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  1. I’m bullish right now short term. IMO we see a China deal in seven days or less. 

    And what is your trust level that this man won’t reverse THAT within a week…or do something else equally unstable in a week, a day, or an hour? Is that trust level sufficient for you to make, say, a billion dollar investment in building a manufacturing facility?
    This is the problem: not so much what he has done, but that he’s demonstrated that he will do all manners of irrational shit, with no warning or provocation, then change course in minutes, creating an environment with zero predictability. Capital hates that.
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  2. So the same people who decided a legal immigrant was part of MS-13 because he wore a Chicago Bulls hoodie will now be deciding which social media posts constitute antisemitism and therefore worthy of going to El Salvador?

    What’s next? Facial recognition to figure out who attends an anti-Trump rally?

    2025: “due process” = “whatever Stephen miller says.”
    It’s not any more complex than that.
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  3. I asked AI and this is what I got back
    Based on available data, the closest parallel to the current surge occurred in late September to early October 2023, when the 10-year yield jumped from about 4.1% to 4.8% in roughly two weeks—a roughly 70-basis-point increase. The current 10-day rise, estimated at around 50-60 basis points (from approximately 3.9% to 4.51%), is significant but slightly less intense in magnitude.
     

    Add in the comparison to the rates for other countries’ debt.
    Add in the market crash.
    Add in the complete collapse of consumer confidence to levels not seen since 1952.
    Add in the complete destruction of hundreds of thousands of American businesses built on our current trade environment.
    And keep going. Fuck off with your bullshit.
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  4. Let’s put this in terms we can relate to:
    Court: “Trump Regime, you snatched a Surly poster, a US citizen, off the street and sent him down to a Salvadoran gulag immediately. You now admit that you did. It have a legal basis or right to do so. Return him.”
    Trump Regime: “Gee, sorry, we can’t.”
    Court: “Provide me daily reports of your effort to get the Surly poster back.”
    Trump Regime: “LOL OK. Here’s my report: we didn’t do shit.
    Result: it is 100% allowed for the Regime to disappear anyone it wants, and there is no remedy.

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  5. Excellent. We told both our kids straight up that the school may do what the school does, but they will never ge tin trouble at home for def diff themselves or someone else.
    Because that’s how we should be. Good on your boy.

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  6. Cool.
    Even if the US continues to impose higher tariffs, it will no longer make economic sense and will become a joke in the history of world economy. At the current tariff level, there is no market acceptance for US goods exported to China. If the US continues to play the tariff numbers game, China will ignore it. However, if the US insists on continuing to substantially infringe on China's interests, China will resolutely counterattack and fight to the end. 

    Kai Ryssdal’s joke was that at this point, the tariff rates might as well be “infinity plus one,” because they are now high enough to functionally shut down all trade between China and the US.
    This is just idiocy.
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  7. Summary of SCOTUS take:
    1) humans have rights under the Constitution.
    2) this guy’s rights were violated.
    3) but there is no remedy for that, the Regime can violate anyone’s rights with zero repercussions, answering to no one.
    So you can frame the “people have rights” part of that decision and put it on the wall, it’s a pretty decoration and that’s it. What matters is the remedy - can you get one? No? Then nothing fucking matters.

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  8. No one in the judicial thinks it is okay to disappear people to fucking el Salvador. 

    Fucking. BULLSHIT.
    The SCOTUS is a collaborator with the Regime in cementing its authoritarian powers which cannot be questioned or reversed. They have created a king, completely above the law, because they want it that way. It was not and is not an accident.
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  9.  

    This too. My wife related that the solo manicurist she uses is fucked - her products largely come from China, because that’s who makes such things. So, 1) she’ll have to raise her prices a LOT, and 2) as shit goes south, people will cut back on “unnecessary expenses.” This shit is going to wreck her business.
    Multiply that by literally hundreds of thousands of businesses nationwide. But fuck those people, they don’t count or matter to this admin, because they’re not billionaire oligarchs.
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  10. Fully agree with you there. China is playing this masterfully and we’re sitting around holding our dicks.

    To be fair, being able to outmaneuver this clown show doesn’t require a chess master on your side. Just someone who can exercise modest restraint and patience, and not smear shit on themselves.
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  11. If my 2022 and 2024 Texas graduate daughters read this thread, they'd roll their eyes and call yall stupid boomers living in the past.
    Also The Drag (in reference to Guadelupe) and Drag Worms have not been used in the lexicon for at least a decade. 
    We sure do like to yell at clouds.

    Next you’re gonna tell me students don’t cure their hangovers with vitamin G from G&M Steakhouse.
  12. Trump is threatening to put the tariffs back in place. 

    Duh.
    Listened to Kai Ryssdal this morning, and he is breaking form and really not holding back. And he’s also saying the obvious: most of the capital in the world is sidelining itself because it’s apparent that one man can upset the entire global economy on a whim, there is no discernible plan or path, and he is “at best, mercurial.” He will change his mind minute to minute, to accomplish…nobody knows. Our trade issues with China are real, but will take years to unwind. If he’s trying to accomplish that in weeks, it’s madness.
    While money and business do some irrational things, on the whole, they at least require some certainty. And it is clear that the world’s largest economy will change course 180 degrees on one man’s whim, multiple times a week, even a day. So everyone just stays put, hunkers down, and works on their plan to weather the storm of insanity.
    This is catastrophic, by the way. That’s not an overstatement.
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  13. I clicked on a headline about the Supreme Court declining to reverse the order requiring Trump to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, fully expecting a tight 5-4 decision.
    Nope. 9-0. Which gave me a glimmer of hope. Maybe “the President can’t just kidnap people and fly them off to an El Salvadoran prison” is something we can all agree on. 

    We can’t all agree on that at all.
    I’m sure this court, at best, would conclude “he didn’t disappear someone the right way - here’s how he should do it.”
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  14. Well, thanks to Brat I just ordered a Springfield 1911 from Palmetto.   So that's officially 4 guns purchased in 12 months...  I have a 9mm, a 5.56, a .22lr and now this 45 ACP on the way.  
     
     
     

    I’m really looking at doing the same. Lemme know what you think when you get it.
  15. 7 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

    Non-paywalled NPR story:

    https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5358421/supreme-court-abrego-garcia-deportation-decision

    Bets on how this turns out?

    1.  "Oops, he somehow got dead."

    2. Trump tells the USSC to fuck off.

    3. Trump's attorneys say the Admin has done everything in their power, but the bad man in El Salvador told us to fuck off.

    4. Trump actually complies and gets dude back.

    Most likely is #1.  Trump doesn't want to look weak (#3, 4), but also doesn't want to create the clear constitutional crisis just yet (#2), so he requests Bukele "find him dead."

     

    BTW - gotdamn the USSC is full of a buncha bitches; another unsigned opinion.  Well, at least they got to the right decision.

    Yep.  The SCOTUS just killed that man.  Because that's the direction a cornered regime will take.

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  16. 57 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    Extra cheese?  MEAT ADDED

    Nickle beer? MEAT ADDED

    Free appetizer? MEAT ADDED

    BOGO Lap Dances?  MEAT ADDED

    See?  "Meat added" makes ALL of those better.  Especially the last one, says my pal Vic Mackey.

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  17. Just now, Hermanator said:

    These oligarch cunts are just trolling us now

    Screenshot_20250410-164155_Chrome.thumb.png.fa6899b9b7a55ce3ef219604bed4bd56.png

    Fuck, even if he was on to something, the "as long as there's no nuclear war" is doing some HEAVY lifting.

    A big part of the reason we've avoided a nuclear war is because American hegemony has helped keep local rivalries (including potential wars) relatively under control.  And now?  We are disengaging, telling everyone out there "it's every man for himself," and pursuing policies and approaches that couldn't be better crafted to incentivize every country that can to obtain nukes.

    Dimon...you're a fucking fool.  Not that it was in doubt, but he keeps removing any possible scintilla of doubt.

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  18. 6 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    But they're not. The SEC isn't a government agency. 

    What....the....fuck?  Because.....

    Just now, sidis said:

    are you making some sort of super subtle semantics point that i'm missing or something? are you talking about the conference within which the university of texas competes in sports?

    or are you talking about the independent federal government agency created by the securities exchange act of 1934?

     

  19. 1 minute ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

     

     

    ....and stuff like this is how it really gets going, and snowballs.  

    We take our ball and go home....which leaves us stuck at home, inside and alone, with our ball.  Yay.  What sweet victory.

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