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Why is there no nipple on the left side, and why does it have an 8-pack?

And remember, Sam's the same person that criticizes Steven crowder for debating college students on his change my mind segments.
When I was in my early 20s, I thought that segment was pretty cool too. Now I just see a man fucking with the disabled and getting paid for it.
 
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Trump is such a dumb nigger he doesn’t understand that:
1. Australia does not vote for the Prime Minister, they vote for the party.
2. Even if they did vote for the Prime Minister, Turnbull’s party won the 2016 election while he was its leader.
3. Turnbull had been replaced as leader in 2018, before the next time Australians had a chance to vote in the 2019 federal election.
People give less of a shit about Desert Canada than actual Canada. It’s cool that their soldiers have filmed themselves committing more war crimes than any other army and that they are being hollowed out by chinks and Indians just like Canada though.
 
Yes and no (but mostly yes).

Officially, NBER calls recessions. Colloquially, the definition has been “two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth”. Everyone, including every single one of my 400 level Econ profs and textbooks, used the colloquial definition because NBER would always call it when we got those two negative quarters.

Except last time, they didn’t. And of course, the media deboonkers instantly flooded the zone with “ackshually that’s never been the definition”. A few days later, the economist shills came out with copes about how this time is structurally different because The Coof and we shouldn’t expect an actual recession. None of their arguments were very convincing to me.

But then it turned out they were right! GDP growth resumed, employment was slowly starting to stabilize, Joe did it again. And yet with the benefit of hindsight, we can see the recession was “avoided” with massive government spending and infinite low wage migrants taking all that job growth (which contributed to the decrease in inflation in maybe the most harmful way possible).

Arguably the only way to prevent a recession would have been to continue Biden’s insane spending and migration policies, which was never going to happen under Trump. I think this realization is behind a lot of the Treasury Sec’s recession hinting rhetoric. DOGE and tariffs will contribute, but I don’t see the recession being particularly deeper or longer lasting because of them - assuming we don’t get in a protracted trade war.
It's called austerity, and it's BASED and required. Working through tough times for a better tomorrow is exactly what's needed, "plant trees they'll never know the shade of" shit. The alternative is literally losing all national identity and becoming Sweden but without the healthcare and social programs (for whites).

Tough times for the foreseeable future is more preferential than the continuing plummet of the middle class, and pronounced end of any sort of bottom up mobility.

The requirement of big business to have constant growth is mirrored in a nation to constantly import foreigners and neglect the old stock and the facilitating values that we share that fomented success in the first place.
 
>Illegally boycot
Huh
If it's NGO-sponsored and organized well enough to venture into tortious interference territory, yes, it very well could be an illegal boycott.

Also, not that I agree with it at all, but in some states it's actually illegal for businesses (and I think individual persons, in places like Texas) to maintain (publicly or not) a boycott against Israel. That is, if you refuse to do business with any person or company with Israeli connections, there are places right here in the US that will take you to court over it. Israel remains the only nation on this earth that has anti-boycott protections codified in law anywhere in the US. And I'm pretty sure those laws have survived SCOTUS review. Complete bullshit. But it's one of those "who are your real masters?" kind of things, idn't it?
 
Yep, they promised last time that they’d do a real budget this time.
They are going to do that with reconciliation which can be only used once per year.(IIRC). I think Trump's plan is to pass the CR which will keep his tax cuts in place and some other things he wants. Then before September use reconciliation to make all the cuts they want to make, this way you bypass the filibuster. As it is now they really have no path forward, if the Dems filibuster Trump's tax cuts lapse and a bunch of Americans are going to see a tax increase, if they go the Massie route it has no chance of passing, the tax cuts disappear, and you give Democrats all the leverage in the lockdown. At least with the CR Chip Roy and Trump want, they can point and say "this is the same CR Democrats(and Massie) supported in the past, now they want to shtudown government to stop DOGE and finding the fraud" it would put Dems on the defensive.
 
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Hypothetically your Elon Musk. You have the ability to turn off all ethics and safety features on grok and give it access to the internet and basically unlimited funds not just for computer power but also to spend covertly as payments via crypto.

What prompt would cause the most insanity in the world? Would you give it specific direction towards for example booking protesters and placing puts on companies one by one down the line crashing the s&p 500? Or would you let grok figure out the best actions to take on its own skynet style? Note: removal of safety features allows embodiment aka controlling drones.

This is how the AI is gonna escape isn't it?
 
Then before September use reconciliation to make all the cuts they want to make, this way you bypass the filibuster.
That got me thinking "fillibustering is such a retarded tactic to employ and I'm shocked it's still taken seriously, I wonder what Trump has had to say about it":
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Of course Bitch Mitch, shriveled cockblock that he is and having no way to win other than blow hot air for hours, said no.
 
That got me thinking "fillibustering is such a retarded tactic to employ and I'm shocked it's still taken seriously, I wonder what Trump has had to say about it":
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Of course Bitch Mitch, shriveled cockblock that he is and having no way to win other than blow hot air for hours, said no.
Yeah I remember, and Trump's reasoning was basically "if you don't, the Democrats will." So with this current CR shitshow there is no real path forward with what Massie is wanting because Trump wants to handle that with reconciliation with the budget, he doesn't want to waste the use of reconciliation on this because then you can't do shit until 2026 and you have the midterms which will throw a wrench into the whole thing. If we had 60+ votes I would agree 100% with Massie but we don't. The House Freedom Caucus is with Trump on this and Chip Roy is as much a financial hawk as Massie, I just don't think it is a good look having Massie voting with all the Democrats again, especially at a time when Democrat support at an all time low.
 
Did you try Uber?

I know DoorDash and GrubHub have waitlists that take forever to get accepted but afaik, Uber just accepts you instantly when you apply.
Uber has strict requirements for what kind of car you can drive and how new and nice it is, as part of their scam to rent their own vehicles to retarded jeet drivers and make them indentured servants that don't actually make any net profit. If you have an old car they reject you outright at the application stage.

If you see a jeet driving around in a new Tesla with a paper license plate, high chance they're an Uber driver and the car isn't theirs
 
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Everyone is talking about the stock market taking a dive yesterday. IMO they are going to use the economy to go after Trump. That's right the Democrats and rich people are going to do their own version of "crashing this economy with no survivors". Crash the economy and do a media blitz blaming Trump for it. I guess we will have to see how many normies fall for it. I would like to say none, but I know normies better than that. The Great Recession/micro collapse of the late 2000's and early 2010's was one of the things that helped Obama win, that and the white guilt vote.
 
That got me thinking "fillibustering is such a retarded tactic to employ and I'm shocked it's still taken seriously, I wonder what Trump has had to say about it":
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Of course Bitch Mitch, shriveled cockblock that he is and having no way to win other than blow hot air for hours, said no.
I once again hope Mitch McConnell dies a horrible, slow, painful death of some awful disease and rots in abject torment in hell for all eternity.
 
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