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The Royal We

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  1. Kendall was the guest speaker last night at the Nacogdoches County Democratic Party "Beans and Jeans" fundraiser. I came away very impressed by his passion and his message of focusing on working class issues and education. He's from New Boston, TX and comes across as very genuine. Time will tell if he'll be able to make the changes necessary to actually help Dems win in Texas again, but he's a step in the right direction IMO. I spoke with him briefly afterwards and thanked him for coming to Nac and told him how great I thought his message was. I hope he is successful. Talking about why he thought he was elected as chair in a 7-way race: He also has some good thoughts around the 6:50 mark about why a lot of dem leaning people stayed home in 2024.
  2. I don't know how many times I heard about the "Trump Bump" when the stock market went up after the election/prior to the inauguration. So, that was all from the coming economic wizardry of Dear Leader, but now that he's been in office for 100 days we are still "suffering" from Bidenomics?
  3. Resident libertarian is more concerned with who is offended by certain slurs than he is by lawyers being visited by badge-less “officers” and being fired for talking to migrants. Curious.
  4. I've got two friends who bought glass rods the last few years. Both of them really seemed like they got it more for the novelty and/or to win the parking lot competition because they do look cool and are a conversation starter if nothing else. Neither one of them can cast them for shit though. It may just be that their casts are better suited and trained for a graphite rod or they were trying to throw heavier flies when I fished with them. But I don't really get it either. I need all the help I can get so I don't think I'd buy a rod that needs even more skill to cast well.
  5. You took the words right out of my mouth. Transparency in pricing is now a hostile act. JFC.
  6. I think we're on the same page. I've got a Scott 2wt and a Loomis 5wt as well. The 2wt is ancient so not really fair to compare, but I can def tell a difference between the TFOs and the Loomis. I bought it from a friend for ~$250 and that included a ross reel, but I'm pretty sure he paid at least 3x what I paid for my TFO 5wt. I'm a very average fly caster that can usually land my fly close to the target, but it's probably not going to land softly and wind knots are still a thing for me. I wouldn't own the Loomis unless my buddy sold it to me for so cheap...
  7. You may not win the parking lot beauty contest, but I think TFO is still the best value you can get. I've got a TFO 5wt and 7wt. It looks like they've started to make higher end rods now too that have some of the finer aesthetic touches - https://tforods.com/product/solution/ This 8ft 3wt look pretty sweet.
  8. By day one I meant I'd give it a whirl for a month or so and then punt after Putin told me to get fucked.
  9. She's fighting for her life out here you insensitive sumbitch! eta- wonder what size bro he wears?
  10. It's all vibes. Tesla shit the whole bed in their Q1 numbers and it's up 7%+ today. This is a hell of a way to run a country.
  11. That's a little too on the nose for my neck of the woods in East Texas. Looking at my daughter's class roster give me 2nd hand embarrassment.
  12. Yea, the framing of this by the media is horseshit. "Trump's illegal kidnapping scheme" would be a more accurate description.
  13. If we break 500 again and there is no clear line of sight to trade deals getting done, I'm afraid it's just going to keep sliding. There is no 90 day pause type action that can stop the bleeding again. The only hope will be that enough people like you YOLO off the sidelines and turn the market. Other indicators (10 year/shipping activity/consumer sentiment/dollar weakening) will make this difficult IMO.
  14. Those Easter Morning bloody marys hit different, amirite?
  15. Yea, this the real dank stuff that gives me the fear.
  16. It's harder to lead the Pentagon than it is to lick Trump's asshole on FoxNews and shitpost on Twitter!? You get the fuck right out of town.
  17. I thought the solar flares got his ass.
  18. I lived in a duplex off of Shoal Creek my senior year at UT. We had a great little backyard with speakers mounted up in the eaves, a picnic table, and horseshoe pits and always ended up playing whenever we had friends over. My roommate also worked for Red Bull back when they were first getting going and he got a couple of free cases of Red Bull every few weeks as a perk. This meant that our place always ended up as the late night party spot after we were done with whatever debauchery ended at 2 am. One night we were tossing horseshoes and I'm sure being loud jackasses when this neighbor who I had never spoken a word to after almost a year of living there stuck his head out the window and yelled at me, "Are you guys really playing horseshoes at 3:30 in the morning!?" I was fully engulfed in god knows what all substances and all I could think of to say was, "Is it loud?" He yelled back much louder "My bedroom window is RIGHT HERE!" I just told him we were sorry and we shuffled inside to party some more. When I came to the next day and went outside to survey the mess in the back I noticed that the outdoor speakers were still on blaring whatever was on the TV inside. They were cranked all night. Oops. That was the only time that dude ever said anything to us after probably 30+ loud nights in that backyard. I'm a grumpy fuck about stuff like that now when I'm on the other end of it and I need to try and remember Mr. Are You Really guy the next time it happens.
  19. It’s not a bad start tbh
  20. Play fuck shit games, win fuck shit prizes. Hey Elon, ETTD. Thought you knew.
  21. Totally healthy market. I think he enjoys the power he has over the market way too much so this manic market won't stop anytime soon.
  22. Man, they can really build factories fast these days! I must say his conviction in this “plan” is really impressive. Didn’t even make it one Scaramucci.
  23. It seems like shit has to go way more south before the Fed fires up the QE machine again, right? They are in a bind on cutting rates with tariffs already being extremely inflationary. I don't think the Fed is coming to save us.
  24. You can't bully the bond market. Prepare thy anus.
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