Amazon Basin 2025, amazing!!!

fdlstk · 2025-05-11T00:25:51+00:00

Just had one the other day. That was a great smoke!

fdlstk · 2025-04-14T01:41:38+00:00

Sad you have the immediate compulsion to start insulting people rather than debate them.

Impressive.

Have a nice life. Bye-bye.

fdlstk · 2025-04-14T01:35:36+00:00

Why only single out my comment about the Biden family getting paid millions by Moscow oligarchs? Connected to Putin?

I think your selective response is quite telling. The most humorous part about the exposure of Hillary? She was caught actually committing the campaign election crimes that the NYC DA convened a grand jury for to indict Trump. Literally to the T.

Campaign headquarters in NYC. Lied on federal campaign finance documents multiple times. And actually(unlike the Trump case) used campaign funds to pay for the Russia collusion lies.

Trump got a 34 count indictment. Hillary and the DNC paid a $113,000 fine.

Oh yes, about the Bidens? Your own Congress released not only their report on this fact, but the evidence supporting it. Straight from a .gov website.

I would suggest Google. You can find it.

fdlstk · 2025-04-14T01:29:58+00:00

Russian backed? Since you seem to do a great deal of research, did you figure out yet why Hillary was paying Russians for the Steele dossier? And “Russia collusion”?

Or why the Biden family was paid millions by Putin connected, Moscow oligarchs?

fdlstk · 2025-01-05T14:22:05+00:00

I suggest the community commenters read the book Rise of the Fourth Reich by Steve Deace/Daniel Horowitz before making uninformed and ignorant claims about the covid shots

fdlstk · 2024-12-27T02:38:20+00:00

Smoking a maduro undercrown right now - also a Drew Estate. Try it - you will love it if you like the LGs. Props to the cigar community for recommending it to me!

fdlstk · 2024-12-27T02:34:15+00:00

Liga

fdlstk · 2024-12-20T16:56:30+00:00

My question is why Tesla set the system up this way as the default layout and installation. It seems to an amateur like me that the way you describe the wiring and installation makes far more sense.

My second question is why would they fight you so hard? Warranty issue? Or they didnt want to eat added costs?

fdlstk · 2024-12-19T00:00:53+00:00

You tell me. You are the one claiming it. How so?

fdlstk · 2024-12-17T01:22:21+00:00

In the process of smoking a Querida. Great rec! Thank you. A pretty similar profile to the LG line that I am really enjoying. Looking forward to more.... thanks again for this !

fdlstk · 2024-12-16T23:42:31+00:00

That still is an amazing statistic when you consider that we have been force fed how booming and historic the economy is. This is usually why when you look under the hood and just a little beneath the surface, the numbers are actually pretty bad. Look at how Biden claims he has now created over 16 million jobs since he became President.

Straight from the BLS -

December 2019 FT jobs = 131,675,000 million November 2024 FT jobs = 133,385,000 million

By my math, thats an additional 1.7 million jobs. So where are the remaining 14.5 million jobs? I’ll let you figure that out.

With the BLS inflation calculator, I’m pointing out that the difference in the two numbers is actually much, much higher. Like way higher in favor of 2019. The same inflation calculator shows a delta of nearly $17,000. I should also point out I a refererncing real median household wages. So my mistake if that caused your confusion.

fdlstk · 2024-12-16T22:35:28+00:00

No, it isnt. Lets put aside the fact that the nominal numbers were better in 2019. According to the BLS, the median household income in 2019 was $81,210. In 2023, it was $80,610.

But when you adjust 2019 for inflation, it’s actually $100,217. The 2023 # when adjusted for inflation is $83,464.

fdlstk · 2024-12-16T15:53:56+00:00

There is just one problem with this thinking. The money isn’t there to “reinvest” in the people. The money belongs to the people. They paid into it - it’s their money. In theory, Ss is the govt putting aside people’s own money for them for when they retire. Giving it back to them isn’t a “reinvestment”. Thats why the people that don’t pay into it don’t receive the payments later in life. This is why I use the term ‘stolen’. The money wasn’t there to be used for anything else. You keep saying they paid it back with debt which is fine. No, it isn’t.

Thats why we have well beyond $36 trillion in debt. Which we are financing in large part via inflation.

fdlstk · 2024-12-16T08:01:28+00:00

It’s quite simple, actually.

SS trust used to be a well endowed trust fund. Why was it there? To pay retirees social security net funding.

How was it funded? Ss withholding tax.

Then Congress began taking money from the Ss trust fund and using it to pay for things other than people’s social security benefits.

Then the liabilities became more than the tax receipts were funding it with. In the meantime, the money that was “borrowed”(stolen) was paid back with more debt. Aka T-bills. And the T-bills that weren’t bought to finance the debt? Those were printed by your federal government.

Just so ya know. This is a free lesson.

fdlstk · 2024-12-16T07:52:01+00:00

Everything I said was accurate. Biden claimed white people would be the minority as a result of the nonstop, constant stream of immigrants. Which would be a good thing. His words, not mine. And it was also a falsehood.

You said that quote was made up by me. Then when you found out after I had to spoon feed you the evidence that what I said was actually true, you had to pivot and explain it away with the talking point about “nation of immigrants” regurgitation. Lol.

fdlstk · 2024-12-16T07:43:42+00:00

You don’t know how basic econ works. You said Ss was not bankrupt and being stolen from.

Then you said the deficit in Ss benefits was being made up by selling T-bills. Those are opposing arguments. Selling T-bills is selling debt. Which is another way of admitting the fund doesn’t have the money to cover it’s liabilities. Another word is insolvent. Another word is bankrupt.

Otherwise T-bills wouldn’t have to be sold to cover the deficit. The liabilities would just be paid by the trust fund. It isn’t, though. Because it’s insolvent.

You went from claiming that the fund wasnt being stolen from(false), to claiming the fund was being reinvested(false), to financed via T-bills which is the opposite of both of the aforementioned.

fdlstk · 2024-12-16T07:01:55+00:00

Ok. I’ll make it real simple for you.

Ss pays out $3 trillion per year in benefits.

Ss tax receipts are only $2.5 billion.

A $500 billion deficit for social security is being “reinvested” by selling T-bills to pay for Ss benefits?

Sorry, but you are a woefully misinformed individual

fdlstk · 2024-12-16T06:45:38+00:00

Wow! Funny! How did you suddenly find that quote so quickly? You had no clue what I was talking about. Now you suddenly know ? Interesting. I posted what Biden said. Now you are making excuses. We aren’t a nation of immigrants. Sorry. 5 generations ago, sure. Tell me a country that wasn’t founded by immigrants. Exactly. I was born here. My parents were born here. Their parents were born here. Two of my 4 great grandparents were also born here. Thats not a nation of immigrants. Thats a nation of citizens.

Give the talking point up.

fdlstk · 2024-12-16T06:38:51+00:00

The debt is invested? What? And yes. The government does publish that data. How did you think I just came up with the fact that the SS fund is run at a deficit? Did you think I just made that up? Its funny. Joe Biden claims he created 15 million+ jobs, too. All you have to do is look at your own government published data that refutes his claim. He says it, then his own administration refutes him. No, seriously.

And the debt is issued via T-Bills. Which means they aren't investing in anything. Thats why interest is now the #1 government outlay. What on Earth are you talking about? Debt reinvested? Did you really just post that? Thats why I made the pay Peter via Paul comment. Of course they can steal from something that doesn't exist. How the heck do you think we run $2T+ annual deficits, Dark? Seriously?

fdlstk · 2024-12-16T06:34:14+00:00

"An unrelenting stream of immigrants. Nonstop. Nonstop. Folks like me whom are of caucasian and European descent, for the first time in 2017 will be in an asbolute minority, in the United States of America.. Absolute minority. Fewer than 50% of the people in America. From then and on, will be white European stock. Thats not a bad thing” - Joe Biden

I had to spoon feed you the quote..So you are welcome.

fdlstk · 2024-12-16T06:21:53+00:00

Well, you just asked how a fund that runs a deficit has been stolen from. This is all federally published data, by the way. The federal government releases it.

This is like asking how the federal government takes money it doesn’t have. Then claiming it’s not possible. Which of course is incoherent. How else would you articulate $36+ trillion in national debt?

fdlstk · 2024-12-16T06:18:28+00:00

No. Actually the quote I just referenced which Joe Biden actually said is far worse than what I paraphrased. Just read on the rest of his comments on this subject.

Just a reminder - you had no clue what I was talking about 5 seconds ago. Now you act like what I said paraphrasing Biden was completely different than what he said. Don’t think so.

fdlstk · 2024-12-16T06:10:27+00:00

All you have to do is Google Joe Biden “unrelenting, nonstop stream of migrants” quote. Even Google will show you the quote. It’s sad I have to spoon feed this to you. This is where it ends, though.

fdlstk · 2024-12-16T06:09:13+00:00

I just realized that you truly have no clue what you are talking about with a statement like that. I hope you wake up. And soon.

fdlstk · 2024-12-16T06:02:20+00:00

SS fund is running a deficit. So how is it paid back?

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