jerryskids

How many are we drafting?

Once again we've come to that time of the year where most of you knuckledraggers change your clocks forward by one hour, in a feeble attempt to change the space/time continuum. I predict that in about 6 months you'll give up and change it back, like you have every year in the past. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. A wise old Arizona Indian chief once said regarding DST, "Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket."

By "longest" I think he meant "longest running." I started it in 2012. It certainly doesn't have the most posts.

Brilliant of me to pass on Morikawa to reach for Fatsuyama! You're welcome, @Alias Detective

It's a superpower.

Dang, I really liked your team. Sometimes it just doesn't work out.

That's what a smart kid of POTUS would do. Hunter just sat there waiting for his dad to hook him up, and now that well has run dry. Teach a man to fish and all...

Maverick +4 after 7. I think he killed Goose again, he's lost focus.

That's because you snort the MSM blue happy dust. Unelected! Young engineers! Racist posts! Guy with $400B is going to sell my personal info!

I didn't notice Dain one behind. Don't spend that money yet, Pat!

Nice win, Pat.

I'm proudly wearing my ashes.

Same

Si Woo Kim @dain11279

Robert McIntyre @dain11279

I dunno. The Ioniq looks like a sedan; I can't say it is attractive or unattractive. The Santa Cruz is a little... curvier than the boxy Maverick, which I guess can be considered more feminine?

They make the Ioniq, right? That's like top of the line for EVs price/performance and value from what I've heard. I wouldn't buy an EV yet, but if I did, I'd strongly consider it. Similarly, the small truck (Santa Cruz) seems to have a lot of benefits over the Ford Maverick, at least when I looked a while back. And I married into a Ford family (FIL worked there his entire career). I haven't test driven these, but my perception is that they provide good bang for the buck, so I'll do so next time I'm in the market.

If the numbers work then I say we go with this plan. We can figure out something if Cloaca places in the final pot. I'd just boot him, but if he comes back, he needs to be part of the greater EdEx like everyone else. He also needs a 2 hour timer. Also, agreed on him absolutely not getting the first pick. I say either we give him #5 (middle), #9 (keeps him here for the turn and two picks), or pick a random number.

I was hoping Burns fell to here but... 3.04 Top Gun McNealy @Alias Detective

Tony Finau @dain11279

I'm reminded of a fable I once heard about eagle vs. turkey parents. Eagle parents let their eaglets fly from the aerie. They don't let them do it alone, but rather fly behind them ready to help should they need it. Turkey parents (today, helicopter parents) help their children do everything, such that they never learn how to be free and independent. They grow into Thanksgiving Dinner. The US has been turkey parents to Europe. Now we are transitioning to eagle parents. We are still there to help if stuff goes south. But at least they are the first line of defense. Who knows, they may even grow some confidence and, dare I say, nationalistic pride.

This is such a wonderful win. Trump is setting up a long-term system where European nations stop being second-handers (to use an Atlas Shrugged phrase) and pay their fair share, or more, to defend THEIR OWN FOCKING CONTINENT$#@! Not to mention, US mil-aero companies will probably sell the vast majority of equipment for this. I wonder if our Left brethren will acknowledge as much.

Another fair question. Trade imbalances aren't inherently bad. I have a trade imbalance with Amazon. My employers had a trade imbalance with me. That being said, tariffs are a lever with which to manipulate the complex interaction between supply and demand. I'm inclined to support reciprocal tariffs, to level the playing field. Probably also as a tool against countries that use child/slave labor. When you increase tariffs, imports cost more which is bad, but companies move manufacturing here which employs people to provide them money to buy things. Our recent alternative strategy, which has been to keep imports cheap and print money to give to people to spend, does not strike me as sustainable in the long run. As such, I think it's worth letting this play out for a while and see what happens.

This is a fair take. I am open to having been wrong about Trump's plans with tariffs. I had thought that they were merely a negotiating tool, but it increasingly appears that Trump likes tariffs for the long haul. If so, as you said, reciprocating tariffs are fine, to try anyway. The good thing about tariffs is that they are under Trump's direct control, so if the train starts going off the rails, he has the power to remove them and, in Trumpian fashion, pretend they never existed. European autos for example: https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/2025/02/18/no-quick-fix-likely-for-eu-automakers-in-us-tariff-dispute/