40 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

Only that the Trump doesn't control the stock markets, and the only reason they are overvalued is the AI bubble that soon will explode.

Let's talk about some financial instruments Trump is directly involved with.

Trump’s personal investments don’t control the overall market. True.

The overall market is not dictated my Trumps personal investment. True.

He continues to flail in the wind over Iran. He lost the war. Better to surrender now and just accept the omelet on the face.

Mr. Trump may be the president who “has least understood Iran’s leadership,” said Kenneth Pollack, a former C.I.A. analyst and National Security Council official who has studied Iran for decades.

“In many ways, Trump represents the epitome of America’s frustrations with Iran,” Mr. Pollack said. “He has been both the most desirous of making a deal with Iran, and the one who used the most force against it. He has found that neither got him what he wanted.”

Mr. Trump considers himself a master of sizing up and exploiting his adversaries. But Iran’s leaders have baffled him.

“All they do is make me angry,” he told reporters last week. “They just make me angry.”

There are few signs that Mr. Trump’s months of dealing with Iran’s regime have given him a clearer understanding of it. Over the course of the conflict, Mr. Trump has constantly revised his assessment of Mr. Khamenei and his deputies. He has branded them “lunatics,” “reasonable,” “crazy bastards,” “very smart” and “stone cold crazy.”

Dennis Ross, a veteran of Middle East diplomacy who served presidents of both parties, said that “the Iranians seem to understand us better than we understand them.”

Only Mr. Obama has pulled off a major diplomatic agreement with Iran, in the form of the 2015 nuclear deal that placed limits on Iran’s atomic program lasting up to 15 years in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.

Iranian suspicions that the U.S. could not be trusted were soon affirmed. In 2018, Mr. Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal and imposed even harsher economic sanctions than had been in place before the agreement.

“They tend to read our sense of urgency as a form of leverage,” Mr. Ross said. “We always seem in a hurry to get things done. They operate under the premise that time serves their interests more than ours.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/politics/trump-iran.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

42 minutes ago, HolmesEquivelant said:

Been hearing that for years. Still waiting.

So have many others and they keep pouring more money into AI waiting for the big payoff that will never come.

1 hour ago, Hawaiian said:

So have many others and they keep pouring more money into AI waiting for the big payoff that will never come.

You’re the first person I met who could acutely predict the future.

What are you doing here?

Did you predict Trump would never be President?

4 hours ago, HolmesEquivelant said:

You’re the first person I met who could acutely predict the future.

What are you doing here?

Did you predict Trump would never be President?

What am I doing here? Certainly not predicting anything about Trump. Never did. I am saying that when the AI bubble bursts there will be a lot of investors hurt. Smart investors are not greedy and will to take their profits now.

4 minutes ago, Hawaiian said:

What am I doing here? Certainly not predicting anything about Trump. Never did. I am saying that when the AI bubble bursts there will be a lot of investors hurt. Smart investors are not greedy and will to take their profits now.

When is your so called “burst” coming? You must have inside information. Similar to Nancy Pelosi.

Q. Day traders may take their profits now but how do they know when to get back in? A. They don’t. Market timing rarely works.

Investors are in for the long haul.

Yes, I like Jack Bogle’s philosophy

23 minutes ago, HolmesEquivelant said:

When is your so called “burst” coming? You must have inside information. Similar to Nancy Pelosi.

Q. Day traders may take their profits now but how do they know when to get back in? A. They don’t. Market timing rarely works.

Investors are in for the long haul.

Yes, I like Jack Bogle’s philosophy

Long haul? Depends on your age and goals. The "marrying a stock" strategy doesn't always work. Witness where some of yesterdays blue chips are now.

26 minutes ago, HolmesEquivelant said:

1 hour ago, Hawaiian said:

Long haul? Depends on your age and goals. The "marrying a stock" strategy doesn't always work. Witness where some of yesterdays blue chips are now.

I’ve never owned or married a single stock. I’m not worried if a few stocks go down in day in my portfolio.

I have 3700 others. And some of the blue chips you mentioned didn’t upset the overall market.

I really more interested in your ability to predict the future. While the market has always had and always will have periods of corrections, I’m interested in your knowledge of the coming “burst”.

Edited August 9Aug 9 by HolmesEquivelant

20 minutes ago, HolmesEquivelant said:

I’ve never owned or married a single stock. I’m not worried if a few stocks go down in day in my portfolio.

I have 3700 others. And some of the blue chips you mentioned didn’t upset the overall market.

I really more interested in your ability to predict the future. While the market has always had and always will have periods of corrections, I’m interested in your knowledge of the coming “burst”.

I wonder if AI will end up like the dot-com bubble.

2 minutes ago, Mr Awesome said:

I wonder if AI will end up like the dot-com bubble.

You’re asking the wrong guy. @Hawaiian knows the future.

Best to ask the subject matter expert.

Just now, HolmesEquivelant said:

You’re asking the wrong guy. @Hawaiian knows the future.

Best to ask the subject matter expert.

I hope he can provide a specific date and time.

9 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

He continues to flail in the wind over Iran. He lost the war. Better to surrender now and just accept the omelet on the face.

Mr. Trump may be the president who “has least understood Iran’s leadership,” said Kenneth Pollack, a former C.I.A. analyst and National Security Council official who has studied Iran for decades.

“In many ways, Trump represents the epitome of America’s frustrations with Iran,” Mr. Pollack said. “He has been both the most desirous of making a deal with Iran, and the one who used the most force against it. He has found that neither got him what he wanted.”

Mr. Trump considers himself a master of sizing up and exploiting his adversaries. But Iran’s leaders have baffled him.

“All they do is make me angry,” he told reporters last week. “They just make me angry.”

There are few signs that Mr. Trump’s months of dealing with Iran’s regime have given him a clearer understanding of it. Over the course of the conflict, Mr. Trump has constantly revised his assessment of Mr. Khamenei and his deputies. He has branded them “lunatics,” “reasonable,” “crazy bastards,” “very smart” and “stone cold crazy.”

Dennis Ross, a veteran of Middle East diplomacy who served presidents of both parties, said that “the Iranians seem to understand us better than we understand them.”

Only Mr. Obama has pulled off a major diplomatic agreement with Iran, in the form of the 2015 nuclear deal that placed limits on Iran’s atomic program lasting up to 15 years in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.

Iranian suspicions that the U.S. could not be trusted were soon affirmed. In 2018, Mr. Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal and imposed even harsher economic sanctions than had been in place before the agreement.

“They tend to read our sense of urgency as a form of leverage,” Mr. Ross said. “We always seem in a hurry to get things done. They operate under the premise that time serves their interests more than ours.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/politics/trump-iran.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Nice meme.

Perfect Democratic Party platform.

Photoshopping Trump into it was a cute touch.

1 minute ago, Mr Awesome said:

I hope he can provide a specific date and time.

Me too

2 minutes ago, HolmesEquivelant said:

Nice meme.

Perfect Democratic Party platform.

Photoshopping Trump into it was a cute touch.

The Democrats don't have a platform. The working class hates them, and the DSA is trying to destroy them. Interesting times. I wonder if Democrats will rig the next presidential primary like they have been doing since 2016.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sen-elizabeth-warren-says-2016-democratic-primary-was-rigged

30 minutes ago, Mr Awesome said:

The Democrats don't have a platform. The working class hates them, and the DSA is trying to destroy them. Interesting times. I wonder if Democrats will rig the next presidential primary like they have been doing since 2016.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sen-elizabeth-warren-says-2016-democratic-primary-was-rigged

Oh, they have one.

It’s called HATE TRUMP. That’s it

One of the reasons the Democratic Party is imploding.

The DSA will ensure the rest.

Edited August 9Aug 9 by HolmesEquivelant

Friday was not good but Saturday was not much better either, when you are a loser, the day of the week doesn't matter, he makes up his own stories and ratings, he did try to defect but the guy kept asking the question again

"Do you think they will?" he asked.

"Well, a lot of people are saying I'm one of the greatest presidents ever," he began.

Sherman interjected.

"They're not saying that, though," he said of Democrats.

As Trump was making a series of hyperbolic claims, Sherman repeated his question about impeachment.

After a long pause, Trump replied, "It's hard to believe they could."

Trump Gets Humiliating Response After Claiming He’s Best Ever

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Trump Gets Humiliating Response After Claiming He’s Best...

Donald Trump’s rosy view of himself got a jolt of reality Friday. In an interview with Punchbowl News, reporter Jake Sherman mentioned the possibility of Democrats impeaching the president if they reg

he still repeating the same rhetoric about the missiles stock piles, remember he went after some reporters made the usual threats just to cover up his own mistakes, he knew very well the inventory on the missiles before going into war with Iran but with that knowledge he still decided to go

Donald Trump may have just blown up his own furious hunt for the "treasonous" leakers behind reports of a dwindling U.S. missile supply amid his ongoing war with Iran.

Just weeks before Trump launched his attack on Iran, he was quoted as saying he had been "warned" of the missile shortage. "And his response was to say that the decision was his,

Fallon further jibed, "Right now Trump is dealing with leaks and shortages, which is actually pretty normal for an 80-year-old man." 🤣🤣

Trump’s ‘Treasonous’ Leaker Hunt Backfires With Epic Self-Own

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Trump’s ‘Treasonous’ Leaker Hunt Backfires With Epic Self...

Donald Trump may have just blown up his own furious hunt for the “treasonous” leakers behind reports of a dwindling U.S. missile supply amid his ongoing war with Iran. Trump reportedly indicated he kn

So Bibi says no to trump. It will be interesting to see what happens now. Very interesting.

Imagine if the Dems take Texas. If they do they have only one person to blame: trump. Ken Paxton is the worst candidate imaginable. He's like a Texan version of trump, but without a cult following. He's big on 'Christian values', but was just on a trip to England with his mistress, so as reliably hypocritical as all MAGA politicians.

If Talarico beats Paxton the amount of MAGA brains blown will be unprecedented.

'Ex-GOP strategist: ‘This might be the year’ Democrats win Texas'

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6018480-gop-strategist-moreno-texas-shift/

"Paxton faced scrutiny from Texas state officials following a state House investigation that found he had “used, misused, or failed to use his official powers in a manner calculated to subvert the lawful operation of the government.”

He also was impeached by the Texas House, faces 20 charges of misconduct in office, previously faced three felony securities fraud charges and had an extramarital affair.

A Texas Pulse/Texas A&M Bush School poll released Friday had 47 percent of likely Texas voters planning to support Talarico, while 43 percent chose Paxton.'

for a country that has/had its army obliterated how can they be imposing conditions to a country that claims to have the "biggest army in the world" . They keep kicking the loser axxx and that's what a winner usually does, setting up their conditions for anything they want, it has to be done their way and the loser should come to terms with it. He lost to a country with a "small" army/navy

Iran's Revolutionary Guards insisted Sunday that they would not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until the United States complied with a list of demands, including paying compensation for war damage.

Iran Guards say won't reopen Hormuz without US meeting Tehran's demands

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/iran-guards-wont-reopen-hormuz-090454187.html

on top of all his losses he has to remember one very important thing, Iran will hold a grudge, just like he does, and he knows regardless of the ending. Iran will always has something to come after him, finally he found somebody that stand up to his bullying and they kick back, Iran will not bend the knee

Iran is demanding financial compensation for the war before it reopens the Strait of Hormuz, a last-minute concession that dampens hopes of an imminent deal.

He said this would include US compensation in the form of reparations to Iran for the war.

they know a TACO when they see one.... The extra demands suggest growing Iranian confidence that it can squeeze more concessions out of Donald Trump.

"We will not forget the crimes of the enemy, nor will we pass over the unjustly shed blood," he said.

Iran names price to reopen Strait of Hormuz

Yahoo News

Iran names price to reopen Strait of Hormuz

Iran is demanding financial compensation for the war before it reopens the Strait of Hormuz, a last-minute concession that dampens hopes of an imminent deal.

the loser has his priorities completely wrong and his inner circle let him open his mouth to spread more lies, he keeps trying to cover up his screw up with the reflecting pool, keeps posting about vandalism that didn't exist and completely ignoring the main problems the US citizens face with increasing prices, raising inflation and raising unemployment. Maybe he does keep focus on the reflecting pool, daily/hourly postings to find some imaginary vandals, by doing so he divert attention from his losses

The "loser" of the war gets a $100 billion, no restrictions on their nuclear program and eternal profits from taxing traffic going through the SOH.

Tired of winning yet, MAGA?

Senator Chris Murphy:

Economic growth is anemic, jobs are disappearing, inflation is at 3.5%, gas is at $4, the US is in another forever war, the budget deficit has shot up to $40 Trillion, but the GOP are still blaming President Biden for everything.🤣

You must be a real loser to achieve this.

Trump media company announces losses of $238M on $1.7M revenue

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/trump-media-company-announces-massive-224312674.html

Trump media company announces a massive loss and new turnaround effort

NEW YORK (AP) — The president's media company posted a massive loss in the second quarter and announced plans to ditch new business lines and refocus as a forum for users to post their views.

Trump Media & Technology, the company behind the Truth Social platform, said Monday that it lost $238 million in the three months through June as it branched into businesses unrelated to media, including crypto. That was more than 10 times the loss from a year earlier.

This is really surprising. Can the resident US MAGA crowd confirm that this is true?

Yeah, this is not racist at all. Imagine President Biden saying something like that. He would have been impeached immediately by his own party.

But with the GOP almost exclusively consisting of spineless maggots there will be no consequences for trump.

2 hours ago, BLMFem said:

Yeah, this is not racist at all. Imagine President Biden saying something like that. He would have been impeached immediately by his own party.

But with the GOP almost exclusively consisting of spineless maggots there will be no consequences for trump.

Look at the hands from the lady standing behind him, they clearly signal she's very uncomfortable about what she's listening to. A bit like Dr. Deborah Birx when he was suggesting injecting Clorox.

1 minute ago, CallumWK said:

Look at the hands from the lady standing behind him, they clearly signal she's very uncomfortable about what she's listening to. A bit like Dr. Deborah Birx when he was suggesting injecting Clorox.

The lady with red scarf looks rather fine to me (don't tell my wife !! 😋)

and nods in agreement repeatedly during the 'vaccine' bit .