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Was a student in attendance at that last game. I think the Cotton was the main BCS bowl that year (?) so we went to New Orleans instead.

RC was too conservative. Hopefully Elko does some river-boat gambling instead when in the face of elite competition.

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Why is he using money that is due to taxpayers to fund a program actual taxpayers aren’t on?

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Because WIC is more focused on the actual nutritional needs of prenatal women and early childhood development. It is supposed to be limited to foods of nutritional value to prevent the malnourishment of children in critical stages of development (hopefully keeping them from becoming future wards of the state due to stunted development.)

It's a government program so it still sucks and probably is rife with fraud, but if you don't want irresponsible women to murder unborn children, you do have to keep them from starving before and after they're born.

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All I heard was screw your freedom. I'll never accept him again unless he admits he was wrong for that. Until then, I don't care what he says and he can go to hell

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There is no going back for that coward. It's bad enough if you are cowed into performing an action yourself, but to bow to authority and turn around to condemn those who don't bend the knee like you did makes you the worst kind of person. A useful idiot who gets shot when the left gains power.

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I believe 6M is Mexico, but again… 76% of domestic sales are US produced. The unions see to it. And the tariffs on India just went up this month anyway.

The tractors you are referencing are low spec, small commercial ag machines with very low volume here - hence the foreign factories.

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The latest info I could find still says Germany as of 2024 model year: tractor data

Every municipality / highway crew runs tractors of this size to mow highway ROWs, small truck farmers, ranchers and feedlots use them as their primary tractors, etc.

JD may receive 76% of REVENUE from $250-350k row crop and large ag tractors, but the market for models in this small ag duty range sell in incredible volumes as well.

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If they’re an “American” company why would a tariff on goods impact them?

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The previously mentioned 5000 series tractors assembled in Georgia... they used to just make the cheaper E version in India and the Ms and Rs were still assembled in GA, but they discontinued the Rs & now all of the 5000 series (50-135hp utility tractors) are imported from India.

Kubota is good for smaller tractors, but their larger tractors are basically equivalent to entry level /E series JD. I think I'm looking at an AGCO for my next one, John Deere can go fly a kite.

ETA: a JD 5125M cab tractor with a loader is like $125-135k... these aren't homeowner purchases.

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Yep. We have no suitable replacement for oil. It's in damn near everything. Perhaps we'll develop or discover one in 100 years.

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We have technically suitable or even superior replacements for oil, the synthetic oil in your new car is just one of them.

But it doesn't come out of the ground almost for free (net energy-wise) like petroleum does. O&G is essentially energy from the sun stored underground for millions of years.

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Western Canada is very rich in natural resources,

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True

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and mostly conservative.

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...compared to the other socialist, autocratic, and euro-centric Canadians. Compared to Americans, they are very liberal, like Minnesota and Washington are overall, and have tons of 1st and 2nd gen immigrants in the cities, not the people who tamed the wilderness and are able to support themselves on their own.

No thanks. Would have to run most of the Canadians out first and repopulate with Americans 1st.

The patrol was homogenized with titan parts to get made in the US content up, improve fuel economy, and meet US regs. On the prior model, that meant US built engine and trans, front suspension from titan, front diff from pathfinder, rear differential from Titan, smaller single gas tank and vapor system, no locks or offroad traction modes.

Wish the new one still had the 5.6. I still have not seen any review definitely state if the drivetrain for the new pro 4x armada is the same as it is on the patrol.

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And you would be absolutely wrong. LBJ's maternal grandparents were german jews.

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Look, I have zero love lost for LBJ, he was a crook and a cutthroat, and if there was nasty business involved with JFK it would be an educated guess his slimy arse would have a part in it. But there were a hell of a lot more radical leftist ethnic Germans than Jewish "Germans" in the old-time Texas Hill country. Unless she has the papers on them, I'd assume they were "Free Thinkers" first.

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I was in St Louis last week. It was shocking to me how run down it is.

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So was I. Like they said, stay out of the city itself and MO seems like a really, really nice place.