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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. This. I’m not an advisor, but I know a lot of them and in my experience they vary about as much as any profession. Like any professional, I wouldn’t pick one at random. But the median is certainly better than operating from a place of limited knowledge and not knowing where to start. In @Rip76 case they should at the very least be able to help him discern what he’s trying to accomplish, and help him with a plan or at least some immediate actions, which is better than not having that.
  2. A lot to unpack here. I think you should talk to your financial advisor
  3. This. I'm too angry to watch this game. I don't want to root against the mavericks, and I'm hoping Luka goes for like 60.
  4. I mean she’s not in the same league as South Austin’s mom, but with persistence and hard work, who knows?
  5. When people talk about AD, Lively, Gafford and Powell coming back
  6. Continuing in this vein: The “what percentage should be bonds” discourse is almost as baffling to me as the “what is your risk tolerance” discourse. So @Rip76 I guess my question is, when you say “what is the best thing” to do with it, what do you want that money to do? Appreciate in value? Throw off cash? And do you need liquidity, meaning, is the ability to get out of an investment quickly and easily?
  7. I understand his point of view, but put another way that delta measures the extent to which the parties do not have to be responsive to local issues, which @Ag with kids puts in quotes, but has never responded to, going back literally two full decades. My position is really simple: gerrymandering on the basis of party is incompatible with representative democracy and corrosive to the Republic. And that is BECAUSE local issues often transcend party when districts are designed around communities of interest. But when he does that he’s begging the question (ie, that it should), because, again, local issues and candidates often transcend party when districts are designed around communities of interest. The only hypothesis I’ve been able to come with for why he thinks that (because he won’t explain why it “should” be that way) is that he genuinely believes that parties represent some kind of school of thought or ideology, which is of course suckerbait.
  8. I will maintain until the end of time that we should have joined the B1G. Cow colleges in suicide hotspots are not our peers. Yet…
  9. This is the way I have no idea what the ratings are/were or care. I’m just saying it was a bad show.
  10. Not responding to questions about designing districts to produce predetermined outcomes?
  11. This MF just compared HS Football in TEXAS to Arizona and Florida.
  12. I pretty much just watch/listen to Bloomberg, but I guess Stephanie Ruhle is OK.
  13. I hate this because the Leopard ate a kids ears. I need it to eat the mom and dad’s face.
  14. Why? In a vacuum, why is the NY and California gerrymander bad?
  15. Everything this guy just said is bullshit: 1) if you curate the components of the district to produce a preordained partisan outcome you are denying the salience of all other interests 2) local issues do not break on national party lines, because if your hypothesis was correct, the partisan alignment of the delegation wouldn’t need to be engineered in advance. AND 3) So you are supportive of NY and California’s partisan gerrymander? I think partisan gerrymandering is evil and subverts democracy. Do you support it or not?
  16. I completely agree. I just haven’t personally used it very much or if at all, I tend to like this stuff that is good and kind of ignore the rest. And I go out of my way to make fun of the dumb stuff. That’s another reason why we should be civil to the decent Republicans, so dumb ones will come in here and we can make fun of them.
  17. Good. Joy Reid’s show was terrible.
  18. I’m not sure what this says about me, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually negged anybody except for the cycle.
  19. That's fair, which is another reason not to do it. I don't like that this forum is a progressive echo chamber for multiple reasons - one being the long time relationship with other posters, and the other being that echo chambers tend to produce ill-considered opinions and an inability to defend one's point of view, both of which are deadly for both progressives and the Republic at this moment.
  20. This. I keep calling out @Ag with kids because he’s sincere and thoughtful and presents his ideas in good faith. Back in the 2000’s he correctly pointed out (and I agreed, FWIW) that a huge downside of Obamacare was that it would prevent people like him (ie, people using health insurance correctly) from using the kind of very affordable HDHPs that used to exist for catastrophic care, and that Obamacare further entrenched the already severe problem of people using a risk management product as a prepayment service for routine expenses, and that it would drive costs for those expenses up. He was right! My point is, it’s good to cultivate and not drive away Republicans who are willing to talk about issues, even if only to understand what the hell they are talking about and how they look at things, as wrong-headed and baffling as it may be (like his views on gerrymandering.
  21. Isn’t that the one that feels like molten lead going down your arm? I KNOW I got a booster for that before I went to China.
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