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Posted
1 hour ago, Dahobbs said:

Uh, yeah, that's the point. Portugal is deploying its economic activity away from the US you clown. 

We’re gonna do the thing again where the fake liberals cry for the poor military contractors?

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16 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Can confirm.  Was there for only for a few days, but yeah.   Glorious weather.  

Had outstanding pizza at the Pizza Port.

My kids played in the pacific for a bit:

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Are you Carlos Valdarama?

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Posted
7 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

Yeah, but there is a trans person playing volleyball for San Jose St.   

Who just graduated. Maga was pissed for the three months they knew about her.

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Posted
12 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Who just graduated. Maga was pissed for the three months they knew about her.

Sounds like we need another law - no college for the trans woke bitches. You can be trans, not taking that away, you just can’t go to college while trans. America, Land of the Freedoms. 

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Posted
3 hours ago, Anastasis said:

We’re gonna do the thing again where the fake liberals cry for the poor military contractors?

Don't try and change the topic. You absolutely know your first post was bullshit. That economic activity was not going to get shifted to the another part of the US economy. It is gone. So are the jobs that go with it. Again, you deserve some massive face eating and suffering. At least other people can claim ignorance. You're smart enough to know better. 

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Posted
9 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

So much winning 

 

In the spirit maker’s quarterly earnings call on March 5, CEO Lawson Whiting said blocking consumers from buying American-made products in Canada or other countries is a crushing blow for U.S. companies.

“That’s worse than a tariff because it’s literally taking your sales away completely, removing our products on the shelves,” Whiting told investors. “That’s a very disproportionate response to a 25% tariff."

https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/jack-daniels-brown-forman-canada-tariffs-taken-off-shelves-stores-ontario-alcohol-bourbon-trump/741970/

 

 

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I can't edit out the picture so I'm going to issue a correction here. 

The beef post is bullshit. Snopes calls it false. The first one is obviously not, but there's no evidence to support the second one.

Posted
3 hours ago, Anastasis said:

We’re gonna do the thing again where the fake liberals cry for the poor military contractors?

Okay, Ana is catching a lot heat but this is funny. And accurate. I however am irritated by it. 

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1 hour ago, Bullneck said:

 

Are you Carlos Valdarama?

 

It would explain the hair.

Actually, my mom (and my wife) have curly hair.  My daughter inherited that trait to the nth degree.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Okay, Ana is catching a lot heat but this is funny. And accurate. I however am irritated by it. 

Well in this case it isn’t us that would be paying for their product and keeping them in jobs. But now it might be as they will look to Trump to replace those billions. 

Posted
12 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

Means testing is a good idea, imo, to improve SS, but reasonable dialogue and compromise might as well be in another universe. I guarantee 

Yeah, means testing is fine. High earners don’t need 4K a month to pay country club dues.  If they lose their $, then start the SS up again for food and shelter.   $200k cap?

Posted
21 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Yeah, means testing is fine. High earners don’t need 4K a month to pay country club dues.  If they lose their $, then start the SS up again for food and shelter.   $200k cap?

But what are you testing? Other income? Assets? If just income, you'd actually be harming those that would be more likely to need the funds since they were still working. It wouldn't make sense to me to exclude the person still actively working and yet allow the person with millions in retirement assets to still receive SS. 

Posted
1 minute ago, Dahobbs said:

But what are you testing? Other income? Assets? If just income, you'd actually be harming those that would be more likely to need the funds since they were still working. It wouldn't make sense to me to exclude the person still actively working and yet allow the person with millions in retirement assets to still receive SS. 

Yup.  Only saying not all reaching retirement should get the while check.  Insurance, not pension, IOW.  Not everyone needs it.  The cat fight on this (terms) would be spectacular 

Posted
6 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Yup.  Only saying not all reaching retirement should get the while check.  Insurance, not pension, IOW.  Not everyone needs it.  The cat fight on this (terms) would be spectacular 

Lifting the cap on contributions is easy pickings.  And I say that as someone who would sure as hell take a hit on it -- I max out pretty early in the year.  Just keep taxing me, and use the extra to make up for the shortfall elsewhere.  People of current means/income can do more to lift things up.

I'm okay with paying more in taxes if it actually means that fewer of my fellow Americans have to spend the last years of their lives eating cat food and living among roaches.

I mean, do that later.  For NOW, I want maximum suffering, I want the whole system to fail so that maybe the fucking idiots who vote for Trump and this shit will realize "gee, maybe we DO need a functioning government and society."  But, once we are back on some sort of "so, society and the common good maybe matter a little bit" train instead of the "fuck everyone, rich people get everything and more of it, everyone else can get fucked, TRIUMPH OF THE WILL!" train, I'm all-in on that plan.

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56 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

It would explain the hair.

Actually, my mom (and my wife) have curly hair. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Rex Kramer said:

Okay, Ana is catching a lot heat but this is funny. And accurate. I however am irritated by it. 

Well, let's take a look

I think there's a consensus that we overspend on defense.  One of the multiple reasons we don't cut our defense spending is the number of people employed and the economic activity it generates.  Defense exports were nearly 30% of our defense budget in 2023.

So, Trump's foreign policy is going to severely curtail foreign purchases of our defense products, reducing activity in that sector.

Yet our governmental defense spending will remain untouched and likely grow.  

Sounds like a win-win to me.🙄

 

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Posted
10 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

So much winning 

 

In the spirit maker’s quarterly earnings call on March 5, CEO Lawson Whiting said blocking consumers from buying American-made products in Canada or other countries is a crushing blow for U.S. companies.

“That’s worse than a tariff because it’s literally taking your sales away completely, removing our products on the shelves,” Whiting told investors. “That’s a very disproportionate response to a 25% tariff."

https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/jack-daniels-brown-forman-canada-tariffs-taken-off-shelves-stores-ontario-alcohol-bourbon-trump/741970/

 

 

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It's crazy. I mean, could anyone have seen this coming?

 

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Posted
7 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

It's crazy. I mean, could anyone have seen this coming?

“That’s worse than a tariff because it’s literally taking your sales away completely, removing our products on the shelves,” Whiting told investors. “That’s a very disproportionate response to a 25% tariff."

 

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Not so much disproportionate to saying we are taking your country as our 51st state. 

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Posted
21 hours ago, sidis said:

i suspect it is more about dimon being just another public personality with no accountability for anything he says or does and shamelessly heel turning when it starts to impact him. recall that this was him in january of this year:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/economy/jamie-dimon-tariffs-get-over-it/index.html

 

Exactly.  Furthermore getting attention from the media doesn't mean one is particularly intelligent or insightful, but rather than one draws traffic.  See Boebert, MTG, Gym Jordan, Trump, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, Herschel Walker. 

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Posted
2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Well, let's take a look

I think there's a consensus that we overspend on defense.  One of the multiple reasons we don't cut our defense spending is the number of people employed and the economic activity it generates.  Defense exports were nearly 30% of our defense budget in 2023.

So, Trump's foreign policy is going to severely curtail foreign purchases of our defense products, reducing activity in that sector.

Yet our governmental defense spending will remain untouched and likely grow.  

Sounds like a win-win to me.🙄

 

I said I’m irritated by it. But his comment was funny.  But good sermon. 

Posted
6 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

I said I’m irritated by it. But his comment was funny.  But good sermon. 

It's a bit too factual to be a sermon.  No one gives a shit about the well-being of defense contractors, or their profitability, except to the extent they employ people.

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6 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

It's a bit too factual to be a sermon.  No one gives a shit about the well-being of defense contractors, or their profitability, except to the extent they employ people.

I care very deeply about the well being of the defense industrial base and also think that the idea of “spending too much on defense” is something we can decide for ourselves is extremely naive in the multipolar world that DJT’s team is trying to explicitly create. 

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On 3/13/2025 at 12:25 AM, Anastasis said:

That bill has zero chance of passage, even in texas. You know this. 

It’s not zero percent, maybe less than fifty percent but it’s no where close to zero. It shouldn’t be filed to begin with. And elected officials who do file them should be escorted out of the building. You know this. 

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Posted
16 minutes ago, troph said:

It’s not zero percent, maybe less than fifty percent but it’s no where close to zero. It shouldn’t be filed to begin with. And elected officials who do file them should be escorted out of the building. You know this. 

I agree it shouldn't be filed. What should be filed is a bill that restricts the government from collecting data on biological sex and gender. 

Posted
53 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

It's a bit too factual to be a sermon.  No one gives a shit about the well-being of defense contractors, or their profitability, except to the extent they employ people.

I don’t necessarily think defense contractors hurting is something we should celebrate. I know it’s not exactly a popular thought, particularly on Surly in CR. 

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Posted
1 minute ago, Rex Kramer said:

I don’t necessarily think defense contractors hurting is something we should celebrate. I know it’s not exactly a popular thought, particularly on Surly in CR. 

1) Defense spending has its place.  National defense is literally one of the core missions of any State's government.

2) It should be purposeful defense spending, as opposed to wasteful/just handouts to cronies.  Our defense spending has long had problems on both the waste and handout fronts.

3) Any crippling of CURRENT defense contractors will have ZERO, NONE, NADA effect on our overall defense spending.  Why?

4) Every dollar not spent on missiles from Raytheon or jets from Lockheed will instead be spent on Tesla Robotanks and SpaceX SuperAwesomeMegaMissiles, and AI robot mechazoid COOLBOT3000's from XRobotics (to be founded this week).

 

Anyone who thinks that anything the Trump admin does is actually aimed at reducing grift and payouts to cronies is among the most delusional people the world has ever seen.  Every single thing the Trump admin has done tells you that their highest focus is funneling taxpayer dollars into the pockets of the regime and its loyalists.  Hell, even the cruelty isn't actually the point - the DISTRACTION that the cruelty creates is the point.  While sane human beings are busy seeing and decrying the cruelty, and trying to ameliorate the effects of it....the regime is busy shoveling every taxpayer dollar it can into its own/its friends' pockets.

Again, not a novel play.  

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Posted
14 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

Not sure if this one has been posted 

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A few things:

1. Wasn’t Hanania very recently a MAGA villain? Has he pulled a face turn in recent weeks?

2. This professor was (maybe still is) a fucking dipshit. See #3. However, it’s good to see people waking up (even if it’s too late to avoid a lot of pain).

3. So many otherwise rational adults overreacted to what should have been completely unsurprising boundary-testing by college students. I’ve tried to explain to so many people that performative wokeness is an ultimately harmless (albeit sometimes annoying) fad. But these unimaginative dipshits, swaddled in the false security of normalcy bias, insisted that a bunch of oversensitive college kids were a far bigger threat to their freedoms than an openly fascist would-be dictator and his cadre of anti-intellectual Christian nationalists. They’re in the FO stage now. 

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

1) Defense spending has its place.  National defense is literally one of the core missions of any State's government.

2) It should be purposeful defense spending, as opposed to wasteful/just handouts to cronies.  Our defense spending has long had problems on both the waste and handout fronts.

3) Any crippling of CURRENT defense contractors will have ZERO, NONE, NADA effect on our overall defense spending.  Why?

4) Every dollar not spent on missiles from Raytheon or jets from Lockheed will instead be spent on Tesla Robotanks and SpaceX SuperAwesomeMegaMissiles, and AI robot mechazoid COOLBOT3000's from XRobotics (to be founded this week).

 

Anyone who thinks that anything the Trump admin does is actually aimed at reducing grift and payouts to cronies is among the most delusional people the world has ever seen.  Every single thing the Trump admin has done tells you that their highest focus is funneling taxpayer dollars into the pockets of the regime and its loyalists.  Hell, even the cruelty isn't actually the point - the DISTRACTION that the cruelty creates is the point.  While sane human beings are busy seeing and decrying the cruelty, and trying to ameliorate the effects of it....the regime is busy shoveling every taxpayer dollar it can into its own/its friends' pockets.

Again, not a novel play.  

I’m close with a few attorneys and yall are all the same. You talk at people without ascertaining whether or not the audience understands the topic, which sometimes they do better than the attorney. It’s like y’all are trained to jack up those billable hours. I have two that I work with very closely, and I do not ever engage them unless I have a specific legal need that I’ve already mapped out. Otherwise my clients get fucked without knowing it. 

Anyway, on #2 above, you would be amazed at what we waste. It made make any American sick to their stomachs. 

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2 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Anyway, on #2 above, you would be amazed at what we waste. It made make any American sick to their stomachs. 

I have no doubts.

Query: do you think that issue (waste/cronyism) will get better, or worse under this regime?

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1 minute ago, Rex Kramer said:

I’m close with a few attorneys and yall are all the same. You talk at people without ascertaining whether or not the audience understands the topic, which sometimes they do better than the attorney. 

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Posted
Just now, Nivek said:

Define waste.   

Well, per the current definition, it's "any taxpayer dollar that doesn't go to paying/subsidizing an enterprise owned by Elon Musk."  That's it.  That's the whole definition.

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Posted
2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I have no doubts.

Query: do you think that issue (waste/cronyism) will get better, or worse under this regime?

Might get better but not appreciably. He’s not approaching with a surgeon’s knife. As my caddy in Mexico told me once, “[he’s] putting with a sledge hammer.”

Posted
2 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

Hey fucko, you’re the one that entertains VAPA. Don’t mean mouse meme me bruh 

?? That is just acknowledging the big brain assertion.  And that’s Mister Fucko!

Posted
20 hours ago, Tuco said:

Just as a reminder, these dipshits were around during Trump's first presidency, which included Trump redrawing lines on a hurricane map, Trump saying windmills cause cancer, Trump saying that global warming was a Chinese conspiracy, Trump saying that we should rake forests, and, of course, the daily barrage on common sense while a global pandemic was killing thousands of Americans per day.  They don't get to pretend that this is a surprise.  They don't get to pretend they didn't have the data.  They just didn't think they'd be personally affected. 

Fucking ENRAGES me. And don't forget he's been an extremely obvious, barely-trying-to-hide-it Russian asset for 10 years now. 

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