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Political Roundtable Part XXXIV

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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#461 » by DOT » Sat Apr 5, 2025 4:39 pm

Doug_Blew wrote:
dobrojim wrote:The S&P500 was 6047 on Jan 21. As of now, it's
at 5165.

Being the math genius I am, I'd say that is a
$h1t-ton of lost wealth. My calculator says
6047/5165 =1.171

Yet the morons in the House
decided that one day is a year
and won't vote to remove tariffs.

Where is Grover Norquist when he would
actually be useful?

That's a little over 14%. I'm already pissed. If it doesn't turn around, lots of people that voted for him will be pissed.

But not enough will be pissed at him or the GOP, they will blame a vague, nebulous concept of "the government", and it's too late for them to do anything about it anyways

There's really no excuse for them, he ran on doing this, they were told this would happen, and they voted for it anyways. But at least there are 10 fewer trans women competing in college sports, that was the deal they made.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#462 » by Zonkerbl » Sat Apr 5, 2025 11:14 pm

I hope Trump supporters will do what they always do when proven wrong, slink away into the shadows and pretend they never supported him to begin with. It's vile and cowardly but if it gets this deranged idiot out of power I'll take it. Just have to survive this idiot induced economic apocalypse first. Good job everybody! Way to not be easily manipulated into believing trump's poop is made of gold
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#463 » by Zonkerbl » Sat Apr 5, 2025 11:14 pm

It's just poop
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#464 » by AFM » Sat Apr 5, 2025 11:48 pm

Zonkerbl wrote:It's just poop


Did you see Dave Portnoy crying over losing 7M because of the market--some prominent supporters are already expressing regret
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#465 » by dobrojim » Sun Apr 6, 2025 4:50 am

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I suppose in a perverse way, maybe Golfy really enjoys this,
assuming he is not getting high on his own supply
and understands he has forced his supporters to
believe whatever he says no matter how absurd.

He can tell himself he is so powerful, his toadies
are terrified by any notion that they could call
him out.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#466 » by Wizardspride » Mon Apr 7, 2025 2:40 am

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President Donald Trump referred to African countries, Haiti and El Salvador as "shithole" nations during a meeting Thursday and asked why the U.S. can't have more immigrants from Norway.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#467 » by Zonkerbl » Mon Apr 7, 2025 1:39 pm

I just have to shake my damn head at a Ph.D. from Harvard defending Trump's tariffs. It not only annihilates his own now non-existent credibility, but it undermines the Harvard economics department and, by association, that of the entire field.

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/05/musk-trump-tariffs-navarro-tesla
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#468 » by Zonkerbl » Mon Apr 7, 2025 1:56 pm

DJIA down 1600 points at opening today. It is now 16.6% lower than it was on Trump's inauguration day.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#469 » by dobrojim » Mon Apr 7, 2025 2:02 pm

Trump will fix it. He understands that the rest of the world has been abusing us ever since WWII.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#470 » by AFM » Mon Apr 7, 2025 2:06 pm

Zonkerbl wrote:I just have to shake my damn head at a Ph.D. from Harvard defending Trump's tariffs. It not only annihilates his own now non-existent credibility, but it undermines the Harvard economics department and, by association, that of the entire field.

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/05/musk-trump-tariffs-navarro-tesla


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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#471 » by AFM » Mon Apr 7, 2025 2:10 pm

Your feel good news of the day: Elon was streaming Path Of Exile 2 this weekend and dummy forgot to turn off his whispers.

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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#472 » by Zonkerbl » Mon Apr 7, 2025 6:21 pm

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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#473 » by Wizardspride » Wed Apr 9, 2025 1:20 am

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President Donald Trump referred to African countries, Haiti and El Salvador as "shithole" nations during a meeting Thursday and asked why the U.S. can't have more immigrants from Norway.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#474 » by dobrojim » Wed Apr 9, 2025 6:06 am

Johnson won't do it. Either that or he'd just make
ish up in the debate.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#475 » by pancakes3 » Wed Apr 9, 2025 1:29 pm

all of this is tiresomely performative. have an actual debate on the floor about articles of impeachment.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#476 » by Zonkerbl » Wed Apr 9, 2025 5:48 pm

Trump finally caves, admits defeat and lowers all reciprocal tariffs to 10% (except for China). Stock market exploding right now. Thank god for quitters and losers like Trump knowing when to surrender.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#477 » by AFM » Wed Apr 9, 2025 6:15 pm

Zonkerbl wrote:Trump finally caves, admits defeat and lowers all reciprocal tariffs to 10% (except for China). Stock market exploding right now. Thank god for quitters and losers like Trump knowing when to surrender.


Imagine all the people that shorted the market. They're getting obliterated like crazy
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#478 » by dobrojim » Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:09 am

So much corruption, so little investigation.
Whoever's in charge of SEC won't do ish.

At risk of repeating myself, messing around with
SocSec will be a huge mistake. 73 million people
which surely includes a lot of republicans are on
SS. Elephants never forget.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#479 » by Zonkerbl » Thu Apr 10, 2025 9:34 pm

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Re: Political Roundtable Part XXXIV 

Post#480 » by dobrojim » Thu Apr 10, 2025 10:10 pm



Massive insider trading suspected in front of Golfy's pause
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