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  1. 1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

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    Wait....."IDEAS?"

    They are.....literally....."Thought Police?"  I mean....credit for not even trying to deny it anymore, I guess.

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  2. Also, here's a fundamental - and giant, potentially fatal - problem created by what the Trump Regime has been doing over the past week (and longer, but painfully evident the past week): they have set up the entire US economy, particularly the stock market, as a private casino where the Regime and its insiders are tipped off to the next cards to be dealt.

    There's a reason why insider trading is a crime: it creates winners (who cheated) and losers (who didn't have the benefit of the inside information, and thus sold for lower than they otherwise would have/bought at higher than they otherwise would have).  When it's (1) a single or small group of insiders from an enterprise and (2) those actions are/will be prosecuted, then everyone else has reasonable confidence and faith in the fairness of the markets.

    HOWEVER, when it's (1) a large group of very wealthy people who have advance, inside knowledge of upcoming large market swings (to be caused by Trump's specific actions), and (2) not only will they NOT be prosecuted for it, but instead, their profit-taking is by design and is functionally a gift/reward provided by the Trump Regime to its favored parties but to nobody else, then nobody who is outside of that group has any faith in the fairness of the market.  

    Why should I sink my money into a market knowing that, at any moment, the Trump Regime will tank the value of my investment in order to reward its chosen beneficiaries (who already had the necessary info, and set up to profit massively on the dip)?  

    This is exactly how you kill a market.  And not just to the little players, but also to the big players who aren't part of the Trump Regime Inner Circle.  Trillions of dollars of money is starting to realize "wait....why should I place any bets at a casino where the game is rigged in favor of a handful of other players at my expense?"

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  3. 1 minute ago, horn4life said:

    Well... I guess we can all look forward to Trump's fix for social security.  Too bad I don't know how to bet against that and make money like I do for tariff stupidity.

     

    Buy generic cat food futures.

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  4. 54 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

    “Lock them up and throw away the key”

    we are a pariah state. 
     

     

    In case any of y'all still wondered whether the plan includes flat-out "disappearing" dissidents (including US citizens).  Sentencing people to life in prison.....without formal adjudication etc....tells you EXACTLY what these people are all about.

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  5. Trump is still fucking around and we’re all about to find out. 
     
     

    Ripped from the pages of “NO FUCKING SHIT MONTHLY.”
    At this point - a mere 90 days or so into this admin - it’s no longer about the policies, it’s about the fact that the American ship of state is steered by a deranged and insane idiot. It doesn’t matter what direction we’re going in at any given moment; what matters is that the world sees that he can and will turn and steer it into an iceberg in an instant with no notice or reason.
    Nobody is getting on that ship. Anyone sane is getting the fuck OFF.
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  6. 35 minutes ago, Updawg said:


    I’ve done similar maybe this time will be close enough to block Paxton

    I will bet you cash money right now that Paxton beats Cornyn in the primary by at least 8 points.  It will not be close.

    You have no idea how utterly horribad Texas GQP primary voters are.  "I am Donald Trump's cumsock, and I was used to suffocate a baby" (R) would be the dream primary candidate.  And Ken Paxton is that kinda candidate.

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  7. 4 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    That view from the bottom of the stairs looking up at is an impressive sight.

    For realz, it's perhaps my wife's favorite object/monument on the planet....and when we go, she makes sure to camp out, and wait for the crowd to leave the area....so she can reach out and touch it, in violation of all museum rules and shit.  Kinda funny to see her get all giddy and criminal-ish.

  8. 28 minutes ago, A-Tex Devil said:

    Susman Godfrey, who made nine figures on a contingency fee in the Dominion case, just got EO’d.  They will fight.  They don’t have a transactional group that will lose deals.  

    The title of their first motion should be "And Trump Agrees, We've Done Nothing Wrong."

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    “Have you noticed that lots of law firms have been signing up with Trump?” the president said, referring to himself in the third person. “$100 million, another $100 million for, uh, damages that they’ve done. They give you $100 million and then they announce that, ‘But we have done nothing wrong.’ And I agree, they’ve done nothing wrong. But what the hell, they give me a lot of money considering they’ve done nothing wrong.”

    These EOs are retaliatory, and an unconstitutional exercise of the power of the office to serve his personal goals.

    The fact that Trumpkins, and those around here who support him, excuse using the power of our government to exact retribution against law firms who had the temerity to take legal positions that Donald Trump personally doesn't like is as chilling as it gets.  It's among the more horrific things this regime has done, and I don't say that because I'm a lawyer -- I say it because it's perhaps the most naked and flagrant 1) use of government power 2)in violation of the Constitution for 3) purely personal purposes (personal vendetta) I've ever seen.  It's EXACTLY what a fascist authoritarian state would do, and if you support it, excuse it, or are in ANY way okay with it, you are a fucking fascist authoritarian and should meet your end at an Esso station just like your fascist gods.  You and your guys are completely outside the law, and do not deserve its protections.  Once you've opted out, you've fucking opted out.

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  9. 6 hours ago, seven said:

    I had a colostomy bag fall off at the Louvre, on two different days... But I was at the fucking Louvre and none of that overshadowed how cool the display of winged victory was. 

    Yeah...Winged Victory is the shit.

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  10. 1 hour ago, Foosters said:

    There's also this problem. Of our own doing:

     

    Well, whatever you do....don't ask Austin to send a team of advisors on how to make things better.

    You'll get two years of a process that involves appointing a committee to select the leadership of the agenda-creation committee for the great charrette of 2027 to have a community discussion of whether they should create a committee to consider how to make the permitting process more bicycle-friendly.

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  11. 1 minute ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    So history says we're doomed either way to drive off the cliff, no party has a plan.

    Budget deficits are fine if managed.  History says we can do reasonably well under a Dem president.  Healthy functioning economy, not subject to insane volatility or a recession caused by shooting our own dick off, a tax plan that actually brings in decent revenue, spending that (and this is the shocker, contrary to GQP rhetoric) that is more conservative and better managed.....these are the things you get when you "just say no" to GQP fiscal mismanagement.

    We're not driving off a cliff.

    Correction: we WEREN'T, until the deranged genetically freakish demonic lovechild of Thelma, Louise, and the clown from "It" took the wheel.

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  12. 33 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Musk determining our foreign and economic policy.  He's sure making a play to take over both and he really ramped it up with Navarro over the tariff stuff.

    Musk is a horrible loathsome toad, but with respect to his attacks on Navarro as a completely insane utter moron....

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  13. See, I find those pics of Whitmer from today in the oval office HOT.  Because that look of shame and regret is EXACTLY like the look I imagine she'd have after a session of sweet, sweet loving with old Brisket.  HAWT.

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  14. 3 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    So what are the options to prevent the spectacular funding/deficit failure that we are quickly headed for currently? 

    Step 1) Various schemes to further enrich Trump and his cronies.

    Step 2) Various schemes to further concentrate wealth in the billionaire class.

    Step 3) Fuck you, pay me.

    In short, that is the only plan, there is zero plan to prevent an exploding deficit.  Firing a few hundred million dollars worth of government employees who actually do things doesn't solve the deficit, and passing an additional multi-trillion dollar tax cut sure as shit doesn't solve it - it makes it massively worse.

    Anyone who says or even thinks that Trump and the GQP give a single shit about the deficit or being fiscal conservatives should do the planet a favor and drink cyanide, because anyone that stupid should eliminated themself from the gene pool.

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  15. 47 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    YET

    Yeah....I mean....we literally have our national leadership willing to go to economic war with the entire fucking planet for the privilege of getting sweatshops back here.  They fucking SAID SO.

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  16. 1 minute ago, Nivek said:

    It really depends.  If we have an elder statesman like Biden, it can be fixed.  If we get anything else, it will be a tough slog.

    Problem: America's cancer isn't the leadership.  It's the electorate.

    We elected the worst president in history.  Then said

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    Then...fucking did it.  And we're still saying

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    A country full of....American voters....is not a reliable or trustworthy ally, trading partner, or even a casual acquaintance you have drinks with.

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  17. 1 minute ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    Losing the trust and confidence of the entire world for "marginal improvements".  That's a hell of a risk / reward evaluation right there.

     

    1 minute ago, CTC2 said:

    That’s a real stretch to find a silver lining in one of the most stupid self inflicted wounds of all time. 

    And these.

    "I really wanted a blowjob last night.  So I pulled a gun on my wife and she caved and gave me one." 

    Wulaw: "WINNING!"

    Sane people: "Holy fucking shit, that explains why she immediately filed for divorce, is going to take you to the cleaners, and has filed criminal charges that will see you put away for 10 years.  And also, she told everyone in your professional and social circles about it, and now nobody wants anything to do with you."

    Wulaw: "But don't forget -- HE GOT A BJ!"

     

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  18. 6 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    What, in your opinion, was the problem with them in the first place? 

    This.  The "problem," as repeatedly stated by the administration and its mouthpieces, is that we have trade deficits (for goods....note how they are silent on services, for which we run a trade SURPLUS) with many countries.  That's it.  That's the problem.  Now, they attribute that to "cheating" and such, but "cheating" is just the mechanism they blame for creating the "problem" - that problem being "we buy more goods from Vietnam than Vietnam buys from us."  The "problem" is fucking dumb, stupid, and idiotic.  A trade deficit per se is not a problem.  It is a state of relationship between two trading partners who have differing needs and resources.  I will always run a deficit with HEB.  That deficit is not only not a problem, it is a mutually beneficial arrangement.

    This whole conversation, using only the words of the administration itself, is dumb layered on stupid layered on moronic topped with insanity icing.

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  19. Just now, David Dennison said:

    Money is money.

    And you're at risk of losing a crapton of it the more business you do with a madman.  Strategic, long-term disentanglement is the play.

  20. 3 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    I'd like to believe this, but I think the United States is a market none of them want to give up no matter how ridiculous its leader is.

    Give it up?  Of course not.  Dramatically lessen their dependence on it?  They'd be crazy not to.

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