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8 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

If the deficit is actually your concern, history tells you that voting GQP is not the answer:

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Almost without fail, deficit amount goes up under a Republican, and declines under a Dem.  Because of course, slashing spending and slashing tax revenues (every single GQP plan to "attack the deficit" has those two pillars) DOESN'T FUCKING WORK.  The "budget deficit" is a creature of our overall economy and is related to GDP and overall economic health, as well as on spending and incoming revenues directly.  You can keep trusting the people who have 1) run on the issue, yet 2) consistently fucked us on it for forty fucking years, but I sure as fuck wouldn't.

So history says we're doomed either way to drive off the cliff, no party has a plan.

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1 minute ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

So history says we're doomed either way to drive off the cliff, no party has a plan.

Budget deficits are fine if managed.  History says we can do reasonably well under a Dem president.  Healthy functioning economy, not subject to insane volatility or a recession caused by shooting our own dick off, a tax plan that actually brings in decent revenue, spending that (and this is the shocker, contrary to GQP rhetoric) that is more conservative and better managed.....these are the things you get when you "just say no" to GQP fiscal mismanagement.

We're not driving off a cliff.

Correction: we WEREN'T, until the deranged genetically freakish demonic lovechild of Thelma, Louise, and the clown from "It" took the wheel.

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Posted
13 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

So history says we're doomed either way to drive off the cliff, no party has a plan.

Just a thought maybe we could vote D consistently and not let the GOP sucker us constantly with moral panics and tax cuts they never pay for.

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Posted
3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Just a thought maybe we could vote D consistently and not let the GOP sucker us constantly with moral panics and tax cuts they never pay for.

We could vote D every cycle! All we have to do is get rid of all the blacks, gays, and brown folks.

 

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Posted
13 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Budget deficits are fine if managed.  History says we can do reasonably well under a Dem president.  Healthy functioning economy, not subject to insane volatility or a recession caused by shooting our own dick off, a tax plan that actually brings in decent revenue, spending that (and this is the shocker, contrary to GQP rhetoric) that is more conservative and better managed.....these are the things you get when you "just say no" to GQP fiscal mismanagement.

We're not driving off a cliff.

Correction: we WEREN'T, until the deranged genetically freakish demonic lovechild of Thelma, Louise, and the clown from "It" took the wheel.

For 25+ years now I've seen conservatives online whine about "unsustainable" deficits. Not once have I ever seen one who was able to explain the negative consequences they seemed to be so terrified of. Now, for the past 10-15 years or so, I've constantly seen those same conservatives cheerlead for actually imposing the very consequences they never understood that they were (erroneously) warning about when they whined about deficits. 

They're just the dumbest fucking people alive. 

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2 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

For 25+ years now I've seen conservatives online whine about "unsustainable" deficits. Not once have I ever seen one who was able to explain the negative consequences they seemed to be so terrified of. Now, for the past 10-15 years or so, I've constantly seen those same conservatives cheerlead for actually imposing the very consequences they never understood that they were (erroneously) warning about when they whined about deficits. 

They're just the dumbest fucking people alive. 

 

Counterpoint:  but brilliant at marketing whatever passes for conservatism at the time.

 

 

Posted
12 hours ago, GenXer said:

Hit the grocery store on the way home. Not sure if groceries is the right nomenclature now that dotard has declared it passe.

Found this in my cart. Far north dallas.IMG_2999.thumb.jpeg.f42d502db2450f76fe4210b94e71af31.jpeg

 

 

 

Seriously, we all need a pad of these. Simple message, spread everywhere.

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Posted
16 hours ago, yoladu said:

Notice the time stamp of this Truth Social post.

 

hmmm.

An image of Trump’s Truth Social post. “Now is a good time to buy.” Rule 10b-5 prohibits the use of material nonpublic information for personal or third-party financial gain. Trump’s post, when combined with the market-moving announcement and Greer’s testimony, fits the legal definition of market manipulation and insider trading. Trump’s post was 7 minutes after the NYSE opened—before Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the 90-day pause on tariffs. The sequence and timing directly support insider trading and market manipulation. By informing people to buy before the policy was publicly disclosed, Trump broke the law.

This was posted a day before the announcement.

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This is the trade volume before the annoucement. All that to make more billions for his buddies.

Volume at 1pm ET, before the news went public at 1:20pm ET.

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FUCK THE ORANGE PIECE OF SHIT. FUCK YOU IF YOU STILL SUCK THIS PIECE OF SHIT'S DICK.

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Posted
43 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

Quoted for truth.  Deficits are "unsustainable" for people/entities with finite live spans and a defined income time period.   When an entity has a presumably endless payback time period, the benefit of inflation, and growing net income every year (not to mention the ability to make money out of thin air), the whole "this is unsustainable and needs to be run as a business!" is bullshit.   Is it good to run huge deficits?  No its not, but it is not all doom and gloom.  And if you actually are interested in reducing the number, maybe vote for the one party that has actually done that in our lifetimes.

Well, and has the most powerful economy on earth and the most valuable currency as a result.

Start weakening those, and that debt may become a bit of a problem.

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Posted (edited)
10 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Down 700 points today so far. What part of the Art of the Deal is this?

It was a bump that he manipulated.  Before his insane tariff announcement, 10 percent across the board and 104 percent on China was considered “worst case.” 
 

The market sighed in relief when it realized it hadn’t been nuked from orbit and now people are realizing they’ve “just” been firebombed. 

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Trump is still fucking around and we’re all about to find out. 
 
 

Ripped from the pages of “NO FUCKING SHIT MONTHLY.”
At this point - a mere 90 days or so into this admin - it’s no longer about the policies, it’s about the fact that the American ship of state is steered by a deranged and insane idiot. It doesn’t matter what direction we’re going in at any given moment; what matters is that the world sees that he can and will turn and steer it into an iceberg in an instant with no notice or reason.
Nobody is getting on that ship. Anyone sane is getting the fuck OFF.
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Posted
9 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

This was posted a day before the announcement.

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This is the trade volume before the annoucement. All that to make more billions for his buddies.

Volume at 1pm ET, before the news went public at 1:20pm ET.

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FUCK THE ORANGE PIECE OF SHIT. FUCK YOU IF YOU STILL SUCK THIS PIECE OF SHIT'S DICK.

Some of the replies are fantastic ...

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Unfortunately, I was in the shower when the Signal group text said to buy.

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Posted
7 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Down 700 points today so far. What part of the Art of the Deal is this?

Look it takes awhile for investors to sort out American policy when it is being announced via Truth Social posts.

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Posted
17 hours ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Anyone else besides GQP have a plan? Are there any options or are we just hoping for AI super-intelligence to save us? 

Cracking Up Lol GIF by HULU

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Posted
1 hour ago, Valmy77 said:

Look it takes awhile for investors to sort out American policy when it is being announced via Truth Social posts.

Or rather they initially reacted to headlines from legit news that repeated White House spin that there was a “pause” on tariffs. The current sell off reflects actual conditions - perhaps if media reported facts instead, people would be better informed 

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Posted
2 hours ago, crash_davis said:

This was posted a day before the announcement.

90-day-delay-except-china-was-leaked-1-d

This is the trade volume before the annoucement. All that to make more billions for his buddies.

Volume at 1pm ET, before the news went public at 1:20pm ET.

tinfoil-hat-alert-looks-like-insiders-go

 

FUCK THE ORANGE PIECE OF SHIT. FUCK YOU IF YOU STILL SUCK THIS PIECE OF SHIT'S DICK.

And now he has goods on every single person who happily took the bait. 

Posted
1 minute ago, C-Man said:

“Someone knew” and turned $100K into $21M in minutes

https://www.threads.net/@kerrbear3.0/post/DIQJPpPsCvK?xmt=AQGztJYL03YbW86agwZrwUG6JlOsm0EknRrhZ5pW9XSF2w

I’m sure there will be an exhaustive investigation.


I’m sure there was insider trading but her post does a terrible job of proving anything. Zero day call options are now ~60% of all options that are purchased (zero day’s have exploded in popularity with the GameStop/crypto/barstool cohort). 

Posted
1 hour ago, Valmy77 said:

Look it takes awhile for investors to sort out American policy when it is being announced via Truth Social posts.

Until his next Truth social post about buying. It usually works 2 or 3 times based on his first term. 

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Well... I guess we can all look forward to Trump's fix for social security.  Too bad I don't know how to bet against that and make money like I do for tariff stupidity.

 

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Posted
1 minute ago, horn4life said:

Well... I guess we can all look forward to Trump's fix for social security.  Too bad I don't know how to bet against that and make money like I do for tariff stupidity.

 

Buy generic cat food futures.

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Ah, we're good. We've got our money invested in stock market so we don't need to worry about Social Security being dismantled from the inside......

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Posted
1 hour ago, C-Man said:

“Someone knew” and turned $100K into $21M in minutes

https://www.threads.net/@kerrbear3.0/post/DIQJPpPsCvK?xmt=AQGztJYL03YbW86agwZrwUG6JlOsm0EknRrhZ5pW9XSF2w

I’m sure there will be an exhaustive investigation.

EDIT: could be bullshit based on some responses to this. I admit, this is getting into territory I do not understand fully.

Bet it was Nancy Pelosi.

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Also, here's a fundamental - and giant, potentially fatal - problem created by what the Trump Regime has been doing over the past week (and longer, but painfully evident the past week): they have set up the entire US economy, particularly the stock market, as a private casino where the Regime and its insiders are tipped off to the next cards to be dealt.

There's a reason why insider trading is a crime: it creates winners (who cheated) and losers (who didn't have the benefit of the inside information, and thus sold for lower than they otherwise would have/bought at higher than they otherwise would have).  When it's (1) a single or small group of insiders from an enterprise and (2) those actions are/will be prosecuted, then everyone else has reasonable confidence and faith in the fairness of the markets.

HOWEVER, when it's (1) a large group of very wealthy people who have advance, inside knowledge of upcoming large market swings (to be caused by Trump's specific actions), and (2) not only will they NOT be prosecuted for it, but instead, their profit-taking is by design and is functionally a gift/reward provided by the Trump Regime to its favored parties but to nobody else, then nobody who is outside of that group has any faith in the fairness of the market.  

Why should I sink my money into a market knowing that, at any moment, the Trump Regime will tank the value of my investment in order to reward its chosen beneficiaries (who already had the necessary info, and set up to profit massively on the dip)?  

This is exactly how you kill a market.  And not just to the little players, but also to the big players who aren't part of the Trump Regime Inner Circle.  Trillions of dollars of money is starting to realize "wait....why should I place any bets at a casino where the game is rigged in favor of a handful of other players at my expense?"

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Where is the deal part of this?  What deal was made with any country or corporation, using these tariff proclamations as negotiating tactics?

if I walk into a room, turn off the light, then turn it back on after a little grumbling, I did not make a deal. 

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