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  1. Well, a lot of Magats, that's who. But even if you confine it just to the economy, it's a bad comparison.
  2. In the preface to that, he posits that 1955 America was objectively better than 2025 America. First, that's a questionable assumption on any number of levels. More importantly, though, the world has vastly changed since 1955, and it would take far more than merely "restoring" manufacturing to reproduce 1955. He's a fucking idiot fantasist.
  3. Hypothetically speaking, the first remedy would be that Trump should be impeached immediately, along with Vance and everyone else complicit. Which, of course, seems exceedingly unlikely given the invertebrate status of the entire GOP delegation. That, in turn, should result in decimation at the midterms, which might return sufficient Ds that impeachment is possible. The line of succession is grotesque, though. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession I don't believe there is any provision for undoing the results of a completed election.
  4. So good to see that the adults are back. Right @realgreggym
  5. Well, except Bessent was doing jackshit to restrain Trump. Either way, he's a lickspittle. If he is having second thoughts, it's probably because he sees his post-administration stock trading career circling the drain.
  6. What's kind of interesting is why Trump is all jacked up about tariffs now, as opposed to his first term? Is it because his Chinese tariffs were somewhat successful? I think one can make a case that almost any tariffs against China are justifiable, because they are "cheating us" in several ways. That's not true of everyone we have a trade imbalance with. Something or someone got in his ear about this.
  7. It seems bizarre, but that Voya outfit may not let you sell to cash. I just don't see the "use case" for that type of 401k, and I don't know why employers choose them. Maybe sometimes it's part of an "employee leasing" deal.
  8. What motown reports seems to align with what Anthony's father said. It doesn't align with the other narrative, which seems to be mostly eyewitness statements, who wouldn't have much reason to know back story. It may be complete bullshit, but information is very sketchy from unbiased sources.
  9. True enough. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.
  10. It's rare that you see a rebuke like that delivered as clearly and relatively dispassionately. He's a gem.
  11. Well, it may be total bullshit, but seems to align with what the suspect's father said.
  12. By impact, virulently. Crack is cocaine, so it was already illegal. And it was popular among the poor and brown in a way that powder cocaine never has been, but it doesn't have any physical or psychologically different properties. Smoking it is a more efficient delivery system than snorting it, by a little bit. When a separate set of crack laws was enacted, the weight of the drug was given a 100:1 ratio. That is, possession of one gram of crack was the equivalent, for sentencing purposes, of possession of 100 grams of cocaine, a tenth of a kilo. Mandatory minimum sentences were enacted based on this. So a poor black person caught with 5 crack rocks gets five years, no exceptions, and a white banker with four ounces of powder coke doesn't get jail time. This is a huge reason there are so many browns in the federal prison system. Now, unlike MJ laws, there wasn't an explictly racist intention, but there was a dumb, unscientific moral panic that created laws that would clearly and obviously affect poorer, browner communities more than their richer, whiter counterparts. And yes, some black leaders were behind such laws, far less so than the later VCCCA, Biden's infamous crime bill.
  13. Well one way would be to attract money back into the equity market and away from bonds and interest-based investments. Lowering rates is also thought to stimulate capital intensive activity, but that effect on the stock market is probably more "psychological" than anything else, giving companies more "growthy" events to make investors spooge over.
  14. https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-first-buttholes-might-have-been-for-sperm-instead-of-poop/
  15. Extricating ourselves from trade with China is a good thing, almost no question there. And tariffs probably play a role in that. But, again, it's more like the CHIPs Act than this.
  16. Possibly well-known, but a lot of the Central American gangs ensnare kids very young as ostensible "members" by giving them candy and money and shit, and later in life, when they want out and don't want to do crimes, is when the treat of persecution arises. So, it's theoretically possible to call someone a "member" of MS-13 or TdA, but they're no threat to anyone and never did any crimes. Disingenuous, but possible.
  17. Well UT is 20k plus plus, out of state for UGa is 30k probably just plus. Don't know what the student aide or waive out of state for good students situation is, but cheaper at retail than most privates.
  18. That's bullshit. It's a top 20 public u.
  19. A lot of people in Texas, for sure, looking for the bit state school experience now that Texas is out the window. UGa is actually a good school.
  20. Glad you've added adolescent psychologist to your repertoire. There are certain instances where I think it's quite appropriate to try juveniles as adults. So far, this isn't one of them. As I think imma pointed out, unless you know where you're striking with a knife, you'd be extraordinarily (un)lucky to cause a fatal injury with one shot. And this apparently was quickly fatal.
  21. The vertical stripes along the jaw are the dead giveaway and usually observable from a safe distance. Good example of one doing its pit viper imitation with the flattened head.
  22. Where is this being reported? One of the great shames of a case like this is that a minor is likely to be tried in the adult justice system when this reeks of adolescent bad judgment, which is the underpinning of the juvenile justice system.
  23. This really does sound like a Peter Navarro special. Cloaking simple idiocy in some kind of sophisticated "but I've got a Ph.D.!" shit.
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