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In the late 1970s, my dad worked a minimum wage job in south Louisiana and was able to afford a brand new hot rod- a Gran Torino like Starsky & Hutch drove- and he was able to afford diapers for my infant arse.. minimum wage, as with many other things- simply hasnt even come close to keeping up with home prices, inflation and CEO pay .. dont have the numbers in front of me, but in the ‘70s , CEOs made soemthing like 75x the salary of their average worker, now it’s somehting like 500x the salary of the average worker.. merely another sign of how out of whack things are .


High taxes and strong labor laws have an impact. 40+ years of tax cutting and deregulation also has an impact.
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We'll let Iran figure it out. We just put the fear of God into anyone taking over. They will know they will work with us or die.


Exactly. Bombing will continue until morale improves and they are our friends.
How is this controversial? Charles DeGaulle is being vindicated. If France had not held the line in the 1970s the entire nuclear deterrent of Europe would be a leverage point for the US.

Expect to see more nuclear proliferation over the next 20 years

re: Zion injury

Posted by ned nederlander on 3/2/26 at 10:53 am to
Is Zion still chasing games played to guaranty the rest of his contract or is that still in play?

If an injury now keeps him away from that here’s hoping it’s a Michael Thomas level ankle sprain.
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Love Reagan, but President Trump avenged those Marines. He made the people who killed our Marines pay. Reagan didn’t. President Trump is doing what no other president had the balls, guts, and will to do. We finally have the President we’ve always needed.


Wake me when we assblast the actual country that brought us 9/11 and exported Wahhabism across the Arab world.
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interim Supreme Leader


That’s a great title.
Les miles has become a pretty underrated coach. If you weren’t Nick Saban and Alabama, you were probably getting beat by Les Miles.

If Kirby Smart coached in the same division as Nick Saban’s Alabama, Kirby Smart would probably be the Les Miles of Georgia.
Well damn. I’ve been on the Love train but he is gone before 8 with that time.

Really think he’d ignite our offense.

re: 11 games out

Posted by ned nederlander on 2/28/26 at 12:29 pm to
I know we give Dumars and Company a lot of flack, but when this team is healthy and the rest of the league is either tanking or coasting into the playoffs we are a true threat to go maybe .500

re: Draft Prospects Thread

Posted by ned nederlander on 2/28/26 at 12:16 pm to
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This, normally I don’t like a RB in the 1st…..but right now this team needs explosive playmakers (especially on offense). This run game needs explosiveness……DESPERATELY


I agree fully with this. If there was a no brainer WR I think that is a bigger need, but this offensive scheme screams for breakaway speed at the RB position and there isn’t another offensive playmaker I think better than Love.

I won’t be upset if they take a top defensive player either. I give this staff a lot of trust to build the defense.
It’s a special military operation. A few days to a few weeks at most.

re: Draft Prospects Thread

Posted by ned nederlander on 2/26/26 at 4:58 pm to
4 of his top 10 guys are from Ohio state. They really did have a hell of a dynamic defense this year.
We control our number 1 pick next year?

Run it back and suck. Hope the Bucks suck too. Pray 1 of those balls wins the lottery.
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Have we learned nothing from Ricky Williams?


There was a running back drafted ahead of Ricky Williams in that draft and people don’t criticize that pick. I don’t know if Ricky or Edge was the better RB, but one had a QB and the other didn’t.

If you have a QB, taking a top RB in the draft is defensible.

re: Pels vs Bucks

Posted by ned nederlander on 2/21/26 at 2:13 pm to
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that Phoenix playoff series


In hindsight . . . Paul George getting covid and missing the play in game against the Pels really set off a chain reaction that coaxed the Pelicans into a decade of delusion filled mediocrity.
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If they were willing to take $11 million, then they shouldn't really have a leg to stand on to bitch about anything.


Why? These two things have nothing to do with each other. Other than they are both Trump era business giveaways.

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They ran to the system as soon as they could and benefited from it greatly.


Welcome to the real world. People don’t lock the doors when the government money gun is firing full blast.

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they were willing to take PPP loans it's a pretty safe bet they passed the tariff expenses onto the consumer so they weren't the ones actually paying and aren't due a refund.


They may not be due a refund, but they are more entitled to it then the government who took it illegally. Perhaps the treasury department can deposit the revenue into a trust account and let claimants come forward as with many funds set up for restitution.
Gird your loins, but I’ll bet they also claim deductions on their tax returns.

It’s almost like they don’t want to give more money to the government than is required of them by law.
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And what did you do during Covid? Don’t lie.


Got vaccinated and hired a nanny (probably an illegal, we wanted a Spanish speaker) to take care of our kids.

So yea, I guess I see your point and agree the President should just continue to take money from Americans through illegal tariffs.
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Tell the government that. Ever met anyone who had their stuff taken from asset forfeiture wrongly? Takes years if not decades to get it back.


I know. It’s super fricked up we allow the government civil asset forfeiture. But MAGA loves them some full throated Government trespasses.
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You are a Chinese company.

You sell 100 million to the U.S.

You are charged 10% tariffs.

You send your 10 million dollar tax bill to U.S. customs.

Cantor Fitzgerald approaches you and says, "we will pay you 3 million right now for rights to any future tariff refunds you have paid".

You say, "great, I'll take the 3 million right now".

Fast forward to today. SCOTUS rules the tariffs are illegal and you deserve a refund.

But, you now do not own the rights to the refund. Cantor Fitzgerald owns the rights to the refund.

The 10 million dollar refund gets sent to Cantor Fitzgerad.

Profit 7 million.


1. This arraignment also helps the political fallout for the administration. Sending refunds to chinese companies is horrific politics. Sending checks to hedge funds is bad to neutral politics.

2. This is an amazing transfer of wealth from American tax payers to foreign companies and hedge funds. In your explanation, which is correct, American business and customers paid $10,000,000 in additional costs that are routed through the US treasury and back out to a foreign company ($3,000,000) and a hedge fund ($7,000,000). The signature economic policy of MAGA, folks.


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If it comes to that, they should have to demonstrate commensurate business loses. If they simply passed costs on, they shouldn't be entitled to 1¢


OK. But you know who has even less of an entitlement to 1 cent of the collected tariffs - the US government.

When you illegally take property you don’t get to keep it because someone else mitigated their loses.