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3 hours ago, Al Czervik said:
Maybe lack of gifts would be a good reminder to focus what Christmas is really about.
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6 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:
Are you landed gentry associated with the Royalist side of the English Civil War? Then TJ means you.
Anyone else? I got bad news for you.
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10 minutes ago, Lamar said:
Great points. Ill bow out of discussion. We should just do the level-headed thing instead. Boycott Christmas.
You seem new around here so I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt that you are arguing in good faith.
let’s forget for a moment the idea that one duty of a free society is to care for its most vulnerable, and government is the instrument through which a society acts, because you may not disagree with one or both premises.
If you completely eliminated all federal Medicaid and Snap spending you would save about 640B per year. Sounds like a lot right? It’s 10% of the budget. Not peanuts but really not much in the grand scheme.
Now realize simply allowing the Trump tax cuts to expire would have added at least 400B to revenues. Take it back to pre W levels it would be more like 600B
So right there you almost have a wash. Even assuming you think we have no duty to help those people who have made terrible life choices such as being born into single parent households, it’s not costing much in terms of additional debt to throw them a few crumbs
But now look at what cutting SNAP and Medicaid entirely does to the broader economy
Due to multipliers, that loss of 680B translates into a conservative estimate of a loss of 2-3% to GDP in the first year
Doesn’t seem like much until you think of how it actually plays out. Job losses and business closures will be mostly in the healthcare sector, and they will disproportionately affect people who live outside dense metropolitan areas. And of course it will also affect food producers. Now the powers that be aren’t cutting 100%. Yet. But they are cutting enough, along with ending ACA subsidies, that there will be a large ripple effect
But I guess if you’re a “me and mine” type, and you have 100% employer funded health insurance, and if you don’t derive your livelihood from the above industries or the industries that support them (retail, finance, housing, service industry, etc) and if you live in or near a big city (assuming you can stand being in one of those likely commie infested areas), you probably won’t feel much pain. Probably.
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18 minutes ago, Lamar said:
Not everyone should have disposable income. Many people should not. Should work like a bankruptcy case. If you want to take taxpayer money from Government (loan payoffs, welfare, etc...), disclose to the government your financial situation. A trustee/receiver should approve all of your spending requests until you no longer need government $$. No more Starbucks, alcohol, cigarettes, entertainment, hair dos, etc....
Fuck all that, the administrative cost would be ridiculous. Just bring back debtors’ prisons and workhouses. We’re already bringing back child labor
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16 minutes ago, Macanudo said:
I remember being a poor college kid and that being my life. Going out meant knowing where the cheapest happy hour drinks were and making sure it was a Mexican place so the chips and salsa were free. And only doing that maybe 2-3 times a month. Never going on Spring Break during the 5 years I was in school because I couldn't afford it and would work the extra hours that week because I was off from school. Picking up holiday shifts and working Christmas, Thanksgiving and NY's day because they paid time and half.
Jalisco’s was money
Was it the Hyatt downtown that had 1/2 price margs and a free buffet?
Damn I’m getting old
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2 hours ago, Helobious said:
ChatGPT? Also lol at just 2 beta males heeding ctj’s call to arms for a mass negging of me. I am the people’s champion.
No alliteration, not a metaphor. Not even any rhymes.
negged
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18 minutes ago, Redneck Mutha said:
My wife (white, born in Colombia to American parents when her dad was stationed there in the Navy) will be putting #1 to the test in January when we travel to Mexico and go through customs upon return.
Having "Place of Birth: Colombia" on her passport, we've already had high level discussions on "what ifs" and those will increase as we get closer to our travel date. Especially with the recent escalation in hostilities the regime has shown toward that nation.
Overreacting? Maybe. But maybe not.
At a minimum I bet they are going to want her to unlock her phone
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57 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
Just another series of "Kavanaugh stops." No worries, the SCOTUS just created two classes in America: (1) white people, who are free to go about their business with no interference from ICE and federal forces, and (2) everyone else, who can be stopped and detained functionally indefinitely whenever, wherever, as many times as ICE feels like it, and detained for as long as ICE feels like it.
Imagine someone 25 years ago describing an America of roving bands of heavily armed government forces, who regularly and with great force grabbed and detained anyone they wanted to, demanding "papers please," but also even being arbitrary about what "papers" would satisfy them before they'd let you go. Can you go to the store? Church? To visit your friends? Outside your house on your porch? Can you do any of those things without the fear of being grabbed and detained by masked men armed to the teeth? Nope.
Imagine describing that America 25 years ago. Everyone would have thought you were deranged. Turns out, you just had a perfectly functioning time machine that let you see the future.
When did “stop and frisk” end?
damn I’m getting old
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On 10/15/2025 at 7:11 AM, HenryJames said:
Stopped at the McDonald's in San Marcos a few weeks ago, and there was a Door Dash guy there picking up stuff.
Was his hair perfect?
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Title says it all.
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On 10/20/2025 at 2:04 PM, Covri said:
I have five ring cameras, fuck.
Are you a drug dealer?
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Need to change his nickname to square peg steve
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On 10/16/2025 at 1:42 PM, Chopper said:
By fish does he mean pussy?
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6 hours ago, 4th&Five said:
Shit for brains doesn’t know the difference between measles and chickenpox.
He is a moron but he is 58 so there’s a really good chance he had childhood measles. Anyone born after 1970 the likelihood is very low (until now 😡)
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Just now, BurntOrange&White said:
How often do you go to the rural parts of Texas?
Pfft he didn’t even know about the bubble quiz
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43 minutes ago, chainsaw said:
His numbers are good, beating Mills by 34 points in the latest poll.
Picking up all the closet dem nazis obviously
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He should kick O’Connell in the nuts
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1 hour ago, Chewbacca said:3 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:It's a time honored tradition on here to complain about refs. People will literally hate watch OU play another team and talk about holding the entire time.
Lol. Thunder fans claim to not be able to see what is obvious to the rest of the league. 15 more FTs for Shai tonight.
NBA is like watching pro wrestling
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A lot of assonance in this thread
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18 hours ago, David Dennison said:
Charles Murray, huh?
I didn’t read the article. The quiz is the meme
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3 hours ago, 4th&Five said:
“Trump is a pedophile!”
Crowd: “USA! USA!”
wtf?
Imagine shouting USA at church 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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On 10/21/2025 at 10:06 AM, HenryJames said:
Me losing an argument in junior high.
Eh. That argument is probably > 50% a winner in jr high
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I feel like “how many registered sex offenders pop up in the map of your neighborhood” could replace half of that questionnaire and give the same results
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2 hours ago, David Dennison said:
I don't know what that is.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/do-you-live-in-a-bubble-a-quiz-2
from the leopards thread
2025 Thread of the Rains
in Daily Texan
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I like to pick out my own meat (that’s what she - or he - said) and produce