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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Different communities. Maybe this is anecdotal but I’ve heard that Dripping Springs and Dripping Springs Schools in particular have been aggressively marketed by realtors to MAGA families as a place they can access all the things Austin has to offer but still protect their sweet children from the woke mind virus, DEI, CRT, the trans menace, MS-13, dirty homeless people, etc.
  2. I wish I could like this 1000 times.
  3. Amazing. Trump is truly an instinctive genius of politics. First, yet again he’s go people talking about something completely idiotic instead of something very important that is impacting them right now. Second and much more consequentially, he is successfully baiting people into suggesting more cost effective prison ideas and thus implicitly supporting the false premise that violent crime is high, which is the central premise of his presidency.
  4. Imagine being too much of a dork to fit in with the college newspaper crowd.
  5. Fuck that, this is a person old enough and with enough privilege to see working class people get sent to die in wars so they don’t have to. If that person can’t take moral ownership of their own views they don’t belong in college.
  6. Reminds me of this:
  7. “some people,” a live look
  8. Sure, and maybe I'm wrong but I'm just not sure that Wilks and co have any salience outside of Active Democrat circles and GOP intermurals. Elon Musk, on the other hand, seems to be a potent motivator. He's well known and acts weird in public. I think talking about local issues works in local elections because of who votes in them.
  9. That’s inside baseball, nobody knows who they are. Texas Democrats need to bang on local tangibles, where even Republicans concede they have a problem, and don’t present themselves well, to wit, shot: chaser:
  10. For real. This kid is so English he makes Hugh Grant seem like Ron White, so we’re going with a full immersion. So far he’s been to Amaya’s taco village and H-E-B. This is merch/lifestyle brand with its own soccer team.
  11. I wasn’t at the game because my daughter and her BF were there, but the crowd looked as dispirited and low energy as any I’ve ever seen at home.
  12. Everything is priced in. “Everything” includes rational behavior, irrational behavior, understanding, misunderstanding, speculation, cognitive biases, information assymetries, etc.
  13. This is a much more thoughtful answer than I deserved. Thank you and congratulations on your retirement and marriage.
  14. He got the gold mine, she got the shaft
  15. This. LBJ is LBJ and Hachimura is a workable NBA starter. After that, Reaves would be better as a 6th man playing 20-25mins/game and DFS is a situational 3 and D who can contribute, but the third man off the bench on a well put together squad. The rest of the Lakers roster are no better than marginal.
  16. No really though, because Surly is not the Supreme Court and shitposting to pass the time on a weekday has somewhat lower stakes.
  17. Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
  18. I’m gonna go raise the tariffs, raise the tariffs
  19. I didn’t know either and I did. 😬
  20. Lol, OK. In December/January, businesses that depended on finished non perishable imports or capital goods were getting ahead of things that could happen based on the imperfect information they had at the time, which was the stated, consistent position of the incoming president on how he planned to use the powers of his office in the first hundred days. That’s what happened. Sorry if Main Street let you down, I guess.
  21. I’m not sure what narrative shift you are talking about, but rational economic actors with a gun to their heads don’t have the luxury of speculation and shouldn’t indulge in it and those who allow their politics to influence their approach to risk management sow the wind. The chain of causality here is that tarriffs and other policies were promised, and many producers and users hedged accordingly. And by the way, as long as we are talking about “narratives,” you shouldn’t minimize what actually happened in 2017, which was the US losing a really dumb trade war that cost us market share we will never get back among other things.
  22. I’m not going to put words in your mouth because, but the bolded statement seems poorly reasoned. You seem to have assumed that Trump’s campaign rhetoric was hollow, but producers that rely on imports did no such thing, because the risk was too high, and that’s the major cause of the GDP contraction. The DOGE stuff is and will remain a rounding error. The threat of new taxes and policy uncertainty are inherently anti-growth and I’m surprised you don’t take them into account. In other words. If the incoming president says “I’m going to do tarriffs and deport a bunch of skilled construction labor,” he need not do it for the economy to start contracting.
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