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  1. I'm not cool with it AT ALL, but last I checked, the government doesn't give a crap with what I'm cool with or not. As someone said, I'm just a guy on Surly Horns which is an internet messageboard. But that doesn't change the fact that it was reported in the news today as something Trump is going to do (or at least thinking about doing): https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/19/trump-struggles-to-crack-his-tariffs-piggy-bank-00612284
  2. Exactly my point. And when they fail. Because they will fail. The blame is squarely on Rs.
  3. Ignoring the barb about who or what a Donkey Ciagr is, you are agreeing in premise with me that R voters need to feel the pain of their choices. What does that look like in your mind as it pertains to the government shutdown and how to get out of this jackpot? (Also I read Trump is going to take billions from tariff slush funds and pay the military, so pretend that an upset military is off the table)? What levers can be pulled? I'll hang up and listen since I'm a bit unpopular right now.
  4. What does the data say? What do the numbers say? I feel like the last page here is the problem. We complain we don't have the stomach for the fight with the MAGATs and then show that we actually don't have the stomach to fight the MAGATs in what politics in 2025 demand. So what's the answer? Just let the government shutdown continue until what? Planes wreck during busy holiday travel season?
  5. Whatever happened to the "You voted for this, so GOOD!" leopard eating faces energy? Was that just our Brat Summer? Time to get all sentimental with the leaves changing colors?
  6. To channel my inner Brisket here, but uh, the R's have made it this way and the only way to fight back is with pain. I didn't realize the ledge philosophy was still in the margins and not mainstream here. We are in a dog fight.
  7. ACA is something the R's want to scrape. The ACA disproportionately helps the R's voter base. It's actually politically reisky to scrape it at this point for the R's, so why not let them screw up. The saving grace for the D's I could see is allowing for them to expire due to government shutting down and sticker shocking the R base into putting pressure. Regardless it looks like this whole fight and shut down has settled fully into ACA vs No-ACA.
  8. “The meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents descended many times into a ‘shouting match,’ with Trump ‘cursing all the time,’ people familiar with the matter said,” according to the report. Trump, in addition, reportedly insisted that Zelensky surrender the entire Donbas region to Russia, a point pushed by Putin during a White House call the day before. Putin reportedly told Trump on Thursday that he would forfeit “some small areas of the two southern frontline regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia” in exchange for it. “During Friday’s meeting, Trump appeared to have adopted many of Putin’s talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own recent statements about Russia’s weaknesses
  9. Read this today and it got me thinking-- why are the D's willing to die on the hill of ACA when ACA (enchanced subsidies) disproportionately benefit red states? Get rid of the ACA, you are hurting the red states (whom it seems WANT to be hurt) and you save $350bn. Government shutdown over? https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/government-shutdown-healthcare-aca-funding-fight-d45b2365
  10. I bought my son a truck and was going to put as much on my CC as I could for the airline points, but the fee made it not worth it. Sucks, I thought I was going to get a couple free round trips. I pay for my grandsons preschool. Because it's an old baptist church run school in an older community, the options are electronic payment with a fee or write a check. So I write a check every month. I actually kind of like doing so, it feels quaint and anachronistic, as if I was typing this post on a typewriter.
  11. That's nice-- that's like over $75
  12. It's interesting. It was giving mid-career Kanye vibes.
  13. Is there anyone still in denial that we are in an economic war with China?
  14. Know how I know you are from Dallas? Jeff Ruby’s is the mid restaurant chain in places like Nashville, Cincinnati and Louisville. Jack Ruby is associated with Oswald.
  15. I've had a similiar experience and until you have that experience, well let's just say it's pretty humbling.
  16. In the olden days, you'd watch the game and begrudingly think or say under your breath "dang, wish we would have recruited that guy" to more than a few OU players. This last game the only guy who was a dog that I liked and thought would start was Taylor Wein. Everywhere else was pretty unimpressed.
  17. Vegas64

    Golden Hat

    MM's backwards "horns up" hand has infiltrated to the highest levels.
  18. We always suspected Celina wasn't right. Besides Prosper #4 in state right now. Let's go PHS!
  19. It sounds like the fundamental beef is with money, specifically Venture Capital. And, it makes sense that OpenAI would know how to run this playbook perfectly given Sam Altman's VC / YC pedigree. Thanks for your post, the costco hot dog analogy really helped me visualize and unlocked your point for me. ETA because I'm just now catching up and seeing it, but I do have a larger problem with your apple gripe and disagree there.
  20. To the bolded, but I don't think that's exactly how it plays out. In fact, two economists I think won a Nobel Peace Prize this week arguing the opposite
  21. nah fam. 4,1,3,6,5,2
  22. Scammers are said to have made Billions on these. Yes, that's a B.
  23. Was it this thread that someone posited the theory that Octupuses (not Ocotopi, that's a misconception) are aliens that allowed us (and maybe even helped us) to evolve and terraform and civilize and advance all because they were waiting on us to manufacture plastics for them while it kills us? No? cool. Oh also, I read that everyone now has about a credit card worth of plastic in them. Next customer in checkout #5!
  24. Every time this thread is at the top and I click on it, I scream sing in my head "TRUMP AMERICA! I could be one of your kids. TRUMP AMERICA. Little Eric looks just like this. TRUMP AMERICA!"
  25. I've read your posts a lot so I know you are a smart guy. Surely you understand that "enshittification" in almost every case, is trying to go from adoption and growing a market/user base, to monetization so you can have a profitable (or at least a sustainabile) business. Your first bullet point is almost always the loss leader and unsustainabile by design and business (math). I read somehwere that right now, as of today, OpenAI (even with all their funding, valuation, cash infusions, partnerships, and paying customers) with thier couple billions in ARR while operating at triple the billions in burn rate is today spending $3 to earn $1. That's not going to last forever, just like every other "free" or "cheap" software/service that began as a market grab fueled by VC.
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