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Incredulity

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  1. There is technically “holding” on every football play of every game at every level.
  2. Just logged into my account
  3. yup, totally would have won… A real mystery he didn’t do more long form interviews in his 4 years https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/01/08/joe-biden-interview-transcript/77490912007/ PAGE: You talk about your economic successes on jobs and on growth on avoiding a recession which, a lot of people thought that wasn't possible. But one reason that Donald Trump won in November was the support he managed to get from working class voters, voters without a college education, voters who have been part of the Democratic coalition, voters who you as Scranton Joe have long identified with. Why do you think Democrats lost so much of their support in November? BIDEN: Well, number one, I think that, as I said, if you look around the world, almost every democracy out there "lost" this time, number one. Number two, I think that if you, and it's not a criticism of the press, it's a reality... Turn on the news. Do you ever see any good news? I'm not being facetious. I'm not trying, and I don't say that as a criticism. I say that as an observation. The mindset we're in, it seems like you get no click unless there's something negative. And if you think about it, much of what I had, the hardest thing to do for me in the economy was to think through what were the immediate fixes you could do to make people feel better? But what do we do in the long-term? Put America in a position where you continue to be able to lead the world. And much of what we did... For example, we passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. Hooray, hooray. That sounds great, right? Historians will talk about (how) great the impact was, but it didn't (have) any immediate impact on people's lives. But it didn't have any immediate impact on people's lives. But guess what? There's 66,000 projects already signed out there. Some of them are billion dollar bridges. There are things that are going to create enormous wealth and work out there, but it takes time. Or for example, when... I think I made a bad mistake. I think you wrote something about when I went to Korea to try to bring back the computer chip industry back to the United States. And people looked at me like, "What are you doing?" Well, no one... I never thought, I used to always kid the staff when I started at the beginning, talking about supply chains. Who the hell talked about supply chains in the previous 10, 20, 30, 40 years? Well, guess what? All of a sudden we found out that you need 30 little computer chips [inaudible] to build an automobile. You find you got to do your cell phone, your dishwasher, your washing machine. All of a sudden it was like, we can't get them. We invented the damn things. We modernized them. And so when I went to South Korea and meet with Samsung, I convinced them that it made sense for them to invest in the United States. And we ended up in a circumstance where we had billions of dollars invested over time. But what I said, "Why'd you decide to invest?" I think it was they invested $15 billion outside Columbus, Ohio, to build a fab, which is twice as three times the size of a football field. And there was this response he gave me. He said, "Because you have those qualified workers in the world, number one. And number two, you're the safest place in the world to invest." And what we did, the big sort of conceptual change I made, was I realized that, and I'm embarrassed, I didn't know, that oh, I've been around here a long time. When Roosevelt tried to protect labor unions from being able to be overrun by Corporate America in the thirties, there was a provision in that law that said, in simple terms, when the Congress gives the president money to spend on a project, he should use an American worker, an American product. That was honored in the exception of Democrats and Republicans for all these years. Well, I changed it. I started saying, "No, no, that's what we're going to do." And what's happened is by this invest in America, we've generated a whole lot of... And I know people understand we're critical of my being the most pro-labor president in American history. Well, there's a simple reason for it. And that is that they’re the most qualified people in the world to do the job. And so for example, and I had a meeting out here in the South Lawn. We were doing this, we were trying to get the CHIPS and Science Act passed, and I met with the labor guys and I hadn't laid out my environmental plan. Again, which it started all the way back in the eighties. And I said, "Look, when I think environment, I think jobs. And you should think jobs." And I finally got the IBW to endorse me, endorse the plan and say it's jobs. So what happened was, for example, we got in a situation where I asked the Samsung CEO why he was investing? He said, "Because you have the best workers in America, in the world." It takes five years to become an electrician. The average person you and I grew up with. I, well, I speak for myself. "You think you're going to be an electrician?" "Yeah, I want to be an electrician." You go to school for six months. Five years. And so I guess what I'm saying is that the focus on trying to take and reestablish entire industries, infrastructure, dealing with the cost of how things would, I can get you on Air Force One if you have a prescription from any drug store here in Washington, DC, get in the plane. I'm not taking any capital rule and get it you for 40 to 60% less. Same company, same prescription. Why is that? Why is the only thing in the world, up until we changed it, only thing that the federal government can't negotiate on is drug prices for Medicare. Do it for the veterans' thing. So we finally got that changed, and we changed things like which I got a profound economic, not just political impact. It used to be that for prescription drug, for insulin, it was 400 bucks a month. Thirty-five. Now no senior in America, no matter what their prescription bills are, can be charged more than $2,000 a year. It's a game changer.
  4. There is a subset of the roofing industry that is proactive in soliciting work for hail damage under the pretense that insurance will get the client a new roof. Some of it is extremely aggressive in all aspects up to fraudulent claims. That subset seems to be more prevalent in the last few decades.
  5. You can play your Head Games and it Feels Like the First Time, but you were quite Urgent to make that list.
  6. my lord, could you imagine if a freaking plane got downed by a damn consumer drone. ugh.
  7. CNBC reported this AM that California insurance commission(or board or whatever its called) just "banned" insurers from dropping coverage for a year. No idea how that works.
  8. Brother...? Roadtrip, kids wanted McDonalds. She is dead set on using app for the freebies. Gets the order set up and we pull into the drive-thru and provide the order code. After a noticeable delay they say pull to second window. They start to hand me an order that isn't close to what we wanted. After a few minutes of arguing with the attendant that I did not order a single Big Mac meal for a family of five the manager arrived and informed us the wife had ordered on the app at the McDonalds location across town and we would need to go there. I did not engage in the 30-45 min detour that would have entailed.
  9. Rear Deltoid, Trapezius, Latissimus Dorsi get nothing from a push-up. Rows and pull-ups. Plus the fact he is 50lbs overweight(his estimate). That's significant load on the shoulders, repeatedly. 35 isn't old, but is sure as fuck isn't 18.
  10. The hookers wardrobe jump started puberty for many Gen Xers
  11. Fuck you. Good Christ you people are such bitchasses.
  12. get original material you hack
  13. Whatever. I haven't seen Trump's commentary on this. Fire protection water is a must have to get development approved anywhere. Of course much of this may be grandfathered in to systems that wouldn't be allowed currently. If fire protection rules were skirted its a huge scandal. thats all I said.
  14. Fuck you. Someone else posted they didn't have water in the hydrants.
  15. @B00M the fuck you neg this for? You don't think having fire protection water is a criteria for allowing development in any municipality?
  16. Well, they are all right out of central casting.
  17. Get a container that you can use for the refilling with which you can match the differential capacity. So if the stated capacity is 15oz get a container that you can match that with. Makes filling those so much cleaner than trying to stop when full as the hose will be filled when you see the differential is full.
  18. This is a MASSIVE scandal if so.
  19. Unfortunately few people are as motivated and tricky as meth'd out thieves/looters.
  20. the workaround seems doable.
  21. Probably too soon, but I can't stop thinking about how fucked any property owner is for insurance in California. This is unreal.
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