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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. I’m curious how some of these countries reciprocate on American tech services like google or Facebook. If you’re France, why wouldn’t you charge Facebook for every French user on Facebook products? Meta makes money from French advertisers so why shouldn’t the govt take their share as a services tariff? Maybe offer a discount based on the number of Meta employees in country.
  2. What would it take to get her passport name changed? Can she update it from the US? Due process is dicey now but if I were in her situation I would want clear paperwork from a birth certificate, documentation on my name change, and current documents in the same name. it probably won’t come to that but if does, it’s too late. In today’s world, you can’t even count on being deported to your original country or not being imprisoned. On second thought, why stay in the US?
  3. The issue is that the real intent is to keep the poor and young from voting. And who do the poor and young historically vote for? the top GOP are fully aware that non-citizens are not voting. Or the number are so low it’s a multi decimal point rounding error. And even then the voting is out of ignorance. regardless voter id is a loser issue for the Dems to fight. Don’t even bring logic like I wrote above. Instead work to get free IDs to people.
  4. Im hoping that the tariffs actually start today and there isn’t some last minute reprieve? The tariffs themselves are bad, but we need to stop the uncertainty of when they will start. And if these countries cave today, there will be another trump demand, or else, tomorrow. The next demand will be repayment for past trade imbalances if those countries lay down today. unfortunately we need to move forward on burning down the economy because it will eventually occur under trumps plans. We might as well get to the pain part ASAP so we can get out of it sooner. its sad that we need other countries to also hurt to deal with our mistakes.
  5. It helps teach those poor people to stop being poor.
  6. Dane County (Madison) showed up. 82%-18% for the Democrat with 280k total votes.
  7. Elon’s $25m and time completely wasted. Wasn’t even a close election. 54-45. If Elon has ignored the election perhaps the GOP would have won. Nah, Trump’s falling popularity would have ensured a loss but Elon created a larger margin.
  8. I wouldn’t leave the country as a green card holder. To the GOP, your wife doesn’t belong here. It’s a much lower bar for them to ban non-citizens from coming back into the country as opposed to attempting to kick them out. They can even spin it as a reevaluation of her immigration status especially if she’s had any issues even as simple as a speeding ticket. That makes her a criminal in their eyes. and don’t think for a second that someone in the WH isn’t thinking this. His name rhymes with Stephen Miller.
  9. On the don't-give-a-damn element, I'm reminded when I worked for dysfunctional corporate teams. When someone needed to communicate a problem to a higher up, they had to judge how the higher up would react and the personal impact. If the higher up would get pissed at them. Sometimes the decision was to sweep the problem under the rug. say Noem had to communicate to Trump that they screwed up and sent a US citizen incorrectly to El Salvador and want to bring them back. What's in it for Noem other than just be a good person, which she isn't.
  10. Publicly re-announcing your auto acceptance criteria reeks of marketing and desperation. Especially when cloaked in some virtue signaling statement how damaged the current system is. i imaging that the vast majority of colleges and universities auto accept someone with a 1460. Maybe there is a paperwork delay but the acceptance is guaranteed. im ancient but as soon as I received my SAT score in the late 80s, I knew that I was accepted into UT. I hadn’t even spoken or communicated with UT yet. The paperwork would only be a formality. So I don’t have an issue with what Univ of Austin is doing, except my general laughter at them.
  11. At worst Trump would only need to tell El Salvador to return the guy. But that would also require someone telling Trump about this screwup.
  12. Everyone needs to step back from the ledge. Susan Collins is considering to vote for a resolution against the tariffs. She will decide tomorrow. I know that I’m going to sleep soundly knowing that Senator Collins will stand on the side of integrity.
  13. The only one that I know is that if you separate from a company for which you have a 401k (or presumably 403b), you can withdrawal the funds from that 401k starting at 55 without penalty. The IRA non-penalty feature doesn't kick in until 59.5. What I don't know is if the 401k funds, withdrawable without penalty, could have only been contributed at that job or whether rollover 401k funds also receive that benefit. It would be important to think this through and possibly transfer funds if you know you're leaving a company after 55.
  14. Many family farms should fail if they can't stand more on their own. For some reason we have created a dream that family farms are the highest value of work that an American can do. In the meantime many do not produce much value for the US, so much that other Americans have to pay to keep them in business. I've watched a few videos where farmers speak to the economics and frankly I wonder how they can make their farm equipment payment.
  15. One word of advice on financial advisors. Be 100% clear on how you (or anyone) is paying for those services. It can get very expensive paying 1% or higher for their services. There are options to pay a hourly rate with some advisors which is much lower.
  16. Richard Chamberlain, 80s mini series star of Shogun and the Thorn Birds, died at 90 this weekend.
  17. His other twitter investors were always quick to release bad X numbers to the press, and most likely he couldn’t stop providing the numbers to them and prevent them from leaking them. I assume they are now AI shareholders but who know maybe Elon paid some of the in cash (AI raised capital) to get rid of them. More details will come out. i also would discount the idea that he’s hurting depending on how much he’s borrowed against his Tesla shares. Perhaps this sale somehow played into that.
  18. Is there a consensus for what the large indexes will end up for the year now? I’m guessing 15% down.
  19. No one is crossing the border illegally at big bend np. there are handful of Mexican citizens who put some handmade souvenirs on the American side asking tourists to buy them for a few bucks. It’s completely on an honor system. They live on the Mexico side.
  20. Just remember that some of todays announcement are all to distract and move on from signal gate.
  21. Getting out of the market is one method to not worry so much. I know the conventional wisdom is that you shouldn't attempt to time the market but when there are limited reasons to think your investments will go, the smart thing is to sit out. And just because you missed out on selling at the top, that isn't a reason to stay the downward trajectory. I do think there is a decent chance that Trump pauses some of the tariffs next week but will announce new ones.
  22. Trump is going to raise the costs of car for many "American" manufacturers but he's warning them to not raise the costs to customers? By the way, there are rumors that the same is/will be occurring with American O&G producers in that Trump wants more drilling even if they are operating at a loss. Strange how capitalism is not ok in the MAGA world.
  23. I imagine there are more than a few athletes, who perhaps are not as worried about the paid scholarship, who use athletics to get in, and then quit. Once you are accepted, is there any condition that you have to remain on the athletic team? Could you quit before Day 1?
  24. I imagine TexAgs is struggling with that photo, and more than few former Marines making excuses how the sitting VP has a pass.
  25. Trump pardoned Nikola (EV car maker) CEO who had been found guilty of defrauding investors due to lies about the company. Prosecutors had been pushing the judge to get the CEO to pay restitutions upwards of $700m to the defrauded investors. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/trump-pardons-nikola-trevor-milton-ceo-securities-fraud-electric-vehicle.html Oh, and the now-pardoned felon is currently represented by Pam Bondi's brother.
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