Based on my drive home , restaurants are going to rebound just fine . Every patio I saw was full with smiling people enjoying being out again. McBrides burger joint was full ! Was awesome to see .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I dont know, we'll find out when people aren't getting $600 a week in bonus unemployment.

Did you gauge what race the people were?

Some might have to resort to smoking some pole as trade, but money will change hands freely again my friend!

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We Now Know That JOE BIDEN has been COMPROMISED by CHINA! (let that sink in)

Election 2020-The Largest Fraud in the History of Mankind.

*If you believe that Biden won, you also believe that Epstein killed himself*

I am of this belief as well, which probably explains the market rebound.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Texas has been “open” for a month. Every day there are restaurants announcing Covid closures. Every day.

These restaurants are closing during a time of massive government assistance. Anyone who thinks a restaurant can operate for any duration at 25 or 50 percent capacity has no idea how that industry works.

When summer rolls around, absent more government aid, it will get pretty ugly.

Would you look at the hoping for Depressionphile as he faithfully clings to his economic doom and gloom argument.

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Hospitality is going to take it on the chin for sure. Aggregate incomes will necessarily be down despite the squawking about people getting paid more not to work. That extra money only lasts so long.

But I see all the old faces at my favorite places. I heard a woman in the grocery tell another guy that her work called her back, and she starts next Monday. We aren’t headed back to 4% unemployment, but I think things will recover to reasonable levels pretty quickly.

I see a time of creative destruction.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

The quoted has a bit of what I call “ We will be alright” bias. When someone says “we will be alright”, what they are saying most of the time is “I definitely will be alright, oh, and you will likely be alright also”.

The difference between definitely, and likely is a chasam. Denis, you will be alright and so will the people in your traditional circles, you just don’t interact enough with people who most definitely will not be alright.

I hope you’re both right but at the risk of being labeled a buzzkill I suspect otherwise. I doubt many places can survive very long on patio service alone - especially with spaced out seating. How do you account for weather? How do you staff when there’s rain in the forecast? This is a nice change and given that it’s warm and sunny coupled with pent up demand of course they are jammed for the time being. However there’s still a sizable bit of the population that isn’t returning any time soon and that’s what is needed to sustain most of these places long term.

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

It’s fair to say I will be alright.

I have a different view of the market because I interact with thousands of small businesses and nonprofits in the course of my employment as a business insurer. We are asking about their survival plans and reopening schedules. I also get a great view from sitting on conference calls with CFO’s.

And then I live in mainly blue collar communities, definitely up here in WI, but the Dundee area is decidedly blue collar. Outside of my professional circles, most of my interactions are with blue collar folks. The majority of my family is blue collar, six siblings.

I try to bring an even keeled perspective understanding that my personal situation is not reflective of the median/average American.

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And the Rockets owner just had to borrow $290MM at 13% interest since his primary businesses are in oil and mainly recreation/hospitality, no?

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We’ve seen several business, many in hydrocarbons, hand over the business to creditors. But the business survives with a better capital structure and liquidity.

I saw several of the large retailers, Macys and Kohls for instance, were borrowing at above 8%. But now the malls are open again, so the pressure will start to diminish.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Just like nursing homes, many of those restaurants had preexisting conditions. It's not like restaurants didn't close all the time prior to January.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

The world - and especially the USA - will be just fine.

We won't be growing our own food or hunting and trapping anytime soon.

Its time we had our poorest people doing our shittiest work, instead of having another country's poorest people doing our shittiest work.

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We Now Know That JOE BIDEN has been COMPROMISED by CHINA! (let that sink in)

Election 2020-The Largest Fraud in the History of Mankind.

*If you believe that Biden won, you also believe that Epstein killed himself*

Speak for yourself

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

What happens when people don't get rehired, the +600 ends, and mortgage forbearance ends? The govt is backstopping the whole economy. Unless there is such a thing as a "free lunch" I don't see how this ends well.

What the hell else am I going to do then? Heck in last 24 hours I would have had good shots at 5 deer and a coyote.. that magnificent bastard followed me for hours today as I cut hay.

That's why I don't understand how the local governments can shut businesses down when they have no way to provide help. Even at the state level it makes little sense.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

I hate when coyotes do that. Had one walk right behind me about 10 yards away, followed me from a cabin aboit 300 yards to my tree stand. When I told my buddy who owns the property he was pissed I didn't kill it. They been killing all his pheasants and rabbits

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

jack's got your back:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeu ... 695cff3f43


if you can play baseball, this guy'll help out:

https://www.kxnet.com/sports/dodgers-da ... guers-pay/

It was kind of fun to watch it. Obviously a young dog. I took it as one of the things I’m grateful for seeing because of what I do. Have watched thousands of snow geese descend on the farm, took pictures of a flock of a 100 sandhill cranes that overnighted on one of pastures. I dunno.. it’s nice to have the quiet, peaceful experiences. Best part of deer hunting for me to be honest (goose too for that matter.)

I’ve had the coyote encounter on foot before. Think it was September 12th of 2001 and I was checking on a sick cow. Both the yote and I shared the same wtf expression as we saw each other from about 15 yards away at sunrise. This was a bit different, as he was just strolling around looking for mice. At one moment he was about 15 yards away sitting kinda awkwardly and staring T tractor oddly.. took me about second or two to realize that he was fertilizing the field

I worry that there is a coyote message bored that he is posting on asking if anyone had ever shit in drunk squirrel’s hay.

13%??

JORR and his partner?

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Kinda makes one wonder...

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Good news guys. Despite the balcks best efforts the line is going up again!

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/busines ... r/2281660/

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