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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...
haunting flesh double fault
  02/23/18
You knew it was trouble when schoolteachers and secretaries ...
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  02/23/18
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tantric idiotic ticket booth
  02/23/18
read this as HUMBLERS at first
federal keepsake machete
  02/23/18
it was 180 man
big ceo
  02/23/18
It truly is not called out enough as the Gilded Age it was.
At-the-ready set pervert
  02/23/18
cheap money flowing everywhere
irradiated useless half-breed boiling water
  02/23/18
Cr. The big short did a pretty good job capturing that zeit...
haunting flesh double fault
  02/23/18
too short to be a gilded "age". maybe a "gild...
internet-worthy lay
  02/23/18
Pretty CR, and thanks to that era my parents now live in a h...
razzle-dazzle chest-beating potus cuck
  02/23/18
Good to see some critical thought on this topic from you
marvelous demanding menage wrinkle
  02/23/18
more like the early 2000s
Odious roommate
  02/23/18
Could be. I associate that with the somewhat humbler vibes ...
haunting flesh double fault
  02/23/18
Early 2000s had a shaky economy. Was not nearly as bloated a...
razzle-dazzle chest-beating potus cuck
  02/23/18
OP conflates some things. For instance, Nu metal had run its...
Claret bateful internal respiration
  02/23/18
weird hybrid bands like "avenged sevenfold" and &q...
At-the-ready set pervert
  02/23/18
Yeah, shit started getting kooky when nu metal declined
Claret bateful internal respiration
  02/23/18
but "bro rock" (the heavily-produced, sludgy-sound...
big-titted cerebral brethren
  02/23/18
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Lilac theater love of her life
  02/23/18
lol, anyone remember casey serin, his real estate empire, an...
big-titted cerebral brethren
  02/23/18
come to my seminahhh!
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  02/23/18
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haunting flesh double fault
  02/23/18
They don't have a "feel" for me. Like the 90s had ...
mischievous newt brunch
  02/23/18
The sopranos aesthetic. Flip phones, iPods, uggs, crocs, and...
marvelous demanding menage wrinkle
  02/23/18
the departed and breaking bad also show this well. also d...
At-the-ready set pervert
  02/23/18
prole cool kids from your local public high school SHOWING O...
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i agree. it's sort of what i imagine people in Florida are ...
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GWB telling people to spend money in response to terrorist a...
metal hissy fit
  02/23/18
Can't forget him Booming away the entire surplus by giving e...
alcoholic azure temple
  02/23/18
jfc Bush signed the $1.35 trillion tax cut -- which inclu...
very tactful soul-stirring locale mental disorder
  02/23/18
I was in grade school at the time and even then I thought th...
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  02/23/18
Then they tried to send out $300 checks in early 2008 like t...
metal hissy fit
  02/23/18
There was a famous case in the 1900-1910's I think where the...
alcoholic azure temple
  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
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  02/23/18
Instead let's set up a massive federal agency that makes you...
pink becky
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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 ...
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  02/24/18
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very tactful soul-stirring locale mental disorder
  02/23/18
GWB was truly the worst President ever. ljl at this cuck.
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  02/23/18
Those were my formative years. My main memories are: (1) ...
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Number 3 was great though
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  02/23/18
ofs Ludacris is hideously underappreciated in hindsight.
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speaking of baseball, i feel like post-2004 began baseball's...
At-the-ready set pervert
  02/23/18
nah u just got gookier
tantric idiotic ticket booth
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nah, i still love baseball. but it just has no real star po...
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100% cr when the yankee dynasty died (as much as i hate t...
big ceo
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Fledgling hipsters popping up too. The whole new urbanism an...
pink becky
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I remember this huge optimism that America's cities were bac...
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nyc hipster neighborhoods actually existed then. now willia...
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they were called METROSEXUALS at the time and they were all ...
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hipsters date to the late 90s
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Holy shit, 5 turned out to be totally wrong.
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tantric idiotic ticket booth
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this was an ad that aired during the second bush administrat...
big-titted cerebral brethren
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youtube will delete it. the original uploader yanked it and...
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haunting flesh double fault
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lots of stimulus package jokes. board monikers like "B...
big-titted cerebral brethren
  02/23/18
my vivid memory of this era is from, like, 2006, visiting my...
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  02/23/18
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big-titted cerebral brethren
  02/23/18
lol, so sick. there are a lot of these 'documents' of the er...
Bearded amethyst base jew
  02/23/18
it was a very GAKKED-OUT era. there is not a lot of good cr...
big-titted cerebral brethren
  02/23/18
yes. that was the final schizophrenic disintegration of what...
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i don't really know of any. it remains to be written. the ...
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  02/23/18
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180 evocative imagery brother
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tantric idiotic ticket booth
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Destroyed my life ... Well at least played a huge role
Fiercely-loyal heady public bath death wish
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It really didn't feel decadent. The Iraq War was the bigges...
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big-titted cerebral brethren
  02/23/18
That was like a Sunbelt thing. Things weren't that crazy els...
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I think the gas price spike in ‘07 marked the end of the era...
haunting flesh double fault
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Date: February 23rd, 2018 12:42 AM
Author: haunting flesh double fault

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: Alcoholic awkward friendly grandma

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: tantric idiotic ticket booth



(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: federal keepsake machete

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: big ceo

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: At-the-ready set pervert

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: irradiated useless half-breed boiling water

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: haunting flesh double fault

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: internet-worthy lay

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: razzle-dazzle chest-beating potus cuck

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: marvelous demanding menage wrinkle

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: Odious roommate

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: haunting flesh double fault

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: razzle-dazzle chest-beating potus cuck

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: Claret bateful internal respiration

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: At-the-ready set pervert

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: Claret bateful internal respiration

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: big-titted cerebral brethren

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: Lilac theater love of her life



(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: big-titted cerebral brethren

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: beady-eyed stage queen of the night

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: haunting flesh double fault



(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: mischievous newt brunch

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: marvelous demanding menage wrinkle

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: At-the-ready set pervert

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: fuchsia nibblets kitchen

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: Charcoal supple pocket flask

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: Out-of-control Free-loading Volcanic Crater Codepig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481331)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: flushed stimulating school cafeteria mother

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: very tactful soul-stirring locale mental disorder

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: metal hissy fit

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: alcoholic azure temple

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: very tactful soul-stirring locale mental disorder

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: alcoholic azure temple

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: metal hissy fit

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: alcoholic azure temple

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: Fiercely-loyal heady public bath death wish

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: pink becky

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: fragrant space

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: pink becky

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: High-end Sex Offender Native

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: big-titted cerebral brethren

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: very tactful soul-stirring locale mental disorder

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: Titillating private investor halford

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: swashbuckling lettuce

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: Motley abnormal stag film affirmative action

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: metal hissy fit

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: Motley abnormal stag film affirmative action

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: marvelous demanding menage wrinkle

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: very tactful soul-stirring locale mental disorder



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35469138)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 3:54 PM
Author: At-the-ready set pervert

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: tantric idiotic ticket booth

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: At-the-ready set pervert

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: contagious hominid



(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: big ceo

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: pink becky

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: Motley abnormal stag film affirmative action

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: At-the-ready set pervert

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: very tactful soul-stirring locale mental disorder

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: federal keepsake machete

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: tantric idiotic ticket booth



(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: Trip useless brakes

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: Ultramarine Floppy Resort



(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: Slap-happy racy milk

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: tantric idiotic ticket booth

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: big-titted cerebral brethren

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: Bearded amethyst base jew

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: big-titted cerebral brethren

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: Bearded amethyst base jew

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: cracking bronze prole jewess

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: haunting flesh double fault

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: Adventurous Bat Shit Crazy Library

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: big-titted cerebral brethren

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: Bearded amethyst base jew

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: big-titted cerebral brethren

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: Bearded amethyst base jew

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: big-titted cerebral brethren

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: Bearded amethyst base jew

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: Aphrodisiac Nursing Home Organic Girlfriend

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: Fiercely-loyal heady public bath death wish



(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: haunting flesh double fault

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: big-titted cerebral brethren

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: federal keepsake machete

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: haunting flesh double fault

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: big ceo



(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: Outnumbered Casino Generalized Bond

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: tantric idiotic ticket booth



(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: Fiercely-loyal heady public bath death wish

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: drab main people

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: big-titted cerebral brethren

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: drab main people

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: High-end Sex Offender Native

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: Fiercely-loyal heady public bath death wish



(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: obsidian mewling business firm

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: haunting flesh double fault

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: obsidian mewling business firm

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: Appetizing Trailer Park Bbw

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: big-titted cerebral brethren

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: At-the-ready set pervert

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: At-the-ready set pervert

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: big-titted cerebral brethren

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

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