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playing dumb like that was probably just about the best possible response he could have had, being ambushed like that. of course whether he was "playing" or not is sure to be a matter of dispute...Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
at any rate, bad taste throwing that in like that, but it's nice it was on nbc, since they invented the phrase.
This will get the unhinged left off to a nice triggered start to 2022.
NASCAR Driver Brandon Brown Unveils 'Let's Go, Brandon' Car (breitbart.com)
Didn't take long to reaffirm that NASCAR top management is 100% woke (brain-dead).Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDawg
NASCAR Bans ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Sponsored Race Car — The Republic Brief
Yeah the “noose” lies were proof along with almost zero attendanceQuote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDawg
I don’t make stock recommendations and I didn’t recommend one to you. You asked about ETFs for dividend yield and I pointed you to a screener that listed ETFs based on dividend yield.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
You are the one that chose “REVS” off their list, because you found it “enticing.” Not me.
I have been in JEPI because it better suits my investment criteria, including the amount of risk I am willing to take to chase an income yield. It has given me 6-8% yield plus capital appreciation. Of course, past results don’t indicate future performance. And I may sell or not sell my position in JEPI at any point for various reasons.
REVS sucks!
JEPI pays monthly, which is good, but it's income yield based on current PPS is about 4.8%. Not bad. In a DRIP monthly divie-payers grow quickly. I know the 6-8% you mentioned includes price appreciation.
Based on what I paid, (average cost basis, approx $54) my yield on basis is about what I quoted. Plus, another approximately 15% capital appreciation - total return over 20 percent last year for JEPI, which is about what I would expect for lower volatility covered call large cap income play in a year that the S&P500 killed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Oh, got it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
I've held some aristocrats so long you'd be shocked what my real and calculated return is. The "real" return is what the brokerages track, including the reinvested dollars (DRIP). But, I also keep a spreadsheet where I capture only new money, i.e. money I buy new shares, and the original investment. For instance, I hold Coke (KO) 780 shares with a cost avg of $11.85 and trending down. One of 32 good divie-payers I hold. Of course, many of those are much newer to me, and it'll take years of DRIP to get those where I want 'em.
Now, if there is a 20% "correction" or two! I will back up the truck!
BTW, is a 20% drop really a "correction"? Seems more like a crash to me.
20% drop is kind of where you define a “bear” market. Not sure whether you would also call it a correction or a crash.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Many stocks are already in a bear market, including many of the high multiple hyper growth stocks.
The mega caps, and the indexes that weight heavily to them (including the S&P500 and Nasdaq 100) have seen smaller corrections. To see a 20 percent index correction, you would presumably need to see heavy selling in the mega caps. Their earnings/growth have been solid and there really hasn’t been a better place to put your money, so the trade is also very crowded.
A 20% correction/crash would only take us back to 2021 levels, so I can see why people might call it a “correction.”
We need to take this discussion to the Stock Market-Investing thread.
Most of us know POTUS wield very little to sometimes NO influence on the stock market. Oh, the market will react to things POTUS do or say, but those are always very temporary.
About time to look at Sleepy's Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll numbers again as a milestone was crossed today for the first time.
Sleepy's Strongly Approve number is now at 19%. Strongly Disapprove is at 48% for a Rasmussen Index number of -29. Sleepy's streak of -20 or worse in the Index started September 21 and now stands at 73 consecutive daily polls.
Total Approve is at 40% with Total Disapprove at 58%.
I predict Biden will go quietly into the night in 2024. He won't seek reelection. Well, he won't know that he isn't, his wife will fill his pea-brained head with nonsense designed to keep him in the dark. Kind of like it's going on now.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDawg
Serious historic question: has a sitting president seeking reelection ever NOT gotten his party's nomination? I'll have to look that up.
Answer: Yes, once. In 1852 Franklin Pierce (D) was seeking his party's nomination to run for reelection but the Dem Party was fed up with his anti-slavery stances, including the Missouri-Kansas Compromise, that he lost in the primary.
Four other times a sitting POTUS did not get his party's nomination but in each of those cases it was the VP who had ascended to the Oval Office following the death of the president. So, he was not the elected POTUS to begin with.
Biden will join Franklin Pierce as the only ones in history, should the sleepy fool try.
Almost a year later and Biden has turned out to be the worst president in the history of our country.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Here's an article by Marc Thiessen in today's Washington Post about Biden's first year.
In my last column, I listed the 10 best things President Joe Biden did in his first year in office. Here are the 10 worst (winnowing this list down to just 10 entries was extremely difficult):
10. He canceled Operation Legend amid a record crime wave in U.S. cities. At least 12 major cities broke annual homicide records in 2021. Yet Biden ended the Trump Justice Department’s Operation Legend, which deployed federal officers to aid local law enforcement and helped arrest more than 6,000 criminals.
9. He weaponized the FBI to intimidate parents who show up at school board meetings. Parents are furious about pandemic closures and schools indoctrinating their kids with extremist ideologies.
8. In the midst of a historic labor shortage, he pushed vaccine mandates. Forcing employers with more than 100 employees to fire unvaccinated workers — even if they have natural immunity from previous infection — or impose onerous weekly testing requirements would drive more Americans out of the labor force, at a time when businesses can’t find workers and there are more than 11 million unfilled jobs.
7. His war on fossil fuels drove domestic production down and gasoline prices through the roof. Then he begged the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) — a foreign oil cartel — to produce more oil, which will result in the same emissions as domestically produced oil.
6. He greenlighted Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany. Then Biden inappropriately pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Russian energy dominance over his country.
5. He showed weakness in the face of Russian aggression against Ukraine. Then, channeling his inner Neville Chamberlain, Biden offered to hold talks to discuss Russia’s concerns on NATO and the possibility of “accommodations.”
4. He unleashed the worst border crisis in U.S. history. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported more than 1.7 million encounters with illegal migrants at the southern border, nearly four times the number the year before, the highest annual total on record — including 378,000 who were not from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador or Guatemala.
3. His $1.9 trillion in social spending disguised as “COVID-19 relief” helped unleash inflation and extreme labor shortages. This was the worst fiscal policy mistake in decades, passed with Democratic votes alone.
2. He failed to deliver on his promise to put his “whole soul” into uniting the country. Biden threatened to veto his own bipartisan infrastructure bill, then went to Capitol Hill and urged members of his own party to take it hostage as leverage to pass Build Back Better.
1. His withdrawal from Afghanistan was the most shameful foreign policy calamity in my lifetime. Biden left hundreds of U.S. citizens and as many as 62,000 of our Afghan allies behind enemy lines, and forced NATO allies to abandon their citizens and allies as well.
That’s a shameful list, but it only scratches the surface. Among the (dis)honorable mentions: Biden proposed what the New York Times reports were the “highest sustained levels of federal spending since World War II”; he increased vaccine hesitancy by insulting the unvaccinated; at a time when the threat from China is rising, he sent Congress a budget that actually cut defense spending after inflation; and he told Putin that 16 areas of the United States’ critical infrastructure were off-limits to Russian cyberattacks — which effectively told the Russian leader that the rest were not.Little wonder that Biden suffered the fastest collapse in public approval of any president in modern history.This was the worst first year of any president in my lifetime.— Marc Thiessen is a columnist for the Washington Post.
He is a definite contender for that title: worst POTUS ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by DONW
Carter was a clear #1 and then obummer came along and challenged for the title. I think obummer edges Carter out as the current #1 because of his strong anti-American policies. obummer does hold the economy advantage over Carter since Jimmy's tenure was a total train wreck while obummer was responsible for the slowest "recovery" in US history. But he did have an anemic 1.8% annual growth on average over his 8 years. That is the absolute worst in US history for any 2-term POTUS. Jimmy Carter was, and still is, a goofy boob but at least he loves America.
Biden is taking the worst from Carter's and obummer's playbooks and made them his platform. In just one year he has elevated Jimmy Carter to the 3rd worst POTUS in history!
Biden reading from his commie-staff's written bullshit speech....LOL! All the bad things he is pointing out is what he and the rotten Dem Party stand for and do.
Just waiting in for his resignation speech since almost 75% of the total Covid deaths are on his watch.
Sleepy without his medication....
"I'm Insulted You Asked That Question" - Biden Snaps at Reporter Asking About Stacey Abrams Snub (VIDEO) (thegatewaypundit.com)
CPI jumped 7% in December. Wow! good job Joe.
I was more confused by the "on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?" question...Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDawg
Honestly, neither of them did much to advance "voting rights" for anybody. I am of the opinion that this was more about appeal to people's emotions, a la "put y'all back in chains..." nonsense.
Sleepy wants everyone to forget history as recently as the 1960s when Dimmwits were the party of black oppression. The truth is that it still is except for the black political class.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChuckK3
Would easily be double digits if CPI was still computed as it was in the early 1970s when wage and price controls were put in place.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Very rough day in a string of rough days in the polls for Sleepy. 4% is basically within the margin of error to zero.
Quinnipiac Poll: Biden Overall Approval Plummets to 33 Percent - Only 25 Percent Approval Among Independents (thegatewaypundit.com)
Poll: Just 4% Say Economy Has Recovered Under Biden's Leadership (breitbart.com)
Day 80 of Sleepy's -20 or worse streak in the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Poll Index is significant in that the Total Approve number dropped to 39% for the first time.
Total Approve 39%, Total Disapprove 59%
Strongly Approve 20%, Strong Disapprove 49%, Daily Index -29
I would argue it is that still, especially for the black political class.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDawg
Why would a black politician vote against school choice except to make sure their constituents stay huddled together, living in substandard housing and dealing with high crime while collecting peanuts from those that claim to represent them? They are nothing but votes to the black political class.
When they figure out they are being sold out for a price that would have made a pre Civil War slave owner blush, they will make a giant leap towards a remedy for their woes.
IF the CPI number was bad, the PPI number is worse.
Bidenflation: Producer Price Index Jumps a Full Year Record High 9.7% (breitbart.com)
My point is the black political class rakes in money hand over fist on the backs of its black constituents.Quote:
Originally Posted by DawgyNWindow
Biden touches his face every time he tells a lie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8635FcYsBk
No argument from me!Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDawg
Most don't continue to live in the "hood" either.
Landmark day 81 in the Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll that fits the pattern of the week for Sleepy.
New all-time worst dating back to Obama in the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll Index with a -31 as only 18% (beats the Obama all-time worst of 19%) Strongly Approve and 49% Strongly Approve.
Overall just 38% Approve and 60% Disapprove, both the worsts for the current regime.
Couldn't say it much better myself.
Tulsi Gabbard Blasts Biden: 'He Has Betrayed Us All' (breitbart.com)
Well they've had almost 12 months and have failed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
In 12 months they already got us out of Afghanistan and passed infrastructure. Things Trump could only talk about.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
[QUOTE=Guisslapp;1824048]In 12 months they already got us out of Afghanistan and passed infrastructure. Things Trump could only talk about.[/QUOTE
Keep trying to spin this and prop up this administration... It's quite entertaining..
Who is out of Afghanistan? You mean the troops while leaving thousands behind. Yeah, great move by the former VP.
The vast majority of Americans that remained in Afghanistan after the troop withdrawal (nearly 1000) are now out. As of early December, the State Department was in touch with fewer than a dozen who were still there and were wanting to leave. The adults have been taking care of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
But I guess Republicans now favor endless wars. Trumpism has wrecked the party.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Don’t favor endless wars, just better execution. Troops should never have been pulled until all civilians were out. It really is that simple.
We still have troops on the ground in Afghanistan. And yes, the Bidenites did abandon many thousands of loyal folks who are now being summarily hunted down and murdered. It's a mess.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
"Getting out of Afghanistan" is no accomplishment for the US. No POTUS was gonna get us out of there cleanly. It didn't have to be this awful, but that's Biden for ya! Regardless, if some moron wants to/has to try to list this as a big feather in the cap for Biden just so that half of the ledger is not completely empty, then wow! Really? That's like wanting to give Biden credit that only another 4 million illegals are now in the country in his first year, but it might have been 5 million! so he gets credit for that!
We all know Goosey has negative credibility, and he just keeps digging the hole deeper with stupid comment after stupid comment. Actually, I still hold out a small measure of hope that he posts stupid stuff on purpose, just for entertainment value, in some twisted way. And that he is really not this stupid.
You will never get 100% of the civilians out because so many change their minds. You are advocating an endless war.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Trump had 4 years to get us out of there. If he could have done a better job, he chose not to do it.
So, you want Trump to listen to the bureaucracy about the virus, but ignore his advisors telling him it’s a bad idea at the time to vacate Afghanistan? Now, I’m a firm believer that Trump got a lot of bad advise, probably from both groups concerning these 2 issues. Could that be the case?
The adults got 13 marines killed. That was the biggest clusterf*** in the history of our country.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
A major fubar is Biden's (the Adults) biggest accomplishment :rolleyes4:
CNBC Economist: "The economy hasn't added one single job from the 2019 high-water mark."
All the jobs that we have seen gained are recovered jobs that were lost. We're not yet producing new jobs.
Nice refreshing honesty...
More jobs were added per month under Biden than any other President. Brought us back to where we were prior to all the jobs being lost under Trump.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
You are such an idiot!Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Just a reminder, Trump is the only President in the last 80 years to experience at least 4 million net job loss during the term of his presidency.
China virus you idiot…just as you haters all hoped.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
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Originally Posted by Guisslapp
He was still a better POTUS than what we currently have... you are such a loser...
Funny how the loser you supported is the only person that gets the benefit of that excuse from you.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Is there another president like Biden who saw as many jobs created under his watch while also seeing unemployment stay the same or get worse?
Unemployment rate has gone down under Biden.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
You are actually right. Under Trump, pre-pandemic, it was 3.5. Then in January when Biden took over, it was 6.5 I think due to pandemic. Since he took over, it has fallen another 1.5 or so. So, even his great recovery that they are bragging about isn’t that great. Since Biden was going to just tell the pandemic to stop, paraphrasing him, he shouldn’t have had any trouble at least matching unemployment under Trump. He claimed that unemployment was over 14% when he took office. Someone forgot the update the prompter for him. Think how good unemployment would be without the unfounded lockdowns!
Well, he is only 1 year in. It is looking good.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Especially if he will actually close the border and allow Americans to fill all those jobs before allowing anyone else in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Americans are quitting their jobs for higher paying jobs right now, not the low paying ones. There are currently more jobs open than people looking for work.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
It’s not because there aren’t people to fill the jobs. I know multiple business owners locally who have job openings for starter positions. No experience required. People interview and immediately demand $20/hour. It’s more financially feasible for them to continue on without the help than it is to train someone who quits 3 months later because they are, “so stressed out.”
Immigrants will work for less than that. Too bad your local businesses don’t have access to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Most Americans have decided they want a living wage.
For a 16 year old living at home, $11/hour is more than enough. Just think if they work and get some experience when they are at home how well they can do in college while splitting rent with 3-4 others. Once they are out of school, they graduate from those starter jobs to real jobs. And they graduate with work experience, hopefully less debt, and maybe a little work ethic.
In his press conference, Biden opened the door for conservatives to tell the country what they are in favor of. Hopefully, they take the opportunity to explain they want current laws to be enforced far more than they want to change anything. Are conservative leaders going to be asleep at the wheel concerning this?
"Conservative" leaders, no, but the GOP will blow it as usual. The old guard, Swampers, Repubs couldn't organize a bar-b-que.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Also, border encounters up 171% in December. 55,000 released in the states. Why do we have laws again?
I completely agree. Just dreaming that maybe someone has their head on straight up there.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
This should at least slow down the false narrative on unemployment which is actually closer to 9% if you factor in those not actively seeking work.
Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Jump as Omicron Surge Takes Toll (breitbart.com)
VP Harris's warning to Russia regarding Ukraine.. something to the effect that this admin "Respects and highly values the sovereignty of nations and it's borders".. Oh the irony.. I can't even.. :laugh:
This is truly a clown show of an administration...
Psycho being Psycho. She has spent way too much time around Sleepy.
Psaki Says Florida - Where Schools Have Been 100% Open Since Fall 2020 - Has "Done Little" to Distribute Money to Keep Schools Open (VIDEO) (thegatewaypundit.com)
And Psycho dropping truth bombs.
White House Press Secretary Slips and Says Who She's Really Reporting To and It's Not Biden (thegatewaypundit.com)
"Wag the dog" about to hit overdrive?
Biden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Goosey thinks we're better off. He loves Biden and the job he is doing to America.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDawg
(please note the use of "to America" not "for America")
More proof found in this NBC News poll.
Poll: 72 Percent Say Nation Headed in Wrong Direction (breitbart.com)
New milestones for FJB on day 88 of the unprecedented -20 streak in the Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll Index.
Another new all-time worst dating back to Obama in the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll Index with a -32 rating. 18% Strongly Approve with 50% (new FJB worst) Strongly Disapprove. Overall 40% Approve and 59% Disapprove.
And FJB isn't compromised when it comes to China? Sounds like an article or more of impeachment to me.
Biden Family Received Some $31 Million Dollars from Individuals Linked to Chinese Intelligence While Joe Was VP (thegatewaypundit.com)
RED-HANDED: $6 Million Biden Family Deal Was with Ye Jianming Who Had Ties to a Spy-Linked ‘United Front’ Group (breitbart.com)
‘Red-Handed’ Reveals Chinese Donations to University of Pennsylvania Soared After Biden Center Announcement (breitbart.com)
Treason! hang 'em high.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDawg
It truly is.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
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Originally Posted by FriscoDawg
LOL!! I watched that video. That was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. The young female journalist kept on and on trying to prod some good info about the Biden Administration out of these 6 panel members. But they were having NONE OF IT!! LOL! I really wish they hadn't cut off the very last guy. He was nailing it. When the journalist asked what was wrong, he (Jorge?) said, "I feel like Biden just decided to do everything opposite of what Trump did. And BOOM! The interview was over, immediately. LOL!
But you could tell Jorge --a Trump voter-- was about to give her an earful, and probably did. But they just edited it out of the story.
Didn't take long to blow away yesterday's FJB milestones in the Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll. Day 89 of the -20 saga.
Index now at a new all-time worst of -33
17% (new all-time low) Strongly Approve and 50% (matches FJB high) Strongly Disapprove
Overall 39% Approve and 60% (matches FJB high) Disapprove
The CBS lady did her best to prop up the Biden administration...but the panelists weren't having it.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
‘Betraying the American people’: Leaked video reveals Biden’s ‘hush hush’ migrant invasion
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While Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi go all out to protect Ukraine’s national sovereignty, at the same time they are orchestrating a clandestine invasion of America across the southern border.
Two million illegal immigrants from dozens of countries crossed over from Mexico last year, and the Biden administration is facilitating the cartels’ people-smuggling operation — at taxpayer expense.
Under cover of darkness, every night the federal government is transporting illegal migrants as fast as they can away from the border on secret charter flights into unsuspecting communities around the country. Officials have lied and obstructed the few journalists who have tried to reveal the truth.
This is nothing short of a betrayal of the American people.
And that’s not just me saying it — those are exactly the words of one federal-government contractor employed to transport migrants from the southern border to the airport in White Plains.
“The government is betraying the American people,” the contractor told a Westchester County police officer in a conversation that was recorded on the cop’s bodycam on the tarmac of the county airport on Aug. 13, 2021. The men were standing beside a Boeing 737 flown in from Fort Bliss, Texas by iAero Airways under charter by the federal government.quote:LINK
The 51-minute footage was obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request by former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican candidate for governor in 2022.
Throughout the footage, Police Sgt. Michael Hamborsky expresses frustration that local police have been given no information about the flights arriving after curfew at the airport, in breach of security protocols.
“You’re on a secure facility here; we really don’t know anything and we’re in charge of security,” he tells one of the federal contractors.
“This is anti all our security stuff.”
This is an impeachable offense if there were any. Much more so than a phone call with Ukraine.. But several on here don't care as long as there are no mean tweets..
But did he call anyone fake news? I mean that’s the ultimate standard for impeachment.
He called the Fox WH News reporter a SOB..Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Yeah, but he’s a liberal so……I mean it’s not like he verbally abused a working class man at a rally. Er…..he didn’t verbally bash an entire graduating class in a branch of our military. Uh…we’ll dang. I guess Biden is just an SOB according to people with critical thinking skills.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
If this wasn't so serious it could also fit in the FJB Gaffes thread.
Biden Calls Zelensky After Making Alarming Comments About Ukraine (breitbart.com)
White House urged to release transcripts of call with Ukraine after Biden allegedly told to 'calm down' over Russian invasion remarks | The Post Millennial
FJB not getting much support from the local politicians for his Pennsylvania trip today. Looks like most of them have other errands to run and are too busy to appear with him.
Probably washing their hair, having their teeth cleaned, or maybe even enjoying a colonoscopy. All would be automatic choices in my book over babbling uncle Joey.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDawg
Biden Poll Stunner: Only 29 Percent Support Sending US Troops to Eastern Europe in Ukraine Crisis; 76 Percent Reject Pledge to Only Consider Black Woman for Supreme Court (thegatewaypundit.com)
An ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday shows Joe Biden has lost support of the American people, including losing a majority of Democrats, on key issues facing the country, most notably rejecting Biden’s pledge to only consider a Black woman for the Supreme Court and Biden sending U.S. troops to Eastern Europe in the Ukraine-Russia crisis. The poll also delivered crushing news for Biden on his handling of the economy with only one percent believing the economy is “excellent” and just 23 percent say the economy is “good”.
Americans overwhelmingly believe Joe Biden should “consider all possible nominees” (76%) rather than “consider only nominees who are Black women, as he has pledged to do” (23%). Partisanship drives major differences in attitudes about the next Supreme Court pick, with virtually all Republicans saying “consider all” (95%) compared to only half of Democrats (54%).
Can’t impeach the whole party and the further you get from Biden in the chain of command, it only gets worse.
Impeachment of Biden is a waste of time and resources. You end up with a brain dead hooker running the country, and after her an old bat that has gotten rich off of insider trading.