What is Trump doing now 🤣

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[Stable Genius]

There’s plenty of money to attack legally protesting citizens, build unnecessary ballrooms, and support Argentina. There isn’t enough money however to feed our poor.

[Suckrates]

1 hour ago, Stable Genius said:

There’s plenty of money to attack legally protesting citizens, build unnecessary ballrooms, and support Argentina. There isn’t enough money however to feed our poor.

And its CLEARLY a Republican CHOICE, so i dont want to hear any of their stupid, lame excuses.  Their priorities are THEIR comforts, ballrooms, jets and foreign bailouts to gain overseas leverage.....  Perhaps Trump is bartering with Argentina to house US immigrant deportees ?    Yet ignorant Trump supporters still dont realize Trumps actions will be hurting them as well... they believe its all aimed at the "lunatic libs".....   They'll learn a quick lesson when their family is fighting over s ingle slice of bread !   

[Stable Genius]

He's gonna worse than Dr. Strangelove!

[stevenkesslar]

3 hours ago, Suckrates said:

They'll learn a quick lesson when their family is fighting over a single slice of bread !   

Or not.

I just got back from two weeks with family in the Midwest.  Two of my brothers are way more anti-Trump than me.  Even though I am the only liberal Democrat, and they are a centrist Democrat and a centrist Republican.  I personally find that funny.  One of my nieces is the MAGA diehard in the family.  And so we avoided talking about politics. 

But my MAGA niece did bitch and moan about how her $50,000 a year in free stock options at her corporate job are going to be vested less generously.  And her 6 % annual bonus is being cut down to 3 %.  Horrors!  And this really stressed her out.  So much that she almost quit.  But it was just too stressful to think about between her spa vacation in the US and her trip to Europe a few weeks later.  She actually said all this in front of family members who make a fraction of what she does.  You get the picture.  

It's not a fair comparison.  Because she is a cardboard cutout for a snobby country club Republican who really does love to act and look elitist.  Especially around waitresses and their ilk when she is not totally pleased with the food or service.  I love her, but I hate her.  And pretty much everyone else in my family, including her feminist Democrat sister, feels the same way.

My point is that this will go on as long the stock market keeps going up and inflation is relatively in control.  And truly working class Zoomers and Hispanics and Blacks can get by on two jobs. While the true Republican types like my niece flourish and bitch about how they are not even more affluent.

One of my nephews is convinced that the "everything bubble" will pop within six months or so.  But he has been saying that for three years or so, when it looked like the bubble was popping in 2022.   Hold that thought!

As an aside, I made a little money on EDN and SUPV a few years ago when the two Argentinian stocks were much cheaper. I should have just held instead of taking a small (like 50 %) profit.  They have increased about 10x from their 2020 low.  I bought them back months ago when I thought it was a great buy on the dip opportunity.  Instead at one point a month or so ago I was down like 50 % on both of them.  So after last weekend's Argentinian elections and the "Trump bailout" they both popped, in the case of SUPV up like 50 % in one day alone on Monday.  So I sold it all and made an unexpected $3000 profit on the two.  Which paid just about what I spent for a nice vacation home to bring family together for four days.

At one point my anti-Trump nephew and I were talking stocks and my MAGA niece was right across the kitchen island.  So I pointedly thanked "our great President" for making me enough money to pay for a luxurious home (inferior by Trump standards, of course) for a long fun family weekend.  I told my nephew, who thinks Trump is a blowhard fool,  I wanted to hear him thank President Trump out loud.  They both laughed, because they know I am an acerbic asshole. 

But that is the way it goes.  As long as the party for the country club Republicans lasts and the economy holds on just enough, Trump's working class and Zoomer male cohort will be satisfied enough.  And his disapproval rating will "only" be 52 % or so.  Like it is today.  When the party ends, so will the Trump era.  President Divide and Conquer, who can only win 47 or, at best, 49 % of the vote, can only last so long.

Hate to say it.  But I can't wait for the planned cruelty and endless greed to end.  Even if I made a lot of money off it as it happened.  I made a lot of money when Biden was President, too.  But there was a lot less cruelty.  

 

[Suckrates]

50 minutes ago, stevenkesslar said:

Or not.

I just got back from two weeks with family in the Midwest.  Two of my brothers are way more anti-Trump than me.  Even though I am the only liberal Democrat, and they are a centrist Democrat and a centrist Republican.  I personally find that funny.  One of my nieces is the MAGA diehard in the family.  And so we avoided talking about politics. 

But my MAGA niece did bitch and moan about how her $50,000 a year in free stock options at her corporate job are going to be vested less generously.  And her 6 % annual bonus is being cut down to 3 %.  Horrors!  And this really stressed her out.  So much that she almost quit.  But it was just too stressful to think about between her spa vacation in the US and her trip to Europe a few weeks later.  She actually said all this in front of family members who make a fraction of what she does.  You get the picture.  

It's not a fair comparison.  Because she is a cardboard cutout for a snobby country club Republican who really does love to act and look elitist.  Especially around waitresses and their ilk when she is not totally pleased with the food or service.  I love her, but I hate her.  And pretty much everyone else in my family, including her feminist Democrat sister, feels the same way.

My point is that this will go on as long the stock market keeps going up and inflation is relatively in control.  And truly working class Zoomers and Hispanics and Blacks can get by on two jobs. While the true Republican types like my niece flourish and bitch about how they are not even more affluent.

One of my nephews is convinced that the "everything bubble" will pop within six months or so.  But he has been saying that for three years or so, when it looked like the bubble was popping in 2022.   Hold that thought!

As an aside, I made a little money on EDN and SUPV a few years ago when the two Argentinian stocks were much cheaper. I should have just held instead of taking a small (like 50 %) profit.  They have increased about 10x from their 2020 low.  I bought them back months ago when I thought it was a great buy on the dip opportunity.  Instead at one point a month or so ago I was down like 50 % on both of them.  So after last weekend's Argentinian elections and the "Trump bailout" they both popped, in the case of SUPV up like 50 % in one day alone on Monday.  So I sold it all and made an unexpected $3000 profit on the two.  Which paid just about what I spent for a nice vacation home to bring family together for four days.

At one point my anti-Trump nephew and I were talking stocks and my MAGA niece was right across the kitchen island.  So I pointedly thanked "our great President" for making me enough money to pay for a luxurious home (inferior by Trump standards, of course) for a long fun family weekend.  I told my nephew, who thinks Trump is a blowhard fool,  I wanted to hear him thank President Trump out loud.  They both laughed, because they know I am an acerbic asshole. 

But that is the way it goes.  As long as the party for the country club Republicans lasts and the economy holds on just enough, Trump's working class and Zoomer male cohort will be satisfied enough.  And his disapproval rating will "only" be 52 % or so.  Like it is today.  When the party ends, so will the Trump era.  President Divide and Conquer, who can only win 47 or, at best, 49 % of the vote, can only last so long.

Hate to say it.  But I can't wait for the planned cruelty and endless greed to end.  Even if I made a lot of money off it as it happened.  I made a lot of money when Biden was President, too.  But there was a lot less cruelty.  

 

 

When you throw money into any mix, things are always different.   But money aside here, we are talking about the loss of civil rights, degradation of humanity,  abolition of the rule of law, the open hate and cruelty of Trump and party to those that dont support HIM, and the inequity between those that have but dont want YOU to have, and those that dont have but want.     

After reading your entire post, it seems like you have "settled" into the Trump regime, and have resigned yourself to wait it out and just comfort yourself with any financial benefits that come your way ?    This disappoints me, as I have know you a long time....   I am still struggling with all this Trump shit, and doubt I will ever reconcile with the fact that the man wants to be a forever Dictator, and is now even building himself a shrine to worship himself in, which will be open ONLY to the rich and powerful that PAY their way in to worship him too !    

Hate is a very strong word which I NEVER used to use,  but now, I have to say I HATE Trump supporters, for THEY are the wind beneath his wings and the group that continues to give him oxygen and drive him to continue doing unthinkable and unlawful things,  while lying to our faces about doing them.....  MURDER in the open seas ?    To me that signals the normalization of MURDER on American soil at some point in the coming future.   I CANT reconcile as easily as you, my dear sis,  and I am sad for all those that seem to be on the same path as you....   THIS can never be normal or OK.