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SydneyCarton

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  1. Well, unless they jack up the price to make up for the demand with the assumption that those who can pay still will pay. But that's really neither here nor there. The real issue is what happens to everyone, the economy, etc, if this behavior causes mass layoffs across multiple industries and hardship abounds, but you've got cheap as fuck gas, are you really getting ahead? What happened to the price of Oil during the great depression, when the inputs were cheap as fuck (13 cents a barrel, about $5 and a half bucks in today's dollars) and demand was low? Spoiler alert, it was not great. But you're right, technically the gas WAS cheap. So if you don't mind the cost of everything else going apeshit and people being miserable, well, ok I guess?
  2. This isn't a serious post, is it?
  3. Haven't looked at the market since yesterday's close, eh?
  4. 84% retaliatory tariffs by China seems like no biggie, right?
  5. I call this work Dread Harbinger Of A Shitty Day:
  6. To be fair, you also drove a 14 ft RV through a 12 ft clearance underpass and sheared the roof clean off. Let’s say your prognostication is a mixed bag.
  7. Nahlin owns a piece of IT. Liucci probably gets a cut too. But he’s not Geoff Ketchum. He’s Taylor Estes with bigger tits.
  8. Don't forget that Liucci doesn't own Texags. He's a paid employee. He's not even the CEO. It's owned, nominally, by Hunter Goodwin. The CEO is someone named Brandon Jones (not that Brandon Jones, duh, this one is obviously white). https://texags.com/staff While he apparently bought his mom a home in sugarland, there is a reason he lives in a house like this in College Station: Although, to be fair, that might actually be a College Station 8. Fuck if I know.
  9. Guess GRUHorn had to get a new handle.
  10. Imagine using an illustration of dropping a bowling ball onto a car from 20 feet in the air and imagine that there's going to be a barely perceptible dent.
  11. Are they? Movie Theater chains basically make all of their money on concession sales. Studies take most of the box office. Hard to imagine folks shelling out for concessions in a recessionary period. More like smuggling in candy and pruno because we're all poor now. Any word on any margin calls?
  12. Todays futures market doesn’t bode well for you in that regard.
  13. That motherfucker is aging worse then a President.
  14. Please illustrate how the economy, as it stands currently, are not an explicit results of political choice. You’ve already refused to offer your own stock market and purchasing decisions/advice for others. So what the fuck are you doing here? “I’ll never go to the CR because everyone is mean and I can’t defend my own thoughts or actions” is how this reads. Ok, snowflake. For those of you nodding your head to bj Johnson, please know he’s been banned 15+ times and is a Russian troll who literally seems to get paid to shill for Putin.
  15. China has a lot of issues, demographically and economically. But these actions have already driven historic enemies in South Korea and Japan to respond to the US in concert. America has shown itself unreliable. People will look for stable trading partners, and guess what, China will be happy to play that part for the time being. And the manufacturing already exists there. Saying America is expecting power is premature when we haven’t gotten anything yet. But the rest of the world is pissed at us, that’s for sure.
  16. Imagine the state of the economy being what it is, and corporations being uncertain, and foreign money being pissed the fuck off, and thinking that there is going to be a radical investment in American infrastructure and manufacturing plants and capabilities. And now imagine that's true despite the fact that all the entities I mentioned above knows that could all go away in 4 years in the next round of elections. And then just straight up lying to America.
  17. Are you concerned for their welfare? If so, be sure to let them know. Fucking moron.
  18. I don't think any of this is working for any of us. I'm simply trying to say, what if you plan for A, but there is no plan?
  19. The answer is no. I realized I veered heavily cloak in my post, but you are not really addressing my point; you're looking for reasoning and a plan behind a group/person who has shown time and time again that they don't think multiple steps ahead. The opposition also is gutless losers for a number of reasons. None of this has anything to do with our nation's direction (as directly related to the concept of The Plan Behind Tariffs). I'm also trying to protect my ability to retire. I sold all of my stake in a defense aeronautics fund today and put it in Berkshire Hathaway, because I don't think American defense companies are going to do as well as they have as the world recoils from us. But your last sentence is important, and illustrative of the point I'm trying to make; You want to protect things, and you need a plan or concept you can plan around. Minimize damage. Protect yourself. I'm suggesting that by pretending to conjure up a plan from the ether, which may or may not be work, you're putting yourself at further risk. If you think you divine the plan is they juke left, and go that way, and they juke right, you're left off even worse than you were if you'd done nothing. Historically, the market is the market and over time everyone wins. If you still believe that, then doing nothing, long term (no idea of your personal timeline here), might be the winning play, so to speak. Personally, I'm looking at Gold, and investing in foreign defense companies that can produce to the NATO standard, and probably some Hong Kong index funds because I think these moves long term favor China.
  20. I view your post as the aspects of the lizard brain that exists in all of us barely evolved animals. You have a man with a track record of saying what he's going to do, saying why he thinks that way, and sticking to it regardless. Lets take tariffs. He said he was going to do it. And everyone said it was a negotiating tactic. Everyone said it was bluster. Then he does it. You're sitting here and insisting that there is some grand strategy to what he's doing, and you want to find out what it is so you can act and behave accordingly with your money. Because what you're looking it is so baselessly stupid, there has to be an underlying reason. Nevermind that we've seen this time and again from the guy making these decisions. He has never said he's wrong about even the most obviously demonstrably wrong things. What does that have to do with lizard brains? Because we're the species that has invented stories to explain away shadows and seasons and every other thing we can't understand because our brain can't handle it, it can't handle uncertainty. Because the idea that one moron and a bunch of cowards and cultists will willingly tank everything because they're stupid, and no one will stop them, is too terrifying to comprehend. You're looking at a plate of spaghetti and thinking there's a John Nash Beautiful Mind pattern hiding in the red covered noodles, if only you looked hard enough. It's a Richard Dreyfus "This Means Something" mountain of mashed potatoes except this is no movie, there aren't aliens inspiring this trade war for the greater good, and none of it means anything. So what you're saying is that everyone is buying beef, hens, and pork because they expect real problems coming down the pipe?
  21. He's a fucking crypto bro. Definitely the guy who's opinion we should trust on financial deals.
  22. That’s the most insulting thing I’ve ever had thrown in my direction on shaggy/surly/et al. And Linux once insisted that I was a Greg Davis supporter.
  23. So what’s it like living with Alopecia?
  24. Sounds like he farmed out that work to Neuralink. "Hey guys, I've got an ask"
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