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cactusflinthead

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  1. 9 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

    So much winning 

     

    In the spirit maker’s quarterly earnings call on March 5, CEO Lawson Whiting said blocking consumers from buying American-made products in Canada or other countries is a crushing blow for U.S. companies.

    “That’s worse than a tariff because it’s literally taking your sales away completely, removing our products on the shelves,” Whiting told investors. “That’s a very disproportionate response to a 25% tariff."

    https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/jack-daniels-brown-forman-canada-tariffs-taken-off-shelves-stores-ontario-alcohol-bourbon-trump/741970/

     

     

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    I can't edit out the picture so I'm going to issue a correction here. 

    The beef post is bullshit. Snopes calls it false. The first one is obviously not, but there's no evidence to support the second one.

  2. 11 minutes ago, patrickdrinksbeer said:

    have not listened to one second of the ticket this week and i’m not on vacation. just don’t care about anything other than the musers these days. i’ll usually listen to 3-4 hardline segments a week on the sportsday app.

    I have barely listened, but it's not due to the people talking. It's the subject matter. I don't give a shit about the Cowboys or Mavs. Neither one deserves a second of my time. Any time Jerry speaks it's an instant punch out. The Mavs are circling the drain. That's why I stopped listening to the Dumb Zone and why I don't listen to anything pertaining to either of them unless it's to kick them. There's no reason to listen to the bullshit excuses. The Cowboys are irrelevant to my sports viewing. I watched more of them on the Red Zone last year than I did the actual broadcast because they are/were irrelevant and boring. Until they show something resembling a clue I have no reason to spend any time or money on them. The Mavs are headed straight back to the ignominy of 13 wins. 

    Yet, that's the two subjects that the the consultants demand we must hear. Fuck'em. I don't have to listen to the bullshit.

  3. 13 minutes ago, G650 said:

     

    I don't disagree with what you wrote, but it has 100% been a two way street. Retail therapy, whatever you want to call it, a large segment of the American public spends money for a dopamine hit. Were they exploited? Sure. But they were also willing participants for the most part. Other than the disadvantaged, they could have opted out of the system if they wanted. I've set foot in a Walmart a grand total of twice in the past 20 years, and that was for immediate medical supplies. I've been boycotting Chinese made goods as much as humanly possible just as long.

     

    This has been a serious bugbear of mine for decades, 2016 has nothing to do with it. We as a people enabled this. I mean look around this forum, people gleefully shopped at Wally World, buy all sorts of disposable garbage that does nothing but make them feel good for a second, then get discarded. Just waste. Waste of resources, energy, you name it. It goes so far beyond simplistic shit like American factory jobs or whatever and gets the the very core of what sort of philosophy we have as a people. We should spend a lot more money on a lot less stuff, and that's really the long and sort of it. Stuff that is made by people with real skills. Your coffee maker, your car, your guitar, your clothes, your food, whatever, all of it. We are losing everything valuable and replacing it with stuff devoid of any value.

    One straw at a time. I avoid Walmart as much as possible. I buy local when I can or as close as I can get. I don't buy stuff for the sake of buying. If it's a shitty deal I don't mind passing on it. I'm not going to pay for things that don't last or are known to be poorly built. I'm much more willing to buy an iron skillet or other kitchen utensils from an estate sale than brand new crap that's going to suck right out of the gate.

    Part of The Revolution is where you lay your money down. Steve Earle sang about it. It's a known tactic for the consumer. I have no interest in spending a dime with shitty corporations trying to sell me crap. I can't entirely avoid funding assholes that I would rather see fail, but I do my best to limit myself as much as possible.

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  4. 46 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

     

    He’a not eligible until later this year, IIRC.

    Still 50 for the Sr Tour?

    I swear he's an old 40something. I would have put him at least at 50. Burning the candle hard.

  5. Just now, Pam Cummings said:

    The only interesting thing left for him to do is win the US Senior Open.

    Maybe. Has he played in any of the old guy tournaments? Because that would be admitting that he can't compete with the regular guys and I don't see that happening. He won't give it up. He's Emmit playing for the Cardinals.

  6. 14 hours ago, 4th and 5 said:

    That sucks, I was looking forward to seeing him at The Masters. 
     

    We can go get zombie Ben Hogan. He'd do about as well. Tiger is done. The only thing that keeps him coming back is ego. 

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  7. I'm sure Wall Street is going to love it.

     

    "Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on 'Electricity' coming into the United States, I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add an ADDITIONAL 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA, ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD," the president wrote on Truth Social, saying those higher tariffs will go into effect Wednesday. 

    https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/trump-tariffs-canada-steel-aluminum/?fbclid=IwY2xjawI9NHxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUGjQHPmmIK3lY0HGHPLU-21fgGiq57p2BgphLaEj_ugqOvT0fJYPjyOVg_aem_pc_m_HhSeaYXqBmsNm7N7w

     

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