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Gatorubet

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  1. I’m too lazy to do it, but I guess you could create a Venn diagram with humble brag and depression.
  2. I would’ve gone with the Titan carbon diving bell for the youngsters, but co-sign
  3. This. Also, if you’re old enough to recognize Daddy Bush’s voodoo economics quote - and remember that Reagan was all about supply side economics - you are older than a shit-ton of people who pushed the election lever for Trump and have no fucking idea what we are talking about.
  4. Voodoo Economics worked so well the last time Reagan tried it without tariffs…
  5. Yeah, but now there is a tariff on foreign crotchless panties
  6. Speaking of bottoms Ladybugs never said when the Republican Party would be destroyed if they nominated Trump.
  7. The Good News: there is nobody left at the IRS to go after you if you don’t file The Bad News: you won’t have a job so taxes are the least of your worries. Also, the federal employees at social security who every year calculate your best 35 year Social Security earnings increase have all been laid off. Don’t go to your local office, it’s been shut down. Don’t call the toll-free number, those lazy stay at home bastards have all been fired and so you don’t have to hold for them to deal with your problem. The Good News: expect a really, really high, COLA interest bump in 2026. The Bad News: the COLA will not cover cost increases on your fixed income. Attention younger citizens - to get through this the new full retirement age has been bumped to 74.
  8. I don’t know why so many smart people keep making the mistake of thinking that Trump has either the knowledge or inclination to know he made a mistake - or to correct his mistakes.
  9. I could probably get you elected by forming the Luddite Party. ”No AI Or Robots” “One Human Per Wheel Tightening Lugnuts!” ”1,000 Patriots With Shovels Instead of One Woke Bulldozer !”
  10. -1560 right now. Dow is.
  11. I heard an administration mouthpiece on Bloomberg, I think it was, stating that Trump is not doing the tariffs for short term prosperity, his intention is that it comes to fruition later, possibly even after the next four years. Eventually, we will return to the golden age of American industrial exceptionalism. We just have to tighten our belts and wait.
  12. And not a single mention of trans anything. Sad! This is obviously a deep-fake funded by Soros. Please Patriots, order my new e-book for $19.95 (or order 2 for only $45), “ How to prevent the Soros vaccine bots from passing through your steering wheel into your car or truck, causing it to perform worse over time.” Ask yourself, “Does my truck run as well as it did when I got my first COVID-19 vaccine?” God Bless.
  13. What? You still believe America is a superpower that the world respects andtrusts?
  14. Rules. Dammit man!!
  15. Tariffs speech in Oval Office about to drop
  16. Why is the dog crying?
  17. I don’t think that Trump would ever try the VP president scam with JD Vance. Vance would tell him to go fuck himself - he’s the president now! The problem with Trump not having any loyalty to anyone is that he naturally assumes that no one will be loyal to him. He wouldn’t be.
  18. Oof! Certainly not the consult news you were hoping for MIA. I think a second opinion is always a good idea. But I do not think a second opinion from some local oncology surgeon should trump advice from MDA. Maybe Sloan-Kettering consult or some such? it is hard to comment because you had to have asked him or her what the chances were if you did or didn’t, and the percentages and so forth. If you mentally tuned out the second he mentioned amputation - then maybe you should write down some questions and get some of those details worked out before you see a second doc.
  19. There are many many different chemotherapy drugs. Each one of the individual drugs has different side effects. As always, people react differently to the same medication. And then there is the fact that individual dosages will vary as well, as the dosage can change symptoms. I did my chemotherapy mostly by pill, so for several weeks I would take them twice a day. I felt generally tired and had horrific diarrhea on the pills.. Every three weeks I would get the ox infusion which would lead to cold sensitivity in my hands that was so great I had to put on gloves to get things out of the refrigerator. The first time I felt it I was at the freezer section of the store and when I grabbed whatever I grabbed, it was so blindingly painful that I dropped it on the floor. And my jaw would cramp up every time I started to eat. Then it would go away after you were eating a while, but if you stopped eating (like - to listen to a conversation), the next time you took a bite your jaw would cramp up again. And sometimes your throat would feel like it was closing and you were choking, but that was a false sensation Because your throat and airway passages were not actually closing and you could simply ignore it until it went away
  20. to me the unfortunate tie in between Christian evangelicals and MAGA smooth brains is the way they so readily completely abandoned the need for critical thinking. I’m going to use a Mormon example, so maybe not evangelical but it perhaps shows the example better. Even though Joseph Smith was not writing things down 2000 years ago, but during a time of Americans knew him and wrote about him and what he said and did, the need to believe in an inherent truth of his teachings is the same as need “The Bible says it, I believe it, that ends it! “ for LDS people, they are absolutely prohibited from going online or reading books that discuss some of the verified truths about the book of Mormon. For example, they have the original one, and they have the one they hand out today. There have been hundreds and hundreds of changes. One of the biggest ones is removing some of the plurals when Smith talked about “Gods” - where the reference is now singular. Mormons are essentially a polytheist religion, but that is not emphasized because it’s hard to get someone from another Christian denomination to accept that. My small point is that when you are simply not allowed to read other sources to determine what you think is true, then you cannot be said to be a critical thinker. All of the MAGA people who refused to read a word of the Washington Post or the New York Times or anything other than a few select conservative news sources leads to the same problem. When your leader tells you, you are not allowed to read other things, it is impossible to be a critical thinker. Evangelical religions and conservative GOP politics right now are hand-in-hand in adamantly prohibiting and discouraging their followers from seeking out other sources to determine what is true on their own. TL; DR. We are fucked
  21. You have to admire a man with a focus.
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