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1 hour ago, Valmy77 said:

I had a huge crush on her. Holy shit he groped Stacey Williams and was not instantly struck down by God for desecrating an angel? This is why Atheists are probably right.

I mean I guess first he fucks my country so I shouldn't be upset he sexually assaulted my teenage crush. There is nothing sacred to me this fucker doesn't feel entitled to.

Wait. Hold fucking on. He groped Stacey Williams?!!! The connoisseur's SI model.  I’m actually not fucking around. While everyone one else was waxing poetic about Kathy Ireland or whatever, those of us who knew…knew. 
 

Fuck that piece of shit. Fuck him to hell

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I mean we already now he raped at least one woman and has a long history of groping. And he is a serial philanderer who cheated on all of his wives.

But maybe some people just have to see video evidence. Maybe.

We'll see.

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4 minutes ago, The Dog said:

This:

 

She’s right. Please refrain from “it doesn’t matter”

Say something else. Like “won’t move the needle” without sounding like you’re minimizing what the underage teen went through 

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8 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

Rumors about a Trump video have been going around Twitter for a few days with the MAGA types preparing their followers for "fake AI misinformation", etc. 

Will be interesting if more comes of it, but you'd think the video would be out by now

 

saudis going to buy that video 

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If this is the story that was supposedly shopped to multiple media orgs, it doesnt make a lot of sense to me as the verification simply becomes "is it AI or not" and there are certainly technology companies that have solutions to determine that. 

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Just now, Bateshorn said:

Wait. Hold fucking on. He groped Stacey Williams?!!! The connoisseur's SI model.  I’m actually not fucking around. While everyone one else was waxing poetic about Kathy Ireland or whatever, those of us who knew…knew. 
 

Fuck that piece of shit. Fuck him to hell

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I crushed on her so much. I sometimes still watch those behind the scenes videos from SI on youtube.

Holy shit.

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I dislike that Harris can’t just say that grocery prices aren’t coming down. I know that we would all love our grocery bill to drop 25% but it’s impossible and actually would be detrimental at this point. What we need is what is occurring where wages and expenses are finding a new equilibrium.

are all workers willing to turn their wages back to 2019 levels to get groceries back to 2019 levels? I vote no to that.

I mean yes, this is obviously right (although food prices have and continue to fluctuate, and that includes downward at times, as they always have)...

But the segment of the electorate that understands this or is even able to grasp the possibility is already backing Harris. That's not who she needs to win over.

Also, yes, when asked in polling if they would prefer additional buying power through a wage increase or lower prices, Americans pick lower prices (even if that means passing up on income gains) by like a 2-1 margin.

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18 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

A name I’ve not heard in a long time. 

 

I'm not even a hockey fan, but this dude was the fucking man in my youth.

Also notice how all of our friends from across the pond are much better at recognizing how dire our current situation is. Almost like their families have already had their own experiences with personality cults and fascism.

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I work in a very commodity reliant field. I know this to be a fact. 
Covid caused shortages. Prices went up because of scarcity of goods. Retailers had to pay more which the end result was inflation of price. 
Now cost of commodities have gone down.   However, retailers have not reduced consumer prices at all, or at best, not in proportion to the drop in commodity prices. 
 

I can attest that it is not lost on retailers, for example restaurants, that the consumer needs to get used to the idea of the $25 per person lunch.  For the most part, we have. Corp profits generally reflect this. 
 

Her answer should be some variation of this along with the successful admin efforts that did bring inflation in many areas down. 

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2 minutes ago, CTC2 said:

I work in a very commodity reliant field. I know this to be a fact. 
Covid caused shortages. Prices went up because of scarcity of goods. Retailers had to pay more which the end result was inflation of price. 
Now cost of commodities have gone down.   However, retailers have not reduced consumer prices at all, or at best, not in proportion to the drop in commodity prices. 
 

I can attest that it is not lost on retailers, for example restaurants, that the consumer needs to get used to the idea of the $25 per person lunch.  For the most part, we have. 
 

Her answer should be some variation of this along with the successful admin efforts that did bring inflation in many areas down. 

This is all true.

However, in the next 12 months you're about to see some serious price drops.

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3 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

I'm not even a hockey fan, but this dude was the fucking man in my youth.

Also notice how all of our friends from across the pond are much better at recognizing how dire our current situation is. Almost like their families have already had their own experiences with personality cults and fascism.

Hasek has also been extremely pro-Ukrainian, to the point of pushing to ban Russian NHLers that don't speak out against it (obviously that hasn't gained traction).  Believe it or not, at least two have spoken out a bit, Panarin of the Rangers against Putin a few years ago - the GRU instantly created a story about him being some sort of abuser, and Zadarov of the Bruins who simply said he was against the war, and now he can't go home.  

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39 minutes ago, The Dog said:

This:

 

 

35 minutes ago, Js1 said:

She’s right. Please refrain from “it doesn’t matter”

Say something else. Like “won’t move the needle” without sounding like you’re minimizing what the underage teen went through 

it's not my job to be the arbiter of what people mean, but pretty much everyone's response will mean "this won't make a difference to the voters." nobody will mean "what happened didn't matter". any bombshell-style news teased on twitter and dropped ~2 weeks before an insanely important election has to be viewed through that lens.

so let me be the millionth person to say this won't make a difference to the voters. the republican nominee for president is a predator. it's a feature, not a bug.

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10 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

This is all true.

However, in the next 12 months you're about to see some serious price drops.

Well, according to bozo, and this sounds pretty rational, in highly competitive industries like groceries, they are in a fairly constant price war and eventually that will cause prices to return to "normal."

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Target Will Reduce Prices on More Than 2,000 Items to Help Consumers Save this Holiday Season

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) announced today it will reduce regular prices on more than 2,000 items across owned and national brands this holiday season, including food and beverages, everyday essentials, holiday gifts and items to prep the home for the holidays.1 The move will help consumers save on items for holiday preparations and gifting, like toys, board games, beauty products, bath towels, snacks, beverages, frozen vegetables, cookies, ice cream, toilet paper, cough and cold medicine and more.

Target routinely adjusts its prices to remain competitive in markets across the country. These new price reductions are on top of the retailer's everyday low prices. In May, Target announced it would cut prices on about 5,000 items, saving Target guests millions of dollars this summer. The retailer surpassed its 5,000-item price cuts promise, lowering prices on over 8,000 total items year to date. By the end of the holiday season, Target will have lowered prices on over 10,000 items during the year.  

https://corporate.target.com/press/release/2024/10/target-will-reduce-prices-on-more-than-2,000-items-to-help-consumers-save-this-holiday-season

 

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3 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

Target Will Reduce Prices on More Than 2,000 Items to Help Consumers Save this Holiday Season

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) announced today it will reduce regular prices on more than 2,000 items across owned and national brands this holiday season, including food and beverages, everyday essentials, holiday gifts and items to prep the home for the holidays.1 The move will help consumers save on items for holiday preparations and gifting, like toys, board games, beauty products, bath towels, snacks, beverages, frozen vegetables, cookies, ice cream, toilet paper, cough and cold medicine and more.

Target routinely adjusts its prices to remain competitive in markets across the country. These new price reductions are on top of the retailer's everyday low prices. In May, Target announced it would cut prices on about 5,000 items, saving Target guests millions of dollars this summer. The retailer surpassed its 5,000-item price cuts promise, lowering prices on over 8,000 total items year to date. By the end of the holiday season, Target will have lowered prices on over 10,000 items during the year.  

https://corporate.target.com/press/release/2024/10/target-will-reduce-prices-on-more-than-2,000-items-to-help-consumers-save-this-holiday-season

 

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Posted
1 minute ago, Bullneck said:

Hold onto your hats.  We have dodged a bullet:

 

 

C'mon, we don't have to make up stupid shit he said with misleading tweets. 

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1 hour ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

what the fuck is this bitch talking about?

It’s called policy. I know it’s difficult for you to understand when you’re accustomed to hearing rambling word salad from a guy crapping his pants while he speaks.

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6 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

C'mon, we don't have to make up stupid shit he said with misleading tweets. 

I'm not sure what he meant to say in that weird-ass ramble, but one of the biggest mistakes media made was freaking out over and mischaracterizing the small stuff in the early going.  It fed into the fake news mantra.

And then they overreacted the other way in normalizing even the truly crazy-ass shit.

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Just now, TwiceHorn said:

I'm not sure what he meant to say in that weird-ass ramble, but one of the biggest mistakes media made was freaking out over and mischaracterizing the small stuff in the early going.  It fed into the fake news mantra.

And then they overreacted the other way in normalizing even the truly crazy-ass shit.

The problem with that clip is it starts too late to know what he’s talking about. He’s saying he avoided a trade war w France.  Idk if it’s true or not but he has talked about it before, threatening to put a huge tariff on wine and champagne if they didn’t drop some tariff they had on something we export to them. 

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10 minutes ago, royiv said:

It’s called policy. I know it’s difficult for you to understand when you’re accustomed to hearing rambling word salad from a guy crapping his pants while he speaks.

And that's just when he is talking in the mirror. Now get to Trump. 

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20 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

C'mon, we don't have to make up stupid shit he said with misleading tweets. 

 

8 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

The problem with that clip is it starts too late to know what he’s talking about. He’s saying he avoided a trade war w France.  Idk if it’s true or not but he has talked about it before, threatening to put a huge tariff on wine and champagne if they didn’t drop some tariff they had on something we export to them. 

Yeah, maybe.  I don't know.  Maybe they caught him "mid weave."

But I DO know that when the British attacked in the Revolutionary War they had to pick between BWI and Dulles.  

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10 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

C'mon, we don't have to make up stupid shit he said with misleading tweets. 

"I stopped the wars...with France."

We don't know what he said before making that statement (granted), but it sounds like he's talking about actual wars. We know that's long been a talking point from him and his supporters: "He kept the peace. There were no wars during his admin." That's demonstrably not true, a lie if you will.

Then, he brings up France, which was clearly a seamless transition to "trade wars." Well, obviously, that's a different kind of "war." And, yes, there was an effort by the French government to begin putting tariffs on US imports (I honestly have no idea how that turned out), but their proposal was in response to him initiating that trade war by imposing tariffs on European imports into the US. So, again, he made a false statement--another lie.

Now, the trick here is interpreting what he meant versus what his crowd understood by those two lies.

I guess it's not a lie if he believed either of those two things (Costanza). So, you could say the Xitter post was actually being generous by saying he's senile. On the other hand, Trump may have been intentionally confusing the two types of wars for the purpose of deceiving his audience. I guess that's worse.

Do you think the attendees could discern the difference?

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Posted
1 minute ago, bolverk said:

 

Do you think the attendees could discern the difference?

They’re just happy the French didn’t cut off America’s supply of French Fries. 

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He wasn't trying to say that he stopped a real war with France. His voice didn't put a period where there was supposed to be one, and he moved onto "the France story." Being shitty at transitions and shitty at the English language in general is pretty par for the course for him.

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2 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Yeah I know why it comes out so awkward. But if she’s going to raise the specter of companies out of control, make it easy to understand. The pandemic brought cheaper prices then a lack of supply when everything opened back up raised the prices and they’ve kept them there. I also agree they aren’t ever coming down. People think they want inflation to reverse, but they don’t realize that if deflation actually happens, then the economy is really shitty

The vast majority of people in Texas think insane low gas prices prices are great for them.

My Tech grad Cousin's wife cheered when oil hit zero; he had to politely correct her as he's in the oil business and was about to loose his rickety oil boon house of cards racket. He held on and is quite happy with the Biden boom, although he wouldn't fess up

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Just now, aggie08 said:

He wasn't trying to say that he stopped a real war with France. His voice didn't put a period where there was supposed to be one, and he moved onto "the France story." Being shitty at transitions and shitty at the English language in general is pretty par for the course for him.

Again, we don't have context for the "stopping the wars" statement, so your interpretation may well have been his intent. But we also have the context of his prior statements in other venues where he has repeatedly referenced stopping "the (hot) wars" in reference to Ukraine and Gaza.

In either case, he's lying because a) he started the trade wars, and b) the Russia/Ukraine war was actually being fought the entire time while he was in office. Moreover, Israel and Hamas had a "war" in 2018.

Look, I'll let this go, because we've already (both of us) likely put more thought and care into our posts than he did in his speech in front of thousands. That is unless he was trying to trick the audience by intentionally conflating the two topics.

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3 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

The vast majority of people in Texas think insane low gas prices prices are great for them.

My Tech grad Cousin's wife cheered when oil hit zero; he had to politely correct her as he's in the oil business and was about to loose his rickety oil boon house of cards racket. He held on and is quite happy with the Biden boom, although he wouldn't fess up

I keep getting bombarded with his stupid ads claiming $7 per gallon gas (Exxon/Mobil execs probably cum in their pants seeing that).  Today I filled up, at you guessed it, $2.49.  This is hilariously stupid, because it's actually a lower price than pre Covid and pre inflation.  In a parity sense, compared to his term and his economy, gas is at about $1.39 per gallon.  

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30 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Trump threatened to impose tariffs on wines in response to France imposing a tax on digital services. 
 

And on Jan 12, 2021, he did put a 25% tariff on German and French wines due the Boeing/Airbus fight. Biden did away with those.

fuck Trump.

Don’t tariff my French wines! Texas wines are shit!

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3 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

I keep getting bombarded with his stupid ads claiming $7 per gallon gas (Exxon/Mobil execs probably cum in their pants seeing that).  Today I filled up, at you guessed it, $2.49.  This is hilariously stupid, because it's actually a lower price than pre Covid and pre inflation.  In a parity sense, compared to his term and his economy, gas is at about $1.39 per gallon.  

I’m in what is supposedly one of the most expensive gas markets in the country and gas is around $3.80 right now at Costco.  Where milk is about the same and free range organic eggs are 2 dzn for $8. These things just don’t feel much more expensive than they were 4 years ago. 

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1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I’m in what is supposedly one of the most expensive gas markets in the country and gas is around $3.80 right now at Costco.  Where milk is about the same and free range organic eggs are 2 dzn for $8. These things just don’t feel much more expensive than they were 4 years ago. 

The milk thing is bizarre to me, yes it spiked for a bit, but it's like $1..49 a gallon here.  What the hell are these people talking about?  

Also, I'm sorry Mr. Rockefeller, but my Sears credit card has a limit, I can't afford the organic eggs.  Regular eggs right now are $2 a dozen, $2.50 for 18.  Again, what the hell are these people talking about?  

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4 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

The milk thing is bizarre to me, yes it spiked for a bit, but it's like $1..49 a gallon here.  What the hell are these people talking about?  

Also, I'm sorry Mr. Rockefeller, but my Sears credit card has a limit, I can't afford the organic eggs.  Regular eggs right now are $2 a dozen, $2.50 for 18.  Again, what the hell are these people talking about?  

You expect people who don’t know shit about basic economics and the ebbs and flows that creates in the prices one pays for a particular good or service to know what the hell they are talking about?

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29 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

He wasn't trying to say that he stopped a real war with France. His voice didn't put a period where there was supposed to be one, and he moved onto "the France story." Being shitty at transitions and shitty at the English language in general is pretty par for the course for him.

And also a sign of dementia which crippled his father and is genetic. 

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37 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

He wasn't trying to say that he stopped a real war with France. His voice didn't put a period where there was supposed to be one, and he moved onto "the France story." Being shitty at transitions and shitty at the English language in general is pretty par for the course for him.

His problem is that he doesn't read what's going to come up on the teleprompter beforehand.  He's reading it as he goes.  That's why you can always tell where the line break on the prompter is.  If a sentence is

written like this. Then

this is how he

reads it.

Say what you will about Grandpa Joe and I feel for him in his old age, but he always reviewed the text before reading it live.

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