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Gatorubet

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  1. I was happy to see the White House complained about Amazon attaching the cost of the price increases to the tariffs in billing paperwork. Even though Amazon crawfished - his followers do not watch real news and never would’ve known of the Amazon policy if they hadn’t overreacted in such a childish way. His followers do watch news from the White House and his social media vomiting, and now a lot of them learned for the first time that the tariff costs were going to be passed on to them. I swear to God, half of those smooth brains still think China is paying the tariff
  2. Weaker currency and lower stock prices. We are going to beat those shit-hole countries at their own game! Except the 94% lower egg prices
  3. My man! Setting up that sweet $3000 a year stock loss deduction for infinity
  4. Bloomberg this morning was bandying the concept of stagflation around. True, they did not predict it, but they allowed that it was an increasing possibility.
  5. I believe that the caption should say, “A Time-Out changes a man…”
  6. It calmed down once everyone realized that Generalissimo Francisco Franco was still dead.
  7. Youse…
  8. And crawfish Louisiana does not operate as smoothly as lobster Maine. Despite all of my city’s misgivings, this quote from a gentleman living in New Orleans in the 1870s is as accurate an assessment of my opinion and feelings as I could write.
  9. “ I plead guilty to all those horrible crimes that I agree I committed, but it is so unfair for me not to get a light sentence - it must be political…” I see where one of his staffers got time as well. those idiots were so stupid they didn’t even try to launder the money. Just took the money for election purposes and stuck it in his personal bank account. I want my white-collar criminals to have a little bit more savvy.
  10. Turrible SEC for Gata. 19 RPI. i’d like to sneak into a 3 seed at some bullshit regional, but we’re probably gonna be swept by you assholes.
  11. Near Dark. A 1980s vampire movie. Bill Paxton has never really impressed me with his range, but damn was he good as an evil vampire in this flick. There is a disturbing scene where the vampires visit some rural roadhouse bar. Does not work out well for the patrons. Paxton was just fantastic in it. Not academy award type stuff, but a fun watch.
  12. 192 this weekend. 30 lbs since I started. Two more pounds I’m gonna start weight training a bit instead of just cardio. Push-ups and chin ups were depressing with the extra 30 pounds. i’m hoping once I start weight training that my ancient metabolism will start sucking up a few more calories.
  13. gotcha. if I was a savvy investor, which I’m not, it would be a bit terrifying that all the non-savvy investors acting together could ruin my best laid plans in a volatile climate like this. i’m just gonna sit here in bonds and CDs until tariffs are fully implemented or we return to tariff status quo.
  14. Shyna cain’t steal from us if they don’t ship nuthin to us! Thet’s the art a the deal.
  15. public service announcement: if you were ever gonna cheat on your taxes, now is exactly the time to do it. The IRS is gutted.
  16. That’s probably 200 subcomponents of the trade deal with the island of Vanuatu. The real problem is trying to get all of those cargo cults on board.
  17. Would you mind giving me her number so I can text her? It looks like she won the lottery in a Third World country I’d rather not disclose right now - but I’d like to share the good news and try to help her transfer her winnings.
  18. I know. That’s why I asked for your opinion. No biggie.
  19. Apparently, there was a recent leak on Russian Telegram of the tactical application of motorcycles and how to avoid Ukrainian drones in the assaults. The English translation is below:
  20. Konstontin says that Russia ‘s second largest bank was billions of dollars in debt absent the central bank propping it up, but in typical Russian fashion hiding that the central bank was propping it up. He states that this could be the 2025 beginning of the end of the Russian economic system if the non-favored small banks aren’t bailed out by the central bank in a similar fashion. Russia being Russia, the central bank owns most of this large private banks preferred stock. You can infer that the central bank would not bail out the hundreds of small banks because the only people who will get fucked will be Russian citizens, which is not a big concern of the state. Something to keep an eye on anyway. There was a comment that caught my eye. At the same time - Russia did not transfer 3.5 million euros to Latvia for pensions of Russian citizens for the first 3 month of 2025. Russian seniors are without money from Russia since February. See below https://news.err.ee/1609668050/russia-leaves-4-000-russian-pensioners-in-estonia-without-their-pensions When I tried to track that down, I ran across the above article that says the same thing is happening in Estonia. This tends to lend credence to the Latvia rumors (or the comment dude mixed up Latvia and Estonia, which is also possible) in any event, this news could be support for the proposition that Russia is finally beginning to run out of cash. After all, if they fuck with former Russians, living in other countries that causes far less damage politically and domestically than fucking over Russian pensioners living in Russia. I could see some bureaucrat saying “if those assholes decided not to retire in Russia instead of a NATO country, fuck ‘em!” We have to remember that Russia’s economy is no bigger than Italy or California. Three years of a costly war should make them turbo fucked. Really, the only question is when the crows will come home to roost. 2025 would be nice. Finally, all of that information (if true) is likely known to Ukraine, and would be a very persuasive reason for Ukraine to reject all offers to end the war - at least now that they are on the precipice of Russia imploding and giving them the most favorable terms - terms that would only be possible if Putin was overthrown and there was a disgraced scapegoat in Russia to blame that on and deflect why they had to accept favorable Ukrainian terms after all the Russian losses. TL; DR It’s happening GIF?
  21. Wait - that’s a negative? Shit…
  22. This is an honest non-snark question:- What is your opinion on the chance of a recession in the current situation in 2025 or 2026? A percentage guess would be nice, but if you’d rather not, what are your top three factors to look for that would indicate a return to some sort of market normalcy - and when would you expect to see that?
  23. Lots of people get raped at MD Anderson while they’re under anesthesia. Actually, they don’t. But I can see it on a message board even though it’s an unsubstantiated rumor that seems patently problematic. How many patients did the unknown respected doctor know that were pushed into research trials instead of standard care? How do we know that the trial was not one of several options, and the MDA physician was not pushing the research trial, but just presenting every option available? How do we know what the type of cancer was? Was it carcinoma or sarcoma or lymphoma or leukemia or neuroblastoma? Was it metastatic? Was the standard care a smaller percentage survival rate compared to small (but promising ) data from a new research study? We don’t have even the basic information to consider the “ MDA pushes you to research trials “ question, let alone have the information to give some kind of marginally informed opinion. And I’m NOT saying that Eddie isn’t aware of all that, nor am I insinuating that Eddie jumped to a conclusion. I’m just using his post verbiage as a springboard for the discussion. The opinion he gave is obviously the correct general observation.
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