Well... it's Trump... again. #47, here we go.

[bilby]

His debate performance showed just how bad he was. It couldn’t be covered up any longer.

That didn't stop Rump, did it.
Debates being equal, Biden is still the better president.

Brandon doesn’t know where he is half the time. Who was actually running the Whitehouse?

A more competent team of individuals than currently are.

If that were true then they would still be running the Whitehouse. But they were soundly beaten in the election.

Only if you accept that the obtaining of power is all important, while the use to which you then put it is utterly irrelevant.

"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power".

- George Orwell, 1984​

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Since the razor-thin victory of JFK in 1960, there have been only three Presidential elections where the popular vote margin was less than 2%. These were the elections of 1968, 2000 and 2024.

2016.

According to Wikipedia, Clinton won the 2016 popular vote by 2.1%. ... (48.2 vs 46.1).

(Yes, I realize she lost the election. My claim was correct, as written.)

No it isn't. -2.1 is less than 2.0.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins

The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.

www.wired.com

I read that this morning and the comment section in WaPo following the article is hilarious. I was going to share that article but now I don't have to do it.

Trump has put tariffs on Penguins and they told him they don't need America's shit as they will find their own fish. Seriously. He put tariffs on an island that is inhabited with penguins. What a moron.

The DOW is down over 1400. I couldn't get Mr. Sohy to get all of our money out of it, but at least most of our money is in CDs or real estate. Oh wait. It's only down 1374 right now......

The primary export of Antarctica is science. Of course it must be limited!

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I’m sitting on a moderate pile of cash and playing market timing games is a strong temptation. But my conviction is that despite a predictable “bounce” coming, the long term bottom is not near.
When/if the major indices dive to 20% below their peaks, I’ll jump in. But 3% or even 5% doesn’t move me (enough).

Yeah. So long as he keeps doubling down on the shit the market will continue to crash. We aren't at bottom.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Once I had to pick up an American visitor from Tullamarine airport (Melbourne, Australia) and take him into the office in the CBD of Melbourne. As we were driving down the Tullamarine freeway he said that he was suprised at what he was not seeing. I expected him to ask "Where are all the kangaroos"? Instead he said "It is very flat. Where are the mountains"?
It took me a moment to realise he probably thought he was in Austria.

Or the reverse, that he thought the mountains were in Australia.

 

[KCFlyer]

I’m sitting on a moderate pile of cash and playing market timing games is a strong temptation. But my conviction is that despite a predictable “bounce” coming, the long term bottom is not near.
When/if the major indices dive to 20% below their peaks, I’ll jump in. But 3% or even 5% doesn’t move me (enough).

Yeah. So long as he keeps doubling down on the shit the market will continue to crash. We aren't at bottom.

Pre market looks like another bad day.....down 1400 now. I'm starting to feel bad for the people who "loaded up on the buying opportunity" on Thursday

 

[Tigers!]

Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins

The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.

www.wired.com

I read that this morning and the comment section in WaPo following the article is hilarious. I was going to share that article but now I don't have to do it.

Trump has put tariffs on Penguins and they told him they don't need America's shit as they will find their own fish. Seriously. He put tariffs on an island that is inhabited with penguins. What a moron.

The DOW is down over 1400. I couldn't get Mr. Sohy to get all of our money out of it, but at least most of our money is in CDs or real estate. Oh wait. It's only down 1374 right now......

The primary export of Antarctica is science. Of course it must be limited!

A lot of floes break off and head north. Sort of an export.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

10k seems reasonable total loss. Grumblings are growing as the reality of this having consequences.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

His debate performance showed just how bad he was. It couldn’t be covered up any longer.

That didn't stop Rump, did it.
Debates being equal, Biden is still the better president.

Brandon doesn’t know where he is half the time. Who was actually running the Whitehouse?

Even if true it's an awful lot better than the current situation.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

His debate performance showed just how bad he was. It couldn’t be covered up any longer.

That didn't stop Rump, did it.
Debates being equal, Biden is still the better president.

Brandon doesn’t know where he is half the time. Who was actually running the Whitehouse?

The current incarnation of Brandon is busy trying to find a way to derive maximum profit off being Prez while escaping any responsibility for the damage done in process. A Hun pillaging our modern Rome.

Projection, as always. You're describing The Felon to a T.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Brandon was senile, but not apparently not senile enough to think this tariff idea was remotely a good idea.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

His debate performance showed just how bad he was. It couldn’t be covered up any longer.

That didn't stop Rump, did it.
Debates being equal, Biden is still the better president.

Brandon doesn’t know where he is half the time. Who was actually running the Whitehouse?

The current incarnation of Brandon is busy trying to find a way to derive maximum profit off being Prez while escaping any responsibility for the damage done in process. A Hun pillaging our modern Rome.

We are where we because the Dems done fucked up. And they are going to fuck up in 2028.

To fuck up in 2028 would require an election in 2028.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Narrowly beaten.

Harris was defeated in every swing state. Every single one of them.

Yup, election fraud works.

There was massive fraud--in the form of putting hurdles in the way of voting. Both times The Felon stole the election this way.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Thats a very naive opinion. If the electorate responded to competence and not propaganda then that might be true. But since voters would rather eat up lies (and we are seeing Joe Trump obviously lied his way to an electoral victory) than be educated about the facts we can replace competence with incompetence.

The competent Brandon administration that opened the border? Behave yourself.

Brandon couldn’t win, he was unelectable. Face facts fella.

1) Where is this supposed opening? In reality, not in Faux Noise.

2) The Republicans deliberately refused to do anything about it to make it an election issue.

Face facts, you've been lied to.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

File this under:

Stupid
Fascist
Evil
etc..

But it’s ok when government demands their vendors to have quotas of minorities or women employed or favor black owned businesses etc?

Sheesh.

Examples, please.

Sorry, he's right.

There aren't "quotas", but not hiring enough is worse than hiring deadwood.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

And he's yielded.

Did he even stop to take a whiz?

Apparently not. He could not leave the floor.

“My strategy was to stop eating — I think I stopped eating on Friday — and then to stop drinking the night before I started,” he said, adding that those decisions had left him dehydrated and with cramped muscles.

I was thinking condom catheter.

 

[bilby]

Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins

The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.

www.wired.com

I read that this morning and the comment section in WaPo following the article is hilarious. I was going to share that article but now I don't have to do it.

Trump has put tariffs on Penguins and they told him they don't need America's shit as they will find their own fish. Seriously. He put tariffs on an island that is inhabited with penguins. What a moron.

The DOW is down over 1400. I couldn't get Mr. Sohy to get all of our money out of it, but at least most of our money is in CDs or real estate. Oh wait. It's only down 1374 right now......

The primary export of Antarctica is science. Of course it must be limited!

A lot of floes break off and head north. Sort of an export.

They never cross the equator though. So the whole thing is a crock of floes.

 

[Shadowy Man]

I didn’t make that claim. There was plenty of American propaganda, primarily from Trump himself, to disinform his voters.

Earlier you stated that the electorate had been fooled by propaganda. This is conspiracy theory nonsense. What propaganda fooled the electorate and where was it coming from?

Pretty much everything Trump said. “They’re eating the dogs!” Lots of lies and propaganda from the man himself, and his running mate. That’s not a conspiracy theory because we all saw it ourselves. I guess you were only paying attention to “Brandon” maybe?

But you still haven’t addressed the competence issue. Still dodging my original point.

Name something Biden’s team did that is even remotely comparable in incompetence to Trump’s latest incompetence scandals? Not policy differences but actual incompetence.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

You are wasting your time. As things stand Trump is the first President in a long time to fuck the stock market... repeatedly. And he opened up a potential line regarding retaliation against China, that can send the market down even more.

Trump is breaking our industrial capacity. He is making costs go up. And all he can do is claim otherwise on his boutique social media website. Trump is endangering America by removing it from the free trade sphere.

 

[KCFlyer]

You are wasting your time. As things stand Trump is the first President in a long time to fuck the stock market... repeatedly. And he opened up a potential line regarding retaliation against China, that can send the market down even more.

Trump is breaking our industrial capacity. He is making costs go up. And all he can do is claim otherwise on his boutique social media website. Trump is endangering America by removing it from the free trade sphere.

There is still an out for Trump...he can pull the tariffs and blame Ron Varo.