2026 USA Political Thread

carvesg

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So wait wait wait wait wait, did I just hear you say that Trump was not the root of this evil? He just exacerbated it? (great vocab and spelling btw!).

Maybe too much Bernie coolaid in the repertoire? Ya, this anti-Wall Street crap has Bernie’s BS initials on them for a prophetic reason. Socialist denial of shared prosperity through economic strength. Historical facts correlate with strong economy = $$$ for social programs and average person well-being.

You want to live in Russia or China, or any other gloriously corrupt state? Go. Now. Please. No-one is holding you back.

You think you can fix what’s wrong with the West? Hahahahaha. You suck on the teat of the great capitalist conspiracy every day dude. No solutions, no plan worthy of shitting on. Just ongoing socialist rhetoric.

And since when when does Westwoody need somebody to stick up for him? Shit, Y’all just woke-wanked a bro.
Yep my spelling can be out of wack at times and the grammar as my schooling was in french and my English is self taught...which is not great at times.

As for the rest ... how's the trickle economic theory working out since 79 ?

The only time it gave the illusion to work is when Thatcher had the North Sea oil boom that she was riding allowing her to give a tax break in the UK ...remove that and things in the UK would have turned out like the US with Reagan's deficits and increased debt while riding an economy on the rise by 84 sustained by low oil prices ....because of the new North Sea oil supply coming online in early 80s (UK becoming a net exporter of oil in 81 for the first time and Norway fast increasing production and export in the early 80s ) and influencing OPEC production and price setting for the first time in over a decade.

That gave birth to that trickle economic so praised by the new capitalism since the 80s that you seem to fancy without naming it.

Capitalism is the best system but needs boundaries and rules as we all know that once left unchecked the financial forces take over for their own self interest as we are experiencing. Unless you think that the things are great and quasi perfect ?

Pssst ...Russia has not been a socialist country for over 3 decades and China economic system is as jungle capitalism as most fast developing countries with the corruption that goes with it .

Westwoody didn't need support ... I simply pointed out that you assumed something that he had not stated .
 
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steverino

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PuntMeister said:
Stock market health enables companies to hire people and pay decent wages

Amazon Share price is doing well, however, Amazon is laying off 14,000 corporate employees. The company said it's cutting roles to help make the company leaner and less bureaucratic, while it looks to invest in generative artificial intelligence. The layoffs are expected to ultimately be the largest corporate job cuts in Amazon's history.
 
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carvesg

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Wal-Mart employees make minimum wage without benefits.
👍 And you could add that Walmart has the envious bragging right among big employers to have the highest percentage of employees on Snap and Medicaid.
 
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dare.devil

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Gotta say….Wrong-O!

Great Depression affected pretty much everybody in US and Canada.
Finincial crisis of 2008 caused people’s retirement plans to drop in value and a lot of folks had to postpone retirement or live one less.
Financial markets are like a barometer for overall economic health, and the ability of governments to tax and spend, fund important programs, build infrastructure, and squander money on stupid things too.

Stock market health enables companies to hire people and pay decent wages. It is also important for pension funds, and numerous programs that average citizens count on.
First of all its naive to think that the changes US is going through are temporary and will go away with current admin .
Financial market is manipulated and causing a balloon to brust very soon. Do you see that trillion seems like a small number, US debt is at exploding point. Countries are drifting away from doing business with US. Dollar is being replaced with different currencies in other part of the world.
Allies are leaning towards China.
The change was slow but now it got THE catalyst.
Its not related to left or right but world is facing a lier, manipulator egoistic maniac with 70 million direct supporters, who is tearing US piece by piece and somebody telling it out loud is a fake news for these people.
 
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westwoody

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For those who don't understand how rigged the stock market is.
Yes you can make money.
But you will never have the inside info that someone with a direct connection to the president will have.
"I'm attacking Iran tomorrow" > buy defense and oil now.
These guys can win every single bet, they aren't risking anything.
Note how the asshole doesn't even answer the obvious question...

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For those who don't understand how rigged the stock market is.
Yes you can make money.
But you will never have the inside info that someone with a direct connection to the president will have.
"I'm attacking Iran tomorrow" > buy defense and oil now.
These guys can win every single bet, they aren't risking anything.
Note how the asshole doesn't even answer the obvious question...

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Feels like FTX 2.0 well this stuff.... Wudnt be surprised if this guy and SBF related
 

80watts

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Let me guess, dude. You're one of the Wall Street brokers, lol.

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When you buy a stock, the P/E ratio is a good indication if the stock is a good long term investment.
If you are playing the speculative stock market, the US governments knows about 1 day in advance of some things that will happen. Any body related to government that has the information is not to use it for their own benefit, or give to other persons for financial gain. Its called insider trading and violates every government ethical code known...

If you are playing the speculative approach to the stock market, You are at the bottom of the pyramid scheme... Yours is the money that makes the people at the top of the pyramid the money....
1. supply and demand
2. People are not going to pay 3X the price of fuel at the pumps and they will look for alternate sources of energy.
3. The US economy is not so good these days, corporations are only going after profits and getting rid of the people who got them their in the first place (the workers).

So you see nothing but bad times in the near future....the rise in oil prices is just the start, and the engine (oil) that runs our societies is drying up or being restricted in some way.
Right now across the world oil infrastructure is being targeted in Russia, India, Iran, Pakistan, to name a few, causing the shortage of oil in those countries... The strait of Hormuz is restricting supply to China too....
Trump has opened a hornets nest, that he should not of provoked. Israel is starting to launch its genocide for more land too, all under the watchful eye of Trump (sarcasm here).....
 
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When you buy a stock, the P/E ratio is a good indication if the stock is a good long term investment.
If you are playing the speculative stock market, the US governments knows about 1 day in advance of some things that will happen. Any body related to government that has the information is not to use it for their own benefit, or give to other persons for financial gain. Its called insider trading and violates every government ethical code known...

If you are playing the speculative approach to the stock market, You are at the bottom of the pyramid scheme... Yours is the money that makes the people at the top of the pyramid the money....
1. supply and demand
2. People are not going to pay 3X the price of fuel at the pumps and they will look for alternate sources of energy.
3. The US economy is not so good these days, corporations are only going after profits and getting rid of the people who got them their in the first place (the workers).

So you see nothing but bad times in the near future....the rise in oil prices is just the start, and the engine (oil) that runs our societies is drying up or being restricted in some way.
Right now across the world oil infrastructure is being targeted in Russia, India, Iran, Pakistan, to name a few, causing the shortage of oil in those countries... The strait of Hormuz is restricting supply to China too....
Trump has opened a hornets nest, that he should not of provoked. Israel is starting to launch its genocide for more land too, all under the watchful eye of Trump (sarcasm here).....
Insider trading isn't just immoral. It is illegal. Remember the Galleon group? Its founder Raj Rajaratnam went to jail for insider trading.
 
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Insider trading isn't just immoral. It is illegal. Remember the Galleon group? Its founder Raj Rajaratnam went to jail for insider trading.
If you think this applies to Trump and his family and friends and anyone else with a fuck-ton of money/power; I'm afraid you're mistaken.
 
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