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  1. Which actually checks out based on the caption for what the guy installed and what he does afterwards.
  2. Vegas64 replied to Derka's topic in Cloak Room
    Middle Class shouldn't have to pay the highest rate on ANY dollar of income, is the point. But look what happens when you start talking about taxing billionaires like in California the last couple of weeks. I think the Google guys already got their Bug out bag and are halfway out of the state with others making a lot of noise about. Oh great, the richest man in the state and founder/ceo of one of the few trillion dollar companies is gracious enough to give a one-time tax donation, which isn't nothing, but all the other billionaires are like roaches under the couch when the lights come on.
  3. Vegas64 replied to Derka's topic in Cloak Room
    You think? The little $10bn aluminum can company whose namesake for a little college in Muncie, Indiana says hi.
  4. Vegas64 replied to Derka's topic in Cloak Room
    I think that USED to be the case (cue the Steinbeck or Twain quote about being temporarily embarrased millionaires) but I don't believe it's quite as you say anymore. I think most of the middle class is resentful that the pie has shrunk so much that there isn't really a great separation between the three traunches anymore. It's billionaire class and then the rest of us. Middle class people see even being a "millionaire" which a lot of people are due to 401k's plus home equity via net worth doesn't mean what they were conditioned to think being a "millionaire" was supposed to mean. Being a millionaire today just means you might one day get to retire in middle class comfort and keep agency over your money and estate decisions and die in your own house or hospice of your choice until you either go senile or die. There are multiple think pieces out and I don't want to "The Lost Generation" this thread, but the middle class is getting screwed at the expense of mostly the billionaires and there should be an awakening to that and that alone. Stop trying to throw in all the pork barrel initiatives with it that kill support (LGBTq stuff, poor stuff, etc.). Maybe the numbers don't back it up and the demographics don't back it up, but it feels like if the middle class would wake up and rise up, the numbers should be on our side.
  5. Vegas64 replied to Derka's topic in Cloak Room
    Politically speaking, it's a problem because it's not inherently a political problem. So the middle class gets cucked no matter who is in office and it's being crushed from both sides (but mostly the elite class). So when it sucks when a D is president, you get people thinking "what the heck, can't be worse and why not go for the other guy" and then when it's completely and drastically worse under the other guy, God willing we get the D back in. But then nothing fundamentally changes for the middle class. I know that Ayn Rand was stupid and racist and it's fun to poke fun of sophomoric libertarians, but the middle class in 2026 does feel an awful lot like Atlas when it comes to being exhausted by holding up the system for both the billionaires and the poor at the expense of the recursive comfort and privilege that the middle class lifestyle used to promise and stand for.
  6. Vegas64 replied to Derka's topic in Cloak Room
  7. Clearly people aren't familiar with Theo Von's well-worn act.
  8. This is amazing watching the possibility of Iran's regime toppling. There's a good chance they can survive this, but it's also a puncher's chance of happening and that would be amazing for everyone.
  9. Yea, WELL. OKAY. you know WHAT? I didn't KNOW I wasn't supposed to text not use paper and pen in your crappy little theater! So EXCUSE me. For wanting to use paper and pen in the MUNITED SMATES OF AMERICA!
  10. I don't understand this one at all. People are pretending to be in elementary school again by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and that's a flex?
  11. The rapture isn't biblical FYI
  12. RFK reminds me of that one person in your family who is super conscious about some things and has a good intention on some things (e.g. my kids can't have red dye and no way do we do refined sugar and hyperprocessed foods) but then it cuts the other direction pretty crazy (e.g. vaccinations cause autism, etc.). But I do think SOME things he says are actually sane when it comes to diet.
  13. I said this in another thread, but I was in a crappy part of town in the 'hood and chanced upon a dollar general or family general, one of the big chains. They even had a little produce section with whole food and a mister going to keep the food from drying out. I was actually flabbergasted. If even food deserts in the hood can get some healthy food, thatj's a good thing.
  14. You serious, Clark?
  15. The opposition party that came second in last year’s Greenland election is more open to dialogue with the US. The party’s leader remarked this week, “the US can’t do anything to us that Denmark hasn’t done already.” The Danish Defence Intelligence Service labeled the US a security risk last year. I really am starting to think a deal gets done.
  16. Trump is retro, apparently. The US the world thought it knew looks gone. Or perhaps more accurately, the pre-WWII US is now back: exceptionalist, transactional, and unapologetic. Or maybe this was always there, just behind a more benign and internationalist veneer. "Maybe this augurs some new golden age in America — Greenlanders and Danes be damned. But history shows the US can suffer hubris, and with big flexes against Iran, Venezuela, and Greenland, Donald Trump does seem a tad close to the sun."
  17. I like it. I also like when Mario Cristobal or Carson Beck or Trinidad Chambliss talk about God and Jesus as the first thing they do after they win, before talking about the X's and O's.
  18. I hear you. I just think we are seeing that political power and history, well...it doesn't repeat but rhymes as they say. Much like fashion and trends, it seems like there is a cyclical "come back" of styles and we are certainly in our Brat Boi Winter era as a country.
  19. You can dislike or not like Chapelle's POV's, but he's absolutely doing the public intellectual / social commentary stuff and it's awesome. I'm watching George Carlin right now and it's well-scripted, smart, dark social commentary like you said. But it's actually not funny at all.
  20. In another stunning "a broken clock is right twice a day" I actually don't hate RFK's newest announcment on nutrition guidelines pushing more protein and whole foods and less processed food and sugar. Just like his phobia for food dyes and chemicals, this is actually a good thing in a vacuum IMO. Thoughts from resident nutritionists? Adults should consume 1.2 to 1.6 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight daily—50% to 100% higher than previous guidelines—from red meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, dairy, or plant sources. A new “healthy fats” section favors full-fat dairy over low-fat options and recommends cooking with olive oil, butter, or beef tallow. Highly processed carbohydrates like white bread are a big no-no for the first time. Whole grains are recommended, but they’re depicted as the smallest portion of the pyramid. No added sugar until age 10 (up from age 2). Adults should also avoid it and artificial sweeteners, including the aspartame in your Diet Coke. Reactions: The American Medical Association approved, while the American Heart Association raised concerns that the guidelines could lead to overconsumption of sodium, protein, and saturated fats. -- All in all, pretty reasonable!
  21. I'll channel my inner briskettexan here. "Have you not being paying attention the last 100 years? There is NO International law. It never existed! It was just some made up, dressed up shell cover for hard US power. It hasn't been international law stopping China from invading Taiwan all these years it's been the US seventh fleet. Same as it ever was!"
  22. I think in a vacuum it's a flex straight out of the "might is right" era. In much the same way you can disagree with the IDF in Israel, you have to give them credit for their effectiviness. In a lot of ways it's reminding the world that the US is no longer bluffing! No more tweets and finger wagging. Special forces will build an exact replica of your villa, then pants your China-built ‘anti-stealth’ defenses, kill 32 of your crack Cuban bodyguards, and haul you before a New York judge without even suffering a grazed knee. That strength and ability must shake our enemies a little bit you'd think. "It weakens any despot’s perceived security behind sovereignty, raises the costs of defiance, and encourages the next Maduro to just hold elections instead of dancing on TV."
  23. This is that MAC conference funny tweet being referenced right? I'm cool, I'm hip with it.
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