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Post by Value Buy on May 21, 2022 8:59:07 GMT -5
And yes, there are people moving out of the city with huge incomes and lot of tax revenue for the city and Chicago
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Post by Value Buy on May 21, 2022 8:53:31 GMT -5
Use the same standard, or lack of standard, used for trump and his family and administration, and I'm fine for anything Clinton or Biden did. I am sure you are. Are you familiar with two wrongs do not make it right? Are there still ongoing investigations on Trump's kids, or did the investigations die? If there are, then the case is still open, correct?
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Post by Value Buy on May 21, 2022 8:50:51 GMT -5
The Census numbers were finalized and the Congressional votes were reallocated by the official numbers. I realize it is easy to under count the state population either intentionally (maybe not interested in counting minorities??) or by accident. I do not understand how a state can over count their population. Two states did and received an extra Congressional district. Tennessee, Texas and Florida undercounted and received one less vote than what they should have gained. Minnesota and Rhode Island over counted and gained a seat Rhode Island received one at the expense of NY state. In any event theRepublican states might have lost Congressional seats they should have gained while Democrat states may have held on to seats that should have been lost. Of course states get to divide the districts up so it is not a lock they would automatically go in the direction of that specific party. www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-2-states-1-in-20-residents-missed-during-us-head-count/ar-AAXtilN?li=BB141NW3you realize that is completely illegal, right? I only stated a supposition to avoid having it being added to the discusion under "WHAT ABOUTISM" creeping into the thread. The Post Office is involvled in this as well as the states, but it is also up to the residents to participate and be counted. It does not escape me that a few states may be happy undercounting minorities and just do not go the extra step to try and be as accurate as possible. It also escapes me why they would do this because federal funding to the states is based on total population with extra money going to states with large numbers of poor minorities through special programs and incentives to reduce poverty levels.
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Post by Value Buy on May 20, 2022 12:37:27 GMT -5
I believe inflation for the typical American household is much higher than the Government numbers. The consumer is not as flush with money as many economists claim they are. There are numbers coming out that consumers are now putting things on credit cards. Housing, whether buying at high prices, or rising mortgage rates, or rent is hurting that segment of the population. Food inflation is higher than reported. The consumer knows it is. Gasoline and diesel are important issues. Gasoline for consumers is in front of their eyeballs everytime they drive by a station whether they stop that day or not. Pick up trucks with $100 fill ups are now common. That is directly from their wallet now. Diesel is worse and consumers do not ralize it but this can add to another $200 delivery charge to the grocery store for every truck coming from their wholesaler for the big deliveries. The local delivery wholesalers, Frito, bred mom and pop companies may not add a delivery charge, but they raise the peice on the goods to cover their energy inflation costs. Te retailer does the same thing.
This will not end well in the coming weeks. Some private independent over the road drivers may be forced to sit deliveries out as Diesel becomes too expensive for them to make a living or break even on the deliveries.
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Post by Value Buy on May 20, 2022 12:25:03 GMT -5
I put this comment on the stock trading thread, but am moving it here to avoid messing up that game with comments rather than the game being played.
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I am totally flummoxed by the stock market turmoil. I totally missed this market drop the last two weeks and it was right in front of me. You, or at least me, could see it coming but I was blind to it. Of course mgmt at Amazon, WMT and Target missed it too.
Now the question is: do we see a total huge market capitulation before it stops, let alone possibly start upward? Is this due to inflation,or after effects of the pandemic?
Now the question is: do we see a total huge market capitulation before it stops, let alone possibly start upward?
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Post by Value Buy on May 20, 2022 12:13:30 GMT -5
Okay Oil commodities are messed up today. WTI (west texas intermediate) is now trading above Brent oil on the commodity exchange. I cannot remember a time Brent traded lower than WTI. A few years ago Brent traded four to six dollars above WTI on a consistent basis. Last few years the gap decreased but usually traded a couple of dollars a barrel above Brent oil Current price WTI $112.64 Brent $111.83
With Europe so close to Ukraine war, and in need of raw oil I do not understand what is happening. Only thing I can think of, European traders think Europe will have demand destruction for oil due to falling economies this summer caused by the war.
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Post by Value Buy on May 19, 2022 9:47:08 GMT -5
The Census numbers were finalized and the Congressional votes were reallocated by the official numbers. I realize it is easy to under count the state population either intentionally (maybe not interested in counting minorities??) or by accident. I do not understand how a state can over count their population. Two states did and received an extra Congressional district. Tennessee, Texas and Florida undercounted and received one less vote than what they should have gained. Minnesota and Rhode Island over counted and gained a seat Rhode Island received one at the expense of NY state. In any event theRepublican states might have lost Congressional seats they should have gained while Democrat states may have held on to seats that should have been lost. Of course states get to divide the districts up so it is not a lock they would automatically go in the direction of that specific party. www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-2-states-1-in-20-residents-missed-during-us-head-count/ar-AAXtilN?li=BB141NW3
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Post by Value Buy on May 19, 2022 9:31:18 GMT -5
So. Do you have a problem with all presidential children who use their connections to cash out, or is it only Biden. Seems to me that all the Trump children and Kushner have done sketchy business deals. Ivanka has done a lot of business in China. Or is this just selective outrage. Hunter is not the president, nor is he likely to run for president. The Trump kids were not president and do not appear to be running. So if the are all corrupt, how does that matter? It is the emails that tie Joe to the deals that is the problem. That abd the WH denials Joe knew nothing about it.
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Post by Value Buy on May 19, 2022 9:28:21 GMT -5
And today Elon complained Tesla was dropped off the list from the S&P 500 most eco friendly companies list. Guess who was added to it? Exxon Mobil. I am ok with this. I own a few hundred shares of XOM and when millions of snowflakes drive this stock up another 50% I might sell it at a resounding profit!
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Post by Value Buy on May 19, 2022 9:24:40 GMT -5
Musk said he used to vote Dem because he thought it was the party of ‘niceness’ but now the Dems are being mean to him so he’ll only vote GOP now. Doesn’t seem like he’s a deep thinker on politics. Just another quasi celeb who thinks we should care about his political views. Meh. I put him in the same basket with the Kardashians. Yep, now add a few million democat voters all across the country thinking like he is.
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Post by Value Buy on May 19, 2022 9:18:42 GMT -5
You had to have some inside trading info! That horse has trended just like my old steed Snowflake has (from a previous week) but this week it is still going down while your horse broke loose!
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Post by Value Buy on May 19, 2022 9:14:42 GMT -5
Food and gas here have skyrocketed in price. Pasta has gone up by 20%. I guess it's Biden's fault. Hmmn, someone is making a fortune on all the Canadian wheat they produce..........must be Trump!
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Post by Value Buy on May 19, 2022 9:12:40 GMT -5
The new boss at CNN says things are going to change at CNN. He used Chris Wallace as an example. He is still there and will have a show on HBO Max where we all know it is watched by the majority of cable viewers! They will not go into the weeds with extreme political views like other cable news networks.........says the guy who originally produced Joe in the Morning over at MSNBC. Does not even even have the CAHONAS to admit CNN had gotten lost for a decade being the extremist far left leader of cable news. How he turns all the far left program hosts into smiling talking heads of the world news events without their heads exploding will be interesting.
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Post by Value Buy on May 18, 2022 16:01:24 GMT -5
This is how tweets get traction on Twitter by being shown as "trending on Twitter" and real accounts start following the trending tweets.
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Post by Value Buy on May 18, 2022 15:55:11 GMT -5
All in the Family was based on a British television production. The entire cast were liberals. The Producer was a liberal. Big deal. It was hilarious, and got it's point across to the audience. And yes, even to me. The last year or two of the show, even Archie showed some change in his beliefs.
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Post by Value Buy on May 18, 2022 15:41:28 GMT -5
Someone shot my horse on the track this afternoon kadee, how did your horse manage to accomplish a plus day on the track today?
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Post by Value Buy on May 18, 2022 15:37:06 GMT -5
Well today the markets may have finally threw in the towel on Bidenflation and his far left agenda package. Now that people realize their 401-k has become a 301-k they might wake up and decide democrats have screwed the pooch. www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/dow-plunges-nearly-1200-points-in-worst-day-since-march-2020/ar-AAXr8hu?li=BBnb7KzUnlike 2020 when the coronavirus hit and people realized the world will not end in a month the markets started recovering. This time, it may be a five year recovery process. On another thread here I Bonds are paying over 9.5% interest. Even the government knows inflation is rampant. The next thing to drop: housing prices Then even some liberals will feel the pain as real and not a made up Republican talking point.
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Post by Value Buy on May 18, 2022 10:33:05 GMT -5
i told you i would not reply on this thread. now i remember why. i am not going to read anything that Chuck Todd has to say. bye. Why Not? Todd was one of the reasons Biden got in office. Please remember this was not my opinion. It is his, and I was under the impression this was a discussion of various political views..
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Post by Value Buy on May 18, 2022 10:31:11 GMT -5
Continue to beat a dead horse. Do you know anyone outside your age group and bubble. 3.2 million people is 1% of the population. Not sure why you think this is representative of an entire country As some posters say here on the board, if you are not interested in it, just ignore and scroll down to another thread. I will be very happy after the fall election when you ask "what the fuck just happened?"
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Post by Value Buy on May 18, 2022 10:28:40 GMT -5
I think if twitter rejects it, it becomes basically a shell company from it former self not unlike so many spac deals and possibly becomes a penny stock. It has been owned by the left since inception, and was a brutal dictatorship. MGMT knows how many bots there were and still are, and it was never as important in the telecommunication internet world as was portrayed by the left because it was basically fake. We all owe Musk a debt of gratitude for exposing this company for what it is. It deserves to die a painful death. I consider it another ENRON. A deck of cards falling apart now. Why is Musk owed gratitude in your opinion? Because he wants to take it private? I feel like you have no clue on how Twitter tracks any account let alone having a belief that mgmt keeps track of the number of bots but does nothing about them. Every giant corp in a similar space has issues and it really depends on their policies and procedures as to how bad it is and how often anything is done about it. On Yahoo email, apparently one account a friend of mine abandoned more than a few people try to spam from it or using headers that are designed to scam. Yahoo is bad about certain kinds of cleanup. An old FB account I started has been hacked; but I can't get it back safely so it will remain FB detritus possibly forever. On the other hand, Twitter offed my account after a certain amount of years of inactivity. I don't watch your "news" so I don't feel the way you do about this at all. Zuckerberg is a brutal dictator for FB. I really don't see how having a different rich guy totally in charge of Twitter instead of a board or group of people makes it better. Odds are it will be made worse. How remains to be seen. Your last sentence. Sounds like you are in favor of a disinformation board for all businesses.
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Post by Value Buy on May 18, 2022 10:26:33 GMT -5
Yep. And two thirds of people who believe in abortion do not believe in third term abortions, and Schumer wants that to be law. Sounds like the start of a negotiation that will end with abortions in the last trimester only due to the health of the mother, which most people will get behind. Not your complete ban, that’s for sure - and if women are worried about finding formula, they are more worried about this. By the way, abbot got their FDA problems worked out and say they will be back sending out formula in a month or two. Even the low information voters who think Biden is responsible for the problems will forget the issue once the formula is back before the midterms. I certainly hope you are not referencing mothers with babies as "low information voters" because they do have long memories, as do their mothers who have tried to find the formula.
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Post by Value Buy on May 18, 2022 10:24:21 GMT -5
Yep. And two thirds of people who believe in abortion do not believe in third term abortions, and Schumer wants that to be law. Third term medical abortions should still exist. After all, criminals or accidents don't stop simply because a woman is in her third trimester. If mom is shoved, beaten, kicked or shot in such a way that the fetus dies but her body is unable to deliver a stillborn, there should be the option to save the mother's life. I was not talking about that. I was talking about what Americans believe and they do not believe in third term abortions and definitlely not in the fourth week of the nine month pregnancy. This is exactly what dj was talking about with "whatism".
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Post by Value Buy on May 18, 2022 10:21:02 GMT -5
No wonder why the replacement theory is so popular with republicans. Tucker Carlson(who has the #1 rated show) sure seems to be a proponent of it. Ah, no he does not have the number one show with total audience. Number one was "The Five" with 3.2 million viewers. The simple truth is the liberal asshats are not even watching CNN or MSNBC anymore because even they do not believe their claptrap delusional shit talk.
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Post by Value Buy on May 18, 2022 10:16:20 GMT -5
I think Trump backed candidates are overwhelming winning thire primaries. Trump is batting at a .960 clip so far
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