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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Not for nothing, none of those things matter to the deficit. The only things that do are social security, Medicare, Medicaid and the military, along with the interest payments on the debt itself. And the REALLY fun part is that if you just make wholesale, indiscriminate cuts to those things the deficit probably increases a bit because tax revenues decrease. So what we need is a strategic unwinding of the budget deficit and a reallocation of spending that reduces cost but not necessarily spending in a transformative way. and now step back to the real world, look at that task, and realize that your pay scale means that your absolute best-case candidates are John Cornyn and Colin Allred. Or Roger Williams and Julie Oliver. Or Steve Daines and whatever his name was. And your worst case is Lauren Boebert and Tommy Tuberville and Ted Cruz. So far.
  2. They already do. They just finagle their way to it. One of my favorite lessons of history is that officers of the British East India Company were paid very little and expected to come home rich, both by themselves and the company. To fail to get rich was seen as a sign of laziness, stupidity, or worse, naive sympathy towards the natives. Thus the Hindustani word “loot” entered our language. You pay for the employees want.
  3. If anything, we need to elevate their station so we can dump the fucking toadies we allow the powerful to install today without any talented opposition.
  4. We should pay them $1-2M/year and senators should make $3-5mm.
  5. But it’s a bad gig for a 35 year old CPA or 50 year old entrepreneur or family farmer. Successful ones, anyway. Not for nothing, we’d have much better people in congress if we raised their salary to $1mm/year. We get what we pay for.
  6. Me too, but on the other hand watching Trump repeatedly swoop in at the last minute to fuck up Vought’s plans because of something Trump saw on Twitter or someone who came into his office, and seeing their relationship degrade in public until the inevitable firing/disgrace/shunning will be fun.
  7. Pay attention to that name - Vought. That’s Russ Vought, the incoming head of OMB. He’s very smart, competent, and practical. He knows how the government works and what strings to pull. He’s the policy brain of Project 2025 at Heritage and a true-believer, a self identified Christian Nationalist, and the guy I am most worried about. When the GOP manages to pull themselves together well enough to do real damage over the next four years, he will usually be at the center of it.
  8. You misspelled 30 years.
  9. It’s irrelevant because they have nobody to negotiate with at the moment. Their best friend right now is Chip Roy.
  10. You sound like you don’t pull. Drakkar Noir is catnip, my dude.
  11. Not to quote myself but: I’ve got good taste. Bill has good taste. We don’t always like the same things or agree about what’s important. Both perspectives are valid and there’s no “right” answer about age or distillery or distilling method or anything else. The five things above are the full sum total of what I know to be true about bourbon, but beyond that it’s all preference. So- drink what you like, and try to build a vocabulary to describe it, and an understanding of what contributes to those things. That will take you where you need to go. Don’t chase bottles simply because they are in high demand unless that’s fun for you, and don’t overpay unless you enjoy the flex. There’s never been more good bourbon than there is today. Enjoy.
  12. Yes
  13. Agree with this one 100%. The debt is unconscionably high, but the debt ceiling is the worst possible way to manage it. It served no function but to present catastrophic risk to the dollar, and by extension to the global economy.
  14. The same thing we do every night, Pinky. … Interesting… so if farmers can’t buy seed and fertilizer or commit to hire seasonal labor, what happens to food prices next fall/summer?
  15. Come off it. That (the post WWII rules based international order) was at stake 2017, not now. It was worth protecting in my opinion but that’s all over but the crying. That hasn’t been at issue in years. This world of 2024 is the world you wanted. It’s Bartertown now. I didn’t want this, but in a way I’ve been waiting my whole life for it, and I guess I don’t understand why you seem so bitter. You won! What’s with the attitude?
  16. Clemson is the Auburn of NC States.
  17. Depends on the airport and time of day. In Austin regular Pre-check is often faster than clear+precheck because of the bad configuration of the security checkpoint and the generally oversubscribed nature of the facility.
  18. I don’t take roofing lessons from no lawdog
  19. Thread, in which chin-deficient Canadian dildo soloist Gavin McInnis gets the attention of menswear blogger Derek Guy.
  20. I’m not an expert like @atxroofer but a shingle is about a foot wide, which would make that cat around 4’ long nose to the base of the tail, which is the size of a subadult cougar or an absolutely monstrous bobcat. Man even the small houses up there have huge rooflines, like novelty foam cowboy hats.
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