jerryskids

Yes, those are the only two options.

It's The Atlantic, but yeah, this is a valid concern. You must really have smartz, given how often you disparage all Trump voters as idiots.

You are violating the commutative property of logic.

To each their own. I guess that's why God mad different women for us to ogle.

I'd say they made some good investments there.

Let's ignore the strategic issues that @Engorgeous George mentioned for a second. I agree that on a micro scale (one trading partner), a trade deficit means nothing. We might buy more coffee beans from Ethiopia than they buy iPhones, and end up with a trade deficit. Who cares? Pivoting to an analogy, I as a person have a trade deficit with Amazon -- I give them more money than they give me. But I also have a trade surplus with my employer (I'm retired, but work with me here). If I add up all the deficits and surpluses though, I should end up with a net surplus. If I have a net deficit, there is a problem which in the long run is unsustainable. That, I hope, is the issue that gets resolved, on a global scale -- we push other countries to buy from us where they can, but in the background realizing that perfection is the enemy of the good. If instead Trump really believes we need a surplus with Madagascar and every other country, he's getting some poor advice. Circling back to China, they are a special case for all of the reasons George mentioned. I don't know if Trump's approach will end up being the right one, but I do know that doing nothing and hoping China just went away wasn't it.

I've got the courtroom scene from Animal House playing in my head, with Otter saying the above.

Tim thinks he has a gotcha, he won't quit until somebody gives him a W.

Looks like you and Dain would have missed the cut, and you'd have gotten the first pick.

Dang, 7 of us within 5 strokes for 2nd! And of course, @BiffTannen's team will keep crushing us.

Hatton gacked a 1 foot putt on 17

Great news on the polyps! Sounds like the brain tumor isn't urgent, so also good?

I had forgotten how frustrating it is to watch JT golf. He goes back on my DND list after this tourney, probably.

They believe what TikTok tells them to believe.

Sorry, I cleared out some space

Sophie Cunningham, WNBA and does Suns analysis. She is way hotter than the girl in the OP: https://www.comingsoon.net/guides/features/1839796-sophie-cunningham-dating-married-boyfriend-husband-partner-relationship https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/sports/sophie-cunningham-opens-up-on-her-feisty-fashion-wnba-rookie-class/

There is definitely a strength, or maybe more a control/strength combo component. Certainly at top levels.

Predicting last place goes too far and undoes the reverse jinx. You now won't make the cut! He's from ASU and hangs with Rahm; he was probably at a kegger the night before.

Nice win Lager. Dang, this thing is over. I was hoping to enjoy my recovery with a faint hope of contending, but you have lapped the field already.

If you said that the Covid crash wasn't his fault, then why are you using it as one of his two 10% declines, as if that was his fault? You can't have it both ways.

We're counting Cpvid now? I didn't know you were one of those hacks, I thought you were smarter than that. Noted.

Awesome, love that show. Thanks for tracking the release.

Oligarchy!

I agree that Trump would have liked to keep the tariffs in place longer than he did, but he misgauged the short-term reaction of the markets, so he pulled them back. I applaud him for pivoting, as I think you have. And it gives him "hand", albeit not as strong, in whatever negotiations follow. As such, I wouldn't call them "unnecessary."

Justin Thomas looks broken. Just chunked a wedge half way to the green. Chipped over a green earlier.