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The Royal We

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  1. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for your Infectious Disease Czar!
  2. For sure. Nat gas operators pray for cold winters much more than hot summers. But that's a far cry from "no one needs nat gas during the summer." I'm bullish on long term nat gas prices too, but supply can respond pretty quickly to increased demand and higher prices. We are producing a shitload of oil and gas with very few (historically) rigs running. It's hard to imagine sustained $10+ nat gas prices without operators putting more rigs in the field.
  3. Uhhh, people don't need electricity to run their AC during the summer? 40%+of all electricity in the US is still generated by burning nat gas. I think the bigger issue is that we are swimming in nat gas and operators continue to find/drill more productive wells. Comstock's wells in the Western Haynesville in Robertson/Leon county are a good example of this. Fucking enormous wells coming on at 35 Mmcf/d+ and they are still figuring out how to best drill/complete these wells. https://investors.comstockresources.com/static-files/5a596a22-02f6-4b49-a9cc-93ecfe0179c0
  4. Furk. My father in law lives in Applby, just texted him to see if he's had issues but haven't heard back yet. We dropped our kids off at summer camp yesterday out in Shelby county. I think they are hunkered down and puckered up out there right now.
  5. Where at? I'm outside of Nac and the wind has been howling already. It was out of the NE at first and is now blowing straight out of the east like a sumbitch.
  6. Do you have any idea how many of these there are in this country? And not all of them are Trumpaloos. I'd support her and will vote for her as many times as possible, but I don't get all warm and fuzzy thinking this is the silver bullet that you do. FWIW, if Biden decides to step aside I think Kamala is the only other viable option. Any other candidate will have to pay for their campaign with fairy dust and unicorn farts.
  7. FIFY Good leadership matters in any organization, from the local Cub Scout Pack up to Fortune 500 companies - and sure as shit as the leader of the free world. Someone is steering the ship right now and things are going pretty good in my view. I can vote for a moldy cheeseburger or I can vote for a shit sandwich with bits of glass in it. Those are not the options I would choose if I was king of the world, but thems the breaks.
  8. This is something that never gets discussed at this point because of all the other fuckery going on, but Trump was a terrible leader with historically high turnover in his administration. Pretty much anyone who was competent or decent was either forced out or quit when they saw how dysfunctional it was with their own eyes. John Kelly, Rex Tillerson, Jeff Sessions, Jim Mattis, John Bolton, etc. The cabinet for a 2nd Trump term won't be chosen based on competency, it will be loyalty to Trump above all else. I hear a lot of people talk about how they can't vote for Biden because he's too old, but the job is waaaaaay too big for one person. Leadership and selecting good people to be around you is just as big or maybe even a bigger predictor of success and competency imo.
  9. Railroaded
  10. Seriously. Hornsby is being Pollyanna af. If it doesn't effect me and I don't see it with my own eyes then it must not be a real thing. I think there is a bit of boy-cried-wolf effect going on with the notion that this is the most important election in our lives, but I don't know if our Democracy ever recovers from Project 2025 and whatever other authoritarian BS comes out of 2nd Trump term. The tariffs and deportation of 10-12 million people alone will be devastating to our economy. With a cabinet of nothing but yes men and grifters around this time there will be nothing to hold back the worst impulses. I don't know what the best path is towards avoiding it, but I'm pretty despondent this morning after seeing just how old and feeble Biden looked last night. He is just not equipped to confront the jetstream of BS coming out of Trump's mouth. The team that prepared him with a bunch of data instead of nailing down the best zingers to attack Trump should be tarred and feathered today. Fuck everything.
  11. I haven't talked to a single trumpaloo who is even aware there are fake electors facing charges over their "activities" in the 2020 election - and I'm surrounded by trumpaloos. It is absolutely going unnoticed by the vast majority of Republican voters because none of the places where they get their "news" EVER mentions this type of thing.
  12. I was about to say the same thing. Sorry about your reduced range friend-o.
  13. There are 15 pages of results on Airbnb for homes with at least 2 bed rooms that are available to rent for a weekend in the month of August. It's like this everywhere. Even in tiny little towns out in the sticks, you can find a place on Airbnb. https://www.airbnb.com/s/Fort-Worth--Texas--United-States/homes?tab_id=home_tab&refinement_paths[]=%2Fhomes&monthly_start_date=2024-07-01&monthly_length=3&monthly_end_date=2024-10-01&price_filter_input_type=0&channel=EXPLORE&query=Fort Worth%2C TX&place_id=ChIJrQfILRJuToYRvaxp3fiLr6Q&date_picker_type=flexible_dates&flexible_trip_lengths[]=weekend_trip&flexible_trip_dates[]=august&source=structured_search_input_header&search_type=filter_change&search_mode=regular_search&price_filter_num_nights=2&room_types[]=Entire home%2Fapt&min_bedrooms=2 The truth here, like most things, is somewhere in the middle of everyone arguing. Small investors buying run down homes and fixing them up to rent or sell does add value to the system. Not everyone is a blood-sucking vulture like Blackrock just looking to maximize shareholder value however possible. I do think that massive corporations buying up portfolios of SFHs is a big problem that is going to continue to cause all kinds of issues. As long as they don't look to the US Govt to socialize their losses when the inevitable correction comes....
  14. That driver is all out of fucks to give.
  15. Take it from that well known straight shooter, good ole Mike Johnson.
  16. I've got a decent chunk of funds stuck in Yotta too. Total BS that they haven't been able to come up with a solution since 5/11.
  17. Burns has a way with words. He managed to tell people to stop being fucking idiots and vote without offending all but the most delicate of snowflakes. Thanks @Biff Tannen
  18. I don't see how the CBP agents were able to stay so calm. Was he doing a bit so he could post this to the facebooks for clicks?
  19. I know how long a roof of your mouth burn from hot pizza lasts, I guess this dude just stays hammered so he doesn't feel it?
  20. <Hover over the M annnnnd, Ignore> ahhhh, much better.
  21. What is deporting 11 million people going to do to inflation and the economy!? JFC, you think things are expensive now, how much is it going to cost to frame a house/buy a package of strawberries/go out to eat/literally everything that laborers touch? The same stupid fuckers who say things like "no one wants to work anymore" can't see any problems with this? Not to mention the pure evil of ripping that many families apart, but they don't care about that. (probably a welcomed side effect actually)
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