American Politics

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;2996823]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 [I]defend and protect the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies foreign and domestic[/I]. 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 [I]sleep peacefully under the blanket of security I that I and many others provided[/I] during our watch.

[B]The Article 2 leader has NOT defied the Article 3 leader[/B] You need to read [U]The Constitution of the United States of America[/U] 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.

[B]Educate yourself my man![/B]

I understand why you are pleading [I]No contest[/I]. It is because you have no defense..[/QUOTE]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.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2825778]Does this idiot get the concept of supply and demand [b]or is he another socialist[/b] that he thinks that he deserves better service because of his virtue signaling?[/QUOTE]The idiot in question that E2008 is referring to is me. Just click on the view original post link.

[QUOTE]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.[/QUOTE]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? [B]ROTLMAO[/B].

[QUOTE]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.[/QUOTE]So E2008 is comparing plastics to precious metals. [B]ROTFLMAO[/B]. 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. [B]In the long run we are all dead[/B].

[QUOTE]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.[/QUOTE]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.

[QUOTE]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?[/QUOTE]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.

[QUOTE]And what does Subcmdr say about gold? I am buying it up right now and making huge bank. LOL.[/QUOTE]Over the last two years my gold purchases have significantly increased in value.

[I]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[/I]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/is-this-a-good-time-to-buy-gold-experts-weigh-in.html[/URL]

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 [B]ad hominem[/B] attacks that have no basis in logic.

[B]Gold is at a all time high[/B]

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;2996533]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. [I]Protect yo neck[/I]![/QUOTE]Proof E2008 is not actually reading my post and instead is simply posting the ideas he has already made up about me.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2995702][URL]https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/04/08/schweizer-4-things-to-consider-in-tariff-panic-week/[/URL]

[URL]https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/08/nolte-55-of-leftists-believe-its-justifiable-to-assassinate-trump-thanks-to-apps-like-bluesky/[/URL][/QUOTE]Here's your typical ISG AP Trump loon.

[URL]https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/13/fbi-teen-murdered-parents-in-extremist-plot-to-fund-assassination-of-president-trump/[/URL]

[URL]https://www.investing.com/news/commodities-news/ubs-forecasts-3500-gold-price-in-2025-rally-to-extend-into-2026-3980795[/URL]

[URL]https://youtu.be/GpN-te9Od3c?si=SNBmoCtlpd24JvPy[/URL]

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.

[B]I will always keep a diversified world portfolio![/B]

[URL]https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/13/arizona-remove-almost-50k-non-citizens-voter-lists/[/URL]

What was the difference between Scumbag Joe and Our Lord and Savior? 10,000?

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2996834]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: [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUYsdjHhv8[/URL].

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..[/QUOTE]And that's why Scumbag Bubba did what he did, to help the oligarchs and fuck everyone else.

[URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/business/economy/ross-perot-nafta-trade.html[/URL]

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2996836]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..[/QUOTE]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][b]DHS told her to leave the country. She's a citizen and an immigration attorney[/b]

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.[/QUOTE[URL]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/citizen-gets-dhs-letter-leave-country-self-deportation-rcna201118[/URL]

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 ...

[indent] the self-proclaimed imbecile investing savant, [i][b]whom claimed the Red Lobster's bankruptcy,[/b][/i] was due to an all-time great Biden economy, and ignores or fails to see the harm and destruction to the economy, of his Fuhrer's [i]"just trust me"[/i] tariffs, current clown show Repub admin and...[/indent]

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 [i]([b]Who Is Government?:[/b] The Untold Story of Public Service),[/i] isn't lost on many Americans today, now awakened from their slumber, to the much [i][b]"taken for granted"[/b][/i] 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 books timing is "horrendously perfect". [b]Its a manifesto for civic pride in an era of demolition,[/b] proving that governments true "swamp" isn't bureaucracy, [u]its the unchecked power of those who vilify it,[/u] 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.
[LIST][i][b]The Guardian: Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis review what Doge is trying to destroy.[/b] ... 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. [url]https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/19/who-is-government-by-michael-lewis-review-what-doge-is-trying-to-destroy[/url][/i][/LIST]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 [i]"move fast and break things"[/i] 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, [i][b]"...everything the MAGA Fuhrer touches, turns to SHIT!"[/b][/i]

So while the DOGE, billionaire robber barons, Repubs, QAnon\MAGA cultist, bothsider, neithersider, MAGA adjacent "Repub Libertarians" or lunatic-fringe wingers and ...

[indent] the self-proclaimed imbecile investing savant, [i][b]whom claimed the Red Lobster's bankruptcy,[/b][/i] 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 [i]"just trust me"[/i] tariffs and current Repub admin clown show are hurting Americans and...[/indent]

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 [i]([b]Who Is Government?:[/b] The Untold Story of Public Service),[/i] isn't lost on many Americans today, now awakened from their slumber, to the much [i][b]"taken for granted"[/b][/i] 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". [b]Its a manifesto for civic pride in an era of demolition,[/b] proving that governments true "swamp" isn't bureaucracy, [u]its the unchecked power of those who vilify it,[/u] 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.
[LIST][i][b]The Guardian: Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis review what Doge is trying to destroy.[/b] ... 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. [url]https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/19/who-is-government-by-michael-lewis-review-what-doge-is-trying-to-destroy[/url][/i][/LIST]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 [i]"move fast and break things"[/i] 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, [i][b]"...everything the MAGA Fuhrer touches, turns to SHIT!"[/b][/i]

[QUOTE]Damned if I'm going to read your spiel for the third time to make sense of your demented ramblings.[/QUOTE]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 [U]The Constitution of the United States of America[/U]. 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.

[QUOTE]Sure, you're a citizen. A third class one.[/QUOTE]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.

[QUOTE]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.[/QUOTE]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.

[QUOTE] You say you're in your 60's so you should be familiar with how your people are treated under the "Rule of Law. [b]Fuck only knows why you're arguing about a blatant fact that your president has literally defied the judiciary.[/b].[/QUOTE]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.

[QUOTE] As for your comment about Mahmud deserving being deported..[/QUOTE]He is not a CITZEN. Even so he has received [B]Due Process[/B] under the [B]RULE OF LAW[/B]!

[QUOTE] 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.[/QUOTE]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. [B]ROTFLMO[/B]! 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 [B]ad hominem[/B] 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. [B]Our guest has no case[/B]. No knowledge of [U]The Constitution[/U]. 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 [B]ad hominem[/B] 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 *****!

[B]The Defense Rests[/B]

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:

[QUOTE][b]Dead in the street, mouth full of blood and a soul full of heat[/b][/QUOTE]If happens, don't cry for me because my heirs are going be mother fucking rich!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;2997105]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 [U]The Constitution of the United States of America[/U]. 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 [B]Due Process[/B] under the [B]RULE OF LAW[/B]![/QUOTE]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:

[URL]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/04/14/trump-and-cabinet-tear-into-cnn-reporter-oval-office/[/URL]

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.

[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Mahmoud_Khalil[/URL]

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."

[URL]https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisdobstaff/2025/04/15/forbes-daily-nvidia-chooses-texas-as-its-us-supercomputer-base/[/URL]#.

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.

[B]Is a Constitutional Crisis in the works?[/B]

[I]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.[/I]

[URL]https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisdobstaff/2025/04/15/forbes-daily-nvidia-chooses-texas-as-its-us-supercomputer-base/[/URL]#.

USGOV is buying BTC with revenue from Tariffs. [B]ROTFLMAO[/B].

[B]Delta Says It Refuses To Pay Tariffs On Incoming Airbus Aircraft[/B]

[URL]https://youtu.be/yl8IJWATIZs?si=z0mioeKUMqwQHqBb[/URL]