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  1. 1) Find out who is behind it. Because it’s a grift. 2) We weren’t paying $280 million per year just to manage the Reserve before. Total grift boondoggle.
  2. I want a dem candidate who says “fuck it, the gun horse has left the barn. So here’s my position: all of y’all should arm yourself and right soon. The billionaires and their private police are coming for you , and they’re armed. You should be too. Fuck letting the terrorist Gestapo have a free hand - shoot em.”
  3. I won’t go CR, but these days, I’d want my kids as far away from the US military as possible.
  4. We are pissant shits compared to the Baltics. Those people have recent memory of what actual suffering and oppression looks like. We threw away nearly a century of progress because we thought the president was responsible for the middling price of eggs.
  5. Bin-fucking-go.
  6. And.....this. More than anything else, this. We have blown it all up, pissed it all away. EIGHTY FUCKING YEARS of post-war leadership and the prosperity that comes with it, poof, gone. AND FOR NO FUCKING REASON. A perfect summary from that piece:
  7. Huh. My old man was offered the job (heading up the SPR) like 25 years ago. He'd have been quite good at it. On a gov't salary. But, I mean, that's STUPID....where's the grift in that?
  8. Fabulous. Love that book. Isn't it pretty to think so?
  9. GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
  10. Melded to a tire, we presume.
  11. Cool. Do you think the new FDA leadership won't be as or more "politicized," as that is the exact term you used to convey the reason for your dislike of Marks?
  12. See the Economist piece I clipped on the CR thread -- the best strategy for the rest of the world is to 1) accelerate disengagement from trade with the US to the largest extent possible, and 2) seek new, rational trading partners/relationships to fill the gap. The US economy is big, but on the actual global scale, not so big that it can't be somewhat isolated, with engagement reduced to the bare minimum. A trade war is not the best play for the rest of the world. Slowly walking away is a much better play.
  13. I feel seen.
  14. Texans are like the majority of votes in every other jurisdiction in that they are voting for one thing, and one thing only: inflicting pain. They don't vote for policies, or ideas. They vote for the promise of hurting other people. The entire creed of the GQP is "we will hurt the 'other'....for YOU!" That's it. Every single thing they market themselves with comes down to that end point. Promise to hurt people. Keep your promise, and hurt people. Those are the keys to victory. Take them, start the car, jam down on the gas pedal, and start fucking inflicting pain. That's how you win.
  15. Wonder. Imagine. Fervently wish. Let's not get persnickity over word choice here.
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