[QuickTidal]

HoosierDaddy, on 04 March 2025 - 07:19 PM, said:

Hey, you guys 'member the 1st Amendment? I 'member the 1st Amendment. Wasn't it great?

Also the 2nd amendment....you know...for tyrannical govt run amok? Where are all those folks at?

[HoosierDaddy]

QuickTidal, on 05 March 2025 - 12:30 PM, said:

HoosierDaddy, on 04 March 2025 - 07:19 PM, said:

Hey, you guys 'member the 1st Amendment? I 'member the 1st Amendment. Wasn't it great?

Also the 2nd amendment....you know...for tyrannical govt run amok? Where are all those folks at?

It hasn't hurt enough of the right people yet. When it does, then I'll be alarmed at any lack of response.

The 2nd Amendment has always been a bullshit excuse for people to hoard guns against government being used against them and only them. It's not a "well regulated militia" as that requires fucking organization, planning, and working as a unit with commanding officers. And one fucking person with guns is going to get steamrolled by 2 trained fucking soldiers. It's whackadoodles cosplaying US Army who are the people always blathering about the 2nd Amendment and "cold dead hands."

Fucking worthless like most of the morons in this country who have the perspective of a fish in a mostly opaque fishbowl.

[QuickTidal]

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U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Tuesday for a “tough and aggressive” conversation after the Ontario government announced its plan to slap a 25 per cent export tax on the electricity it supplies to three U.S. states, CTV News has learned.
Sources said Lutnick asked Ford to back off his retaliatory tariffs, but the Ontario premier refused so long as U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs remain in effect.

HAHAHAHAHAH! Get fucked Nutlick you vile little POS. Your boss did this, Enjoy it.

[Tiste Simeon]

Got to say QT I'm liking how Ford is acting at the moment!

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 05 March 2025 - 03:10 PM, said:

Got to say QT I'm liking how Ford is acting at the moment!

Someone else said it best...he's a corrupt, lying sack of shit....but he's OUR corrupt lying sack of shit... and that's kind of what we need right now to combat the lying sack of shit in the White House who is threatening our country...Ford has never had a problem getting down into the muck and flinging his shit at people...it's just aimed in the right direction this time. LOL

So yeah, I like it too. I have deep problems with the guys politics (always have and always will)...but I doubt Bonnie Crombie or Marit Styles (who ran against him in the recent election) would have been in "attack dog" mode like this...so he does seem to be the guy we need right now.

[QuickTidal]

Jack Daniel's maker says Canada pulling US alcohol off stores 'worse than tariff'

Good. Get. Fucking. Wrecked.


Kentucky governor says Trump’s tariffs on Canada are not what Americans voted for

Yes you did. Kentucky voted OVERWHELMINGLY for Trump. You very much voted for this. He said he was going to do tariffs BEFORE the election. You knew and you voted for him anyways...and quite frankly your senator is the REASON Trump had another stab at the Oval Office in the first place when he didn't vote to remove him after impeachment....so....

GET. FUCKING. WRECKED.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 05 March 2025 - 07:25 PM

[worry]

One could argue that the tariffs were in fact his only specific campaign proposal. Everything else was generalized immigration scaremongering, trans panic, and lying about his ties to Project 2025.

[Cause]

Alitos dissent about the recent USAID case is frightening. He not only disagrees with the majority but implies lower court judges shouldn’t have the power to force the US government to pay the 2 billion.

The naked partisanship is in full swing. When a single Texas judge was on the verge on banning nationwide abortion they didn’t have the same concerns. Now every republican is worried about judicial over reach.

They want to sets of rules and have been living by them for years but they are now trying to bring out into the open.

[QuickTidal]

I think your Democracy truly died during that trump speech the other night (it was not the SOTU, no matter what anyone says) when Al Green stood up to this Christo-fascist tyrannical regime...and he stood fucking alone...and got kicked out for it.

The Democrats in their pink shirts with their little signs about how Trump is a liar ect....did the equivalent of the Repubs "Thoughts & Prayers"....which is....sweet fuck all.

The supposed liberal side of the aisle of your elected govt...fucking abandoned YOU the citizens as much as they abandoned Green to face that shit alone.


Clutching their "rulebook" while the other side has abandoned any pretext to following that rulebook....refusing to accept that the system is NOT working at all anymore. No one is stopping these people going against the constitution, breaking multiple laws...for gods sake the LEAST they could have done would have been to stand up one by one after Green was ejected until they were ejected themselves. Show the American people that they elected you for a REASON....none of this performative pink shirt and little ping-pong paddle sign bullshit..fucking DO something.

When history records all this, the Democrats are going be found just as wanting for not realizing that their rulebook doesn't apply anymore. The system has moved on from it, and until they start operating in a protest mode outside of that....this will be the status quo fall to fascism.

For gods sake the SK govt climbed fucking BARRIERS at 1AM to stop the then-president from enacting martial law to avoid his crimes....there is nothing of that in your govt....nothing.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 06 March 2025 - 07:36 PM

[HoosierDaddy]

Calls for the Democrats to stop playing by rules that Republicans no longer abide by have been there for a long time. It's pretty maddening.

The double-standard is real, but the fact that they self reinforce it is such a self inflicted wound.

Sometimes people have to learn the hard way. I have a feeling the rich fucks and their unwitting sycophants will have to learn it that way.

The guy who got tossed from Trump's Pep Rally while singing through Mike Johnson's attempt to censure him today:

“There comes a time when you cannot allow the president’s incivility to take advantage of our civility.”

I hope that spirit rubs off.

This post has been edited by HoosierDaddy: 06 March 2025 - 09:20 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

But they wore pink and carried little cheeseboards with writing on them! That'll show the fascists 🙄

[HoosierDaddy]

I'm watching the stock market try and anticipate and react to Trump and it's so hilarious. He's didn't rule out a recession, which means HE KNOWS he's already caused a recession that is in its infant stages, and he's going to ride the "maybe" for as long as possible. But it doesn't matter, his cult members will believe whatever he says and excuse whatever he does.

Egg prices are high? HOW DARE BIDEN!!! Trump promised to bring prices down.

Egg prices SKYROCKET? Trump can't be expected to solve problems overnight, and you know, once prices go up it's hard to bring them down again.

The kool-aid is delicious in those circles.

[Abyss]

HoosierDaddy, on 10 March 2025 - 07:36 PM, said:

I'm watching the stock market try and anticipate and react to Trump and it's so hilarious. He's didn't rule out a recession, which means HE KNOWS he's already caused a recession that is in its infant stages, and he's going to ride the "maybe" for as long as possible. But it doesn't matter, his cult members will believe whatever he says and excuse whatever he does.

Egg prices are high? HOW DARE BIDEN!!! Trump promised to bring prices down.

Egg prices SKYROCKET? Trump can't be expected to solve problems overnight, and you know, once prices go up it's hard to bring them down again.

The kool-aid is delicious in those circles.

the egg thing is totally Canada's fault, they need to stop building eggs in Canada and tariff Canadian eggs and all those eggs being smuggled across the border by the same murderers carrying all that fentanyl....

[Mentalist]

Abyss, on 10 March 2025 - 07:55 PM, said:

HoosierDaddy, on 10 March 2025 - 07:36 PM, said:

I'm watching the stock market try and anticipate and react to Trump and it's so hilarious. He's didn't rule out a recession, which means HE KNOWS he's already caused a recession that is in its infant stages, and he's going to ride the "maybe" for as long as possible. But it doesn't matter, his cult members will believe whatever he says and excuse whatever he does.

Egg prices are high? HOW DARE BIDEN!!! Trump promised to bring prices down.

Egg prices SKYROCKET? Trump can't be expected to solve problems overnight, and you know, once prices go up it's hard to bring them down again.

The kool-aid is delicious in those circles.

the egg thing is totally Canada's fault, they need to stop building eggs in Canada and tariff Canadian eggs and all those eggs being smuggled across the border by the same murderers carrying all that fentanyl....

They will soon order the USMC to raid across the border to steal our chickens to increase egg production.

[Tiste Simeon]

 Abyss, on 10 March 2025 - 07:55 PM, said:

 HoosierDaddy, on 10 March 2025 - 07:36 PM, said:

I'm watching the stock market try and anticipate and react to Trump and it's so hilarious. He's didn't rule out a recession, which means HE KNOWS he's already caused a recession that is in its infant stages, and he's going to ride the "maybe" for as long as possible. But it doesn't matter, his cult members will believe whatever he says and excuse whatever he does.

Egg prices are high? HOW DARE BIDEN!!! Trump promised to bring prices down.

Egg prices SKYROCKET? Trump can't be expected to solve problems overnight, and you know, once prices go up it's hard to bring them down again.

The kool-aid is delicious in those circles.

the egg thing is totally Canada's fault, they need to stop building eggs in Canada and tariff Canadian eggs and all those eggs being smuggled across the border by the same murderers carrying all that fentanyl....

The funny thing is that if you told me this was a direct quote from a DJT tweet I'd believe you!

[Tsundoku]

Man, are Trump and Musk getting their public relations tips from Kanye?

Musk calls a guy who is pretty much the definition of an American hero a traitor and gets a very polite assripping in return. And then gets it fully torn open by some old French guy!

It hasn't even been 2 months and the American public are experiencing one of the fastest, widest cases of buyer's regret I've ever heard of, let alone watched in real time.

[QuickTidal]

Trump thinks the United States is an island and that because it’s powerful it can do whatever it wants, when in reality it is allowed to be powerful by many other slightly less powerful countries because it was perceived as stable and trustworthy.

The only reason the US is a superpower is because much of that power was willingly ceded to it .

That stability and trustworthiness flew out the window during that meeting with Zelenskyy, and especially when he started tariffing and threatening the sovereignty of places like Canada and Europe...

I have a feeling that the US dollar is going to cease being the global reserve currency (I assume replaced by the Euro) that it's been for many decades, and that Trump MAY very well default on the US Debt (which, I am not an economist, but I understand would be disastrous).

This man is sinking the USA in trade, economy, and on the world stage, and it's only been like two months...How you people aren't in the streets is beyond me.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

QuickTidal, on 11 March 2025 - 01:01 PM, said:

Trump thinks the United States is an island and that because it's powerful it can do whatever it wants, when in reality it is allowed to be powerful by many other slightly less powerful countries because it was perceived as stable and trustworthy.

The only reason the US is a superpower is because much of that power was willingly ceded to it .

That stability and trustworthiness flew out the window during that meeting with Zelenskyy, and especially when he started tariffing and threatening the sovereignty of places like Canada and Europe...

I have a feeling that the US dollar is going to cease being the global reserve currency (I assume replaced by the Euro) that it's been for many decades, and that Trump MAY very well default on the US Debt (which, I am not an economist, but I understand would be disastrous).

This man is sinking the USA in trade, economy, and on the world stage, and it's only been like two months...How you people aren't in the streets is beyond me.

The bond market is being overly optimistic about the Fed prioritizing the growth threat from tariffs over the inflation threat---contrary to what the Fed has been saying. Seems like it may be wishful thinking on the assumption that the threat of tariffs may persist, with the uncertainty stymying investment, but that the Trump administration couldn't possibly be stupid and reckless enough to keep extreme tariffs like the current ones in place for an extended period of time.

And a large percentage of US treasuries are held by other countries---which could retaliate by selling them.

If you invest in markets, I'd advise putting at least 5 to 10% of your holdings into CAOS in case of a market crash. I like CAOS because most of the time it provides positive returns---on average about the same as money market funds---as well as substantial crash protection (if the US stock market drops more than 25% in 60 days). Here's a good overview:

https://www.optimize...folio.com/caos/

While I have a visceral dislike for gold, despite its massive price increase last year (outperforming equities) it may also be good (at least until/unless better mining technology---or asteroid mining---causes the price to potentially plummet without government intervention)---I like IAUM for its comparatively low expense ratio and for holding physical gold in secure vaults.

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Tariff war risks sinking world into new Great Depression, International Chamber of Commerce warns

"Our deep concern is that this could be the start of a downward spiral that puts us in 1930s trade-war territory," [...] High tariffs on foreign goods imported into the U.S. in that decade contributed to a damaging global recession. The downturn plunged nearly a third of the global workforce into unemployment and slashed production at heavyweight industrial economies Germany and the U.S. by half, according to research from the International Monetary Fund.

The likelihood of a similarly severe blow to the global economy is high[...] "Right now it's a coin-flip," [...] "It comes down to whether the U.S. administration is willing to rethink the utility of tariffs."'

https://finance.yaho...-090500002.html

More generally, instead of diversifying with bonds, it's historically been better to diversify through a mix of US and non-US stocks, as demonstrated in this high-quality study from 2023:

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We challenge two tenets of lifecycle investing: (i) diversify across stocks and bonds and (ii) reduce equity allocations with age. An optimal lifetime allocation of 33% domestic stocks, 67% international stocks, 0% bonds, and 0% bills vastly outperforms age-based, stock-bond strategies in building wealth, supporting retirement consumption, preserving capital, and generating bequests. Our lifecycle model preserves crucial time-series and cross-sectional dependencies in asset returns and addresses small sample issues in US data.

There is no economically meaningful gain from holding bonds at any point during their lifetimes. The long-horizon return data suggest that diversifying with international stocks, rather than with bonds, improves investor outcomes for long-term appreciation and capital preservation.

[...] Households allocating 33% to domestic stocks and 67% to international stocks are much less likely to exhaust their savings. Under the common 4% rule for retirement spending, a couple using the balanced strategy has a 16.9% probability of running out of wealth. Target-date funds are even worse at 19.7%. In comparison, the probability for the optimal, all-equity strategy is low at 7.0%.

Beyond the Status Quo: A Critical Assessment of Lifecycle Investment Advice

However, given headlines this morning like "European stocks are the hottest trade on Wall Street as investors turn away from US 'exceptionalism'", "the [recent] the absolute dominance of international stocks compared to the U.S., [...] especially in countries like China, Germany, and Poland", and the recent survey of investment managers which found that a plurality think non-US stocks will be the top performing asset class (gold came in second, US stocks third), shifting funds from US stocks to ex-US stocks now is being a little late to the party, with much of that already priced in and European stocks now exceeding their historical valuation relative to US stocks.

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[QuickTidal]

So, this is how Trump destroyed all of his businesses. His ego just takes over his being, and he makes absolutely braindead stupid shit-flinging fights...

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

QuickTidal, on 11 March 2025 - 03:00 PM, said:

So, this is how Trump destroyed all of his businesses. His ego just takes over his being, and he makes absolutely braindead stupid shit-flinging fights...

Wow... I sold my US steel stocks because I thought they were no longer effective hedges against further Trump tariffs, but lo and behold, he upped the 25% tariff on Canadian steel to 50% (what's next, outlawing it?... or he could just impose a 1000% tariff).

The New York Times may not have been helping with this article yesterday:

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The United States buys more steel from Canada than from any other country, and those imports will become much more expensive under tariffs President Trump intends to impose this week.

That's good news to Stephen Capone, president of Capone Iron Corporation of Rowley, Mass., which makes steel stairs, handrails, gratings and other products and has around 100 employees. For too long, he said, Canadian competitors have been flooding the New England market with cheap steel products, preventing his and other local companies from winning business.

"No matter how low we bid, they can underbid us on any job," Mr. Capone said. "They're decimating our market."

https://www.nytimes....supporters.html