A win for Trump. It may well change to a loss but, for now, definitely a good thing for the US.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/polit...ing/index.html

The text of the “peace deal” is much closer to being “an agreement on how to work toward a peace deal,” but we can still expect the media silos to rapidly toe their respective lines.

Trump seems desperate to make a deal, so I expect he'll be pretty forgiving as the deadline for full withdrawal gets closer. He's clearly naive if he thinks the Taliban are going to start killing terrorists for us.

But it's reignited the Trump/Bolton feud, and I can't get enough of that.

We should cut a deal and get out. War is lost. Saving face while Americans die in vain is silly.

A Federal judge has ruled that Ken Cuccinelli's appointment as acting head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services was in violation of the Federal Vacancies and Reform Act and all policies put in place by him are now void as a result:


Federal judge rules Ken Cuccinelli unlawfully ran immigration agency

The Taliban have broken the truce already.

That went well.

3 days

#BREAKING Taliban ends partial truce, to resume Afghan 'operations': spokesman pic.twitter.com/tRA6gZBAVK

— AFP news agency (@AFP) March 2, 2020

Searched for it but didn't see anything yet on MSM. I'll wait to read about it in case twitter is premature or fake news.

It’s just shocking that no one is willing to refuse to praise Trump during virus updates. You’d think someone would stand up for their own dignity.

Thank you great leader...

Afghanistan: bomb attack kills three as Taliban ends partial truce | World news | The Guardian

We should get out anyway. They already won.

Elements of Medical. New band name.

I don't disagree.

I do wonder WTF is going on with the 5,000 prisoners that were supposed to be released. I can easily believe US making that commitment without firm Afghan government agreement though.

While I think we should have gotten out of Afghanistan years ago, Trump doing a phone call with one of the founders of the Taliban is not a good look.

Looking forward to the Burisma investigation being announced tomorrow by Barr.

Did you miss that Ron Johnson started yesterday?

The whole thing was horribly corrupt, but Hunter technically didn't break any laws. And the public seems numb to corruption and sort of just accepting of it at this point. So who knows if it has any impact.

I'm also sure they'll be digging up Rosemont Capital too.

I'm guessing this is because the public believes that this sort of thing goes on in business and politics more frequently than not. Take a look at the way the first family does things. It's hard to believe that of all the corrupt things in the world, that go on between private citizens and foreign countries that this is the primary threat/topic that the Senate would be tracking down to root out. I mean, it's more than just opportunistic politics.

Maybe. I'm just surprised whenever I see a story about Trump giving something to China a day after his daughter secures some patents and no one cares. Either we don't care as a country or we're so beaten down by it that we just assume it is part of life.

Republicans will go hard after him, but I don't think it's going to to sway any votes. Forces Democrats to give up the high ground on corruption, but like I said, that probably doesn't even matter anymore.

I may be jaded, but I don't think it's going to matter at all, and I find it hard to give the R's any sort of high, moral ground on the issue.

The GOP has taken so much power by letting the Dems take the moral high ground I don't think anyone cares anymore. We need a couple "normal" presidencies and a GOP rebrand to reset and get back to anyone really giving a shit about corruption.

Sure is a shame the Dems aren't allowed to investigate anything anymore.

Holy crap. Three years ago Kushner's stake in Cadre was worth $5 million. He just sold it for $25-50 million after it benefitted from Opportunity Zone tax breaks that Kushner pushed for. https://t.co/5CErHUhfap

— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) March 3, 2020

And "normal" starts with Biden ...

It was fun while it lasted. I know why they did it and all, but there is so much money entrenched in these wars that it just becomes impossible to get out.

US launches airstrike against Taliban after partial truce crumbles https://t.co/kAse12j8Ak pic.twitter.com/mGoTgF62lR

— The Hill (@thehill) March 4, 2020

Dems so upset with kids grifting off the Presidency they're going to nominate someone who's kid grifted off the Presidency.

A federal judge has questioned how Barr handled the revealing of the Mueller Report and has ordered the DOJ to give him a totally un
redacted copy of the report by March 30 so he can go over it and decide what can be released to the public


https://thehill.com/regulation/court...mueller-report

Remember Aaron Schock, former Congressman from Illinois who resigned over a funds scandal in 2015? There were rumors he was gay at the time too. He finally admitted it today saying family and religious pressure kept him from revealing it. He voted against every measure that would have helped LGBT people and said he was following the lead of the leader of the Republican party at the time John McCain and that both Hilary Clinton and Obama were of the same thought at the time.



Then didn't apologize for the harm he caused with his positions.


Ex-U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock comes out as gay - News - Journal Star - Peoria, IL

Watching a room full of "Christians" applaud when Trump says you can't turn the other cheek, is really jarring.

It's the boiling frog. 2+2=5, now. All of it.

Mick Mulvaney canned and Mark Meadows named new Chief.

Good thing he saw the writing on the wall and decided not to run for re-election.

Looks like another purge happening in Saudi Arabia and MBS further consolidating power.

I don't really care much what happens in their internal, extended family power struggles. We are frenemies with them now, it'll continue for a while, and the US will continue to do what is needed regardless of who is at the head of the snake ... but their importance will continue to decrease (go Elon and like).

A reminder that Saudi Arabia was one of the biggest sources of funding for Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the Taliban. They continue to help finance them. They are our friends.

Sweet, flooding the market and a nice price war. I do hope the domestic shale oil producers survive though.

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Why do so many Trump adjacent folks think bragging about how little sleep he gets makes him look better?

It makes him look vigorous and a hard worker. If you believe it.

Oil futures down to $30. Going to be a bloodbath Monday.

Ted Cruz says he shook hands with the person who has come down with the virus at CPAC. Says he will self-quarantine

If only he self quarantined 20 years ago

Futures currently down 1,000+

Currently Dow at 25,864. High was about 29,500 so 20% bear market is 23,600 ... so about another 2,300 to go.

Coronavirus news is only going to get worse before getting better, so my guess is we'll get the 20% bear market.

Trump retweeted a Q meme apparently.

dola

Japan economy contracted by 7% in Q1.

30 year Treasury dropped below 1% yield. Crazy.

This is a hoax driven by the media to make you afraid! {sorry my FB feed is full of this}



Still though, no answer for how the (Amercian) media is so powerful that foreign countries are basing all their decisions off of them.



Of course, a friend told me tonight; "It's JUST A COLD!!"

so I wonder if Edward considers the stock market drop of 1900 points a loss for Trump

Wow they halted trading.

I have now lost over 100K in the last week.

The rational side of me knows I am in this for the long haul, but that is tough to look at.

That shouldn't induce panic or anything...

Yeah no kidding. I am wondering when was the last time the stock market “circuit breaker” was flipped to temporarily halt trading?

DJIA just passed 24000, big win for Trump!

Dola

I guess you could say this is good timing for me personally as I’m about to be eligible for my company’s 401K. Though it doesn’t change the fact that I’m starting at 37 and had my retirement savings wiped out entirely the past few years.

Check later he is busy dumping stock.

Just as I didn't give Trump all the credit for the market highs, I'm not going to give him all the blame in the fall.

Fair and balanced. Try to look at all sides and apply blame proportionately.

Nah. My only speculative stock is SPCE and its a small holding. Everything else I consider pretty good stocks/funds/ETFs and will hold for the long run.

That is smart. I just recovered from a divorce 7 years back and remarriage 2 years ago but am going to be reentering the market with my new companies 401k so looks to be a good time to get in this year.

From talking to some in the industry last year, one of the advantages of fracking is the ability to turn it on and off rapidly. I think the big issue concern with the smaller guys is punching a lot of holes (where the investment largely is), then getting hit with something like this.

The guys I was talking to said most of those smaller guys got out after the last bubble though.

Stop worrying guys. Trump's going to fix it, perfectly.

Everything is going to be perfectly OK.

He's got this locked down. He doesn't want to say locked down, but locked down.

I did read that also where fracking companies can pause. This may be different though because it seems like an all out, no holds barred price war between SA and Russia. I've also read that SA has the lowest costs to produce oil so they'll come out bruised but probably okay.

I do like to think that our oil producing enemies & frenemies in the region will be hit hard and they no longer get to easily build their desert playgrounds, buy expensive cars on the US and world's addiction to their oil (hurry up Elon and like).

I've read that there are worries some energy companies are leveraged to a point where a medium-term disruption to prices could cause major problems.

If we had a functioning foreign policy we'd be all over the Saudis right now.

Yeah, everything I've read say hold (assuming you have confidence in your portfolio) and play for the long run. But it is hard though to see $X now come down to 15% less ... and likely more losses in the near future.

Because I believe a recession (and a bear market) is overdue after an 11 year bull, I personally think it would be best to get that over with now. Still have a chance to hurt Trump's chances albeit many of the less fortunate will be hurt.

Congrats on your new job and great timing. Getting a new job will be harder in this time of uncertainty.

But you can't be fair and balanced at the same time. That is Fox News bullshit excuse.

You seem to evaluate things in a vacuum, without realizing any side effects. You also don't seem to apply any weight to the situations, treating them all as if they are equal decisions.

This man is truly an idiot

Good for the consumer, gasoline prices coming down!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020

FWIW, the "fair and balance" comment was just to trigger you. I don't watch nor support Fox. My go to was MSNBC Morning Joe until it became endless Trump bashing but now prefer CNN Fareed because he is "calm and respectful" in his comments and to his guests.

I evaluate things in a vacuum and don't apply weight to the situations? On a scale of 1 to 10, where Bernie is a 1 and Trump is a 10, most of this forum are probably 1-3, only one I can think of at 10. I consider myself more on the 6-7 range.

Weird you feel that way but okay, whatever.

Trump is on fire right now on Twitter.

Bad at math as well. 22/546 = 4% mortality rate. Probably the wrong numbers to post when you’re leading into a snide “think about that” remark.

Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!"

He also said he didn't realize that people died from the flu. Take a guess what his grandfather died from.

Shame?

:lol:

Yeah, that's a good one.

But wouldn't be surprised if his grandfather was like him.

There would be a strange irony if the GOP, which for years has motivated people by fear and disgust (i.e. “dirty immigrants”) is undone by people over reacting to disease.

“The fundamentals in this economy are unbelievable.” —HHS Secretary Azar to reporters just now at the White House.

The Trump admin’s top health officials took no questions, said nothing about the health issues around coronavirus and spoke only about the economy.

— Michael C. Bender (@MichaelCBender) March 9, 2020

If they’re not saying anything, then they can’t be lying.

This is what you get when you put someone with no expertise (outside of fellating big pharm) in his field of expertise. Trump could give a fuck about qualifications in his admin as long as you Parrot his message of greatness.

Trump has asked the AG to look into media coverage of the coronavirus.

Interested in the details to paid sick leave & payroll tax holiday. The former is more geared towards hourly employees and it won't help me. The payroll tax holiday might may help me but then at the cost of hurting SSN in the long run and the deficit.

Overall, probably needed for the consumers so won't complain.

A win for Trump

:D

There are no details because Trump pulled it out of his ass to manipulate...i mean...calm the markets yesterday.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...exist-n1154066

Proposal is 0% payroll tax for rest of year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/trum...cials-say.html

But the important thing is that it lasts through early November, then fuck 'em.

Intentionally trying to bankrupt Social Security and Medicare.

There's a tactic

Nothing on sick pay which is needed for the hourly folks.

If only the Democrats would've came out AGAINST this. Then the Republicans would've passed it in a heartbeat.

Reverse psychology you know.

Aren't they bankrupt already?

This is what our social security fund is like:

Not only for the end of the year, they are also floating making the cuts permenant. How much would that blow up the deficit? Exactly how long before they then push to end Social Security and Medicare?

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Don't think bankrupt is the right term but point is taken.

That's why we need more babies. And legal immigrants (so easy to make it happen).

January 2021 during Trump's second term

Didn't see that in my CNBC link, I can't imagine making the 0% payroll tax cut permanent.

I just want to say, it's a good thing we've been pimping this economy with all this stimulus. A trillion a year, so we should easily be able to handle....wait...what did you say? He said, "we're going to spend more...to bail out the economy?"...but, it's the best it's ever been! Surely it can survive this with minimal problems. Besides, bailouts are for Socialists!



So how bad does the deficit get this year?


Does it matter? Or is it still Obama's fault?

The last three years should keep all of us from hanging our hats on phrases that sound like this.

Like... we're totally going to do the trillion dollar coin thing in Trump's second term, aren't we? We definitely are.

Only if he can put his face on it.

Trump and the WH have no plan and the GOP Senate doesn't want to write a bill. It's all just pulling things from their backsides in the hope of calming the markets.

We'll eventually pass something, but I wouldn't get too worked up about any of the ideas being floated by the WH.

I've already stocked up on wheelbarrows so I can get bread.

This will go viral quickly, for sure... good synthesis, and well put...

Here’s the truth...I’m a straight, white, christian, educated American male who makes a fuckton of money. Elections can’t even touch me. Fuck it, vote for Trump. Or ignore Biden because your favorite Grandpa didn’t get the nod. Go for it. I still win. Trump is a plus for me. 1/

— Granite (@oneminutecall) March 11, 2020

Easy to bake bread. Stock up on flour instead.

Mix flour, yeast, warm water, salt. Let it rise 4-5 hours. Knead & shape it with a little more flour, brush & coat it with egg. Let it sit for 30-40 min. Bake at 375 for 40 min.

And viola, you have bread.

This is great. I totally relate to that guy, minus the fuckton of money and desire to buy a boat.

For an economy that I have been repeatedly told is the strongest it's ever been, the administration sure is freaking the fuck out about the markets dropping. A week and a half of negative returns and we have massive tax cuts and bailouts on the table.

The main thing Trump has been hanging his hat on is how the economy has been going. If we go into a recession, he can't hang hit hat on that, and he is worried about getting re-elected.

Markets now down 20% for its high. Official end to the 11-year bull market. Just going to avoid looking at my IRA for awhile.