I was a hobbyist luthier for years... making pocket money now and then from fixing up old guitars and selling or giving them away to beginners... and a few collectors... when I got lucky.

The thing is now... especially post-pandemic...

Asian made guitars are amazing at all price points. The market is saturated quality instruments and great prices for Yankees who like all things new and shiny...

It's like so many post-war delusions... where we believed that the post-war industrialized nations... that once ruled global economics could only create cheap substitutes...

They were rising from the ashes of a war-trashed infrastructure. It took them a few decades to get back on their feet... is all.

Paying rent to an institution... who taxpayers have to bail out when they overextend themselves to purchase our home...and sell it to us...hmmm... one of life's hardest decisions...

In the end... the banks DO own a house... which is something of value... the consumer gets nothing for their efforts.

meh
shrug

Don't see a problem

meh... Another Trumpanzee nothing burger... because it lost its meaning decades ago when corporations bypassed it by moving factories to China. Corporations never cut emissions to comply... they told you they did and blamed them for low pay and job loss... while relocating rather than innovating...

soooooo a big whoopie dooooo the the cl0wn brigade... for more total and complete B to the S... nonsense...

What you're gonna get are all those stinky slave labor sweatshops packed with workers doing repetitive tasks for low pay... you knowwwwwww.... all that chit you told us was a reason not to buy those (highly profitable) made in Asia products...

Capitalism needs a slave class to work...

Ya know... according to my polyglot friends... "Spanish is a gift" because it is very efficient... and with few exceptions... predictable... making it one of the easiest to learn.

I love its elegance... even when it's being dirty.

Learning basic Spanish... Castellano... Hispano can also clarify other Romance languages...

Trumpanzee and this cl0wn faction have been hanging out with too many Saudi Princes

Abortions by the dozens.

Has anyone informed Trumpanzee that Canada and China have long-term economic ties via being part of the "Sun never sets on the British Empire" continuum?

Just because he's (the USA) mad at China... doesn't mean everyone else is.

It's true. The minority class is the machinery that literally keeps DeeCee humming... he just doesn't want to see them.

I wanted to disagree.
But I could not find a reason to do so.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-08 02:58 AM | Reply | Flag:HEAVY SIGH

Yeeeeaaaahhhh... nice place for the Kennedy family to swim during the summer. I hear tell it'll cure measles.
MMMhhmmmmmmmm.
They keep telling us it's not a problem. (eye roll)

I'm getting outa dodge.

Think of it as the Imperial Beach of the east... only there are more people in a smaller area ... and it's a river... not an ocean...

Dee Cee uses its sewage as a weapon... to garner profit... There is a speed trap on the 295 into Dee Cee... causing you to drive slower as you pass the wastewater plant.

ugh

murdering pedophile

Ironic when something worthless uses half its value.
What is bit coin but a way to use up fossil fuel for no tangible benefit? Yay humanity!! Woohoo!

Hellllll... Obama got slammed for wearing a suit that was too light... or out of season... or something else un-American.

Newspapers are not profitable anymore. They also have a history of corrupt news feeds. Bezos is a bottom-line capitalist. The timing sucks for sure... but I bet that has more to do with profit than anything. Bezos is famous for eliminating tons of printed material. Amazon ate Borders.

Bingo! You win the thread, Expectingdude. Months and months of verbal and written confirmation that Epstein was an Israeli intelligence operative and now the ruling class and MSM have magically decided that they want to pivot the narrative and proclaim he worked for... Putin!!! I remember that same megaphone bleating that Putin was days from death back in March, 2022.

#28 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-02-04 12:57 PM | Reply | Flag:SMH

Considering that you are wrong about 99.9% I would hold out for less than 1%.

#22 | Posted by fishpoo at 2026-02-04 11:24 AM | Reply | Flag:PPPPFFFTTTTTT

Don't you wish... you fekked up little bottom feeder.

I know your ego is doing some serious butthurt... Sucks to be you...

P.S. We're used to your dumb @$$ery... swimming in your own swill.

P.S. The cl0wns went after Clinton while he was going after bin Laden...

The clowns need reminding that ...

Bill Clinton hasn't been preznit for 25 years. A full quarter of a century... plus he finished as a popular preznit... ironically because of the republicl0wns fixation with his sex life... You had two preznits leave office in disgrace since then...

If you recall... it didn't turn out well for the cl0wns... and for revenge you had to install Bushturd 2 in office...under dubious circumstances... and you know it.... and that fixed everything right?
Let me say that in another way... you put an absolute failure of a preznit in office to cure the ills of a successful one... and you trashed the economy... again... just as you are doing now...

Clinton this Clinton that... no one gives a chit... go for it pigs. and GFY while yer at it.

Let's see if we can create Russiagate 2.0!

#14 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-04 10:26 AM | Reply | Flag:PPPFFFTTTT

We're still working on Russiagate 1.0... and your team is losing.

If Biden had pushed the matter, you filthy cl0wns would have called it a political witch-hunt... ergo GFY Tinklebell with your fake@$$ rational neutrality schtick. Nobody buys it. Biden had bigger fish to fry without that additional millstone... besides it's more fun taking down a sittng preznit... You know like your team tried with when you dragged Monica Lewinsky through the mud to go after Bill... and divert from him going after bin Laden...(matter of public record)you scumbag.

Ironic when Trumpanzee debated Hillary he brought alobng all Bill's skanks... but Monica refused to join... matter of public record.

And it's not only Republicans. There are alot of progressive/Democrat rich and famous that love diddling kids.

#3 | Posted by boaz at 2026-02-04 09:02 AM | Reply | Flag: GFY

suuuurrrrrreeeee but only one President Trumpanzee who @$$ wipes... like YOU elected twice... and voted for 3 times... becauseYOUloved him. YOU were willing to take orders from. YOU embraced his policies YOUwanted him in office YOU didn't care if he was guilty. YOU thought he was being picked on YOU YOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOUYOU

Bring it on pig brain... you gotta own this one BOAZ-0... This is your doing...

When this is over... I bet the flying Trumpanzees are going to wish they stopped at pee tape allegations. Sooooooo muuuuuuuccccchhhh egg on the face... soooooo much crow to eat.

BTW: US is educating the worlds smartest people to destroy the US.

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-02 06:35 PM | Reply | Flag:EYE ROLL

aaannnnnnd... You helped them do it to own the libs. bin Laden said the same thing in the video when he was taking credit for 9/11. He bragged about how he knows how to play the feckless rich... and he did. His brother was Bushturd 2's business partner. You probably weren't paying attention... as usual. Clown brigade goes for that crap hook, line, and sinker... every fekking time. Bush handed Iraq to Iran and expanded theocracy... of an anti-Israeli government. It keeps Blackwater in business.

p.s.
Republicl0wn women are disposable... someone should inform them.

why is it trump's fault that leftist dont know what a woman is....thinks men can have babies
and all that stupid woke BS.

#7 | Posted by shrimpdick at 2026-02-02 02:16 PM | Reply | Flag:GFY

Trumpanzee forced a GIRL to suck his shroom... apparently the right doesn't know what a woman is either.

John F Kennedy is dead a long time ago... word is Ted Cruz's daddy had him offed... and Trumpanzee put his nephew in charge of creating a disaster.

Bill Clinton says go ahead... show the files...

Funny thaaaaannnngggg... no mention of Barry Obama or Jimm-eh Carter... I'm sure that really pissed them off...

It's funny as hell watching Fishpoo, Putrid... Tinkerbell, et all twist in the wind... triple Trumpanzee pigs... all puffed up and pissed off that Rachael Maddow was right....
YOU PIGS TRASHED THE COUNTRY FOR A PERVERT!!!!

uh huh uh huh...