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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. It’s hard to understand what you are saying when you’re still chewing the food you took from your kids’ mouths.
  2. Gonna be so much happening on on the first day @Anastasis set up a custom keyboard shortcut for "both sides."
  3. My new prediction is that yea he has fucked around and shall find out, verily
  4. My prediction is that Johnson loses the second round and Trump cuts him loose.
  5. He didn’t get dumber and they didn’t generally. They just retained a conservative political vocabulary even though their political tribe abandoned its conservative economic policy posture for this. So there’s a lot of cognitive dissonance there. It’s like you put Jay Gould’s brain in William Jennings Bryan’s mouth.
  6. Because you are a partisan Republican (like @Brisketexan was) you have been trained to believe that the causational relationship between fiscal stimulus via tax cuts and revenue recovery = eventual debt reduction. That’s political sleight of hand, not economic reality. Sure- and pay close attention here, because you seem to have missed a point I've been making for 22 years: we’re talking about specific, real-life events here, not hypothetical ones. Debt funded stimulus during expansion (2001, 2003, 2017) is stupid because organic growth is picking all the low hanging fruit, and stimulus is therefore inflationary. So in this scenario it’s because the cost of the debt that was incurred to stimulate the economy was higher than whatever additional revenue was generated through the stimulus. Oh, bless your heart.
  7. Gimme a buyers market and 5%, and inshallah, me with dry powder coming into the second half of the year. I bought my current home in 2009 and I want to run that play again.
  8. MAGA? There’s nothing new here. This has been orthodoxy since Reagan- debt funded fiscal stimulus via tax cuts regardless of whether it hurts or helps the economy. Volcker, Bush I and Clinton took us off that plan. Bush II put us back on it, permanently, with an unfortunate dagger 3 in 2010 on a turnover from Obama. 2017 was just running up the score in garbage time. The real irony is that these dudes have the stones to invoke Mises and Hayek when they do this shit despite being too Keynesian for Keynes.
  9. To be crystal clear about what saying- tax cuts funded by debt expansion (eg 2001, 2003, and 2017) are wealth transfers from “kids” to @Ag with kids.
  10. Because it’s a transfer from future to present and represents structural expansion of the deficit and the debt. Ands for your “both sides,” I should hope that I’ve made it clear over the last 23 years that I don’t care at all about any of that.
  11. Off topic, but it always makes me laugh the way political “conservatives” pat themselves on the back for wealth transfers just like the most profligate big spending progressives. Money machine go BRRRRRRRRRRRRR
  12. And also don’t put sugar in your cornbread
  13. This is correct. Prices are the last thing to move for businesses with the scale to find other economies. In fact, large companies will often use a temporarily higher cost environment to lower prices and consolidate market share.
  14. I think you are conflating the monetary phenomenon of inflation, which is the result of consumers having more money to compete for available goods and results in the discovery of new clearing prices, with the experience of “inflation”, which involves the perception of lost buying power.
  15. “Middle aged?” That’s a stretch, even for South Austin’s mom.
  16. That looks like Tune Road in El Prado. I’ve seen 40 year old Corollas and old VWs navigate shit like that, and an Outback could do it in melting snow/mud.
  17. For the younger folks: Ekhard Pfeiffer was the CEO of Compaq during the period that doomed the company, who was known for driving like a dickhole on the Houston campus
  18. Speakers race gonna be 🔥🔥 (and the media’s fault) What’s his @
  19. 2 months in the hospital with C Diff? Holy shit indeed. Are you out of the woods?
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