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Growth is artificially down because there was a 41% increase in imports (causing a 5% dip in GDP) because big companies were stocking up for the trade war. Next quarter will most likely have a massive artificial bump because of less imports coming in.

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Agree. Three other points:

1. The government's automatic money printer has been turned off. That stupid thin air government money printing artificially inflates the GDP.

2. Numbers issued for Trump are always initially worse to make him look bad, and then revisions happen a couple of months later. It was the opposite for Biden and Obama.

3. Jerome Powell is actively trying to make Trump look bad.

I used to like Rand. But this little traitor needs to be primaried, just like Miss Lindsey.

We used to have gun racks in our pickup trucks and would drive to school and around town with rifles and shotguns in plain sight. No one thought anything about it, including policemen and the folks in charge of the schools. It was just normal, I assume for all rural towns. No crimes were being committed and no break ins to take our guns. Most all of my friends were frequent hunters. Not sure if this was a routine practice in urban towns in the 60s and 70s.

1. Bitchin. Does this word mean complaining or awesome?

She was bitchin. Was she complaining or hot?

2. Tardy. Are you late or is something wrong with you?

He was very tardy.

Anyone scared of getting trapped in one of these?

My wife and bought a house with a safe room in the basement. The safe room has cinder block walls, a heavy metal ceiling with I beams, and a heavy metal door with heavy hinges that you can't easily pry out the hinge pin like you can on typical doors. The previous owner somehow stupidly had the heavy metal door lock from outside of the safe room with no way to open a locked door from inside the safe room. We had just bought the house, it was still empty and my wife and I walked in the safe room and thank God we didn't shut the door as it was set to lock. No cell signal inside the safe room. It would have possibly been a death trap if we would have shut that door. I immediately replaced the door lock with a proper lock keyed on the outside and manual lock mechanism on the inside. Plus I immediately put all kinds of lighting, AC power, Wi-Fi node, flashlights, power tools (impact driver, angle grinder, circular saw with metal & masonry blades, Sawzall, sledge hammers, crowbars, etc), emergency food and water inside the safe room after getting the crap scared out of us. I know I overreacted on equipping the safe room for escaping it and survival, but it was just too scary almost getting trapped in it.

After that experience, we had talked about possibly putting an elevator in the house, but we are so claustrophobic now after our safe room scare, that we probably would never install an elevator if there is no way to get out of one quickly if it gets stuck with the doors closed.

I sued Express Oil Company in the 1980s after they ripped my oil pan using an air wrench. I was driving a crappy Isuzu Impulse at the time. The Express Oil mechanic told me his air wrench tore the oil pan and Express Oil couldn't fix it. I told him that Express Oil was going to pay and he said he was sorry but I would have to talk to his manager who was gone to lunch.

I called the Isuzu dealer and told them I was getting my car towed to them. They told me that they were going to have to pull the engine and disconnect/reconnect a lot of other parts in order to replace the oil pan. The cost was over $1000. I waited at Express Oil for the manager to get back, gave him the cost and he said they weren't paying to get my oil pan replaced and that my oil pan was apparently defective anyway. I told him right then I was going to sue them.

Express Oil showed up to court with a lawyer and their oil change specialist and approached me before the case started. They wanted to settle for half of what I told them it cost me. I told them to shove it. The Lawyer told me I would lose the case since he was smarter than me and I would get nothing.

I had prior talked with the Isuzu dealer and sales guy and told him what happened and that I might buy another car from them in the future. The dealer had his mechanic go to court to testify in my defense. I showed up with the paid invoice to replace my oil pan, including towing, and the mechanic testified that they had to pull the engine and all of the other details. He also testified that it was obvious that the oil pan was ripped by massive over tightening that could only be done by an air wrench in his opinion and that mechanics should never tighten the oil plug on an oil pan with an air wrench. He brought the oil pan with him to show it to the judge. The Express Oil mechanic said he didn't use an air wrench and he manually used normal force with a socket wrench. The judge looked at the oil pan and said there was no way that no normal human being could manually rip the metal on my oil pan using a normal socket wrench. The Express Oil guy said that's what happened. The judge asked at what point that the metal was tearing for several inches did he realize that the oil pan was being damaged. The mechanic just threw his hands up. The judge told the Express Oil mechanic was a liar and ruled for the full amount in my favor.

I'm not taking the test, but I think I would be a combo of the Architect and Virtuoso. I have an engineering mindset wanting to solve any kind of problem. I am very reflective in nature. I will think about problems and come up with solutions at any time of the day or night, and will continually optimize solutions over time. I'm also very good at MacGyvering any solution to fix or fabricate anything and will invent and use tools and products based on what I have to work with.

By watching this interview, you can experience being on LSD without actually taking it.

Demote those officers to the front lines and replace them with warriors like Pete Hegseth.

I used to immediately jab a Phillips Screwdriver into the hole when I saw a carpenter bee crawl into my cedar fence. It didn't eliminate them but I got satisfaction when I felt one of them getting squished.