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Brisketexan

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  1. This unvarnished take/news alert just popped up on my screen: Some gem quotes from the article: "Profound, harmful, and unnecessary." "Deluded." "Flat-out nonsense." "Pathetic." "Catalogue of foolishness." THAT is how you journalism. But also look at the last paragraph, which is more matter-of-fact. It offers the rather obvious strategy for every other player in the game: start playing the game by treating the US as a relatively minor player (which, on a global scale, it is). Within 5 years, the rest of the world can undo the damage done to THEM, and be well on their way to a prosperity that really doesn't depend on the US at all. What Lord Dumbass doesn't realize is that another way for the other parties to deal with the new "trade balance" where Trump wants a big F you to all of them, we will buy ZERO from you....is for them to buy ZERO from us. We are not going to see increases of US exports to "make things even" with the (former) level of imports from other countries. Instead, as his policies result in lowering imports from other countries, we will reach a new balance (a low one) because we will also see drastically lower EXPORTS to those countries. Bottom line, to the extent that elements of our economy are driven by selling things to other countries....be prepared for that to dry the fuck up. Like a kid on the playground who screams and hollers and smears shit everywhere if he doesn't get his way, the best and most obvious path forward for the other kids is to just go play without us. Sure, we sneer and say "but we have the best toys, and now you can't play with them." The other kids shrug, gather up the toys they do have, and leave us the fuck behind. Because we're a little fucking spoiled asshole, and literally everyone else on the playground will be better off to leave us to stew in our own shit rather than have to deal with us any longer.
  2. Yep. And man, I've confessed my youthful stupidity -- "trickle down economics" as a hypothesis appealed to my younger, not fully informed brain. BUT....I then got the experience of watching us try it in multiple iterations over the past decades. And like someone observing attempt after attempt at making a working flapping flying machine..... I keenly spotted the results and concluded "well, guess I was wrong. That doesn't work." I'm sure I was dumb for buying into the hypothesis. But once the experiment was run....repeatedly....demonstrating that the hypothesis is incorrect...I'd have to be dumber than dumb AND a psychopath for thinking it still should work. Yet, instead of reaching that conclusion.....we're deciding "hey, the reason our flapping flying machine didn't work is because we started off too low to the ground. Let's climb up that 1,000 foot cliff, and jump off from there!" The fucking impact with the ground is gonna be brutal.
  3. Yeah.....we're going to try the absolute WORST version of trickle down, because all of the last failures were because....we didn't fuck up hard enough. Goddammit we are so fucking stupid.
  4. Dude.....too soon....in EVERY possible way/context.
  5. And a whole lot of this. Look, the American voter responds to promises of punishment and vengeance. Cool. We need an opposition party to run on that. Win. And then fucking DELIVER. The rules of the game are now "use the full power of the office/the government to inflict maximum pain on everyone you disfavor." So, let's fucking PLAY BALL.
  6. No, see, when people are responding to the first ongoing, novel global pandemic in over a century, any after-the-fact criticism should subject them to the death penalty. But when they are under minimal pressure, and are simply choosing to cripple all vaccinations, vaccination programs, etc.....well, that's not politicization at all, that's just good stuff. Did you not get the memo? If RFK Jr. does it, it's good. Period.
  7. I mean....imagine this: 1) You are the world's richest man. You can pretty much have any woman/women you want. You can have 10 at the same time. There are no limits. 2) But your fucking dick is broken. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! I fucking LOVE this for Elon. Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.
  8. Yep. And they served some blue drink called the Skaggs Alpha Beta. Was it any good? I have no idea. Did women dig it, and then make bad decisions, and was college Brisket a bad decision? Yes on all counts.
  9. But....amp up the hate and contempt. No, MORE than that. MORE.
  10. The term is "ledge lord," good sir. Just remember my rules, and it will all make sense: 1) It only gets worse. 2) There is no bottom.
  11. The number of small businesses that are flat-out going to be killed dead promises to be staggering if these tariffs last more than 30 days. Seriously, if you asked economists to develop a plan to kill as many small businesses as possible, that plan would include a tariff policy that looks like Trump's (oh, who am I kidding....even the greatest economists in the world couldn't come up with/imagine a policy that fucking absurd). We're going to manage to brutalize 1) the stock market, 2) employment, 3) inflation, 4) small business viability/ownership, and 5) the strength of the dollar in one fell swoop. While....not appreciably adding manufacturing jobs or revenue in offset. All while trying to re-create an imaginary "utopia" from over 100 years ago, when the world, the global and US economy, and pretty much fucking everything was completely different. Shit, at this point, I am truly and genuinely surprised that we haven't seen some economic model and plan describing how the overall American labor force produced a greater output to labor cost ratio from 1776 to 1865 than we've seen since, so we should reinstate those labor policies. This is pure "repeatedly shooting ourselves in the dick" territory.
  12. The dollar is taking a big shit, too. Yesterday, I could buy a GBP for $1.29, today it's $1.31 and climbing. There's literally nothing about this new "trade policy" that isn't the most simplistic, stupid, harmful idiocy. All of it. Across the board.
  13. "Shooting one's dick clean off is such a horrific prospect that we can't imagine continuing to do so," says analyst watching in horror as Trumpco repeatedly shoots itself in the groin, and is now reloading. Jesus. Fucking. Christ. EVERYONE KNOWS WHO AND WHAT THESE PEOPLE ARE AND WHAT THEY WILL DO. THEY HAVE SAID IT AND BACKED IT UP COUNTLESS TIMES. STOP BEING INCREDULOUS, AND START BELIEVING THE TRUTH: THEY ARE AS AWFUL AS THEY SAY, MAYBE EVEN WORSE.
  14. We are 100% going to have to learn all of the stupid lessons the hard way. Touch the hot stove, stick a fork in the electrical socket, put your dick in crazy, use "password" as your password.....ALL the stupid. I've been trying to find a bright side. What I've come up with is "rebuilding/reconstruction of a society is a massive undertaking that takes decades," so, at least my kids will have a mission and purpose for the rest of their lives. Clear the rubble, and slowly rebuild....something....somewhere.
  15. The problem is...well, there are so many problems. Let's just talk about "bringing manufacturing and manufacturing jobs back." Not. Going. To happen. We actually HAVE seen increases in manufacturing and production....but it doesn't come with more jobs, generally: But, to the extent that it's going to happen (increased manufacturing leading to more jobs), it has ALREADY been happening at a record pace -- the engine is running about as hot as it can, trying to juice it is fucking absurd: 364,000 manufacturing jobs added in 2022, a US record. As of 2022, manufacturing employment was at a 15 yr high: So much so, that we are having a hard time FILLING all of the new manufacturing jobs (I can't find a nice clean chart on that quickly, but it's a real thing). So sure, bring back the plastic toy soldier factory....who's going to work in it?
  16. In a wide open parking lot with lots of people walking by and witnessing? Yeah, I really might have. I do freely admit that my old man pissed-offedness may be increasingly impairing my judgment and give-a-fuck levels, though.
  17. Just to give you a glimpse, I have an old friend who has gone full-on amped-up MAGA, "if Trump does it, it is by definition genius." To give you a feel for the take of the MAGAs on tariffs, some of his social media takes: He also posts about how our "golden age" was from 1776-1913, when we had no income tax, and we had many tariffs. He talks about the fiscal health of the government (which is debatable), but UTTERLY ignores the health (real and economic) of.....the fucking PEOPLE. For much of that "golden age," our life expectancy was in the high 30s to 40s. Post WWI? We saw it nearly fucking DOUBLE. Per capita GDP? Since 1820, most of our peer nations have seen a ratio rise of around 12-16X. The US? 21.7X. Like it or not, a global economy, with the US projecting both soft and hard power, brought us incredible wealth, stability, and prosperity. While things HAVE gone partially awry in the past decades, it's not because we have global trade partners and don't have massive tariffs. And even "gone awry," we are still immensely better off than we were in this yearned for "golden age." It's fucking madness.
  18. 1) What an awful fucking story. Life is cheap in our society, and has been for quite a while. What a fucking waste. 2) "End wokeness," and "zero national outrage," even though the story is all over every news site you could think of (I knew about the story well before OP's post, and I don't follow news in Frisco or high school track). Jesus, just fucking pure lies. Life is cheap in our society. Truth is dead. OP helped demonstrate that both are ironclad truths. So, hooray.
  19. The Chili’s $10.99 meal deal, which has an offering of a smashburger (and it’s pretty good), fries, a drink, and an appetizer (chips and salsa for us) is f’n solid.
  20. Two trillion….SO FAR.
  21. Don’t worry guys. It’s goin to get a LOT worse.
  22. "Including currency manipulation and trade barriers" Come the fuck on. You think they quantified "currency manipulation and trade barriers" with any objective, verifiable methodology? And do you think they released their methodology and calculations? Jesus, if you're actually that gullible, I gotta figure out something to sell you.
  23. What "real numbers" are you asking about?
  24. And again, scaled down....it's on par with you or me tossing pocket change to someone. These people are a cancer.
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