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SydneyCarton

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  1. The answer is no. I realized I veered heavily cloak in my post, but you are not really addressing my point; you're looking for reasoning and a plan behind a group/person who has shown time and time again that they don't think multiple steps ahead. The opposition also is gutless losers for a number of reasons. None of this has anything to do with our nation's direction (as directly related to the concept of The Plan Behind Tariffs). I'm also trying to protect my ability to retire. I sold all of my stake in a defense aeronautics fund today and put it in Berkshire Hathaway, because I don't think American defense companies are going to do as well as they have as the world recoils from us. But your last sentence is important, and illustrative of the point I'm trying to make; You want to protect things, and you need a plan or concept you can plan around. Minimize damage. Protect yourself. I'm suggesting that by pretending to conjure up a plan from the ether, which may or may not be work, you're putting yourself at further risk. If you think you divine the plan is they juke left, and go that way, and they juke right, you're left off even worse than you were if you'd done nothing. Historically, the market is the market and over time everyone wins. If you still believe that, then doing nothing, long term (no idea of your personal timeline here), might be the winning play, so to speak. Personally, I'm looking at Gold, and investing in foreign defense companies that can produce to the NATO standard, and probably some Hong Kong index funds because I think these moves long term favor China.
  2. I view your post as the aspects of the lizard brain that exists in all of us barely evolved animals. You have a man with a track record of saying what he's going to do, saying why he thinks that way, and sticking to it regardless. Lets take tariffs. He said he was going to do it. And everyone said it was a negotiating tactic. Everyone said it was bluster. Then he does it. You're sitting here and insisting that there is some grand strategy to what he's doing, and you want to find out what it is so you can act and behave accordingly with your money. Because what you're looking it is so baselessly stupid, there has to be an underlying reason. Nevermind that we've seen this time and again from the guy making these decisions. He has never said he's wrong about even the most obviously demonstrably wrong things. What does that have to do with lizard brains? Because we're the species that has invented stories to explain away shadows and seasons and every other thing we can't understand because our brain can't handle it, it can't handle uncertainty. Because the idea that one moron and a bunch of cowards and cultists will willingly tank everything because they're stupid, and no one will stop them, is too terrifying to comprehend. You're looking at a plate of spaghetti and thinking there's a John Nash Beautiful Mind pattern hiding in the red covered noodles, if only you looked hard enough. It's a Richard Dreyfus "This Means Something" mountain of mashed potatoes except this is no movie, there aren't aliens inspiring this trade war for the greater good, and none of it means anything. So what you're saying is that everyone is buying beef, hens, and pork because they expect real problems coming down the pipe?
  3. He's a fucking crypto bro. Definitely the guy who's opinion we should trust on financial deals.
  4. That’s the most insulting thing I’ve ever had thrown in my direction on shaggy/surly/et al. And Linux once insisted that I was a Greg Davis supporter.
  5. So what’s it like living with Alopecia?
  6. Sounds like he farmed out that work to Neuralink. "Hey guys, I've got an ask"
  7. For normal people, no. But for someone with the name Storm Miller, who probably has a brother named Adolf, and who looks like the fully grown banjo kid from Deliverance, well, you might just go ahead and take the money now.
  8. If you absorbed anything from other posters and discussions you'd understand their practice reports are literally written/approved by Elk and his staff. So yeah, they're not going to inform shit.
  9. Well, that's one way to get on the ignore list.
  10. To be fair, they were always all in on Beard. But as Utee said, Beard was never all in on them.
  11. I saw this posted elsewhere as well: He’s using trade deficit numbers and calling them tariffs, it’s a direct lie to the American people. Cambodia has 97% tariff? No. Cambodia exports 12 billion. USA exports to Cambodia 350 million. 350 million / 12 billion is 3%. 100 - 3 = 97%. Do this for every "tariff". Know what's even worse? It's literally the method that Chat GPT suggests if you ask how to fix a trade deficit with tariffs. They asked Chat GPT how to fix the economy, and then just fucking did whatever it said. On Chat GPT, the following prompt will immediately get you the method they used: If I wanted to even the playing field with respect to the trade deficit with foreign nations using tariffs, how could I pick the tariff rates? Give me a specific calculation
  12. Who cares what you were referencing, you were literally RESPONDING to someone who posted a fucking picture!
  13. In regards to the first comment, as I said before, context matters. If he scores his first college touchdown playing for Texas State are you really going to pretend like this motherfucker is some kind of badass? Or Missouri Valley State? DIII football is still football. This seems pretty broad. As for the second comment, a) see my thoughts above and b.) I don't know why you would come back and neg that post when it's not related to the subject of this recruit and is just giving you the credit you deserve as a world class practitioner of hand to gland combat.
  14. Oh, I think that post happened exactly because he's familiar with Earley.
  15. 10 P4 offers and "Playoff Team SMU" doing a lot of fucking heavy lifting in that post. If the guy has offers from the bottom 2 schools in every single conference I think you're painting a pretty fucking rosy picture not quite representative of the facts. His offer list isn't fucking good, and until all those super good offers start actually appearing during spring and camp season, reality doesn't match what you're selling. But congrats on seeing the highlights of 1 game 3 years ago and fucking NAILING this guy's ascendency to get offers from UTSA, UTEP, Tulane, Cal, Tulsa and Texas State. Nostradumbass indeed. Or. Or. You could have just waited a bit longer for actual GOOD offers to appear instead of deciding to spike the fucking football on the 10 yard line.
  16. Additionally, I'd like to seek some clarity on what constitutes "blowing up with offers." Do you mean, like straight up number of offers? Or offers from programs that actually matter? https://247sports.com/recruitment/ryan-estrada-160416/recruitinterests/ His only SEC offers are Vanderbilt and Missouri. His only Big 10 offers are Wisconsin and Minnesota. His only Big 12 offers are Tech, Okie Lite, Baylor and BYU.
  17. Yes. But I prefer to think of you as "Supernatural Football Recruit Jerk-Off Machine Helobious." Credit where credit is due, and you sir are on the Mr. Rushmore of jerking off dudes, right next to Peter Bean.
  18. I think this constitutes Negative Recruiting Our Own School, so I'll place this one here:
  19. Nothing in the markets make sense to me in general. Truth Social stock once traded at $100, still trades around $20, and has never even remotely made money. Tesla is cratering into the earth from a sales perspective and is priced so much more than legacy car makers it is absurd. None of it makes sense. I'd watch him have to read mean tweets all fucking day. He'd be bawling inside 5 minutes.
  20. If you say so. In a world where Rupert Murdoch's heirs won suit and will have control over the empire once he dies, and who's views are vastly different from Lachlan, I can see an easy world where Newsmax will become the power broking disinformation channel that people turn to for their rage fix. My MIL and FIL already have on Newsmax at their home because Fox "became too liberal." People wanting to get in on that early and now makes sense to me. At the #s it happened, sure, no. But I can make a case where Newsmax is a "buy." I can't make a case where a Tesla is a "buy," and unlike the speculation of newsmax, Tesla has decades of sales data and trends.
  21. I can actually wrap my head around why newsmax would blow up, even if it's basely speculative. Tesla at this point, not so much.
  22. He showed up at the in home with Loreal. Shit got awkward.
  23. I made it about 25 minutes into the video. This guy is is a fucking perfect example. 'Vaccines suck, but the real problem is that the white man took this country and we need to commune with the earth." Ok, guy, great, but the discussion is vaccines and you're talking about nothing related to actual vaccines. Every snippet I saw was some version of this. "But my unvaccinated kids are healthy." The doctor wasted his time completely. And yes, this country is turbofucked.
  24. Ive been following her since the new year. SHe posts really long, detailed posts every day or two about what's going on, why it's illegal, etc. I mean long posts. I also see several of the sparse folks I do follow on FB also sharing her posts. She's got a following. Her shit disappearing is 100% political.
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