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Gatorubet

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  1. Kavan is legit. Odd overlook. Good morning, game fans. Here’s to a good game with an umpire that is consistent with a narrow zone that makes people get the bat off their damn shoulders. Let’s both get out of this thing without using a ton of pitchers and with nobody getting injured.
  2. You’re not getting your tariff money, and you’ll like it!! j/k The former The orange shit gibbon can assign percentages to countries because it involves no research or knowledge or expertise in the type of materials and goods flowing from each country. That is why trade deals take years. I am Bigly hoping that the appellate court reviewing this decision will mention the white house comments that “"It is not for unelected judges to decide how to properly address a national emergency.” Appellate courts love hearing that they do not have the authority to review legislative or executive actions for their constitutionality.
  3. so it dawns on me Trump‘s play might be to get Mike Johnson to whoop up some legislation giving Trump the congressional authority to do tariffs with some guidelines and slight limitations that might result in a different judicial interpretation. but if that is the play - that seems like it would empower all of the GOP hardliners to use that vote as a bargaining chip in the discussions with the Senate about the one big beautiful bill’s deficit increasing aspect. Plus, you would have the purple state/ potentially in election jeopardy Republicans - who could previously attempt to blame tariffs and damage to the economy from tariffs on Trump - but if forced vote to give Trump tariff power now would put the responsibility for any subsequent failure on them personally for that vote when they had a chance not to do it. so maybe Johnson does not get the votes that Trump wants, and it always turns out well for someone who offended Trump. Which is all to say that shit is gonna get really interesting over the next month. I would love to see Trump and Johnson try to get legislation only to have Johnson not be able to deliver and be kicked out as Speaker….hopefully with a shit show of a House Speaker election like the last few. in reality, we were just waiting this summer to see what hurricane hits where - and how fun it will be when Trump says FEMA can’t help.
  4. Libation? I agree.
  5. Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC just said that a Trump appoint he was part of the decision. I have no idea if that is true, just passing on Talking Heads stuff.
  6. yep. The narcissist can’t walk around with a hard on all day because he knows the entire world’s economies rise and fall at his stupid social media posts. I’m not sure everyone realizes how important that is to him.
  7. I don’t even know you anymore…. jk. I grant you that as the history, but once the orange turd started spouting about his plans to tariff the fuck out of the world’s economy, the only people in charge who could change that was the GOP Congress.
  8. I have always given Texas props for the Nebraska game. But you did not gift wrap it, you only wrapped half the package. Ohio State coming back in the last minute to beat Jake the Snake is what ultimately allowed the FSU beat down. But I will always buy a Longhorn a cocktail for that fourth and inches. Well, I always considered the option somewhat unacceptable.
  9. And as much as I would love to blame Trump, the fault for this lands squarely on the GOP Congress and their toady-like surrender of their congressional obligations under the Constitution.
  10. They held hearings on the summary judgment motions as recently as May 21. That was a pretty quick decision. But then, Trump’s decision to take over all tariff making power in the country in such a bullshit excuse-giving way means that the decision could’ve been written in a day without the hearings and still been correct.
  11. National Championships are like that sometimes. And that is a bit of an odd example for you, as we won the SEC as well that year. Carry on.
  12. I don’t have a link. But I think I know who DOGE is gonna look at next.
  13. https://www.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com/2025/05/27/trump-2-0-tariff-tracker/ nope. All countries are being assessed a 10% tariff - unless they are country specific in which case they are probably delayed or on hold country by country. The key here is that if there is a specific country agreement, then that supersedes the 10% and we are collecting nothing.
  14. My son asked me to go to the movie with him because there are five theaters in the country showing it in 70 mm. As far as I knew, it was a new release. It is a rare day that I go to the movies, and absent sports I don’t watch much television/commercials I salute you on your perspicacity regarding coming attractions.
  15. So - the US economy is actually the Aggy roller coaster? Got it.
  16. Somebody help me out here. Trump yammering about a 50% EU tariff followed by his normal walk back for 90 days always seems to make the stock market happy. How is it good for business keeping everyone on pins and needles and not making decisions until late summer - when hopefully everyone will figure out what tariffs there are and how they work when many products contain parts from different countries? My decidedly uninformed mind keeps thinking that the longer there is uncertainty and business people can’t make plans, the worse off the economy will be in the long-term. This seems like it should be feeding a looming recession instead of a cause for stock market joy. Why is another round of no one knows what the fuck is happening a good thing?
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