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The ranks of potential VPs are such a treasure. Dems have a hell of a cohort ready to serve, and the contrast with the two hateful lunatics is about as stark as it could be.
I'd love to see Whitmer on the campaign trail - she is such a great speak…
Good link, @Hank. Reading thru those pages reminds me of the Bill of Rights national tour/program (~ 2010??). In addition to one of the copies of the BoR that was reputed to have gone to the states for ratification, it featured a short film about th…
Per the Google AI piece: Why waste time on a constitutional amendment? Better to take over the Supreme Court, which has effectively "amended" the Constitution at least twice in a few months: castrating part of the 14th and inventing presidential imm…
Also caught a bit from a vid posted on HuffPo where he said that people with children should have more say in the system than those without. But nothing tops Trump's latest, to far-right "Christians" : vote this year, and after that, they won't have…
BTW - ABC news reports that the first polling has Harris over Trump by 2 percentage points in the popular vote.
I think that's the same poll that has her up 4 when RFK Jr. is included -- which IIRC is outside the margin of error.
Remember that the GQP court opened the floodgates with Citizens United. The other team can't play high and mighty and go into the game the right-wingers initiated with their hands tied behind their backs.
The appellate court for Florida is the 11th, very conservative, but they did reverse Cannon once. But from there, if successful, it'd go to the partisan hack majority in the hallowed halls of D.C. for another trashing of the Constitution, judicial p…
Every decision of the Extreme Ideologue Court and its wannabe judges like Cannon takes us a little further along in judicially rewriting/dismantling the Constitution. Imagine how far four more years of Trump, with a GQP Senate confirming Cannon-like…
From the accounts of the ruling, it appears the radical majority have left themselves enough wiggle room that they could allow prosecution of a prez they don't like while letting one they do like avoid prosecution.
This is how dictatorships work. …
Pimco has a totally new website since I last looked (weeks ago). PYLD shows as -31.09% "net other short duration instruments," which if memory serves, is not exclusively cash.
+1, @yogibearbull.
What a film resume he had. Saw Eye of the Needle recently: a great WW II suspense film with DS as a nasty German spy. He played it to the max, like he apparently did every role.
@AndyJ - I’m lookin’ at the 2-yr treasury as well, and wondering if on 6/24 it’ll still be 4.74? Vanguard is showing 4.734.
Right, it's fairly common for yields to sell off even the morning of an auction. I've seen that enough, I don't put in an ord…
Or the 2y T showing at 4.74 right now; auction 6/25 if that's appealing. I'll prob'ly take a bite of that in the taxable account if the yield holds up fairly well between now and then.
DJT down 14.56% today after sharp losses Tuesday (-8 %) as well. Brings up the question - how many worthless DJT stock certificates can you stuff into a Tesla pickup and drive both into a permanent landfill?
But @Mark, it's not just a pickup, it's a…
No, haven't seen the movie; seems it won some accolades at Sundance, which is great. (I see the abusive instructor was played by the Farmers' Insurance ad fellow.)
Hoping for more cool (er, less hot) and precip here for the summer; recent projectio…
@AndyJ : It's been a few years, but I can remember being dam happy to get three %. That was for 2 year CD. I started reaching out a few months early , but such is the life of an investor. Interesting times await us ! Rolling some early, rolling s…
Good call on the junk munis. I have one, a CEF, on a limited watchlist, but I missed its blast up to "not now" z-stat levels just in the past week or so. Plan to expand that list.
But right, high-ish for longer isn't out of the picture yet.
@rforno: Didn't feel 100% going into floaters at this point in time, especially in large amounts. Rather than cogitate about it too much, I just went with a straight treasury fund instead ... will draw that down as I buy other equities over the nex…
Great video. A friend had an amazing experience going to Normandy for the 75th. The people there still revere the USA for what our people did then; there are monuments all over.
Those guys in the wheelchairs? The original "Antifa."
According to AOC, in a New Republic post I can't link for some reason, it was all planned. Somehow during the chaos the Rs passed a rule to bypass debate and amendment and proceed directly to a vote to declare Garland in contempt.
"Vapor Premier" uniforms?? Did they specify WHAT vapor? I love promo phrases that don't sound all that great.
One of my favorites: the university in town made a bunch of promo mugs ~ 10 years ago that read: "2013-14: The Year of Engaged Leadership.…
I'd love to see him behind bars, but it will never happen. (Shit.) He WILL surely breach the gag order again.
I'd be satisfied with cuffing his hands behind his back and duct-taping his mouth.
msf: "IMHO that's the argument for using multiple types of these funds."
Bingo. And you don't have to hold the same ones forever. Re: MINT, this is 2024, not 2022, and it's been steadily outpacing funds like JPST and ICSH. The funds with more corpo…
Great musician. Saw him twice only in person: 1972 and ~ 2008 or thereabouts, after his (first?) huge health crisis. Poor guy was physically a shadow of his former self, but still had enough of his voice quality and range for the concert to be memor…
Buying at the 2y T auction Tuesday, unless the rate plunges first thing in the a.m. like it's done a few times in the past, in which case I'll likely cancel before it goes thru. Like with others, the bump up in rates is the attraction, especially wi…
Sorry @Old_Joe, many of us had managed to forget Orenthal J. until this new barrage of media coverage happened. Even Kato Kaelin (a "media personality" today) got his mug out there again.
