American Politics

[MarquisdeSade1]

Wrong again. Arizona plus a couple other states counted their votes after hours when no republicans were present.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/10/t...edia-alliance/

[EihTooms]

I will try to explain the stock market to people who totally do not understand or totally don't invest in the market. All indexes were up in the USA market an average of 68 percent during the Trump presidency. That does not mean that my portfolio goes up 68 percent as I don't own every stock in the market and a portion of my portfolio is in tax free bonds. I only own about 200 individual stocks of which about 50 percent of them pay dividends from. 3 to 7 percent. My portfolio went up 70 per cent on stock price increases, dividends and interest in the 4 years Trump was president. This was my biggest gain under any president in the last 40 years. I know you can't relate to this because you do not invest in the market as your posts indicate. It doesn't matter what happened in the past. In retrospect I never had a loss in any 4 years of any presidency in last 40 years but obviously some are better than others. I like many savvy investors made huge returns under Biden when he tried to kill the oil and gas industry, created a shortage and crude and natural gas doubled in price in one year. This is the reason you pay good financial advisors. I do not ever complain paying a 25 percent commission every year for 4 years to make 68 percent. You get what you pay for.

Holy crap! You paid those scammers a 25% commission on a 68% gain in the stock market? And that 68% - 70% was your biggest gain under any president in 40 years?

So you missed out on the 235% gain in the broad USA Stock market under Obama and the 264% gain under Clinton.

Man, that is pathetic. Seriously, you need to have those con artists charging you 25% commissions arrested, not merely fired.

Ok, I'm going to give you the best stock market investment advice anyone has apparently given you in 40 years. And I won't charge you anything for it; open an account at Vanguard. The expense ratios for all of their funds range from 0.10% to 0.60%. Yes, you read that right. Less than 1%! Not 25%. To anyone!

The Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund, VTSAX, will cost you no more than about.

0.40% per year to maintain and service it. You don't need to pay a commission to a broker, a self-described "financial advisor", a priest or anyone else other than that. And you will never get robbed of 25% by any con man or thief.

Had you been in that simple, no-brainer, extremely low cost, low tax, beautifully diversified Index Fund over the past 40 years you would have gained all but about 0.40% of those 235% and 264% Dem presidency gains and kept a hell of a lot more of that middling 68% - 70% under Trump.

You're welcome.

Oh, and before you have the scammers who have been steamrolling you for the past 40 years fired and arrested, let them know that as of today's close the industry standard reference S&P 500 Index is only off about 2.3% from its all time closing high and the amusing but far less useful for that measure DOW is only off about 1.85%.

Not that they are in the business to know or care about such things. Their only challenge is to locate suckers happy and eager to pay 25% commissions for godknowswhat nonsense they're peddling you. I assume they troll those Trump MAGA rallies for their most likely marks.

[ScatManDoo]

When asked about Jim Jordan's recent announcement that he would not cooperate with the January 6th committee, Representative Adam Schiff said: "I have to say, I'm not hat surprised by it. He said he 'had nothing to hide', and then he decided 'Well, I guess I have a lot to hide'.

Jordan's weaseling days after the January 6th violent insurrection with reporters whether and when he spoke to TrumpShit is pure video comedy.

What is not funny, was his aiding and abetting in his University's coverup of sexual abuse in the wrestling program when he was a coach.

[Canada]

No, the data and actual history of results refute it.

BTW, wasn't that supposed 68% or so that you're now calling "70%" based on a 5 year return in the DOW?

So which Dem year did you have to add to Trump's 4 year term to achieve that result? Was it Obama's final year, Biden's first year or a little of both?

I will try to explain the stock market to people who totally do not understand or totally don't invest in the market. All indexes were up in the USA market an average of 68 percent during the Trump presidency. That does not mean that my portfolio goes up 68 percent as I don't own every stock in the market and a portion of my portfolio is in tax free bonds. I only own about 200 individual stocks of which about 50 percent of them pay dividends from. 3 to 7 percent. My portfolio went up 70 per cent on stock price increases, dividends and interest in the 4 years Trump was president. This was my biggest gain under any president in the last 40 years. I know you can't relate to this because you do not invest in the market as your posts indicate. It doesn't matter what happened in the past. In retrospect I never had a loss in any 4 years of any presidency in last 40 years but obviously some are better than others. I like many savvy investors made huge returns under Biden when he tried to kill the oil and gas industry, created a shortage and crude and natural gas doubled in price in one year. This is the reason you pay good financial advisors. I do not ever complain paying a 25 percent commission every year for 4 years to make 68 percent. You get what you pay for.

[EihTooms]

Biden virus is out of control and we have no testing kits. Biden is clueless.

LOL. It's hilarious to watch Repub Senators whose Repub base is dying at multiple times Dems from Trump's Pandemic virus railing against Biden's Trump's Pandemic response team at the Senate hearings, especially with regard to test shortages, after every Repub in Congress voted to defund every federal response to Trump's Pandemic when Biden's American Rescue Plan was passed without a single Repub vote for it or so much as demanding funds be increased anywhere in it.

That's where the funding for all the tests and distribution of tests came from.

It's reminiscent of the phony Repub outrage over non existent Dem "defunding the police" after Repubs and only Repubs in the House voted unanimously to defund the police! LOL.

[EihTooms]

Wrong again. Arizona plus a couple other states counted their votes after hours when no republicans were present.

Why not? Was it way past Repub beddy time?

Nobody forbade registered Repubs from being present for or participating in any voting or ballot counting process in any state for any election.

[EihTooms]

Obviously you are not in the stock market and one of many Americans that did not prosper from the steady gains in the market over the last 25 years. I realize you think exactly like my two clients that bailed out of the market when Trump was elected president. Fortunately you are the one paying the price.

Comparing the most recent all time closing high for both the DOW and the Wall Street and financial industry standard reference measure, the S&P 500 Index, to where it is right now or any given close is extremely easy to do.

The percentages I quoted were accurate when I wrote them. And as of this writing, those percentages off the all time closing high are even smaller.

[EihTooms]

I will take my 70 percent gain on my portfolio on the make believe crash of Trumps 4 year presidency every day of my life. I hope Biden crash does half that well.

Most Americans will take the great economies of Reagan and Trump rather the the failures and inflation of Carter and Biden. No contest. The republicans, independents and the smart democrats agree with me. The dumb democrats and socialists will try to refute it.

No, the data and actual history of results refute it.

BTW, wasn't that supposed 68% or so that you're now calling "70%" based on a 5 year return in the DOW?

So which Dem year did you have to add to Trump's 4 year term to achieve that result? Was it Obama's final year, Biden's first year or a little of both?

[Cali Guy]

The S&P 500 Index is down about 4. 5% from its all time record high under Biden and you see that as a sign that Biden's historic record high USA jobs creating and 5%+ real GDP growth economy is a failure?

Oh, sorry, I forgot you're paying big bucks to a couple of self-described "financial advisors" from big bucks firms who apparently think the "DOW" is the financial industry standard measure for the stock market.

Ok, the DOW is current down about 3.5% from its all time record high under Biden.

Have either of those big bucks firm "financial advisors" ever mentioned that sometimes stock market investors take single digit profits out of the market after it hits all time record highs to, you know, buy stuff?

Don't tell anybody, but that turns out to be good for the economy too.

Obviously you are not in the stock market and one of many Americans that did not prosper from the steady gains in the market over the last 25 years. I realize you think exactly like my two clients that bailed out of the market when Trump was elected president. Fortunately you are the one paying the price.

[Canada]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...use/ar-AASDUum

Biden virus is out of control and we have no testing kits. Biden is clueless.

[PVMonger]

They had to pass that law because illegals were already voting or more like getting paid to vote.

My understanding of what is happening now is that the Republicans are watching the polls like crazy now and if there is any funny business, they go to a judge right then. This way you are not asking a judge to overturn an election result but making a decision to invalidate a ballot or ballots before the results are even known.

Did you notice how the Democratic here were mum on this story of someone illegally harvesting ballots? There is no outrage about that or that 85% of the video was destroyed just that there was no credible circumstantial evidence.

GWB won the 2000 election, but these Democratic douches went on and on about how the Supreme Court handed GWB the election. That and this election showed me that Democratic douches have zero interest in the integrity of elections. All they care about is if their guy wins. It is setting the USA up to be a banana republic.

The "illegally harvesting ballots" think is an accusation. You know, like when someone says "hey, this happened" and then the authorities investigate. The Georgia Secretary of State is investigating. Get back to us when he has some actual charges to bring. Personally, this smells to high heaven. This ballot harvesting accusation just came up? A year after the supposed incident? This guy and his mother just now got around to thinking it was wrong? C'Mon. Remember that the former guy filed 60-some-odd lawsuits of voter fraud and all of them were rejected because they contained accusations but no proof. In other words, all sizzle but no steak.

[Gino02]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...use/ar-AASDUum

[Canada]

And, of course, there would be nothing but Great Trump Republican Crashes, Depressions / Recessions and Massive Jobs Destruction all along the way.

Hell, I could almost accept the pretend democracy and Repub style freedumb outlined in your post if Repubs were just as likely to produce as many positive economic results and as often as Dems.

But since at least 100 years of irrefutable evidence and data show Repubs are utterly incapable of producing even one Dem-like boom time economy and can only produce the significant and worse downturns, I just don't see a single solitary reason any patriotic American who wants the best and not the worst for the country so much as flirting with the possible outcome in your post.

I will take my 70 percent gain on my portfolio on the make believe crash of Trumps 4 year presidency every day of my life. I hope Biden crash does half that well.

Most Americans will take the great economies of Reagan and Trump rather the the failures and inflation of Carter and Biden. No contest. The republicans, independents and the smart democrats agree with me. The dumb democrats and socialists will try to refute it.

[Canada]

Your understanding of it is several decades late.

Republicans have always been present and allowed to sit at the tables, watch and monitor the voting process in virtually every polling place in the country since longer than anyone alive to read this has been voting.

Wrong again. Arizona plus a couple other states counted their votes after hours when no republicans were present.

[EihTooms]

"Many Americans don't fear a potential slide into authoritarianism because they have no basis for doing so. Our oceans and hegemony have coddled us; we take democracy for granted. But democracy and the rule of law are not the normal state of governments, certainly not historically.

Authoritarianism wouldn't happen overnight, but authoritarian regimes have shown us a road map. Here's a picture of what it would look like here.

If Trump and his enablers get their way, how you experience your life would depend on whether you identified and were identified as a Trump Republican..

And, of course, there would be nothing but Great Trump Republican Crashes, Depressions / Recessions and Massive Jobs Destruction all along the way.

Hell, I could almost accept the pretend democracy and Repub style freedumb outlined in your post if Repubs were just as likely to produce as many positive economic results and as often as Dems.

But since at least 100 years of irrefutable evidence and data show Repubs are utterly incapable of producing even one Dem-like boom time economy and can only produce the significant and worse downturns, I just don't see a single solitary reason any patriotic American who wants the best and not the worst for the country so much as flirting with the possible outcome in your post.