American Politics

[EihTooms]

Thanks, Joe, Nancy, Chuck and the Dems.

Private job growth totals 807,000 in December, doubling expectations, ADP says

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/05/adp-...ndroidappshare

Private job growth totaled 807,000 for the month, well ahead of the Dow Jones estimate for 375,000 and the November gain of 505,000 according to ADP.

Hiring was broad-based, though leisure and hospitality led with 246,000 new positions.

Businesses with 500 or more employees accounted for the bulk of the gains in December, adding 389,000 jobs.

Shhhh. Don't tell Mainstream Media pundits about this. Please.

[Canada]

I am a financial advisor for a major firm in San Diego. Our firm does not give any Credit to the current administration for increased market prices. In fact it rarely gives credit for good or bad in the market to any administration. The market increased dramatically in 2017, 2018 and 2029 when Trump reversed a lot of Obama regulations especially for energy industry and financial industry. By end of 2019 China virus hit the world and business stopped in USA and the world. After a bleak 2020 and 3 vaccines hitting consumers in late 2020 it was expected that the market would stabilize and return to the gains made from 2017-2019 and it did. Since the new virus is less deadly than the last the market is stable. No credit is given to current administration. With the BBB virtually non existent now and Biden facing an election year our firm is expecting stable market. Most of my clients are 401 k and retirement funds so last 5 years have been extremely good. Once Biden tried destroying the oil industry we saw an increased opportunity for our clients in oil stocks once the administration drove down production and drove up oil and gas prices. Our average return on the energy side for oil was 68 per cent. For the wealthy and middle class who funded their 401 K to the max 2021 was a good year. It is an election year and the democrats are going to try to jam some socialist program or green program through but we do not expect that to happen. Expect a slight correction in March when feds raise interest rates for first time in years. But with a correction comes opportunities.

Our firm is one of the 3 biggest in USA and we get research weekly. They are not always right and some advisors don't do the research but we have an incredible record.

Great report. Pretty much sums up what my financial advisors have told me the last year. I use 2 of the 3 biggest firms in USA with 2/3 in one and 1/3 in the other. Both of them would agree with you totally. I use 2 firms because each firm offers different funds to give me more flexibility. Interesting enough about the market is that until 2007 the markets did a little better under democrat presidency than republican presidents but changed when Obama became president. Markets were stable but stagnant under Obama.

[Cali Guy]

Good lord, man, then your client is in big trouble, Mr. Advisor.

The broad USA Stock Market as quite accurately represented by the S&P 500 Index was down -4. 38% in 2018. There was a broadly based Bear Market Decline (20%) in December of that year. Did you not notice it? Or remember it?

They are in particular big trouble if you were advising them to invest just as large and enthusiastically during any previous Repub administration as the Dem administrations, which means they have not dodged but ridden every Great Repub Bear Market Crash to the very dead bottom and gained almost nothing but anxiety by the time the next Dem administration came in to recover it.

Obviously you are uneducated in the financial world and are not involved in it. Dow was just over 18,000 January 2017 and it is now 36000. The market was consistent in 2018 between 23,000 to 27,000 with solid growth. That is about 100 per cent increase. My clients have done really well. They are happy and I get referrals daily. My clients invest for long term wealth. The building of wealth is better with fluctuations in the market. Every correction is an opportunity to buy. Market crashing from Covid actually helped their portfolios because they were able to buy depressed stocks.

Obviously you have no clue on investing and have not capitalized on the market to date. If you are making investments in the market when republicans are in power then you are not participating in the market. If you were one of the stupid ones and I had a few clients like that who sold all their portfolio when Trump became president you lost big time. I had 2 clients who sold everything when Trump became president. $1,500,000 and $2,400,000 portfolios that now would be $3,000,000 and $5,000,000 portfolios.

[EihTooms]

[QUOTE=CaliGuy;2646844]I am a financial advisor for a major firm in San Diego. Our firm does not give any Credit to the current administration for increased market prices. In fact it rarely gives credit for good or bad in the market to any administration. The market increased dramatically in 2017, 2018 and 2029 when Trump reversed a lot of Obama regulations especially for energy industry and financial industry. By end of 2019 China virus hit the world and business stopped in USA and the world. After a bleak 2020 and 3 vaccines hitting consumers in late 2020 it was expected that the market would stabilize and return to the gains made from 2017-2019 and it did. Since the new virus is less deadly than the last the market is stable. No credit is given to current administration. With the BBB virtually non existent now and Biden facing an election year our firm is expecting stable market. Most of my clients are 401 k and retirement funds so last 5 years have been extremely good. Once Biden tried destroying the oil industry we saw an increased opportunity for our clients in oil stocks once the administration drove down production and drove up oil and gas prices. Our average return on the energy side for oil was 68 per cent. For the wealthy and middle class who funded their 401 K to the max 2021 was a good year. It is an election year and the democrats are going to try to jam some socialist program or green program through but we do not expect that to happen. Expect a slight correction in March when feds raise interest rates for first time in years. /QUOTE]Really, this post is such a cornucopia of delights, I can't resist another reply. LOL.

Aside from his historic 2018 CDC defunding disaster and his incomparable contributions to creating Trump's Pandemic in the first place, you do remember that Trump's lamebrained policies slammed the USA Manufacturing and Agro sector, right? Gee, we're all happy that he further subsidized the oil and energy sectors. Those poor dears need all the additional subsidies and corporate welfare they can get.

Meanwhile, thanks to his zero gain trade war against China, Trump had to send more Socialist welfare checks to USA Farmers just to keep them afloat:

Administration announces $12 billion in aid to farmers hurt by Trump's trade war.
The president tweeted on Tuesday that "Tariffs are the greatest!" Farmers don't think so.

July 6, 2018.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...de-war-n894066

And he drove the USA Manufacturing sector directly into Recession:

U.S. Manufacturing 'in a recession', Fed's data show

July 16,2019.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us...***-2019-07-16

Yep, all pre Trump's Pandemic, Mr. Financial Advisor.

[EihTooms]

I am a financial advisor for a major firm in San Diego. Our firm does not give any Credit to the current administration for increased market prices. In fact it rarely gives credit for good or bad in the market to any administration. The market increased dramatically in 2017, 2018 and 2029 when Trump reversed a lot of Obama regulations especially for energy industry and financial industry...

Good lord, man, then your client is in big trouble, Mr. Advisor.

The broad USA Stock Market as quite accurately represented by the S&P 500 Index was down -4. 38% in 2018. There was a broadly based Bear Market Decline (20%) in December of that year. Did you not notice it? Or remember it?

They are in particular big trouble if you were advising them to invest just as large and enthusiastically during any previous Repub administration as the Dem administrations, which means they have not dodged but ridden every Great Repub Bear Market Crash to the very dead bottom and gained almost nothing but anxiety by the time the next Dem administration came in to recover it.

[ScatManDoo]

I am a financial advisor for a major firm in San Diego. Our firm does not give any Credit to the current administration for increased market prices. In fact it rarely gives credit for good or bad in the market to any administration. The market increased dramatically in 2017, 2018 and 2029

Both Trump and Biden will probably be dead by 2029.

That's probably the year Kamala gets inaugurated.

For her first or second term.

[MarquisdeSade1]

Thank you for adding to the list of people who support the January 6th coup attempt.

The rioters did do more than break windows and take selfies. They smeared c all over the walls of the Capitol. They stole both personal and Government property. They threatened to hang the Vice President of the US. They illegally attempted to stop the certification of the Electoral College votes. Make no mistake, this was an attempted coup.

The only person killed inside the Capitol that day would not have been killed if she had stayed home. Instead, she forcibly and illegally tried to enter the barricaded Speaker's lobby. I thought Republicans believed that "actions have consequences". Or does that only apply to black people, LGBTQ persons, etc?

G. O. A. T? ROFL. Undoubtedly, though, the G. G. O. A. T. Greatest Grifter Of All Time.

Oligarchs stole the election? How? By having Chinese thermostats change votes? Every one of Donnie's 60+ lawsuits failed. Why? Lack of evidence.

I support full scale civil war.

Winner takes all!

https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/04/p...trust-the-fbi/

https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/31/h...on-was-rigged/

[SouthEaster]

"The fact that you and many so-called conservatives don't care about January 6th is what is really concerning. When was finding out who organized and funded the January 6th assault on our free elections a petty partisan exercise to be disparaged by virtually every elected Congressional Republican?" Come on. "Everyone knows" that it was a false flag operation organized by the FBI. Tucker said so, so it must be true!

[ScatManDoo]

Every time a Dem / Biden-basher ignores the overwhelming record of positive results for America produced by Dems and now by Biden in particular along with the disastrous results of Repubs and most especially those of Trump, you are proving yourself to be the obedient servant of Mainstream Media

Since many of them are middle class. No better off than a large number of democrats.

They look like suckers to me.

[Cali Guy]

Probably

https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500/returns

Biden's first year Stock Market return as measured by the industry standard S&P 500 Index was 28.7% (the report on total return including dividends will come later).

That surpasses Trump's first year return of 21.8%.

It surpasses even more Trump's average annual return of 16.8%.

Anybody think Trump's average annual returns were "unfairly" lowered because his disastrous economic decision to lay the groundwork for a deadly viral spread to emerge unmonitored, unprevented and improperly responded to in 2018, lie about its risks, mock the known mitigation measures and discourage any effort to invent or take a vaccine for it from the beginning and thereby create his worldwide economy and market destroying Trump's Pandemic most notably through his final year in office screwed up an otherwise magnificent Stock Market return record, the measure of "economic success" Trump revered most?

Well, you'd be wrong about that.

Trump's 3 year average annual return pre-2020 was even lower than his 4 year average at 16.3%.

I am a financial advisor for a major firm in San Diego. Our firm does not give any Credit to the current administration for increased market prices. In fact it rarely gives credit for good or bad in the market to any administration. The market increased dramatically in 2017, 2018 and 2029 when Trump reversed a lot of Obama regulations especially for energy industry and financial industry. By end of 2019 China virus hit the world and business stopped in USA and the world. After a bleak 2020 and 3 vaccines hitting consumers in late 2020 it was expected that the market would stabilize and return to the gains made from 2017-2019 and it did. Since the new virus is less deadly than the last the market is stable. No credit is given to current administration. With the BBB virtually non existent now and Biden facing an election year our firm is expecting stable market. Most of my clients are 401 k and retirement funds so last 5 years have been extremely good. Once Biden tried destroying the oil industry we saw an increased opportunity for our clients in oil stocks once the administration drove down production and drove up oil and gas prices. Our average return on the energy side for oil was 68 per cent. For the wealthy and middle class who funded their 401 K to the max 2021 was a good year. It is an election year and the democrats are going to try to jam some socialist program or green program through but we do not expect that to happen. Expect a slight correction in March when feds raise interest rates for first time in years. But with a correction comes opportunities.

Our firm is one of the 3 biggest in USA and we get research weekly. They are not always right and some advisors don't do the research but we have an incredible record.

[PVMonger]

Count all the guns those protesters own? How many of those guns were brought to the rally? How many shot anyone? If you want to have an insurrection you do more than break windows and take selfies.

The only person murdered was an unarmed veteran /100 lb white woman, by a black democrat!!

President Donald J Trump G. O. A. T.

The sequel 2024.

And if the oligarchs rig it again, let there be all out civil war!!

Thank you for adding to the list of people who support the January 6th coup attempt.

The rioters did do more than break windows and take selfies. They smeared c all over the walls of the Capitol. They stole both personal and Government property. They threatened to hang the Vice President of the US. They illegally attempted to stop the certification of the Electoral College votes. Make no mistake, this was an attempted coup.

The only person killed inside the Capitol that day would not have been killed if she had stayed home. Instead, she forcibly and illegally tried to enter the barricaded Speaker's lobby. I thought Republicans believed that "actions have consequences". Or does that only apply to black people, LGBTQ persons, etc?

G. O. A. T? ROFL. Undoubtedly, though, the G. G. O. A. T. Greatest Grifter Of All Time.

Oligarchs stole the election? How? By having Chinese thermostats change votes? Every one of Donnie's 60+ lawsuits failed. Why? Lack of evidence.

Think about this for a minute. Here's what the cult believes! Voters can't be trusted. The voting process can't be trusted. Local election officials can't be trusted. County election officials can't be trusted. State election officials can't be trusted. Local judges can't be trusted. State judges can't be trusted. State Supreme Courts can't be trusted. Federal Circuit Court judges can't be trusted. Federal Appellate Court judges can't be trusted. The Supreme Court can't be trusted. The only person who can be trusted is Donald Trump. If you need more than the time it took to read the above to realize how appallingly stupid it sounds, you are part of the problem.

Like I said earlier, if Donnie runs again, he could lose the EC by 538-0 and you cultists will still crown him king.

[EihTooms]

Count all the guns those protesters own? How many of those guns were brought to the rally? How many shot anyone? If you want to have an insurrection you do more than break windows and take selfies.

The only person murdered was an unarmed veteran /100 lb white woman, by a black democrat!!

President Donald J Trump G. O. A. T.

The sequel 2024.

And if the oligarchs rig it again, let there be all out civil war!!

Trump and his iInsurrection Mob were responsible for 5 deaths that day and more related deaths soon after. The violent Q-anon nut you mentioned was not "murdered. " She was shot by an American hero after illegally breaking into the area near members of Congress she and the Trump Insurrection Mob behind her were intent upon assassinating. And then only after multiple warnings to withdraw.

Oh, BTW, court documents, video evidence and news coverage show that some of Trump's rioters were armed with guns, many later seized by the police.

This was a mob of idiot Trumpsters intent upon stopping an Electoral College count submission and, if necessary, killing a few cops and elected officials along the way. That is still an Insurrection. They were not prepared and organized enough to represent an anti-America military force capable of running the American government for so much as a single hour.

This time.

[Canada]

Probably

https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500/returns

Biden's first year Stock Market return as measured by the industry standard S&P 500 Index was 28.7% (the report on total return including dividends will come later).

That surpasses Trump's first year return of 21.8%.

It surpasses even more Trump's average annual return of 16.8%.

Anybody think Trump's average annual returns were "unfairly" lowered because his disastrous economic decision to lay the groundwork for a deadly viral spread to emerge unmonitored, unprevented and improperly responded to in 2018, lie about its risks, mock the known mitigation measures and discourage any effort to invent or take a vaccine for it from the beginning and thereby create his worldwide economy and market destroying Trump's Pandemic most notably through his final year in office screwed up an otherwise magnificent Stock Market return record, the measure of "economic success" Trump revered most?

Well, you'd be wrong about that.

Trump's 3 year average annual return pre-2020 was even lower than his 4 year average at 16.3%.

Like I said previously. The rich get richer. The stock market helped the rich far more than the average family. Did not help the poor at all. Yes market is up and the biggest benefactor was Warren Buffett: Biden biggest donor. I like many other wealthy people benefited greatly with Berkshire stock. 1 share of Berkshire A went up $120,000. But I bet most people don't own this stock. But I do and I know Pelosi and Biden own this stock. I bet you don't own this stock. Biden trying to kill oil industry backfired like everyone knew it would and helped double oil prices. I along with other people who had smart financial advisors and money bought oil stocks that went up 30-85 per cent. Stock market was up 17 per cent but leader was oil stocks. The fools scoffed at the oil industry and the smart made millions on the oil industry last year.

But don't brag up Biden too much on the stock market because if he ever does get one of his bad policies in we are going to see a crash. Fortunately he has been to incompetent to implement much.

[Canada]

The only people who don't care about January 6th are the 74+ million fools who voted for the former guy. People like you, Elvis, Cali and a few others. Your comment of "politicians scared for one day" says it all. Everybody else with a brain, both here in the US and elsewhere in the world, is very concerned with what happened on January 6th.

The "real world" as you term it knows that the former guy and his merry band of idiots orchestrated a coup. Thankfully the coup failed. But I have no doubt that Republicans will try it again in 2024. If the former guy runs he could lose the popular vote by 50,000,000 and lose the EC by 538-0 and Republicans will swing into gear and crown him king. I know that that's what you and the rest of the cultists want.

Anybody who supports a coup is the real hater here.

The real world doesn't care about Trump anymore. The real world sees the real problems in the USA today. The real world see inflation. The real work see the dangerous crimes in their cities. The real world see the drugs and criminals illegally coming through insecure borders. The real world sees the future. The real world will change the future by voting for change in 2022 and making Biden a lame duck president so that he can't totally destroy America. The fools and pessimist's will continue to talk about Trump. The real world will succeed and the fools and pessimists will still be living the past.

[ScatManDoo]

Count all the guns those protesters own? How many of those guns were brought to the rally? How many shot anyone? If you want to have an insurrection you do more than break windows and take selfies.

The only person murdered was an unarmed veteran /100 lb white woman, by a black democrat!!

President Donald J Trump G. O. A. T.

The sequel 2024.

And if the oligarchs rig it again, let there be all out civil war!!

Hey MarquisdeSade1,

Just to measure you're grip on reality.

Do you believe that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election?