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05-13-25 19:01 #18168India rejects Trump's claim his trade concessions de-escalated India-Pakistan tensions.
Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/india-rej...BaEvSqCX5GQcgc
Wringing your hands and begging, "Come on you guys, just stop it" rarely wins anyone a Nobel Peace Prize.NEW DELHI (AP) The Indian government on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trumps claim that he helped broker a ceasefire between India and Pakistan in exchange for trade concessions.
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New Delhi also rejected Trump's offer for mediation on Tuesday.
We have a longstanding national position that any issues related to the federally controlled union territory of Jammu and Kashmir must be addressed by India and Pakistan bilaterally. There has been no change to the stated policy, Jaiswal said.
Maybe Trump can buy one by lowering his ilegally-enacted tariffs on Norway.
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05-13-25 06:43 #18167
Almost no more tax for Chinese products. Trump is really a dangerous, ridiculous clown. Bullshiting with no balls. Many Chinese toys are dangerous for children.
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05-13-25 02:30 #18166
Every word out of your mouth is a bold faced lie lololol
Your lame attempts to gaslight ISG are absurdly weak, give it up you're just wasting your electricity. Originally Posted by EihTooms
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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...-pakistan-war/
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05-13-25 02:24 #18165Especially adventure bikes. I think for everyday cost effective transportation, still can't beat them Japs though. A lot of really good bikes are being made these days. I would die to ride that V4 through Italy. Originally Posted by Sirioja
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05-13-25 01:45 #18164
Sirioja do you even ride?
The best motorcycle is the one you swing your leg over and are riding at the moment.
Which one do you own? You need to define best. Why do you think those models or best? I suspect you don't ride. You have never mentioned it. Only your hate of all things EV. I actually bought a AJEV scooter for running errands around town. Originally Posted by Sirioja
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I am a poor (insert color of your choice here) man trying to make it in a (insert color of your choice here) man's world. Cash rules everything around me since I don't have much. I am looking to get the most for my dollar. Right now that is looking like CF Moto. The China Man is fucking the market up. In a good way! More tech, more power, less cost. That is why this topic is political. I see mother fucks posting about China this and China that. But those same mother fucks have exactly zero experience with Chinese motorcycles. That's cool. If they want to speak from a base that shows they have no knowledge on the issue that is fine.
I would like a BMW but that is a pure vanity purchase to have the symbol on my tank. No real reason to spend the money. I would argue from my personal research that Chinese are making the best bikes in the world market today.
But you haven't ridden a Chinese Bike but you have an opinion on it. Exactly how did you form your opinion? Originally Posted by RamDavidson84
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It is my choice how as a grown man I spend my hard earned dollars RamDavison. That is magnanimous of you to grant me your permission to spend my money how I choose. It's called the pursuit of happiness. I suggest you check the Declaration of Independence (your country of origin) for further details.
ROTFLMAO!
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05-12-25 22:15 #18163
Even Canadians 'Patriotic Millionaires' agree with Warren Buffett...
WOW!...you must REALLY be, in some kind of excruciating PAIN? Originally Posted by Elvis 2008
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What I mean is, after finding out, one of YOUR BIGGEST financial investor heroes, is in prefect alignment with what I'm saying, w/r to the billionaires and corporations paying their fair of taxes, for the social good and benefit of a well functioning society, must REALLY just eat you up inside! Arhhh...you poor thing!
Get this, Elvis 2008: Originally Posted by Elvis 2008
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A group of wealthy Canadians calling themselves 'Patriotic Millionaires' (May 11th, 2025) is banding together to lobby governments to increase the amount of taxes they must pay. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/pat...axes-1.7530936
Yes, some Canadian millionaires are lobbying for a tax change! Why?...They want to pay more!
So even Canadians, are arguing and speaking up to the injustice that "...the system is rigged to tax wages more than wealth and the present inequality in taxes, don't benefit a proper balance in society as a whole". They truly understand and "get it", that "...good social services make Canada a better place to build businesses"
When one of the world's richest men and Canadian 'Patriotic Millionaires' (for example) are speaking out against unfair tax system and want to pay more, it obviously is not something, the so called, Elvis 2008 "Paycheck Superheroes", are EVER going to understand.
But by all means continue, to live in the self-inflicted myth, of the Repub "American Cowboy" and the nonsensical associated culture-wars, perpetrated by this toxic myth.
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05-12-25 21:41 #18162Nah, Bill Maher just tells like it is and calls people out on their bullshit. If anything I would say for the longest time he leaned strong left, then left went to extreme for even him. Originally Posted by EihTooms
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05-12-25 21:26 #18161Politics aside, I am speaking purely riding here. You can own a Harley / cruiser in Europe and you will get by just fine. Now if you want the best riding experience possible for cities and areas that have winding curvy roads and shorts areas to accelerate in, then a standard motorcycle or a sport bike is going to be immensely more enjoyable. You can burn through corners and winding roads all day, you simply can't do that with the lean angle and peg position of a Harley cruiser or even worse a bagger. The downside is after 30 minutes sitting on a sport bike your back and ass is going to be killing you. They are not set up for long rides, some are more than others. See the Kawsaki Versys 1100. Its the main reason why Harleys barely sell in Europe, its not the Tariffs, its a bike designed for American Highways. I ll buy a Triumph all day over a Harley if I lived in UK. That bike is perfectly suited for the roads of UK. You can be the greatest rider on Earth, but its still going to be a shitty ride taking a Harley through urban streets compared to a sport or standard bike. Originally Posted by SubCmdr
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Again, if your doing mostly highway miles, the cruiser set up is unmatched. The low rev torque and power of the engines will run strong all day and day after day. Its perfect for touring the country like many riders do. Its also designed to be as stable as possible at highway speeds for long periods of time. You can run a Harley for 500 miles straight at 90 mph with one hand. I have, its awesome. You can't do that on a sport bike, engine revs too high and will burn out prematurely as well as it will be super uncomfortable after your first tank of gas.
Decide what type of riding you want to do and where you want to do it and then choose a bike, but hey your money, do what you want at the end of the day.
As for Harley, they def dropped the ball not changing with the market, but sometimes shit just goes downhill and it is out of your control. No matter what, Americans just aren't getting into riding like they used to. Same thing happened to trains and whale oil once upon a time. Industries rise and fall as technology and societal needs and values evolve. American men ain't what they used to be.
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05-12-25 20:09 #18160
Clown show yes indeed your posts are a clown show
"No, YOU couldn't be MORE WRONG!
Also Glass-Steagall, NEVER prevented or covered the derivatives explosion of credit default swaps and "legalized unregulated gambling", or the multi-billion dollar predatory leading that took place under firms like, Countrywide and Wells Fargo.
Everyone knows, as it's widely reported, that under the dumbass Republican admin of George W. "Bushitler" and Hank Paulson, the, and policy change, that let the banks over leverage and barrow 30 x their assets with mortgage-backed securities, something they were NEVER allowed to do, with regular securities.
USA Recessions began under Repub presidents, since the 1950's.
It is dis / misinformed answers like yours, WHY THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS, enjoys PICKING YOUR POCKETS!
Repeal of Glass-Steagall Caused the Financial Crisis.
The repeal of the law separating commercial and investment banking caused the 2008 financial crisis.
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The oldest propaganda technique is to repeat a lie emphatically and often until it is taken for the truth. Something like this is going on now with regard to banks and the financial crisis. The big bank boosters and analysts who should know better are repeating the falsehood that repeal of Glass-Steagall had nothing to do with the Panic of 2008.
In fact, the financial crisis might not have happened at all but for the 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall law that separated commercial and investment banking for seven decades. If there is any hope of avoiding another meltdown, it's critical to understand why Glass-Steagall repeal helped to cause the crisis. Without a return to something like Glass-Steagall, another greater catastrophe is just a matter of time.
History is a good place to begin. After the Depression of 1920-21, the United States embarked on a period of economic prosperity known as the Roaring Twenties. It was a time of innovation, especially in consumer goods such as automobiles, radio, and refrigeration. Along with these goods came new forms of consumer credit and bank expansion. National City Bank (forerunner of today's Citibank) and Chase Bank opened offices to sell securities side-by-side with traditional banking products like deposits and loans.
As the decade progressed, the stock market boomed and eventually reached bubble territory. Along with the bubble came market manipulation in the form of organized pools that would ramp up the price of stocks and dump them on unsuspecting suckers just before the stock collapsed. Banks joined in by offering stocks of holding companies that were leveraged pyramid schemes and other securities backed by dubious assets.
In 1929, the music stopped, the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began. It took eight years from the start of the boom to the bust. Subsequent investigations revealed the extent of the fraud that preceded the crash. In 1933, Congress passed Glass-Steagall in response to the abuses. Banks would be allowed to take deposits and make loans. Brokers would be allowed to underwrite and sell securities. But no firm could do both due to conflicts of interest and risks to insured deposits. From 1933 to 1999, there were very few large bank failures and no financial panics comparable to the Panic of 2008. The law worked exactly as intended.
In 1999, Democrats led by President Bill Clinton and Republicans led by Sen. Phil Gramm joined forces to repeal Glass-Steagall at the behest of the big banks. What happened over the next eight years was an almost exact replay of the Roaring Twenties. Once again, banks originated fraudulent loans and once again they sold them to their customers in the form of securities. The bubble peaked in 2007 and collapsed in 2008. The hard-earned knowledge of 1933 had been lost in the arrogance of 1999.
The bank supporters' attacks on this clear-as-a-bell narrative deserve a hearing to show how flimsy they are. One bank supporter says you cannot blame banks for fraudulent loan originations because that was done by unscrupulous mortgage brokers. This is nonsense. The brokers would not have been able to fund the loans in the first place if the banks had not been buying their production.
Another apologist says the fact that no big banks failed in the crisis proves they were not the cause of the problem. This is also ludicrous. The reason the big banks did not fail was because they were bailed out by the government. Clearly the banks would have failed but for the bailouts. Bank balance sheets were neck-deep in liar loans and underwater home equity lines of credit. The fact that banks did not fail proves nothing except that they were too big to fail.
Yet another big bank spokesman says that nonbanks such as Lehman and Bear Stearns were more to blame for the crisis. This ignores the fact that nonbanks get their funding from banks in the form of mortgages, repurchase agreements, and lines of credit. Without the big banks providing easy credit on bad collateral like structured products, the nonbanks would not have been able to leverage themselves.
It is true that the financial crisis has enough blame to go around. Borrowers were reckless, brokers were greedy, rating agencies were negligent, customers were naïve, and government encouraged the fiasco with unrealistic housing goals and unlimited lines of credit at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Yet, the fact that there were so many parties to blame should not be used to deflect blame from the most responsible parties of all—the big banks. Without the banks providing financing to the mortgage brokers and Wall Street while underwriting their own issues of toxic securities, the entire pyramid scheme would never have got off the ground.
It was Glass-Steagall that prevented the banks from using insured depositories to underwrite private securities and dump them on their own customers. This ability along with financing provided to all the other players was what kept the bubble-machine going for so long.
Now, when memories are fresh, is the time to reinstate Glass-Steagall to prevent a third cycle of fraud on customers. Without the separation of banking and underwriting, it's just a matter of time before banks repeat their well-honed practice of originating garbage loans and stuffing them down customers' throats. Congress had the answer in 1933. Congress lost its way in 1999. Now is the chance to get back to the garden.
You are just a want to be shill for Anti American Wall Street, just like ET.
If its very bad for America and Americans you love it.
If its very good for America and Americans you hate it.
CNBC links? Seriously? Why no WSJ links lolololol you're a lame ass want to be shill.
And you are a treasonous bastard that belongs in a cell with Bubba and his hideous husband, for giving Aid and Comfort to the enemy.
I hear DOGE / Elon is using AI to hunt online for Anti American activities online, I sure hope they get you.
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05-12-25 19:03 #18159
George W. "Bushitler"/Repubs == 2008 Global Subprime Crisis...
(...kkkk!) No, YOU couldn't be MORE WRONG! Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1
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Glass-Steagall, was put in place to protect the commercial banks. Of the biggest firms that FAILED under the Repubs/George W. "Bushitler" admin in 2008 Subprime Crisis, were the investment banks of Lehman, Bear Stearns and the insurer AIG, that NEVER relied on OR were ever covered under Glass-Steagall protections.
Also Glass-Steagall, NEVER prevented or covered the derivatives explosion of credit default swaps (CDS), collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and "legalized unregulated gambling", or the multi-billion dollar predatory leading that took place under firms like, Countrywide and Wells Fargo.
You know...for all your whining and whinging, you do, it won't detract or dismiss from the FACT, yet another recession, depression and financial crisis took place under a pitiful George W. "Bushitler" and Hank Paulson, clown show Repub admin.
Next time, THINK B4 U ANSWER!
2004 SEC Leverage Rule Change, that largely led to the 2008 Subprime Mortgage Crisis:
Everyone knows, as it's widely reported, that under the dumbass Republican admin of George W. "Bushitler" and Hank Paulson, the 2004 SEC Leverage Rule Change, and policy change, that let the banks over leverage and barrow 30x their assets with mortgage-backed securities, something they were NEVER allowed to do, with regular securities.
The SEC Rule That Broke Wall Street
https://www.cnbc.com/2012/03/21/the-...ll-street.html
In 2004, rule change at SEC set the stage for a credit crisis
https://theworld.org/stories/2013/08...-credit-crisis
STOP FOOLING YOURSELF! 10 of the last 11 U.S. recessions began under Repub presidents, since the 1950's. Repub presidents and admins have ALWAYS BEEN ASSOCIATED with bad economic disasters, in history. Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1
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It is dis/misinformed answers like yours, WHY THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS, enjoys PICKING YOUR POCKETS! (...kkkk!).
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05-12-25 18:09 #18158
But now, best motos are Ducati, Aprilia and BMW, not anymore Japanese, nor US.
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05-12-25 17:35 #18157Republican Morons are like the owners of Harley-DavisonsIf I lived in Europe with their winding back roads where you can't even open your bike up, no way would I buy a cruiser, they are long haul highway bikes.
The reason why they think they cannot open up their bikes on the twisties is because they don't know how to control their motorcycles. They know how to ride fast in a straight line.
I took a course to learn how to control my motorcycle. It concluded with a half day on there track. Where we put all of our lessons we learned in the control setting (acceleration, shifting, braking, hitting the apex of the curve by getting your body into the proper position for the lean.
Republican Morons cannot do that. All of the work that is done in that situation is done by the rider. There is not way for a Republican Moron to pay someone to do the work for them. Unless they are the owner of a race team. No, a Republican Moron cannot do the work for themselves to control the motorcycle and that is why they buy big, loud, heavy, overpriced machines in order to feel cool and go really fast in a straight line. A individual that knows how to ride really puts the work in themselves. There is simply no way around it. That is simply not in the character of Republican Moron.
Now tell me: How did Harley-Davison screw up a market where they had a monopoly? Because they failed to recognize the changing market in the Dis-United States of America.
- Credit AI.Motorcycle Sales by Manufacturer 2024 USA
Based on the available data, here are the total motorcycle sales by major manufacturers in the United States for 2024:
Honda: As of December 2024, Honda held the largest share of the U.S. motorcycle market, marginally outpacing Harley-Davidson.4
Harley-Davidson: The company reported a 7% decline in retail unit sales in 2024.3
BMW: BMW was the standout with record unit sales, although specific numbers are not provided.3
Yamaha,*Kawasaki, and*Suzuki: Together, these brands constitute around 30% of the U.S. motorcycle market.4
The exact sales figures for each brand are not provided in the context, but Honda and Yamaha, Kawasaki, and Suzuki together make up nearly half of the U.S. motorcycle market. Harley-Davidson's sales declined by 7% in 2024, while BMW saw record unit sales.
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05-12-25 09:22 #18156
Donnie Two Dolls' tariff stance collapses like a house of cards
But but but Donnie Two Dolls is stealing all those Billions and Billions and Billions of dollars China was going to give us to pay for everything we want and need like Childcare because Childcare is Childcare and groceries, god I'm glad Trump invented that word, and make all Americans rich from those Trump Tariffs!
He denies America those Billions and Billions and Billions of free money from other countries every time he buckles and caves on 1 Tariff percentage point!
USA And China agree to slash tariffs for 90 days in major trade breakthrough.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/12/us-a...ndroidappshare
Oh, BTW, has somebody finally explained to Donnie Two Dolls than an illegally-enacted presidential Executive Order to raise, lower, raise, lower, buckle and cave, raise, lower, raise, buckle and cave, etc etc tariffs is not a "Trade Deal", whether it is enacted on goods from the United Kingdom, China, Mars, The Moon or anywhere else?The U.S. and China on Monday agreed to suspend most tariffs on each others goods in a move that shows a thawing of trade tensions between the worlds two largest economies.
The deal means reciprocal tariffs between both countries will be cut from 125% to 10%. The U.S.′ 20% duties on Chinese imports relating to fentanyl will remain in place, meaning total tariffs on China stand at 30%.
We had very productive talks and I believe that the venue, here in Lake Geneva, added great equanimity to what was a very positive process, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a news conference.
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05-12-25 08:51 #18155Bill Maher has never met an adult who thinks "a man can get pregnant. " Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1
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Nor has he ever met a Democratic Party leader pushing to "Defund the Police". Certainly not the way Repubs have tried to do that over and over again.
Bill Maher is a typically pro Repub "bothsider" MSM pundit happy to serve as a Public Relations tool for Trump and any other Repub if doing so will help Repubs win elections.
He has been that way at least since he was more responsible than any other pundit with a weekly GOP Election Rally tv show for getting the 2nd Worst President in USA History elected, GW Bush, back in 2000. His cuddly and lovable dinner date Donald J. Trump being The Worst.
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05-12-25 08:30 #18154
Good a new US / Peruvian pope, when the devil is in USA. We will see if pope is really efficient to fight orange devil who wants to degrade our world with USA low quality.
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