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  1. Well school board fundraiser was a huge success. Room was pretty full, at least one even cried privately having a chance to give and be in a room of only likeminded folks. We have raised enough to surpass 15% of the campaign’s entire total for this election cycle - from one event. My boys were golf cart chauffeurs which gave a touch of bougie high class, plus I made them wear nice polos and I trained them on how to make folks feel VIP. Kids knocked it out of the park. Open (full) bar with speciality margaritas and old fashions were a hit. Food was pretty darn good. music was a nice touch, pool deck doors opened as the evening cooled off. I got to give a quick little speech, made some folks laugh and in the end the friend that was down and out who didn’t believe we normies live out here felt empowered and invigorated. the formula is tried and true - we build community, appreciate the beauty in our lives and take that recharge and do something to move the needle. We may not win the war but we will know we did our part to fight back. my conscious is clear this cycle. God I hope they win.
  2. Regressive tax, he thinks it will bring manufacturing jobs and other jobs “back” and it absolutely should not be dismissed as - create a crisis - claim the crisis is from the other guy - declare martial law and save the country from the other guy with a third term - scenarios.
  3. troph

    Getting old sucks

    Too young for that to be because of the olds. Get it checked out. Rounding the corner at 50 is when it starts to really set in though science suggests we age rapidly in our mid 40s I think I can confirm. Sadly that was during the lock down for me. Fml. Next rapid aging is around 60 I think. Get your shit checked out and keep up the physical stuff that shit really fucking matters. Real nutrition (including modest supplement game), sleep, exercise (stretching, balance, core, resistance, ball sports (not just whacking off)), relationships and destress. Get healthy and do these things and you’ll avoid this thread for a long while.
  4. I’ll gladly pay $10/month or whatever to avoid eye cancer. I think the minimum is $3.50/month for the same. Stop buying stonks, reduce your onlyfans sub use, buy one less 6 pack of Michelob ultra a month, whatever, it’s worth it.
  5. It’s a regressive sales tax. It’s a tax shifting burden from the wealthy to the poor and middle class. Saves the richest people a couple of percentage points on their taxes, prevents cap gains, dividends and flow through income from being taxed higher. i think DJT thinks it will solve all sorts of revenue, deficit, jobs etc problems too. Most economists disagree, any solutions it provides will take decades and in the interim stagflation is the big risk.
  6. This was my point. I don’t get accolades for leaving $0.15 in the need a penny, take a penny jar at the gas station, they do yet their millions are about same cost to them as the quarter I left behind. Illusory and to control the PR about them is correct.
  7. the ones I spoke of have a list of philanthropic activities that would make you blush as well. and the ones you speak of may be fantastic humans, but what I can say is that we all have a propensity to see character in place of what money can do. It's easy to be charitable with money when you have more than you could ever spend. It's easy to be charitable with your time when you have control over every hour of your day. It's not to say these two aren't spectacular people, but it is to say it's nearly incomprehensible how much money they have and how much freedom and flexibility they have to do those things that for us seem like above and beyond. again, I'm sure they are great and the guys I'm referring to have their deserving accolades too.
  8. I'm not paying lump sum but I'm not asking for my max to decrease as kids age out. I'll end up being done a year early. I also have my kids half time, pretty much pay for more than two-thirds of any discretionary and my ex-wife makes good money as a senior whatever they call them at a global ad agency.
  9. Bidenomics.
  10. I had a friend slap me silly (figuratively) with this advice when I was wallowing in sorrow and grief about everything. He said my wife LOVES me - ready to leave the country for me. It kinda woke me up.
  11. don't care had sex?
  12. That sucked ass.
  13. I need a cry rep now. Angry pos isn’t enough.
  14. Jesus. Yeah she should not leave unless she’s prepared to be denied reentry. I’m so sorry.
  15. In this league losing max puts winning the league from a toss up possibility to unlikely. I bet we end up in the top 5 but at the top probably not. I guess if we can get some breaks, finish top 3-4 to get a top 8 seed that’s all that matters. I’d sure love a conference title though.
  16. My wifey struck a gas station bollard before. She doesn’t drive it anymore … but she does back it up in tight quarters. I don’t have the patience. and pro tip - go through the trucker side of the truck stops. You never have to navigate the roof lines or tight turns.
  17. Texas women beat Tennessee on to the elite 8
  18. Texas women in a street fight
  19. So refreshing we seem to swing when need to take when we can
  20. I’ve done deals with several of them. They are slippery and evasive mother fuckers. Everything is a leverage, ego, resource or asset grab and even when they are being charitable (in business dealings) they are still slippery, evasive, ego driven and looking to control resources and assets. there’s nothing to worship or revere, they are maniacal assholes. And the ones that openly aspire to be billionaires are worse. I’ve worked with more $20-50-100+ millionaires than I can count. At the lower end of that they are different but not the same. Often out of touch - beyond financial security - they have lost track of much of what worries normal people but they are not a virus like billionaires. there is not one redeeming quality to the billionaires I’ve met. They are loathsome humans. If I had that money I would give it away, now. There is no reason to need more money than you can spend. Once you move into buying influence like musk can do it’s more money than you should legally be allowed to have.
  21. You know this better than I do but I’ve decreased drinking dramatically over the years and most recently during and after long covid and regardless of what you eat (and drinking often times encourages worse eating habits), alcohol causes weight gain and whole body inflammation. Anything you can do to reduce consumption even reducing moderate or very little consumption is beneficial. And that’s nothing to do with liver, kidney or addiction or dependency issues at all.
  22. @ztejas I think you are an amazing poster. If AA doesn’t work for you there are other options. I know one guy that takes Naltrexone. Be curious, research about it. It holds promise.
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