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Eagles running back L'Carpetron Dookmarriot broke Emmitt Smith's all-time rushing record with 18,463 yards. That's all you need to know.
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You guys realize we'll still have pennies, right? We have a fuck ton of of pennies. I got pennies in my wallet from the 60s. Halting production for a few years doesn't mean the penny suddenly dies
yeah I remember Canada getting rid of their penny like a decade ago and they still have a shit ton of them around.
 
I think one of the most under rated presidents was John Tyler, after being given the job because Harrison died 3 weeks into office, he has no backing from either political party and became our country’s only independent president.

He was the one who said fuck you to the senate and pushed annex Texas after the senate rejected the treaty.

He signed the Webster-Ashburton Treaty which helped smooth things over with British Canada and set Maine’s boundaries

He was the one to push tariffs in 1842

He pushed for the expansion of the navy, which would quickly become the world’s largest

And he was also the first vice president to take over and made sure to cement the fact that he wasn’t a lesser president. They wanted to give him less power because he wasn’t the one they voted on, he said fuck that and made sure that the inheriting president would have all the same powers, which would go in to give up Teddy Roosevelt.

He wasn’t perfect, but he was able to avoid the bureaucracy entirely and just get shit done. But both parties hate him so much that he’s often ignored by history
They ignore him because he was the only president to side with the Confederacy during the Civil War which is a huge no-no in the modern day.
 
I'm breaking my 1488 oath just to tell you we should revert to gold standard or silver. Fuck all this crypto I like shiny rock currencies and old medieval economies.
B-but we need as many ways as possible to fuck with currency!!! You're so anti-semitic!! What if we can't manipulate the economic system like we want to, you fucking GOYIM BIGOT!
 
Isn't there people who hoard pennies 'cause if pennies ever get discontinued, they can smelt them for the value of copper?
The modern penny is almost entirely zinc, but any penny from before 1982 (and some from the year) are 95% copper, and while I do collect them, they only have around 3 cents worth of copper apiece. Also, it's illegal to smelt pennies and nickels.
 
Getting rid of the penny is fucking dumb and I'm getting tired of all these little distractions like that and Gulf of America.
Everything Trump does is a big fucking distraction. Gaza, the tariffs, and the Gulf of America shit is there to keep you from noticing that Elon and his friends are bilking the state for all it's worth.

Also, tariffs are just Trump's way of paying for things that corporate taxes used to pay for. He's punishing the plebs for daring to buy foreign goods (in an era where the entire world is interconnected) just so he doesn't have to charge taxes to his corporate buddies. People will still buy foreign goods because they've gotten used to it. And Trump is betting on that.

That, and trying to bring outsourced jobs back to America will just bring back the kind of job where Chinese workers fling themselves out of windows because they're tired of making cheap Iphones. Americans won't even take the minimum-wage jobs popping up left and right during Zombie Biden's, term, they sure as hell won't go for the wage-slave jobs that Trump wants to bring back.

And of course, him gutting the Education sector won't put an end to dysfunction in the schools; it's just that the schools will be privatized so only those with enough money can get educated kids. One more way that this administration's plans will make it hard for people having kids. And yet Vance tells us to have more.

They do realize that you need a carrot and a stick to drive the mule? With Trump and his buddies, it's all stick and no carrot.
 
If trump was real he would switch us over to the bottlecap economy.
Ackshually he should play Fallout 1 or NV and go from there.
Bottlecaps are known as Hub-bucks in Fallout 1, and NV. They are used as currency by the merchants of the Hub, who set the trade ratio between then number of caps, and a liter of clean water. Normally it's roughly 10 to 1, but if there is a run on caps, like someone finding a truck full, they can spike prices till things stabilize.
 
Look I agree what happened in dresden was fucked up and I do believe most of the concentration camp confessionals from the gaurds and soldiers were done via torture.
But I hate when wheraboos act like "Hitler was a good boy and didn't do nuffin wrong" like Hitler was a warmongering idiot who didn't get kept in check by the allies because they were to busy trying to appease the ussr.

The Germans invaded Poland because the British encouraged Poland to brag its military flex. After all Poland was technically the 7th largest military in Europe and fell within 3 weeks.
The allies initially placed their hopes on Poland being much stronger and better prepared for wat then it was also Poland was stabbed in the back and invaded by the soviets too.

Again Hitler got what he deserved sadly.
I feel like mentioning because it was talked about above

-While there is obvious value in protectionism, Autarky is based on faulty reasoning (Hitler applied the theory for the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, as described in his Second Book, to justify it) of zero sum games. That's why he needed to expand in the first place. A country could only survive if it had the resources it needed directly because he bought Marx's theory for market profits falling as justification for stopping international trade.
-He didn't believe in the gold standard, called it a pointless shibboleth in his Table Talks. Fellow Nazi theorist Rudolf Jung outright claimed that the germanic spirit was corrupted by the use of gold and money. Nazis were actually more radical about than the Lenin here, with Lenin going back to the Gold Standard for the NEP due to how much of a failure War Communism was
-He believed in the labor theory of value according to his Table Talks, and that was reflected with having price and wage controls and price commissars. These controls were done even for consumer goods, not just stuff at the highest levels of production
-He ran a massive deficit spending campaign, one even he knew was unsustainable without annexing or plundering other nations. This is exactly what happened to the Netherlands and Greece
-The one man obfuscating the fact that there was still hyperinflation was Hjalmar Shacht who was papering it over with MEFO bills as one giant ponzi scheme. He got into conflict with Hitler over Hitler's deficit spending campaign and ended up being kicked out (And later sent to a camp) in favor of Goering

I would not be surprised if all the best elements of Hitler's economy was singlehandedly from Shacht or the conservatives/corporatists in power. Any novel theory he or actual nazis had were terrible.
 
I would not be surprised if all the best elements of Hitler's economy was singlehandedly from Shacht or the conservatives/corporatists in power. Any novel theory he or actual nazis had were terrible.
They didn't call themselves the "national socialists" for shits and giggles. Despite their intense ethno-nationalism, Hitler and his friends were, in the end, socialists.

It really would've been better if the conservatives and corporatists ran Germany with no socialists or national socialists getting in the way. Hitler and his buddies should've been kicked out of Germany along with the rest of the socialist rabble.
 
Why should real estate increase in value? Maybe that's why young people can't buy homes because boomers insist their 2 bedroom condo should be worth $6 million? I doubt we'll ever see a major crash in China and they'll continue to be the world manufacturing power because we have useful-idiots like you defending bankers.
If this is an inferior city, I'd love to see how great New York City is, I'm sure it isn't a hellhole.
They're a manufacturing power because they use slave labor.
 
Missing good old Ronnie Raygun who finally cleaned up the global mess FDR created by putting the Soviet Union in its place: the ash heap of history

And FDR wasn't so much a secret pinko who loved commienism as he was a massive egomaniacal retard who thought he could turn Stalin into a not-demon by the force of his amazing aristocratic personality. For reals he thought he could personally charm Stalin into bean a gud boi who wouldint do nuffin
FDR had the Kingfish killed and muzzled Fr. Coughlin for criticizing him. FDR has the benefit of history whitewashing him along with WW2 anchoring that whitewashing.
 
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