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Thetexashammer

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  1. That was some of the most insane racing I've ever seen.
  2. The people are great. The government not so much.
  3. What was actually going on was that YouTube was pushing to create TV on the internet, pushing corporate content like CNN and MSNBC, and those videos were all getting disliked intensely. If you have the app, you can still see it. Never click on those videos, you will get spammed with MSNBC or FOX videos for all eternity. In summary, YouTube sucks dicks and is run by women and emotion rather than logic and facts.
  4. I immediately got the app to add back the dislikes. And the worst decision they made was taking an extreme social marxist political position and engaging in censorship. They destroyed their own platform thinking they had an impenetrable monopoly.
  5. We are going vertical with the debt now. Printer goes brrrrrrr.
  6. A few weeks ago the OCC, which regulates banks, pushed out a new order enabling commercial banks to custody and buy/sell cryptos to customers. https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2025/nr-occ-2025-42.html You are going to start seeing, when you open up your bank account, Checking, USD Savings, and Bitcoin/Tether accounts all listed together. The stablecoin bill, which is about to pass, is a serious problem for banks, because most banks are holding onto your cash and paying 0% interest, and for Visa/Mastercard who need their 2.5%. And when you have the option to save in a currency that doesn't depreciate to Bolivia and they're oh by the way they're not making more of it, you will do that too. Money printer going brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
  7. Rate down go. know not yet. printer go brrrrrrrrr. No stop train.
  8. You are literally so braindead that you have no idea that you actually just made the strongest possible argument for bitcoin and against the US dollar LOL.
  9. Prepare for widespread reduction in living standards, absent an AI miracle. That said, I expect low inflation readings for the near term. Just like under ZIRP, when the economy can't grow it's really hard to have inflation. 30 year will break 5% but QE there will be a fiscal crisis and QE will bring rates back down to ZIRP, or else government goes bankrupt in the near term.
  10. I've always appreciated your sometimes brutal honesty.
  11. Probably my favorite phrase in English is "fecal urgency".
  12. This is vicarious embarrassment, however it's totally true. During a workplace spanish class, I'm sitting next to my buddy who lost his ring finger falling off a ladder when his wedding ring got hooked on the ladder or whatever. Instructor says "cuantos dedos tienes" and looks at him. I am sitting next to him and see the train wreck coming. I immediately start dying on the inside as he responds "nueve". She says "no no no, diez". I am dying and eventually can't control myself. He says "nueve". She responds "diez" again. I am physically and audibly losing my shit. He holds up his hand. Instructor proceeds to turn extremely green with shame. It was one of the most truly hilarious things I've ever seen.
  13. Is Elon Musk The Father Of Your Child? Signs To Look For | Babylon Bee
  14. Here's a radical notion. Get rid of all coins. Fuck all that shit. I haven't touched american coins in at least a decade. Smallest hard cash is $1 folding money. Everything else can be stablecoin or digital, with unlimited digits to the right of the decimal. Stablecoins are about to replace all your credit card transactions anyway.
  15. Inflation has monotonically increased for the last seven months. The elements of the CPI that increased are not imported goods subject ot tariffs. The biggest was housing, which made up 30% of the CPI increase. The rest was health costs, food, used cars, and energy.
  16. I used to be a CPA. I use debt to the penny, not the reported "deficit". Even the reported "surplus" under Clinton was not a real surplus. The primary difference between the reported deficit and the actual one is "one time factors". It's like a company saying they made $1.00 in earnings, but they are taking a $9.00 writedown for goodwill. Well that's real money you wrote down LOL, you can't exclude it. Do you also believe the CBO projections? They claim we will never have a recession and even then we go bankrupt. Go back and look at their projections under Clinton, I shit you not the claimed the debt would be fully paid off by now. For 2024, the real deficit was $2.3 trillion. But we are at peak economic growth.
  17. You are missing the point. Pubs have been corrupt shitheads for decades. Trying to figure out who is to blame is for fools, or blaming MAGA as most of you are doing, is delusional. I support the cuts because they are a first step towards limiting the pain of the coming fiscal crisis. Only a fool would oppose these cuts, likewise only a fool would not recognize the necessity for much more massive spending cuts as soon as possible. But FUCK MAGA!!!! YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! The inflation we are seeing is nothing compared to what is coming. The disruption will cause massive social unrest and result in the ending a large numbers of federal programs and put our security at risk. Basic math indicates we may see 50% cuts across the board to all spending categories outside of interest. But then, nobody here has the intelligence to engage on the numbers, do they? Did you realize that the debt to GDP explodes when you cut federal spending (it reduces GDP) and we go into recession? That our pension funds will go bankrupt, and a decline in the dollar will grow inflation even more? States and cities can go bankrupt, many of them are. The FDIC is VERY thinly funded.
  18. I tried to explain, over and over again, the fiscal situation. This was a couple of years ago. I looked at debt to the penny for 1 OCT 2023, then compared in with the same number for 1 OCT 2024. Then I looked up federal spending in fiscal 2024. I calculated a deficit of 8.2%. You can replicate that calculation, some of you, but not most. 40% of every dollar of federal spending is borrowed. These aren't even RIFs. RIFs are coming. The money doesn't exist to pay those salaries. 20% is of federal spending interest expense, which cannot be cut. In order to balance the budget we have to cut around 50% of all noninterest spending. Once we hit a recession, the deficit will blow out to $5 trillion. No one will finance our deficits. The dollar will crumble. Inflation explodes. The leftists here decided they didn't love their children enough to care about all of that. The crisis was avoidable, were it not for people like you. All you had to do was balance the budget. Stop believing the lie. I wish the best to all of you. Prepare for what is coming or don't. Your track record so far isn't great.
  19. Somebody should have told Coach that Jesus is a Notre Dame fan.
  20. This is a pretty good narrative of what went on inside the White House. Atlas is a Stanford professor, and his arguments are evidence based, not based on emotion or some idiotic manichean understanding of the world.
  21. Possibly. Show your work.
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