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SydneyCarton

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  1. Are they? Movie Theater chains basically make all of their money on concession sales. Studies take most of the box office. Hard to imagine folks shelling out for concessions in a recessionary period. More like smuggling in candy and pruno because we're all poor now. Any word on any margin calls?
  2. Todays futures market doesn’t bode well for you in that regard.
  3. That motherfucker is aging worse then a President.
  4. Please illustrate how the economy, as it stands currently, are not an explicit results of political choice. You’ve already refused to offer your own stock market and purchasing decisions/advice for others. So what the fuck are you doing here? “I’ll never go to the CR because everyone is mean and I can’t defend my own thoughts or actions” is how this reads. Ok, snowflake. For those of you nodding your head to bj Johnson, please know he’s been banned 15+ times and is a Russian troll who literally seems to get paid to shill for Putin.
  5. China has a lot of issues, demographically and economically. But these actions have already driven historic enemies in South Korea and Japan to respond to the US in concert. America has shown itself unreliable. People will look for stable trading partners, and guess what, China will be happy to play that part for the time being. And the manufacturing already exists there. Saying America is expecting power is premature when we haven’t gotten anything yet. But the rest of the world is pissed at us, that’s for sure.
  6. Imagine the state of the economy being what it is, and corporations being uncertain, and foreign money being pissed the fuck off, and thinking that there is going to be a radical investment in American infrastructure and manufacturing plants and capabilities. And now imagine that's true despite the fact that all the entities I mentioned above knows that could all go away in 4 years in the next round of elections. And then just straight up lying to America.
  7. Are you concerned for their welfare? If so, be sure to let them know. Fucking moron.
  8. I don't think any of this is working for any of us. I'm simply trying to say, what if you plan for A, but there is no plan?
  9. 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.
  10. 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?
  11. He's a fucking crypto bro. Definitely the guy who's opinion we should trust on financial deals.
  12. 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.
  13. So what’s it like living with Alopecia?
  14. Sounds like he farmed out that work to Neuralink. "Hey guys, I've got an ask"
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Well, that's one way to get on the ignore list.
  18. To be fair, they were always all in on Beard. But as Utee said, Beard was never all in on them.
  19. 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
  20. Who cares what you were referencing, you were literally RESPONDING to someone who posted a fucking picture!
  21. 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.
  22. Oh, I think that post happened exactly because he's familiar with Earley.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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