American Politics

[MarquisdeSade1]

Damn, is Pat Buchanan still alive? Hard to believe he hasn't offed himself after seeing 3 Dem presidents in a row kick the shit out of Reaganomics' historically failed results since Reagan was potus in addition to all 5 of them prior to Reagan becoming potus.

I hope you get to witness Our Lord and Saviors return Jan 2025.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/05/k...e-office-tart/

[PVMonger]

Allow me to try and translate your Newspeak.

1. The West should stop supporting Ukraine and let them dish it out mano a mano.

2. As soon as that happen, Putin (for some reason) will not push ahead in order to destroy Ukraine with maniacal and homicidal determination he's exhibited so far, but will somehow try to "compromise and settle. ".

Is that the gist of your suggestion?

Considering the complete and utter absurdity of this proposal, may I ask (again!) what goddamn hold does a two-bit thug and murderer Putin hold over you and your rightwing comrades?.

The stupidity of the MAGA crowd is unbelievable. But the Orange Buffoon often stated that he liked his voters dumber than a box of rocks.

[EihTooms]

TrumpShit and Rudy should share a cell.

I've heard Rudy is dodging giving testimony under oath because he'll have to reveal what Trump told him was the real reason he encited and led that violent January 6, 2021 attack on America.

Yep, it was because Trump "smelled weakness" on the President of the United States at the time.

Same as always with these things.

[EihTooms]

Nope, you are making up your own definitions. If someone missed the "market top", they can mean anything based on what kind of bet they are making. If I am short and say "I missed the market top" that means I think the stock is going lower and I missed shorting it at a higher price.

If someone is long and says "I missed the market top" that to me means they should have sold at the higher price.

So according to your rule, if a stock goes higher, it HAS to keep hitting higher and higher highs which sounds like you are doing technical analysis, and you do not have a clue what real due diligence and fundamental analysis is.

If you have not noticed, you have been getting your ass kicked money wise since this discussion has been going on. So by all means, comfort yourself with that stupid arrogance because you are going to be so poor, that is all you are going to have...

Regardless what the "market top" or "market bottom" means to a trader who wanted to do something at those points, the fact that he said perhaps a half dozen of times by now that he missed it because of "lack of due diligence" available or done means he didn't "think it was going to go up or down" at those points.

That is the blissfully obvious concept you have failed to grasp over and over again no matter how you monkey with the idea of what a "top" or "bottom" might mean to 100 different investors or 100,000 of them.

And I have only barely touched on your apparent total lack of understanding the difference between a speculator, trader or gambler and a long term investor.

Please open your notebook to page 2:

A long term investor is not looking to move holdings in, out, in, out, etc of the market on the prospect of a potential Correction on the horizon.

But, as Buffet's famous bet proved conclusively, a long term investor who buys into a broadly based Index fund tracking, say, the S&P 500, rain or shine, high or low, through thick or thin, will kick the ass of virtually every professionally managed portfolio of stocks after doing what you described over a 10 year period.

Long term investors are not keeping score and calling it a game, set, match after 5 months.

[ScatManDoo]

Rudy is helping the government these days.

Supplied them with a list of possible passwords for the numerous electronic devises seized from Rudy's home.

Rudy's testimony will sink TrumpShit.

Will Giuliani give up his former boss that is stiffing him?

Fuck, you could be all paid up with your attorney.

And still get screwed by him.

Rudy is in the toughest place imaginable for someone with an ugly 77 year-old ass.

He's being stiffed for most of the work he did in 2021.

He's been stripped of his bar license.

Dominion looks to be on the winning side of a 1.5 billion lawsuit.

He's the leader and creator of hundreds of false electors in seven states.

Something or someone's got to give.

And Rudy Giulian's looking like someone who can be turned.

In any direction for the best deal.

Everyone! Hold your noses! The stench is about to be released. This will not be pleasant.

For some.

TrumpShit and Rudy should share a cell.

[Xpartan]

More demagoguery please. Never give up.

In the 1930's, people like you were called Nazi-sympathizers. They lost, and so will you.

https://www.newsmax.com/patrickbucha...04/id/1068443/

Only 180 more days.

It's a good thing you didn't argue about that other thing. Although, why would you, LOL.

[Elvis 2008]

Is it possible that you still don't understand that when someone says they missed the market top for lack of due diligence that means that, by definition, they did not "think it is going down"?

Nope, you are making up your own definitions. If someone missed the "market top", they can mean anything based on what kind of bet they are making. If I am short and say "I missed the market top" that means I think the stock is going lower and I missed shorting it at a higher price.

If someone is long and says "I missed the market top" that to me means they should have sold at the higher price.

So according to your rule, if a stock goes higher, it HAS to keep hitting higher and higher highs which sounds like you are doing technical analysis, and you do not have a clue what real due diligence and fundamental analysis is.

Because if you are as blithering, lost and confused as coming to either of those conclusions would confirm you'd have to be to do so, then you can't be allowed to roam the streets on your own. You need 24/7 caretaker supervision.

If you have not noticed, you have been getting your ass kicked money wise since this discussion has been going on. So by all means, comfort yourself with that stupid arrogance because you are going to be so poor, that is all you are going to have.

Don't you know that XXEEGGRR means the stock market is going down? OMG, you are so stupid. I cannot believe you do not know that.

And while the S&P is down around 15% for the year, I am up 22% in 2 weeks. Now why is that? Aren't individuals not supposed to be able to beat the market?

Yeah, it must be dumb luck. It could not have anything to do with betting on the Fed wrecking the economy by unwinding the balance sheet and raising interest rates, and Biden is off blabbing about Ukraine instead of taking care of things back home.

And Ukraine / Russia produces 15% of the world's wheat and 40% of the world's fertilizer. Let me know how this stupid fucking war is not going to be inflationary.

You dumb Dems used the virus to bring Trump down and ruin the economy and guess what? Now the bill is coming due.

[Xpartan]

Both sides need to compromise and settle this, nobody is winning. Stop the money and the weapons. The longer this goes on nobody wins.

Allow me to try and translate your Newspeak.

1. The West should stop supporting Ukraine and let them dish it out mano a mano.

2. As soon as that happen, Putin (for some reason) will not push ahead in order to destroy Ukraine with maniacal and homicidal determination he's exhibited so far, but will somehow try to "compromise and settle. ".

Is that the gist of your suggestion?

Considering the complete and utter absurdity of this proposal, may I ask (again!) what goddamn hold does a two-bit thug and murderer Putin hold over you and your rightwing comrades?

Just curious how do you plan on enforcing these war crimes? Invading Russia, you liberals are crazy.

No one invaded Serbia or Rwanda. The new governments of these countries handed over their war criminals to the ICC.

That's just two examples. There have been more.

And - what a funny thing - the West never had the leverage of crippling economic sanctions held over those two nations.

Over Russia, it does.

Will take a while and there will be a lot of resistance, but it can be done. National pride is all nice and dandy, but people need to eat.

[PVMonger]

Both sides need to compromise and settle this, nobody is winning. Stop the money and the weapons. The longer this goes on nobody wins.

I asked you very simply: "What would you do"?

Your answer was not to answer. "Both sides need to compromise and settle this, nobody is winning."

Can you read? Can you understand what you read? Do you know what I asked? Did you graduate from third grade or were you held back half-a-dozen times?

[EihTooms]

You are such an amateur you do not even know what the fuck I am talking about. If you think the market is going up, you buys stocks and hold them. If you think it is going down, you sell stocks and this is the part why you are an amateur is you go short. This crap about a "market top" (and that you so arrogant you think you have to define that. Who does not know what that is?) is mental masturbation. You do not have to short at the peak to make money but just get the direction right and ride the market down.

No, you are so stupid you do not know what I am talking about when I say going short.

SQQQ is a triple inverse fund to the NASDAQ. It goes up when the NASDAQ goes down, and it was up 15% today. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SQQQ/.

While everyone else was elated yesterday, I was bucking the trend thrilled that SQQQ had come down so much in price. I did not care about a one day reaction. The market is going down. I am buying it and holding it.

You are so stupid you think that who is president matters with the stock market. As Buffett says when interest rates go up, stocks have to come down. In fact, the market decline is not due to declining earnings at all. It is all due to multiple contraction, and you have no clue what I am talking about..

Astonishing. Is it possible that you still don't understand that when someone says they missed the market top for lack of due diligence that means that, by definition, they did not "think it is going down"?

Seriously? I mean, really, are you that dense?

How about if someone says they missed the bottom of the market due to lack of due diligence? Please tell us you don't misunderstand that to mean they "thought the market is going up."

Because if you are as blithering, lost and confused as coming to either of those conclusions would confirm you'd have to be to do so, then you can't be allowed to roam the streets on your own. You need 24/7 caretaker supervision.

[DramaFree11]

Before I answer any of your inane questions, you need to answer mine.

To wit: "What would you do"?

Both sides need to compromise and settle this, nobody is winning. Stop the money and the weapons. The longer this goes on nobody wins.

[PVMonger]

Just curious how do you plan on enforcing these war crimes? Invading Russia, you liberals are crazy. Maybe, Russia will just hand over all the war criminals, you guys live in a dream world and CNN / The other Hacks feed into your delusion.

War is hell and unfortunately incident people die. There needs to be a solution to the war quickly, before things get out of hand.

Before I answer any of your inane questions, you need to answer mine.

To wit: "What would you do"?

[EihTooms]

See, that's why Trump wanted to fire missiles into our southern border ally country and bomb it, call out USA Military troops to shoot USA protesters and, eventually, incite a violent, cop-killing Insurrection against America, whipping up and urging his America-hating mob to "fight like hell and never give up or you lose your country" and have our military wage a Civil War against USA citizens at the Capitol.

Because, you know, he is a "genius" who understands how bad war is for the economy:

Esper says Trump proposed launching missiles into Mexico to destroy drug labs
May 5, 2022

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3...roy-drug-labs/

According to Esper, Trump raised the idea of bombing the drug labs at least twice in the summer of 2020. Trump told Esper the U.S. should shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs.

They dont have control of their own country, Trump told Esper, according to the Times review of the memoir.

When Esper objected, Trump responded no one would know it was us and we could just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs, quietly.

Esper at first assumed it was a joke but thought otherwise as he looked at the president, according to The Times.
...
Trump had threatened to deploy active-duty troops to address the protests, but Esper came out against the proposal publicly, drawing the presidents ire.

[Elvis 2008]

Perfect example of Elvis 2008's inability to connect even two huge dots on a subject he desperately claims to be knowledgeable:

Elvis 2008 concluded this in response to my stating multiple times that my couple of moves in, out and back into the stock market over the decades worked out well for me but it was not a perfect record since I missed a couple of market tops under Bush2 and Trump that in my judgement were not subject to reasonable due diligence:

See, in common stock market parlance, a "market top" generally refers to a point just prior to a significant decline, usually enough to qualify as a Bear Market. "due diligence" refers to the research one does in order to determines one's next move re stocks.

You are such an amateur you do not even know what the fuck I am talking about. If you think the market is going up, you buys stocks and hold them. If you think it is going down, you sell stocks and this is the part why you are an amateur is you go short. This crap about a "market top" (and that you so arrogant you think you have to define that. Who does not know what that is?) is mental masturbation. You do not have to short at the peak to make money but just get the direction right and ride the market down.

But Elvis 2008 couldn't connect them re a subject he claims to know something about.

No, you are so stupid you do not know what I am talking about when I say going short.

SQQQ is a triple inverse fund to the NASDAQ. It goes up when the NASDAQ goes down, and it was up 15% today. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SQQQ/.

While everyone else was elated yesterday, I was bucking the trend thrilled that SQQQ had come down so much in price. I did not care about a one day reaction. The market is going down. I am buying it and holding it.

You are so stupid you think that who is president matters with the stock market. As Buffett says when interest rates go up, stocks have to come down. In fact, the market decline is not due to declining earnings at all. It is all due to multiple contraction, and you have no clue what I am talking about.

The next step will be a decline in earnings due to an increase in costs. Some companies have been honest about it, and others have not been.

With you, multiple contractions and earnings misses have nothing to do with stock prices. The only thing that matters with stock prices in your world is who is president, and that is why you are a fool.

[EihTooms]

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/don...05/id/1068690/

Well, he lost the vote by millions in 2016, again in 2020, ultimately lost the White House, The House of Representatives and the Senate for his so-called Party in just 1 four year term, the first one to do that since Herbert Hoover.

Counting a million American lives (so far), millions upon millions of American jobs, Trillion $ in American household wealth and his failed violent, cop-killing attempt to overturn a free and fair election and overthrow American democracy, the only things you God has "won" in 7 years was the Repub primary and enough votes in the rigged Electoral College designed to allow an over-represented minority to put their unfit Repubs in office in order to crash the USA economy over and over and over again.

Yeah, he'll probably win that Repub primary again. Especially now that Repubs know his sterling historic record and penchant for producing truly horrific across-the-board results for America. They love that. It's the only thing they know how to do and want to do.