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Goredho

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  1. Colorado has entered the chat. https://cdphe.colorado.gov/press-release/one-measles-case-confirmed-in-colorado-resident-with-recent-international-travel?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2-u_dfJmY4ofyuHPd2GQ4MmKdVHez3Obymin-WDzW-klrgt0mbF7z0vw8_aem_Wgw9-iChTRkTO2zZVTHExg
  2. Not that I wholly disagree, but this looks and reads an awful lot like a Trump post. DO SOMETHING!!
  3. And people who have suddenly become have nots through a financial collapse become amenable to working on the terms the haves dictate as a matter of survival.
  4. I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it is. There is an unseen/unspoken motive involved with wanting to send the world into a recession if not depression.
  5. Spent three summers of my 20s as a fishing guide out of a Yellowstone-area fly shop. All those towns stand to be hit hard. Their economy is built on the disposable income of outdoorsmen.
  6. You all keep bashing Trump, but he's literally able to bend time to his will and transport us all back to the 19th century. That's what is called omimpotents, libtards!
  7. Elect a clown the antichrist, expect a circus the apocalypse. One of ya'll can offset your financial losses by getting that bumper sticker made.
  8. Eh, I think he’s more cut out for this…
  9. Sire taking a page from the PRS Silver Sky playbook
  10. You overthrow the national party apparatus with a grass roots movement that is more exciting and compelling to voters than the Republican's MAGA movement that overthrew its national party apparatus. Until such a thing emerges from the ashes of the Clinton/Pelosi/Schumer Democratic Party, continuing to support their candidates is simply choosing to help stifle its rise.
  11. On the plus side, American society and governance is being remade in such a way that fools who believe bullshit on the intardnet will sort themselves out of the biosphere in fairly quick order. See West Texas measles outbreak. If they don't, well... I guess they will prove they were right all along.
  12. What I can't figure out is why anyone talks about democrats in the present tense. People like Chuck Schumer, they aren't interested in being a real opposition to what is going on. They are happy to provide a non-threatening facade of choice in exchange for secondary power and influence post-Republic, but they aren't really going to try to organize any sort of meaningful stand against anything. The Democratic Party, at least in its current form, is a senescent forest of old, unhealthy trees that is stifling the growth of the grass (roots movements) beneath its canopy. It needs a good cleansing fire to make way for the growth of something new.
  13. In a somewhat similar situation, though likely not needing it as quick unless I have to take deep pay cuts to keep working, which does happen for people in my industry 55+. My guy recommended we start getting some equity out of the market and into tax free municipal bonds. Getting 4% tax free with the interest paid every 6 months. We shifted from 100% stocks/funds to 60/40 stocks to bonds. The interest dividends can be used to either reinvest or as tax free income to offset a hit to my salary while working age 55+. I have no idea how sound this is, I'm just a dude with some money following his financial advisors advice, but I definitely have less anxiety not having all of my retirement nest egg tied to the stock market roller coaster right now.
  14. Enjoying Dark Winds after 2 episodes.
  15. Pedal tuners are definitely nice.
  16. This hits close to home. I got tipsy and a little high last night and was killing time waiting for it all to kick in fully before going to bed, so I asked ChatGPT what would have if the Yellowstone Super Volcano erupted, but instead of spewing ash, it spewed an equivalent amount of the psychedelic compound from bufo alvarius (toad) venom. This is what it had to say;
  17. Witnessing violent/traumatic death is no joke. I was driving next to a small airfield in a suburb of Salt Lake City with my then infant son in his car seat in the back. I noticed a small plane that had just taken off kind of rising and falling erratically before stalling out and plunging into the ground. No explosion, but it caught fire quick and by the time I was pulled over, the whole plane was on fire. This was about 30 yards away from me on the other side of a security fence. I pulled over, got over to the fence, and I could see the pilot burning inside. The first vehicle to arrive on the inside of the fence was just a civilian car, and a young woman got out and got within maybe 5-10 yards of the cockpit and just started wailing in a way I had never heard before. Emergency vehicles arrived pretty quickly, but they couldn't do much. Plane burned down super quick, and the pilot certainly was dead by the time they got there. I read in the paper the next day that he was just a local pilot who flew advertising banners over sporting events. He was taking off to go fly something over a minor league baseball game when he had some sort of engine trouble and boom he was gone. That event fucked with me for quite awhile, and recalling it now, I can still see the dude in the cockpit. I hope it does not stick with you like it did me, @Ghost of LL. Here's a photo of the aftermath and the news article:
  18. I don't disagree with anything you wrote (I, too, am a mediocre fly caster), I am just not sure Elon is bragging about his Diablo skills solely to fill some inner psychological need. I think just as Trump has managed to make himself relatable to the disenfranchised working class white male, Elon is making himself relatable to a lost generation of angry young males (many under the age of 18) who are estranged from the opposite sex and spend the majority of their time online playing video games. You've seen what Trump was able to do with his following. I wonder what Elon's planning to do with his?
  19. Petition to rename thread "The Democratic Party's Over".
  20. We don't disagree on much. Where I am at, the average Walmart shopper is not looking for a dopamine hit. The average Walmart shopper is shopping there because they have to. Their wages are flat relative to inflation, but their housing is rapidly getting more and more expensive as relatively wealthy outsiders (I'm one of them) pay inflated prices divorced from what the local economy would dictate what a house on the hill built by people with real skills would cost.
  21. Eh, the disappearance of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. is not because someone in 2016 is buying cheap shit at Walmart. It's because Walmart decided to start sourcing from overseas in the late 80s/early 90s to cut costs and grow revenue because there were no other (at least easier/less risky) ways to grow revenue. Your grandma didn't make that decision. Neither did George Bush Sr or Bill Clinton. Walmart's corporate leadership did. To the degree that politicians made their decisions possible, it was only after lobbying efforts from companies like Walmart to grease the wheels and make "globalization" possible. Over the last 40 or so years, that corporate "globalism" got consumers hooked on cheap prices like a pusher giving a junkie a cheap hit to make sure they come back for more. That's where your grandma comes in. It has come at the expense of jobs held by consumers while those corporate CEO's became billionaires. There is only one problem. It doesn't take someone with an economics degree to see that the side effect of eliminating your consumer's means to consume makes this an unsustainable way to increase corporate value. And so the billionaire CEOs are in tough spot today. They can't squeeze more blood from the low and middle class turnip to keep increasing the valuations of their corporations so as to maintain their position as billionaires. At the same time, unrest is rising in the economic classes beneath them that are having their jobs eliminated, classes of people who are surviving on the cheap goods that were only made possible through the elimination of their jobs. So what's a billionaire CEO to do? You use some of your billions to blame it on the getaway driver -- the government. You buy the media companies that provide the windows by which the common man understands the world outside their direct observation. You use those windows of information to focus their ire on the government and people they already distrust. You use it to blame your enemies and to turn the different layers of the lower 98% income distribution against each other. You capitalize on their desperation, their calls for radical change to get one of your own elected President. A special kind of guy who is skilled as a wrestling heel. Someone who gets as many people to hate them as love them. Someone who can keep people's attention on their outrageous acts while other steps are taken unnoticed. Steps to erect an oligarchy and kleptocracy where your economic status as a billionaire CEO is ensured. Ensured beyond the point in which it can be sustained through the free market capitalization of an exhausted resource -- the American consumer.
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