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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. Very telling that many of the ICE raids are occurring at schools and work places. If you needed to round up American citizens, for whatever reason, I assume that a work place would be one of the last places to find Americans.
  2. Why are you in prison? I defrauded an innkeeper.
  3. Late reply on my part but this is the goal. There is a conservative movement that we should eliminate public schools. This allows for lower taxes and more religious schools.
  4. You’re weird. Do you bookmark every thing or everyone that you hold a grudge about. I’m glad that I have more going on with my life to not fixate on every comment that I disagree with.
  5. I get sick of the left taking the high road. Michelle Obama was completely wrong in her famous quote. Whenever referring to Nancy Mace, the left should refer to as Representative DEI admission. Put it back in her face that she needed the courts to allow her into the Citadel. And when the GOP chair admonishes them, remind the chair that they're only stating facts.
  6. Genius. Designed and produced by ivanka by her outsourcing it to a Chinese manufacturer. Then she can sell it for a 75% markup but actually do zero work.
  7. I see going with a HELOC as an unnecessary risk. If a house is almost paid off or even paid off, why go backwards. I know some argue that there’s no reason to ever get out of debt and find methods to push taxes indefinitely. Grant cardone comes to mind. This can work until it doesn’t, and then the cards fall. In 2008 many had their HELOC loan immediately due because the property value plummeted. i also see little value in becoming a one house landlord. Either it becomes a lot of work for the owner, or the property mgr takes the profit. If I was in that situation and I wanted to live somewhere else, sell the property and buy the next house for cash. Or a small mortgage.
  8. Feel for Palestinian-Americans who voted for Harris and those in Gaza. Fuck those who voted against Harris because of “genocide.”
  9. They showed Cuban by giving him $3.5b and he still owns 1/4 of the team.
  10. State taking over USAID via Liltle Marco as the temporary leader of USAID may be the best option. If USAID was out there by itself, Elon would have worked to crush it since he was the only person talking to Trump about it. Marco might be able to convince Trump to keep it. Remember, the last person to speak to Trump usually wins. But that also means that Elon will be at the WH or talking to Trump every night. As for the EPA note... This is a fear tactic to convince EPA employees to take the buyout offer. Take 6 months paid or get fired next week. Seems like an easy choice but I would still hold out.
  11. Actually I think USAID is an independent agency at least in terms that they don't (didn't) have a cabinet secretary that they reported to. They most likely worked closely with State and the NSC, but they didn't officially report to them.
  12. Any incoming President should start suing media and social media companies upon their election. You could easily pocket $100M, if those companies truly believe that you would blackball them from the WH. You would probably have to do so to at least one. And for companies it's worth the cost of admission and access to the President. I just don't understand how the courts can claim any of this legal and normal.
  13. I hear you. I'm getting to the point that my mortgage balance is ~$100,000, and it's at 2.6%. The spread between what I can earn from that 100K versus what I pay in mortgage interest is becoming less and less material. Focusing on the small amounts can distract you from the larger amounts. Now if someone has a 800K mortgage @ 2.6% that is different. I'm rapidly saving to pay it off but not making early payments yet. Some personal finance videos have shown me that worrying about the small amounts isn't worth it. For example someone who earns >$250K and they talk about financing their new $2K sofa because the furniture store offers them 18 months no interest. Even assuming they make all of their payments on time, why deal with the hassle. In that scenario who cares about what you can earn from that $2K. To be clear, I'm not some Dave Ramsey anti-debt person but I can understand that as you get older, there are fewer reasons to carry debt. But I understand reasons others do, and I have zero problem with that.
  14. I agree about not paying off a <3% mortgage except when moving into retirement. Even if manageable in retirement, I can see it better that someone’s primary home is paid off.
  15. We have unlimited energy potential. Biden dropped O&G production by 97%. Aren’t you keeping up? 😂
  16. Nytimes article on how the weight loss drugs can lead to negative impact on relationships. https://archive.ph/YsMBh (Free link) made since that it can affect both people in a relationship when one loses a significant amount of weight.
  17. Europe has much stronger memories of a previous dictator growing into a much larger problem because he wasn’t taken care of early enough. I know talk of a hot war is premature because I believe that Canada would eventually lower the temps by giving Trump something.
  18. I don’t disagree. i wonder what the NATO contingency is when two members fight each other? Does Europe just stay out of it.
  19. Hopefully Trudeau doesn’t go overboard with retaliating by shutting down electricity to the states that depend on Canada. That could flip this to a hot war because then Canada would be screwing with the US national security.
  20. There is a non-zero chance that Trump has already spoken to Hegseth about an eventual invasion of Canada and you might as well take Greenland at the same time. i could imagine Hegseth asking the Joint Chiefs to see existing military options to invade and occupy Canada. And the top brass looks at him like what are you talking about? Existing plans?
  21. If gas prices go up or one grocery item, Trump will paint Trudeau like a cartel leader killing Americans and raising prices. Trump can’t back down, so if Canada can’t be the mature one, this all ends badly.
  22. AD might make the Mavs better but only if Luka is still on the team. Didn’t Luka average 33 in 70 games last year? You don’t remove someone with those numbers unless there is more to the story. Was he banging the owner’s wife or daughter?
  23. Trudeau should rename the Gulf of America to the Gulf of Canada, and force Google Maps to display it.
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