POLITICAL THREAD

[Farmy75]

You’re joking right? Where was your outrage when…

1) Biden awarded two no-bid contracts to Family Endeavors totaling $600 million for “handling migrants”. At the time of the award the Senior Director of Family Endeavors had strong ties to top Biden officials (who also happened to be holdovers from the Obama administration)

2) The Obama administration awarded a $350 million No-bid contract to Pearson Publishing to develop the Common Core project. When Obama left office he & his wife Mike signed a $65 million book deal with Penguin Random House (Pearson owned a 25% share in Penguin). That’s by far the largest book deal ever…5 times as large as 2nd place. Next closest at the time was $13 million signed by Bill & Hillary Clinton when they left office.

The cover up was in the exit strategy…In 2019, Pearson sold its US K-12 courseware business to the private equity firm Nexus Capital Management, which rebranded it as Savvas Learning Company. Pearson also sold its remaining 25% stake in Penguin Random House to Bertelsmann.

3) During Covid, King Andy awarded two no-bid contracts totaling $14 million to the Grimes family owned company, Emergency Disaster Services, to build two emergency field tents in Lexington & Louisvile.

Total cost = $14 million
Total bids = ZERO
Total number of patients treated at the facilities = ZERO

This is just an appetizer. The list of no-bids is looooooong with both the Biden & Obama administrations if you want me to continue. But the point remains…where was your outrage back then???

Let’s enforce our rules or update them against this, let’s not just say it’s ok now.

We have to get dark money out of our govt.
and the only way to do that is bipartisan legislation.

But if they keep us divided and angry and dismissing any critiques of each other then NOTHING will ever change.

 

[Bill Cosby]

The Cult loves high prices now. 🤣🤣🤣Whatever Dear Leader tells them is how they like it.

You are too dumb too understand. But for others…

The stock market was artificially inflated with government spending. There was no end in sight, so 10 yr yields went through the roof. The fed has a shit load of bonds to refinance in the very near term. Dropping rates is critically important.

By removing government waste and fraud, some of the air is being let out of the balloon. Equities are dropping, but so is the 10 year as people flea somewhere safe.

Given GDP nonsensically includes government spending, cuts to government spending will throw us into a recession until the private economy picks up. That also make US government borrowing more attractive as we look more like a country that will pay back its debt, not a banana republic.

So this short term pain (as measured by macro numbers that don’t really impct Main Street) for people with poor asset allocation will be well worth it in the long term.

But muh egg prices, you retards. That’s completely disconnected from inflation and the economy and is a direct result of Biden admin actions.

 

[Farmy75]

You are too dumb too understand. But for others…

The stock market was artificially inflated with government spending. There was no end in sight, so 10 yr yields went through the roof. The fed has a shit load of bonds to refinance in the very near term. Dropping rates is critically important.

By removing government waste and fraud, some of the air is being let out of the balloon. Equities are dropping, but so is the 10 year as people flea somewhere safe.

Given GDP nonsensically includes government spending, cuts to government spending will throw us into a recession until the private economy picks up. That also make US government borrowing more attractive as we look more like a country that will pay back its debt, not a banana republic.

So this short term pain (as measured by macro numbers that don’t really impct Main Street) for people with poor asset allocation will be well worth it in the long term.

But muh egg prices, you retards. That’s completely disconnected from inflation and the economy and is a direct result of Biden admin actions.

Trump always right, no criticism ever, 4d chess

Got it.

No inflationary actions implied if we're making BILLIONS from Tariffs...

 

[sambowieshin]

Everytime I go home my mom tries to tell me that it’s all the state unions faults for kentuckys education failings.

Another indoctrinated American sadly.
If all I did was watch Fox TV I would think there is no Pledge of Allegiance anymore, Pride flags cover every wall, Trans teachers are performing trans surgeries in the gym, and there are lessons every day in every class on the evils of the white man.

We can't get kids to bring a pencil to class or write their name on their paper but we can get them to change sexual orientation and gender on command.

Half our society has turned full Special Ed. 😂

 

[cole854]

There is no state teacher's union in Ky. There is no state teacher's union contract for Ky teachers.
There are no collective bargaining rights for Ky teachers.
There are no mandatory state teacher's union dues.
Jefferson County does have a teacher's union. The STATE doesn't.

Worked in Ky for decades and never once belonged to any union or association.

The fact that you don't acknowledge the KEA is example 10010010010001001 of your ignorance.

 

[sambowieshin]

You are too dumb too understand. But for others…

The stock market was artificially inflated with government spending. There was no end in sight, so 10 yr yields went through the roof. The fed has a shit load of bonds to refinance in the very near term. Dropping rates is critically important.

By removing government waste and fraud, some of the air is being let out of the balloon. Equities are dropping, but so is the 10 year as people flea somewhere safe.

Given GDP nonsensically includes government spending, cuts to government spending will throw us into a recession until the private economy picks up. That also make US government borrowing more attractive as we look more like a country that will pay back its debt, not a banana republic.

So this short term pain (as measured by macro numbers that don’t really impct Main Street) for people with poor asset allocation will be well worth it in the long term.

But muh egg prices, you retards. That’s completely disconnected from inflation and the economy and is a direct result of Biden admin actions.

Good job parrot. You deserve a cracker.
You left out the part about the high prices are all for battling fentanyl. 😂

Too dumb to see you are being played like a fiddle.

MAGA will be in history books for ALL the wrong reasons.

 

[HymanKaplan]

That's 74889 examples.

 

[Farmy75]

Good job parrot. You deserve a cracker.
You left out the part about the high prices are all for battling fentanyl. 😂

Too dumb to see you are being played like a fiddle.

MAGA will be in history books for ALL the wrong reasons.

Hey, Canada has Fentanyl LABS!
We're going to invade canada to protect american citizens from the less then 1% pouring over the border.

No critical thinking allowed, see tweet, re-tweet

 

[sambowieshin]

The fact that you don't acknowledge the KEA is example 10010010010001001 of your ignorance.

KEA is not a union fool. 😂😂😂😂
No KEA mandatory membership.
No KEA mandatory dues.
No KEA collective bargaining rights.
No KEA state union contract.
No KEA state salary contract.
No KEA state benefits contract.
No KEA state work hours contract.

So please tell me EXACTLY how KEA is anything other than a voluntary teacher organization that lobbies for pro education laws.

 

[HymanKaplan]

Trump owning life. 😎😎😎

 

[Bill Cosby]

Trump always right, no criticism ever, 4d chess

Got it.

No inflationary actions implied if we're making BILLIONS from Tariffs...

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I posted the same things before the election. Your inability to understand economics doesn’t make it 4 dimensional.

There’s a major difference in prices going up because of policy reasons or demand, and prices going up because the government dropped trillions of dollars out of a helicopter.

 

[cole854]

KEA is not a union fool. 😂😂😂😂

You just stuck your foot in your mouth again.

 

[HymanKaplan]

You just stuck your foot in your mouth again.

I have an outstanding idea about where the OTHER foot can go.

 

[sambowieshin]

You just stuck your foot in your mouth again.

Nah. You obviously don't have a clue about what a union is.

 

[gamecockcat]

You are too dumb too understand. But for others…

The stock market was artificially inflated with government spending. There was no end in sight, so 10 yr yields went through the roof. The fed has a shit load of bonds to refinance in the very near term. Dropping rates is critically important.

By removing government waste and fraud, some of the air is being let out of the balloon. Equities are dropping, but so is the 10 year as people flea somewhere safe.

Given GDP nonsensically includes government spending, cuts to government spending will throw us into a recession until the private economy picks up. That also make US government borrowing more attractive as we look more like a country that will pay back its debt, not a banana republic.

So this short term pain (as measured by macro numbers that don’t really impct Main Street) for people with poor asset allocation will be well worth it in the long term.

But muh egg prices, you retards. That’s completely disconnected from inflation and the economy and is a direct result of Biden admin actions.

At the end of December 2024, the S&P 500 price/earnings ratio was right at 30. Today, it's 28.84. Its long term average is 16.5-17.0 (depends on when you measure 'long term'). While P/E isn't the only 'fair price' measuring stick, it is one that a lot of analysts use. Many analysts have stated that artificially keeping interest rates low for a long period of time after the Great Recession and, more recently, the explosion of government deficit spending has inflated not only consumer prices but the stock market. That's not politics, that's Econ 101. Just before the Tech Bubble popped in 2000, the S&P P/E was roughly 34. From a historical perspective, the most recent market thru 2024 was greatly overvalued even though, in general, corporate earnings have remained consistently strong.

What can happen is: 1) the market declines, reducing the P/E ratio to more 'normal' levels before steadily growing again, 2) the market flattens for a while until earnings catch up, thus reducing the P/E ratio. From its lofty heights at the end of 2024, it would be quite unusual for the stock market to continue its steep climb. It could happen, of course, but math and history would bet against it.

 

[HeismaNole]

 

[screwduke1]

@augustaky1 @screwduke1 @TheFrontRunner

I wasn't expecting you to take a picture of my bathroom.

 

[wildcatwelder]

This should not be allowed in the U.S. This is tantamount to inviting the fox into the henhouse.

Are Democrats this stupid, or just this anti-American? I vote both. And yes, I am anti-Muslim; I don't trust them at all.

 

[sambowieshin]

I have an outstanding idea about where the OTHER foot can go.

You MAGAs can't move your foot in Trump's colon.
Btw.... Too bad Harris isn't in charge and keeping Putin in check. Mrs. TrumPutin bending over for him like a good little lady.
Harris was 100 percent spot on!! Commie traitors.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/09/europe/russia-advances-kursk-ukraine-intl/index.html

Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 20 as U.S. cuts intelligence sharing with Kyiv

Without U.S. satellite imagery, Ukraine’s ability to strike inside Russia and defend itself from bombardment is significantly diminished.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Fact_Checker]

We know most of you will stick with the R’s, but where do the voters that decide elections go in 2026 if the stock market is way down, unemployment is up, home values are down, and prices are still high for basic goods and services? You think voters will be tricked by a change in the GDP calculation or be willing to continue to support the “detox period” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessemer is warning us about?

 

[trueblujr2]

This should not be allowed in the U.S. This is tantamount to inviting the fox into the henhouse.

Are Democrats this stupid, or just this anti-American? I vote both. And yes, I am anti-Muslim; I don't trust them at all.

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First Dearborne, MI now this place in NJ. Who's next on the list.

 

[sambowieshin]

You just stuck your foot in your mouth again.

Stock market says hi ... Again
Funny how reality is so different than MAGA fantasy.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/09/stock-market-news-today-live-updates.html

 

[Farmy75]

At the end of December 2024, the S&P 500 price/earnings ratio was right at 30. Today, it's 28.84. Its long term average is 16.5-17.0 (depends on when you measure 'long term'). While P/E isn't the only 'fair price' measuring stick, it is one that a lot of analysts use. Many analysts have stated that artificially keeping interest rates low for a long period of time after the Great Recession and, more recently, the explosion of government deficit spending has inflated not only consumer prices but the stock market. That's not politics, that's Econ 101. Just before the Tech Bubble popped in 2000, the S&P P/E was roughly 34. From a historical perspective, the most recent market thru 2024 was greatly overvalued even though, in general, corporate earnings have remained consistently strong.

What can happen is: 1) the market declines, reducing the P/E ratio to more 'normal' levels before steadily growing again, 2) the market flattens for a while until earnings catch up, thus reducing the P/E ratio. From its lofty heights at the end of 2024, it would be quite unusual for the stock market to continue its steep climb. It could happen, of course, but math and history would bet against it.

Its really funny how nuance suddenly becomes important in a lot of very nuanced issues when an administration changes.
(this is not a challenge to you, because i have no idea your posting history or views, just a call out to others)

 

[AshWilliams]

So...lemme get this straight....

This guy (Democrat Senator Chris Murphy)...

Just stepped out on his wife....

For this chick at CNN (Tara McGowan)?????

LOLWUT?

Democratic media leader dating US senator

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy has recently been one of the most visible Democrats in Washington.

www.semafor.com

 

[AshWilliams]

We know most of you will stick with the R’s, but where do the voters that decide elections go in 2026 if the stock market is way down, unemployment is up, home values are down, and prices are still high for basic goods and services? You think voters will be tricked by a change in the GDP calculation or be willing to continue to support the “detox period” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessemer is warning us about?

If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.

Just remember: Any pain like you're describing is the DEMOCRATS' FAULT.

 

[cole854]

Stock market says hi ... Again
Funny how reality is so different than MAGA fantasy.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/09/stock-market-news-today-live-updates.html

My portfolio is doing great. Perhaps you shouldn't have lumped all of your money into DEI options.

 

[sambowieshin]

So...lemme get this straight....

This guy (Democrat Senator Chris Murphy)...

Just stepped out on his wife....

For this chick at CNN (Tara McGowan)?????

LOLWUT?

Democratic media leader dating US senator

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy has recently been one of the most visible Democrats in Washington.

www.semafor.com

Elon Musk's spouse history includes 2 ex-wives, 3 marriages, and no known, current partner

Who is Elon Musk's spouse? It's unclear if Musk has a partner currently. Learn about past relationships and ex-wives Justine Wilson and Talulah Riley.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Farmy75]

I posted the same things before the election. Your inability to understand economics doesn’t make it 4 dimensional.

There’s a major difference in prices going up because of policy reasons or demand, and prices going up because the government dropped trillions of dollars out of a helicopter.

 

[AshWilliams]

Just doing some quick math here. If you got rid of the DOE, and took their annual budget, the Federal government could give every public school student in this country 5360 DOLLARS PER YEAR

That's a lot of pencils.

I observe DAILY my students CANNOT keep pencils. Luckily I get donations of pencils every month or they'd be writing their papers in blood.

 

[sambowieshin]

My portfolio is doing great. Perhaps you shouldn't have lumped all of your money into DEI options.

I know you didn't have stocks in Tesla.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/business/stock-market-economy-tariffs-recession.html

DOGE Douche....45 percent drop. 😂😂

Tesla Stock Is Down 45 Percent And Still Dropping - Jalopnik

Tesla stock is pushing ever downwards, Toyota pauses further production lines after last week's explosion, Nissan wants a new boss, and more.

www.jalopnik.com

Loser!!!

Elon Musk net worth has dropped by over $100 billion so far this year

Challenges facing his companies have significantly reduced the fortune of the world's richest man.

www.newsweek.com

 

[AshWilliams]

Nah. You obviously don't have a clue about what a union is.

I've been a member of TWO unions and he's absolutely right.

 

[JumperJack]

Why are democrats so violent and dangerous?

 

[AshWilliams]

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The left doesn't humor well at all.

 

[sambowieshin]

I've been a member of TWO unions and he's absolutely right.

KEA is NOT a union period. You are 100 percent wrong.

 

[wildcatwelder]

Democrats: the party of VIOLENCE. If an election doesn't go their way, if policies don't go their way, VIOLENCE is their go to tactic of choice. Sickening. I'd be ASHAMED to call myself a Democrat. ASHAMED.

 

[JumperJack]

Let’s enforce our rules or update them against this, let’s not just say it’s ok now.

We have to get dark money out of our govt.
and the only way to do that is bipartisan legislation.

But if they keep us divided and angry and dismissing any critiques of each other then NOTHING will ever change.

You could probably stop letting them divide you by facing the fact that they lied to you about Russia collusion and then about nearly everything that occurred after that.

WE’RE not divided. YOU are divided, from truth.

 

[CaptainBoogerBuns]

morning all

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Wood

 

[Farmy75]

You MAGAs can't move your foot in Trump's colon.
Btw.... Too bad Harris isn't in charge and keeping Putin in check. Mrs. TrumPutin bending over for him like a good little lady.
Harris was 100 percent spot on!! Commie traitors.

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/09/europe/russia-advances-kursk-ukraine-intl/index.html

Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 20 as U.S. cuts intelligence sharing with Kyiv

Without U.S. satellite imagery, Ukraine’s ability to strike inside Russia and defend itself from bombardment is significantly diminished.

www.nbcnews.com

Still can't believe STRONG Trump ran and hid from Ole Word salad kamala after getting his ass kicked in front the of the US population, great advice though he probably wouldn't have been elected after another round of getting debunked in front of America again.

 

[sambowieshin]

Why are democrats so violent and dangerous?

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Why are Republicans so violent?

 

[AshWilliams]

KEA is NOT a union period. You are 100 percent wrong.

It's an association, that's true. I'm a member of an association too. And it doesn't do crap. It's feckless compared to a union. Associations are pretend unions.