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  1. Another good one. The average American's understanding of "globalism" is offshoring jobs and shithole countries with funny looking people and different religions gaining influence in various spheres. But the fact of the matter is that the economy is now global and there is no way for any nation to successfully withdraw from that economy (successfully meaning not becoming DPRK). Isolationism is even less practical now than it has ever been.
  2. Leave your body and soul at the door.
  3. Electronically, GCHQ is probably the best in the world. In no small part because they have never even pretended to respect civil rights.
  4. I mean what the fuck are Democrats or any other opposition to do when the incumbents win with baldface lies and idiocy.
  5. This guy has a PhD in economics from Harvard and has taught in the UC System (although not Berkeley or LA). And he is a MOTHERFUCKING IDIOT. The dumbest sonofabitch in the Trumpverse after der fuhrer himself.
  6. That's not quite the transgenic/transgender mice thing, but it's got about zero to do with transgender anything. What it is, partially, is testing to see what hormones, like those used in gender dysphoria, do to the body. And, it's eight million dollars.
  7. You are showing yourself to be a complete asshole. Go suck some Musky cock.
  8. Someone told him it is potentially a tactic to drive manufacturing/production back to the US. That is possibly true, but will take years and great pain. But because he's a simpleton, that's what he's sticking to.
  9. Yes. I remember seeing some stuff about their votes being questioned because of addresses, but there are certain ones they are entitled to use.
  10. Between his terms, certain conservative movements realized what a useful idiot was Trump. I am referring to Thiel, Musk and the anti-democratic techbros oligarchs, as well as the Project 2025 people, who are probably most aligned with "common good" conservatism. Most of this stuff is not Trump's idea. They know it's going to cause austerity, he doesn't. Like his base, he only goes along with the superficialities of it (cost cutting! gubmint efficiency!!!!). I think tariffs are his own little thing though. He obviously has little grasp of macroeconomics, or really any kind of economics that don't line his own pockets.
  11. I got out of timber ownership and management just a few years ago, but that sounds about right. Occasionally, we'd have some nice tall straight pines good for poles and that made for a nice biennial cutting. And, I suppose it was only a matter of time before engineered products overtook solid sawn lumber, but most of the time we felt like we were playing second fiddle to the PNW as far as high-value timber.
  12. Didn't realize Brownsville was one of the US' few breaking yards, and probably only for government-owned vessels. Among the other maritime industries the US has lost has been ship breaking. Now most breaking of privately owned vessels is done in India and thereabouts, where they just beach the things and workers swarm over them in abominable conditions. It's an industrial safety and no doubt environmental disaster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadani_Ship_Breaking_Yard Probably one of those industries we're happy to be rid of.
  13. 10 or so years ago, maybe more, and in the recent past, Canadian imports had a significant impact on the price of lumber in the US. We seem to have caught up so that Canada isn't as influential on the price. But you can bet that Canadian timber +25% is going to send US prices soaring, even if it's no longer a limiting factor. But yeah lack of sawmill capacity is definitely an issue. But a lot of southern, southeastern US timber doesn't go to sawmills. It's not economical to saw because it's too small relative to PNW timber. It goes into paper pulp and engineered wood products like OSB.
  14. You do have to log forests, any forests, to keep them healthy. As has been pointed out by @flatdawgs, I believe, that already occurs as a normal part of forest management on federal lands. That, then, has to mean that this is on a more commercial scale (the best privately owned and managed timberlands throw off plenty of revenue just from maintenance cutting) that is harmful to the forest, either to the forest itself or to its aesthetic appeal. In Trump's education on how government works, he somehow stumbled on the fact that presidential power is at its highest when national security is involved. That's going to become his empty incantation for the rest of his term/life/whateverthefuck.
  15. Well one of the problems is that at least some of that agreement will be governed by Colorado law. And, for the most part, Colorado law doesn't go round here. I'm not aware of any surly lawdogs licensed in Colorado.
  16. Classically, the brokerage and agent split that commission. That may be out the window with the Antitrust case. But even before the Antitrust case, brokerages would give more favorable splits to agents based on a number of things, most probably the agent's production. And some powerful (high production) agents with broker's licenses could become part of the brokerage, giving them a small percentage of the broker's end of the split.
  17. Great post. Without question, our greatest prosperity occurred in the post-war period, which started with the fact that we were the "last man standing" economically. Not only did we spend like crazy during the war, we spent like crazy for the next 50 years, even while servicing our war debt. We essentially re-created Europe in our own image. Yes, some of that was quite wrongheaded in terms of anti-Communist adventurism, culminating in Vietnam, but maybe actually worse in South and Central America. Europe is more culturally and economically aligned with us than Russia or China has ever been, and that doesn't mean white people. To take the Trump view that our expenditure abroad needs to have some cash quid pro quo is naive and stupid. Yes, we should be more measured in our active involvement abroad, but sending money and in-kind aid is how you become and stay a world power. You think China is investing heavily in Africa and South America for shits n giggles?
  18. Well, if not you, those people are struggling to be Republicans in Trump's GOP. They are Mitt Romneys. They have no voice.
  19. Just to be clear, Curtis Yarvin is not a billionaire, or probably even a millionaire. He's a weirdo crank that is a philosopher-god-king to those toolbags. At least Bill Gates and Steve Jobs knew they were fucking weirdos and mostly kept to themselves.
  20. So, yeah, is accuweather going to take over the SPC? Lotta profit in that?
  21. A hot mic is definitely entirely forgivable compared to setting up an ally and world leader for an incomprehensible bollocking on live TV. Oh, I forgot to add, turn off your mind, suck, but do figure out some way to get in on the grift.
  22. You're trying to think while also being a Republican. There's as little room for you in Trump's GOP as there is for demon rats. The only permissible thing is to turn off your mind and suck. This is why old time Republicans fled Trump's GOP in droves and why CR is an "echo chamber."
  23. Well, shit, then, they should be brought right back. Got plenty of shelf space without all them woke, DEI, fag books.
  24. The US reached its all-time production record in 2023. But we were "energy independent" for about 48 hours under Trump. And, the growth in clean energy jobs more than made up for any losses in the oil sector.
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