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  1. Yeah, being gigged by RMDs means you don't need to take the RMD because you have other funds. That's a terrible problem to have. Being tax efficient is a worthy goal, but you can take it too far and I think it's often taken too far.
  2. Conservative media today would be nowhere as even-handed as Buckley, who actually believed in the exchange of ideas. Incidentally, Firing Line was restarted in 2009 with Herbert Hoover's granddaughter as host. She is conservative, and former Fox commentator, but anti Trump, as I suspect Buckley would have been. If there's any liberal slant in PBS/NPR, I suspect it's really in PBS News' various shows. But, the presence of Firing Line in the lineup indicates more of an effort at even-handedness than most. I suspect that those of you claiming its liberal captured don't listen to NPR or watch PBS. Like most things, you've been suckered by propaganda. Also, caught up on some American Experience and Frontline. The AE on German American Bund was excellent. Almost completely factual, but it has darky and Jew commentators (woke!). It's timing is felicitous, as is the one on the Gilded Age. THAT is the very subtle liberal slant of PBS.
  3. Of course, a greasy floor is a sign of a poorly run restaurant of any type. Get into a good LJS, where they clean the floors and change the frying oil, and it's a pretty credible version of fish n chips. And, as mentioned, if you're afraid of fast-food fish, the chicken planks are pretty damn good. They put crack or something in that batter and have malt vinegar, so that's about all you need to say about that. Your dad's rule is sound, though.
  4. Also prompts the question why Seiko doesn't just rotate the date wheel 90 degrees. Maybe understandable on commodity watches like 5s or 007s, but that's a $1500+ watch.
  5. Upon further research, the interviewer is not THE Black Rifle guy, but seems to promote them. He's been on Fox and other righty stuff quite a bit, I didn't dig into what topics. If he's a Trumpkin, he sure seemed skeptical of the tariff policy and probably prompted knife guy to go some places he didn't really want to go.
  6. I was aware of it and disagree with the premise of telling listeners how to think. For example, here's a piece that is ripe for editorializing. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/03/nx-s1-5491473/senate-confirms-ex-fox-news-host-pirro-as-top-federal-prosecutor-for-nations-capital
  7. Speaking of the revenge tour, Blondi filed a judicial conduct complaint against DC Chief Judge James Boasberg, who has been a thorn in Trump's side. The gravamen of the complaint: allegedly public comments about the Trump administration disobeying court orders. The forum for the comments: a breakfast with John Roberts during the Judicial Conference of The United States, where Chief Judges of district courts all across the nation raise issues current in their courts. An entirely private affair at which such issues are supposed to be raised and Boasberg raised them on behalf of the entire DC District Court. Unsurprisingly, a complete load of shit that Blondi didn't even have the guts to sign herself. And clearly designed to intimidate judges into capitulation. Didn't see this reported or discussed anywhere. https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/170-dojs-ridiculous-misconduct-complaint
  8. Would that conservative "news" outlets were merely biased. As an NPR listener and former conservative one thing notable about it is there's very little "analysis," or "editorializing." Yes, you can often tell that the reporters and personalities are revolted and shocked by what they're reporting, but they rarely come out and say it, or even really imply it. And don't pretend this is some measured conservative policy. They've been bitching about it since Nixon but haven't done anything about it. This is 100% Donald Trump's revenge tour. Also, yes it is different times. But you really never know when the next Sesame Street is coming down the pike and I think there is value to having a non-profit, publicly oriented media outlet.
  9. Fify. Cuz we're the hottest country in the world right now, dontchaknow.
  10. It's wildcat I think that points out, rightly, that a lot of these people, the petit bourgeouisie, are the main Trump supporters. But, given how predictable the harm to businesses that rely on imported products (/Gary Oldman EVERYONE gif), it's astonishing that they're caught short by any of this. And, it bothers me quite a lot because these are most of my clients (I am unsure how many were Trump voters, but all of them are like the MKC guy as far as having their oxen gored).
  11. I think one of the things that appeals about Low Men in Yellow Coats is Bobby. King really writes children well, at least for nostalgic adults. I am rereading Dreamcatcher for the first time since it came out. I enjoyed the shitweasel part at the beginning quite well on first read, but had kind of hazy unpleasant memories of the rest of it. I know King doesn't like it much as his first writing after the accident, supposedly written in a haze of pain and painkillers. I am quite enjoying it though. I think it's his introduction of the concept of the mind and memories being like a giant file room that can be access-controlled in some instances. That notion was used to good effect in Doctor Sleep, I thought, and, to me, is a very apt analogy.
  12. Despite voting for Trump, the guy acquits himself reasonably on the podcast. The above, though, shows why he voted for Trump and is a galactic dumbass. Also, funny thing, a lot of heavy industries have survived in socialistic countries like Sweden, while ours have gone to the dogs. Things that make you go hmmm.
  13. Trump accurately predicted the forces that provoked Brexit would spread. Doesn't make those forces any less stupid.
  14. Addendum to the above. That guy, Stumpf, is not the Black Rifle Coffee guy. He is somehow associated with it and is a former enlisted SEAL. Given the tendencies of SF operators to be pretty complete meatheads (I'll kind of give the officers a pass here, Admiral McRaven), that guy is fairly impressive.
  15. Just fact-checking myself on my timeline post above. The arrest, indictment and trial of Sam Bankman-Fried was cited as a swift federal investigation and prosecution -- and it was, remarkably so, probably the fastest criminal prosecution gaining public notice I've ever seen. The timeline there: Crime evidence surfaces in November 2022, SBF indicted in December 2022. Tried to conviction in December 2023. Sentenced in March 2024, so indictment to final conviction for appeal purposes, 15 months. Remarkably fast given SBFs wealth ostensibly providing the means to delay and otherwise game the system. Lewis Kaplan, the judge, seems to be an extraordinarily no-bullshit judge. But those no-bullshit judges often create errors for appeal and reversal. One of the things that helped speed this prosecution was the nearly irrefutable "paper trail" left by SBF combined with the swift flipping of Caroline Ellison to shut down any innocent explanations of that paper trail. Appealed in April 2024. The appeal remains pending 16 months later.
  16. Something else occurs. Since "we" don't like "subsidizing" frivolities like PBS, why are "we" considering renaming the Kennedy Center the Trump Center? New Republicolibertarian thinking seems to say we should knock the fucker down and let UFC build an Octagon in its place. And what about those fucking libraries?
  17. Yep. And I think both types of doctor suffer from "overspecialization." Not only are they cramming in a shit ton of knowledge, it becomes increasingly narrow and specialized academically and professionally so that they can no longer see any type of forest for the trees. Probably all of us suffer from this to one degree or another. That's one thing I love about this forum: I increase my exposure to different subject matter constantly, from expert types in their respective fields.
  18. You could argue that the federal prosecutions were less political than the NY prosecution, especially the Mar A Lago case. And therefore less easily dismissed than the NY case. But, I'm pretty sure that's shitting in one hand and hoping in the other.
  19. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/30/nx-s1-4977352/trump-trial-verdict
  20. The backstory. https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/us-news/trump-rips-lara-trump-guest-charlamagne-tha-god-after-epstein-claim/ Apologies for the NYP link, but Charlamagne apparently went on Lara's show on Fox and ripped Trump over Epstein. Provoking the latest insane screed.
  21. So the interviewer is the Black Rifle Coffee guy? I am aware, peripherally, of the Montana Knife guy. That is a surprisingly nuanced discussion from them. And this underscores something. In addition to a goodly number of manufacturing-type jobs we really don't want back because they're menial and hazardous, there are certain industries/manufacturers where it just doesn't make any sense to try to compete domestically with them. Germans and Swiss, for example, have always been good at precision specialty machine tools. Like the blade-grinding machine where they make a dozen a year in Germany. Neither the world nor the US needs another blade grinding machine manufacturer. Those things are kind of like coffee and bananas: it don't make no sense to have a domestic industry. I'm relatively certain there are dozens upon dozens of examples of this that are being tariffed for no good reason at all. ETA: that derek guy makes these points, especially the garment industry. I had to find a thread reader to read the thread.
  22. I mean, the most fundamental thing about all this. You don't cut the motherfucking taxes until you've got the spending/deficit part under control. Fiscal responsibility my ass.
  23. It wouldn't have changed the outcome. Let's say Trump had been indicted for both in say February 2021, which is pure fantasyland. Let's get to trial in 18 months, so that puts us in September 2022. And the conviction becomes final for appeal purposes after sentencing in say January 2023 (and this assumes a relatively sane trial duration of a month or less, which may not be a good assumption). A pretty normal appeal takes a year to 18 months, so that gets us to January 2024. Then there's the Supreme Court, and let's assume they'll take it, so another year, plus. We're at, whoops, January 2025. These would be fairly speedy for any federal criminal defendant that doesn't take a plea. It does not take into account the various unique defenses available to any former POTUS indicted for crimes occurring proximate to, if not during, the administration. And, the presidential immunity question was a new one that had to be resolved, one way or another and by its nature would have required a mid-case appeal (interlocutory). Even had SCOTUS taken it on an expedited basis, and given a less bullshit ruling, that inserts a minimum six month delay in the middle of trial court proceedings, which puts us in June 2025. It was fucked from jump assuming he was re-elected.
  24. I am impressed (shocked? flabbergasted?) by your knowledge of wrasslin.
  25. Haha jkates negged this post. I won't neg back, but I'll call him a fascist cunt. Cunt.
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