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Bateshorn

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  1. THis is the plan for the wife and I. I came into some money in the last year. I had originally planned to work through this administration, but I might only make it to mid terms, the job is so stressful right now. So for my wife, who is also in politics. I......I just don't want to be here anymore. We are going to visit SMA or Merida this year, and start scoping things out.
  2. I want to retire early, so gotta go abroad for healthcare. Dunno if I'll come back.
  3. Great. So our economic policy is being driven by the President’s daily fiber intake.
  4. I get hot and bothered when you guys start talking O&G. Not joking. It fascinates the fuck out of me.
  5. I realize VW talk is not going away, but other than the MK IV models, VWs are fine cars, but like all German cars, you have to stay on top of the maintenance schedule. They have tight tolerances and break if you try to push the annual upkeep. A 3800 V6 Buick they are not.
  6. You can pry my VWs out of my cold dead hands. Then you can replace the timing belt and the water pump.
  7. All I know is nothing....NOTHING... is better for investment than leadership changing it's mind every 20 minutes.
  8. It's weird watching him vacilitate between "I BIG STRONG PRESIDENT MAN, TARIFF MEAN JUSTIN TRUDEAU" and "I don't like it when the market is down, let's relent" Beyond the whipsaw effect, it's sorta of the worst of both world's: it gins up traders, while still doing economic damage that will lead to an eventual slow down of the economy, and doesn't solve the real problem: everyone is snapping their wallets closed and hoarding cash because of instability.
  9. PRetty sure Derek Chauvin was convicted in Minnesota court, not federal. Tim Walz out front shoulda told ya.
  10. I would to. Trump doesn’t want Mexico, it fits his narrative of a “shit hole country.” But the idea of Annexing Canada is very serious in his mind.
  11. That is quite the analogy, sir.
  12. hell yeah. Boy #1 looking over South Rim
  13. When elected, I promise Sela Ward and Susanna Hoff threesomes for all. With Aubrey Plaza as your side piece.
  14. Sheinbaum isn't going to announce until Sunday. I suspect the Mexicans are trying to negiotate their way out of this and feel like they have stuff to give that could spare them. I think Trump just hates Trudeau and is being a prick. There is literally nothing the Canadians can do to satisfy him.
  15. I've got quite a bit of cash in a non tax sheltered account that I chose to leave on the sidelines post November. I'm hopeful that there will be some buying opportunities of stocks, not guns and canned goods because society has collapsed. I hate camping and the District's firearm laws are a fucking PITA.
  16. Occam's razor: The simpliest answer is likely the correct one. He's a narcissitic dolt who is deeply resentful of an imagined "elite" that rejects him, and doesn't really know what he's doing, but taking bold action fills an emotional chasm even if only for a moment (in a sense recreating one of the two happy times in his life, The Apprentice (the other was his rise when Fred Trump was shadow managing his development of mid-town). There's other stuff, but at his core, he doesn't understand macro economics or the forces at play. LIke a 11th grade student who hasn't taken economics but taken American history, he thinks tariffs are good. People forget that for all the drama of his first term, he didn't actually accomplish all that much from a practical perspective that actually impacted the bulk of the electorate's daily lives. He signed a tax cut that he had virtually no role in writing. He managed to get a few hundred miles of wall built. He got a covid vaccine into production in rapid fashion (i'll give him credit where credit is due), and the stock market mostly grew, or rapidly came back post March 2020. His attempts to radically change America mostly flamed out: either due to staff incompetency, or adults in the room thwarting him. Only post election 2020 did the real angry Trump grab the reigns and start implementing what you and I would call a basket of crazy. Now he's unbound and surrounded by syncophants and enablers who know, mostly, how to enact his agenda. And we are getting it. All at once, without lube.
  17. as an aside. Red Eyes slams, goes hard
  18. I'm not sure the Canadians....or really any Western nation, allow you to go full Wells Fargo, the way we do, but definitely plenty of US financial institutions north of the border.
  19. Edited for kindness.
  20. What about "Gayer than 2 dudes fucking 3 dudes?" Where do we stand on that?
  21. Is there a basic learner on options? I have no interest in day trading, but occasionally I get a sense of where the macros are going and I’d like to hedge my generally long philosophy
  22. Rewatched Bridget Jones Diary. Always good fun. It's wild that Renee Zellweger was considered "fat" in that movie. She's pretty much wheelhouse. Ben Affleck's character was absurd. And thoroughly enjoyable.
  23. As somebody here put it: Powell had basically the economy 10 feet off the ground on a soft landing glide. Then that orange fool grabbed the yoke and flipped the fucking plane over.
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