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  1. Well, it was previously done by Fluor Federal Petroleum Services for a tad less money. I suppose Fluor is as guilty of being a grifter as any big business, but you kind of tend to think they know what they're doing. https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/04/the-strategic-petroleum-reserve I think that SPP mentioned in that article is a self-storage outfit that is unrelated. I see there is an SSP LLC formed in Delaware in June 2023 that is a more likely candidate, but not seeing any member/director information.
  2. Uncle Xi, more likely.
  3. The reason they are racist is their origins. Here's an article from notorious liberal rag UChi law review explaining the racist origins of federal marijuana laws. https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archive/unconstitutional-racial-animus-behind-federal-marijuana-criminalization On occasion, something with racist origin can also coincide with decent policy. But the continued disparate impact of MJ laws on browns and poors, shows that the racist intention was effective. And no one seems to think MJ laws are decent policy, except those who are a little racist.
  4. And, I would disagree that he has explicitly stated this is about bargaining. His, ] reasoning, as usual, is a muddle. This time it's a muddle of raise revenue (to cut taxes), return manufacturing to US, and punish our trading partners for selling us too much crap while not buying enough of ours. One thing I disagree with from the anti-Trump factions is that the manufacturing jobs are not ones we want. Yes, a lot of them are not and I have said as much, but a good number of them are. But that's not happening on anyone's reasonable timeframe; and, I agree that to effectively accomplish that, other investments and incentives will need to be provided ala the CHIPs Act. Most of Asia outside of China doesn't have any jobs we want back, so tariffing them makes little sense.
  5. Real stuff? Never seen the lyrics to that or really even much listened to it.. Very aggy.
  6. The story was a falsehood with an overtly racist message by an overtly political and racist twitter account. Post 2 in the thread pointed out the falsity of it. If you can ignore that, then you better check yourself, and your media sources.
  7. Was kind of digging around on Beard and apparently he was mentored by a friend of mine in undergrad, George Tuttle. I also learned that George died in 2019. Interesting story, Tuttle was an honors engineering major from Norman, where his father was a professor of architecture and forbid him from going to OU. Solid IM hooper and good athlete. After a couple of years, he started going to school at St. Eds and playing basketball there, while apparently also enrolled in UT. Got sidetracked from engineering and decided he wanted to be a basketball coach. He did graduate from UT after 7 years. I believe he was a GA under Penders and had a relationship with Vic Trilli, who also was an influence on Beard. He apparently stayed employed as a basketball coach as an assistant at various schools for the rest of his life. RIP George. /csb for anyone else who might have known Tuttle.
  8. But Biden looked at his watch!
  9. Interesting article on justsecurity indicating that the quality of advocacy of Trump's DOJ is below normal standard. https://www.justsecurity.org/109967/supreme-court-alien-enemies-act/ I kind of expected that, the bigger question is whether it will make any difference.
  10. Who's that cooze with the cross hanging out?
  11. Further to this point, as you go higher up the social/financial ladder, the concern with taxes is probably replaced by "regulation." For example, the objection to the "administrative state" is a false flag for objection to regulation. So, in my mind, I was kind of attaching a broader meaning to "taxes" than my text would indicate.
  12. Even if this wasn't the product of your algorithm, but instead a "neutral" aggregation of news tweets, the fact that a racially charged tweet from a dickwad like that made it into a news feed is just a demonstration that Xitter is overrun with shit. And you should get the fuck off of it and quit supporting Elmo and these fucks.
  13. Well, then, your methodology was fucked. Especially if you find you need them within days of canning them.
  14. Eh, I'm not sure it wasn't fully formed. Like a lot of things economic, there's theoretical and empirical. The theoretical basis was reasonable, if not sound, in the absence of hindsight. Now we have empirical data that tariffs don't work and neither do supply-side economics.
  15. Dude, every Supreme Court Justice ever was a political actor. Many of the cases before the Court have no real basis for choice or decision in any part of the Constitution or statutes of the country. They boil down to policy choices that are influenced by many things, including politics. Like a lot of problems facing Congress are really beyond Congress' capabilities or institutional competence (hence the administrative "state"), more modern justices are trained only in the law, and have never held office outside of the judiciary, so they are, at bottom, really unfamiliar with policy choices. So, experience, personal and governmental, bears little on their decisions, it boils down to biases and politics.
  16. L O fucking L.
  17. What it is, other than Trump's fever dream, is the way to drive manufacturing back to the US in the least intrusive (government involvement in business and labor) way possible. Cass acknowledges that tariffs alone will not do this.
  18. Well, I think Reagan's dream had more to do with deregulation than taxes, per se, but it's kind of six of one half a dozen of the other.
  19. You also got: Promise of lower grocery prices; Promise of an end to the war in Ukraine in 24 hours; Promise of free IVF.
  20. Well, I think his ultimate goal, which is idiotic, is to replace income tax with tariffs. That's why he thinks the Gilded Age was so great, no income tax. So much of this shit boils down to income tax. It's really what the oligarchs want, it's what his moron voters really want. All this small government and efficiency shit boils down to "I don't wanna pay taxes."
  21. Yep, I think it is both. But he's so stupid, willful, and impetuous that he can't stick to an agenda so he will only implement things desired by dark forces on a piecemeal basis.
  22. Shocking and appalling. Mike McKool, no longer affiliated, was from a long line of Dems. Fulbright complying in advance. Baker Botts and V/E no moves. Susman no moves. Interestingly, Jones Day, who has repped Trump business interests and GOP, no moves. Edit to add. Fulbright doesn't use the dreaded DEI, which I suppose is capitulation enough. But has a pretty robust affinity page. https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en-us/about/people-first
  23. Lutnick is proving to be a bigger clown than Peter Navarro. That's saying something.
  24. Even if you wanted to do things "by the book," it doesn't sound like he owns any property that requires a formal title transfer for you, your brother, or anyone else to take possession and own it, such as real estate, vehicles, or accounts. Usually, medicaid estate recovery is geared toward real estate and any potential assets excluded from eligibility by Crummy trust or the like. But I really have no idea what the mechanics of that recovery are. That is, do they await a probate and file as a creditor, or initiate their own proceedings regardless. He or his estate does not sound like a ripe target for recovery.
  25. It's going to be hilarious when Trump tells us the stock market is not the economy.
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