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THISTHISTHIS.
Of the world's major economies, who was the BEST performer in terms of inflation?  The US....under Biden.
More actual gains were made in bringing strategically important and lucrative manufacturing back to US shores than in decades....via the CHIPS Act...under Biden.
 
None of that shit mattered.  None.  Because trannies and "DEI" (a term MAGA doesn't understand, and simply used as an excuse to "Make White Supremacy Great Again") and dirty beaners who ruin our country what with all their hard work and building things and picking vegetables.

……..When you don’t have facts, pound the transsexuals/immigrants.
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23 minutes ago, troph said:

Like I told Francisco, tranny isn’t your slur to use - even if you’re using it as an ally or in a neutral connotation.

Goddammit, Brisket, get with the program.

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41 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Goddammit, Brisket, get with the program.

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that's bad ass.

honestly brisket's use and francisco's use didn't offend but it's a slippery slope and invites all the fuckstains to come out with even more gusto.

 

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3 minutes ago, troph said:

that's bad ass.

honestly brisket's use and francisco's use didn't offend but it's a slippery slope and invites all the fuckstains to come out with even more gusto.  

I totally get it.  It's very much like a white person using the n-word even as satire or humor.  David Chapelle can say it all he wants, but South Austin isn't going there.

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3 minutes ago, troph said:

that's bad ass.

honestly brisket's use and francisco's use didn't offend but it's a slippery slope and invites all the fuckstains to come out with even more gusto.

 

I appreciate you pointing it out. It’s bugged me that posters here have been using it even in the context of being an ally. We don’t call gays f**s (Football board excluded since it seems to be tolerated there for some reason, but I digress) and we shouldn’t tolerate the use of slurs because, as you correctly posited, using them emboldens others to use them in a hurtful manner.

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Meanwhile, as egg prices aren't coming down...

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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced a $1bn (£792m) plan to help US farmers combat a raging bird flu epidemic that has required them to kill millions of chickens and pushed the cost of eggs to an all-time high.

Officials said they will budget $500m for biosecurity measures, roughly $100m for vaccine research and development, and $400m for farmer financial relief programs.

More than 35 million birds have been killed in response to bird flu outbreaks in commercial flocks this year, according to USDA data.

The bird culling has caused the average price for a dozen eggs in the US to hit $5 in January, a 53% increase from 2024 - and the USDA said prices could rise an additional 41%.

I think we're attacking the problem from the supply side when we should be attacking the problem from the demand side. Just start some conspiracy theories online on X and Truth Social that eggs from birds vaccinated by the Trump vaccine will turn you gay or make your woke ass drink bud light. Prices should fall about 50% within a week. It's simple economics.

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10 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I totally get it.  It's very much like a white person using the n-word even as satire or humor.  David Chapelle can say it all he wants, but South Austin isn't going there.

And apparently Quentin Tarantino ….

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8 minutes ago, royiv said:

I appreciate you pointing it out. It’s bugged me that posters here have been using it even in the context of being an ally. We don’t call gays f**s (Football board excluded since it seems to be tolerated there for some reason, but I digress) and we shouldn’t tolerate the use of slurs because, as you correctly posited, using them emboldens others to use them in a hurtful manner.

I’ve used the term “tranny” for emphasis and self empowerment - but even I should probably stop. It’s ironic because in the before times I really didn’t care about language I cared about outcomes, but here I am being the language police. It matters, I just wish  times were different

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Goddammit, Brisket, get with the program.

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I am 100% on board with Troph needing to wear comfortable shoes, because she's already like half a foot taller than me, and when she wears heels, it's even worse.

9 minutes ago, royiv said:

I appreciate you pointing it out. It’s bugged me that posters here have been using it even in the context of being an ally. We don’t call gays f**s (Football board excluded since it seems to be tolerated there for some reason, but I digress) and we shouldn’t tolerate the use of slurs because, as you correctly posited, using them emboldens others to use them in a hurtful manner.

I mean.....I gotta tell ya, being socially sensitive has already taken away two euphemisms that always made me chuckle: "queerer than a football bat" and "queerer than a three dollar bill."

Next thing you know, you're gonna expect me to treat broads with dignity and respect.

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17 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

DEI" (a term MAGA doesn't understand

As an example of real DEI, I received a company wide email yesterday saying basically hey it’s Ramadan again, so here’s a few things you can do to be considerate of your colleagues to help and support them- schedule meetings for these hours WHEN POSSIBLE, don’t have work events after sunset, etc. 

oh the horror.

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1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

As an example of real DEI, I received a company wide email yesterday saying basically hey it’s Ramadan again, so here’s a few things you can do to be considerate of your colleagues to help and support them- schedule meetings for these hours WHEN POSSIBLE, don’t have work events after sunset, etc. 

oh the horror.

So does my firm need to cancel the Ramandan noon waffle party?

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4 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

As an example of real DEI, I received a company wide email yesterday saying basically hey it’s Ramadan again, so here’s a few things you can do to be considerate of your colleagues to help and support them- schedule meetings for these hours WHEN POSSIBLE, don’t have work events after sunset, etc. 

oh the horror.

So much of what the right has villainized about DEI could be summed up as “be considerate of your fellow humans and don’t be a hostile asshole” but that’s a bridge too far MAGA.

1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I can take that off your hands 

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18 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I am 100% on board with Troph needing to wear comfortable shoes, because she's already like half a foot taller than me, and when she wears heels, it's even worse.

I mean.....I gotta tell ya, being socially sensitive has already taken away two euphemisms that always made me chuckle: "queerer than a football bat" and "queerer than a three dollar bill."

Next thing you know, you're gonna expect me to treat broads with dignity and respect.

What about "Gayer than 2 dudes fucking 3 dudes?" Where do we stand on that?

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1 hour ago, troph said:

Dems squandered their alliance with the working class, middle class and immigrants. It’s true. Biden and Harris had the right policies and spent equal time on equality, working class issues and saving democracy. It’s the right platform, but it was a generation too late. 

no one will care about trans rights if the middle and working classes aren’t being robbed blind, at this point though I agree we need a celebrity - to be clear a middle aged straight white guy - who preaches Bernie Sanders’ message, and once elected does all three - restores and promotes equality (super easy with one law passed - the federal equality act - and it’s done and done), saves democracy (rebuilds the federal work force strategically) and with the most focus and fanfare - builds back the working class and middle class. He needs to spend nearly all of his visible focus on working and middle class issues, full stop. 

 

IMO it will go one of two ways in 2028. If Trump keeps the right in line for the next four years, it will be incredibly difficult for a D candidate to win. The right will shit all over and reject any "celebrity" or middle aged white guy, no matter how well liked before entering the political arena.  We need a candidate with real substance/skills and ability to cut through the bullshit.  It will take a generational talent. 

if Trump burns everything to the ground and destroys the economy/country, Jimmy Carter's corpse would win in 2028. 

 

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Target Corp. and Best Buy Co. warned consumers to expect higher prices as a direct result of the tariffs US President Donald Trump imposed on Mexico, Canada and China overnight. 

Target Chief Executive Brian Cornell said its shoppers would likely see price hikes in its stores “over the next couple of days,” in a CNBC interview on Tuesday, just hours

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-04/target-sees-flat-sales-this-year-warns-of-risk-from-tariffs?srnd=homepage-americas

 

 

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8 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

 

IMO it will go one of two ways in 2028. If Trump keeps the right in line for the next four years, it will be incredibly difficult for a D candidate to win. The right will shit all over and reject any "celebrity" or middle aged white guy, no matter how well liked before entering the political arena.  We need a candidate with real substance/skills and ability to cut through the bullshit.  It will take a generational talent. 

if Trump burns everything to the ground and destroys the economy/country, Jimmy Carter's corpse would win in 2028. 

 

We need Matthew McCoughnney (sp?). Step up to the Green lights courtesy phone and save the country, sir.

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2 hours ago, troph said:

Dems squandered their alliance with the working class, middle class and immigrants. It’s true. Biden and Harris had the right policies and spent equal time on equality, working class issues and saving democracy. It’s the right platform, but it was a generation too late. 

no one will care about trans rights if the middle and working classes aren’t being robbed blind, at this point though I agree we need a celebrity - to be clear a middle aged straight white guy - who preaches Bernie Sanders’ message, and once elected does all three - restores and promotes equality (super easy with one law passed - the federal equality act - and it’s done and done), saves democracy (rebuilds the federal work force strategically) and with the most focus and fanfare - builds back the working class and middle class. He needs to spend nearly all of his visible focus on working and middle class issues, full stop. 

I don't think this is actually correct. It's true that the Dems' decision to abandon labor a generation ago was politically disastrous for them and the country, but the anti-trans hysteria (and the misogyny and racism) isn't driven by poor people. It's driven by the fascist gentry. These people are not struggling workers, they're financially comfortable and more importantly, they're very bored. They try to relieve that boredom by hallucinating about people they don't like threatening them and what they see as their rightful place in American society. Even if we had less wage and wealth disparity overall, these people would still be doing that. They would just hopefully find less purchase for some of their dumber conspiracy theories among other classes, but at this point I'm not even really sure that would be the case. 

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49 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

 

IMO it will go one of two ways in 2028. If Trump keeps the right in line for the next four years, it will be incredibly difficult for a D candidate to win. The right will shit all over and reject any "celebrity" or middle aged white guy, no matter how well liked before entering the political arena.  We need a candidate with real substance/skills and ability to cut through the bullshit.  It will take a generational talent. 

if Trump burns everything to the ground and destroys the economy/country, Jimmy Carter's corpse would win in 2028. 

 

Gimme door #2.  The generational talent will be needed to break the cycle of oversteering from one ditch to the other every 4 years.

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45 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

We need Matthew McCoughnney (sp?). Step up to the Green lights courtesy phone and save the country, sir.

Yeah, a republican who won't publicly say he's a republican, running as a democrat.  That's a recipe for winning.

 

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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/03/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

 

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday falsely claimed that U.S. banks are not able do business in the Canada after the U.S. issued a 25% on imports from that country.

“Canada doesn’t allow American Banks to do business in Canada, but their banks flood the American Market. Oh, that seems fair to me, doesn’t it?” the President wrote on Truth Social.

To be sure, while Canada’s banking sector is tightly regulated, American banks are allowed to operate there.

 

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A Citibank corporate logo hangs on the side of a building in front of the CN Tower on July 31, 2023, in Toronto, Canada.

 

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5 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

THIS.IS.INSANE.

Can we have the children back in charge? Holy fucking shit.

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The chair of the House GOP's campaign arm told Republican lawmakers Tuesday to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President Donald Trump's administration.

Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), the NRCC chair, delivered the message inside a closed-door meeting of House Republicans, according to three people granted anonymity to describe the private remarks.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/04/congress/gop-town-halls-richard-hudson-00210024?fbclid=IwY2xjawI0Ea1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHefWd1xDCfd5u2lOUmtPiFg6FCP1lmSYWr41Zp8LPx-29CVF428knnd3OA_aem_vDKuy6ywnf5asZf_wBPRQQ

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1 hour ago, 6th Street said:


Target Corp. and Best Buy Co. warned consumers to expect higher prices as a direct result of the tariffs US President Donald Trump imposed on Mexico, Canada and China overnight. 

Target Chief Executive Brian Cornell said its shoppers would likely see price hikes in its stores “over the next couple of days,” in a CNBC interview on Tuesday, just hours

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-04/target-sees-flat-sales-this-year-warns-of-risk-from-tariffs?srnd=homepage-americas

 

 

While I agree this is true, CEOs also love to blame the economy for either their mistakes or look for opportunities. They would also be expected to adjust prices even domestic products to maximize profits. Perhaps essential items will raise prices but discretionary prices won’t raise as much.

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I'm genuinely a bit baffled by Trump's strategy here.  His first term it seemed like he almost cared too much about the market and let it dictate policy.   This time, he's hitting like 1000 buttons at once knowing damn well how the market would react.   I think you might could make a decent economic argument for a measured approach as it relates to tariffs, or slashing government spending/workforce, again, in a thought out and measured way (after spending several months evaluating options). And maybe you do one or the other or both but not also at the same time you have blown up long standing international alliances.   He just hitting all these levers at once right after winning the election by making the impossible promise to the mass idiots that he would somehow reverse inflation, lower interest rates but also keep the market and economy at large booming.  That was obviously never going to happen.  But from a strategy standpoint, is he just trying to blow it all up so he can try to blame it on Biden then take the credit for a recovery 2-3 years from now?  I honestly thought the tariff nonsense was always just talk but maybe not.  Interesting times. 

I'm sure I'll just get a bunch of emotional cloak room responses but curious if anyone has non-emotional "fuck trump" thoughts.

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1 minute ago, Skipper said:

I'm genuinely a bit baffled by Trump's strategy here.  His first term it seemed like he almost cared too much about the market and let it dictate policy.   This time, he's hitting like 1000 buttons at once knowing damn well how the market would react.   I think you might could make a decent economic argument for a measured approach as it relates to tariffs, or slashing government spending/workforce, again, in a thought out and measured way (after spending several months evaluating options). And maybe you do one or the other or both but not also at the same time you have blown up long standing international alliances.   He just hitting all these levers at once right after winning the election by making the impossible promise to the mass idiots that he would somehow reverse inflation, lower interest rates but also keep the market and economy at large booming.  That was obviously never going to happen.  But from a strategy standpoint, is he just trying to blow it all up so he can try to blame it on Biden then take the credit for a recovery 2-3 years from now?  I honestly thought the tariff nonsense was always just talk but maybe not.  Interesting times. 

I'm sure I'll just get a bunch of emotional cloak room responses but curious if anyone has non-emotional "fuck trump" thoughts.

Trump is a total buffoon. We know this. I don't think he's calling the shots here, which is why I think the situation is far more dire. Somebody with some semblance of brains is doing all of this -- for a reason. What is that reason?

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Trump doesn’t have a strategy. He has one idea that he thinks is the greatest thing ever - Tariffs. Additionally, he has groups that he wants to punish and lastly he has the owners that he has to repay (eg, Putin, Elon, etc).

Dont try and overthink this.

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He won’t be running again, so he doesn’t give a shit. And he’s letting the people who gave him a bunch of money run the country into the ground the best way they see fit.

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9 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Trump is a total buffoon. We know this. I don't think he's calling the shots here, which is why I think the situation is far more dire. Somebody with some semblance of brains is doing all of this -- for a reason. What is that reason?

Kind of what I'm getting at.   The one predictable thing about Trump is he hated stock market losses.  It's why he was going so crazy at the beginning of Covid because it was out of his control (remember the 'stop testing' line as the market was crashing).  Someone convinced him to ignore the one thing we always thought he cared about.

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