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Ojo Rojo

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  1. Oh, and it's actually Asian Pawn. It's an obscure move in chess. It's where you castle your king and feint with your rook to knight 6. I saw it in the Queen's Gambit.
  2. I don't know all of the ins and outs and what have you's of this case, but just based on the 20 mins. of what I watched during this hearing here's what I saw: The Trump lawyers are shitty people, which is why they would take the job of representing Trump in a bogus voter fraud case in the first place. They also are not good lawyers. This was a sanctions hearing over really just one question: What did the lawyers do to vet the information they received before filing it with the court? The answer should have been, "We interviewed a bunch of witnesses who became our affiants. They appeared to be sincere and reliable. We believed them and took them at their word, which was not unreasonable. We also hired expert witnesses to inform additional aspects of the claims. So, we did conduct at least the minimal degree of inquiry to avoid sanctions. They should have also said, "Today is not a trial on the merits and most of the questions asked during the hearing go to the weight of the evidence, not the level of inquiry performed by counsel." They didn't do that though. The judge seemed predisposed to rule against the Trump lawyers. I wasn't impressed with the judge. The formulation of the questions, the interplay with counsel - none of it was good. She didn't really have control over the hearing and didn't seem to have command of the issues. Very unlike the federal judges in SDTX. And I know this, NO ONE would get away with talking to the judge like the bow tie guy did in SDTX.
  3. Blatantly disrespecting the judge. Sneering. I can't believe it. You disrespect a federal judge at your peril, friendo.
  4. We're gettin' Scherzer!!!
  5. Wee Man isn't dead. Dammit. Several others already posted this. Sorry.
  6. This. That arm wing thing he does is annoying af.
  7. One positive thing came from the video. The capitol police were a lot more professional and valiant than I first believed. They really did try to hold them back. They were just severely outnumbered and they were not equipped. Utter failure of leadership, but not the rank and file.
  8. Watched it. Disturbing. All of those stupid fucks (with the exception of a couple who died in the event) are still among us.
  9. I saw the govt. send out trillions of dollars in stimulus money and then saw inflation because there were too many dollars chasing too few goods and services. I didn't think maybe we overdid the stimulus because of people screaming. Don't get me wrong - I was in favor of the stimulus. Still am, though I think there are a lot of people who got it and didn't need it and a lot of people who needed it and didn't get it or get enough. There is a limit to govt. spending. Fiscal deficits can have negative consequences. That's not a political statement.
  10. The worst thing I have ever seen on the internet was on TOS. It was on the thread, NSFW Horrible Shit You Can't Unsee, or something to that effect. I didn't look at everything on there, but for whatever reason I clicked on one thing that scarred me for life. It was photos of men who had cut off their own dicks. Apparently it's a mental condition or a fetish or something. But there were pics of a bunch of stumps or less. Can't unsee.
  11. Agree 100%. I know these are unusual times, but I've never seen price increases like this in my lifetime and it scared me. What scared me even more was that the experts, govt. officials and media acknowledged it, but said it's temporary. Seemed like whistling past the graveyard. We've had price increases, but other drivers of inflation, like massive influxes of cash into the economy from the federal government, are also present. It sure felt like we overdid it with the stimmies when maybe we didn't need to. Or didn't target the money to the right places. I guess we'll see.
  12. Sorry, I thought prices falling is what you meant by "settle back." I agree that deflation is bad, but if you have a spike in prices followed by decrease, would that still be deflation? I guess it would depend over how long of a period you net it out. Anyway, glad to see the price of lumber going down. That's a big one.
  13. This goes back to what I said originally - prices have already risen noticeably and I don't believe businesses are going to just voluntarily roll back prices. I think those price increases are here to stay and I think the buying power of our dollars has already shrunk. I'm not worried about growth. Pent up demand from the pandemic will help a lot.
  14. What about from Feb. 1, 2020 to now? And the coming months? That's the period where it appears that inflation will blow past that target.
  15. Sorry, mate, I'm not an economist. Can you please 'splain?
  16. PPPBBBBTTHHH!!! In her world, reason is superfluous. In her world, giving me a reason means I win.
  17. Speaking of trips, my wife refuses to use luggage unless we are getting on a plane. So for weekend trips using the car, which are most of our trips, she uses open top bags for all of her shit. Clothes, toiletries, hair dryers, everything, just stuffed in fucking bags . Does the same thing with groceries - paper sacks upon paper sacks of groceries. That might not sound that bad, but when you go to pack the car you understand what is wrong with this. Shit easily falls out of bags that don't even have a way to close. Plus, open bags really don't stack well, so they have to go on top. As opposed to cuboid shaped suitcases and totes that stack and pack very well. Shit drives me crazy. I've asked her nicely, even if she doesn't understand the reasons why, to please, pretty fucking please with a cherry on top - use a fucking suitcase. Refuses.
  18. I'm not going to take the time to game out an entire scenario, but I can tell you that massive inflation and the resulting recession or depression will be a big part of it. Inflation scares me and it's already happening. Real estate prices skyrocketing to ridiculous levels. Consumer prices for ever good under the sun going up, up , up. "Experts" are saying it's temporary; I say bullshit. Like everyone is going to just miraculously lower their prices to pre- post-pandemic levels? Riiiiiiiggghhhttt...
  19. I'm in the NTTAWWT crowd, so I don't consider being homosexual a source of shame or an insult or anything of the sort. I'm more just curious - do you think any of these guys has ever accepted that they are homosexual?
  20. It's just so fucking weird.
  21. Why not both?
  22. You really think so? Seems right for Bregman to move to his natural position at SS and for Toro to stay in his natural position at 3B. Diaz would still be in the same role as utility man. If Toro was not a MLB 3B then I could see the move, but he looks the part so far.
  23. I feel spoiled.
  24. I'm not an expert on American government, but I'm pretty sure the answer is not that Joe Biden would have been escorted out of the White House and Donald Trump back in. We can do "what ifs" all day. What if DJT had refused to leave the WH? What if Raffensberger had chosen to whore out to DJT and "found" 11,000 votes in Georgia? Those what ifs didn't happen, just like yours didn't. The one dumb bitch who actually breached an area where there were members of Congress instantly found out even before she made it through the door. I'm not saying we don't want to keep a close eye on all of this shit and actively fight it with everything we've got. I just think it's an overreaction and a lack of faith in the strength and foundation of our democracy and, frankly, a lack of understanding of how our government works to think that 1/6 almost took it all down.
  25. No, no, no, no, no. It's not like there are only two extreme views 1/6 - "HORRIBAD, WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!" or "nothing to see here." I was horrified by it, scared and extremely concerned by the whole Trumpist/fascist movement, especially including what happened on 1/6. I just don't think we actually got close to a government takeover. It's important to take it all seriously; it's also important to understand it for what it actually was.
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