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I watched as I am in the market form a small carbine and it looks like it comes up short. As he mentions there are numerous MP-5 knockoff coming so I will likely wait.

I think we both reside in our personal bias. I have been clear that I do not blindly follow Trump...he is so caustic I wish there was another option but he obviously has a death grip on the base and it turned into a binary choice (again). As much as I despise his mouth I checked his name on the ballot because IMO electing Harris would have driven us over a cliff. Lets be clear on anecdotal evidence, you quoted anecdotal evidence first...I quoted the national average of wholesale which will eventually matriculate down to brick and mortar stores. The whole egg story is stupid anyway....it was not the fault of either party, rather the confluence of some bad events and several outbreaks of Bird Flu which led to culling of millions of chickens. Chickens breed quickly and flock are recovering rapidly, some regulation of the edges would likely help. With regard to oil futures, it is NOT just about refined gas but for some reason that is what people lock on to, I guess because they see it on the pump everytime they fill up. I am sure you know oil still powers our economy and as the price of crude so does all of the cost associate with producing and transporting goods. Also, energy costs are always in lag and will likely show next quarter. The beginnings showed in March as core inflation decreased. With regard to currency and our reckoning, we need another thread but yes turbulent times ahead. Tariffs...I applaud what Trump has done, as long as it remains part of bargaining. The imbalance of tariffs against the U.S. and our industry is staggering and we turned a blind eye for so long it became the norm. I do not believe the Tariff talk was anything more than bargaining bluster which is standard for Trump and luckily in this case we have the upper hand on the Chinese which is the key to all of the other deals. As far as other policies...in my other post I referenced Trump's willingness to raise taxes on the wealthy...we all know that is very symbolic unless they substantially change the laws on trusts and borrowing against wealth to avoid taxes (trust me I personally benefit from it). What is more important is he said it out loud...again, a Republican President said it out loud. There is symbology here and while it might not make it through the house, it stymies the DNC argument. He is also supposed to sign an executive order today that limits prescription drug prices...pharmaceutical donors to the GOP are not happy today.

To be honest, I've gotten a bit bored with this guy's videos as they seem to focus on his dumping endless amounts of ammo and massaging his ego. He knows his shit, but it's always SS/DD i.e., wash, rinse and repeat... Plus, I've also lost much interest in pistol caliber carbines for the time being for some reason. Still sharing for anyone interested...

I don’t think I sit in echo chambers, just like you think you don’t. So I’m probably being unfair, but it’s the internet I guess. At the same time, anecdotal evidence doesn’t mean that they correspond with real prices. Even if my eggs were $7, that would not mean everyone’s were. Just like your eggs being 3.69 doesn’t mean average prices significantly decreased. The egg prices from the source you quoted (I am familiar) are not retail cost: “The egg prices refer to the national FOB average prices of white large eggs in wholesale markets, calculated based on the cost of 30-dozen cases of caged shell eggs.” And you know that oil futures do not correspond to refined gas prices. The tariffs are temporary (90 day) 30/10 tariffs. I do not believe tariffs have been demonstrated to be good economic policy, regardless of party. And I don’t have as much belief in the strategy in the mid term, based on the high probability of both inflation/recession AND the soft power reputational and relational costs that come with them. What is the long term play and the second/third order effects? I subscribe to the cyclical monetary thoughts that we are approaching a reckoning with our currency (we are well into quantitative easing). In the end, I hope that the policies do help the country. But investments are dependent on market sentiment and stability, and I see significant risk there.

I am not cherry picking anything... I bought eggs two days ago local and they were sub $4.00, Regular gas (I use premium), was $2.59. I did not say the economy is good, but it clearly is improving and is likely to do so. The futures are up big this morning (Dow 1,000 pts / NASDAQ 891 pts), as a result of the trade deal with China. I believe the deal sets the baseline at 10% on both sides. I certainly don't think Trump is going to replace the income tax with tariffs, but his strategy (which absolutely needed to be done), does appear to be working. I don't do truth and while my "echo chamber" is to focus on the positive yours is all negative.

I figured it out, this forum probably gets their programming directly from Truth Social. This is a real message from the real president.

So I assume everyone on this forum is having a conniption about the communist policy coming out? Would love to hear why central price control is different now - think critically.

I think so. I get the desire for the biggest and baddest. That said, I think it ultimately comes down to the engine redundancy…quads vs ETOPS. If it wasn’t for that, I think the 787 would take the cake based on higher cruise speed with comparable range.

Too beaucoup gi?

Dreamliner will do just fine.

Just switch to 777 Not cheap, not easy but if king for a day it would be part of a 777 mil variant project, tanker/mobility, VVIP, new NECAP platforms.

I stand unastonished. Not only will he take the gifted palace plane, he'll have use AF taxpayer money modify it, and he'll keep it afterwards. I say if he's gonna keep it, he has to refund the tax $$ used to modify it. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121680511

sounds like TDS bro...gas is $1.98/gal!

Your data are wholesale prices and commodities markets - not what people are actually paying. I do not live in California, but in nowhere-ville east coast eggs were $5.29 and gas was $3.45 today. Remember when Biden would cherry pick economic data to gaslight people about how good the economy was? The overall opinion is absolutely not what you stated. It is in your echo chambers, I am sure. But not in reality. The polls show that people neither believe Trump is doing well overall or on immigration. Yes, >85% of republicans are happy. But the actual majority of America are negative. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/29/nx-s1-5379596/trump-100-days-polling-grade-approval-rating https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/25/trump-immigration-approval-ratings-drop-poll/

You must live in California. National price for a dozen eggs is WAY down. Energy prices related to the price of crude ALWAYS lag and impact for more than simply what you pay at the pump. they matriculate across all aspects of the economy from production to transportation of goods. We've already seen the indicators from march Core Inflation...should continue to decrease. The U.S. market graph is somewhat funny...for so long we heard how all of the other economies were doing so poorly, of course they had more upside. I bought in at some of the lows, especially blue chips and I am above where I was when the corrections started. Actually bought a new range rover this week with some of it. The DNC can scream about process and storm ICE detention centers but the overall opinion is he is doing the right thing with the illegals. Don;t get me wrong, I want to follow the law but most don't seem to care.

There is hope, I'm currently deployed and just finished my FC1 last week. All in about a months timeline from when i started reaching out to folks to the day i was seen by the Flight Doc. I don't write this to brag by any means, i write this to say networking is key. I started with my home station med group who defended my deployed units med group when they initially denied seeing me for my FC1 stating "we aren't entitled to conduct your FC1, your home station is." I began scrambling with the unknown suspense for apps due to the Sq (have since found out it sounds like late June for me) reaching out to my home med group to see if they could pull some strings while I'm out here. A technician back home happened to know a technician out here, a buddy of mine went through ROTC with a current f-22 flyer and had me reach out to the f-22 flight doc, and both of those things got the ball rolling allowing me to get my lab work and vision done prior to my Flight Doc visit. Now granted, i am waiver-less and health has always been pretty solid so the med group here didn't necessarily feel anything would be dragged out/tied back to them but my recommendation: start with your home station med group, ask leadership at work, reach out to friends in other units/career fields/bases to see who they know. Someone always knows someone and all you need is one person to pull a string and boom you're getting your FC1 completed just before the buzzer sounds. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yup...

It is the Florida-Man of gun companies.

It's a Kel-Tec. Janky is included free of charge

Here’s the pragmatic answer - they aren’t gonna have a problem unless things change a lot. In reality, egg prices haven’t actually changed significantly for consumers (turns out bulk price decreases don’t matter to families), gas prices same. Tax proposals to create structures where the rich pay more are not supported by republicans in congress AND proposed policies that include elimination of income tax + tariffs are highly regressive, so good luck making people believe that the Repubs will actually do anything. Probably a graph like this would play well in the “things to cry about:” And immigration policy - despite whatever wins may be occurring - will be met with criticisms about the administration using tactics that appear dictatorial and unconstitutional. Maybe they’d throw the fact that the Epstein logs still haven’t been released? Who knows! That’s how 60% of America views those issues now. Hope it actually gets better.

Maybe. I haven't had the time to delve into it too much. When I shot it, I was just using the head box of a USPSA target at about 10 yards after a match. Probably a 4 inch group or so. The dot plate screws sit above the plate, so the dot mount is janky. ??? Beats me.

PVC will just be the new heritage 🤷🏻‍♂️ We're just getting old, that's all.

They just announced a deal with China. Lets see how this turns out... The UK deal was more symbolic than anything. With egg prices down, fuel costs down (inflation will come down in lag with energy costs), the border is closed and Trump just came out in favor of higher taxes on the top 1%. The Carville/Bernie/AOC are going to have to dig deep into the bag to find things to cry about.