Quote from: K-Dog on Apr 18, 2025, 07:16 PMDow Jones Industrial Average
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This being good Friday the market is closed.  Good thing because the constitutional crisis heats up and loosing more than one % of your retirement savings in a day might be like a pinprick compared to the wound that is coming up next.  Monday will be bad.

Praise Jesus! Smart money has already bailed. Although there are those who can profit off just the volatility.Probably not many indivduals though, we are happy to get out on time and kick back and see what happens.

Quote from: K-DogTrump has managed to scare most people now, and the morons he has put in place for no reason other than that they are loyal to him are totally screwing up civilization as we know it.

Well, America anyway. And by extension can cause heartburn elsewhere, but as with all bad things (peak oil circa 1990, 1998, 2003, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, and currently 2018, BOE a couple times in the last decade, the 2008 recession) they mostly blow over in time. None of us have died from those chemtrails commercial airliners are distributing around the US population right?

Quote from: K-DogThe hammering to the economy by Trump is making all his popular madnesses now become not so popular.  People will be supporting Abrego not from the bottom of their hearts, but because their assets are vanishing.

Well those of us with assets should worry! Particularly if it housing based! Good thing American investors with half a brain are familiar with diversification.

Quote from: K-DogEnd the age of orange, and bring Abrego back.

Abrego being just the tip of the iceberg, I say we figure out what immigration in America SHOULD be (considering how obvious it is a majority of us apparently don't like it) and starting there. Abrego is just a test case tragedy, the real crime is the universal application of the kind of government malice that dropped him where he is, and while Orange is the American expression of it, the REAL problem is....Orange is the AMERICAN EXPRESSION of it.

Quote from: K-DogIt feels good to be part of the Diner today.  We have known about American Fascism for a long time here.

Well sure...we are quite a clever bunch of geriatrics. Might have gotten all the past world collapses wrong but once we get a decent fascist in charge we are golden! Although you could argue he is just a moron, and we survived with King George II for 8 years and we all got through it.

Quote from: K-DogToo long a 9-11 mentality has ruled the land.

Which one? Mike Ruppert's that it was all designed to hide the horrors of 2005 peak oil by destroying WTC7, or just nation building in countries that can't be rebuilt by us in general?