Don't panic! Wait, let's all panic! Is there hope for the stock market?
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: [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrNDJ-l8aUw[/URL].
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.
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Posting this in advance of TrumpMusk's Liberation From Your Money Day
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.
[B]Goldman sees tariffs spiking inflation, stunting growth, raising recession risk.
March 30. 2025[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/30/tariffs-to-spike-inflation-stunt-growth-and-raise-recession-risks-goldman-says-.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[QUOTE]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%.[/QUOTE]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?
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Yes, please explain everything about the rule of law on that to Repub President Musk
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2993914]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.[/QUOTE][B]Elon Musk worked illegally in US at start of his career.
Oct. 26, 2024[/B]
[URL]https://www.fox7austin.com/news/elon-musk-worked-illegally-us[/URL]
[QUOTE]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. [/QUOTE]BTW, a "border crosser" is not necessarily here illegally. Not according to the USA Constitution.
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This pretty much sums it up
Making the rounds on Facebook:
[QUOTE][b]Poignant and sad words from Charles Pierce in Esquire:[/b]
"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." [/QUOTE]
Right-wing lunatic fringe...
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2993913]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.[/QUOTE]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!
[b]PS:[/b] Leave it to Elvis 2008, to gloss over [u]all the harm being done to innocent children[/u], due to the [b]right-wing "woke" anti-vax ignorance[/b] of RFK Jr. and MAGA cultists like himself.
Our Living God Donald J Trump and the other God made a baby
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2993953]Making the rounds on Facebook:[/QUOTE]Here is the end result.
[URL]https://www.heritage.org/event/the-once-and-future-worker-how-the-consumerist-consensus-led-america-astray-and-how-recover[/URL]
California's 50 of 82 days, in Solar, Wind, & Water...so far in 2025!
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.
[I][b]In 50 of 82 Days in 2025, Solar, Wind, & Water Surpass 100% of Electricity Demand in California for Part of Day [/b], 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%. [url]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/[/url][/I]
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, [u]is largely seen, as a "good problem" to have.[/u]
[B]Californians pay too much for electricity. Here are three bold solutions[/B], Mar 27th, 2025.
[URL]https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2025-03-27/californians-pay-too-much-for-electricity-here-are-three-bold-solutions-boiling-point[/URL]
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.
History was made on the floor of the United States Senate!
Senator Cory Booker will go down in history as giving the longest speech in the history of the Senate.
[B]A true American Hero![/B]
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.
[B]Two middle fingers up to all of my fellow Americans that are racists currently residing in the United States of America and traveling abroad![/B]
