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Squirrel vs Bird Feeder - Wrecking Ball Edition has been added as a related post - related requested by CrushBug.

If there were no wrecks, everybody WINS! And shouldn't that really be the goal?

MAGA isn't anything. It's as vague as "Hope and Change". It's a slogan.

Starting trade wars that wreck the economy is a bad thing. Deregulation that harms the economy is a bad thing. A lot of his policies are bad things.

And before you say, "well, the economy is doing great!" or "black unemployment is at an all time low", or whatever fact that completely ignores the macroeconomic phenomenon known as the business cycle, remember that national economic policy takes time to take effect. Instituted properly, it keeps the economic dips at recession level lows and duration, not 2008 level catastrophes. Aside from emergency measures such as those instituted during 2009, the federal government can't generally have immediate impacts. It'll take awhile.

I'll even go on record as saying that a recession under Trump is virtually inevitable even if he conducted good policy. The measure of his policies will turn into how bad the recession ends up being, and how well the damage is contained.

And that's the problem. Because of his tax cuts, he's put us into larger deficit spending mode in a time that we didn't need it. Macroeconomically, it was time to run surpluses. But he didn't care. In fact, he cared so little, he didn't even just keep deficit spending at where it was. He made it worse.

So when the other shoe drops, there won't be many mechanisms left to do other than lower interest rates when they're already low aside from sacrifice future economic growth when we have to deficit spend out the ass to stimulate the economy.

And the worst part is his poor decisions, when it's evident they were poor, reversing them won't help end a recession. If you realize a trade war screwed us, removing the tariffs doesn't in the short run increase consumer spending because people won't have jobs to buy those goods, and if the recession is globally felt (which it will be), Chinese people will have less money to buy American goods.

Taxing the rich more in the short run doesn't put more money into consumers' hands who would actually spend it. In fact, that reduces capital at a time when capital would help build new businesses to hire more people.

Not that any of this is surprising. Trump has no idea how macroeconomics work. He talks like he does, but he doesn't. Just says stuff that sounds obvious and easy to understand, and too many people fell for it.

But the reckoning is coming. It always does.

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" Directed by Rich Moore ('Zootopia,' 'Wreck-It Ralph') and Phil Johnston (co-writer 'Wreck-It Ralph,' 'Cedar Rapids,' co-writer 'Zootopia,'), and produced by Clark Spencer ('Zootopia,' 'Wreck-It Ralph,' 'Bolt')"

Oi, you lot -- quit muckin' about with this nonsense and get on with making Zootopia 2!

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Unlike the Camaro/motorbike video, this IS a close call. The truck is probably a wreck but the policeman AND his vehicle are unscathed.

Everybody loves a good show and everybody loves a train wreck. Seems like a win-win to me.

My pops had a motorcycle and got into an accident getting onto the freeway - supposedly wasn't even going that fast but took off all of the skin on his side. Can't believe this guy didn't get massively wrecked somewhere in there (and in good spirits directly afterwards)!

Love that unreal wrecking ball freeze-frame effect.

*promote

I was annoyed at Rogue One having a passive protagonist....

I felt pretty burned by paying money to see TLJ's disconnected train-wreck plot....

Casting wasn't the problem in either film. Amazing CG visuals around greenscreen actors can't fix weak writing.

Michael Buffer announcing ...

Award for "Body Check of the Century" goes to ...

Tom "The Mack Truck" Miller
for totally wrecking John Duncan Semple

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At least they didn't wreck in the sand... lol