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TigerDoc
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Texas |
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| Number of Posts: | 10484 |
| Registered on: | 4/25/2004 |
| Online Status: | Online |
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re: RFK, Jr. dropped the R word.
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/13/25 at 8:33 am
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You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they're acting retarded.
That's the same path that the clinical terms "moron", "imbecile", and "idiot" took. There's a lot less revanchist politics frisson though if they're not from living memory. If RFK Jr. started calling mentally sub-normal people "morons" it would just make him an a-hole, but to call them "retarded" pushes just the right political buttons.
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re: U.S. Announces Reciprocal Tariff Exemptions for Chinese Smartphones and Computers
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/12/25 at 8:49 am
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Someone with Apple and Google paid him off
plausible, but :lol: that this is a defense of him.
re: Tom Fitton is taking on Swamp Barbie.
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/12/25 at 8:30 am
We've seen what he's like with his AG's when they're not doing what he wants. If he gave a shite about this and Bondi wasn't acting, he'd be haranguing her publicly. He's not, ergo he's ok with it.
re: Let me get this straight, the main reason we are doing this is to bring more jobs to US?
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/9/25 at 11:09 am
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I'm at work right now. Just got off the phone.
Your new job at the glue factory is really going to cut into your posting time - at least until you get your neurolink chip to allow you to cybernetically post to the droppings from the factory floor.
re: Let me get this straight, the main reason we are doing this is to bring more jobs to US?
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/9/25 at 11:07 am
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Thanks so much for posting this. I wondered why Trump was so much more aggressive this time around. That makes sense.
This same principle explains a lot of differences between Trump 1 & Trump 2. The party has seen the writing on the wall for awhile that the base wants officials to obey Trump and not to check him, so if you look at almost any current White House official or cabinet secretary and compare them to their Trump 1 counterpart, they're more sympatico (either they agree or are at least not going to push back). And yet, pushing back is what checked Trump's worst impulses and recklessness, so we're going to get worse governance.
re: Let me get this straight, the main reason we are doing this is to bring more jobs to US?
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/9/25 at 9:27 am
And manufacturing jobs will continue to be increasingly automated. This policy will make things more expensive, lose us service jobs, and not be compensated by what we pick up. It's a loser policy.
re: Let me get this straight, the main reason we are doing this is to bring more jobs to US?
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/9/25 at 9:13 am
Keep in mind he's not doing this because of current conditions. He's doing it because he says he's held these views for 30 years and in Trump 1, people like Gary Cohn were around to stop him, but in Trump 2, they're not. So we get this. From Trump 1:
re: Europe approves retaliatory tariffs on US goods
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/9/25 at 8:48 am
It takes 2 consecutive quarters of growth contraction to have a recession, so you're right. Nice analysis, baw. Cognitive dissonance allayed a little longer.
re: Europe approves retaliatory tariffs on US goods
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/9/25 at 8:41 am
Trump is always right.
We are in a recession.
Ergo, recession is good.
We are in a recession.
Ergo, recession is good.
re: It's main street's turn to get rich - Bessent
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/9/25 at 8:21 am
be richer by having fewer assets, baw.
re: Tomorrow will be lovely
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/6/25 at 5:24 pm
I will skyscream with you, brother.
re: Tomorrow will be lovely
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/6/25 at 5:20 pm
re: Your Discomfort Means It's Working
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/6/25 at 10:06 am
Never did, baw. I was one of the "no's" when you were weirdly stalking folks to take your weird poll.
re: Your Discomfort Means It's Working
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/6/25 at 8:39 am
We seem to be at a controversy. Are
(A) stock market crashes bad, but the Dems caused this.
OR
(B) this stock market crash is good because bleeding the patient will purge the ill humors?
(A) stock market crashes bad, but the Dems caused this.
OR
(B) this stock market crash is good because bleeding the patient will purge the ill humors?
re: Trump Protest Today
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/5/25 at 12:57 pm
The argument is they're trying to de-electrify the third rail by making the program run so poorly that the public gets frustrated with it and won't resist cuts and eventual abolishment.
re: World GDP rose by 35% over the last 10 years yet GDP of USA was a modest 28%
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/5/25 at 12:12 am
The reason for underperforming the world is because China and India, the two fastest growing economies, together have over a third of world population and they’ve been moving from minimal economic production to moderate production. This is no reason for us to melt.
re: World GDP rose by 35% over the last 10 years yet GDP of USA was a modest 28%
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/4/25 at 11:21 pm
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However we do not appear to be matching growth of the rest of the industrial world
The rest of the world we're behind in growth is able to do fast catch-up growth because they're able to adopt innovations created by advanced countries that they don't have (like better tech, and adding high-yield infrastructure like building airports, advanced ports, bridges, roads, other infrastructure that we developed long ago). We have invest more for lower growth because for us to grow, we're innovating and that's more expensive and slower than copy-cat. It's apples and oranges.
re: World GDP rose by 35% over the last 10 years yet GDP of USA was a modest 28%
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/4/25 at 11:01 pm
If you compare us to similar economies as ours, we're growing faster.
re: World GDP rose by 35% over the last 10 years yet GDP of USA was a modest 28%
Posted by TigerDoc on 4/4/25 at 10:57 pm
Expecting the U.S. service economy to grow like industrializing China or India is like expecting a retired marathon runner to keep setting personal records just because a teenager who just bought their first pair of sneakers is suddenly sprinting everywhere. At a certain point, economies are not going to grow that fast.
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