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  1. You also got: Promise of lower grocery prices; Promise of an end to the war in Ukraine in 24 hours; Promise of free IVF.
  2. Well, I think his ultimate goal, which is idiotic, is to replace income tax with tariffs. That's why he thinks the Gilded Age was so great, no income tax. So much of this shit boils down to income tax. It's really what the oligarchs want, it's what his moron voters really want. All this small government and efficiency shit boils down to "I don't wanna pay taxes."
  3. Yep, I think it is both. But he's so stupid, willful, and impetuous that he can't stick to an agenda so he will only implement things desired by dark forces on a piecemeal basis.
  4. Shocking and appalling. Mike McKool, no longer affiliated, was from a long line of Dems. Fulbright complying in advance. Baker Botts and V/E no moves. Susman no moves. Interestingly, Jones Day, who has repped Trump business interests and GOP, no moves. Edit to add. Fulbright doesn't use the dreaded DEI, which I suppose is capitulation enough. But has a pretty robust affinity page. https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en-us/about/people-first
  5. Lutnick is proving to be a bigger clown than Peter Navarro. That's saying something.
  6. Even if you wanted to do things "by the book," it doesn't sound like he owns any property that requires a formal title transfer for you, your brother, or anyone else to take possession and own it, such as real estate, vehicles, or accounts. Usually, medicaid estate recovery is geared toward real estate and any potential assets excluded from eligibility by Crummy trust or the like. But I really have no idea what the mechanics of that recovery are. That is, do they await a probate and file as a creditor, or initiate their own proceedings regardless. He or his estate does not sound like a ripe target for recovery.
  7. It's going to be hilarious when Trump tells us the stock market is not the economy.
  8. I thought Trumplandia called Summers a supporter?
  9. The problem with that is that tariff exceptions usually are granted on an industry basis, not an individual business basis. Trump could try that and maybe will, but I don't think so. He thinks he's punishing trade partners. Trump really thinks this is sound economic policy because, as brisket says, he has no conception of mutual benefit; that every transaction has a big winner and a big loser. But, this is a nice counterbalance to the whole erroneous attempt to rationalize it as the "Mar A Lago Accord." Trump and rationality just don't go together.
  10. True as far as it goes. But, what does he have to lose? Assuming the law holds as written, he can't run for re-election to a third term. That much is clear. Other schemes to avoid application of the 22nd involve certain post-election events that he can't completely control.
  11. Icono may be too busy furiously masturbating over all this.
  12. Elon Musk goes to therapy and 50 therapists throw up their hands and fire him in disgust would get repetitive.
  13. Funny thing, I immediately considered whether this could be patented. It might could. However, there was a recent interesting case where American Axle patented a less-vibration-prone drive shaft, the design addressing shell and bending mode vibrations. When they claimed it though, rather than specifying a range of dimensions for the shaft liner, they phrased it in terms of "tuning the liner to damp both shell mode and bending mode vibrations" and then threw in a couple of percentages for how much damping it accomplished. There was a big snit about whether that was patenting "laws of nature" because it basically claimed a design process of tuning a shaft liner to damp two types of vibration to a satisfactory degree (which could be considered patent-ineligible). Rather, arguably, than the product of such a design process having concrete dimensions or other characteristics (which would be patent-eligible). This could be susceptible to the same kind of problem, but specifying a range of dimensions should be easier because there's a more finite universe of legal bat lengths and diameters than there is of drive shafts.
  14. What's weird about this is no one outside MLB uses wood bats and it is much easier to accomplish similar things with an aluminum bat without the oddball shape. Something about typing in these windows makes me make typos I wouldn't ordinarily.
  15. Yeah, I think that's accurate. A corked bat would also have a different coefficient of resititution than a solid wood bat that probably works against it. That is, more energy/momentum lost to compression of the thin-walled bat.
  16. "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different." Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. Or, as paraphrased by Hemingway: The rich were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how some one had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money. But that was not humorous to Julian. He thought they were a special glamourous race and when he found they weren't it wrecked him just as much as any other thing that wrecked him.
  17. Well, alcoholism is a mental health issue, not a moral or judgment issue per se (although at some point it becomes the latter when it goes unaddressed despite the obvious consequences). And, while that Beard's problems don't seem to be fully documented or proven as domestic abuser, they do seem to reflect very poor judgment. And alcoholism or addiction could supply an explanation for that. Addiction isn't and shouldn't be a get out of jail free card for all bad behavior because some of that bad behavior "transcends addiction. But once lasting recovery is achieved, the likelihood of "recidivism" for harboring a twat like Randi Trew goes to nil.
  18. Yep, Dimon has flopped back to his original position that tariffs are inflationary. Lickspittle. Ackshually, this may be like Cantor shitting on the tariffs while Howie is SecComm. The workaday economists and traders have very different views from their politically sensitive bosses.
  19. That whole scenario is horrifying. For all the various weather "outlets" out there, a) I don't think anyone has anything akin to the Storm Prediction Center and b) all of them freely admit that they use if not directly base their forecasts on NWS data. And that's just for consumer idiots like us, not people whose livelihoods depend on weather.
  20. Like with a lot of things Trump, there's a tiny nugget of truth or accuracy in most of the things he does and says: yes, Europe should have shouldered more of its defense burden; yes, immigration is fucked up; yes, we need not to be dependent on China for cheap shit or for strategically important products like integrated circuits, and the same goes for other countries, but to a far lesser degree. But what he slathers onto that tiny nugget of truth to turn it into a giant, maggot-infested turd, and his solutions and implementations are complete shit.
  21. The only inhabitants of BIOT/Diego Garcia are US and UK military personnel and contractors.
  22. VAT is irrelevant, because it is applied to domestic and imported goods. It provides no advantage or disadvantage. But, you're sitting here trying to rationalize the policies of a clear moron.
  23. Problem is, that dumb sonofabitch ain't saving shit.
  24. The backstory is he's been quoting Goebbels for 15 years. https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/state/collin-county-judge-uses-nazi-quote-in-campaign/article_93fe9b35-c5ec-5c4d-8ef6-41d4013945be.html
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