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This may be an ignorant POV, but I feel that those who vaccinate will be mainly fine. Those who choose to not vaccinate themselves or their families will be exposed to greater risk as other foolish people do the same. It seems like "Darwin Award" te…
I do not necessarily believe that trump is an anti-semite, personally. Just that he is unable to call out the large segment of those people in the MAGA ranks. It is complicated. His mentor and protector, Roy Cohn, was both a Jew and gay. trump does …
She acts surprised that conservative men look down on women. Only decades of denial would prevent knowing this from the start. Cult-like.
"She said that Republican women had been unfairly treated by party leadership, including herself and the New …
"Organized Jewry" is code for "people smarter and more successful than me". As is "globalist" and everything "Soros".
What is most despicable/disturbing is how these people are now trying to use the holocaust for their own personal cultural approp…
I agree that Trump's policies are not responsible for day-to-day market gyrations. Except maybe in a very broad sense. And I agree that his policies are likely to be long-term destructive to confidence. And long-term destructive to the consumer. And…
Japan's exports are booming. Making Japan Great Again!
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/japan-october-exports-massively-beat-estimates-on-robust-growth-in-shipments-to-asia-and-europe-.html
"Exports to Asia climbed 4.2% and shipments to Western Eur…
It never made sense in the same universe as re-shoring or reducing the trade deficit. For anything like that to happen, many, very high tariffs would need to remain in place for several years, minimum.
But, when looking for excuses, these folks (m…
I definitely suspect that was why his first term tariffs were allowed to persist. No one wanted to own that as a political blunder. Give the opposition a weapon if anything went wrong. Waste time on that potential unexploded ordnance.
She may be c…
What is happening is that the calculus over what is worse, letting it all out, or being seen as a party to withholding the release has changed.
Gee, don't the Republicans trust their own DOJ ? I wonder why that could be? Maybe they have "TDS".
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Well, Harris was certainly prescient on that one. Rahm Emmanuel was out to lunch.
I don't know anything, of course. But, Immanuel may have been talking about the messaging necessary to get elected. Which may differ greatly from what actually needs t…
+1 @gman57
I wonder where all the job seekers of the right color are lining up for these jobs they said were stolen from them.
Yes, the drywalling jobs. The agriculture jobs. The roofing jobs. The factory work. Hospitality. Cleaning offices and hot…
Working my whole life in telecom, cable tags were on everything from power to data cables. Never heard of anything like that. Most of the time, the cables were extremely difficult to pull free of the connector, once seated fully. Maybe the tag got s…
My son attended a Big 10 university with a large Chinese student population. When most of the American kids were falling down drunk, the Chinese students were studying, mainly STEM. Those students also pay full tuition. Many Chinese students come fr…
trump read 20 pages? I cannot imagine him reading 1 page and understanding it.
Maybe slather it in Big Mac sauce and keep his attention for a paragraph or so?
Trump lost this battle bigly. He only agreed AFTER it was 100% clear that he could not win. Which is an attempt to minimize the damage he caused himself by trying to stop the release.
I would expect that important heads will roll. L Summers is alr…
Trump's "influence" over the markets has been greatly exaggerated, IMHO.
I don't know that Orange, Bessent & co. can really stem the tide once it goes out.
I would argue that he has more influence on the downside: tariff threats have caused a…
I have read a few things that suggest the GOP gerrymander effort is not necessarily going to work out in their favor. That it might even backfire. That some in the GOP are against it altogether.
Is anyone knowledgeable enough?
Wait! You know what is missing from this discussion? Someone to advise us all not to listen to the "experts". Someone to point out that everyone is "usually" wrong. And can cherry-pick select statistics to "prove" t…
Yes. I know people who gamble in the traditional way. I do not. Except in the stock market, where it is practically assured that I win in the long term. And I have the statements to prove it! lol
All over X today was the fact that for the first time since April 30 the S@P closed below its 50 day moving average. The fifth longest uptrend since 1950. Going into today we had something like 5 Hindenburg Omens, One in and of itself is pretty m…
