Recent content by HacklemanPoke

Wait until your hourly wage earners find out what Project 2025 does to their overtime. Like most things this is bait and switch. To OT employees: “Hey we decreased taxes on your overtime.” To OT employers: “Hey we changed the way OT hours are calculated and gave you flexibility to change...

What are the odds that if a reporter asked him if he was open to being gifted a Star Destroyer from Emporer Palpatine he would respond along the lines of “That’s something we’re looking into strongly. Nobody gets along w Emporer Palpatine like I do. I call it normalizing. Normalizing. That’s a...

Saw this video about tariff on my daily YouTube visit. It’s a quick view for the Magastani crowd on how these tariffs impact a generational American company that has created American jobs.

Just another DUI hire/appointment.

Didn’t think you were being sarcastic at all. Their first step was getting half the population to accept their version as truth. Next step is to control/limit the information to the other half.

How big is the leap to stop reporting economic numbers, crime statistics or really anything that paints the administration in an unfavorable light? Kinda like “if we stop testing the number of cases won’t go up.”

I just posted this same thought in the Trump thread. It’s complete insanity to isolate and bully the way we are playing this out. Part of the problem is I really think Bessent understands this and is trying to nudge Trump this direction but he has Navarro, Miller and Bannon to contend with.

He is completely ignoring the globalization of commerce over the last 50 yrs. Granted not all countries/regions have the family income of the US but population size tells you the US cannot dictate to the world market like it once did. EUROPE 750MM European Union 450MM China >1B India >1B SE...

My guess as to what we are seeing is a result of several things. His poll numbers which should mean squat on leading by convictions are eating at him. And they are going to get worse when his policies really start to impact America and his big beautiful bill is law. He’s not accomplishing his...

I also think we went through a stretch w Warsop and Delgadillo back to back in the order. I think teams were pitching/fielding to that and you had Timm or Wark slumping so the bottoms of the lineup was a guaranteed 2 outs. Others were pressing in order to cover that up. This season also shows...

I think it’s just another grift. Just like w his other tariffs when you peel back you see exemptions. How many of those exemptions are tied to grift. This will be the same.

I know ifs and buts…but if the team the last 2 weeks plays Houston a complete series that’s 2 more. You also have to think we win 1 more against Baylor and Iowa St. That ties us for 1st. They are not that far off. Crandall appears back from injury. That’s a solid 1-2. Better than anyone else...

So how do you re redistribute the wealth that has been shifted from middle class and poverty line people through wage suppression and income tax manipulation to high income earners and wealthy shareholders/corporate executives?

One of the greatest mis directions was the culture/class warfare of the govt spending your money on other people’s problems. It’s still going on today. We can pose a simple solution to SS solvency. Eliminate the income ceiling or at the very least create a donut hole between the current cap...

Saw an interview w this guy. Said mid May is when it starts. They’ve seen a 35% decrease in ships. It will first result in laid off port. Then laid off warehouse. Then truckers. This then spills over to local economies. Said at a minimum it would take 4 weeks AFTER a deal is reached for goods...