American Politics

[QUOTE=ChrisP;2714321]GOP observers forcibly removed from counting centers in democrat shithole cities. Windows boarded up to prevent people seeing in. Counts stopped at midnight with Trump miles ahead, while they worked out how many votes Biden needed, then a few hours later pallots of hundreds of thousands, 98% for Biden, mysteriously show up from. Who knows where? Well, Dinesh the'Souza might have found out in his excellent documentary 2000 Mules, which showed part of the democrat mail-in ballot collection scam.

Why do no other serious countries have mass mail-in ballots? France just had a national presidential election. It was in-person voting on paper ballots on election day (with rare exceptions for overseas military personnel, sick / housebound people, all arranged and verified beforehand) and the results were released the same night. Why can't America have a presidential election like that, as in most other countries? We all know the answer, of course.[/QUOTE]All of these fallacies have been debunked [B]by Republicans in charge of elections[/B]. And they have been debunked by the audits conducted [B]by Republicans[/B]. But sure, bring up "2000 Mules" again becauser it, too, has been debunked [B]by professionals[/B] who know what they're talking about.

Now, to your other question. "Why do no other serious countries have mass mail-in ballots?" Because those other countries have elections [B]controlled by the Federal government[/B] in some fashion. In most European countries, one is [B]automatically registered to vote[/B] when one turn 18. In France, one isn't, which is why France has some of the lowest voter turnout rates in Europe. [URL]https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20211214-quirk-in-french-electoral-system-cited-as-a-cause-of-high-rate-of-abstention[/URL].

But more to the point, why don't we look at our neighbor to the south, Mexico. In Mexico, there is not much mail-in voting, that's true. But in Mexico, the Federal Government is in charge of elections. How voter registration is done and how voting is done [B]is enshrined in the Mexican Constitution[/B]. The way to register to vote is in the Constitution. The documents required are in there also. The INE (voter ID card) is provided by the Federal government. When you show up to your polling place, they have a voter roll [B]with a photo[/B] (provided by the Federal government also) and you are required to show your INE. But, also enshrined in the Mexican Constitution, is the fact that there is one polling place for every 1500 people. As is the fact that election day in Mexico is on a Sunday and election day is also a federal holiday. Many businesses that are usually open on a Sunday (like restaurants) are closed on election day because of the high salary costs (triple time?) of requiring people to work on that day.

But I'd be willing to bet money that you and the rest of the tRUMPers here would object mightily to a Mexican-style system in the US. After all, you'd rather complain about how states should have the right to say that a hunting license is fine as proof of residency but that a college ID isn't. Or that closing all but one polling place in a county is perfectly OK and that requiring somebody to take time off from an hourly job and drive 2 hours in order to vote is fine. Or that mail-in ballots are somehow fraudulent just because they are mail-in ballots. Because, you know, it is [B]very easy[/B] for someone who doesn't have a clue as to what your signature looks like to forge your signature.

I don't know what is worse, that you actually have the stone to post such nonsense or that you actually believe what you posted.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2714450]
Your portfolio is so you. You think it is so well diversified but everything you own goes down when the Fed raises rates....[/QUOTE]Yes, my portolio is adequately diversified to weather a temporary inflationary period.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2714450]Then you pull the SNL and Gilda Radner thing 5 X in your post where you go off on some trivia that I got wrong when I did not even say it.[B]Joe Kennedy was NOT SEC chairman. WTF?[/B][/QUOTE][URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_Sr.[/URL]

Look at 3. 1.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2714450].....
Presidents campaign on a lot of things. [B]When they get in office and they announce and implement their policies, that is when it is smart to invest or not invest alongside them. I was happy to invest in Obama's oil policies and have been happy to be short Biden's.[/B][/QUOTE]Except you didn't short Biden's policies. Not until more than a year later. Anyone can be a Monday morning quarterback, even you. If you really believed Biden's policies were wrong for the country and the markets, why didn't you initiate your short position on Inauguration Day?

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2714450]LOL. Okay, Gilda. The insight I have is you are a birdbrain falling for the same crap as sold in 2008.
You have high quality REITs just like those high quality MBS. [B]Why don't these REITs just double the rent on all their clients and double their income and yield?[/B] You make it sound like that has no downside.[/QUOTE]Do you know what a REIT is? Do you know how they operate? There are about 20 different categories of REITs and they are not all the same.

REITs can't double the rents. They have this old-fashioned legal document called a lease. You may have heard of it. That legal agreement documents what the rental payments are and how much they increase each year.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2714450]Thing with you V is I argued that shutting down the economy based on the whim of health care officials was wrong. We knew lockdowns would destroy the economy but we did not know if they would do any good with regards to saving lives. Thing is that despite objective data showing lockdowns did nothing to prevent damage from Covid, you dumb Dems still believe that they did.

And now you do not get that part of the bill racked up with all that Covid debt is due. The only difference is now there is a scorecard, and I am up 50% and you are down 20%. Your lying about the score card is not surprising. What else can you do? Admit you are wrong? LOL.[/QUOTE]I always know when I have blistered a narcissist (that would be you Elvis). When you veer completely off topic and start talking about Covid, and start calling people names. That is when I know you are frustrated and feeling inadequate.

Remind me, who was it that predicted that [B]absolutely[/B] the deaths from Covid would not exceed 80,000 in the US. (They topped 1 million a while back). Who claimed Sweden was a great model to follow. They didn't lockdown while their neighbors all did. Well enough time has passed. What does the evidence show (Worldometer) Sweden had nearly 2 times as many deaths per capita from Covid compared to Denmark (a much more densely populated country). Nearly 3 times as many deaths per capita as Finland and 4 times as many deaths per capita as Norway.

[URL]https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/30/poll-american-patriotism-hits-new-low/[/URL]

Uncanny impersonation of Kamala Harris, better known as 'Heels Up'. Works on so many levels: the banal meaninglessness of her words; the outbreaks of inappropriate cackling at random intervals; the soulless dead fish eyes, hated by democrats and republicans alike. No wonder they're trying desperately to keep Sleepy Joe breathing.

[URL]https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1540678426100527107[/URL]

[URL]https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2022/06/29/iranian-state-media-mocks-kamala-harriss-abortion-comments/[/URL]

[URL]https://www.aol.com/news/certainly-possible-illinois-governor-says-033318395.html[/URL]

Missing From Biden's Europe Trip: An Endgame for War and Cheaper Gasoline. New York Times ([URL]https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/missing-from-biden-s-europe-trip-an-endgame-for-war-and-cheaper-gasoline/ar-AAZ269s[/URL]).

Biden pitches Democrats on Biden for president in 2024 - NBC News ([URL]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-pitches-democrats-on-biden-for-president-in-2024/ar-AAZ0Zoj[/URL]). This shit is hilarious!

Funny that I no longer have to go to real news agencies for news of Biden catastrophes, even the libtard MSM media is reporting it LOL. Ok, all joking aside, can we please bring back Trump (or someone as good or better)? I am sure most of us will prefer mean tweets over Biden's real failures as POTUS all around (except for the remaining few stupid libtards like the handful in this thread).

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2714653]All of these fallacies have been BLABLABLA.[/QUOTE]After wading through your usual torrent of verbal diarrhea there is still no answer for why no serious countries have mass mail-in voting.

That is of course because it is obviously unsecure, as we saw with the pallets of hundreds of thousands of ballots, 98% for Biden, which magically materialized in democrat city counting centers, after the GOP observers had been forced out, windows boarded up, and counting stopped for several hours so they could figure out how many Biden votes they needed to come up with.

Simple common sense, as used in democracies throughout the world, is that a secure election must be held with in-person votes, verified with photo ID, on paper ballots on the day of the election. These ballots must be counted and signed off by members of both parties.

In very rare cases, such as medical mobility issues or troops stationed abroad, it may be possible to use a mail-in ballot. This must be arranged in advance with appropriate verification (medical notes etc).

Anyone who disagrees with this wants unsecure, rigged elections, which is of course the aim of the democrats and the media.

P.S. Speaking of the fake news media, any comment on why, after prima facie voicemail evidence was just releasing showing that the s (h) itting president lied about his involvement in his son's dubious business deals in Ukraine and China, the very same media is refusing to mention it?

[QUOTE=Villainy;2714654]
Remind me, who was it that predicted that [B]absolutely[/B] the deaths from Covid would not exceed 80,000 in the US. (They topped 1 million a while back). [/QUOTE]No, the deaths *with* covid, plus other co-morbidities which actually caused the death, topped a million. Deaths from covid and no other co-morbidities are well under 80,000.

Perhaps the funniest thing about the hoes mad meltdown is the unhinged shrieking that abortion is a "Constitutional right". As if Madison, Washington, Adams, Jefferson et al were thinking "We absolutely must enshrine the right of hoes to kill their kids" while they were writing it. LMAO.

Just shows yet again how far the wacko left has strayed from reality.

[QUOTE=Villainy;2714654]Yes, my portolio is adequately diversified to weather a temporary inflationary period.[/QUOTE]No, it is not. If it was, you would not be down. You do not know what you are doing.

[QUOTE=Villainy;2714654]Except you didn't short Biden's policies. Not until more than a year later. Anyone can be a Monday morning quarterback, even you. If you really believed Biden's policies were wrong for the country and the markets, why didn't you initiate your short position on Inauguration Day?[/QUOTE]Obviously, you did not look up why I went short. When the Fed takes rates down to 0% and the government is handing out money like candy, assets go up. When they pull back the giving and rates go up, assets go down. Again, you keep bringing up who instead of what. I invest based on events and policies. I do not invest on whom. That you invest on a Democrat being in office and "high quality", whatever that means, shows me you are an amateur. I asked you a question and you do not answer it. Let's try again, Mr. High Quality. Why did Apple go down in price?

That lease dictates what the rental payments are, so your claim they can raise rents was false. What you stupidly do not get is that real estate this time is not a good instrument to invest in when you have inflation. When there is inflation, the Fed raises rates and that makes your REIT's value go down. Why is that smart guy?

Also, on top of rates going higher, the Fed has gone from buying MBS to selling them. That you are fighting the Fed shows once again that you are an amateur.

[QUOTE=Villainy;2714654]I always know when I have blistered a narcissist (that would be you Elvis). When you veer completely off topic and start talking about Covid, and start calling people names. That is when I know you are frustrated and feeling inadequate.

Remind me, who was it that predicted that [B]absolutely[/B] the deaths from Covid would not exceed 80,000 in the US. (They topped 1 million a while back). Who claimed Sweden was a great model to follow. They didn't lockdown while their neighbors all did. Well enough time has passed. What does the evidence show (Worldometer) Sweden had nearly 2 times as many deaths per capita from Covid compared to Denmark (a much more densely populated country). Nearly 3 times as many deaths per capita as Finland and 4 times as many deaths per capita as Norway.[/QUOTE]You accuse me of veering off point then do the same. You are down huge, and I am up huge. You are the narcissist because your dumb ass cannot admit defeat. Look at the scoreboard motherfucker. What do you have to brag about?

And once again, you do not answer the question, so I will answer it for you. You dumb Dems think that lockdowns were worth it, and that there will be no price for it. Hey, I got a great idea. Let's print money and pay people not to work and invest in the stock market. Look it is a miracle. We had a pandemic and everyone is richer now. Yeah, that is what happens when you rack up cash advances with a credit card.

Sane people know that these cash advances cannot work for long, and the time to go short the market was when the bill comes due which is now. You are so fucking stupid you think that somehow magically that bill never comes due. Hell, why not just print all this money and no one has to work? Seriously, that is the genius Democratic plan.

[QUOTE=Villainy;2714654]

I always know when I have blistered a narcissist (that would be you Elvis). When you veer completely off topic and start talking about Covid, and start calling people names. That is when I know you are frustrated and feeling inadequate.

Remind me, who was it that predicted that [B]absolutely[/B] the deaths from Covid would not exceed 80,000 in the US. (They topped 1 million a while back). Who claimed Sweden was a great model to follow. They didn't lockdown while their neighbors all did. Well enough time has passed. What does the evidence show (Worldometer) Sweden had nearly 2 times as many deaths per capita from Covid compared to Denmark (a much more densely populated country). Nearly 3 times as many deaths per capita as Finland and 4 times as many deaths per capita as Norway.[/QUOTE]Elvis is too busy here posting across numerous threads to be any kind of financial wizard, but the whole Covid business was so easy just by looking at history. I called it a 2 to 3 year event based on pandemics or "plagues" across the known world, plus regional epidemics that have occurred throughout recorded history. What was needed from the far right was more patience and less whining, politicizing, conspiracy theory chasing, and doing the Chicken Little. Plus an accurate and reasonable perspective does wonders for one's blood pressure.

The illness is becoming endemic. Restrictions, masks and the like were wise for a while to buy time to develop effective treatments and vaccines while keeping hospitals from overflowing. Now there are vaccines, and even more importantly, effective treatments. The govt has been giving away free home test kits and I have a store of them. If one suspects they have it do a test and if positive then call the doc without delay. There are some excellent oral treatments available, especially when started early.

[QUOTE=ChrisP;2714627]They are not "claims". It is a verified voice message from Sleepy Joe to Heroin Hunter. It proves that he was deeply involved with Hunter's dubious business deals ("10% for the big guy") and that he lied when he stated that he knew nothing about them.

We have prima facie evidence, from his own mouth, that the sitting president lied about a serious, potentially criminal matter. And yet most of the mainstream media is refusing even to mention it. Why?

Because they are fake news.[/QUOTE]I listened to that you-tube clip several times. I didn't hear one single word about "[B]dubious business deals[/B]". I did hear him say "I think you're clear" but what does that mean?

You're clear of that driving with a suspended license charge? You're in the clear from attending that Jeffrey Epstein party? You're clear from the reports that said you were using drugs again?

You want to take a few ambiguous words from a recorded conversation and turn it into a conspiracy theory, and you're completely aghast that reputable media isn't interested in spreading the story.

Is it possible that your political beliefs have completely over-ridden any semblance of judgement?

[QUOTE=ChrisP;2714721]No, the deaths *with* covid, plus other co-morbidities which actually caused the death, topped a million. Deaths from covid and no other co-morbidities are well under 80,000.[/QUOTE]So you're saying: They died from Co-vid but they had something else wrong with them so they don't count? I'm sure the scientists will love to hear about this way of rationalizing the number of deaths from Covid.

[QUOTE=Villainy;2714763]I listened to that you-tube clip several times. I didn't hear one single word about "[B]dubious business deals[/B]". I did hear him say "I think you're clear" but what does that mean?

You're clear of that driving with a suspended license charge? You're in the clear from attending that Jeffrey Epstein party? You're clear from the reports that said you were using drugs again?

You want to take a few ambiguous words from a recorded conversation and turn it into a conspiracy theory, and you're completely aghast that reputable media isn't interested in spreading the story.

Is it possible that your political beliefs have completely over-ridden any semblance of judgement?[/QUOTE]Ah. You're acting dumb. Not a stretch for you, I suppose.

As you know, the voicemail was regarding Hunter's dubious business deals with some Chinese tycoon. That is the context, and is why Sleepy Joe referred to an article on the matter which was about to be published.

The real questions are: why did Biden lie when he said he had no idea at all about any of his son's dubious business deals (despite being referred to as "the big guy", as in "10% for the big guy" and secondly, why does the mainstream (fake news) media show no interest in investigating why a sitting president lied about a potentially criminal matter?

But of course, to ask is to answer.

[QUOTE=ChrisP;2714627]They are not "claims". It is a verified voice message from Sleepy Joe to Heroin Hunter. It proves that he was deeply involved with Hunter's dubious business deals ("10% for the big guy") and that he lied when he stated that he knew nothing about them.

We have prima facie evidence, from his own mouth, that the sitting president lied about a serious, potentially criminal matter. And yet most of the mainstream media is refusing even to mention it. Why?

Because they are fake news.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/30/opinion/why-on-earth-is-pelosi-supporting-the-trumpists.html[/URL]