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Trumpity Trump!
The New York Times
Campaign Stops
Contributing Op-Ed Writer
Why I Will Never Vote for Donald Trump
West Des Moines, Iowa
Jae C. Hong / Associated Press
January 14, 2016
Peter Wehner
Beginning with Ronald Reagan, I have voted Republican in every presidential election since I first became eligible to vote in 1980. I worked in the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations and in the White House for George W. Bush as a speechwriter and adviser. I have also worked for Republican presidential campaigns, although not this time around.
Despite this history, and in important ways because of it, I will not vote for Donald Trump if he wins the Republican nomination.
I should add that neither could I vote in good conscience for Hillary Clinton or any of the other Democrats running for president, since they oppose many of the things I have stood for in my career as a conservative — and, in the case of Mrs. Clinton, because I consider her an ethical wreck. If Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton were the Republican and Democratic nominees, I would prefer to vote for a responsible third-party alternative; absent that option, I would simply not cast a ballot for president. A lot of Republicans, I suspect, would do the same.
There are many reasons to abstain from voting for Mr. Trump if he is nominated, starting with the fact that he would be the most unqualified president in American history. Every one of our 44 presidents has had either government or military experience before being sworn in. Mr. Trump, a real estate mogul and former reality-television star, hasn’t served a day in public office or the armed forces.
During the course of this campaign he has repeatedly revealed his ignorance on basic matters of national interest — the three ways the United States is capable of firing nuclear weapons (by land, sea and air), the difference between the Quds Force in Iran and the Kurds to their west, North Korea’s nuclear tests, the causes of autism, the effects of his tax plan on the deficit and much besides.
Mr. Trump has no desire to acquaint himself with most issues, let alone master them. He has admitted that he doesn’t prepare for debates or study briefing books; he believes such things get in the way of a good performance. No major presidential candidate has ever been quite as disdainful of knowledge, as indifferent to facts, as untroubled by his benightedness.
It is little surprise, then, that many of Mr. Trump’s most celebrated pronouncements and promises — to quickly and “humanely” expel 11 million illegal immigrants, to force Mexico to pay for the wall he will build on our southern border, to defeat the Islamic State “very quickly” while as a bonus taking its oil, to bar Muslims from immigrating to the United States — are nativistic pipe dreams and public relations stunts.
Even more disqualifying is Mr. Trump’s temperament. He is erratic, inconsistent and unprincipled. He possesses a streak of crudity and cruelty that manifested itself in how he physically mocked a Times journalist with a disability, ridiculed Senator John McCain for being a P.O.W., made a reference to “blood” intended to degrade a female journalist and compared one of his opponents to a child molester.
Mr. Trump’s legendary narcissism would be comical were it not dangerous in someone seeking the nation’s highest office — as he demonstrated when he showered praise on the brutal, anti-American president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, responding to Mr. Putin’s expression of admiration for Mr. Trump.
“It is always a great honor,” Mr. Trump said last month, “to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond.”
Mr. Trump’s virulent combination of ignorance, emotional instability, demagogy, solipsism and vindictiveness would do more than result in a failed presidency; it could very well lead to national catastrophe. The prospect of Donald Trump as commander in chief should send a chill down the spine of every American.
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After electing the Kenyan communist twice, America deserves Donald Trump.
Forward.
As long as no one leaks anything damaging from the numerous scandals and investigations swirling around her, as long as no one leaks any information on her numerous medical issues, as long as Slick Willy keeps it in his pants ….
Why are you changing the subject to the Clintons’s shortcomings? Is it that you can’t think of one single intelligent thing to say in defense of your favorite candidate?
Wall
“Mr. Trump’s virulent combination of ignorance, emotional instability, demagogy, solipsism and vindictiveness would do more than result in a failed presidency; it could very well lead to national catastrophe.”
I move that he instead be appointed as our Central Banker.
Some GOP establishment knob trying to defend the corrupt do nothing party bosses with tired rejected arguments. Get a clue troll.
^Ron Paul 2008.
So retro….
So clueless Jingle_Fraud.
Empty skulls have no counter arguments.
Bloviating dismissive windbags who claim they never take a position but are virulently partisan when the chips are down are not people I like to argue with hijab.
But ha gotta give it to Trump, he forced the great impartial “professor” to actually take a position.
And the article never calls Trump one thing (that it does call Hillary) corrupt. You want someone from a corrupt system (or you’ll childishly cry like Bill in his utopian fantasy world). Your bashing Trump is at every turn defending the corrupt establishment. But you are scared someone is finally going to call it like it is in your group politics racial identity world.
“virulently partisan”
Read the Op-ed, dummy.
‘the article never calls Trump one thing (that it does call Hillary) corrupt’
Another rocket surgery thing; I read last night how the Democrats are really focusing on income inequality. And of course their leading politician has spent more time in her private jet, paid for by billionaires donations, than anyone.
Got hypocrisy? We can’t even get an honest debate about the issues.
It’s the same worn out sloganeering from the socialist carnival barker. Never about price, only about driving wages higher thus imposing higher prices on everyone.
Got hypocrisy? We can’t even get an honest debate about the issues.
That’s why they scream, “TRUMP!”. Avoidance is a great comfort.
Trump wants Snowden executed.
“they”
Trump’s bigotry is all about ‘them’ versus ‘us’.
‘What was Hillary Clinton’s biggest lie during the first Democratic debate? That NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden could have gone through official channels. “He broke the laws,” said Clinton. “He could have been a whistleblower, he could have gotten all the protections of being a whistleblower.”
‘Snowden’s lawyer, Jesselyn Radack of ExposeFacts.org, begs to differ. “For the people out there shouting that Edward Snowden should have gone through proper channels,” she tells Reason TV, “there are not that many channels for national security and intelligence whistleblowers. They are excluded from most avenues available to other whistleblowers.”
‘More important is the experience of NSA and intelligence whistleblowers who came before Snowden. “Tom Drake, Bill Binney, Kirk Wiebe, and Ed Loomis did go through the proper channels,” says Radack. “And all of them fell under criminal investigations for having done so.”
I don’t get this whole thing. A federal judge ruled the NSA program unconstitutional. Why is the government prosecuting whistle-blowers? Isn’t that more important than what Trump thinks?
Isn’t that more important than what Trump thinks?
It’s not important that Trump thinks Snowden should be executed? I bet if Hillary had made the same statement, it would be important.
I can see you are more interested in preserving the two party dictatorship than what’s good for the people. That is all.
I’m just a realist who can envison a Trump presidency in which Trump gets a “good deal” from his buddy Putin, gets Snowden sent back, tries him and fries him, or at least puts him in prison for the rest of his life.
It’s a real possibility, not cloud talk.
Thus she receives the abuse she richly deserves every day.
Trump wants Snowden executed.
And Snowden had to chose exile in Obama/Hillary raj.
And Snowden had to chose exile in Obama/Hillary raj.
And I am pretty sure he did so to save his own life.
The bigger questions are, why does a whistle-blower have to flee to tell us about unconstitutional surveillance of its own citizens? If it is unconstitutional, which a federal judge ruled, certainly there is harm being done. Why is this still going on? Why were even journalists who reported on the Snowden papers targeted? And these aren’t the only journalists who have been targeted, including by NSA spying on their reporting!
Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat people, a free press investigating government wrongdoing is essential to our very liberty itself!
Read the Op-ed, dummy.</i?
Alert Tokyo….angry old white male sighted.
Who’s more likely to reduce state surveillance: Trump or Bernie?
Snowden wasn’t press, and to take his job, he had to sign a bunch of stuff that said he wouldn’t do what he did. He was courageous and did us a great service, but that does not change the terms he agreed to.
Neither
I used to participate frequently on this blog. It’s a great platform for critical thinking.
Unfortunately it has become dominated by people who, despite ‘professing’ to not have an agenda, certainly bang the same Tom-Tom relentlessly. This is my opinion only.
To summarize, the people that aren’t “getting” it now are the same ones who didn’t get it then. I have stopped trying to teach the blind to see.
Kudos to BJ for keeping this going.
P.S. If a vote for Trump obliterates the current paradigm, count me in. I tried by voting for RP twice as a write-in but the “derp” in strong in this country.
Trump or Bernie?
That’s not the question for the Democrats. It’s Clinton or Sanders?
‘that does not change the terms he agreed to’
Good God man, he discovered an unconstitutional spying program on a vast scale. Being used on innocent civilians. You expect him to be bound by the fine print?
Trump or Bernie?
They asked the same question before:
McCain or Obama?
Romney or Obama?
Wonder it did, right?
Clinton or Sanders?
I think we all realize, deep down, that Bernie would reduce state surveillance more than Hillary or Trump. He’d also be the least likely to start another war.
If those are your main issues, Bernie is your clear choice.
‘Unfortunately it has become dominated by people who’
I spend many hours a day researching posts like the one today on our good neighbors to the north. You should read it. Big changes are coming.
“Good God man, he discovered an unconstitutional spying program on a vast scale. Being used on innocent civilians. You expect him to be bound by the fine print?”
I’ve signed paperwork for military clearance. That ‘fine print’ is pretty much 25 point all caps. I wold imagine in his work the print was even bigger.
“Isn’t that more important than what Trump thinks?”
Agreed. I wonder why Trump hasn’t made that point?
“You expect him to be bound by the fine print?
Actually yes. It was a law at the time, Snowden broke it,feds are obligated to prosecute if they can. The only way Snowden will get “justice” is if there is some form of jury nullification.
Maybe Obama will make some deal to bring Snowden back for trial, but then commute his sentence.
I believe Obama can pardon Snowden on the way out of office if he chooses.
I’m sure he can, but I don’t think he will.
Trump: an ignorant candidate for ignorant people.
“You only get one life to live. Don’t blow it by being a miserable liberal.”
A phony snob with empty pockets is an irony.
If I were a liberal, I wouldn’t be pissed about Trump handing the election to Hillary.
But I am thankful he’s keeping that greasy preacher Cruz out of the running.
But I am thankful he’s keeping that greasy preacher Cruz out of the running.
You can say that again. As bad as Trump & Hillary are, Cruz probably takes the cake.
A strange irony indeed.
Sanders people. Sanders. Forget the “socialist” label, he’s not. He’s and old school Democrat and he actually represents the opinions of the vast majority of Americans. Read this article. Forget the source. You cannot argue with the math. It’s math.
Bernie Sanders is America’s spirit animal
It’s true. Even as we descend into an election year defined by right-wing extremism, the numbers simply don’t lie
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/16/bernie_sanders_is_americas_spirit_animal_why_this_country_is_much_more_progressive_than_you_think/
Despite the political division in Washington, the far-right rancor being spewed by G.O.P. candidates, and the contention in the Democratic race over Wall Street, campaign finance reform, universal health care, and how to handle ISIS, poll after poll shows that the people of this country strongly support far-left progressive, liberal and democratic socialist ideas.
We just don’t like the linguistic packaging.
On wealth inequality, polls find that “a strong majority” of U.S. citizens believe the current situation is an urgent problem (including one-half of Republicans and two-thirds of independents), and think the current income and wealth distribution is unfair.
Despite Republican fear-mongering about big government, Americans “favor taxing the wealthy to expand aid to the poor,” and want Congress to rectify this inequality by levying “heavy taxes on [the] rich” and increasing rates on people making over $1 million a year.
Americans also support steep progressive reform on Wall Street, with 50% to 58% of likely voters in favor of breaking up the big financial institutions.
Concerning the infusion of money in politics, Americans want campaign finance reform “with near unanimity,” and half would personally vote for a law establishing the government funding of federal campaigns. The support for reform is strong across party lines, with a prodigious 80% of Republicans, 84% of Independents, and 90% of Democrats believing money plays too large a role in the political process. Other polls show three in four Americans think there is too much money in politics and disagree with the concept of unregulated campaign finance.
Another Salon article. I knew it was you, Fredo.
Another Salon article.
The following is a sign of a weak mind.
A Genetic Fallacy is a line of “reasoning” in which a perceived defect in the origin of a claim or thing is taken to be evidence that discredits the claim or thing itself. It is also a line of reasoning in which the origin of a claim or thing is taken to be evidence for the claim or thing.
Genetic fallacy, false either/or, tu quoque, ad hominem…
Strong arguments don’t need such things, weak arguments rely on them. And we see who relies on them.
There are lies, statistics and damn lies. Copying and pasting lies has to be the lowest form of thinking.
Well, there’s no thinking involve at all.
Barney Sanders is pro-debt slavery Lola.
Beginning with Ronald Reagan, I have voted Republican in every presidential election since I first became eligible to vote in 1980.
What he really means is that he’s a partisan hack. Why do I care what he says?
I came up with an idea recently that if somebody has voted the party line election after election, decade after decade then they shouldn’t be allowed to vote anymore. Parties are BS. Vote for the best person. Nearly every person I’ve met has said to me at one point or another “I would have voted for X but they couldn’t win”. WTF is that? It’s a sign of no backbone, no compass, no honesty. Voting is about picking the person you think is best. Not about “picking the winner” or “making sure some other guy doesn’t win”, but that’s probably how 99% of the people vote.
“I would have voted for X but they couldn’t win”. WTF is that? It’s a sign of no backbone, no compass, no honesty.
+1
It’s like when people say voting for anyone other than Trump is a vote for Hillary.
or “making sure some other guy doesn’t win”, ??
When you run someone like Sarah Palin your damm right I will vote the other way…
Yeah. Right. Palin was the only reason you voted Democratic.
Odd, I don’t recall Sarah Palin being Ron Paul’s running mate.
What he means is that he consistently votes Republican, except he won’t vote for Trump.
Get the story straight, Michael. It’s simple.
He actually will, when Trump becomes the candidate, just like you’re going to vote for Hillary.
I don’t plan to vote for the Clinton - Trump ticket. I’m almost certainly going to vote for whomever opposes them.
Those brave souls who voted for Ralph Nader had backbone and compass and honesty. But taking into account the incredible amount of pain, death, and loss that resulted, maybe it IS better to be spineless and wimpy. I know I know, life is tough in the gray zone.
Well, that has led us to trump/Hillary, and I think millions will die either way. This is the end of the good intention-paved road to hell we’ve built over the years.
Trump, whatever his shortcomings, is orders of magnitude better than the corrupt and venal Hillary Clinton.
He’s a salesman who has screwed his business partners again and again and again, and you are a rube for falling for his schtick.
Put your Hillary terror out of your mind and THINK, ffs.
Trump is a dagger being planted in the corrupt and worthless establishment GOP. That’s reason alone to vote for him. If we’re going down anyway, might as well have one last act of defiance rather than voting for the standard Republicrat Duopoly Tweedle Dum/Tweedle Dee “choices.”
There is a libertarian party, you know….
There is a libertarian party, you know….
Been there, done that.
Voluntaryism is the direct approach to achieving freedom.
The peanut gallery here complains every day about the Federal Reserve and the voluntaryist uses Bitcoin and Shift debit and vacates the Federal Reserve.
The peanut gallery complains about how rotten their past candidates turned out to be and the voluntaryist vacates the vote and has a clean conscious (voted Libertarian since 1980 and quit in 2012 when I learned the RNC violated their own rules to destroy the libertarian with the best chances - Ron Paul).
Ball-less people get off by arguing over who should be ruler.
The floor in oil prices is likely near.
http://picpaste.com/fibonacci_spiral.jpg
CR8R
The speculators were in square 89; good to see ‘em get wiped-out. But square 34 likely holds lots of fixed-income investors who will need a bail-out before long. Hehe.
It’s gonna be Hillary.
It’s gonna be Hillary ??
What about the other side….?? My guess is it will be;
Christie/Niki Haley
I would give them a serious look.
Christie/Haley….. .brilliant. Finally something worth supporting.
“It’s gonna be Hillary.”
I dunno.
The other night it looked like Lindsey Graham already knew who it’s going to be. It’s already been decided… they just have to finish-out the play, Democracy.
and endless 2% growth
see EU greece -Japan for results
all have FREEer HC and social net trampolines
Has the 2016 crash mercilessly hammered your portfolio?
I warned you to ‘Sell in May and go away.’
Market crash robs $2.3 trillion from investors
Matt Krantz, USA TODAY12 hours ago
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the start of the trading day in New York.
The stock market rout is starting to get really expensive — destroying $2.3 trillion from the market’s top last year and $1.5 trillion in net wealth just this year.
The giant companies that predominantly populate the Standard & Poor’s 500 have fallen an average of 8.9% this year — which, when translated into dollars, is real money. Real big money. The S&P 500 is down 8% this year already — including another 2.2% Friday — in what’s been the worst start to a year ever. Since the market peak on May 21, 2015, the market has declined 11.7%.
The biggest wealth destroyers in the S&P 500 from the high have been gadget maker Apple (AAPL), pipeline company Kinder Morgan (KMI) and corporate software company Oracle (ORCL) — crushing $218 billion, $63.5 billion and $49.8 billion in market value, respectively, from the May 21, 2015, top.
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Is janet gonna reverse course and save the stock market from imploding?
LOL 2.3 Trillions.
Vapor is NOT wealth.
“I warned you to ‘Sell in May and go away.’”
Bullcrap. I can’t recall you ever taking a stand. You prefer to play the role of the cut-and-paste moderator.
How’s the view from the cheap seats?
he is the monday morning qb most of the time.
Sorry about your stock market losses.
I generally suggest to sell every May, so it is a bit like stopped - clock advice.
Anyone who hasn’t already sold deserves to get their head handed to them.
If you have laws that you don’t enforce, then you don’t have laws. This leads to lawlessness.
Hillary.
Hillaryous the neo-con is unelectable.
She’s no Trump. She’s no fascist.
LOL
Donald Trump. An esteemed statesman with a squad of sexy strumpets.
Hillary can relate to the struggling middle class.
By Jon Greenberg on Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 at 6:18 p.m.
“But we also have gone through some of the same challenges many people have.”
“You have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt,” Clinton said. “We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education. It was not easy. Bill has worked really hard. And it’s been amazing to me. He’s worked very hard.”
Influence peddling is something every middle class family does to make ends meet….
Demagogue alert!
President Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Vice President Donald Trump
Attorney General Ted Nugent
You could have had an opportunity but you dropped out.
Attorney General Ted Nugent ??
I thought he was suppose to be dead or in prison ??
…. Instead he and Donald Trump occupy millions of MT Skulls, care free.
“I thought he was suppose to be dead or in prison ??”
No… He just shat his pants for another deferment.
The .1% are above the law. Witness Hillary’s ability to stay out of prison despite years of corruption and lawbreaking, or not a single Wall Street financier going to jail for causing the 2008 crash.
Free Jon Corzine!
is janet yellen out to dash clintons presidential run with a bear market?
Might work in Hillary’s advantage if the stawks go down now and start going up in summer. Mr Yellon will do just that.
It’s more like fiscal reality is catching up with the Fed’s Keynesian lunacy.
“Free Jon Corzine!”
It will be the last thing Dat Negro does before boarding the helicopter.
Is your stock market enthusiasm waning?
Year-end Investor Sentiment Flattens, Matching a Two-Year Low,
According to John Hancock Survey
- Confidence about investing in stocks and balanced mutual funds has declined significantly from Q4 of 2014
- Fewer feel they are better off financially than they were two years ago
BOSTON, Jan. 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — After reaching a record high in the second quarter of 2015, investor sentiment flattened out in the year’s final quarter, matching a low last seen in the third quarter of 2013. The Q4 2015 John Hancock Investor Sentiment Index® dropped by one point to reach +22, down one point from the third quarter of 2015.
The John Hancock Investor Sentiment Index reflects the percentage of investors who say they believe it is a “good” or “very good” time to invest, minus those who feel the opposite.
Global equity market volatility and expectations that in December the Federal Reserve would bring an end to an era of historically low interest rates both appear to have tempered investor optimism. As for world issues that most worry investors, just over half of investors (53 percent) say they are very concerned about unrest in the Middle East. This finding is significantly higher than one year ago when 41 percent expressed this concern, and is likely due to the recent terror attacks in Paris which occurred while the survey was underway.
“Confidence in investing in stocks has decreased to 49 percent this quarter from 60 percent one year ago, and we saw a similar decline in optimism toward investing in balanced mutual funds, which incorporate stocks and bonds, a drop to 52 percent from 58 percent one year ago,” noted Megan E. Greene, Chief Economist, John Hancock Asset Management. “However, two-thirds of investors (66 percent) are still positive about investing in their own homes, and 56 percent are positive about real estate investments in general.”
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See? It all about price …
“’Confidence in investing in stocks has decreased to 49 percent this quarter from 60 percent one year ago, and we saw a similar decline in optimism toward investing in balanced mutual funds, which incorporate stocks and bonds, a drop to 52 percent from 58 percent one year ago,’ noted Megan E. Greene, Chief Economist, John Hancock Asset Management.”
And why is that? It’s because the price dropped, that’s why. Now check this out …
“’However, two-thirds of investors (66 percent) are still positive about investing in their own homes, and 56 percent are positive about real estate investments in general.’”
And just why is that? It’s because the price of people’s homes is high, that’s why. It’s high because Zillow says it is high. And Zillow says it is high because thousands of strangers (many of whom just may be mentally whacked) have pushed the prices up.
Prices! Push the prices of stocks up and confidence in investing in stocks goes up. Allow the prices to drop and the confidence goes down. Same goes for houses.
ECON 101 turned on its head. Think of Macy’s; Macy’s would love this mentality to happen to it. Think of it! Raise prices and you increase demand! Increase demand and you sell more product!
But that’s not how it happens with Macy’s; With Macy’s you will only increase demand if you lower prices, if you have sales - just as ECON 101 says. But as for stocks and houses just the opposite occurs.
Go figure.
Credit-Market Fear Gauge Soars as Oil Plunge Triggers Rout
Aleksandra Gjorgievska
January 15, 2016 — 7:17 AM PST
Updated on January 15, 2016 — 10:33 AM PST
U.S. Stocks Join Global Rout, What’s Next?
The cost to protect against defaults by North American companies soared to a three-year high Friday as concerns over a deepening plunge in oil prices triggered a global rout in equities.
The risk premium on the Markit CDX North American High Yield Index, a credit-default swaps benchmark tied to the debt of 100 speculative-grade companies, jumped 30.8 basis points to 557.7 basis point at 1:30 p.m. in New York, the highest since November 2012. A similar measure for investment-grade debt rose 6.5 basis points to 110.5 basis points, a three-year high.
“Stocks are selling off, high yield is selling off, emerging-market debt is selling off, investment-grade bonds are selling off,” said Keith Bachman, the head of U.S. high yield at Aberdeen Asset Management Inc. in Philadelphia. “The higher spreads that we are seeing are reflective of the risk-off environment that we are in. Even though investment-grade credit is safer than high-yield credit, risk premiums are adjusting across the whole spectrum.”
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Probably a good time to look at oil stocks
Agreed. Buying Invesco Energy Class A if below $19.
Last night:
Professor Bear
January 14, 2016, 01:00 pm
Trump: Captain Chaos
By Robert B. Davis
‘The media are not vetting Donald Trump’s policy proposals, which would undermine the U.S. economy and exacerbate global chaos. Like cynical 20th century pundit H.L. Mencken, Trump appears to believe the “aim of politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins.”
‘He portrays himself as its St. George, slaying the corrupt, albeit “stupid” elite and foreign bogeymen such as China, Japan, and Mexico who have rigged the game. To quote Mencken, he tells followers that “for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear and simple.” As Mencken stated, that answer is invariably “wrong,” solely serving to play on fear and insecurity.’
The US government spends trillions supposedly to protect the citizens from a threat no larger than bee stings and falling soda machines. Where is the endless series of hobgoblins?
Trump is, in his clumsy way, is serving to expose the fundamental dishonesty in US political thought. “for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear and simple” - there is the opposite to this: that problems are so complex we must have a very expensive and complex solution.
This country spent decades rounding up people and putting them in prison for pot. Now I see UHS talking about how legal pot will make house prices go up. The US government is spending trillions to make housing costs more expensive. A simple solution would be: STOP!
Trump said globalism is a bad deal. It wasn’t his idea, but he said it. Is that wrong or right? He said the US should stop being the worlds policeman. Wrong?
We have to take in refugees. How about we stop bombing their country so they can stay home? That’s simple. Is it wrong?
ISIS is terrible. Why don’t we ask our allies to stop giving them aid? Wrong and simple?
Trump is seeing some dishonest political and moral BS and taking advantage of it. IMO the more important question is why aren’t we exploring the BS? The threat inflation complex? Why aren’t we asking questions about Bernanke pledging to foam the runway for banks? To make house prices more expensive? Everyone will boo hoo about stock prices falling. Hello, who made very effort to run them up?
In a way Trump is saying, “this isn’t rocket surgery”. And it’s not.
Let’s add a little context; this country got a whiff of scale in the recent lottery. Boy, what could I do with a BILLION BUCKS! The US government spends a billion bucks, borrowed mind you, before noon every day to “protect” you from what’s less than bee stings. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I’m happy Trump raises issues the other candidates avoid, but I find his bullying bluster downright offensive, and believe what we see on the campaign trail is merely the tip of the iceberg.
He’ll lose 57 states
+7
‘I’m happy Trump raises issues the other candidates avoid’
That they are able to avoid it is what should concern us. Lots of people oppose globalism. Trump gets the microphone and says it. But why aren’t all the candidates obliged to tell us why they think globalism is good for the people? Why is immigration policy the Mexican government uses, racist against Mexicans? Trump said Yellen has blown up a big old bubble. Where are the other candidates on that? I want answers from these “leaders”, and I don’t want to hear the name Trump in them. It’s not about him.
After they get done telling us how they’re going to bomb the hell out of somebody to keep us safe, there’s no time for any of that.
I gotta admit, I enjoyed him calling the rest ‘political hacks’ in the last debate… And the series of expressions that crossed Jeb!’s face after Trump flat out called him weak was priceless. None of that got discussed by the punditry for some reason.
A vote for Trump is a vote against the corrupt, crony-capitalist status quo, as exemplified by HillaryJeb.
Whaaaaaaat? Are you saying last night Bear came out for Trump? I’ll refrain from kicking his dentures in today.
Why not go back to telling us that Chinese stocks and oil always go up?
Lines not in quotes are not from PB.
Illiterates read no lines.
“kicking his dentures”
You can tell an angry old white male Trump supporter by his choice of metaphors.
“You can tell an angry old white male Trump supporter by his choice of metaphors.”
Liberalism and Happiness Don’t Mix
Liberals not only try to make us miserable, they make themselves miserable.
By Ron Ross – 8.25.15
Although liberals probably don’t realize it, liberalism and happiness don’t mix. A “happy liberal” is almost an oxymoron.
Why so? The reasons are many. For one, liberals, especially white American liberals, are highly critical and dissatisfied with their country, culture, race, and gender. If you don’t like the society, race, culture, and gender that you’re part of, your ability to feel good about yourself becomes much more challenging.
liberals, especially white American liberals, are highly critical and dissatisfied with their country, culture, race, and gender.
I always knew down deep that Trump supporters were liberals.
Poll: Whites and Republicans are the angriest people in …
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/poll-whites-and-republicans-are-the-an...
Jan 4, 2016 - Poll: Whites and Republicans are the angriest people in America … Despite the high rates of anger among most respondents, Esquire editors …
NBC Online Poll: Whites, Republicans Most Angry
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/poll-white-republicans-angry/…/707964/
Jan 3, 2016 - White people and Republicans are the most angry among Americans taking an online poll conducted by NBC News/Survey Monkey/Esquire.
Rio
Have you apologized for your White Privilege today?
Have you apologized for your White Privilege today?
I really can’t apologize for something I had no control of. But I realize I totally have white privilege, in USA and Brazil.
I can’t figure out where I have more white privilege because it’s different. In USA a lot of our white racism comes with a snarl. In Brazil, a lot of white racism comes with a smile.
Thank you for asking the question.
“But I realize I totally have white privilege, in USA and Brazil.”
In my part of the USA there is a guy standing at the traffic lights of every exit ramp off I-95 with white privilege and a sign that says…
Hungry
Anything Would Help
If he was black the cops would have shot him by now. That sign could be used as a weapon.
“White people and Republicans are the most angry among Americans.”
And among this subpopulation, the angry old bigots for Trump are the angriest of the bunch.
“Trump is seeing some dishonest political and moral BS and taking advantage of it.”
There is the possibility that he is volunteering to do something helpful.
……. we’re from North California and south Alabama
And little towns all around this land…..
“this isn’t rocket surgery”. And it’s not.
Exactly.
The fact that simple questions and truths are obscured or ignored is deliberate.
Why don’t we ask our allies to stop giving them aid?
Why aren’t we asking Obama and Hilary’s role in creating them in the first place?
Look, Trump…he’s so racist!
Is buying stocks and real estate, then waiting for good things to happen, any different than buying a $2 Powerball ticket in the hopes of winning the lottery?
“Is buying stocks and real estate, then waiting for good things to happen, any different than buying a $2 Powerball ticket in the hopes of winning the lottery?”
Winning the lottery is a function of probability regarding numbers.
Waiting for good things to happen by buying stocks and real estate is a function of the probably of multitudes of complete strangers behaving irrationally.
Stock and house purchases are typically a lot more expensive than $2.
yeah really
these cheap @sses bitch about spending 2 bucks when they probably waste more than that on other things like going out to eat. You can never make them happy.
People who don’t blow their money playing Powerball have more cash on hand for dining out.
2 bucks for a chance at millions? I don’t mind that. Its entertainment my friend.
It’s pure fantasy my friend. But people who don’t know a thing about probability may enjoy deluding themselves that some day they may experience the thrill of winning at Powerball.
YTD my financial portfolio is down about 3%. Volatility comes with the territory, and I can live with that.
My $2 entry in the office powerball pool is down 100%, and I can live with that, too.
Got Asset Allocation?
It amazes me how many of the nominally anti-tax folks here are happy to voluntarily pay the Powerball tax.
States are very smart to use the lottery to get an anti-tax citizenry to voluntarily pay a regressive tax.
FoxNewsHate rallies the base:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/01/16/iran-close-to-collecting-100b-in-frozen-assets-after-nuke-deal-country-official-says.html
“Don’t vote for me if you’re tired of war” — Senator Lindsey Graham
That reporter looks like a “cats-n-boxed-wine” special.
Huffington Post rallies the base with a narrative that the Trump campaign is hostile to reporters:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/56994194e4b0ce4964245a99
Real journalists’ only narrative is an infinite loop of Obama/Hillary worship, occasionally punctuated by calling somebody a racist.
Forward.
Salon dot com sh*ts the bed with a grabber narrative:
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/16/bill_maher_slams_bloodthirsty_gop_the_party_of_impotent_white_rage_is_also_the_party_of_concealed_carry_and_stand_your_ground/
Because when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Forward.
“The party of impotent white rage is also the party of concealed carry and stand your ground”
Frightened, fat, angry and old. Look at the crowd at any GOP rally.
Ben, is there any way you would consider adding a video feature to the HBB so we can remotely moon the selected posters of our choice?
It would probably raise the level of discourse if some posters did so, instead of mindlessly repeating their juvenile attack meme of the day.
meme of he day
Frightened, fat, angry and old. Look at the crowd at any GOP rally.
Frightened, fat, angry and old!
It’s truth…. and truth is in short supply these days.
Frightened, fat, angry and old. Look at the crowd at any GOP rally.
I look at Bernie’s crowds. I look at Hillary’s crowds. I see the same frightened, angry, old white people.
Maybe they’re rent-a-fatties.
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There you go, Raymond.
Nice, but doesn’t carry quite the visual impact of the real deal.
It’s a symbolic act… symbols will suffice.
Be afraid! Fear is safety!
It’s very clear by now that the pubies are dumping the bushes for good. When are the dems dumping clintons?
Trump and his angry old white male supporters…..
I detect enragement.
“When are the dems dumping clintons?”
Done on my end.
The Republican base, despite its error in voting for Wall Street water carriers McCain and Romney (not to mention the epic incompetence of Shrub, twice), is to its credit finally waking up and rejecting crony capitalism, while the Democrats overwhelmingly are okay with voting for corruption and sleaze. That says a lot about the character of the people making up the opposing voting blocs.
lol@lola
http://goo.gl/vvho45
u have too much time on your hands GARTMAN .
Why is janet yellen made at the clintons?
Cheer up Poet and remember…… Nothing accelerates the economy like falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels. Nothing.
Rand Paul: GOP is turning into ‘the old white man’s party’
Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) says the GOP is at risk of turning into “the old white man’s party.”
“I think it’s important that the Republican Party not be seen as a party that’s not welcoming and that [doesn’t] want new people,” the presidential candidate told host Chris Hayes on MSNBC’s “All In.”
“I’ve said we need to be a party that has, you know, [people] with earrings, without earrings, with tattoos, without tattoos, black, white, brown, rich [and] poor,” Paul said. “If anything, one of the faults of the Republican Party is we’re not diverse enough.
“When we become the old white man’s party — which we’ve been kind of headed towards for a while — we’re never going to win another election.”
Paul warned Republican voters are making a big mistake by rallying behind Donald Trump, who has for months led in national polls of the race.
“We need to be careful about letting the voice of the Republican Party be someone who thinks that all immigrants are rapists or drug dealers,” Paul said of Trump.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/265857-rand-gop-morphing-into-the-old-white-mans-party#.Vpo_S7Dgg-E.twitter
Libertarian, liberal, same difference, as far as Trumplings are concerned.
I think this is an important failure, in that these things are all superficial;
“with earrings, without earrings, with tattoos, without tattoos, black, white, brown, rich [and] poor”
Poor is not superficial.
Poor is not superficial.
I guess it can seem that way if one’s not poor and superficial.
Poors have poot for campaign contributions, and they eat all the donuts at the meetings.
Wealth is superficial. It is not a character trait.
Wealth is superficial. It is not a character trait.
+1 Being poor isn’t about money.
“GOP is turning into ‘the old white man’s party’”
Well d’oh. Check out the angry old white males for Trump who post here daily for a perfect example.
They voted for hope and change.
They got hope and change.
It just wasn’t the change they were expecting…
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Nearly Half of Millennials Believe the American Dream is Dead
Free Beacon | January 15, 2016 | Ali Meyer
Nearly half of millennials, or 48 percent, believe that the American Dream is dead, according to a report from Generation Opportunity.
The report, which evaluates the outlook for millennials on various economic indicators, finds that many young adults have lower levels of personal income and wealth and higher levels of student loan debt than the two previous generations.
One of those metrics is the unemployment rate, which is 8 percent for millennials ages 18 to 29, which is much higher than the rate for those 30 years and older at 3.7 percent. The labor force participation rate, which accounts for those who either have a job or pursued one, is 71 percent, the lowest it has ever been. Many young adults have been unable to find work, and more than 1.8 million have given up looking for a job.
Any snowflake who thought a candidate from the most corrupt Democrat party machine in the country and backed by George Soros and Goldman Sachs was sincere in his desire to bring “Change we can believe in” is too hopelessly stupid to vote, breed, or drive.
Are they as stupid as people who believe a real estate huxter will make America great again?
This is America: we have many flavors of stupid.
“Are they as stupid as people who believe a real estate huxter will make America great again?”
Forget about Hillary’s Whitewater scandal.
How about…
The Mystery of the Hillary Clinton Cattle Futures Controversy
By Tara Clarke, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @TaraKateClarke • November 6, 2015
cowThe year was 1978.
First lady of Arkansas Hillary Rodham Clinton said, in later interviews, she’d wanted to pad her husband’s modest salary with some investments.
She did just that – with highly speculative commodities trading. In fact, Clinton turned $1,000 into $100,000.
But her actions would spark a scandal, known as the “Hillary Clinton cattle futures controversy.”
Here’s why…
The History Behind the Hillary Clinton Cattle Futures Controversy
Commodities trading is risky. Analysts estimate more than three-quarters of commodities investors lose money.
But skilled traders – or ones with special knowledge – can cash in.
Hillary Clinton had no commodities trading experience when she entered the market. Nor did she have any specialized knowledge of the cattle business.
Yet she cashed in, miraculously turning $1,000 into $99,537 in 11 months, by investing in live cattle futures – contracts linked to the anticipated future value of 40,000 pounds of slaughter-ready beef cattle.
That’s why eyebrows raised when computerized records of Clinton’s trades, which the White House obtained from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), showed how she was able to turn her initial investment of $1,000 into $6,300 overnight (and nearly $100,000 over the next 10 months).
Clinton said her trades were guided by her own research in The Wall Street Journal, and by James Blair – her friend and a top in-house lawyer for Tyson Foods Inc. (NYSE: TSN), one of Arkansas’ most lucrative companies.
But analysts nationwide gauged the odds of her success and were left with serious doubts that Clinton’s cattle futures trades had been totally legal…
Hillary’s horribleness does not make Trump less horrible. You’re falling the old two party scam.
You’re falling the old two party scam.
Falling into it? Phony helps create and maintain the two party scam, he doesn’t fall into it.
Don’t be dissin’ my homey phony.
Are you two gonna smoke a cigarette now?
Did you work the tobacco-ain’t-bad-for-you anti-science campaigns back in the day, phony?
I hear a lot of those veterans are in the ain’t-no-climate-change anti-science campaigns today.
Oddie
Stop wallowing in guilt.
“You only get one life to live. Don’t blow it by being a miserable liberal.”
Liberalism and Happiness Don’t Mix
By Ron Ross – 8.25.15
Liberals are profoundly pessimistic. They think we are going to run out of resources. They believe that climate change will doom us. These are remote possibilities, not certainties. They are worst case scenarios. Liberals disregard and grossly underestimate human creativity and adaptability. Rather than using our vast endowment of fossil fuels for human benefit, liberals want to leave them in the ground.
Liberals’ emotion of choice is guilt. They feel it in their bones and they employ it expertly to achieve their policy objectives and demoralize their opponents. They feel responsible for the sins of their forebears. For example, Democrats are currently distancing themselves from their previous heroes, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. They feel guilty about the past, present, and future. It’s hard to be happy when you’re wallowing in guilt.
It’s revealing that you find such value in an opinion piece devoid of any actual science.
I checked the Atlantic Ocean today, it’s right where it was 33 years ago when I moved here.
This must pose a moral delemna for our resident progressives. What happens when one priveleged victim class brutally assualts members of another privileged victim class? And how does one link such assaults to white privilege? Would any of the Pineapples care to explain the hierarchy of victimhood here?
http://www.jpost.com/International/North-African-men-attempt-to-stone-transgender-women-in-German-city-441695
explain the hierarchy of victimhood here?
You seriously can ask such a dumb question in sincerity? As if there’s a real question there? Are you really that blinded by bias??
Bernie Sandinista
Mein Trumpf
Il Douche!
meme again?
But not juvenile or repetitious. That’s the key.
War is ok if you support it, right?
Only if you’re winning.
It’s okay when Trump or Putin do it, right? Otherwise it’s evil.
Isn’t that how it works?
Trump hasn’t started any war. Why should I care about Putin? He’s not sending US troops and he’s not blowing my tax money.
Protester arrested in Burns, accused of driving stolen refuge vehicle
UPDATE: Protester ordered not to occupy federal property as condition of his release from federal charges now pending in Medford.
BURNS – Oregon State Police on Friday arrested one of the protesters occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge after he drove into town, accusing him of having a stolen vehicle.
The man was identified as Kenneth Medenbach, 62, of Crescent. He was arrested on suspicion of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, a class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison. He was to be booked into the Deschutes County Jail in Bend with bail set at $10,000, officials said.
According to federal court records, Medenbach is currently facing federal charges in Medford and was released from custody in November. A condition of his release was that he would not “occupy” any federal land. He was accused of illegally camping on federal property.
He is the first person arrested in connection with the armed occupation of the wildlife refuge, taken over two weeks ago.
He was arrested in the Safeway parking lot in one vehicle bearing federal government license plates. A second federal vehicle was parked next to him, but the man police suspect of driving that into town already had gone into the grocery before police arrived.
Both vehicles — a pickup and a passenger van, bore door signs reading “Harney County Resource Center.” That’s the new name occupiers have given to the bird sanctuary they occupy, which is about 30 miles southeast of Burns.
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/protester_arrested_in_burns_dr.html
Federal law enforcement organizations have acted with relative restraint following the debacles at Ruby Ridge and Waco, but now these militia idiots seem bound and determined to provoke a confrontation by confusing restraint with weakness and pushing their agendas until some sort of armed showdown is inevitable. And then more loons will come out of the woodwork inspired by the “martyrs.”
Every dime of the cost of the security response to this illegal occupation should be borne by these jokers and not local, state, and federal taxpayers.
He was accused of illegally camping on federal property.
My Gawd…
Call out and the FBI and ATF and waco those dudes…
That’s exactly what everyone should be trying to avoid, including these militia types. The government has exercised restraint, but at some point it is going to have to deal forcefully with militants of whatever pursuasion who take up arms and illegally occupy federal property or otherwise disrupt local communities.
They’re just going to wait for them to wander off home, and arrest them there.
Did you miss this part?
The appellate ruling said there was “evidence that Medenbach had attempted to protect his forest campsite with fifty to a hundred pounds of the explosive ammonium sulfate, a pellet gun, and what appeared to be a hand grenade with trip wires. The government also proffered evidence that Medenbach had warned Forest Service officers of potential armed resistance to the federal government’s continued control of the forest lands in question.”
Who are we to deny his man his right to blow the hell out of anybody that stumbles across his campsite? There are terrorists in them woods!
He was accused of illegally camping on federal property.
… with 50 lbs of explosive.
I know when I head to the backcountry, the first thing in my pack is 50lbs of ammonium sulfate… as the Freedom Givers intended.
When will we see deflation in the housing market?
http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/96307/deflation-monster-has-arrived
The Donald calls out Ted Cruz on being a Goldman Sachs flunky.
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-ted-cruz-canada-bank-loans-2016-1
WTF. Hey middle class Obama supporters, who do you think is going to be paying for these endless freebies promised by the Teleprompter-in-Chief?
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2016/1/16/obama-unveils-new-wage-insurance-program.html
Good luck getting Congress to pass that
“It’s a way to give families some stability and encourage folks to rejoin the workforce —because we shouldn’t just be talking about unemployment; we should be talking about re-employment,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address, broadcast on Saturday.
Re-employment?
Listening the other night I thought everybody was already back to work.
Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address | January 20, 2015
We believed we could reverse the tide of outsourcing and draw new jobs to our shores. And over the past five years, our businesses have created more than 11 million new jobs. (Applause.)
I don’t like losers.
And that includes wounded soldiers.
There’s nothing quite as amusing as watching German progressives and their delusions that they can somehow turn the refugee hordes from the Middle East and Africa into law-abiding, housebroken supporters for the establishment political parties.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-15/cartoon-germany-gives-refugees-public-swimming-pools
If you look at the reddit threads, there is an ongoing awakening among the populace. I don’t think Merkel and co will be in power much longer.
Soon we will have our own Merkel: Hillary Clinton.
Progressives could care less how many German women are raped.
Progressive want to keep their power and will do anything for that power.
Muslims will vote as block for progressives until the day they vote for sharia law.
Progressives could care less how many German women are raped.
Man. I’d hate to be you with your thoughts.
Progressives drink the blood of christian children.
There’s nothing quite as amusing as watching German progressives
The funny thing is that Merkel is a member of the allegedly right of center Christian Democrat party. In Germany she isn’t considered a “progressive”. That moniker is for the Social Democrats.
The funny thing is Germany has no “right” party.
Only shades of progressives.
No party in Germany is for:
Smaller government
Lower taxes
Freedom of speech
Right to bear arms
A secure border
Etc.
Any politian who wanted that would be immediately branded a racist and a nazi.
Sorry banana. Merkel’s a conservative.
Like GW and Cheney. Banana’s favorite kind of cuckservatives.
Merkel is a globalist. There is no such thing as a conservative globalist.
“Recession At The Gate: JPM Cuts Q4 GDP From 1.0% To 0.1%”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-16/recession-gate-jpm-cuts-q4-gdp-10-01
Falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels will have their way. Every.single.time.
OMG Is it official now that it comes from the bankers?
The bloggers here just about 8 months ago were mostly libertarian. Shamefully, quite a few became the opposite, foolishly equating anti establishment with liberty. When the new establishment is potentially far worse than the existing one. SMH.
“[Trump] has said nothing about dismantling power. Indeed, he is on the record in his desire to expand the power of the state. He wants surveillance, controls on the internet, religious tests for migration, war-like tariffs which are taxes, industrial planning, and autocratic foreign-policy power. He’s praised police power and toyed with ideas such as internments and political killings of enemies.”
https://tucker.liberty.me/the-case-for-antidisestablishmentarianism/
Two main accomplishments of Trump so far:
1) Showing the GOP base how they’ve been taken for fools for so long.
2) Separating the libertarians from the authoritarians who call themselves libertarians because it sounds cooler.
“Separating the libertarians from the authoritarians who call themselves libertarian…”
Yes though this did not start with Trump. Leftist Bill Maher and right winger Glenn Beck each bastardized libertarianism by labeling themselves libertarian.
It is no longer impressive to hear someone say he is libertarian.
I think no politician the next 20 years will call himself a voluntaryist. First, it requires the Costly effort the leftists used to steal the term “liberal” and make it doublespeak. Now “liberal” means the opposite of its origin.
I am impressed when I meet others who know what Voluntaryism means. Most people refuse to care, though they practice voluntaryism most of the time. They should care. The vote is what undoes all the good they do while acting voluntaryist. The vote is a nuclear bomb, as if Ghandi dropped the nuclear bomb.
You will voluntarily surrender your firearms, including the ones illegally possessed in CA.
I voluntarily surrender nothing.
“The ideal is liberty, not the overthrow of existing elite structures as such. Rampant and unchecked populism can be as much an enemy of liberty as unchecked ruled by an entrench power elite.”
“A new dictator from the left or right threatens everything. A political movement fueled by bloodlust — mobilized by raw resentment and crying out for vengeance — could put in power a new form of oligarchic control, resulting in a calamity that no one intends as such but no one can control once it has power.”
Trump supporters = fools.
This isn’t about liberty. It’s about fear of the Hildebeast.
Like someone else here says, Hitlery is unelectable. What’s there to fear?
And it could end up replacing the Hildebeast with the tyrant.
The difference is what?
The article explains why Sanders or Trump could be worse than Hillary or Jeb. The establishment is entrenched and controls itself to not upset the current way of life under current big government. But a radical change in making government even bigger would be ruinous.
I prefer Hllary or Jeb over Trump.
I prefer Rand Paul over Hillary or Jeb.
A vote for Trump is the best vote a voluntaryist could cast to strike a blow against the entrenched powers. Rand is a peashooter. You’ve been given a bazooka.
“…is the best vote a voluntaryist…”
By definition, a voluntaryist does not vote.
Is President Obama running for a third term? If so, the election is over - he’s the winner.
the competition is so weak this election.
Obama was Bush Lite and Hillary is an Obama clone, so it’s more like the 5th term of George W Bush.
I have a $10 bill and a $20 bill, USD. It takes the same amount of effort to make both.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-15/loophole-allows-banks-%E2%80%93-not-other-companies-%E2%80%93-create-money-out-thin-air
crypto currency is mined. There is work involved to solve the equations for a block before it’s added to the blockchain. Each new block added to the chain involves more work to solve the equations.
And of course silver and gold has to be mined as well. It takes labor to mine precious metals and crypto currency.
So what’s to stop competing cryptocurrencies from devaluing yours?
Nothing. But no fiat currency is guaranteed to stay long enough for several generations. I have money in moe than one crypto currency.
There are various levels of convenience in storing Bitcoin and generating Bitcoin wallets. For the layman, the advice is to start off small, make tiny $1.00 transactions and observe. You depend on the security of the apps and you keep reading and learning and testing more sophisticated protection schemes.
The ultimate is an air gapped Bitcoin wallet generator. You can generate a key pair with a 100 line peel script, and I did that. And I tested the work by sending 0.01 BTC to my new wallet. Air gapped means no internet is involved. This is the ultimate wallet privacy.
There is a program bitaddress that is open source and you can use that offline if your air gapped machine has a web browser that can run web pages offline. Mine does not allow me to use bitaddress.org
Ted Williams- Homeless Man with a Golden Radio Voice - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd9QZNRsXbY - 171k - Cached - Similar pages
Jan 6, 2011
“When The Dispatch caught up with Williams in October 2014, he was living in an apartment with no furniture, didn’t have a car and couldn’t explain what happened to a $395,000 advance for his 2012 memoir.”
Once-homeless man with smooth voice is back on the airwaves
Updated 3:37 pm, Saturday, January 16, 2016
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The once-homeless man whose silky voice turned him into an Internet sensation five years ago is back on the air — at the same Ohio radio station where he started a broadcasting career derailed by drug and alcohol addiction.
Ted Williams recently returned to the airwaves with a weekday program on WKVO-AM, The Columbus Dispatch reported (http://bit.ly/1Zd1IKb). Williams, 58, got his start at the station in the 1980s.
The new show is Williams’ first steady employment since 1993 and comes five years after The Dispatch featured the former panhandler’s smooth radio voice in an online video.
The video brought Williams instant fame but meant his personal struggles played out in public, including Dr. Phil appearances and family altercations that made the tabloids.
When The Dispatch caught up with Williams in October 2014, he was living in an apartment with no furniture, didn’t have a car and couldn’t explain what happened to a $395,000 advance for his 2012 memoir.
Williams said he’s focusing on moving forward while living with his daughter and his longtime girlfriend, who has also battled drug addiction.
Williams said he wants to be an example for others who are trying to turn their lives around.
“I want them to know that I’ve been through struggles — and they have, too,” he said. “I don’t know what tomorrow will bring. That ‘one day at a time’ really means one second at a time.”
Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com
In the second week of November, when once again a majority of the eligible voters will be known in numbers, the HBB partisans will forget how much time they wasted on arguing Trump or Hillary or Sanders. They will also ignore that the majority of eligible voters did not freakin care.
I.e. The majority of eligible voters will stay home. And the time wasted tapping on the keyboard about your favorite dictator will be foolish. And when that dictator screws up, you, who voted for that dictator will be responsible.