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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Yesterday on the Ryder Cup thread, I said the US could still win if Mike Pence had the courage, and one of our delicate friends responded that “it will all be over for you soon” Serious business
  2. He’s realizing his hand isn’t as strong as he thought. Schumer and Jeffries need to go all in and stop making offers.
  3. So you’re going back to 2017? Go ahead and post the all-time graph. If your point is that scarce, low elasticity , highly differentiated goods that are both produced slower than the population grows and also more slowly than the money supply expands tend to be good long term investments, I agree.
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  5. Two parts good gin, one part dry vermouth. pour over ice and shake vigorously. Strain into chilled cocktail glass and garnish with an olive, pearl onion, or lemon twist, drink 3-5 slowly.
  6. Edit: I sincerely regret the joke. This is horrible.
  7. Consider it done. Can you be a little more specific about when it will all be over for me? I want to make the most of the time I have left with your mom.
  8. My relationship* with your mom? *sexual relationship.
  9. Maybe the president can rally the troops. I just know that win or lose, President Trump will support Team USA through thick and thin.
  10. Fair point, but it’s not just about blood money. The LIV thing is like when Tony George split IRL from CART. Tony George didn't sponsor murder and terrorism on American soil, and it still slowly destroyed the sport.
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  12. Gonna have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there Bob. But I do think is that it’s deflationary in the aggregate. Either way, however, none of that is really relevant to the point. Way back on the ca. 2020 Covid threads I said somewhere that I anticipated a rather rapid U shaped recovery, driven by the same thing driving spending now, despite everything: income inequality. The top 3-4% of income earners have achieved exit velocity relative to the gravity that economic uncertainty and rising costs impacts everyone else. And that’s true for businesses as well.
  13. It’s a function of where the data comes from and who is in the top 20%. First, a lot of these data come from reports organized into quintiles. So it’s no surprise that the people who are spending are in the top 20%, even if some or a lot of the top 20% isn’t spending much, like you. Second- the top 20% contains a large number of baby boomers, who carry a lower debt load and pay less for housing than younger earners in the top quintile. The people who are spending at your income level may be older, life in a cheaper location, have a laid off house, etc. Third, it matters a lot where you are in the top 20%, because spending is increasingly concentrated through the top of the top quintile. The top 20% does about 63% of the spendinG, but the top 10% accounts for 49% of the spending. Those are both historic highs.
  14. Weird he was so awesome otherwise, what with putting his tone-deaf, politically ham-handed wife in charge of the push for universal healthcare and the repeal of Glass Steagal and taking advantage of interns and mass incarceration and his relationship with Epstein and whatnot.
  15. This. Going into the weekend I wouldn’t have imagined that President Trump would be the least embarrassing part of the Ryder Cup, but here we are. Next time I hear some dipshit in a visor run his mouth about the WNBA or the National Women’s Soccer team being too woke I’m going to reflect back on just how poorly this team and the fans at Bethpage Black reflected on our country.
  16. As a strategic choice I basically agree with you, but what I would add is that every historical example I can think of tells us that those who accept soft autocracy end up living with hard autocracy.
  17. I’m sure they will come up with some new way to fuck this up. For the record, if I was driving the bus, I think simplicity works best here. If I was Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer I would give my caucuses an edict: “The Republican caucus has taken itself hostage and we will neither negotiate nor beg for mercy. We will vote for a suitable funding bill when one is brought before us. From this point forward and until either the end of a shutdown or specifically instructed otherwise you are not to bring up the shutdown or engage in any substantive discussion of how it might end. Accept any and all media opportunities you wish but do not engage in discussion about the shutdown, particularly when appearing on Fox News. If asked, all questions about the shutdown, public and private, are to be answered with three words: ‘ask Mike Johnson.’ Follow up questions should be answered the same way until the end of the interview or the line of questioning changes. ‘Ask Mike Johnson’ is the only message you need.”
  18. As an aside, this board has a bad case of Democrat brain, a combination of internalized victimhood and a massive excess of fucks given. The only way Democrats and co-belligerents like me will get off the back foot is if we all stop worrying so much about our what they do and start making our own weather.
  19. He was elected by a majority voting coalition that intensely distrusts and dislikes each other and “Republican voters” are not the plurality. It does not matter who they blame. Like, at all. What matters is who everyone else blames, and what matters even more than that is subset the people who have real agency and stroke, and who they worry about pleasing. If a shutdown happens this is going to get uncomfortable for them.
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