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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. lol, Moses Brown started and went for 20/11. Welcome back Moses!
  2. are you asking what strategy will yield the most profit if the equity markets decline across the board?
  3. Soon as I see that thing near me I’m checking to make sure my wallet is still in my pocket.
  4. Agree with all that, but trading Luka this has replaced those for me. It’s not a perfect pass and catch in a close game. It’s not a fragile QB getting figured out and falling apart. It’s not the refs. It’s not just how baseball go. This was a direct fuck you to the city and the fans, straight from the management.
  5. I grew up in Dallas and while the cowboys were obviously king, the Mavs started playing at exactly the right time in my life (I was 7)for me to fall in love with the team, and I had a connection to it I don’t have with the Cowboys. We grew up together. I root for the Rangers and the Cowboys, but I love the Mavericks. Anyway I disagree that Jerry wouldn’t do anything this stupid. He would. But he wouldn’t and won’t do anything this painful for the fans, for better or worse, because he’s one of us, and his life is in the city. I think he understands that even though he owns the Cowboys, the star is bigger than Jerry Jones, and, the star is not The Star without the city and the fans. Thus to hurt the fans and the city diminishes him. That was even more true with the Mavericks, because there is no national brand. The Mavs are essentially a large market version of the Hornets or Pelicans. Nobody outside of Dallas really cares about the Mavericks, and local ownership from Don Carter through Marc Cuban understood that. And I believe the Adelsons understand it too, which leads them in a very different direction, because they aren’t local to the city. The Mavericks are a piece on a chessboard for them, and nowhere near the most important piece.
  6. We have too many restaurants right now, but that will take care of itself in pretty short order.
  7. Even more classless and tone deaf, you mean? The ongoing negative whisper campaign isn’t any better. In some ways the negative leaked about Luka are an argument that this wasn’t a hit job by the league, and Nico/Dumont really are that dumb.
  8. And as a new member of the unemployed population she should have no problem shelling out the ~ $2149.31 plus 2% administrative fee for that.
  9. This is exactly right. Up until that point, the assets in/out was very much in favor of the Mavs, even with Brunson leaving. He built the roster to win a championship with a healthy Doncic. And then to trade him for maybe half what he’s worth? Look, I don’t normally do conspiracy theories. I realize the Mavs now have the best (if healthy) front court in the league by far with Gafford/Lively, PJ and Davis, and Max Christie is developing into a legit allstar level player. But considering the impact on the future, and I mean two years out, not 5-10, and the current market, the Mavs should have gotten at least two more first round picks, AND Knecht AND probably Reaves on top of it. There are a lot of reasons for Nico and the Adelsons to do the deal as they did it. None of them have to do with the long term viability of the team as a championship contender in the city of Dallas. Of course the other possibility is that Nico really doesn’t believe that Luka will ever be that guy, and was willing to lose the trade to get rid of him.
  10. @Incredulity reading this thread like
  11. The irony of it is that what he wants is the exact opposite of how the framers wanted it- local communities in districts of shared interest elected state legislators, and they chose senators and presidential electors. Not that the framers had right, but they recognized and were very afraid of subordinating local interests to the kind of pervading factionalism AWK seems to have baked into his idea of what an ideal world “should” be like.
  12. Good thing our winter/spring economic productivity don’t face significant seasonal risk from thin lips, but at least that meeting was rescheduled. Let us know when the Flu meeting has a date.
  13. I already answered that- because “local interests often (or usually, really) transcend national party alignment.” People who live in the same community of interest generally agree on the major local economic and social issues, irrespective of their views on national political issues. For example, most voters in the Big Country, regardless of party, agree that orphaned oil wells are a problem. Different elections, different electorates. This is precisely the question you leave begging. Why should it match when the issues faced by the nation or state as a whole do not encompass or reflect the interests of local communities in their interactions with the rest of the state and nation? That’s the question you’ve been refusing to respond to for 20 years. “Why should they match?” In response, you just continue chanting your mantra, “they should match.”
  14. All three of your major tells on display. You’re grasping and you know it.
  15. You’ve been begging the same question for 20 years: since local interests often (or usually, really) transcend national party alignment, WHY “should” the people of Maine’s congressional delegation be anything like their statewide vote in Federal elections?
  16. I thought this was the economy thread.
  17. Hey @Anastasis, again great job with the whole burn-it-all-down thing.
  18. Am I your best friend? because that all describes me to a tee.
  19. https://x.com/jeffkolbfox4/status/1894569135146696710?s=46&t=WQWp8jCL9d3WDAPBWICDFQ
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