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I feel like you could have made this point without mentioning Madoff, Trump, Capone, anyone political and simply appealing to the values that many Christians hold with regard to forgiveness. I'll always be against the death penalty if there ANY doubt. Not just reasonable, one shred. I mean, if they find you hurting a kid or MY kid, I'm all for you going into the wood-chipper feet first, having tourniquet tied on then...smelling salts so they wake up(as they're likely out from the shock at this point. At which point, I'd cauterize the wounds, wake them up, start the wood chipper again with them suspended just above it but to the point where it's vibrating enough that it's hurting the not missing limbs and where that wound it. And then an inch at a time and so on and so forth. ---But again, I haven't pretended that I'm a big person. I just...aspire to be. If you're religious; So... I guess if you don't forgive...you're not better in the eyes of the lord.

This is a 16 year old kid that Sammy Sasso himself, the man harmed by this has forgiven. And there's nothing "soft" about being against the death penalty. 3 reasons -They started doing DNA testing on inmates who'd been sentenced to death in the 80s and 90s in Texas. They stopped after about 300 as they found in at least 10% of the cases, they'd found evidence to exonerate the person put to death and in others, information that wasn't known. Later on, but also in Texas, a man named Claude Jones was put to death. George Bush Jr refused a 30 day stay so they could get the test results back on the hair, a single strand of hair that connected him to the murder. The DNA came back. It was not him. He was exonerated...but dead. They then took a look at ANOTHER 400 cases. 41 had DNA evidence exonerating them, many of the time evidence including DNA that could have exonerated them were just ignored. 21 cases in Dallas alone, but 41 in Texas(again, out of 400, so ~10%). -Look at the Church Shooting with Dylan Roof. Remember that? He went in, they prayed with him, they brought him food, they listened to him...and I believe he came back a couple times. Obviously the last time, he executed them. Left one women scared to death, she was going to die. He left her to tell people what happened. -The Amish school shooting in Pennsylvania. I think there were 10 kids shot, 6 girls, babies dead. What did the Amish do? They went the home of the shooter, they prayed for him, they brought food to the Mother and they helped raise money for her(I don't know why they did the latter, but it's not the point). They forgave. Now...if you hurt my family, I am not a big enough Man to do what Sammy did(though it wasn't his family hurt, it was him) but certainly I can respect what he did. This is a 16-year-old-kid. He may end up never coming out of it. He also has a chance to get out by 22 or 24(I don't know what the truth in sentencing laws are in Ohio) but...man, I carry around anger. AT the end of the day, ALL you are is the DASH between two numbers and how people remember you. I wish I could be more like those people and try and forgive. Maybe you know Sammy and it's more difficult for you. I don't know. I just know if Sammy Sasso can do that for a 16-year-old-kid, then I can as well....and I hope that kid gets his GED and I hope he can come back and work with the kids like him as so many before him have done so. I certainly don't want to live in a world where you just write off a 16-year-old kid and effectively say, his dash is complete. Maybe it will be...but that's still up to him. Perhaps Sammy made that easier for him today. Either way, I'm pretty sure Sammy is better off not hold that type of hate....justified though it may be.

"a literal dumb azz." Nah, you mean a black women who told you EXACTLY what Trump's policies would do if implemented. Christ, he only implemented them for a week! And what a typical right wing response. Thinking the Democrats are running AOC. Go back and tell me what Q is saying lately. What basement of what pizza place(that literally has no basements) are they holding the children and drinking their blood.... But "TLTR." Yes...reading is hard. Democrats DEFINITELY need to dumb down and simplify the messaging. They are not good at that.

Yeah. I've seen his positions. Let me...let YOU in on a secret. Not everyone who is on the left is in total agreement. If we were, we'd be a cult....or....a conservative(same thing these days).

WE didn't have one of them, YOU guys do. The guy who has said the 2016 primaries were rigged, the 2016 election was rigged(despite winning them)...the 2020 election was rigged and NEARLY stayed in power, likely would have if JD Vance was the President...and the guy who is now talking about how they can run a 3rd time? I see a shift in the dumbing down of America and when MOST people didn't understand that we actually pay the tariffs, they LOVED that. Harris said...in the debate, "Economists have said that if you implement Donald Trump's disastrous trade policy, we will be in a recession by the middle of next year." Trump -"We're gonna tariff the hell out of them! We're going to make so much money, people are going to say, what are we gonna do with all this money? We're going to pay off the debt and we're going to give that money back to you." I could buy dumber, but...no, you look at the NON-Trump elections and the Democrats are....destroying the Republican Party. Wisconsin, again, just won a huge state-wide election by over 10 points. That's a massive amount. What happened in '08 was you had this waive of white nationalism and fear mongering and you turned that into a movement of the stupid and Trump capitalized on that. Lets see what happens in '28 when Trump has...probably continued to screw things up(and then get credit for slightly unscrewing them). The only thing that happened this last time is we ran a guy whose mental decline was more noticeable as he wasn't mainlining Adderall, but listen to Trump talk and how he slurs. Not the "we took the airports," when talking about the Revolutionary War, all the rest. I mean, Jesus Christ, they tried to make his mug shot a point of pride. No, you and the rest of the QAnon nuts haven't moved at ALL!

Elon Musk's son became his daughter....which I don't know would have mattered given he seems to have little interest in doing anything other than trying to ensure he has enough money to leave each child 1B dollars(he won't at the rate he's going). But yeah, he made a cute little charge. Notice in 2008 what happened. Trump came along and started babbling about how Trump wasn't born in this Country, he was born in Kenya. Remember he said he had proof? His people were finding "very interesting things," and they'll be providing the evidence shortly? Still waiting on that. It's cute you don't think the right has moved. I don't think the right would have been Ok with the VP trying to accept a false slate of electors who had no business being there(J6). The Constitution was a bigger deal to them back then.

That's BS. The US has started supplying Israel more in the last couple decades, but no. But that's also part of how things work. That was BRITISH land, they divided it up and it was incumbent upon both to form a Govt' and become big boy countries. Israel did, Palestine couldn't. PALESTINE tried the land grabs...over...and over...and over. All they've about...was murdering Jews. So when you align yourself with the Nazi's and they want to divide up some land that they own(the British) that is the ancestral home land of the Jewish people... I'm good with that. AS for the Muslims in the Muslim world hating everyone. This is the same place that will LEGALLY put a women to death for trying to defend herself against a rapist. So just forgive me if I'm not shedding tears for the general ideology of the Muslim world.

I don't think so. The Republicans have won the popular vote twice since 1988 now. I don't think that is evidence of some glaring shift. That's the cult of Trump and the massive disinformation. Look at what is happening in these special elections.

That's what they did, why they were up to 4.5. I was just wondering what you thought about that in particular. I wasn't going to, but...when NVDA hit 153 and we'd hit more ATHs, I liquidated quite a bit. It's the first time I've ever done something like that, but I was able to get in...lower. Not the bottom, but I'm never aiming t sell at the ATH or buy the bottom, but...if I can reset my DCA...I'm...pretty happy. But I'm a pretty narrow investor. BRK.B is my energy/insurance basically ETF and then it's...all tech and has been since ~2020. NVDA mainly but just heavy in the semi space. TSM and AVGO, then META, AMZN...some that got beat to hell so I choose to not list them like Advanced Money Destroyer(but I did add a LOT to that in the 70s). But mostly, I just saw my portfolio go down, down, down...as the flames got higher...and in burned burned burned...a lot...or 'Here we go down now, here we go down There's nothing but the powers that be!' But now I'm a little more diversified and ready to liquidate again in 60 days and hopefully have nice big tax bill next year or hear about the trade deals rolling in and leave everything while we go parabolic...back to where we were on Jan 21st!

They really can't. And people aren't coming to "Trump's side." They sided with the United States. India refused to put tariffs on the US. Japan, South Korea. Those were the countries China needed them. They're working with the US. You really have this grandiose picture of China and this inferior picture of America. America was stupid to go after EVERYBODY. But everyone did see what happens when trade with the US is threatened. You keep saying "nobody else is coming to Trump's side," and that's just...not true.

Yeah, I got it under control with with Ohio Elite. I obviously don't click on the adds and I have....somehow about 450 dollars of ever Norton service you could need. It just kept re-directing the page(which...was kinda a performance issue) and it was only happening on this one website.

No...that's just not true. It's simply more difficult and they had them on charges that were SO much easier to prove because...they took video of themselves. The real problem was the Democrats dragging their feet and then picking Jack Smith...who was about as respected as they come(until investigating the guy that most Republicans in the weeks ensuing J6 said should happen) and then he had to deal with an incompetent Judge who...basically used the Nixon, "if the President does it, it's not illegal" argument, and then before it could be appealed, the election was here and... not much you could do. The "find me 11,862 votes," was...about as blatant as it gets. I'm still amazed though. Jross tried to paint the left as extremists and then he has...just continually verified it's actually the right who justifies what Trump did. Actually, let me be more clear. He "understands" why Trump acted the way he did if he really believed...what we NOW KNOW he didn't really believe, but he "understands" why he'd commit the crimes he committed. This is also like asking why if someone lied weren't they charged with perjury. Well, you need to PROVE they KNOWINGLY lied. There is just a high legal burden to doing so.

Any takes on the whole deal with Trump doing all of this to lower the 10 year to refinance? You seem like you'd have a lot of insight into this....

Also, just to be clear, Red VERY CLEARLY mentions the Bond Market in BOTH of them. You understand that means foreign Countries are dumping US Debt in MASSIVE quantities because they don't have faith in the US dollar or because they are being hit with irrationally high 145% tariffs.

Dude...how do you not see it's all of them? The one thing he set out to do, the FIRST priority, to "cut or a economic disaster," he's not doing. That actually got 50B dollars WORSE. -Then on TOP of that, you add that he did that while CRIPPLING the markets and causing people to lose trillions, but without a doubt hurt the middle class the worst(those who have a retirement fund and maybe they have 200K-1M in it and they sold on the way down because they were afraid he wouldn't stop...because he said he wouldn't stop and it would go down another 20-30%...and now they triggered massive penalties, taxes and then they lost that vlaue when it went back up because they don't have the money to "be patient." Here's a simple answer. Bond Market-Bigger deal to Trump and what he was trying to accomplish short term. Stock Market-BIG deal because he did everything for no reason. To use his analogy, he did the operation, it was terrible, the patient now has a colostomy bag, he's unable to walk, move...and THEN we found out the whole point for the surgery...well, surgery only made it worse. Jimmy, the one constant is you don't have a clue what is going on. Why the 10 year is important, why what happened with the Bond Market was a disaster. I have had time to look into this, but...if you can get 4.5%...Trump did all of this for literally nothing.

Jimmy! Are you kidding?!? China just start dumping US debt and it just HAMMERED the bond market! Trump wanted rates at 2% and they're at 4.5% right now! This was not the plan. This is 50B dollars more for the 10T he has to restructure coming due this year. If this was his plan ALL ALONG, it is without a doubt...the dumbest, most poorly executed plan in the History of Presidential Fiscal Policy. This was an unmitigated disaster! China could keep dumping US debt and just...HAMMER the US further. Both sides need to work something out...but my god what a joke. Putting 20% tariffs on China and threatening the rest of the world, that...well, that would have been crazy, but alright. Putting 10% or 50% on Australia or countries we're strong allies with is...remarkably stupid.

So you post a link from Oct of 2023...and say it's "coming" out as though you're posting breaking news? LOL...alright dude.

How is this HELPING your argument? They talk about a witnessed who lied to HURT the Bidens and it was so easily proven he lied, he's serving time in jail(Alexander Smirnov). And then it's simply reporting that the intelligence community is looking into the crazy Ray Epps stuff. That's somehow "geting closer?" Are you reading what you post? Because if you are, you'll see why Reuters IS a good source. It'll report what it knows and not...makek things up.

This is not a guy to be taken seriously.

They export trinkets and shoes and things that can easily be manufactured in Vietnam or elsewhere. We export things like Semiconductors that the rest of the world needs.

That's done, that's over with. There is an Israel. Palestinians had the choice of dealing with it and makin their own state or... continually going to war with an ENTIRE REGION on their side vs Israel. They choose War. They lost land. They wanted that land back. They didn't get it. So they choose war again. Lost more land. They got some of that land back. They didn't get it. The US started negotiating with allies, coming up with peace treaties. Camp David and the Oslo Accords being the two most significant. They continue to go to war. They continue to lose. They continue to think they should get a do-over. Not how that works.

No, Miley is a commie. He said bad things about Trump, ergo...Commie.

Jimmy, stop it. Again, you're just repeating BS you've read online. No, that's...not what happened...at all. We put them on Japan, Australia(arguably, our most important ally given Pine Gap and how vital that is to US intel). We did that for no discernible reason other than Trump thinks tariffs are a good way to raise money. If I need money... I don't just start charging friends and people who rely on me. It's... well, it defines Trump perfectly.

Bud, the John Stewart one is a TERRIBLE one to be bringing up...NOW. Where do you think Trump's approval rating has gone the last 3 weeks? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-approval-rating-trade-war-b2731702.html (I really don't follow which sites you guys consider legit or not other than the clever nicknames for CNN and MSNBC, so if you don't like that one, even Rasmussen has him falling proportionately the same). I'm not sure if anyone realizes how...incredibly moronic Trump went about these. He could not have handled any of this worse. Though, it is amusing how Trump got as much credit as he did for...slowing down his bungling of this!

Red...Trump would have to SIGN that legislation. You keep skipping over that part. We're not EVER going to have enough to override a veto, so that dream is NOT going to happen And the GOP isn't going to override THESE tariffs(though still dumb, they're not as bad). And I don't know why you keep saying China can survive these. You don't think we can? We are 1/4th of the world(a bit more) and then we have all the rest of the world. Their GDP will grow and China...they're not doing great right now. You want to root against the bully, it's a draw here(at best). But one of those bullies is at least ours. The other bully is the same bully that the Democrats have been railing against for years. Now Trump did this in the dumbest way possible and VERY different than every Democrat suggested, but it's still broadly speaking something they advocated. So... give up hope on the tariffs going back to the congress anytime soon. It's staying with POTUS for the rest of his term.