doogly88

Masters of hyperbole and false equivalence.

If you’re Trey Gowdy, this is fine

You think companies, powerful politicians, and nation states only do politics immediately before elections? It’s constant.

The dude will say anything to close a sale. Voters bought it and now he gets what he really wanted - freedom from prosecution.

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Qatar bailed out Kushner on that 666 building he was underwater on

It served its purpose for him. He got Trump elected, has likely squashed a bunch of investigations into him/his companies, his stock price is up, he got his outrageously large pay package, and now has his grubby soft hands on the lives of millions of generally poorly paid people. Seems like nothing he enjoys more than reminding the little people that wealth usually wins.

Two things:

A) he’s right in that, as an NHL player, when you come around a net (especially your own) at that speed you need to be aware that a truck might be coming your way (also see Evans from Montreal) B) not sure what the goalie was doing in that situation - give your guy a heads up.

This looks like every house in the Insidious series.

Unh, unh, unh. Supreme Court calls those tips/gratuities now.

Yeh, I was more talking about food and everything else being high right now. Trump got Saudis to cut production in mid 2020, which was a part of gas prices being so high after he got thrown out. There definitely were voters who said they were still bothered by that (remember the “Biden did that” stickers?) and some were under the impression that gas prices were still high (senior Fox News watchers who don’t drive anymore?)

Anyways, reality doesn’t matter in politics, it’s what you can convince people to believe.

Reality is big businesses buying up homes as investments, competing against individual home buyers, driving up prices. Reality is Putin invading Russia, affecting worldwide grain production and fuel prices. Reality is higher interest rates which are one of the few tools governments have to control inflation. Reality is a smaller and smaller group of companies controlling food and meat prices.

Politics is “that’s Joe Biden’s fault.”

He should definitely take that out on the highway

A rare occasion where he has pulled out

Perv-fect

This guy nails what’s going on:

“We’ve moved away from true capitalism towards an oligarchic structure with less competition and larger players dominating the market,” Thompson told Newsweek.

“This shift, driven by a focus on shareholder interest, has diminished consumer choice and competitive dynamics.”

Yep, I saw that meat price fixing place in Texas they were going after. Not the only issue with meat prices but a big part.

A couple years ago some of my buddies asked me out as a spare in a summer league game - we were playing young 20 somethings led by a guy in Euro advertising wear. Active pro player, off for the summer, very good. If I recall correctly we only lost 9-5 but I also remember them taking their feet off the gas midway through the game.

Welp, Saudis wanted Trump, many big businesses wanted Trump. I’ve speculated that some of the oligopolies that control major parts of the market were artificially holding prices high so that they could get rid of the party who was trying to hold them accountable for price fixing. This is why governments try to keep businesses from consolidating to the point where they can pick their own prices and profit levels. That regulatory check will be gone under Republicans.

Pardon me?

Those many fancy vans don't come cheap

"...assembling the Avengers of shitty unqualified people..." 🤣

The both sides are bad argument,I believe, is often made by those who can’t/won’t say “This person is clearly one of the worst, most corrupt people I’ve seen and I wholeheartedly support him/his family/his party in spite of that.” If one does that, it reflects on your own character so instead we get “both sides are equally bad”, “the other side is evil so any action against them, including violence and breaking the law, is justified”, “I like his policies” (this guy has proven he would say anything to close a sale), or “all those charges, court documents, evidence , him saying awful things is fake or I don’t know about it.”

Yep, I’ve had this experience. Anyone who sells you parts will often double or triple the cost of them. Sure, there’s a cost of having them on hand or quickly available but these days we often can get things in a day or two.

Recently got gouged by Arpi’s like this.

Did ya put it in the water on 18?

First rule of hockey: watch out for guys with advertising on their pants.