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Why won’t Trump negotiate? The Dems named their price. He can end the thing now. (They both can.). But he won’t give an inch. And the “ask” for Dems is on health care. Totally reasonable, from my point of view. So they’re both at fault to an extent, but objectively I see Trump as the one being more unreasonable.

I believe it's the worst November in the market in 17 years.

Meanwhile, Trump is fighting to not provide SNAP benefits. He had an easy out and could have just blamed the courts. Nobody's hands are clean here. But, objectively speaking, Schumer is cleaning Trump's clock from a political perspective this week.

So aside from that (the economy, being driven into the ground, and inflation running rampant), Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

1 seed. I don’t want to play the 1 seed on the road after a bye. Unless of course 6 or 7 pulls an upset.

Hoax.

Hoax. I mostly agree. But socially conservative? I'm not so sure. At least not by the standards of 30 to 40 years ago.

Good luck to anyone trying to figure out NYC rent control laws. But I think the idea might be to make more units subject to rent control, which owners are obviously going to hate and which might provide more affordable, but often unimproved, housing. A fair point. With inflation and labor issues, nobody is going to want to develop fully rent controlled housing. The solution might lie in making some units subject to rent control in larger developments. But that requires one to understand the rent control laws, and good luck with that incomprehensible mess.

I agree on the swap. I just don’t want their crap currency, and the exchange accomplishes nothing for everyday Americans. I wasn’t aware of the mineral issue. That makes a little bit of sense if there’s value in those resources and if the swap secures those resources at fair value. The other piece looks a lot like an effort to influence the election. Trump is hardly alone in the annals of American history in that respect. This is just sort of a … much more brazen way of doing it.

Hoax.

Interesting. I always thought you were part of the rainbow coalition given the fact that you love “boys” enough to have it in your screen name. Maybe you still are and this is just more of your gibberish. Either way, you’re a weird and angry guy.

Typical MAGA lack of accountability.

This is rational and I agree with a lot of it. My view is that most people don’t care who lives who. But they also draw the line at a kid identifying as an animal or a furry or whatever. I appreciate that this is kind of a “Riley Gaines” point about a minute sliver of society that is largely inconsequential to the broader issues that face us. But it is a touchstone or lightning rod for a lot of people who want a higher floor for deviancy, and I don’t disagree that what you say is reflective of a fairly broad view. Like I said, woebegone loser.

Internet tough guy. For allegedly not caring what I think you sure spent a lot of time responding. I think the issue here is that you’re frustrated because, in the real world, you’re kind of a loser and nobody gives a whit about any opinion you may have. The world passed you by, you’re angry and you express it with your gratuitous nastiness.

I was thinking the same thing about you when I read all of the nasty stuff that you wrote.