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Tricolor Auto’s Failure Has It All - ESG, Woke Capital, Illegal Immigration, Securities Fraud, Government Diversity Programs, BlackRock, etc.
program because Tricolor focuses on selling its cars and financial services to underserved communities, specifically Spanish-speaking non-citizens. Tricolor’s CEO, Daniel Chu, was quoted by Barron’s in 2022 as stating, “No one else is providing meaningful dollar credit to an illegal immigrant.”
As documented in this recent Barron’s article (“Tricolor Files for Bankruptcy, The Auto Lender Was Once an ESG Favorite,” “Financial institutions until recently touted their social bond purchases as part of their commitment to ESG—or environmental, social and governance—principles. BlackRock took a $90 million stake in Tricolor in 2021 as part of its Impact Opportunities Fund focusing on businesses and projects owned, led by, or serving members of minority groups.” Of course BlackRock was involved.
You may recall that a major contributor to the financial crash of 2008 was Wall Street wizards packaging up a bunch of sub-prime mortgages, securitizing them, and then selling those “mortgage backed securities” to investors as something other than perfumed garbage. That is effectively what Tricolor has been doing with its auto loans, with the help of Wall Street.
In a Tricolor press release from March of this year titled “Tricolor Closes $328 Million Securitization to Advance Financial Inclusion at Scale in Underserved Communities,” CEO Chu stated, ”By providing deserving people with access to reliable, affordable transportation, Tricolor, which operates across six states and ranks as the third largest used auto retailer in Texas and California, helps move them into the financial mainstream and reverse systemic financial inequities in America.” Like the other securities issuance I referenced, JP Morgan Chase also promoted these odious securities, along with Barclay’s and Fifth Third Bank.
Per Car Dealership Guy, Tricolor’s bonds have collapsed to a value of 12 cents on the dollar, virtually wiping out the investors who bought those bonds. But as bad as this all sounds so far, it’s actually worse. There was massive fraud by Tricolor, which is causing losses to all parties who did business with it.
The banks who were packaging Tricolor’s securities also had lines of credit extended to Tricolor. There was a recent regulatory filing by Fifth Third Bank revealing that it was booking a $200 million impairment (loss) for fraud involving one of its customers. In this filing, Fifth Third disclosed that there was “recently discovered alleged external fraudulent activity at a commercial borrower,” and that it “is working with the appropriate law enforcement authorities in connection with this matter.” Barron’s confirmed that this commercial borrower was Tricolor. JP Morgan Chase also has about $200 million in loans outstanding to Tricolor, so it too will almost certainly be booking a massive impairment charge for this unrecoverable debt.
Some of the news reports about the Tricolor fraud state that collateral was “double pledged,” meaning that unbeknownst to the banks lending money to Tricolor, the collateral they thought was backing up their loans was also pledged to other banks. Tricolor was also the servicer of its “buy here – pay here” loan portfolio, remitting collected payments to the banks who securitized their loans. From my experience dealing with fraud in this arena, it is quite likely that there was some level of kiting / ponzi scheme at work, and a constant inflow of new debt was necessary to keep servicing old debt that was not supported by actual assets. Working in Tricolor’s favor to perpetuate the fraud was the aura of woke virtuosity that kept the money flowing in, which also helped shield Tricolor from appropriate due diligence by those same woke banks throwing money at it. Working against Tricolor was President Trump’s immigration enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security issued this press release earlier this week: “Over 2 million Illegal Aliens Out of the United States in Less than 250 days.” This mass exodus of illegal aliens has obviously resulted in a collapse in Tricolor vehicle sales, but much of the existing customer base has now either been deported, or chose to self-deport. Their loans will obviously not be repaid. As for the cars being driven by illegal aliens who have left the country, Tricolor’s liquidators will see a huge loss on those vehicles that were surrendered. But the loss will be even worse on the cars that were simply abandoned to be stolen and stripped…or taken across the border. Blackrock, JP Morgan Chase, and all the other titans of Wall Street who bought into the hype about ESG investing deserve the loss they are going to take. But for American citizens seeking affordable used cars, there is some good news. Supply is about to improve in relation to demand. [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]Comments
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Sponge!
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:00 AM (PFH6n)
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Corgis called.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:00 AM (PFH6n)
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FIRST!!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 11:00 AM (/BPde)
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Damn....fat fingers....cost me again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 11:00 AM (/BPde)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 11:01 AM (/BPde)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:02 AM (PFH6n)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:02 AM (PFH6n)
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Tricolor’s CEO, Daniel Chu, was quoted by Barron’s in 2022 as stating, “No one else is providing meaningful dollar credit to an illegal immigrant.”
No shit.....What part of 'illegal' don't you understand? They shouldn't BE here. Them not getting a line of credit pushes them in the direction of GOING HOME, asshole.
No shit.....What part of 'illegal' don't you understand? They shouldn't BE here. Them not getting a line of credit pushes them in the direction of GOING HOME, asshole.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 11:03 AM (/BPde)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 26, 2025 11:03 AM (xG4kz)
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Tricolor has securitized more than $2 billion of its very high risk auto loans over the past seven years.
They were high risk ever before Trump started deportations.
They were high risk ever before Trump started deportations.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:04 AM (PFH6n)
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Underserved community is a euphemism for people with bottom tier credit scores. They are not underserved, they don't belong borrowing money.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 26, 2025 11:04 AM (0U5gm)
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But the loss will be even worse on the cars that were simply abandoned to be stolen and stripped…or taken across the border."
That's what I was thinking - most of them have just been driven home and... They gone!
That's what I was thinking - most of them have just been driven home and... They gone!
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2025 11:04 AM (uWKK8)
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Commenting present.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2025 11:05 AM (kgE5c)
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Man, the market is going to be flooded with brown Camrys and Tercels now.
Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2025 11:05 AM (JW6Az)
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No monkey today
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 26, 2025 11:05 AM (N1tpc)
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Tricolor’s CEO, Daniel Chu, was quoted by Barron’s in 2022 as stating, “No one else is providing meaningful dollar credit to an illegal immigrant.”
No shit.....What part of 'illegal' don't you understand? They shouldn't BE here. Them not getting a line of credit pushes them in the direction of GOING HOME, asshole.
Posted by: Sponge
He could have always opened it up in Mexico.
No shit.....What part of 'illegal' don't you understand? They shouldn't BE here. Them not getting a line of credit pushes them in the direction of GOING HOME, asshole.
Posted by: Sponge
He could have always opened it up in Mexico.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:05 AM (PFH6n)
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”By providing deserving people with access to reliable, affordable transportation, Tricolor, which operates across six states and ranks as the third largest used auto retailer in Texas and California, helps move them into the financial mainstream and reverse systemic financial inequities in America.”
These woke words and phrases are verbal Bondo to cover up financial rot.
These woke words and phrases are verbal Bondo to cover up financial rot.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2025 11:06 AM (Riz8t)
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I am on record as encouraging the illegals to take their GM financed trucks with them when they leave.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:06 AM (jc0TO)
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Man, the market is going to be flooded with brown Camrys and Tercels now.
Posted by: t-bird
I've always wanted a lowered Camry with dingleberries across the top of the windshield.
Posted by: t-bird
I've always wanted a lowered Camry with dingleberries across the top of the windshield.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:06 AM (PFH6n)
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god, i love a happy story on a friday. couldn't happen to a more deserving group either.
i hope they all end up in PMITA prison and before they leave in 20 years their asshole will sound like an obo when the wind blows...
i hope they all end up in PMITA prison and before they leave in 20 years their asshole will sound like an obo when the wind blows...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at September 26, 2025 11:07 AM (v6XNT)
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I'd laugh at the credulous investors, but I'm quite sure I'll end up paying for this mess eventually.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2025 11:07 AM (Riz8t)
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State Street, Vanguard, and Black Rock executives putting investor money into this company should be personally liable for losses by investors in it.
Time for big finance assholes to have skin in the game aka they lose their own personal money first to bondholders, investors, etc.
Skin in the game by those peddling or directing investment funds into such are one of the biggest ways to kill risky investments being sold to ordinary unskilled investors.
Time for big finance assholes to have skin in the game aka they lose their own personal money first to bondholders, investors, etc.
Skin in the game by those peddling or directing investment funds into such are one of the biggest ways to kill risky investments being sold to ordinary unskilled investors.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:07 AM (WDjG6)
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Tricolor has securitized more than $2 billion of its very high risk auto loans over the past seven years. The most recent issuance was in June of this year, with JP Morgan Chase and other money center banks peddling more than $200 million of “social bonds” to credulous investors. These securities are certified as “social bonds” by the US Treasury’s CDFI (“Community Development Financial Institution)” program because Tricolor focuses on selling its cars and financial services to underserved communities, specifically Spanish-speaking non-citizens.
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There is so very much wrong with that, I don't even know where to begin.
Special programs to get unqualified illegals credit are bad.
Special protections and insurance for credit are bad.
Financial engineering to spread the risks of specially-protected credit for illegals is bad.
Oy.
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There is so very much wrong with that, I don't even know where to begin.
Special programs to get unqualified illegals credit are bad.
Special protections and insurance for credit are bad.
Financial engineering to spread the risks of specially-protected credit for illegals is bad.
Oy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:07 AM (6bTRc)
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Thx Buck. When do the Dems and their "good friends" across the aisle ,the GOPe work up a bailout for this illegal immigrant loving company.?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 26, 2025 11:07 AM (8CfIy)
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If you see a business model where the customer brings you dirty envelopes with cash in them on a weekly basis, you might be somewhat across the line of legality.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 26, 2025 11:08 AM (0U5gm)
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Ya gotta socialize the losses.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:08 AM (jc0TO)
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Willowed,
330 New insty post,
"ARE THEY TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING? Justice Department sues 6 states for failing to turn over voter registration rolls.
The suits were filed against the top election officials in California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania and allege the moves not to provide the voter registration rolls violate federal law."
See, Bondi and DoJ are actually doing something about fraud.
330 New insty post,
"ARE THEY TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING? Justice Department sues 6 states for failing to turn over voter registration rolls.
The suits were filed against the top election officials in California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania and allege the moves not to provide the voter registration rolls violate federal law."
See, Bondi and DoJ are actually doing something about fraud.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:08 AM (WDjG6)
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This sounds like a buying opportunity.
Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 11:08 AM (AdHga)
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)
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Per Car Dealership Guy, Tricolor’s bonds have collapsed to a value of 12 cents on the dollar, virtually wiping out the investors who bought those bonds. But as bad as this all sounds so far, it’s actually worse. There was massive fraud by Tricolor, which is causing losses to all parties who did business with it.
Good. Their business model is catering to illegals. You SHOULD lose your ass with that.
Good. Their business model is catering to illegals. You SHOULD lose your ass with that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 11:08 AM (/BPde)
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There is so very much wrong with that, I don't even know where to begin.
Special programs to get unqualified illegals credit are bad.
Special protections and insurance for credit are bad.
Financial engineering to spread the risks of specially-protected credit for illegals is bad.
Oy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Oy is an understatement.
Special programs to get unqualified illegals credit are bad.
Special protections and insurance for credit are bad.
Financial engineering to spread the risks of specially-protected credit for illegals is bad.
Oy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Oy is an understatement.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:09 AM (PFH6n)
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Thx Buck. When do the Dems and their "good friends" across the aisle ,the GOPe work up a bailout for this illegal immigrant loving company.?
Start?
Start?
Posted by: The GOPe at September 26, 2025 11:09 AM (Riz8t)
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The left assumes all differences in outcomes for disparate races must be "RACISM!"
Then they get into power and use that power to force different outcomes... and are shocked when they have to pay a price because we actually live in the least racist society in the history of the world.
Well... at least it used to be. Thanks to Obama and the left, we're far more racist than we were 30 years ago.
Then they get into power and use that power to force different outcomes... and are shocked when they have to pay a price because we actually live in the least racist society in the history of the world.
Well... at least it used to be. Thanks to Obama and the left, we're far more racist than we were 30 years ago.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 26, 2025 11:10 AM (N1tpc)
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We own the thread.
Posted by: rickb223
Uh oh. I see a power struggle with Elric in your future.
Posted by: Bulg
*Knock knock knock*
Elric's not here, man.
Posted by: rickb223
Uh oh. I see a power struggle with Elric in your future.
Posted by: Bulg
*Knock knock knock*
Elric's not here, man.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:10 AM (PFH6n)
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29 We own the thread.
Posted by: rickb223
Uh oh. I see a power struggle with Elric in your future.
Posted by: Bulg
=======
His blade is dull. Dulled by Sponge.
Posted by: rickb223
Uh oh. I see a power struggle with Elric in your future.
Posted by: Bulg
=======
His blade is dull. Dulled by Sponge.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:10 AM (WDjG6)
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Fifth Third Bank revealing that it was booking a $200 million impairment (loss) for fraud involving one of its customers.
Gosh, if you can't trust an openly criminal enterprise, who can you trust?
Gosh, if you can't trust an openly criminal enterprise, who can you trust?
Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2025 11:10 AM (JW6Az)
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"ARE THEY TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING? Justice Department sues 6 states for failing to turn over voter registration rolls.
The suits were filed against the top election officials in California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania and allege the moves not to provide the voter registration rolls violate federal law."
See, Bondi and DoJ are actually doing something about fraud.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:08 AM (WDjG6)
i would have expected IL to be in that list as well. i'm shocked priztker let the voter rolls out, unless it's the "official" one and the actual one is slightly different...
The suits were filed against the top election officials in California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania and allege the moves not to provide the voter registration rolls violate federal law."
See, Bondi and DoJ are actually doing something about fraud.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:08 AM (WDjG6)
i would have expected IL to be in that list as well. i'm shocked priztker let the voter rolls out, unless it's the "official" one and the actual one is slightly different...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at September 26, 2025 11:10 AM (v6XNT)
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Where else is an illegal alien going to get a car loan with no questions asked at only 19 percent interest?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 26, 2025 11:10 AM (0U5gm)
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This may sound kind of dumb but won't the illegals going home just take their "financed" vehicles with them?
Posted by: pawn at September 26, 2025 11:10 AM (PmITa)
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Ahh, yes. Adam Smith’s invisible hand deals them a throat punch.
I love capitalism.
I love capitalism.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2025 11:10 AM (Mku/8)
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"By providing deserving people with access to reliable, affordable transportation, Tricolor, which operates across six states and ranks as the third largest used auto retailer in Texas and California, helps move them into the financial mainstream and reverse systemic financial inequities in America"
++++
I had to buy a car in 2009. Remember 2009? 2009 sucked in general, and sucked particularly for me. I had a lot of debt then, thanks to student loans. My income was okay, not great. But I had to have a car. The best deal on auto finance I could find was one of the big national banks, and the rate was a staggering 14.7%. Tight credit, lots of debt, short (but good) credit history all conspired to ensure that my car loan was *really* expensive.
Was that a "financial inequity?" I was, after all, in an "underserved group" of recent college graduates with tons of debt and a bad risk profile. Where was my special deal?!?!?!
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I had to buy a car in 2009. Remember 2009? 2009 sucked in general, and sucked particularly for me. I had a lot of debt then, thanks to student loans. My income was okay, not great. But I had to have a car. The best deal on auto finance I could find was one of the big national banks, and the rate was a staggering 14.7%. Tight credit, lots of debt, short (but good) credit history all conspired to ensure that my car loan was *really* expensive.
Was that a "financial inequity?" I was, after all, in an "underserved group" of recent college graduates with tons of debt and a bad risk profile. Where was my special deal?!?!?!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:11 AM (6bTRc)
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"As for the cars being driven by illegal aliens who have left the country, Tricolor’s liquidators will see a huge loss on those vehicles that were surrendered. "
Pretty Sure the vast majority of those vehicles were not surrendered. Maybe abandoned or driven to mexico and the bank will never see them again.
Pretty Sure the vast majority of those vehicles were not surrendered. Maybe abandoned or driven to mexico and the bank will never see them again.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 26, 2025 11:11 AM (0N4FZ)
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He could have always opened it up in Mexico.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:05 AM (PFH6n)
I'm guessing this is why you see a piece of shit car towing 2 other pieces of shit cars down the freeway headed south. They tend to cause backups on said freeway when the lead piece of shit breaks down and they have to rotate cars to see if another piece of shit can handle the load.
He could have always opened it up in Mexico.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:05 AM (PFH6n)
I'm guessing this is why you see a piece of shit car towing 2 other pieces of shit cars down the freeway headed south. They tend to cause backups on said freeway when the lead piece of shit breaks down and they have to rotate cars to see if another piece of shit can handle the load.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 11:11 AM (/BPde)
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Did every car sold come with a "La Cucaracha" horn?
Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 11:11 AM (UnA8+)
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Skin in the game by those peddling or directing investment funds into such are one of the biggest ways to kill risky investments being sold to ordinary unskilled investors.
Posted by: whig
I can’t believe the idiots that came up with this business model are considered skilled investors.
Posted by: whig
I can’t believe the idiots that came up with this business model are considered skilled investors.
Posted by: Kratwurst at September 26, 2025 11:11 AM (83DvQ)
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 11:12 AM (EYmYM)
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i would have expected IL to be in that list as well. i'm shocked priztker let the voter rolls out, unless it's the "official" one and the actual one is slightly different...
Hopefully it's coming. They need to look at NM, OR, WA, and HI as well.
Hopefully it's coming. They need to look at NM, OR, WA, and HI as well.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2025 11:12 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 26, 2025 11:12 AM (jbnUc)
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The banks who were packaging Tricolor’s securities also had lines of credit extended to Tricolor. There was a recent regulatory filing by Fifth Third Bank revealing that it was booking a $200 million impairment (loss) for fraud involving one of its customers. In this filing, Fifth Third disclosed that there was “recently discovered alleged external fraudulent activity at a commercial borrower,” and that it “is working with the appropriate law enforcement authorities in connection with this matter.” Barron’s confirmed that this commercial borrower was Tricolor. JP Morgan Chase also has about $200 million in loans outstanding to Tricolor, so it too will almost certainly be booking a massive impairment charge for this unrecoverable debt.
For which they'll beg for a government bailout. F*ck off. Make bad business decisions, reap the anal rape that comes with it.
For which they'll beg for a government bailout. F*ck off. Make bad business decisions, reap the anal rape that comes with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 11:13 AM (/BPde)
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Well... at least it used to be. Thanks to Obama and the left, we're far more racist than we were 30 years ago.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 26, 2025 11:10 AM (N1tpc)
this is probably the saddest outcome of TFG getting elected. i can distinctly recall a time in the 80s and 90s when things were much more "kumbaya" and the country was moving more and more towards the MLK dream.
the the jug eared fuck got elected and that dream was knifed in a dark alley and left for dear and rape.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 26, 2025 11:10 AM (N1tpc)
this is probably the saddest outcome of TFG getting elected. i can distinctly recall a time in the 80s and 90s when things were much more "kumbaya" and the country was moving more and more towards the MLK dream.
the the jug eared fuck got elected and that dream was knifed in a dark alley and left for dear and rape.
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at September 26, 2025 11:13 AM (v6XNT)
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I expect the next thing to go will be all of those title loan places I see on every other street corner around here.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 26, 2025 11:13 AM (0N4FZ)
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Tricolor was also the servicer of its “buy here – pay here” loan portfolio, remitting collected payments to the banks who securitized their loans. From my experience dealing with fraud in this arena, it is quite likely that there was some level of kiting / ponzi scheme at work, and a constant inflow of new debt was necessary to keep servicing old debt that was not supported by actual assets.
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Sounds a lot like 2002-2008. Not exactly, but close. Most collateral was not double-pledged in that period, but it was largely overvalued by underwriter(on purpose) to permit more leverage and major title problems that resulted in a lot of collateral being questionable when it came down.
Thankfully, illegal alien used cars are a smaller market than real estate. Enjoy eating the losses, banks. Maybe one day you will learn.
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Sounds a lot like 2002-2008. Not exactly, but close. Most collateral was not double-pledged in that period, but it was largely overvalued by underwriter(on purpose) to permit more leverage and major title problems that resulted in a lot of collateral being questionable when it came down.
Thankfully, illegal alien used cars are a smaller market than real estate. Enjoy eating the losses, banks. Maybe one day you will learn.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:13 AM (6bTRc)
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I have to give proof of insurance when I've purchased vehicles. I'm sure that wasn't a requirement with Tricolor.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 11:13 AM (EYmYM)
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Outstanding stuff Buck, really interesting.
Others will/have already said what needs to be said.
Gotta love "systemic inequities" here - yeah, it's kinda normal that there "systemic" differences between, you know, people in a country illegally, and everyone else in that country. And wow it's across the board - can't vote, can't work in classified federal programs, on and on. Just another in the endless list of jaw-dropping idiocies in our dumbed-down society.
Others will/have already said what needs to be said.
Gotta love "systemic inequities" here - yeah, it's kinda normal that there "systemic" differences between, you know, people in a country illegally, and everyone else in that country. And wow it's across the board - can't vote, can't work in classified federal programs, on and on. Just another in the endless list of jaw-dropping idiocies in our dumbed-down society.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2025 11:13 AM (U/Byj)
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Surely this group is too big to fail???
Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at September 26, 2025 11:14 AM (lLeLE)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 11:15 AM (L/fGl)
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This mass exodus of illegal aliens has obviously resulted in a collapse in Tricolor vehicle sales, but much of the existing customer base has now either been deported, or chose to self-deport. Their loans will obviously not be repaid. As for the cars being driven by illegal aliens who have left the country, Tricolor’s liquidators will see a huge loss on those vehicles that were surrendered. But the loss will be even worse on the cars that were simply abandoned to be stolen and stripped…or taken across the border.
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Overstating the value of collateral has been endemic for a long time. This is one of the reasons I would like to see a regulatory overhaul of finance institutions. The book should have to be marked to market every night and reserves adjusted accordingly. Being allowed to "mark to maturity" is how you get sudden collapses when everyone runs out of money, because "maturity" doesn't happen (default does, instead) and the collateral was shit and so the loss reserves run out instantly.
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Overstating the value of collateral has been endemic for a long time. This is one of the reasons I would like to see a regulatory overhaul of finance institutions. The book should have to be marked to market every night and reserves adjusted accordingly. Being allowed to "mark to maturity" is how you get sudden collapses when everyone runs out of money, because "maturity" doesn't happen (default does, instead) and the collateral was shit and so the loss reserves run out instantly.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:15 AM (6bTRc)
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I want to see Comey perp walked in handcuffs, leg chains and an orange jump suit. Maybe with a ball gag to keep him from yelling out things in court.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 26, 2025 11:16 AM (Da7Vv)
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She's a catch and looking for a husband!
https://is.gd/1FztgY
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 11:15 AM
A quality woman.
https://is.gd/1FztgY
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 11:15 AM
A quality woman.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:16 AM (jc0TO)
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I have to give proof of insurance when I've purchased vehicles. I'm sure that wasn't a requirement with Tricolor.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 11:13 AM
Around here they buy insurance by the month and only pay for the first month so they can get the car registered. Once they get their registration sticker they never make another payment.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 11:13 AM
Around here they buy insurance by the month and only pay for the first month so they can get the car registered. Once they get their registration sticker they never make another payment.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 26, 2025 11:16 AM (0N4FZ)
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I'm guessing this is why you see a piece of shit car towing 2 other pieces of shit cars down the freeway headed south. They tend to cause backups on said freeway when the lead piece of shit breaks down and they have to rotate cars to see if another piece of shit can handle the load.
Posted by: Sponge
Mexico has a tax policy that is generous for cars older than about seven years. There is a huge market for people to take older cars down and sell them there.
Posted by: Sponge
Mexico has a tax policy that is generous for cars older than about seven years. There is a huge market for people to take older cars down and sell them there.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 26, 2025 11:16 AM (0U5gm)
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*Knock knock knock*
Elric's not here, man.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:10 AM (PFH6n)
You asked for it.......
https://youtu.be/1nxK_hGLTN4
Elric's not here, man.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:10 AM (PFH6n)
You asked for it.......
https://youtu.be/1nxK_hGLTN4
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 11:16 AM (/BPde)
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"You may recall that a major contributor to the financial crash of 2008 was Wall Street wizards packaging up a bunch of sub-prime mortgages, securitizing them, and then selling those “mortgage backed securities” to investors as something other than perfumed garbage. That is effectively what Tricolor has been doing with its auto loans, with the help of Wall Street."
Do car loans get insured for default like sub prime mortgages? The unsolvable mess of 2008 was credit default swaps, a bunch of people wound up owning insurance policies, i.e. as the insurer. When the bundled insurance policies were traded, nobody bothered to check if the new owners could perform in the event of mass defaults. It was all new stuff that hadn't been specifically regulated. Messy.
That's pretty far out in the weeds even for me. If I have some of that wrong, somebody please enlighten me.
Do car loans get insured for default like sub prime mortgages? The unsolvable mess of 2008 was credit default swaps, a bunch of people wound up owning insurance policies, i.e. as the insurer. When the bundled insurance policies were traded, nobody bothered to check if the new owners could perform in the event of mass defaults. It was all new stuff that hadn't been specifically regulated. Messy.
That's pretty far out in the weeds even for me. If I have some of that wrong, somebody please enlighten me.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 26, 2025 11:16 AM (pIfcn)
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Has the government stopped paying for housing for all the illegals?
There were a lot of real estate people doing well with guaranteed income. All they had to do was let their properties be treated like the homes of 3rd world pieces of crap.
There were a lot of real estate people doing well with guaranteed income. All they had to do was let their properties be treated like the homes of 3rd world pieces of crap.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 26, 2025 11:17 AM (Sco7b)
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Where else is an illegal alien going to get a car loan with no questions asked at only 19 percent interest?
Posted by: Thomas Paine
At Pendejo's Buy Here Pay Here Used Car Lot.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
At Pendejo's Buy Here Pay Here Used Car Lot.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:17 AM (PFH6n)
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Dear Lord. They need to open a new prison just for the FBI.
The FBI Makes a Stunning Admission About January 6
The FBI finally acknowledged to Congress that 274 plainclothes agents were embedded in the January 6 crowds in Washington. Let that sink in for a moment — nearly three hundred federal agents, mingling among protesters, and we're just hearing about this now?
But here's where it gets really infuriating. Just last December, the Department of Justice's own watchdog proudly announced there was "no evidence" of undercover FBI employees in the protest crowds. The Inspector General's report was crystal clear: no undercover agents at the Capitol on January 6. Period. End of story. We all knew better, of course, but it begs the question of why the truth was being covered up in the first place.
https://is.gd/w6aThy
The FBI Makes a Stunning Admission About January 6
The FBI finally acknowledged to Congress that 274 plainclothes agents were embedded in the January 6 crowds in Washington. Let that sink in for a moment — nearly three hundred federal agents, mingling among protesters, and we're just hearing about this now?
But here's where it gets really infuriating. Just last December, the Department of Justice's own watchdog proudly announced there was "no evidence" of undercover FBI employees in the protest crowds. The Inspector General's report was crystal clear: no undercover agents at the Capitol on January 6. Period. End of story. We all knew better, of course, but it begs the question of why the truth was being covered up in the first place.
https://is.gd/w6aThy
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2025 11:17 AM (Riz8t)
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I can’t believe the idiots that came up with this business model are considered skilled investors.
Posted by: Kratwurst
Banks and the big three like Blackrock were putting out this shit using OPM (other people's money) and the execs got paid (and social cred) with bonuses for doing just that. Time for them to pay the piper using SEC and bank regulator investigations into this mess.
This sort of malinvestment is what happens when you have too big to fail assholes. The big three need to be broken up (State Street, Blackrock, and Vanguard), the big banks like Chase, etc. need to be returned to Glass Steagal restrictions as well.
We tried ignoring anti trust and regulatory limits to prevent too big to fail for the last thirty years or so. Didn't work, so we need to go back to those days--want to do risky shit, investment banks that can fail with the partners involved getting reamed if they do. Non risky shit, regular banking which needs to be safe, dull, and reliable.
And massive investment firms need to be stripped of massiveness and de facto control over investments from pensions, 401ks, etc.
Small is beautiful applies to business as well as government.
Posted by: Kratwurst
Banks and the big three like Blackrock were putting out this shit using OPM (other people's money) and the execs got paid (and social cred) with bonuses for doing just that. Time for them to pay the piper using SEC and bank regulator investigations into this mess.
This sort of malinvestment is what happens when you have too big to fail assholes. The big three need to be broken up (State Street, Blackrock, and Vanguard), the big banks like Chase, etc. need to be returned to Glass Steagal restrictions as well.
We tried ignoring anti trust and regulatory limits to prevent too big to fail for the last thirty years or so. Didn't work, so we need to go back to those days--want to do risky shit, investment banks that can fail with the partners involved getting reamed if they do. Non risky shit, regular banking which needs to be safe, dull, and reliable.
And massive investment firms need to be stripped of massiveness and de facto control over investments from pensions, 401ks, etc.
Small is beautiful applies to business as well as government.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:17 AM (WDjG6)
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For which they'll beg for a government bailout. F*ck off. Make bad business decisions, reap the anal rape that comes with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 11:13 AM (/BPde)
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They won't need a bailout, and won't get one. The Fed will probably slip them a little something under the table.
Now, if they had done this even *more* so the losses were, say, in the tens or hundreds of billions, then they would get a bailout. But for medium-scale fraud? Nah.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 11:13 AM (/BPde)
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They won't need a bailout, and won't get one. The Fed will probably slip them a little something under the table.
Now, if they had done this even *more* so the losses were, say, in the tens or hundreds of billions, then they would get a bailout. But for medium-scale fraud? Nah.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:17 AM (6bTRc)
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Blackrock, JP Morgan Chase, and all the other titans of Wall Street who bought into the hype about ESG investing deserve the loss they are going to take.
They didn't "buy into" the hype. They drove it.
And I can guarantee you that all of the money guys who've been involved in this have benefited handsomely while none of them will pay any price. Just another example of the connected managing to steal from the normies with zero personal risk. Nice work if you can get it.
They didn't "buy into" the hype. They drove it.
And I can guarantee you that all of the money guys who've been involved in this have benefited handsomely while none of them will pay any price. Just another example of the connected managing to steal from the normies with zero personal risk. Nice work if you can get it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 11:17 AM (ExV1e)
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An entire dealership conglomerate orientated towards illegals? Now defunct. Beautiful.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2025 11:17 AM (Q4IgG)
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One place I worked the illegals were called "unbanked" and set up ATM like kiosks so they could pay their bills with cash.
Posted by: Beartooth at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (vyKUJ)
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Thanks to Obama, the racists are "over there".
Posted by: pawn at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (PmITa)
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I want to see Comey perp walked in handcuffs, leg chains and an orange jump suit. Maybe with a ball gag to keep him from yelling out things in court.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 26, 2025 11:16 AM (Da7Vv)
I was watching an episode of Jail where they booked OJ in Vegas. I thought I'd take joy in it but it turned out that it was so pitiful I almost felt sorry for him.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 26, 2025 11:16 AM (Da7Vv)
I was watching an episode of Jail where they booked OJ in Vegas. I thought I'd take joy in it but it turned out that it was so pitiful I almost felt sorry for him.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (EYmYM)
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I love the Buck columns with flaming EVs, but setting fire to this despicable company is just fine with me too.
Posted by: Sow Wind-Reap Whirlwind at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (oftw2)
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Do car loans get insured for default like sub prime mortgages? The unsolvable mess of 2008 was credit default swaps, a bunch of people wound up owning insurance policies, i.e. as the insurer. When the bundled insurance policies were traded, nobody bothered to check if the new owners could perform in the event of mass defaults. It was all new stuff that hadn't been specifically regulated. Messy. ...
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 26, 2025 11:16 AM (pIfcn)
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If a thing exists, someone is selling insurance for or against it.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 26, 2025 11:16 AM (pIfcn)
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If a thing exists, someone is selling insurance for or against it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (6bTRc)
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https://ace.mu.nu/archives/193209.php
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (jc0TO)
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Different topic but in references to 2008 the role of Treasury, the NY Fed, and FNMA should always be included. None of it happens without massive, massive, "systemic" (ha), aggressive stupid and reckless actions by those non-market actors.
But it's OK, there were consequences. NY Fed chief became Treasury sec and FNMA head earned *$100M*, has a nice place in Bermuda, and became a scratch golfer.
But it's OK, there were consequences. NY Fed chief became Treasury sec and FNMA head earned *$100M*, has a nice place in Bermuda, and became a scratch golfer.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (U/Byj)
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Never ever heard of Tricolor auto.
Of course I'm whitebread so makes sense.
Posted by: the way I see it
I've only lived in Texas since '79 and I've never heard of them. And they were supposed to be #3?
Of course I'm whitebread so makes sense.
Posted by: the way I see it
I've only lived in Texas since '79 and I've never heard of them. And they were supposed to be #3?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (PFH6n)
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Does this mean the prices will drop for a used car? Holy shit those are expensive. $25,000 for a used vehicle with high mileage is batshit insane. A new car is completely unaffordable. I'm not paying $90,000 for something I can't live in comfortably. The mortgage on our current residence started at $100,000-ish.
And it has three bedrooms and two bathrooms!
Any used pickup truck that's affordable is more than ten years old AND has very high mileage.
And it has three bedrooms and two bathrooms!
Any used pickup truck that's affordable is more than ten years old AND has very high mileage.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 26, 2025 11:19 AM (2J/Lj)
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I feel like I need a post sex cigarette after reading the content.
This is a feel good story for me. Love the winning we keep getting with President Trump.
This is a feel good story for me. Love the winning we keep getting with President Trump.
Posted by: BifBewalski at September 26, 2025 11:19 AM (wnrf7)
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Underserved community is a euphemism for people with bottom tier credit scores. They are not underserved, they don't belong borrowing money.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 26, 2025 11:04 AM (0U5gm)
Watch Caleb Hammer clips and despair.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 26, 2025 11:04 AM (0U5gm)
Watch Caleb Hammer clips and despair.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 11:19 AM (ExV1e)
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But here's where it gets really infuriating. Just last December, the Department of Justice's own watchdog proudly announced there was "no evidence" of undercover FBI employees in the protest crowds. The Inspector General's report was crystal clear: no undercover agents at the Capitol on January 6. Period. End of story. We all knew better, of course, but it begs the question of why the truth was being covered up in the first place.
https://is.gd/w6aThy
Posted by: Archimedes
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Now add in assets/informants of the FBI AND the ATF, and Homeland Security, and Secret Service etc. Heck, I bet even the CIA and military intel had assets in the crowds.
Since the Jan 6 hoovered up all cell phone data, that same data can be used to identify federal agents, assets of those agents, etc. just like it was to identify grandma in Des Moines IA that was simply in DC at the time.
https://is.gd/w6aThy
Posted by: Archimedes
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Now add in assets/informants of the FBI AND the ATF, and Homeland Security, and Secret Service etc. Heck, I bet even the CIA and military intel had assets in the crowds.
Since the Jan 6 hoovered up all cell phone data, that same data can be used to identify federal agents, assets of those agents, etc. just like it was to identify grandma in Des Moines IA that was simply in DC at the time.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:19 AM (WDjG6)
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Trad West@trad_west
Mel Gibson is producing a miniseries about the Great Siege of Malta (1565), one of the most heroic episodes in Christian history.
The story depicts how around 700 Hospitaller Knights resisted the siege of approximately 40,000 Ottoman soldiers, in a decisive clash for control of the Mediterranean.
Mel Gibson is producing a miniseries about the Great Siege of Malta (1565), one of the most heroic episodes in Christian history.
The story depicts how around 700 Hospitaller Knights resisted the siege of approximately 40,000 Ottoman soldiers, in a decisive clash for control of the Mediterranean.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2025 11:19 AM (TGPs7)
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That's a terrible thing to happen.
Just terrible.
More seriously, it will hit the employees hardest, while Blackrock and Tricolor executives are padded from the pain.
Just terrible.
More seriously, it will hit the employees hardest, while Blackrock and Tricolor executives are padded from the pain.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:19 AM (GbwPZ)
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I was watching an episode of Jail where they booked OJ in Vegas. I thought I'd take joy in it but it turned out that it was so pitiful I almost felt sorry for him.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (EYmYM)
He built that. No one else made that happen. HE did. I will pray for mercy for his soul, but will not feel any bit of sorrow for his ass.
I was watching an episode of Jail where they booked OJ in Vegas. I thought I'd take joy in it but it turned out that it was so pitiful I almost felt sorry for him.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (EYmYM)
He built that. No one else made that happen. HE did. I will pray for mercy for his soul, but will not feel any bit of sorrow for his ass.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 11:20 AM (/BPde)
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"There was massive fraud by Tricolor, which is causing losses to all parties who did business with it."
Massive fraud by a company whose customer base is illegal aliens?
No way, impossible, could never be true, I shan't believe it, I shan't!
Massive fraud by a company whose customer base is illegal aliens?
No way, impossible, could never be true, I shan't believe it, I shan't!
Posted by: Gref at September 26, 2025 11:20 AM (5rh/l)
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I can’t believe the idiots that came up with this business model are considered skilled investors.
Posted by: Kratwurst
It seems that if you want high margin returns for your investors while still raking off huge bonuses to yourself, you have to play pretty close to the line of legality, and sometimes beyond.
Posted by: Kratwurst
It seems that if you want high margin returns for your investors while still raking off huge bonuses to yourself, you have to play pretty close to the line of legality, and sometimes beyond.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 26, 2025 11:21 AM (0U5gm)
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Willowed:
Fellow Ace of Spaders, could anyone recommend a good scary story audiobook? I have an unexpected trip tomorrow and I'll be driving for about 15 hours...
Posted by: mishdog
"Ghost Story" by Peter Straub would make an excellent long drive listen.
Fellow Ace of Spaders, could anyone recommend a good scary story audiobook? I have an unexpected trip tomorrow and I'll be driving for about 15 hours...
Posted by: mishdog
"Ghost Story" by Peter Straub would make an excellent long drive listen.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2025 11:21 AM (iJfKG)
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Ha Ha
Posted by: fd at September 26, 2025 11:21 AM (vFG9F)
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Mel Gibson is producing a miniseries about the Great Siege of Malta (1565), one of the most heroic episodes in Christian history.
The story depicts how around 700 Hospitaller Knights resisted the siege of approximately 40,000 Ottoman soldiers, in a decisive clash for control of the Mediterranean.
Now that's a movie I'd go to see.
The story depicts how around 700 Hospitaller Knights resisted the siege of approximately 40,000 Ottoman soldiers, in a decisive clash for control of the Mediterranean.
Now that's a movie I'd go to see.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2025 11:21 AM (Riz8t)
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I’m sure Trump’s first term deregulation of risky lending practices/securitization had nothing to do with this.
Posted by: The Letter J at September 26, 2025 11:21 AM (Z/h4+)
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Buck, I think you missed a smelly connection: Tricolor’s CEO Daniel Chu. That doesn't sound hispanic, does it? Chu is the son of Chinese immigrants. I'll bet you any amount of money there was Chinese money and/or connections involved in this scam as well.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:22 AM (iFTx/)
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Never ceases to amaze me that companies do everything short of murder to screw over and get rid of their employees in the interest of shareholder return, but insist on expensive luxury endeavors like Zero Carbon and DEI.
Never ceases to amaze me that companies do everything short of murder to screw over and get rid of their employees in the interest of shareholder return, but insist on expensive luxury endeavors like Zero Carbon and DEI.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2025 11:22 AM (tgvbd)
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I can’t believe the idiots that came up with this business model are considered skilled investors.
Posted by: Kratwurst at September 26, 2025 11:11 AM (83DvQ)
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They aren't. They're skilled financial products engineers. They create the synthesized product to spread risks around, then hand them off to skilled financial products salesmen. The salesmen then sell the products to fund managers and institutional investors who are looking for high-risk returns and understand the underlying risks (rare) or who are looking for an extra tenth of a point on other people's money.
Skilled investing is rarely a thing. Skilled engineering and sales interfacing with other people's money usually is.
Posted by: Kratwurst at September 26, 2025 11:11 AM (83DvQ)
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They aren't. They're skilled financial products engineers. They create the synthesized product to spread risks around, then hand them off to skilled financial products salesmen. The salesmen then sell the products to fund managers and institutional investors who are looking for high-risk returns and understand the underlying risks (rare) or who are looking for an extra tenth of a point on other people's money.
Skilled investing is rarely a thing. Skilled engineering and sales interfacing with other people's money usually is.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:22 AM (6bTRc)
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Tri-Color Auto Named by Inc. Magazine as Best in Business for 2022.
________________________
LMAO
________________________
LMAO
Posted by: Orson at September 26, 2025 11:22 AM (dIske)
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Mel Gibson is producing a miniseries about the Great Siege of Malta (1565), one of the most heroic episodes in Christian history.
The story depicts how around 700 Hospitaller Knights resisted the siege of approximately 40,000 Ottoman soldiers, in a decisive clash for control of the Mediterranean.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2025 11:19 AM (TGPs7)
I would have liked his directorial take on Thermopylae. But m sure this project based on his Christian /Catholic faith.
The story depicts how around 700 Hospitaller Knights resisted the siege of approximately 40,000 Ottoman soldiers, in a decisive clash for control of the Mediterranean.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2025 11:19 AM (TGPs7)
I would have liked his directorial take on Thermopylae. But m sure this project based on his Christian /Catholic faith.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 11:22 AM (EYmYM)
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I can’t believe the idiots that came up with this business model are considered skilled investors.
Posted by: Kratwurst
It seems that if you want high margin returns for your investors while still raking off huge bonuses to yourself, you have to play pretty close to the line of legality, and sometimes beyond.
If only there were some old saw about something being too good to be true.
Posted by: Kratwurst
It seems that if you want high margin returns for your investors while still raking off huge bonuses to yourself, you have to play pretty close to the line of legality, and sometimes beyond.
If only there were some old saw about something being too good to be true.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2025 11:22 AM (Riz8t)
98
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/193209.php
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (jc0TO)
THE poster child for "insufferable twat."
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (jc0TO)
THE poster child for "insufferable twat."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 11:23 AM (/BPde)
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Since the Jan 6 hoovered up all cell phone data, that same data can be used to identify federal agents, assets of those agents, etc. just like it was to identify grandma in Des Moines IA that was simply in DC at the time.
Posted by: whig
Could be why the FBI came clean finally.
They knew the Tylenol-Americans from DOGE were looking at the data.
Posted by: whig
Could be why the FBI came clean finally.
They knew the Tylenol-Americans from DOGE were looking at the data.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:23 AM (PFH6n)
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Rick223b,
Story from Edmunds dot com
"Tricolor Holdings is a major provider of subprime auto loans. The company also operates a chain of used car dealerships across the Southwest under the names Tricolor Auto, Ganas, and Ganas Ye. It specializes in loans to low-credit and no-credit buyers, often issuing them without a credit check."
Story from Edmunds dot com
"Tricolor Holdings is a major provider of subprime auto loans. The company also operates a chain of used car dealerships across the Southwest under the names Tricolor Auto, Ganas, and Ganas Ye. It specializes in loans to low-credit and no-credit buyers, often issuing them without a credit check."
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:23 AM (WDjG6)
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https://ace.mu.nu/archives/193209.php
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (jc0TO)
THE poster child for "insufferable twat."
Oh, I think toby928 is okay.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (jc0TO)
THE poster child for "insufferable twat."
Oh, I think toby928 is okay.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2025 11:24 AM (Riz8t)
102
The story depicts how around 700 Hospitaller Knights resisted the siege of approximately 40,000 Ottoman soldiers, in a decisive clash for control of the Mediterranean.
Now that's a movie I'd go to see.
Posted by: Archimedes
I wonder if will get good ticket sales in Dearborn's multi-plexes.
Now that's a movie I'd go to see.
Posted by: Archimedes
I wonder if will get good ticket sales in Dearborn's multi-plexes.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 26, 2025 11:24 AM (xif/T)
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... Time for big finance assholes to have skin in the game aka they lose their own personal money first to bondholders, investors, etc. ...
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:07 AM (WDjG6)
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This was one of the purposes of Glass-Steagal, but not entirely.
It was a bad development when the investment banks became publicly-traded. They used to trade with their own (or the founders') capital and large chunks of capital provided by people who knew what they were doing and demanded results and/or accountability. It also encouraged a longer time scope in investment.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:07 AM (WDjG6)
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This was one of the purposes of Glass-Steagal, but not entirely.
It was a bad development when the investment banks became publicly-traded. They used to trade with their own (or the founders') capital and large chunks of capital provided by people who knew what they were doing and demanded results and/or accountability. It also encouraged a longer time scope in investment.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:24 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 11:24 AM (77rzZ)
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Where was my special deal?!?!?!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Did you show them your white privilege card? That must be why you got phucked. You didn't declare they respect your white privilege.
Where was my special deal?!?!?!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Did you show them your white privilege card? That must be why you got phucked. You didn't declare they respect your white privilege.
Posted by: BifBewalski at September 26, 2025 11:24 AM (wnrf7)
106
If you want to be a skilled investor, you should get a Masters in psychology to go along with a financial degree.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 11:24 AM (EYmYM)
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Thankfully, illegal alien used cars are a smaller market than real estate. Enjoy eating the losses, banks. Maybe one day you will learn.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:13 AM (6bTRc)
They'll never learn because they never face the consequences of their actions. They keep fucking up and in return get millions or even billions of dollars of other people's money to cover their fuckups. I wish I could somehow get paid vast sums of money for being a fuckup, but I'm just a serf.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:13 AM (6bTRc)
They'll never learn because they never face the consequences of their actions. They keep fucking up and in return get millions or even billions of dollars of other people's money to cover their fuckups. I wish I could somehow get paid vast sums of money for being a fuckup, but I'm just a serf.
Posted by: It's all inside out and backwards at September 26, 2025 11:25 AM (TbWk/)
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>>Since the Jan 6 hoovered up all cell phone data, that same data can be used to identify federal agents, assets of those agents, etc.
FWIW: https://tinyurl.com/3xhe28e3
@TonySeruga
Yet they remained silent!
GPS—How about some J6 numbers?
2,632 mobile devices, overlays have indicated were also present at 3 or more George Floyd, antifa, BLM protests/riots.
When the ‘3 or more’ filter is removed, 8,744 that day, were present at 1 or more George Floyd, antifa, BLM protests/riots.
There were well over 300 FBI undercover agents in the crowds and not just confidential human sources!
Additionally, the J6 ‘pipe bomber’ we eventually determined there very likely may have actually been 3 ‘pipe bombers’ (bomb dog training aides) with a total of 9 mobile devices, when fitness trackers were included. . .
FWIW: https://tinyurl.com/3xhe28e3
@TonySeruga
Yet they remained silent!
GPS—How about some J6 numbers?
2,632 mobile devices, overlays have indicated were also present at 3 or more George Floyd, antifa, BLM protests/riots.
When the ‘3 or more’ filter is removed, 8,744 that day, were present at 1 or more George Floyd, antifa, BLM protests/riots.
There were well over 300 FBI undercover agents in the crowds and not just confidential human sources!
Additionally, the J6 ‘pipe bomber’ we eventually determined there very likely may have actually been 3 ‘pipe bombers’ (bomb dog training aides) with a total of 9 mobile devices, when fitness trackers were included. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:25 AM (GbwPZ)
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PenPal was a verrrry scary audiobook. but not that long. I stupidly listened to it on a long drive up to New England. At night. Missed my exit and ended up nearly in Maine, in the dark, in the country, then it started snowing.
Clive Barker does a good job narrating his books, but I don't think they're that scary.
Clive Barker does a good job narrating his books, but I don't think they're that scary.
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 26, 2025 11:26 AM (FHttA)
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Netanyahu: "We paged Hezbollah, and believe me, they got the message."
Posted by: SMOD at September 26, 2025 11:26 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 26, 2025 11:26 AM (jbnUc)
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I’m sure Trump’s first term deregulation of risky lending practices/securitization had nothing to do with this.
Posted by: The Letter J at September 26, 2025 11:21 AM
The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act in 2018? Maybe a bit, if Tricolor had over $50B in loans. The articles says $2B so I think they wouldn't have gotten "enhanced regulation" anyway.
Posted by: The Letter J at September 26, 2025 11:21 AM
The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act in 2018? Maybe a bit, if Tricolor had over $50B in loans. The articles says $2B so I think they wouldn't have gotten "enhanced regulation" anyway.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:26 AM (jc0TO)
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Could be why the FBI came clean finally.
They knew the Tylenol-Americans from DOGE were looking at the data.
Posted by: rickb223
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Same thing needs to be done with other agencies and as far as the FBI, it did not disclose working informants there. Those contractors are who are probably the agents provocateurs involved in ramping up the violence.
That is the problem when law enforcement stops enforcing and starts creating crimes as the FBI has morphed into (ATF was doing it long before FBI did it).
They knew the Tylenol-Americans from DOGE were looking at the data.
Posted by: rickb223
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Same thing needs to be done with other agencies and as far as the FBI, it did not disclose working informants there. Those contractors are who are probably the agents provocateurs involved in ramping up the violence.
That is the problem when law enforcement stops enforcing and starts creating crimes as the FBI has morphed into (ATF was doing it long before FBI did it).
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:26 AM (WDjG6)
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She's a catch and looking for a husband!
https://is.gd/1FztgY
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 11:15 AM (L/fGl)
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Oh dear.
"Wants marriage and kids within the next 2-3 years"
"41 years old"
I'm sorry, honey. It's too late. The window has closed.
I hope for her sake she can find *something* to focus on besides this.
https://is.gd/1FztgY
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 11:15 AM (L/fGl)
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Oh dear.
"Wants marriage and kids within the next 2-3 years"
"41 years old"
I'm sorry, honey. It's too late. The window has closed.
I hope for her sake she can find *something* to focus on besides this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:27 AM (6bTRc)
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I’m used to seeing “tricolore” as a synonym for the French flag, specifically the flag of the French Republic. I guess it could work with the Mexican flag too, except for that eagle with the snake on the cactus bit that comes from a founding legend of the Meshica.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 11:27 AM (ZVgZ4)
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We own the thread.
Posted by: rickb223
Uh oh. I see a power struggle with Elric in your future.
Posted by: Bulg
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His blade is dull. Dulled by Sponge.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:10 AM (WDjG6)
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Stormbringer cannot be dulled
Posted by: rickb223
Uh oh. I see a power struggle with Elric in your future.
Posted by: Bulg
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His blade is dull. Dulled by Sponge.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:10 AM (WDjG6)
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Stormbringer cannot be dulled
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:27 AM (iFTx/)
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Justice OIG sort of signaled it was a ridiculous farce with the report on the Clinton Espionage Act crime wave non-investigation. For some reason this outrage, actually one of the most spectacular and important ones in the sea of iniquity and institutional collapse of recent years, never gets the attention it deserves.
Looking at most US institutions now, public and private, really is like assessing institutions and the situation in Third World countries where one is attempting to introduce competence and integrity, to allow some progress. Every potential lever is greased so you can't grip it, every button is disconnected from the function it's supposed to activate, etc. Where do you even start.
Looking at most US institutions now, public and private, really is like assessing institutions and the situation in Third World countries where one is attempting to introduce competence and integrity, to allow some progress. Every potential lever is greased so you can't grip it, every button is disconnected from the function it's supposed to activate, etc. Where do you even start.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2025 11:27 AM (U/Byj)
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Did you show them your white privilege card? That must be why you got phucked. You didn't declare they respect your white privilege.
Posted by: BifBewalski at September 26, 2025 11:24 AM (wnrf7)
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I knew I forgot something!
Posted by: BifBewalski at September 26, 2025 11:24 AM (wnrf7)
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I knew I forgot something!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:28 AM (6bTRc)
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Now, I know what tri-color is.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2025 11:28 AM (3CVIc)
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Story from Edmunds dot com
"Tricolor Holdings is a major provider of subprime auto loans. The company also operates a chain of used car dealerships across the Southwest under the names Tricolor Auto, Ganas, and Ganas Ye. It specializes in loans to low-credit and no-credit buyers, often issuing them without a credit check."
Posted by: whig
I'm not arguing against it. Just saying, I've been all over Texas from the Oklahoma border to Galveston to San Antonio and never seen one of those dealerships.
Have seen a couple of dealerships in E Texas called Car Mart with a sign that looks suspiciously like Wal Mart.
"Tricolor Holdings is a major provider of subprime auto loans. The company also operates a chain of used car dealerships across the Southwest under the names Tricolor Auto, Ganas, and Ganas Ye. It specializes in loans to low-credit and no-credit buyers, often issuing them without a credit check."
Posted by: whig
I'm not arguing against it. Just saying, I've been all over Texas from the Oklahoma border to Galveston to San Antonio and never seen one of those dealerships.
Have seen a couple of dealerships in E Texas called Car Mart with a sign that looks suspiciously like Wal Mart.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:28 AM (PFH6n)
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There is also a second siege of Malta in WWII. A relief convoy battled incredible odds to bring supplies to the only airbase able to interdict the Italians and Germans trying to take over North Africa. A tanker carrying aviation fuel was hit by multiple bombs, but US merchantmen refused to abandon her, and brought her into port full of holes and under constant air attack. Once the fuel, lighter than water, was pumped out, the ship was as bouyant as lead. They tied her to two other ships to get out of the harbor and let her sink. Malta was saved once again.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 26, 2025 11:28 AM (0U5gm)
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Additionally, the J6 ‘pipe bomber’ we eventually determined there very likely may have actually been 3 ‘pipe bombers’ (bomb dog training aides) with a total of 9 mobile devices, when fitness trackers were included. . .
Posted by: Lizzy
Thanks Lizzy for that. "Feebs to the left of me, other Feds to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with them."
Posted by: Lizzy
Thanks Lizzy for that. "Feebs to the left of me, other Feds to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with them."
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:28 AM (WDjG6)
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Now, I know what tri-color is.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2025 11:28 AM (3CVIc)
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Tricolor is a subscription TV service in Russia!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2025 11:28 AM (3CVIc)
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Tricolor is a subscription TV service in Russia!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:28 AM (6bTRc)
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I would have liked his directorial take on Thermopylae.
I always try to get Boardwalk and Park Place whenever I play Thermopylae.
I always try to get Boardwalk and Park Place whenever I play Thermopylae.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2025 11:29 AM (iJfKG)
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The mid Willamette Valley has lots of roadside car lots that cater to illegals. Driving through the area earlier this week I noticed a number of them have closed or disappeared. Looks like Trump and Tricolor scam did them in.
Posted by: Beartooth at September 26, 2025 11:29 AM (vyKUJ)
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Oh dear.
"Wants marriage and kids within the next 2-3 years"
"41 years old"
I'm sorry, honey. It's too late. The window has closed.
I hope for her sake she can find *something* to focus on besides this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Cats.
"Wants marriage and kids within the next 2-3 years"
"41 years old"
I'm sorry, honey. It's too late. The window has closed.
I hope for her sake she can find *something* to focus on besides this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Cats.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:29 AM (PFH6n)
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....easy credit rip-offs, Good Times! Ain't we lucky we got 'em.
Posted by: Case at September 26, 2025 11:29 AM (jHd3X)
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I'm sorry, honey. It's too late. The window has closed.
She can adopt a crack baby. That's still a thing, right?
She can adopt a crack baby. That's still a thing, right?
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:30 AM (jc0TO)
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....easy credit rip-offs, Good Times! Ain't we lucky we got 'em.
Posted by: Case at September 26, 2025 11:29 AM (jHd3X)
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I am become debt, destroyer of worlds.
Posted by: Case at September 26, 2025 11:29 AM (jHd3X)
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I am become debt, destroyer of worlds.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:30 AM (6bTRc)
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https://ace.mu.nu/archives/193209.php
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (jc0TO)
THE poster child for "insufferable twat."
The only thing guys remember from that post is she's up for banging 24/7. Or at least says she is.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:18 AM (jc0TO)
THE poster child for "insufferable twat."
The only thing guys remember from that post is she's up for banging 24/7. Or at least says she is.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 11:30 AM (EYmYM)
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I'm not arguing against it. Just saying, I've been all over Texas from the Oklahoma border to Galveston to San Antonio and never seen one of those dealerships.
Have seen a couple of dealerships in E Texas called Car Mart with a sign that looks suspiciously like Wal Mart.
Posted by: rickb223
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I posted that because you might have recognized some of the other names for their local dealerships.
Plus, apparently they were the lender that other used car dealers could use when financing a car for illegals.
Have seen a couple of dealerships in E Texas called Car Mart with a sign that looks suspiciously like Wal Mart.
Posted by: rickb223
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I posted that because you might have recognized some of the other names for their local dealerships.
Plus, apparently they were the lender that other used car dealers could use when financing a car for illegals.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:30 AM (WDjG6)
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Cats.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:29 AM (PFH6n)
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For her sake, I hope it's something better than that.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:29 AM (PFH6n)
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For her sake, I hope it's something better than that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:31 AM (6bTRc)
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Daniel Chu, was quoted by Barron’s in 2022 as stating, “No one else is providing meaningful dollar credit to an illegal immigrant.”
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and I'm going to stick it to the brown dogs...
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and I'm going to stick it to the brown dogs...
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2025 11:31 AM (3CVIc)
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If you want to be a skilled investor, you should get a Masters in psychology to go along with a financial degree.
I got real questions about people who do this without insider information... I mean- they lie!
I got real questions about people who do this without insider information... I mean- they lie!
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at September 26, 2025 11:31 AM (JW6Az)
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130 https://ace.mu.nu/archives/193209.php
Posted by: toby928
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Today's term for that sort of women is a pick me girl.
Posted by: toby928
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Today's term for that sort of women is a pick me girl.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:32 AM (WDjG6)
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I'm sorry, honey. It's too late. The window has closed.
She can adopt a crack baby. That's still a thing, right?
Posted by: toby928
She could probably buy one.
She can adopt a crack baby. That's still a thing, right?
Posted by: toby928
She could probably buy one.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:32 AM (PFH6n)
137
en Francais, c'est 'tricoleur', non?
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 11:32 AM (gKWVE)
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The only thing guys remember from that post is she's up for banging 24/7. Or at least says she is.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 11:30 AM
She knows secret and forbidden techniques that will call upon your reserves of body fat. Within a year you will be sleek as an otter.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 11:30 AM
She knows secret and forbidden techniques that will call upon your reserves of body fat. Within a year you will be sleek as an otter.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:32 AM (jc0TO)
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‘ I've only lived in Texas since '79 and I've never heard of them. And they were supposed to be #3?’
Maybe they’re a Dark Web proprietor with links to “How to steal an identity.”
‘ I've only lived in Texas since '79 and I've never heard of them. And they were supposed to be #3?’
Maybe they’re a Dark Web proprietor with links to “How to steal an identity.”
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 26, 2025 11:32 AM (jbnUc)
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Having worked at used car dealerships in college, I can tell you exactly how "subprime" car lending goes. The loans are made to known deadbeats with little chance of ever being repaid.
But here's the thing: they didn't need to be repaid. The loans were only made when the down payment was sufficient to cover the dealer cost of the car. So any loan payments were gravy.
When the car was inevitably repossessed -- sometimes within only a few months -- the dealer got the car back and resold it. It was a good racket for the dealer. The "lender" was also the dealer.
I assume Tricolor was doing the exact same thing, only (i) on a much larger scale and (ii) then selling the dogshit debt to foolish investors.
But here's the thing: they didn't need to be repaid. The loans were only made when the down payment was sufficient to cover the dealer cost of the car. So any loan payments were gravy.
When the car was inevitably repossessed -- sometimes within only a few months -- the dealer got the car back and resold it. It was a good racket for the dealer. The "lender" was also the dealer.
I assume Tricolor was doing the exact same thing, only (i) on a much larger scale and (ii) then selling the dogshit debt to foolish investors.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:32 AM (iFTx/)
141
>>Clive Barker does a good job narrating his books, but I don't think they're that scary.
"Odd Thomas" by Dean Koontz is a scary book, if you can get it on tape/audible.
Anything by Elmore Leonard. Less supernatural, more criminal menace type scary.
"Odd Thomas" by Dean Koontz is a scary book, if you can get it on tape/audible.
Anything by Elmore Leonard. Less supernatural, more criminal menace type scary.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:32 AM (GbwPZ)
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Is anyone else noticing that AOC's face is starting to look like a speed bag at Gold's Gym? I guess all of her braying is beginning to take its toll.
Posted by: Lord Comey at September 26, 2025 11:33 AM (UWX1m)
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125 The mid Willamette Valley has lots of roadside car lots that cater to illegals. Driving through the area earlier this week I noticed a number of them have closed or disappeared. Looks like Trump and Tricolor scam did them in.
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I wonder if we're well over the 2 million deports/self-deports by now. I hope anyway.
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I wonder if we're well over the 2 million deports/self-deports by now. I hope anyway.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 26, 2025 11:33 AM (xif/T)
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"Wants marriage and kids within the next 2-3 years"
"41 years old"
Sad that she couldn't fit that in during the previous 23 years. Bad luck.
"41 years old"
Sad that she couldn't fit that in during the previous 23 years. Bad luck.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 11:33 AM (ExV1e)
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I am become debt, destroyer of worlds.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Unfortunately, I think staving off debt based collapse is what the entire Western financial regulatory and banking systems have been trying to do.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Unfortunately, I think staving off debt based collapse is what the entire Western financial regulatory and banking systems have been trying to do.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:33 AM (WDjG6)
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>>>banks who were packaging Tricolor’s securities also had lines of credit extended to Tricolor.
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At the same time de-banking businesses like Remington.
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At the same time de-banking businesses like Remington.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2025 11:34 AM (3CVIc)
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>>I assume Tricolor was doing the exact same thing, only (i) on a much larger scale and (ii) then selling the dogshit debt to foolish investors.
Oh, wow, yeah, now that makes sense in terms of how it would be a profitablebusiness racket worthy of BlackRock's investment.
Oh, wow, yeah, now that makes sense in terms of how it would be a profitable
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:34 AM (GbwPZ)
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The story depicts how around 700 Hospitaller Knights resisted the siege of approximately 40,000 Ottoman soldiers, in a decisive clash for control of the Mediterranean.
Posted by: Mister Ghost
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Rorke's Drift writ larger.
Posted by: Mister Ghost
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Rorke's Drift writ larger.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 26, 2025 11:34 AM (XeU6L)
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"Wants marriage and kids within the next 2-3 years"
"41 years old"
Sad that she couldn't fit that in during the previous 23 years. Bad luck.
It's no guarantee, but I'm always surprised that these poor women didn't think to freeze some eggs while they were younger. I don't delight in their pain.
"41 years old"
Sad that she couldn't fit that in during the previous 23 years. Bad luck.
It's no guarantee, but I'm always surprised that these poor women didn't think to freeze some eggs while they were younger. I don't delight in their pain.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2025 11:34 AM (Riz8t)
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142 Is anyone else noticing that AOC's face is starting to look like a speed bag at Gold's Gym? I guess all of her braying is beginning to take its toll.
I am disturbed by what Im seeing with Gen Y aging. too much filler and botox too young doesn't seem to be working out so well. not sure if the ozempic is good either.
I am disturbed by what Im seeing with Gen Y aging. too much filler and botox too young doesn't seem to be working out so well. not sure if the ozempic is good either.
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 26, 2025 11:35 AM (FHttA)
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" Did you show them your white privilege card? That must be why you got phucked. You didn't declare they respect your white privilege."
Where can I get one of these cards? What kind of credit score do you need?
I could use a discount. Any discount.
Where can I get one of these cards? What kind of credit score do you need?
I could use a discount. Any discount.
Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at September 26, 2025 11:35 AM (89Sog)
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The Odd Thomas movie also wasn't as bad as I feared it would be. Most Koontz plots seem to be picked up on the cheap, and the producer does a cash-in by slinging a smelly hunk of trash at the screen.
Those involved in Odd Thomas actually cared about the material. 6/10
Those involved in Odd Thomas actually cared about the material. 6/10
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 11:35 AM (gKWVE)
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Odd Thomas" by Dean Koontz is a scary book, if you can get it on tape/audible.
Anything by Elmore Leonard. Less supernatural, more criminal menace type scary.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:32 AM (GbwP
I liked the movie a lot. Mix of Constantine and Sixth Sense.
Anything by Elmore Leonard. Less supernatural, more criminal menace type scary.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:32 AM (GbwP
I liked the movie a lot. Mix of Constantine and Sixth Sense.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 11:35 AM (EYmYM)
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Thomas Paine that Malta story is one of the lesser known heroic chapters of WWII (as is, generally, the Med theater).
"The Struggle for the Middle Sea" by Vince O'Hara is an excellent book covering the whole topic. He's local, talked with him at a local naval history conference, interesting guy.
"The Struggle for the Middle Sea" by Vince O'Hara is an excellent book covering the whole topic. He's local, talked with him at a local naval history conference, interesting guy.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2025 11:35 AM (U/Byj)
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The city where I work has long been a haven for illegals (I believe factory work drew them in decades ago) and lately the big thing is to have the Mehicano flag, big and bold, on the hoods of their vehicles.
My gut reaction has been to flip them off on site, hand out the window 'n all. [Why are you even here then?]
However, maybe, as a widow, I should just eat that anger?
No one would pay a price if I got murdered over that.
But then, American ain't exactly the greatest place to try and have a life anymore...
So why not let your patriot finger fly!
My gut reaction has been to flip them off on site, hand out the window 'n all. [Why are you even here then?]
However, maybe, as a widow, I should just eat that anger?
No one would pay a price if I got murdered over that.
But then, American ain't exactly the greatest place to try and have a life anymore...
So why not let your patriot finger fly!
Posted by: Lady Hermit at September 26, 2025 11:35 AM (JCLJi)
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Having worked at used car dealerships in college, I can tell you exactly how "subprime" car lending goes. The loans are made to known deadbeats with little chance of ever being repaid.
But here's the thing: they didn't need to be repaid. The loans were only made when the down payment was sufficient to cover the dealer cost of the car. So any loan payments were gravy.
When the car was inevitably repossessed -- sometimes within only a few months -- the dealer got the car back and resold it. It was a good racket for the dealer. The "lender" was also the dealer.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
You know how you can tell the economy is in the toilet? When used car dealers go out of business.
When they can't make money by repo'ing and reselling the same car multiple times...
Thank Bribem's economy for that.
But here's the thing: they didn't need to be repaid. The loans were only made when the down payment was sufficient to cover the dealer cost of the car. So any loan payments were gravy.
When the car was inevitably repossessed -- sometimes within only a few months -- the dealer got the car back and resold it. It was a good racket for the dealer. The "lender" was also the dealer.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
You know how you can tell the economy is in the toilet? When used car dealers go out of business.
When they can't make money by repo'ing and reselling the same car multiple times...
Thank Bribem's economy for that.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:36 AM (PFH6n)
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121 There is also a second siege of Malta in WWII. A relief convoy battled incredible odds to bring supplies to the only airbase able to interdict the Italians and Germans trying to take over North Africa. A tanker carrying aviation fuel was hit by multiple bombs, but US merchantmen refused to abandon her, and brought her into port full of holes and under constant air attack. Once the fuel, lighter than water, was pumped out, the ship was as bouyant as lead. They tied her to two other ships to get out of the harbor and let her sink. Malta was saved once again.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 26, 2025 11:28 AM (0U5gm)
Malta Story (1953) covered that story well. Pretty good movie, (spoiler!)
Alec Guiness dies tragically at the end, sacrificing his life for his comrades in arms.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 26, 2025 11:28 AM (0U5gm)
Malta Story (1953) covered that story well. Pretty good movie, (spoiler!)
Alec Guiness dies tragically at the end, sacrificing his life for his comrades in arms.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2025 11:36 AM (uWKK8)
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For her sake, I hope it's something better than that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Dogs are better than cats. By far.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Dogs are better than cats. By far.
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2025 11:37 AM (JW6Az)
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I assume Tricolor was doing the exact same thing, only (i) on a much larger scale and (ii) then selling the dogshit debt to foolish investors.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:32 AM (iFTx/)
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Right, what Tricolor was doing was much worse. At least in the traditional "buy here, pay here" model, the dealer carried the risk himself.
This is more akin to the mortgage scam. Nicer cars (usually), financed to extremely poor credit lists. The dealer is the lender, but the dealer has no money. He has a warehouse credit facility at a major bank that he draws to issue the loan. He lends the money to the customer, who then hands it back to the dealer. It hits the credit line and enters the sales book as cash. The dealer now has a liability one side (the note), and capital on the other (the cash). Standard (and dangerous) vendor financing.
But the dealer sells the note at a discount to an investment bank (often the one that holds the credit line), who then packages it up into risk-tiered securities and sells them on to investors somewhere else. The dealer doesn't carry risk - unless he can't sell the notes. His risk is in that 30-90 period where he *does* hold the note.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:32 AM (iFTx/)
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Right, what Tricolor was doing was much worse. At least in the traditional "buy here, pay here" model, the dealer carried the risk himself.
This is more akin to the mortgage scam. Nicer cars (usually), financed to extremely poor credit lists. The dealer is the lender, but the dealer has no money. He has a warehouse credit facility at a major bank that he draws to issue the loan. He lends the money to the customer, who then hands it back to the dealer. It hits the credit line and enters the sales book as cash. The dealer now has a liability one side (the note), and capital on the other (the cash). Standard (and dangerous) vendor financing.
But the dealer sells the note at a discount to an investment bank (often the one that holds the credit line), who then packages it up into risk-tiered securities and sells them on to investors somewhere else. The dealer doesn't carry risk - unless he can't sell the notes. His risk is in that 30-90 period where he *does* hold the note.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:37 AM (6bTRc)
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I assume Tricolor was doing the exact same thing, only (i) on a much larger scale and (ii) then selling the dogshit debt to foolish investors.
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A just out of college relative just bought a used car. The contract included the First Payment Default, letting the borrower know that the underwriter can repossess the car on missed first payment, immediately.
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A just out of college relative just bought a used car. The contract included the First Payment Default, letting the borrower know that the underwriter can repossess the car on missed first payment, immediately.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 26, 2025 11:37 AM (xif/T)
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I assume Tricolor was doing the exact same thing, only (i) on a much larger scale and (ii) then selling the dogshit debt to foolish investors.
Oh, wow, yeah, now that makes sense in terms of how it would be a profitable business racket worthy of BlackRock's investment.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:34 AM (GbwPZ)
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Yea. Black Rock (and others) probably just packaged the bad loans into securities and sold the securities to foolish investors. BR took its nice fat slice and hot-potatoed the garbage to outside investors. Exactly what happened in the subprime mortgage mortgage scandal.
Oh, wow, yeah, now that makes sense in terms of how it would be a profitable business racket worthy of BlackRock's investment.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:34 AM (GbwPZ)
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Yea. Black Rock (and others) probably just packaged the bad loans into securities and sold the securities to foolish investors. BR took its nice fat slice and hot-potatoed the garbage to outside investors. Exactly what happened in the subprime mortgage mortgage scandal.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:37 AM (iFTx/)
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Wants marriage and kids within the next 2-3 years"
"41 years old"
With your mostly dead eggs, chlamydia-and-multiple-abortion-scarred womb? Dodgy prospect regardless of political views. Being 41 and believing you're a fertile 23-year-old doesn't make you a fertile 23-year-old. But now after her best life of six abortions and 400 cocks she's ready for a simp to rescue her from her terrible life decisions and kids to fill that void she created inside her because the cats just aren't enough.
"41 years old"
With your mostly dead eggs, chlamydia-and-multiple-abortion-scarred womb? Dodgy prospect regardless of political views. Being 41 and believing you're a fertile 23-year-old doesn't make you a fertile 23-year-old. But now after her best life of six abortions and 400 cocks she's ready for a simp to rescue her from her terrible life decisions and kids to fill that void she created inside her because the cats just aren't enough.
Posted by: She's done with bad boys and ready to settle down at September 26, 2025 11:38 AM (TbWk/)
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Its after Post 100...
I just learned that we lost another "Charlie Kirk" yesterday.
Voddie Baucham Jr. Another great bold and brilliant mind and influencer who got into the trenches on campuses and with young men to win them over to the Faith. He wasn't a political activist, just a solid apologist for traditional Christian values.
I loved how young student would challenge him on whatever crap they learned in philosophy class and he would quickly get their mind right.
He went to Zambia to run a seminary to train men but due to health issues he returned.
Godspeed Voddie, retired to be with the LORD at age 56.
I just learned that we lost another "Charlie Kirk" yesterday.
Voddie Baucham Jr. Another great bold and brilliant mind and influencer who got into the trenches on campuses and with young men to win them over to the Faith. He wasn't a political activist, just a solid apologist for traditional Christian values.
I loved how young student would challenge him on whatever crap they learned in philosophy class and he would quickly get their mind right.
He went to Zambia to run a seminary to train men but due to health issues he returned.
Godspeed Voddie, retired to be with the LORD at age 56.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 26, 2025 11:38 AM (9s47C)
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Is anyone else noticing that AOC's face is starting to look like a speed bag at Gold's Gym? I guess all of her braying is beginning to take its toll.
I am disturbed by what Im seeing with Gen Y aging. too much filler and botox too young doesn't seem to be working out so well. not sure if the ozempic is good either.
Posted by: Black Orchid
Too much couch sitting and processed food.
I am disturbed by what Im seeing with Gen Y aging. too much filler and botox too young doesn't seem to be working out so well. not sure if the ozempic is good either.
Posted by: Black Orchid
Too much couch sitting and processed food.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:38 AM (PFH6n)
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>>>Blackrock, JP Morgan Chase, and all the other titans of Wall Street who bought into the hype about ESG investing deserve the loss they are going to take.
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Only regret - Blackrock didn't invest more.
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Only regret - Blackrock didn't invest more.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2025 11:38 AM (3CVIc)
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Fun fact: The Maltese language is the only Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet.
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)
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Unfortunately, I think staving off debt based collapse is what the entire Western financial regulatory and banking systems have been trying to do.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:33 AM (WDjG6)
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Obviously, for about 20 years now.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:33 AM (WDjG6)
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Obviously, for about 20 years now.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:39 AM (6bTRc)
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>>She's a catch and looking for a husband!
https://is.gd/1FztgY
She's delusional, but has money.
I'm sure she will be attracting winners with this approach.
https://is.gd/1FztgY
She's delusional, but has money.
I'm sure she will be attracting winners with this approach.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:39 AM (GbwPZ)
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I don't care that she's 41 but SF Giants fan? NEXT
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 11:40 AM (gKWVE)
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I don't delight in their pain.
I would guess that many of them were all "I don't want kids" until Mother Nature whispered, "Yes, you do."
I don't delight in their pain but I am unmoved by it. Reflects poorly on me but there you go.
I would guess that many of them were all "I don't want kids" until Mother Nature whispered, "Yes, you do."
I don't delight in their pain but I am unmoved by it. Reflects poorly on me but there you go.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 11:40 AM (ExV1e)
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150 I am disturbed by what Im seeing with Gen Y aging. too much filler and botox too young doesn't seem to be working out so well. not sure if the ozempic is good either.
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 26, 2025 11:35 AM (FHttA)
The most disturbing thing is the Buccal Fat Removal surgeries. It makes them look sunken and skeletal.
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 26, 2025 11:35 AM (FHttA)
The most disturbing thing is the Buccal Fat Removal surgeries. It makes them look sunken and skeletal.
Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 11:40 AM (UnA8+)
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How many woke leftist actors will avoid being in Gibson's heroic Christian movie? Bet more than a few
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 26, 2025 11:41 AM (8CfIy)
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165 Is anyone else noticing that AOC's face is starting to look like a speed bag at Gold's Gym? I guess all of her braying is beginning to take its toll.
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Couple of years ago she was developing jowls. Now, she's filled them, somehow.
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Couple of years ago she was developing jowls. Now, she's filled them, somehow.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2025 11:41 AM (3CVIc)
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41, liberal woman who loves cats , not religious and wants children. She forgot to add her ability to have a total lack of self-awareness.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 11:41 AM (EYmYM)
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Whatever happened to liposuction? That used to be a big thing.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:41 AM (jc0TO)
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159 "Wants marriage and kids within the next 2-3 years"
"41 years old"
"Will settle for a unicorn"
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There are other stips that make it obvious that she'll not learn anything about why she isn't married yet and why the ad won't work.
"41 years old"
"Will settle for a unicorn"
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There are other stips that make it obvious that she'll not learn anything about why she isn't married yet and why the ad won't work.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 26, 2025 11:41 AM (xif/T)
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She knows secret and forbidden techniques that will call upon your reserves of body fat. Within a year you will be sleek as an otter.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:32 AM (jc0TO)
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Heh. Might be fun, but a disqualifier for marriage. If she's that skilled she has a lot of, shall we say, prior experience. A whole lot.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:32 AM (jc0TO)
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Heh. Might be fun, but a disqualifier for marriage. If she's that skilled she has a lot of, shall we say, prior experience. A whole lot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:41 AM (6bTRc)
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I want to see Comey perp walked in handcuffs, leg chains and an orange jump suit. Maybe with a ball gag to keep him from yelling out things in court.
I forgot the Clockwork Orange eyelid braces.
I forgot the Clockwork Orange eyelid braces.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 26, 2025 11:42 AM (Da7Vv)
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I hope for her sake she can find *something* to focus on besides this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Cats.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:29 AM (PFH6n)
Box wine and benzodiazepines
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Cats.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:29 AM (PFH6n)
Box wine and benzodiazepines
Posted by: Maybe a radical commie book club at September 26, 2025 11:42 AM (TbWk/)
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Posted by: Maybe a radical commie book club at September 26, 2025 11:42 AM (TbWk/)
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Is there any other kind of book club?
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Is there any other kind of book club?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:42 AM (6bTRc)
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The FBI finally acknowledged to Congress that 274 plainclothes agents were embedded in the January 6 crowds in Washington. Let that sink in for a moment — nearly three hundred federal agents, mingling among protesters, and we're just hearing about this now?
But here's where it gets really infuriating. Just last December, the Department of Justice's own watchdog proudly announced there was "no evidence" of undercover FBI employees in the protest crowds. The Inspector General's report was crystal clear: no undercover agents at the Capitol on January 6. Period. End of story. We all knew better, of course, but it begs the question of why the truth was being covered up in the first place.
https://is.gd/w6aThy
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2025 11:17 AM
If they are "admitting" that 247 undercover agents were there then there were most likely ten times that amount if you include CI's and other fib assets.
But here's where it gets really infuriating. Just last December, the Department of Justice's own watchdog proudly announced there was "no evidence" of undercover FBI employees in the protest crowds. The Inspector General's report was crystal clear: no undercover agents at the Capitol on January 6. Period. End of story. We all knew better, of course, but it begs the question of why the truth was being covered up in the first place.
https://is.gd/w6aThy
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2025 11:17 AM
If they are "admitting" that 247 undercover agents were there then there were most likely ten times that amount if you include CI's and other fib assets.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 26, 2025 11:42 AM (0N4FZ)
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I am disturbed by what Im seeing with Gen Y aging. too much filler and botox too young doesn't seem to be working out so well. not sure if the ozempic is good either.
there's no such thing as a free lunch
ozempic and all its spinoffs have serious health repercussions
someone I know...a Boomer, not a Millenial...just came down with kidney failure due to those GLP injections
there's no such thing as a free lunch
ozempic and all its spinoffs have serious health repercussions
someone I know...a Boomer, not a Millenial...just came down with kidney failure due to those GLP injections
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2025 11:42 AM (dCxaZ)
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179 I want to see Comey perp walked in handcuffs, leg chains and an orange jump suit. Maybe with a ball gag to keep him from yelling out things in court.
I forgot the Clockwork Orange eyelid braces.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 26, 2025 11:42 AM (Da7Vv)
While being perpwalked, smacked with Wooden Initiation Paddles while people scream "WEEABOO!" (the original Perry Bible Fellowship version, not what it means now.)
I forgot the Clockwork Orange eyelid braces.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 26, 2025 11:42 AM (Da7Vv)
While being perpwalked, smacked with Wooden Initiation Paddles while people scream "WEEABOO!" (the original Perry Bible Fellowship version, not what it means now.)
Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 11:43 AM (UnA8+)
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171 I don't delight in their pain.
I would guess that many of them were all "I don't want kids" until Mother Nature whispered, "Yes, you do."
I don't delight in their pain but I am unmoved by it. Reflects poorly on me but there you go.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 11:40 AM (ExV1e)
It's a great tragedy, I do pity her. She's a woman who should have been a wife and a mother, and realizes it now. But she got trapped by her ideology that she won't give up. She bought the line that Careers should come first, and now finds out that such a choice means that's all you ever get.
I would guess that many of them were all "I don't want kids" until Mother Nature whispered, "Yes, you do."
I don't delight in their pain but I am unmoved by it. Reflects poorly on me but there you go.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 11:40 AM (ExV1e)
It's a great tragedy, I do pity her. She's a woman who should have been a wife and a mother, and realizes it now. But she got trapped by her ideology that she won't give up. She bought the line that Careers should come first, and now finds out that such a choice means that's all you ever get.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2025 11:43 AM (uWKK8)
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Is there any other kind of book club?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Hush. The first rule of book club is that we don't talk about book club.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Hush. The first rule of book club is that we don't talk about book club.
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)
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PenPal was a verrrry scary audiobook. but not that long. I stupidly listened to it on a long drive up to New England. At night. Missed my exit and ended up nearly in Maine, in the dark, in the country, then it started snowing.
Clive Barker does a good job narrating his books, but I don't think they're that scary.
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 26, 2025 11:26 AM (FHttA)
Black Orchid,
There's a few PenPal books.
Who's the author?
Clive Barker does a good job narrating his books, but I don't think they're that scary.
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 26, 2025 11:26 AM (FHttA)
Black Orchid,
There's a few PenPal books.
Who's the author?
Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2025 11:43 AM (iJfKG)
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Where can I get one of these cards? What kind of credit score do you need?
I could use a discount. Any discount.
Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at September 26, 2025 11:35 AM
AoSHQ Cardboard and higher level Membership Cards are recognized at many of the finer establishments in the world.
Membership levels are assigned after a careful review of the commmentator's Permanent Record.
I could use a discount. Any discount.
Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at September 26, 2025 11:35 AM
AoSHQ Cardboard and higher level Membership Cards are recognized at many of the finer establishments in the world.
Membership levels are assigned after a careful review of the commmentator's Permanent Record.
Posted by: Duncanthrax, who represents the at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (0sNs1)
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183 there's no such thing as a free lunch
ozempic and all its spinoffs have serious health repercussions
someone I know...a Boomer, not a Millenial...just came down with kidney failure due to those GLP injections
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2025 11:42 AM (dCxaZ)
It's not all GLP-1.
It's also that they're getting their cheek fat surgically removed, for some reason.
ozempic and all its spinoffs have serious health repercussions
someone I know...a Boomer, not a Millenial...just came down with kidney failure due to those GLP injections
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2025 11:42 AM (dCxaZ)
It's not all GLP-1.
It's also that they're getting their cheek fat surgically removed, for some reason.
Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (UnA8+)
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I wish I could bottle the way I stay in shape.
no gym, no diets...just have a nervous breakdown 2-3 times a year
works like magic!
no gym, no diets...just have a nervous breakdown 2-3 times a year
works like magic!
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (dCxaZ)
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How many "VIN-swapped" vehicles do you think Tri-Color Auto has on their lots at any given time? If I ever bought a vehicle there, I'd spend the first half hour seeing if all the Vin tags matched. Including the bloc.
Posted by: Orson at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (dIske)
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From le Robert mobile:
tricolore [tʀikɔlɔʀ] adjectif et nom
(du latin → tri- ; couleur)
1. Qui est de trois couleurs. Feux tricolores à un carrefour. Le drapeau italien est tricolore.
2. Des trois couleurs du drapeau français : bleu, blanc et rouge. Cocarde tricolore.
■ L'équipe tricolore, française. — nom Les tricolores.
tricolore [tʀikɔlɔʀ] adjectif et nom
(du latin → tri- ; couleur)
1. Qui est de trois couleurs. Feux tricolores à un carrefour. Le drapeau italien est tricolore.
2. Des trois couleurs du drapeau français : bleu, blanc et rouge. Cocarde tricolore.
■ L'équipe tricolore, française. — nom Les tricolores.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Felix, Stifel, and Floyd (My Cats) at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (oftw2)
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>>Blackrock, JP Morgan Chase, and all the other titans of Wall Street who bought into the hype about ESG investing deserve the loss they are going to take.
Replace "bought into" with "were forcing onto AMerican businesses."
Blackrock used its majority shareholder power to *demand* companies implement DEI and live up to ESG standards that *they* were pushing.
It's not just world leaders who attend WEF and other events that incubated ESG, it's these very titans. They are not victims, not even close.
Replace "bought into" with "were forcing onto AMerican businesses."
Blackrock used its majority shareholder power to *demand* companies implement DEI and live up to ESG standards that *they* were pushing.
It's not just world leaders who attend WEF and other events that incubated ESG, it's these very titans. They are not victims, not even close.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (GbwPZ)
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She's a catch and looking for a husband!
https://is.gd/1FztgY
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 11:15 AM (L/fGl)
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Oh dear.
"Wants marriage and kids within the next 2-3 years"
"41 years old"
I'm sorry, honey. It's too late. The window has closed.
I hope for her sake she can find *something* to focus on besides this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:27 AM (6bTRc)
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This is so ridiculous I have to assume it's some ploy or scam, such as to launch a social media or "influencer" scam.
There are a million dating apps she could use, including those that are designed to match people looking for serious relationships and marriage. Yet she does this? What do all those billboards cost?
Notice that in her long list of what she's looking for, she never mentions anything about looks. Every single dating app profile ever made by women will have some requirements for appearance, even if it's just "not fat or ugly."
https://is.gd/1FztgY
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 11:15 AM (L/fGl)
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Oh dear.
"Wants marriage and kids within the next 2-3 years"
"41 years old"
I'm sorry, honey. It's too late. The window has closed.
I hope for her sake she can find *something* to focus on besides this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:27 AM (6bTRc)
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This is so ridiculous I have to assume it's some ploy or scam, such as to launch a social media or "influencer" scam.
There are a million dating apps she could use, including those that are designed to match people looking for serious relationships and marriage. Yet she does this? What do all those billboards cost?
Notice that in her long list of what she's looking for, she never mentions anything about looks. Every single dating app profile ever made by women will have some requirements for appearance, even if it's just "not fat or ugly."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (iFTx/)
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I don't delight in their pain.
I would guess that many of them were all "I don't want kids" until Mother Nature whispered, "Yes, you do."
I don't delight in their pain but I am unmoved by it. Reflects poorly on me but there you go.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 11:40 AM (ExV1e)
Their pain is entirely self-inflicted. Zero fucks given. Maybe with enough pain people will start noticing the correlation and make better decisions.
I would guess that many of them were all "I don't want kids" until Mother Nature whispered, "Yes, you do."
I don't delight in their pain but I am unmoved by it. Reflects poorly on me but there you go.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 11:40 AM (ExV1e)
Their pain is entirely self-inflicted. Zero fucks given. Maybe with enough pain people will start noticing the correlation and make better decisions.
Posted by: Stop buffering their consequences at September 26, 2025 11:45 AM (TbWk/)
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It's also that they're getting their cheek fat surgically removed, for some reason.
Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (UnA8+)
Presumably to inject into their ass.
Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (UnA8+)
Presumably to inject into their ass.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 11:45 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: stu-micko-sucks at September 26, 2025 11:46 AM (MDua2)
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Specialized in high risk loans? Filed for Chapter 7?
Chapter 7 bankruptcy is a legal process for individuals and businesses seeking a "fresh start" by liquidating non-exempt assets to pay creditors and discharging most unsecured debts.
No, no, no. It was intentional and that company, and others affiliated, would have gotten away with even more under under administration through the likes of the Potato or Harris.
Great sacrifice and jail need to be the remedy.
Chapter 7 bankruptcy is a legal process for individuals and businesses seeking a "fresh start" by liquidating non-exempt assets to pay creditors and discharging most unsecured debts.
No, no, no. It was intentional and that company, and others affiliated, would have gotten away with even more under under administration through the likes of the Potato or Harris.
Great sacrifice and jail need to be the remedy.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 26, 2025 11:46 AM (NFX2v)
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So, once again, Manhattan loots their own citizens. Surprise!
Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 11:47 AM (AdHga)
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Is anyone else noticing that AOC's face is starting to look like a speed bag at Gold's Gym?
This is just a beautifully phrased question. I'm admiring it and thinking of hanging it on my wall.
This is just a beautifully phrased question. I'm admiring it and thinking of hanging it on my wall.
Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2025 11:47 AM (JW6Az)
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yeah it's tricolore. Must be a loan from the south. Like amour instead of aimeur, which we blame on the troubadours.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 11:47 AM (gKWVE)
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CDFI (“Community Development Financial Institution)” is part of the US Department of Treasury. Is being part of its qualified social bonds program give them some bit of a Federal guarantee?
Funny use for federal tax money.
Funny use for federal tax money.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 26, 2025 11:47 AM (w3u3d)
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How many "VIN-swapped" vehicles do you think Tri-Color Auto has on their lots at any given time? If I ever bought a vehicle there, I'd spend the first half hour seeing if all the Vin tags matched. Including the bloc.
Posted by: Orson at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (dIske)
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Probably a fair few, though I doubt it was on purpose.
As we learned during the run-up to the mortgage crisis, outfits who are in business to play "hot potato" with risk aren't too careful about collateral quality.
Posted by: Orson at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (dIske)
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Probably a fair few, though I doubt it was on purpose.
As we learned during the run-up to the mortgage crisis, outfits who are in business to play "hot potato" with risk aren't too careful about collateral quality.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:47 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 26, 2025 11:47 AM (jbnUc)
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There are a million dating apps she could use, including those that are designed to match people looking for serious relationships and marriage. Yet she does this? What do all those billboards cost?
She's in SF. Who knows if the three single, heterosexual men in SF are even on a dating app. It's a play of desperation.
She's in SF. Who knows if the three single, heterosexual men in SF are even on a dating app. It's a play of desperation.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 11:47 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 26, 2025 11:48 AM (NFX2v)
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Her other stops are: College Degree ideally advanced, left-wing, agnostic, no drugs or alcohol or tobacco, mentally healthy, and wants to make kids.
It's all about what she wants, and not a word about what she offers.
It's all about what she wants, and not a word about what she offers.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 26, 2025 11:48 AM (1cJoV)
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It's also that they're getting their cheek fat surgically removed, for some reason.
Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (UnA8+)
Presumably to inject into their ass.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 11:45 AM
I thought the gluteals were referred to as cheeks.
Otherwise, why is Guinan always pinching my behind and telling me I have cute cheeks?
Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (UnA8+)
Presumably to inject into their ass.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 11:45 AM
I thought the gluteals were referred to as cheeks.
Otherwise, why is Guinan always pinching my behind and telling me I have cute cheeks?
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 26, 2025 11:48 AM (0sNs1)
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201 Is anyone else noticing that AOC's face is starting to look like a speed bag at Gold's Gym?
This is just a beautifully phrased question. I'm admiring it and thinking of hanging it on my wall.
Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2025 11:47 AM (JW6Az)
Take it easy Ed Gein
This is just a beautifully phrased question. I'm admiring it and thinking of hanging it on my wall.
Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2025 11:47 AM (JW6Az)
Take it easy Ed Gein
Posted by: Dead Skin Mask at September 26, 2025 11:48 AM (TbWk/)
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It's a great tragedy, I do pity her. She's a woman who should have been a wife and a mother, and realizes it now. But she got trapped by her ideology that she won't give up. She bought the line that Careers should come first, and now finds out that such a choice means that's all you ever get.
Posted by: Tom Servo
I don't. It's not like that was the only message. They were repeatedly told be a mother. Have kids.
They rejected that message.
Posted by: Tom Servo
I don't. It's not like that was the only message. They were repeatedly told be a mother. Have kids.
They rejected that message.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:49 AM (PFH6n)
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I am not at all surprised that there is a whole industry serving illegals at the expense of the rest of us. Every place a lot of illegals live there's hosts of "immigration lawyers" who are one step below ambulance chasers whose entire job is to help illegals get benefits, housing, legal protection, etc. As millions of illegals are deported and millions leave on their own, their entire business is drying up and their questionable law licenses are of little value.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2025 11:49 AM (dfIr7)
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208 Her other stops are: College Degree ideally advanced, left-wing, agnostic, no drugs or alcohol or tobacco, mentally healthy, and wants to make kids.
It's all about what she wants, and not a word about what she offers.
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Well, the snatch is on offer.
It's all about what she wants, and not a word about what she offers.
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Well, the snatch is on offer.
Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 11:49 AM (AdHga)
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The frustrating thing about the tricolor scam like all the other scams is the people who got rich get to keep it.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 26, 2025 11:50 AM (1cJoV)
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208 Her other stops are: College Degree ideally advanced, left-wing, agnostic, no drugs or alcohol or tobacco, mentally healthy, and wants to make kids.
It's all about what she wants, and not a word about what she offers.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 26, 2025 11:48 AM (1cJoV)
I AM THE TABLE!!!
It's all about what she wants, and not a word about what she offers.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 26, 2025 11:48 AM (1cJoV)
I AM THE TABLE!!!
Posted by: Average western woman in the dating pool at September 26, 2025 11:50 AM (TbWk/)
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The "tri colors" that the name references are the colors of the Mexican flag – red, white, and green.
So not the Italian flag...
So not the Italian flag...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2025 11:50 AM (ynpvh)
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... There are a million dating apps she could use, including those that are designed to match people looking for serious relationships and marriage. Yet she does this? What do all those billboards cost? ...
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (iFTx/)
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And all of the dating apps are the same.
Men looking for wives or girlfriends find nothing. Close to 100% of the successes on the apps are casual sex for good-looking men, even if the stated purpose of the app indicates otherwise.
Men have largely learned. The dating apps are deserts now. Gotta try something if you want more than a roll in the hay with Chad or someone just as out of options as you are.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (iFTx/)
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And all of the dating apps are the same.
Men looking for wives or girlfriends find nothing. Close to 100% of the successes on the apps are casual sex for good-looking men, even if the stated purpose of the app indicates otherwise.
Men have largely learned. The dating apps are deserts now. Gotta try something if you want more than a roll in the hay with Chad or someone just as out of options as you are.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:50 AM (6bTRc)
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Their pain is entirely self-inflicted.
It is the way of Silicon Valley. Very, very easy to be 'chasing it' until it's too late for the things that should have come first.
It is the way of Silicon Valley. Very, very easy to be 'chasing it' until it's too late for the things that should have come first.
Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2025 11:50 AM (JW6Az)
Posted by: Lord Comey at September 26, 2025 11:51 AM (UWX1m)
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technically she didn't say she was DTF. she just wanted the kids. so the v is exit-only.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 11:51 AM (gKWVE)
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Every place a lot of illegals live there's hosts of "immigration lawyers" who are one step below ambulance chasers whose entire job is to help illegals get benefits, housing, legal protection, etc....
Yep. "Abogado" 3 buildings away.
Yep. "Abogado" 3 buildings away.
Posted by: Lady Hermit at September 26, 2025 11:51 AM (JCLJi)
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>>"Wants marriage and kids within the next 2-3 years"
Find a divorced older guy with adult children, and soon, grandchildren. The chances there is a straight guy in her age range who just now wants to settle down and start a family have got to be small. Add to it that the ones who are out there will naturally be looking for someone younger.
Life's not fair.
*Good advice would be start attending church to find others who have delayed the more traditional life choices, but have had a change of heart -- but she's already ruled that out!
Find a divorced older guy with adult children, and soon, grandchildren. The chances there is a straight guy in her age range who just now wants to settle down and start a family have got to be small. Add to it that the ones who are out there will naturally be looking for someone younger.
Life's not fair.
*Good advice would be start attending church to find others who have delayed the more traditional life choices, but have had a change of heart -- but she's already ruled that out!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:51 AM (GbwPZ)
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It's a great tragedy, I do pity her. She's a woman who should have been a wife and a mother, and realizes it now. But she got trapped by her ideology that she won't give up. She bought the line that Careers should come first, and now finds out that such a choice means that's all you ever get.
Posted by: Tom Servo
It is a pity that she waited so long. I managed to get a useful degree and start a career then start popping out sons by 26. After the kids were born did I wish I could stay home with them instead? Yes. When my husband passed away when the kids were still youngish, was I glad I had a good paying, stable job? Also yes.
I think where so many of these self-defeating women go wrong is believing they can and want to be girl bosses climbing the corporate ladder. Being an exec is not generally complementary to motherhood, and they need to understand that and make the appropriate decision.
Posted by: Tom Servo
It is a pity that she waited so long. I managed to get a useful degree and start a career then start popping out sons by 26. After the kids were born did I wish I could stay home with them instead? Yes. When my husband passed away when the kids were still youngish, was I glad I had a good paying, stable job? Also yes.
I think where so many of these self-defeating women go wrong is believing they can and want to be girl bosses climbing the corporate ladder. Being an exec is not generally complementary to motherhood, and they need to understand that and make the appropriate decision.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2025 11:51 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: DanMan at September 26, 2025 11:52 AM (8uzBS)
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Hopefully Fifth Third, Barclay's and JP Morgan Chase are forced to reimburse anyone to whom they sold Tricolor bonds and as well as pay fat fines. They operated like a fence selling stolen goods.
Posted by: Oglebay at September 26, 2025 11:52 AM (MMp6W)
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Le tricolore, c’est du latin!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 11:52 AM (ZVgZ4)
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So not the Italian flag...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2025 11:50 AM (ynpvh)
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Or French.
Or Russian.
Or German.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2025 11:50 AM (ynpvh)
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Or French.
Or Russian.
Or German.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:52 AM (6bTRc)
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The eagle on the Mexican flag is brown, and its feet are yellow. Wouldn't that make five colors?
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 11:53 AM (77rzZ)
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Fifth Third Bank? That's, like, one-fifteenth of a bank!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 26, 2025 11:53 AM (WvZaB)
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The Odd Thomas movie also wasn't as bad as I feared it would be. Most Koontz plots seem to be picked up on the cheap, and the producer does a cash-in by slinging a smelly hunk of trash at the screen.
Those involved in Odd Thomas actually cared about the material. 6/10
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 11:35 AM (gKWVE)
I know that Odd's girlfriend in the movie was hawt as hell. A real peach, she was.
Those involved in Odd Thomas actually cared about the material. 6/10
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 11:35 AM (gKWVE)
I know that Odd's girlfriend in the movie was hawt as hell. A real peach, she was.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 26, 2025 11:53 AM (g8Ew8)
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I take it back, apparently she loves "going out and doing things."
Spoiler: She doesn't love "going out and doing things."
Spoiler: She doesn't love "going out and doing things."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 26, 2025 11:53 AM (1cJoV)
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>>It's all about what she wants, and not a word about what she offers.
I think you've cracked the case!
I think you've cracked the case!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:53 AM (GbwPZ)
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Amazing. I'd say the wokesters who bought this line of feel-good doo-doo are getting what they deserve, but I bet like with the craptastic Mortgage backed securities there are lots of innocent investors who will get stuck holding this bag of rusted axles and broken taillights.
Posted by: LASue at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (lCppi)
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No, no, no. It was intentional and that company, and others affiliated, would have gotten away with even more under under administration through the likes of the Potato or Harris.
Great sacrifice and jail need to be the remedy.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 26, 2025 11:46 AM
They would have been fine and probably had even more business if harris had won. The only reason they went under was because Trump closed the border and deported their targeted customer base. They could have kept up their ponzi scheme for years if she had won.
Great sacrifice and jail need to be the remedy.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 26, 2025 11:46 AM
They would have been fine and probably had even more business if harris had won. The only reason they went under was because Trump closed the border and deported their targeted customer base. They could have kept up their ponzi scheme for years if she had won.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (0N4FZ)
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Man, the market is going to be flooded with brown Camrys and Tercels now.
Because the Mexican Trucks (typically jacked up 1 ton "dually" diesel) will cross into Mexico with their borrower.
I'm interested in seeing how the title process works.
Thanks Buck for this article -I love your real issues articles, not just the Hair On Fire Of The Day clickbait.
Because the Mexican Trucks (typically jacked up 1 ton "dually" diesel) will cross into Mexico with their borrower.
I'm interested in seeing how the title process works.
Thanks Buck for this article -I love your real issues articles, not just the Hair On Fire Of The Day clickbait.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (c3sdc)
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"Wants marriage and kids within the next 2-3 years"
You know the old guy who got arrested at the Kirk assassination? I think he is available.
You know the old guy who got arrested at the Kirk assassination? I think he is available.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (Da7Vv)
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... The chances there is a straight guy in her age range who just now wants to settle down and start a family have got to be small. Add to it that the ones who are out there will naturally be looking for someone younger. ...
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:51 AM (GbwPZ)
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More likely to find a guy in her age range who always wanted to but never could - but even then, the latter still applies. She's a decade too late.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:51 AM (GbwPZ)
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More likely to find a guy in her age range who always wanted to but never could - but even then, the latter still applies. She's a decade too late.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (6bTRc)
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I'm Gen-X, got married at 24, married for 30 years.
Took me two years to realize we're not meant to be alone (even though I used to crave alone time - man, was I an idiot).
Not using any app. Sorry, I have to see the face and hear the voice.
And the bars? It's like an alien world.
Took me two years to realize we're not meant to be alone (even though I used to crave alone time - man, was I an idiot).
Not using any app. Sorry, I have to see the face and hear the voice.
And the bars? It's like an alien world.
Posted by: Lady Hermit at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (JCLJi)
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Via PjMedia
The FBI finally acknowledged to Congress that 274 plainclothes agents were embedded in the January 6 crowds in Washington.
The FBI finally acknowledged to Congress that 274 plainclothes agents were embedded in the January 6 crowds in Washington.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (XVmbP)
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (FHttA)
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There are a million dating apps she could use, including those that are designed to match people looking for serious relationships and marriage. Yet she does this? What do all those billboards cost? ...
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (iFTx/)
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And all of the dating apps are the same.
Men looking for wives or girlfriends find nothing. Close to 100% of the successes on the apps are casual sex for good-looking men, even if the stated purpose of the app indicates otherwise.
Men have largely learned. The dating apps are deserts now. Gotta try something if you want more than a roll in the hay with Chad or someone just as out of options as you are.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:50 AM (6bTRc)
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Untrue, bro. Of the last 10 or so marriages I'm aware of, probably 8 were through apps. Another probably 6 serious dating relationships I'm aware of were through apps. My nephew is about to get engaged with a girl he met through bumble. They are now living together.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:44 AM (iFTx/)
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And all of the dating apps are the same.
Men looking for wives or girlfriends find nothing. Close to 100% of the successes on the apps are casual sex for good-looking men, even if the stated purpose of the app indicates otherwise.
Men have largely learned. The dating apps are deserts now. Gotta try something if you want more than a roll in the hay with Chad or someone just as out of options as you are.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:50 AM (6bTRc)
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Untrue, bro. Of the last 10 or so marriages I'm aware of, probably 8 were through apps. Another probably 6 serious dating relationships I'm aware of were through apps. My nephew is about to get engaged with a girl he met through bumble. They are now living together.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:55 AM (iFTx/)
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Are you telling me it was all a big scam.
Thank God. I couldn't keep up with the pronouns.
Thank God. I couldn't keep up with the pronouns.
Posted by: DaveA at September 26, 2025 11:55 AM (FhXTo)
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234. They would have been fine and probably had even more business if harris had won. The only reason they went under was because Trump closed the border and deported their targeted customer base. They could have kept up their ponzi scheme for years if she had won.
Posted by: Mister Scott
Agree.
Posted by: Mister Scott
Agree.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 26, 2025 11:55 AM (NFX2v)
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I think where so many of these self-defeating women go wrong is believing they can and want to be girl bosses climbing the corporate ladder. Being an exec is not generally complementary to motherhood, and they need to understand that and make the appropriate decision.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2025 11:51 AM (ftFVW)
I seem to recall a bit in a movie, although I can't remember what movie, where some male executive is telling a female (up-and-comer, maybe?) that if she thinks she's going to have it all she's deluding herself.
He has a house, and children, and this, and that... but only because his wife takes care of all that stuff.
Unstated - otherwise he'd just be a rich, older guy in an apartment banging young chicks who're grossed out by the experience but want the money.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2025 11:51 AM (ftFVW)
I seem to recall a bit in a movie, although I can't remember what movie, where some male executive is telling a female (up-and-comer, maybe?) that if she thinks she's going to have it all she's deluding herself.
He has a house, and children, and this, and that... but only because his wife takes care of all that stuff.
Unstated - otherwise he'd just be a rich, older guy in an apartment banging young chicks who're grossed out by the experience but want the money.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 11:55 AM (ExV1e)
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Yes, tricolore is used for anything in three colors, including the Italian flag, but used generically in French it means the flag of the French Republic.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 11:56 AM (ZVgZ4)
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Fifth Third Bank? That's, like, one-fifteenth of a bank!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 26, 2025 11:53 AM (WvZaB)
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The Third Bank bought the Fifth Bank. What I heard is they inverted it from the original plan of "Third-Fifth Bank" because they were worried about the implication of drunken bankers (those on their third fifth of the day) during the temperance era.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 26, 2025 11:53 AM (WvZaB)
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The Third Bank bought the Fifth Bank. What I heard is they inverted it from the original plan of "Third-Fifth Bank" because they were worried about the implication of drunken bankers (those on their third fifth of the day) during the temperance era.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:56 AM (6bTRc)
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The chances there is a straight guy in her age range who just now wants to settle down and start a family have got to be small. Add to it that the ones who are out there will naturally be looking for someone younger. ...
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:51 AM (GbwPZ)
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More likely to find a guy in her age range who always wanted to but never could - but even then, the latter still applies. She's a decade too late.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (6bTRc)
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See my comment above. I do not think this is legit. It's a scam or hook for something else.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2025 11:51 AM (GbwPZ)
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More likely to find a guy in her age range who always wanted to but never could - but even then, the latter still applies. She's a decade too late.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (6bTRc)
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See my comment above. I do not think this is legit. It's a scam or hook for something else.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)
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I believe the term for women who overestimate themselves is "Brie Larson Syndrome."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 26, 2025 11:56 AM (1cJoV)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 26, 2025 11:57 AM (jbnUc)
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Untrue, bro. Of the last 10 or so marriages I'm aware of, probably 8 were through apps. Another probably 6 serious dating relationships I'm aware of were through apps. My nephew is about to get engaged with a girl he met through bumble. They are now living together.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:55 AM (iFTx/)
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I know *zero* men who found a serious relationship or a wife from an app. I know a ton of men who struck out or use them to get laid.
Maybe it's regional, I dunno.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:55 AM (iFTx/)
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I know *zero* men who found a serious relationship or a wife from an app. I know a ton of men who struck out or use them to get laid.
Maybe it's regional, I dunno.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:57 AM (6bTRc)
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I heard it was because the original bank was on the corner of Fifth Street and Third Street.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 26, 2025 11:57 AM (1cJoV)
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Fifth Third Bank? That's, like, one-fifteenth of a bank!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 26, 2025 11:53 AM (WvZaB)
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It's one and two-thirds banks. So it's extra!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 26, 2025 11:53 AM (WvZaB)
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It's one and two-thirds banks. So it's extra!
Posted by: Dat maff be maffin at September 26, 2025 11:57 AM (TbWk/)
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Axios: Netanyahu faces mass walk out protest at UN speech, Barak Ravid, Dave Lawler, 2 hours ago
In part, The vast majority of officials and diplomats in the UN General Assembly Hall appeared to walk out as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage for his address on Friday.
Why it matters: Israel is deeply isolated internationally as it presses on with the war in Gaza. Outside of President Trump, Netanyahu — who faces war crimes charges from the ICC — has very few allies on the global stage."
In part, The vast majority of officials and diplomats in the UN General Assembly Hall appeared to walk out as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage for his address on Friday.
Why it matters: Israel is deeply isolated internationally as it presses on with the war in Gaza. Outside of President Trump, Netanyahu — who faces war crimes charges from the ICC — has very few allies on the global stage."
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 26, 2025 11:57 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: DaveA at September 26, 2025 11:57 AM (FhXTo)
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The other day ICE posted on its twatters account a warning to "all businesses, in all industries" that it was enforcing the law on employing illegals.
Hoping against hope that they're finally taking the obvious, low-cost, low-risk, and highly leveraged approach that's been suggested to them from Term 1.
Jawbone the employers, do some raids to focus minds, then contact known violators directly, with suggestions to work together to "solve the problem" with a minimum of fuss. A handful of enforcement actions, and a couple hundred phone calls and meetings, can do more to remove illegals from the US than any other single strategery.
Hoping against hope that they're finally taking the obvious, low-cost, low-risk, and highly leveraged approach that's been suggested to them from Term 1.
Jawbone the employers, do some raids to focus minds, then contact known violators directly, with suggestions to work together to "solve the problem" with a minimum of fuss. A handful of enforcement actions, and a couple hundred phone calls and meetings, can do more to remove illegals from the US than any other single strategery.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2025 11:58 AM (U/Byj)
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The "tri colors" that the name references are the colors of the Mexican flag – red, white, and green.
They call their national team 'El Tri' or 'El Tricolor', after the flag, so the name is a good way to attract the right attention.
They call their national team 'El Tri' or 'El Tricolor', after the flag, so the name is a good way to attract the right attention.
Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2025 11:58 AM (JW6Az)
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Untrue, bro. Of the last 10 or so marriages I'm aware of, probably 8 were through apps. Another probably 6 serious dating relationships I'm aware of were through apps. My nephew is about to get engaged with a girl he met through bumble. They are now living together.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
I met my wife through a good old-fashioned dating service, where you sat through a short video interview and wrote up a short profile of yourself with a photo that went into a binder.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
I met my wife through a good old-fashioned dating service, where you sat through a short video interview and wrote up a short profile of yourself with a photo that went into a binder.
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)
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See my comment above. I do not think this is legit. It's a scam or hook for something else.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)
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Oh, very likely. It could be sincere, but needn't be. And if the real strategy is fame, she got it - for now.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)
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Oh, very likely. It could be sincere, but needn't be. And if the real strategy is fame, she got it - for now.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:58 AM (6bTRc)
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US down 3-1 after the morning at Ryder Cup
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 26, 2025 11:58 AM (8CfIy)
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Took me two years to realize we're not meant to be alone
Posted by: Lady Hermit at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (JCLJi)
Guys are better suited to it. Presumably from long hunting trips back in the day.
Posted by: Lady Hermit at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (JCLJi)
Guys are better suited to it. Presumably from long hunting trips back in the day.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 11:59 AM (ExV1e)
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But for American citizens seeking affordable used cars, there is some good news. Supply is about to improve in relation to demand.
Provided you like low riders
Provided you like low riders
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2025 11:59 AM (dfIr7)
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228 The eagle on the Mexican flag is brown, and its feet are yellow. Wouldn't that make five colors?
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 11:53 AM (77rzZ)
There's even orange and blue, and a little mini tri-color flag embedded in it...
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 11:53 AM (77rzZ)
There's even orange and blue, and a little mini tri-color flag embedded in it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2025 12:00 PM (ynpvh)
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Fifth Third Bank?
I think the first Third Bank sank into the swamp. The second one, well, you know the story.
I think the first Third Bank sank into the swamp. The second one, well, you know the story.
Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2025 12:00 PM (JW6Az)
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In part, The vast majority of officials and diplomats in the UN General Assembly Hall appeared to walk out as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage for his address on Friday.
Why it matters: Israel is deeply isolated internationally as it presses on with the war in Gaza. Outside of President Trump, Netanyahu — who faces war crimes charges from the ICC — has very few allies on the global stage."
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 26, 2025 11:57 AM (NFX2v)
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Why it matters: It doesn't. Whatever Israel's challenges in the area of foreign affairs, a UN walkout is irrelevant in all cases because the UN, while self-impressed, is thoroughly and utterly worthless as well as powerless.
Why it matters: Israel is deeply isolated internationally as it presses on with the war in Gaza. Outside of President Trump, Netanyahu — who faces war crimes charges from the ICC — has very few allies on the global stage."
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 26, 2025 11:57 AM (NFX2v)
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Why it matters: It doesn't. Whatever Israel's challenges in the area of foreign affairs, a UN walkout is irrelevant in all cases because the UN, while self-impressed, is thoroughly and utterly worthless as well as powerless.
Posted by: Mirror Universe Axios at September 26, 2025 12:00 PM (6bTRc)
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It’s like when Americans talk about the old red, white, and blue: we mean the flag of our republic, but those are also the colors of the Russian flag. It all depends on context. Hey! Can’t you guys read French? It’s all there in the definition I posted from le Robert mobile!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 12:00 PM (ZVgZ4)
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My son is 34 and in the dating pool right now. It's ugly.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 26, 2025 12:01 PM (1cJoV)
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Jawbone the employers, do some raids to focus minds, then contact known violators directly, with suggestions to work together to "solve the problem" with a minimum of fuss. A handful of enforcement actions, and a couple hundred phone calls and meetings, can do more to remove illegals from the US than any other single strategery.
Posted by: rhomboid
I'm assuming Homan and Stephen Miller have pitched this already to Trump. Not sure what Trump sees as enough downside to delay or not implement.
Posted by: rhomboid
I'm assuming Homan and Stephen Miller have pitched this already to Trump. Not sure what Trump sees as enough downside to delay or not implement.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 26, 2025 12:01 PM (xif/T)
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Apropos of nothing, they are handing out gifts today, we've increased the projects margin considerably, so they are gifting the PMO either maxed out HP's or Maxed out MacBook Pro's.
Guess who's getting a Maxed Out Macbook Pro?
Guess who's getting a Maxed Out Macbook Pro?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2025 12:01 PM (XV/Pl)
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But for American citizens seeking affordable used cars, there is some good news. Supply is about to improve in relation to demand.
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We're on it.
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We're on it.
Posted by: Cash for Clunkers, Round Two at September 26, 2025 12:01 PM (6bTRc)
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‘ I AM THE TABLE!!!’
Someone has been watching Hoe Math.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 26, 2025 11:57 AM (jbnUc)
Literally any set of videos taking about modern dating. hoe_math talks about it but you can see it everywhere. That and "I'm the prize".
Someone has been watching Hoe Math.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 26, 2025 11:57 AM (jbnUc)
Literally any set of videos taking about modern dating. hoe_math talks about it but you can see it everywhere. That and "I'm the prize".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 12:02 PM (ExV1e)
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Untrue, bro. Of the last 10 or so marriages I'm aware of, probably 8 were through apps. Another probably 6 serious dating relationships I'm aware of were through apps. My nephew is about to get engaged with a girl he met through bumble. They are now living together.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
I met my wife through a good old-fashioned dating service, where you sat through a short video interview and wrote up a short profile of yourself with a photo that went into a binder.
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)
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Yea. I know a few who did that (my business partner Emma, the rich, hot Taiwanese former rave-party girl) or something similar. There are still glossy advertisements in magazines for match-making services. So these kinds of services not only still exist, but they are in high demand.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
I met my wife through a good old-fashioned dating service, where you sat through a short video interview and wrote up a short profile of yourself with a photo that went into a binder.
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)
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Yea. I know a few who did that (my business partner Emma, the rich, hot Taiwanese former rave-party girl) or something similar. There are still glossy advertisements in magazines for match-making services. So these kinds of services not only still exist, but they are in high demand.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)
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195.
This is so ridiculous I have to assume it's some ploy or scam, such as to launch a social media or "influencer" scam.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
In my region, it 100% means the woman has hooked up - often very recently 'married' since Trump regained office - with an illegal 'gentleman' because she was desperate to be a cherished wife.
Of course, it's BS and she should be locked up for aiding or something.
This is so ridiculous I have to assume it's some ploy or scam, such as to launch a social media or "influencer" scam.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
In my region, it 100% means the woman has hooked up - often very recently 'married' since Trump regained office - with an illegal 'gentleman' because she was desperate to be a cherished wife.
Of course, it's BS and she should be locked up for aiding or something.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 26, 2025 12:02 PM (NFX2v)
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Daniel Chu sure likes to donate to political candidates. Although, he's reluctant to list his employer with the donation. Wonder why?
Posted by: Orson at September 26, 2025 12:02 PM (dIske)
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rickb223, I guarantee if you drove down the freeway in Texas and passed Carmax's and Autonation's, you also passed Tricolor. They're usually only a couple of blocks away.
Posted by: ed in texas at September 26, 2025 12:02 PM (aRhta)
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‘ I AM THE TABLE!!!’
Someone has been watching Hoe Math.
He got that from the many videos of women being interviewed who responded with that when asked what they bring to the table in terms of a potential relationship.
Someone has been watching Hoe Math.
He got that from the many videos of women being interviewed who responded with that when asked what they bring to the table in terms of a potential relationship.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2025 12:02 PM (dfIr7)
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Billboard chick is a dumpster fire.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 26, 2025 12:02 PM (snZF9)
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Man, the market is going to be flooded with brown Camrys and Tercels now.
You're definitely over 29. Today that would be white Nissan Altimas, the preferred car of people with no credit.
You're definitely over 29. Today that would be white Nissan Altimas, the preferred car of people with no credit.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 26, 2025 12:02 PM (2ocoG)
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I have just been informed, via a post at Democratic Underground, that President Trump has been handed a major political defeat by le affaire Kimmel. Sad!
Posted by: Duncanthrax, a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, according to Grok at September 26, 2025 12:02 PM (0sNs1)
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I met my wife through a good old-fashioned dating service, where you sat through a short video interview and wrote up a short profile of yourself with a photo that went into a binder.
Posted by: Bulg
Now I understand better Romney's 'binders full of women' pitch to the electorate.
Posted by: Bulg
Now I understand better Romney's 'binders full of women' pitch to the electorate.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 26, 2025 12:02 PM (xif/T)
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238 I'm Gen-X, got married at 24, married for 30 years.
Took me two years to realize we're not meant to be alone (even though I used to crave alone time - man, was I an idiot).
Not using any app. Sorry, I have to see the face and hear the voice.
And the bars? It's like an alien world.
Posted by: Lady Hermit at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (JCLJi)
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I tried the Tantra Speed Dating and it was excellent IMO. It's not just talking, there are different activities as the women rotate among the men. So a lot of interactions. The women end up choosing the men as they go around but the selection process is completely hidden. You get an email the next day with the contact info of the women that selected you.
For me, I got four women to match with me including the one I was most interested in and when we talked on the phone a couple of days later she said she was most interested in me too.
Took me two years to realize we're not meant to be alone (even though I used to crave alone time - man, was I an idiot).
Not using any app. Sorry, I have to see the face and hear the voice.
And the bars? It's like an alien world.
Posted by: Lady Hermit at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (JCLJi)
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I tried the Tantra Speed Dating and it was excellent IMO. It's not just talking, there are different activities as the women rotate among the men. So a lot of interactions. The women end up choosing the men as they go around but the selection process is completely hidden. You get an email the next day with the contact info of the women that selected you.
For me, I got four women to match with me including the one I was most interested in and when we talked on the phone a couple of days later she said she was most interested in me too.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 26, 2025 12:02 PM (XVmbP)
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I met my wife through a good old-fashioned dating service, where you sat through a short video interview and wrote up a short profile of yourself with a photo that went into a binder.
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)
Same. Mid '90s.
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)
Same. Mid '90s.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 12:03 PM (ExV1e)
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I’m confused… I thought the tri-color was that magical little device Spock carried everywhere to detect anything and everything
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 26, 2025 12:03 PM (WnEm5)
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I worked on a mortgage fraud case while i was in law school. The appraisers, agents, and sellers churned the same group of homes in Palm Springs and Colorado, Montana and a few other states, routinely re-appraising a recently sold home at a huge increase, getting a new loan, and "re-selling". The paperwork was a pain but I remember we put together a great chart showing that within 2 years, a $90k dump in Palm Springs was re-appraised for $250k, then $500, then $800. It was quite the scam. The banks didn't seem to ask many questions.
Posted by: LASue at September 26, 2025 12:03 PM (lCppi)
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‘ My son is 34 and in the dating pool right now. It's ugly.’
Does he live near San Francisco?
‘ My son is 34 and in the dating pool right now. It's ugly.’
Does he live near San Francisco?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 26, 2025 12:04 PM (jbnUc)
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The "tri colors" that the name references are the colors of the Mexican flag – red, white, and green.
So not the Italian flag...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Dago to a different lender. (Sorry)
So not the Italian flag...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Dago to a different lender. (Sorry)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 12:04 PM (PFH6n)
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238 I'm Gen-X, got married at 24, married for 30 years.
Got married at 24 also . Been married 52 years...
Got married at 24 also . Been married 52 years...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 26, 2025 12:04 PM (VE6XX)
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Apropos of nothing, they are handing out gifts today, we've increased the projects margin considerably, so they are gifting the PMO either maxed out HP's or Maxed out MacBook Pro's.
Guess who's getting a Maxed Out Macbook Pro?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2025 12:01 PM
Good choice. Presumably only to the PMPs, though, right?
Guess who's getting a Maxed Out Macbook Pro?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2025 12:01 PM
Good choice. Presumably only to the PMPs, though, right?
Posted by: Duncanthrax, a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, according to Grok at September 26, 2025 12:04 PM (0sNs1)
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I tried the Tantra Speed Dating and it was excellent IMO. It's not just talking, there are different activities as the women rotate among the men. So a lot of interactions.
I cannot even imagine wanting to go through that but the older I get the more introverted I seem to be.
I cannot even imagine wanting to go through that but the older I get the more introverted I seem to be.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2025 12:05 PM (dfIr7)
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281 I met my wife through a good old-fashioned dating service, where you sat through a short video interview and wrote up a short profile of yourself with a photo that went into a binder.
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)
Same. Mid '90s.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 12:03 PM (ExV1e)
Met mine in middle-school (no, I'm no perv; she was older than me). Knew each other, but nothing more than that through middle and high school. Met up again more than a decade later as I helped her and her brother move to a new place and hit it off. Funny how life goes...
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)
Same. Mid '90s.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 12:03 PM (ExV1e)
Met mine in middle-school (no, I'm no perv; she was older than me). Knew each other, but nothing more than that through middle and high school. Met up again more than a decade later as I helped her and her brother move to a new place and hit it off. Funny how life goes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2025 12:05 PM (ynpvh)
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the UN, while self-impressed, is thoroughly and utterly worthless as well as powerless.
Posted by: Mirror Universe Axios at September 26, 2025 12:00 PM (6bTRc)
This is true. All the countries which would act against Israel, in one way or another, would use a UN resolution as an excuse but they'd do the same thing without one in a pinch.
Posted by: Mirror Universe Axios at September 26, 2025 12:00 PM (6bTRc)
This is true. All the countries which would act against Israel, in one way or another, would use a UN resolution as an excuse but they'd do the same thing without one in a pinch.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 12:05 PM (ExV1e)
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Untrue, bro. Of the last 10 or so marriages I'm aware of, probably 8 were through apps. Another probably 6 serious dating relationships I'm aware of were through apps. My nephew is about to get engaged with a girl he met through bumble. They are now living together.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:55 AM (iFTx/)
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I know *zero* men who found a serious relationship or a wife from an app. I know a ton of men who struck out or use them to get laid.
Maybe it's regional, I dunno.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:57 AM (6bTRc)
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It helps if you're in a larger town or city because it's ultimately a numbers game. But you get out of the apps what you put in.
If you're looking for something serious, and are realistic about your potential matches, you have a good chance of finding someone. Of course there are never any guarantees in life.
Of course, if you're an average guy and you only swipe right on Mexican Weather Girls, then you are sure to get nothing and probably even scammed.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 11:55 AM (iFTx/)
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I know *zero* men who found a serious relationship or a wife from an app. I know a ton of men who struck out or use them to get laid.
Maybe it's regional, I dunno.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:57 AM (6bTRc)
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It helps if you're in a larger town or city because it's ultimately a numbers game. But you get out of the apps what you put in.
If you're looking for something serious, and are realistic about your potential matches, you have a good chance of finding someone. Of course there are never any guarantees in life.
Of course, if you're an average guy and you only swipe right on Mexican Weather Girls, then you are sure to get nothing and probably even scammed.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/)
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Supply! Takes care of the loss of used cars under Cash for Clunkers.
Posted by: KungPow at September 26, 2025 12:06 PM (WOoT+)
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I have the same problem with Hoe Math as I do with Vox Day. When he posts some controversial comment, that I know elsewhere is just false, I have to stop and ponder if he's being honestly wrong or if he's being rhetorical.
Hoe Math has literally admitted he likes to play with readers' expectations
x.com/ItIsHoeMath/status/1971131041688715628#
Scott Adams plays tricks like this too but I haven't yet caught him out as being deliberately sneaky to his audience.
Hoe Math has literally admitted he likes to play with readers' expectations
x.com/ItIsHoeMath/status/1971131041688715628#
Scott Adams plays tricks like this too but I haven't yet caught him out as being deliberately sneaky to his audience.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 12:06 PM (gKWVE)
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183 I am disturbed by what Im seeing with Gen Y aging. too much filler and botox too young doesn't seem to be working out so well. not sure if the ozempic is good either.
there's no such thing as a free lunch
ozempic and all its spinoffs have serious health repercussions
someone I know...a Boomer, not a Millenial...just came down with kidney failure due to those GLP injections
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2025 11:42 AM (dCxaZ)
This is why it was intended for diabetics who could not control their diabetes. For them, that cost/benefit analysis ratio still works...for a chubby middle aged relatively healthy male, not so much...
there's no such thing as a free lunch
ozempic and all its spinoffs have serious health repercussions
someone I know...a Boomer, not a Millenial...just came down with kidney failure due to those GLP injections
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2025 11:42 AM (dCxaZ)
This is why it was intended for diabetics who could not control their diabetes. For them, that cost/benefit analysis ratio still works...for a chubby middle aged relatively healthy male, not so much...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 26, 2025 12:06 PM (tOcjL)
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Trump is at the Ryder Cup
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 26, 2025 12:07 PM (8CfIy)
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The FBI finally acknowledged to Congress that 274 plainclothes agents were embedded in the January 6 crowds in Washington.
Remember that there were other Feds there: DHS, US Martials, CIA, NSA, DIA, ATF... everyone but ICE, since the Feds knew only American citizens would be there, so we know Ray Epps wasn't an ICE informant.
Remember that there were other Feds there: DHS, US Martials, CIA, NSA, DIA, ATF... everyone but ICE, since the Feds knew only American citizens would be there, so we know Ray Epps wasn't an ICE informant.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 26, 2025 12:07 PM (Da7Vv)
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285 The "tri colors" that the name references are the colors of the Mexican flag – red, white, and green.
So not the Italian flag...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Dago to a different lender. (Sorry)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 12:04 PM (PFH6n)
My Dad grew up in St. Louis. Told us about a place they called Dago Hill...
But Dad never used the N word...
So not the Italian flag...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Dago to a different lender. (Sorry)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 12:04 PM (PFH6n)
My Dad grew up in St. Louis. Told us about a place they called Dago Hill...
But Dad never used the N word...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2025 12:07 PM (ynpvh)
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‘ I AM THE TABLE!!!’
Someone has been watching Hoe Math.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 26, 2025 11:57 AM (jbnUc)
Just lots of the source material. The delusion-levels of entitlement are horrifying. No wonder we have a birth deficit.
Someone has been watching Hoe Math.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 26, 2025 11:57 AM (jbnUc)
Just lots of the source material. The delusion-levels of entitlement are horrifying. No wonder we have a birth deficit.
Posted by: Though Hoe Math is a sharp analyst at September 26, 2025 12:07 PM (TbWk/)
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The UN was designed from the ground up as a communist organization designed to long-term promote international socialist ideals. We should not only leave it, but get other nations to leave it, and eject them from the USA.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2025 12:07 PM (dfIr7)
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I take it back, apparently she loves "going out and doing things."
Spoiler: She doesn't love "going out and doing things."
"Going out and doing things" is current female code for "trying to land Chad or Tyrone". In other words, she's not going to be doing things with you.
Spoiler: She doesn't love "going out and doing things."
"Going out and doing things" is current female code for "trying to land Chad or Tyrone". In other words, she's not going to be doing things with you.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 26, 2025 12:07 PM (2ocoG)
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296 The FBI finally acknowledged to Congress that 274 plainclothes agents were embedded in the January 6 crowds in Washington.
Remember that there were other Feds there: DHS, US Martials, CIA, NSA, DIA, ATF... everyone but ICE, since the Feds knew only American citizens would be there, so we know Ray Epps wasn't an ICE informant.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 26, 2025 12:07 PM (Da7Vv)
And how many others NOT directly on the FIB payroll, like informants?
Remember that there were other Feds there: DHS, US Martials, CIA, NSA, DIA, ATF... everyone but ICE, since the Feds knew only American citizens would be there, so we know Ray Epps wasn't an ICE informant.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 26, 2025 12:07 PM (Da7Vv)
And how many others NOT directly on the FIB payroll, like informants?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2025 12:08 PM (ynpvh)
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Bundling mortgages was bad enough but used car loans? Holy depreciating assets, Batman!
Posted by: Squid at September 26, 2025 12:08 PM (BQpEe)
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excuse me, US Marshalls
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 26, 2025 12:08 PM (Da7Vv)
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296 The FBI finally acknowledged to Congress that 274 plainclothes agents were embedded in the January 6 crowds in Washington
Plainclothes ? Doubt it.. I imagine they were wearing MAGA hats
Plainclothes ? Doubt it.. I imagine they were wearing MAGA hats
Posted by: It's me donna at September 26, 2025 12:08 PM (VE6XX)
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My son is 34 and in the dating pool right now. It's ugly.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 26, 2025 12:01 PM (1cJoV)
If I found myself single at this point I would either-
1. return to my younger musician self surounded in mayhem and debauchery
2. Go "then came bronson" and wander around the country on a harley
3. Go to africa and find merc work eliminating militant muslims for christ.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 26, 2025 12:01 PM (1cJoV)
If I found myself single at this point I would either-
1. return to my younger musician self surounded in mayhem and debauchery
2. Go "then came bronson" and wander around the country on a harley
3. Go to africa and find merc work eliminating militant muslims for christ.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 26, 2025 12:08 PM (snZF9)
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Chuck Martel the only direct evidence we have from the boss is very discouraging. The day he got his BBB passed, at the Iowa rally, he talked about exemptions (de facto temporary amnesty) for ag workers, you know, to help the poor farmers. Astonishing, really. Fortunately, apparently, the comment was met with silence from the crowd.
Haven't checked lately, but recall that two months ago around 6 or 8 GOPe congressthings intro'd a bill for amnesty for ag and hospitality sector illegals. Stunning. And a good reminder of how bad things are. A massive, natural base of popular common sense support for reintro'ing rule of law in immigration surrounds a political class/business class that is utterly uninterested in legality, or social or economic consequences for citizens. Without Trump there'd be no hope at all. And with a Trump that is anything other than 100% all in, any hope based on analysis gets pretty thin.
Three years from now, any Dem gets in the WH, it's as though Trump never existed, on this vital issue. There isn't much time, and there's barely any political margin of safety.
Haven't checked lately, but recall that two months ago around 6 or 8 GOPe congressthings intro'd a bill for amnesty for ag and hospitality sector illegals. Stunning. And a good reminder of how bad things are. A massive, natural base of popular common sense support for reintro'ing rule of law in immigration surrounds a political class/business class that is utterly uninterested in legality, or social or economic consequences for citizens. Without Trump there'd be no hope at all. And with a Trump that is anything other than 100% all in, any hope based on analysis gets pretty thin.
Three years from now, any Dem gets in the WH, it's as though Trump never existed, on this vital issue. There isn't much time, and there's barely any political margin of safety.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2025 12:08 PM (U/Byj)
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270, 275
I didn’t know the Table meme was that common.
Hoe Math is just where I know of it.
It says something when everyone and their brother use that entitlement meme.
I didn’t know the Table meme was that common.
Hoe Math is just where I know of it.
It says something when everyone and their brother use that entitlement meme.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 26, 2025 12:08 PM (jbnUc)
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That was the tricorder!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 12:09 PM (ZVgZ4)
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302 Bundling mortgages was bad enough but used car loans? Holy depreciating assets, Batman!
Posted by: Squid at September 26, 2025 12:08 PM (BQpEe)
Surprised if Biden's Admin wasn't involved in funding it...
Posted by: Squid at September 26, 2025 12:08 PM (BQpEe)
Surprised if Biden's Admin wasn't involved in funding it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2025 12:09 PM (ynpvh)
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308 That was the tricorder!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 12:09 PM (ZVgZ4)
Never played that instrument in elementary school...
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 12:09 PM (ZVgZ4)
Never played that instrument in elementary school...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2025 12:09 PM (ynpvh)
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Nood. 247.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2025 12:09 PM (ExV1e)
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Tricolor--Play with fire: get burned.
Posted by: rocdoctom at September 26, 2025 12:10 PM (R5ZxA)
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And the bars? It's like an alien world.
Posted by: Lady Hermit at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (JCLJi)
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I tried the Tantra Speed Dating and it was excellent IMO. It's not just talking, there are different activities as the women rotate among the men. So a lot of interactions. The women end up choosing the men as they go around but the selection process is completely hidden. You get an email the next day with the contact info of the women that selected you.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 26, 2025 12:02 PM (XVmbP)
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For S&G, I did speed dating a few times. I was the Designated Dude to a bunch of (very desirable) girls who wanted to try it. I was in it mostly for laughs. That being said, I did even up with a handful of phone numbers afterwards. I was shocked at the overall quality of the girls.
Posted by: Lady Hermit at September 26, 2025 11:54 AM (JCLJi)
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I tried the Tantra Speed Dating and it was excellent IMO. It's not just talking, there are different activities as the women rotate among the men. So a lot of interactions. The women end up choosing the men as they go around but the selection process is completely hidden. You get an email the next day with the contact info of the women that selected you.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 26, 2025 12:02 PM (XVmbP)
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For S&G, I did speed dating a few times. I was the Designated Dude to a bunch of (very desirable) girls who wanted to try it. I was in it mostly for laughs. That being said, I did even up with a handful of phone numbers afterwards. I was shocked at the overall quality of the girls.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 26, 2025 12:10 PM (iFTx/)
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If I found myself single at this point I would either-
1. return to my younger musician self surounded in mayhem and debauchery
2. Go "then came bronson" and wander around the country on a harley
3. Go to africa and find merc work eliminating militant muslims for christ.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 26, 2025 12:08 PM (snZF9
Join Turning Point USA.. Some really pretty girls I've seen in the pictures.. Unless you're an old coot..
1. return to my younger musician self surounded in mayhem and debauchery
2. Go "then came bronson" and wander around the country on a harley
3. Go to africa and find merc work eliminating militant muslims for christ.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 26, 2025 12:08 PM (snZF9
Join Turning Point USA.. Some really pretty girls I've seen in the pictures.. Unless you're an old coot..
Posted by: It's me donna at September 26, 2025 12:10 PM (VE6XX)
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NOOD
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2025 12:10 PM (ynpvh)
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Next domino to fall is Carvana, that company is an absolute house of cards. The business is just selling stock to gullible investors.
Posted by: Leupold at September 26, 2025 12:10 PM (4pwAx)
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I cannot even imagine wanting to go through that but the older I get the more introverted I seem to be.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2025 12:05 PM (dfIr7)
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There was a surprising amount of touching, nothing sexual, but plenty of hand holding, hugs and even massages. I had to hand it to the women actually doing all that for men who were complete strangers.
It was kinda hippie dippy but they told the men to be masculine and the women feminine. And everyone was very nice to each other.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2025 12:05 PM (dfIr7)
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There was a surprising amount of touching, nothing sexual, but plenty of hand holding, hugs and even massages. I had to hand it to the women actually doing all that for men who were complete strangers.
It was kinda hippie dippy but they told the men to be masculine and the women feminine. And everyone was very nice to each other.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 26, 2025 12:10 PM (XVmbP)
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I have the same problem with Hoe Math as I do with Vox Day.
Posted by: gKWVE at
Vox Day is a crank who reflexively takes the wrong side because he thinks he is so much smarter than everybody else. Now he's arguing that man never went to the moon and the whole Apollo Project was a Hollywood op.
Posted by: gKWVE at
Vox Day is a crank who reflexively takes the wrong side because he thinks he is so much smarter than everybody else. Now he's arguing that man never went to the moon and the whole Apollo Project was a Hollywood op.
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 12:11 PM (77rzZ)
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305 My son is 34 and in the dating pool right now. It's ugly.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 26, 2025 12:01 PM (1cJoV)
Have him go to Theology on Tap events and Young Adult Ministry events (my Church has both) - his odds of landing a nice marriable woman in her 20s will skyrocket.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 26, 2025 12:01 PM (1cJoV)
Have him go to Theology on Tap events and Young Adult Ministry events (my Church has both) - his odds of landing a nice marriable woman in her 20s will skyrocket.
Posted by: Nova Local at September 26, 2025 12:11 PM (tOcjL)
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This Ryder Cup has a familiar look so far… Europe running away with it even though the US has better players 1-12…. The US just can’t seem to get the knack of team play… especially foursomes where they always seem to struggle…. Maybe better this afternoon in four-ball
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 26, 2025 12:11 PM (OW907)
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I met my wife in an antique shop. She was hungover, wearing a tee shirt under a black leather motorcycle jacket. She had a real nice ass, too.
Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 12:12 PM (AdHga)
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@287
>>Good choice. Presumably only to the PMPs, though, right?
PM's are all PMP, APM's are PMP too, but the APM's get cash bonuses and not gifts, PM's get cash bonuses as well as gifts.
>>Good choice. Presumably only to the PMPs, though, right?
PM's are all PMP, APM's are PMP too, but the APM's get cash bonuses and not gifts, PM's get cash bonuses as well as gifts.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2025 12:12 PM (XV/Pl)
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Vox Day is a crank who reflexively takes the wrong side because he thinks he is so much smarter than everybody else. Now he's arguing that man never went to the moon and the whole Apollo Project was a Hollywood op.
Posted by: Bulg
Hmm. I need to have him on my podcast.
Posted by: Bulg
Hmm. I need to have him on my podcast.
Posted by: T. Carlson at September 26, 2025 12:12 PM (xif/T)
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Met my wife in church. Turned out to be an evil, narcissistic, greedy, irresponsible, backstabbing, unfaithful, vile, manipulative snake who ruined my life. Which is why anytime someone says "you'll find the good women in church" I'm quick with a list of caveats. It doesn't guarantee a damn thing.
Posted by: Once bitten and envenomated twice shy at September 26, 2025 12:12 PM (TbWk/)
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About Ray Epps, the only person in the history of the FBI to be on the "Most Wanted" list and then released after an interview. THE ONLY WAY THAT HAPPENS is if he was an informant for another agency. YOU DON'T TALK YOUR WAY OUT OF TROUBLE DURING AN FBI INTERVIEW.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 26, 2025 12:14 PM (Da7Vv)
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324 Met my wife in church. Turned out to be an evil, narcissistic, greedy, irresponsible, backstabbing, unfaithful, vile, manipulative snake who ruined my life. Which is why anytime someone says "you'll find the good women in church" I'm quick with a list of caveats. It doesn't guarantee a damn thing.
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This can be true.
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This can be true.
Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 12:14 PM (AdHga)
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Which is why anytime someone says "you'll find the good women in church" I'm quick with a list of caveats. It doesn't guarantee a damn thing.
Yeah, the trick is to meet them when you're both young because if she's still single at like 30 in the church, something is really wrong.
Yeah, the trick is to meet them when you're both young because if she's still single at like 30 in the church, something is really wrong.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2025 12:16 PM (dfIr7)
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305
‘ Go to africa and find merc work eliminating militant muslims for christ.’
I say you go do this anyway.
I look forward to the Mel Gibson movie about your life.
‘ Go to africa and find merc work eliminating militant muslims for christ.’
I say you go do this anyway.
I look forward to the Mel Gibson movie about your life.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 26, 2025 12:16 PM (jbnUc)
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evil, narcissistic, greedy, irresponsible, backstabbing, unfaithful, vile, manipulative snake who ruined my life.
So, pretty much an average 21st century feminist...
So, pretty much an average 21st century feminist...
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 26, 2025 12:17 PM (Da7Vv)
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Yeah, the trick is to meet them when you're both young because if she's still single at like 30 in the church, something is really wrong.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2025 12:16 PM (dfIr7)
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I met my wife in church. She was 24 and now other guys in church dated her. I should've taken that as a warning.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2025 12:16 PM (dfIr7)
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I met my wife in church. She was 24 and now other guys in church dated her. I should've taken that as a warning.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 26, 2025 12:19 PM (XVmbP)
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For which they'll beg for a government bailout. F*ck off. Make bad business decisions, reap the anal rape that comes with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 11:13 AM (/BPde)
They will be begging it from Bessent and Vought. It warms my heart to think of this.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 11:13 AM (/BPde)
They will be begging it from Bessent and Vought. It warms my heart to think of this.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2025 12:26 PM (rbvCR)
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I never got the obsession with AOC. She's definitely not hot. She may have a decent rack, but so do millions of much more attractive women. And she's far from being a "big booty Latina".... her butt is flat as a surfboard. Add in the crazy, and she's a Weschester County 3. No thanks .
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at September 26, 2025 12:45 PM (oHur2)
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Virtuous intent is the new bank robber's balaclava.
Posted by: mc at September 26, 2025 12:48 PM (TaHV5)
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The illegal alien enema that Dr. Trump has prescribed is going to have a lot of economic knock-on effects.
Supposedly, these aliens are paying taxes. Question is, are they? If they're off the books already, are employers keeping the withholdings themselves? And how much is spent to enforce gathering those taxes and fees? Especially locally, where corrupt mayors and governors play Sgt. Schultz - See nothin-k, know nothin-k. They have to for plausible deniability on who is here illegally.
And there are the benefits sent illegally to non-US-citizens. Some by sloppy mistake, some by willful criminality - there's a recent article on how criminals in several countries made off with sbillions in health care funds, but stopped before trillions thanks to DOGE analysis.
Most importantly: simple Supply and Demand. Demand drops because illegal alien demanders are being sent away. Not buying vehicles, housing, food. Hopefully that'll help with the inflation problem.
Work Supply is also going to be a problem, which will mean price increases there. But the benefits will be to local workers, legal citizens. Ones less likely to remit money out of the country, out of the US economy.
Supposedly, these aliens are paying taxes. Question is, are they? If they're off the books already, are employers keeping the withholdings themselves? And how much is spent to enforce gathering those taxes and fees? Especially locally, where corrupt mayors and governors play Sgt. Schultz - See nothin-k, know nothin-k. They have to for plausible deniability on who is here illegally.
And there are the benefits sent illegally to non-US-citizens. Some by sloppy mistake, some by willful criminality - there's a recent article on how criminals in several countries made off with sbillions in health care funds, but stopped before trillions thanks to DOGE analysis.
Most importantly: simple Supply and Demand. Demand drops because illegal alien demanders are being sent away. Not buying vehicles, housing, food. Hopefully that'll help with the inflation problem.
Work Supply is also going to be a problem, which will mean price increases there. But the benefits will be to local workers, legal citizens. Ones less likely to remit money out of the country, out of the US economy.
Posted by: Another Anon at September 26, 2025 12:59 PM (4h45B)
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Story from Edmunds dot com
"Tricolor Holdings is a major provider of subprime auto loans. The company also operates a chain of used car dealerships across the Southwest under the names Tricolor Auto, Ganas, and Ganas Ye. It specializes in loans to low-credit and no-credit buyers, often issuing them without a credit check."
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:23 AM (WDjG6)
Ganas and Ganas Ye sound familiar. I think I've seen them in one of the more barrio-ish neighborhoods in Phoenix.
"Tricolor Holdings is a major provider of subprime auto loans. The company also operates a chain of used car dealerships across the Southwest under the names Tricolor Auto, Ganas, and Ganas Ye. It specializes in loans to low-credit and no-credit buyers, often issuing them without a credit check."
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:23 AM (WDjG6)
Ganas and Ganas Ye sound familiar. I think I've seen them in one of the more barrio-ish neighborhoods in Phoenix.
Posted by: The Osprey at September 26, 2025 01:03 PM (zghC2)
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I bet the illegals did not follow Dave Ramsey's financial advice about buying a car
Posted by: paulnjax at September 26, 2025 01:27 PM (j5/wM)
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