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I am fine with this. I remember travelling in Europe about 15 years ago and countries like the Netherlands just rounded up or down to the nearest 5 cents and didn't use the penny euro coin. It's a sad realization of where we are but no need for them, just zillow the pennies or something, sheeeeeeeeit.
Finally, AVGN's complaint has been answered
 
Dude failed at politics so hard he couldnt even get ambassador spot under Biden. I am confused why Trump and Elon havent made any public statement on Disney. Both have major axes to grind on Iger.
Having a slowly bleeding out Disney is useful for them as they're not quite ready to go after the cultural wing of the Uniparty's soft power system. Right now they're destroying the resource gathering and administrative systems, as those were the two that would actively fight the Trump Admin over the next 4 years.
 
The stuff with Biden is just a little sample of what China gets up to. Their whole society is built around creating powerful friend groups that you can pull strings with, no friends, no connections, no power to do anything. For example, my buddy was visiting China and was bringing gifts for his GF's family. One of the gifts was actually banned in China, so his GF called her uncle who was a party member, he called the airport and everything was allowed in. Only the tippy top of America has that kind of pull, meanwhile CCP middle management can throw their weight around.
 
First sitting vice president to publicly make a dog sex joke?
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literally a race mixing joke, and people wonder why he defended Big Balls.
I may not agree with everything @Fuck Bankers states, but I do appreciate how he sources all his beliefs.
i noticed he didn't do that when i asked if he's been laid before, in fact he didn't say anything at all.
Iger doesn't want to be Apple, he wants to be Presiden
Iger the jew has no shot of winning the nomination because of Hamas, being white and jewish and old means he will lose the nomination every time, say what you will about Biden he had decades of ties to the black community and thats what saved him in 2020, even SNL said niggers don't care about Biden's "sex allegations" or the hunter crap. Iger hasn't done jack shit for blacks (if he did he'd have it spammed out by now) I can see Iger becoming california governor and trying to be president after that, at least he'd have some experience, and he has a much higher shot of winning the nomination for that.
 
Hoover seems like an interesting type I want to look into more; good man, probably great man, inarguably bad politician, and didn't have the skills to sell his vision, whether it could have helped the country or not; by contrast FDR is if nothing else one of the greatest politicians in history.
Between FDR, Lincoln, Washington, and good ol' Teddy, I can't decide which one's the best president. FDR did a lot to help America during the economic crisis, and was clearly a great man (nevermind on that front, thanks for reminding me some of the bullshit he was pulling...). Lincoln, despite the hell that was the Civil War, did an excellent job with helping abolish slavery. Washington, because despite having all the power in the world to do what he want with the newly formed American government, kept things modest, and made it where the President wasn't some all encompassing ruler. And Teddy Roosevelt is obvious: The man was just great all around.

EDIT: I forgot about Jackson, too. Great guy. And thanks for reminding me that FDR wasn't that great either.
 
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The stuff with Biden is just a little sample of what China gets up to. Their whole society is built around creating powerful friend groups that you can pull strings with, no friends, no connections, no power to do anything. For example, my buddy was visiting China and was bringing gifts for his GF's family. One of the gifts was actually banned in China, so his GF called her uncle who was a party member, he called the airport and everything was allowed in. Only the tippy top of America has that kind of pull, meanwhile CCP middle management can throw their weight around.
I would hate it, if America was full of groups that controlled public and private life. What if they were collecting blackmail on the elite? That could be pretty bad if that happened.

This is still not an argument against MMT or public banking.
 
Between FDR, Lincoln, Washington, and good ol' Teddy, I can't decide which one's the best president. FDR did a lot to help America during the economic crisis, and was clearly a great man. Lincoln, despite the hell that was the Civil War, did an excellent job with helping abolish slavery. Washington, because despite having all the power in the world to do what he want with the newly formed American government, kept things modest, and made it where the President wasn't some all encompassing ruler. And Teddy Roosevelt is obvious: The man was just great all around.

Missing Jackson in that list.
 
Between FDR, Lincoln, Washington, and good ol' Teddy, I can't decide which one's the best president. FDR did a lot to help America during the economic crisis, and was clearly a great man. Lincoln, despite the hell that was the Civil War, did an excellent job with helping abolish slavery. Washington, because despite having all the power in the world to do what he want with the newly formed American government, kept things modest, and made it where the President wasn't some all encompassing ruler. And Teddy Roosevelt is obvious: The man was just great all around.
FDR was a cousin molesting communist who hated this country. Fuck him. Lincoln for all his faults did keep the country together. Washington was pretty based. I have to give it to Teddy, he was probably the best. I also love Andrew Jackson, He knew that Indians and White people would've killed each other if they lived too close to each other. I'd rather make them walk far away then for us to raid each other forever. He also told the banks to fuck off.
 
99 cent stores on suicide watch.
Pricing in general will get a revamp.

Almost everything before tax has 99 cents tacked onto them, or just the number 9 in general.

if trump nuked sales tax all together like he planned with Income tax and tip tax, then every item would have a flat even number pricetag with either a 5 or a 0.
 
A lot of people have been campaigning for this. I think inflation should rather go down so the penny is worth something again.
Inflation going down could be interpreted as the rate of inflation slowing, so it's still happening but not as fast. But what you're describing is a reversal of past inflation, or negative inflation, or indeed deflation, and basically every economist hates that. The basic argument against it is simply that in a time of deflation, you gain wealth simply by holding currency, so you're disincentivized to invest or circulate the currency which stifles the economy.

But for aesthetic reasons I agree with you, and fuck the economy anyway, I hate these new prices.
 
I support getting rid of pennies... but I honestly can't imagine not using pennies. I use them all the time when getting fast food or other little quick things.
Pennies are necessary because everything ends in $X.99 and sales tax makes the total price a number that isn't necessarily divisible by five. Since no one wants to adjust prices to be some kind of base 10 counting system so every denomination will always end in 5 or 0, pennies need to exist to fill the gap.
 
...so anyone else here think it's rigged? 'cause I hate to go 100% tin-foil hat, but I noticed there was a lot of suspicious pro-Eagles stuff in the media (like Skeet Davidson holding a bedazzled fake Eagles trophy while wearing a godfather t-shirt with his thumb up in multiple tabloid photos this week. Mob fix, perhaps?) Mahomes wearing Eagles colors, etc.
There's also the plane crash in Philadelphia the other day. Looks like the NFL writers chose the #PhillyStrong version of the script. It works for them too because it's become a mainstream talking point that the NFL is rigged for certain teams like me and others have been saying for years. Now they can claim that it isn't rigged, which normies will eat up. My theory is they're trying to make Eagles-Chiefs like what Patriots-Colts was in the 00s/early 10s. It's all fake and gay like wrestling and the writers will probably try and make the Chiefs the heel team just like the Patriots were.
 
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