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lj: Like millions and millions of Americans, we won't be spending a lot this month!
(My insurance bills are due in January--two vehicles and a condo. Throw in the quarterly condo fee, and a bloated credit card bill from December shopping, and I'm going to ground, financially speaking!)
VTLE: Weird that they put it out. Doesn't inspire confidence in management, does it.
lj: Kind of like the Biden Administration's consistent insistence that the border was not a problem. If Majorkas is impeached and kicked out, they should hire him to put out the API reports.
lj: I haven't been following the weather forecast closely. It seems the storm might stay west of Central Maryland, which would result in only a dusting of snow. If it shifts a bit eastward, 3-5 inches. At least that it what a neighbor told me.
hap0206: Greetings. If you can get podcasts, I highly recommend Steve Bannon's "War Room".
The War Room posse is responsible for getting rid of McCarthy, who was stabbing MAGA in the back by caving to the Dems on the budget. The jury is out on Mike Johnson. He is a good guy, but if he lacks spine and won't hold the line on the budget, we will need another Speaker. Bannon is the wind in MAGA's sails.
ksquared: U are focused on personalities and not issues. I don't think you are an idiot. But, you have a point. Can Trump actually win, given the large number of haters out there. And, I share your compassion for poor Rudy!
al44: A VERY important essay. The U.S. needs to extricate itself from the U.N. When Trump is President again, let's hope he doesn't appoint a U.S. rep to the U.N.
ksquared: Trump 2024. So it is Trump's fault that the Marxists are using lawfare to destroy Trump and his top people?
In case U haven't noticed, Trump is a little tied up at the moment with ridiculous lawsuits, criminal and civil.
Rudy was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He can take care of himself.
Steve Bannon and the War Room have Rudy's back. He will come out of this insanity fine.
Trump is standing between us and one-world government, which will include a digital currency; total surveillance, including an IRS Gestapo with 82K more agents, which is beyond insane; social credit scores; the termination of manufacturing of internal combustion engines; and an attack on oil and gas that will be unbelievable. Plan to sit around in your underwear in summer and in a hunting suit in winter. If Trump doesn't win, abandon hope.
SBL: Correct. About $4T added each year. The MAGA Republican members of the House, led by Matt Gaetz, are the only thing standing between the possibility of balancing the budget and disaster. And, by the way, the Biden Administration wants to take Russian owned U.S. Treasury bonds (seize them) and use the proceeds to give to Zelenskyy to fund the endless war.
If they get away with it, no country will want to own U.S. debt, fearing the U.S. Government could seize it if it took a notion to do so. If the U.S. seizes Russia's U.S debt, expect the dollar to crash Argentina style.
The Harvard board is infested. Get a load of this:
Are we surprised? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12922517/bill-ackman-denies-racism-claudine-gay-harvard-resignation-twitter.html
I greatly respect Bill Ackman.
lj: BOIL
So, I should sell now, I guess. The mainstream media, which I don't believe, says they are drilling like crazy in Tejas, which means they are fracking, fracking, fracking.
lj: No. We won't need to worry about the supply chain until China goes for Formosa.
Which reminds me, I am WAY behind on prepping.
lj: I filled up today and was the only car in the station. Payed $3.09 for 87 octane, which, imo, is a ripoff.
Will watch VLO closely. BOIL and XOM each had a good market day.
Only 11 months until DD and Arizona jump out of the 20th story window! LOL!
Gmenfan: I didn't see this at the Daily Mail. Thank you for sharing.
I cannot get over that big goon beating up the fast-food worker because he didn't get extra chicken.
Or those big goons kicking and beating the cognitively-impaired senior man who went to their car by mistake on the parking lot. That really turned everyone's stomachs.
All I can say is, free Derek Chauvin. We need more officers like him on the streets. He was railroaded. He was following standard operating procedure, and the Marxists pounced.
SkeBallLarry: If he had gone to California instead, Gavin would give him medical benefits and he would be a happy camper and could put away his machete. Trump is making noises about sending every illegal home. It would take a military operation and would last a decade. This country is so far down the drain it is scary.
Gmenfan: If that were to happen, civil war. Chaos. Tucker and Bannon shouldn't even put that out there. It gives nuts ideas.
researcher59: HALO
Thank you. I started a small position. If I buy shares for $35-36, I'll get a decent position.
My price target is $45.
In 2024, I plan to do fewer options (my calls have been a disaster) and more swing trades.
In November, missed out on a what would have been a very profitable trade of TGT. Hindsight is 20-20.
Happy New Year.
But will he get extra chicken in jail?
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/female-chipotle-employee-beaten-by-enraged-couple-over-extra-chicken-charge/
Gavin Newsom definitely is not a serious candidate for President:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12916381/California-state-offer-health-insurance-illegal-migrants-Taxpayers-forced-fork-3-1BN-medical-care-extra-700-000-people-1-1.html
Gmenfan: The best came last: "Heroically stayed alive to save America from a Kamala Harris Presidency: We salute you, Mr. Biden!"
Gmenfan: A hoot! The planet cleans itself!
Happy New Year, y'all!
lj: The outcome of tomorrow's Ravens game will determine home-team advantage in the playoffs. Baltimore can use all of the extra money they can get!
lj: That was a long game for Florida State fans!
La Cima:
Strictly comic relief!
SSKILLZ1: Thank you for the hard work. Quite a large number of unique picks!
DD: I'll consult with my leader on Rumble to see what he says! LOL! So, DD, since Biden definitely will not be the Dem candidate, who do U think it will be?
al44: Thank you for all of the wonderful postings today. A very enjoyable thread.
DD: that post could get your committed to a looney bin. It makes no sense whatsoever. Clarification, please.
al44: That is a hoot and a holler! The child with the toy was the perfect ending.
al44: We know the Pfizer vax ALLEGEDLY contained monkey protein that is the culprit.
But first I'd want to see what happens in Israel. Nearly the entire country got the Pfizer vax.
wadegarret: The U.S. Government can flood all of the liquidity it wants into the economy, but it will benefit the investor class and now too many other people, especially the working stiff on the lower end of the wage scale.
Sen. McCarthy was a great patriot! And he was 100 percent correct about the Communist rot in Hollywood and beyond.
RIP Senator McCarthy. People of your ilk vilify McCarthy exactly because he was anti-Communist. Your side has been running a propaganda campaign vilifying him since the 1950's. Sorry, it is transparent where it is coming from. The old USSR!
Roy Cohn was the mentor of the greatest President since George Washington!
al44: I am sick of hearing this stuff. It is time for impeachments. Now Chicago wants to give the illegals citizenship?
They have zero authority to do that. If the Republicans don't make immigration the #1 issue next year, they deserve to lose.
lj: Enjoy the games, but don't wear out your eyes! NFL news: Ravens play on Sunday afternoon, at 1:00 EST, I believe, but it might be a half hour or so later. They were on the schedule for Sunday night football, but Maryland's Governor got the NFL to move the game time because M&T Stadium is located in the vicinity of Baltimore's Inner Harbor, where there is a big fireworks display at midnight. The dopey mayor of Baltimore wanted the game time to remain at 8:00 p.m.!
lj: My understanding is that Vietnam and Mexico are starting to eat into China's manufacturing dominance.
Wages have risen in China. The slave labor is now available in Vietnam and Mexico, I guess.
On another topic, its seems that the U.S. has cut off the money spigot that Ukraine has had access to to the tune of maybe $160B or more? Zelensky is now recruiting men up to age 64 to fight. The war is now a joke.
Negotiating a piece is going to be a mess, because some European body has declared Putin to be a war criminal.
The rumor is that negotiations are already underway behind Zelensky's back.
2024 should be an interesting year geopolitically and here.
lj: Well, the Saudis are not going to sell oil to China in U.S. Dollars. The end of the petrodollar is near.
The countries that trade oil don't trust the U.S. dollar due to the insane Federal debt. The U.S. dollar might lose half of its value in the next year or two. Mark my words.)
OT: The price of the Evian water I buy for my pooch is going to go up. It is imported from France.
Fortunately, the price of his ground sirloin is stable (96 percent fat free).
The day might come when I have to switch to Deer Park spring water for him.
I drink the cheapest bottled spring water (gallon jugs) and eat a cheaper grade of ground beef!)
lj: I was aware of the taxation issue. Southern States imported a lot of goods from England that were taxed.
But slavery was a very big issue. If slavery were eliminated, the wealth of the people who controlled Southern States would be greatly diminished. No free labor, no big profits.
I think there is a parallel situation now, between the power center of the North, New York City, and the power center of the South, Houston. I have thought for quite a while that this is behind the attack on fossil fuels. Take down fossil fuels, take down Texas. Actually, it might be as plain as the nose on your face.
lj: The cheap oil, not only from Russia, but from Iran, might be the reason that the China's economy has not gone totally in the tank! The U.S.'s economy still has a symbiotic relationship with China, so I guess the cheap oil is a silver lining for the U.S. in an odd way.