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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Eastwood replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body in Congress? Oh you mean Marjorie!
Eastwood replied to Pancho's topic in Cloak Room
Oh, this is just the new beginning of America’s politics. Do you have any idea what people who graduated high school from ‘99 to ‘06 were sharing on MySpace and Facebook when they were in college without realizing that the internet is forever? By 2040, we’re going to know what every sitting member of Congress’s genitals look like because they either sent them on Snapchat, Twitter DM, or were buried on an SD card in a 2007 Casio digital camera found in the bottom of drawer in an IKEA dresser that was sold at Goodwill. -
All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Eastwood replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
A good, well seasoned title company should still catch it. No two closings are ever the same, but there is a fairly decent feel, rhythm, cadence, etc. to how each transaction typically goes and the moment something starts to feel off, the escrow officer should do a little extra digging. Some of these title shops are just churn and burn, though, and aren’t really paying attention to the transaction. Escrow assistants help order the survey, HOA docs, get the paperwork in line, escrow officer makes sure the CD and docs are in good shape, and away they go. But you see the same docs thousands and thousands of times over and the little discrepancies start to stand out. Handwriting of the seller and the notary almost perfectly match, a supposedly 95 year old seller with a perfect signature, things like that. But in my own personal experience, sometimes you start saying “well, that’s weird…” one too many times, do a little digging, and find the body they were trying to hide. For my couple of examples, it wasn’t anything overtly criminal, but more along the lines of family members of elderly sellers trying to take a shortcut instead of going through the courts to allow the sale of an owner who is disabled or a husband and wife who are not on good terms and one spouse is trying to sell a property without the other. -
Not even close to disliking Obama. He just called it wrong. That’s the gig. That’s what being President is. He had his intel, he had his advisors, and he made the call. The call has costs billions of dollars, thousands of lives, and countless atrocities. But that’s part of the job. If you’re familiar with the photo of Kennedy, I think it is called “The Loneliest Job,” where he is standing silhouetted over his desk, head down, shoulders slumped, with the weight of the nation on his back, that’s how I always thought the Presidency should feel for the person who holds the office. It’s a monumental task with historical consequences that will cost people their lives, and all the fallout that it entails, for decades. We can call out the mistakes of a President without disliking them. Accountability shouldn’t be partisan.
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The simplest answer is best, here. Obama just got Russia wrong. There’s no “save face” for his Romney retort. He truly believed it when he said it and never pivoted. The approach at the time was that these were small regional incidents without much impact on the West. Obama essentially played the role of Neville Chamberlain and took Putin at his word that Crimea and the Donbas was all he wanted. Obama was new school, with all of his national political experience being post-Cold War. With the response we see now from Biden as President, I’m betting Biden was in his ear about a firm and hard response but didn’t get any traction.
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I almost wrote something similar in the Dark Brandon thread, but didn’t want to derail the thread. The 2014 response to Russia was a grim failure of the Obama administration and Biden was sitting 2nd chair for that. When discussing on TOS, a lot of people were of the opinion that “we shouldn’t start WW3 over Crimea and East Ukraine.” Others, myself included, were of the opinion that it was only the beginning, appeasement never works, and we should learn from history and punch this bully in the mouth now then rather than wait for more damage to be done. The price we now pay for waiting is catastrophic. And we now know that Russia is a paper bear and would have been absolutely rolled out of Ukraine with very little heartache. We also now know that drawing a hard line and setting the terms up front for when NATO would intervene has kept any nuclear threat in check, as well. If there was ever a time for a Russian collapse and a push for dismantling their nuclear arsenal, it will be coming at the tail end of a Ukrainian victory.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Eastwood replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Sorry, man, but a 26% interest student loan is almost unheard of. The banks have your boy by balls and he put their hand there, unfortunately.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Eastwood replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Ford and GM wouldn’t do this if they were confident that Tesla’s automobile division is no longer a threat to their business model. You don’t throw a disrupting competitor a lifeline by giving them cash flow opportunities. They know that Tesla’s time as a serious competing automobile manufacturer is limited, at least as far as economy consumer vehicles are concerned. If you want your gull winged door electric SUV $100k shitbox, you can keep your gull winged door electric SUV $100k shitbox. The serious automotive companies will make EVs that middle class families can afford. -
Did he take on private loans? Hard to imagine that government subsidized loans would have interest rates that run up to 26%. And government subsidized loans can have income based repayment that can stretch out over a couple decades and at the end of the 20 year term, the rest of the balance is forgiven. Sounds like a great deal, but you end up paying double the loan balance over that time in interest.
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If Pringles is taken out and there are remaining Wagner units in Africa that refuse to align with the MoD that are disavowed by the Russian government, I could see the 3rd Special Forces Group continuing the “Find Out” portion of Wagner’s “Fuck Around” experiment in Syria in 2018.
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Belgian Shotputter and Hammer Thrower Runs 100M Hurdles
Eastwood replied to TwiceHorn's topic in Daily Texan
She knew that the internet would be cruel. She’d rather put herself on blast than have the team lose a point. She got any eligibility left and does UT need a shot putter?- 46 replies
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We got excited because we thought that everything was going to unravel right in front of us in a 48 hour period. It’s understandable. We were on the verge of seeing what would be the greatest geopolitical event since the fall of the Berlin Wall and maybe we still did. It took two whole years from the Wall going down to the dissolving of the Soviet Union. The Wall falling was the breaking away of the most visible non-nuclear symbol of Soviet power in the European front. Russia’s most powerful and seasoned troops withdrawing from the newest Russian/European conflict border, Ukraine, turning their guns east, and holding the Kremlin hostage to meet demands was our modern day equivalent. People are openly wondering “how could Prog possibly believe this is over and he is safe” but the same could be asked of Putin’s mindset. Both sides of that conflict are irreparably damaged. Imagine how many oligarchs just saw their fortunes flash before their eyes. Imagine how much chatter about Putin’s weakness has been picked up by the FSB. May we live in interesting times, indeed.
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Until we hear from Putin, I question whether he is still in power. Especially if he fled Moscow as reported.
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Trying to get Ukraine offsides doesn’t make sense either. You don’t pants Putin like this and just stop. Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and gave his enemies in the Senate time to flee so he could obtain power without spilling Roman citizen blood, which would turn the populace against him and maintain popular support. May be a page out of that playbook.
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Only way I see this making sense is that Putin has been removed and replaced with someone that won’t kill Prog.
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Makes zero sense. It would be a death sentence for Proggles to do this. He knows Putin won’t just forget that he was made to look powerless to the rest of the world.
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Well, funny thing about all this, BoeBoe, is that a lot of the Far Right financial support was Russian money funneled into Republican PACs. Putin money. The GOP financial rug might have just been pulled from under them 17 months from the 2024 election.
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Hey, Turkey, as a NATO nation, you might want to start checking if any of your new guests happen to have pending war crime charges.
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What a day it has turned into...
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In the older days of Shaggy, I had knock down, drag out shit flinging arguments with posters that I was certain I wouldn’t want to even share an empty parking lot with. Then you end up having two beers with someone at a tailgate before you even get around to having the “I’m from the internet” conversation and realize that not only are you talking to that person, you are actually enjoying their company. And it happened a lot over a 3 or 4 year period. Really drove home the “human” aspect of the internet for me. It’s easy to get crossways with pixels on a screen.
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The “Surly exceptionalism” theory is a new one for me. An unbiased party reading this site probably thinks we all type by slamming our heads on the keyboard.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Eastwood replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Jobs may have drank too much of the kool-aid about being “first” and pumping up the importance of Apple releasing tech that already existed, but Jobs absolutely had a clear, concise vision with clear, concise timelines that he consistently delivered on. The only snake oil with Jobs was the importance of Apple being the company to release tech. Does it already exist? Didn’t matter. If Apple hadn’t released it, then it didn’t “exist” in Jobs’ mind. But Apple did drive innovation and did improve on already existing concepts exactly how Jobs said it would exactly when Jobs said they would. -
I thought I was seeing things with the mammatus clouds. Those things were at least 50 miles from the storm. Very strange.
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