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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. Trump is a unique bully who isn’t a coward of potential consequences. He basically walks into a room and punches someone, while having enough people at his back that everyone else in the room cowers and is happy they’re not the guy who was knocked out. CEOs are afraid to publicly speak out against the tariffs because he will punish their company. Or just the potential of Trump’s vengeance would punish that company’s stock price even that much more. The exception seem to be some financial CEO perhaps since their company’s value in at least attempting to communicate real world situations.
  2. Dotel was the Astros starting pitcher for the first game at Enron Field (now Daikin), therefore opened up the ballpark with the first pitch.
  3. Is there more gold plated items every time Trump has a press conference in the Oval Office? He's such a poor person's view of a wealthy person.
  4. meh. Many of us went to cash in Feb/Mar. I was previously 100% in stock for the past 30 years. While it will ultimately be a good thing for me to have the stock market continue to drop, I don't hope that happens. Exception: I do celebrate every time I see that Tesla is down.
  5. Donald Trump VIII may allow partial elections in 2244
  6. Impossible to discuss the current market conditions without including the cause. If someone can't handle the fact that Trump caused a market collapse then I agree they should stay away from any market discussions for a while.
  7. I know he didn't but Cedrek voting for yourself could be a rock star move as long as you actually don't cast the deciding vote to send you home. It can throw chaos in a group because they want to figure out who did it. Of course I assume that Sai will admit to it. Then halfway apologize when reminded that she's only there because of Cedrek. Sai is perhaps the worst player ever to have made it this far.
  8. It would be funny if not so tragic but any Trump tweet or TV appearance by his team, makes the market drop more. I think that if they could just shut up (spoiler, they can't), the market would stabilize.
  9. Has the WH said, on TV or press briefing, that some innocent people were wrongly deported? I know the blonde propagandist made some comment about a clerical error but she followed that up by saying that the people involved were definite gang members/terrorists. Which makes no sense. Which is it?
  10. SMH at the MAGA folks who argue that non-citizens have zero constitutional protection especially due process. When prompted about how do we know that the person is an undocumented worker and that due process can be utilized for a court to make that determination, they argue against that path. They effectively want to empower ICE to make the determination without allowing the person to argue their case. It's like some bad Cheech music video with Jan-Michael Vincent as the judge, jury and executioner.
  11. Why not start sending any American citizen to El Salvador without due process, and then declare that the govt has zero duty to work to return them. Let the person fight it out with the El Salvadoran courts, which of course have zero jurisdiction in the matter as well.
  12. Appalling that the Trump WH is arguing that, while they agree they incorrectly deported someone, the Supreme Court should not order the Administration to return the man to the US. Basically, yeah we screwed up but the bigger mistake is if you force us to correct our original mistake.
  13. Doesn't Amazon/vendor at least attempt to resell returned items? An assembled desk creates delivery problems. Elevate the home repair game beyond manual screwdrivers. Disassembling a desk shouldn't take more than a few minutes with a cordless screwdriver or impact driver/wrench. Saves your wrist and forearms as well.
  14. You know the perp was in the tent to steal? I haven't heard that line yet. If your reply is why else was he there, then at least admit you don't know.
  15. This AM, Navarro said that Vietnam’s offer to eliminate tariffs on US imports isn’t enough. So much for reciprocal tariffs. Navarro is working to convince Trump, or has convinced him, that this is about trade imbalance. They don’t know what they’re doing and it’s important to remember that Navarro was never a respected economist. He was just some guy, albeit formally educated, that Jared found on an Amazon book search.
  16. If the perp was sitting under the wrong tent, I would look to any bullying as coming from his own hs. As in someone chased him off, or he just couldn’t be around them. Someone who is bullied may be at the point of carrying a knife to potentially hurt his tormentor. He finds another tent to sit and collect himself. The story is that the victim asked him to leave. That could range from “hey buddy do you mind not sitting here” to “get the f out of here you piece of shit. No one wants you here.” At that age, if a friend said the former, I would later describe that as asking them to leave. Then the perp snaps at one more person making him feel small. you can say one thing to someone and all of their pent up anger can go against you. It’s not right but it happens. edit: also if an athlete is sitting in the wrong tent, something is off. An adult (coach?) should be asking questions. I never was around track but spend more than a few weekends at hs basketball tourneys. Understaffed coaches pretty much allowed us free range in between games. In hindsight it was a recipe for problems.
  17. Any chance that you assembled it incorrectly? More than once I’ve had to tear something down because I assembled it backwards. As for a return, I would disassemble it.
  18. Hard to believe that much money will be pushed in hoping to buy the dip. Seems less risky to keep sitting on the sidelines. Obviously for every sale there is effectively a buyer but I have to wonder if the courageous buyers are going to disappear tomorrow.
  19. Does anyone really think that we’ve discovered the bottom given the admin’s messages on today’s news shows.
  20. I agree that no one can predict the decisions of one man. Even the advisors don’t have a clue of the strategy. But it’s a fools errands to not take trumps words literally. He doesn’t want to remove the tariffs. The point is to earn tariff revenue short term and bring back manufacturing in the long run. It’s not to lower trade barriers overseas. The tariffs are to be permanent. If you buy foreign goods either by choice or lack of options, you face financial consequences. This is the reality. will there be pauses, delays, changes in percentages? Of course. Sometimes it’s that last person that speaks to a president gets their way especially if you flatter said president.
  21. Don’t these call for an oil change every 50-100 hours? Probably a good idea to know how to change the oil and filter, as well as having the supplies onhand. In the middle of a week+ emergency I wouldn’t want to count on that service plan. which reminds me I need to change the oil in my portable generator. Meant to do it in the winter.
  22. I imagine that Trump can find some people (think My Pillow dude) who will stand up and say that they will build US factories. Of course none of them will have any money unless Trump gives them a federal loan. Grifters are always the first in line to pull money from the govt when a politician needs help.
  23. I was just making a joke. Like, how you do walk out of Vegas with $20K? Start with $100K.
  24. At that the point you said to this to your kids, did you have a lake mansion?
  25. Trump spent the last 8 years ensuring that no one in Congress will stop him. And for the ultimate control even if the House ever decided to impeach him, the cowards in the Senate would refuse to convict him.
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