CooterBrown

For those few anti-Trump GOPers, it's a passive way to undermine Trump without having to publicly do it and get primaried.

Yep. I definitely grew up working poor. Neither of my parents ever broke $10/hour. We had breakfast every day at my grandma's house because otherwise we wouldn't eat. We weren't homeless because we rented from my other grandparents and rent was like $150/month. I mainly went to college because I had a burning hatred for my childhood and poverty.

I’ve seriously never seen a white guy lay concrete. Is that even a skill Americans have?

That is a legitimate sticking point. I want to make sure my exit point isn't too easily hit on normal market swings but I don't want to to lose 20+%. As a result, it's hard to pull the trigger. A quick look at VOO from 2010 to today, there are only a few sustained runs where the closing price is lower than 10% off of the all-time high closing price. For all of them, if you re-entered the ETF after 3 days of the closing price being within 10% of the all-time high, the price set a new record within a few weeks. I don't know if that's an actual indicator of when to get back in or if it's just a coincidence since there's so few extended downturns. Most of the downturns are less than a week except for MAR2020-JUN2020 and APR2022-JUN2023. Since I do have enough to retire in that account already, I think erring on the side of wealth protection is probably an okay decision. There are worse things in the world than sitting in a Fidelity cash account earning a bit of interest.

I'm 7 years from retirement. My IRA portfolio is aggressive...70% VOO 30% VGT. Returns have been phenomenal. However, I don't exactly trust the Trump brain trust to not drive everything into the ditch and set it on fire but I also don't want to miss out on market hubris. I'm considering setting a trailing stop limit at either -5% or -10% for both ETFs. Even though I may be briefly out of the market for a few days if there's a short market downturn, at least I am protecting wealth and, since it's an IRA, there are no tax consequences for being overly risk adverse...while also being greedy...right now.

Every Surly Law Dog has already drawn up a business plan to charge $2.13/hour with a mandatory $200+/hour service fee (tip) added to the bill.

Only place in Europe I've shopped for enough groceries to notice is the UK and prices there are definitely way cheaper for fresh food, meat and dairy.

But why? All that shit is banned in Europe already and grocery prices are a lot cheaper than the US. Does the reliance on frozen and shelf stable food in the US push fresh food prices higher?

AOC removed her pronouns from her social media last week. I think at least the message that "it's the economy, stupid" isn't lost on some of them at least. I would guess you'll see a focus on the economy, inflation, wages, job growth while social issues are bullets further down the platform list. I read something earlier that the average American reads at a 5th grade level. Dems talk about the economy as if they're speaking to a graduate level seminar..."Nobel prize winning economists state the leading indicator of inflation reduction is the square root of yada yada yada...". Trump says "Biden broke the economy and I will fix it." Guess which version goes straight over the head of the voter and which comment they understand.

It’s not free at HEB. Curbside prices have a 3% markup and if you want it to be ready quickly it’s another $5-8.

He looks like he just paid those ladies $1,000 for a $10 handjob.

If you haven’t seen Loki or paid attention to the behind the scenes Marvel-Disney dynamic, a lot of it won’t make sense. I tried to watch it for the first time since the theater and it doesn’t hold up at all. I enjoyed it in the theater but all the faults sure stand out in second viewing.

On the flip side, owned the libs.

Here's my contribution to the platform. For every US citizen at birth, the government invests $10,000 in a Total US Market Index fund for them in a Roth IRA that does not vest until age 65. There is no access to the account for loans or early withdrawals. If you die before 65, it goes back in the pot. There are no beneficiaries for this fund. This will help offset the costs for those who can't enter the work force due to disabilities. At 7% annual growth, it would be $812,000 at age 65. With 3.5M births per year, it would cost $35B annually. The investment amount is adjusted annually for inflation. However, this is not a gift, it is the government fronting each individual $10,000 at birth. When an individual starts working, the first $10,000 they pay into social security pays back the fronted money before they start accruing social security contributions so the program mostly pays for itself. It does not replace social security.

Here comes the Ewers 3 Play Special: overthrow, sack, INT.

I have a hypothesis:

Nothing could've possibly happened in the past 3 years. There shouldn't be exceptions for those background checks. It doesn't matter if you had one 6 months ago. Go through the process.

The missing immigrant labor in construction and agriculture will be filled with prison laborers...specifically, prisons filled with non-Trump voters as he promised. Technically, they won't be slaves since prisoners get paid $0.12/hour.

Get a better wife.

She's tasked with helping her dad in Israel bring about the Apocalypse.

First order of business is eliminating all vaccine funding research and banning all vaccines.