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Thetexashammer

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  1. Wrong, as usual. Who the fuck said I was on vacation? Are you a complete idiot?
  2. You shove a tube up my ass and you can run all four burners. All natural and sustainable!
  3. Will it sear a steak? I didn't think so. Checkmate bro!!!!!
  4. He had other, reasonable, choices which didn't involve insubordination. His commanders were aware of those circumstances and made a decision. He had a duty to follow orders. Or he could have resigned. Or docked the ship somewhere, disobeying orders. He had choices, and he chose insubordination. Which may have been worth it, I don't know, but you aren't making an argument that it was.
  5. In your world, purposeless virtue signalling is a great and glorious achievement. Indeed, it is the Rosetta Stone of your existence. In the real world, it gets people killed. I don't want a commander who abandoned their ship in its time of greatest need.
  6. Yes, that was his intent. It was to embarrass the Navy into doing the right thing. What he did was insubordination, none of this is up for debate, the only question is whether it was worth it.
  7. How did he help his sailors? I'm saying I don't think he did anything except sink himself. Now someone who doesn't care is in charge. And he embarrassed the Navy.
  8. Teddy Roosevelt Captain was relieved of duty. I kind of think he was an idiot even if his bosses were morons. Stay at home extended in Italy to May 16. Six more weeks minimum. Gonna be massive, countrywide riots before that date.
  9. Killing myself with a kettlebell may have been the best thing I ever did. Literally every muscle hurts.
  10. A veritable Pantheon of lunacy........... I predicted we'll have a vaccine in the fall and there is no risk to college football and bad things will happen in Europe (over time) and I repeat them here. Everything's pretty normal by midsummer, except maybe we're all wearing masks and old people can't go out. The revolutions come later, but come they will. Europe will be devastated, US will recover, nipple rings for everyone.
  11. Inflation is inevitable. Like a pandemic, the only question is how best to prepare for it.
  12. 4 Million are partially or completely unemployed in France. That's equivalent to 20 million in the US, roughly. https://www.thelocal.fr/20200401/chomage-partiel-how-to-access-temporary-unemployment-in-france Spain unemployment was 14.2% in OCT 19. Only has 300k reporting unemployment, however, 800k "stopped paying into social security". Of course this is only the first wave of bad things to come. It's worth nothing the France GDP is 15% lower than 2008, and Spain GDP is 20% lower. European economies are fragile, slowly shrinking, highly regulated, and heavily indebted. Although to be fair, money just falls from helicopters these days. I mentioned in the market thread, it is important to realize that governments don't have the power to print money the way we do in the US. The discussion nowadays in the EU revolves around "Eurobonds", or the newly names "Coronabonds". Of course, the northern countries are refusing to subsidize the southern countries overspending. And borrowing is very limited for places like Italy, which already had debt to GDP over 140%, and will likely see closer to 200% after this. Il Giornale's headline currently states ""Now sell Italian securities.The attack order from Berlin." There are stories about city mayors and others who normally fly the EU flag (they're everywhere) taking them down after Italy asked for help from the EU and every single EU member refused. Italy's economy is down 20% from 2008 and unemployment was recently 9.7%. Limited reports of mafia activity and food riots down in Sicily, so, situation normal down there.
  13. Dow 35K HERE WE COME!!!!!!!
  14. Traditionally, you control looting by shooting the looters. I do expect wide social unrest to increase across the globe. Not everyone is mature as the average Surlistani.
  15. He pulled from a Google cache. So it should be accessible to anyone if Google doesn't shut it off. It's basically a confession that it came from the lab.
  16. Italy is in fact massively understating deaths from Coronavirus. The real number is probably at least double. While the evidence is indirect, it's also overwhelming. It's also been reported than Italy wasn't counting deaths in nursing homes. Keep that in mind when the US numbers start to rise. https://www.wsj.com/articles/italys-coronavirus-death-toll-is-far-higher-than-reported-11585767179 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-homes-insigh/uncounted-among-coronavirus-victims-deaths-sweep-through-italys-nursing-homes-idUSKBN2152V0 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/01/europe/borromea-residence-coronavirus-deaths-intl/index.html
  17. Those guys are a great follow. I've watched a ton of their videos. Laowai is the Chinese term for foreigner, by the way, I just learned that recently. Look at the titles of Serpentza's most recent videos, he's seriously going off on the government. He and Laowai are both married to native chinese women. They have discussed censorship issues often and I'm guessing will have to leave now because they will be targeted for what they're doing, if they haven't left already. Laowhy put up a fantastic video "Why I change my opinion on China". On the upside, views are up for them.
  18. Two videos from a couple of guys who have spent at least ten years in China. They both speak the language, have businesses, and married chinese women. This one is the best overall backgrounder on how China has changed. It's pretty sad and horrible.
  19. Have Andrew Cuomo's nipple bars been discussed? I feel like they should be discussed.
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