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Spin Zone / Re: Stock market
« on: Today at 07:54:22 AM »
Quote from: Lucifer on Today at 07:48:59 AM
   I don’t need to sell in order to derive income.  I let my principal work for me. 
Wow.  You let your principal work for you and still have enough cash to buy a house out of pocket without selling equities or other assets..
I wish I could do that.

As for planning, we have been looking for the perfect house for 15 months.  It finally came along and we jumped on it.  And since we were able to do that, I think I planned it just about as well as possible during these turbulent times.

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Spin Zone / Re: Stock market
« on: Today at 07:36:24 AM »
Quote from: Lucifer on Today at 07:15:42 AM
You’re doing it wrong if that is your strategy.  ???
What would be your strategy?  Try to time the market to always sell at peaks?  Good luck with that.

Here is part of my problem.

I have a contract to sell my house and close on a certain date.  I have found a new house and I got a really good deal because I agreed to close in 10 days.  But that same day the market dropped like a rock and when I went to sell securities to close on the new house I lost around $60k.  I sold any way because I was going to need that money in 10 days and if it kept going that direction I wouldn't have enough to close my new house without selling even more at an even bigger loss.

The stock market hates uncertainty and many people are uncertain about anything Trump is doing.

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Spin Zone / Re: Stock market
« on: Today at 07:11:52 AM »
Quote from: Bob Noel on Today at 04:54:08 AM
I realize that a lot of people vote.  Did you for a moment think I don't know that people vote?
The only other explanation is that you get more joy out of seeing people freak out than you get angst for seeing them vote against Trump.

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Do YOU realize that President Trump doesn't cause people to freak out?  A large number of people freak out because of what other people told them they should do...
And a lot of people freak out because of some of the things Trump does.
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Your angst is misplaced.

TDS is strong with you.
I have an honest question for you.  What is your criteria for diagnosing TDS?  Apparently it is a pretty low bar in that if anyone disagrees with anything he does or says, they have TDS.

I submit that there is a corollary to TDS which I will coin as BTF (Blind Trump Follower).  When you accuse me of having TDS it sounds to me like you think you have to belong to a Trump Cult in order to not have TDS.  Do you drink Kool-Aid much?

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Spin Zone / Re: Stock market
« on: Today at 02:49:48 AM »
Quote from: Anthony on Today at 02:33:17 AM
Then they're idiots if the have their money in anything with volitility at all. They should have at least 90% of their funds in bonds and money market.
That is logical, if you think everyone should do like you think they should and take the same risks you would.  And even if true, those idiots still VOTE.

I don't like losing enough imaginary money to buy an imaginary airplane in a just couple of days, but I'll survive without a few extra airplanes.  What I'm worried about is who gets the votes in two years.  Or four, but at my age I don't make plans much further out than that.

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Spin Zone / Re: Stock market
« on: April 22, 2025, 05:56:39 PM »
Quote from: Bob Noel on April 22, 2025, 08:31:12 AM
there is a certain level of evil humor to watching the market whiplash up down up down up down...

and watching people absolutely freak out
You think that's funny?  That really is evil.
And stupid.
You do realize that those people that are freaking out vote, don't you.  Do you think they are going to vote for the person causing the whiplash?

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Spin Zone / Re: Stock market
« on: April 21, 2025, 05:07:22 PM »
Quote from: Rush on April 21, 2025, 04:51:40 PM
You might be right. Then again you might not.
I thought I was wrong once,
but I was mistaken.

I certainly hope I am wrong now.  I will gladly accept a few "I told you so's". (I have no idea if I punctuated that right).

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Spin Zone / Re: Stock market
« on: April 21, 2025, 02:14:57 PM »
Quote from: Anthony on April 21, 2025, 10:48:04 AM
You can't be serious. It's fucking April 21. Trump's term started January 20th.  Do the math.   ::)

I'm dead serious.

I know we haven't seen the long term effects yet. But I see what he does on a daily basis and I see how the market reacts.  He has 19 months to turn this around despite what you or I think.  If he doesn't, then he will have gambled and lost.  I don't know if he has time to see any results from his barrage.  If he did a little triage and tackled the most important issues first, then he/we might see some results, then we could go on to the next set of priorities.  You gotta eat the elephant one bite at a time.  You can't swallow it whole.

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Spin Zone / Re: Stock market
« on: April 21, 2025, 08:13:10 AM »
Quote from: Rush on April 21, 2025, 08:03:58 AM
There are some indications we are entering (or are already in) a recession. This will falsely be blamed on Trump of course. Expecting rainbows and butterflies quickly after 4 years of Biden and decades of Uniparty mismanagement is unrealistic to say the least. Although I share your unrealistic hope.
He has about 19 months.  If he doesn't produce some credible results by then we will be seeing Ds take over both the House and Senate.  It will be all downhill after that.  I still say he shouldn't be trying to fix everything at once.  Tackle s few problems, show some results, then go on to other things.

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Spin Zone / Re: Stock market
« on: April 21, 2025, 07:57:42 AM »
I sure would like to see some positive results from Trump's actions.  I believe in what he is doing, but at my age, I can't wait too long.

Any day now; right?

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Spin Zone / Re: FSU SHOOTING - One Shooter is the Son Of Tallahassee Deputy
« on: April 18, 2025, 07:51:08 AM »
Quote from: Number7 on April 18, 2025, 06:26:17 AM
The shooter is a Trump hater, a fact the asshole media is ignoring as hard as possible.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/more-details-emerge-about-florida-state-university-shooting-suspect-phoenix-ikner-motive-remains-mystery
Quote from: Bob Noel on April 18, 2025, 06:36:39 AM
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fsu-shooter-suspect-phoenix-ikner-orange-hummer-what-know-edited-rcna201811

"FSU shooting suspect used mom's service weapon and had far-right views, police and classmates say"


Just goes to show, NBC offers one set on "facts" and FOXnews offers a different set about the same event.
How can you blame the public for being confused or even mislead.

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Spin Zone / Re: FSU SHOOTING - One Shooter is the Son Of Tallahassee Deputy
« on: April 17, 2025, 03:42:04 PM »
Quote from: Rush on April 17, 2025, 02:34:11 PM
All they have to do is allow conceal carry on campuses and this school shooting nonsense would stop.
I sorta kinda agree,
But not really. 
I think 25 should be the new magic age.
25 to vote and 25 to conceal carry.
Kids under 25 haven't developed the brainpower to make reasoned choices.

But 17 is ok to draft (or at least enlist) because following orders and killing the enemy doesn't require reasoned choices.  Just following orders.

Now, where is that "duck under the table emoji"?

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Spin Zone / Re: Women are Female after all (at least in the UK)
« on: April 17, 2025, 01:33:28 PM »
Quote from: Bob Noel on April 17, 2025, 01:23:31 PM
not in a blue state, eh?

If I'm not mistaken, Becky is in one of the bluest of blue states.

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Spin Zone / Re: The “all women astronaut crew” thread
« on: April 16, 2025, 10:54:48 AM »
The closest I can come to some of these much better stories is about when I worked for a wildlife rehabilitation center about 40 years ago.  We had all sorts of wounded animals from bears and alligators to roosters, squirrels and a few badgers.  The only emotion I remember was how scared I was, not how brave I was.

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Spin Zone / Re: Stock market
« on: April 16, 2025, 06:45:37 AM »
I have had various problems trying to get the output from a couple of AIs to copy and paste.

A somewhat satisfactory work around is to take a screen shot and then load and import the saved file into a browse or other document.

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Spin Zone / Re: Joke Thread: Post 'em if ya got 'em
« on: April 14, 2025, 01:36:01 PM »
Quote from: jb1842 on April 14, 2025, 01:19:59 PM
Nothing historic about putting all women in as passengers. It's a slap in the face of all women astronauts who worked hard to get there. Just because you can sing, a TV show host, or suck the dick of Amazons founder doesn't mean you are special and are taking claims of "historic" from people who actually worked to accomplish your stunt.
I wonder what the ratio of Men:Women went into making this historic event possible.

I've often said we need a day without (white) men and see how that would go.  I'm not trying to be discriminatory.  It's just that I'm tired of being discriminated against or having the successes of my heritage diminished.

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