American Politics

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2919356]What? Why?

All I'm saying is this:

- 12 jurors found your idol guilty on every single count.

- there is no way some of these jurors aren't republicans and even trumpists.

- and yet, they agreed on the guilty verdict [B]on the second day of deliberation[/B] -- forced to agree -- because the prosecution proved their case beyond reasonable doubt.

- which means (and I'm deeply sorry to have to say this to you) that everyone who honestly believes in "rigged", are not exactly the sharpest tools in the box.

I hope you've managed to get through and send your money successfully.[/QUOTE]LOL. This is what we should do if any Jewish person like yourself is charged with a crime. This is your version of fair:

The police (in this case the Federal Elections commission) found you innocent.

You are charged by a prosecutor who literally ran on putting jews like you in jail.

Despite the police finding you innocent, the prosecutor charges you anyway.

The police are banned from testifying.

The charge against you is that you were funding terrorist activities against Palestinians.

The evidence against you is a check sent to a lawyer marked legal expenses.

The person putting the phrase legal expenses on the check was not you, and that person swears it was for legal expenses, and the check was sent to a lawyer.

The Judge in your case volunteered to take it.

This judge donated to the PLO.

The case is being tried in Dearborn, Michigan, the city with the most Muslims.

Potential jurors are lying on their forms to try to get on the jury.

Potential jurors are saying before the trial. I think we need to hold people like Xpartan accountable for the killing of Palestinians.

A video clip of you being insensitive to the Palestinian cause is played to the jurors.

One witness against you tells the jury you raped her. Before that she said you had consensual sex and then denied having sex with you at all, and she owes you $500,000 which she refuses to pay back.

The other witness is a convicted felon in jail for perjury among other things. He is caught lying time and time again, and he stole $50,000 from you.

This is your idea of fair? Hell, isn't a trial in the above case a waste of time?

Seeing as how you think this was fair, then all Jews accused of criminal behavior should be tried in Dearborn and only with judges who have donated to the PLO. Gee, I wonder how that will turn out.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2919776]LOL. This is what we should do if any Jewish person like yourself is charged with a crime. This is your version of fair:

The police (in this case the Federal Elections commission) found you innocent.

You are charged by a prosecutor who literally ran on putting jews like you in jail.

Despite the police finding you innocent, the prosecutor charges you anyway.

The police are banned from testifying.

The charge against you is that you were funding terrorist activities against Palestinians.

The evidence against you is a check sent to a lawyer marked legal expenses.

The person putting the phrase legal expenses on the check was not you, and that person swears it was for legal expenses, and the check was sent to a lawyer.

The Judge in your case volunteered to take it.

This judge donated to the PLO.

The case is being tried in Dearborn, Michigan, the city with the most Muslims.

Potential jurors are lying on their forms to try to get on the jury.

Potential jurors are saying before the trial. I think we need to hold people like Xpartan accountable for the killing of Palestinians.

A video clip of you being insensitive to the Palestinian cause is played to the jurors.

One witness against you tells the jury you raped her. Before that she said you had consensual sex and then denied having sex with you at all, and she owes you $500,000 which she refuses to pay back.

The other witness is a convicted felon in jail for perjury among other things. He is caught lying time and time again, and he stole $50,000 from you.

This is your idea of fair? Hell, isn't a trial in the above case a waste of time?

Seeing as how you think this was fair, then all Jews accused of criminal behavior should be tried in Dearborn and only with judges who have donated to the PLO. Gee, I wonder how that will turn out.[/QUOTE]Sorry, but your analogy fell apart at step one.

The analogy would be the police thought you didn't commit a crime because you had cleverly hidden the part that proved it was a crime in an earlier, intentional, carefully planned, uh, "bookkeeping error".

Once that, uh, "bookkeeping error" was unearthed with full documentation and multiple witness testimony for the commission of a crime, in this case a Felony designed to commit Election Fraud and steal the 2016 election, the police, DOJ, judicial system, judge, jurors and all the rest had no choice but to enforce the Rule of Law and maintain Law and Order with equal justice to all.

There. See how that worked now?

This just in! One of Trump's attorneys is calling out Lying Liars Who Lie For Their MAGA / Repub Lying Liar Are Lying Liars.

And silly.

[B]Trump Attorney: Biden And DOJ Had Nothing To Do With Trump Conviction.
Joe Tacopina makes mincemeat out of MAGA arguments that the Hush Money conviction was set up by President Biden.
June 2, 2024[/B]

[URL]https://crooksandliars.com/2024/06/trump-attorney-biden-and-doj-had-nothing[/URL]

[QUOTE]Tacopina: This is not a federal prosecution. Joe Biden or anyone from his justice department have absolutely zero to do with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.

They have no jurisdiction over him. They have no context with him. They have no control, certainly, over him. So, to say that Joe Biden brought this case is one of the most ridiculous things I've heard.

We know that's not the case. And even Trump's lawyers know that's not the case.
.........
You know, so people who say that make it scary that they really don't know the law or what they're talking about. I mean, to suggest that Joe Biden would be behind the Manhattan District Attorney's prosecution is silly.[/QUOTE]

Banana Republican Party, anyone?

Unconstitutional potus weaponization of the DOJ and judicial system by a wannabe authoritarian dictatorship, anyone?

[B]'Where are all of the arrests?: Trump demands Barr lock up his foes.
The day-long run of tweets and retweets marked the most frantic stretch of Trumps public activity since he left Walter Reed.
Oct. 7, 2020[/B]

[URL]https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/07/trump-demands-barr-arrest-foes-427389[/URL]

[QUOTE]Donald Trump mounted an overnight Twitter blitz demanding to jail his political enemies and call out allies he says are failing to arrest his rivals swiftly enough.

Trump twice amplified supporters criticisms of Attorney General William Barr, including one featuring a meme calling on him to arrest somebody! He wondered aloud why his rivals, like President Barack Obama, Democratic nominee Joe Biden and former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton [/QUOTE][B]Trump ups pressure on Barr to probe Bidens as election nears.
Oct. 21, 2020[/B]

[URL]https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-william-barr-elections-20fd56b64801dd83b1657c630a1ebdfa[/URL]

[QUOTE]President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on Attorney General William Barr to immediately launch an investigation into unverified claims about Democrat Joe Biden and his son Hunter, effectively demanding that the Justice Department muddy his political opponent and abandon its historic resistance to getting involved in elections.

With just two weeks to go before Election Day, Trump for the first time explicitly called on Barr to investigate the Bidens and even pointed to the nearing Nov. 3 election as reason that Barr should not delay taking action. Trump has been leveling accusations of corruption against Biden without verified evidence for months, but is stepping up the pressure in the final days of the campaign.[/QUOTE]Uh, Donnie, that is because there was no evidence of any wrongdoing by those Dems, you ignorant, America-hating fuck. As your own AG told you over and over again.

Which is very, very, very, very much unlike the overwhelming, compelling and conclusive evidence for Donnie's 34 Felony Convictions, as fairly determined first by a Grand Jury of ordinary American citizens and later by a 12 member jury of his peers in a Criminal Trial, all fully vetted, screened and approved of by Donald J. Trump himself.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2919836]The analogy would be the police thought you didn't commit a crime because you had cleverly hidden the part that proved it was a crime in an earlier, intentional, carefully planned, uh, "bookkeeping error".

There. See how that worked now?[/QUOTE]No, what I see is a dumb Democratic douche who quotes the "experts" whenever he can such that it benefits him. In this case, the expert was the Federal Elections Commission. And what you, a dumb Democratic douche, does not get is the FEC fined Hiliary for her role in Russiagate and looked into this matter with Trump and issued no fine. She tried to rig the election not Trump.

In other words, these experts did not even find a misdemeanor worth charging for and what Hiliary did was 100 X worse and she did get fined.

And so you can insert your usual belly aching about how biased anyone against you is who speaks the truth and how the FEC is so biased for Republicans.

And you can see the douche behavior continue with he was found guilty on all counts. What were the counts? What was the crime? And how was this jury right and the FEC wrong then?

And this is too fucking stupid to even debate so you can have the last word. I like what one journalist said. You do not charge someone running for president with a crime unless that crime is super, super serious in an election year. To charge the leading candidate for president with a case in an election year with something this fucking stupid was the real crime.

[QUOTE=Huacho;2919599]Hmm, if an ordinary citizen was worried about election integrity, what could they do? They could volunteer to work as an election judge. Like I do.[/QUOTE]Outstanding idea. But that would require our political keyboard warriors to enter the real world and actually participate in the electoral process. [B] LOL[/B]!

[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2919483]Spidy, your primary focus in life is having a government stealing money from hard working people to send to you so you can fuck women. That is not me. I work and pay my own way. I also see that the government you so love can turn against you. ... [/QUOTE]

As for [b]the grand delusions of Elvis 2008[/b]...Where is doth it begin, and where doth it end? Well no one really knows and who really cares?

However, the unsolicited [i][b]"fishing expeditions"[/b][/i], wild and crazy notions, and efforts to garner information about what may, or may not be, the [b][u]real[/u][/b] lives, livelihoods and whereabouts of an ISGer, is if anything...all a bit [b][i]"doxxy-cringy"[/i][/b].

[u]Paycheck Superhero?:[/u]

It's only natural, that when our Elvis 2008, makes up these elaborate stories and pretenses, about how this ISG Dem or that ISG Dem, earns their money or "gov't paycheck", that [u]he would play[/u] the part of [b]"Paycheck Superhero"[/b], having a soooooooo much bigger, better, larger, taller, greener and thicker stack of cheese, than the belittled ISG Dems who just love gov't cheese.

Yes, our [b]"braggadocios paycheck superhero",[/b] does paint a good picture of himself. Well, it is [u]his fantasy[/u] after all. (...kkkk!) In his mind, he is the Repub "self-made paycheck" superhero and ISG Dems are just "gov't paycheck" villains?

[u]Patience is a Virtue:[/u]

So while ISGers like Elvis 2008, are trying to create these elaborate narratives, stories and pretense, to satisfy their suppositions, speculations and wild conjectures about other ISGers, its been said to Elvis 2008, on several occasions (similar to what I was told about Trump), [i][b]"...just be patient, as people/ISGers will often tell you who they are, without you asking.[/b] Just Be Patient!"[/i]

[u]Next Episode/Installment:[/u]

Hey, Elvis 2008, if [b]"PATIENCE"[/b] is your thing and doesn't work for you, can I make a suggestion w/r to your next episode of Paycheck Superhero? That you make your "villains", more evil, lecherous and wanton for gov't cheese.

Look at how really cool that would be, when you bring down these [i]"badass villains"[/i] (that pilfer gov't coffers) with your superhero paycheck power?

[i][b]I only ask,[/b][/i] that if Spidy, is going to play a "badass villain", in a continuing role, in your Paycheck Superhero story, that it's only fair he gets, a $48 million dollar luxury yacht, like the one the Russians (and gullible House Repubs) reported Zelensky brought with US Gov't aid money.

I mean, how cool would that be, to give Spidy a luxury yacht, so he can really live up to the role of badass "gov't paycheck" [u]super villain?[/u] (...kkkk!)

Wouldn't that be a cool storyline for your next episode of Paycheck Superhero,...don't you think?

[b]PS:[/b] And while your at it, your pretenses would be less [b]"doxxy-cringy"[/b] if perhaps, you throw-in a yachting junket in the Caribbean, with a few dozen bikini-clad bronzed Brasileiras, sipping champagne and Caipirinhas (...kkkk!)

[QUOTE=Spidy;2919976]As for [b]the grand delusions of Elvis 2008[/b]...Where is doth it begin, and where doth it end? Well no one really knows and who really cares?
[/QUOTE]All your bullshit and there is no denial of what I said. Even Tooms has someone admitting he is a monger. With you, there are crickets. In fact, there is not one post of yours that I could find that has anything to do with mongering at all. Is the only reason you are here is to talk politics?

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2919776]LOL. This is what we should do if any Jewish person like yourself is charged with a crime. This is your version of fair:

The police (in this case the Federal Elections commission) found you innocent.

You are charged by a prosecutor who literally ran on putting jews like you in jail.

Despite the police finding you innocent, the prosecutor charges you anyway.

The police are banned from testifying.

The charge against you is that you were funding terrorist activities against Palestinians.

The evidence against you is a check sent to a lawyer marked legal expenses.

The person putting the phrase legal expenses on the check was not you, and that person swears it was for legal expenses, and the check was sent to a lawyer.

The Judge in your case volunteered to take it.

This judge donated to the PLO.

The case is being tried in Dearborn, Michigan, the city with the most Muslims.

Potential jurors are lying on their forms to try to get on the jury.

Potential jurors are saying before the trial. I think we need to hold people like Xpartan accountable for the killing of Palestinians.

A video clip of you being insensitive to the Palestinian cause is played to the jurors.

One witness against you tells the jury you raped her. Before that she said you had consensual sex and then denied having sex with you at all, and she owes you $500,000 which she refuses to pay back.

The other witness is a convicted felon in jail for perjury among other things. He is caught lying time and time again, and he stole $50,000 from you.

This is your idea of fair? Hell, isn't a trial in the above case a waste of time?

Seeing as how you think this was fair, then all Jews accused of criminal behavior should be tried in Dearborn and only with judges who have donated to the PLO. Gee, I wonder how that will turn out.[/QUOTE]Calling it utterly illogical doesn't even begin to describe your train of thoughts. It's a clear manifestation of a deluded, hallucinating mind.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2919944]No, what I see is a dumb Democratic douche who quotes the "experts" whenever he can such that it benefits him. In this case, the expert was the Federal Elections Commission. And what you, a dumb Democratic douche, does not get is the FEC fined Hiliary for her role in Russiagate and looked into this matter with Trump and issued no fine. She tried to rig the election not Trump.

In other words, these experts did not even find a misdemeanor worth charging for and what Hiliary did was 100 X worse and she did get fined.

And so you can insert your usual belly aching about how biased anyone against you is who speaks the truth and how the FEC is so biased for Republicans.

And you can see the douche behavior continue with he was found guilty on all counts. What were the counts? What was the crime? And how was this jury right and the FEC wrong then?

And this is too fucking stupid to even debate so you can have the last word. I like what one journalist said. You do not charge someone running for president with a crime unless that crime is super, super serious in an election year. To charge the leading candidate for president with a case in an election year with something this fucking stupid was the real crime.[/QUOTE]Why stop at presidential elections when a single congressional seat so often changes the direction of the country almost as much as that of president?

Then all of America's worst criminals will just race to the Republican Party, where they will be loving embraced and supported, and "run for election" when their trial delay tactics eventually time the start of their trials to begin in an election year. Which is officially every two years and in reality every year when you factor in special elections.

Good idea. Obviously well thought out. LOL. Pretty much par for the course for the typical Repub Criminal Party's version of Law and Order and Rule of Law. LOL.

So Mendendez' trial should be dropped or postponed until after this year's election?

How about Hunter Biden's trial? The blitheringly confused Repub Party and their typically pro Repub partners in Mainstream Media have worked so hard to equate Hunter with Joe, the trial of "President" Hunter Biden ought to be dropped or postponed until after the election too, right?

BTW, haven't you and Trump and The Repub Party and their beloved benefactors in MSM figured out if that trial and those 34 Felony Convictions hurt or helped, aided and boosted Trump's dumb hillbilly sucker Repub money grab and chances of winning another term to produce even more horrific Trump / Repub results across the board for at least "4 More Years" as seems to be the constant pitch these days?

We hear an awful lot about the latter being the case. Which is it today?

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2919995]It's a clear manifestation of a deluded, hallucinating mind.[/QUOTE]You made the dumb claim that there was "no way some of these jurors aren't republicans and even trumpists". Of course, you do not the numbers or names of those jurors.

And that tells me you do not understand the voir dire process. If I were the lawyer wanting to put your ass in jail in Dearborn, Michigan, I could easily get an all-Arab jury. In Manhanttan, it is child's play to get an all Democratic jury, so you are the one who is delusional. Hell, you probably think voir dire is the name of a French hooker.

If there was any interest in fairness, the case should have been moved to an area which is 50-50 Dems and Republicans. Then and only then would I agree with your claim that "no way some of these jurors aren't Republicans. ".

But your comments show me that you so desperately want to believe that this trial was fair, that you have not even figured out how it could be and was rigged.

*sigh* This has been stated clearly dozens if not hundreds of times. But it seems there are still some sad souls who just can't or won't grasp the simple reality of exactly what Trump's Felony Convictions in his scheme to commit election fraud and steal the 2016 election were for. LOL. Yeah, yeah. I know.

Well, anyway, this report and overview is about as good as any of the other dozens if not hundreds or thousands published since Trump's Felony Convictions:

[B]What was Trump convicted of? Details on the 34 counts and his guilty verdict.
June 3, 2024[/B]

[URL]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-charges-conviction-guilty-verdict/[/URL]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2920025]BTW, haven't you and Trump and The Repub Party and their beloved benefactors in MSM figured out if that trial and those 34 Felony Convictions hurt or helped, aided and boosted Trump's dumb hillbilly sucker Repub money grab and chances of winning another term to produce even more horrific Trump / Repub results across the board for at least "4 More Years" as seems to be the constant pitch these days?

We hear an awful lot about the latter being the case. Which is it today?[/QUOTE]LOL. You think all polls are conducted by Republicans. They have been all over the place. What do they matter to you when you just ignore the ones not favorable to your side?

What is factual is the last report from Trump campaign is they have raised $200 million since the verdict, and the only thing you douches can say is that all the people donating are fools. Are they? Hell, if Xpartan, Spidy, the Cane, and you were put on a jury, you four could not Trump innocent of anything, and that is what I mean by the trial being unnecessary. All Alvin Bragg had to do was find 12 douches like you all, and that is child's play in Manhattan. Hell, you were clamoring for a guilty verdict before the trial even started. You are so screwed in the head you would literally find any Republican guilty of anything.

Matt Taibbi wrote this under the title: A sham case, and everyone knows it.

Maureen Dowd in the New York Times in this morning's op-ed about Donald Trump's trial Even though the case was a stretch and not the strongest one against Trump, there was something refreshing about the jury doing what no one else around Trump has been able to do not the inexplicably sycophantish Republican lawmakers, not the corrupt Supreme Court, not the slowpoke Merrick Garland.

Whoa. Trump has so altered American consciousness that detractors feel comfortable publicly supporting the idea of slapping 34 felony convictions on the man as punishment for alleged earlier offenses. Dowd's slip if it was one wasn't rare. Editorial pages, broadcast panels, even political mailers in the past days implored readers to focus on Trump's overall history, not this particular case:

New York's Jonathan Chait, who lives on the outer edge of the spectrum of Trump-detesting pundits but has expressed unease with some recent moves to unseat him, wrote "the case was always marginal" and "the sort of charge you'the concoct if the target is a bad guy and you want to nail him for something. " Like Dowd, he explained the larger justification elsewhere:

In a global sense, Trump's conviction in a court is not just fair but overdue. He has been flouting the law his entire adult life. Once he ascended to the presidency, Trump's criminality only grew. He issued illegal orders constantly, flummoxing his staff.

Alan Shepard of The New Republic wrote essentially the same thing:

The hush-money trial gets at some of that. Was Trump trying to manipulate the election? Was he trying to hide an affair from his wife? Was it a little bit of column A and column be? We'll never know precisely. What is clear is that Trump is crooked and more than a little sleazytwo things that have been part of his self-image, to varying degrees, since he first became a public figure more than 40 years ago.

Ana Navarro got The View's studio audience (read: the closest thing to a show trial gallery we have in America) hooting and cheering at the idea of punishing Trump because he "made the life of our country a living hell for six years, and so he deserves to be held accountable":

Not one of these people recognized the obvious: that of all the things Donald Trump has been accused of, none are as serious or system-imperiling as abusing the courts to dispose of a political rival. If Trump was caught buggering a corpse while smoking joints rolled in rubles, it wouldn't approach the offense of "concocting" a charge to put away someone you want to "nail" for "something. ".

Here's The New Yorker's joking reply to the notion that this was a show trial:

Trump will not be summarily executed, as so many hundreds of thousands were in the Soviet purges. He won't even have to wear an orange uniform if he does, in fact, end up serving timeinmates in New York are actually banned from doing so.

This craziness been pervasive since Trump entered the political arena, a fact buried by commentators great and small. Joe Biden's post-verdict address insisted "this is a state case, not a federal case," omitting the minor detail that original evidence came from an FBI raid conducted after Special Counsel Robert Mueller referred the matter to the Southern District of New York. Mueller's investigation, remember, grew out of the FBI's dubious Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

This is why Hillary Clinton's similar records SNAFU is more than a gotcha! Factoid. Her campaign and the DNC were fined $113,000 for labeling ex-spy Christopher Steele's dossier "legal and compliance consulting. " These reports came out in pre-election stories in 2016 accusing Trump of being vulnerable to "blackmail" and of having a "back channel" to the Kremlin, but more importantly were used to prop up bogus FISA surveillance of former Trump aide Carter Page. The dossier was also key evidence in the January, 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that Russia conducted an "influence campaign" to "harm Clinton'selectability. ".

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was later asked if he'the have signed the FISA warrants if he knew then what was in the applications. "No, I would not," he said. In other words: the current Trump case was about hiding an alleged escapade with a porn star maybe from a wife, maybe from the public, maybe both, but Hillary hid a role in advancing FBI and intelligence investigations of a political opponent, an infinitely more serious business that may even have helped bring about this verdict.

Editorialists are working to reshape the history of what just happened in a less dubious light. The least ridiculous might be the argument offered by Vox, suggesting Trump's prosecution isn't evidence of excess, but rather simple logic:

If a man perpetrates a wide variety of frauds over the course of decades and routinely advertises his contempt for the rule of law prosecutors may aggressively scrutinize the legality of his business records and get a bit creative in holding him legally accountable.

That "a bit creative" take blurs lines between training attention on Trump because of his politics and doing so because he "advertises his contempt for the rule of law. " Meanwhile, in another New York Times piece today called "A Felon in the White House Would Test The American System," Peter Baker argues "the notion that 34 felonies is not automatically disqualifying and a convicted criminal can be a viable candidate. Upends two and a half centuries of assumptions about American democracy":

"There is no useful historical precedent whatsoever," said Jeffrey A. Engel, the director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. "The interesting matter is not that a former president has been tried and convicted, as the founders might well have anticipated, but that he remains a viable candidate for office, which they would have found astounding and ultimately disheartening. ".

The question of how to create an empowered executive without making him an unaccountable monarch absorbed the framers when they designed the Constitution. They divided power among three branches of government and envisioned impeachment as a check on a rogue president. They even explicitly made clear that an impeached president could still be prosecuted for crimes after being removed from office.

Baker has it backwards. The framers would have looked at this situation as a test case for why voters must be given more power than entrenched enforcement bureaucacies.

The endless pursuits of Trump through FBI and special counsel probes, illegal leaks of intelligence products, multiple impeachments, raids and lawsuits involving hyper-aggressive laws like the KKK and Espionage Acts, overt efforts to discourage legal representation of the candidate and deny him ballot access, and now preposterously huge fines and absurd criminal penalties that are like a thumb in the eye of the Eighth Amendment, put even people who were never Trump fans in the position of weighing worst-case scenarios.

For all Trump's flaws, he isn't the unaccountable monarch in this metaphor, and even detractors are admitting it.

Going all the way back to when the Great Job Creator President Jimmy Carter required Congress to include in the budget that companies offering the terrific tax-defferred retirement fund investment bonanza of a 401 K Plan as a blessing and gift to their top executives must ALSO offer that blessing and gift to their rank and file employees, this is the first time the average participant contribution rate neared the oft-recommended 15% level.

Thank you, Jimmy.

Thank you, Joe:

[B]Average 401 (k) savings rates recently hit a record here's what experts suggest.[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/03/average-401k-savings-rate.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]The average 401(k) plan savings rate, including employee and company contributions, recently hit a record high and the percentage is nearing a popular benchmark.

During the first quarter of 2024, the combined 401(k) savings rate reached 14.2%, according to a quarterly Fidelity analysis of almost 26,000 corporate plans and nearly 24 million participants.

That savings rate is the closest its ever been to Fidelitys recommended 15% benchmark. The investment firm estimates that a total retirement savings rate of at least 15% is a key step to being able to maintain your current lifestyle in retirement.[/QUOTE]Hard to get anywhere close to that level when Reagan, Bush1, Bush2 and Trump Repub economic policy and stewardship results are creating Great Repub Recessions, wiping out millions upon millions of jobs or skyrocketing Unemployment Rates to double digits.

Easy to do it during Bidenomics.

There is simply NO money left anywhere for anyone after Americans come home from their better and higher-paying jobs they somehow wrestled away from millions of asylum-seeking refugees and miraculously pay their rent, buy gas and eat their weekly ration of birdseed and rain water.

Even wildly liberal MSM outlets say so:

[B]Americans Have More Investment Income Than Ever Before.
A booming economy and rising household wealth help some consumers keep spending.
June 5, 2024[/B]

[URL]https://www.wsj.com/economy/americans-have-more-investment-income-than-ever-before-84b7a6c6[/URL]

Damn you, Joe Biden! The gods curse the day we didn't listen to Mainstream Media darling Larry Summers and instead found ourselves mired in a horrible state of Bidenomics!

Please bring back Trump and his $2. 5+ Trillion added to the deficit to buy a million fewer jobs with his economic "stimulus" legislation than without it, Recessions in our Manufacturing and Agro industries so severe he had to issue hefty emergency welfare checks to them just to keep them afloat, two Bear Market Declines in just 4 years and that very popular Trump's Pandemic or whatever other "Once in 100 Years Disaster" Repub Trump can identify, embrace and exacerbate in order to create another Great Repub Depression / Recession, wipe out millions upon millions of jobs, shut down businesses and schools, trigger hyper-inflation in the necessary Dem Recovery and skyrocket the cost of rent, gas and food all over again for 4 More Years!