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Trump has announced tariffs on auto imports. Here's the markets reaction at this moment,
USA (After hours trading):
Ford -4.37%
General Motors -6.36%
Foreign
Toyota -3.9%
Honda -3.1%
Hyundai -2.7%
Kia -2.1%
Would someone care to kindly explain why Ford and GM are down sharply when tariffs are supposed to help U.S. automakers? Or why the Asian automakers, which purportedly will pay the tariffs, are down less than Ford and GM?
(...kkkk!) That's a good point! But I'm hardly the first to pass gas and won't be the last. But passing gas, (in my books anyways), is always better than being constipated and full of shit, right!
Dude, Tiny 12, since you mentioned it, renewable energy can indeed help, with our meat and protein dietary needs, and assist with producing, alternative sustainable protein sources. Renewable energy systems can take role in tackling protein scarcity. Microbial protein industry links renewable energy system and food security. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032121013034
What you often fail to omit, is that when good ol' O&G are left to "self-monitor" and "self-report", ...THEY DON'T report those dirty methane leaks, that occur upwards of 8x more than what's reported, for fear being fined and exposing, just how problematic, methane leaks really are.
Methane Leaking From US Oil and Gas Is 8 Times Higher Than Agreed Targets, Jul 31, 2024,
https://www.newsweek.com/methane-leaking-us-oil-gas-8-times-higher-agreed-targets-1932878
US natural gas pipeline accidents pose big, unreported climate threat, March 8, 2024, Pipeline mishaps unintentionally released nearly 9.7 billion cubic feet of gas into the atmosphere between 2019 and late 2023 https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/us-natural-gas-pipeline-accidents-pose-big-unreported-climate-threat-2024-03-08/
So you tell me, where is the incentive, for the "self-monitoring" and "self-reporting" O&G companies, to report the actual numbers of dirty methane leaks? Their "incentive" is too keep the methane leakage number low. As low as possible!
Unlike the often larger fines in Europe, the fines in U.S. are way below, what they should be for the climate damage caused and only amount to what is essentially a slap on the wrist. But now that there's stronger satellite monitoring, revealing a greater number of methane leaks and flares, this may force more bigger and tougher penalties.
Yes, the article says 1/3 of global methane GHG gas emissions is produced by O&G and coal companies and emit 128 million tons per year. Coal companies, although they capture far less methane than they emit, they are nonetheless, producers and sellers of dirty methane gas.
But what you fail to realize, in this report and overall what the report is telling you, is that O&G sector has been under reporting their numbers, for years. It's only until just recently that the technology has given, industry watch dogs, the means to detect, the wide spread leakages.
In this report, as much as 60% higher. In the article above, as much as 8x times higher for methane GHG gas emission, than reported or estimated.
You foolishly put too much stock into winger MAGA politicians to do anything consequential, let alone "create jobs" for hard working American. We can all agree your winger job creation record, is dismal and pathetic.
(...kkkk!) Judging by this wrongheaded statement, I guess the irony of what the current clown show, of winger politicians and the Fuhrer/President Musk gong show, is doing, is lost on YOU, right!
Tell me again, just where exactly where is the job creation/growth, you're prattling on about, with this current MAGA admin?I'm not going to waste time reading the Book of Mormon when I know it's bull shit. Likewise, I'm not going to take a close read about what the Newsweek's sustainability editor and the Environmental Defense Fund have to say. I am sure their contention that methane losses in the Uinta Basin are 7% is bull shit.
Oil and gas companies have plenty of reason to monitor leaks, in addition to governmental pressure. They sell natural gas. They make money off it. If it's leaking into the air they make less money. Furthermore, they will get sued by landowners. Finally, the big ones are trying to claim they're "green. " Which is of course bull shit, but cutting natural gas leaks to 0% or close to it is one of the ways they go about claiming they're green. And for the 3rd time, yes, there should be aggressive government regulation to prevent the industry from leaking natural gas.
9.8 billion cubic feet, the amount of natural gas that you say was leaked from 2019 to late 2023, is nothing. If the gas were pure methane (specific gravity of 0. 554), then that would be 188,000 metric tons of methane. 13.33 lbs. of air at standard conditions weigh one pound, and there are 2204 pounds per metric ton, if you want to check me. If your polytechnique insights link is correct (and I wouldn't bet on it), and you spread those 188,000 tons over 5 years (from 2019 to 2023), then those 9. 8 billion cubic feet are about 0.011% of total methane emissions from manmade sources during the period. You shouldn't want to put put the domestic natural gas industry out of business to reduce methane emissions by 0.011%.
As to the rest of your post, I didn't vote for Trump. That's not my monkey.
Now, that's not saying much at all, really!
O&G companies have had the EPA, in their back pockets for years, with very favorable and often soft regulatory measures, being ever softly applied to O&G (or coal) companies. Wouldn't surprise me if the EPA along the way, were a who's who of O&G alumni.
(...kkkk!) So now you're making my point for me! Thanks!
Methane GHG gas, has an 80x the warming effect on our atmosphere, and CO2 has a 1x (baseline) warming effect. When methane GHG gas, breaks down over those 12 years, it still leaves a significant deposit of CO2, that lingers for those 100+ years (as you've so kindly stated). So basically, what this means is, dirty methane GHG gas emissions, speeds up global warming and is no better than coal, when you take into account the massive amount of leaks.
If it hasn't already dawned on you, the use of more oil, coal or methane gas, released into our atmosphere for next 100+ years, is NOT what's needed, when alternative cleaner energy sources, exist.
Don't forget the Obama administration, only meant for methane gas, to be used as a temporary transitional energy source.
But greedy O&G companies, lack fortitude and the constitution for zero CO2 emissions and cleaner solutions and haven't reduced dirty fossil fuels, in the face of clean renewables. Nor do I blame them, if there's a demand for it. So it's up to us, to change that trend, which I think is happening.
Yes, some O&G production will probably always exist, but what governments need to really do, is place more emphasis, on renewables. See my past post, on those countries, that are producing more grid renewable energy, than fossil fuels.
(...kkkk!) Is that what ChatGOP is telling you! Or was ChatGOP, just playing with you and provided you the appropriate greenwashing answer?
Do I really need to explain to you, that when methane gas is used or burnt, it releases CO2 emissions. So greenwash with terms like "pure" and "natural" all you want, the answer will always come up DIRTY!
BTW, while methane gas is by nature, colorless and odorless, that rotten egg smell associated with commercial and residential use of dirty methane gas, is the odorant called mercaptan, which is added, so that we can detect, when we're about to be poisoned or blown up, by dirty methane gas leaks.
Yeah, I met that challenge several posts ago. And you can check my last post for the all those countries, that have flipped the switch and are using renewables as baseload power and supplement there peak demand with fossil fuels.
Again, you're not saying very much about anything when you talk about your MAGA Fuhrer, now are you!
BTW, he's never considered himself a politician, perhaps that's because, he's a grifter, corrupt and criminal gangster, masquerading as a wannabe dictator.Your source Gasleaks apparently doesn't understand the difference between methane and natural gas. Yes, CH4 will oxidize to CO2 and H2 O after 7 to 12 years in the atmosphere, from what I'm reading. The amount of CO2 resulting from the oxidation of manmade CH4 emissions is tiny compared to the volume of manmade CO2 emissions.
As a former engineer who worked in a natural gas processing plant, I appreciate your educating me about mercaptans.
As to "Yeah, I met that challenge several posts ago," no, you did not.
I'm not replying to any more of your posts on natural gas. And I'm probably the only one reading them, just as you're probably the only person reading mine.
I had an Aha moment! I wasn't ever able to convince the Mormon missionaries who I invited into my home that they were sadly misguided, and I'm not going to be able to convince you either.
And why do you keep calling Trump my MAGA Fuhrer? The only person on this board who possibly dislikes me more than you do is the Marquesa, and the reason she dislikes me is because I don't like Trump.
I love both of you by the way, in a brotherly, Christian kind of way. Although it's incredibly frustrating trying to educate you.
Trump has announced tariffs on auto imports. Here's the markets reaction at this moment,
USA (After hours trading):
Ford -4.37%
General Motors -6.36%
Foreign
Toyota -3.9%
Honda -3.1%
Hyundai -2.7%
Kia -2.1%
Would someone care to kindly explain why Ford and GM are down sharply when tariffs are supposed to help U.S. automakers? Or why the Asian automakers, which purportedly will pay the tariffs, are down less than Ford and GM?Automakers warn that Trump tariffs will hike vehicle prices as much as 25%.
March 5, 2025
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/automakers-warn-that-trump-tariffs-will-hike-some-vehicle-prices-by-much-25-2025-03-04/
Automakers have sounded the alarm that the tariffs will disrupt the integrated supply chain across North America that has been in place for more than 25 years. Some auto parts can cross a border six or more times before final assembly.Trumps Tariffs Causing Chaos In Auto Industry, Says Ford CEO.
Feb. 11, 2025
https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2025/02/11/trumps-tariffs-causing-chaos-in-auto-industry-says-ford-ceo/
Farley Says Tariffs Would Unfairly Benefit Europe And Asia
Jim Farley, who was speaking at a finance conference, said that Trumps original proposal to impose 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada would be disastrous for U.S. companies operating throughout the area and unfairly benefit European and Asian automakers who also import to the U.S.
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According to Farley, Ford sources the majority of those two metals from U.S. companies, but its suppliers have overseas source. "So that price will come through, and there may be a speculative part of the market where prices come up because tariffs are even rumored," Farley stated.And if there were such a thing as a car made and delivered 100% by Americans in America the labor costs would be so high we would only wish for an increase of as little as 25%.
Globalism keeps prices lower and reduces the inevitable risk of out-of-control wage inflation.
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This is on a day the market tanked because of the anticipated announcement of tariffs on automobiles.
Trump has announced tariffs on auto imports. Here's the markets reaction at this moment,
USA (After hours trading):
Ford -4.37%
General Motors -6.36%
Foreign
Toyota -3.9%
Honda -3.1%
Hyundai -2.7%
Kia -2.1%
Would someone care to kindly explain why Ford and GM are down sharply when tariffs are supposed to help U.S. automakers? Or why the Asian automakers, which purportedly will pay the tariffs, are down less than Ford and GM?Tariffs do help USA Automakers! By rewarding incompetence and an inability to innovate and produce creative designs. Building a moat of safety to protect them. Investors know a 25% across the board increase in auto prices will hurt sales. Ford and GM will not hold their costs down in order to gain market share. They will raise prices because their competitors will have to raise prices. That will allow them to maintain current profit margins with less sales.
And why do you keep calling Trump my MAGA Fuhrer?You have a point. Hitler is NOT the role model POTUS is imitating. He is running Putin's playbook.
Trump has announced tariffs on auto imports. Here's the markets reaction at this moment,
USA (After hours trading):
Ford -4.37%
General Motors -6.36%
Foreign
Toyota -3.9%
Honda -3.1%
Hyundai -2.7%
Kia -2.1%
Would someone care to kindly explain why Ford and GM are down sharply when tariffs are supposed to help U.S. automakers? Or why the Asian automakers, which purportedly will pay the tariffs, are down less than Ford and GM?Because, even Ford and GM use many pieces built abroad. Average increasing for cars will be more than 7500 USD. Americans complained about Biden for inflation and they will get more inflation under Trump. So funny, vaseline should make big sales, for their ass deeply fucked. Robber and fucker Trump and his gang making DT BBBJ swallowing Putin. If our world kept on isolating Russia for economics, then, soon, no more money for Putin to pay war, but when USA can t compete with China or Europe, USA prefer business with Putin and Netanyahou than peace, I mean fair peace, not fucking Ukrainians and Palestinians.
On this Saturday, everywhere in our world and even inside USA, maybe not in Russia under dictator Putin, citizens of the world will shout versus Tesla, facist Musk and Neron Trump who try to fuck democracies, but making friends with criminal Putin and Netanyahou, putting big shame on USA, when no MAGA at all and Americans will suffer under such crazies, with also Vance and gang like the one who is sucking deep Putin right now.
Elvis 2008
03-27-25, 17:37
Until now, hopefully someone will be.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/donald-trump-newsmax-greg-kelly/2025/03/25/id/1204352/
The only person MURDERED on Jan 6 during the rigged election protests RIP Ashley maybe she will receive some justice after all.Yeah, when you got a complete partisan hack like Tooms talking about cops dying on January 6, it makes me sick. None died on that day. Hell, they tried to link cops fucking suicides to Jan 6. All this anti-MAGA insurrection bullshit and the ONLY person killed was a MAGA supporter. Meanwhile, the Democratic douches still keep sucking off the bureaucrats. Tooms once again makes the moronic Trump pandemic comment when it was Fauci's bought and paid for pandemic. And hopefully, Kash Patel will uncover how much the FBI was involved with this whole Jan 6 farce. Whatever violence occurred that day I feel like was started by guys like Ray Epps.
We had the BLM riots and now Tesla and the Democratic douches are trying to say MAGA types are the violent types. F them! This meme says it all.
Hey, these numbskulls voted for him!
And didn't the rank and file in these industries and, most pathetic of all, the farmers, vote for that ridiculous conman, Trump?
Lolol.
Oil executives slam Trump's tariffs and 'drill, baby, drill' in anonymous survey.
March 27, 2025
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/27/oil-execs-slam-trumps-tariffs-and-drill-baby-drill-in-survey.html?__source=androidappshare
"The administrations chaos is a disaster for the commodity markets, one executive said. Drill, baby, drill is nothing short of a myth and populist rallying cry. Tariff policy is impossible for us to predict and doesnt have a clear goal. We want more stability."
Several executives said Trumps steel tariffs are raising their costs, making it difficult to plan for future projects.
Uncertainty around everything has sharply risen during the past quarter, another executive said. Planning for new development is extremely difficult right now due to the uncertainty around steel-based products.
They also criticized the suggestion by White House advisors such as Peter Navarro that Trumps drill, baby, drill agenda aims to push oil prices down to $50 a barrel to fight inflation.
The threat of $50 oil prices by the administration has caused our firm to reduce its 2025 and 2026 capital expenditures, an executive said. Drill, baby, drill does not work with $50 per barrel oil. Rigs will get dropped, employment in the oil industry will decrease, and U.S. oil production will decline as it did during COVID-19."
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Executives mostly praised Trumps energy team during the event and welcomed the administrations focus on increasing leasing and slashing red tape around permitting.Yep. Not since Trump's Pandemic Part 1 has it been this bad, alrighty-dighty. LOL.
Auto executive tells CNBC auto tariffs will drive auto industry into recession.
March 26, 2025
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/03/26/more-than-7-million-vehicles-could-be-impacted-by-trump-tariff-announcement.html?__source=androidappshare
Farmers Fear More Pain From Trumps Trade War.
March 5, 2025
https://time.com/7264403/farmers-trade-war-tariffs/
"He's out there with his wrecking ball just throwing tariffs around," says Barb Kalbach, a fourth-generation corn and soybean farmer in Dexter, Iowa.
Trumps 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico went into effect Tuesday, and the President doubled the levy on products from China to 20%. China retaliated with taxes of up to 15% on U.S. farm imports, while both Canada and Mexico announced retaliatory tariffs of their own. Canadas 25% tariffs on $30 billion of U.S. products affect poultry, meat, dairy, wheat, and other food products.
Farmers know from experience that these retaliatory tariffs are going to hurt them. When Trump launched a trade war against China in 2018, Beijing responded with tariffs aimed at the U.S. farm industry. Exports fell as Chinese buyers looked to places like Brazil for soybeans, reducing the market share of American farmers. Farmers were hit so hard that the Trump Administration ended up spending $23 billion to make them whole.
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In the last trade war, around 80% of the money the U.S. government took in from tariffs on Chinese imports went back to paying farmers who were hurt by retaliatory tariffs, Busch says. Such payments keep farms afloat, but what will really boost the agriculture industry is to find new markets, says Clark Packard, a research fellow at the Cato Institute. Its a question of whether we want welfare payments or whether we want to actually make sales, Packard says. We are getting back into this business of doling out more and more payments to the agricultural industry.Sadly, this must be said.
And said.
And said again:
Because, even Ford and GM use many pieces built abroad. Average increasing for cars will be more than 7500 USD. Americans complained about Biden for inflation and they will get more inflation under Trump. So funny, vaseline should make big sales, for their ass deeply fucked. Robber and fucker Trump and his gang making DT BBBJ swallowing Putin. If our world kept on isolating Russia for economics, then, soon, no more money for Putin to pay war, but when USA can t compete with China or Europe, USA prefer business with Putin and Netanyahou than peace, I mean fair peace, not fucking Ukrainians and Palestinians.When USA prefer to suck swallowing Putin, Europe and some other countries are fully right to decide to keep on isolating Russia for economics, when making broke Russia is only way to stop Putin, for sure not when making business with such criminal.
I'm not going to waste time reading the Book of Mormon when I know it's bull shit. Likewise, I'm not going to take a close read about what the Newsweek's sustainability editor and the Environmental Defense Fund have to say. I am sure their contention that methane losses in the Uinta Basin are 7% is bull shit.
Oil and gas companies have plenty of reason to monitor leaks, in addition to governmental pressure. They sell natural gas. They make money off it. If it's leaking into the air they make less money. Furthermore, they will get sued by landowners. Finally, the big ones are trying to claim they're "green. " Which is of course bull shit, but cutting natural gas leaks to 0% or close to it is one of the ways they go about claiming they're green.
And for the 3rd time, yes, there should be aggressive government regulation to prevent the industry from leaking natural gas.
I'm all for "aggressive" regulations, fines and penalties. But we all know, these penalties, are just a slap on the wrist and "the cost of doing business". After all, fines are so much cheaper than fixing infrastructure, or declare bankruptcy when cleanup is due and walk-away from uncapped wells or unpaid land taxes.
In 100+ years, the O&G industry, hasn't been able to stop leaks or prevent flaring of methane gas, nor will they ever get zero% CO2 emissions from either oil or gas, given the next 100+ years.
9.8 billion cubic feet, the amount of natural gas that you say was leaked from 2019 to late 2023, is nothing. If the gas were pure methane (specific gravity of 0. 554), then that would be 188,000 metric tons of methane. 13.33 lbs. of air at standard conditions weigh one pound, and there are 2204 pounds per metric ton, if you want to check me. If your polytechnique insights link is correct (and I wouldn't bet on it), and you spread those 188,000 tons over 5 years (from 2019 to 2023), then those 9. 8 billion cubic feet are about 0.011% of total methane emissions from manmade sources during the period. You shouldn't want to put put the domestic natural gas industry out of business to reduce methane emissions by 0.011%.
Once again you fail to realize, the 9.7 billion cubic feet of gas, released into the atmosphere between 2019 and late 2023, is just the unreported amount, O&G were caught leaking. Add that to the global totals, and from all accounts noted in the articles, it signifies that total number of methane leaks, are severely under reported and likely to be 8x worst.
Tiny 12, didn't even get me started, on the U.S. gas crumbling infrastructure, that are a major source of the leaks!
Americas Underground Crisis: Aging Infrastructure Brings Opportunity for Gas Workers
Nearly half of America's existing natural gas infrastructure was built before 1960 and cast and wrought iron pipes were used extensively in those years. Wrought and cast iron are brittle and reactive. Like older plastics, they can crack and break from frost heaves or other ground movement.
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It wasn't until 1971 that federal guidelines required steel pipes to be coated against corrosion and medium- and high-density polyethylene came into wide usage.
Between 1990 and 2010, gas utilities had already replaced about 85,000 miles of vulnerable mains from a total of nearly 200,000. But at that rate, given where the remaining pipe is located, it could take more than 30 years to replace the rest. All the while they are corroding, growing more brittle and leak-prone, and the threat isn't linear. As a pipe ages, problems accelerate.
Note: While I agree with the article's plea to attract and promote jobs to repair the U.S. infrastructure, I fear it's a fool's errand.
https://ibew.org/media-center/Articles/19Daily/1905/190507_AmericaUnderground
Point being, in the U.S. there's over 2.6 million miles of gas distribution pipes, with about 9-10% (or 260,000+ miles) leaky pipes (cast iron, unprotected steel). Some as old as 100+ years, in cities like , Boston and New York. So IMHO, the logical conclusion is, gov't and municipalities, should cut bait, repair what they can and focus more on the electrifying their infrastructures.
Sure the U.S., should continue to sell O&G in overseas markets, as long as there are countries still in need. But the U.S. IMHO, needs to adopt the Norway model and electrify more industry, business and residential infrastructure, while selling more O&G overseas, as these markets will be shrinking, as more and more countries, are rapidly moving to renewables.
As to the rest of your post, I didn't vote for Trump. That's not my monkey. (...kkkk!) Sure, dude, sure...tell yourself, what ever makes you sleep better at nights!
RamDavidson84
03-28-25, 00:12
Yes, we're all fucked. But why everyone be all doom and gloom, when so many people, me included can't even be sure we can pay the rent? Who cares if there's world war 3 when homelessness is just around the corner. Jeez guys, get your priorities straight. You know why? Cause you guys have more to lose. For people like me with literally nothing, I can't wait for the apocalypse and the total collapse of the global financial markets. I want the damn world to end. We all should expire together. Let's fucking do it.
Alfred said "some men just want to watch the world burn".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbPiIwFOQtU
Hmmm, now if only NVDA would go up.Ramdavidson approves of Post Apocolyptic Wasteland Mongering!
Your source Gasleaks apparently doesn't understand the difference between methane and natural gas. Yes, CH4 will oxidize to CO2 and H2 O after 7 to 12 years in the atmosphere, from what I'm reading. The amount of CO2 resulting from the oxidation of manmade CH4 emissions is tiny compared to the volume of manmade CO2 emissions.
First, let's not gloss over the fact that Methane GHG emissions, has an 80x the supercharging warming effect, on our atmosphere, over those 12 to 20 years while it oxides. So hardly tiny!
Second, as much as you try to trivialize and minimize, the O&G industry's massive contributions to global warming and GHG emissions, despite having 100+ years, to clean up it's act, peak-oil maybe here already, in 2025, and that's a good thing, right?
Third, wouldn't the world of renewables, be so much better? I mean, a world where I wouldn't have to debate you on harmful, toxic GHG methane or CO2 emissions, since they are none emitted from renewables, be so much better?
As a former engineer who worked in a natural gas processing plant, I appreciate your educating me about mercaptans.
Your Welcome! I think I sort of already realized, you were perhaps a choirboy for the O&G industry, but thanks for the heads-up conformation.
As to "Yeah, I met that challenge several posts ago," no, you did not. First, yes I did! For example, I give you South Australia, Britain, China...etc
Second, I know fossil fuel advocates, like yourself, just love to misuse “baseload”, to argue renewables aren’t reliable. So, I've come to realize using the term "baseload", is an outdated fossil fuel term, that was used for old electrical grids, that used oil, coal, gas and nuclear power plants, for constant power output.
Flexible modern day electricity grids, for those countries, states or provinces, that have shifted or transitioning to a cleaner grid, where the bulk of their energy mix is made up of renewables, don’t aspire for or need "baseload" — they require flexibility, in their modern grids. The energy transition isn’t about replacing “baseload with baseload”—it’s about building a flexible, smarter and adaptive system where S+W+B and other renewables work together to make fossil fuels irrelevant.
The other big reason, I've come to realize why "baseload" is outdated, when referencing a more modern renewable powered grid, is due to "The Primary Energy Fallacy" and renewables being way more efficient at providing "usable energy".
Busting the Baseload Myth and the Tyranny of Oligopoly-controlled Energy Markets
https://medium.com/@aldogrech55/busting-the-baseload-myth-and-the-tyranny-of-oligopoly-controlled-energy-markets-6b3b4cc979f5
I'm not replying to any more of your posts on natural gas. And I'm probably the only one reading them, just as you're probably the only person reading mine.
Why do you guys, feel the need to announce to the world, your not replying to another BMs post? Just DON'T replay to the post or subject matter! No announcement necessary!
BTW, I won't care either way, but I do enjoy, learning the odd thing or two, from ChatGOP (...kkkk!) So much thanks!
I had an Aha moment! I wasn't ever able to convince the Mormon missionaries who I invited into my home that they were sadly misguided, and I'm not going to be able to convince you either.
Unlike like you, I'm NOT trying to convince anyone here of anything! Other than I think Brazilian women are simply the best. But even then, I'm sure YMMV!
And why do you keep calling Trump my MAGA Fuhrer? The only person on this board who possibly dislikes me more than you do is the Marquesa, and the reason she dislikes me is because I don't like Trump. I love both of you by the way, in a brotherly, Christian kind of way. Perhaps had the Mormons, stayed a tad bit longer, they could have given you the answers you seek, brother Tiny 12?
Although it's incredibly frustrating trying to educate you. 'Tis a good thing then, that you have ChatGOP, to guide you and you help out? (...kkkk!)
Automakers warn that Trump tariffs will hike vehicle prices as much as 25%.
March 5, 2025
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/automakers-warn-that-trump-tariffs-will-hike-some-vehicle-prices-by-much-25-2025-03-04/
Trumps Tariffs Causing Chaos In Auto Industry, Says Ford CEO.
Feb. 11, 2025
https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2025/02/11/trumps-tariffs-causing-chaos-in-auto-industry-says-ford-ceo/
And if there were such a thing as a car made and delivered 100% by Americans in America the labor costs would be so high we would only wish for an increase of as little as 25%.
Globalism keeps prices lower and reduces the inevitable risk of out-of-control wage inflation.
Tariffs do help USA Automakers! By rewarding incompetence and an inability to innovate and produce creative designs. Building a moat of safety to protect them. Investors know a 25% across the board increase in auto prices will hurt sales. Ford and GM will not hold their costs down in order to gain market share. They will raise prices because their competitors will have to raise prices. That will allow them to maintain current profit margins with less sales.
Because, even Ford and GM use many pieces built abroad. Average increasing for cars will be more than 7500 USD. Americans complained about Biden for inflation and they will get more inflation under Trump. So funny, vaseline should make big sales, for their ass deeply fucked. Robber and fucker Trump and his gang making DT BBBJ swallowing Putin.Excellent comments gentlemen. I agree, except for Sirioja's thoughts about Trump's sexual activities. Rumors that Trump is methodically butt fucking all Americans, and that Trump and Putin have a physical relationship have been thoroughly debunked.
Tooms, I believe deep down inside you, there's a "free market" Rand Paul Republican, or an "armed and gay" Chase Oliver Libertarian, just waiting to flower.
SubCmdr, It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out in the economy and the market. The ex-CEO of Ford was on CNBC this morning. He believes the tariffs will have no effect on Tesla. Ford will suffer, but only a little as it manufactures 80% of what it sells here in the USA. Surprisingly, he said Honda and Toyota won't be affected as severely as GM. Both the Japanese companies have large manufacturing presences in the USA, while GM imports 40% of what it sells. Bringing up the rear are the Europeans, the smaller Japanese manufacturers, and the Koreans, who in Sirioja's words are about to take it up the ass.
The ex-CEO believes the parts manufacturers will take it on the chin worse than the auto manufacturers. He says they're not in good financial shape, and will be forced to build factories in the USA they can't afford. He said that if you're going to do what Trump's doing, you should do it over several years, so companies can adjust.
There's going to be a ridiculous amount of money spent on new factories, and old ones will rust.
As the Economist put it, Trump's putting in place the same policies that caused the Indian economy to suck for decades. A few crony capitalists will make out like bandits, and the rest of us will lose.
I prefer to focus on an "electrified" future where possible...OK fair enough Spidy. Monger on.
All the TrumpMusk Repub MAGA bullshit, lying, twisting, gas lighting and spinning about what a great job they are doing and how everything is so much better in these past horrific couple of months just isn't working.
Even Trump had to send Stefanik back to the purportedly "safe", heavily Repub Congressional seat she won by more than 20 points for fear that a 20 plus point margin of victory is NOT enough to hold back the potential Blue Tsunami building under these special election outcomes to keep that House seat "safe" for Repubs at all.
White House pulls Stefaniks UN ambassador nomination amid concern over narrow Republican House majority.
March 27, 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/politics/stefanik-ambassador-nomination-white-house/index.html
The president said he didnt want to take a chance on Stefaniks open seat in northern New York, which heavily favored Republicans.Here's why:
Trump's Approval Rating On the Economy Hits New Low, Polls Show.
March 27, 2025
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-economy-approval-rating-new-low-gallup-2051744
Trump's approval ratings in surveys conducted by nearly every major pollster are now negative.
RamDavidson84
03-28-25, 20:40
All the TrumpMusk Repub MAGA bullshit, lying, twisting, gas lighting and spinning about what a great job they are doing and how everything is so much better in these past horrific couple of months just isn't working.
Even Trump had to send Stefanik back to the purportedly "safe", heavily Repub Congressional seat she won by more than 20 points for fear that a 20 plus point margin of victory is NOT enough to hold back the potential Blue Tsunami building under these special election outcomes to keep that House seat "safe" for Repubs at all.
White House pulls Stefaniks UN ambassador nomination amid concern over narrow Republican House majority.
March 27, 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/politics/stefanik-ambassador-nomination-white-house/index.html
Here's why:
Trump's Approval Rating On the Economy Hits New Low, Polls Show.
March 27, 2025
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-economy-approval-rating-new-low-gallup-2051744I am not happy with Trump at all. This policy he has been putting into place is not what I voted for.
With that being said, There have been so many times where I was not educated about a certain subject and I thought Trump was being crazy and he ended up being right. 2016 Russian Collusian was a Hoax. Pandemic lock downs were stupid and the virus came from a lab in China. Border was a mess and needed more awreness. Too many fentanyl deaths. The list can go on for a while about the things he was right about. Even when I first heard back in 2016 that he was running for President, I said what the fuck, this is insane. This guy is a con man! He ended up being the politician who could stand up to dems and bring awareness to the issues Americans care about most. So, being we are only a few months into his presidency, I will hold back on more criticism.
But Fuck though, economy is not good and that is always issue number one for me.
JFK's vitamin A and cod liver oil, measles anti-vax propaganda cure, causes mass treatment for kid's liver damage, from vitamin A toxicity, in unvaccinated kids with severe cases of measles.
RFK Jr.'s Bogus Vitamin A Claims Are Making Some Measles Patients More Sick, Mar 28, 2025
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-vitamin-a-toxicity-measles_l_67e6a46ee4b086a4e8de55cf
Another great example of when dumbass right-wing "woke" culture-wars and their asymmetric false equivalencies, that inevitably cause mass systemic harm and often death, on a large societal scale.
Newton York
03-29-25, 01:19
I think history will know this as the Great Stock Market Crash of 2025, and I suspect we're just in the beginning. Trust me fellas, I know this shit. The VIX is going to hit 50, at least. Dow Jones is going to tank all the way down to 35,000 and the SP500 will retrace back to 5,000. It's going to be a bloodbath. And here is me with basically no dry powder left to buy in. I ain't got no luck fellas *sigh*.
So much for NVDA. FML.
I think history will know this as the Great Stock Market Crash of 2025, and I suspect we're just in the beginning. Trust me fellas, I know this shit. The VIX is going to hit 50, at least. Dow Jones is going to tank all the way down to 35,000 and the SP500 will retrace back to 5,000. It's going to be a bloodbath. And here is me with basically no dry powder left to buy in. I ain't got no luck fellas *sigh*.
So much for NVDA. FML.It qualifies as a Crash because the near double digit decline in the Wall Street preferred go-to measure of the S&P 500 Index happened so fast. In fact, that Index closed into a double digit decline once already.
But I see the S&P 500 Index reached its All Time Closing High of 6144 on February 19. Today it closed at 5580, a 9. 15% decline since that ATCH. Which means we are generally only in Sell-Off territory, not yet even into Correction territory, a decline of 10% - 20%.
If it declined to the 5000 level you cited, it still would not quite have reached a Bear Market Decline. At an 18.6% decline it would be just shy of the 20% decline level needed to be generally considered a Bear Market Decline.
Oh for sure TrumpMusk is trying damn hard to get us there and below, along with as Great of a Great Repub Recession or Great Repub Depression and Massive Repub Jobs Destruction as they can accomplish to satisfy their apparent Repub Party contractual obligation to deliver at least one per Repub presidency.
But their big problem in delivering it is that Biden-Harris handed them one of the Greatest Dem Economic Recoveries from a typical Repub Economic Catastrophe of All Time, truly the Envy of the World Economy in America.
So the chances of TrumpMusk totally crashing it and the USA Stock Market are certainly always there with Repub leadership determined to do it and for damn sure the Trump's Pandemic Part 2 term leaders are fully qualified by previous experience and determined to do it.
It'll just be more difficult for them to do it than their blithering, blathering, clumsy and incompetent approach suggests they thought it would be.
A man that gets paid 8,000,000 USD / day from USGOV putting people on the street with a chain saw. Cutting off aid to the poorest people in the world. While damaging the soft power influence of USGOV. An immigrant himself to the US.
No, Musk is not brave he is sick human being!
His stock went down, now he crying like a *****!
Until I am free of the IRS, there will be NO liberation day for me!
ROTFLMAO!
TrumpMusk and the other Repub MAGAs in Congress have 20 months left to do their absolute worst for the USA Economy, National Security and Foreign Policy before any further damage they can inflict on America and the American people is mercifully reduced to a comparative dull roar.
After that, roughly 3 1/2 years from now, the incoming Dem Administration will have perhaps the worst of the worst possible Repub catastrophic messes of everything to clean up and from which to recover America and the rest of the World they have ever been handed by an outgoing Repub Administration.
It will almost certainly be the post-Repub Coolidge / Hoover, post-Repub Eisenhower, post-Repub Nixon / Ford, post-Repub Reagan / Bush1, post-Repub Bush2, post-Repub Trump's Pandemic Part 1 catastrophic mess of All Time on Steroids to clean up.
So count on all of the Repub MAGAs on the sidelines and all of the typically pro-Repub Mainstream Media to snipe and scream and blame those incoming Dems for the whole thing while they are performing historic herculean feats to accomplish what most will say is impossible. Lolol.
And count on this too; it WILL cost money to pull us out of this Repub mess. A LOT of money. MORE money than whatever pittence TrumpMusk can scratch out on a faked golf scorecard to falsely claim they "saved" by laying off thousands of veterans and Social Security Help Staff.
It always does cost more money to pull us out of these Great Repub Economic and National Security Catastrophes than the Repubs piss away getting us into them.
BREAKING: Canada officially cuts ties with Trumps America.
Canada is the First Nation to Walk Away from MAGA. Proudly. Finally.
March 27, 2025
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-canada-officially-cuts-ties
Huge. "Canada just walked away from the United States. We ended our economic and security ties with Trumps America, but it was historically stunning nonetheless. Not in some passive, were disappointed way. Not a strongly-worded letter. Not a polite diplomatic eye-roll. No Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a full break-up speech on live TV.
The era of deep economic, security, and military ties between Canada and the United States is over.
And just like that, 150+ years of the worlds most peaceful, "mutually beneficial, boring-but-beautiful border relationship... done - dismantled by one orange blowhard/rapist/felon cosplaying as a capable President when hes just a Russian asset in a fucking diaper.
"This comes after Trump allegedly tried to set up a phone call with Carney, to which Carney said nah.
"Donald Trump in what might be the most unhinged foreign policy week since buy Greenland slapped a 25% tariff on Canadian auto imports, called Canada a national security threat, and floated the idea of annexing us as the 51st state.
"Yes. Annexing. Like Putin-lite. Except fatter and with worse grammar.
"Then, when Canada pushed back by deepening economic ties with the European Union, Trump jumped on Truth Social and typed this out with his whole chest:
CANADA IS TRYING TO UNDERMINE AMERICA. IF THEY THINK THEY CAN PARTNER WITH THE EU AGAINST US THERE WILL BE HARSHER SANCTIONS. CANADA AND EUROPE BE WARNED.
"Carney called that bluff today most soberly and seriously. Canada isnt taking a break for its economic and security alliance - were torching it and betting on ourselves with a few other deomcratic superpowers not led by a fucking dotard Putin Puppet.
"Today, Mark Carney made the most consequential announcement of any Canadian Prime Minister in modern history. Visibly pissed but composed, he said enough was enough:
We have to look out for ourselves. And we will do that.
He,Trump, wants to break us so America can own us. And it will never ever happen.
We will defend our workers. We will defend our companies. We will defend our country.
"It felt less like a press conference and more like Churchill with better lighting. That wasnt a press conference. That was world history in the making. A moment that will come to define us as the worlds biggest energy superpower, and it will be done in an unimaginably short period of time because it has to be. Canada will do things not thought possible. And were here, so it has to get done.
"Trump did this. Not Canada. Not Mark Carney. HOWEVER, maybe we should think about sending him a gift basket because the butterfly effect of having the dumbest fascist alive be the 47th president of the United States
"The Global Fallout. This wasnt just a press hit it was a geopolitical earthquake. Heres whats happened in just 12 hours:
The Canadian dollar surged as markets responded to Carneys leadership and a pivot toward Europe.
The Dow dropped 700 points after U.S. automakers panicked over retaliatory tariffs and global realignment.
EU leaders released a joint statement backing Canada and fast-tracking trade + defense integration.
American allies from Germany to Japan are quietly freaking out not because Canada left, but because it finally did what theyve all been thinking.
Canada is now the first country on Earth to formally sever close ties with Trumps America.
And its about damn time."
I am not happy with Trump at all. This policy he has been putting into place is not what I voted for.
With that being said, There have been so many times where I was not educated about a certain subject and I thought Trump was being crazy and he ended up being right. 2016 Russian Collusian was a Hoax. Pandemic lock downs were stupid and the virus came from a lab in China. Border was a mess and needed more awreness. Too many fentanyl deaths. The list can go on for a while about the things he was right about. Even when I first heard back in 2016 that he was running for President, I said what the fuck, this is insane. This guy is a con man! He ended up being the politician who could stand up to dems and bring awareness to the issues Americans care about most. So, being we are only a few months into his presidency, I will hold back on more criticism.
But Fuck though, economy is not good and that is always issue number one for me.Interesting. I can't recall a single important matter about which Trump was right and / or supported by the data, all available evidence, even Repub-led invesitagtions or his own words and actions, except for the one matter where he himself contradicts what you suggest he was right about.
1) 2016 Russian Collusian was a Hoax.
The Republican-led Senate investigation refutes the idea that Trump was right about that:
U.S. Senate committee concludes Russia used Manafort, WikiLeaks to boost Trump in 2016.
Aug. 19. 2020
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us-senate-committee-concludes-russia-used-manafort-wikileaks-to-boost-trump-i-idUSKCN25E1UZ/
The report found President Vladimir Putin personally directed the Russian efforts to hack computer networks and accounts affiliated with the Democratic Party and leak information damaging to Clinton.
Asked about the report at an event in Yuma, Arizona, Trump said: "I don't know anything about it. I didn't read it."
It's all a hoax," Trump told reporters.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence alleged Manafort collaborated with Russians, including oligarch Oleg Deripaska and "Russian intelligence officer" Konstantin Kilimnik, before, during, and after the election.2) Pandemic lock downs were stupid.
So-called president Trump refutes the idea that so-called president Trump was right about that:
'This is a very bad one': Trump issues new guidelines to stem coronavirus spread.
March 16, 2020
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-recommends-avoiding-gatherings-of-more-than-10-people-132323
President Donald Trump on Monday acknowledged the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic, releasing strict new guidelines to limit peoples interactions in an increasingly urgent bid to slow the virus in the next two weeks before U.S. hospitals are overwhelmed.
"We have an invisible enemy, the president said at a news conference, where he released guidelines that called for people to avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people, steer clear of eating and drinking at bars, restaurants and food courts, and work or attend school from home whenever possible. This is a bad one. This is a very bad one.2 a) and the virus came from a lab in China.
Ok. Then all the more reason that Trump was dead wrong about defunding and removing the highly successful Pandemic Prevention and Response team leadership from those Chinese labs in 2018 and 2019 contrary to all expert warnings for him not to do something so dangerous and stupid.
Exclusive: U.S. slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak.
March 26, 2020
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-us-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3NE/
Separately, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the global relief program which had a role in helping China monitor and respond to outbreaks, also shut their Beijing offices on Trumps watch. Before the closures, each office was staffed by a U.S. official. In addition, the U.S. Department of Agriculture(USDA) transferred out of China in 2018 the manager of an animal disease monitoring program.That disastrous Trump decision was eerily similar to the decisions he is making this very day to increase the chances of a Trump's Pandemic Part 2 occurring as perhaps a wonderful combination of Tuberculosis, Ebola, Human-mutated Avian Flu and Drug-Resistant HIV.
3) Border was a mess and needed more awreness.
The data and all available evidence supports the notion that a steady flow of immigrants during the recovery from Trump's Pandemic's economic crash was far from being a "mess" and instead one of the main reasons the USA recovered from it faster, stronger and with lower rates of inflation than countries that behaved otherwise. Trump was wrong about that:
How immigrants are helping keep job growth hot while inflation cools.
June 17, 2024
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/17/immigrants-help-economy-job-growth-inflation.html?__source=androidappshare
Immigration has helped the U.S. job market sustain a fiery run in recent months without reigniting inflation, economists and analysts say.
The U.S. economy added a whopping 272,000 jobs in May, but the consumer price index was unchanged.
This dynamic a hot job market and cooling inflation is in part the result of increased inflows of immigrants.
Recent spikes in immigration at the southern border and elsewhere in the U.S. have helped keep the labor pool full even as job gains kept apace.Oh, and if this mythical "mess" was supposed to be about an increase in violent crime due to that demonstrably economically beneficial increase in immigration, well, the data clearly shows Trump was wrong about that too:
Debunking the Myth of the Migrant Crime Wave.
May 29, 2024
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/debunking-myth-migrant-crime-wave
Data does not support claims that the United States is experiencing a surge in crime caused by immigrants.3 a) Too many fentanyl deaths.
CDC Reports Nearly 24% Decline in U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths.
Feb. 25, 2025
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2025/2025-cdc-reports-decline-in-us-drug-overdose-deaths.html
New provisional data from CDC's National Vital Statistics System predict a nearly 24% decline in drug overdose deaths in the United States for the 12 months ending in September 2024, compared to the previous year. This is the most recent national data available and shows a continued steep decline in overdose deaths. Provisional data shows about 87,000 drug overdose deaths from October 2023 to September 2024, down from around 114,000 the previous year. This is the fewest overdose deaths in any 12-month period since June 2020.
"It is unprecedented to see predicted overdose deaths drop by more than 27,000 over a single year," said Allison Arwady, MD, MPH, Director of CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.First of all; Thanks, Joe.
And, besides that:
Fentanyl Is Smuggled for U.S. Citizens By U.S. Citizens, Not Asylum Seekers.
Sept. 14, 2022
https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-citizens-not-asylum-seekers
Of course, I am always anxious to hear what else Trump has ever been right about.
The declined in the US Stock market means people won't be able to fuck there no mo. I disagree. I think Musk fucking with Social Security will have a much greater affect on the majority of Ex-Pats living in Thailand and abroad in other places in the world. Don't feel bad, only Silver and Gold are going up. Crypto market is in a major correction also. With no sign the bottom is in. I am buying the dip!
Below you will find an excellent post on why I relentlessly take profit put it into gold/silver/Bitcoin!
It qualifies as a Crash because the near double digit decline in the Wall Street preferred go-to measure of the S&P 500 Index happened so fast. In fact, that Index closed into a double digit decline once already.
But I see the S&P 500 Index reached its All Time Closing High of 6144 on February 19. Today it closed at 5580, a 9. 15% decline since that ATCH. Which means we are generally only in Sell-Off territory, not yet even into Correction territory, a decline of 10% - 20%.
If it declined to the 5000 level you cited, it still would not quite have reached a Bear Market Decline. At an 18.6% decline it would be just shy of the 20% decline level needed to be generally considered a Bear Market Decline.
Oh for sure TrumpMusk is trying damn hard to get us there and below, along with as Great of a Great Repub Recession or Great Repub Depression and Massive Repub Jobs Destruction as they can accomplish to satisfy their apparent Repub Party contractual obligation to deliver at least one per Repub presidency.
Newton York
03-29-25, 17:13
I'm not a conspiratorial type guy and I would never give anyone any credit, at the end of the day most people just want to 'watch the world burn' as Alfred would say from Dark Knight Returns. But trying out for some copium I found this youtubes video, which is giving me a teeny, tiny bit of hopium.
Might give you guys some hopium too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrNDJ-l8aUw.
It's weirdly about how a huge market crash is a good thing. And fine, I get it. It's always a buying opportunity. When the covid crash happened, I made some money too, so did everyone else. But right now, sadly I'm out of cash to buy in. Damnit, these things can never be timed right.
I just wanted to post this official assessment from Goldman Sachs for what to expect after TrumpMusk gets more of his beautiful favorite word economic plans into the system in a couple of days. Or if he flips and decides he isn't going to do it. Or maybe he will. Or maybe not. Whatever. It all depends on what Russia Russia Russia Russia Putin and Tesla Xi tells him to do I suppose.
Either way, his uncertainty and cognitively incapacitated incoherence still works wonders to achieve his contractually-obligated Repub Party goal of crashing the USA Economy, wiping out millions upon millions of jobs or skyrocketing the deficit with practically nothing of value to show for it other than possibly one of the worst jobs creation records ever as was achieved, wildly coincidentally only of course, by virtually every Repub presidency for the past 100 years.
And he launched into that mission within hours of succeeding in bamboozling 77.3 million direct and a few stray Third Party suckers into squeezing out a razor-thin win for him in early November.
And, most critically of all, those Muslim Community leaders in PA, MI and WI who really made all the difference by a scant swing of less than 0. 75 of a percentage point of votes in those three states.
Goldman sees tariffs spiking inflation, stunting growth, raising recession risk.
March 30. 2025
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/30/tariffs-to-spike-inflation-stunt-growth-and-raise-recession-risks-goldman-says-.html?__source=androidappshare
Goldman Sachs expects aggressive duties from the White House to raise inflation and unemployment and drag economic growth to a near-standstill.
In a note Sunday, the firm said we continue to believe the risk from April 2 tariffs is greater than many market participants have previously assumed.
The firm raised its forecast for inflation this year to 3.5%, cut its GDP outlook to just 1% and raised its unemployment view to 4.5%.Now that this has been published and posted, TrumpMusk and his Cult Followers can easily be further shown to be the pathological liars they are when they try to pull the ol' Trumpian "Gee, nobody knew this kind of shit would happen" or "It's all Biden's fault" conman bit, right?
Elvis 2008
03-31-25, 14:29
JFK's vitamin A and cod liver oil, measles anti-vax propaganda cure, causes mass treatment for kid's liver damage, from vitamin A toxicity, in unvaccinated kids with severe cases of measles.
RFK Jr.'s Bogus Vitamin A Claims Are Making Some Measles Patients More Sick, Mar 28, 2025
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-vitamin-a-toxicity-measles_l_67e6a46ee4b086a4e8de55cf
Another great example of when dumbass right-wing "woke" culture-wars and their asymmetric false equivalencies, that inevitably cause mass systemic harm and often death, on a large societal scale.RFK Jr. Is a liberal Democrat. He would have been your nominee if you Democratic allowed people to vote for the Democratic nominee as opposed to handing the nomination to the elites.
Elvis 2008
03-31-25, 14:31
How immigrants are helping keep job growth hot while inflation cools.
June 17, 2024
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/17/immi...ndroidappshare
Immigration has helped the U.S. job market sustain a fiery run in recent months without reigniting inflation, economists and analysts say.
The U.S. economy added a whopping 272,000 jobs in May, but the consumer price index was unchanged.
This dynamic a hot job market and cooling inflation is in part the result of increased inflows of immigrants.
Recent spikes in immigration at the southern border and elsewhere in the U.S. have helped keep the labor pool full even as job gains kept apace.
Oh, and if this mythical "mess" was supposed to be about an increase in violent crime due to that demonstrably economically beneficial increase in immigration, well, the data clearly shows Trump was wrong about that too:It is funny how with you Democratic rule of law does not apply to illegal immigration. There is a legal process to immigrate. I guess you Democratic do not know about that.
It is funny how with you Democratic rule of law does not apply to illegal immigration. There is a legal process to immigrate. I guess you Democratic do not know about that.Elon Musk worked illegally in US at start of his career.
Oct. 26, 2024
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/elon-musk-worked-illegally-us
A report from The Washington Post reveals that Elon Musk, who posts more about illegal immigration and voter fraud than any other topic on social media, worked illegally in the U.S. when he started his career. BTW, a "border crosser" is not necessarily here illegally. Not according to the USA Constitution.
Making the rounds on Facebook:
Poignant and sad words from Charles Pierce in Esquire:
"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing "Amazing Grace" in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.
Watch him make fun of the woman again. Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut the fuck up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him again, behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
RFK Jr. Is a liberal Democrat. He would have been your nominee if you Democratic allowed people to vote for the Democratic nominee as opposed to handing the nomination to the elites.Not chance of that happening! Whether RFK Jr, is a Dems as you claim, or a sycophant MAGA Repub, as he's now come to be, there is a difference.
Given the Reubs, lack of common sense and their penchant for crooks, charlatans and grifters, undeniably the Dems, where NEVER going to, in any possible earthly scenario, allow such an incompetent jack-ass and snake-oil salesman, to be entrusted with such authority, let alone have a job as a 5th grade children's crossing guide.
RFK Jr., is where he belongs, amongst the lunatic fringe, right-wing "woke" establishment!
PS: Leave it to Elvis 2008, to gloss over all the harm being done to innocent children, due to the right-wing "woke" anti-vax ignorance of RFK Jr. and MAGA cultists like himself.
Elvis 2008
04-01-25, 05:44
Given the Reubs, lack of common sense and their penchant for crooks, charlatans and grifters, undeniably the Dems, where NEVER going to, in any possible earthly scenario, allow such an incompetent jack-ass and snake-oil salesman, to be entrusted with such authority, let alone have a job as a 5th grade children's crossing guide.Thanks for admitting that Democrats believe in rigging elections. You are more demented than Biden if you think Kamala and Biden are an upgrade over RFK Jr.
PS: Leave it to Elvis 2008, to gloss over all the harm being done to innocent children, due to the right-wing "woke" anti-vax ignorance of RFK Jr. and MAGA cultists like himself.I did not get into RFK's positions. When on Joe Rogan's podcast, RFK Jr. Said he was a Democrat and you, the ultimate douche, is so full of the name calling, you have the nerve to say, "Oh, no he is not. " Why are you a Democrat and he is not? Was your uncle JFK?
MarquisdeSade1
04-01-25, 05:45
Making the rounds on Facebook:Here is the end result.
https://www.heritage.org/event/the-once-and-future-worker-how-the-consumerist-consensus-led-america-astray-and-how-recover
Elvis 2008
04-01-25, 05:56
BTW, a "border crosser" is not necessarily here illegally. Not according to the USA Constitution.So there is no such thing is an illegal immigrant? LOL.
Elon Musk worked illegally in US at start of his career.
Oh, I see. So if you are a Republican, then you can break the law. That is why I call you a Democratic douche. You think there should be one set of laws for Democrats and another for Republicans. Just admit it, Tooms. You do not have one objective bone in your whole damned body.
So while California's grid is increasingly capable of running on 100% renewables for hours at a time, and have flipped the switch, and now only rely on fossil fuel power generation as backup during the evening demand peaks and multi-day cloudy periods, is remarkable proof positive, that renewables can indeed power their grid.
In 50 of 82 Days in 2025, Solar, Wind, & Water Surpass 100% of Electricity Demand in California for Part of Day , March 27th, 2025
Mark Z. Jacobson, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and author of seven books, including No Miracles Needed, shared on BlueSky last night that in 50 of the first 82 days of 2025, wind, water, and solar power combined for greater than 100% of California's electricity demand for at least part of the day.
In fact, on that 50th day, Sunday, at their peak, wind, water, and solar power plants provided 149% of electricity demand in the state. Solar power alone provided 122%. https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/25/in-50-of-82-days-in-2025-solar-wind-water-surpass-100-of-electricity-demand-in-california-for-part-of-day/
As more California BESS are being buildtout, to store the excess solar (of 149%) and wind energy, coupled with the addition of the Western Interconnect and Pacific DC Intertie, to the Pacific Northwest, will undoubtedly improve California's grid flexibility, reliability and increase their push, closer to a 100% percent renewable grid.
Although there's still remains, a lot of political unresolved challenges, with w/r to high electricity costs for Californians and how to best integrate a modernization grid, the recent 50 days of 100% renewables for part of the day and the excess solar and wind, is largely seen, as a "good problem" to have.
Californians pay too much for electricity. Here are three bold solutions, Mar 27th, 2025.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2025-03-27/californians-pay-too-much-for-electricity-here-are-three-bold-solutions-boiling-point
So while California, figures out, its affordable electricity dilemma, as a "top priority in 2025", that doesn't negate the historic strides made in their smart, renewable, cleaner and modernized grid.
So there is no such thing is an illegal immigrant? LOL.
Oh, I see. So if you are a Republican, then you can break the law. That is why I call you a Democratic douche. You think there should be one set of laws for Democrats and another for Republicans. Just admit it, Tooms. You do not have one objective bone in your whole damned body.When a border crosser's request for asylum has been duly investigated and found to be unjustified, bingo, ya' finally got your illegal immigrant. Unless they can qualify for a work visa, student visa, green card, whatever.
That is a process that used to take perhaps 6 weeks under Obama. Then Trump fucked up the Asylum investigation and visa system on his way out the door in 2020 and afterwards it took about 6 months. Hence, the build up of border crossers waiting for their USA Constitutional rights to be determined.
Look, we can all see you and other MAGALoon Wingers are deeply, deeply embarrassed over how you getting so thoroughly scammed, suckered and bamboozled by one of the most blatantly obvious grifters, charlatans and conmen of all time, Donald Trump, has plunged America into the biggest existential crisis, economic chaos and likely destruction of some of the truly greatest programs for American Greatness in history, probably including shoving your own dick and tits in a wringer.
LOL. So now you have to double and triple down on how disgracefully and unfairly "partisan" it is to dare to prefer Great Economic Expansions, Historic Jobs Creation, the creation of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment Insurance, Affordable Healthcare, etc, etc, etc over Great Depressions, Great Recessions, Massive Jobs Destruction, absolutely zero programs any sane American would give one tiny shit about at the cost of Trillions and Trillions and Trillions added to the deficit and so on.
I mean, how silly and unfair it is for anyone to much prefer the former over the latter, right?
But, seriously, we can all forgive you if only you will admit you made a huge mistake to ever so much as consider voting for Donald Trump over any Democrat, that you are obviously suffering crippling Buyers Remorse over it and that you will promise to either only vote for Dems all up and down your ballot from now on or will abstain from voting altogether until you examine your conscious and figure out just what the hell it is about Great Repub Drepressions, Great Repub Recessions, Massive Repub Jobs Destruction and getting exactly zero in return for the Trillions and Trillions and Trillions Repubs have added to the deficit that you love so much.
Senator Cory Booker will go down in history as giving the longest speech in the history of the Senate.
A true American Hero!
It is especially ironic that he broke the record of the man who previously held the record trying to prevent individuals such as Senator Booker from being able to be elected to the Senate in the first place.
Two middle fingers up to all of my fellow Americans that are racists currently residing in the United States of America and traveling abroad!
Ok Tooms, you got me. I've said repeatedly that the President generally has little influence on the economy compared to other factors. Well Trump just proved me wrong. In the Rose Garden today he said the Great Depression never would have happened if we'd kept the tariffs. What a dumb ass!
The Republicans should have kicked his dumb ass to the curb when he came over from the Democratic Party. If Peter Navarro is right, he's succeeded in increasing taxes by $700 billion a year, all by himself, without Congress. Rand Paul is right, this is unconstitutional.
RamDavidson84
04-03-25, 05:53
Senator Cory Booker will go down in history as giving the longest speech in the history of the Senate.
A true American Hero!
It is especially ironic that he broke the record of the man who previously held the record trying to prevent individuals such as Senator Booker from being able to be elected to the Senate in the first place.
Two middle fingers up to all of my fellow Americans that are racists currently residing in the United States of America and traveling abroad!Hell yeah, fuck racists. All 12 of them left. Thank god 99.999999% of Americans don't give a fuck about skin color!
Ok Tooms, you got me. I've said repeatedly that the President generally has little influence on the economy compared to other factors. Well Trump just proved me wrong. In the Rose Garden today he said the Great Depression never would have happened if we'd kept the tariffs. What a dumb ass!
The Republicans should have kicked his dumb ass to the curb when he came over from the Democratic Party. If Peter Navarro is right, he's succeeded in increasing taxes by $700 billion a year, all by himself, without Congress. Rand Paul is right, this is unconstitutional.Please note that Trump did NOT bring whatever Democratic Party philosophies and agenda you think he ever possessed to the Republican Party or to his presidential campaign or to his 1st Trump's Pandemic term or to his 2nd Trump's Pandemic term.
He chose to run as a Repub because he knew very well that any lazy fuck who knows nothing and does nothing but play golf and cheat on his scorecard can Crash the USA Economy, wipe out millions upon millions of jobs, skyrocket the deficit with nothing of value to show for it and still be glorified and praised by his Party, the Mainstream Media and every numbskull who would not vote all Dem straight up and down the ballot every time as "better at handling the economy" than Democrats.
Moreover, Trump is doing exactly the same things, spouting the exact same rhetoric and is aimed at achieving the exact same horrific economic results that EVERY Repub since Lincoln was shot (possible single exception being Teddy Roosevelt) would have spouted and been as openly honest about wanting to do to violate the Constitution, create chaos, produce economic disaster and all of Classic Repub Trump's other economic, national security and foreign policy Catastrophes.
The ONLY reason the pre Trump Repubs did not openly pull the same shit Trump has gotten away with is because a certain very specific set of events had not yet occurred to give them the same license to violate the Constitution, abandon the Rule of Law, produce any worldwide economy-destroying Pandemic they want, Crash the stock market, Crash the economy, wipe out millions upon millions of jobs, skyrocket the deficit and still not lose one vote from their Repub Voter Base after that Repub Voter Base was driven stark raving insane by that very specific set of events that happened just prior to the Repub rise of Repub Trump.
Namely;.
- The election of a black man to the presidency. A Democrat.
- The amazing accomplishment of that first black president to recover us from one of the worst Great Repub Recessions and Massive Repub Jobs Destruction of All Time, something many had thought impossible so why not shovel that impossible to clean up shit into the lap of the first black president.
- The first woman presidential candidate of a major political party, the Democratic Party. And she won the majority of votes, otherwise known as "winning the presidential election" in every other country that holds free and fair elections.
- The first woman VP candidate of a major political party. The Democratic Party. She was also of mixed minority ethnicity. And she won.
- That woman VP then served a presidential Administration that, again, recovered us from another Great Repub Economic, National Security and Foreign Policy Disaster of All Time and turned it into the Envy of the World Economy, zero engagement by the USA Military anywhere on the planet, reduced crime rate and having created more jobs than all three of the previous Repub presidents combined and a good portion of the fourth previous Repub president.
Those were some of the events that drove the Repub Party absolutely batshit crazy and willing to forgive and in fact love their lord and savior Trump for any and every America-hating, anti-American, economy-destroying, Constitution-violating crap he wants to pull, even if it does more damage to them than anyone else.
Coolidge, Hoover, Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes et al did not run for the Repub Party presidential nomination after any of those events had occurred. Only Trump did. If they had, they most certainly and without doubt would have known their Voter Base would give them the full license to say and do everything they love Trump for saying and doing.
They ALL would have been 100% MAGA.
Hell yeah, fuck racists. All 12 of them left. Thank god 99.999999% of Americans don't give a fuck about skin color!It is a good thing the Educational Department is being eliminated. It certainly didn't help this guy. . 000001 X 300,000,000.00 = 30. The formula that he provided indicates there are 30 racists left in the United States of America. First of all I wonder why he did not get his calculator out. Lastly where did he get his formula from? Did he make it up? Or did he just quote it but not give the original source credit.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-racist-is-america/
Elvis 2008
04-03-25, 18:52
Ok Tooms, you got me. I've said repeatedly that the President generally has little influence on the economy compared to other factors. Well Trump just proved me wrong. In the Rose Garden today he said the Great Depression never would have happened if we'd kept the tariffs. What a dumb ass! Yeah, Tiny, this is the MAGA movement. Look at this: https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0912/the-cost-of-making-an-iphone.aspx.
According to Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, the reason to build in China is not because of the lower labor costs. If this were the case, Apple could make its phones in even cheaper locations. The main reason, according to Cook, is the skill required in tooling engineering. He claims that the specific skill set is no longer available in the USA, but in China, the expertise is prevalent.
Meanwhile, there was this interesting video with a divorce attorney, and the attorney lets its slip, he charges $750 an hour, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnj_63ZHNq8.
Do you think we would have a problem with tooling engineers if they could make $750 an hour? Hell, I wish we had a software engineer come up with a computer program to separate assets and we could leave the lawyers out of the process.
Then look at medications:
The cost of Ozempic varies significantly around the world. In the USA, a 30-day supply of Ozempic has a list price of around $935 a month, though it can be purchased for as low as $906.54 with a GoodRx coupon. In contrast, the drug is priced much lower in other countries. For example, in Germany, the list price is $103 for a 30-day supply, and in Sweden, it is $96.
In France, the price is $83.
The blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic could be manufactured for less than $5 a month, even as Novo Nordisk charges almost $1,000 per month for the injection in the USA Before insurance, a new study suggests.
And by the way, Novo Nordisk is a Dutch company. Given how cheap and easy it is to make, there have been a ton of independent pharmacies making this peptide on their own.
Then look at what the FDA says: A compounded drug might be appropriate if a patient's medical need cannot be met by an FDA-approved drug, or the FDA-approved drug is not commercially available. However, compounded drugs are not FDA approved. This means the agency does not review compounded drugs for safety, effectiveness or quality before they are marketed.
https://qz.com/novo-nordisk-fda-ozempic-wegovy-1851679536
Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk wants the FDA to crack down on knockoff weight loss drugs.
This is the modern American economy. A Dutch company makes a product, way overcharges us for it, then employs USA bureaucrats and lawyers, whom we the tax payers pay for, to enforce their astronomical prices.
MAGA means you make a product, charge what the market bears, and quit relying on bureaucrats and lawyers to make you your money. And if the market takes a plunge in the mean time, then so be it. I am sick of these businesses that succeed on financial engineering.
Please note that Trump did NOT bring whatever Democratic Party philosophies and agenda you think he ever possessed to the Republican Party or to his presidential campaign or to his 1st Trump's Pandemic term or to his 2nd Trump's Pandemic term.
He chose to run as a Repub because he knew very well that any lazy fuck who knows nothing and does nothing but play golf and cheat on his scorecard can Crash the USA Economy, wipe out millions upon millions of jobs, skyrocket the deficit with nothing of value to show for it and still be glorified and praised by his Party, the Mainstream Media and every numbskull who would not vote all Dem straight up and down the ballot every time as "better at handling the economy" than Democrats.
Moreover, Trump is doing exactly the same things, spouting the exact same rhetoric and is aimed at achieving the exact same horrific economic results that EVERY Repub since Lincoln was shot (possible single exception being Teddy Roosevelt) would have spouted and been as openly honest about wanting to do to violate the Constitution, create chaos, produce economic disaster and all of Classic Repub Trump's other economic, national security and foreign policy Catastrophes.
The ONLY reason the pre Trump Repubs did not openly pull the same shit Trump has gotten away with is because a certain very specific set of events had not yet occurred to give them the same license to violate the Constitution, abandon the Rule of Law, produce any worldwide economy-destroying Pandemic they want, Crash the stock market, Crash the economy, wipe out millions upon millions of jobs, skyrocket the deficit and still not lose one vote from their Repub Voter Base after that Repub Voter Base was driven stark raving insane by that very specific set of events that happened just prior to the Repub rise of Repub Trump.
Namely;.
- The election of a black man to the presidency. A Democrat.
- The amazing accomplishment of that first black president to recover us from one of the worst Great Repub Recessions and Massive Repub Jobs Destruction of All Time, something many had thought impossible so why not shovel that impossible to clean up shit into the lap of the first black president.
- The first woman presidential candidate of a major political party, the Democratic Party. And she won the majority of votes, otherwise known as "winning the presidential election" in every other country that holds free and fair elections.
- The first woman VP candidate of a major political party. The Democratic Party. She was also of mixed minority ethnicity. And she won.
- That woman VP then served a presidential Administration that, again, recovered us from another Great Repub Economic, National Security and Foreign Policy Disaster of All Time and turned it into the Envy of the World Economy, zero engagement by the USA Military anywhere on the planet, reduced crime rate and having created more jobs than all three of the previous Repub presidents combined and a good portion of the fourth previous Repub president.
Those were some of the events that drove the Repub Party absolutely batshit crazy and willing to forgive and in fact love their lord and savior Trump for any and every America-hating, anti-American, economy-destroying, Constitution-violating crap he wants to pull, even if it does more damage to them than anyone else.
Coolidge, Hoover, Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes et al did not run for the Repub Party presidential nomination after any of those events had occurred. Only Trump did. If they had, they most certainly and without doubt would have known their Voter Base would give them the full license to say and do everything they love Trump for saying and doing.
They ALL would have been 100% MAGA.I wanted to reply "You're hopeless," but that would be obnoxious. So I asked ChatGPT how to finesse a better response. She told me to say, "Well, at least you're consistent!" And I'll add, "You see the world through blue colored glasses. ".
Come to find out that the tariffs aren't even based on the tariffs other countries charge us but on trade deficits! What an ignorant motherfucker! Gone from just ruining the American economy to spinning the whole world up for a recession using false numbers. You knew stupidity is behind (and in front) of it all!
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/04/03/how-did-the-us-arrive-at-its-tariff-figures-.html
RamDavidson84
04-03-25, 20:23
It is a good thing the Educational Department is being eliminated. It certainly didn't help this guy. . 000001 X 300,000,000.00 = 30. The formula that he provided indicates there are 30 racists left in the United States of America. First of all I wonder why he did not get his calculator out. Lastly where did he get his formula from? Did he make it up? Or did he just quote it but not give the original source credit.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-racist-is-america/A Vice article LOL. Such a trust worthy reputation.
Tariffs?
Come to find out that the tariffs aren't even based on the tariffs other countries charge us but on trade deficits! What an ignorant motherfucker! Gone from just ruining the American economy to spinning the whole world up for a recession using false numbers. You knew stupidity is behind (and in front) of it all!
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/04/03/how-did-the-us-arrive-at-its-tariff-figures-.htmlNot since Trump's Pandemic Part 1 term:
Dow futures fall after tariffs push market to biggest losses since 2020.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/stock-market-today-live-updates.html?__source=androidappshare
Oh, but looking again:
Trump open to tariff negotiations, contradicting White House aides.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/trump-tariffs-live-updates-stock-market-trade-war.html?__source=androidappshare
Trump just pulls shit out of his ass on a whim and plops it into the hands of whoever is standing nearby.
Xi could not be more delighted by all of this.
No intelligent CEO of a successful business is going to rush into a commitment to build a new factory, hire and train significant numbers of employees based on something that numbskull said or did on Wednesday then flipped around on Thursday.
Going forward, no serious trading partner will subject itself to committing to any trade deal with the USA unless it 100% benefits that country leaving nothing for the USA on the now confirmed conclusion that at least 49.8% of the USA electorate is astonishingly stupid enough to place the absolute worst leaders and charlatans into positions of real power every 2 years in the Congress and every 4 years in the White House.
I wanted to reply "You're hopeless," but that would be obnoxious. So I asked ChatGPT how to finesse a better response. She told me to say, "Well, at least you're consistent!" And I'll add, "You see the world through blue colored glasses. ".It turns out facts will now have an even better-known bias toward Blue than previously established.
Yeah, Tiny, this is the MAGA movement. Look at this: https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0912/the-cost-of-making-an-iphone.aspx.
According to Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, the reason to build in China is not because of the lower labor costs. If this were the case, Apple could make its phones in even cheaper locations. The main reason, according to Cook, is the skill required in tooling engineering. He claims that the specific skill set is no longer available in the USA, but in China, the expertise is prevalent.
Meanwhile, there was this interesting video with a divorce attorney, and the attorney lets its slip, he charges $750 an hour, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnj_63ZHNq8.
Do you think we would have a problem with tooling engineers if they could make $750 an hour? Hell, I wish we had a software engineer come up with a computer program to separate assets and we could leave the lawyers out of the process.
Then look at medications:
The cost of Ozempic varies significantly around the world. In the USA, a 30-day supply of Ozempic has a list price of around $935 a month, though it can be purchased for as low as $906.54 with a GoodRx coupon. In contrast, the drug is priced much lower in other countries. For example, in Germany, the list price is $103 for a 30-day supply, and in Sweden, it is $96.
In France, the price is $83.
The blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic could be manufactured for less than $5 a month, even as Novo Nordisk charges almost $1,000 per month for the injection in the USA Before insurance, a new study suggests.
And by the way, Novo Nordisk is a Dutch company. Given how cheap and easy it is to make, there have been a ton of independent pharmacies making this peptide on their own.
Then look at what the FDA says: A compounded drug might be appropriate if a patient's medical need cannot be met by an FDA-approved drug, or the FDA-approved drug is not commercially available. However, compounded drugs are not FDA approved. This means the agency does not review compounded drugs for safety, effectiveness or quality before they are marketed.
https://qz.com/novo-nordisk-fda-ozempic-wegovy-1851679536
Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk wants the FDA to crack down on knockoff weight loss drugs.
This is the modern American economy. A Dutch company makes a product, way overcharges us for it, then employs USA bureaucrats and lawyers, whom we the tax payers pay for, to enforce their astronomical prices.
MAGA means you make a product, charge what the market bears, and quit relying on bureaucrats and lawyers to make you your money. And if the market takes a plunge in the mean time, then so be it. I am sick of these businesses that succeed on financial engineering.I agree with you 100% about the attorneys and pharmaceuticals Elvis. Back in the day, somebody said the reason why China had 8% GDP growth while the USA's was 2% was because China was run by engineers and the United States by lawyers.
Except that MAGA does not mean "you make a product, charge what the market bears, and quit relying on bureaucrats and lawyers to make you your money. " That's what Rand Paul and Phil Gramm believe. And it's what Reagan believed. But not Trump.
This is insane. Did you see that, except for China, the highest tariffs are on countries like Cambodia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. They produce very little that's important to our national security. Americans don't want to do the mind-numbing, repetitive work they're doing to manufacture garments and the like. Presumably people will move production from places like Vietnam, where the tariff is 46%, to, say Costa Rica, where it's 10%. But then what happens when Costa Rica's bilateral trade surplus with the USA goes up? Well, because of Trump's stupid ass formula, the tariff will go sky high there. So you set up a factory in Kenya to replace the one in Costa Rica. Probably the reason the factory was built in Vietnam in the first place was to escape tariffs placed on China. It's a game of whack a mole that results in lots of stranded capital. Lots of waste.
To the extent that Trump's pursuing an import substitution policy, that is, if factories actually relocate to the USA, it won't end well. India tried that. And it's a large part of the reason why today it's destitute while China's thriving.
And given that Trump didn't get bipartisan support for his tariffs, or even push them through a Republican Congress, which he could have done with a simple majority, what's to keep the tariffs from being axed in 2029 by the next president? And given the tariffs may be axed by the time you build a new factory in the USA, who's going to build the factories?
How often do you see the stock market plummeting and then see the dollar going down at the same time? Well, it's because the world is losing confidence in the USA.
There's an accounting or economic identity.
Current Account Surplus = Savings - Investment, where current account approximately equals the trade balance.
Americans can't save. Our government runs perennial large fiscal deficits, and about half the country lives hand to mouth. So where's the investment going to come from to finance our profligate federal government and build the new factories, if we're not running a trade deficit?
We had a great deal going. The Asians made cheap stuff and practically gave it to us. We lived high on the hog while they scrimped and saved. And in return we gave them paper (that is, dollars). Admittedly, that's not all good. Well, if you want to unwind it in a way that makes sense, first you do what Trump did. Make us more competitive. He lowered the corporate tax rate and deregulated. And you cut the government's fiscal deficit, and encourage savings. You make us like Germany. You don't hide behind tariffs. The tariffs will benefit a small group of crony capitalists and SOME workers in protected industries. Most Americans will come out losers.
As to national security, yeah, there are steps we need to take to ensure we have secure sources of essential products, like rare earth elements. That's what the USA should be pursuing, not this current idiocy.
The tariffs will benefit a small group of crony capitalists and SOME workers in protected industries. Most Americans will come out losers. As to national security, yeah, there are steps we need to take to ensure we have secure sources of essential products, like rare earth elements. That's what the USA should be pursuing, not this current idiocy.That's the best way I've heard this across the board lunacy described. Economic illiteracy! And this guy calls himself a "businessman" (rolling eyes).
That's the best way I've heard this across the board lunacy described. Economic illiteracy! And this guy calls himself a "businessman" (rolling eyes).Likewise, I liked this:
Come to find out that the tariffs aren't even based on the tariffs other countries charge us but on trade deficits! What they did was divide a country's bilateral trade surplus by the USA's exports to that country. That's supposed to represent the extent to which that country is screwing the USA. Because Trump's magnanimous though, he's only charging them a tariff equal to half of that ratio.
Let's take an example, and I'm pulling numbers out of the air. Say Cambodia has a $10 billion trade surplus in goods with the USA. That is, it exports $10 billion more to the USA than it imports. And the USA exports $5 billion in goods to Cambodia. (Please note that Trump conveniently just looks at deficits in goods, not services. That's because the USA runs a very large trade surplus in services with the rest of the world.).
Then the degree to which Cambodia is screwing the USA is $10 billion / $5 billion - 1 = 100%! And so the tariff will be 1/2 of that, or 50%. That makes a lot of sense, huh?
Now say it was reversed, and the USA was running a $5 billion bilateral trade surplus in goods with Cambodia. Then the USA would "just" charge a 10% tariff on Cambodia, because that's the new minimum tariff on imported goods. Trump's just applying what he's gotten away with, err, sorry, what he's learned in the business world to government!
This system is doubly bizarre because companies are encouraged to play a game of musical chairs, shifting production from country to country to avoid high tariffs, as described in my reply to Elvis below. See the example with China, Vietnam, Costa Rica and Kenya.
Elvis 2008
04-04-25, 04:21
How often do you see the stock market plummeting and then see the dollar going down at the same time? Well, it's because the world is losing confidence in the USA.Well, Tiny, that was what Trump ran on, populism, caring for the American people not the rest of the world. Do we care what foreigners think about how much we should be paying for THEIR drugs? The rest of the world has been fucking us in the drug world, in the defense world, and in so many other areas. Honestly, Americans are not like Europeans. We cannot name the foreign leaders but they sure know about ours. Why? Because it does not matter to us who is in charge in France or Germany. And before we had to be involved internationally because of oil, and we do not now. It is time to give the rest of the world the middle finger and let them start paying for stuff. That is what it means to be America first.
Well, because of Trump's stupid ass formula, the tariff will go sky high there. So you set up a factory in Kenya to replace the one in Costa Rica. Probably the reason the factory was built in Vietnam in the first place was to escape tariffs placed on China. It's a game of whack a mole that results in lots of stranded capital. Lots of waste. The tariffs will benefit a small group of crony capitalists and SOME workers in protected industries. Most Americans will come out losers.Back in 2012, Trump said he was in favor of taxing 2% of people's wealth. When asked if that would motivate people to move their money out of the USA, he said he did not think it would. I thought he was insane for saying that.
So I cannot say definitively Trump is not crazy for doing what he is doing. What I can say is that Trump has a history of saying or doing something crazy to get his way in negotiations. You make an outlandish opening offer and then back off of it. I think all the world leaders were whistling in the wind when it came to their reducing tariffs. They are not whistling now. He has their attention, so we will see what happens from here. The problem is the USA does not pay attention to the world's markets. The Colombian president was mouthing off and refused to accept back Colombian citizens until Trump threatened him with tariffs. So that got his attention and the attention of the stock market as well.
Trump told the market what he was going to do. They blew him off as well.
I believe that Trump's goal is to have other countries lower THEIR tariffs. I think he wants his legacy to be to have the USA not to have the massive trade deficits it has and the massive budget deficits it has. If those reductions do not happen, this country is finished. Some bureaucratic idiot said it is okay if the USA runs a debt to GDP ratio of 400% because Japan did and they are fine.
The problem with the Toomsian way of looking at things is you only look at what you want so today everything is terrible, the market is down, the dollar is down ETC. Well, bond yields went way down today and that means lower interest rates.
And treasuries are STILL massively underpriced compared to the stock market. So yeah, if you are a financial guy or a big biz guy with stock options, you got hurt. If you are in the 25 to 40 age range and could not afford a house because of high interest rates and the Biden / Fed induced bubble, today was a good day. Your dream home just got more affordable.
Where are our "This is what winning looks like" MAGAs?
Biggest stock market crashes in US history.
April 3, 2025:
https://www.bankrate.com/investing/biggest-stock-market-crashes-in-us-history/
In the wake of the stock markets downturn to start 2025 spurred by a slowing economy and U.S. President Donald Trumps embrace of global tariffs investors may be worried about a possible stock market crash or even a recession.
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Key stock market crash statistics
The largest single-day percentage declines for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average both occurred on Oct. 19, 1987 with the S&P 500 falling by 20.5 percent and the Dow falling by 22.6 percent.
Two of the four largest percentage declines for the Dow occurred on consecutive days Oct. 28 and 29 in 1929. The market fell roughly 25 percent over those two days.
The Dow reached an all-time high in September 1929 before the crash and did not return to its pre-crash high until 25 years later in November 1954.
The six largest single-day point declines for the Dow all occurred in the first six months of 2020 as investors grappled with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The largest single-day point decline for the Dow occurred on March 16, 2020 when the index fell 2,997 points, or 12.9 percent. That day was also the largest single-day point decline for the S&P 500, which tumbled 324.9 points, or about 12 percent.I am told by MAGA Repubs that it is just a wild coincidence that every one of the Historic Crashes and Declines in the USA Stock Market for the past 100 years occurred under Repub presidents and none under Dem presidents and nothing to do with the Repubs' crap economic or national security policies, stewardship and decisions.
You know, like Trump's decisions in 2018 and 2019 to defund and remove the Pandemic Prevention and Response team leadership from those Chinese labs against all expert warnings for him not to do something so dangerous and stupid.
Virtually the same decisions he is making today.
And that my suggesting otherwise is obviously the result my unreasonable partisan bias in favor of Great Dem Economic Recoveries, Jobs Creation and Bull Market Gains and against Great Repub Depressions, Recessions, Massive Jobs Losses, Stock Market Declines and Crashes.
So it must be true. Maybe a 100 year time frame isn't enough to come to a reasonable conclusion about these things and I should spend another 100 years observing this persistent pattern to make a more fair assessment of it all.
Of course, I'll only be 171 years old by then and, according to President Musk, still collecting a big fat fraudulent wasteful and abusive Social Security check every month.
Newton York
04-04-25, 06:11
There goes the economy. I guess I'm going to have to learn to like eating dog food. But wait! Even dog food is expensive these days. I haven't seen my brokerage account this red since the covid days. Man, I'm so tired of all this winning! *sigh*.
Trump gamble like in his casinos is inflation and losing jobs for Americans. Losing losing business from a loser he is not knowing economics. Despite his putting fire everywhere, USA won t become MAGA with such loser.
There goes the economy. I guess I'm going to have to learn to like eating dog food. But wait! Even dog food is expensive these days. I haven't seen my brokerage account this red since the covid days. Man, I'm so tired of all this winning! *sigh*.
Well, Tiny, that was what Trump ran on, populism, caring for the American people not the rest of the world. Do we care what foreigners think about how much we should be paying for THEIR drugs? The rest of the world has been fucking us in the drug world, in the defense world, and in so many other areas. Honestly, Americans are not like Europeans. We cannot name the foreign leaders but they sure know about ours. Why? Because it does not matter to us who is in charge in France or Germany. And before we had to be involved internationally because of oil, and we do not now. It is time to give the rest of the world the middle finger and let them start paying for stuff. That is what it means to be America first.
Back in 2012, Trump said he was in favor of taxing 2% of people's wealth. When asked if that would motivate people to move their money out of the USA, he said he did not think it would. I thought he was insane for saying that.
So I cannot say definitively Trump is not crazy for doing what he is doing. What I can say is that Trump has a history of saying or doing something crazy to get his way in negotiations. You make an outlandish opening offer and then back off of it. I think all the world leaders were whistling in the wind when it came to their reducing tariffs. They are not whistling now. He has their attention, so we will see what happens from here. The problem is the USA does not pay attention to the world's markets. The Colombian president was mouthing off and refused to accept back Colombian citizens until Trump threatened him with tariffs. So that got his attention and the attention of the stock market as well..Please remind us of all the Populist legislation and programs he has ever proposed, fought for and passed even when, as now, his Party controlled the House and the Senate.
His entire private and political life has been dedicated to conning the "populace" into handing him and his fellow Deadbeat family and cronies money for zippidy-doo-dah nothing in return.
He just handed the American Working Men and Women Consumers one of the biggest tax increases of all time while figuring out ways to cut popular programs for the vast majority of the American population, TRUE POPULIST programs, such as Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare in order to con suckers into thinking he is offsetting the Trillions more he wants to add to his record high deficits with tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.
I assume you don't count American Farmers among the beneficiaries of Trump's supposedly "populist" governance, right?
How about auto workers and current Social Security and Medicaid recipients?
Where are our "This is what winning looks like" MAGAs?
Biggest stock market crashes in US history.
April 3, 2025:
https://www.bankrate.com/investing/biggest-stock-market-crashes-in-us-history/
I am told by MAGA Repubs that it is just a wild coincidence that every one of the Historic Crashes and Declines in the USA Stock Market for the past 100 years occurred under Repub presidents and none under Dem presidents and nothing to do with the Repubs' crap economic or national security policies, stewardship and decisions.
You know, like Trump's decisions in 2018 and 2019 to defund and remove the Pandemic Prevention and Response team leadership from those Chinese labs against all expert warnings for him not to do something so dangerous and stupid.
Virtually the same decisions he is making today.
And that my suggesting otherwise is obviously the result my unreasonable partisan bias in favor of Great Dem Economic Recoveries, Jobs Creation and Bull Market Gains and against Great Repub Depressions, Recessions, Massive Jobs Losses, Stock Market Declines and Crashes.
So it must be true. Maybe a 100 year time frame isn't enough to come to a reasonable conclusion about these things and I should spend another 100 years observing this persistent pattern to make a more fair assessment of it all.
Of course, I'll only be 171 years old by then and, according to President Musk, still collecting a big fat fraudulent wasteful and abusive Social Security check every month.The 1929 crash under Hoover was like the 2020 crash under Clinton. A speculative bubble burst. Add to that the Fed raising rates, which I don't think you can blame on Hoover.
The COVID crash was caused by a virus, not Trump.
The 1987 crash was caused by automated trading strategies and portfolio insurance, and also stocks were perhaps somewhat overvalued in the short term. The indices recovered the majority of their losses in 2 days.
On the other hand, you can lay the blame for the 2025 crash at the feet of Donald Trump, a Democrat who infiltrated the Republican Party.
Likewise, I liked this:
What they did was divide a country's bilateral trade surplus by the USA's exports to that country. That's supposed to represent the extent to which that country is screwing the USA. Because Trump's magnanimous though, he's only charging them a tariff equal to half of that ratio.
Let's take an example, and I'm pulling numbers out of the air. Say Cambodia has a $10 billion trade surplus in goods with the USA. That is, it exports $10 billion more to the USA than it imports. And the USA exports $5 billion in goods to Cambodia. (Please note that Trump conveniently just looks at deficits in goods, not services. That's because the USA runs a very large trade surplus in services with the rest of the world.).
Then the degree to which Cambodia is screwing the USA is $10 billion / $5 billion - 1 = 100%! And so the tariff will be 1/2 of that, or 50%. That makes a lot of sense, huh?
Now say it was reversed, and the USA was running a $5 billion bilateral trade surplus in goods with Cambodia. Then the USA would "just" charge a 10% tariff on Cambodia, because that's the new minimum tariff on imported goods. Trump's just applying what he's gotten away with, err, sorry, what he's learned in the business world to government!
This system is doubly bizarre because companies are encouraged to play a game of musical chairs, shifting production from country to country to avoid high tariffs, as described in my reply to Elvis below. See the example with China, Vietnam, Costa Rica and Kenya.Just a correction here. If I'm understanding correctly, it's not USA exports that's used. It's the USA's trade deficit with a country divided by that country's exports to the USA, then half of that. Makes even less sense to me for calculating "reciprocal" tariffs. What an incredible shit storm of a cluster fuck!
The 1929 crash under Hoover was like the 2020 crash under Clinton. A speculative bubble burst. Add to that the Fed raising rates, which I don't think you can blame on Hoover.
The COVID crash was caused by a virus, not Trump.
The 1987 crash was caused by automated trading strategies and portfolio insurance, and also stocks were perhaps somewhat overvalued in the short term. The indices recovered the majority of their losses in 2 days.
On the other hand, you can lay the blame for the 2025 crash at the feet of Donald Trump, a Democrat who infiltrated the Republican Party.The Great Repub Depression was not caused by the Fed raising Fed Funds Rates.
The Covid Crash was not caused by a virus. Viruses have been everywhere since forever. So far none of them have caused a stock market or economic crash. Coughing, sore throat, fever and deaths, yes. Economic decline, no.
The Covid Crash was caused by a Pandemic. And one for which Trump is more responsible for laying the groundwork, ushering in and exacerbating than any other person on the planet.
Trump didn't infiltrate your Repub Party.
He revealed it.
Elvis 2008
04-04-25, 20:14
He just handed the American Working Men and Women Consumers one of the biggest tax increases of all time while figuring out ways to cut popular programs for the vast majority of the American population, TRUE POPULIST programs, such as Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare in order to con suckers into thinking he is offsetting the Trillions more he wants to add to his record high deficits with tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.
I assume you don't count American Farmers among the beneficiaries of Trump's supposedly "populist" governance, right?
How about auto workers and current Social Security and Medicaid recipients?Tooms, you are so one sided your head must crook to the left. Yes, the stock market is down, but bonds are higher and yields are lower.
What was the Democratic proposal with sleepy Joe and drunk Kamala? Just keep racking up $2 trillion deficits? And paying 30% of all tax revenues away for interest payments and it kept rising year after year?
You keep bragging about how fucking great Biden was while all he did was rack up government debt. Stop with your one sided Democratic douche bullshit.
How many times have I said we have an asset bubble? How many times have I said for people to go into bonds? Sure, Trump pricked the bubble, but Biden blew the fucking thing to its monstrous state. Why the fuck do you think Buffett was in so much cash? And he was like that BEFORE Trump was elected.
As for Medicare, Medicaid, and social security, God damned right they need to be cut, and taxes need to be increased. And what is the bullshit about farmers? Everyone needs to suck it up if we are going to make any progress. The days of running massive deficits without the consequences of inflation are done.
What you Democratic douches do not get is the longest this is put off the worse it will become. You and your Democratic douche class warfare bullshit needs to stop. If we kept racking up debt like Biden was doing, what makes us economically special, never defaulting on our debt, goes out the window, and all you Democratic douches want to say and do is "It is all Trump's fault. " Get your head out of your ass.
Someone just sent me this ransom letter.
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Diapers or Hookers, what should I spend my money on?
Luckily I have OAB and not Colitis! It's going to get rough soon.
I swear I saw all of this in a Simpson's episode, reality couldn't be this surreal.
Europe, aside from a few batshit crazy lunatics, is completely horrified and unified in their condemnation of America as I suspect most of the world is. I sadly think this is the beginning of the end of America's golden age, and it saddens me because for all of its faults America has given a great deal to the world. These tariffs will punish the weakest countries the most, and China will feel the pinch but this self defeating act will make ordinary Americans suffer much more than China: if we have not learned to never underestimate Chinese resolve than we deserve the outcome. When Musk laughed at their ability to make EV's, 10 years later he wasn't laughing. When US thought it led the world in AI, Deepseek has shaken the world.
And the Chinese will overcome the tariffs too, in the first instance by flooding the rest of the world with even cheaper goods, I imagine. I reckon the interest rate trajectory in Europe has taken a slight uptick downward and were I a fixed income trader I'd bet on it. Meanwhile, the vacuum left through America's "soft power" retreat will be filled even more by China, and while it's not yet strong enough to seize Taiwan, analysts say that around 2030-2032 they will be. And then they will have the only remaining advantage that America has over China presently: in microprocessors.
Trump's stupidity boggles the mind, and it's an instructive exercise in the psychology of mass madness and Group think which has taken hold of your government, making a mockery of its checks and balances and supposed democracy. I thought only Congress had a right to set tariffs?
Anyway, this is the dumbest way possible to have dealt with a current account deficit. There were other means, not least by weakening the dollar. That is if you insist the current account deficit was America's biggest problem to begin with, and I don't. The trade deficit was a simple function of America buying cheap goods for cheap prices and the issue was one of financing it, this as Tiny has suggested previously could have been through increased national savings rates.
There are have been seminal (no pun) moments in history when you can point to that it was when one empire fell and another took over. Rome in 470 odd, British empire in 1945, and now the American one in 2025.
Likewise, I liked this:
What they did was divide a country's bilateral trade surplus by the USA's exports to that country. That's supposed to represent the extent to which that country is screwing the USA. Because Trump's magnanimous though, he's only charging them a tariff equal to half of that ratio.
Let's take an example, and I'm pulling numbers out of the air. Say Cambodia has a $10 billion trade surplus in goods with the USA. That is, it exports $10 billion more to the USA than it imports. And the USA exports $5 billion in goods to Cambodia. (Please note that Trump conveniently just looks at deficits in goods, not services. That's because the USA runs a very large trade surplus in services with the rest of the world.).
Then the degree to which Cambodia is screwing the USA is $10 billion / $5 billion - 1 = 100%! And so the tariff will be 1/2 of that, or 50%. That makes a lot of sense, huh?
Now say it was reversed, and the USA was running a $5 billion bilateral trade surplus in goods with Cambodia. Then the USA would "just" charge a 10% tariff on Cambodia, because that's the new minimum tariff on imported goods. Trump's just applying what he's gotten away with, err, sorry, what he's learned in the business world to government!
This system is doubly bizarre because companies are encouraged to play a game of musical chairs, shifting production from country to country to avoid high tariffs, as described in my reply to Elvis below. See the example with China, Vietnam, Costa Rica and Kenya.
Since it appears that, the Americans on the MAGA lunatic fringe far-right, have punted the Rule of Law, the Constitution and given up the mental of democracy and pledged fealty, to their wannabe dictator, grifter and charlatan American Fuhrer, the rest of America should look to South Korea, as a shinning example of what REAL democracy should look like.
Yes, democracy lives on in South Korea, as their highest courts, have upheld the president's impeachment and has removed the corrupt President Yoon Suk Yeol from office, four months after unlawfully declaring martial law, on the Korean people.
South Koreas impeached president is removed from office..., Apr 04, 2025
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/03/asia/yoon-impeachment-verdict-south-korea-intl-hnk/index.html
So who while the senile U.S. Commander in Cheat and MAGA Fuhrer, continues to break the law, skirt the law and stand in contempt of the courts, while shirking has duties to the likes of, billionaire jumping jack-asses, that mocks and traumatizes the electorates and bribes Wisconsin voters with cheesehead hats and million dollar checks, as the MAGA Fuhrer, also concedes and abdicates the power of the oval office to Elvira look-a-like goth princess influencers, as he pushes the boundaries of what it is to be "king" in America, rest assured democracy in South Korea, or Wisconsin at least...is NOT DEAD YET!
Democrats win in Wisconsin court race also is a big loss for Elon Musk, Apr 02, 2025
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-81f71cdda271827ae281a77072a26bad
The people of South Korea and Wisconsin, showed up on that "hill", brilliantly fought tyranny and won. I guess, this must be what winning and REAL democracy in action, looks like!
Since it appears that, the Americans on the MAGA lunatic fringe far-right, have punted the Rule of Law, the Constitution and given up the mental of democracy and pledged fealty, to their wannabe dictator, grifter and charlatan American Fuhrer, the rest of America should look to South Korea, as a shinning example of what REAL democracy should look like.
Yes, democracy lives on in South Korea, as their highest courts, have upheld the president's impeachment and has removed the corrupt President Yoon Suk Yeol from office, four months after unlawfully declaring martial law, on the Korean people.
South Koreas impeached president is removed from office..., Apr 04, 2025
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/03/asia/yoon-impeachment-verdict-south-korea-intl-hnk/index.html
So who while the senile U.S. Commander in Cheat and MAGA Fuhrer, continues to break the law, skirt the law and stand in contempt of the courts, while shirking has duties to the likes of, billionaire jumping jack-asses, that mocks and traumatizes the electorates and bribes Wisconsin voters with cheesehead hats and million dollar checks, as the MAGA Fuhrer, also concedes and abdicates the power of the oval office to Elvira look-a-like goth princess influencers, as he pushes the boundaries of what it is to be "king" in America, rest assured democracy in South Korea, or Wisconsin at least...is NOT DEAD YET!
Democrats win in Wisconsin court race also is a big loss for Elon Musk, Apr 02, 2025
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-81f71cdda271827ae281a77072a26bad
The people of South Korea and Wisconsin, showed up on that "hill", brilliantly fought tyranny and won. I guess, this must be what winning and REAL democracy in action, looks like!And it also lives in Brazil where that nut case Bolsonaro is being put on trial for orchestrating a coup. I really fault Biden Garland for being so weak and not seeing the Orange Stain put behind bars.
The tariff nonsense is just amazing. It's becoming more and more obvious that the vengeful senile Trump is bent on destroying America because of his anger of not being elected in 2020.
Well, Tiny, that was what Trump ran on, populism, caring for the American people not the rest of the world. Do we care what foreigners think about how much we should be paying for THEIR drugs? The rest of the world has been fucking us in the drug world, in the defense world, and in so many other areas. Honestly, Americans are not like Europeans. We cannot name the foreign leaders but they sure know about ours. Why? Because it does not matter to us who is in charge in France or Germany. And before we had to be involved internationally because of oil, and we do not now. It is time to give the rest of the world the middle finger and let them start paying for stuff. That is what it means to be America first.
Back in 2012, Trump said he was in favor of taxing 2% of people's wealth. When asked if that would motivate people to move their money out of the USA, he said he did not think it would. I thought he was insane for saying that.I agree with all of that Elvis, if by "stuff" you mean "their own defense. ".
So I cannot say definitively Trump is not crazy for doing what he is doing. What I can say is that Trump has a history of saying or doing something crazy to get his way in negotiations. You make an outlandish opening offer and then back off of it. I think all the world leaders were whistling in the wind when it came to their reducing tariffs. They are not whistling now. He has their attention, so we will see what happens from here. The problem is the USA does not pay attention to the world's markets. The Colombian president was mouthing off and refused to accept back Colombian citizens until Trump threatened him with tariffs. So that got his attention and the attention of the stock market as well.
Trump told the market what he was going to do. They blew him off as well.
I believe that Trump's goal is to have other countries lower THEIR tariffs. I think he wants his legacy to be to have the USA not to have the massive trade deficits it has and the massive budget deficits it has. If those reductions do not happen, this country is finished. Some bureaucratic idiot said it is okay if the USA runs a debt to GDP ratio of 400% because Japan did and they are fine.I agree with you as to the effect of continued large budget deficits, but not trade deficits. However, all else being equal, if you bring down the budget deficit, the trade deficit goes down too. Please refer to the identity in my last reply to you. Savings can be expressed as (Government Budget Surplus) + (Change in Private Savings). When you increase savings, by lowering the budget deficit, you can and will finance a given level of investment with a lower current account or trade deficit.
Until Trump's recent antics, we were fine perennially running trade deficits, just as Australia has been. The reason -- people want to invest in the USA, and Australia. The USA was considered a very safe and stable place, where the government and people played by the rules. The dollar was the world's reserve currency.
Unfortunately a lot of that's gone down the shitter since January 20.
Again, being a thrifty Calvinist, I'd like to see us save more and run smaller trade deficits, which go hand in hand. But the tariffs, which wreck supply chains, encourage crony capitalism, put American companies out of business and American workers out of jobs, and wrack asunder the benefits we receive from comparative advantage, are the wrong way to go about it. Trump should be pursuing more ideas like he did in his last term (deregulation, lower corporate tax rate) instead of this idiocy.
As to your other point, that Trump may be using this as a negotiating tool, a friend of mine who's more pro-Trump than you believes that. And admittedly, often when people think Trump's bat shit crazy, he's really crazy like a fox. One example is telling Kim he was going to blast North Korea off of the planet, before buddying up to him. The result was that North Korea stopped testing intermediate and long range ballistic missiles, at least until Biden was elected. The other was sending planes to bomb Iran and then recalling them at the last minute.
Trump likes for world leaders to believe he's bat shit crazy. So is it possible they'll think he's going to put the world into a recession if they don't back off on their tariff rates? And the world will end up with with freer and fairer trade after Trump finishes negotiating with them?
I don't think so. Trump's believed in tariffs all his life. He was spouting off about it in the 1980's, the 1990's, etc. He believes in tariffs as strongly as Tooms believes in the infallibility of the Democratic Party.
The problem with the Toomsian way of looking at things is you only look at what you want so today everything is terrible, the market is down, the dollar is down ETC. Well, bond yields went way down today and that means lower interest rates.
And treasuries are STILL massively underpriced compared to the stock market. So yeah, if you are a financial guy or a big biz guy with stock options, you got hurt. If you are in the 25 to 40 age range and could not afford a house because of high interest rates and the Biden / Fed induced bubble, today was a good day. Your dream home just got more affordable.I disagree. You take away comparative advantage and America will be a poorer place. Real wages will go down or increase more slowly if the tariffs stick, more so if the rest of the world retaliates, as it will. Not only the wealthy own stocks. A lot of people depend on stocks for a decent retirement, some directly but more indirectly through pensions and the like. Rates on 30 year mortgages, which most people get, are still around 6. 5% to 6. 7%. And while theory would call for the tariffs to just cause a step up in prices, we may end up in a wage-price spiral that results in higher interest rates and stagflation.
The tariff nonsense is just amazing. It's becoming more and more obvious that the vengeful senile Trump is bent on destroying America because of his anger of not being elected in 2020.There are a number of older members on this board who are sharp as tacks. Trump on the other hand is going the same way as Biden. In his younger days he might have understood what's going on around him right now and pivoted. But instead he's playing golf in Miami. It's a bit like Nero fiddling while Rome burned. Except that Trump's not mad, he's just old. And stubborn.
There are a number of older members on this board who are sharp as tacks. Trump on the other hand is going the same way as Biden. In his younger days he might have understood what's going on around him right now and pivoted. But instead he's playing golf in Miami. It's a bit like Nero fiddling while Rome burned. Except that Trump's not mad, he's just old. And stubborn.I think his narcissism has morphed into a bit of early senility. What amazes me more than anything is there are some people on this board who live off their investments, which did incredibly well under the last administration, and they still voted for the Stain. In addition we've had a fairly strong dollar, but that might be in jeopardy as well and for those of us who live overseas that's not a good thing.
Certainly would like to see the republicans in Congress stand up to this buffoon. Of course I don't think that nimrod JD Vance would be any better. Geez, I almost miss GWB now.
All of this being said if he truly was putting in reciprocal tariffs as a bargaining chip, that might not be a terrible thing; that is not what they did. This is simply going to push our allies towards China and other alliances. Isolationism has never been a good thing.
But on a more positive note the parties of administrations that put in high tariffs, which happened twice before in the united states, got slaughtered in the midterms, once losing up to 50% of their seats. Guess we can look forward to next Nov.
Now I lay a lot of the blame, as does Ralph nader, of our descent into fascism at the feet of the Democrats. We have truly dropped the ball by embracing neoliberal economic policies starting with Bill Clinton and of course the insane identity politics. It's time to get back to pro working class, pro union, anti-corporate policies that will bring the working Man back into the fold. Democrats should stand firm on universal health care, four weeks paid vacation, excellent pensions at a reasonable age, paid education through University and tech school, clean energy, the food supply devoid of pesticides and antibiotics, excellent public transportation, etc. You know, make the US a truly develop nation.
I agree with all of that Elvis, if by "stuff" you mean "their own defense. ".
I agree with you as to the effect of continued large budget deficits, but not trade deficits. However, all else being equal, if you bring down the budget deficit, the trade deficit goes down too. Please refer to the identity in my last reply to you. Savings can be expressed as (Government Budget Surplus) + (Change in Private Savings). When you increase savings, by lowering the budget deficit, you can and will finance a given level of investment with a lower current account or trade deficit.
Until Trump's recent antics, we were fine perennially running trade deficits, just as Australia has been. The reason -- people want to invest in the USA, and Australia. The USA was considered a very safe and stable place, where the government and people played by the rules. The dollar was the world's reserve currency.
Unfortunately a lot of that's gone down the shitter since January 20.
Again, being a thrifty Calvinist, I'd like to see us save more and run smaller trade deficits, which go hand in hand. But the tariffs, which wreck supply chains, encourage crony capitalism, put American companies out of business and American workers out of jobs, and wrack asunder the benefits we receive from comparative advantage, are the wrong way to go about it. Trump should be pursuing more ideas like he did in his last term (deregulation, lower corporate tax rate) instead of this idiocy.
As to your other point, that Trump may be using this as a negotiating tool, a friend of mine who's more pro-Trump than you believes that. And admittedly, often when people think Trump's bat shit crazy, he's really crazy like a fox. One example is telling Kim he was going to blast North Korea off of the planet, before buddying up to him. The result was that North Korea stopped testing intermediate and long range ballistic missiles, at least until Biden was elected. The other was sending planes to bomb Iran and then recalling them at the last minute.
Trump likes for world leaders to believe he's bat shit crazy. So is it possible they'll think he's going to put the world into a recession if they don't back off on their tariff rates? And the world will end up with with freer and fairer trade after Trump finishes negotiating with them?
I don't think so. Trump's believed in tariffs all his life. He was spouting off about it in the 1980's, the 1990's, etc. He believes in tariffs as strongly as Tooms believes in the infallibility of the Democratic Party.
I disagree. You take away comparative advantage and America will be a poorer place. Real wages will go down or increase more slowly if the tariffs stick, more so if the rest of the world retaliates, as it will. Not only the wealthy own stocks. A lot of people depend on stocks for a decent retirement, some directly but more indirectly through pensions and the like. Rates on 30 year mortgages, which most people get, are still around 6. 5% to 6. 7%. And while theory would call for the tariffs to just cause a step up in prices, we may end up in a wage-price spiral that results in higher interest rates and stagflation.Deficits? The so-called United States debt is nothing more than the amount of dollars in circulation that haven't been taxed back yet. We're constantly gaslit to think it's importan so that we don't get the services and privileges of truly developed nations.
Every time there is attempt at balancing the budget or reducing the deficit, the private sector runs into trouble, because the private sector is a currency user not a currency issuer. The currency issuer can carry that forever, the private sector cannot.
Tooms, you are so one sided your head must crook to the left. Yes, the stock market is down, but bonds are higher and yields are lower.
What was the Democratic proposal with sleepy Joe and drunk Kamala? Just keep racking up $2 trillion deficits? And paying 30% of all tax revenues away for interest payments and it kept rising year after year?
You keep bragging about how fucking great Biden was while all he did was rack up government debt. Stop with your one sided Democratic douche bullshit.
How many times have I said we have an asset bubble? How many times have I said for people to go into bonds? Sure, Trump pricked the bubble, but Biden blew the fucking thing to its monstrous state. Why the fuck do you think Buffett was in so much cash? And he was like that BEFORE Trump was elected.
As for Medicare, Medicaid, and social security, God damned right they need to be cut, and taxes need to be increased. And what is the bullshit about farmers? Everyone needs to suck it up if we are going to make any progress. The days of running massive deficits without the consequences of inflation are done.
What you Democratic douches do not get is the longest this is put off the worse it will become. You and your Democratic douche class warfare bullshit needs to stop. If we kept racking up debt like Biden was doing, what makes us economically special, never defaulting on our debt, goes out the window, and all you Democratic douches want to say and do is "It is all Trump's fault. " Get your head out of your ass.There will be only one fix for this Great Repub Trump Mess that MAGAs like you have plunged us and the rest of the world into.
It has been the only fix for it throughout history. But there are numerous instances of it working. It will work again if the American electorate is smart enough to do it. Oh, and if President Musk really doesn't "know those vote counting machines very well", not so well to change the outcome of elections.
Here it is: The Democratic Party must win the White House, the majority in the House and the majority in the Senate.
If you want a slower, more painful and less effective but still reasonable fix to this Colossal Repub Mess you MAGAs pooped onto our hands and laps, then give the Dems a small majority in those two houses of Congress.
If you want a faster and greater fix to this MAGA Mess, give them Dems a sizable majority in the House and no less than 63 Senate seats.
That's it. There will be no other fix for this Mess. Too bad if you think the Dems are douches or have come to the silly conclusion that this or any other of the many Great Repub Economic Disasters over the decades are the fault of the Dems. This is the way out of it and any other notion is a total waste of time.
Oh sure, for the Super Majority of the electorate to have voted All Dem straight up and down the ballot every time in every election as I have done and recommended to be done since 1994 would easily have avoided every Great Repub Economic Disaster we have suffered ever since. Especially this one.
And we would have to do a Google Search to find out what happened in that one province of China regarding something called Corid, Covan, Covid or whatever several years ago.
And the Dow and S&P 500 would likely be at astronomical highs while eggs cost 10 Cents a dozen.
But we can't undo the dramatically opposite situation we are in today thanks to every non Dem vote that has been cast over the past 30 years. The only thing we can do is exactly what I stated above. No other way out. Sorry, MAGAs.
Uh. Trump is a McKinley-loving proponent of the Robber Baron Era and the Gilded Age where it was fine to predominantly collect taxes from Americans in the form of Tariffs as long as the ONLY things the government cared about doing was satisfying and further enriching the Super Wealthy Robber Barons who called all the shots, raped and pilaged the American Working Men, Women and Children and to deliver the mail.
Great Depressions and Great Recessions abounded, which made the Robber Barons and Super Wealthy only more powerful and wealthier and everyone else poorer.
Since then the Populist Movement replaced the predominant Tariff means of collecting revenue with a far, far, far more sensible, fairer and obviously more conducive to Making America Great predominant income tax system.
Which resulted in the ability and interest in American governance to create something called a "weekend", holidays off, less than a 10 hour workday, children who might pass the age of 12 without getting their hands chopped off in a factory machine, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and so on. ALL of which are easily affordable in a Great country like America that is AWASH in Money at all times due to our scarcely if ever being truly cheated by any other country on trade deals.
But then it is all about collecting and distributing the revenue intelligently for the sake of a complex national economy.
Uh. Your Donald J. Trump and virtually all of the Repubs in Congress are demonstrably on the Robber Baron team and not the Populist team.
Deficits? The so-called United States debt is nothing more than the amount of dollars in circulation that haven't been taxed back yet. We're constantly gaslit to think it's importan so that we don't get the services and privileges of truly developed nations.
Every time there is attempt at balancing the budget or reducing the deficit, the private sector runs into trouble, because the private sector is a currency user not a currency issuer. The currency issuer can carry that forever, the private sector cannot.It's not the deficit per se Goatscrot, but the national debt that's the problem. As a rule of thumb, when a developed country's level of net government debt as a % of GDP goes over 100%, it's running the risk of a meltdown, like what the southern European governments have been through. The ratio is lower for developing countries. Japan has historically been an exception because its citizens are prolific savers and invest a lot in Japanese government bonds. So there's not much external debt owed to foreigners.
Some believed the USA, which is currently around that 100% level, would be an exception too. The USA has the world's reserve currency, and our stable economy and rule of law have attracted investment and made the country the destination of choice when there's a flight to safety. Trump's upending that with his trade wars though.
I think his narcissism has morphed into a bit of early senility. What amazes me more than anything is there are some people on this board who live off their investments, which did incredibly well under the last administration, and they still voted for the Stain. In addition we've had a fairly strong dollar, but that might be in jeopardy as well and for those of us who live overseas that's not a good thing.
Certainly would like to see the republicans in Congress stand up to this buffoon. Of course I don't think that nimrod JD Vance would be any better. Geez, I almost miss GWB now.
All of this being said if he truly was putting in reciprocal tariffs as a bargaining chip, that might not be a terrible thing; that is not what they did. This is simply going to push our allies towards China and other alliances. Isolationism has never been a good thing.
But on a more positive note the parties of administrations that put in high tariffs, which happened twice before in the united states, got slaughtered in the midterms, once losing up to 50% of their seats. Guess we can look forward to next Nov.
Now I lay a lot of the blame, as does Ralph nader, of our descent into fascism at the feet of the Democrats. We have truly dropped the ball by embracing neoliberal economic policies starting with Bill Clinton and of course the insane identity politics. It's time to get back to pro working class, pro union, anti-corporate policies that will bring the working Man back into the fold. Democrats should stand firm on universal health care, four weeks paid vacation, excellent pensions at a reasonable age, paid education through University and tech school, clean energy, the food supply devoid of pesticides and antibiotics, excellent public transportation, etc. You know, make the US a truly develop nation.I agree about Republicans failure to display a backbone. It's sad. I'd far prefer something like Singapore's Central Provident Fund to social security, Medicare and Medicaid. If the USA copied the Singaporeans, then good quality universal healthcare, a decent retirement, and money to pay for an education and housing would be available to all. As to the pesticides and antibiotics, and clean energy the way I think you define it, and the size of government and anti-corporate policies, we part ways. I lean libertarian. And believe pesticides and antibiotics have done a lot to reduce hunger and malnutrition. Finally, I'm a big believer in CLEAN BURNING NATURAL GAS. And Billy Bob Thornton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbZwxEnAFc
I hope Spidy watches the video again.
MarquisdeSade1
04-05-25, 06:15
Yeah, Tiny, this is the MAGA movement. Look at this: https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0912/the-cost-of-making-an-iphone.aspx.
According to Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, the reason to build in China is not because of the lower labor costs. If this were the case, Apple could make its phones in even cheaper locations. The main reason, according to Cook, is the skill required in tooling engineering. He claims that the specific skill set is no longer available in the USA, but in China, the expertise is prevalent.
Meanwhile, there was this interesting video with a divorce attorney, and the attorney lets its slip, he charges $750 an hour, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnj_63ZHNq8.
Do you think we would have a problem with tooling engineers if they could make $750 an hour? Hell, I wish we had a software engineer come up with a computer program to separate assets and we could leave the lawyers out of the process.
Then look at medications:
The cost of Ozempic varies significantly around the world. In the USA, a 30-day supply of Ozempic has a list price of around $935 a month, though it can be purchased for as low as $906.54 with a GoodRx coupon. In contrast, the drug is priced much lower in other countries. For example, in Germany, the list price is $103 for a 30-day supply, and in Sweden, it is $96.
In France, the price is $83.
The blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic could be manufactured for less than $5 a month, even as Novo Nordisk charges almost $1,000 per month for the injection in the USA Before insurance, a new study suggests.
And by the way, Novo Nordisk is a Dutch company. Given how cheap and easy it is to make, there have been a ton of independent pharmacies making this peptide on their own.
Then look at what the FDA says: A compounded drug might be appropriate if a patient's medical need cannot be met by an FDA-approved drug, or the FDA-approved drug is not commercially available. However, compounded drugs are not FDA approved. This means the agency does not review compounded drugs for safety, effectiveness or quality before they are marketed.
https://qz.com/novo-nordisk-fda-ozempic-wegovy-1851679536
Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk wants the FDA to crack down on knockoff weight loss drugs.
This is the modern American economy. A Dutch company makes a product, way overcharges us for it, then employs USA bureaucrats and lawyers, whom we the tax payers pay for, to enforce their astronomical prices.
MAGA means you make a product, charge what the market bears, and quit relying on bureaucrats and lawyers to make you your money. And if the market takes a plunge in the mean time, then so be it. I am sick of these businesses that succeed on financial engineering.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-04/beijing-censors-bangkok-building-collapse-in-thailand/105126796
Let me know if you want 1000 more links per day like this brand new dams collapsing brand new hospitals bridges etc etc.
"skill set" please keep that kind of "skill" on ETs side of the Pacific we have too many landfills overflowing with their Made In CCPland garbage already!!
MarquisdeSade1
04-05-25, 06:22
Yeah, Tiny, this is the MAGA movement. Look at this: https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0912/the-cost-of-making-an-iphone.aspx.
According to Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, the reason to build in China is not because of the lower labor costs. If this were the case, Apple could make its phones in even cheaper locations. The main reason, according to Cook, is the skill required in tooling engineering. He claims that the specific skill set is no longer available in the USA, but in China, the expertise is prevalent.
Meanwhile, there was this interesting video with a divorce attorney, and the attorney lets its slip, he charges $750 an hour, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnj_63ZHNq8.
Do you think we would have a problem with tooling engineers if they could make $750 an hour? Hell, I wish we had a software engineer come up with a computer program to separate assets and we could leave the lawyers out of the process.
Then look at medications:
The cost of Ozempic varies significantly around the world. In the USA, a 30-day supply of Ozempic has a list price of around $935 a month, though it can be purchased for as low as $906.54 with a GoodRx coupon. In contrast, the drug is priced much lower in other countries. For example, in Germany, the list price is $103 for a 30-day supply, and in Sweden, it is $96.
In France, the price is $83.
The blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic could be manufactured for less than $5 a month, even as Novo Nordisk charges almost $1,000 per month for the injection in the USA Before insurance, a new study suggests.
And by the way, Novo Nordisk is a Dutch company. Given how cheap and easy it is to make, there have been a ton of independent pharmacies making this peptide on their own.
Then look at what the FDA says: A compounded drug might be appropriate if a patient's medical need cannot be met by an FDA-approved drug, or the FDA-approved drug is not commercially available. However, compounded drugs are not FDA approved. This means the agency does not review compounded drugs for safety, effectiveness or quality before they are marketed.
https://qz.com/novo-nordisk-fda-ozempic-wegovy-1851679536
Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk wants the FDA to crack down on knockoff weight loss drugs.
This is the modern American economy. A Dutch company makes a product, way overcharges us for it, then employs USA bureaucrats and lawyers, whom we the tax payers pay for, to enforce their astronomical prices.
MAGA means you make a product, charge what the market bears, and quit relying on bureaucrats and lawyers to make you your money. And if the market takes a plunge in the mean time, then so be it. I am sick of these businesses that succeed on financial engineering.If your daughter or son had brain cancer would you take them to a CCP neuro-oncologist? I sure the fuck wouldn't I wouldn't even take my old dog to one of their "vets".
Oh they probably don't have any they just send them to one of their many wet markets.
LMFAO hey does anyone remember Xis great Sinovac vs Our Lord and Saviors Operation Warp Speed?
MarquisdeSade1
04-05-25, 06:28
I think his narcissism has morphed into a bit of early senility. What amazes me more than anything is there are some people on this board who live off their investments, which did incredibly well under the last administration, and they still voted for the Stain. In addition we've had a fairly strong dollar, but that might be in jeopardy as well and for those of us who live overseas that's not a good thing.
Certainly would like to see the republicans in Congress stand up to this buffoon. Of course I don't think that nimrod JD Vance would be any better. Geez, I almost miss GWB now.
All of this being said if he truly was putting in reciprocal tariffs as a bargaining chip, that might not be a terrible thing; that is not what they did. This is simply going to push our allies towards China and other alliances. Isolationism has never been a good thing.
But on a more positive note the parties of administrations that put in high tariffs, which happened twice before in the united states, got slaughtered in the midterms, once losing up to 50% of their seats. Guess we can look forward to next Nov.
Now I lay a lot of the blame, as does Ralph nader, of our descent into fascism at the feet of the Democrats. We have truly dropped the ball by embracing neoliberal economic policies starting with Bill Clinton and of course the insane identity politics. It's time to get back to pro working class, pro union, anti-corporate policies that will bring the working Man back into the fold. Democrats should stand firm on universal health care, four weeks paid vacation, excellent pensions at a reasonable age, paid education through University and tech school, clean energy, the food supply devoid of pesticides and antibiotics, excellent public transportation, etc. You know, make the US a truly develop nation.Donald J Trump is a living GOD.
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2025/04/bill-clinton-whines-into-the-sunset/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=third
If you can't open this link I will find a way to cut and paste it.
Just think he wanted a 3rd term to push thru TPP.
MarquisdeSade1
04-05-25, 06:47
And it also lives in Brazil where that nut case Bolsonaro is being put on trial for orchestrating a coup. I really fault Biden Garland for being so weak and not seeing the Orange Stain put behind bars.
The tariff nonsense is just amazing. It's becoming more and more obvious that the vengeful senile Trump is bent on destroying America because of his anger of not being elected in 2020.Well until you really screwed the pooch here, he didn't lose, the 2020 election was rigged and blatantly obvious to anyone that has any sense of integrity.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/31/how-the-2020-election-was-rigged/
And don't forget about the 2 sham impeachments one so laughable the Chief Justice even refused to show up, then there were the 91 kangaroo court felonies.
They tried to bankrupt him with a sham civil case which most certainly will be reversed on appeal.
And lets not forget they put that dumb koont the former head of security for Frito Lay chips in charge of protecting him and almost "succeeded" in letting him get murdered, TWICE.
Much of what he is doing is PAYBACK but the tariffs are not, he has been pounding chest about the topic for 30-40 yrs.
Do a little research, use the Google search and find the truth instead of getting anti American propaganda from MSNBC 24/7 like ET does.
You mentioned the exchange rate for expats and living off investments, well maybe its time to do something selfless and be a patriot and repatriate.
You can consider it an act of noblesse oblige for any of your fellow countrymen that may be less fortunate instead of perpetuating the talking points of the Ayn Randian.
Turds on ISG.
MarquisdeSade1
04-05-25, 07:10
I swear I saw all of this in a Simpson's episode, reality couldn't be this surreal.
Europe, aside from a few batshit crazy lunatics, is completely horrified and unified in their condemnation of America as I suspect most of the world is. I sadly think this is the beginning of the end of America's golden age, and it saddens me because for all of its faults America has given a great deal to the world. These tariffs will punish the weakest countries the most, and China will feel the pinch but this self defeating act will make ordinary Americans suffer much more than China: if we have not learned to never underestimate Chinese resolve than we deserve the outcome. When Musk laughed at their ability to make EV's, 10 years later he wasn't laughing. When US thought it led the world in AI, Deepseek has shaken the world.
And the Chinese will overcome the tariffs too, in the first instance by flooding the rest of the world with even cheaper goods, I imagine. I reckon the interest rate trajectory in Europe has taken a slight uptick downward and were I a fixed income trader I'd bet on it. Meanwhile, the vacuum left through America's "soft power" retreat will be filled even more by China, and while it's not yet strong enough to seize Taiwan, analysts say that around 2030-2032 they will be. And then they will have the only remaining advantage that America has over China presently: in microprocessors.
Trump's stupidity boggles the mind, and it's an instructive exercise in the psychology of mass madness and Group think which has taken hold of your government, making a mockery of its checks and balances and supposed democracy. I thought only Congress had a right to set tariffs?
Anyway, this is the dumbest way possible to have dealt with a current account deficit. There were other means, not least by weakening the dollar. That is if you insist the current account deficit was America's biggest problem to begin with, and I don't. The trade deficit was a simple function of America buying cheap goods for cheap prices and the issue was one of financing it, this as Tiny has suggested previously could have been through increased national savings rates.
There are have been seminal (no pun) moments in history when you can point to that it was when one empire fell and another took over. Rome in 470 odd, British empire in 1945, and now the American one in 2025.I already regret this but here goes, I'm pretty sure any sensitive chip technology from Taiwan Semiconductor has probably already been transferred safely to the Arizona desert.
But even anything is still there it wouldn't survive a CCP invasion.
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-would-destroy-taiwan-semiconductor-factories-avoid-china-trump-adviser-2023-3
And re: Deepseek do you not know that the whole world believes they must of at rec'd at least 50000 high end chips off the black market to make their model.
But keep spouting your anti American drivel and publicly rimming the CCP on ISG, just so you know you will have some serious competition on this thread!!
I agree about Republicans failure to display a backbone. It's sad. I'd far prefer something like Singapore's Central Provident Fund to social security, Medicare and Medicaid. If the USA copied the Singaporeans, then good quality universal healthcare, a decent retirement, and money to pay for an education and housing would be available to all. As to the pesticides and antibiotics, and clean energy the way I think you define it, and the size of government and anti-corporate policies, we part ways. I lean libertarian. And believe pesticides and antibiotics have done a lot to reduce hunger and malnutrition. Finally, I'm a big believer in CLEAN BURNING NATURAL GAS. And Billy Bob Thornton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbZwxEnAFc
I hope Spidy watches the video again.Tiny, so you're suggesting America essentially becomes a lot like Singapore. I lived in Singapore briefly sometime back and regret not making a permanent shift there. They have constructed an almost utopian society where there's zero crime, an incredible standard of living, decent public services, pragmatic blind eyes on mongering. Of course, it's not a real democracy, but given the state of affairs in America and the West in general, I'm not sure that's such a bad thing.
It's not the deficit per se Goatscrot, but the national debt that's the problem. As a rule of thumb, when a developed country's level of net government debt as a % of GDP goes over 100%, it's running the risk of a meltdown, like what the southern European governments have been through. The ratio is lower for developing countries. Japan has historically been an exception because its citizens are prolific savers and invest a lot in Japanese government bonds. So there's not much external debt owed to foreigners.
Some believed the USA, which is currently around that 100% level, would be an exception too. The USA has the world's reserve currency, and our stable economy and rule of law have attracted investment and made the country the destination of choice when there's a flight to safety. Trump's upending that with his trade wars though.Again the so-called debt is simply the amount of dollars in circulation that have not been taxed back. Could be paid off with the stroke of a pen with no ill effects. As long as there is productive capacity, natural resources and labor, you can inject currency into a system. The problem arises when there isn't productive capacity ie. What happened during covid.
The debt doesn't worry me in the least.
Here's a wonderful article on Warren Mosler.
https://slguardian.org/the-illusions-of-economic-orthodoxy-unmasking-the-frauds/
Elvis 2008
04-05-25, 17:46
Again the so-called debt is simply the amount of dollars in circulation that have not been taxed back. Could be paid off with the stroke of a pen with no ill effects.LOL. Tell that to the citizens of Venezuela. Hugo Chavez tried that. How did that work out?
As long as there is productive capacity, natural resources and labor, you can inject currency into a system.And why would anyone be productive when the government just takes whatever they want? Again, this model has been tried, and it failed horribly in the USSR.
The debt doesn't worry me in the least.
Here's a wonderful article on Warren Mosler.
https://slguardian.org/the-illusions-of-economic-orthodoxy-unmasking-the-frauds/"A government check does not bounce"? Say what? Tell that to the people in Argentina whose nation has serially defaulted on its debt. Back in 2000, the dollar and Argentine peso were at par, one peso to one dollar. Now it takes 1,079 Argentine pesos to buy one USA dollar. And you are not worried about that?
I am sure this guy gets thousands an hour to lecture to government bureaucrats telling them what they want to here. He must have been a huge hit with the USAID crowd. Hell, this clown would have been great as Hugo Chavez's economic adviser.
Tiny, so you're suggesting America essentially becomes a lot like Singapore. I lived in Singapore briefly sometime back and regret not making a permanent shift there. They have constructed an almost utopian society where there's zero crime, an incredible standard of living, decent public services, pragmatic blind eyes on mongering. Of course, it's not a real democracy, but given the state of affairs in America and the West in general, I'm not sure that's such a bad thing.Too many Americans live hand to mouth HotDog. I have friends, middle class Americans, who would be in the top 2% or 3% of income earners worldwide. And yet they say they just can't get by. You'd need to put a gun to their heads to get them to save. Well, the Singaporean system kind of does that. Combined employer and employee payroll contributions to the employee's Central Provident Fund account amount to about 35% of base income I think. And the money goes into a personal account, which should appreciate in value with the years. It's not like social security or Medicare in the USA, which Elon Musk correctly described as Ponzi schemes. Money from the account can be used for medical expenses, retirement, a down payment on a house, and education. Major medical expenses are paid for by insurance provided by the state. Health care expenditures in Singapore are about 6% of GDP, compared to 17% in the USA. And metrics like life expectancy and infant mortality are much better in Singapore.
If the USA had a system like that, retirees today would be living high on the hog. A portion of the money would have been invested in U.S. equities, which have been on a tear for decades. Furthermore, this would solve the "problem" with trade deficits. Savings in the USA would go up, ergo trade deficits would go down.
I swear I saw all of this in a Simpson's episode, reality couldn't be this surreal.
Europe, aside from a few batshit crazy lunatics, is completely horrified and unified in their condemnation of America as I suspect most of the world is. I sadly think this is the beginning of the end of America's golden age, and it saddens me because for all of its faults America has given a great deal to the world. These tariffs will punish the weakest countries the most, and China will feel the pinch but this self defeating act will make ordinary Americans suffer much more than China: if we have not learned to never underestimate Chinese resolve than we deserve the outcome. When Musk laughed at their ability to make EV's, 10 years later he wasn't laughing. When US thought it led the world in AI, Deepseek has shaken the world.
And the Chinese will overcome the tariffs too, in the first instance by flooding the rest of the world with even cheaper goods, I imagine. I reckon the interest rate trajectory in Europe has taken a slight uptick downward and were I a fixed income trader I'd bet on it. Meanwhile, the vacuum left through America's "soft power" retreat will be filled even more by China, and while it's not yet strong enough to seize Taiwan, analysts say that around 2030-2032 they will be. And then they will have the only remaining advantage that America has over China presently: in microprocessors.
Trump's stupidity boggles the mind, and it's an instructive exercise in the psychology of mass madness and Group think which has taken hold of your government, making a mockery of its checks and balances and supposed democracy. I thought only Congress had a right to set tariffs?
Anyway, this is the dumbest way possible to have dealt with a current account deficit. There were other means, not least by weakening the dollar. That is if you insist the current account deficit was America's biggest problem to begin with, and I don't. The trade deficit was a simple function of America buying cheap goods for cheap prices and the issue was one of financing it, this as Tiny has suggested previously could have been through increased national savings rates.
There are have been seminal (no pun) moments in history when you can point to that it was when one empire fell and another took over. Rome in 470 odd, British empire in 1945, and now the American one in 2025.Fantastic post, better than anything I've read in the WSJ or FT. Somebody over in the Stupid Shit in Kyiv thread asked why people post and read about politics and world affairs on a hooker board. Well, this is why.
Thanks to the Marquessa. If she hadn't quoted you I never would have seen the post.
I hope Republican Congressmen or the Supreme Court grow some cajones and stop the madness, or Trump comes to his senses. Otherwise your prediction about 2025 may just come true. I do not believe what Trump is doing is constitutional. He's using national security as the basis for his executive orders. How much sense does that make? Imposing tariffs on Canada, the UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, Vietnam, etc. for the sake of national security? Incredible.
Again the so-called debt is simply the amount of dollars in circulation that have not been taxed back. Could be paid off with the stroke of a pen with no ill effects. As long as there is productive capacity, natural resources and labor, you can inject currency into a system. The problem arises when there isn't productive capacity ie. What happened during covid.
The debt doesn't worry me in the least.
Here's a wonderful article on Warren Mosler.
https://slguardian.org/the-illusions-of-economic-orthodoxy-unmasking-the-frauds/I believe we've discussed this before Goatscrot. It's called Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). A lot of countries have tried it, including Chile, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Turkey and Zimbabwe. I've been watching that closely in Turkey for years. President Erdogan there finally had to give up and revert to conventional monetary policy. Unfortunately inflation is so ingrained in the economy that it's hard to get it to go away, even with interest rates higher than inflation.
What happens is that inflation gets out of control. The MMT solution is to raise taxes, presumably sky high if you have hyperinflation. That's difficult or impossible to implement politically and economically. If you've increased the money supply by a large amount, and the velocity of money doesn't go down, I don't see how you avoid inflation. And you're not going to reduce the velocity of money enough to make a difference by raising taxes on the top 1% or the top 10% You'll have to raise them on everyone.
Another argument is that MMT is sustainable as long as you're borrowing in your own currency, and not, for example, in dollars. That's not true though, as has been shown in places like Zimbabwe, Venezuela and Hungary where the government was primarily borrowing in its own currency.
This should be a progressive's wet dream, as MMT if implemented results in much larger government, and if you tax the higher income earners disproportionately, redistribution. However, mainstream progressive economists like Paul Krugman believe it's bunk. As does Tooms' favorite mainstream Democratic Party economist, Larry Summers.
Unfortunately perhaps, there is no free lunch.
MarquisdeSade1
04-05-25, 22:43
Too many Americans live hand to mouth HotDog. I have friends, middle class Americans, who would be in the top 2% or 3% of income earners worldwide. And yet they say they just can't get by. You'd need to put a gun to their heads to get them to save. Well, the Singaporean system kind of does that. Combined employer and employee payroll contributions to the employee's Central Provident Fund account amount to about 35% of base income I think. And the money goes into a personal account, which should appreciate in value with the years. It's not like social security or Medicare in the USA, which Elon Musk correctly described as Ponzi schemes. Money from the account can be used for medical expenses, retirement, a down payment on a house, and education. Major medical expenses are paid for by insurance provided by the state. Health care expenditures in Singapore are about 6% of GDP, compared to 17% in the USA. And metrics like life expectancy and infant mortality are much better in Singapore.
If the USA had a system like that, retirees today would be living high on the hog. A portion of the money would have been invested in U.S. equities, which have been on a tear for decades. Furthermore, this would solve the "problem" with trade deficits. Savings in the USA would go up, ergo trade deficits would go down.
Fantastic post, better than anything I've read in the WSJ or FT. Somebody over in the Stupid Shit in Kyiv thread asked why people post and read about politics and world affairs on a hooker board. Well, this is why.
Thanks to the Marquessa. If she hadn't quoted you I never would have seen the post.
I hope Republican Congressmen or the Supreme Court grow some cajones and stop the madness, or Trump comes to his senses. Otherwise your prediction about 2025 may just come true. I do not believe what Trump is doing is constitutional. He's using national security as the basis for his executive orders. How much sense does that make? Imposing tariffs on Canada, the UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, Vietnam, etc. for the sake of national security? Incredible.Something tells me I struck a nerve with my Ayn Randian turd comment ROTFLMMFAO.
MarquisdeSade1
04-05-25, 22:57
And it also lives in Brazil where that nut case Bolsonaro is being put on trial for orchestrating a coup. I really fault Biden Garland for being so weak and not seeing the Orange Stain put behind bars.
The tariff nonsense is just amazing. It's becoming more and more obvious that the vengeful senile Trump is bent on destroying America because of his anger of not being elected in 2020.Barry "the Beech" Hussein for the 1% vs Our Lord and Savior.
Has anyone seen the 2028 polling lololol its showing Stephen Smith leading "the pack" LMFAO.
Even he pointed out how pathetic are they that hes leading the polls lololololol.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2025/04/03/stephen-a-smith-argues-obama-may-not-be-able-beat-trump-hypothetical-third-term-race/
Above all else I'm pretty sure AIPAC will make sure "Barry the Beech" doesn't win a 3rd term lololol.
President Musk The Liar has joined a gaggle of other Numbskull Winger Liars in claiming the USA's Social Security Program is a Ponzi Scheme. It is difficult to determine which side of that lie they are lying about the most; what a Ponzi Scheme is or what the Social Security Program is.
Uh. For starters, the SSA has never paid "early investors with money taken from later investors to create the illusion of big profits", as is the case with a Ponzi Scheme. The USA's Social Security Program has always, always, always been a pay-as-you-go system where the FICA tax revenues are paid out entirely to SS recipients every year. There is no "illusion" of any profits being made from that revenue OTHER than the small percentage of it invested in the safest, low risk investments on Earth from the SSA Trust Fund that is there only to fill in for any shortfall between what is collected and what is paid out to maintain the earned amount of payment to the recipients.
But that investment produces real gains the exact same way it does if you, Larry Summers or I invested a spare dollar or two into those exact same 100% legal and legitimate investment instruments. All of the money collected, paid out and the money earned in that Fund is real and not an illusion.
Of course, we know it is real. Otherwise, Trump's billionaire cronies would not be slobbering all over their lobster bibs to get their hands on it for privatization. Something I assure you they would not do if they actually believed what they hope their constant lies about it will cause their targeted suckers into believing; that it is all just a Ponzi scheme.
Let's take a look at both and see how much those liars are lying about them, shall we?
Ponzi Scheme: Definition, Examples, and Origins.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/ponzischeme.asp
Social Security Explained: How It Works and Types of Benefits.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/socialsecurity.asp
Fact check: Elon Musk calls Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme'
https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-elon-musk-calls-social-security-a-ponzi-scheme/21926444/
MarquisdeSade1
04-06-25, 07:58
Now I lay a lot of the blame, as does Ralph nader, of our descent into fascism at the feet of the Democrats. We have truly dropped the ball by embracing neoliberal economic policies starting with Bill Clinton and of course the insane identity politics. It's time to get back to pro working class, pro union, anti-corporate policies that will bring the working Man back into the fold. Democrats should stand firm on universal health care, four weeks paid vacation, excellent pensions at a reasonable age, paid education through University and tech school, clean energy, the food supply devoid of pesticides and antibiotics, excellent public transportation, etc. You know, make the US a truly develop nation.https://www.thefp.com/p/liberation-day-the-birth-of-a-maga
https://x.com/bungarsargon/status/1901449346417098893
https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-elon-musk-calls-social-security-a-ponzi-scheme/21926444/From that description social security sure sounds like a Ponzi scheme to me. They don't want to get the old people upset so they jump through hoops to try to explain why it's not. You don’t get the money you and your employer paid into your social security “lockbox” back with interest. Rather a good chunk of what you and your employer pay goes to people who currently are pulling money out of the scheme. The social security system depends on attracting a larger and larger number of participants or it falls apart. In my book that’s a Ponzi scheme. Yeah, government can cut your benefits or raise the tax rate on younger workers and keep the scheme going longer. And Bernie Madoff didn’t have the power to do that. So what. I believe participants in Bernie Madoff’s scheme will get back most of what they paid in and Sam Bankman Fried’s will actually get back more than they put in. That does mean they weren’t running Ponzi schemes.
If Congress left the taxes collected for Social Security in a separate account filled with 30 year T-Bonds, it would stop being a pay as you go system. Life Insurance companies have actuarial tables that can be used to insure the solvency of the program. My first proper job after university was for a Mutual Life Insurance Company. I know of what I speak!
The problem is not with the program, it lies squarely with the fiscal irresponsibility of the Legislative Branch of Government. Article 1.
Too many Americans live hand to mouth HotDog. I have friends, middle class Americans, who would be in the top 2% or 3% of income earners worldwide. And yet they say they just can't get by. You'd need to put a gun to their heads to get them to save. Well, the Singaporean system kind of does that. Combined employer and employee payroll contributions to the employee's Central Provident Fund account amount to about 35% of base income I think. And the money goes into a personal account, which should appreciate in value with the years. It's not like social security or Medicare in the USA, which Elon Musk correctly described as Ponzi schemes. Money from the account can be used for medical expenses, retirement, a down payment on a house, and education. Major medical expenses are paid for by insurance provided by the state. Health care expenditures in Singapore are about 6% of GDP, compared to 17% in the USA. And metrics like life expectancy and infant mortality are much better in Singapore.
If the USA had a system like that, retirees today would be living high on the hog. A portion of the money would have been invested in U.S. equities, which have been on a tear for decades. Furthermore, this would solve the "problem" with trade deficits. Savings in the USA would go up, ergo trade deficits would go down.
100% with you on this, Tiny. While I never have been a fan of Trump, I can completely understand why he has come into power twice. There are millions of Americans who've been let down by the system and for whom the American dream is somewhat of a nightmare. I am as far as you can get from a socialist but it does seem to me that in the west in general but especially in America that while the pie has grown massively the share of the pie accruing to different segments has changed considerably. That isn't great, but contrary to many leftists I don't think that's the worst phenomenon either (as long as everyone rises it's not a big deal if some rise much more than others). No, the much bigger issue is what economists may refer to as an externality or maybe second order effect: e. G. As a nation grows increasingly wealthy, the value and cost of the capital base in most relevantly real estate grows commensurately much more and this cascades downwards. In conjunction with this the income of the lower earning segments has remained stagnant as a consequence of technological advancement and of globalisation, so there you have it: Millions of people who are earning in real terms slightly more than they would have in the 70's with costs vastly greater. And there is the issue you are flagging, what are they going to save? BTW, a lot of people talk about AI dystopia and how it could shake up the economy negatively, I say tech has been doing just that for decades. We just haven't woken up to it. There's a very interesting book on this called Power and Progress by noble prize winning author Daron Acemoglu.
I am not wised up to how America got into this mess of $36 trillion+ of debt but I get the sense it's irresponsiblity of a series of administrations. Regardless, what's the solution? So, savings by ordinary Americans is out. These tariffs are imbecility. I kind of agree America needs a new new deal. We've discyssed you guys need a revised health system the likes of German, Singapore, Japan, Aus, etc. And if they can figure out a decent system much cheaper so can you guys. That would save a hell of a lot of money for the ordinary American. Then some kind of an interventionist approach which mitigates against the aforementioned externalities. I strongly disagree with extraordinary growth in real estate value, it serves no value to society and just increases inequality. You have some crazy cost of living there, and I'm not qualified to understand quite how it is so, but it seems the labour pool and the lack of automation have quite a lot to do with this. But then you need pragmatic policies to deal with aforementioned externalities. You need a smart visionary leader. But for now, this batshit motherfucker is driving, so I guess we just kick back and just enjoy the ride. Happy Black Monday everyone.
Sam Bankman Fried did not run a ponzi scheme. He founded a crypto brokerage firm. It failed. People who lost money lost money, lost that money due to their own incompetence. You can pull your crypto out of ANY crypto brokerage firm and self custody it. Try that with Social Security! The ONLY way to compare the two is if you really don't understand either one.
I keep it real up in dis ***** and I give it to you straight no chase. You want to debate the issue, bring it on.
Your serve!
MarquisdeSade1
04-07-25, 00:39
Now I lay a lot of the blame, as does Ralph nader, of our descent into fascism at the feet of the Democrats. We have truly dropped the ball by embracing neoliberal economic policies starting with Bill Clinton and of course the insane identity politics. It's time to get back to pro working class, pro union, anti-corporate policies that will bring the working Man back into the fold. Democrats should stand firm on universal health care, four weeks paid vacation, excellent pensions at a reasonable age, paid education through University and tech school, clean energy, the food supply devoid of pesticides and antibiotics, excellent public transportation, etc. You know, make the US a truly develop nation.When he came into office, President Barack Obama asked whether one of his Democratic predecessors, Bill Clinton, had given away too much in allowing China to join the World Trade Organization. Mr. Obama imposed a 35 percent tariff on China from 2009 to 2012, for dumping tires into the American market. And when President Joseph are. Biden Jr. Inherited Mr. Trump's first-term tariffs on China, he left them in place.
From that description social security sure sounds like a Ponzi scheme to me. They don't want to get the old people upset so they jump through hoops to try to explain why it's not. You dont get the money you and your employer paid into your social security lockbox back with interest. Rather a good chunk of what you and your employer pay goes to people who currently are pulling money out of the scheme. The social security system depends on attracting a larger and larger number of participants or it falls apart. In my book thats a Ponzi scheme. Yeah, government can cut your benefits or raise the tax rate on younger workers and keep the scheme going longer. And Bernie Madoff didnt have the power to do that. So what. I believe participants in Bernie Madoffs scheme will get back most of what they paid in and Sam Bankman Frieds will actually get back more than they put in. That does mean they werent running Ponzi schemes.Then you must think all revenue-generating programs are Ponzi schemes. All taxation takes money from someone to pay for things. Real things.
Nobody is telling current Social Security recipients that their checks are the result of profits from magical investments and will never get smaller. Quite the contrary.
The low and affordable FICA tax is collected revenue to pay out to recipients. Period. The shortfall in the midst of a unique Baby Boomer increase in recipients is made up for with a low risk REAL investment return. There is no Madoff monkey business about it.
If any one of dozens of sensible fixes to it is applied, the easiest and least noticeable among them being to raise the FICA tax cap from where it is today at about $176,100 to, oh, let's say to the amount President Musk The Liar gets in government subsidies every 3 hours, $1,000,000, the program can probably continue for many decades going forward without reducing anyone's benefit amount and keeping up with all but perhaps Trump Tariff increases in the Cost Of Living.
In addition to that simple and easy fix that might take a 15 minute signing process in a single government office, we could increase the FICA tax-paying workforce. Biden's brilliant use of immigrant inflows to contribute to his historic recovery from Trump's Pandemic while also tamping down the rate of inflation it was otherwise destined to generate comes to mind. Even more brilliant about that fix is the undocumented immigrant workers pay the FICA tax but never collect Social Security. Unless and until they become naturalized citizens or one of a few other relatively rare loopholes, that is. But that doesn't always happen.
If that isn't done then, guess what, Social Security still won't evaporate on the embarrassing discovery that "there are no gains on the money invested" as in Madoff's scam. It will always be there. The only difference will be everybody's check will begin to get smaller and smaller every year for a while until all the Baby Boomers die at President Musk The Liar's lie of 150 years old.
Privatization brings a whole new set of insurmountable problems with it for the country. Not the least of which is President Musk The Liar and his Assistant Trump deciding which of their Deadbeat crony's failing businesses will get a chunk of those revenue investments.
Meanwhile, nothing has prevented anyone from investing another 2% of their paycheck every week into whatever higher risk and potentially higher return instrument they wanted to invest it in throughout the entirety of their typical 40 plus year working life to add to their S. S. Check. No need for the USA governmrnt to making that decision for them.
If Congress left the taxes collected for Social Security in a separate account filled with 30 year T-Bonds, it would stop being a pay as you go system. Life Insurance companies have actuarial tables that can be used to insure the solvency of the program. My first proper job after university was for a Mutual Life Insurance Company. I know of what I speak!
The problem is not with the program, it lies squarely with the fiscal irresponsibility of the Legislative Branch of Government. Article 1.Agreed SubCmdr, that would certainly be an improvement over what we have, although I think you'd want varying maturities for treasury instruments, not just 30 years. Right now if I controlled my hypothetical "social security" account, I'd want to be invested in short maturities. The bond market is signaling that yields will go down, reflecting a risk of recession. But with the tariffs coming into effect and the potential for Trump to meddle in monetary policy when Powell's term is up, we could be in for a bout of inflation, which would be bad for bonds. Hell, Trump may not wait for Powell. He's doing just about anything he wants right now with DOGE and the tariffs, when Congressional approval should be required. Maybe the Fed's next? Unlikely, but who knows.
What are your thoughts on bitcoin right now? I'm not a buyer or a seller at present, just curious. I just overlayed price charts for Bitcoin, Gold, the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100 index. I figured Bitcoin would be correlated with the gold price, but instead it appears to follow the stock indices.
Something tells me I struck a nerve with my Ayn Randian turd comment ROTFLMMFAO.Hey Marquessa, All I know about Ayn Rand is she tried to boink Alan Greenspan and he told her to fuck off. That didn't piss me off. What pissed me off was when you denigrated American Heroes Charles and David Koch. You might as well have danced on John Wayne's grave.
MarquisdeSade1
04-07-25, 05:56
Hey Marquessa, All I know about Ayn Rand is she tried to boink Alan Greenspan and he told her to fuck off. That didn't piss me off. What pissed me off was when you denigrated American Heroes Charles and David Koch. You might as well have danced on John Wayne's grave.Do the boys call you tiny? So is it a big clitoris or a Korean style micropenis?
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-new-staffer-request-has-potential-issue-2015818
Chas Koch (I wish him brain cancer) is a turd ala Montgomery Burns on the Simpsons.
And I haven't seen a cartoon in over 50 yrs but I know the character.
MarquisdeSade1
04-07-25, 07:22
https://www.thedailystar.net/business/news/bracing-tariff-storm-3864041
Imagine if you will if Hillary or Kamala would of won?
Imagine the MASSIVE USAID grants to NGOs to completely shut down mongering everywhere.
Mexico Germany Brasil Colombia Ukraine.
And most Asian mongering hubs ie, Thailand VietCong Cambodia Angeles City Jakarta Bangladesh India Japan et al.
Read this and tell me you don't have a huge fucking smile on your face.
Our Lord and Savior is hell bent on making this hobby better for everyone herehttps://www.thedailystar.net/business/news/bracing-tariff-storm-3864041
Imagine if you will if Hillary or Kamala would of won?
Imagine the MASSIVE USAID grants to NGOs to completely shut down mongering everywhere.
Mexico Germany Brasil Colombia Ukraine.
And most Asian mongering hubs ie, Thailand VietCong Cambodia Angeles City Jakarta Bangladesh India Japan et al.
Read this and tell me you don't have a huge fucking smile on your face.He sure was hell bent on making it shittier the first time around. And he did a bang up job of it, too.
Aside from his and his Party's ongoing effort to outlaw Sex For Pleasure across the entire USA, I lived at ground zero for this hobby in Bangkok, Thailand before Trump's Pandemic and after Trump's Pandemic.
It was immeasurably better before Trump's Pandemic.
That is, if getting Real Sex and Real Blowjobs with way above average looking girls at a reasonable price matters to anyone in this hobby.
There have been FAR fewer young lookers leaving their provinces to work in the farang areas since Trump's Pandemic and the stray few that do now are not the least bit motivated to provide nearly the quality of service they would have pre Trump because his Pandemic introduced and forced them to master something they can do anywhere at anytime; collect overseas Lonelyheart Sponsors online who might never even visit Thailand to fuck and get sucked.
Trump's Global Depression or Great Recession isn't going to do anything to cause those laid-off factory workers, shop girls or supposedly needier hookers to up their ground game. They will just up their online Sponsor game.
So I hear Netanyahu is in town as the first foreign leader (why, of course) to be invited to meet Trump. He is seeking exemption from the tariffs. How exactly do I think the meeting will go down between America and the tail that wags the American dog? This is what I think.
Netanyahu: wtf you think you doing, motherfucker? Have you forgotten who rules America?
Trump: It's Presentation, Benjamin, and you know I like Presentation. I got to have presentation, you can't not have presentation. What will people think of me if I don't do presentation. There's no one who does presentation better than Trump.
Netanyahu: Just make shit up, motherfucker, or your time is over. We own America. You know it. I know it. You don't get to tariff us.
Trump: yes sir. Would you like your blowjob now or after lunch?
Netanyahu: After motherfucker. And what's taking you so long on imprisoning or ejecting everyone who criticizes Israel?
Trump: I have already started, master. And I have my best man on the job- his name is Xpartan- in identifying and rounding up anyone who doesn't prostate themselves to the Israeli flag.
Netanyhahu: Yeah, it's not fast enough. Work harder on the media. They didn't cover up the massacre of the aid workers by the IDF. Wtf do you think we own the media for?
Trump: It's my next executive order, master. Now if you would care to take out your cock, I am ready when you are.
100% with you on this, Tiny. While I never have been a fan of Trump, I can completely understand why he has come into power twice. There are millions of Americans who've been let down by the system and for whom the American dream is somewhat of a nightmare. I am as far as you can get from a socialist but it does seem to me that in the west in general but especially in America that while the pie has grown massively the share of the pie accruing to different segments has changed considerably. That isn't great, but contrary to many leftists I don't think that's the worst phenomenon either (as long as everyone rises it's not a big deal if some rise much more than others). No, the much bigger issue is what economists may refer to as an externality or maybe second order effect: e. G. As a nation grows increasingly wealthy, the value and cost of the capital base in most relevantly real estate grows commensurately much more and this cascades downwards. In conjunction with this the income of the lower earning segments has remained stagnant as a consequence of technological advancement and of globalisation, so there you have it: Millions of people who are earning in real terms slightly more than they would have in the 70's with costs vastly greater. And there is the issue you are flagging, what are they going to save?.
MarquisdeSade1
04-07-25, 23:00
He sure was hell bent on making it shittier the first time around. And he did a bang up job of it, too.
Aside from his and his Party's ongoing effort to outlaw Sex For Pleasure across the entire USA, I lived at ground zero for this hobby in Bangkok, Thailand before Trump's Pandemic and after Trump's Pandemic.
It was immeasurably better before Trump's Pandemic.
That is, if getting Real Sex and Real Blowjobs with way above average looking girls at a reasonable price matters to anyone in this hobby.
There have been FAR fewer young lookers leaving their provinces to work in the farang areas since Trump's Pandemic and the stray few that do now are not the least bit motivated to provide nearly the quality of service they would have pre Trump because his Pandemic introduced and forced them to master something they can do anywhere at anytime; collect overseas Lonelyheart Sponsors online who might never even visit Thailand to fuck and get sucked.
Trump's Global Depression or Great Recession isn't going to do anything to cause those laid-off factory workers, shop girls or supposedly needier hookers to up their ground game. They will just up their online Sponsor game.I remember clearly awhile back, you were writing just the opposite LMFAO.
That giving province girls jobs in factories diverted them away from providing services you love so much and for so few THB.
And of course that was all Our Lord and Saviors fault LOLOLOL.
MarquisdeSade1
04-07-25, 23:35
He sure was hell bent on making it shittier the first time around. And he did a bang up job of it, too.
Aside from his and his Party's ongoing effort to outlaw Sex For Pleasure across the entire USA, I lived at ground zero for this hobby in Bangkok, Thailand before Trump's Pandemic and after Trump's Pandemic.
It was immeasurably better before Trump's Pandemic.
That is, if getting Real Sex and Real Blowjobs with way above average looking girls at a reasonable price matters to anyone in this hobby.
There have been FAR fewer young lookers leaving their provinces to work in the farang areas since Trump's Pandemic and the stray few that do now are not the least bit motivated to provide nearly the quality of service they would have pre Trump because his Pandemic introduced and forced them to master something they can do anywhere at anytime; collect overseas Lonelyheart Sponsors online who might never even visit Thailand to fuck and get sucked.
Trump's Global Depression or Great Recession isn't going to do anything to cause those laid-off factory workers, shop girls or supposedly needier hookers to up their ground game. They will just up their online Sponsor game.April 07,2025.
A New Era for the USA -Led Global Order.
White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Stephen Miran delivered a landmark address at the Hudson Institute this week that helpfully explains the economic doctrine of President Trump's second term. In it, Miran unveiled a sweeping critique of the global order America has underwritten for decades and laid out the rationale behind the administration's bold effort to rebalance the burden of global peace and prosperity.
Miran opened with a striking premise: that the United States provides what economists call "global public goods"—most notably military security and financial stability through the dollar's reserve currency status. These, he said, have enabled the greatest era of peace and prosperity in human history. But they are not free. American soldiers and taxpayers foot the bill, while foreign nations, including rivals like China, benefit disproportionately.
"Americans have been paying for peace and prosperity not just for themselves, but for non-Americans too," Miran said.
Stephen Miran, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in Washington, DC, on March 24,2025. (Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg via Getty Images).
He warned that this arrangement is no longer sustainable and that President Trump is determined to end the era of foreign free-riding. In both national defense and international trade, the Trump administration is demanding what Miran called "burden sharing"—a restructuring of global economic relationships to reflect the true costs and responsibilities of maintaining the international system.
The Cost of Dollar as the Global Reserve Currency.
Miran turned specifically to the USA Dollar's role as the global reserve currency, which he argued has had harmful side effects for the American economy. The dollar's reserve status creates intense demand for USA Financial assets, such as Treasury bonds, which in turn keeps the dollar strong and American exports expensive. The result, Miran said, has been the hollowing out of USA Manufacturing. Since the peak of American industrial employment, the workforce has declined by over a third, and the USA Share of global manufacturing has dropped by 40 percent.
While economists have long claimed that trade deficits self-correct over time—predicting a weaker dollar and a rebalancing of trade flows—Miran flatly rejected this view. "The long run is here, and the models are wrong," he said.
The United States has run persistent current account deficits for five decades, and the dollar has remained strong throughout. Under Biden, the deficit ballooned to nearly four percent of GDP, up from around two percent during Trump's first term. This is not a temporary imbalance, Miran argued, but a structural flaw in the global system rooted in America's unique financial role.
He called for a new strategy that would compel other nations to contribute more to the costs of the system they rely upon. Nations that benefit from USA Security and financial stability should begin contributing through trade concessions, increased purchases of American goods, and direct investment in USA Industries. Foreign companies, Miran argued, can avoid tariffs entirely by relocating their factories to America. He even floated the idea that allies could send direct payments to the USA Treasury to help offset the costs of maintaining global order.
Tariffs as the Tool for a Global Trading Reset.
A centerpiece of the Trump administration's approach, Miran said, is the use of tariffs—not as blunt instruments of protectionism, but as tools of economic realism.
He dismissed the economic consensus on tariffs as misguided, rooted in outdated theories that don't account for persistent trade imbalances and the structural effects of reserve currency status. Most economic models, Miran said, assume that trade deficits are fleeting and that tariffs inevitably do more harm than good. But new research, he argued, shows that tariffs can generate revenue, impose significant costs on surplus-running nations, and even boost growth at home—especially when the proceeds are used to finance tax cuts and reduce deficits.
"Countries that run large trade surpluses are pretty inflexible," he explained. "They can't find other sources of demand to substitute for America's. Instead, they have no choice but to export, and America is the largest consumer market in the world. ".
Forklifts move shipping containers at Port Miami on April 7, 2025 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images).
He pointed to the Trump administration's earlier tariffs on China as proof of concept. The Chinese government, unable to stem the loss of export access, allowed its currency to depreciate. That meant Chinese citizens saw their global purchasing power decline—a cost paid by China, not American consumers. The revenue, Miran noted, helped finance President Trump's tax cuts in his first term. Now, similar tariffs will help pay for new tax cuts and deficit reduction in the second.
"Lower taxes on Americans, financed in part by revenue provided from foreigners, will create economic growth, dynamism, and opportunity the likes of which our country has never seen, ushering in President Trump's new Golden Age," he said.
Miran was careful to note that tariffs are not being used solely to raise revenue. They are also aimed at punishing and deterring cheating by foreign governments—whether through currency manipulation, illegal subsidies, or non-tariff barriers that shut out USA Goods. But the revenue is a powerful bonus, especially when it can be recycled into policies that enhance USA Competitiveness.
The stakes, Miran argued, are existential. Hostile powers are attempting to erode America's industrial base, destabilize its financial system, and undermine its ability to defend itself and the free world. Without a revival of USA Manufacturing strength and a rebalancing of the global economic burden, America may no longer be able to sustain the very systems it created.
"The world can still have the American defense umbrella and trading system," Miran said, "but it's got to start paying its fair share for them. ".
That, in a sentence, is the Trump economic strategy—and it is not just a campaign slogan or a governing instinct. It is now a political and economic doctrine with intellectual firepower and moral clarity.
When people are stupid and lose their money they look for a fall guy
They do not take personal responsibility. There are only two types who buy crypto. Those who self custody and those who don't. If you buy crypto, don't be stupid!. Practice self-custody. If you wear a condom to fuck, but don't self custody your crypto you are simply saying that your dick is more important than the money you invested in crypto.
What are your thoughts on bitcoin right now? I'm not a buyer or a seller at present, just curious. I just overlayed price charts for Bitcoin, Gold, the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100 index. I figured Bitcoin would be correlated with the gold price, but instead it appears to follow the stock indices.The goal of the current administration is to drive the economy into a recession so that it that people lose their homes, real estate prices crash, commercial property owners cannot pay their mortgages and wind up in foreclosure. So POTUS, his family and his cronies can swoop in and buy up every thing for pennies on the dollar using low interest loans because the FED is forced to lower rates.
BITCOIN (BTC) allows me to avoid all that. When given a choice between buying more real estate or buying BTC. You KNOW what I am going to do. I recently turned down a residential real estate deal here that rented monthly would have given me a cash on cash 9. 34% return on my money after renovations. I am buying more BTC with the money. The more the price goes down, the more I plan to buy. I HODL Bitcoin. I speculate on the price of Bitcoin using MSTR and futures contracts. The pivot point for BTC that I am using is 69 K. As long as the price stays above 69 K we can go to 130 K. ATH is 109 K. If we get a substantial move up and it does not result in a new ATH this cycle is done!
NVDA below 100 USD is a buy for me. Don't care what BOND fan boys say. AI is driving the future. I will address the big picture of AI in my next post.
Newton York
04-08-25, 03:59
Welp, there goes the economy. I don't know how you guys are so happy with your bottom lines, I have no idea how any of you are still somehow laughing all the way to the bank, and with what money? As far as I can tell, everyone is losing money, and I mean everyone. I know I am. The last time I saw my brokerage account this red was during the covid crash.
Let's make America recession again! Goddamnit. If all this was to push us towards nuclear armageddon, I might be okay with it, cause at least we'd all die together relatively quick. But a financial armageddon so we can all die slowly from starvation and homelessness? What's the point of that? Why are so many Americans so damn happy about a crashing economy? Make it make sense!
MarquisdeSade1
04-08-25, 05:29
Top White House Adviser Indicates Offers From Trading Partners Won't Convince Trump to Retreat.
Peter Navarro, a senior White House trade adviser, defended President Trump's tariffs, but the Treasury secretary said the USA Might be ready to negotiate.
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Peter Navarro, right, a trade adviser to President Trump, defended the administration's tariff policy on Monday. Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, is at left in the Oval Office last month. Credit. Eric Lee / The New York Times.
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Peter Navarro, a senior White House trade adviser, on Monday defended the sweeping tariffs President Trump has imposed on foreign nations and indicated that other countries' offers to drop their own tariffs on American products would be insufficient to convince the president to retreat.
Mr. Navarro, who has been the architect of many of President Trump's trade plans, said on CNBC that the United States was facing a national emergency based on chronic trade deficits, and the only fix would be foreign countries removing trade barriers that had hindered the flow of American goods.
The European Union offered Monday to drop its tariffs on American cars and industrial goods to zero if the United States did the same. But Mr. Navarro criticized the bloc for its value-added taxes and restrictions on American meat exports, as well as systematically higher tariffs.
"You steal from the American people every which way is possible," Mr. Navarro said. "So, don't just say we're going to lower our tariffs."
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Mr. Navarro also targeted Vietnam, which has appealed to the president in recent days to have its tariffs reduced. He accused Vietnam of dumping products into USA Markets, engaging in intellectual property theft and killing industries like shrimp, kitchen cabinets and others.
"When they come to us and say, we'll go to zero tariffs, that means nothing to us, because it's the non-tariff cheating that matters," Mr. Navarro said.
But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who, with Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, was put in charge of negotiations with Japan, signaled in an interview later in the day that Mr. Trump is ready to negotiate.
"President Trump, as you know, is better than anyone at giving himself maximum leverage," he said.
Mr. Bessent said he had suggested that foreign officials "keep your cool, do not escalate and come to us with your offers. " he added: "And at a point, President Trump will be ready to negotiate. ".
In the CNBC interview in the morning, Mr. Navarro said that tax cuts were forthcoming, as well as other benefits for Americans, like deregulation, lower energy prices, lower interest rates and the restructuring of manufacturing.
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"We're going to get to a place where America makes stuff again, real wages are going to be up, profits are going to be up," he said, adding, "the market's going to find a bottom. " Stock markets closed slightly lower Monday, following two days of punishing losses last week.
He was also asked about Elon Musk's very public criticism of tariffs and of Mr. Navarro specifically over the weekend. Responding to a social-media post praising Mr. Navarro, Mr. Musk on Saturday mocked Mr. Navarro's Ivy League degree as useless, and then said Mr. Navarro had not "built" anything.
On Monday, Mr. Navarro said that Mr. Musk was "not a car manufacturer" but "a car assembler," mentioning that Tesla's plant in Texas imported batteries, electronics, tires and other parts. "he wants the cheap foreign parts, and we understand that," he said.
I remember clearly awhile back, you were writing just the opposite LMFAO.
That giving province girls jobs in factories diverted them away from providing services you love so much and for so few THB.
And of course that was all Our Lord and Saviors fault LOLOLOL.The Chinese factories that Trump insisted on being built in Thailand the first time around aren't going away and the relationship with China will only grow stronger.
As it will between China and every other country that doesn't want to risk idiot MAGA voters installing an idiot, blithering, know nothing Repub in the WH every 4 years and / or an idiot, blithering, know nothing Repub majority in Congress every 2 years.
Elvis 2008
04-08-25, 12:22
Welp, there goes the economy. I don't know how you guys are so happy with your bottom lines, I have no idea how any of you are still somehow laughing all the way to the bank, and with what money? As far as I can tell, everyone is losing money, and I mean everyone. I know I am.!Sorry, Newton, I am in bonds with part of my portfolio and a net short. Portfolio has been way up the last few days. I am still not sure the market crash is going to follow through. As of now, there is too much media hype on the tariffs and too little on how many countries want to negotiate. When you have an overall market PE in the 30's, that is about a 3% yield. When stock yields are 1 to 2% higher than treasuries, the market is way overpriced.
More than half of all stock moves are not due to the stock itself but the overall market. To me, that happens when the Fed or government has the cash spigot on. Biden had the cash spigot on as wide as it could go while the Fed tried all it could to hold it back.
The way I do things is to do the best I can with valuation. If something is overpriced, I avoid it or short it. When it is underpriced, I buy it. When it is fairly priced, I sell it. And no, I do not think there is any other way to succeed in the market than that. Be honest. Why did you buy Nvidia? Because it was undervalued or because you thought it was going to go up?
So how many people had on their bingo card on November 1 that the stock market was going to go down because Trump would get elected and impose crippling tariffs? Anyone who says they did is full of shit.
So I could go on about how smart I am and how dumb other people were, but say I did that and Trump takes away all the tariffs, and then the market rallies? Then I look like an idiot. I only knew the market was overvalued. I did not know why or how or when it was going to crash.
And your POV reflects arrogance. You assume everyone is like you. You need to understand why Trump is doing what he is doing. The lower 50% of Americans are in debt and own no stock. Unless they lose their job, they just saw the interest on their debt go down. Furthermore, the lower 50% have seen their jobs shipped off overseas or businesses hire illegals. In fact, we have had to listen to these idiots here brag about what a great job the illegals do while American citizens suffer. In the end, the bottom 50% will benefit because many of the jobs that have been shipped overseas will return here.
As of now, the fundamentals of the economy have not crashed yet. They will. You cannot quit working for 2 years like we did with Covid and NOT have an economy crash. I am so fucking sick of these idiots who think we can get by with economic manipulation AKA a free lunch. Oh yeah, we can just print up money and take 2 years off with a virus with a 0. 2% mortality. That is fine. Nothing will happen. We can all the federal debt with the stroke of a pen. AI will save us. Give me a fucking break!
Quit telling me how fucking great the economy is when you are racking up record numbers on your credit card.
I would have to assume many countries are champing at the bit to get in a room to negotiate a new "deal" with Donald Trump. After witnessing how Xi wiped the floor with him, got everything he wanted and gave up nothing in 2018 and 2019, as Putin is still doing with his Ukraine War negotiations with Trump, who wouldn't want to renegotiate a deal with Trump where all you have to do is complement his hair and you get a much BETTER deal than you had before?
Other countries know however much they rape Trump and America in a newly negotiated deal, Trump will always tell his MAGA suckers he just won a great victory for The American Working Men and Women, The Greatest Deal of All Time, Nobody Has Seen Anything Like It, and those MAGA numbskulls will believe it. LOL.
He did that the first time around with his renegotiation of NAFTA, which he called a terrible deal agreed to by idiot presidents before him, mostly just rebranding it with a different name. Then he just trashed HIS OWN renegotiated and rebranded NAFTA deal, calling it a terrible deal agreed to by idiot presidents before him. LOL. Yeah. HIM! LOL.
And, sure enough, his numbskull MAGA Cult Followers didn't even notice. As he knew they wouldn't.
We really have no other conclusion to draw about a Trump "deal negotiation" but that he hasn't got the slightest clue what the deal really is, how or why it is good for America. And that when he says it is a "terrible deal" he only means it has not been negotiated to specifically favor himself, his Crime Family and any other cronies that have slipped a few bucks into his pocket at the great expense of everyone else in America. That is how all of these deals will be renegotiated.
And aside from those Trump Crime Family and Cronies Carve Outs, the rest will favor the country on the other side of the table "the likes of which nobody has ever seen"! LOL. Count on it.
Oh, and then there is this along the way:
Mortgage rates slingshot higher as tariff uncertainty roils markets
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/mortgage-rates-higher-tariff-uncertainty.html?__source=androidappshare
A swift rise in mortgage rates this week wiped out any advantages of last weeks decline for homebuyers.
Mortgage rates are now about where they have been for the past six weeks.
Homebuyers are now more concerned with the state of the economy and employment than they are with rates.
MarquisdeSade1
04-08-25, 19:17
The Chinese factories that Trump insisted on being built in Thailand the first time around aren't going away and the relationship with China will only grow stronger.
As it will between China and every other country that doesn't want to risk idiot MAGA voters installing an idiot, blithering, know nothing Repub in the WH every 4 years and / or an idiot, blithering, know nothing Repub majority in Congress every 2 years.https://www.bworldonline.com/top-stories/2025/04/08/664536/southeast-asian-countries-may-need-to-ramp-up-their-us-purchases/
The Great Mongering Restoration for Americans in SEA has begun.
Donald J Trump is a Living God!
MarquisdeSade1
04-08-25, 20:00
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Last week's "Liberation Day" marked a kind of the-Day in the effort to reorder the international economic system. That reordering is desperately needed to address the system's imbalances, which have led to deindustrialization and annual trillion-dollar trade deficits for the United States. But remember, far from striking World War II's decisive blow, the-Day was just the start of the European campaign. Eleven months of vicious fighting followed, with more than 100,000 Americans killed before victory was secured. With the tariffs, too, success or failure depends on what happens next, and the nation will have to bear real costs while the outcome hangs in the balance.
The breadth, speed and severity of President Trump's actions, which he finalized only shortly before the Rose Garden announcement, sparked immediate panic across markets and among allies. The airwaves filled with dire predictions as people scrutinized the sources and sizes of the numbers, the strategy and even the legal authority. Amid the hysteria, fair concerns have also emerged about what the plan lacks: time for companies and governments to respond, permanence for those tariffs intended to shift investments and a clear vision of the goals and how to reach them. But there are simple steps the administration could take now to correct course and move from its embattled beachhead into a sustainable forward position.
The 10 percent global tariff — a foundational permanent policy, which has already taken effect, and which carries a tolerable cost — is the right starting point. Congress should vote it into law as soon as possible. That would confirm its permanence and also provide substantial tax revenue that could help Capitol Hill solve some of its budget math problems. A bill to this effect, the Built USA Act (which I have championed), was introduced in January by Representative Jared Golden, a conservative Democrat.
For the higher, country-specific tariffs that Mr. Trump calls "reciprocal," the first priority should be to scale them up more gradually, to give markets and allies time to adapt. Throwing supply chains into maximal disarray and imposing the highest burdens faster than companies could possibly move to avoid them leads to excessive costs with few attendant benefits. A second priority for the White House should be communicating the president's ultimate vision and his plan for getting from here to there, so that everyone can have confidence in the direction and act accordingly. Some opacity may help in preserving leverage, but America's core demands of its allies should be plain for all to see.
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Among targets of the reciprocal tariffs, China belongs in its own category. Having already raised tariffs on China to 20 percent across the board since taking office, above other tariffs already in effect for some products, the president added 34 percentage points on "Liberation Day" and on Monday threatened an additional 50 percentage points if China didn't back down from its retaliation. The new base line of 54 percent, absent retaliation, approximates the 60 percent tariffs for China on which he campaigned and is best understood as permanent. That's the right move if the goal is, as it should be, to disentangle the American and Chinese economies. In his first term, he sought to make a deal with Xi Jinping. Now Mr. Trump is, rightly, walking away.
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But going from 0 to almost 60 so fast is unnecessary and unwise. The most determined company could not shift production so quickly. A better approach would be to raise the tariff in three steps — 20 percentage points now, in a year, and in two years — and for Congress to legislate this by revoking China's permanent normal trade relations status, as was the bipartisan recommendation of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and the USA -China Economic and Security Review Commission in 2024. Legislation already exists for this, cosponsored by Marco Rubio (now Mr. Trump's secretary of state) when he was in the Senate and accompanied by a bipartisan bill in the House. That legislation envisions tariffs on strategically important goods rising in steps over five years.
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Finally, Mr. Trump has the reciprocal tariffs that he has set country by country in proportion to their trade imbalance with the United States. These appear to be temporary in nature, intended as leverage to make other countries adopt policies that promote balanced trade. Few expected these tariffs would be set so high, especially atop the global 10 percent. Among allies who have expressed openness to negotiating but are still unsure what they have to do, these are a source of understandable consternation.
The high reciprocal tariffs appear structured to maximize the credibility of the president's commitment, to ensure that every country take his threat seriously, but his previous actions, along with moves toward permanent global and China tariffs, accomplish that aim. There is a limit to the costs the American people and American allies will bear, especially without constant reminders of a coherent long-term vision. The president should want to minimize the short- and medium-term harm to businesses and supply chains that must survive disruption if they are to thrive in the long run.
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For the many trading partners that have come forward to negotiate, little would be lost and much saved if Mr. Trump thanked them with a six-month grace period in which to bring their best offers to the table. Those who fail to deliver could be hit with half the Rose Garden tariff rate and be given six more months to get it right before the full weight lands. Businesses would have time to assess their risk and plan accordingly, facing a landscape in which the obvious imperative is to start investing in the United States.
Whatever path he chooses, Mr. Trump could greatly increase the odds of successful negotiations and the largest possible USA -led economic bloc by explaining exactly what he wants. The United States gains nothing from refusing to articulate a vision clearly.
So what is the goal? Based on the administration's public remarks, it is to eliminate large trade imbalances within a USA -led bloc that excludes China, other nonmarket economies and any country determined to continue running large surpluses at the expense of its partners. In remarks on Monday, Stephen Miran, the head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, emphasized that the administration also sees security commitments as indelibly tied to economic ones.
If those are the contours, Mr. Trump should say so, outline the kinds of concessions he expects from allies seeking to rebalance trade and detail the common policies toward China that all members of the bloc must adopt. (Mr. Miran's remarks, which answered the question "what forms can that burden sharing take?" with five different suggestions, were an important step in the right direction.) Then the president can sit back and await best offers. Thanks to early actions against our closest neighbors, renegotiation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement will begin soon. A successful new deal would establish a strong North American core for any future bloc and signal clearly what the United States expects from others.
Finally, Mr. Trump's administration needs to get serious about other policies necessary to support reindustrialization. If the United States is going to reduce its trade deficit quickly without painful cuts to domestic consumption, it's going to have to increase production capacity just as quickly, either to expand exports to other markets or to substitute for imports at home. This requires industrial policy akin to what the CHIPS and Science Act has already achieved for semiconductor manufacturing, with help from new forms of public financing and accelerated permitting. New infrastructure will have to be built and new sources of energy brought online. Perhaps most critically, enormous resources must be poured into work force development.
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China's combined two (2) largest solar farms arrays, will supplant and annually save 680,000 tonnes of dirty methane nat.gas or 1.36 million tonnes of dirty coal fossil fuels.
Chinas CNNC begins work on 2GW offshore solar farm in Jiangsu
The facility will save 680,000 tonnes of standard coal and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1.77 million tonnes annually. https://www.power-technology.com/news/cnnc-construction-2gw-offshore-solar/
As previously reported:
China Activates Worlds Largest Offshore Floating Solar Installation
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/11/16/china-activates-worlds-largest-offshore-floating-solar-installation/
Meanwhile, the American MAGA Fuhrer's "drill-baby-drill" and "...beautiful clean coal/gas" economy, has recently lost $6 trillion dollars in 2-days, the most in U.S. 2-day market history and $11 trillion since inauguration day, again the worst start of any president in U.S. history.
Trump expected to sign order to allow coal-fired power plants to remain open.
Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders on Tuesday aimed at reviving coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel that has long been in decline, and which substantially contributes to planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions and pollution. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/trump-executiver-order-coal-power-plants
More boneheaded MAGA Fuhrer, neanderthal moves, to plunge Americans backwards, into a "burn-baby-burn", hellscape, not seen since George W. Bushs presidency and the dot-com crash!
Yet another fine example of Repub's being so called "better at the economy", than Dems (...kkkk!)
MarquisdeSade1
04-08-25, 22:07
Sorry, Newton, I am in bonds with part of my portfolio and a net short. Portfolio has been way up the last few days. I am still not sure the market crash is going to follow through. As of now, there is too much media hype on the tariffs and too little on how many countries want to negotiate. When you have an overall market PE in the 30's, that is about a 3% yield. When stock yields are 1 to 2% higher than treasuries, the market is way overpriced.
More than half of all stock moves are not due to the stock itself but the overall market. To me, that happens when the Fed or government has the cash spigot on. Biden had the cash spigot on as wide as it could go while the Fed tried all it could to hold it back.
The way I do things is to do the best I can with valuation. If something is overpriced, I avoid it or short it. When it is underpriced, I buy it. When it is fairly priced, I sell it. And no, I do not think there is any other way to succeed in the market than that. Be honest. Why did you buy Nvidia? Because it was undervalued or because you thought it was going to go up?
So how many people had on their bingo card on November 1 that the stock market was going to go down because Trump would get elected and impose crippling tariffs? Anyone who says they did is full of shit.
So I could go on about how smart I am and how dumb other people were, but say I did that and Trump takes away all the tariffs, and then the market rallies? Then I look like an idiot. I only knew the market was overvalued. I did not know why or how or when it was going to crash.
And your POV reflects arrogance. You assume everyone is like you. You need to understand why Trump is doing what he is doing. The lower 50% of Americans are in debt and own no stock. Unless they lose their job, they just saw the interest on their debt go down. Furthermore, the lower 50% have seen their jobs shipped off overseas or businesses hire illegals. In fact, we have had to listen to these idiots here brag about what a great job the illegals do while American citizens suffer. In the end, the bottom 50% will benefit because many of the jobs that have been shipped overseas will return here.
As of now, the fundamentals of the economy have not crashed yet. They will. You cannot quit working for 2 years like we did with Covid and NOT have an economy crash. I am so fucking sick of these idiots who think we can get by with economic manipulation AKA a free lunch. Oh yeah, we can just print up money and take 2 years off with a virus with a 0. 2% mortality. That is fine. Nothing will happen. We can all the federal debt with the stroke of a pen. AI will save us. Give me a fucking break!
Quit telling me how fucking great the economy is when you are racking up record numbers on your credit card.Warren be is sitting pretty waiting to buy back in.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-03-14/real-cause-market-selloff-recession
MarquisdeSade1
04-08-25, 22:11
The Chinese factories that Trump insisted on being built in Thailand the first time around aren't going away and the relationship with China will only grow stronger.
As it will between China and every other country that doesn't want to risk idiot MAGA voters installing an idiot, blithering, know nothing Repub in the WH every 4 years and / or an idiot, blithering, know nothing Repub majority in Congress every 2 years.Quite the double entendre.
Nobody wants to be a friend of Xi and the CCP.
Not even the 1. 5 billion miserable slaves of CCPland.
MarquisdeSade1
04-08-25, 23:19
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/04/08/schweizer-4-things-to-consider-in-tariff-panic-week/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/08/nolte-55-of-leftists-believe-its-justifiable-to-assassinate-trump-thanks-to-apps-like-bluesky/
Numbskull President Musk The Liar apparently just figured out that Numskull Liar Trump is a Tariff-Happy lunatic that since the mid 1980's has been obsessed with the power of Tariffs as a tool to make him and his Crime Family wealthy at the great expense of everyone else in America and that is why he DID act on that obsession as soon as he possibly could.
So now China Xi Elon is calling out former convict Navarro, fellow convicted Felon Trump's top financial / Tariff advisor, for the fellow Repub Numbskull he obviously is.
And other top Numbskull Repub donors are finally figuring it out and joining in on the fun:
GOP megadonor Ken Langone is latest billionaire to blast Trumps tariffs.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/trump-tariffs-live-updates-stock-market-crypto.html?__source=androidappshare
Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone is blasting Trumps tariffs, calling the 46% import duties on Vietnam bullshit and describing the 34% tariff rate on China as too aggressive, too soon.
I dont understand the goddamn formula, the veteran Republican political campaign donor says in a new interview with The Financial Times.And now the cognitively incapacitated presidential assistant Trump has blathered out one of the greatest Freudian Slips of all time by calling for Open Borders to fix the economic mess he made! Lolol.
Confused Co-POTUS Trump: 'We Need Open Borders'
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/04/confused-co-potus-trump-we-need-open
Donald J. Trump supporters say that he tells it like it is, but then they inevitably, with slavish devotion to their hero, try to tell us what he really meant. Donald launched a tariff rant during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office Monday.
A reporter asked the co-president about "mixed messages from your administration. You're talking about negotiations, and yet others in your administration are saying these tariffs are actually permanent."
"Well, it can both be true," he said. "There can be permanent tariffs, and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs. We need open borders."Remember, Trump hasn't got the slightest clue what actually is or isn't in those existing trade deals. Not a clue. He has never had the least bit interest in what is actually in them or how every one of them produce a net benefit to America.
He is now and has always been only interested in renegotiating special carve outs in them to make sure he, his Crime Fsmily and a few close cronies are made wealthier at the great expense of everyone else in America. And as long as that gets put into the final deal, Xi and whoever else is on the other side of the negotiation can take everything they want in exchange for absolutely nothing in return to America.
Then Trump will launch into the usual bullshit blather about how he just negotiated the "greatest deal of all time. Nobody has seen anything like it. MAGA"! Knowing full well his MAGA suckers will swallow every drop of it with a great big lunatic smile.
It is NOT going to save the regular person!
Only if they are extremely competent and educated (self) in the technical aspects of the technology.
What is missed on a consistent basis is that POTUS wants manufacturing returned to the Dis-United States of America because he want the factories there. He wants the infrastructure there because he knows once the factories are built AI paired with robots are going to eliminate the factor worker. Think I am joking. Goto DOHA and check out the baggage handling system. Only humans that touch the bags are when the are put into the system and taking off of the carts and loaded onto the planes. The entire system is monitored by less than 20 highly skilled workers in a control room. With a small crew of maintenance people to handle faults in the system.
Workers are going to be replaced If those factories are not in the Dis-United States of America under the NEW WORLD ORDER being dictated by the current administration is literally up a creek without a paddle.
The Dis-United States of America cannot match the level of ship building production of China if all hands on deck shooting war was to break out. They better let Japan back into the Naval Aviation game if Dis-United States of America wants to go toe to toe with the Chinese Navy. Because the Chinese Navy is not a blue water Navy. They are fighting close to their homeland. The Dis-United States of America need to allow the Japanese war dogs out and let them get at them!
MarquisdeSade1
04-09-25, 02:09
China's combined two (2) largest solar farms arrays, will supplant and annually save 680,000 tonnes of dirty methane nat. Gas or 1. 36 million tonnes of dirty coal fossil fuels.
Chinas CNNC begins work on 2 GW offshore solar farm in Jiangsu.
The facility will save 680,000 tonnes of standard coal and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1. 77 million tonnes annually. https://www.power-technology.com/news/cnnc-construction-2gw-offshore-solar/.
As previously reported:
China Activates Worlds Largest Offshore Floating Solar Installation.
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/11/16/china-activates-worlds-largest-offshore-floating-solar-installation/
Meanwhile, the American MAGA Fuhrer's "drill-baby-drill" and ". Beautiful clean coal / gas" economy, has recently lost $6 trillion dollars in 2-days, the most in USA 2-day market history and $11 trillion since inauguration day, again the worst start of any president in USA History.
More boneheaded MAGA Fuhrer, neanderthal moves, to plunge Americans backwards, into a "burn-baby-burn", hellscape, not seen since George W. Bushs presidency and the dot-com crash!
Yet another fine example of Repub's being so called "better at the economy", than Dems.
On Monday's broadcast of CNN's "AC360," CNN Senior Political and Global Affairs Commentator, former USA Ambassador to Japan, former Chicago Mayor, and former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel stated that "you can't get tariffs high enough for me" on China due to their intellectual property theft and economic spying. (and Former because for ScumBag Bubba funny they left that out).
"Just take one part of the world I'm very familiar with in Asia, China, you can't get tariffs high enough for me, because they steal intellectual property, economic espionage, they take our AI, etc. ".
Quit fluffing our adversaries, you may soon find yourself receiving a knock on the door for your treasonous behavior.
MarquisdeSade1
04-09-25, 03:50
Now I lay a lot of the blame, as does Ralph nader, of our descent into fascism at the feet of the Democrats. We have truly dropped the ball by embracing neoliberal economic policies starting with Bill Clinton and of course the insane identity politics. It's time to get back to pro working class, pro union, anti-corporate policies that will bring the working Man back into the fold. Democrats should stand firm on universal health care, four weeks paid vacation, excellent pensions at a reasonable age, paid education through University and tech school, clean energy, the food supply devoid of pesticides and antibiotics, excellent public transportation, etc. You know, make the US a truly develop nation.https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/08/trump-proud-to-be-the-president-for-the-workers-and-middle-class/
MarquisdeSade1
04-09-25, 04:03
Now I lay a lot of the blame, as does Ralph nader, of our descent into fascism at the feet of the Democrats. We have truly dropped the ball by embracing neoliberal economic policies starting with Bill Clinton and of course the insane identity politics. It's time to get back to pro working class, pro union, anti-corporate policies that will bring the working Man back into the fold. Democrats should stand firm on universal health care, four weeks paid vacation, excellent pensions at a reasonable age, paid education through University and tech school, clean energy, the food supply devoid of pesticides and antibiotics, excellent public transportation, etc. You know, make the US a truly develop nation.https://youtu.be/VxNAdilyqow?si=gKM9hBABHs1mF1ms
China's combined two (2) largest solar farms arrays, will supplant and annually save 680,000 tonnes of dirty methane nat.gas or 1.36 million tonnes of dirty coal fossil fuels.
Chinas CNNC begins work on 2GW offshore solar farm in Jiangsu
The facility will save 680,000 tonnes of standard coal and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1.77 million tonnes annually. https://www.power-technology.com/news/cnnc-construction-2gw-offshore-solar/
As previously reported:
China Activates Worlds Largest Offshore Floating Solar Installation
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/11/16/china-activates-worlds-largest-offshore-floating-solar-installation/
Meanwhile, the American MAGA Fuhrer's "drill-baby-drill" and "...beautiful clean coal/gas" economy, has recently lost $6 trillion dollars in 2-days, the most in U.S. 2-day market history and $11 trillion since inauguration day, again the worst start of any president in U.S. history.
More boneheaded MAGA Fuhrer, neanderthal moves, to plunge Americans backwards, into a "burn-baby-burn", hellscape, not seen since George W. Bushs presidency and the dot-com crash!
Yet another fine example of Repub's being so called "better at the economy", than Dems (...kkkk!)China still make very big pollution and a lot of lies. USA pollute twice more than Europe, per citizen and crazy Trump wants to pollute more. Inflation and falling USD for no brained Americans who elected a shame for second time. Only good point is petrol rate will fall, making less money for Putin war and saving money for a big driver like me, less than 0,7 € for my french ecologic E85 , about 10 € for 100 kms, when driving more than 5000 kms per month.
100% with you on this, Tiny. While I never have been a fan of Trump, I can completely understand why he has come into power twice. There are millions of Americans who've been let down by the system and for whom the American dream is somewhat of a nightmare. I am as far as you can get from a socialist but it does seem to me that in the west in general but especially in America that while the pie has grown massively the share of the pie accruing to different segments has changed considerably. That isn't great, but contrary to many leftists I don't think that's the worst phenomenon either (as long as everyone rises it's not a big deal if some rise much more than others). No, the much bigger issue is what economists may refer to as an externality or maybe second order effect: e. G. As a nation grows increasingly wealthy, the value and cost of the capital base in most relevantly real estate grows commensurately much more and this cascades downwards. In conjunction with this the income of the lower earning segments has remained stagnant as a consequence of technological advancement and of globalisation, so there you have it: Millions of people who are earning in real terms slightly more than they would have in the 70's with costs vastly greater. And there is the issue you are flagging, what are they going to save? BTW, a lot of people talk about AI dystopia and how it could shake up the economy negatively, I say tech has been doing just that for decades. We just haven't woken up to it. There's a very interesting book on this called Power and Progress by noble prize winning author Daron Acemoglu.
I am not wised up to how America got into this mess of $36 trillion+ of debt but I get the sense it's irresponsiblity of a series of administrations. Regardless, what's the solution? So, savings by ordinary Americans is out. These tariffs are imbecility. I kind of agree America needs a new new deal. We've discyssed you guys need a revised health system the likes of German, Singapore, Japan, Aus, etc. And if they can figure out a decent system much cheaper so can you guys. That would save a hell of a lot of money for the ordinary American. Then some kind of an interventionist approach which mitigates against the aforementioned externalities. I strongly disagree with extraordinary growth in real estate value, it serves no value to society and just increases inequality. You have some crazy cost of living there, and I'm not qualified to understand quite how it is so, but it seems the labour pool and the lack of automation have quite a lot to do with this. But then you need pragmatic policies to deal with aforementioned externalities. You need a smart visionary leader. But for now, this batshit motherfucker is driving, so I guess we just kick back and just enjoy the ride. Happy Black Monday everyone.Hi HotDog, The affordability of housing varies greatly depending on where you live in the USA. I just looked up the figures here in Texas, and the median home price is $300,000, and median household income is $80,000. So $300,000 is doable for the majority of families. Now you go to coastal California or New York City and yeah, housing isn't affordable for the workingman. That's part of why a lot of Californians are moving to Texas. Things cost a lot less here, I believe in part because regulation is looser. California, the Northeast and large blue (Democratic controlled) cities everywhere have climate, environmental, labor and other agendas that drive up prices. Also, as to housing specifically, the land's a big consideration. If there's no place to build, the value of land and houses goes up. However, that too is often a function of government, which may restrict development. And as you know, it's not a problem confined to the USA. Australia, Vancouver, London, many cities in Western Europe, they all have the same problem.
As to income inequality, I believe things were static or getting better up through the Clinton administration. The workingman however lost ground under George W. Bush and Barrack Obama. He gained up lost ground under Trump, but then lost it again during the Biden presidency.
Now unlike most posters here, I don't think the presidents actually had a lot of control over that, except Biden fucked up with his American Rescue Plan, which kickstarted inflation. Often, during times of inflation, the elite do reasonably well, and the middle class suffers, which is what happened here. In real terms, median wages didn't increase during the Biden administration. Actually Trump right now may be fucking up worse than Biden with the tariffs. If he doesn't back off, potentially a lot worse.
Anyway I believe the long term solution is doing a better job with education and alleviating childhood poverty. And not automatically steering kids to college. Many would be better encouraged to take up careers as electricians, nurses and the like. And there's my Singapore idea, which would have some added benefits besides improving the healthcare system. While Trump's tariffs and the Democrats' lust for big government risk throwing away it all, the USA is one of the most prosperous countries in the world. That's if you kick out very small places (for example, Monaco) and petrostates (e. G. Dubai). Median household income is $80,000 per year. People in the poorest state, Mississippi, have higher average income, adjusted for purchasing power, than the Japanese or residents of the UK. A large part of the problem IMO is the majority of people can't save. We're a nation of spendthrifts. And actually, solve that, get our people to save and our politicians to stop running huge fiscal deficits, and the trade balance as a % of GDP would be reduced substantially.
So I hear Netanyahu is in town as the first foreign leader (why, of course) to be invited to meet Trump. He is seeking exemption from the tariffs. How exactly do I think the meeting will go down between America and the tail that wags the American dog? This is what I think.
Netanyahu: wtf you think you doing, motherfucker? Have you forgotten who rules America?
Trump: It's Presentation, Benjamin, and you know I like Presentation. I got to have presentation, you can't not have presentation. What will people think of me if I don't do presentation. There's no one who does presentation better than Trump.
Netanyahu: Just make shit up, motherfucker, or your time is over. We own America. You know it. I know it. You don't get to tariff us.
Trump: yes sir. Would you like your blowjob now or after lunch?
Netanyahu: After motherfucker. And what's taking you so long on imprisoning or ejecting everyone who criticizes Israel?
Trump: I have already started, master. And I have my best man on the job- his name is Xpartan- in identifying and rounding up anyone who doesn't prostate themselves to the Israeli flag.
Netanyhahu: Yeah, it's not fast enough. Work harder on the media. They didn't cover up the massacre of the aid workers by the IDF. Wtf do you think we own the media for?
Trump: It's my next executive order, master. Now if you would care to take out your cock, I am ready when you are.Back years ago I looked up historical aid contributions to Israel from the USA, and added contributions to Egypt. Those went up a good bit after President Carter bought off those two countries so they'd stop fighting. Then I adjusted for inflation, and divided by the number of Jewish households in Israel. The USA should have just paid Israeli's of Jewish ancestry to move to the USA and give the land back to the Palestinians. It would have been cheaper. Today Israel's a first world country, and we're still providing tons of aid! All the while they're using it in part to kill a lot of civilians. It's nuts.
Israeli's in general are enterprising, intelligent people. If we'd brought them here, the USA would be better off for it. Except that they lean left politically. Actually that's the Achilles heal in Trump's plan to make Canada and Greenland the 51st and 52nd states respectively. Nothing's perfect.
When people are stupid and lose their money they look for a fall guy
They do not take personal responsibility. There are only two types who buy crypto. Those who self custody and those who don't. If you buy crypto, don't be stupid!. Practice self-custody. If you wear a condom to fuck, but don't self custody your crypto you are simply saying that your dick is more important than the money you invested in crypto.
The goal of the current administration is to drive the economy into a recession so that it that people lose their homes, real estate prices crash, commercial property owners cannot pay their mortgages and wind up in foreclosure. So POTUS, his family and his cronies can swoop in and buy up every thing for pennies on the dollar using low interest loans because the FED is forced to lower rates.
BITCOIN (BTC) allows me to avoid all that. When given a choice between buying more real estate or buying BTC. You KNOW what I am going to do. I recently turned down a residential real estate deal here that rented monthly would have given me a cash on cash 9. 34% return on my money after renovations. I am buying more BTC with the money. The more the price goes down, the more I plan to buy. I HODL Bitcoin. I speculate on the price of Bitcoin using MSTR and futures contracts. The pivot point for BTC that I am using is 69 K. As long as the price stays above 69 K we can go to 130 K. ATH is 109 K. If we get a substantial move up and it does not result in a new ATH this cycle is done!
NVDA below 100 USD is a buy for me. Don't care what BOND fan boys say. AI is driving the future. I will address the big picture of AI in my next post.Thanks SubCmdr.
Hi HotDog, The affordability of housing varies greatly depending on where you live in the USA. I just looked up the figures here in Texas, and the median home price is $300,000, and median household income is $80,000. So $300,000 is doable for the majority of families. Now you go to coastal California or New York City and yeah, housing isn't affordable for the workingman. That's part of why a lot of Californians are moving to Texas. Things cost a lot less here, I believe in part because regulation is looser. California, the Northeast and large blue (Democratic controlled) cities everywhere have climate, environmental, labor and other agendas that drive up prices. Also, as to housing specifically, the land's a big consideration. If there's no place to build, the value of land and houses goes up. However, that too is often a function of government, which may restrict development. And as you know, it's not a problem confined to the USA. Australia, Vancouver, London, many cities in Western Europe, they all have the same problem.
As to income inequality, I believe things were static or getting better up through the Clinton administration. The workingman however lost ground under George W. Bush and Barrack Obama. He gained up lost ground under Trump, but then lost it again during the Biden presidency.
Now unlike most posters here, I don't think the presidents actually had a lot of control over that, except Biden fucked up with his American Rescue Plan, which kickstarted inflation. Often, during times of inflation, the elite do reasonably well, and the middle class suffers, which is what happened here. In real terms, median wages didn't increase during the Biden administration. Actually Trump right now may be fucking up worse than Biden with the tariffs. If he doesn't back off, potentially a lot worse.
Anyway I believe the long term solution is doing a better job with education and alleviating childhood poverty. And not automatically steering kids to college. Many would be better encouraged to take up careers as electricians, nurses and the like. And there's my Singapore idea, which would have some added benefits besides improving the healthcare system. While Trump's tariffs and the Democrats' lust for big government risk throwing away it all, the USA is one of the most prosperous countries in the world. That's if you kick out very small places (for example, Monaco) and petrostates (e. G. Dubai). Median household income is $80,000 per year. People in the poorest state, Mississippi, have higher average income, adjusted for purchasing power, than the Japanese or residents of the UK. A large part of the problem IMO is the majority of people can't save. We're a nation of spendthrifts. And actually, solve that, get our people to save and our politicians to stop running huge fiscal deficits, and the trade balance as a % of GDP would be reduced substantially.
As to income inequality, I believe things were static or getting better up through the Clinton administration. The workingman however lost ground under George W. Bush and Barrack Obama. He gained up lost ground under Trump, but then lost it again during the Biden presidency.May we see a link or two for those claims?
I am anxious to see how much of the "ground" was lost for the working man under Obama and Biden due to the unavoidable inflation every country in the world experiences in the course of a recovery from a colossal economic downturn vs "ground" he gained under Trump when welfare checks are being sent out to keep entire industries afloat in the midst of a failed Trade war with China, inflation plunges to zero along with the price of gas and most everything else in the midst of a major economic downturn when millions of jobs were being wiped out. Oh, but when the FDR / Dems' unemployment insurance still kept most working men from going completely broke for the duration.
Or was it simply that the wealthiest in America lost the most amount of money during those Great Repub / Bush2 and Great Repub / Trump Economic Disasters as Musk and other are today and that natural outcome is what "evened up" the income inequality for a moment or two?
Perhaps links for those claims will flesh out the missing pieces of this puzzle.
Thanks in advance.
Quite the double entendre.
Nobody wants to be a friend of Xi and the CCP.
Not even the 1. 5 billion miserable slaves of CCPland.President Musk does.
Elvis 2008
04-09-25, 18:57
May we see a link or two for those claims?
Thanks in advance.Every time someone gets a link for you showing you how delusional you are, you attack the source and blow it off. If you do not know that Texas is much cheaper to live in than California, then you have your head in the sand.
Here is a blow to your Democratic douche economic utopia, Florida now has more people than New York. Its citizens pay no taxes, All-in, Florida's entire state budget is literally half of New York's ($85 billion vs $176 billion). Florida has the best education system in the USA to boot, https://www.fldoe.org/newsroom/latest-news/florida-ranked-1-in-education-for-second-year-in-a-row.stml
The weather is better in Florida as are the roads. So how come New York fails to deliver on every measure versus New York? And why are so many people moving there if you Democratic douches are such economic geniuses?
The answer to me is obvious. New York has the worst pension system for taxpayers in the country. I have heard about state workers getting hair implants and boob jobs on their health plans. You work 20 or 30 years and there are mechanisms to lock in 150% of your salary. And then you have the losers / turncoats like you who take their pensions and high tail to places like Thailand and live like a king and then lecture us about how to do things in the USA.
New York's state and local pension systems made payments totaling $29.2 billion, in fiscal year 2020. https://ballotpedia.org/Public_pensions_in_New_York
That is 34% of Florida's whole damned budget.
So now we have the truth. New York, the great blue state with its wonderous economic model, is only great for foreign living government pigs like yourself. For the citizens who actually live there, it sucks.
Elvis 2008
04-09-25, 20:20
Thanks SubCmdr.LOL. Yes, I appreciate the link. When I read something like that, I realize who the fools who have been making money in the Biden / Brezhnev market. The joke in the Brezhnev time was the USSR was the richest country in the world because everyone stealing and there were still things left over.
Facts do not go over well with a guy like SC. The disturbing fact in his foolish conspiracy theory is the price of TSLA and Truth Social have plummeted. If they wanted to buy things on the cheap, then why didn't Trump and Musk liquidate their billions in positions before the market crashed? Ah yes, they have squirreled away billions in their piggy banks, and he and he alone "knows" that. Oh brother. And never mind that real estate is way, way overpriced right now.
Then we go onto the great and most putrid pig of the Brezhnev / Biden era, AI. AI is going to save the world. SC's brilliant analysis on that is AI is the future and people will always buy the fastest chips. Don't people always want the best Iphone too? The WSJ just did an article on how the Iphone would cost $3000 if it was built in the USA versus the $1100 they are paying today. That is totally bullshit by the way. The idea was Americans love their new Iphones so much that they will squeal bloody murder.
I was looking at getting my gal and her daughter new phones. AT&T was selling the iphone 16 for $6 per month for 36 months. That is $216 not $1100. Whoops. Where they get you is the memory. If you want 512 GB of memory, which costs Apple like $20 total, AT&T charges you an added $20 a month. So the real cost would be $936 per phone with that memory. I do the calculation and instead buy an unlocked refurbished Iphone 15 for $600 with 512 GB of memory. So this is my big fuck you to the WSJ: I have never paid $1100 for a phone and I never will.
Then there was my gal. She likes Samsung, and it is the same schtick. If you want 128 GB of memory, the $1100 phone is $200 . If you want more, it goes closer to $1000. So for her, I buy a new but 3 year old Samsung for $500 and it comes from China.
Oh, but Elvis, you cannot do that anymore. Tariffs will kill you. Nope, Trump has changed when tariffs kick in. The value where tariffs used to kick in was $2500. Trump has lowered that to $800. A lot of people have missed this part. There would be no tariffs on my purchase even after what Trump has done.
But, but, but SCs point is that people always want the fastest chips. Well, I am one of those people and I just showed you I did not. I do not need the fastest chips and my women are going to love their new phones.
Then there is the google pixel. Their phones had these great cameras and their components were inferior to some of the higher end phone makers like Apple. How was that possible? Because google makes Android, and they were able to integrate the best picture software seamlessly. In other words, you do not need the "fastest chips" to have the best product. You need the best hardware and best software. What Google showed is if you have great software and just good hardware, you can have the best product.
As for bitcoin let's go back to the Apple deal. If Apple keeps making their phones in China, the theoretical price to make one goes from $550 to $950, and that means Apple is going to have to charge $1500 or so a phone to make the same profits. I will make the dubious assumption that Apple is not going to be able to do that and their sales and stock will go down. Anyone who bought Apple stock on margin is going to have to liquidate their holdings which include bitcoin. So just forget about bitcoin being spared in a recession. It plummeted in 2009. It will plummet if there is a recession now.
So next you have the Toomsian dumb fuck model where interest rates are going up while the world crashes. If there is a recession, that means demand for things including the demand for money goes down. People cannot borrow anymore. If there is less demand for money / credit, then rates come down. This Toomsian world where in this economy the economy crashes but rates stay high is absurd.
When you make the proclamation that AI is the future, are YOU using it right now? If so, is it as essential as what you eat or is it a gimmick? Everyone I know uses their phones and the internet but no one I personally know is using AI right now. I have been hearing about how great this tech has been for 5 years now. When does it stop being the future and starts being the present?
And what you will see from SC is the usual string of insults about his dick size, how everyone is racist, and this idiotic Trump conspiracy theory. I could care less if someone is on line and tells me how smart they are because they bought something and it went up. If you do not have a good reason for the why, then you are just lucky.
Why in the world did Trump pause the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars INTO the USA FROM other countries that had been cheating and taking advantage of us for so many years?
We were counting on that foreign money to pay for Childcare, because we have to have Childcare, and to pay for our groceries, damn I'm glad Trump invented that word, and so many other things the likes of which nobody has ever seen.
Does Trump love other countries more than he loves America now? Why oh why is he denying us all that foreign money for even 1 day much less 90 days?
Or will it be "two weeks"?
Trump explains his tariff reversal: 'People were getting a little bit yippee'.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump-tariffs-live-updates.html?__source=androidappshare
White House advisors claim the flip flop was always the strategy, suggesting that the past week of massive tariffs that triggered huge market losses was all for show.
Elvis 2008
04-09-25, 21:03
I would have to assume many countries are champing at the bit to get in a room to negotiate a new "deal" with Donald Trump. After witnessing how Xi wiped the floor with him, got everything he wanted and gave up nothing in 2018 and 2019, as Putin is still doing with his Ukraine War negotiations with Trump, who wouldn't want to renegotiate a deal with Trump where all you have to do is complement his hair and you get a much BETTER deal than you had before?
Mortgage rates slingshot higher as tariff uncertainty roils marketsLOL. So now that the market has had the biggest rally in 5 years, is Trump a genius?
Go back to what I said.
So I could go on about how smart I am and how dumb other people were, but say I did that and Trump takes away all the tariffs, and then the market rallies? Then I look like an idiot. I only knew the market was overvalued. I did not know why or how or when it was going to crash.Trump is dead set on getting the budget deficit and trade deficits down, and he thinks tariffs are the way to do it. Trump does not impose 10% tariffs. He goes to 80 and 90% tariffs, and fools like you scream what an idiot he is. The dummies in the market sell everything. He now goes to a 10% rate, and instead of people screaming bloody murder, the market rallies. Instead of being freaked out, people are grateful for "only" 10% tariffs. That is the art of the deal.
How many times are you Democratic douches going to fall for this? If you think Trump is rational as I do, this tactic falls on its face. If you think he is crazy, and you have the lamestream media telling you that night and day, then the Trump strategy keeps working. Thing about you Democratic douches is I think you would rather slit your wrists than get your collective heads out of your asses about Trump being rational. Two days from now, you will be posting another link about how crazy Trump is, and once again, that means he has you just where he wants you.
What you will not do is make the fundamental case against what Trump is trying to accomplish: lowering the trade deficits and federal budget deficits. In fact, you are such a Biden kiss ass that you have to say that those deficits do not matter. The Biden plan was racking up debt and giving "jobs" to government workers for their votes. We know now fucking worthless those "jobs" really were.
Unlike Clinton who used to care about the blue collar worker, Biden opened the borders up and was fucking over the blue collar worker. It was the same schtick. If I pay you illegals off by allowing you to work in the USA, you should vote for me.
It is not enough to say that Trump is crazy. If you Democrats had a plan in place that was superior to Trump's, I might actually vote for you, but you have no plan. All you have is Trump is crazy and deficits do not matter. Is there any wonder why you lost and will lose again?
Every time someone gets a link for you showing you how delusional you are, you attack the source and blow it off. If you do not know that Texas is much cheaper to live in than California, then you have your head in the sand.
Here is a blow to your Democratic douche economic utopia, Florida now has more people than New York. Its citizens pay no taxes, All-in, Florida's entire state budget is literally half of New York's ($85 billion vs $176 billion). Florida has the best education system in the USA to boot, https://www.fldoe.org/newsroom/latest-news/florida-ranked-1-in-education-for-second-year-in-a-row.stml
The weather is better in Florida as are the roads. So how come New York fails to deliver on every measure versus New York? And why are so many people moving there if you Democratic douches are such economic geniuses?
The answer to me is obvious. New York has the worst pension system for taxpayers in the country. I have heard about state workers getting hair implants and boob jobs on their health plans. You work 20 or 30 years and there are mechanisms to lock in 150% of your salary. And then you have the losers / turncoats like you who take their pensions and high tail to places like Thailand and live like a king and then lecture us about how to do things in the USA.
New York's state and local pension systems made payments totaling $29.2 billion, in fiscal year 2020. https://ballotpedia.org/Public_pensions_in_New_York
That is 34% of Florida's whole damned budget.
So now we have the truth. New York, the great blue state with its wonderous economic model, is only great for foreign living government pigs like yourself. For the citizens who actually live there, it sucks.
Every time someone gets a link for you showing you how delusional you are, you attack the source and blow it off.I don't think that is true at all. My style is to show how even the link the sneaky MAGA provides disproves and debunks his point.
Can you provide a link supporting such a claim?
BTW, your links only show that Florida has more parents choosing to put their kids in schools other than traditional public schools, nothing about them being "best":
The assessment focuses on alternative pathways and educational choices that parents and students have access to beyond traditional public schools.And something about how many billions New York State had on hand in 2020, before Trump's Pandemic ravaged a whole bunch of Red States' budgets?
New York's state and local pension systems held $545.0 billion in total cash and investment holdings, as of fiscal year 2020.
It is NOT going to save the regular person!
Only if they are extremely competent and educated (self) in the technical aspects of the technology.
What is missed on a consistent basis is that POTUS wants manufacturing returned to the Dis-United States of America because he want the factories there. He wants the infrastructure there because he knows once the factories are built AI paired with robots are going to eliminate the factor worker. Think I am joking. Goto DOHA and check out the baggage handling system. Only humans that touch the bags are when the are put into the system and taking off of the carts and loaded onto the planes. The entire system is monitored by less than 20 highly skilled workers in a control room. With a small crew of maintenance people to handle faults in the system.
Workers are going to be replaced. If those factories are not in the Dis-United States of America under the NEW WORLD ORDER being dictated by the current administration is literally up a creek without a paddle.
The Dis-United States of America cannot match the level of ship building production of China if all hands on deck shooting war was to break out. They better let Japan back into the Naval Aviation game if Dis-United States of America wants to go toe to toe with the Chinese Navy. Because the Chinese Navy is not a blue water Navy. They are fighting close to their homeland. The Dis-United States of America need to allow the Japanese war dogs out and let them get at them!
Newton York
04-10-25, 01:27
If this is a dead cat bounce, it's the biggest one I've ever seen. I'm still in the red though, but it's good seeing the stock market go up again, but we'll see how long this lasts. Either way I'm out. I'd consider myself lucky if I can break even. Want my damn cash back now. Too much volatility. Woo hoo! Let's make America recession again baby!
So senile Trump with 0 knowledge about economics. USA really fell so down with him. Only good point, when stupid Trump failed about Ukrainian war, is the fall for petrol rate, good for me for my driving and bad for Putin war, when he will only stop when no more money, but not when Trump is swallowing his sperm.
Since the MAGA Fuhrer, declared "Liberation Day" and the grand proclamation of sweeping tariffs, meant to "free" the U.S. from foreign trade dependence, has it made you Repubs, finally "free at last?"
Fear not, I'm sure with criminal buffoons and tariff genius advisers, like Peter Navarro, guiding your equally as buffoonish, moronic and imbecilic MAGA Fuhrer, bodes well for impeding economic chaos,. Ahem, I mean "Liberation", right!
So much for the American Fuhrer's "Liberation Day"! However, you gotta love the spark of nationwide "Hands Off!" protests of over 1,400 demonstrations in all 50 states, that did "liberate" millions of Americans, off their couches, to rebel against MAGA stupidity and the current clown show of Repubs.
PS: I think the best slogan, in weekend's "Hand's Off!" protests, was the one, that said: "Donald Trump, do the whole world a favor and S T F U!" (...kkkk!)
It was actually the Bond Market that forced the pause in the implementation of the tariff plans. Higher interest rate will sink all hopes of the new world economic order being super imposed on the world by the current Article 2 leader of the Dis-United States of America.
So senile Trump with 0 knowledge about economics. USA really fell so down with him. Only good point, when stupid Trump failed about Ukrainian war, is the fall for petrol rate, good for me for my driving and bad for Putin war, when he will only stop when no more money, but not when Trump is swallowing his sperm.The only thing more hilarious than Trump bashing Biden for the Envy of the World Economy that Biden handed him and lecturing us on how much smarter he is and better results he produced than Biden, the previous presidents and everyone else in history is when his idiot MAGA Cult Followers and voters try to pull the same shit. LOL.
Nobody in history had WORSE across-the-board results on everything important from jobs creation, national security, keeping American democracy safe from attack domestically and abroad, crime rates, health and welbeong, skyrocket the deficit with nothing of real value to show for it, you name it, than Donald J. Trump. He was truly and inarguably deserving of that bipartisan group of presidential historians ranking him The Worst President in USA History.
And don't anybody even try to pull that idiot Winger crap about all of those Worst Ever results happening because of the "China virus" Pandemic that those Wingers insist "came out of nowhere, nobody predicted it, it wasn't his fault" when the evidence of him laying the groundwork for any damn airborne viral spread developing into a Pandemic and doing and saying everything a World Leader could possibly do and say to further establish and exacerbate it is overwhelming.
Not least of which is the easily observable reality that he is trying to repeat that accomplish with the next opportunistic disease spread this very day.
This Trump's Pandemic Part 2 term is bound to be even worse than the first one. Which would be no surprise AT ALL to the 48.3% of the electorate that was smart enough and patriotic enough to vote for Harris, of course.
Now, only 80 days in, less than 3 months, the so-called best of time "honeymoon phase" of a presidency, even many of the MAGAs have finally been educated about the waddling disaster known as Donald Trump, as evidenced in his poll numbers.
When Rasmussen shows a Winger Repub this much under water on his Job Approval at this stage of his so-called presidency, you know he is fucking up so much even the Winger-leaning respondents they search for can't ignore it.
He is way, way under water on every issue in the RealClearPolitics' consensus polls except one; apparently the Winger-leaning polls RCP tends to count are still finding respondents delighted that he finally made the immigrants stop eating the cats and eating the dogs. That is destined to go down as Trump's one and only positive accomplishment through 8 years in office.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls
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It was actually the Bond Market that forced the pause in the implementation of the tariff plans. Higher interest rate will sink all hopes of the new world economic order being super imposed on the world by the current Article 2 leader of the Dis-United States of America.Trump doesn't rule out extending 90-day tariff pause: Live updates.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/10/china-trump-tariffs-live-updates.html?__source=androidappshare
At a Cabinet meeting, Trump declined to rule out extending the 90-day tariff pause and said he hadnt yet seen Tuesdays market sell-off.
Trump knew his tariffs might cause a recession, but his fear of a depression preceded his decision to pause the duties implementation for 90 days, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Stock markets fell after a huge rebound Wednesday.Now, some Trump Blithering Blather interpretors translate a "90 Day" reference in his blithering blather to mean "forever. ".
But I think the proper interpretation of a Trump Blithering Blather for "forever" is when he says something will happen "in two weeks".
We'll see how this goes in the fullness of time, of course.
I STILL don't understand why Mainstream Media isn't shouting at him like they almost always did with President Biden over every silly imperfection of his historically successful economic recovery from Trump's Pandemic over why oh why would the USA collecting Billions and Billions and Billions of dollars in Trump Tariff Taxes FROM OTHER COUNTRIES could possibly ever ever ever be a bad thing for the USA Economy, trigger a USA Stock Market Crash or Bond Market Crash and either another Great Repub Depression or another Great Repub Recession.
I mean, damn, it is as though those inconsiderate MSM reporters have totally forgotten what Trump's entire point and outcome of his Trump Tariff Taxes were always pitched and meant to accomplish!
MarquisdeSade1
04-10-25, 20:36
LOL. So now that the market has had the biggest rally in 5 years, is Trump a genius?
Go back to what I said.
Trump is dead set on getting the budget deficit and trade deficits down, and he thinks tariffs are the way to do it. Trump does not impose 10% tariffs. He goes to 80 and 90% tariffs, and fools like you scream what an idiot he is. The dummies in the market sell everything. He now goes to a 10% rate, and instead of people screaming bloody murder, the market rallies. Instead of being freaked out, people are grateful for "only" 10% tariffs. That is the art of the deal.
How many times are you Democratic douches going to fall for this? If you think Trump is rational as I do, this tactic falls on its face. If you think he is crazy, and you have the lamestream media telling you that night and day, then the Trump strategy keeps working. Thing about you Democratic douches is I think you would rather slit your wrists than get your collective heads out of your asses about Trump being rational. Two days from now, you will be posting another link about how crazy Trump is, and once again, that means he has you just where he wants you.He didn't care about the blue collar worker, unless you're talking about those in the PRC aka CCPland.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/09/john-carney-on-resetting-global-trade-this-is-the-hill-we-want-to-die-on-there-are-no-other-hills/
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/04/10/nolte-bombshell-chuck-todd-admits-media-would-rather-lie-than-help-trump/
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-sanctuary-cities/2025/04/10/id/1206426/
MarquisdeSade1
04-10-25, 20:39
LOL. So now that the market has had the biggest rally in 5 years, is Trump a genius?
Go back to what I said.
Trump is dead set on getting the budget deficit and trade deficits down, and he thinks tariffs are the way to do it. Trump does not impose 10% tariffs. He goes to 80 and 90% tariffs, and fools like you scream what an idiot he is. The dummies in the market sell everything. He now goes to a 10% rate, and instead of people screaming bloody murder, the market rallies. Instead of being freaked out, people are grateful for "only" 10% tariffs. That is the art of the deal.
How many times are you Democratic douches going to fall for this? If you think Trump is rational as I do, this tactic falls on its face. If you think he is crazy, and you have the lamestream media telling you that night and day, then the Trump strategy keeps working. Thing about you Democratic douches is I think you would rather slit your wrists than get your collective heads out of your asses about Trump being rational. Two days from now, you will be posting another link about how crazy Trump is, and once again, that means he has you just where he wants you.Scumbag Bubba, he didn't care about the American blue collar worker, unless you're talking about those in the PRC aka CCPland.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/09/john-carney-on-resetting-global-trade-this-is-the-hill-we-want-to-die-on-there-are-no-other-hills/
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/04/10/nolte-bombshell-chuck-todd-admits-media-would-rather-lie-than-help-trump/
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-sanctuary-cities/2025/04/10/id/1206426/
MarquisdeSade1
04-10-25, 22:03
LOL. Yes, I appreciate the link. When I read something like that, I realize who the fools who have been making money in the Biden / Brezhnev market. The joke in the Brezhnev time was the USSR was the richest country in the world because everyone stealing and there were still things left over.
Facts do not go over well with a guy like SC. The disturbing fact in his foolish conspiracy theory is the price of TSLA and Truth Social have plummeted. If they wanted to buy things on the cheap, then why didn't Trump and Musk liquidate their billions in positions before the market crashed? Ah yes, they have squirreled away billions in their piggy banks, and he and he alone "knows" that. Oh brother. And never mind that real estate is way, way overpriced right now.
Then we go onto the great and most putrid pig of the Brezhnev / Biden era, AI. AI is going to save the world. SC's brilliant analysis on that is AI is the future and people will always buy the fastest chips. Don't people always want the best Iphone too? The WSJ just did an article on how the Iphone would cost $3000 if it was built in the USA versus the $1100 they are paying today. That is totally bullshit by the way. The idea was Americans love their new Iphones so much that they will squeal bloody murder.
I was looking at getting my gal and her daughter new phones. AT&T was selling the iphone 16 for $6 per month for 36 months. That is $216 not $1100. Whoops. Where they get you is the memory. If you want 512 GB of memory, which costs Apple like $20 total, AT&T charges you an added $20 a month. So the real cost would be $936 per phone with that memory. I do the calculation and instead buy an unlocked refurbished Iphone 15 for $600 with 512 GB of memory. So this is my big fuck you to the WSJ: I have never paid $1100 for a phone and I never will.
Then there was my gal. She likes Samsung, and it is the same schtick. If you want 128 GB of memory, the $1100 phone is $200 . If you want more, it goes closer to $1000. So for her, I buy a new but 3 year old Samsung for $500 and it comes from China.
Oh, but Elvis, you cannot do that anymore. Tariffs will kill you. Nope, Trump has changed when tariffs kick in. The value where tariffs used to kick in was $2500. Trump has lowered that to $800. A lot of people have missed this part. There would be no tariffs on my purchase even after what Trump has done.
But, but, but SCs point is that people always want the fastest chips. Well, I am one of those people and I just showed you I did not. I do not need the fastest chips and my women are going to love their new phones.
Then there is the google pixel. Their phones had these great cameras and their components were inferior to some of the higher end phone makers like Apple. How was that possible? Because google makes Android, and they were able to integrate the best picture software seamlessly. In other words, you do not need the "fastest chips" to have the best product. You need the best hardware and best software. What Google showed is if you have great software and just good hardware, you can have the best product.
As for bitcoin let's go back to the Apple deal. If Apple keeps making their phones in China, the theoretical price to make one goes from $550 to $950, and that means Apple is going to have to charge $1500 or so a phone to make the same profits. I will make the dubious assumption that Apple is not going to be able to do that and their sales and stock will go down. Anyone who bought Apple stock on margin is going to have to liquidate their holdings which include bitcoin. So just forget about bitcoin being spared in a recession. It plummeted in 2009. It will plummet if there is a recession now.
So next you have the Toomsian dumb fuck model where interest rates are going up while the world crashes. If there is a recession, that means demand for things including the demand for money goes down. People cannot borrow anymore. If there is less demand for money / credit, then rates come down. This Toomsian world where in this economy the economy crashes but rates stay high is absurd.
When you make the proclamation that AI is the future, are YOU using it right now? If so, is it as essential as what you eat or is it a gimmick? Everyone I know uses their phones and the internet but no one I personally know is using AI right now. I have been hearing about how great this tech has been for 5 years now. When does it stop being the future and starts being the present?
And what you will see from SC is the usual string of insults about his dick size, how everyone is racist, and this idiotic Trump conspiracy theory. I could care less if someone is on line and tells me how smart they are because they bought something and it went up. If you do not have a good reason for the why, then you are just lucky.Encore Encore Encore.
MarquisdeSade1
04-10-25, 22:10
Since the MAGA Fuhrer, declared "Liberation Day" and the grand proclamation of sweeping tariffs, meant to "free" the U.S. from foreign trade dependence, has it made you Repubs, finally "free at last?"
Fear not, I'm sure with criminal buffoons and tariff genius advisers, like Peter Navarro, guiding your equally as buffoonish, moronic and imbecilic MAGA Fuhrer, bodes well for impeding economic chaos,. Ahem, I mean "Liberation", right!
So much for the American Fuhrer's "Liberation Day"! However, you gotta love the spark of nationwide "Hands Off!" protests of over 1,400 demonstrations in all 50 states, that did "liberate" millions of Americans, off their couches, to rebel against MAGA stupidity and the current clown show of Repubs.
PS: I think the best slogan, in weekend's "Hand's Off!" protests, was the one, that said: "Donald Trump, do the whole world a favor and S T F U!" (...kkkk!)All red blooded Americans should be cheering for disembowelment of Asia (except the PI they speak English are Catholic and love Uncle Sam).
If you are cheering for the ENEMY you need to be executed like the Rosenbergs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/business/trump-tariffs-philippines.html
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/white-house-donald-trump-china/2025/04/10/id/1206415/
https://www.newsmax.com/morris/tariffs-donald-trump-democrats/2025/04/10/id/1206376/
April 10,2025.
The Optimum Tariff: The Idea Behind Trump's Trade Strategy.
For decades, American elites have spoken of free trade as though it were a moral commandment engraved in stone—unquestionable, sacred, eternal. Tariffs, they say, are relics of the past. Economic heresy. An automatic road to higher prices, shrinking output, and worldwide retaliation.
What they don't tell you—what most of them don't know—is that some of the most brilliant economists in history developed a theory proving exactly the opposite: under the right conditions, tariffs can make a country richer.
This idea goes by the name optimum tariff theory, and it has been around since long before modern economists started pretending free trade was a universal good. Long before Donald Trump ever uttered the word "tariff," British and classical economists were working out exactly how, when, and why a powerful country could tilt global trade in its favor.
President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a "Make America Wealthy Again" trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images).
And if that sounds familiar, it should. Because Trump's trade policy—especially his 10 percent baseline tariff on all imports—is a near-perfect real-world application of this theory.
But before we get there, it's worth pausing to understand what the theory actually says.
The core insight is this: when a country is big enough, it can influence world prices. The United States is not a small, open economy. We are the world's largest buyer. When we buy less of something, the world notices. Prices move.
Now imagine we put a tariff on imports. That's just a tax at the border. It raises the domestic price of a foreign good. As a result, we buy less of it. But if we're a major share of global demand for that product—steel, semiconductors, autos, solar panels, whatever—the global price starts to fall. The country selling it can't easily find other buyers. Supply outstrips demand. So, prices drop.
In this case, the tariff doesn't just make the product more expensive at home. It pushes down its world price, so we end up paying less for it than we would without the tariff. We give up some volume of trade, yes—but what we do trade, we trade on better terms. This is what economists call a terms-of-trade gain.
Here's where the theory gets its name. If you raise tariffs too high, you lose too much volume and the gains vanish. If you don't raise them at all, you leave bargaining power on the table. But there's a "just right" rate—a point at which the terms-of-trade improvement outweighs the lost trade volume. That's the optimum tariff.
Think of it like this: if your local supermarket doubled its prices tomorrow, you'the probably shop somewhere else. But if there's only one store in town, and it raises prices by just a bit, most people will stay and pay. That store has market power. So do we.
Of course, there's a catch. If every country did this—if every nation tried to raise tariffs to extract better deals—then global trade might shrink. Worse, other countries might retaliate with tariffs of their own. That was the worry of many of the classical economists who developed this theory. And for decades, it became the reason to ignore it. Free trade was treated not just as policy, but as virtue.
But the theory never disappeared.
The Forgotten History of Strategic Tariffs.
In the mid-19th century, a British economist named Robert Torrens showed how tariffs could improve a country's trading position by shifting the balance of demand between nations. John Stuart Mill followed with a more rigorous treatment, introducing the idea that how much a country gains from a tariff depends on the elasticity of its trading partner's supply—how easily they can sell elsewhere.
Later in the century, Alfred Marshall and Henry Sidgwick built graphical models showing how countries could adjust trade volumes to improve their outcomes. Francis Edgeworth introduced the idea of trade indifference curves—economic maps of national welfare—and demonstrated precisely where the maximum gain from tariffs could be found. The theory grew more precise, more elegant, and harder to ignore.
Then in 1906, see. F. Bickerdike delivered the mathematical knockout. He proved, with equations, that a modest tariff imposed by a country with market power—one that imported goods whose world supply was not perfectly elastic—could raise national income. He even derived the formula still cited today by economists who admit, if only in footnotes, that yes, tariffs can work.
By the time Nicholas Kaldor published his now-famous 1940 essay, "A Note on Tariffs and the Terms of Trade," the heavy lifting had already been done. But Kaldor did something essential: he clarified and consolidated the theory into a framework that could be taught, diagrammed, and easily replicated. He took the complex interplay of reciprocal demand and indifference curves and presented it in a clean, two-country, two-good model. In Kaldor's version, tariffs shift a country's offer curve outward—meaning they demand more favorable terms for the same level of trade—and the point of tangency with their trading partner's offer curve moves to a higher indifference curve, representing a welfare gain.
Kaldor walked the reader through each step of the logic: if a country is large enough to affect world prices, then a tariff reduces the quantity imported, drives down the global price of that good, and allows the country to re-import it at a discount. The result? The country keeps more value from each trade—a net improvement in national welfare.
He was careful. He cautioned against large tariffs. He assumed no retaliation. He even prefaced his argument by reaffirming his own general support for free trade. But the effect of the paper was clear: even among free traders, the logic of the optimum tariff was now undeniable.
Economists later enshrined Kaldor's diagram in textbooks, but often stripped it of context. They presented it as a curiosity, a theoretical aside, rather than what it truly was: a powerful rebuttal to the idea that free trade is always the best policy.
So, why was it buried? Because it undermined the happy talk of mutual gain. Because it suggested that trade was not win-win, but often win-lose. Because it proved that powerful nations could get richer by shifting the burden to weaker ones.
Trump didn't cite these economists. He didn't need to. His instinct told him what they proved in theory: America has leverage. We are the buyer everyone wants. And when we put a modest price on access to our market, we get better deals in return. That's the logic behind the 10 percent baseline tariff. That's the logic behind reciprocal tariffs. And that's the logic we'll explore in Part Two of this discussion in tomorrow's Breitbart Business Digest, where we will show how Trump's tariffs bring optimum tariff theory to life.
The textbooks forgot. But Trump remembered.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/opinion/ross-douthat-interesting-times.html
Newton York
04-11-25, 02:12
Let's make America Recession again! I can't wait until we're paying 20 bucks for a dozen eggs, woo hoo! I can't get enough of this winning! Wow, make it stop. There's just too much winning going on, I'm getting dizzy from watching my brokerage account crater! This is too awesome!
MarquisdeSade1
04-11-25, 04:42
Since the MAGA Fuhrer, declared "Liberation Day" and the grand proclamation of sweeping tariffs, meant to "free" the U.S. from foreign trade dependence, has it made you Repubs, finally "free at last?"
Fear not, I'm sure with criminal buffoons and tariff genius advisers, like Peter Navarro, guiding your equally as buffoonish, moronic and imbecilic MAGA Fuhrer, bodes well for impeding economic chaos,. Ahem, I mean "Liberation", right!
So much for the American Fuhrer's "Liberation Day"! However, you gotta love the spark of nationwide "Hands Off!" protests of over 1,400 demonstrations in all 50 states, that did "liberate" millions of Americans, off their couches, to rebel against MAGA stupidity and the current clown show of Repubs.
PS: I think the best slogan, in weekend's "Hand's Off!" protests, was the one, that said: "Donald Trump, do the whole world a favor and S T F U!" (...kkkk!)https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/nyregion/nyc-subway-corpse-sex.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/woman-82-sexually-assaulted-home-invasion-auburn-gresham/
Cumming to a blue city near you, I'm sure they are registered Kamala voters.
Rather than stupid Trump beach resort when he failed same for Gaza than for Ukraine, but much more clever to decide for a country for Palestinians, to fuck criminal, friend of Trump, Netanyahou. I would be very proud of my little France to lead for this decision, when only way to stop this never ending war, when Netanyahou doesn t want to stop this war, same like Putin, and Trump is more for bullshiting 24/7 than to get real results. He can keep on fucking USA economics. Petrol fall is good for me, not for USA nor Putin.
Trump doesn't rule out extending 90-day tariff pause: Live updates.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/10/china-trump-tariffs-live-updates.html?__source=androidappshare
Now, some Trump Blithering Blather interpretors translate a "90 Day" reference in his blithering blather to mean "forever. ".
But I think the proper interpretation of a Trump Blithering Blather for "forever" is when he says something will happen "in two weeks".
We'll see how this goes in the fullness of time, of course.
I STILL don't understand why Mainstream Media isn't shouting at him like they almost always did with President Biden over every silly imperfection of his historically successful economic recovery from Trump's Pandemic over why oh why would the USA collecting Billions and Billions and Billions of dollars in Trump Tariff Taxes FROM OTHER COUNTRIES could possibly ever ever ever be a bad thing for the USA Economy, trigger a USA Stock Market Crash or Bond Market Crash and either another Great Repub Depression or another Great Repub Recession." s Pandemic over why oh why would the USA collecting Billions and Billions and Billions of dollars in Trump Tariff Taxes FROM OTHER countries."
It's truly worrying about how many Americans still believe that it's the other country which pays tariffs. This is the issue with democracy and how vulnerable it is to demagogues. If you just lie enough and cloak your claims in obfuscation, you can get away with almost anything, regardless of veracity. You can say "up is down", "right is wrong", and just get away with it. Kind of makes a mockery about the inherent superiority of "democracy".
Let's make America Recession again! I can't wait until we're paying 20 bucks for a dozen eggs, woo hoo! I can't get enough of this winning! Wow, make it stop. There's just too much winning going on, I'm getting dizzy from watching my brokerage account crater! This is too awesome!More DOGE, more Trump Tariffs, more Repub Tranny Obsession, more and longer wars in Ukraine and Gaza, more pardons for violent, America-hating criminals, please!
I have been very disappointed by Trump's timidity in keeping the promises 77.3 Million MAGAs and a few stray Third Party voted for.
I want all of the pain, destruction, chaos, incompetence, economic and national security Catastrophe that the very fine people on the other side wished for to come about fully and completely. To a degree the likes of which nobody has ever seen and will never ever forget.
This on again off again on again cave and back again and cave some more nonsense just isn't cutting it the way I had so dearly hoped for.
We should be in the midst of a genuine Great Repub Trump Global Depression by now and would be if not for Trump's increasingly obvious cognitive impairment for even remembering everything he promised to do just this passed year.
We are now 81 TIMES past "Day One" and the Great Repub Trump Global Depression is still only a glorious vision in the medium far horizon instead of happening right this very minute.
Sad.
Well. At least Trump and his fellow Repubs in Congress are working on it.
All red blooded Americans should be cheering for disembowelment of Asia (except the PI they speak English are Catholic and love Uncle Sam). If you are cheering for the ENEMY you need to be executed like the Rosenbergs.This post was completely over the line.
You better check with country where the electronics you are using to post your pure unadulterated male bovine excrement is made. Individuals calling for the execution of people who disagree with them have a historical record of losing their own lives in the end. For the record I just dropped my iPhone and purchased a Samsung. Just to give two middle fingers up to the current leader of the Article 2 branch of the Dis-United States of America.
You want to execute me. Come for me personally my man. I just bought two new wedges. I will show you my golf swing. In the mean time I will continue my pursuit of happiness wherever I want using the product made where I want. I don't want to give up my New Balance Shoes. But I will!
The only thing the current Article 2 leader is trying to do is enrich himself and the cronies. We are getting a window seat at the display of how CRONY capitalism works.
And what you will see from SC is the usual string of insults about his dick size, how everyone is racist, and this idiotic Trump conspiracy theory..Classic line to minimize anyone who does not think like him.
I could care less if someone is on line and tells me how smart they are because they bought something and it went up. If you do not have a good reason for the why, then you are just lucky.In the markets I would prefer to be lucky than smart. Because over the long term it has made the difference in the financial lifestyle I can lead and therefore my pursuit of happiness and still does. For whatever reason, Elvis 2008 has me on ignore yet manages to summarize my posts. Note he does not quote me so is giving us his interpretation of my posts.
Are these considered facts?
10-year Treasury yield falls from highs after auction eases concerns about demand for U.S. debt
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/us-treasury-yields-investors-weigh-new-reciprocal-tariffs-.html
Trump didn't care that the stock market was crashing. Bond yields were the pain point that finally got him to pause tariffs
https://fortune.com/2025/04/09/trump-didnt-care-that-the-stock-market-was-crashing-bond-yields-were-the-pain-point-that-finally-got-him-to-pause-tariffs/
I use an AI bot to trade! I have a friend who uses it for work. I have another friend that uses it a detailed search function. Those who don't understand AI are not smart enough to and are not willing to put the work in to bring themselves up to speed on how useful it can be. It is sort of like saying because I don't know how to fly a plane, I don't see the usefulness of autopilot.. Of course you don't because you are not a pilot. Autopilot takes the work load off the pilot. But no one want to fly without a human being sitting at the controls.
Real Estate is overpriced because people use it to store money and therefore people have to pay both the utility value of the property to use it and a monetary value. Has the value of real estate gone up, or the value of the USD gone down?
People that need the fastest chips will buy them. Baby 2008 Elvis and his prostitute girlfriend do not need the fastest chips. I buy fast chip in my computers I use for trading. I don't worry about the speed of a chip in my smart phone or tablet. ROTFLMAO.
BTC and AAPL cannot be mentioned in the same sentence. But someone stretching to make a point might do it. Buying Apple on margin. Selling Bitcoin to cover your losses. Buy BONDS! Is this making sense to you? Because if so please explain it to me.
Let me just end with the statement that historically when a country falls it is the bond holders who get wiped out. Read a random walk down wall street. The author makes that point that sticks in my mind still today when I read it as a young man. You can still name the companies that powered World War II war machine today. But two of those countries governments fell. Bond holders lost everything. But those companies lived on. Those companies still thrive today.
Let me finish up with gold. I never owned gold until two years ago. I was fascinated at how it was integrated into Thai Culture. Thai people use gold for many things, but one of the big things is a store of value. Check the price of Gold two years ago. Check it today. Yep, I got lucky. I got lucky because I wanted to store value in hard money. Check the price of Bitcoin from years ago. Check out the price of Bitcoin today. Yep, I got lucky because I want to store value in hard money. I guess it pays to be lucky, over and over and over again. ROTFLMAO!.
Lastly, who among us actually understand what it means to trade? To be a trader? I do. So let me ask this, if you buy one item for 1 (one) USD and it goes up to 2 (two) USD. You sell half the item and you get your original 1 USD back. But you still own 50% of your original purchase. It then continues to go up. What is your return on investment? It is infinite. Because now you are playing with house money. Yes, I got lucky because I learned risk management in Las Vegas Casinos when I used to put my rent money on the blackjack table and walk away with my rent plus all the money needed to pay for my weekend in Las Vegas. Those were some insane times. You could just show up for you flight 20 minutes before. Pay cash. Have no luggage and no one gave a fuck!
ROTFLMAO!
So, I do not care about a individual who chooses to invest differently than I do. They can call me lucky if that is what they need to do in order to continue to feel superior. Far be it from them to understand that there are many different ways to turn a profit in the markets. Years of working my ass of has made me lucky. No one has to believe me. But that luck has paid me quite well and is a personal fact for me. Exactly where do people think I got my flow and my stack that allows me to be an International Trick?
17.5 same color T-Shirt?
I paid 32.82 USD to have sex with girl today. No tariffs on that. I would much rather be lucky than smart. That is why I got a passport, booked a flight, and got the fuck out of the Dis-United States of America. Because I was lucky to be born smart.
How you like me now?
MarquisdeSade1
04-11-25, 21:25
This post was completely over the line.
You better check with country where the electronics you are using to post your pure unadulterated male bovine excrement is made. Individuals calling for the execution of people who disagree with them have a historical record of losing their own lives in the end. For the record I just dropped my iPhone and purchased a Samsung. Just to give two middle fingers up to the current leader of the Article 2 branch of the Dis-United States of America.
You want to execute me. Come for me personally my man. I just bought two new wedges. I will show you my golf swing. In the mean time I will continue my pursuit of happiness wherever I want using the product made where I want. I don't want to give up my New Balance Shoes. But I will!Treason is an executable Federal offense.
Save your thinly veiled hooker board threats and do us all a big favor and send this message.
To DHS or better yet if you're too afraid, send to me in PM and Ill forward it to them for you, you worthless Konnt.
MarquisdeSade1
04-11-25, 22:22
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pilot-sean-johnson-new-york-helicopter-crash-matteson-illinois/
China still make very big pollution and a lot of lies. USA pollute twice more than Europe, per citizen and crazy Trump wants to pollute more. Inflation and falling USD for no brained Americans who elected a shame for second time. Only good point is petrol rate will fall, making less money for Putin war and saving money for a big driver like me, less than 0,7 for my french ecologic E85 , about 10 for 100 kms, when driving more than 5000 kms per month.
Yes, the current American Fuhrer, wants to "drill baby drill" and "burn baby burn" the U.S. to the ground, with his delusional tariffs, while looking to bleed dry, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, while also picking the pockets of hardworking Americans, to fund the tax-cuts for his buddy, robber baron billionaires and rich corporate overlords.
As for China polluting, you can't just look a current pollution levels (although I agree it is problematic), you also have to remember, that over the last 75-100 years, the U.S. and Europe, on their way to industrialization, have polluted the world's atmosphere significantly far more than China.
For decades, prior to 2007, before China overtook the U.S. as the #1 polluter, both the U.S. and Europe, held that dubious title for years and decades, as the world's biggest polluters.
But what isn't a lie, is that China is fast remedying, it's fossil fuel polluting problems. Faster than the U.S. and Europe combined. China is adding at least 5 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar capacity every week, for a total of 356 GW in 2024 alone. And 2024/2025 might just be peek fossil fuels for China?
You have something to report to federal authorities? Report it! You are not the first dumb mother fuck to imply I am engaged in some sort of illegal activity. Put your name on a long list of those engaging in defamatory statements. Be ready to be prosecuted for filing a false police report and to be sued in civil court.
Treason is an executable Federal offense.18 U.S.C. 2381*.
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or imprisoned and fined, and incapable of holding any U.S. office.
Show me the elements of the above crime that I have committed. Remember you need to prove your case beyond a reasonable doubt. Better start your investigation now. I will give you a tip. If you are looking for me, read my posts. ROTFLMAO!
Save your thinly veiled hooker board threatsHow about you do the same?
and do us all a big favor and send this message. To DHS or better yet if you're too afraid, send to me in PM and I'll forward it to them for you, you worthless Konnt.How eloquent! ROTFLMAO.
Have you even read the Constitution of the United States of America?
Fifth Amendment
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
I apologize to our non American readers. But you have an example here of another one of my fellow American showing his illiteracy, biases and bigotry. He doesn't even know or understand the first principles document of the country he lives in.
The Defense Rests!
You see there is the thing called the United States Constitution. If you have not been paying attention, the Article 2 leader just got checked by the Article 3 leader.
Justices direct government to facilitate return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
In a short order on Thursday evening, the court largely left in place an order by a federal judge in Maryland directing the government to return to the United States Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia who is currently being held in a maximum-security prison in El Salvador as a result of what the Trump administration concedes was an administrative error.
https://www.scotusblog.com/
In your face POTUS!
Oh that was nasty!
I know I am smart so I don't worry if 2008 Elvis thinks I am only lucky
The only thing the current Article 2 leader is trying to do is enrich himself and the cronies. We are getting a window seat at the display of how CRONY capitalism works.
Classic line to minimize anyone who does not think like him.
In the markets I would prefer to be lucky than smart. Because over the long term it has made the difference in the financial lifestyle I can lead and therefore my pursuit of happiness and still does. For whatever reason, Elvis 2008 has me on ignore yet manages to summarize my posts. Note he does not quote me so is giving us his interpretation of my posts.
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Let me finish up with gold. I never owned gold until two years ago. ...I guess it pays to be lucky, over and over and over again. ROTFLMAO!.
Lastly, who among us actually understand what it means to trade? To be a trader? I do ...
ROTFLMAO!
So, I do not care about a individual who chooses to invest differently than I do. They can call me lucky if that is what they need to do in order to continue to feel superior. Far be it from them to understand that there are many different ways to turn a profit in the markets. Years of working my ass of has made me lucky. No one has to believe me. But that luck has paid me quite well and is a personal fact for me. Exactly where do people think I got my flow and my stack that allows me to be an International Trick?
17.5 same color T-Shirt?
I paid 32.82 USD to have sex with girl today. No tariffs on that. I would much rather be lucky than smart. That is why I got a passport, booked a flight, and got the fuck out of the Dis-United States of America. Because I was lucky to be born smart.
How you like me now?
When Elvis 2008, is constantly trying to flex his so called "business acumen", I'm always reminded of his Carnac the Magnificent schtick, recession predictions and his Red Lobster bankruptcy takes, as epic cautionary tales, as to why anyone would even think to consider, let alone entertain his wrongheaded business advice, much like his MAGA Fuhrer's 6x bankruptcy filings and his current nonsensical hard-on for tariffs.
Elvis 2008's own "killer business acumen", has consistently failed to predict the recession (he was so eagerly hoping for, time and time again), despite a very strong and booming Biden administration's economy. Only to end up, in the end, eating crow, while Biden's economy, added 16+ million jobs, produced the longest run of unemployment, outpaced all world global economic peers and had all-time stock market highs and gains.
Then there was my fav, where Elvis 2008 doubled down on more bad takes, claiming Red Lobster's bankruptcy was because of "a bad Biden economy" and "people having no money" to spend at restaurants, rather than the plainly obvious, with terrible business management, endless shrimp deals, and the pernicious nature of private equity vultures, bleeding the company dry.
But like most gullible MAGA folks, that just refuse to admit when they're embarrassingly wrong, unfortunately can't help themselves. As they spout their right-wing MAGA culture-wars and propaganda, their billionaire robber barons and corporate overlords, easily pick their pockets.
I think, Lyndon B. Johnson, said it best:
If you can convince the lowest white man, he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice when you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. ― Lyndon B. Johnson
The MAGA Fuhrer's billionaire robber barons, corporate overlords, bootlickers, hanger-ons and sycophants, from all accounts, are proceeding nicely, at picking America's pockets and divvying up the spoils.
MarquisdeSade1
04-12-25, 01:42
When Elvis 2008, is constantly trying to flex his so called "business acumen", I'm always reminded of his Carnac the Magnificent schtick, recession predictions and his Red Lobster bankruptcy takes, as epic cautionary tales, as to why anyone would even think to consider, let alone entertain his wrongheaded business advice, much like his MAGA Fuhrer's 6x bankruptcy filings and his current nonsensical hard-on for tariffs.
Elvis 2008's own "killer business acumen", has consistently failed to predict the recession (he was so eagerly hoping for, time and time again), despite a very strong and booming Biden administration's economy. Only to end up, in the end, eating crow, while Biden's economy, added 16+ million jobs, produced the longest run of unemployment, outpaced all world global economic peers and had all-time stock market highs and gains.
Then there was my fav, where Elvis 2008 doubled down on more bad takes, claiming Red Lobster's bankruptcy was because of "a bad Biden economy" and "people having no money" to spend at restaurants, rather than the plainly obvious, with terrible business management, endless shrimp deals, and the pernicious nature of private equity vultures, bleeding the company dry. .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goEU7C1xmis
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-03-14/real-cause-market-selloff-recession
MarquisdeSade1
04-12-25, 02:12
Let's make America Recession again! I can't wait until we're paying 20 bucks for a dozen eggs, woo hoo! I can't get enough of this winning! Wow, make it stop. There's just too much winning going on, I'm getting dizzy from watching my brokerage account crater! This is too awesome!Doesn't mean the rest of us will accept it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/10/charlie-munger-volatile-market-advice.html
MarquisdeSade1
04-12-25, 05:13
When Elvis 2008, is constantly trying to flex his so called "business acumen", I'm always reminded of his Carnac the Magnificent schtick, recession predictions and his Red Lobster bankruptcy takes, as epic cautionary tales, as to why anyone would even think to consider, let alone entertain his wrongheaded business advice, much like his MAGA Fuhrer's 6x bankruptcy filings and his current nonsensical hard-on for tariffs.
Elvis 2008's own "killer business acumen", has consistently failed to predict the recession (he was so eagerly hoping for, time and time again), despite a very strong and booming Biden administration's economy. Only to end up, in the end, eating crow, while Biden's economy, added 16+ million jobs, produced the longest run of unemployment, outpaced all world global economic peers and had all-time stock market highs and gains. .I think Barry Hussein, said it best:
"If you can only dupe enough of the most talented / intelligent of white men they're no better than the lowliest of blacks (ie SC).
You can sell him on any policies to absolutely eviscerate them all ala affirmative action / DEI policies etc".
I can't remember if this was before or after his "God Guns and Gays" comments, and when he refused to release ANY of his college transcripts.
Which he still refuses to do until this very day.
It was a solemn pledge to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same. I spend most of my adult working life under that oath. I carried a pocket version of the United States Constitution for the entire time I was under oath. Accuse me of a committing a crime. Better be able to back up your Hooker Board accusations. Because they will not stand up in a court of law in the Dis-United States of America.
Speaking of the constitution, POTUS takes a related oath.
Trump has left himself open to a powerful constitutional counterpunch
Trumps government by spite opens an avenue to challenging his score-settling
Aziz Huq, a law professor at the University of Chicago, is the author of The Rule of Law: A Very Short Introduction.
A central premise of many of the unprecedented things that Donald Trump's administration has done was captured by something the president said a few days after his inauguration: "I have certain hatreds of people," he confessed. However many falsehoods he has been accused of uttering, can there be any doubt that this was unalloyed truth?
That truth carries within it a powerful, so-far-neglected legal argument for taking Trump on and it's one that, like his tariffs, could unite left and right in disapproval.
A single, plainly unconstitutional thread ties together many of the second Trump White House's actions thus far. With blazing clarity, ill will has been embraced by this president as a reason for targeting individuals and institutions, even when it's, at best, loosely linked to his policy ambitions. This is a serious legal flaw, yet none of the more than 170 lawsuits and counting filed against the administration lead with it.
Consider the range of actions legible in terms of "hatreds": stripping former aides of security details; rescinding security clearances of perceived enemies; blacklisting law firms with Democratic connections; demanding $400 million from a university that once refused to pay the president. $400 million; and even denying Maine residents the ability to register their children with Social Security numbers because the federal government was "ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president. ".
Most people are familiar with the constitutional axioms against prohibiting speech or discriminating on the basis of race. Less appreciated, however, is the fact that it is unconstitutional to act against a person or an institution out of simple malice or indeed for no reason at all. Under our Constitution, the government must be motivated by law, not hatred or caprice.
This is, moreover, a constitutional principle that finds expressions beyond the lonely dissents of the Supreme Court's liberal minority. Quite the contrary: It is one that a unanimous Supreme Court, including its most conservative members, has championed.
The central precedent was decided a quarter-century ago. It arose out of mundane, even tedious, facts. Thaddeus and Grace Olech had a history of disagreements with the village of Willowbrook, Illinois, where they lived. Their conflicts came to a head in the village's demand that they cede up a 33-foot easement rather than the standard 15 to connect to the municipal water supply. This was hardly the stuff of constitutional crises, yet the Olechs argued that the demand was "irrational and wholly arbitrary" and so violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
They took their dispute all the way to the nation's high court, where the justices unanimously agreed with them. The Constitution, explained the court, shielded the Olechs from "intentional and arbitrary discrimination," even if all that was at stake was 18 feet of easement.
Eight years later, the court affirmed Olech. In an opinion by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. That went against the Oregon Department of Agriculture, all the conservative justices condemned "arbitrary government classification" as at odds with the constitutional order. Over the dissent of three liberal justices, however, Roberts declined to extend Olech to government employees. When the government acts as an employer, he said, officials cannot avoid making subjective and individualized decisions. But when it acts as an "arm's-length" regulator, Roberts warned, the Olech rule against arbitrary decision-making applied with full force.
That prohibition on arbitrary governmental action, and in particular government actions motivated by spite or ill will, applies not just to states but also to the federal government. And it throws into grave constitutional doubt many of the Trump administration's targeting decisions.
In many of those cases, I suspect that the new administration's actions could be successfully shown to rest on no more than caprice or ill will. Of course, federal lawyers will gin up reasons to shield what in fact are arbitrary decisions. Rare are instances in which an official so candidly admits that he endangered newborn infants because he was "ticked" about a governor's manners. The government may persuade the court that some of its actions have some rational basis, which is the relevant test. Trump's tariffs, for example, may well be economically irrational, but they are unlikely to be struck down on that ground simply because judges aren't comfortable second-guessing equations. But, in many other cases, based on the abundant evidence of these past 11 weeks, I suspect the government's proffered reasons can convincingly be shown to be a sham.
Yet the lawyers driving the anti-Trump litigation seem to have missed this equal protection claim. Why? It could be that many were brought up in the left-liberal traditions of the ACLU and the NAACP, while challenges to the arbitrariness of administrative action have long been a staple of the libertarian right. And decisions such as Olech, challenging local property assessments, are seldom discussed in such circles because they advance property owners' interests rather than those of vulnerable minorities. Cases such as Olech are oddities, not canon.
Whatever the reason, this failure to center the anti-arbitrariness principle in the recent constitutional litigation strikes me as a strategic error. Many such claims may founder on evidentiary grounds. But the anti-arbitrariness principle is surely one that will resonate with a broad public.
Most Americans agree that the awesome power of the state should not be used for fickle or malign reasons. Driving out arbitrary whim, and its cousin "hatred," from the government's lexicon is surely a goal that all, of whatever political hue, can agree upon. The absence of this argument from the litigation means we don't even have a full airing of the arguments and facts about abuses of power that appear to be running rampant in plain sight.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/09/trump-cases-constitution-revenge-court-challenge/
If you step to The Cmdr, you better bring your mother fucking A game or watch the weak ass shit you throw up get rejected like you see in a NBA highlight reel!
I think Barry Hussein, said it best:
"If you can only dupe enough of the most talented / intelligent of white men they're no better than the lowliest of blacks. You can sell him on any policies to absolutely eviscerate them all ala affirmative action / DEI policies etc".Did Barry Hussein actually say this?
"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. " - Lyndon B. Johnson.
Do you need me to quote the 3/5 principle next?
Did Barry Hussein actually say this?
I think Barry Hussein, said it best: "If you can only dupe enough of the most talented / intelligent of white men they're no better than the lowliest of blacks (ie SC).
You can sell him on any policies to absolutely eviscerate them all ala affirmative action / DEI policies etc".In the second world war, Navajo code talkers transmitted sensitive USmilitary information in their own undocumented language. Which was nice of them, as their immediate ancestors had been dispossessed and destroyed by white settlers, and then had all their water poisoned with uranium. Were it not for the Navajos, concluded major Howard Connor, at the time, the marines would never have taken Iwo Jima. And that famous photo of the American soldiers raising a flag would just have shown some Japanese boy scouts letting off a party popper.
But last month Trumps defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, said: I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is our diversity is our strength. Some Navajo code talkers reputedly had bodyguards to protect them from white American servicemen who thought they were Japanese. Plus a change, as they say over there in that Europe.
The Navajos efforts went unrecognised for several decades. When the son of one of the code talkers got to live the American dream by opening a Burger King in Kayenta on Navajo lands in 1986, he made the building a partial museum of his fathers unit. I visited it 30 years ago, with the comedian Kevin Eldon (Narvi the dwarf smith in TVs The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), and it remains the most edifying fast food restaurant I ever ate in. It was even better than that KFC near Bletchley Park that does that delicious Alan Turing chicken strips and alphabetti spaghetti meal deal .
Despite the fun-size fascism were seeing across the Atlantic, the woke folk panic still sells papers and farms online engagement
The Kayenta Burger King also has a more extensive archive of code talker artefacts than any official government repository. Especially since, last week, videos, photos and stories of the Navajo code talkers were temporarily removed online as part of Trumps assault on diversity. A page commemorating corporal Ira Hayes, a Pima of the Gila River Indian Community, and one of the servicemen photographed raising that Stars and Stripes at Iwo Jima, also disappeared for a while in Trumps thwarting of the woke.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/23/trump-chose-the-wrong-hill-to-dei-on
Replacing the Black Joint Chief of staff with a lesser quality White man was a DEI Hire!
Game goes to: Mr. SubCmdr. Your service game Mr. MarquisdeSade1. Make it a good one!
Rather than stupid Trump beach resort when he failed same for Gaza than for Ukraine, but much more clever to decide for a country for Palestinians, to fuck criminal, friend of Trump, Netanyahou. I would be very proud of my little France to lead for this decision, when only way to stop this never ending war, when Netanyahou doesn t want to stop this war, same like Putin, and Trump is more for bullshiting 24/7 than to get real results. He can keep on fucking USA economics. Petrol fall is good for me, not for USA nor Putin.So the land of the free has almost suceeded in deporting that Mahmud Khalil for the crime of criticising Israel (he has one appeal left after a court validated Trump's order to deport this American resident). Israel controls America. Even if France recognises Palestine, it won't change matters. The zionists are too strong. They will probably punish France for doing so, but regardless they will eradicate the Palestinians, massacring the women and children, and will suppress any dissent by all means including destroying people's livelihoods, jailing them or deporting them. In which way is America a "better" or freeer nation than Russia?
Enter The V
04-12-25, 13:58
How many of you international mongers have faced hostilities and faces around the world because of the Orange Clowns Bullshit tariffs to every country? And you MAGAS don't give me that Bull crap that countries around the World have been ripping you off for decades Blasphemy.
In which way is America a "better" or freeer nation than Russia?In this way! Its called THE RULE OF LAW.
Have you even read the Constitution of the United States of America?
Fifth Amendment
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
I apologize to our non American readers. But you have an example here of another one of my fellow American showing his illiteracy, biases and bigotry. He doesn't even know or understand the first principles document of the country he lives in.
The Defense Rests!
You see there is the thing called the United States Constitution. If you have not been paying attention, the Article 2 leader just got checked by the Article 3 leader.
Justices direct government to facilitate return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
In a short order on Thursday evening, the court largely left in place an order by a federal judge in Maryland directing the government to return to the United States Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia who is currently being held in a maximum-security prison in El Salvador as a result of what the Trump administration concedes was an administrative error.
https://www.scotusblog.com/
In your face POTUS!
Oh that was nasty!Democrocy is messy and is not perfect. But neither is your country HotDog666!
Now, THIS is the kind of Repub Trump economic results his devoted MAGA voters demanded of him all through his campaign rallies and when they rushed to the polling places to vote for him!
Trump tariffs on China will soon mean 'irreversible' damage for USA Businesses.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/trump-tariffs-on-china-mean-irreversible-damage-for-most-businesses.html?__source=androidappshare
On Saturday, the Trump administration said it would exempt technology products like the iPhone, PCs and chips from much of the recently imposed Chinese tariffs.
But for most businesses in the U.S., orders from China are being canceled and Chinese freight being shipped could be abandoned.
Without a wider pause in the trade war with China, the damage will soon be irreversible for U.S. businesses, according to a retail expert, including furniture, toys, apparel, footwear, and sports equipment.I am going to be very, very disappointed if Repub Trump's Repub MAGA Winger "bothsider / neithersider" supporters and enablers' votes do not produce EXACTLY the economic result everyone in the world knew their votes for him were destined to produce.
MAGA!
In this way! Its called THE RULE OF LAW.
Democrocy is messy and is not perfect. But neither is your country HotDog666!The point Subcmdr is that he has defied the "RULE OF LAW". Try reading this slowly and let it sink in, maybe you will understand.
You're apparently not up to date on this El Salvadore issue, the govt attorney is refusing to tell the judge whereabouts of this man, contrary to the article you posted, and there are some reports he's actually dead. Even if he isn't the point is that the Govt defied the judiciary and continues to defy the judiciary, so you can take your "rule of law" up your pipe and smoke it, hero.
As for Mahmum Khalil, "rule of law"? Get a fucking grip. I won't dignify this with a reply.
I don't let visitors tell me what is going on in my country of origin.
The point Subcmdr is that he has defied the "RULE OF LAW". Try reading this slowly and let it sink in, maybe you will understand. You're apparently not up to date on this El Salvadore issue, the govt attorney is refusing to tell the judge whereabouts of this man, contrary to the article you posted, and there are some reports he's actually dead. Even if he isn't the point is that the Govt defied the judiciary and continues to defy the judiciary, so you can take your "rule of law" up your pipe and smoke it, hero.If by hero you are giving a complement because I spent the majority of my life under the OATH I took to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies foreign and domestic. There is no need for that. I was just another CITIZEN in a long line of CITIZENS that came before me that have done the same in order to allow my fellow Americans to sleep peacefully under the blanket of security I that I and many others provided during our watch.
The Article 2 leader has NOT defied the Article 3 leader You need to read The Constitution of the United States of America if you unaware of the structure of the government of the Dis-United States of America. You can google it. Send me a PM if you need any additional help understanding it.
Educate yourself my man!
As for Mahmum Khalil, "rule of law"? Get a fucking grip. I won't dignify this with a reply.I understand why you are pleading No contest. It is because you have no defense.
The decision sides with the Trump administrations claim that a short memo written by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, which stated Khalils current or expected beliefs, statements or associations were counter to foreign policy interests, is sufficient evidence to remove a lawful permanent resident from the United States. The undated memo, the main piece of evidence submitted by the government, contained no allegations of criminal conducthttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/mahmoud-khalil-deportation-ruling-immigration
The Defendant in this case is a guest in the Dis-United Staes of America. All (compound profanity deleted) need to stay in their lane when they are guests. This is something I understand intimately as I have travel extensively. The protections of the Constitution of the United States of America ends once your method of transportation enters international waters. If he was a CITIZEN things would be different as they should be.
The RULE of Law
You don't have to like it, you just have to live with it. If you cannot, don't let the doorknob hit you in the ass on the way out.
Elvis 2008
04-13-25, 16:45
He didn't care about the blue collar worker, unless you're talking about those in the PRC aka CCPland.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/09/john-carney-on-resetting-global-trade-this-is-the-hill-we-want-to-die-on-there-are-no-other-hills/
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/04/10/nolte-bombshell-chuck-todd-admits-media-would-rather-lie-than-help-trump/
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-sanctuary-cities/2025/04/10/id/1206426/MDS, I think Clinton did care, but what he did completely fucked over the blue collar worker. This is a great piece from a Wall Street guy known for telling the truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUYsdjHhv8.
When Clinton brought China into the WTO, he thought it would increase GDP in the USA, and it did, but he thought that Main Street would benefit and it did not.
And that is what a dumb ass like Spidy does not get. The economy was great under Biden right? Well, if you are in the top 10% of Americans who own 90% or so of the stocks then yeah, Biden was great. If you are in the bottom 50% and are in debt, and interest rates went up under Biden and they ended up paying more, Biden sucked ass, and that is why he lost. It is also why every time Biden mentioned the economy, his poll numbers tanked.
And what was the Democratic douche response to those bottom 50%? You are stupid if you do not see how great Biden is. And with Tooms, this was not an issue. Oh no, it was not the bottom 50% suffering, it was an Arab plot that got Trump elected. Yeesh.
I have SC on ignore because I can predict what he is gong to say before he says it. All he wants is attention and to tell everyone how great he is. So I figured his response to me would be egotistical and it was. I would rather be lucky than good and then tells everyone how smart he is.
I invest based on value. Is something overpriced or not? The Amex platinum is a more prestigious card than Amex gold, and it has been because platinum had traditionally been higher in price, and it should be. Platinum is 30 X rarer than gold.
So I cannot even begin to value gold because the people buying are convinced the world is coming to an end. Why the fuck else would you buy gold that just sits there over an apartment complex or farm or bond which produces income on an annual basis? And why now? The world coming to an end is nothing new and IMO has always been a sucker's bet.
So if you think that, IMO you are an idiot. In fact, the only thing you can do at this point to convince me that you are a bigger idiot is if you think the world is coming to an end is to buy gold at $3000+ an ounce and shun platinum at $900+ an ounce.
And what does SC say about gold? I am buying it up right now and making huge bank. LOL.
Elvis 2008
04-13-25, 17:00
I don't think that is true at all.Yeah, I know. That is the problem.
BTW, your links only show that Florida has more parents choosing to put their kids in schools other than traditional public schools, nothing about them being "best":And didn't I just say that when you ask for links, all you do is trash them. This is the part you are referring to "Florida ranked #1 in the Parent Power Index by the Center for Education Reform. The assessment focuses on alternative pathways and educational choices that parents and students have access to beyond traditional public schools. ".
And you completely ignore this: Today, USA News & World Report announced that Florida is again ranked #1 in the nation for education. The publication's Best State ranking is based on a combination of strong performances in higher education and K-12 metrics.
And my explanation for this is you are so delusional with the Dem Good, Republican bad crap that your brain cannot process anything that says otherwise.
And something about how many billions New York State had on hand in 2020, before Trump's Pandemic ravaged a whole bunch of Red States' budgets?And here you go again. New Yori's terrible finances are not due to the Dems running the state. No, it is Trump's fault. And the pandemic that started in China? That is Trump's fault too.
That is why sending you any links is a waste of time. You just see what you want.
MarquisdeSade1
04-13-25, 22:24
MDS, I think Clinton did care, but what he did completely fucked over the blue collar worker. This is a great piece from a Wall Street guy known for telling the truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUYsdjHhv8.
When Clinton brought China into the WTO, he thought it would increase GDP in the USA, and it did, but he thought that Main Street would benefit and it did not.
And that is what a dumb ass like Spidy does not get. The economy was great under Biden right? Well, if you are in the top 10% of Americans who own 90% or so of the stocks then yeah, Biden was great. If you are in the bottom 50% and are in debt, and interest rates went up under Biden and they ended up paying more, Biden sucked ass, and that is why he lost. It is also why every time Biden mentioned the economy, his poll numbers tanked.
And what was the Democratic douche response to those bottom 50%? You are stupid if you do not see how great Biden is. And with Tooms, this was not an issue. Oh no, it was not the bottom 50% suffering, it was an Arab plot that got Trump elected. Yeesh..The only thing he care about was their votes, he was hoping Wall St and the CCP would reward him with a 3rd maybe even a 4th term if necessary to get TPP pushed thru.
BTW I have the AMEX Gold card I don't see any benefits with the Platinum for more than double the annual fee $750.
Did you say prestige? Lolol I'm guessing most assume its a silver card, in which case they assume the Gold card is better lolol.
Yeah, I know. That is the problem.
And didn't I just say that when you ask for links, all you do is trash them. This is the part you are referring to "Florida ranked #1 in the Parent Power Index by the Center for Education Reform. The assessment focuses on alternative pathways and educational choices that parents and students have access to beyond traditional public schools. ".
And you completely ignore this: Today, USA News & World Report announced that Florida is again ranked #1 in the nation for education. The publication's Best State ranking is based on a combination of strong performances in higher education and K-12 metrics.
And my explanation for this is you are so delusional with the Dem Good, Republican bad crap that your brain cannot process anything that says otherwise..With all that supposed "education" as determined by that one Winger-leaning news source, Floridans still knowingly voted for this:
How Trumps Tariffs Could Lead to a Global Recession.
April 9, 2025
https://time.com/7275987/trump-tariffs-global-economy-recession-trade-war-asia-world-impacts/
Perhaps a little less re-reading of "Dick And Jane" over and over again and a little more reading about this would have been useful for the sake of the USA and the rest of the World:
Trump Facts.
64 Times Mentioned In Epstein Report.
97 Times Pleaded The Fifth.
34 Felony Convictions.
91 Criminal Charges.
26 Sexual Assault Allegations.
6 Bankruptcies.
5 Draft Deferments.
4 Indictments.
2 Impeachments.
2 Convicted Companies.
1 Fake University Shut Down.
1 Fake Charity Shut Down.
$25 Million Fraud Settlement.
$5 Million Sexual Abuse Verdict.
$2 Million Fake Charity Abuse Judgment.
$93 Million Sexual Abuse Judgements.
$400+ Million Fraud Judgment.
First President in history to serve a full term increase the deficit every year he was in office.
First President in history to maintain a debt to GDP ratio over 100% for his entire term.
Highest annual budget deficit.
Most added to the national debt in a single term.
Most new unemployment claims.
Largest single day point drop in the history of the Dow.
First major party candidate in half a century to lose the popular vote twice.
Longest government shutdown in history (and he did that while his own party controlled both chambers of Congress).
First President in the history of approval ratings to maintain a net negative approval rating for his entire term.
First President to be impeached twice.
First President to have bipartisan support for his conviction after impeachment (which happened both times).
Most indictments, guilty pleas, and criminal convictions of members of an administration.
I don't let visitors tell me what is going on in my country of origin.
If by hero you are giving a complement because I spent the majority of my life under the OATH I took to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies foreign and domestic. There is no need for that. I was just another CITIZEN in a long line of CITIZENS that came before me that have done the same in order to allow my fellow Americans to sleep peacefully under the blanket of security I that I and many others provided during our watch.
The Article 2 leader has NOT defied the Article 3 leader You need to read The Constitution of the United States of America if you unaware of the structure of the government of the Dis-United States of America. You can google it. Send me a PM if you need any additional help understanding it.
Educate yourself my man!
I understand why you are pleading No contest. It is because you have no defense..Damned if I'm going to read your spiel for the third time to make sense of your demented ramblings.
Sure, you're a citizen. A third class one. And if your deny it, why don't you mouth off to an American cop like you do here and if you survive we can discuss this further. You say you're in your 60's so you should be familiar with how your people are treated under the "Rule of Law."
Fuck only knows why you're arguing about a blatant fact that your president has literally defied the judiciary.
As for your comment about Mahmud deserving being deported, I think I probably won't be shedding too many tears for you when you're gone after your encounter with the American cop. Patriot.
Does this idiot get the concept of supply and demand or is he another socialist that he thinks that he deserves better service because of his virtue signaling?The idiot in question that E2008 is referring to is me. Just click on the view original post link.
I have Subcmdr on ignore because I can predict what he is gong to say before he says it. All he wants is attention and to tell everyone how great he is. So I figured his response to me would be egotistical and it was. I would rather be lucky than good and then tells everyone how smart he is.This shows that E2008 simply has a personal problem with me. Ask him why he is so bitter that his fellow American can do what he does financially and more with what he thinks are fucked up investment ideas? ROTLMAO.
I invest based on value. Is something overpriced or not? The Amex platinum is a more prestigious card than Amex gold, and it has been because platinum had traditionally been higher in price, and it should be. Platinum is 30 X rarer than gold.So E2008 is comparing plastics to precious metals. ROTFLMAO. At least AMEX is not a credit card. You have to pay it off each month. In the long run, almost everything anyone invests in will go up in value. Except if you hold your wealth in fiat currency. Note, in the long run. In the long run we are all dead.
So if you think that, IMO you are an idiot. In fact, the only thing you can do at this point to convince me that you are a bigger idiot is if you think the world is coming to an end is to buy gold at $3000+ an ounce and shun platinum at $900+ an ounce.I have a very specific reason to store my reserve funds in gold. It is due to where I am posted up. Platinum, Silver and Copper are not integrated into the economy in Thailand, nor in the Dis-United States of America. Because E2008 lives in the greatest country in the world. He has no need to buy gold. The Dis-United States of America will always remain on top. He has no reason to buy hard assets that hold their value over time. I'm an idiot because I bought gold and it has gone up 43% in value.
So I cannot even begin to value gold because the people buying are convinced the world is coming to an end. Why the fuck else would you buy gold that just sits there over an apartment complex or farm or bond which produces income on an annual basis?How does E2008 survive in the financial world without knowing the concepts and why an individual has a diversified portfolio. E2008 assumes I don't own income producing residential real estate or a business that produces cash flow. I am fine with that. E2008 is allowed to think what he wants to think. But ask yourself, why does he really have a problem with me? It is because of what his fellow American looks like? He does not like Americans that look like me. Has been the problem since he first responded to me in the Medellin RANTS threat.
And what does Subcmdr say about gold? I am buying it up right now and making huge bank. LOL.Over the last two years my gold purchases have significantly increased in value.
We have clients who currently hold positions in gold. These are typically individuals with substantial assets across various industries and sectors, using gold as a means of portfolio diversification and balance
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/is-this-a-good-time-to-buy-gold-experts-weigh-in.html
When an individual simply interprets what you said instead of quoting you directly they are lying. Because if they could make their point using your quote, they would quote you instead of adding their spin and interpretation to it. Notice how much of E2008 argument is based on emotional ad hominem attacks that have no basis in logic.
Gold is at a all time high
Hey I switched up. Buying silver not gold. With gold at 3200 USD / ounce. One 2 Baht Chain is 3000 USD / Not about the money. As some of my individual pieces are up over 50% since I bought them. Any shirts lost? If so I can buy new ones. In fact that is what I have done. I stopped by my tailor for some custom made Pajamas that I can were outside and matching shirt and shorts for the Songkran Festival. So much for worries about my stack. Back to GOLD. It is about my neck. Someone will break / cut yo neck for that kind of money. So I am following the advice of the Wu-Tang Clan. Protect yo neck!Proof E2008 is not actually reading my post and instead is simply posting the ideas he has already made up about me.
MarquisdeSade1
04-14-25, 01:19
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/04/08/schweizer-4-things-to-consider-in-tariff-panic-week/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/08/nolte-55-of-leftists-believe-its-justifiable-to-assassinate-trump-thanks-to-apps-like-bluesky/Here's your typical ISG AP Trump loon.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/13/fbi-teen-murdered-parents-in-extremist-plot-to-fund-assassination-of-president-trump/
https://www.investing.com/news/commodities-news/ubs-forecasts-3500-gold-price-in-2025-rally-to-extend-into-2026-3980795
https://youtu.be/GpN-te9Od3c?si=SNBmoCtlpd24JvPy
When E2008 is forced to stick with economic facts instead of proffering his personal opinions about my investing methods his logic fails. His response to this post should be very interesting.
The dollar is falling. That means investors around the world are loosing confidence in the current reserve currency of the world. There is no replacement. So this is not end of the world stuff. It's called hedging your bets. Can the Dis-United States of America recover from the current mess Trump and is corny capitalists are putting us into? Of course it can. E2008 needs to recognize markets don't lie.
I will always keep a diversified world portfolio!
MarquisdeSade1
04-14-25, 04:48
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/13/arizona-remove-almost-50k-non-citizens-voter-lists/
What was the difference between Scumbag Joe and Our Lord and Savior? 10,000?
MarquisdeSade1
04-14-25, 06:37
MDS, I think Clinton did care, but what he did completely fucked over the blue collar worker. This is a great piece from a Wall Street guy known for telling the truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUYsdjHhv8.
When Clinton brought China into the WTO, he thought it would increase GDP in the USA, and it did, but he thought that Main Street would benefit and it did not.
And that is what a dumb ass like Spidy does not get. The economy was great under Biden right? Well, if you are in the top 10% of Americans who own 90% or so of the stocks then yeah, Biden was great. If you are in the bottom 50% and are in debt, and interest rates went up under Biden and they ended up paying more, Biden sucked ass, and that is why he lost. It is also why every time Biden mentioned the economy, his poll numbers tanked.
And what was the Democratic douche response to those bottom 50%? You are stupid if you do not see how great Biden is. And with Tooms, this was not an issue. Oh no, it was not the bottom 50% suffering, it was an Arab plot that got Trump elected. Yeesh..And that's why Scumbag Bubba did what he did, to help the oligarchs and fuck everyone else.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/business/economy/ross-perot-nafta-trade.html
Yeah, I know. That is the problem.
And didn't I just say that when you ask for links, all you do is trash them. This is the part you are referring to "Florida ranked #1 in the Parent Power Index by the Center for Education Reform. The assessment focuses on alternative pathways and educational choices that parents and students have access to beyond traditional public schools. ".
And you completely ignore this: Today, USA News & World Report announced that Florida is again ranked #1 in the nation for education. The publication's Best State ranking is based on a combination of strong performances in higher education and K-12 metrics.
And my explanation for this is you are so delusional with the Dem Good, Republican bad crap that your brain cannot process anything that says otherwise.
And here you go again. New Yori's terrible finances are not due to the Dems running the state. No, it is Trump's fault. And the pandemic that started in China? That is Trump's fault too..I didn't ask you for any links to the claim that Florida has the best schools yet most people old enough to vote in that state are so stupid they choose one Trump's Pandemic to mass murder at least 1 million Americans and wipe out millions upon millions of jobs after another.
Did you already forget you included those links proving my point when you initially posted your message? Unsolicited by me?
However, neither you nor the poster from whom I asked for a link to prove his silly point and that triggered you to quote it with a totally unrelated response has yet to post one single link substantiating it.
Very telling.
Product of Florida schools, are you?
[QUOTE]DHS told her to leave the country. She's a citizen and an immigration attorney
When Massachusetts resident Nicole Micheroni received an email on Friday from the federal government telling her to leave the country, she was baffled.
At first I thought it was for a client, but I looked really closely and the only name on the email was mine, said Micheroni. So it said my parole status had been terminated and I should leave the country within seven days.
But the 40-year-old is a U.S. citizen, born in Newton and raised in Sharon.
Probably, hopefully, sent to me in error, she said. But its a little concerning these are going out to U.S. citizens.
Micheroni is also an immigration attorney, working with many clients facing possible deportation issues, so her name and email are on a lot of paperwork.
The language in the email is very threatening, she said. And it looks kind of like a sketchy spam email. It doesnt look like an official government notice, but it is.[/QUOTEhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/citizen-gets-dhs-letter-leave-country-self-deportation-rcna201118
Musk, DOGE and company at work here.
So while the DOGE, billionaire robber barons, Repubs, QAnon\MAGA cultist, bothsider, neithersider, MAGA adjacent "Repub Libertarians" or lunatic-fringe wingers and ...
the self-proclaimed imbecile investing savant, whom claimed the Red Lobster's bankruptcy, was due to an all-time great Biden economy, and ignores or fails to see the real harm and destruction to the economy, his Fuhrer's "just trust me" tariffs and current Repub admin clown show are hurting Americans and...
who also readily love to dismiss, denigrate and impugn the often great work gov't does and declares "gov't as the enemy"...THIS POST IS FOR YOU!
The poignant timing, brilliant deduction and great storytelling, Michael Lewis delivers, what looks to be yet another fantastic book (Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service), isn't lost on many Americans today, now awakened from their slumber, to the much "taken for granted" gov't public ethos, that is so alien to MAGA, the American Fuhrer and Musk's grifting transactional worldview.
As The Guardian notes in the article, the book's timing is "horrendously perfect". Its a manifesto for civic pride in an era of demolition, proving that governments true "swamp" isn't bureaucracy, its the unchecked power of those who vilify it, while relying on its invisible labor.
For the knuckleheaded QAnon\MAGA nihilists, questioning why collapsing agencies matter, Lewis offers answers in the stories of people who've spent careers making their country better, safer, fairer, and more humane, which is precisely what's now at risk.
The Guardian: Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis review what Doge is trying to destroy. ... One of the many people who doesn't understand how the US government works has somehow been permitted to take it down to the studs in the name of efficiency. Elon Musk's Doge has only been running for a few weeks but Americans will be suffering the consequences of his ignorant vandalism for many years to come, in health, national security, disaster preparation and more. ...
Contrary to the conservative stereotype of a ballooning bureaucracy, the size of the federal workforce has not changed greatly since the 1960s. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/19/who-is-government-by-michael-lewis-review-what-doge-is-trying-to-destroy
Despite Michael Lewis's somewhat premature elegy and alarmist narration, but brilliant storytelling, he shows us, just how "efficient" gov't really is, and what's being lost, as the MAGA Fuhrer and Musk "move fast and break things" with no plans to rebuild.
This is yet another, chilling cautionary tale, of what most people already know, ...NOT duped by gullible MAGA Jedi mind tricks, which is to say, "...everything the MAGA Fuhrer touches, turns to SHIT!"
Damned if I'm going to read your spiel for the third time to make sense of your demented ramblings.Dear visitor to my country of origin, I am sorry you are having reading compression problems. Did you not receive adequate educational training in the reading, writing and arithmetic in your country of origin as a child?
I know in order for you to visit they do not require you to know The Constitution of the United States of America. That is only a requirement if you want to become a citizen of my great Nation. Continue to read this post in order to receive additional education as to how things work in the Dis-United States of America.
Sure, you're a citizen. A third class one.If you are making that claim. Prove it. It is a Civil claim. Only a preponderance of evidence is required. That is a lower standard than for a Criminal Case. So, go ahead and get at me dog.
And if your deny it, why don't you mouth off to an American cop like you do here and if you survive we can discuss this further.I don't have to deny anything. You have to prove it. I will await your notification that you have filed a complain against me in civil court.
I will add there are not actual legal designations between citizens in my country of origin other than natural or naturalized. That designation only applies when it comes to becoming the President of the United States of America. That is the article 2 branch.
You say you're in your 60's so you should be familiar with how your people are treated under the "Rule of Law. Fuck only knows why you're arguing about a blatant fact that your president has literally defied the judiciary..If a court order has been defied, then show me where the court has issued a contempt of court order. You cannot. You are allowed your own opinions but not your own facts.
As for your comment about Mahmud deserving being deported..He is not a CITZEN. Even so he has received Due Process under the RULE OF LAW!
I think I probably won't be shedding too many tears for you when you're gone after your encounter with the American cop. Patriot.Quite magnanimous of you. You wish for my death. You are truly a sad individual to wish for another man to die because he disagrees with your tipping philosophy. ROTFLMO! I wouldn't expect nothing more from you. Please tell me why you think an encounter with the POLICE in the Dis-United States of America would go poorly for me?
I see our guest has now resorted to ad hominem attacks regarding my writing ability. My age. My ability to survive and encounter with the POLICE (Death Squads in Government Uniform) in my country of origin. It get that. Our guest has no case. No knowledge of The Constitution. He resides in my country of origin but he does not understand it. Has no legal background. Does not understand the law.
I get that. No need to be angry with me about it because as a visitor you cannot vote and influence the government of the Dis-United States of America. So, you come here to this thread in order to toss ad hominem attacks and release the frustrations you encountered from being impotent and a nobody in your own country of origin. That is why you are in the Dis-United States of America is it not?
Make a case to support your passions! Instead of just hysterical rantings like a *****!
The Defense Rests
I need for him to explain to me why the Stock Market is going down and the Bond Market is going down at the same time increasing yields? It thought traditional wisdom is that when money leaves the Stock Market (Risk On) the flows into the Bond Market (Risk Off) as a safe haven. As smart as he is I know he has an explanation for me. Because according to him I am a complete idiot. But even I deserve an education right? Or does he also feel that the police should leave me:
Dead in the street, mouth full of blood and a soul full of heatIf happens, don't cry for me because my heirs are going be mother fucking rich!
Dear visitor to my country of origin, I am sorry you are having reading compression problems. Did you not receive adequate educational training in the reading, writing and arithmetic in your country of origin as a child?
I know in order for you to visit they do not require you to know The Constitution of the United States of America. That is only a requirement if you want to become a citizen of my great Nation. Continue to read this post in order to receive additional education as to how things work in the Dis-United States of America.
If you are making that claim. Prove it. It is a Civil claim. Only a preponderance of evidence is required. That is a lower standard than for a Criminal Case. So, go ahead and get at me dog.
I don't have to deny anything. You have to prove it. I will await your notification that you have filed a complain against me in civil court.
I will add there are not actual legal designations between citizens in my country of origin other than natural or naturalized. That designation only applies when it comes to becoming the President of the United States of America. That is the article 2 branch.
If a court order has been defied, then show me where the court has issued a contempt of court order. You cannot. You are allowed your own opinions but not your own facts.
He is not a CITZEN. Even so he has received Due Process under the RULE OF LAW!I have sometimes wondered whether I am too hard on you, SubCmdr, but two picoseconds later I realize that no, I am not, you are truly an imbecile.
You seriously want to deny that Blacks are second class citizens and mistreated by American police unless I prove you the evidence of this? I don't wish your death, I am simply exposing the hypocrisy of someone who shows such callousness about injustice towards another who has been mistreated and so therefore doesn't deserve my tears. If you genuinely believe that you're going to be treated as well as a white person in any encounter with the cops then that's fine. You believe it. It was just a piece of advice, don't go round mouthing off to an American cop because it won't end well for you. Bro.
With reference to facts, here's a fact from a right wing source:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/04/14/trump-and-cabinet-tear-into-cnn-reporter-oval-office/
The executive is quite literally defying the judiciary.
As for Mahmud Khalil, he was and is a US permanent resident, not a guest. The man did nothing wrong and the only crime he was to condemn the fascist state of Israel, what the fuck are you talking about by invoking the constitution? I can only assume you are either a complete moron or the world's best troll. The whole point is that his is a defiance of the constitution of the US. You started this discussion by claiming that the US is better by it's "rule of law". I call you out for your bullshit. What does your so called "first amendment" offer? The truth is that your "rule of law" has always been about about your judiciary or your executive making things are as they go along. "All men are born equal" except the black guy yes? You know about this, don't you hero? Or maybe you don't. Because like the Stephen character out of Django that you are who defends the oppressor of another, you are willfully blind. The same constitution which had your parents (and perhaps you) not being permitted to drink from the same faucet as the white guy is being used to now brutalise another and you have the gall to talk about the "rule of law". I would say shame on you but you don't deserve shame. Just contempt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Mahmoud_Khalil
Read it slowly.
Nvidia is working with Taiwanese electronics manufacturers Foxconn and Wistron to build two supercomputer factories in Houston and Dallas, the company announced Monday. *Nvidia expects the investment to result in "hundreds of thousands of jobs, and said that "mass production at both plants is expected to ramp up in the next 12-15 months."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisdobstaff/2025/04/15/forbes-daily-nvidia-chooses-texas-as-its-us-supercomputer-base/#.
Now look at this. Trump is getting what he wants. But our local Bond Expert (E2008) dismissed my theory about the ultimate objective of the Trump / Musk authoritarian take over of the USGOV. Sorry brother, markets do not see everything through the red colored contact lenses you wear.
Is a Constitutional Crisis in the works?
Boeings shares slid sharply in premarket trading early Tuesday, after Bloomberg reported that the Chinese government had ordered the countrys airlines to stop taking deliveries of new aircraft from the American plane maker. The move, which also orders Chinese airline companies to stop buying aircraft parts from Boeing, is reportedly part of Chinas retaliation against President Donald Trumps 145% tariff rate on nearly all Chinese-made goods.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisdobstaff/2025/04/15/forbes-daily-nvidia-chooses-texas-as-its-us-supercomputer-base/#.
USGOV is buying BTC with revenue from Tariffs. ROTFLMAO.
Delta Says It Refuses To Pay Tariffs On Incoming Airbus Aircraft
https://youtu.be/yl8IJWATIZs?si=z0mioeKUMqwQHqBb
Mahmoud Khalil
He is not a CITZEN. Even so he has received Due Process under the RULE OF LAW!Yes, he did!
Trump administration can proceed with Mahmoud Khalils deportation, judge rules
An immigration judge has ruled that the Trump administration can proceed with its effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the U.S., in a case that Khalils attorneys and civil rights experts say has enormous implications for free speech in the U.S.
Judge Jamee Comans determined in a hearing on Friday afternoon that the government has grounds to move forward with its case against Khalil, a Palestinian student activist. His legal team has until April 23 to appeal the decision. Comans said that if his attorneys do not meet the deadline, she will order for him to be deported to Syria, where he was born, or to Algeria, where he holds citizenship.
Khalil addressed the court after the ruling, saying that neither fundamental fairness nor due process were present today or in this whole process.
This is exactly why the Trump administration sent me to this court 1,000 miles away from my family, said Khalil, whose wife, a U.S. citizen, is due to give birth to their first child this month.
Khalils legal team condemned the ruling and vowed to fight for his freedom..https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/mahmoud-khalil-deportation-hearing-immigration-judge-rcna200869
You seriously want to deny that Blacks are second class citizens? If you genuinely believe that you're going to be treated as well as a white person in any encounter with the cops then that's fine. You believe it. It was just a piece of advice, don't go round mouthing off to an American cop because it won't end well for you. Bro.
All men are born equal" except the black guy yes? The same constitution which had your parents (and perhaps you) not being permitted to drink from the same faucet as the white guy
I would say shame on you but you don't deserve shame. Just contempt.My fellow Americans, Am I a second class citizen?
Roll Call
Elvis2008? Spidy? EihTooms? MarquisdeSade1? NewtonYork? Tiny12? Goatscrot? RamDavidson?
Hell yeah, fuck racists. All 12 of them left. Thank god 99.999999% of Americans don't give a fuck about skin color!
As for Mahmud Khalil, he was and is a US permanent resident, not a guest.By definition he is a guest. Are you are guest in my country of origin also?
Or are you just another one of my fellow Americans talking your male bovine excrement about race showing your favorite colors for outerwear is a WHITE HODDIE?
Another important limitation on lawful permanent residents is that they are subject to the grounds of deportability. If you commit certain crimes or security violations, or even fail to advise USCIS of your changes of address, you can be placed in removal proceedings and deported from the United Stateshttps://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/us-immigration/permanent-resident-vs-citizen-difference.html
Learn what the law says before trying to school me son. You have absolutely no idea what my background was serving my fellow Americans during most of my adult life under the OATH to protect and defend The Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies foreign and domestic. Guests such as yourself don't know the law nor understand what it means to take that OATH. If I was second class citizen I would have never been allowed to take it in the first place.
How you like me now?
Elvis 2008
04-16-25, 00:52
the self-proclaimed imbecile investing savant, whom claimed the Red Lobster's bankruptcy, was due to an all-time great Biden economy, and ignores or fails to see the real harm and destruction to the economy, his Fuhrer's "just trust me" tariffs and current Repub admin clown show are hurting Americans and...Dude, I do not have to be an all time great investor. I can look at a balance sheet and earnings report and see Red Lobster lost more money in 2020 under Trump than any other year. More importantly, the only reason Red Lobster came up is that it went broke under Biden as did a lot of restaurants, and that fact completely did not jibe with the complete bullshit you and your fellow trolls abroad were spewing about how great the USA economy was. People who actually live in the USA saw few new restaurants being built and many going under and you and your fellow Democratic douches were lecturing us on how great restaurants were doing. LOL.
Interest rates went up under Biden, and the bottom 50% in debt had to pay more interest under Biden than Trump. So yeah, the top 10% who owned stocks did great while the bottom 50% got fucked. Again, you just ignore basic math.
We just saw the same thing with Loony Tooms telling us how stupid the people in Florida are from fucking Thailand. Of course, they are stupid. Florida went from Trump. Anyone who does not vote to send your lazy unproductive asses money abroad has to be stupid.
As for this latest idiotic rant about how great government is, let me put out one statistic to show you how full of it you are. Two out of every three paid tax dollars does not go to any government service whatsoever. It is redistributed to lazy asses like yourself. Got that? Two in three tax dollars goes to someone else. So yeah, of course, you are going to go on about how great government is when it shakes down productive people and pays your lazy ass for your vote.
The reason people are moving from New York to Florida is to get away from paying the unproductive nonworking government slugs being given millions of dollars per person in pension money.
And after listening to you douches who live abroad, I think there should be a movement to not let people who live abroad vote unless they are in the military. Because the only issue you douches care about is that the government keeps sending you checks. You do not give a fuck about the condition of the country.
MarquisdeSade1
04-16-25, 04:48
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/04/14/report-boston-mayor-michelle-wu-funded-by-ccp-intelligence-official/
Inflation, recession, lost jobs, failure for Gaza and Ukraine, senile dangerous Trump looks like a loser making falling USA, at least for image and tourism, many cancelling to visit such country. My little France should stay number 1 for tourism and I would be proud if Gaza was given to Palestinians for their country, on next Summer. Fuck Netanyahou who wants never ending war.
And after listening to you douches who live abroad, I think there should be a movement to not let people who live abroad vote unless they are in the military. Because the only issue you douches care about is that the government keeps sending you checks. You do not give a fuck about the condition of the country.Since there can be no taxation without representation I would take that deal. No more US Taxes. It is a much better deal for the Dis-United States of America to continue to tax citizens outside of its boarders. What a deal! Pay taxes but not have to provide any government resources to them. But what E2008 doesn't understand in his infinite stupidity I value the US Embassy Consulate Services. Not worth paying taxes over, but they are a very competent and efficient part of the USGOV that I pretty much interact with at least once a year all over the world.
I think that if you enter the country illegally should be banned for life from becoming a US Citizen. That would have stopped Musk at the boarder and we would not have to be dealing the the mess he is creating right now. After listing to the Republic Racists that post up in here I think that when the Democratic party returns to government their voting rights should be removed just as they are trying to to my fellow Americans currently. I care very much about the Rule of Law. Something a visitor to my country of original posting up in here cannot understand.
Two middle fingers up to our Bond King that wants to take away my rights as a US Citizen!
Inflation, recession, lost jobs, failure for Gaza and Ukraine, senile dangerous Trump looks like a loser making falling USA, at least for image and tourism, many cancelling to visit such country. My little France should stay number 1 for tourism and I would be proud if Gaza was given to Palestinians for their country, on next Summer. Fuck Netanyahou who wants never ending war.When is your France going to put boots on the ground in Ukraine and Gaza. Or is having you as a fan boy enough?
ROTFLMAO!
Here we go again.
Why do Repubs and especially Repub Trump hate the American Working Men and Women so much they can't wait do destroy their Great American Dream as soon as possible after the electorate foolishly gives them another chance to do it.
Repub Trump has just done it in record time. Less than 90 days!
Homebuyers rush to riskier loans, as tariff turmoil pushes interest rates higher.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/homebuyers-rush-to-riskier-loans-as-tariff-turmoil-pushes-interest-rates-higher.html?__source=androidappshare
The share of borrowers applying for adjustable-rate loans jumped to the highest in over two years.
Mortgage rates jumped 20 basis points in one week.
Homebuyers pulled back, despite much higher inventory of homes for sale.BTW, seriously, where did all the "This is what winning looks like"! MAGA posters go?
Dude, I do not have to be an all time great investor.But you are very good at talking your pure unadulterated male bovine excrement about the investment strategies of others.
As for this latest idiotic rant about how great government is, let me put out one statistic to show you how full of it you are. Two out of every three paid tax dollars does not go to any government service whatsoever.What is the actual budget for the Dis-United States of America?
In fiscal year 2024, the federal government spent $6.9 trillion, amounting to 24 percent of the nations gross domestic product (GDP), according to the June 2024 estimates of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). About nine-tenths of the total went toward federal programs; the remainder went toward interest payments on the federal debt. Of that $6.9 trillion, almost $4.9 trillion was financed by federal revenues. The remaining amount was financed by borrowing. (Note: In this analysis, the figures are adjusted for certain one- or two-day timing shifts in federal payments that distort the year-to-year paths.)
Three major areas of program spending make up the majority of the budget:
Health insurance: Four health insurance programs Medicare, Medicaid, the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace health insurance subsidies together accounted for 24 percent of the budget in 2024, or $1.7 trillion. More than half of this amount, or $912 billion, went to Medicare, which in June 2024 provided health coverage to around 67 million people who are age 65 or older or have disabilities. The rest of this amount reflects the federal costs of Medicaid and CHIP ($626 billion) and ACA subsidy and marketplace costs ($125 billion). Both Medicaid and CHIP require states to pay some of their total costs.
In March 2023, Medicaid and CHIP provided health coverage or long-term care to 93.9 million low-income children, parents, older adults, and people with disabilities. That was significantly higher than the 70.9 million enrollees before the pandemic because of temporary pandemic-related coverage protection, which expired in April 2023. With its expiration, enrollment dropped to 82.8 million by March 2024 and is likely to fall further, though projections are highly uncertain.
In February 2024, 20.8 million people had enrolled in health insurance through ACA marketplaces, a significant increase over enrollment in 2023. Of the total enrolled, 19.3 million (or 93 percent) received subsidies that lowered their premiums and out-of-pocket costs.
Social Security: In 2024, 21 percent of the budget, or $1.5 trillion, was spent on Social Security, which provided monthly retirement benefits in September 2024 averaging $1,922 to 51.5 million retired workers. Social Security also provided benefits to 2.6 million spouses and children of retired workers, 5.8 million surviving children and spouses of deceased workers, and 8.4 million disabled workers and their eligible dependents.
Defense: Another 13 percent of the budget, or $872 billion, was spent on national defense activities. About 95 percent of the spending in this category reflects the underlying costs of the Defense Department, largely for operations and maintenance; military personnel; procurement of weapons; and research, development, testing, and evaluation.https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/where-do-our-federal-tax-dollars-go
There is the link for your review E2008. The rich don't pay taxes. You know this. The current Administration has tasked Musk with cutting enough from the budget in order to pay for tax cuts to the rich. I am not saying the government cannot be smaller. President Clinton was the last sitting President to reduce the Federal Workforce. Studying the problem for six months then making the cuts. No one except the people who lost their jobs noticed.
Now E2008, please go on your rant about my personally and ignoring the facts that I present. That is your SOP.
Gold prices today breached $3,200 an ounce for the first time. Prices are up more than 22 per cent so far this year. UBS and Commerzbank raised their gold price forecasts on Friday, joining other investment banks as investors drive the safe-haven metal to record highs amid the economic uncertainty sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump's trade policies, as per a report.
Trump's tariffs have roiled financial markets, stoking fears of inflation and a global recession. While he has paused most duties, he has hiked those on China to 145 per cent, prompting Beijing to lift its tariffs on U.S. goods to 125 per cent, Reuters reported.
"We expect gold's rally to extend into next year and for prices to stabilise at higher levels further out," UBS analysts said in a note
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/gold-price-predictions-will-gold-rate-touch-historic-4000-mark/articleshow/120207954.cms
When is your France going to put boots on the ground in Ukraine and Gaza. Or is having you as a fan boy enough?
ROTFLMAO!My France want a country for Palestinians versus criminal Netanyahou, not a beach resort, and keep on helping Ukraine, not sucking criminal dictator Putin like Trump gang.
Inflation, recession, lost jobs, failure for Gaza and Ukraine, senile dangerous Trump looks like a loser making falling USA, at least for image and tourism, many cancelling to visit such country. My little France should stay number 1 for tourism and I would be proud if Gaza was given to Palestinians for their country, on next Summer. Fuck Netanyahou who wants never ending war.Fortunately, USA justice refuse crazy Trump decisions. A real failure.
MarquisdeSade1
04-16-25, 21:09
Here we go again.
Why do Repubs and especially Repub Trump hate the American Working Men and Women so much they can't wait do destroy their Great American Dream as soon as possible after the electorate foolishly gives them another chance to do it.
Repub Trump has just done it in record time. Less than 90 days!
Homebuyers rush to riskier loans, as tariff turmoil pushes interest rates higher.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/homebuyers-rush-to-riskier-loans-as-tariff-turmoil-pushes-interest-rates-higher.html?__source=androidappshare
BTW, seriously, where did all the "This is what winning looks like"! MAGA posters go?YES I told you Donald J Trump is a LIVING GOD.
YES he is destroying all of you includ the CCP / the VietCong Siam Korea et al YES I TOLD YOU SO! Lolololol.
ALLAHU AKBAR MOFOS.
Elvis 2008
04-17-25, 01:18
Here we go again.
Why do Repubs and especially Repub Trump hate the American Working Men and Women so much they can't wait do destroy their Great American Dream as soon as possible after the electorate foolishly gives them another chance to do it.
Repub Trump has just done it in record time. Less than 90 days!
Homebuyers rush to riskier loans, as tariff turmoil pushes interest rates higher.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/homebuyers-rush-to-riskier-loans-as-tariff-turmoil-pushes-interest-rates-higher.html?__source=androidappshare
BTW, seriously, where did all the "This is what winning looks like"! MAGA posters go?LOL. Markets are wrong all the time. There has been a huge sell off in bonds as China and other nations dump not just treasury bonds and mortgage backed securities. If China and other countries are doing this to manipulate markets versus making money, they can go fuck themselves. They will end up losing money. Higher interest rates means you can buy bonds more cheaply, and I and others will be happy to buy what they are selling. That you cheer on currency manipulation which fucks over Americans as you live in Asia is no shock to me. Hell, Spidy should live in China given how he drools over the CCCP and China with its "clean" air.
The other reason bonds are up is all you Democratic douches screaming about higher prices. Your tag line reads Trump raised prices 20% and his supporters cheered. That is the kind of stupid sentiment I like to invest against. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/01/trump-tariffs-effect-on-consumer-prices-debated-by-economists.html.
One model constructed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston suggests that in an "extreme" scenario, heightened taxes on USA Imports could result in a 1. 4 percentage point to 2. 2 percentage point increase to core inflation. This scenario assumes 60% tariff rates on Chinese imports and 10% tariff rates on imports from all other countries. And that is all short term stuff. Tariffs do not cause long term inflation.
Last month, the CPI was down 0. 1% and the PPI which leads the CPI was down 0. 4%. In other words, prices last month were down. Normally, with a declining stock market and those inflation numbers, the Fed cuts rates which is great for bonds, but they have not done it yet because they are unsure of the effect on tariffs.
The problem with the Fed model is it assumes constant demand, and I do not see that. Apple thought they could sell VR glasses called Vision Pro for $3500. They projected to sell 3 million the first year. They sold 400,000, so the notion that people will anything for high end Apple products is bunk. If the Iphone is pushed higher in price, I see consumers not ponying up the cash but balking at buying them. And in China, the reason the CCP is coming to the negotiating table is the trade war has already scared the Chinese consumer so badly that they are not willing to spend either.
This is a good piece overall. I disagree with a few things in it and I do not think he gets what Trump is trying to accomplish but he has insights. https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/america-underestimates-the-difficulty-of-bringing-manufacturing-back.
This was the big one that matters here: People are predicting inflation in the cost of goods, but we can just as easily have deflation from economic turmoil.
Wait, what? Deflation? Yeah, that is what we have now. When prices are down 0. 4% in a quarter, that is deflation. Lower prices are a good thing if demand is constant. They are horrible, and indicate a depression like scenario if prices fall and demand falls.
So yeah, if you see the consumer willing to spend $1500 or $3000 on an Iphone, then keep your inflation projections where they are, but I do not see that happening. I see people going without which is a decrease in demand.
And what gets me with you Democratic douches is you all assume Trump is crazy and do not understand the end game. The goal is not to return all manufacturing from China and elsewhere back to the USA. It is to get the high end work that can be done here, to allow the essentials like rare earths and drug production back in the USA for strategic purposes, and to allow what we do make cheaply like farm goods to be allowed to be sold without being taxed to the hilt by other nations.
So this idiotic scenario you and the Democratic douche media are projecting as happening, 20% inflation forever, would mean bond yields SHOULD go up.
What I see is Trump negotiating deals, which will probably take longer than expected, and the Fed lowering rates either because inflation is not as high as anticipated and / or the end of this tariff war.
But even if I am wrong and the Fed projections come true, and we have literally 2% versus the less than zero inflation we had last month, treasury bonds or MBS yielding 4 and 5% are a screaming buy right now. That they are getting cheaper is something investors should smile about.
Repub so-called president Trump, er, I mean Repub so-called president TrumpMusk, will likely surpass Repub Nixon / Ford in producing policies and stewardship to ignite dreaded Stagflation.
If we're lucky, that is:
Why stagflation now seems like America's "optimistic scenario".
Investors have gone into tariff shock, and stagflation could now be the optimistic scenario for the US economy.
https://moneyweek.com/economy/us-economy/stagflation-us-recession-trump-tariffs
The tariffs amount to a $600 billion tax hike on the cost of living that will hurt consumers, says Bill Dudley on Bloomberg. In the past, the Federal Reserve has ridden to the rescue of a weaker economy. Dont expect a repeat this time. Annualised US inflation is likely to reach nearly 5% over the coming months, reducing the space for interest-rate cuts. All told, stagflation is the optimistic scenario. More likely, the US will end up in a full-blown recession.Harris voters knew this and warned America about it.
But worries about immigrants eating the cats and eating the dogs along with greater worries about trannies peeking over toilet stall barriers to ask for their social network contact info took precedence among Repub MAGA and a few stray Third Party voters.
Oh well.
LOL. Markets are wrong all the time. There has been a huge sell off in bonds as China and other nations dump not just treasury bonds and mortgage backed securities. If China and other countries are doing this to manipulate markets versus making money, they can go fuck themselves. They will end up losing money. Higher interest rates means you can buy bonds more cheaply, and I and others will be happy to buy what they are selling. That you cheer on currency manipulation which fucks over Americans as you live in Asia is no shock to me. Hell, Spidy should live in China given how he drools over the CCCP and China with its "clean" air.
The other reason bonds are up is all you Democratic douches screaming about higher prices. Your tag line reads Trump raised prices 20% and his supporters cheered. That is the kind of stupid sentiment I like to invest against. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/01/trump-tariffs-effect-on-consumer-prices-debated-by-economists.html.
One model constructed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston suggests that in an "extreme" scenario, heightened taxes on USA Imports could result in a 1. 4 percentage point to 2. 2 percentage point increase to core inflation. This scenario assumes 60% tariff rates on Chinese imports and 10% tariff rates on imports from all other countries. And that is all short term stuff. Tariffs do not cause long term inflation.
Last month, the CPI was down 0. 1% and the PPI which leads the CPI was down 0. 4%. In other words, prices last month were down. Normally, with a declining stock market and those inflation numbers, the Fed cuts rates which is great for bonds, but they have not done it yet because they are unsure of the effect on tariffs.
The problem with the Fed model is it assumes constant demand, and I do not see that. Apple thought they could sell VR glasses called Vision Pro for $3500. They projected to sell 3 million the first year. They sold 400,000, so the notion that people will anything for high end Apple products is bunk. If the Iphone is pushed higher in price, I see consumers not ponying up the cash but balking at buying them. And in China, the reason the CCP is coming to the negotiating table is the trade war has already scared the Chinese consumer so badly that they are not willing to spend either.
This is a good piece overall. I disagree with a few things in it and I do not think he gets what Trump is trying to accomplish but he has insights. https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/america-underestimates-the-difficulty-of-bringing-manufacturing-back.
This was the big one that matters here: People are predicting inflation in the cost of goods, but we can just as easily have deflation from economic turmoil.
Wait, what? Deflation? Yeah, that is what we have now. When prices are down 0. 4% in a quarter, that is deflation. Lower prices are a good thing if demand is constant. They are horrible, and indicate a depression like scenario if prices fall and demand falls.
So yeah, if you see the consumer willing to spend $1500 or $3000 on an Iphone, then keep your inflation projections where they are, but I do not see that happening. I see people going without which is a decrease in demand.
And what gets me with you Democratic douches is you all assume Trump is crazy and do not understand the end game. The goal is not to return all manufacturing from China and elsewhere back to the USA. It is to get the high end work that can be done here, to allow the essentials like rare earths and drug production back in the USA for strategic purposes, and to allow what we do make cheaply like farm goods to be allowed to be sold without being taxed to the hilt by other nations.
So this idiotic scenario you and the Democratic douche media are projecting as happening, 20% inflation forever, would mean bond yields SHOULD go up.
What I see is Trump negotiating deals, which will probably take longer than expected, and the Fed lowering rates either because inflation is not as high as anticipated and / or the end of this tariff war.
But even if I am wrong and the Fed projections come true, and we have literally 2% versus the less than zero inflation we had last month, treasury bonds or MBS yielding 4 and 5% are a screaming buy right now. That they are getting cheaper is something investors should smile about.The funniest part:
The other reason bonds are up is all you Democratic douches screaming about higher prices.Lololol. Oh, yes, all of this "Democratic" screaming about higher prices. A totally new American experience. For the past 4 years there has not been one political partisan peep about higher prices, right?
Lololol.
I just did an advanced search for posts from you explaining and excusing in the same excruciating detail as this post from you for how and why prices increased during Biden's historic economic recovery from the unprecedented global economic disaster of Trump's Pandemic, but there was no result.
Now that you have become more familiar with the concept of links, can you help us out with a link to your post of the past 4 years explaining and excusing in even half as much excrutiating detail the higher prices that happened during that phenomenal Envy of the World economic recovery?
Thanks in advance.
Elvis 2008
04-17-25, 05:07
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/15/nvidia-says-it-will-record-5point5-billion-quarterly-charge-tied-to-h20-processors-exported-to-china.html
Nvidia said Tuesday it will take a quarterly charge of about $5. 5 billion tied to exporting H20 graphics processing units to China and other destinations. The stock slid more than 6% in extended trading.
Huang warned that competition in China is growing, and for the second straight year, Nvidia listed Huawei as a competitor in its annual filing.
In addition to the existing Chinese export controls, Nvidia also faces new restrictions on what it can export starting next month, under "AI diffusion rules" first proposed by the Biden administration.
Nvidia shares have dropped 16% this year, largely due to President Donald Trump's announcement of widespread tariffs on top trading partners.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/business/money-report/critical-chip-firm-asml-posts-lower-than-expected-net-bookings-in-first-quarter/4161732/?os=bingquiz.combing-disney-quiz&ref=app&noamp=mobile
The global race for AI has put ASML at the forefront of the industry, as the maker of the world's most advanced chip circuitry engraving system, the EUV lithography machine, used to make chips designed by Nvidia (NVDA. O), opens new tab and Apple (AAPL. O).
Dutch semiconductor equipment firm ASML reported net bookings of 3. 94 billion euros ($4. 47 billion) for the first quarter, versus analysts' forecast of 4. 89 billion euros.
And why was that? Let me guess. It is all Trump's fault.
Global chip stocks have been fragile amid worries about how USA President Donald Trump's tariff plans will affect the semiconductor supply chain.
Ah, there we go. Of course, there were not any tariffs announced in Q1. In fact, there was a huge surge in shipping prior to tariffs being put into place. Ah well, why let facts get in the way of blaming Trump for everything. Point is if business is down at ASML then it will be with Nvidia as well.
This is why I do not like growth stocks in general. The assumption is that the growth will continue forever, and I never saw how that was possible with Nvidia. Nvidia went from being worth $360 billion at the end of 2022 to $3. 2 trillion by the end of 2024 and on November 6, 2024, Nvidia briefly surpassed Apple to become the world's most valuable company by market capitalization, reaching a market cap of $3. 52 trillion. How the hell was it supposed to double from there?
Even today, NVIDIA is valued more than Google, Berkshire Hathaway, and Saudi Aramco. https://companiesmarketcap.com/. Yeah, that makes sense. / sarc.
But do not worry. SC swears it is going up so you should buy it. I must have missed where he mentioned and explained AI diffusion rules, tariffs, and Huawei as a potential competitor. Maybe he can lecture everyone on these things after the racist comments and how big his dick is. And BTW, did he mention the killing he is making in gold?
When is your France going to put boots on the ground in Ukraine and Gaza. Or is having you as a fan boy enough?
ROTFLMAO!When stupid Trump failed, but just able to suck Putin, now Rubio come to EU for Ukraine.
Repub Trump is so unhappy that his Classic Repub utterly chaotic and incoherent economic policies, stewardship and Trump Tariff Taxes are only increasing costs to the American Working Men and Women Consumers a measly $250 Million per day, he keeps lying that, oh no, he is really really really increasing the costs to the American Working Men and Women Consumer a much more impressively damaging $2 BILLION per day.
CBP says latest tariffs have generated $500 million, below Trump estimate.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/us-customs-tariffs-revenue-generated-since-april-5.html?__source=androidappshare
U.S. Customs and Border Protection told CNBC the department has collected more than $500 million under Trumps latest tariffs.
Trump has repeatedly said the United States is taking in $2 billion per day from tariffs.
CBP says the average $250 million a day was collected even during the glitch that impacted freight already on the water.Trump has such a pathetic but certainly justified inferiority complex that drives his ambition to be the most wasteful, fraudulant, abusive and corrupt Repub president of all time, meaning the most of any party's president, there is no doubt he will pull all the stops to eventually get to that $2 BILLION per day increase in costs to the American Working Men and Women Consumers sooner or later.
But, sadly for his sense of real Repub Accomplishment, he just isn't quite there yet. We must give him a little more time, that's all.
Does this idiot get the concept of supply and demand or is he another socialist that he thinks that he deserves better service because of his virtue signaling?
Facts do not go over well with a guy like SC. The disturbing fact in his foolish conspiracy theory
And what you will see from SC is the usual string of insults about his dick size, how everyone is racist, and this idiotic Trump conspiracy theory.NVDA
But do not worry. SC swears it is going up so you should buy it. Maybe he can lecture everyone on these things after the racist comments and how big his dick is. And BTW, did he mention the killing he is making in gold?First of all E2008 need to post the quote where I told anyone that NVDA was going up in value and that people should buy it. He also needs the quote the supposed racist comments I made. The only think E2008 has ever written about me is that I AM making a killing in Gold. Don't hate.
E2008 is the one that said it NVDA and GOLD were bad investments:
I have SC on ignore because I can predict what he is gong to say before he says it. All he wants is attention and to tell everyone how great he is. So I figured his response to me would be egotistical and it was. I would rather be lucky than good and then tells everyone how smart he is.
I invest based on value. Is something overpriced or not? The Amex platinum is a more prestigious card than Amex gold, and it has been because platinum had traditionally been higher in price, and it should be. Platinum is 30 X rarer than gold.
So I cannot even begin to value gold because the people buying are convinced the world is coming to an end. Why the fuck else would you buy gold that just sits there over an apartment complex or farm or bond which produces income on an annual basis? And why now? The world coming to an end is nothing new and IMO has always been a sucker's bet.
So if you think that, IMO you are an idiot. In fact, the only thing you can do at this point to convince me that you are a bigger idiot is if you think the world is coming to an end is to buy gold at $3000+ an ounce and shun platinum at $900+ an ounce.
And what does SC say about gold? I am buying it up right now and making huge bank. LOL.E2008 has me on ignore. But yet mentions me in every other post he makes. Note how he never quotes me. That is because he lies about what I have written. It is simply his interpretation. His Republican Racist evaluation of his fellow American that he does not like because of the way I look. Otherwise why is he talking about how I don't pay any attention to facts while constantly engaging in ad hominem attacks about me on items unrelated to the subject matter.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/15/nvid...-to-china.html
Nvidia shares have dropped 16% this year, largely due to President Donald Trump's announcement of widespread tariffs on top trading partners
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...p&noamp=mobile
And why was that? Let me guess. It is all Trump's fault.Exactly!
Nvidia shares have dropped 16% this year, largely due to President Donald Trump's announcement of widespread tariffs on top trading partners
This is why I do not like growth stocks in general.Look at how much bonds are paying? Then compare that to NVDA, AAPL or Au growth over the last two years. If buying bonds are smart and E2008 is going to say I was just lucky. The fact that he wants to ignore is that it has been better for me to be lucky than smart by his own definition using the King's English.
E2008 says the I am a idiot because he looks at me and does not like me. Because I don't invest as he does. Yet, I was able to live the American Dream (and nightmare because of the POLICE and Republican Racism in the workplace) all because of the US Stock Market.
I don't give a FUCK about the current leader of the Article II Branch of USGOV. What I care about is the RULE of LAW. Without that the Stock Market, Bond Market and as a mother of fucking fact NO MARKET will continue to work.
How you like me now?
By definition he is a guest. Are you are guest in my country of origin also?
Or are you just another one of my fellow Americans talking your male bovine excrement about race showing your favorite colors for outerwear is a WHITE HODDIE?
https://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/us-immigration/permanent-resident-vs-citizen-difference.html
Learn what the law says before trying to school me son. You have absolutely no idea what my background was serving my fellow Americans during most of my adult life under the OATH to protect and defend The Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies foreign and domestic. Guests such as yourself don't know the law nor understand what it means to take that OATH. If I was second class citizen I would have never been allowed to take it in the first place.
How you like me now?Touched a soft spot there, hey Stephen? Four posts in quick succession, one on another thread with your characteristic inanity more relatable to a 16 year old than a 60+ year old- oh and if you want to know why you're an imbecile, ask on the right thread otherwise you err. Come across as an imbecile.
You know as well as I do that you're a second class citizen, and denial ain't no river, Homey. Don't ask the people here whether you're a second class citizen- do the mouthing off to a white American cop (or a black one for that matter, one which is a self loather like you) and see how it ends.
I'm not going to indulge your puerility about referring Mahmud Khalil to as a "guest", the only fact is he WAS a permanent resident. And the only other fact is that the executive has strong armed him- in violation OF YOUR CONSTITUTION- to deprive him of his liberty and his residency. The fact that the judiciary has caved in does not legitimise that issue. You demanded earlier evidence of the judiciary being usurped by the executive and I provided it to you referencing the El salvadorian and yet you continue bitching away- that's the thing with you- there is no serious conversation to be had with someone who is so disingenuous as you, Stephen.
As we discussed earlier:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdFTmJx3/
Newton York
04-18-25, 01:34
I hate that I bought NVDA and that I own APPL, AMZN, MSFT and GOOG. I ain't got no luck fellas *sigh*.
I hate that I bought NVDA and that I own APPL, AMZN, MSFT and GOOG. I ain't got no luck fellas *sigh*.Look into the mirror and ask yourself why you made bad entries. You could aways own bonds at 4% - 5% like the BOND KING making 50,000 year on the 1,000,000 million dollars he has invested in them.
ROTFLMAO!
The beauty of the market is that it does not tolerate bullshit. E2008 can say I am lucky all he wants. He is talking. I am growing my capital. So, he can talk to my hand. I'll invest in the Stock Market. Guess which one is going to make me more money. Because I know how to enter and exit the market. I relentlessly take profit.
Let's not even talk about Bitcoin. Lack of understanding leads to losses. Best stick to BONDS like E2008!
Elvis 2008
04-18-25, 11:03
I hate that I bought NVDA and that I own APPL, AMZN, MSFT and GOOG. I ain't got no luck fellas *sigh*.There were two big pieces of news today. The first was the fight between Trump and Fed chief Jerome Powell. Powell is behaving like a lawyer and waiting until something is painfully obvious before doing anything. He should be looking at his own data versus the media hysterics that Tooms is looking at and be cutting rates. The point is he will be soon. When that happens, and you will see these stocks go up when he does, that is your exit point.
I am on the opposite end of your trade. The short of the stocks you own is the symbol SQQQ, and I have been chewing on it for a while. That is a triple negative on the NASDAQ. Unlike SC, I do not go around bragging about it being up. The reason I am short is the same reason Warren Buffett got out of the market: it was way too expensive, and it still is.
Thing about being short versus long is you have to get the timing right. I scoured what was the best symbol for a short term down turn or upturn in the economy, and I have settled on jobless claims. Unlike the shrieking Tooms and hysterical CNBC, the numbers are actually good. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/what-imminent-recession-initial-jobless-unchanged-nov-2021.
Just 221 k Americans filed for jobless claims for the first time last week. A number that is the same level as it was in November of 2021.
Or are these CEOs simply asleep at the wheel. If you were the most terrified since Lehman. Wouldn't you be firing people?
End of link.
If all I relied on was presidential politics as a gauge, I would say they will stay good but IMO the job numbers are not going to stay good, and I am not going to add to my SQQQ position until they do get worse. Once they get worse, you will be kicking yourself for not having sold once the Fed lowers rates. That is your exit, and you should take it.
Short term the market is a voting machine, and I could give a damn how anybody does with that. It is like flipping a coin. Everyone on line only talks about their winners and never their losers. I expect my position to take a short term hit, but the reason I am confident is that I focus on the long term and long term the market is a weighing machine. Tell me what something should cost not what it does or that you are sure it will go up. That is the difference between investing and gambling.
I don't own the stock or the one of their cars. But E2008 (a lover of all things stupid said and done by the Republican Racists) needs to explain WHY as WhiteHouse official said BMW operations were a scam.
South Carolina officials have leapt to the defense of German premium automaker BMW after White House claims that its South Carolina factory was a scam" that was bad for the US economy.
While White House trade advisor Peter Navarro went on CNBC to criticize BMW and other international automakers with North American operations, BMW fired back from its position as the leading exporter of cars from the US by value.
"This business model where BMW and Mercedes come into Spartanburg, South Carolina, and have us assemble German engines and Austrian transmissions that doesnt work for America, Navarro claimed.It also released a statement confirming it has invested $14.8 billion in the Spartanburg factory, where it employs 11,000 people to make 400,000 vehicles a year, since 1992.
Its major export markets include China, Germany, South Korea, the United Kingdom and Canada, BMWs Board Member for Production Milan Nedeljkovic confirmed.
Plant Spartanburg has been an important location in our production network for over 30 years and is now the largest BMW Group plant globally, Nedeljkovic wrote.
The strong export share of our plant underlines the importance of free trade for the USA. Not only does this benefit our plant, but also the strong supplier network in the region.
Its bad for our economics. Its bad for our national security, he said, claiming that all parts should be made in the US, rather than from international suppliers.
BMWs 8 million square foot plant outside Spartanburg, South Carolina exported more than $10 billion in X3, X4, X5, X6 and X7 SUVs last year, exceeding every domestic US manufacturer. It exports around two thirds of its entire Spartanburg production, and its export value since the factory began is more than $100 billion.
The BMW plant takes its engines from plants in England and Austria and its transmissions from ZF in Germany, but it also draws from 300 suppliers in the US, 60 of which are Tier 1 suppliers. It even opened a new press shop last year to make body panels in South Carolina, rather than shipping hoods, door panels and trunks from Germany.
BMWs US production is mainly exported out of the Port of Charleston, South Carolina, but also from Brunswick, Georgia, Jacksonville or Everglades, Florida or Baltimore, Maryland, as well as by rail.
Even heavyweight South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham came to BMWs defense, with a statement of support after Navarros attack last night.
BMW has been in South Carolina for over 30 years and has proven to be one of the best corporate citizens in our state, he said.
Their presence is a major benefit to the South Carolina economy, and it is much appreciated.
Both Spartanburg County and neighboring Greenville County voted overwhelmingly in favor of Donald Trump in the 2024 elections, with the sitting President carrying the state with a 17.9% margin over Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
Greenville voted 63.8% in favor of Trump, while support was even higher in Spartanburg, where 66.2% voted in favor of Trump.
Spartanburg County had been decimated by the 1950s decline of the traditional textiles industry economy before BMWs arrival, and it now also supports a huge range of supporting industries, like French tire-making giant Michelin.
Just how large a benefit BMW is to South Carolinas economy can be measured by the quantity of public officials jumping to its defense alongside Graham, with OneSpartanburg Inc. and the Greenville Chamber of Commerce insisting BMWs arrival sparked a resurgence in the South Carolina economy.
BMW Groups Plant Spartanburg drove Upstate South Carolinas transformation from a declining textile economy to a thriving center of advanced manufacturing, the two bodies said in a joint statement.
Its 26.7-billion-dollar economic impact outperforms other major industries, multiplying across a vast network of in-state suppliers producing parts in Spartanburg, Greenville and beyond.
BMW is responsible for Upstate South Carolinas density of engineering, supply chain, and logistics jobs, and has contributed to drastic quality of life and infrastructure improvements across our region.
The region now includes major presences from BMW, Michelin, Mercedes-Benz, Boeing, Volvo, Scout and defense supplier Oshkosh.
To put it simply, BMWs approach has worked for Upstate South Carolina for nearly four decades," they said.
"The people of our region, state and nation have prospered due to BMWs investment, and in turn, those people have helped BMW build its most productive manufacturing facility in the world.
Their thoughts were echoed by statements from the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance President and CEO, Sara Hazzard, who took pains to point out the impact Navarros statements had on South Carolina families.
South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance President and CEO Sara Hazzard also had thoughts on Navarros comments.
Thousands of families depend on the jobs generated by this billion-dollar industry, which has transformed our state in the eyes of the world for over half of a century, Hazzard wrote.
We are proud of our automotive manufacturers and suppliers who make everything from tires and transmission and powertrain components to seats, bearings, door panels, mirrors, exhaust systems and brake parts.
"The economic development momentum this generates makes us the envy of our neighbors and gives the business community and policymakers alike something to brag about.
BMW is also expanding the plant, investing another $1.7 billion to evolve it to assemble electric cars and to make high-voltage EV batteries in neighboring Woodruff.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2025/04/11/southern-republicans-defend-bmw-against-white-house-scam-claims/
E2008 can take his personal insults and lies and go pound sand with them on a beach in the USA. He needs to turn in his passport and FUCK American if wants to support the country instead of spending all of his time and money on Colombian Prostitutes.
I ignore facts E2008? Two middle fingers up to your and your Republican Racists. Remember if you have me on ignore but can tell everybody what I said. Then take me OFF of ignore and quote instead of simply giving your interpretations and outright lies about what I said.
Remember, I do not care about the policies of the Republican Racists. What I care about is that they follow the RULE OF LAW! Because without that the Dis-United States of America that I grew up in disappears.
Touched a soft spot there, hey Stephen? Four posts in quick succession, one on another thread with your characteristic inanity more relatable to a 16 year old than a 60+ year old- oh and if you want to know why you're an imbecile, ask on the right thread otherwise you err. Come across as an imbecile.You really expect anyone to take you seriously when you come here as guest making your ad hominem (look it up food on a bun) attacks.
You know as well as I do that you're a second class citizen, and denial ain't no river, Homey. Don't ask the people here whether you're a second class citizen- do the mouthing off to a white American cop (or a black one for that matter, one which is a self loather like you) and see how it ends.You make a lot of assumptions. Let's speculate. What if the encounter with the POLICE anywhere in the United States of America begins with a polite response where I inform them I am one too? ROTFLMAO!
I'm not going to indulge your puerility about referring Mahmud Khalil to as a "guest", the only fact is he WAS a permanent resident.You don't have to. He was a guest. I proved the information in previous post. So, just because you don't like HOW I am saying it, that does not stop it from being the truth, your homeboy Khalil was a guest. He got out of pocket and he got checked. So, sorry for you. But I don't give a fuck. He got his due process. Let me add that due process is still in process and the final word is not in. Try that in China or Russia. If you think they are so nice why don't you reside in a country other than the United States of America. Like your own for example.
And the only other fact is that the executive has strong armed him- in violation OF YOUR CONSTITUTION- to deprive him of his liberty and his residency.The law is the law and the Article II branch has found a loophole in the the law that allow this action to be taking against your homeboy. If you do not like the law, petition for the regress of your grievances as allowed for in the Constitution of the United States of America to your representative. Your are a citizen are you not?
If you are not, would you like me to do it for you with my representative or Senator of my State?
The fact that the judiciary has caved in does not legitimise that issue.The idea that you disagree does not make anything you say correct.
You demanded earlier evidence of the judiciary being usurped by the executive and I provided it to you referencing the El salvadorian and yet you continue bitching away- that's the thing with you-Potential Constitution Crisis yes. Still playing out it is.
there is no serious conversation to be had with someone who is so disingenuous as you, Stephen.There is not serious conversation to be had with a guest to my country that is not interested in debating the issue but instead wants to simply engage in ad hominem attacks against someone they disagree with.
So, since that is what you want to do. Check the photo below and tell me if you use this as a lotion, a face moisturizer, or a lube when you are being a International Trick?
Trump want lower rates because he does not give a fuck about anyone other than himself. He is a real estate developer that finances his empire on debt. Lower debt. More profits.
By the way, Gold continues to be on a tear. But yet according to E2008 it has no value. Only purchased by those who feel the end is near. I don't think that. I use it as a store of value and as diversification. Price is up nearly 1000 USD / ounce since E2008 first took issue with me because I mentioned it. I would still rather be lucky than good or listen to FINANCIAL ADVICE form E2008. But if you want to buy BONDS, buy BONDS my brother. If you like then I love it. I am just not going to do it.
I am on the opposite end of your trade. The short of the stocks you own is the symbol SQQQ, and I have been chewing on it for a while. That is a triple negative on the NASDAQ.You are in the market shorting and you don't gamble according to yourself. GTF!.
That is the difference between investing and gambling.Shorting is more risky than going long. To short you borrow shares so your risk in infinite. Better have your risk management on point.
They made a movie about it: Dumb Money. Love that movie right next to Trading Places.
Unlike SC, I do not go around bragging about it being up.So, I buy NVDA three years ago. And someone else buys it at it's peak where I have already taken profit. Starts complaining like * up in here. I share this information and I am bragging. GTFOH with your male bovine excrement.
The reason I am short is the same reason Warren Buffett got out of the market: it was way too expensive, and it still is.Stop with the lies E2008. It is called taking profits. You thought the market was going to go down and so did I. So I took profits. You want to call my word into question. Meet me some place I will show you my brokerage account and you can show me yours. Otherwise STFU about my portfolio! You are no smarter than everyone else just because your align yourself with the Republican Racists (note I did not say YOU were a racist). But you know about the saying if it walks like a duck. ROTFLMAO!
Thing about being short versus long is you have to get the timing right.Very important if you are going long or short. If you were an actual trader like I am you would know this.
Short term the market is a voting machine, and I could give a damn how anybody does with that. It is like flipping a coin. Everyone on line only talks about their winners and never their losers. Bro, over the last three years I have none in the Stock market. Why is that so hard for you to believe. I have had a incredible run. And no I am not trying to say I was so smart. I don't mind being lucky. I do not see that as a negative. I have made life improving money in the Untied States Stock Market.
But over a lifetime of being in the market I have had two individuals stocks go bankrupt and lost everything I invested in them: K-mart and Service Merchandise. You take the good with the bad. Over my investing (or gambling as you see fit) it has been a net plus. A BIG NET PLUS! ROTFLMAO!
I expect my position to take a short term hit, but the reason I am confident is that I focus on the long term and long term the market is a weighing machine. We actually have a point of agreement there. If you don't think that is how I think about the market then you don't understand my investing (gambling in your mind) philosophy.
Tell me what something should cost not what it does or that you are sure it will go up.We actually agree here. There is value and there is growth investing. If you are saying growth investing does not work then a empirical analysis of stocks like NVDA, AAPL, AMZN and others will prove you wrong.
So you like Buffet? He says: investing is like being in the batters box with no called strikes. You only have to swing at the pitches you like.
But given my age (look for references by HotDog666 for information on that), my perspective has changed a bit. I still am not interested in a 30 year horizon anymore. I'm good with 10 years at a time.
Dividend paying stocks, fuck a BOND. This is the first time I have ever been considering those. BHP is one of my picks. When it price dipped from 50 - 40 that allowed me to pick up more and just like a bond my yield increased. They did not cut their dividend because the stock went down for no particular reason none of the Balance Sheet or Cash Flow Statement items changed. Black man reading financial statements (when he is not being beat down by White Police for mouthing off) up in dis *****. I do so I can get lucky.
But in the long term I am dead. I cannot take it with me. So when my money comes fast like when I was drug dealing, I'm spending it the same way.
Harley Davison having some problems, eh? Maybe Trump can get them back on track after he throws BMW out of the Dis-United States of America. I heard they are looking for a new CEO.
Let me ask you Elvis 2008. You call me a racist. But you have a individual posting up in here saying White Police Officers in the United States of America are racist. Neither you are anyone else posting up in dis ***** has said a word.
Why?
When stupid Trump failed, but just able to suck Putin, now Rubio come to EU for Ukraine.France and the rest of the EU has been slacking when it comes to defense.
The leader of France is writing checks that his military cannot cash. You don't even buy a French Car.
ROTFLMAO!
The first was the fight between Trump and Fed chief Jerome Powell. He should be looking at his own data versus the media hysterics that Tooms is looking at and be cutting rates.Sometimes a cartoon says it best!
Remember that inarguable law of of politics, economics and national security?
Everything Trump Touches Turns To Shit And Dies
The billionaire Trump ass-kissers and those "This is what winning looks like"! MAGA post-election big buyers apparently never got that memo or, worse, got it, read it and either didn't understand or believe it.
Thankfully, Fed Chairman Powell HAS read the memo and watched it in action during Trump's first term, has taken the time to review Trump's entire history and knows to steer clear of doing anything Trump demands that he do when Trump demands that he do it.
Thanks, Jerome.
Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk each lose more than $23 billion after Trump tariffs spark market meltdown.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/05/trump-tariffs-zuckerberg-bezos-musk-lose-billions-on-market-meltdown.html?__source=androidappshare
U.S. stock market has wiped out $9.6 trillion since Inauguration Day.
https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-and-nasdaq-set-for-further-losses-after-1-679-point-blue-chip-tumble/card/u-s-stock-market-has-lost-9-6-trillion-in-value-since-inauguration-day-6NL1f3p5I5eUhbOGt2Wy
Dude, I do not have to be an all time great investor. I can look at a balance sheet and earnings report and see Red Lobster lost more money in 2020 under Trump than any other year. More importantly, the only reason Red Lobster came up is that it went broke under Biden as did a lot of restaurants, and that fact completely did not jibe with the complete bullshit you and your fellow trolls abroad were spewing about how great the USA economy was. People who actually live in the USA saw few new restaurants being built and many going under and you and your fellow Democratic douches were lecturing us on how great restaurants were doing. LOL.
Interest rates went up under Biden, and the bottom 50% in debt had to pay more interest under Biden than Trump. So yeah, the top 10% who owned stocks did great while the bottom 50% got fucked. Again, you just ignore basic math. (...kkkk!) Do you NOT KNOW when to stop telling lies? Much like your MAGA Fuhrer, you just can't help yourself!
In 2024 Restaurants are having their biggest year ever. (Here is a reminder in case you forgot...)
2024 will be the U.S. restaurant industry's biggest year ever in sales $1.1 trillion by the end of December, per National Restaurant Association estimates.
Why it matters: The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the restaurant industry, but sales are now far higher than before it started and climbing.
That's despite big financial pressures on restaurateurs, such as tech investments and the cost of labor and food. https://www.axios.com/2024/06/05/restaurants-tipping-dining-food
EihTooms's post: http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/forum/showthread.php?2467-American-Politics&p=2951824&viewfull=1#post2951824
(...kkkk!) The FACT that restaurants, were having one the best years in business, since COVID, was obviously lost you. Even today, you're just still to much of a knuckleheaded dumbass, and just don't get or understand the real reason Red Lobster went bankrupt, was due to the unscrupulous highly leveraged deal making and debt imposed, by the Golden Gate Capital, private equity firm (PEF), following their corporate raid, rape and pillage playbook, to a tee.
YOU, are yet another prime example, of the gullible MAGA nation, being bamboozled by the billionaire robber barons, DOGE idealists, corporate bootlickers, hanger-ons and Fuhrer sycophants, chomping at the bit to gut, pillage and rape America, while scapegoating all the necessary MAGA tropes and social villains in the right-wing playbook, necessary to keep their gullible flock chasing their tails, as the billionaires pick your pockets clean.
This is what the MAGA Fuhrer, is doing now to Americans, with his dumbass tariffs, and you don't even realize it or don't care! Funny, you seemed to care a lot more about the working class when Biden was in office? Or was that just all FAKE-ass sympathy?
As for this latest idiotic rant about how great government is, let me put out one statistic to show you how full of it you are. Two out of every three paid tax dollars does not go to any government service whatsoever. It is redistributed to lazy asses like yourself. Got that? Two in three tax dollars goes to someone else. So yeah, of course, you are going to go on about how great government is when it shakes down productive people and pays your lazy ass for your vote. Yet another idiotic comment, reducing everything to a dollar figure, when it comes to government. Not everything in gov't can be or should be reduced to a dollar figure.
BTW, I would love to take a look at your links, supporting your spurious claims, about 2/3 of tax dollars? Because this is the very thing you MAGA numbnuts, get duped in thinking. When the reality is more than likely your billionaire robber barons are ones getting your 2/3 tax dollars.
Elvis 2008, is the bamboozled gullible MAGA cultist, suited for Michael Lewis's recent book, "Who Is Government?" that provides a powerful counter-narrative to the dismissive and reductive view that government spending is merely a redistribution of wealth to "lazy" individuals in exchange for votes.
"The big myth", he and Musk, love to perpetuate about Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid or education would have you believe, they are nothing more than a "shakedown" and ignores how tax dollars fund critical infrastructure, research, and services that enable private productivity. https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/general/how-are-federal-taxes-spent/L6kinGuUt
And after listening to you douches who live abroad, I think there should be a movement to not let people who live abroad vote unless they are in the military. Because the only issue you douches care about is that the government keeps sending you checks. You do not give a fuck about the condition of the country. See my previous comment about your FAKE-ass sympathy?
BTW, Oh wise, Carnac the Magnificent (...kkkk!), as you called yourself, when predicting Biden's recession that never came. Since you're so good at predicting recessions (NOT!) in a great Biden economy, are we going to have a recession in your spiraling American Fuhrer's "great" tariff economy?
Remember when Fux News-watching, Breitbart-reading MAGAs basked in the glory of their lord and savior Trump adding Trillions to the deficit with his one and only economic "stimulus" legislation that created a Million fewer jobs with it than without it, nearly drove all of America's farmers into bankruptcy in his first failed Trade War and Tariffs with China, some rescued only because he issued billions in emergency welfare checks just to keep them afloat, then launched whole-heartedly and fully into laying the groundwork for, ushering in and exacerbating Trump's Pandemic exactly the same way he is trying to create Trump's Pandemic Part 2 this very minute, resulting in the mass murder of at least a Million Americans, millions more around the world, millions upon millions of jobs wiped out, business and school closures, Global Supply-Chains destroyed, the inevitable, unavoidable Inflation that followed, Trillions more added to the deficit, forever degrading the International Mongering scene, etc, etc, etc?
But the icing on that MAGA cake was that their lord and savior was a Man of Peace, that "there were no wars under Trump" and for the love of all that is holy we must have a second go-around of that.
Apparently they plum forgot about that War in Afghanistan thingy that raged right under Trump's nose and continued for every day, hour and minute of his presidency, culminating in his idiotic limp-dick decision to agree to releasing 5,000 America-hating jihadists into Afghanistan, one of which eventually killed 13 American Military personnel in a suicide bombing attack that a full investigation determined was unpreventable given that idiotic limp-dick Trump decision.
So, to recap the Wars that "were happening" and "are happening" under Donald Trump, and only counting the Wars that directly resulted in deaths, maiming, structural damage and destruction and not counting the Trade War Against The World that Trump is engaging in even though Warren Buffet accurately describes that too as "an Act of War", we had and now have:
1. The War in Afghanistan that raged on for every day, hour and minute of Trump's Pandemic Part 1 term.
2. Trump's War Against America and American Democracy On American Soil, the opening bloody battle of which Trump led his America-hating "patriots" on January 6, 2021.
3. The Russia-Ukraine War, which Trump could have stopped " within 24 hours with a phone call, another perfect phone call" but apparently loves to keep it going on and on rather than bother uttering the Magic Words he knows he has at his disposal that will put an end to all the killing, maiming, destruction and suffering immediately.
4 . The Israel-Gaza War, which Trump could have stopped "within 24 hours with a phone call, another perfect phone call" but apparently loves to keep it going on and on rather than bother to utter the Magic Words that he knows he has at his disposal that will stop all the killing, maiming, destruction and suffering immediately.
And now this:
5. Trump's War Against Venezuela.
Yep. He has declared it:
'This Is War', declares Donald J. Trump, Man of Peace.
https://youtu.be/ApUSCgF93k8?si=kf3vkdfF3mjrWQpn
YOU, are yet another prime example, of the gullible MAGA nation, being bamboozled by the billionaire robber barons, DOGE idealists, corporate bootlickers, hanger-ons and Fuhrer sycophants, chomping at the bit to gut, pillage and rape America, while scapegoating all the necessary MAGA tropes and social villains in the right-wing playbook, necessary to keep their gullible flock chasing their tails, as the billionaires pick your pockets clean.That is what the Republican Racists are best at.
This is what the MAGA Fuhrer, is doing now to Americans, with his dumbass tariffs, and you don't even realize it or don't care! Funny, you seemed to care a lot more about the working class when Biden was in office? Or was that just all FAKE-ass sympathy?Those who cannot think for themselves are destined to have others think for themselves. People are looking to be rescued. The Republican racists are giving the hope by blaming others in order to distraction from the greatest income / wealth distribution inequality in the entire world.
Yet another idiotic comment, reducing everything to a dollar figure, when it comes to government. Not everything in gov't can be or should be reduced to a dollar figure. Our Republican Racists make the statements, tell the lies, but then do not back anything up with facts.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federa...tax-dollars-go
BTW, I would love to take a look at your links, supporting your spurious claims, about 2/3 of tax dollars? Because this is the very thing you MAGA numbnuts, get duped in thinking. When the reality is more than likely your billionaire robber barons are ones getting your 2/3 tax dollars.Here is one for you Spidy. Let's see if the Republican Racists among us address it.
Elvis 2008, is the bamboozled gullible MAGA cultist, suited for Michael Lewis's recent book, "Who Is Government?" that provides a powerful counter-narrative to the dismissive and reductive view that government spending is merely a redistribution of wealth to "lazy" individuals in exchange for votes. FACTS, nah the Republican Racist don't want no facts.
"The big myth", he and Musk, love to perpetuate about Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid or education would have you believe, they are nothing more than a "shakedown" and ignores how tax dollars fund critical infrastructure, research, and services that enable private productivity. https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/general/how-are-federal-taxes-spent/L6kinGuUtLet us not forget that Musk has built not one but to billion dollar business directly on the back of decades of government research and then received DIRECT support for his businesses.
OH SHIT! Here is another link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/elon-musk-business-government-contracts-funding/
How you like me now?
Elvis 2008
04-19-25, 16:24
(...kkkk!) Do you NOT KNOW when to stop telling lies? Much like your MAGA Fuhrer, you just can't help yourself!.How do you spin this obviously glaring issue that was totally due to Biden? https://www.foodandwine.com/restaurant-chain-bankruptcies-2024-8766201.
Since 2020, food costs for the average restaurant have risen 29%, according to the National Restaurant Association (NRA). Much of that increase has been passed along to consumers, who've seen menu prices go up by 27.2%.
You say that restaurant sales are the best they have ever been. Why you are just stupid if you are paying 27% more at the restaurant and the economy is bad, you dumb consumer. You just do not know how good you have it says the idiot lecturer from Thailand and his sock puppet abroad.
As for this: If higher food costs presented economic challenges for home cooks in 2024, restaurants felt the pinch even more. This past year was marked with a number of major bankruptcies in the food industry, across a range of restaurant types. And it looks like 2025 may bring continued challenges, especially for large chains.
Let's go with the other tried and true Democratic douche model and attack the source. Food and wine? Who the hell are they? Talk about lying. You idiots are lying to yourselves and others.
BTW, I would love to take a look at your links, supporting your spurious claims, about 2/3 of tax dollars? Because this is the very thing you MAGA numbnuts, get duped in thinking. When the reality is more than likely your billionaire robber barons are ones getting your 2/3 tax dollars.LOL. If you paid attention to jack shit, this would be easy. Let us go with three items: Social security is taxed at approximately 13%, Medicare at 3%, and the last one is payment on the national debt. 39% of all tax revenues go to pay interest on the debt. https://www.fox29.com/news/how-much-tax-money-goes-to-national-debt.
That is 55% and does not include Medicaid, Welfare, grants, federal pensions ETC. Given how much interest rates have gone up, two out of every three dollars is probably conservative.
Elvis 2008, is the bamboozled gullible MAGA cultist, suited for Michael Lewis's recent book, "Who Is Government?" that provides a powerful counter-narrative to the that government spending is merely a redistribution of wealth to "lazy" individuals in exchange for votes.That is powerful? LOL. If you say so. If government was not such a drain, such an explanation would not be necessary. Yes, govenment that sucks up 20% of GDP does do some good. Does it do enough good to justify that much money? Hell no!
BTW, Oh wise, Carnac the Magnificent as you called yourself, when predicting Biden's recession that never came. Since you're so good at predicting recessions (NOT!) in a great Biden economy, are we going to have a recession in your spiraling American Fuhrer's "great" tariff economy?I did not say it would happen with Biden. In fact, I have said when I predict things it is not based on the when but the how. Yes, if the amount of tax dollars going to interest payments keeps going higher and higher, and the only other person I have seen talking about this is Elon Musk, there will be a recession or worse. Historically, when the percent of tax revenues going to interest payments exceeds 30%, default is thought to be inevitable, and we are past that.
And yes Mr. Democratic douche, that you are totally fine with that amount of money going to pay interest on the debt is fine and the nation defaulting on its debt is no shock to me. So we should go even further into debt so your sorry lazy do nothing ass can buy more foreign hookers on the federal credit card?
And what do you suggest we do about this you dumb shit Democratic douche? Just ignore it like you have been doing all this time?
Newton York
04-20-25, 01:57
The amount I'm down in my brokerage account is something akin to a years worth of expenses and cost of living shit. If I had the smarts to sell my mag 7 positions before all this happened, I coulda quit my job and lived off of it for a year at least. Kinda ride this out. Maybe even have a trip or 2 to Thailand. Fuck, this is sad. I'm so so sad.
I don't get how you guys can be so happy in the midst of all this. Do we not all live on the same planet? Aren't we all buying the same groceries? Paying taxes? How are all of you so carefree about all this? We're literally dying here. Going homeless soon for a lot of us. Come on guys. Have some sympathy dudes.
How do you spin this obviously glaring issue that was totally due to Biden? https://www.foodandwine.com/restaurant-chain-bankruptcies-2024-8766201.
Since 2020, food costs for the average restaurant have risen 29%, according to the National Restaurant Association (NRA). Much of that increase has been passed along to consumers, who've seen menu prices go up by 27.2%.
You say that restaurant sales are the best they have ever been. Why you are just stupid if you are paying 27% more at the restaurant and the economy is bad, you dumb consumer. You just do not know how good you have it says the idiot lecturer from Thailand and his sock puppet abroad.
As for this: If higher food costs presented economic challenges for home cooks in 2024, restaurants felt the pinch even more. This past year was marked with a number of major bankruptcies in the food industry, across a range of restaurant types. And it looks like 2025 may bring continued challenges, especially for large chains.
Let's go with the other tried and true Democratic douche model and attack the source. Food and wine? Who the hell are they? Talk about lying. You idiots are lying to yourselves and others.
LOL. If you paid attention to jack shit, this would be easy. Let us go with three items: Social security is taxed at approximately 13%, Medicare at 3%, and the last one is payment on the national debt. 39% of all tax revenues go to pay interest on the debt. https://www.fox29.com/news/how-much-tax-money-goes-to-national-debt.
That is 55% and does not include Medicaid, Welfare, grants, federal pensions ETC. Given how much interest rates have gone up, two out of every three dollars is probably conservative.
That is powerful? LOL. If you say so. If government was not such a drain, such an explanation would not be necessary. Yes, govenment that sucks up 20% of GDP does do some good. Does it do enough good to justify that much money? Hell no!
I did not say it would happen with Biden. In fact, I have said when I predict things it is not based on the when but the how. Yes, if the amount of tax dollars going to interest payments keeps going higher and higher, and the only other person I have seen talking about this is Elon Musk, there will be a recession or worse. Historically, when the percent of tax revenues going to interest payments exceeds 30%, default is thought to be inevitable, and we are past that.
And yes Mr. Democratic douche, that you are totally fine with that amount of money going to pay interest on the debt is fine and the nation defaulting on its debt is no shock to me. So we should go even further into debt so your sorry lazy do nothing ass can buy more foreign hookers on the federal credit card?
And what do you suggest we do about this you dumb shit Democratic douche? Just ignore it like you have been doing all this time?The wording in your link would have been more accurate as, "Starting in 2020 blah blah blah".
Here is an article published in The Restaurant industry newsletter in August 2024 citing and showing the biggest increases in restaurant menu prices occurred DURING the Trump administration, starting in 2018 with his first failed Trade and tariff war with China and other countries:
50 Key Restaurant Industry Statistics.
Published August 30, 2024
https://www.therestauranthq.com/trends/restaurant-statistics/
5. Restaurant menu prices doubled between 2018 and 2023
A study by restaurant POS stalwart Toast found that a Valentines Day dinner for two at a full-service restaurant in 2023 cost an average of $121 plus tax, while the average for the same meal in 2018 was $69. Five years is a short window for such a giant leap, reflecting the volatility of the intervening five years. While prices have increased considerably, consumers have not (yet) curbed their restaurant attendance.Also, see the chart in the article and in the screen shot below; the huge bulk of the increase in restaurant menu prices occurred in 2018,2019 and especially 2020.
You do recall who was president in 2018,2019 and 2020, right?
In fact, the price increases leveled off and began to trend downward by 2022 under Biden.
And THAT is how you prove, not spin, that very little if ANY of the restaurant menu price increases was due to Biden rather than Trump.
Enter The V
04-20-25, 13:51
*sigh*, the amount I'm down in my brokerage account is something akin to a years worth of expenses and cost of living shit. If I had the smarts to sell my mag 7 positions before all this happened, I coulda quit my job and lived off of it for a year at least. Kinda ride this out. Maybe even have a trip or 2 to Thailand. Fuck, this is sad. I'm so so sad.
I don't get how you guys can be so happy in the midst of all this. Do we not all live on the same planet? Aren't we all buying the same groceries? Paying taxes? How are all of you so carefree about all this? We're literally dying here. Going homeless soon for a lot of us. Come on guys. Have some sympathy dudes.The orange felon has destroyed the economy Facts are Facts. Only America is Stupid enough to Elect and Support a convicted Fraud asshole like Trumpy.
Elvis 2008
04-20-25, 16:25
*sigh*, the amount I'm down in my brokerage account is something akin to a years worth of expenses and cost of living shit. If I had the smarts to sell my mag 7 positions before all this happened, I coulda quit my job and lived off of it for a year at least. Kinda ride this out. Maybe even have a trip or 2 to Thailand. Fuck, this is sad. I'm so so sad.
I don't get how you guys can be so happy in the midst of all this. Do we not all live on the same planet? Aren't we all buying the same groceries? Paying taxes? How are all of you so carefree about all this? We're literally dying here. Going homeless soon for a lot of us. Come on guys. Have some sympathy dudes.Because my portfolio is up and so is Buffett's. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/warren-buffett-net-worth-grown-despite-trump-tariffs-market-sell-off.html
Unlike SC, I do not go around bragging about it being up.Oh, really. Check out the OPs most recent post:
Because my portfolio is up.Oh, no, you don't brag do you E2008? GTFOH! You know, internet people always talk about their winners. Never they're losers. Except me.
The Republican Racists taking a beating when it comes to the RULE of LAW!
US Supreme Court orders temporary halt to deportations under antique law
Block on removal of migrants without due process sets up the possibility of another challenge by the Trump administration to the power of the courts.
The Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court, the justices wrote in an unsigned order.
Two of the nine justices on the Supreme Court, conservatives Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented from the decision.Like a NBA Highlight reel. Got blocked.
Oh, that was nasty!
The orange felon has destroyed the economy Facts are Facts. Only America is Stupid enough to Elect and Support a convicted Fraud asshole like Trumpy.USA are no brained, especially women, Latinos and black, to elect for second time and after January 2021, a so crazy senile. Even USA justice try to block his decisions. No MAGA, but only shame with this master of bullshiting, low level guy.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdYu2eGq/
For who knows how long Tik Tok or dissent of Trump will be tolerated.
It sounds outlandish, but I feel it's a highly plausible scenario in which violence or political repression comes next. Interested in hearing counter arguments.
Or tell me about my country!
You know as well as I do that you're a second class citizen, and denial ain't no river, Homey.When a International Carpet Bagger quoted above comes in here spewing racial hated the Republican Racists are silent.
They remain silent because they are able to do so because of the 5th Amendment. They remain silent because inside they are joyful at seeing how effective they have been at spreading hate internationally that even individuals like HotDog666 who are not CITIZENS of the Dis-United States of America have picked up and internalized it.
The Republican Racists must feel quite giddy that a International Carpet Bagger will further their racist ideas. That same individual needs to remember that the Dis-United States of America actually elected someone he considers to be a second class citizen to the Presidency of the United States of America. But this individual is so stupid, has swallowed the rhetoric of hate and gotten hooked on it that he does not realize that just because he has brown skin it does not stop him from wearing the same white hoodie the Republican Racists wear up in dis *.
The International Carpet Bagger wants to point out that I am considered to be a lessor in the eyes of some of my fellow Americans. But the International Carpet Bagger does not understand THAT is the history of my people from the very first war on US Soil. My people have answered the call to fight on behalf of the Dis-United States of America throughout its history. Regardless of individuals like the Republican Racists who would choose to erase our contributions to this great nation in a manner that is undeniable.
Senator Cory Booker will go down in history as giving the longest speech in the history of the Senate.
A true American Hero!
It is especially ironic that he broke the record of the man who previously held the record trying to prevent individuals such as Senator Booker from being able to be elected to the Senate in the first place.
Two middle fingers up to all of my fellow Americans that are racists currently residing in the United States of America and traveling abroad!Yes, Senator Brooker broke the record of the longest speech on the Senate Floor by a racist.
On August 28, 1957, Strom Thurmond, a Democratic United States senator from South Carolina, began a filibuster intended to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The filibusteran extended speech designed to stall legislationbegan at 8:54*p.m and lasted until 9:12*p.m. the following day, a duration of 24 hours and 18 minutes. This makes the filibuster the longest single-person filibuster in United States Senate history as of 2025. It was also the longest single-person Senate speech until 2025, when the record was broken by Cory Booker of New Jersey, with Booker speaking for twenty-five hours and four minutes.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond_filibuster_of_the_Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957
He does not understand this precisely because of who he is a: International Carpet Bagger. He thinks Permanent Residence is the same as being a US Citizen. It is not and I have pointed this out more than once to him yet he wishes to ignore this fact. Because he disagrees with the process and result of DUE PROCESS UNDER THE RULE OF LAW he says the Dis-United States of America is no different than China or Russia. He is / was just a visitor like his homeboy that got sideways of the law. Better recognize. But he cannot because he is nothing more than a: International Carpet Bagger talking his pure unadulterated male bovine excrement that he spreads like he puts on Hot Dog Relish.
The International Carpet Bagger is a *****. He has never stood for anything in his own country like I have in mine. If I invited him to meet me and suggested that we play a round a golf, he would not show up. Why? Because his type run like a bitches. They are keyboard warriors. Knowing what is going to happen to him if I showed him my golf swing, he has water dripping from his knees and loses his shit. My handicap is low. I am very good ball striker.
So I look forward to the next post from our International Carpet Bagger that will be full of ad hominem attacks because he like the Republican Racists that he emulates he has lost the intellectual argument and his type, like the Republican Racists, he looks up to do not accept defeat gracefully.
Anyone who want to see what White Americans will do to each other only need to study the US Civil War. Do not get it twisted. That war was not fought for the second class citizens as defined by our International Carpet Bagger no the war was fought to preserve the Union and over economics.
Battle of Shilo, 25,000 dead, wounded or missing!
You really expect anyone to take you seriously when you come here as guest making your ad hominem (look it up food on a bun) attacks.
You make a lot of assumptions. Let's speculate. What if the encounter with the POLICE anywhere in the United States of America begins with a polite response where I inform them I am one too? ROTFLMAO!
You don't have to. He was a guest. I proved the information in previous post. So, just because you don't like HOW I am saying it, that does not stop it from being the truth, your homeboy Khalil was a guest. He got out of pocket and he got checked. So, sorry for you. But I don't give a fuck. He got his due process. Let me add that due process is still in process and the final word is not in. Try that in China or Russia. If you think they are so nice why don't you reside in a country other than the United States of America. Like your own for example.
The law is the law and the Article II branch has found a loophole in the the law that allow this action to be taking against your homeboy. If you do not like the law, petition for the regress of your grievances as allowed for in the Constitution of the United States of America to your representative. Your are a citizen are you not?
If you are not, would you like me to do it for you with my representative or Senator of my State?
The idea that you disagree does not make anything you say correct.
Potential Constitution Crisis yes. Still playing out it is.
There is not serious conversation to be had with a guest to my country that is not interested in debating the issue but instead wants to simply engage in ad hominem attacks against someone they disagree with.
So, since that is what you want to do. Check the photo below and tell me if you use this as a lotion, a face moisturizer, or a lube when you are being a International Trick?OK, let's try again for the third time.
I fear you are being somewhat optimistic that you'd get this far, my dear Stephen, in an encounter with the cops. Please don't over estimate your likelihood of a positive encounter with American cops. We'd miss you.
I was being a little kind to you but I'll tell you I was vicariously embarrassed for you by you appealing to this mongering board on whether you're a second class citizen. Note that no one responded. I also note that you didn't address your little cap in hand "aww shucks master" appeal to whatshisname, Nyzhenov? You know the chap who referred to you as "the colored boy" or "darkie"? That's the thing with racism, Stephen: it may be a minority who are racist to you, but you are nonetheless a second class citizen. But you keep telling yourself you're not, attaboy. After all, you need something to anchor your own cognitive dissonance on, don't you?
Let me refresh your memory on this topic: you claimed that the "rule of law" was what distinguished American (mis) treatment of the likes of the El Salvadorian and Mahmud Khalil from how Russia behaves. I've literally given you evidence of how a) the Executive continues to defies the judiciary and b) how your laws are made up as you go along with regards to Mahmud Khalil, in defiance of your supposed constitution, everything America claims to stand for, and natural justice, based on contrivance and downright lies by the Executive. I also note how you've characteristically disingenuously transitioned your rebuttal from "rule of law" to "due process" which are not synonymous. If it is due process, then going back to my original point, Russia and other tyrannies also have "due process". There are courts and trials. These are due process, but it does not amount to justice.
Finally no matter how many times you repeat your canard it does not make it true. Mahmud Khalil was not a guest, he was a permanent resident. It would not have mattered regardless but your lies in endeavouring to gloss over his treatment in the "land of the free unless you criticise Israel for genocide, home of the brave" cannot be permitted to go unchallenged.
Now do try and not take your questionably sized dick out and shake it about in front of us all whilst yelling "How do you like me now". It really is why you sound like an imbecile.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdYu2eGq/
This is old news. The Professor does not know. Since he doesn't he better ask somebody. That somebody is me.
The Republican Racists taking a beating when it comes to the RULE of LAW!
US Supreme Court orders temporary halt to deportations under antique law
Block on removal of migrants without due process sets up the possibility of another challenge by the Trump administration to the power of the courts.
Like a NBA Highlight reel. Got blocked.
Oh, that was nasty!Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett all appointed by our current POTUS. All voted that DUE PROCESS AND RULE OF LAW remains the law of the land.
To all the chicken littles screaming democracy is ending that don't know how the constitution of the United States work: you don't know what you are talking about!
How are you guys not affected by all this?
The amount I'm down in my brokerage account is something akin to a years worth of expenses and cost of living shit. If I had the smarts to sell my mag 7 positions before all this happened, I coulda quit my job and lived off of it for a year at least. Kinda ride this out. Maybe even have a trip or 2 to Thailand. Fuck, this is sad. I'm so so sad.
I don't get how you guys can be so happy in the midst of all this. Do we not all live on the same planet? Aren't we all buying the same groceries? Paying taxes? How are all of you so carefree about all this? We're literally dying here. Going homeless soon for a lot of us. Come on guys. Have some sympathy dudes.Because some of us banked the historic stock market gains earned under previous Dem administrations in order to mitigate the pain of the inevitable dramatic downturn under Repub administrations.
The same as Buffett just did at the end of Biden's presidency.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/warren-buffett-net-worth-grown-despite-trump-tariffs-market-sell-off.html?__source=androidappshare
Buffett is defying that downward trend with a cautious approach: The "Oracle of Omaha" compiled a record $334 billion in cash at the end of 2024, according to SEC filings.
Because some of us banked the historic stock market gains earned under previous Dem administrations in order to mitigate the pain of the inevitable dramatic downturn under Repub administrations.
The same as Buffett just did at the end of Biden's presidency.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/warren-buffett-net-worth-grown-despite-trump-tariffs-market-sell-off.html?__source=androidappshareEih Tooms just hit a drop the bat and walk off grand-slam.
I wrote this in the Thailand Lounge and Chat. Please note it is a quote that you can review in it's entirety word for word by hitting the view original post link.
Money is not a problem for me and my crew. We have multiple income sources. The stock market going down is an unfortunate but cyclical action over time. Unless your are funding you day to day expenses using dividends paying stocks, those dividends being cut is the only way the current decline in the economy of the DisUnited States of America can effect ANY individual holding stocks. The real effect is purely psychological. It is call the WEALTH effect. You see you have less wealth so you feel like you need to spend less money. Personally I have never let the up and downs of the stock market affect my day to day expenses. Me and my crew have lost some money. But we all have war chests of cash in reserve and are currently hunting for bargains.
The members of my crew who followed my lead and took profits in December of 2024 and January of 2025 are sitting pretty like me. I just looked at some reports about my portfolio and the numbers are EYE POPPING!
When you are a true trader you make money in both up and down. markets. My money that remains in the stock market is house money. I have long before removed my original investment and a substantial portion of my profits. Holla!.
Ballin like Stock Market Pro!
I took money out of the stock market and put it into income producing real estate.
Get right wit ya!
That is what the Republican Racists are best at.
Those who cannot think for themselves are destined to have others think for themselves. People are looking to be rescued. The Republican racists are giving the hope by blaming others in order to distraction from the greatest income / wealth distribution inequality in the entire world. Agreed! The Repubs are great at picking the pockets of their gullible MAGA masses and redistributing it to their own billionaire robber baron pockets.
Our Republican Racists make the statements, tell the lies, but then do not back anything up with facts.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federa...tax-dollars-go
Here is one for you Spidy. Let's see if the Republican Racists among us address it.
FACTS, nah the Republican Racist don't want no facts. Remember how past administrations (that knew how to govern), had always provided reams of documents, binders and pages of synopsis, detailing how something "like tariffs", would be implemented, or how they were going to work, and what or how the expected results and metrics would be measured? And these were available to the public, as a documented economic strategic plan of action.
Whether RIGHT or WRONG or whether they DID or DID NOT meet their targeted goals, it was still a tangible plan of action and a document for all to see, to hold gov't ACCOUNTABLE, to their own praise or bullshit, to what they said would work, actually worked, the way they said.
Today, it's just the American Fuhrer's Jedi Mind Trick, as he loves to say "Just TRUST ME!", and has all his sycophants parroting, "...just trust the president. Trust the process on tariffs..."
Yeah NO FACTS, do documentation and therefore NO ACCOUNTABILITY! Just a clown show on continual, rinse, recycle and repeat!
Let us not forget that Musk has built not one but to billion dollar business directly on the back of decades of government research and then received DIRECT support for his businesses.
OH SHIT! Here is another link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/elon-musk-business-government-contracts-funding/
How you like me now?Great Article and spot on, w/r to the tremendous amount of gov't cheese, that help him build his business, when other investors were cutting bait!
Yeah, the irony of what president Musk is doing with DOGE, lies in the fact that Musk, who has built his fortune largely through government aid, subsidies, and contracts, is now leading an aggressive campaign to slash federal spending and dismantle agencies, that helped fledgling individuals and organizations, like his own, back-in-the-day.
The contradiction and hypocrisy, underscores how Musk's rhetoric of "efficiency" clashes with his history of heavily subsidized and leveraged government assistance and resources, to build his empire, by the very system he now seeks to dismantle.
Tell us why you split Richmond Va for the DR?Tell us why you split Richmond, VA? Confederate son living in a Cambodian Slum. How Ironic?
Great Article and spot on, w/r to the tremendous amount of gov't cheese, that help him build his business, when other investors were cutting bait!
Yeah, the irony of what president Musk is doing with DOGE, lies in the fact that Musk, who has built his fortune largely through government aid, subsidies, and contracts, is now leading an aggressive campaign to slash federal spending and dismantle agencies, that helped fledgling individuals and organizations, like his own, back-in-the-day.
The contradiction and hypocrisy, underscores how Musk's rhetoric of "efficiency" clashes with his history of heavily subsidized and leveraged government assistance and resources, to build his empire, by the very system he now seeks to dismantle.I've pointed out before. Only in the Dis-United States of America could we have the richest man in the world posing with a chainsaw as he angles to dismantle and eliminate that benefits that the poorest of the world get. Sociopathic if you ask me.
It is the way of the Republican Racists!
Elvis 2008
04-22-25, 17:43
Agreed! The Repubs are great at picking the pockets of their gullible MAGA masses and redistributing it to their own billionaire robber baron pockets.LOL. Given how much Tesla and Truth Social have fallen, you will have to tell me how Trump and Musk are getting rich off Trump's administrative scheme. For those of us who can do math, they have been hurt a lot. They just have the reserves to withstand it.
Yeah, the irony of what president Musk is doing with DOGE, lies in the fact that Musk, who has built his fortune largely through government aid, subsidies, and contracts, is now leading an aggressive campaign to slash federal spending and dismantle agencies, that helped fledgling individuals and organizations, like his own, back-in-the-day.LOL again. Musk did more for global warming than anyone, and for a dyed in the wool EV loving Democratic douche like yourself, it is amazing to see you all pull the rug out from under him because he got tired of the insane Democratic antics.
Musk looked at the insane trade and budget deficits and he knows as I do that unless those are gotten under control, the USA is done. Sure, I would have preferred a gradual rollout versus the Trump shock and awe tariff campaign but the USA HAS been getting screwed on a lot.
It was funny when Zelensky mouthed off to Trump and Vance and then ran back to his European supporters. Europe had a meeting about what they were going to do. The European leaders declared they were not going to stand by and let Russia take over the continent and they were going to step up in the wake of the USA and its declining leadership. There were big words, and in the end, after declaring the Ukraine war was this major emergency, they gave Ukraine no money and all they agreed to do was meet again several months later.
Whether RIGHT or WRONG or whether they DID or DID NOT meet their targeted goals, it was still a tangible plan of action and a document for all to see, to hold gov't ACCOUNTABLE, to their own praise or bullshit, to what they said would work, actually worked, the way they said.Again, LOL. The guy has been in office for 3 months. I am going to judge him based on whether he can tame the federal deficits, trade deficits, get us out of Ukraine, pull us out of NATO, and tame the beast that was the ever ravenous deep state.
On that last point, Trump has hit a home run. Say what you will about DOGE and how it did not achieve the cost savings desired. The deep state is reeling and the the government reports on censorship and Covid have been what we all expected from this administration. As for Colombia University, it folded like a cheap suit, and Harvard is so damned stupid, they risk losing their tax exempt status, and Matt Taibbi did a piece on Harvard that was an amazing takedown. If you just read or listen to the lame stream media, you missed it.
And yes, why is Harvard, a place where people working for their hedge / endowment fund and are making millions, tax exempt Spidy? When you talk about the robber barons and evil venture capitalists, people working the Harvard hedge fund does not come to the top of your list, does it?
So your party is what you condemn, Spidy. You condemn Musk not when he is sucking off the government but when he goes Republican. You blast hedge fund and greedy capitalists but not YOUR greedy capitalists.
If the Democrats had a plan to do all that I said, I would consider jumping ship. The most laughable part is the Democratic party is so bought and paid for, they had to roll out Bernie Sanders as he was the one voice that was at all anti-establishment. Thing is it would be hard to underestimate what a complete ass Bernie made of himself during the RFK Jr. Senate hearings and his onesy comments. Again, you probably did not hear about it.
So yeah, I do wish Trump would tone it down a bit as opposed to his brash take no prisoners attitude, but he is who we have. Any other pol once he got where Trump is would have flipped. He would have played ball. He would have taken the money the lobbyists had given him and changed positions. Why the fuck did Bernie turn on RFK Jr? Why the fuck is Bernie caring about big pharma? It is comical, and Bernie is the best you all have.
You all keep going on about how great Dems are, but none of you have a plan to balance the budget or lower trade deficits. All you have is griping at Trump and demanding human trafficking illegals get due process. Unfucking real. THAT is the hill you all want to die on?
Eliminate Corporate / Ag Welfare. Eliminate the pay as you go Social Security System and have it funded in the same way that pensions used to be funded. Cut Defense Spending. Pay down the debt. Make a balanced budget a requirement. Government Borrowing can be authorized only for spending on long term capital projects.
In Additional
Flat Across the board 100% Tariffs on all goods (no exceptions).
Fire the Fed Chairman.
Allow POTUS to be the Chairman of the Fed.
Lower Rates.
ROTFLMAO!
LOL. If you paid attention to jack shit, this would be easy. Let us go with three items: Social security is taxed at approximately 13%, Medicare at 3%, and the last one is payment on the national debt. 39% of all tax revenues go to pay interest on the debt. https://www.fox29.com/news/how-much-tax-money-goes-to-national-debt.
That is 55% and does not include Medicaid, Welfare, grants, federal pensions ETC. Given how much interest rates have gone up, two out of every three dollars is probably conservative.
That is powerful? LOL. If you say so. If government was not such a drain, such an explanation would not be necessary. Yes, govenment that sucks up 20% of GDP does do some good. Does it do enough good to justify that much money? Hell no!
(...kkkk!) Dude, when your logic is flawed, there is no amount of math or FOXY Muse, right-wing propaganda that's gonna make it right.
Where are the links, Carnac the Magnificent?
Two out of every three paid tax dollars does not go to any government service whatsoever. It is redistributed to lazy asses like yourself. Got that? Two in three tax dollars goes to someone else.
I still haven't seen the links where gov't spends 2/3 of tax dollars "...to lazy asses like yourself" as you claimed. Last I checked Social Security, Medicare and the national debt/interest, were all part of gov't services. How your tax dollars are spent: https://www.ramseysolutions.com/taxes/where-does-your-tax-money-go
Just because you, your Fuhrer and FOXY Muse, want to oversimplify federal spending and misrepresent the purpose of tax dollars, and call Social Services, Medicare, Medicad, ...etc "nothing", like president Musk and DOGE are doing, then by all means, have fun down that rabbit-hole, it doesn't mean I'm gonna follow.
The U.S. government collects taxes from taxpayers to finance a range of public services and the institutions that provide those services. In 2023, the IRS collected $4.7 trillion in federal taxes.
The five largest budget items in the federal budget usually include: Health, Social Security, national defense, interest on the national debt, and income security programs.
In most years, the federal government operates in a budget deficit—meaning it spends more than it makes. As a result, the government ends up borrowing money to make up the difference and increases the national debt in the process.
While you may have little control over how the government spends your taxes, you can prepare yourself for tax season and take advantage of ways to lower your tax bill.
Even right-wing business mogul, Dave Ramsey recognizes the importance of gov't taxation and the good of the public services they provide: https://www.ramseysolutions.com/taxes/where-does-your-tax-money-go
The question isn’t "why should I pay my fair share of taxes?" but "what kind of society do YOU want to live in? And so far these so called "gov't inefficiencies" claimed by DOGE haven't yet materialized.
But let's be REAL! The president Musk, DOGE fiasco, isn't really about finding "gov't inefficiencies", but rather to gut those American governmental institutions, as if they were kind of corporate business in a "private equity" takeover whereby "move fast and break things", is the order of the day.
What YOU MAGA morons, often forget, is the balance! While good governments can't and should run operations totally like a business, they can neither operate totally as a charity.
Ultimately, this is were "good governance and good stewardship", comes into play.
Your Fuhrer and the QAnon/MAGA/Repub clowns, have neither!
I did not say it would happen with Biden. In fact, I have said when I predict things it is not based on the when but the how. Yes, if the amount of tax dollars going to interest payments keeps going higher and higher, and the only other person I have seen talking about this is Elon Musk, there will be a recession or worse. Historically, when the percent of tax revenues going to interest payments exceeds 30%, default is thought to be inevitable, and we are past that.
(...kkkk!) Backpedaling again! Do what you do best, Carnac the Magnificent!
LOL. Given how much Tesla and Truth Social have fallen, you will have to tell me how Trump and Musk are getting rich off Trump's administrative scheme. For those of us who can do math, they have been hurt a lot. They just have the reserves to withstand it.
LOL again. Musk did more for global warming than anyone, and for a dyed in the wool EV loving Democratic douche like yourself, it is amazing to see you all pull the rug out from under him because he got tired of the insane Democratic antics.
Musk looked at the insane trade and budget deficits and he knows as I do that unless those are gotten under control, the USA is done. Sure, I would have preferred a gradual rollout versus the Trump shock and awe tariff campaign but the USA HAS been getting screwed on a lot.
(...kkkk!) Tell me again, why record number of Americans from Alaska to Alabama are protesting Musk-Tesla and the Fuhrer and billionaire robber barons, in nationwide demonstrations, dubbed "Hands Off!" and "Tesla Takedown"? So much for your "all for show", workman and working class empathy, you love to sling about, when it's convenient and especially when the Dems are in office.
Again, LOL. The guy has been in office for 3 months. I am going to judge him based on whether he can tame the federal deficits, trade deficits, get us out of Ukraine, pull us out of NATO, and tame the beast that was the ever ravenous deep state.
On that last point, Trump has hit a home run. Say what you will about DOGE and how it did not achieve the cost savings desired. The deep state is reeling and the the government reports on censorship and Covid have been what we all expected from this administration. As for Colombia University, it folded like a cheap suit, and Harvard is so damned stupid, they risk losing their tax exempt status, and Matt Taibbi did a piece on Harvard that was an amazing takedown. If you just read or listen to the lame stream media, you missed it.
And yes, why is Harvard, a place where people working for their hedge / endowment fund and are making millions, tax exempt Spidy? When you talk about the robber barons and evil venture capitalists, people working the Harvard hedge fund does not come to the top of your list, does it? Leave it to Elvis 2008, to think Repub gov't ineptitude, trampling on the rights and civil liberties of Americans, bad governance, an even worst stewardship and the worst stock market performance in April, for a starting presidents in their first 100 days, is somehow...a win? (...kkkk!)
So your party is what you condemn, Spidy. You condemn Musk not when he is sucking off the government but when he goes Republican. You blast hedge fund and greedy capitalists but not YOUR greedy capitalists.
If the Democrats had a plan to do all that I said, I would consider jumping ship. The most laughable part is the Democratic party is so bought and paid for, they had to roll out Bernie Sanders as he was the one voice that was at all anti-establishment. Thing is it would be hard to underestimate what a complete ass Bernie made of himself during the RFK Jr. Senate hearings and his onesy comments. Again, you probably did not hear about it.
So yeah, I do wish Trump would tone it down a bit as opposed to his brash take no prisoners attitude, but he is who we have. Any other pol once he got where Trump is would have flipped. He would have played ball. He would have taken the money the lobbyists had given him and changed positions. Why the fuck did Bernie turn on RFK Jr? Why the fuck is Bernie caring about big pharma? It is comical, and Bernie is the best you all have.
You all keep going on about how great Dems are, but none of you have a plan to balance the budget or lower trade deficits. All you have is griping at Trump and demanding human trafficking illegals get due process. Unfucking real. THAT is the hill you all want to die on?What don't you get about, millions of Americans protesting on "50 State Hills" all around the country, in the streets, wanting to oust your "tone-deaf" president. Pay attention to the American people and what they're telling you, about your inept governing Repub party and Fuhrer.
So Yeah, when protestor plaques say "Trump do the world a favor and S T F U!" tells you, American's have lost confidence in your Fuhrer! Is it any wonder Buffett, went to mostly cash!
(...kkkk!) Tell me again, why record number of Americans from Alaska to Alabama are protesting Musk-Tesla and the Fuhrer and billionaire robber barons, in nationwide demonstrations, dubbed "Hands Off!" and "Tesla Takedown"? So much for your "all for show", workman and working class empathy, you love to sling about, when it's convenient and especially when the Dems are in office.
Leave it to Elvis 2008, to think Repub gov't ineptitude, trampling on the rights and civil liberties of Americans, bad governance, an even worst stewardship and the worst stock market performance in April, for a starting presidents in their first 100 days, is somehow...a win? (...kkkk!)
What don't you get about, millions of Americans protesting on "50 State Hills" all around the country, in the streets, wanting to oust your "tone-deaf" president. Pay attention to the American people and what they're telling you, about your inept governing Repub party and Fuhrer.
So Yeah, when protestor plaques say "Trump do the world a favor and S T F U!" tells you, American's have lost confidence in your Fuhrer! Is it any wonder Buffett, went to mostly cash!President MuskTrump might not have gotten, read, comprehended or believed the Everything Trump Touches Turns To Shit And Dies memo.
But he sure got that Our Glaring Repub MAGA Failures Are Just A Democrat Party Hoax memo, read it, comprehended it and perhaps blitheringly believed it, although that last part has nothing to do with him and all the other MAGAs repeating it.
Here is a hilarious 7 minute video showing the millions of anti-President MuskTrump protestors all around the country, in every state really, that Musk's MAGA Mental Misalignment has concluded is a "hoax", they actually love him but are either paid "wasteful, fraudulent and abusive" money to protest against him or are all so addicted to the "wasteful, fraudulent and abusive" money, NONE of which he and his Dogies have yet to discover, uncover and indict for, that they come out en masse merely "pretending" to oppose him and his methods so the "wasteful, fraudulent and abusive" money keeps flowing in making everyone as rich as he is. Er was.
LOL. It is a MUST SEE video:
https://youtu.be/wU23jm417-k?si=Hplv3iO8H3g9ruUQ
Why oh why oh why did Trump suddenly "soften his stance" on the people of the United States of America being given Billions and Billions and Billions of dollars from other countries to pay for everything we want from Childcare, we need Childcare because Childcare is Childcare and groceries, damn I'm glad Trump invented that word, without it costing the people of the USA anything?
How dare he!
Especially since all those other countries have been ripping us off bigly and taking us for a ride on the Trade Deals previous presidential administrations stupidly negotiated to allow them to rip us off and take us for a ride!
Such as the Trade Deals the previous Donald J. Trump administration, well, Donald J. Trump himself, spent years stupidly negotiating with China, Mexico, Canada, etc allowing them to do that to us just a few years ago.
And now, just as the American people were finally going to be given Billions and Billions and Billions of dollars those stupid previous presidential administrations, well, stupid previous presidents like Donald J. Trump ripped off from us up until now he has decided to let those other countries keep all that money they ripped us off for, leaving the American people high, dry and still medium sized ripped off!
Dow rallies 1,000 points after Trump softens stance on Powell, China tariffs.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/stock-market-today-live-updates.html?__source=androidappshare
And, BTW, don't even think this sudden "softening stance" for Trump has anything to do with the stock market, which Trump barely pays any attention to, or his meeting with these elite corporate CEOs or those "Democrat Party Hoax" protests or that his number one political donor's wealth is plunging by the hour! Just DON'T! Because Trump is so smart and so wealthy and he doesn't need anybody else's money and his main mission is never ever ever to CAVE on these things while really teaching that Xi guy a lessen he will never forget!
Trump hosts Walmart, Target and Home Depot CEOs for tariff meeting.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/21/trump-tariffs-walmart-home-depot-lowes-target.html?__source=androidappshare
President Donald Trump met with Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, Target CEO Brian Cornell and Home Depot CEO Ted Decker to discuss tariffs.
Walmart is in a better position to weather Trumps protectionist trade agenda than many of its competitors.
Trumps aggressive tariff policies have caused uncertainty both for investors and business leaders, many of whom rely heavily on imported goods.Really.
Swear to god.
It's true.
Really.
Well. He might flip on this decision and change his mind about it.
But, either way, it will make all of us rich.
Really.
Swear to god.
Elvis 2008
04-23-25, 16:26
Dude, when your logic is flawed, there is no amount of math or FOXY Muse, right-wing propaganda that's gonna make it right.
I still haven't seen the links where gov't spends 2/3 of tax dollars "...to lazy asses like yourself" as you claimed. Last I checked Social Security, Medicare and the national debt/interest, were all part of gov't services.And who do you think pays for those "services" oatmeal for brains? And unlike roads, defense, and museums, please tell me as a taxpaying citizen how paying for my own health insurance and that of another person benefits me? How does paying your social security so you can bang hookers helps me? You are so stupid that you think government does the paying when it takes that money from people like me and Elon Musk.
But let's be REAL! The president Musk, DOGE fiasco, isn't really about finding "gov't inefficiencies", but rather to gut those American governmental institutions, as if they were kind of corporate business in a "private equity" takeover whereby "move fast and break things", is the order of the day.https://abc7.com/does-elon-musk-pay-taxes-how-much-in-net-worth-tesla/11402993/
With a top tax rate of 40.8%, he faces of a federal tax bill of about $10.7 billion from the exercise of these shares.
This is the most in taxes any American has paid in history, and you Democratic douches are protesting he does not have the right to see where it goes? Oh, no, Elon, you are going to pay hundreds of millions for Democratic douche causes like DEI and LGBTQ in Cambodia and Zimbabwe, and you are going to like it.
Taxpayers have no right to say where their tax dollars go should be the Democratic douche slogan of the year.
And the people protesting Musk are being paid, and the funny part is after the US AID scandal we have been seeing that a lot of that money that has been paid to protesters has come from the government taxing Elon. Oh, the government pays these NGOs and they do the end runs around the Constitution and the censorship and pay the protestors. Working people are too fucking busy working to protest oatmeal for brains. I guess your dream scenario is all the people working at Tesla lose their jobs.
As for interest payments on the debt, that goes to some of the richest people in the world. It also goes to countries holding the bonds like Japan and China. And please enlighten me on how my paying interest on the national debt to the CCP is a "government service" that benefits me.
And half of that 39 cents in interest payments was accumulated during Covid oatmeal for brains. And you do not want to talk about that? Yeah, that is because you are not the one paying taxes.
It is funny we hear ad nauseam that women are underpaid compared to men. Why does no one bring up that men are paying a shitload more in taxes?
The USA is mum about this but the UK has been honest, In the last tax year men paid 92 billion in income tax whereas women paid 36.8 billion, which is 60% less. https://fullfact.org/economy/are-women-paying-60-less-income-tax-men/There are more women in the workforce than ever before, and yet they still contribute 60% less in income tax than men.
And when you demonize tax paying men, they leave. https://hannity.com/media-room/come-back-gov-cuomo-begs-rich-new-yorkers-to-return-to-the-big-apple-says-ill-cook-you-dinner/This was governor of New York Andrew Cuomo during the pandemic "I literally talk to people all day long who are now in their Hamptons house who also lived here, or in their Hudson Valley house, or in their Connecticut weekend house, and I say, 'You got to come back! We'll go to dinner! I'll buy you a drink! Come over, I'll cook! The Democratic governor said Monday.
Why in the fuck would Elon want to invest in the USA after this stupid shit? People can not only move from New York to Florida, they can move from the USA to Thailand and work there and not pay any USA taxes. That is the same douche move you and Tooms did. Hell, Elon has already moved from California to Texas, and California lost out on billions in taxes.
What really cracks me up is the guy who mentioned the two out of every three tax dollars goes to someone else was Aaron Clarey. He wrote a book called a world without men and it was an eye opener but what really should scared Democratic douches like you is he advocates for a minimalist life style. He thinks as I do the reason men work hard is to get women, and given how ungrateful American women are, you buy used, do your own repairs, and try to get by with generating as little income as possible because when you make money, the government steals so much. He estimates that a man living the minimalist lifestyle can get by on $20,000 per year and if that happens, you can kiss your social security goodbye.
And Tesla and tourism in USA keeping on falling, when USA have so bad image with Trump and his gang: Vance, Musk. Failure, not MAGA.
Elvis 2008
04-24-25, 08:48
Moving to Thailand does not exempt anyone from paying USA Federal taxes, State Property Taxes or any number of other taxes even if you are not gainfully employed there, including FICA if you are still employed by a USA based enterprise.Yes, you are getting a $4000 check from the government and your paying back $500 of that $4000 is what you consider paying taxes.
As for paying taxes when abroad, you are lying about that too. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/figuring-the-foreign-earned-income-exclusion.
For tax year 2023, the maximum foreign earned income exclusion is the lesser of the foreign income earned or $120,000 per qualifying person. For 2023, the housing amount limitation is $36,000; for 2024, it is $37,950. So you can make $158,000 or so abroad and not pay taxes and if you made that in Thailand, you would be living like a king.
I have paid Thousands in USA Federal taxes and California State People taxes every year I have lived in Thailand, 13 so far, and therefore have been paying USA Federal and State taxes annually for 58 consecutive years. In part, to keep your ass out of poverty.Typical Democratic douche. I have not taken a dime in government money my whole life. As for paying taxes, I bet you are getting more money back from the government than you are putting in.
IAnd on the issue of why you or anyone else should pay the FICA tax that funds Social Security, here are a couple of links for how life was shit even for younger Americans pre Social Security and a recent Wisconsin study that could easily be extrapolated to every state.OMG, you have a study where my giving you money is a good thing? I am shocked, shocked by such a study.
Yes, you are getting a $4000 check from the government and your paying back $500 of that $4000 is what you consider paying taxes.
As for paying taxes when abroad, you are lying about that too. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/figuring-the-foreign-earned-income-exclusion.
For tax year 2023, the maximum foreign earned income exclusion is the lesser of the foreign income earned or $120,000 per qualifying person. For 2023, the housing amount limitation is $36,000; for 2024, it is $37,950. So you can make $158,000 or so abroad and not pay taxes and if you made that in Thailand, you would be living like a king.
Typical Democratic douche. I have not taken a dime in government money my whole life. As for paying taxes, I bet you are getting more money back from the government than you are putting in.
OMG, you have a study where my giving you money is a good thing? I am shocked, shocked by such a study.Who said anything about foreign earned income? I don't have any foreigner earned income. Thanks to the stock market returns under Dem presidents for the past several decades of my life, that I worked and bought in a beautiful Blue State throughout my working life, I have not needed to be gainfully employed in order to have a lovely and comfortable retirement since I was 58 years old.
But I still pay Federal and State taxes on my passive income and rental property every year.
You didn't go to public school? Never drive or walk on a public road? Don't drink clean and safe tap water?
The fact that you have been enjoying those and countless more privileges in the USA over the past 13 years thanks to my tax dollars while I have not enjoyed one physical reality of the USA in all that time tells me you owe me a refund.
Elvis 2008
04-24-25, 16:54
But I still pay Federal and State taxes on my passive income and rental property every year..So what? If you are paying $10,000 to the government and getting $50,000 in benefits, you think that is virtuous? The reason the country is in such debt is no one is willing to sacrifice all their handouts. You literally have no concerns with trillion dollar deficits. All you care about is you getting your check.
You didn't go to public school?No I did not and when I would have gone, my local community would have paid for the school not you, and my community would not have paid for the "education" on all this LGBTQ bullshit. You could get a good education then. Thanks you to Democratic douches, schools are no longer about learning but teaching young people to vote Democrat.
Don't drink clean and safe tap water?We had well water.
Never drive or walk on a public road?When I drive, I am paying gasoline taxes to do so. I did not rely on you. With walking, government does not need to pay for roads for people walking. If that is why they are building roads, they should knock it off. When government pays for needed roads, they often generate revenue with tolls and or increased commerce. If the roads are truly needed, they are revenue generators not costs. You did not pay for one road that I ever used.
Of course, this is the problem with you Democratic douches. You think Republicans are against spending taxes for clean water and roads. No, that is the one-third of our taxes we least object to. What we object to is the income redistribution.
Why the fuck should I and people in my age distribution have to pay for our own health insurance and for slugs like people with you? You have the money to pay for your own health care, and seniors like yourself have more assets than any other age group. Your generation is so fucking greedy that the amount I and others pay is not enough. No, the government has to borrow money to pay for slugs like you, and your generation of slugs scream bloody murder at even the thought of not getting a freebie.
President MuskTrump might not have gotten, read, comprehended or believed the Everything Trump Touches Turns To Shit And Dies memo.
But he sure got that Our Glaring Repub MAGA Failures Are Just A Democrat Party Hoax memo, read it, comprehended it and perhaps blitheringly believed it, although that last part has nothing to do with him and all the other MAGAs repeating it.
Here is a hilarious 7 minute video showing the millions of anti-President MuskTrump protestors all around the country, in every state really, that Musk's MAGA Mental Misalignment has concluded is a "hoax", they actually love him but are either paid "wasteful, fraudulent and abusive" money to protest against him or are all so addicted to the "wasteful, fraudulent and abusive" money, NONE of which he and his Dogies have yet to discover, uncover and indict for, that they come out en masse merely "pretending" to oppose him and his methods so the "wasteful, fraudulent and abusive" money keeps flowing in making everyone as rich as he is. Er was.
LOL. It is a MUST SEE video:
https://youtu.be/wU23jm417-k?si=Hplv3iO8H3g9ruUQ
(...kkkk!) So very true!
While I agree the "Everything Trump Touches Turns To Shit And Dies" memo, was obviously somehow overlooked by the jumping jack-ass president Musk, the QAnon\MAGA predilection to constantly "project" and "lie" memo, evidently was NOT lost on him, as he claimed in true "Trumpian" fashion, these surveys were "a hoax", and paid by his "enemies".
I say this, due to the recent similar survey, in Germany, where 94% of Germans (100K) say they won't buy a Tesla car. Then mysteriously, just a couple of days later, 70% of Germans (400K) say they would by a Tesla. https://electrek.co/2025/03/14/tesla-is-done-in-germany-94-say-they-wont-buy-a-tesla-car/ I did think to myself, this sounds sneakingly suspicious, like Musk was paying German Afd supporters to take that survey. But naturally it was something more "efficient" and even more nefarious...
Turns out:
"On Tuesday, Musk reposted a Tweet on X (formerly Twitter) that showed the survey now says 70% of people in Germany would buy a Tesla again. This sudden shift in the poll's results raised suspicions. And sure enough, T Online has now reported that bots manipulated the survey, with 253,000 votes originating from just two U.S.-based IP addresses. Now, with sales plummeting, Tesla faces an uphill battle to regain consumer trust." https://www.autoblog.com/news/94-of-germans-wouldnt-consider-buying-a-tesla-survey-finds
Sales in Germany reflect the survey, and are in a downwards spiral and have not yet recovered from YoY or MoM sales in 2025. Tesla is losing market share in Europe, as sales drop over 30% in Q1 2025.
Not the first or last time, the non-elected president Musk, has tried to bribe, buy, fudge and cheat his way to a win. Just recently, of course, in Wisconsin and FAILED!
Newton York
04-25-25, 01:39
Welp, there goes the economy. Shit. What's it going to take for stocks to go up again. Damnit AAPL, Damnit NVDA!
Stupid Trump still sucking criminal, liar Putin. Good, Zelensky has balls to resist, not to let Ukrainians being fucked by shameful USA.With his friend Vladimir who hold his balls, from with prostitutes in Mockva party.
With his friend Vladimir who hold his balls, from with prostitutes in Mockva party.Too senile, shameful Trump forgot his administration refused in 2018, Crimea robbery by his now friend he sucks, criminal dictator Putin.
At CATL 2025 Tech Day, unveiled a game-changing lineup of four new next-gen batteries, each targeting a critical bottleneck in EV adoption, that haters, obliterates and debunks, the haters and their tired arguments and disinformation pushed by you EV and battery skeptics.
CATLs lineup of 1st and 2nd generation batteries, the Qilin (NCM), Shenxing Plus (LFP), Naxtra (Na-Ion) and the Freevoy Super Dual/Hybrid Battery (LFP + NCM or Na-ion, optimized for PHEV or EREV's), put to bed and dismantles the most common outdated myths, perpetrated by the EV haters, looking to spread disinformation.
CATL shocks the world (again) with Sodium-ion and 1.3 Megawatt LFP Batteries, (16 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCNY4kxNkqc
CATL TECH DAY 2025, (1 hr 20 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6gaDQL64AY
My Two (2) biggest game-changing take-aways (out of probably 10x the number of "game-changing" tech unveiled), was first, the Naxtra 300km per charge x 10,000 charging cycle, that could mean +3 million km of driving range. Beat that legacy auto, ICE vehicles, EV haters and skeptics!
And second, was their Freevoy Super Dual Hybrid Battery, that should address a growing niche of "range anxiety" ICE vehicle owners, looking to bride the divide with the purchase of an PHEV or EREVs (Extended-Range Electric Vehicles), providing better ranges of 250 Km/150 miles (LFP + Na-ion) or 450+ km/300 miles (NCM + LFP) before using the ICE/fossil fuel onboard generator and polluting the atmosphere, for another 800 Km, for a total of about 1100 to 1300 km (BEV + ICE).
So maybe just one more! The Naxtra (Na-ion)'s cold weather 5C performance, in -30 to -40C and power density of 175 Wh/kg, is better than most current LFP batteries, is just mind-blowingly sooooo good! With an abundance of salt (Na), that can be found anywhere and is 99.6% recyclable, gives the haters even less environment issues to gripe about.
Also announced, is a dynamic Sodium Na-ion 12v battery, that undoubtedly should soon replace most lead-acid batteries, in future vehicles.
Okay y'all, EV and battery haters, tell me your not impressed? And when was the last time the ICE and legacy auto, introduced this much new tech for vehicles?...What 50 years ago, when drill by drill only was still hip? (...kkkk!)
Just several great reasons, why China is kicking ass in the EV, Battery, AI and Tech industry and the U.S. is left with a lame duck president, with memes trending on social media of 250 million views, that read, "Trump chickened out..." or "The 10K Tariff Grandpa...", as the bully lies about China calling him to talk deals on tariffs.
China strikes back and essentially tells the American Fuhrer, "CANCEL tariffs, then we'll talk!" (...kkkk!)
At CATL 2025 Tech Day, unveiled a game-changing lineup of four new next-gen batteries, each targeting a critical bottleneck in EV adoption, that haters, obliterates and debunks, the haters and their tired arguments and disinformation pushed by you EV and battery skeptics.
CATLs lineup of 1st and 2nd generation batteries, the Qilin (NCM), Shenxing Plus (LFP), Naxtra (Na-Ion) and the Freevoy Super Dual/Hybrid Battery (LFP + NCM or Na-ion, optimized for PHEV or EREV's), put to bed and dismantles the most common outdated myths, perpetrated by the EV haters, looking to spread disinformation.
CATL shocks the world (again) with Sodium-ion and 1.3 Megawatt LFP Batteries, (16 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCNY4kxNkqc
CATL TECH DAY 2025, (1 hr 20 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6gaDQL64AY
My Two (2) biggest game-changing take-aways (out of probably 10x the number of "game-changing" tech unveiled), was first, the Naxtra 300km per charge x 10,000 charging cycle, that could mean +3 million km of driving range. Beat that EV haters and skeptics?
And second, was their Freevoy Super Dual Hybrid Battery, that should address a growing niche of "range anxiety" ICE vehicle owners, looking to bride the divide with the purchase of an PHEV or EREVs (Extended-Range Electric Vehicles), providing better ranges of 250 Km/150 miles (LFP + Na-ion) or 450+ km/300 miles (NCM + LFP) before using the ICE/fossil fuel onboard generator and polluting the atmosphere, for another 800 Km, for a total of about 1100 to 1300 km (BEV + ICE).
So maybe just one more! The Naxtra (Na-ion)'s cold weather 5C performance, in -30 to -40C and power density of 175 Wh/kg, is better than most current LFP batteries, is just mind-blowingly sooooo good! With an abundance of salt (Na), that can be found anywhere and is 99.6% recyclable, gives the haters even less environment issues to gripe about. Also announced, is a dynamic Sodium Na-ion 12v battery, that undoubtedly should soon replace most lead-acid batteries, in future vehicles.
Okay y'all, EV and battery haters, tell me your not impressed? And when was the last time the ICE and legacy auto, introduced this much new tech for vehicles?...What 50 years ago, when drill by drill only was still hip? (...kkkk!)
Just several great reasons, why China is kicking ass in the EV, Battery, AI and Tech industry and the U.S. is left with a lame duck president, with memes trending on social media of 250 million views, that read, "Trump chickened out...", as the bully lies about China calling him to talk tariffs.
China strikes back and tells the American Fuhrer, "CANCEL tariffs, then we'll talk!" (...kkkk!)When You like cars, You don t drive EV and of course no chinese. I won t, when I love my atmospheric V8 , making me as hard as a natural beauty. Cars are really not biggest pollution, compare to chinese, USA and Indian industries, planes, big boats, trucks. And your stupid Trump wants to increase USA pollution.
This is so perplexing. Hasn't Trump been telling his dumb Repub MAGA sucker hillbillies that other countries will pay his Tariffs, giving the American people Billions and Billions and Billions of dollars with which we can all buy anything we want, pay for Childcare because Childcare is Childcare and for our groceries, damn I'm glad Trump invented that word, and everybody gets rich?
Then how in the world can this happen?
Trump tariffs will hurt lower income Americans more than the rich, study says.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/trump-tariffs-taxes-poor-rich.html?__source=androidappshare
Tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump are expected to raise costs on products for U.S. consumers.
However, tariffs would hurt lower income households with a minimal impact on the top one percent of earners in 2026, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.And now come to find out Trump knew he was lying to his dumb Repub MAGA hillbillies about, well, everything!
Trump finally admits his Tariffs are taxes added to products and paid by the American Consumers who buy those products, not by the country selling us the product.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EKxJL8tx8/
BREAKING: Donald Trump accidentally admits that his disastrous tariffs are increasing inflation because they get added to the "price of a product" and as a result a "lot of those products aren't going to sell."
Every MAGA fool who supported these tariffs is eating crow now...
"Are you worried about what the 145% tariffs are doing to small businesses in the U.S.? Is that why you're bringing it down?" a reporter asked Trump.
"No... No..." he replied. "No... No... No... I haven't brought it down. I haven't brought It's still 145%, I haven't brought it down. I said it's a high tariff," said Trump. "It is a high tariff but I haven't brought it down."
Yesterday, he announced that the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods would "come down substantially."
"It basically means China isn't doing any business with us essentially because it's a very high number," Trump continued. "So when you add that to the price of a product it's you know... A lot of those products aren't going to sell."
"But China's not doing any business. They were doing uh, $1.11 trillion, think of that," he added.
Trump has repeatedly falsely claimed that tariffs do not affect inflation and that foreign countries end up paying them. The truth, of course, is that the increased costs are passed on to American consumers.
This man has such disdain for the intelligence of his supporters that he thinks he can state in one breath that he's not worried about the tariff effects on small businesses which are suffering terribly right now to due to skyrocketing margins and then turn around and admit that tariffs do in fact increase prices and lower consumption.
This entire debacle will go down in history as one of the most idiotic economic wounds ever inflicted on the American people. Donald Trump isn't steering us into a new "Golden Age," he's driving us right off a cliff.ADD his Tariff Taxes to the price of the product?
WTF!
He told us China was going to pay those Trump Tariffs and that beautiful word, the most beautiful word in the dictionary, was going to make us all rich beyond our wildest dreams!
Just as soon as Mexico pays for that wall he never built.
In about "two weeks. ".
The charging infrastructure still needs to be addressed. Where does an apartment dweller charge a EV overnight?
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