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Gatorubet

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  1. I will take next year‘s bet. Tree fiddy?
  2. So. sick. Of. Winning.
  3. I had great luck renting to military personnel. They did not get suddenly laid off, and as a general rule they kept things clean. And the one renter who would not pay on time had a visit with the base commander - who I had recently spoken with. That was the last time I was paid late. If they would have caused damage, I also always knew how to find them.
  4. if the price of everything keeps going up, and there are already shortages of some things, it makes sense to take all your money out and buy as many things as humanly possible while they are still available and at a lower price point. I assume they would focus on food, as having money to buy food - but no food available - is worse than food being available and not having money. People can borrow money from friends or family, or beg, or trade work for food, or sex for food, or steal food, but there is not a damn thing you can do when there is no food but starve.
  5. Russia has had significant recent crop failures and harvest reductions. Since the war started, Russia has not had access to the genetically modified seed grain from the Netherlands that it uses for its bumper harvests. The economy is imploding. Even Russia economists say that the economy has stopped growing. The men who had the jobs that kept the economy going have been shipped off to the meat grinder. The other men fled when prescription was first called. Businesses have to borrow money at interest rate rates up to the 20s and 30s. Even military contractors who should be rolling in cash are nearing bankruptcy from the corruption siphoning off all those MOD funds. They can’t supply gas to businesses and people who want to drive their shitty cars. Russian history seems to support that the long-suffering people will put up with anything - until they don’t. Honestly, I’m as positive about this as I have been in some time. Russia moves things by train rather than the Russian equivalent of an 18 wheeler. Ukraine needs to start hitting more trains and train tracks and railroad bridges.
  6. I assume there will be an executive order that seizes/stops Social Security benefits to traitors to the administration who leave the country and take money out… making them traitors to the country. Grok will review emails and recorded phone calls and social media to see who gets cut-off… at least until they force ex-pats to return to sign their loyalty oaths. Allowing some to be arrested and their assets seized so that they don’t cause problems for Trump in those other shit-hole countries.
  7. it is very true we gave them a ton of stuff, including a ton of stuff that was sunk by the Germans on the way there. But the waves of human mine sweepers was all on the Soviet Union - and it’s policy of “quantity having a quality all its own”
  8. Since they can’t vote for Trump again - or they won’t need to vote again because dictator gonna dictator - why on earth would Trump bail them out? It would make far more sense for Elon (who I think was just given a $1 trillion compensation package) and other oligarchs to buy up all the failed farms for .10 on the dollar.
  9. I’m reposting the map from last week showing the “major” oil refineries and their location. Note that Kirishi is at the top of the map. I wonder whether they flew the drones all the way over Belarus - or stayed in Russian territory the whole time.
  10. Sports fans, that’s 160,000 barrels a day that are not being produced - at the exact same time Russia is unable to supply gas to all its citizens and businesses.
  11. And speaking of coffee, I bought six of those giant Starbucks bags of whole beans at Sam’s last month. The Winn-Dixie near me went out of business this summer, and in addition to scoring a bunch of 50% off wine I bought the last four large cans of Black Silk coffee at a 70% discount. I don’t normally buy pre-ground, but there is no way on God’s green earth I can function without a large amount of coffee every day.
  12. My Manservant says that the foie gras prices are now unacceptable. He is wrong. They are fine. What is NOT fine is his subtle passive-aggressive display of unhappiness when advised that his Christmas bonus will be his continued employment.
  13. One too many Scotches and Armybrat will tell you about his now-worthless mastodon recipes.
  14. From the comments. I have not fact checked, but sounds correct.
  15. Gabrielle is a Bermuda/fish storm
  16. My monthly healthcare cost is around $700. True, my IRMAA increases that some, but I have no idea how people on a fixed income can deal with that. Now a whole lot of people will be losing their healthcare benefits along with their employment. And then there is the big shitty bill taking 10 million people off of Medicaid. They will kick in after the midterm elections. What a coincidence. The recession should be full on by November 2026, and 2027 should be an actual shit show for the country with lots of hungry and homeless people. The good news is that according to Fox News we can just kill the homeless and problem solved.
  17. if they can get up to 200+ flamingos, a month, that will overwhelm they’re already sketchy air defenses or rather quickly. Of course, the X factor is as this gets closer a desperate Soviet Union will try to destroy all electrical generation facilities - and maybe water purification/sewerage systems. Essentially Russia will go even more scorched earth on their attempt to create more civilian destruction to slow Ukraine down. And obviously, they will focus on flamingo and drone production sites. This is where being able to produce Ukraine munitions in NATO countries to be shipped across the border upon completion is critical. I doubt Russia sends missile strikes into Poland or Finland, or a Baltic nation, so I hope a large part of the production is outside Ukraine.
  18. Ukraine says they’re making one flamingo a day and hope to have it up to seven flamingos a day by October. So let’s give them 2.5 a day through September. 75 ICBMs along with their long range Drones should be enough to, if nothing else, maintain the current gas supply deficit. I still watch the Constantine inside Russia channel. I leave it on when I’m doing something else and pay attention when it strikes me. On Wednesdays he does his economic update. His latest said that 20 of 72 Russian provinces are reporting gas shortages. More importantly, numerous Russian businesses are doing their economic reporting, and several companies are reporting massive deficits and losses. Interestingly, the companies with severe losses include companies that make helicopters and other types of military supplies for the MOD. Like he said, how in the world with Russia devoting everything to its military goals and ordering and paying for gobs of military equipment, can those companies be approaching bankruptcy? He said it makes no sense in the west, but the answer is simple: the oligarchs are stealing all the money that is flowing into the companies right now - money coming in at record levels and yet somehow disappearing before it hits the books. The very best thing the West has going for it is that Russia will always be Russia. Russia always overcame its lack of technical skill and endemic corruption with numbers. They had enough people to make T-34 tanks and peasant soldiers to clear minefields by walking through them. Now they are a shrunken impoverished gas station that no longer has gas to sell because of sanctions and refinery attacks. Ukraine just needs to hang on another year. Not win, just survive. Because if they keep standing long enough, they will win. and this is interesting. He also said that there is a recent agreement for Russia to give a huge amount (20 billion dollars) of natural gas to Turkey for free. well, not for free. But instead of charging Turkey - Turkey promises to complete a nuclear power plant. they were both building that has since ceased construction. Think about that. In an ongoing war with Petro resources dwindling and despite being cash broke, Russia has apparently agreed to deliver $20 billion worth of natural gas to Turkey and not get any cash in return.
  19. Agreed. Road trip. Take the back roads. Grow a beard. Take a selfie in South Dakota of - I dunno - the world’s largest prairie dog statue maybe? Right after the Florida game.
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