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"In July, Charlie Kirk called for the full release of the Epstein files and criticized the DOJ and FBI’s lack of transparency."
Hmmmm, now he's dead.
I don't remember this much hate flowing around before Trump. If the shoe fits...
I lost my faith after Newtown, if a massacre of TWENTY 6-7 year old's and 6 adults did NOTHING to change our outlook on sensible gun safety I'm afraid nothing will.
I believe this is more of a possibility, the earth is 4.5 Billion years old. How about another civilization existing here on earth say 30 or even 100 MILLION years ago. There would be nothing left of them for us to find. We've only existed a fracti…
With the millions and millions of phones and cameras around the world today the only thing we ever capture are gray fuzzy blurred pictures of UFO's. We broadcast as loud as we can, "WE'RE HERE CAN YOU HEAR US?" Not one peep back, those aliens are …
CLO -- take all the crappiest loans you can find, throw them in a bag and package them up in a pretty bow. Pay the rating agencies to label them AA and sell them to the public. What could go wrong? Weren't 2008 problems based on CLO packages of su…
Unfortunately, I see a Kent State type disaster on the horizon. Will that make the do nothing congress do something? Chicago has 2.7million people to DC's 700k, BIG difference.
They want onshoring of factories/jobs but that means higher prices for products produced here due to cost of labor. Automation is probably the only way to keep prices down to compete globally. Until they find a way to really raise average American …
crash: when you remove money from your t-ira, how do you calculate the amount to remove such that you don't land yourself in a new worse tax bracket given that your totals for the year aren't known until year's end, if that makes any sense? thanks!…
The time from retirement to ss should be the time to convert as much as possible staying in the desired tax bracket IMHO. I took my ss at 63 and it would have been nice not to take it until later because ss income limits your conversions. Looking b…
People say it's rare BUT .. every downturn I've seen over the last 30-40 years BOTH bonds and stocks go down at the same time. Yes, bonds go down less than stocks but both go in the same direction up or down.
ALL because they want to keep their seat and are afraid Stupid will primary them. No other reason. Don't care about the country, their own party nothing, just their reelection. Best reason for term limits I've ever heard which 80%+ of the people wa…
You are suffering from what many of us do. The ability (or lack of) to do nothing, it's hard. For many of us this is also like a hobby. I'm doing much better in the last year doing nothing re: not changing funds/etfs, just simplifying and letting …
I like Crockett, she called him a piece of shit. Finally someone who's willing to give it back to him. He calls everyone names, sometimes you need to fight fire with fire. He needs incoming.
Soooo,, we decide to not sell chips to China for national security reasons BUT if you pay us money we will allow it, F' national security. WOW, I think Marx said this and it seems to be true, give the west enough rope and they'll hang themselves o…
I just read yesterday, they're poaching normal police/sheriff ranks in Florida. DeSantis is trying to stem the flow because I guess they're losing a lot of personnel. It's a sweet deal from what I've read, 50k but you have to commit to at least 5…
My concern: The added 10,000 additional masked ice force. Will they fire on civilians? Someone on the chain of command will have to be brave at some point and defy an order. Will they do it? Will those 2nd amendment folks who say they needed thei…
I've said this for years but what we're witnessing is the last gasp efforts of old white men to remain in power. They'll be able to do it for a while (another 5-10 years) with gerrymandering, voter suppression etc... but eventually they will lose …
As expected cult members are vigorously defending the firing saying there must be something wrong with the numbers. The glorious leader can not be wrong, it is forbidden.
I still find Quicken to be the most useful PM. It easily and seamlessly aggregates my data from multiple accounts as often as I click "update".
I use and have used Quicken for a long time but offline. Not happy they went to a subscription basis …
Our strength was our tight knit allies and partners we've built up over decades. If they thought is was a fluke the first term now they're thinking how can they trust the US going forward. Allies and partners unfortunately are in the process of goi…
He thinks he can lie and everyone will believe it. Gas is $1.98, inflation is way down, everybody loves us, tariffs aren't a tax and will make us great. I think he really believes that, everything is better than it's ever been in the history of the…
Yup, I think if he only has yes-men-women working for him he'll crash and burn. I just hope the damage is repairable. Well... I think he's going to crash and burn no matter what but that will quicken its arrival.
Those are quite large revisions -- 144+147 to 19&14 ( 291-thousand to 33-thousand!)
Do they just guess based on the last 3 months or something and then later collect the real numbers? We all thought this was going to happen, maybe it's the…
