s not what they cause. It’s what they are. Wulaw, I’m sorry but you’re better than this. I have no idea what an “economic figure” is, but if you are talking about the consensus of mainstream economic thinking over the last 25 years (when you voted to take us out of budget surplus), their record is pretty good. What does “work” mean in this context? -
Considering your support for the wife beater’s right to own and carry firearms, I don’t doubt your sincerity on this.
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I have no idea what set this off, but I agree with all of these above.
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Yet another example of what lefties don’t see because they don’t make a point to understand Texas Republicans: Even the politically active R’s are sick of this shit and are begging Democrats to be competitive and giving strategic pointers. “Their insanity may turn Texas blue after all. All Democrats have to do is use Brian Harrison’s rhetoric against the R’s and talk about what people really want…property tax relief, public safety & safe schools & roads. And get rid of vouchers.”
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