In honest businesses, as in honest government, the ultimate challenge to the ‘deciders’ is to provide something worth more than it cost to produce. In business, this extra is a ‘profit.’
Just one question: Does anyone here, including Bill, think that the voters made the wrong choice in 2024? That the only alternative on offer, a Kamala Harris Presidency, would have been better? Sometimes we only get to vote for the lesser of two evils. And if that were the voters choice in 2024, who should really be blamed, "the man in the ring" who prevailed, or those powerbrokers in the Democrat Deep State who pinned their hopes on.... what exactly?
Just whinny sour grapes - now pointing their finger outward with four pointing inward..
No one thinks Harris would have been better. The sad thing -or the funny thing if you view it like George Carlin as a show, is that these two stiffs were the candidates. I don't think that at least since WW2 there have been two less qualified and flawed candidates.
Alpha dog? Both of these guys are suffering from dementia. Both were draft dodgers too. Sad that this is the choice you get in this country, isn't it? The Four Horseman of the Idiocracy (Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden) are perfect captains to steer the USS Titanic right into the debt iceberg.
I have a different view of Trumps mental faculties than you. Regardless, the description of "Alpha dog" is very accurate. The man is constantly on the move, whether you agree his policies or not. That we in the US seem to vote in extremely different candidates is undeniable. We lurch from Left to Right, if only as a corrective measure. There is nothing perfect in this world.
I'm curious, Cartero, from what country do you hail from? I'm not aware of any nation that has shouldered the responsibilities that my nation has, and is doing any better on any front, economically or with regard to security for its people.
I'm from the US but I've never known an Alpha dog who used copious quantities of makeup and was obese. Perhaps Trump is like Andrew "Alpha male" Tate who happens to be a friend of Barron Trump. Tough guy who was arrested dressed as a middle age woman and immediately started whining about his jail conditions.
You seem to have issues with things that aren’t issues for me. After the prior week of the Fauci hearing where the questioning involved an inordinate amount of critiquing his vanity and grifting, issues that are minor compared to neglected and the most important issue - the decision to foster GOF research in a hostile nation, I am exhausted and have no bandwidth available for any more nonsensical trivia. Certainly not someones physical appearance. Hopefully, you are native born to this nation and just fundamentally a malcontent critic. That would be your right. If, however, you are a naturalized American, you may want to reconsider your choice to locate here. Surely there must be some other place that would appreciate your input.
Ed, the sad part is we are never given a choice except that of the lesser of two evils. The two party takeover of American governance will be the death of the Republic. Much has changed over the corse of time, lawyers were barred from the legislative branch, our courts were designed for the citizen to fully access without need of a lawyer. There existed a Court of Equity, where cases were not argued by a lawyer but presented by a citizen and decided based on what the Constitution provided. Above all else fairness not citing some past case law, or Federal, State, or Local ordinance prescribed. These changes are only in perception, not fact. Americans are waking up hopefully not too late.
Trump was not elected to be the perfect president, the people wanted someone who was not presidential but combative. For all his flaws he's the best man if the choice is any of the presidents elected following Reagan. What we need is another William McKinley but if one like him was to come along, 60 senators would stab him to death.
No party holds the privilege of dictating to me how I shall vote. If loyalty to party is a form of patriotism, I am no patriot. If there is any valuable difference between a monarchist and an American, it lies in the theory that the American can decide for himself what is patriotic and what isn't. I claim that difference. I am the only person in the sixty millions that is privileged to dictate my patriotism.
That people passing on Harris was a move by the mentally deficient? I saw many demographics that normally support democrats (minorities, labor, etc.) move to the Right n 2024.
I have learned from lived experience that, similar to young children, people who are devoid of supporting facts, will turn to anger as a response mechanism.
Hopefully, once they get that out of their system they will then look critically at what their own side has wrought and make needed correction.
Every elected official takes an oath to uphold the Constitution. I'm wondering why they are allowed on the ballot or remain in office when they have no intention of upholding the oath they will swear to uphold?
I hear Trump lied, and yet don't they all lie once in office?
When the bureaucracy stays the same no matter who you elect. Not sure Trump was the lesser. Supporting stupid wars and killing a ton of people happened with Trump. Not sure what the lunatic Harris would have done.
Maybe send another plane load of cash in yet another quixotic effort to buy a tenuous peace? An act by Obama that provably did nothing to assuage the bloodlust of religious fanatics who hate Americans and were unabated in their goal of spreading violence throughout the ME? Sometimes, it's best to mow the grass before the snakes move in.
Bill has a point. You gotta shake your head at who can win elections in the US of A. I can think of some doozies, why not start in 2008? There have been lots of examples since then, makes one feel like it's a whitewater raft trip. The guides thinks the rocks are the targets.
Bill. You clearly have a point of view. I respect that which is why I subscribe and read. However it seems to make your point you have to ignore many things. Trump is a successful billionaire. His children are productive citizens. He is POTUS despite enormous opposition. Not many achieve that in the world. Iran is led by men who want to destroy-not live with, trade with, and accommodate western society (especially the USA). Men who want a nuclear weapon not as deterrence but to use it. I fear you may be right about the hopelessness of US economic position. The math is the math. But history is full of hopeless situations that somehow resolved with hope. The founding of our nation is one of those. Hope this is current dilemma is one more.
Appreciate and agree on most of what you set forth and the thoughtful manner thereof, especially the need to maintain hope. Don’t agree on “successful” billionaire, given how that wealth was created, or on his children as “productive citizens”. What have they created, or contributed to society?
Actually Elon was cofounder of PayPal wasn’t he? No help there. He may have government contracts but it is because the government needs him and his companies. So no it is not the government that creates the company like Obama said.
Lol most transformative technologies (internet, GPS, Siri, voice recognition, touch interfaces) originated in publicly funded research and nearly 100% of FDA-approved drugs have some connection to publicly funded basic research.
So basically, the foundational research of US tech and drug companies is publicly funded -or socialised.
There's also a good probability Bitcoin was a government project.
"Iran is led by men who want to destroy-not live with, trade with, and accommodate western society (especially the USA). Men who want a nuclear weapon not as deterrence but to use it."
You got receipts for these claims? Why would Iran want to destroy its Western markets?
"They" are a minority of Iranians, a small faction of Islamists among mostly Persians. "AMERICA" is the US Government, not the people, and Iran isn't alone in expressing its disdain towards it and its violent "spreading of democracy".
Those Americans govern the country and fire missiles, even killing school girls. They've invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Panama , Libya , Venezuela, Syria and they're showing terror throughout the Mideast!
Mr. Icebergs all I'll say is don't forget who has been authoring the agitprop and spinning the narratives that the gullible proles have been fed for the past 120 years.
Hint: In the public square you aren't allowed to say who.
If Iran had couped our government and installed a brutal dictator, do you think there would be Americans wanting revenge?
If Iran then backed Canada in an invasion of the US that resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties, do you think there would be Americans marching with Death to Iran signs?
Do you think if during negotiations with the US Iran bombed a grade school and killed 160 kids there would be anti-Iran demonstrations?
If Iran is such a threat why isn't Trump having his draft age son Barron and his granddaughter Kai sign up for military service? FDR's four sons served in the military during WW2 while Donnie's father was making millions in NYC real estate. Isn't it time the Trump family stepped up to fight in Draft Dodging Donnie's War of Choice?
When it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it's generally a duck. The Iranian leaders have hated the US. for decades and want to eliminate us from the face of the earth so they can perpetuate Islam onto western society. I for one don't want that and will resist that by all means. Thus we are where we are with the fight with the Iranian leadership. Iran's leadershio if given free rein would massacre the people of the US under Islam. Sad but I believe that to be true. Islam is not the problem the radical Islam leaders are.
Nice thought. Too bad neither Donnie or his family would make that sacrifice. Draft dodger Donnie and now his draft age son Barron Von Trump is busy speculating on crypto instead of serving in the military.
I would say being impeached twice, persecuted for the last 10 years so you can try to make a difference is a sacrifice. He is a scoundrel but who else could have fought the deep state in DC and survived? I would have quit long ago and retired to my golf course and grandchildren. He got the Abraham accords, closed the borders, got men out of women’s sports and locker rooms, move the embassy to Jerusalem and had a heck of a World Cup and 250th celebration. That’s something. Is he obnoxious? Yes! But again, what were our choices? Definitely not Harris. Another auto pen?
Well you have to wade deep into founding of Islam to find that answer, I assure that it there though hidden deep in the language of dogmatic orthodoxy.
Why did they wait 38 years to overthrow the Shah? Perhaps you didn't know that the Shah had the CIA trained SAVAK who through brutal techniques kept the population in check.
So why not ask why the hell did the US overthrow the democratically elected government in the first place?
Can you point out his successes? He bankrupted his AC casino when there was no legal gambling on the East Coast. Plus he stiffed the contractors. I lived in Philadelphia and followed the story in the press. And it wasn't a liberal press hounding a conservative because Donnie was not a conservative but a NY real estate guy. Any decent person couldn't look himself in tbe mirror after doing that.
Plus, his children are productive at crypto scams and insider deals. Barron Von Trump is even a friend of the Tate brothers - criminals that Trump helped get out of prison in Rumania and now awaiting extradition for sex trafficking. Funny thing is those guys are similar to Trump - supposed macho role models who start whining like spiloiled children because of prison conditions. Just like draft dodger Donnie lines war now but his dad got him a draft exemption for bone spurs.
Bill, your premise seems to be that DJT is a flim-flam man who makes lots of plans and promises but in the end just disappears with the money. I suppose you make a valid argument, but I don’t know given I have not made the “extensive and unbiased” study of his business practices that you and the MSM have. Does look familiar to another billionaire I know of that started a financial-advice publication and spends his time providing worthless and highly biased criticism of politicians without any financial value. Just take the money and run while providing criticism of DJT and NO financial advice. True, Tom and Dan are valuable assets and given their best advice. Too bad the namesake on the letterhead doesn’t.
Guitars, Bibles, Fragrances, Flatware, Watches, Sneakers, Shot glasses and cocktail shakers, Golf gear, polo shirts, skincare products, jackets and active wear, blankets, robes and linens, 250th collectables... this guy is a regular Wallmart of Presidential swag.
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Of course it's embarrassing, the "Most Powerful" man in the world peddling Chinese crap.
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But then I think of how Biden left Afghanistan...
And how Biden intentionally erased the national border...
And how the Biden team lied to America about this mental capacity...
This daily obsession with DJT is providing no value to the BPR reader. The vast majority of BPR subscribers fully understand the few benefits and value of big government and the vast array of con artists, grifters and unproductive workers on the tax payer dole. It would probably be more productive to sometimes mention some of the good initiatives emanating from the White House or Congress as well as the negative which for the most part are vastly better than the daily garbage we put up with over the Biden and Obama years. If Bill's obsession continues I'm only reading Tom's and Dan's weekly missives that provide much greater value to BPR readers.
Couple of things today, Bill mentioned an " honest government" which of course is an oxymoron. He also mentioned that government does not produce a product so they don't sell anything in the traditional way therefore there is no product and therefore there is no "profit". So I ask myself "why then are most of the congress multimillionaires and why are they able to pick stock winners at rate higher the Berkshire Hathaway?" Well of course the answer is that that government is extremely profitable. So when I juxtapose governmental "business behavior" with the manner in which Bill has characterized Trump's "business behavior" I don't see any daylight. Not sure Bill understands the business of our country?
Of course then there was Elon Musk. He has successfully started and managed an electric car company, a space ship company. a tunnel boring company, an internet company, and more. How many 0s in a trillion
Bill, after many many articles where I have just thought you had TDS I actually see your point after the last 2 days of musings. My problem is that the alternative was worse! Same ol same ol democrat candidate who was even worse. So I have to take the good with the bad with Trump. Don’t have a choice. That just sucks for a country like ours but the candidates all have warts so who do you support?
Most Republicans and many Independents, myself included, thought we were getting a businessman in 2016 at the helm of this fading republic that might be able to veer us in the right direction. Instead we got the ultimate con man.
Trump never had any intention to try and make America great again, only to make Trump greater and wealthier again. Just like the vast majority of politicians and government officials from all parties in positions of power. And to think there was a time I was naive enough to think they were working for us.
I’m very happy with the tax cuts I got. Guess you didn’t get any of those did you. I think you probably did, guess you wanted a tax increase, better look again at what he’s been doing.
Well Bill, todays piece is an interesting way to close the week. There is no doubt that Trump has had a colorful life both in business and personal activities. He's had many successful experiences and many disasters. We have two more years to see how this movie ends. I would like to believe the story of America isn't over but the political class seems "hell bent" (BOTH SIDES) on taking the ship down.....I hope the voters can make good choices and save the "republic" in time.
Not sure but it seems Trump personally has been quite successful despite the bankruptcies!
And now, as President, even more personally successful.
I also found this, the cost of waiting for a crash, especially if it may take many years to happen.
The cost of waiting
Imagine investing the day before the 1929 crash. Or Black Monday. Or the Dotcom bust, the GFC or COVID.
According to this chart from Ophir Asset Management, even history's worst market timing still produced exceptional long-term outcomes for patient investors. The 1929 investor compounded at 9.3% p.a., while those who invested before the 1987 crash and the GFC earned 10.6% and 10.7% p.a. respectively.
The lesson? Trying to avoid the next crash can be far more costly than simply getting invested and staying the course. As Peter Lynch famously said, "Far more money has been lost preparing for a downturn than in the downturns themselves."
I suppose it comes down to verifying the difference between an outright lie with some measurable degree of negative consequence and exaggeration or hyperbole, with none. It's not as though Trump is getting a free pass. He's got enemies galore.
Looking at some of his enemies; the lawyerly language employed by the "51 intel experts" to throw everyone off the trail about Hunter Biden's laptop - and the incriminating evidence of grifting it contained - is a classic example for the ages. "Having all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation" was calculated language to get every mouth-breather convinced that Hunter was being lied about, and I guarantee that there are still people today that think "the Russkies" put Trump in office. But technically, not a lie, per se'... See how they did that?
Meanwhile, when Abby Lowell tried to sue John Paul Mac Isaac, the nearly blind computer repair guy for giving Hunters laptop to the FBI and Guliani, the tacit admission that it was indeed Hunter's laptop, went right over the heads of said mouth-breathers and their media sycophants. Not simply evidence of a lie, but evidence of a corruption in government that involved the Justice and Intel departments - essentially a soft coup d'etat - and what was done about any of it?
We live in a corrupted society with a complicit press. Anyone with any experience parsing contractual language saw it easily. The partisans and their rubes? Absolutely not...
Just one question: Does anyone here, including Bill, think that the voters made the wrong choice in 2024? That the only alternative on offer, a Kamala Harris Presidency, would have been better? Sometimes we only get to vote for the lesser of two evils. And if that were the voters choice in 2024, who should really be blamed, "the man in the ring" who prevailed, or those powerbrokers in the Democrat Deep State who pinned their hopes on.... what exactly?
Just whinny sour grapes - now pointing their finger outward with four pointing inward..
I have reminded my Dem friends for the past 10 years that they have only their party leadership to blame for DJT…and every one of them agrees.
No one thinks Harris would have been better. The sad thing -or the funny thing if you view it like George Carlin as a show, is that these two stiffs were the candidates. I don't think that at least since WW2 there have been two less qualified and flawed candidates.
Yet, as people, the differences between the two (and Biden) couldn't have been starker. The Alpha dog versus the Zombie.
Alpha dog? Both of these guys are suffering from dementia. Both were draft dodgers too. Sad that this is the choice you get in this country, isn't it? The Four Horseman of the Idiocracy (Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden) are perfect captains to steer the USS Titanic right into the debt iceberg.
I have a different view of Trumps mental faculties than you. Regardless, the description of "Alpha dog" is very accurate. The man is constantly on the move, whether you agree his policies or not. That we in the US seem to vote in extremely different candidates is undeniable. We lurch from Left to Right, if only as a corrective measure. There is nothing perfect in this world.
I'm curious, Cartero, from what country do you hail from? I'm not aware of any nation that has shouldered the responsibilities that my nation has, and is doing any better on any front, economically or with regard to security for its people.
I'm from the US but I've never known an Alpha dog who used copious quantities of makeup and was obese. Perhaps Trump is like Andrew "Alpha male" Tate who happens to be a friend of Barron Trump. Tough guy who was arrested dressed as a middle age woman and immediately started whining about his jail conditions.
You seem to have issues with things that aren’t issues for me. After the prior week of the Fauci hearing where the questioning involved an inordinate amount of critiquing his vanity and grifting, issues that are minor compared to neglected and the most important issue - the decision to foster GOF research in a hostile nation, I am exhausted and have no bandwidth available for any more nonsensical trivia. Certainly not someones physical appearance. Hopefully, you are native born to this nation and just fundamentally a malcontent critic. That would be your right. If, however, you are a naturalized American, you may want to reconsider your choice to locate here. Surely there must be some other place that would appreciate your input.
Ed, the sad part is we are never given a choice except that of the lesser of two evils. The two party takeover of American governance will be the death of the Republic. Much has changed over the corse of time, lawyers were barred from the legislative branch, our courts were designed for the citizen to fully access without need of a lawyer. There existed a Court of Equity, where cases were not argued by a lawyer but presented by a citizen and decided based on what the Constitution provided. Above all else fairness not citing some past case law, or Federal, State, or Local ordinance prescribed. These changes are only in perception, not fact. Americans are waking up hopefully not too late.
Trump was not elected to be the perfect president, the people wanted someone who was not presidential but combative. For all his flaws he's the best man if the choice is any of the presidents elected following Reagan. What we need is another William McKinley but if one like him was to come along, 60 senators would stab him to death.
No party holds the privilege of dictating to me how I shall vote. If loyalty to party is a form of patriotism, I am no patriot. If there is any valuable difference between a monarchist and an American, it lies in the theory that the American can decide for himself what is patriotic and what isn't. I claim that difference. I am the only person in the sixty millions that is privileged to dictate my patriotism.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
Sad...very sad...the rationalization of "TrumpTards" everywhere
O Bob Id like to hear your retard rationalization. Probably be same as Bill’s idiotic rants.
That people passing on Harris was a move by the mentally deficient? I saw many demographics that normally support democrats (minorities, labor, etc.) move to the Right n 2024.
I have learned from lived experience that, similar to young children, people who are devoid of supporting facts, will turn to anger as a response mechanism.
Hopefully, once they get that out of their system they will then look critically at what their own side has wrought and make needed correction.
In the meantime, the show must go on...
Every elected official takes an oath to uphold the Constitution. I'm wondering why they are allowed on the ballot or remain in office when they have no intention of upholding the oath they will swear to uphold?
I hear Trump lied, and yet don't they all lie once in office?
When the bureaucracy stays the same no matter who you elect. Not sure Trump was the lesser. Supporting stupid wars and killing a ton of people happened with Trump. Not sure what the lunatic Harris would have done.
Maybe send another plane load of cash in yet another quixotic effort to buy a tenuous peace? An act by Obama that provably did nothing to assuage the bloodlust of religious fanatics who hate Americans and were unabated in their goal of spreading violence throughout the ME? Sometimes, it's best to mow the grass before the snakes move in.
Bill has a point. You gotta shake your head at who can win elections in the US of A. I can think of some doozies, why not start in 2008? There have been lots of examples since then, makes one feel like it's a whitewater raft trip. The guides thinks the rocks are the targets.
Bill. You clearly have a point of view. I respect that which is why I subscribe and read. However it seems to make your point you have to ignore many things. Trump is a successful billionaire. His children are productive citizens. He is POTUS despite enormous opposition. Not many achieve that in the world. Iran is led by men who want to destroy-not live with, trade with, and accommodate western society (especially the USA). Men who want a nuclear weapon not as deterrence but to use it. I fear you may be right about the hopelessness of US economic position. The math is the math. But history is full of hopeless situations that somehow resolved with hope. The founding of our nation is one of those. Hope this is current dilemma is one more.
Appreciate and agree on most of what you set forth and the thoughtful manner thereof, especially the need to maintain hope. Don’t agree on “successful” billionaire, given how that wealth was created, or on his children as “productive citizens”. What have they created, or contributed to society?
Actually Elon was cofounder of PayPal wasn’t he? No help there. He may have government contracts but it is because the government needs him and his companies. So no it is not the government that creates the company like Obama said.
Lol most transformative technologies (internet, GPS, Siri, voice recognition, touch interfaces) originated in publicly funded research and nearly 100% of FDA-approved drugs have some connection to publicly funded basic research.
So basically, the foundational research of US tech and drug companies is publicly funded -or socialised.
There's also a good probability Bitcoin was a government project.
Liberals...
"Iran is led by men who want to destroy-not live with, trade with, and accommodate western society (especially the USA). Men who want a nuclear weapon not as deterrence but to use it."
You got receipts for these claims? Why would Iran want to destroy its Western markets?
I dunno...
They display "DEATH TO AMERICA"
On the sides of skyscrapers, billboards and scrawl it on their bombs.
They repeat it at their political rallies and gatherings.
They chant it in their prayers.
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Kinda seems like they don't care for westerners all that much...
Perhaps you should look to the Quran for your answer....
"They" are a minority of Iranians, a small faction of Islamists among mostly Persians. "AMERICA" is the US Government, not the people, and Iran isn't alone in expressing its disdain towards it and its violent "spreading of democracy".
Those islamists govern the country and fire the missiles and produce the terror.
Those Americans govern the country and fire missiles, even killing school girls. They've invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Panama , Libya , Venezuela, Syria and they're showing terror throughout the Mideast!
You asked "Why would Iran want to destroy its Western Markets."
I don't know, why did the IRGC want to destroy the U.S. even prior to the recent U.S. attack.
Not sure why the Iranian people waited 38 years to revolt against the Shah.
Perhaps it's because they are not the fanatical people were told they are?
Why then did they allow the IRGC to command them?
As you point out, the Persian peoples are the largest populous in Iran.
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Why do you think the IRGC wants the bomb more than life itself?
I'm told it's part of their ideology!
Obviously the bomb is more important to the IRGC than water for their people.
And here you are poopooing them as a small insignificant faction?
They outgun their populous and hold the world in check.
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The Persian people are either culpable or victims of the IRGC and/or the U.S.
I am unsure... and perhaps they are too...
The U.S. media is silent about this.
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The same as Hamas cowardly hiding behind their citizenry.
The IRGC hides behind their populous.
Who is the enemy if you are slaughtering your own people?
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Not sure there is a gov't in the world that isn't cursing the U.S.
Still the line to get into the U.S. seems to be getting longer...
Mr. Icebergs all I'll say is don't forget who has been authoring the agitprop and spinning the narratives that the gullible proles have been fed for the past 120 years.
Hint: In the public square you aren't allowed to say who.
In Iran apparently most of the population is against the fundamentalist regime … yet the minority rule of the majority.
"...destroy Israel and America and NATO and EU etc."
That is A LOT of destruction, not seen since perhaps Genghis Khan? Or PornHub?
If Iran had couped our government and installed a brutal dictator, do you think there would be Americans wanting revenge?
If Iran then backed Canada in an invasion of the US that resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties, do you think there would be Americans marching with Death to Iran signs?
Do you think if during negotiations with the US Iran bombed a grade school and killed 160 kids there would be anti-Iran demonstrations?
Yes.
What's your point?
They are a threat, regardless of why...
If Iran is such a threat why isn't Trump having his draft age son Barron and his granddaughter Kai sign up for military service? FDR's four sons served in the military during WW2 while Donnie's father was making millions in NYC real estate. Isn't it time the Trump family stepped up to fight in Draft Dodging Donnie's War of Choice?
Funny stuff...
After constant lambasting of the President.
Describing him as a dictator, a madman.
Unscrupulous.
Then you question why Trump does not act ethically...
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me".
...said no liberal, ever!
The most egregious thing it seems you can do to a liberal is call them by something they don't identify as...
Like pointing to a male and calling him "a man"...
When it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it's generally a duck. The Iranian leaders have hated the US. for decades and want to eliminate us from the face of the earth so they can perpetuate Islam onto western society. I for one don't want that and will resist that by all means. Thus we are where we are with the fight with the Iranian leadership. Iran's leadershio if given free rein would massacre the people of the US under Islam. Sad but I believe that to be true. Islam is not the problem the radical Islam leaders are.
"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make".
- Lord Farquaad (and Mark)
Sometimes you have to sacrifice for what you believe in. Which I have done before I retired from the Army.
Nice thought. Too bad neither Donnie or his family would make that sacrifice. Draft dodger Donnie and now his draft age son Barron Von Trump is busy speculating on crypto instead of serving in the military.
I would say being impeached twice, persecuted for the last 10 years so you can try to make a difference is a sacrifice. He is a scoundrel but who else could have fought the deep state in DC and survived? I would have quit long ago and retired to my golf course and grandchildren. He got the Abraham accords, closed the borders, got men out of women’s sports and locker rooms, move the embassy to Jerusalem and had a heck of a World Cup and 250th celebration. That’s something. Is he obnoxious? Yes! But again, what were our choices? Definitely not Harris. Another auto pen?
We will see about that...said the CCW American...
Well you have to wade deep into founding of Islam to find that answer, I assure that it there though hidden deep in the language of dogmatic orthodoxy.
Not so sure it's that deep...
For what other than oil, nuts.
Why did they wait 38 years to overthrow the Shah? Perhaps you didn't know that the Shah had the CIA trained SAVAK who through brutal techniques kept the population in check.
So why not ask why the hell did the US overthrow the democratically elected government in the first place?
Can you point out his successes? He bankrupted his AC casino when there was no legal gambling on the East Coast. Plus he stiffed the contractors. I lived in Philadelphia and followed the story in the press. And it wasn't a liberal press hounding a conservative because Donnie was not a conservative but a NY real estate guy. Any decent person couldn't look himself in tbe mirror after doing that.
Plus, his children are productive at crypto scams and insider deals. Barron Von Trump is even a friend of the Tate brothers - criminals that Trump helped get out of prison in Rumania and now awaiting extradition for sex trafficking. Funny thing is those guys are similar to Trump - supposed macho role models who start whining like spiloiled children because of prison conditions. Just like draft dodger Donnie lines war now but his dad got him a draft exemption for bone spurs.
Bill, your premise seems to be that DJT is a flim-flam man who makes lots of plans and promises but in the end just disappears with the money. I suppose you make a valid argument, but I don’t know given I have not made the “extensive and unbiased” study of his business practices that you and the MSM have. Does look familiar to another billionaire I know of that started a financial-advice publication and spends his time providing worthless and highly biased criticism of politicians without any financial value. Just take the money and run while providing criticism of DJT and NO financial advice. True, Tom and Dan are valuable assets and given their best advice. Too bad the namesake on the letterhead doesn’t.
Guitars, Bibles, Fragrances, Flatware, Watches, Sneakers, Shot glasses and cocktail shakers, Golf gear, polo shirts, skincare products, jackets and active wear, blankets, robes and linens, 250th collectables... this guy is a regular Wallmart of Presidential swag.
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Of course it's embarrassing, the "Most Powerful" man in the world peddling Chinese crap.
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But then I think of how Biden left Afghanistan...
And how Biden intentionally erased the national border...
And how the Biden team lied to America about this mental capacity...
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Trump as bad as he is; is not guilty of treason.
This daily obsession with DJT is providing no value to the BPR reader. The vast majority of BPR subscribers fully understand the few benefits and value of big government and the vast array of con artists, grifters and unproductive workers on the tax payer dole. It would probably be more productive to sometimes mention some of the good initiatives emanating from the White House or Congress as well as the negative which for the most part are vastly better than the daily garbage we put up with over the Biden and Obama years. If Bill's obsession continues I'm only reading Tom's and Dan's weekly missives that provide much greater value to BPR readers.
Couple of things today, Bill mentioned an " honest government" which of course is an oxymoron. He also mentioned that government does not produce a product so they don't sell anything in the traditional way therefore there is no product and therefore there is no "profit". So I ask myself "why then are most of the congress multimillionaires and why are they able to pick stock winners at rate higher the Berkshire Hathaway?" Well of course the answer is that that government is extremely profitable. So when I juxtapose governmental "business behavior" with the manner in which Bill has characterized Trump's "business behavior" I don't see any daylight. Not sure Bill understands the business of our country?
Tom, don't you mean to say...
"Employed" by the gov't can be a highly profitable venture.
Gov't is $40T in debt.
Not so profitable...
It did cross my mind but my framing was more fun, at least for me. But good catch.
...that's what the IRS agent told me!
Wise attorney
Of course then there was Elon Musk. He has successfully started and managed an electric car company, a space ship company. a tunnel boring company, an internet company, and more. How many 0s in a trillion
Bill, after many many articles where I have just thought you had TDS I actually see your point after the last 2 days of musings. My problem is that the alternative was worse! Same ol same ol democrat candidate who was even worse. So I have to take the good with the bad with Trump. Don’t have a choice. That just sucks for a country like ours but the candidates all have warts so who do you support?
Most Republicans and many Independents, myself included, thought we were getting a businessman in 2016 at the helm of this fading republic that might be able to veer us in the right direction. Instead we got the ultimate con man.
Trump never had any intention to try and make America great again, only to make Trump greater and wealthier again. Just like the vast majority of politicians and government officials from all parties in positions of power. And to think there was a time I was naive enough to think they were working for us.
I’m very happy with the tax cuts I got. Guess you didn’t get any of those did you. I think you probably did, guess you wanted a tax increase, better look again at what he’s been doing.
Well Bill, todays piece is an interesting way to close the week. There is no doubt that Trump has had a colorful life both in business and personal activities. He's had many successful experiences and many disasters. We have two more years to see how this movie ends. I would like to believe the story of America isn't over but the political class seems "hell bent" (BOTH SIDES) on taking the ship down.....I hope the voters can make good choices and save the "republic" in time.
Jim Marshall
Good choices? I'll take "none of the above."
If only there was a way to tether the pusher to the woman at the top of the stairs
Not sure but it seems Trump personally has been quite successful despite the bankruptcies!
And now, as President, even more personally successful.
I also found this, the cost of waiting for a crash, especially if it may take many years to happen.
The cost of waiting
Imagine investing the day before the 1929 crash. Or Black Monday. Or the Dotcom bust, the GFC or COVID.
According to this chart from Ophir Asset Management, even history's worst market timing still produced exceptional long-term outcomes for patient investors. The 1929 investor compounded at 9.3% p.a., while those who invested before the 1987 crash and the GFC earned 10.6% and 10.7% p.a. respectively.
The lesson? Trying to avoid the next crash can be far more costly than simply getting invested and staying the course. As Peter Lynch famously said, "Far more money has been lost preparing for a downturn than in the downturns themselves."
The skills required to *become* President have never been so far removed from the skills required to *be* President. Hate the game, not the players.
Agree
"Honest government?" That must be something new. I'm unfamiliar with that term.
I suppose it comes down to verifying the difference between an outright lie with some measurable degree of negative consequence and exaggeration or hyperbole, with none. It's not as though Trump is getting a free pass. He's got enemies galore.
Looking at some of his enemies; the lawyerly language employed by the "51 intel experts" to throw everyone off the trail about Hunter Biden's laptop - and the incriminating evidence of grifting it contained - is a classic example for the ages. "Having all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation" was calculated language to get every mouth-breather convinced that Hunter was being lied about, and I guarantee that there are still people today that think "the Russkies" put Trump in office. But technically, not a lie, per se'... See how they did that?
Meanwhile, when Abby Lowell tried to sue John Paul Mac Isaac, the nearly blind computer repair guy for giving Hunters laptop to the FBI and Guliani, the tacit admission that it was indeed Hunter's laptop, went right over the heads of said mouth-breathers and their media sycophants. Not simply evidence of a lie, but evidence of a corruption in government that involved the Justice and Intel departments - essentially a soft coup d'etat - and what was done about any of it?
We live in a corrupted society with a complicit press. Anyone with any experience parsing contractual language saw it easily. The partisans and their rubes? Absolutely not...
Scary stuff, because they all vote too.