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TexasHooch

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  1. You'll note though, that both this guy and the maker of Jack Daniels point not to the tariffs as the problem, but the "disproportionate response" of pulling booze from the shelves. So even now, it's really Canada's fault. I'm not going to lose sleep on this one.
  2. Here's what Jack Daniels specifically has to say about it. Watching him walking the tightrope is fun. "IT'S HORRIBLE, (psst, don't worry investors it's not really a big deal). BUT IT'S HORRIBLE!" With a 7% share of sales, he's sweating Mexico so bad.
  3. I'm 99% liquid now. I can recover from being out of the game for a period. I cannot recover from a crash- too old.
  4. No way! Why should I move? He's the one who sucks.
  5. You heard him Europe. Put boots on the ground and defend your continent. Lindsey thinks you should.
  6. [No WAY is that the Same Actor/Actress] And, for the olds...
  7. He said in an earlier episode though that he identified the body. Not that they can't reconcile that, it's not like he took her pulse, but they still need to explain it. At any rate, it's looking more and more that the explanation isn't some kind of "reanimation of a corpse" scheme that has been floated. I won't be satisfied with that.
  8. Nah. That's putting it far too simply. Murdoch will be dead soon. It's not simply about grift to him and people in this sphere. For people two and three notches down, like Barr and some of the folks in their orbit, sure. For him, and the tech bros, and the hedge fund managers, It's a world view, which is devoid of any understanding (and therefore empathy) towards us. Shortly after my wife and I got married, we traveled to Uganda as part of an aid group. We went to the poorest district in the country, and then we went to the poorest family in the district- which was an orphaned teen-aged girl and her 3 much younger siblings living in a half roofed mud hut, their clothes literally falling off of them. We, of course, did have deep sympathy, and some of us immediately started to speculate on what they needed, or how we could help them directly, right there immediately. Our hosts, however, quickly brought us to the reality that our experience was simply too far removed from theirs as to presume that we had any real understanding how to help them in any meaningful, sustained way. Of course the aid organization we were there supporting was much closer to the ground, and therefore better placed to assist. But us? Nope. I tell that story because it occurs to me that the gap between the mega billionaires and us is actually greater than the gap between us and that family in Uganda. At least we were close enough in our shared experience to share sympathy, if not true empathy.
  9. That article is so good. It's also a terrifying further acknowledgement that these people (all of them) exist on a different plane than the populace. The idea that they (or anyone else in the truly-rich elite and those they politically support) have any clue what it's like to be a farmer in Nebraska, a single mother in Virginia, or even a (mere) millionaire doctor in Vermont is farce. We and they are a different species. We, the people, may as well be an ant-farm sitting on a shelf to them.
  10. The boy is lucky enough to have been invited with his friends family to Deer Valley Thursday. Looks like weather may be in the 40's and sunny. Personally I'd prefer it a little colder, but 1) Who cares, I'm not going; and 2) The kid has only ever skied in MN so anything will be a vast improvement over the ice he's used to.
  11. Honestly it's a tie. Great show, but it would have been better without that character all together.
  12. Fuck no. It's embarrassing.
  13. So the fuck what? P.S. That website is fucking scary. Like, really scary.
  14. I think there are a lot of people who, if they're being honest, would prefer a "benevolent dictatorship" to any other form of government. Of course, they presuppose that they would be in the protected class, which of course most of MAGA would not.
  15. Well he can't pardon State and Local assault convictions, so we're good there. Unless of course Washington DC gets taken over by the federal government, but why would that happen? ... furk.
  16. Oh yeah? similar story, but on a plane to London with 4 hours left. Add in puke and a fever.
  17. Same with my dad. Squamous cell carcinoma a few years ago, and is currently being worked up for Parkinson's. BTW, his job in Nam? Supply Specialist.
  18. Glad to hear that you survived your 1 day ordeal in the land of 10,000 lakes (and 5 million permanent residents). I kid, I kid. It's unpleasant right now. Not going to pretend I'm out making a snowman.
  19. White House Claims Elon Musk Isn’t Running DOGE After All https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-insists-musk-isn-112225421.html
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