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Dbeasy

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  1. This thread is in the Business forum not Cloak Room, so it is important to look at objective, non-partisan facts, and not opinions. Objectively, we are indeed walking a very frightening tight rope. Objectively looking at qualifications, most of the economic advisors and administrators that have been hired in the Trump administration are generally regarded as unqualified, except for perhaps Bessent. These people haven’t had the experience, roles, or education to demonstrate competency. And as we’ve seen with people who “might” be competent, like Bessent, and with people who report negative information, and with anyone else who dares to call out bad decision making by the administration, they are silenced with dictatorial actions that at best are un-American and at worse an illegal abuse of power. This keeps dissent from fixing bad decision making The immigration actions are inflationary. The government spending is inflationary, just like the money dump Trump did during Covid that started this inflation mess. The tariffs are inflationary. The call for a 1.5-3 point rate cut is highly likely to be very inflationary. At this point we should all assume they want inflation of 3-5% annually to inflate away the debt, which I’ve said many times before. And they want a recession to be able to borrow more cheaply. However the tightrope here is that these actions could definitely create stagflation.
  2. Nothing like logging into Surly from my AOL 300 baud modem account to see the annual Who’s a True Blue Blood argument in full swing. Next we should discuss whether Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame.
  3. The U.S. team is going to get smoked.
  4. Added a few more names to the ignore list. In all the years of message boards, I had never put posters on ignore until about 6 months ago. Unfortunately, the stupidity of some people is reaching epic levels and it became necessary. Sad really.
  5. Put him on ignore. It’s great.
  6. I don’t buy the ranking and predictions for Clemson. They haven’t managed the portal or NIL well, so I don’t see how their talent can be top 10 quality. On The Ticket they were talking about a statistic where 1-2 pre-season Top 10 teams end the season outside the Top 25 almost every year. I don't think Clemson will be that much of a bust because they have a cupcake schedule. But they won’t compete for the title. Littleton made a wise choice.
  7. I have a very good long time friend that is good friends with FCB. One day he heard me ragging on FCB and was confused. My friend thinks (thought?) he is (was?) a really nice guy. I did my best to convey my thoughts on the matter.
  8. I’m officially done with this team for the year. Yall have fun.
  9. Someone explain to me how USC football is still screwed up. They have several billionaire alumni who could help their NIL program, they have a coach who at one time was producing Heisman QB’s, Southern California is not a bad place to live, and the school itself is high quality. What the heck are they doing?
  10. I would have shut down Facebook by now except for two things. I’m part of two medically related groups and those groups provide a lot of helpful information. Second, how else can I be completely mentally broken in golf without being served up 5,000 golf videos per day to watch and then ruin my golf swing.
  11. It is no surprise the OL struggled. They are down a critical player, they’ve lost a lot of talent from last year’s team, and at times last year even that very good OL talent struggled at times. It’s got to be the biggest question mark going into the season, and frankly it’s probably the difference between winning it all or not. I hope they can get it going. One thing I noticed is that the heights of the OL seem plenty tall. While I’m sure there’s a lot of height inflation going on, if it is a big line maybe they perform better as the year progresses.
  12. It’s worthless to say that.
  13. Surly: A certain Surly poster: Surly:
  14. I wasn’t calling out anyone. I actually also thought has was going to fail. I just thought it was funny how it all worked out given all the concerns almost everyone had about him. Lighten up Francis.
  15. Awesome predictions. Reviewing the thread was entertaining. Quite a bit of hand-wringing. It was interesting hearing his interview with The Ticket where he said the reason he only ran a 4.38 at the combine but a 4.25 at Pro Day was a torn groin. He could be interesting as a Cowboy.
  16. You, sir, are doing God’s work. Thank you.
  17. Well there’s a pretty good reason for the bitching. They selected a stupid format that makes the whole points system irrelevant for critical top players. Stupid.
  18. We have seen prices rising substantially at the grocery store and elsewhere, and significant price impacts due to tariffs is still months away. It appears the administration is now at the point of no return on tariffs, and I’m struggling to see how this doesn’t end up in either stagflation or a significant recession, the worst of all economic scenarios. I thought previously the odds of that were extremely low because you’d have to massively mismanage the economy to take what was essentially a pretty good situation and turn it south so fast. And what’s worse, it’s not being done under “austerity” to get spending under control. Deficits are actually getting worse. Very scary times ahead imo.
  19. Love this too. You guys should be the commissioner.
  20. That’s what I was thinking. Do some banding. I like your idea. That way everyone is scrambling for position, AND the guys that performed all year end up with a slight advantage.
  21. I’ve read the revised rules several times, and this thread, and I’m still confused. So the top 70 in points standings qualified for today. Next week the top 50 IN POINTS STANDINGS advance, right? Then for the last event, it’s just a straight up tournament, low score wins, right? If so, doesn’t that make Scottie’s points leader title worthless, and makes points only important for the guys between ~25-85? So now the FedEx champion is just mostly whoever wins one tournament. Seems strange to me.
  22. Dbeasy

    Getting old sucks

    As a boomer myself (last year of the baby boom), it has become completely obvious that some older people have just decided they are going to say what’s on their mind no matter how rude, mean, or stupid their thoughts may be. Like anything, there’s dipshit young people and great nice older people too. In this particular situation, all of the jerks were older, while the younger folks just stood by and watched them make asses of themselves. yup.
  23. I have a friend in Orlando who has made a fortune off supporting Disney customers with two things: scooter rentals that will fit into the trunk for the fatties, and Disney princess dress-up for the little daughters. It’s insane how much money people will spend on their kids to pamper them.
  24. Dbeasy

    Getting old sucks

    I know this thread is more geared to health issues, but just wanted to remind old people to not be jackasses for no reason. I got to Costco ten minutes before they opened to the general public and the blue hairs and old goats were ragging on the poor guy at the door for not letting them in early. They truly were disgusting.
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