FriscoKid

Who? Trumpets, always cemented in the past. Always looking backwards instead of forwards. Maybe because there is nothing to look forward to in the next 4 years. Got it.

I do it all baby. I'm a one-stop sh*t shop.

I'm available for hire. Not cheap though. Harrisfan definitely couldn't afford me. Susan is way too thrift.

Especially alternative facts, right?

Too bad it wasn't even sooner. Good riddance.

Well, there you go. The stage has been set. The man who promised for months to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office as president is now walking away, less than 90 days later, without any success at all. Zero. Nada. Giving up, throwing in the towel, exit stage left, and with nothing to show to the world as anything positive. The great deal and peacemaker. Always Winning! https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/18/europe/rubio-russia-war-in-ukraine-us-talks-intl-hnk/index.html

That's not hate? And now you of all people are acting as judge and jury on anything? Really?

Incredible. Do you actually believe half of the garbage you spew? You are interchangeable with a lot of the things floating in my toilet bowl after a dump, but I'll leave it at that.

Wow, most of yours contain a condescending tone, passive aggressive hate. And you've got 9,000. Projecting.

Just to clarify, it seems that your political views are shaped more by how you wish the world to be than by how it actually is. After reading several of your earlier posts in this discussion, it became clear to me that no amount of evidence or factual information is likely to change your perspective. Because of that, I stopped reading your replies about five pages ago. I understand that you’re responding to a point I just made in response to one of your earlier posts, which is fair enough, but I want to be upfront in saying that I don’t expect your responses to reflect reality in any meaningful way. They appear to be based on a highly skewed interpretation of the facts and often go way off-topic. You’re, of course, free to continue posting as you like, but I won’t be reading or replying any further. I genuinely wish you the best, but it’s evident that your current views have little place in a discussion grounded in facts while you simply ignore the truth.

Typical Harrisfan crap.

Garbage post.

I agree with everything you said. What truly staggers me though in all this is how many people are just now waking up to the fact that Trump isn’t delivering on his promises, again. When he left office in 2020, Gallup had his approval rating at 34%, one of the lowest in modern history. Only Truman and Nixon left with worse numbers, and Trump remains the only president in Gallup’s records who never once hit 50% approval during his entire term. His average approval rating was just 41%, the lowest ever recorded. The exact numbers themselves aren’t even the point, they simply reflect what was already clear: he was never widely liked, trusted, or respected by the American public during his first term. So how, then, do we explain the fact that so many of the very people who were disappointed the first time still turned around and voted for him again? That’s the part that defies logic. It’s not just political blindness anymore, it’s something deeper and harder to understand. It wasn’t as if he left office on a high note. He exited disgraced, unpopular, and even more polarizing than when he entered. He was already a convicted criminal during his 2024 campaign. And yet, people who lived through the first four years of his dysfunction still chose to believe that this time it would be different. Why? On what basis? To be clear, it’s not surprising at all that he’s turned out to be exactly the same, if not at least twice as bad, than he was during his first term. What is surprising, and almost incomprehensible, is that people fell for it again. They saw the product, bought it, tasted it, hated it, and then willingly bought it again, only to complain that it tastes exactly the same the second time. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… well, that’s where we are now.

Completely untrue. Trump is pushing Powell as hard as he can on this, but to no avail and would prefer to fire him: The ECB is expected to cut interest rates for the 7th time, and yet, “Too Late” Jerome Powell of the Fed, who is always TOO LATE AND WRONG, yesterday issued a report which was another, and typical, complete “mess!” Oil prices are down, groceries (even eggs!) are down, and the USA is getting RICH ON TARIFFS. Too Late should have lowered Interest Rates, like the ECB, long ago, but he should certainly lower them now. Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114352766082542122 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-is-furious-that-fed-wont-cut-interest-rates-like-ecb-heres-why-powell-wont-budge-162dfdaa https://www.marketwatch.com/story/if-trump-fires-powell-it-would-blindside-wall-street-and-rattle-financial-markets-4b21833c

Oh, Susan, so nice of you to share your valuable opinions with us. Always so articulate too. About as profound as a bag of sweaty jockstraps. Don't you have an air polluted bridge to walk over right now in search of a cheap draft beer? 🤣

Don't take it from the "Lefties". Hear what people think now directly from the mouths of the "Righties" who are already feeling regret and suffering the pain from the <derogatory nickname removed>. Nobody even needs to make any of this stuff up. Sheesh. 🙄

A nice, sweaty, dusty walk choking on bus fumes the whole time. You'll love it! 😍

Understood. What a pity. My loss, isn't it.

I would gladly leave you 100 of each, sad and confused emojis on every one of your posts, but the system won't let me. What a pity isn't it? Meanwhile, I'm neither a lefty or a righty. I use both hands. Don't you? Or maybe you can't even reach over your abdominal distention? At least maybe can you explain to us what your obsession is with basements?

I take everything you wrote as a compliment and if you put me on ignore, I would greatly appreciate it. Meanwhile, all of it is kettle black innit.

Some good points, but Trump has already partially folded, showing signs that he will continue to do so as pressure mounts. He’s already yielded to Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Tesla as well as other, large, American car manufacturers regarding the importation of smartphones, computers, automobiles, and car parts. He’ll also have no choice but to keep folding on other products as pressure builds from other sectors of the economy. Of course, this isn’t intended as a show of weakness to China, and they may not necessarily see it that way either. He’s simply trying to support some of the largest and most critical companies and industries in the United States. Still, it already exposes the reality that America cannot withstand the level of economic pain he tried to impose, and he will need to continue retreating. At this point, there’s little more he can do but back down in an effort to improve the domestic situation. China, as everyone agrees, is not going to back down. So unless Trump is willing to subject the U.S. economy to prolonged and unnecessary suffering, he has no real alternative. I think in the coming weeks we’ll see a continued pattern of Trump’s slow, piece-by-piece, drip-by-drip capitulation. Again, not due to anything being demanded or posed upon him by China, but simply as a practical necessity in the face of a fight he knows he cannot win. On China’s side, Trump has already backed down on more than 25 percent of their most important exports to the U.S. So whether his retreat is intentional or not is irrelevant. From China’s perspective, they’re already winning and in a stronger position than they were just a week ago, and time only stands to benefit them further. As this continues, Trump will keep cancelling tariffs in ways that try to mask the fact that he’s losing the trade war. But the effect is clear: he’s already lost. He’s backed down on multiple tariffs, and China hasn’t budged. The biggest fundamental difference between China and the USA is that China manufactures a lot, while the USA manufactures very little. That, in itself, is the clearest and most elementary reason why the USA can’t win a trade war against China. For the most part, China is self-sustained and self-sufficient, with the main exception being petrochemicals, but even those it can purchase from Iran and Russia without needing the USA. The USA, on the other hand, relies on multiple products from China that it simply cannot survive without.

For all its quirks, I love Japan. As an observer, like a fly on the wall, it’s fascinating to watch the worker bees buzzing around the hive, each one tracing familiar circles. And when the weather is kind, the clean, perfectly organized outdoor spaces are unmatched anywhere else in Asia. That said, I think living there would feel a bit too stifling for me. Thailand, for all its chaos and imperfections, is where I’d choose to stay any day over Japan. The variety, the unpredictability, the sheer range of opportunities in Thailand could never be overstated.

10,718 days or 257,232 hours. Why leave Japan now @camper star ? Bob (Kobe) Smith loves it!

Typical pricing for that high-rent part of the city. Only paupers would complain.

Useful post, thank you. Just one small caveat: while the market may have peaked toward the end of Biden’s presidency, the S&P 500 actually hit its all-time high on February 18, 2025, reaching 6,130.00. That’s exactly 30 days after his last day in office on January 19. Having studied the market on a technical level over a long period of time, I’ve often noticed patterns like this that involve exact round numbers or time intervals, whether it’s a high occurring exactly 30 days after a key date, or market drops that are precisely 10%, 20%, or 30% from their previous peaks. Many people write these off as coincidences, but in my view, they often aren’t. These kinds of precise movements can be the result of behind-the-scenes manipulation by market makers, which only highlights just how much the markets can be rigged or engineered in subtle ways. You’ve built a strong and compelling case for why this could indeed be another generational high. Only hindsight will tell. That said, even if it doesn’t turn out to be, I think there’s a strong chance we’re heading into a “lost decade” instead. That seems like the more probable outcome to me. A lost decade typically means the market moves sideways for an extended period, rising and falling in ways that give the illusion of multiple bear and bull markets, but never truly exceeding the previous high for 10 years or more. We’ve seen this before, such as during the Dot-Com Bubble and Financial Crisis (2000–2010), and during the period of stagflation and economic turbulence from 1965 to 1983. Given everything you mentioned: tariffs, inflation, deficits, rising US sovereign debt, and the real possibility of China surpassing the US as the world’s largest economy, I think the stage is set for something like that to happen now again.