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Anna
That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
Your description is vague. How do you know it is real? From what you say, I would say it is absurd. If the relative has a nearby SSA office, they could take the letter to them and explain they are not there to respond to the letter but, if it is val…
@Sven Or appending the records to show many dead people collecting benefits. Remember they also have access to the Treasury records and could match SSA with Treasury issue check records (also modified). So, if nothing else, they increase the distrus…
@larryB I hope not. I am afraid the people in the country might cheer instead of get horrified. I don't want that fear confirmed. I just don't want to know. So, I hope no one gets a Kent State event.
Maybe he gave his next door neighbor's 9-year-old child, who came into the country at age 6-months, a ride to school when it was his turn in the car pool.
Lucky others. I found that as my anxiety about money and obligations decreased, my anxiety about the little and, sometimes, trite issues increased. I learned to curse at myself for such petty anxieties but, alas, they don't seem to want to go away. …
The debt is bad enough --- I still wonder how long before Russia or China starts dumping USTs in numbers large enough to cause problems for the US.
I have been wondering that for years but assumed I just was too ignorant in the subject to understand…
Many people of means have hoped for a switch from income based federal taxation to consumption based taxation. This would not bode well with the majority of American people since the majority are working class who spend most of their income on consu…
Or it is just a publicity ruse to fool people who are boycotting Musk products into liking Musk better for attacking Trump while capitalizing on the dislike of Musk among Trumpers for support of the big b bill.
What the hey? If the three branches can conspire to ignore one part of the Constitution then why not ignore the entire thing. That way there is no Constitutional method for amending the Constitution to erase the parts you decide to weasle your way a…
OK, how about some FDIC type "full-faith-and-credit" coverage of memecoins? The governement of "we the people?" should be willing to put their wealth behind the possible government approved cons.
@yogibearbull Maybe they will reorganize the TSP-G fund into the TSP-Cryto fund. During his last term Trump said something about getting rid of or changing the G-fund.
Media this morning is saying that the Supreme Court would probably be satisified if Congress simply delegated their tariff power to the President. Since this lies in my sphere of ignorance, I don't know, but the talking heads, at least, are saying i…
Hey @anna, it gets better/worse... it's not just crypto they're launching:
"In February, Trump Media applied to trademark six investment products that track bitcoin and the U.S. manufacturing and energy sectors. The trademarks include Truth.Fi Bitc…
@rforno You made me look and what I found de-bagged my eyes, de-crepyed my skin, de-greyed my hair, and financed my eternity while making me want to live forever. I want to go to TruthFiDJT-ven when I die and dance in the tulips and memes.
About Tru…
The professional class, those with marketable skills, of America might move to another country so their children have opportunity for a better future. Hopefully, for those who can't, some of the religious public schools will allow training in all ar…
Just a natural spinoff of his Casino business, albeit without even the fun night out aspects, but, apparently, it favors the house even better than his gambling business and, definitely, favors his pocket change better.
I do wonder: If he were to s…
I checked this before my May check and it still gave the same deposit date. Now it gives June's deposit date and there is no change. For some unknown reason, I get mine on the 3rd but have never found that I fit the categories given to get it on thi…
I went and played at your link. The second thing I tried was just a portfolio generated from putting in "supply chain". The most interesting thing that seemed to emerge was that extreme dips in the S&P tended to be preceeded by dips in the AI ge…
The types of security breaches that have arisen make it seem that there is an ongoing attempt to sabotage the security of the United States in a way that fear expressed by citizens might lead to an excuse for a decrease in ordinary, non-security rel…
I have been wondering a couple of things. What would the markets do if the interim tariff levels for both countries was set at zero? What if the period were 180 days at current agreed levels?
Maybe it is just part of replacing dark state civil servants with right thought civil servants. It has already been established that actual qualifications for and experience in the subject matter don't matter. Subject matter experts are, afterall, w…
I am beginning to remind myself of the average American. I don't like "American Big-Money way !" but I do love, so much, my Apple Watch 10 and don't know how I ever lived without it. Yep, just ole me, the dirty American.
Well, he is leaving Congress out of the loop and, now, is threatening, ignoring or arresting members of the Court, so combined with also ignoring the Constitution, what is a citizen suppose to think?
I wouldn't think him important enough to attract a few seconds to sign a pardon so I guess it depends on whether he has friends that can submit executive pardons in the stack of executive orders signed, but probably unread, every day.
Peter Navarro is 75 years old. Maybe his day in the light of genius is fading and and his day in the cognitive scaffolding of his brain is emerging in an inflexible, narrow, misguided caricature of his former, more broader, genius.
Well, I guess people can just boil add disinfectant (bleach?) to their milk until the evaluation of alternative approaches (WTH does that mean?) kicks in next year.
