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Bateshorn

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  1. hell yeah. Boy #1 looking over South Rim
  2. When elected, I promise Sela Ward and Susanna Hoff threesomes for all. With Aubrey Plaza as your side piece.
  3. Sheinbaum isn't going to announce until Sunday. I suspect the Mexicans are trying to negiotate their way out of this and feel like they have stuff to give that could spare them. I think Trump just hates Trudeau and is being a prick. There is literally nothing the Canadians can do to satisfy him.
  4. I've got quite a bit of cash in a non tax sheltered account that I chose to leave on the sidelines post November. I'm hopeful that there will be some buying opportunities of stocks, not guns and canned goods because society has collapsed. I hate camping and the District's firearm laws are a fucking PITA.
  5. Occam's razor: The simpliest answer is likely the correct one. He's a narcissitic dolt who is deeply resentful of an imagined "elite" that rejects him, and doesn't really know what he's doing, but taking bold action fills an emotional chasm even if only for a moment (in a sense recreating one of the two happy times in his life, The Apprentice (the other was his rise when Fred Trump was shadow managing his development of mid-town). There's other stuff, but at his core, he doesn't understand macro economics or the forces at play. LIke a 11th grade student who hasn't taken economics but taken American history, he thinks tariffs are good. People forget that for all the drama of his first term, he didn't actually accomplish all that much from a practical perspective that actually impacted the bulk of the electorate's daily lives. He signed a tax cut that he had virtually no role in writing. He managed to get a few hundred miles of wall built. He got a covid vaccine into production in rapid fashion (i'll give him credit where credit is due), and the stock market mostly grew, or rapidly came back post March 2020. His attempts to radically change America mostly flamed out: either due to staff incompetency, or adults in the room thwarting him. Only post election 2020 did the real angry Trump grab the reigns and start implementing what you and I would call a basket of crazy. Now he's unbound and surrounded by syncophants and enablers who know, mostly, how to enact his agenda. And we are getting it. All at once, without lube.
  6. as an aside. Red Eyes slams, goes hard
  7. I'm not sure the Canadians....or really any Western nation, allow you to go full Wells Fargo, the way we do, but definitely plenty of US financial institutions north of the border.
  8. Edited for kindness.
  9. What about "Gayer than 2 dudes fucking 3 dudes?" Where do we stand on that?
  10. Is there a basic learner on options? I have no interest in day trading, but occasionally I get a sense of where the macros are going and I’d like to hedge my generally long philosophy
  11. Rewatched Bridget Jones Diary. Always good fun. It's wild that Renee Zellweger was considered "fat" in that movie. She's pretty much wheelhouse. Ben Affleck's character was absurd. And thoroughly enjoyable.
  12. As somebody here put it: Powell had basically the economy 10 feet off the ground on a soft landing glide. Then that orange fool grabbed the yoke and flipped the fucking plane over.
  13. RIP to one of the best. Everyone always accounts the English Bob beating and the end of Unforgiven for memoriable scenes, but when he describes the shoot out at the Blue Bottle Saloon is such an darkly funny moment that captures how legends are created and grow. Unforgiven remains to this day my favorite film and Hackman is the engine that drives the movie so Clint and the other actors can shine around him. He's undoubtly cruel and violent, but he's not the legal villian of the movie, Munny is by every measure, no matter how empowering the final shootout makes us feel. Daggett: "You see, if old Corky had've had two guns, instead of just a big dick, he would have been there right to the end to defend himself."
  14. Este. It's also a hella good movie, funny and touching at different points.
  15. Well, crushing the market to drive up Bond prices and push down interest rates without Daddy JPow.....is certainly a strategy. I did not have intentionally starting a recession on my list of 2025 Bingo, but then again, I also didn't have anti-vax sentiment and openly allying with Russia. Maybe I should get into a new line of work.
  16. I, for one, enjoy paying 25% more for fucking everything.
  17. luckily i slide back into bonds a few weeks ago on a lark. You know it's bad when people are even really trying to buy the dip.
  18. Its either Warren Buffett or Charlie Munger who said he'd rather have somebody with a 130 IQ who thinks their IQ is 120, rather than someone with a 150 IQ who thinks it's 170. Beyond the fact that Musk has no idea what he's doing, I think the years of Ketamin and other psychoactive drug use has done some real damage. Ships in the night....
  19. This is a great post, and I appreciate your insight. As an empath, detecting masking is almost cartoonishly easy, and for 99% of people, it's neither here or there, it's just another personality habit to consider and account for. Like ADHD (which I am) or introversion. 1% are sociopaths, and by the time we pick up on it, it's usually terrifyingly too late.
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