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Posts posted by Aqua Buddha
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5 hours ago, Goo Punch said:
as long as Russ is in OKC they will never have a shot to win a title.
That's prolly true but unless things change, OKC will have Roberson and Noel on the court at the same time at points this coming season. Between them they have zero offensive skills despite playing basketball since they were five years old.
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Just now, Machinator said:
Or Hart, or Ingram...
Yeah, Pelicans got a bunch of guys that can't stay healthy and they're all in their early 20's.
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43 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:
That's alot to give up for a dude that can't stay healthy.
You talkin' bout Lonzo or AD?
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Lulz at LaVar Ball. Lonzo has only played 99 games in two seasons and he's only 21.
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2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
I was actually saying this to my wife yesterday about why this year is different for Biden. What used to qualify as a gaffe no longer registers.
This is correct. The old rule book no longer applies.
What will be funny is watching Republicans obsess over every little gaffe and made up scandal while still thinking it matters.
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OKC would have a shot next year if they could some shooters. Who am I kidding? They'll get a bunch of rangy, defensive shooting guards who can't shoot.
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I like how different conservative religious groups have a whole list of regulations about how women can and should dress.
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11 hours ago, TexEx15 said:
Well, of course she thinks that. She learned political grifting at the knee of one of the masters while growing up. Run, get elected then ask for "gifts" to furnish the governor's mansion. Then you line up jobs for your family members. At the end of your term, you then run for president on a shoestring budget with just enough money to pay the salaries of your staff (family). After you lose, you land softly on Fox News while writing a few flimsy books.
It's the family business model.
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Wulaw was the one quick to tell us how principled evangelicals were. In reality, they're the most pliable group in all of American politics.
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It's a good thing the leading Baptist University still has some moral credibility.
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Season 2 premier made it look the writers realized this show is really a comedy. Well done so far.
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13 hours ago, Pancho said:
He skurred
What everyone is missing is that Trump is only getting in the low 40's against everybody, not just Biden. That's no coincidence. That's what he got in 2016 and his numbers never got above that and his unfaves are stuck in the low 50's. He's not winning this and it won't be close.
My prediction is that sometime between now and the Spring, he decides not to run again. He'll bitch and moan and blame it on "endless investigations" but in his mind, riding out on top is better that getting totally worked in the general. He doesn't particularly like being president and he's gotten out of it all he's going to get.
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Yeah, Reconstruction worked out really well for black people.
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1 hour ago, ztejas said:
That's how you draw asterisks on titles you Canuck fucks
Was there an asterisk of GS's title in 2015 when they played Cleveland without Irving and Love? Got taken to six games then, too.
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The retail companies going out of business were shitty companies. Brick and mortar retail is far from over. It's still the cheapest distribution model from a total landed cost perspective.
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5 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:
What is wrong with Alabama? First Roy Moore and now this: Alabama mayor suggests killing gays:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48521788?SThisFB&fbclid=IwAR1k30MF44nqFU7HcoZ3SOhENyPMe_n5UDsa80xpNrFfRXIHN5NHq5dPblU
You know, I want to be conservative. I believe deeply in fiscal restraint and will always err on the side of less government rather than more. Democrats typically don't believe in these things and Republicans suggest things like killing gays.
I don't have a party. I should start the apolitical party, the party for people who hate political parties.
I'm sure he supports the abortion ban making 12 year old rape victims have babies because, you know, every life is precious.
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1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
Let’s play hypothetical for a moment:
Imagine if Trump really did have a serious case of dementia the White House was concealing. How would his staff and family handle the situation?
How would they know?
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With every day he's president, I learn more and more about why he was such a shitty businessman.
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40 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:
Beto has the better look.
He's supposed to be gay and dresses like that?
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How come his bone spurs don't keep him out of the trade war?
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-tariffs-wiped-most-families-080000425.html
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s trade wars have already wiped out all but $100 of the average American household’s windfall from Trump’s 2017 tax law. And that’s just the beginning.
That last $100 in tax-cut gains could soon completely disappear -- and then some -- because of additional tariffs Trump has announced. If the president makes good on his threats to impose levies on virtually all imports from China and Mexico, those middle-earning households could pay nearly $4,000 more.
Subtract the tax cut, and the average household will effectively be paying about $3,000 more in taxes through additional levies on the products they consume.
“It’s giving with one hand and taking with the other,” said Kim Clausing, an economics professor at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, who has written a book promoting free trade.
Here’s how the math works. Middle earners got an average tax cut of $930, according to the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. The tariffs already in effect cost the average household about $831, according to research from the New York Federal Reserve.
China Goods
Add in the additional tariffs on another $300 billion in Chinese goods that Trump proposed in May and that increases the cost for the average family of four to about $2,294 annually, according to research from Tariffs Hurt the Heartland, a coalition of business groups that oppose tariffs.
Trump has also threatened to levy tariffs on all imports from Mexico, starting with a 5% tax beginning as soon as Monday that would increase monthly to 25% by October. If the tariffs reach their highest level, that would increase costs for households by $1,700 annually, according to Gary Hufbauer, a senior fellow at the centrist Peterson Institute for International Economics.
The full force of the Chinese and Mexican tariffs and subsequent retaliation would mean that consumers are paying an additional $3,994 because of tariffs, more than four times the $930 tax cut for middle earners that the Republican Party touts as its signature legislative achievement.
The tariffs are "clearly demolishing” the benefits of the tax cuts for both businesses and consumers, said Daniel Ikenson, who directs trade policy at the libertarian Cato Institute. “Many households and consumers have been spared so far, but the next round of tariffs will be more problematic.”
In the beginning of the trade dispute, Trump and his advisers sought to put tariffs on imports that consumers don’t directly buy, such as steel and aluminum. But as the trade feud with China has escalated, they ran out of non-consumer goods on which to put levies. The most recent round of announced tariffs includes consumer products, such as apparel, sporting goods and kitchen ware.
Trump’s most recent threat on all imports from Mexico would increase prices on cars and auto parts, televisions, phones and air conditioners, as well as produce, such as avocados, citrus and pineapples.
Only the top 5% of earners would continue to see a net tax cut of more than 1%, according to the right-leaning Tax Foundation. Tariffs would also depress wages by about 0.5% and result in the loss of nearly 610,000 full-time jobs, according to the foundation.
That creates political problems for Republicans in Congress who have continued to back Trump even as they disagreed with his trade policies. Republicans have cited the passage of the tax-cut law, low unemployment rates and wage increases as signs that Trump’s policies have buoyed the economy. But there are signs that support is beginning to fracture.
The tax cuts “vaulted America back into the most competitive economy,” said Representative Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican who led the passage of the tax cut legislation in the House. “Higher tariffs and the uncertainty that comes with trade disputes" hurt the economy, he said.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged the administration this week to delay imposing the tariffs until Republicans in Congress could plead their case to Trump. Most Senate Republicans have objected to Trump’s use of tariffs to force tougher border enforcement by Mexico. Lawmakers are weighing moves to block the levies.
“This is a man-made disaster, because Donald Trump is not focused in any way on advancing a well-thought-out doctrine,” said Representative Hakeem Jeffries, a top Democrat from New York. “He seems to be carrying out at times personal vendettas, at other times political objectives and sometimes an effort to distract from the news of the day.”
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58 minutes ago, SameSame said:
Trump after Pelosi said she wants to see him in prison, "She's a nasty, vindictive, horrible person,"
This cunty bloated bitch has led choruses of dipshits for 3 years in Lock Her Up chants, and also blatantly encouraged his followers to Murder his opponent if she should win.
And now he got his toddler feelings hurt over a prison comment, Lol.
Stealing from Bama Chick in the other thread:
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3 hours ago, Moby Ric said:
We all owe every single one of those men a debt of thanks. We would not be here if not for them, and the world would be a very different place.
This is the underpinning of the importance of WWII and one thing that has always fascinated me about it. The War was not like the wars of today where the outcome is wildly predetermined. We could have easily lost that war. At the beginning we had the 13th largest military in the world (or something like that) and were mired in the Great Depression. By the time we got to Normandy, we were formidable army but had Germany pursued a different strategy and held the beaches, history would have a completely different outcome. They could have held Europe until the developed jet fighter planes which would have eliminated our air superiority or later that that, developed the bomb. Any number of different outcomes could have happened.
To call D-Day one of the most important days in the history of the world is not an understatement.
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Donald Trump and Lavar Ball are basically the same person.