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The decadence or the mid-2000s was pretty grotesque in hindsight

Cashed up proles barreling through the exurbs in HUMMERS, sh...
Supple library
  02/23/18
You knew it was trouble when schoolteachers and secretaries ...
ebony national
  02/23/18
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vivacious feces hell
  02/23/18
read this as HUMBLERS at first
Sapphire sweet tailpipe
  02/23/18
it was 180 man
Passionate temple
  02/23/18
It truly is not called out enough as the Gilded Age it was.
Brass hall
  02/23/18
cheap money flowing everywhere
Swollen Crystalline Affirmative Action Step-uncle's House
  02/23/18
Cr. The big short did a pretty good job capturing that zeit...
Supple library
  02/23/18
too short to be a gilded "age". maybe a "gild...
Angry juggernaut university
  02/23/18
Pretty CR, and thanks to that era my parents now live in a h...
bipolar vigorous hospital kitty cat
  02/23/18
Good to see some critical thought on this topic from you
citrine mind-boggling lay weed whacker
  02/23/18
more like the early 2000s
Chest-beating property
  02/23/18
Could be. I associate that with the somewhat humbler vibes ...
Supple library
  02/23/18
Early 2000s had a shaky economy. Was not nearly as bloated a...
bipolar vigorous hospital kitty cat
  02/23/18
OP conflates some things. For instance, Nu metal had run its...
excitant old irish cottage son of senegal
  02/23/18
weird hybrid bands like "avenged sevenfold" and &q...
Brass hall
  02/23/18
Yeah, shit started getting kooky when nu metal declined
excitant old irish cottage son of senegal
  02/23/18
but "bro rock" (the heavily-produced, sludgy-sound...
Odious death wish
  02/23/18
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yapping nursing home
  02/23/18
lol, anyone remember casey serin, his real estate empire, an...
Odious death wish
  02/23/18
come to my seminahhh!
House-broken church building
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Supple library
  02/23/18
They don't have a "feel" for me. Like the 90s had ...
vibrant charcoal psychic stain
  02/23/18
The sopranos aesthetic. Flip phones, iPods, uggs, crocs, and...
citrine mind-boggling lay weed whacker
  02/23/18
the departed and breaking bad also show this well. also d...
Brass hall
  02/23/18
prole cool kids from your local public high school SHOWING O...
Alcoholic red nowag
  02/24/18
Hoobastank
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Clear halford
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i agree. it's sort of what i imagine people in Florida are ...
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  02/23/18
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  02/23/18
GWB telling people to spend money in response to terrorist a...
sable multi-colored bawdyhouse
  02/23/18
Can't forget him Booming away the entire surplus by giving e...
Indigo Charismatic Gaping
  02/23/18
jfc Bush signed the $1.35 trillion tax cut -- which inclu...
Outnumbered dun station elastic band
  02/23/18
I was in grade school at the time and even then I thought th...
Indigo Charismatic Gaping
  02/23/18
Then they tried to send out $300 checks in early 2008 like t...
sable multi-colored bawdyhouse
  02/23/18
There was a famous case in the 1900-1910's I think where the...
Indigo Charismatic Gaping
  02/23/18
Just that under Calvin Coolidge? I remember Libertarians tal...
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  02/24/18
First tax cuts during a time of war. Then we turned around ...
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  02/23/18
airplane terrorism would be down to zero with just one easy ...
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  02/23/18
Instead let's set up a massive federal agency that makes you...
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  02/23/18
You can't pay off the deficit. We were a LONG way away from ...
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george w. bush's first budget projected over $5 trillion in ...
Odious death wish
  02/24/18
loathsome
Outnumbered dun station elastic band
  02/23/18
GWB was truly the worst President ever. ljl at this cuck.
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  02/24/18
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Glittery whorehouse
  02/23/18
Those were my formative years. My main memories are: (1) ...
Hairraiser Gay Center Dragon
  02/23/18
Number 3 was great though
sable multi-colored bawdyhouse
  02/23/18
ofs Ludacris is hideously underappreciated in hindsight.
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  02/23/18
He lateraled to big Hollywood breakfast from his rap career ...
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  02/23/18
...
Outnumbered dun station elastic band
  02/23/18
speaking of baseball, i feel like post-2004 began baseball's...
Brass hall
  02/23/18
nah u just got gookier
vivacious feces hell
  02/23/18
nah, i still love baseball. but it just has no real star po...
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exciting quadroon
  02/24/18
100% cr when the yankee dynasty died (as much as i hate t...
Passionate temple
  02/23/18
Fledgling hipsters popping up too. The whole new urbanism an...
sticky shimmering trailer park volcanic crater
  02/23/18
I remember this huge optimism that America's cities were bac...
Hairraiser Gay Center Dragon
  02/23/18
nyc hipster neighborhoods actually existed then. now willia...
Brass hall
  02/23/18
they were called METROSEXUALS at the time and they were all ...
Outnumbered dun station elastic band
  02/23/18
cr
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vivacious feces hell
  02/23/18
hipsters date to the late 90s
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Holy shit, 5 turned out to be totally wrong.
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180
vivacious feces hell
  02/23/18
this was an ad that aired during the second bush administrat...
Odious death wish
  02/23/18
lmfao, ty this is the greatest thing of all time. mindblowin...
orange black woman
  02/23/18
youtube will delete it. the original uploader yanked it and...
Odious death wish
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wtf, that guy should be proud of this. he is a true wigger i...
orange black woman
  02/23/18
4got about spinning rims
Racy state prole
  02/23/18
Lol holy shit. Also the heyday of the lifted “bro truck” ph...
Supple library
  02/23/18
Cr. Fake tans everywhere. Double popped collar polo shirts...
Frum preventive strike
  02/23/18
lots of stimulus package jokes. board monikers like "B...
Odious death wish
  02/23/18
my vivid memory of this era is from, like, 2006, visiting my...
orange black woman
  02/23/18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNiWO5gsms8
Odious death wish
  02/23/18
lol, so sick. there are a lot of these 'documents' of the er...
orange black woman
  02/23/18
it was a very GAKKED-OUT era. there is not a lot of good cr...
Odious death wish
  02/23/18
yes. that was the final schizophrenic disintegration of what...
orange black woman
  02/23/18
Thankfully we know better with our obsession about cryptocur...
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Bull headed sickened kitty
  02/23/18
Brother if you could link to some of that critical commentar...
Supple library
  02/23/18
i don't really know of any. it remains to be written. the ...
Odious death wish
  02/23/18
180
Sapphire sweet tailpipe
  02/23/18
180 evocative imagery brother
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This was my "era" as a teenager but I have so few ...
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vivacious feces hell
  02/23/18
Destroyed my life ... Well at least played a huge role
Bull headed sickened kitty
  02/23/18
It really didn't feel decadent. The Iraq War was the bigges...
Zippy Disturbing Gas Station
  02/23/18
lol, "flipping" mansions with insane leverage and ...
Odious death wish
  02/23/18
That was like a Sunbelt thing. Things weren't that crazy els...
Zippy Disturbing Gas Station
  02/24/18
I'm glad I was in college then. That was the last time there...
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  02/23/18
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Bull headed sickened kitty
  02/24/18
The implosion of Hummer as a brand is pretty crazy. It's kin...
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  02/23/18
I think the gas price spike in ‘07 marked the end of the era...
Supple library
  02/23/18
FJ Cruisers from the late 00's-early 10's are commanding abs...
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  02/24/18
Fuck yea. I miss it
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  02/24/18
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  02/24/18
my fav: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/...
Brass hall
  02/24/18
lol In the days leading up to the 2008 United States elec...
Brass hall
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Date: February 23rd, 2018 12:42 AM
Author: Supple library

Cashed up proles barreling through the exurbs in HUMMERS, shoddy stucco “master planned communities,” nu metal and Atlanta krunk rap dominating the airwaves, watered down “preppy” style like Abercrombie. And yet I have nostalgia for this hellscape.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467235)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:11 AM
Author: ebony national

You knew it was trouble when schoolteachers and secretaries were buying $1MM houses because their bankers said they could afford it just by taking out a home equity loan to pay off the balloon payment in a few years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35469030)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:28 PM
Author: vivacious feces hell



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472769)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 8:39 PM
Author: Sapphire sweet tailpipe

read this as HUMBLERS at first

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473725)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:26 PM
Author: Passionate temple

it was 180 man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474855)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 12:43 AM
Author: Brass hall

It truly is not called out enough as the Gilded Age it was.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467238)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 12:44 AM
Author: Swollen Crystalline Affirmative Action Step-uncle's House

cheap money flowing everywhere

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467244)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 1:09 AM
Author: Supple library

Cr. The big short did a pretty good job capturing that zeitgeist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467352)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:09 PM
Author: Angry juggernaut university

too short to be a gilded "age". maybe a "gilded gasp" before downwards spiral

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471625)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 12:45 AM
Author: bipolar vigorous hospital kitty cat

Pretty CR, and thanks to that era my parents now live in a hideous McMansion that I despise and regard as somewhat immoral.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467246)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 12:57 AM
Author: citrine mind-boggling lay weed whacker

Good to see some critical thought on this topic from you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467290)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 12:58 AM
Author: Chest-beating property

more like the early 2000s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467299)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 1:08 AM
Author: Supple library

Could be. I associate that with the somewhat humbler vibes of digging out from the tech crash and people genuinely coming together after 9/11 prior to neocon insanity taking over in 03ish. What is some EVOCATIVE IMAGERY you recall from that era brother?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467345)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 1:09 AM
Author: bipolar vigorous hospital kitty cat

Early 2000s had a shaky economy. Was not nearly as bloated and nuts imo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467356)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:01 PM
Author: excitant old irish cottage son of senegal

OP conflates some things. For instance, Nu metal had run its course by the mid 2000s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471558)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:04 PM
Author: Brass hall

weird hybrid bands like "avenged sevenfold" and "my chemical romance" were big in mid-2000s though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471593)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:06 PM
Author: excitant old irish cottage son of senegal

Yeah, shit started getting kooky when nu metal declined

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471611)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:10 PM
Author: Odious death wish

but "bro rock" (the heavily-produced, sludgy-sounding hyper-commercialized heir to "alternative") continued.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471633)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 1:08 AM
Author: yapping nursing home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467351)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 1:29 AM
Author: Odious death wish

lol, anyone remember casey serin, his real estate empire, and his wife galina?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467496)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: House-broken church building

come to my seminahhh!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474865)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:49 AM
Author: Supple library



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468867)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:52 AM
Author: vibrant charcoal psychic stain

They don't have a "feel" for me. Like the 90s had a certain look and feel -- as did the 80s (70s, 60s, etc.). What is the look of the 2000s? The 90s had grunge, what did the 2000s have? Seems weird that we will get nostalgia for the 2000s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468889)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 3:51 PM
Author: citrine mind-boggling lay weed whacker

The sopranos aesthetic. Flip phones, iPods, uggs, crocs, and big SUVs. Ends when the iPhone hits the scene.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471488)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 3:52 PM
Author: Brass hall

the departed and breaking bad also show this well.

also don't forget TRUCKER HATS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471495)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 10:59 PM
Author: Alcoholic red nowag

prole cool kids from your local public high school SHOWING OUT in Von Dutch trucker hats

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481217)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:27 PM
Author: cobalt titillating roommate

Hoobastank

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474298)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 11:20 PM
Author: Clear halford



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: Onyx brunch knife

i agree. it's sort of what i imagine people in Florida are into right now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474864)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:55 AM
Author: Outnumbered dun station elastic band

freely available law school loans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468902)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:58 AM
Author: sable multi-colored bawdyhouse

GWB telling people to spend money in response to terrorist attacks stands out as an example of this kind of ridiculousness

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468922)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:01 AM
Author: Indigo Charismatic Gaping

Can't forget him Booming away the entire surplus by giving everyone a free one time donatio like the most debased and corrupt Roman emperors did.

Could have paid off the deficit IIRC

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468942)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: Outnumbered dun station elastic band

jfc

Bush signed the $1.35 trillion tax cut -- which includes soon-to-be-mailed rebate checks of up to $600 -- amid the kind of presidential pomp he usually disdains: a formal ceremony in the East Room, with a Marine band playing "Hail to the Chief."

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Bush-signs-1-3-trillion-tax-cut-bill-300-600-2913184.php

3 months before 9/11

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468973)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:06 AM
Author: Indigo Charismatic Gaping

I was in grade school at the time and even then I thought that was stupid as shit.

16 years of shit leadership due to Neocon and Neoliberal infiltration

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468981)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: sable multi-colored bawdyhouse

Then they tried to send out $300 checks in early 2008 like that was gonna prevent the crash lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35469000)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:10 AM
Author: Indigo Charismatic Gaping

There was a famous case in the 1900-1910's I think where there was a Great Depression style situation at risk of occuring - but the dude in charge of the finances in the country (Treasury secretary at that time?) decided to simply balance the budget, pay off the deficit and let everything sort itself out.

Deficit spending is really a recent fad if you think about it.

If we got our deficit paid off, taxes would be MUCH MUCH lower and create a virtuous cycle

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35469024)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 11:09 PM
Author: Bull headed sickened kitty

Just that under Calvin Coolidge? I remember Libertarians talking about that being evidence of the success of letting Market forces just do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481262)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 3:58 PM
Author: sticky shimmering trailer park volcanic crater

First tax cuts during a time of war. Then we turned around and militarized our airports. Has the TSA saved any lives?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471547)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:07 PM
Author: unhinged big skinny woman resort

airplane terrorism would be down to zero with just one easy trick.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471614)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:09 PM
Author: sticky shimmering trailer park volcanic crater

Instead let's set up a massive federal agency that makes you walk around the airport barefoot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471627)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:05 PM
Author: chartreuse parlor antidepressant drug

You can't pay off the deficit. We were a LONG way away from paying off the debt.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474155)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 4:31 PM
Author: Odious death wish

george w. bush's first budget projected over $5 trillion in budgetary surpluses over the next 8 years, which were to be divided between tax relief, establishing a social security fund (al gore's "lockbox" idea, basically), and paying down around $2 trillion of what was then a $5.8 trillion national debt as bonds matured.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35478902)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:03 AM
Author: Outnumbered dun station elastic band

loathsome

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468959)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 2:17 AM
Author: razzle-dazzle violet stage coffee pot

GWB was truly the worst President ever. ljl at this cuck.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35475615)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: Glittery whorehouse

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125666/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468995)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:13 AM
Author: Hairraiser Gay Center Dragon

Those were my formative years. My main memories are:

(1) Liberals being completely unhinged about George W. Bush, calling him Hitler, being convinced that voting machines in Ohio were rigged, etc.

(2) A series of surprising teams winning the World Series - Diamondbacks, Angels, Marlins, Red Sox, White Sox

(3) Dirty South rap just DOMINATING the airwaves

(4) Hummers and big SUVs everywhere

(5) A million articles about how the "exurbs" were the future of America

I'm sure if I had been "working" in "underwriting" at the time, instead of being in high school and college, I'd have even crazier stories to tell

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35469047)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:15 AM
Author: sable multi-colored bawdyhouse

Number 3 was great though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35469072)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:17 AM
Author: Hairraiser Gay Center Dragon

ofs

Ludacris is hideously underappreciated in hindsight.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35469086)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 3:52 PM
Author: citrine mind-boggling lay weed whacker

He lateraled to big Hollywood breakfast from his rap career just like common and mos def

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471501)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:22 AM
Author: Outnumbered dun station elastic band



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 3:54 PM
Author: Brass hall

speaking of baseball, i feel like post-2004 began baseball's descent from national relevance. in 2004, a-rod, ortiz, pedro, jeter, nomar, griffey, bonds were all MEGA-STARS on par with kobe, etc. Trout and Bryce Harper? meh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471515)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:46 PM
Author: vivacious feces hell

nah u just got gookier

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472948)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 4:17 PM
Author: Brass hall

nah, i still love baseball. but it just has no real star power anymore and nobody cares about clayton kershaw the way they do lebron or steph curry.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35478821)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 4:28 PM
Author: exciting quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35478885)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:28 PM
Author: Passionate temple

100% cr

when the yankee dynasty died (as much as i hate them) my interest in baseball diminished

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474869)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 3:59 PM
Author: sticky shimmering trailer park volcanic crater

Fledgling hipsters popping up too. The whole new urbanism and first reaction as gentrification.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471550)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:06 PM
Author: Hairraiser Gay Center Dragon

I remember this huge optimism that America's cities were back: there were new condos EVERYWHERE, apartments converted to condos, warehouses converted to hipster lofts, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471607)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:13 PM
Author: Brass hall

nyc hipster neighborhoods actually existed then. now williamsburg etc are just GC yuppie stuff with a mild twist (kinda like how today's "country music" is just GC rock with a southern twang).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471656)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 5:02 PM
Author: Outnumbered dun station elastic band

they were called METROSEXUALS at the time and they were all the rage from 2003-2005

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472060)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 8:42 PM
Author: Sapphire sweet tailpipe

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473739)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:24 PM
Author: vivacious feces hell



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474273)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:29 PM
Author: Comical duck-like indian lodge round eye

hipsters date to the late 90s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474317)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:25 PM
Author: Cracking pale karate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471759)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:10 PM
Author: lilac adulterous business firm stock car

Holy shit, 5 turned out to be totally wrong.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472625)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:31 PM
Author: vivacious feces hell

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472798)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 3:56 PM
Author: Odious death wish

this was an ad that aired during the second bush administration for skinit.com. it has been mostly purged from the internet, but i managed to save a low-quality copy a while ago. i think this captures the mid-00's, pre-ITE "spirit" pretty well:

https://files.catbox.moe/alnxy5.flv

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471530)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 5:04 PM
Author: orange black woman

lmfao, ty this is the greatest thing of all time. mindblowing.

i need to personally upload this to youtube for safekeeping

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472079)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:08 PM
Author: Odious death wish

youtube will delete it. the original uploader yanked it and shut down his channel years ago and doesn't want that stuff re-uploaded. i don't think he's a white rapper anymore. it was also on myspace for a while, but also got pulled.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472606)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:16 PM
Author: orange black woman

wtf, that guy should be proud of this. he is a true wigger icon of the Roaring Bush Aughts.

i need to look into this further.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472679)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 5:33 PM
Author: Racy state prole

4got about spinning rims

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472324)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:01 PM
Author: Supple library

Lol holy shit. Also the heyday of the lifted “bro truck” phenomenon. I think 90% of those things got repossessed by the end of ‘09.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472533)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:17 PM
Author: Frum preventive strike

Cr. Fake tans everywhere. Double popped collar polo shirts with cargo shorts and flip flops. Bush giving everyone like $500 one year. Was crazy time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472684)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:21 PM
Author: Odious death wish

lots of stimulus package jokes. board monikers like "Bush stimulated my package." poasters asking each other if they were stimulated by bush's package.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472715)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:27 PM
Author: orange black woman

my vivid memory of this era is from, like, 2006, visiting my friend in his shitty low-tier 'gated community', and witnessing this fat shitboomer's yellow Hummer break down on the road next to one of the many under-construction mini-mcmansions. i think he was a developer or something, inspecting the site, and he ran out of gas.

but as he got out of his Hummer, he sprawled the door wide open and left his stereo on full-blast, and i could make out that it was some kind of Christian "How to be a Millionaire" positive-affirmation CD, just blaring, for the whole neighborhood to hear. i listened to it for 5 minutes, observing this fat shitboomer in Crocs, as he arranged for a tow-truck.

it synthesized so much of that era: Bush's 'Mega Church' capitalism, housing bubble, Chickenhawk militarism (yellow Hummer), easy money, shitbooming, blackberry.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472752)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:41 PM
Author: Odious death wish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNiWO5gsms8

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472884)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:45 PM
Author: orange black woman

lol, so sick. there are a lot of these 'documents' of the era.

it's eerie to look back on it. the 'mania' of that era seemed way more unhinged/disconnected from reality, relative to past economic boomtimes (80s,90s). people seemed like they were on meth. just not connected to reality.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472931)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:52 PM
Author: Odious death wish

it was a very GAKKED-OUT era. there is not a lot of good critical commentary yet about the monumental WEIRDNESS of that whole cultural era. it really was a bizarre collision of a bunch of ridiculous, inane, unsustainable trends. it feels like society was attempting to glue itself together as it frayed, but the outcome was grotesque. faux-patriotism. patriotism via consumption. faux religion. religion AS consumption. etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473029)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 7:05 PM
Author: orange black woman

yes. that was the final schizophrenic disintegration of whatever remained of the stable/white/suburban America that had been propped up artificially for so long, running on fumes.

Trump is just a kind of ironic coda to the collapse.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473128)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 7:15 PM
Author: Flesh voyeur

Thankfully we know better with our obsession about cryptocurrency.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473223)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 9:36 PM
Author: Bull headed sickened kitty



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473961)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 9:26 PM
Author: Supple library

Brother if you could link to some of that critical commentary I would be so fucking grateful

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473926)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:13 PM
Author: Odious death wish

i don't really know of any. it remains to be written. the whole collision of paperboard houses, paperboard religion, big SUVs purchased with easy credit, getting mad at the dixie chicks for talking shit about bush's wars, etc. - it's all so utterly alien even just a dozen years later.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474191)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 8:43 PM
Author: Sapphire sweet tailpipe

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473748)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 9:25 PM
Author: Supple library

180 evocative imagery brother

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473921)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:30 PM
Author: Passionate temple



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474879)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 9:44 PM
Author: Ivory low-t fortuitous meteor

This was my "era" as a teenager but I have so few memories of it. The late 90s were a much more vivid and halcyon time for me. I have spent my entire adult life trying to undo mistakes and get back to a lifestyle like I had as a kid in like 1996-1999

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474000)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:13 PM
Author: vivacious feces hell



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474189)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:01 PM
Author: Bull headed sickened kitty

Destroyed my life

... Well at least played a huge role

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474129)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:05 PM
Author: Zippy Disturbing Gas Station

It really didn't feel decadent. The Iraq War was the biggest cultural force during that time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474153)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:11 PM
Author: Odious death wish

lol, "flipping" mansions with insane leverage and giving mexican illegals 500K mortgages wasn't decadent?

https://www.cnet.com/news/casey-serin-the-worlds-most-hated-blogger/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474184)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 11:14 PM
Author: Zippy Disturbing Gas Station

That was like a Sunbelt thing. Things weren't that crazy elsewhere, my man.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481282)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:13 PM
Author: chartreuse parlor antidepressant drug

I'm glad I was in college then. That was the last time there was free expression on campus.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474190)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 11:13 PM
Author: Bull headed sickened kitty



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481272)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:36 PM
Author: Yellow Plaza Cuckold

The implosion of Hummer as a brand is pretty crazy. It's kinda too bad GM killed it in retrospect, but the high gas prices at the end of the 00's really felt like they would be persistent

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474375)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:25 PM
Author: Supple library

I think the gas price spike in ‘07 marked the end of the era I had in mind in the OP. That was like GC’s warning shot before it brought the guillotine down on all of our necks in Fall ‘08

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474841)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 12:03 AM
Author: Yellow Plaza Cuckold

FJ Cruisers from the late 00's-early 10's are commanding absolutely sick prices rn

Kinda wish I had got one of those instead of a Subaru Outback

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35475068)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 12:42 AM
Author: alcoholic sooty chad

Fuck yea. I miss it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35475236)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 10:46 PM
Author: Odious death wish

so many books like this:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41GHWqQ2lCL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

written by boomers who looked like this:

https://cdn6-thechristianpost.netdna-ssl.com/full/98700/img.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481132)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 10:48 PM
Author: Brass hall

my fav:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519NS7GTXPL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481143)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 10:49 PM
Author: Brass hall

lol

In the days leading up to the 2008 United States election, Barnes was the only political pundit out of 27 catalogued by the Huffington Post (including Karl Rove, Alex Castellanos, Matthew Dowd, Ed Rollins, and George Will) to predict a John McCain victory for U.S. President (286 to 252 electoral votes).[6]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481151)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 10:50 PM
Author: Odious death wish

https://ssli.ebayimg.com/images/g/GXQAAOxydlFS3bxi/s-l640.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481156)