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Gatorubet

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  1. Apparently, everyone in this world has a soulmate if they can only find them
  2. I doubt that the drought stops at the Russian/Ukraine border, so that sounds like bad news for the good guys as well
  3. We should just let the grass grow in any place named Iowa, Kansas, or a Dakota after the next pandemic in no vaccination/rural /healthcare land- and let the buffalo herds come back. Of course, we won’t have a working electric grid to allow us to freeze the thousand pounds of meat - but we can smoke it using the wooden furniture of abandoned family farms.
  4. https://www.politico.eu/article/winners-losers-eu-von-der-leyen-us-donald-trump-trade-deal-tariffs/ Not sure how paywall-y this is. I think politico only requires you to provide a valid email to continue reading their stuff. It is a very good comprehensive article that goes into detail on the various trade sectors/components coming into play. It underscores that Trump‘s roostering around about a completed deal is typically false bullshit, with many details to be determined, and goals set that are impossible to meet. Add that there are numerous details still to be figured out regarding all of the new exceptions to the 15% tariff. If the goal was to supply certainty and allow people to get the supply chains back up and operating, that fails. Like a dog. Someone needs to tell me how going from a 1.5% tariff on EU goods generally - to a 15% across-the-board tariffs (with a whole bunch of carve outs and still to be figured outs) will not involve at least some measure of inflation due to the increased cost of EU goods subject to the 15% tariff. Europe ain’t gonna eat that. Someone is also going to have to explain why everybody around the globe rightfully hating on the United States for spring, that’s Trump‘s whim, tariffs B.S. is not going to result in at least some European businesses deciding to purchase goods and services from anyone but the USA if they can get away with it. The EU can establish a tariff rate, but the EU can’t force it’s private businesses to want to buy from America. It’s like Trump saying “tariffs for you, but not for me” is going to make them rush lovingly into our arms and try to increase imports from the US. Mind bottling.
  5. And it's hard to say how much my WBC changes And it's not hard to doubt I’ve strength enough to rub one out Oh, I'm just burning doin' the neutropenic dance
  6. I think I see a pattern…
  7. But the United States is finally respected again.
  8. That fat boy body - and that horny ridge on the side of his head over his eyes makes me go cotton mouth
  9. Lies!! Was “Potato”. Then, “potatO”. Now “POtaTO”
  10. Only a naive citizen would not care about Welfare Queens taking all the tax money, but Patriot Taxpayers are very concerned about that issue.
  11. No argument there. Where I have a slight disagreement is that the 40% will definitely support him in his attack on the others, but if as I think will happen, we are about to enter a massive recession and increased inflation, and the economy is taking a dump, then the 40% will be less than 40 once they make the connection between tariffs and getting rid of immigrant workers and firing all the federal employees who are there for a reason and who won’t be supplying those services to the 40% anymore. Will this change the mind of the 40%? Oh hell no. It only takes five or 10% and a lot of of those voters only care about how they are doing. Right now. High-fiving and laughing at the deportation of Hispanic workers is fantastic. They are owning the libs and filling their oats. Once they lose their jobs, their parents die because the rural hospital is closed , etc., their attention will turn more inward. Almost 70% of Trump supporters say they disagree that Trump has been transparent on Epstein. 70%. That is a large number of people saying when my God king looks me in the eye on camera and says that - he is full of shit. This could be a nothing burger or it could be huge. We only need to knock off 5% or 10%. It’s interesting that Rogan and other influencers are crapping on Donald about immigration and Epstein. His chucklehead Bros do not follow everything with great detail, and a lot of them will do what Joe says. We are in perfect agreement there. I’m just more optimistic on how long it will last. if the economy will hurry up and tank, we might get the house back. you know, if his people don’t throw out mailing ballot and we actually have an election and all.
  12. Who among us haven’t sacrificed a fellow citizen to ensure a good harvest, right?
  13. You can rent it on Prime, and apparently it is available for viewing in some regions on Netflix. One of my favorite Cohen brothers character actors - Tim Blake Nelson - is the lead. He nailed it. It’s a fun suspend your reality for a bit western with some really great scenes. The casting was superb. And nobody got loved up and turned into a toad.
  14. Guy was probably from Ohio.
  15. Does she have an employer I can refer this to?
  16. That is certainly one very possible result. But then I remember that it was common for ‘sundown towns’ to exist, for kids to work 16 hour days in factories without any thought to safety. When my grandparents were alive, there was no minimum wage, so it was a routine for companies to pay people almost nothing- while requiring employees to rent their shacks and shop at their company store - turning employees into virtual serfs and hiring private goon armies to break unions - all while the employers were protected by the bullshit known as “freedom of contract”. I remember American history and seeing that the klan was so strong in the 1920s nationwide that it controlled politics in many states - and was supported by Americans to the point it felt comfortable conducting huge parades down Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. The widely supported Mccarthy hearings that destroyed the lives of many innocent people by innuendo, abandoned by friends, who knew they were innocent, with their employers bowing to fear and pressure and black listing them, truth and the rule of law seemingly no longer mattering in the face of false patriotism that, like today, wipes its ass on the constitutional liberties supposed to protect everyone. I am not holding out false hope at all. But being a student of history, I am not going to completely ignore the other times in American history when things looked so bad that most agreed it was the sign of the end of the country. Citizens and their government were so heartless, stupid, and cruel that it was the only result possible…but it wasn’t.
  17. Counterpoint:
  18. Thankfully for Trump, everyone seems to have moved on… …like he ordered everybody.
  19. And yet, we have never seen this type of polling before, have we?
  20. I guess one of the things you should consider is how long you will be holding the Roth until you retire. It’s great that after five year you can withdraw money tax free - but your conversion from your IRA or 401(k) will be taxed as your present income tax rate, no ? If you let it sit in your standard IRA when you pull it out, you’ll be taxed on your then current income, whatever the hell that is. For a lot of people, they will be in a much lower tax rate after they retire than the tax rate when they converted to the Roth. if you are a savvy, successful investor, it seems that the money growing tax-free in your Roth could offset that tax rate differential if you do great in your Roth and then eventually take the whole thing out tax-free. And then there is that thing where you have to figure out how much of the assets converted from your old IRA was original funds put in the IRA versus the profits and interest you earned in that IRA overtime. I think it’s best to convert your IRA to a Roth as soon as you put it in your IRA so that becomes an easy taxable calculation. Which is all to say I know enough about it to know that I don’t know anything about it. I’m currently putting 8000 in an IRA and immediately converting it to my Roth for the easy math. Also, because at my income level, I’m not allowed to contribute to a Roth, absent the conversion. I believe each conversion you have to wait five years to pull it out tax-free. As an older cancer survivor I’m putting money in my Roth because I’m optimistic that I will be taking it out 5 to 10 years from now. Financial glass half full so to speak. Now that we are in the age of AI and AI software, it seems possible that you can get a hell of a lot of fantastic advice (that you need to check, to be sure) without paying some schmo to tell you some basic facts that you can figure out on your own. My very best advice on financial matters is not to listen to me because I’m an idiot who knows nothing.
  21. Oh, she always does that.
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