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TexasEd

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  1. Twas but a scratch, not a direct hit but maybe a fragment hit him. So courageous, much more courage than the suckers and losers I spoke about in my last post.
  2. It's next to the place they bury all the losers and suckers, not many people know but it was Robert E Lee's old house, a great General, some say General Lee, or Generally. What a beautiful piece of real estate. We should put up some more confederate statues there. HERITAGE! I think we could redevelop that and make it a destination resort for all the international guests to come visit me and pay tribute. We'll use $TRUMP coins as the keys. Put the coin in the slot and the door opens for you, just like magic. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
  3. This is promising. Looks like the Roman Catholic Church is poised to stand up against heresy. The New Pope, Leo XIV a while back.
  4. This is a really insightful video and it shows the project 2025 playbook to: Devalue the dollar because the financial services industry is like an oversized parasite on our diminishing manufacturing industry and we're at an inflection point. The goal is to bring in investment from Germany, Japan and Taiwan into the US Focus on our remaining strategic advantages like Big Tech (not mentioned were defense, large aircraft, space, etc.) Reshoring will come but not with jobs due to automation. Example was the MacBook assembly line in Austin being fully automated. We'll see deregulation of industries that will actually negatively impact jobs like self driving cars, drone or autonomous vehicle deliveries Trump's double barrel shotgun has two barrels Tariffs - fired and reshaping the global markets with higher import tariffs here to stay. The Huge numbers are to have something to negotiate down from (Say 25% down to 10%) but that the tariffs will stay in place on all imports. Tax reduction - Still in the barrel and it will be for the richest, industry based to incentivize factories and prop up real estate values. Trump will sell out the working class in favor of the Real Estate class Average workers will be hurt by this.
  5. What were the import tariffs on good from UK before the deal (December 2024) and what are they after the deal? (Hint: they are higher in many cases) https://www.investors.com/news/economy/us-uk-trade-deal-trump-tariffs-reciprocal-digital-services-sp-500-amzn-googl-meta/ So we go from 0-10% import tariff across the board (Exceptions available to meme coin holders), 25% import tariff cars and auto parts (EBC Brake pads?) and UK reduces the services tax on digital services companies. So not manufacturing? I thought that was the whole purpose to get our manufacturing exports up. Oh there are some airliners or parts in the deal? Un-named airline is buying some Boeing jets. Doesn't sound like a long term trade deal, sounds like a one time purchase order that is not part of a strategic deal. Why are we focused so tactically? Is Trump going to claim credit for every international purchase order? So we (Consumers) are going to pay more for everything. This is the model for future deals. We will pay more.
  6. Did he get one of these for Christmas? He can sell 2 dolls.
  7. Reminds me of the story of man cast adrift on the ocean. He prays, "God, Please save me." A boat sails by and the captain asks if he needs help and the man says, "No God will save me". So the boat sails off. He prays harder and two more times boats come up and he rejects the offers for food, water or to be picked up because his faith that God will save him. Predictably he dies and when he gets to heaven he asks God, "Why didn't you save me?". God replies, "What do you mean I sent three boats!"
  8. And they deal with the carbon based fuel industry? Like mining coal and drilling for oil.
  9. I would love to see a campaign of when people complain about a policy that you just post a video of Trump campaigning on the that policy. My baby daddy is getting extradited deported = video of trump promising to deport all illegals My student loans are going to garnish my wages = video of Trump promising to cancel all debt relief programs Prices are going up = video of tariffs, isn't that a beautiful word, some people say the most beautiful word, and we (Billionaires) won't pay any taxes, the working class will pay all the taxes to the external revenue service to fund the billionaire tax cuts
  10. Miller has made the Homeland Security Council run "like clockwork," and that it's "infinitely more effective than the NSC [National Security Council] with a tiny fraction" of the staff. You know who else had things like trains, prisons and ovens running like clockwork?
  11. Yes, I lost the thread. My numbers are for normal sized cars with a roof. I didn't know we were talking about cars for ants.
  12. Putting the Jobs report in context: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/jobs-report-april-2025.html I interpret these factors as the quiet before the storm: Too early to measure "Liberation Day" impact Think of the dock workers and truck drivers that were working on the accelerated imports in Q1 that are not going to be working in the next report due to tariffs As prices rise and shelves empty stores, small businesses, fulfillment warehouses and delivery drivers will be impacted Most of the federal employees impacted by DOGE are still on the payroll as part of their severance and not counted but the clock is counting down If they get new jobs in in the transition period they might actually be counted twice, inflating numbers It came in at 44K jobs above the 133,000 estimate This is a down trend from the March revised numbers so down to begin with March was adjusted down by 43,000 so a similar adjustment for April would wipe out the "defying expectations" to a "met predicted"
  13. Why would the timeline matter when they will just engineer an xAI prompt to write the outcome they want based on quotes from Jenny McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Alex Jones and Robert F Kennedy Jr. It will not be a serious study when the people in charge have determined the outcome ahead of time.
  14. If no metal body work is needed and it's a prime, block, prime, paint, clear, buff job probably close to 20K. Body work, removing trim, assembly, etc. takes it up from there.
  15. If it crashed due to an expedite that he forced through it would result in the most popular topic in the leopards thread.
  16. 200 Penguins have signed on, only 2.4 million to go.
  17. Let me know if this is in the ballpark. Much of Tesla revenue is due to carbon offset sales to traditional automakers. As Tesla sales drop they have fewer offsets to sell so the revenue hits are compounded. With an anti-regulatory administration the risk of losing the offset program is a real risk for US Credits and that easing fuel efficiency and carbon standards in general would benefit ICE vehicles over electric. Is Tesla riding an Enron like ponzi scheme as far as revenue and valuation is concerned? Is this why there are rumbles about combining SpaceX, Tesla and XAI? Just like Twitter needed to play a PE like shell game by selling to XAI in order to realize a loss and reset valuation. It's all shell games now. Couple this with the whole PR nightmare and Elon is accelerating the pace at which his face gets eaten.
  18. don't for get the Andals and first men.
  19. I bought a new Refrigerator, Truck Battery and Truck tires in January to get ahead of tariffs. Tires made in USA but rubber is imported.
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