American Politics

[Axel Heyst]

First, the NASDAQ being in bear territory does not count. Then the S&P goes down to the bear territory, and you are hanging on with the Dow. The Dow is not "beloved" by me. It is by you though because it is the only index that shows Biden has not 100% crashed the economy. What crap will you come up with next?

Here you go following every market gyration and have invested in index funds, and you are bragging about not looking at your portfolio. Why would you need to look at your portfolio if you own index funds?

Hey everyone, here is EIH's investment advice. When your stocks go up, you look at your portfolio and brag about how much it has gone up. When it goes down, you do not look at it and then it is not a real loss.

Only a dumb Dem could give investment advice like that.

You have already lied about keeping score. You are way, way down to me and you are just too much of a coward to admit it. And I question your gains given your accounting methods.

Elvis, it is pointless to argue with someone who is as far gone as our little left wing BKK'er. He drank the cool aid a long time ago when he was a university student and he has never been sane since. Just imagine what he would be posting if Trump were still president and all this same shit was happening under Trump's watch.

[EihTooms]

First, the NASDAQ being in bear territory does not count. Then the S&P goes down to the bear territory, and you are hanging on with the Dow. The Dow is not "beloved" by me. It is by you though because it is the only index that shows Biden has not 100% crashed the economy. What crap will you come up with next?

Here you go following every market gyration and have invested in index funds, and you are bragging about not looking at your portfolio. Why would you need to look at your portfolio if you own index funds?

Hey everyone, here is EIH's investment advice. When your stocks go up, you look at your portfolio and brag about how much it has gone up. When it goes down, you do not look at it and then it is not a real loss.

Only a dumb Dem could give investment advice like that.

You have already lied about keeping score. You are way, way down to me and you are just too much of a coward to admit it. And I question your gains given your accounting methods.

Still waiting for your link to this:

Biden promised he would fix all problems created by Trump

Sorry, but there is no definition of "100% crashed the economy" that is measured solely by where a couple of stock market index are at the moment.

You thought the Dow was the go-to measure for the USA stock market until it stubbornly and to this day has not yet closed in a nominal Bear Market under Biden or meaningfully lower than than it closed under Trump in December 2018, years before Trump's Mega Bear Market decline and the worst across-the-board handoff from an outgoing administration to an incoming one in history. In fact, at this point even Wall Street's go-to measure for that, the S&P 500 Index, closed only 2-3 percentage points lower than it did under Trump in December 2018.

Now, I don't know what math you're using to conclude a 3. 6% and stable Unemployment Rate (down in record time from double digits under Trump), weekly jobless claims consistently well within the range for healthy jobs creation (after having skyrocketed under Trump), hundreds of thousands of new job being created, also in record time (after Trump's disastrous economic decisions wiped out millions upon millions of them and grossly underperformed Obama-Biden on jobs creation even before Trump's Pandemic) and, despite Trump's Global Supply-Chain Destruction Inflation, Americans buying gas, traveling, shopping and buying things so rabidly the Fed has to raise Fed Funds Rates just to keep them from overheating the economy beyond anything seen in decades as "100% crashing the economy. ".

But if it's the same math you're using to tell yourself what your win vs losses are in the stock market over the course of your gambling career, I suspect you are upside down on return for your bets at closer to that "100%" rate than Biden's roaring economy is to "crashing. ".

[Elvis 2008]

LOL. It must be killing you that the colossal mess Trump made of everything has still not yet driven your beloved Dow into a Bear Market close under Biden. Maybe tomorrow. Who knows? Personally and as a Long Term investor that doesn't even need the money in his portfolio anymore, I don't care.

First, the NASDAQ being in bear territory does not count. Then the S&P goes down to the bear territory, and you are hanging on with the Dow. The Dow is not "beloved" by me. It is by you though because it is the only index that shows Biden has not 100% crashed the economy. What crap will you come up with next?

Meanwhile, as a Long Term investor, I haven't even bothered to type out the keys to look at my portfolio in weeks.

Here you go following every market gyration and have invested in index funds, and you are bragging about not looking at your portfolio. Why would you need to look at your portfolio if you own index funds?

Hey everyone, here is EIH's investment advice. When your stocks go up, you look at your portfolio and brag about how much it has gone up. When it goes down, you do not look at it and then it is not a real loss.

Only a dumb Dem could give investment advice like that.

When your investing life style produces the 1000%s gains as mine did over the course of 30 years to the point where there is no desperate need to "keep score" by the hour, get back to me.

You have already lied about keeping score. You are way, way down to me and you are just too much of a coward to admit it. And I question your gains given your accounting methods.

[Elvis 2008]

And in little more than 16 months, the record shows they are doing a better job of it than anyone predicted anyone could have done without Divine Intervention.

For the record, you might want to tell people that is your eyewitness account from Thailand.

[EihTooms]

Dude, please stop blaming Trump for creating any mess and that being any reason for Biden's failure. First, Trump didn't create any mess rather improved upon the mess Obama left, that's my strong opinion but you don't have to agree with me. That said, Biden and Dems promised in 2020 campaign and debates that he would fix the "problems" created by Trump. So even if we agree that Trump created any mess (which he didn't), Biden is still a huge failure on his own election promises as most things keep getting worse for USA with Biden instead of improving. Capeesh?

Biden promised he would fix all problems created by Trump

Please provide a link for that promise.

Trump produced so many unprecedented and seemingly insurmountable problems for America requiring decades to fix and not a mere 4-8 years it is not likely Biden said anything like that even in jest. I doubt he even said anything as stupid as "I alone can fix it!" about any one of those horrific conditions Trump handed him.

Obama-Biden inherited one of if not the worst across-the-board conditions of any incoming administration from the outgoing Repub administration prior to that time. The economic handoff from Repub Hoover to FDR might have been marginally worse. But FDR didn't hit the ground with multiple failed Repub quagmire ground wars also raging in the background.

Then, astonishingly, Obama-Biden cleaned up the Mount Everest of shit they inherited and handed off one of the greatest across-the-board conditions ever to the most popular, iconic, beloved (by Repubs), near perfect "pro business", big talker, lord and savior Repub so-called potus of all time, so beloved his Repub voting minions attacked and tried to kill cops in order to convert the USA into a dictatorship with him as the dictator. And they are still working hard to do it.

And that Repub, like so many Repubs before him, squandered, strangled and killed the historically positive conditions he inherited from the Dems and created the Marianas Trench of economic, national security and foreign policy conditions to dump America into and for Biden-Harris to pull us out of it.

And in little more than 16 months, the record shows they are doing a better job of it than anyone predicted anyone could have done without Divine Intervention.

[MarquisdeSade1]

Dude, please stop blaming Trump for creating any mess and that being any reason for Biden's failure. First, Trump didn't create any mess rather improved upon the mess Obama left, that's my strong opinion but you don't have to agree with me. That said, Biden and Dems promised in 2020 campaign and debates that he would fix the "problems" created by Trump. So even if we agree that Trump created any mess (which he didn't), Biden is still a huge failure on his own election promises as most things keep getting worse for USA with Biden instead of improving. Capeesh?

https://www.breitbart.com/africa/202...q-in-mandarin/

[Gino02]

LOL. It must be killing you that the colossal mess Trump made of everything has still not yet driven your beloved Dow into a Bear Market close under Biden. Maybe tomorrow. Who knows? Personally and as a Long Term investor that doesn't even need the money in his portfolio anymore, I don't care.

And a recession, if any, is predicted by most economists to be a very shallow one that might not even be meaningful enough for NBER to actually call it a "recession."

Driving Repubs crazy! LOL.

Meanwhile, as a Long Term investor, I haven't even bothered to type out the keys to look at my portfolio in weeks. You say your scrambling from one financial advisor to another, clawing at everything you can find on what to buy, sell or hold throughout the day and night has you up 70% this month? Good for you.

When your investing life style produces the 1000%s gains as mine did over the course of 30 years to the point where there is no desperate need to "keep score" by the hour, get back to me.

BTW, tonight it's going to be Mexican food and a 20 year old university co-ed I am helping with her tuition. She'll stay overnight. I did about 5 minutes of due diligence to make those decisions.

Dude, please stop blaming Trump for creating any mess and that being any reason for Biden's failure. First, Trump didn't create any mess rather improved upon the mess Obama left, that's my strong opinion but you don't have to agree with me. That said, Biden and Dems promised in 2020 campaign and debates that he would fix the "problems" created by Trump. So even if we agree that Trump created any mess (which he didn't), Biden is still a huge failure on his own election promises as most things keep getting worse for USA with Biden instead of improving. Capeesh?

[Elvis 2008]

LOL. It must be killing you that the colossal mess Trump made of everything

Nah, I do not blame Trump for a virus the Chinese made and let out of a lab like you.

And a recession, if any, is predicted by most economists to be a very shallow one that might not even be meaningful enough for NBER to actually call it a "recession."

Are these the same "most" economists who said inflation was transitory?

Meanwhile, as a Long Term investor, I haven't even bothered to type out the keys to look at my portfolio in weeks.

Only a dumb Dem would brag about not selling high.

You say your scrambling from one financial advisor to another

Look a Dem just made something up and claimed it to be fact. Now that is a rare sight (sarc).

clawing at everything you can find on what to buy, sell or hold throughout the day

You are two for two with making up stuff. I was very specific with what I bought. I said SDOW, SPXU, and SQQQ. I bought them in late April.

When your investing life style produces the 1000%s gains as mine did over the course of 30 years to the point where there is no desperate need to "keep score" by the hour, get back to me.

I am confused as to who made the alleged thousands of precents of gains. Now it is you. Before it was the Democrats. And now you are mentioning a financial adviser.

For the record, in 1979, Business Week had a cover story called the Death of Equities. It is lamented as being wrong. Gold and even diamonds were the hot investment then. Thing is the S&P went down 30% before the massive rise. There is no reason for you to read it seeing as how you know everything but the main reason for the death of the equities article was inflation. Thank God that is in the past (sarc). https://ritholtz.com/1979/08/the-death-of-equities/.

BTW, tonight it's going to be Mexican food and a 20 year old university co-ed I am helping with her tuition. She'll stay overnight. I did about 5 minutes of due diligence to make those decisions.

That is great. I just got back from Guatemala with my Colombian gal my friends call a 10. Maybe you can find a girl who likes you for you like I did. I have found the sex is better when the woman likes you and it is not all about money.

[DramaFree11]

LOL. It must be killing you that the colossal mess Trump made of everything has still not yet driven your beloved Dow into a Bear Market close under Biden. Maybe tomorrow. Who knows? Personally and as a Long Term investor that doesn't even need the money in his portfolio anymore, I don't care.

And a recession, if any, is predicted by most economists to be a very shallow one that might not even be meaningful enough for NBER to actually call it a "recession."

Driving Repubs crazy! LOL.

Meanwhile, as a Long Term investor, I haven't even bothered to type out the keys to look at my portfolio in weeks. You say your scrambling from one financial advisor to another, clawing at everything you can find on what to buy, sell or hold throughout the day and night has you up 70% this month? Good for you.

When your investing life style produces the 1000%s gains as mine did over the course of 30 years to the point where there is no desperate need to "keep score" by the hour, get back to me..

Trump as nothing to do with the mess you guys are causing.

[PVMonger]

First thanks for correcting my spelling error which was already spelled correctly.

Here is what you said on June 13. It is a direct quote from your post. The only changes I made were to highlight the two (2) instances of your use of the word "historically". The text is as follows: " Historically those are the factors that the Dems used to run on and target. Historically the Reps use supply side economics that favour business, so you would expect the Dems to do better on the factors that they target."

You will note that the first (1st) time you used the word, you spelled it correctly. The second (2nd) time, you did not. So, your contention that the word in question was spelled correctly was incorrect. I guess you only had enough attention span to read one (1) sentence and not two (2). Kinda like the Orange Buffoon.

[EihTooms]

Oh man! As much as I enjoy reading your posts in the topics of mongering, here on this thread now I am not even sure if I should laugh or cry at you for your understanding of politics and governments (unless of course you are paid by the Dem machinery to do this, in which case it's all good).

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC/history/

On January 20,2017, Trump's first day in office, the S&P 500 Index closed at 2271.31.

On December 24,2018, almost two full years after Trump became so-called president, the S&P 500 Index closed at 2351.10.

According to my math, that is a tad under a 3.5% gain in the broad USA stock market after almost two full years of Trump economic stewardship with no Trump's Pandemic still crippling worldwide economies, no Trump mass murder of a million Americans and millions more around the world, no Trump's wipe out of millions upon millions of jobs, no Trump's destruction of global supply-chains and the consequential unavoidable Trump's inflation in the historic Biden recovery, no Trump's boyfriend's stupidest war ever against oil and food supplies, etc.

It didn't even exceed a two year rate of normal inflation!

However, it was after Trump inherited one of the best across-the-board economic trajectories on the unemployment rate, jobs creation, wage growth, deficit reduction, low inflation, effective border control, national security, etc of all time from the outgoing Obama-Biden administration.

So tell me again what I am getting wrong about horrific Repub legislation and stewardship vs far superior Dem legislation and stewardship.

[EihTooms]

Voting Dem is not due diligence. That is dumb Dem dallying.

Sorry, Gramps, let us see if the Admin here is not so partisan that he lets me publish a score. As of yesterday, you were down 70% to me and as of now, it is 84%, and this has been over 7 weeks. You have been trounced so badly that if this were little league baseball, the mercy rule would have been called in the equivalent of the 1st inning.

Your stupid pleas for voting Dems are matched by your stupid long term investing. Sure it makes sense to be long term in blackjack when you are the dealer. It is not gambling if you are the house, but some have beaten the house by betting more when fewer face cards have been played and cards 3 through 7 have been played. What we have today is the equivalent of a deck of cards with no 10's played and all cards 3 through 7 gone. You do not go for the long term when the fed is raising rates, the yield curve inverts, QE becomes QT, and you have a president this fucking incompetent in office. That is when the role of house and player are reversed, and it is not gambling to go with the player.

LOL. It must be killing you that the colossal mess Trump made of everything has still not yet driven your beloved Dow into a Bear Market close under Biden. Maybe tomorrow. Who knows? Personally and as a Long Term investor that doesn't even need the money in his portfolio anymore, I don't care.

And a recession, if any, is predicted by most economists to be a very shallow one that might not even be meaningful enough for NBER to actually call it a "recession."

Driving Repubs crazy! LOL.

Meanwhile, as a Long Term investor, I haven't even bothered to type out the keys to look at my portfolio in weeks. You say your scrambling from one financial advisor to another, clawing at everything you can find on what to buy, sell or hold throughout the day and night has you up 70% this month? Good for you.

When your investing life style produces the 1000%s gains as mine did over the course of 30 years to the point where there is no desperate need to "keep score" by the hour, get back to me.

BTW, tonight it's going to be Mexican food and a 20 year old university co-ed I am helping with her tuition. She'll stay overnight. I did about 5 minutes of due diligence to make those decisions.

[MarquisdeSade1]

Yes, so sad. He is a joke and the people he is surrounding himself with are even worse, maybe they will wake up before it is too late, but I really doubt it.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022...rder-policies/

[Elvis 2008]

No matter how you vote, the system has been so corrupted that it will take a monumental effort to restore a fair and responsive government.

Is that your excuse for voting for Biden?

As to your comments DF. I guess I need to add that more money needs to be spent on improving education. My third grade nephew would gasp at the plethora of grammatical errors you made in one sentence. If you don't know the difference between singular and plural, or between adjectives and possessives and between 'due' and 'do'. Perhaps your opinion isn't worth considering.

How about you show some guts and take on DF's points versus the cheap shot at his grammar?

It seems like you are trying to defend Biden's record and your voting him with distraction.

[Elvis 2008]

Here's your due diligence on that; stop voting for Repubs or anyone other than Dems and there will be scant few if any massive economic downturns, hundreds of thousands of businesses destroyed, jobs wiped out by millions etc in your lifetime for which inflation-triggering government intervention spending will always be required to pull us out of it.

Voting Dem is not due diligence. That is dumb Dem dallying.

Now, see, you just underscored a huge difference between the kind of Long Term investing I have done for the past 30 years and the in-out, shorts, daily if not hourly scrambling due diligence you are up to all the time like you really need the money and quick, more than likely to recoup losses from previous higher risk short term in and out timing bets that didn't happen to work out so well.

Sorry, Gramps, let us see if the Admin here is not so partisan that he lets me publish a score. As of yesterday, you were down 70% to me and as of now, it is 84%, and this has been over 7 weeks. You have been trounced so badly that if this were little league baseball, the mercy rule would have been called in the equivalent of the 1st inning.

Your stupid pleas for voting Dems are matched by your stupid long term investing. Sure it makes sense to be long term in blackjack when you are the dealer. It is not gambling if you are the house, but some have beaten the house by betting more when fewer face cards have been played and cards 3 through 7 have been played. What we have today is the equivalent of a deck of cards with no 10's played and all cards 3 through 7 gone. You do not go for the long term when the fed is raising rates, the yield curve inverts, QE becomes QT, and you have a president this fucking incompetent in office. That is when the role of house and player are reversed, and it is not gambling to go with the player.

While you've been busy scrambling around, contacting financial advisors, reading this and that report to catch a lead on where, when and how to toss the dice next in order to score a fast and desperately needed buck, you know, "Luck, be a lady tonight! Baby needs a new pair of shoes"

LOL. Calling me lucky is the epitome of loser speak.

My Long Term investing over the past 30 years has already long ago bought and established enough of a no risk income stream to fully fund a ridiculously comfortable retirement where the only due diligence I bother to muse on is will I have pizza for lunch and steak for dinner or the other way around and will I have the freebie 19 year old cutie just learning to give a great, full and complete blowjob or the lovely 22 year old honey with a delightfully snug and warm vagina for the evening.

I don't even need to check what the stock market is doing this hour, day, week, month or year or worry about where it and this or that sector will go next.

Those are two very different life and investment choices.

Your ridiculously comfortable retirement has taken quite the haircut and now you are bragging about not selling? Oh boy. You cannot even admit defeat when there is a scorecard. Maybe next you can say Putin fixed the results.

As I have said in the past, I was short oil betting that Obama was competent enough to get down oil prices with his policies and I made a killing with that. Biden's strategy, if you want to call it that, is to blame refiners and Putin for higher gasoline prices. Shockingly (sarc) that has not worked. Until we see demand destruction, and there has been none to date, gasoline is going higher and higher and the economy lower and lower.