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I agree with this to a point. I remember one story from the Cuban missile crisis that Kruschev was legitimately afraid that the IS would start throwing missiles around based on some of the letters he wrote. Things were *really* close back then. That said the Cuban Missile Crisis was also the...

This is the most insane presidency ever. Like wtf is going on.

So Trump got his travel ban trumped by a federal judge and is now whining on twitter. I wonder if he appreciates how weak this twitter whining makes him look.

There are appropriate methods and channels for doing that. Doing it on stage like that is calling for mob justice. If that's what he was going to do then he was a bigger dickbag than I thought, which is a bit surprising, but he truly is impossible to underestimate.

Conservatives aren't mad at Berkeley about this. Conservatives are fucking tumescent over this. It 100% plays into their view that the left are a bunch of communists/amarchists. Just like how (at some level) the left were sporting a bit of chub to find out that the Quebec shooter was a Trump...

The far left are some of the most irritating people out there. Especially Cali anarchists. Shit like this is why trump won.

My wife and I have strong disagreements over Bill Maher. She thinks he's this hilarious liberal comedian and I think he's a pretentious condescending anti-vax dickhead whose snide ideology is right in line with what caused the left to lose the Midwest. Anyways. She showed me the video and...

I was going to argue but you're right.

I don't think there will ever be a way to fully prevent this stuff from happening. It's kind of like cyber security. No matter what you do there will always be a weakness that can be exploited. But, like with cyber security, this does not mean you throw up your hands and say "well hell let's...

While we may all have certain....opinions....about French Canadians I don't think anyone believes this is in any way representative of your people. Also. I think it'sretty shit that all of the people that jumped on thinking this was caused by muslims aren't really owning what they said, and...

You know I have to hit disagree on the anti-southern comment because, hey, I'm from the south. But god damn we actually are a huge fucking lodestone on the US. Most of the south and Midwest contribute very little compared to what they take away. Kind of tired of being from a taker state...

Huh.

Wtf isn't Sig a Swiss company?

Yeah fair enough. So I wrote a senator for the first time in my life today. Wrote Cornyn about NAFTA. As a Texan I'm pretty sure a flat out repeal of NAFTA would be disastrous for us, and I think Cornyn generally agrees. Slid in an ice subtle dig on Cruz too about me writing to Cornyn...

Shit Houston prices are already at that point. Kind of gone crazy over the last year.

In fairness a lot of the bumblefuck parts of Colorado are still stunningly beautiful and attract a lot of wealthy retirees and people who can satellite work. My wife went to go look at an internship opportunity in Pueblo and was completely blown away. I remember touring School of Mines as a...

How long have you lived there? How long do you plan to? Are you afraid of ending up upside down? This goes back to my original point about liquidity. As I think can be agreed on after watching this election there are a lot of areas that used to be prosperous that no longer are. A lot of...

Sorry I never actually responded to this. Spending more money on coffee than you do on retirement is a god damned terrible idea. But it's actually a pretty complicated fact that doesn't carry a lot of weight imho: 1). You're talking about a group that is already going to be low earners with...

If you want to get spooked about housing take a gander at this: https://www.nrmlaonline.org/2017/01/13/annual-hecm-endorsement-chart This is the rates for people signing up for reverse mortgages over the last 30 years or so. A reverse mortgage is basically a system where the bank starts...

Property values more or less hold even with inflation over the years. No more no less. There is a lot of variance but that is the average. That in and of itself is a bad thing though, as it wildly underperforms most low-risk mutual funds. There are other big problems though. 1) most of the...