American Politics

[Tiny 12]

Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #35: Peace is good for Business!

In other news, I am considering an electric scooter / motorcycle here in Pattaya, Thailand. Research online leads me to believe that some have removable battery packs that can be taken up to my room and charged overnight there. I can even have two so if I am rolling hard during the day I could use my room as hub and change out the battery pack during the day and keep rolling. For my in town movements that ranges are perfect. For longer rides I still need a ICE. But that's ok as I was planning to buy a scooter for errands and maxi scooter for longer trips. The crypto and stock market have been very, very, very good to me.

"Peace is Good for Business," I agree. Ferengi's may be ugly, short mother fuckers, but they're damn smart! They're like the Swiss used to be.

That's a practical solution SubCmdr. I just bought an electric golf cart for my island vacation home, the one you've got an invitation to visit provided you bring Dominican wenches. It's a six seater. That means there's room for you, me and four wenches. It's a better choice than gasoline for what I'll be doing.

On the other hand I'd never dream of buying a BEV for Texas. I wouldn't have the patience to sit for a one hour recharge when on a road trip, if I could even find a charging station. Actually I think I'll try to sell a bumper sticker to my fellow Texans -- "You'll take my gun when you pry my cold, dead finger off the trigger, and my ICV when you lift my cold, dead leg off the accelerator. ".

I never realized racists were closet intellectuals. I've always thought of them as being rather low brow thinkers who were generally lazy because it easier to blame others for problems in their lives than to take responsibility for themselves.

For example, when there was a crack epidemic the response was to criminalize crack (not the base that white people liked. Cocaine). Now we have fentynal. POTUS will willing mess up the entire economy and disrupt world trade because white people cannot control themselves and are overdosing because they realize their place in there own country is on the decline.

Notice the difference in response. Now, some of you are going to say I am racist for saying this. Check your facts first. Who was most affected by the crack epidemic? Who is most affected by the fentanyl epidemic? They are both drug problems that have to be met at the sources, lack of opportunity in a relentlessly tough world. But two radically different responses because the different demographics in the United States of America.

I've only known four crack addicts, and they were all white. They were all middle class or, as a result of the crack, poor. And I have one good friend who used to be a cocaine addict. He is relatively wealthy, and actually had a criminal defense attorney on retainer just in case he ran into problems. He never did though. The closest he came was when immigration in another country found cocaine residue on his laptop and gave him the third degree. He's now clean and watches his health and diet better than anyone I know.

Anyway, if you asked me who was most affected by the crack epidemic, based just on my experience I'd say poor and middle class white people. But since I've got maybe 15 white, Hispanic and Asian acquaintances and friends for every black acquaintance or friend, and since the blacks I know are on average higher caliber people than the whites and Hispanics, I don't have the experience to really judge. But from what I read, blacks were disproportionately affected by the severe penalties imposed on crack users and traffickers.

Yes, imposing extreme penalties for crack and letting the wealthy, "elite" cocaine (and fentanyl?) crowd off with a slap on the hand is extremely unfair.

Elvis has brought up the solution a couple of times -- the Portuguese system that decriminalizes drugs and provides treatment instead of jail. It worked well, until it was partially defunded. And still works better than what we've got.

The OP never tell the whole story. Familiarize yourself with the term: callable or redeemable bonds.

Guess what happens when interest rates been to drop again. Those bonds are called in and reissued into the capital market. Ending your juicy yield plans.

His narrative on NVDA is wrong also. But I'll take on his logical errors in another post.

That's unlikely to happen for Elvis' example. The call price of a bond is set higher than the issue price. For example, say a bond was originally sold at 100 with a coupon rate of 8%. The call price, being the price at which the company has the right to repurchase the bond, might be 105. Now, say the price of the bond has fallen from 100 to 50, so that instead of 8%, it yields 16%. The company won't pay 105 to call the bond. It may try to buy bonds back on the open market at 50 though, if it can get the money to do so from the banks.

A South Carolina man is executed by firing squad, the first US prisoner killed by this method in 15 years.

Wat da fuc?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-car...231942156.html
America, what a country!

Yeah, take a look at the map here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capita...ent_by_country

Places colored red maintain the death penalty. We're in with a great bunch of countries, aren't we?

From what I'm reading, the guy apparently had the option of lethal injection. But the state of South Carolina wouldn't provide info to his lawyers to show it wouldn't botch the killing like it had several times before with lethal injection. And the deceased was a strong proponent of ending the death penalty, and thought this might be a way to show others how fucked up it is.

[Elvis 2008]

Really!

And what piece of U.S. gov't legislation/bill, would this be, mandating EVs? Please do enlighten us, ...oh "Carnac the Magnificent", with that QAnon/MAGA intellect?

PS: Still waiting on that post, where I'm said to have, "jam them down everyone's throat" to buy an EV? Hmmm....I guess you must be lying about that too?

Are you fucking kidding me?

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com...-car-mandates/

Starting next year, at least 35% of manufacturers' new passenger car and truck sales must be electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids or hydrogen-fuel cell vehicles, known as ZEVs (zero-emission vehicles) for short. The percentages step up each year until hitting 100% in 2035.

If you are going to be that fucking arrogant, here is an idea. Be right once in a while!

[Spidy]

... decisions like mandating EVs ...

Really!

And what piece of U.S. gov't legislation/bill, would this be, mandating EVs? Please do enlighten us, ...oh "Carnac the Magnificent", with that QAnon/MAGA intellect?

PS: Still waiting on that post, where I'm said to have, "jam them down everyone's throat" to buy an EV? Hmmm....I guess you must be lying about that too?

[SubCmdr]

And now that Musk has supported by Trump, the Democratic douches are turning on EVs. You do not get to seperate yourself from dumb Demorcratic douche decisions when you are leading the EV parade.

You don't get to have it both ways Elvis. The move away from EV's by a certain demographic is a market development. I don't believe in such actions. If the China Man makes better product than Uncle Sam then fuck made in the United States of America. Mother fucks running the corporations didn't give a fuck about the economic slaves on the government / corporate wage plantations. Threw there slaves out into the streets. It was called: Downsizing how cute?

No mother fucks you were firing people and ruining their economic lives like that racist Musk is doing chomping at the bit for power but running a illegal organization in plane site that is being allowed to commit crimes because the mother fucks people elected didn't realize the could not read the constitution nor did they have a pair (Not sure what the appropriate description is for a girl that is in office). Hooray to AOC for telling it like it is. Mother fucks willing to put people on the streets in order to get their tax cut. POTUS does not even fuck American. He wifed up an immigrant. (I hope I don't get banned for saying that out loud).

Keep you situational awareness about you and pack a go bag

[Axel Heyst]

A South Carolina man is executed by firing squad, the first US prisoner killed by this method in 15 years.

Wat da fuc?

America, what a country!

What's the complaint SubCmdr? "Brad Sigmon, who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001, was executed by firing squad early Friday evening a method used for the first time in 15 years in the USA. Sigmon, at the time of his trial admitted to killing the couple because his ex-girlfriend refused to get back to him. " The only problem I see with this execution was that it was inhumanely delayed for 24 years in the legal system. Brad deserved a just and swift punishment (execution) for the crime he committed. As to the form of the execution, I think it is preferable over most others forms and definitely more humane than the end he selected for his victims.

[Axel Heyst]

Guess what happens when interest rates been to drop again. Those bonds are called in and reissued into the capital market.

Yep, I just had a beautiful 6. 5% investment grade Government Agency bond with a maturity date set in 2030 called on me. I knew before I bought the bond that it might be called if interest rates declined sufficiently to make it worthwhile to the issuer. That is why it was available to me at 6. 5% in the 1st place. The call feature was built into the offer price.

Here is a tip: never pay above face value (par) for a callable bond. In fact, I will only buy them at discount. I paid 95 and change that 6. 5% Agency bond I mentioned above and they paid me 100 on the call. I am satisfied. So now I might buy another bond, but the best investment grade bonds I have seen available in the current market is around 5% or less. I might buy NVDA instead as soon as I hear NewtonYork has sold his position. 555/ KKK. Just a small joke Newton. Don't sell and stop looking at the daily price fluctuations. 4 or 5 years from now you will thank me for this advice.

[SubCmdr]

A South Carolina man is executed by firing squad, the first US prisoner killed by this method in 15 years.

Wat da fuc?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-car...231942156.html

America, what a country!

[SubCmdr]

If you have an independent streak, read about bonds and invest there. They are boring, but if investing is exciting, you are doing wrong. Like I showed in my link, the market is massively overpriced, and Trump is rolling back the free money Biden parade so we are going to see a crash. Once the market crashes, you should be able to find some bonds yielding 15 to 20% and it will be time to lock those in.

The OP never tell the whole story. Familiarize yourself with the term: callable or redeemable bonds.

Callable or redeemable bonds are bonds that can be redeemed or paid off by the issuer prior to the bonds' maturity date. When an issuer calls its bonds, it pays investors the call price (usually the face value of the bonds) together with accrued interest to date and, at that point, stops making interest payments

Guess what happens when interest rates been to drop again. Those bonds are called in and reissued into the capital market. Ending your juicy yield plans.

His narrative on NVDA is wrong also. But I'll take on his logical errors in another post.

[Sirioja]

Musk is Trump's fall guy. How an otherwise brilliant man does not realize that is beyond me. The seduction of power is great. The only reason I would want to be POTUS is AIR FORCE ONE!

And to get my dick sucked in the WhiteHouse. But the ***** has to swallow.

Trump invited Zelensky and insulted Ukrainians, but didn t invite Putin because he didn't want the world see him sucking Putin in White House. If I was American, I would feel very shameful about my country behavior, chickens robbers. I m proud if French planes can now help Ukrainians and Europe still supporting Ukraine rather than robbering them.

[Elvis 2008]

I just ain't got no luck fellas. No luck in life, in love, and definitely no luck in money. Here I am desperately trying to dca my way down, and I find myself catching a falling knife, cause NVDA just won't stop dropping. I've sunk half of my life savings into it. Granted, to many of you rich young people out there, my net worth is not much at all. I'm just a poor old guy. Everyday now I wish I was hit a bus or have a heart attack and finally die. What's the point of living when you don't have enough money to buy time with a pretty chick? I'm so ugly, I can't get laid any other way.

I tell ya folks, it's uncanny. Every time I buy a stock, literally within the hour it'll drop. And when I close out a position, sometimes to the minute it would fucking rocket. It's like life itself has a grudge on me. Like I did something wrong. Like I fucked life's wife or something and it's pissed at me. Death would be mercy at this point, that's why it won't let me die.

I hate my job.

Why is the stock market crashing? Anybody want to explain this?

https://currentmarketvaluation.com/m...-indicator.php

If you have not gotten out, you better now. It is not going up now. NVIDIA makes video cards for gaming. They just lucked into the fact that their chips are the best ones for AI for now. This was part of the whole AI is going to change the world nonsense. Sure, AI may change the world but no one knows who is going to benefit from it.

So the recent black swan event was deep seek from China. It showed with some software tweeks, you do not have to pay through the nose for high end chips. Is Deep seek now going to be the darling of Wall Street? I doubt it. What they did can easily be replicated.

If you have an independent streak, read about bonds and invest there. They are boring, but if investing is exciting, you are doing wrong. Like I showed in my link, the market is massively overpriced, and Trump is rolling back the free money Biden parade so we are going to see a crash. Once the market crashes, you should be able to find some bonds yielding 15 to 20% and it will be time to lock those in.

[Elvis 2008]

(...kkkk!) You're so blinded from you own fake QAnon\MAGA imbecilic nationalism, is it any wonder that, most cult QAnon\MAGA knuckleheads, need to first check with your American Fuhrer, before making a decision to fart, let alone make a decision on buying an EV, by yourself.

And before, you continue to tell more lies, please, please, please...post one time (just one time), where I've told anyone here, what to buy, or "jam them down everyone's throat" as you are idiotically suggesting. But rest assured, I will debunk dis-misinformation, I deem incorrect.

I've repeatedly, told you and others, on several occasions, "I don't freakin' care what you wanna drive or buy...", as it would be moronic (as you, Elvis 2008 have done) of anyone here, to think, that what they prefer to drive or buy, matters to the degree, it will sway/change what the overall market trends are showing.

Pure hubris at it's best!

For someone who engages in a MAGA hip check with literally EVERY post, you do not get to separate yourself from dumb shit Democratic douche decisions like mandating EVs and the atrocious charger network. The law that put in those chargers was passed 100% by Democrats.

And now that Musk has supported by Trump, the Democratic douches are turning on EVs. You do not get to seperate yourself from dumb Demorcratic douche decisions when you are leading the EV parade.

[Axel Heyst]

I forgot to add this:

[Axel Heyst]

I just ain't got no luck fellas. <snip> I am desperately trying to dca my way down, and I find myself catching a falling knife, cause NVDA just won't stop dropping. I've sunk half of my life savings into it. <snip> Why is the stock market crashing? Anybody want to explain this?

Hey Newton, let me know when you sell your NVDA holdings. That will be the signal it is time to buy. Look mate, the market fluctuates. There was no real fundamental reason NVDA went as high as it did except for market enthusiasm. Everybody and their maid knew about the amazing rise of NVDA and the Magnificent 7, so it became over bought and a market correction was inevitable. As of Friday's close, it looks like it is trying to test its support level around the 102 to 107 level. Will it hold here or go further south is unknown. My advice to you is stay pat, turn off the TV or computer screen, and for fuck sake stop watching the price fluctuations. NVDA is either a good company and you will be ok or it is a total shit company and you better move back in with your parents. If you keep worrying about it, you will do something stupid.

[SubCmdr]

I never realized racists were closet intellectuals. I've always thought of them as being rather low brow thinkers who were generally lazy because it easier to blame others for problems in their lives than to take responsibility for themselves.

For example, when there was a crack epidemic the response was to criminalize crack (not the base that white people liked. Cocaine). Now we have fentynal. POTUS will willing mess up the entire economy and disrupt world trade because white people cannot control themselves and are overdosing because they realize their place in there own country is on the decline.

Notice the difference in response. Now, some of you are going to say I am racist for saying this. Check your facts first. Who was most affected by the crack epidemic? Who is most affected by the fentanyl epidemic? They are both drug problems that have to be met at the sources, lack of opportunity in a relentlessly tough world. But two radically different responses because the different demographics in the United States of America.

Now before the white hoodie wearers lose their fucking minds I am not saying POTUS is a racist. I am saying that MUSK is a racist. POTUS doesn't give a fuck execpt for himself. I got to give him his props. He has convinced people who have NOTHING in common with him that he has their interests at heart when he does not.

Why don't we take the advice of a former FLOTUS? Just say no to drugs/.

[Sirioja]

Criminal dictator Putin must be really happy to kill much more Ukrainians when feeling under USA support, led by a crazy shameful senile schizophrene. USA are really not anymore what they were, but now sucking swallowing a criminal prosecuted by international law.