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On 8/17/2025 at 2:44 PM, Degenerate Gardner said:

We’ve reached the point in Goodfellas where the once proud proprietor Sonny Bunz’ bar is burned down by the Mob to collect insurance payouts, and we are all Sonny.

And why not? Nobody's gonna pay for it anyway. And as soon as the deliveries are made in the front door, you move the stuff out the back and sell it at a discount. You take a two hundred dollar case of booze and you sell it for a hundred. It doesn't matter. It's all profit. And then finally, when there's nothing left, when you can't borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out. You light a match.

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On 8/1/2025 at 2:13 PM, ChickenSandwich said:

It is going to take a bit for the consumer to notice after the last four years 

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I mean, every year is going to be a new record.  Prices don't go back down.

Except for milk at my heb...$1.62/gallon last week.

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18 hours ago, tbone_ said:

My grandmother retired sort of early from Sears in 1980. Got a lump sum payout and put it in a 10 year CD at 16%. 

My dad put his mom's small savings into a CD paying somewhere around that amount.  She did alright.

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4 hours ago, Incredulity said:

I will die on the hill that anyone with a $8 gallon of milk in their refrigerator should be beaten with a rubber hose.

And yet you say nothing about  someone owning two $5 half gallons of milk in the refrigerator… this is how a nation ends.

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1 hour ago, StassneyHorn said:

8 dollar milk is for people who don’t drink milk often so they don’t have to throw away after a week.

Living alone, I don’t drink a whole hell of a lot of milk.  That’s why the Fairlife milk with its ultra pasteurized long life winds up being cheaper for me.  A half gallon of standard milk will go bad before I use it all.

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Mootopia from HEB for the win. Ultra pasteurized, lower sugar, lower fat, with an end result of a better protein to sugar/fat ratio. Add some omega 3s and I’m good to go. Don’t know the cost, takes us 10 or so days to drink a whole gallon. 

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11 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

8 dollar milk is for people who don’t drink milk often so they don’t have to throw away after a week.

And buy it for status. That shit is nasty 

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For context: WalMart said on their earnings call this morning that they're seeing “increased sales among upper income customers that wouldn’t usually shop there”

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so for the first time i can actually remember, at least 10 years...CostCo receipt was a legit shock 😳

i mean we've all spent hundreds more than intended there... but you're not actually surprised at the total. 

no clothes, 1/3 of our normal meat (one big chuck roast and some frozen fish), minimal pharmacy product, everything else was just our standard stuff - produce, coffee, dairy, etc. 

was enough that we went over the receipt ourselves before leaving. wow.

 

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So now there is talk that the US would have to pay back all the tariffs that have been collected with money we don’t have. That doesn’t sound great for inflation.

However, my guess is that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of Trump because cloak room. Is there a way for the ruling to be that Trump can’t unilaterally decide tariffs moving forward but we don’t have to come up with 500 billion dollars to pay back? 

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57 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

So now there is talk that the US would have to pay back all the tariffs that have been collected with money we don’t have. That doesn’t sound great for inflation.

However, my guess is that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of Trump because cloak room. Is there a way for the ruling to be that Trump can’t unilaterally decide tariffs moving forward but we don’t have to come up with 500 billion dollars to pay back? 

Yeah see, usually we have checks and balances to avoid this sort of fuck up. Ya know, where the body with the power of the purse approves new taxes and expenditures? Eh idk that's just some cloak room shit I guess.

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5 hours ago, mchookem said:

so for the first time i can actually remember, at least 10 years...CostCo receipt was a legit shock 😳

i mean we've all spent hundreds more than intended there... but you're not actually surprised at the total. 

no clothes, 1/3 of our normal meat (one big chuck roast and some frozen fish), minimal pharmacy product, everything else was just our standard stuff - produce, coffee, dairy, etc. 

was enough that we went over the receipt ourselves before leaving. wow.

 

I remember the long lost days of going in there, and being like "yeah, I know when I walk through this door I am out at least $150".

LOL.

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1 hour ago, Larry T. Spider said:

So now there is talk that the US would have to pay back all the tariffs that have been collected with money we don’t have. That doesn’t sound great for inflation.

However, my guess is that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of Trump because cloak room. Is there a way for the ruling to be that Trump can’t unilaterally decide tariffs moving forward but we don’t have to come up with 500 billion dollars to pay back? 

Ain't no one paying back shit to anybody about anything. haha.  

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12 hours ago, mchookem said:

so for the first time i can actually remember, at least 10 years...CostCo receipt was a legit shock 😳

i mean we've all spent hundreds more than intended there... but you're not actually surprised at the total. 

no clothes, 1/3 of our normal meat (one big chuck roast and some frozen fish), minimal pharmacy product, everything else was just our standard stuff - produce, coffee, dairy, etc. 

was enough that we went over the receipt ourselves before leaving. wow.

 

 

it’s one banana, what could it cost, ten dollars? 

 

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