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Post by Value Buy on Jul 5, 2022 7:43:14 GMT -5
Jun 27, 2022 20:32:06 GMT -5 kadee77 said: Has anyone heard anything from Mod? He has been MIA for more than 2 weeks now. (per nurshing home) R.I.P.. ModE99 My condolences to everyone here. I know everyone held Mod in high esteem. I will miss him.
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 30, 2022 21:26:50 GMT -5
Just remember, that does not mean these candidates will not win in November in the great Red Wave you sound like Paul. you remember how that went? Yep, and I remember how it went for the democrats and you here on the board when Bush II won. I called the Electoral College number within a couple of points.
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 30, 2022 21:23:47 GMT -5
Just remember, that does not mean these candidates will not win in November in the great Red Wave I guess they could run a write-in campaign and still win. However since they were not supported by a majority of GOP primary voters and would be running against a Republican who had more support, not really seeing how they would get a majority of votes in the general election. I was ineloquent on my post. I meant the Republicans that won the primary can still win in the fall and be part of the great red wave. Sorry for the post leading you incorrectly.
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 30, 2022 21:20:14 GMT -5
The death of this country started in 2016, didn't you get the memo? The last 18 months of hell has been trying to get your party to realize how corrupt your leaders are. Seriously, please answer the question on whether it concerns you or not that Trump tried to stage a coup to retain power. Oh, and the Hillary comment was good too. Fox reporting that? No, I believe it was on CBS. Hillary does not do interviews on Fox
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 30, 2022 21:17:11 GMT -5
I had picked five stocks to chose from this week and SQ seemed to be the one that I thought had a chance to climb. Of the five, one other stock is only down 6% and change, beating this loser. The others are down more.........
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 29, 2022 12:44:40 GMT -5
Just remember, that does not mean these candidates will not win in November in the great Red Wave
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 27, 2022 8:15:38 GMT -5
After last week's terrible pick based on rising interest rates and market God's destroying me on what I thought was a lock to fall. So going elsewhere this week with Block Inc, ticker, SQ. Looks like it has fromed a base and moving up again, but what do I know ? SQ, long
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 27, 2022 8:00:40 GMT -5
Congrats kadee. Rough week for all!
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 23, 2022 14:22:00 GMT -5
What are the top five biggest concerns of American voters this summer? Can any of you actually list them here or are you too afraid to do it? Hint, Trump is not one of them. Biden has failed miserably in all five categories and will drag democrats down to defeat this fall. You can stretch it out to ten if you want to. I ask this question again. What are the five biggest concerns of American voters this summer?
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 23, 2022 14:18:02 GMT -5
I am back home in Indiana, 40 miles or so from downtown Chicago. you could stop right there. that explains a lot about your posts. VB- earlier you said that Carter was the 2nd worst president. by what measure did you make this decision? You can stop right there! I have always mentioned I am from Northwest Indiana I was raised in the democratic stronghold of Lake County Indiana home of East Chicago and Gary democratic political thieves. I escaped to a more middle of America neighboring county at an early age. I believe Biden is passing Carter in his polling history. I was not saying in the history of the country, I was talking about just in our lifetime.
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 23, 2022 5:39:55 GMT -5
I don’t understand his obsession with this. How many people watch Fox News. If it is more than a few percent of the population I would be shocked. Paying any attention to this seems to be a waste of time Most are ardent voters, while non voters are spending time tic tocking away. You wil understand this fact after the fall election
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 23, 2022 5:37:44 GMT -5
I’m not looking at mine for a while. It will make me want to cash out my 401k and hide it in my mattress, which is the worst thing I can do. The value of my house, however, has increased significantly in the last year or so. So I think about that instead. I think the values of our homes are topping out. Both of ours have not increased in three weeks on zillow. In fact the Florida home is down $2,300, but that is mostly because there are no homes on the market in our area, and the ones selling right now are gut jobs, so sq.ft. pricing is lower on these homes. Before June the homes were going up every ten days or so. Number of Homes on market are still not very large here in Indiana or in Florida in our neighborhoods. Our mistake on money is we put everything into "things". Homes stocks, etc, and do not have an emergency fund. I am trying to change that by talking the wife into selling the campground lot with the park model trailer. Lots with trailers or park models have gone from around $25,000 to $40,000 and up in two years. Newer units with a lot pushing $65,000 and up.
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 23, 2022 5:22:19 GMT -5
You forgot the biggie in your last sentence. Joe, # I did this! i also forgot the impact that RvW might have on this election. #blameTrump I am back home in Indiana, 40 miles or so from downtown Chicago. Ilinois has their primary election next week. The political ads attacking each other rival a national fall election. Democrats running on an anti Trump hatred campaign as if he was on the ticket today. Republicans are about as bad discussing Biden and the state of the country. The accusations against everyone are close to outright lies being thrown around.If true, most should have been prosecuted by now, but this is Illinois........ Governor Pritzer, a democrat, is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a black Mayor of Auroura Illinois running on the Republican ticket for Governor. I still have not figured out if the Mayor was a former democrat, or always a Republican but the ads show the Mayor praising Pritzer for almosteverything including the sun rising in the morning the last three years and ask voters if he was so happy with Pritzer, why is he trying to run against him if he wins the primary. The assumption is the Mayor might have a chance to beat him in the fall, which is really a stretch so Pritzer wants to bury him in the peimary. Pritzer is already being hailed as a potential Presidential candidate in 2024 by local media outlets. Yes, 2024. That will be good. Another multi billionaire running for the Presidency. Other ads attack the Mayor for various heavy handed tactics while Mayor. I imagine everyone's ads are running to a few hundred million dollars and this is just for the primaries. The Republican leading in the polls is shown as a gun toting Trump fanatic, who will outlaw abortion in the state. That will not happen because democrats control both state houses. Oother democrats are running on the platform they immediately started "protesting against Trump the day he was elected President", and that is just about the only thing they advertise. Fun times in Illinois.
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 22, 2022 13:42:19 GMT -5
Let's see now. My prediction. House of Representatives, Pubs gain 19 seats, enough for a majority, but impossible to get all of them to vote as a block on just about anything, unless most are Trump's peeps and he says vote for the legislation. Senate, Pubs gain 2 or 3 seats, and will vote as a block 95% of th time..... So, basically another two years of gridlock......... i will stand by the prediction that i made earlier. the GOP will take a narrow majority in the House, and there will be no change in the Senate, or possibly a +1 gain for Dems. there are FAR too many irons in the fire right now to make good predictions, even 4 months in advance. the economy, inflation, job growth, war, stock market, Trump.....all of these variables could break for either party. You forgot the biggie in your last sentence. Joe, # I did this!
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 22, 2022 13:38:59 GMT -5
Does the phrase, "it is the economy stupid" ring a bell for anyone?
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 22, 2022 13:37:49 GMT -5
What are the top five biggest concerns of American voters this summer? Can any of you actually list them here or are you too afraid to do it? Hint, Trump is not one of them. Biden has failed miserably in all five categories and will drag democrats down to defeat this fall. You can stretch it out to ten if you want to.
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 22, 2022 13:33:26 GMT -5
Trump. i already said that Trump would be good for business, VB. even before he was elected. fascism and capitalism are good for each other. but keep in mind that was the end of a long good run that started in 2009 for me. i could play the same game with you that you are with me, but i won't. Well if you don't want to, then can I play? Please? Pretty please? So if performance and results for those two businesses are the best since 2019, then anyone with an ounce of reading comprehension and analytical thinking skills can easily surmise that 2020 was worse than 2019. (1.) Who was president in 2020? VB, can you remind me? And you can probably argue that the decline was due to the pandemic, and not even knowing the nature of DJ's businesses you would likely have a good chance of being right. Still, that brings us back to the question of: (2.) Who so completely botched the pandemic response that it was responsible for that economic decline? Again, (3.) who was in charge of the country during that pandemic response in 2020? VB, can you remind me? And on top of that, it was a long good run that started in 2009. (4.) Who was president then, VB? And: (5.) Whose administration led the country during the first eight years of that run? And: (6.) Which party presided over the last downturn that caused the recovery to begin in 2009? And again: (7.) Which party presided over the 2020 crash that created the problems we face now? And finally, you completely glossed over the fact that the other four of DJ's businesses are all at record levels now, in 2022. (8.) Who is president now, presiding over an economy that has four of the six businesses at record levels with the other two recovering after the Trump crash? VB, can you remind me? Since it is apparent, VB, that you do not possess either reading comprehension or analytical thinking skills, I have included the answers below. 1. Donald Trump 2. Donald Trump 3. Donald Trump 4. Barack Obama 5. Barack Obama 6. Republicans 7. Republicans 8. Joe Biden An even not-so-astute observer will notice that the five negative metrics are all answered by either "Donald Trump" or "Republicans." The three positive ones are answered by "Barack Obama" or "Joe Biden." Hey, VB? Is this really where you wanted to end up with your attempted praise of Donald Trump and implied slam of Joe Biden? Really? You like everyone else fail to realize this thread is about Joe Biden and not Donald Trump. Try telling me why he is so far down in the polls? The cult has fallen apart.
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 22, 2022 13:31:35 GMT -5
I thought Biden has already said no plans to run again. Who thinks he's the candidate? This sounds like the governor race ads here in NY: all the R candidates keep invoking the Cuomo boogeyman. Umm, he resigned. Hochul is governor now, not Cuomo. Why do you keep bringing up Cuomo? Biden has not said he is not running in 2024
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 22, 2022 7:05:49 GMT -5
for the record, i am pretty happy with how things have gone under Biden. two of the six companies i manage are running at the best levels we have seen since 2019. the other four are all at record levels. so, yeah. pretty awesome. of course, the economy is generally quite a bit better under Democrats, so that is no surprise. Six companies. that is amazing. Now who was in office in 2019? Remind me.
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 21, 2022 21:12:43 GMT -5
Let's get back on track. Biden has democrats and leftwing media outlets dropping their support like wasps being sprayed with wasp poison. His polling is making Jimmy Carter look good. Support from Independents is basically gone. Support from most Latin groups are lower than 30%
About the only thing that can save Biden and the democrats now is a direct attack by Putin on Europe or the U.S. Then the democrats could rally around the flag they love to hate so much.
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 21, 2022 21:04:46 GMT -5
oh, the dollar is at a 10 year HIGH this week. i don't know if that is a headline grabber or not, but it should be. it says "the US is kicking ass" in large font. if the US economy were in the toilet (again, versus the rest of the world), then the dollar would be at a 5 year LOW, like it was under Trump. And why is it at a ten year high? Two reasons. 1. Foreign governments are mucking up their economies at a worse rate than we are. 2. As ships head to a safe port in a storm, foreign investors are flocking to the safety of the dollar as crypto deserted them.
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 21, 2022 21:01:15 GMT -5
With 15-20 years to go until retirement, we aren't doing anything differently. Still throwing as much money as we can at the market, for now. And you should be fine.
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Post by Value Buy on Jun 21, 2022 20:59:00 GMT -5
I like this chart. Really helps to put things in perspective. I am late to this thread. Where is the chart?
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