The End of the World: A Political Thread. A New Hope coming soon!

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Videodrome said:
Scott Trade requires an initial deposit of 2500. I'm not sure it's a question of people being to lazy to setup investments or just not having a chunk of spare money like that. I know I don't.
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Depends on the place I guess.

First time I traded, it was open to any amount, but you had to have a certain amount or else you get dinged monthly fees. I forget what amount that was but I don't think it was a lot. That was my investors account from the early 90s through my bank.
 
Also like a lot of people, I have student loans hanging over me for a degree I'm not using. So I'm already tied up in a kind of investment that so far has been a huge fail.
 
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Whoever discredited the markets when Obama was pres? Markets rose a lot too. Big difference is that Trump is "supposed to be bad" for business. And that may be true for foreign companies, but not for American-based companies.

Obama took over when markets had already spiraled down 40%. He took over when markets were at 20 year lows and things did great growing back, but he took over at a time markets can't really get any worse. He took over when market indexes were equivalent to what they were in 1997. Trump has taken over and it's kept on going despite negativity. If people believed all the hoopla last year from the press and business leaders, markets should have tumbled, but they've accelerated since he won the election.
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All republicans/conservatives did. And they still do to this day. To this day, they keep calling him the worst president ever. To this day, they still claim that he made the economy worse (he didn't). Hell, even how many police officers were killed had decreased under Obama, than under previous presidents (yet whenever a cop was killed, conservatives would say "who wants to live in this "Obama's" America"). So many things boomed better under Obama, and conservatives simply would not give him credit.
Now Trump is riding the wave of stocks increasing that had already been increasing...and you're gonna give him all the credit because he's a good business guy? lol


[/Your link about presidents is only the first 3 months IN OFFICE (Jan 20 to end of Apr). Also, since end of April, markets have rose another 2% since the article was written.
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That was just the first 3 months. And from there, it continued to rise. Under Obama, stocks rose over 250%. We have yet to see what's going to happen under Trump.

So, it rose, and you want to attribute it to him being a good business guy. You do know that there was NO business dealings made by Trump that made the stocks go up, right? The stocks didn't increase because of him...stocks were already increasing, and they enjoyed an even better uptick because people anticipated that he'll do right by them with tax breaks. However, we are seeing that he is NOT the deal maker that he sold himself as.

Playing the stocks game is a long term game. Let's see how the economy and stocks are doing a few years from now, and if stocks went up over 200%, then people can brag.[/quote]
 
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Rising markets help a lot of people. You just have to be in the market. You snooze you lose.
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The middle class will get their crumbs, no doubt. I'm sure Trump's tax plan will give a nice tax cut for the middle too, but the rich will be the big winners, by far, as they always are with Republicans. It isn't about jealousy or class warfare as we're told to believe, it is just a simple fact. Income inequality is a huge deal. Maybe Joe Sixpack can make some good money on the market (that's assuming he even has disposable income to work with), but guess what Johnny Silverspoon is doing with his trust fund millions?

Meanwhile, all the tax cuts make the deficit explode (the d-word never gets mentioned during a Republican administration, you ever notice?). That's not really economic growth, it is maxing out the national deficit credit card and putting the bills off until later.
 
Here come the special snowflakes complaining about something... oh wiat, it is Fox News saying Wonder Woman isn't "American Enough".

Her colors aren't red, white and blue enough, emphasis on not white enough.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/fox-news-get..._source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Nevermind that she's helping an American in the movie, oh and that they basically changed nothing central with the character. It isn't like Cap American suddenly became Captain Globalism.
 
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It's Comey testimony week! So excited. Watch for all kinds of distraction efforts coming out of the White House leading up to Thursday.

Also, I'm betting Trump will attempt to invoke executive privilege to stop it, because that would be an incredibly stupid thing to do. And legally shakey. He'll probably try it Thursday morning for maximum chaos.

Edit: Now the White House says he won't, but we all know how fast things change.
 
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Garp said:
It's Comey testimony week! So excited. Watch for all kinds of distraction efforts coming out of the White House leading up to Thursday.

Also, I'm betting Trump will attempt to invoke executive privilege to stop it, because that would be an incredibly stupid thing to do. And legally shakey. He'll probably try it Thursday morning for maximum chaos.
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It'll be time to bring up something.... something.... Obama again. Something like the wiretapping / surveillance thing.
 
He's already distracting with attacking the London mayor. His very fragile ego won't allow him to admit he was wrong, listened to what someone else told him he said, and he ran with it. The mayor, clearly, said that because there's a lot of police out there don't be alarmed. Even if he did hear it live he couldn't comprehend what a second grade could.
 
Sad!

And now, Trump finds himself in the midst of his worst extended poll run of his presidency. Starting on May 28 when Gallup put his job approval at 42%, Trump has been sliding downward. The latest Gallup track on June 3 put Trump's job approval at a dismal 36% -- a single percentage point away from the lowest ebb of his time in the White House. (On March 28, Trump's job approval was at 35%.)

The Gallup numbers are no anomaly. A Quinnipiac University poll released in late May put Trump's job approval at 37%. A Monmouth poll conducted in mid-May put Trump's job approval at 39%.

Where Trump's numbers do stand out is compared to his presidential predecessors. President Obama was at 61% in the Gallup tracking poll in early June 2009. George W. Bush was at 55% in Gallup at this time in 2001. The only modern president who comes close to Trump's poor poll standing is Bill Clinton, who was at 37% approval in early June 1993. (Clinton's numbers had tanked in the wake of his firing of seven employees in the White House travel office in mid-May, a controversy that came to be known as "Travel-gate.")​
 
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I can only assume she's upset because she had her photo taken wearing mustard gloves and 2 year old Karen Walker glasses. And don't even get me started on that neck-foreskin.

People protesting protesters... Politely... Don't you miss the days of angry mobs with pitch forks?
 
We had a B52 in international airspace. The soviet union scrambled a fighter jet to 'escort' our plane away. Meanwhile, the coward trump doesn't bat an eye when the soviet fighter is doing close fly-by's of our ships.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40172842

The B-52 was in international airspace but close to the Russian border, and was escorted away, the ministry said.

The Su-27 then returned to its Baltic Fleet airbase.

A similar incident happened on 9 May over the Black Sea, involving a US P-8A Poseidon surveillance plane and a Russian Su-30 fighter.

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Wow, Trump plans to live tweet during the testimony. I think we're getting near the bottom of the rabbit hole.

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Please proceed, Mr. President...
 
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tr...rganization-report/ar-BBCaVP7?ocid=spartandhp

Trump Foundation funneled $100K in donations into revenue for Trump Organization: report


President Trump's charity foundation funneled $100,000 in donations meant for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital into revenue for the Trump Organization by using his son's charity, Forbes reported Tuesday.

For 10 years Eric Trump hosted an annual golf tournament which raised millions of dollars in donations for the hospital. According to the Forbes report, $100,000 of the donations was funneled through the Eric Trump Foundation back into Trump's golf courses for expenses incurred during the tournaments, despite donors being told that all their money would be used for charity.

In addition, more than $500,000 of donors' money over 10 years was re-donated to other charities, including some that were connected to Trump family members. At least four of those organizations also used Trump golf courses for charity tournaments.

According to the report, President Trump himself gave the order for the Trump Organization to begin billing the Eric Trump Foundation for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

If the report is true, the practices would violate both New York state law and federal law on self-dealing and misleading donors. To date, Eric Trump has raised more than $11 million for St. Jude's hospital.

In December, President Trump announced plans to dissolve his charitable foundation in order to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. But New York's attorney general said that was impossible until a criminal probe of the charity was completed.

"The Trump Foundation is still under investigation by this office and cannot legally dissolve until that investigation is complete," Amy Spitalnick, a spokeswoman for Schneiderman, said in a statement to The Hill in December.
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