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'stache

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  1. Nope, this is worse, by a ton. Most business decisions involve some form of speculation about the future and getting it wrong happens quite often. Having an established generational top 3 player who just took you to the finals and was beloved by the fanbase and trading him for peanuts involves no speculation. If they had gotten a ton of draft picks in return at least there's some business decisions being made but they didn't get shit in return. The equivalent would be if Netflix today sold it's business to Amazon in exchange for some office furniture.
  2. This, although the new owner and her lackeys are far, far worse than Jerry. They are intentionally tanking the franchise. Jerry has at least tried to win he's just not smart enough to do much better than .500 most years.
  3. Doing a bad job representing his alma mater, West Alabama.
  4. No it was the old cunt Adelson. Tank the franchise and move to Vegas. Fuck Nico for being her yes man and following such a stupid order. There is no other logical explanation for this bullshit. The tribute and their social media posts were pathetic. You literally told him to get fucked. Did the same to the fans. I can't really comprehend why anyone is still attending these games. Must be corporate types who don't really care about the game and are just schmoozing and boozing with business partners.
  5. I heard on the radio that Cooper Flagg said that the actual payments aren't anywhere close to what is reported. The hosts speculated it's proably agents inflating numbers for publicity and to drive up payments. With direct compensation coming soon the deals will be public information except for private schools. Not sure if NIL payments from other sources will be public, my guess is probaby not.
  6. I get you have you're thing and whatnot but shit like this is just stupid as fuck. If you don't want to play them don't play them. Framing it like this is just fucking nonsense. OU and OSU are playing bedlam in pretty much every other sport. No hard feelings preventing it. Football is a different animal and will get figured out somehow but it's not hard feelings over the move.
  7. I haven't seen any of that here, the nuance is between whether it's a death penalty, life wo parole, or possibility of parole, and the possibility of self defense although I haven't seen any legitimate source reporting facts that would support that possibility. That sort of nuance isn't interesting to him, it's just murder and anyone who considers surrounding circumumstances for any reason is just being a woke librul "free karmelo" agitator.
  8. Agree they have to make a run this year, in fact i think they need to make the finals and probably win it all for this regular season to have meaning.
  9. "Blanket retaliatory tarriffs" is our policy as of a few months ago. I think it's absurd to expect the US to be the only country allowed to retaliate. And I agree with Brisket, I don't see Xi as erratic or stupid, they've consistently stocked the shelves of Dollar General and Walmart with cheap shit for decades. They are asshole and I've been in favor of stronger policy against them for years. But imagine if Joe Biden got "tough on China" and shit cardboard furniture at Target went up 10%, Kamala would have lost by a landslide. So I don't blame the lack of policy, especially from the democrats, who the majority of American voters think are responsible for every difficulty in their daily lives.
  10. That’s the voters’ fault. If the majority of American voters are too stupid to give a shit about objective facts we deserve where that leads us.
  11. I don’t disagree that past administrations (or more accurately Congresses) should have been much stronger against China through tariffs and otherwise. But again, that’s not what this is about, and I can guarantee you that Xi has actual competent people around him while dotard does not and is just being performative. Let’s suppose they were open to negotiation on legitimate topics, why would they have any trust if an agreement was reached? We’ve already shown that we just go back and forth on this shit, see Canada and Mexico.
  12. Well yeah, targeted tariffs against China due to unfair competition through human rights abuses and other problematic things is legitimate economic policy discussion (ie limited forms of protectionism). That’s what tariffs have been for about the last century. That’s not what this is about, at all, and they shouldn’t give a fucking inch until some adults are at the table.
  13. They didn’t start this, the pain is going to happen either way, why capitulate? The optics of bowing down to a US president who is off the fucking rails and who has caused his country to be an international pariah doesn’t seem worth the costs which again are going to happen either way. It might also gain them some favor with the new world order where the US is on the wrong side of civilized societies.
  14. Not really because they suppress everything true or false, but I’ll agree that their government propaganda likely includes more objective facts on average than what Fox News et al have spoon fed the uneducated idiots of this country for the last few decades.
  15. How do you think China should play it? Capitulate to a moron? They can withstand months of a trade war and they have a lot to gain if the US falls in its superpower status. I hope they push back, retaliate, and prove what a stupid weak beta ass loser dotard truly is.
  16. I hope they stick to their guns and think that if they win it’ll get Americans to turn on Trump. I mean they’d be wrong and he’ll stay in power forever because the voting majority are full blown shitheads but at least the country will suffer which we deserve because fuck us.
  17. I mean they’ve accomplished something this year, whether they can win it all remains to be seen. Luka owned them and he’s gone. AD ain’t doing shit to them if there was somehow a playoff matchup, especially from the bench. Those days are over, advantage OKC. I’d take OKC over the Lakers right now too but would be interesting to see if Luka still dominates them from LA.
  18. Another question, since every country is going to suffer anyway, could they just bite the bullet and stop exports to the US entirely? Might be fun for dotard and his cult to learn how much we rely on imports when the shelves are emptier than during Covid.
  19. Maybe a dumb question because it’s part of international relations and economics I’ve never understood, but if China really holds a big chunk of our national debt, could they call it just to fuck with dotard? Can they not so long Congress appropriates interest payments? If we did default or if they called it how could China ever force payment? Sheriff sale Florida?
  20. Since this thread started out full cloak room, see Rittenhouse, et al, but we know why it wouldn’t apply here.
  21. How long would the half share last? If the offer was permanant half share or like a decade I'd reject that too. I sort of lol'd at this line: "I don't see a Mountain West merger happening since the Pac-12's whole goal the last several months has been to separate from the lower-end Mountain West schools." Wasn't the original MWC formed by a few members of the WAC to separate themselves as more valueable than the rest and ended up merging with most of the left behind's anways a few years later?
  22. I'm born 1982 and haven't been to a sit down national chain restaurant in years. I think the last one was Chuys and I left depressed. I really cannot agree with your Gen Z criticism. They didn't create these stupid shitty chain restaurants, they rose to prominence during the heyday of the Boomers. What's more group think than an entire generation buying identical looking tract houses in identical looking suburbs and all deciding that they wanted to eat at restaurants that all look and taste the same?
  23. It insists upon itself. I liked Astroid City.
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