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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Wordle 1,437 3/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  2. My grandad is buried in that cemetery. He served in WWII and took part in the Battle of the Bulge and its aftermath. After the war ended he spent nearly a year on cleanup in Germany and Eastern France. Since he had an armorer’s rating one of his jobs was to destroy M1919’s by shooting them into river banks for hours until the barrels melted. They didn’t have much ear protection and he was hard of hearing for the rest of his life. He died in 2021 at 100, and we finally had the funeral about a year later. It was a small group- me and my kids, my dad and his wife, my aunt and her family, and a couple of friends. They led us to a little pavilion, we all said a few words, they played taps, and folded up the flag. Then the Officer In Charge presented the folded flag to my aunt and said, “On behalf of the president of the United States and a grateful nation, please accept this flag as a symbol of our appreciation for your loved one’s honorable and faithful service.” The last time my grandfather voted in a Federal election was when he voted for Joe Biden in 2020. It was the first time he had voted for a Democrat since Jimmy Carter in ‘76. He said that 2020 was the most important vote of his life, and maybe the most important thing he ever did for his country.
  3. Congratulations to you. Simply gaining admission is an incredible achievement and a huge honor for your whole family.
  4. Speaking of which, did y'all know they might push Colin Allred to run for Senate against Paxton? It’s the political equivalent of point shaving.
  5. Wait- I’m a libertarian now? That’s rich. New here? Whether it’s 2000 when I was at the TDP convention in Ft Worth knowing that the ticket was toast front top to bottom and watching them congratulate themselves for “keeping their powder dry” for the 2002 “dream ticket,” or physically ejecting out of state Clinton ringers from my precinct caucus in 2008, or seeing how they abandoned Chris Bell in a year when Perry was beatable, or later promoted Lupe Valdez as a viable candidate, or now, watching these losers work to avoid contested primaries and seeing how they discourage good candidates from running, I know what I’m talking about and come by my contempt honestly. Republicans did not win Texas. Democrats lost it, period.
  6. Texas Democrats, as a political party, are retarded losers and their incompetence and hubris is how we got here. No offense to you, but I’d rather be a part of an opposition with skin in the game, and calling 30 years of losing and self-inflicted damage a “Republican problem” tells me you don’t have any.
  7. You’re right. We must stay pure, and the only way we’ll avoid attracting the support of undesirables is to keep losing.
  8. Wordle 1,435 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  9. I am a river to my people
  10. 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.
  11. When you lose Richard Hanania
  12. 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
  13. 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?
  14. 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?
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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)
  18. 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?
  19. Considering your support for the wife beater’s right to own and carry firearms, I don’t doubt your sincerity on this.
  20. I have no idea what set this off, but I agree with all of these above.
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