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  1. And, the peak US-Chinese trade deficit was in 2018. https://www.statista.com/chart/17982/us-trade-in-goods-with-china-since-1985/ And it only dropped off because of Covid.
  2. Democrats need to blow this up, and jack it up his ass sideways for the next 3.5 years.
  3. I submit that he was caught in the lie. He was never ever going to admit that the "MS13" was added to the photo. But, you're probably right that he was going to lie in a similar baldfaced fashion for every other topic.
  4. As I age, I tend to prefer thin and crispy pizza, not always, but a lot of the time. I recently discovered that square-cut annoys my wife enough that she'd rather order something else than get a thin crispy pizza with square cut pieces. I think your cocktail napkin observation is correct, but I also suspect that the long pieces resulting from "pie-sliced" would probably break very easily if you attempted to eat them in the "normal" way.
  5. Well, if it really is "the economy stupid" (and it is, to a degree) and Trump fucks the economy in a way that hurts people like post-Covid inflation and without the jobs and other aspects of Biden's probably best-case economy, I think 2020 is reproducible. Yes, the base is irretrievable. But there's a reachable or convinceable middle. And, although the base will forgive Trump endlessly, I think a serious economic fumble makes it that much harder for the GOP to continue Trumpism without Trump.
  6. After reading the comments to the tweetthing (what do we call those?) I'm sure the journo felt he had more important and subtle points to make with Trump than that quite obvious piece of Trumpian bullshit. And he wound up letting him make a fool of himself anyway.
  7. Or enabling fascism? 😬😬
  8. So. M(marijuana) S(smiley, sorta) 1(cross?) and 3(skull?) I'm gonna have to hear some testimony on how that lines up. Probably backed up by some other examples. I suspect thats a load of shit.
  9. So this economic isolationism is like doing everything yourself: growing your own food, making your own clothes, buying locally and if it isn't local you don't buy it/can't have it. So, yeah, you don't let any non-locals make any money, but your life sucks and you can't do anything more productive, like innovate. No one really wants that.
  10. More deficit explosion!
  11. The only real threat he seems to hold is to primary you with a lunatic candidate. If you aren't a pol, who cares. Otherwise he just talks stupid shit online and with the occasional unconstitutional EO.
  12. Clement wasn't as bad as some of the more recent ones, but definitely had a hand in speeding us on the path to Trumpism.
  13. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/in-house-lawyer-claims-title-insurer-axed-him-over-pro-bono-help More info, including pretextual reasons for termination. And, he hired Popehat for a 1A retaliation claim.
  14. To find the one out of ~150 million instances of a non-citizen voting, sure, yeah.
  15. Blinding glimpse of the obvious there.
  16. TwiceHorn

    RIP Mike Peters

    I really enjoyed that period of martial British rock.
  17. Well, UK got their taste with Brexit, Boris, and Truss. The parliamentary system allows a quicker reaction than ours and less time for the dullards to engage their recency bias.
  18. Many of the lies that propagate do have a tiny nugget of truth somewhere in them. I'm not talking about Trump lies, he'll lie about any goddam thing that makes him look or feel better about himself. We need to do similar things. Lie and exaggerate about DOGE. Lie and exaggerate about immigration. Lie and exaggerate about tariffs. Connect everything to billionaire immigrants that are little geeks.
  19. Some of the language like "best practices" is emblematic of performative everywhere it's used. The epitome of a nonce phrase. As we have observed, the major federal tool for local law enforcement is money. So we'll probably get more MRAPs and Stingers and other weapons in the hands of local cops. That's not good, but probably doesn't change much. Also, the budget gon' 'splode.
  20. I could be wrong, but as noted above, although they're transactional, I think very few have egos that let them go 100% financial. Or the brains, probably.
  21. I'm gonna guess that some of the guys that start portaling become 100% transactional, seeking more time or a bigger bag or the best combination of the two. I kind of doubt that most of them are seeking entirely the bag because their egos make them believe they deserve all the starts and playing time, which is why they deserve the bag. Others retain some concept of team loyalty and earning their playing time.
  22. Well, one phenomenon of aging is that the elderly get vaguely (or sometimes militantly) paranoid. For example, they lose shit all the time, and then blame it on the help or whoever's around. My aunt declared that the people at her assisted living "would steal the horns off a billy goat." Her problem wasn't memory, though, it was macular degeneration.
  23. Mostly performatave shit. A couple of things stand out. The Attorney General shall take all appropriate action to create a mechanism to provide legal resources and indemnification to law enforcement officers who unjustly incur expenses and liabilities for actions taken during the performance of their official duties to enforce the law. This mechanism shall include the use of private-sector pro bono assistance for such law enforcement officers. a) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of agencies as appropriate, shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State and local law enforcement. (b) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Attorney General, shall determine how military and national security assets, training, non-lethal capabilities, and personnel can most effectively be utilized to prevent crime.
  24. Yes! And another name involving "coach" I believe.
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