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Ghost of LL

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  1. It’s not just that. They’re threatening to crater the entire American retail sector. Were are doing some home renovations right. Ow, and we’re going to need some new living room furniture. So one that was pertinent to me was a gal at a furniture factory. She says “you like something from the Restoration Hardware catalogue? Send us the SKU. We make all that shit here in this factory and we will send you that sofa door-to-door for 10% the price you would pay at Restoration Hardware in Austin.” Even after you pay the 125% tariff, it’s 80% off retail. If people do that in any kind of numbers, yikes.
  2. China is going hard on TikTok exposing how cheaply it makes luxury goods and openly inviting Americans to come in a 9-day visa-free tour to buy shit straight from the factory. That’s some next level “peasants with pitchforks” shit right there, eh, JD?
  3. Because it's something that intuitively makes sense. If you put capital back in the hands of the investing classes, it will be invested in such a way as to generate economic activity and all that comes with it (e.g., jobs). And let's just be real honest about this--it's a theory that did work at earlier points in our history. Kennedy's tax cuts in the early 1960s are widely credits with spurring economic growth. Reagan's are more controversial, but they also are credited with causing an economic expansion. The difference is that by the 2000s, there are two many other investment options and strategies such that the capital didn't necessarily go to economic expansion in the United States. And unlike in the 1960s and 1980s, taxes on the top brackets were already so low that reducing them further didn't really have much impact.
  4. I don't think that's true at all. Clinton raised taxes, and he was reelected comfortably in 1996. The key is that Clinton only raised taxes on the highest brackets. So the vast majority of Americans saw no tax increase at all. Combined with a growing economy, the increased revenue from those taxes allowed the federal government to run a budget surplus during the late 1990s. And we can talk about the Election of 2000. Let it suffice it to say that Gore won the popular vote. It was hardly an electoral repudiation of Clinton's fiscal policy. The reality is that if you confine tax increases to the top brackets, you can definitely ride a budget-saving fiscal policy to electoral victory. The real problem for Democrats in the 21st Century has been that every time they take over the White House, they do so in the middle of an economic catastrophe that greatly restricts what fiscal policies they can enact. It's really hard to raise taxes on anyone when you're just trying to recover from Republican-caused economic meltdowns.
  5. Nothing encourages people to relax quite like yelling at them "BE COOL!"
  6. Do you sell every day at market close? Or are you just letting it ride?
  7. The volumes today are just garbage. Looks like everyone is just sitting there waiting.
  8. You remember when Hooters tried to start an airline? Yeah--that was dumb af.
  9. Goddamnit--that was exactly what my comment was going to be. For those interested, here is the Nikkei historical chart:
  10. So does this mean we're bringing Obama off the bench?
  11. You know--I was a little pissed that I sold off all my SPY around 10:00 this morning and missed the whole run-up. But you know what--you never go broke making a profit.
  12. This is very strongly my feeling. I'm not looking back to what happened in 19 Diggity 5. I just know that it's really tough to go wire-to-wire as the best team in the league. And when you do that, it takes something out of you. Just look at Boston last year (or was it two years ago?). When you do that, it just feels like you're delaying the inevitable cold stretch to the playoffs. Everyone has that run of ten games or so where they play shitty hockey. Everyone. Best to get that out of the way in December or January. But time after time, we see Winnipeg hit that stretch in May.
  13. Counterpoint: they go to their internet echo chamber to gain validation and avoid the HEB where they get confrontation. And so next time, they order their groceries curbside. Which is all we want. I think we're in complete agreement: people will gravitate toward affirmation and avoid confrontation. So if you don't want people to physically be in the HEB with their dog, make their physical presence uncomfortable for them and their online interaction with the HEB more attractive.
  14. Perhaps I'm entering my Karen stage of life, but sitting here and bitching about this on a college-football message board is pointless. If it annoys you so much, you ought to have the fucking balls to go up to these people and say, "your dog doesn't belong in the HEB. There's food here, and it's gross." I've done it. Maybe you get a "fuck you." Sure. Maybe. But guess what--people don't like confrontation. I mean, I do. But most people don't. So the end result is that the person's experience of taking the dog to the HEB was, on balance, a negative. And that will weigh on their decision-making next time they're thinking about taking the goddamned dog to the HEB. Now imagine that everyone who spent time on this thread bitching about dogs at the HEB actually said something to the dog-owners they see at the HEB. If anyone who took a dog to the HEB got at least one pointed negative comment every trip, nobody would take their fucking dog to HEB. Fucking nobody. This is on everyone who is too fucking afraid of confrontation to call out bad behavior. We all need to get over that shit.
  15. Jets lost last night at Staples Center and have a game tomorrow in Vegas. That lead over Dallas is starting to get really tenuous. So much so that the game in Dallas is looking less and less like an opportunity for Winnipeg to sew up the Central and more and more like a game Winnipeg needs to win to keep a lead.
  16. Don’t look. Ow, but the Jets are down 2-0 10:00 in the 1st at Staples Center.
  17. What happened? I missed it?
  18. Those last three games for both teams are pretty soft. If there's ground to be made up, it'll be made up in the next ten days. Meanwhile, we only need seven points in our last eight games to secure home-ice over Colorado. With that schedule, that looks . . . doable.
  19. I think it's been 1,999 after the Stay-Puft Incident in 1984.
  20. I thought it would be a fun movie to see with my kids. But my 15-year old refuses to see it. He says it "looks like what a GenXer thinks Gen Z ought to think is cool." Ouch, man.
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