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hpslugga

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  1. With due respect, I disagree There was no other way for this thread to age. It was destined to go this course, and when the OP was penned, one would have been a fool not to roll one’s eyes at it.
  2. Oh it’ll be much worse. 1. the whole argument that’s put forth in favor of tariffing the shit out of everyone is that it’s a more effective way to raise revenues than nominal taxation. There’s never been any evidence given on this; it’s really just a religious belief at best and at worst it’s just a pretext for rich people not to pay taxes 2. Think what that revenue was used to pay for with Smoot-Hawley and now think about how tax revenues are used today. Smoot-Hawley was passed at a time that was pre-Medicare, pre-Medicaid, pre-social security, pre-welfare (at the federal level), pre-education department, pre-pretty much anything that assists people in the middle and lower classes of the economic ladder. Smoot-Hawley wasn’t even effective enough under the old system when we had a gold-standard dollar and now this shit is supposed to be effective? Effective how? You’ll notice though that’s where they come in with their bullshit about undermining those programs. Undermine education, undermine health, undermine social safety nets. Coupled with the tariff bullshit and the very inevitable tax cuts for the wealthy, that’s them telling you “we know tariffs can’t pay for all the shit our budget calls for and we don’t care. We don’t want to pay taxes. We want you to pay taxes that will subsidize our businesses so that we can make all the profits and assume none of the risks, but we couldn’t be bothered to give two drops of monkey shit if your kid has a measles vaccine, education, or food to eat tonight. Fuck you, pay me.”
  3. Hangover pic is the most accurate depiction of this whole thing. Presented as smart, yet it’s brought to you by the same guy that said “ruh-tard.”
  4. Didn’t say anything about supporting Trump. Said you’d make excuses for tripping over yourself, as you always have.
  5. Wouldn’t matter because you’d just offer the same ridiculous excuses anyways.
  6. It’s already there in plain words. And it doesn’t even matter because the point is you attributed to him the capacity to admit to being wrong. The schizo nature about these tariffs? Yeah that has to do with reciprocity w/r/t what sort of grift he can work out of them. It has nothing to do with a measured reaction to how damaging they are to average Americans and the economy. He couldn’t be bothered to give two shits about that, just like he (contrary to what you believe) couldn’t be bothered to give two shits about his deportation policy ultimately being inflationary. Hell, his tariff policy IS inflationary even with the psychotic nature factored in. Markets do not appreciate uncertainty. You know less about your own side of this argument than most of us know about both. Again, the only way he’d take the quoted response you said you “expected” him to take w/r/t inflationary effects of his deportation policies is to first admit to being wrong about them. There’s no way around that. You don’t correct/alter a policy that you think is right, and it’s naive/dense/stupid/foolish to believe otherwise. Seriously, I’ll let you even pick which word you feel most comfortable using. Regardless of which word hurts your fee-fees the least, you don’t have to literally say “he’d admit to being wrong” in order to clearly imply that you believe it. Or to put it another way, if you really don’t believe he has the capacity to ever admit that he’s wrong about anything, why the fuck would you expect him to correct one of his own policy decisions after seeing its adverse effects?
  7. RE: mass deportations “This isn’t an inflation contributor, and if it becomes one, I’d expect Trump to react to that and loosen and have some sort of Bush era guest worker program. ” The only way that it is even possible to harbor such an expectation is if you believe that fucking clown has the capacity to admit when he’s wrong. Clearly
  8. @Rex Kramer certainly believes in that belief
  9. And yet we still have people on this board that believe Trump is psychologically capable of admitting error and acting accordingly to adjust. Fucking naive belief in belief.
  10. BUT THE PRICE OF BACON UNDER BIDEN!!!
  11. Still the greatest ass-holing in the history of coaching, certainly when it comes to games that the team fucking won.
  12. She is never going to be paroled. Her family put out a documentary series about a year ago and she was still maintaining that the gun, a fucking .38 special, just accidentally went off.
  13. I mean…let’s just start with that ridiculous 7% cap…
  14. What else would you expect?
  15. It did in his own pathetic mind. He thinks he did well. He thinks he made good points. He thinks we took notes and learned lessons from him.
  16. [Elon Musk]BUT FREE SPEECH!!![/Elon Musk]
  17. Exactly, they were the elite that rejected him. Buying an NFL franchise, contrary to what that fucking dumbass probably thought, isn't like going to 7-11 to get a pack of fucking gum. You have to make a showing to the rest of the NFL owners that you're financially capable of running a team. When all you do is use words like "bigly" in lieu of showing concrete numbers, they tend to just laugh your ass out of the fucking room. It's the same reason Rush Limbaugh's little group wasn't approved to buy the Rams some years back. What I was told was that he handed him a $5 bill and asked if he had change. Well yeah, some of them could barely afford to keep the lights on and he promised them to the moon and the fucking stars. When they "won" that lawsuit, they never heard from his chickenshit little lying ass again. It amazes me that after almost 40 years, even one person could continue to fall for this shit.
  18. See Generals, New Jersey
  19. That’s precisely because they are not interested in governing. They’re not interested in creating a robust economy. They’re only interested in doing favors for their donors. In the late 1970’s, the idea of Trickle Down was seen sort of as a taboo. That’s why GHWB called it “voodoo.” The thing is, he was right to call it that. The entire premise of it was built on that stupid Laffer curve, which postulates “when tax rates are low, revenues will be low because the government doesn’t generate enough money. When tax rates are high, revenues will be low because people are less motivated to work or invest.” Totally ignoring the complete arbitrary nature of what it is for tax rates to be “high” or “low,” or how high they have to be to disincentivized to work/invest, or how tax rates are rarely if ever applied uniformly, does anyone not notice that the GOP always admits that this stuff is bullshit? Oh sure they don’t say it’s bullshit literally, but they say it in their actions. They say it when they pass tax cuts to the wealthiest people and then sweeping budget cuts. Well yeah, because they’re not really interested in finding this so-called “sweet spot” on the curve because what that does is lower required revenues while also lowering taxes. I’m sure 3-point percentages in the NBA would increase dramatically if they make the no-charge circle the new 3-point arch and if they lower the basket to 7’ instead of 10. That’s not gonna compel me to call those guys “great three point shooters,” though. Anyways the whole nominal point of the Laffer curve was to assume expenditures as a given (relative at least) constant and finding the most effective way to raise revenues to pay for them. The curve was never meant to be a mechanism to shift the goalposts. So again, why do they shift the goalposts to make it look like trickle down works? Because they know it’s bullshit. And you’re never going to see them make economic progress while they worship bullshit.
  20. We’re talking about the very obvious and grim reality that this lying shit-weasel of a president and his chickenshit little circle jerk of economic “advisers” are going to lead this country straight into a recession at the very best, full-on depression at the very worst, and you just will not shut the fuck up about 3 NCAA athletes at inconsequential programs with marginal inputs on insignificant games. That’s just fucking cowardly and goddamned shameful. You really need to stop because you’re getting the absolute fuck kicked out of you and you’re acting like you’re dunking on everyone. You haven’t dunked shit. You ain’t about that life. And speaking of things you need to quit doing, stop using the word “leftist.” You haven’t the foggiest clue of what that means, or really anything about the political spectrum for that matter.
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