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How many different handles does the person who posts under Donald Trump’s name post? I count at least four, perhaps more.
Split personality disorder is a serious mental illness. I do hope our Yuuuge / Donald / CawCaw etc. gets the help he needs.
Paranoia is your mental illness. Those are all different people.
DumidoFanger
CanklePants
AlbuquerqueDan
OTHER?
It’s Dumidol. Du - mi - dol, say it out loud. I am neither of those others. AbQDan is long gone. No one is pimping China.
Anklepants
Dumb idol changes his screen name a lot to thwart Joshua tree and stalk those he hates.
+1 Bill….
Oddfellow stated it well the other day;
“Just a sorry bunch of mousy losers who’ve found a safe place to be jerks, because in the real world they’d get their butts kicked”
Dumb idol/Cankle Pants’ knees would buckle when confronting the push up King.
That’s silly. I hadn’t even considered the Joshua tree thing.
Paranoia and blind rage are defining characteristics of Trumplings.
“Ignore the man behind the curtain.”
Rent free.
I hope you get some help for your split personality disorder, too, GetStucco.
I hope none of your realty clients get stucco.
Ah, the ol’ Cantankerous Intellectual Bomb Thrower!
Cantankerous = angry?
Intellectual = clearly my better?
And we know you’re white and old!
Look! It’s an angry old white man who’s better than everybody else. After all, he’s a self-professed intellectual. You’re the angry old white man you’re always talking about!
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
Those who teach, vote Democrat.
Those who vote Democrat vote for Hillary.
Those who vote for Hillary…sad.
Those who can’t vote for Hillary, sell real estate.
Sadder…
LOL. That’s a poor conclusion you drew there. It implies that everybody who can’t vote for Hillary sells real estate - easily disprovable. Another one of your bald-faced lies, I guess. I’ve seen you talk about logic a lot. Strange you don’t understand it at this level! Or maybe it isn’t. Those planks have blinded you something fierce.
P.S.
I laugh at how pathetic you are with your guess that I’m a realtor. You’ve thought that for years. Wrong.
“It implies that everybody who can’t vote for Hillary sells real estate - easily disprovable.”
Only a rube would take that at face value.
The only winner here is me. And I’m living in your head rent free.
FRAUD ALERT,!
What do the Iowa Electronic Markets currently suggest about the 2016 race?
Trumpf is on track to win the Republican nomination.
Washington Post real journalists Editorial Board provide a narrative titled:
GOP leaders, you must do everything in your power to stop Trump
“This is a front-runner with no credible agenda and no suitable experience. He wants the United States to commit war crimes, including torture and the murder of innocent relatives of suspected terrorists. He admires Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and sees no difference between Mr. Putin’s victims and people killed in the defense of the United States. He would round up and deport 11 million people, a forced movement on a scale not attempted since Stalin or perhaps Pol Pot. He has, during the course of his campaign, denigrated women, Jews, Muslims, Mexicans, people with disabilities and many more. He routinely trades in wild falsehoods and doubles down when his lies are exposed.”
UK Guardian real journalists provide the following narrative:
“Anger is pretty easy to miss when it’s something pretty difficult to feel. When you sit at the center of the world and are unlikely to ever lack for the basic materials of self-sufficiency, the idea of blind, gnawing resentment – let alone of feeding that resentment even with irrational aims – is ineluctably beyond your ken.
It’s harder still to understand that there are millions of people in America whose ambitions for a life of steadily improving conditions cratered sometime around nine years ago and have never recovered. If you can hardly imagine that you could follow the Horatio Alger script to the letter and still find yourself sinking in quicksand, you’re never going to understand why someone would be so contemptuous of the pieties of a system that only pays attention to you when doing soft-focus interviews in search of a journalism award or a campaign ad.
+1
It’s a sad day when those living outside a country understand more about a country the country’s betters do.
The anger that exists across the USA - and there’s a great deal of it - is due to the deliberate dismantling of the middle class.
Tens of millions of people know that their future is not middle class, but lower class.
They also know that their betters want it that way. Their betters want a people that is dependent, and their betters are doing everything they can to ensure that it happens.
I agree, Macbeth, having met this week with a couple of Canadian associates who think America has gone mad over Trump. The joke going around is that there’s a bitterly cold island somewhere north of Newfoundland whose inhabitants jokingly offered Americans asylum in case Trump wins in November. Apparently a number of Americans fell for it and have already applied for asylum there.
US academia is very much involved in the dismantling of the US middle class.
Billions in endowments, little value add, telling the young and witless what to think rather than instruct them how to be discriminate.
That you willingly are part of such an apparatus tells me all I need to know.
How did we jump subjects again from Trump’s candidacy to the foibles of academia? It seems like you have an axe to grind.
I know some Canadians. They love trump.
little value add, telling the young and witless what to think rather than instruct them how to be discriminate.
This describes very little of what goes on at good colleges.
I don’t know about being told what to think. Those experiments in chemistry and physics labs gave me the same results and numbers no matter what I was told to think.
The “liberal thought” (or whatever) class material isn’t what is destroying the middle class. Instead, it’s all those shiny new buildings and highly paid unnecessary administrators… all bought by the crushing student loan debt which hobbled an entire generation of middle class.
“US academia is very much involved in the dismantling of the US middle class.”
Which part? Engineering school? Medical school? Business school? Or is it that small Liberal Arts building on campus that contains those so leftist they will bring down the US?
ambitions for a life of steadily improving conditions cratered sometime around nine years ago and have never recovered.
Nine years ago? Try about twenty-nine years ago. Geesh.
30 years ago: factory jobs outsourced to 2nd 3rd world
25 years ago: clerical jobs destroyed by computers
20 years ago: management jobs destroyed by mergers and acquisitions
15 years ago: middle-class computer jobs outsourced to India
10 years ago: semi skilled and unskilled jobs destroyed by illegals.
5 years ago: lower level jobs destroyed by cumulative effects of all of the above.
Speaking of the shortcomings of higher education…
MarketWatch dot com
Home Personal Finance
Trump University didn’t make these Americans great: lawsuit
By Jillian Berman
Published: Feb 25, 2016 3:59 p.m. ET
A class action lawsuit could force Donald Trump from the campaign trail
AFP/Getty Images- Don Emert
Donald Trump has promised to make Americans great before, and as multiple lawsuits allege, it didn’t work out so well.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has vowed on the campaign trail to use his personal prowess and business savvy to help set the country on a better path. But he’s made similar promises in the past, which have not appeared to come true, multiple lawsuits claim. And now those accusations may come back to haunt him in his race for president.
It’s possible that Trump will have to take a break from the campaign trail before the final primaries in the Republican race to testify in a class-action lawsuit filed against the now-defunct Trump University in 2010. Court documents, first reported by Yahoo Politics, indicate that both parties have listed the billionaire mogul on their witness list to testify in the case. Though no date has been set for the trial, a pretrial conference is now scheduled for May 6.
In the court documents, former students accuse Trump University of luring them into spending tens of thousands of dollars to better their lives through courses on real-estate investment and access to mentors. But the promises never came to fruition, the suit alleges. Trump’s lawyer and a spokeswoman for his campaign didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment, but Trump has previously denied the allegations.
Donald Trump won the Nevada Republican caucuses by sweeping nearly every demographic group. During his victory speech, he thanked his diverse group of supporters and said he “loves the poorly educated.”
Trump University first launched in 2005 and it wasn’t a university in a traditional sense. Instead it functioned more as a series of business and real estate-focused seminars — some online — and mentorship programs. In 2010, the company changed its name to the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative after years of pressure for the New York State Education Department, which argued that it was misleading. The program later shut down in 2010.
The court documents, filed in federal court in California, claim that Trump University used radio and newspaper ads to draw students to free seminars with radio and newspaper ads promising access to instructors and information that made Trump a success. Once they got there, they were urged by speakers flanked by banners of Trump to sign up for a “one year apprenticeship” program, offering “a comprehensive real estate education” as well as access to mentors for a year, at the cost of $1,495, the documents claim.
The one-year program turned out to be a three-day seminar aimed at convincing students to pay $34,995 for a “full education,” the lawsuit alleges. During the program, students were told to raise their credit card limits by four times so they could purchase property. However, the students were then asked to use the increased credit to buy the “Gold Program” seminar, the documents claim. Students were told that participating in this program would give them access to mentors and deals that would teach them how to earn up to tens of thousands of dollars a month doing real-estate investing, the lawsuit claims. Instead, few deals materialized and mentors disappeared after two days looking at properties and a half day trip to Home Depot, according to court documents.
Tarla Makaeff, the lead plaintiff in the case, spent nearly $60,000 to pay for Trump University products over the course of one year, the lawsuit claims. What she got in return were two offers for real estate deals that were “flawed” and “appeared unprofitable,” the lawsuit says.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman also filed a $40 million suit against Trump in 2013 over Trump University. Shortly after filing the suit, Schneiderman claimed Trump University used “Trump’s name recognition and celebrity status to take advantage of consumers who believed in the Trump brand.”
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No credible agenda = want open borders = want tons more democrats
Let’s see if the “All Trump supporters are stupid ignorant racist bastards” will work. My bet is that the left has lost so much credibility with their various pushing of PC lies and enough people are fed up with how crazy PC has gotten that it doesn’t work.
I’ve liked Charles Hugh Smith’s take on a number of things and he hit it out of the park with his post on clueless pundits, regarding Trump:
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2016/02/what-pundits-dont-get-about-trump.html
So much good stuff here:
“The typical bourgeois mainstream media pundit is confused and alarmed by Donald Trump’s ascendancy. The typical pundit is a member of the petit bourgeois who has zero contact with the working class in America, other than saying “hello” to his/her auto mechanic, hair salon employee, etc.
The standard-issue pundit has an overweening sense of their own insight due to their academic/media success; nobody gets air time for confessing “I’m clueless.”
“They don’t get it, and the reason why they don’t get it is because they are rooted in the petit bourgeois technocrat class that aspires to insider status within corrupt cliques of centralized power. The pundit burnishes their credentials with the usual petit bourgeois baubles–advanced degrees from “respected” universities, books published by “respected” New York publishing houses, and fellowships from “respected” poverty-pimp foundations funded by guilt-ridden plunderers and their dilettante offspring.”
“Technocrat pundits scratch their well-educated heads and wonder why Trump enthusiasts would vote for a bombastic scion of wealth. Let me help you, gentle confused pundits: Trump comes across like a plumber who’s struck it rich: he’s got a beautiful (immigrant) wife (second, third or fourth, who’s counting, the guy has it made), he speaks his mind regardless of who’s offended, and he doesn’t bother with bean-counter trivialities like a carefully scripted agenda that includes all the key demographic groups.”
Petit Bourgeois.
“They don’t get it…
Excellent paragraph right there.
If the entire island of Manhattan were to vanish tomorrow (now that Lou Reed and David Bowie are gone) would it have any net negative effect on the rest of this country?
The guy has a point in the last paragraph that quoted, but I don’t this that this is correct.
The typical bourgeois mainstream media pundit is confused and alarmed by Donald Trump’s ascendancy.
Trump is living the life that lot of blue collar guys would dream about living if they won the lottery - a new model wife every 10 years, a 757 with his name painted, and so forth. It’s not so hard to understand. For some reason Mr. Charles Hugh Smith (another one of these guy who uses his middle name) would like to think that the all of those MSM pundits, with their fancy high school diplomas, don’t understand the Trump phenomenon.
The rest of what you quoted contains includes far too many buzzwords. The term petite bourgeoisie was apparently used a lot by Karl Marx a century and a half ago. The equivalent term in 2016 in America is probably the middle class.
Comment by MightyMike
2016-02-25 07:11:13
“Trump is”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2hULhXf04 - 300k -
MightyMike, I don’t this that this is correct either.
“The rest of what you quoted contains includes far too many buzzwords. The term petite bourgeoisie was apparently used a lot by Karl Marx a century and a half ago. The equivalent term in 2016 in America is probably the middle class.”
Well, he explains it, even if he does use his middle name:
The petit bourgeois media, so easily impressed with institutional “respect” and other fabrications of the ruling class, demeans the working class supporters of Trump as lumpenproletariats, which Marx described thusly:
“Alongside decayed roués with dubious means of subsistence and of dubious origin, alongside ruined and adventurous offshoots of the bourgeoisie, were vagabonds, discharged soldiers, discharged jailbirds, escaped galley slaves, swindlers, mountebanks, lazzaroni, pickpockets, tricksters, gamblers, maquereaux [pimps], brothel keepers, porters, literati, organ grinders, ragpickers, knife grinders, tinkers, beggars — in short, the whole indefinite, disintegrated mass, thrown hither and thither, which the French call la bohème.”
Rather than describe the working class, this describes the political class of the U.S.A. to perfection.
Here’s another thought. The fact that the MSM has referred to the working class more than twice in a six-month period is a new and interesting development. Politicians and the MSM love to talk about the middle class. The working class is rarely discussed. It would be interesting to ask these people how they think that two classes are related to each other. Do they consider the working class to be part of the middle class, or are they two separate classes?
I don’t know how the MSM sees it these days, they seem to be a tad confused on this point, but if you are interested in the subject, Paul Fussell authored an excellent book about the American class system back in the 1980s, much of which I think still pertains today. I found it to be very readable and it made a lot of sense to me.
http://www.amazon.com/Class-Through-American-Status-System/dp/0671792253
Yeah, I read that way back when. A lot of people seemed to think of it as being authoritative without realizing that it was meant to be entertaining as well. From what I recall, he identified nine distinct classes, which is quite a lot.
Do they consider the working class to be part of the middle class, or are they two separate classes?
When I was growing up, blue collar was “lower middle class.” Middle class was “middle middle class.” You were considered “middle” as long as you weren’t on welfare or food stamps.
“Yeah, I read that way back when. A lot of people seemed to think of it as being authoritative without realizing that it was meant to be entertaining as well. From what I recall, he identi
fied nine distinct classes, which is quite a lot.”
Some of us found it entertaining, then realized it was authoritative, and still found it entertaining. Let’s see if I can remember the 9 classes:
1) Top out of sight
Bottom
2) Upper
3) Upper Middle
4) Middle
5) Lower Middle
6) High Prole
7) Low Prole
9) Bottom out of sight
Or some such thing. And then there was the X class.
Mighty Mike,
You totally missed the intent of CH Smith’s column. He was purposely over-using the buzzwords and French phrases in order to drive home — with a sledgehammer — the arrogance of the pundit class. The column reads like how the pundits think (George Will comes to mind).
And I really don’t think that the middle and lower classes support Trump simply because they want the trappings of his riches. No, I think that Trump supporters remember their childhoods from the early 70’s, when there were stable jobs that could be had with a high-school education, and even minimum wage was a living wage. Politicians have been taking that from them and they want it back.
If the entire island of Manhattan were to vanish tomorrow (now that Lou Reed and David Bowie are gone) would it have any net negative effect on the rest of this country?
Donald Trump happens to live on the island of Manhattan.
And I really don’t think that the middle and lower classes support Trump simply because they want the trappings of his riches. No, I think that Trump supporters remember their childhoods from the early 70’s, when there were stable jobs that could be had with a high-school education, and even minimum wage was a living wage. Politicians have been taking that from them and they want it back.
I don’t think that his followers want his riches, though I’m sure they wouldn’t mind if he put them in his will. Many of them probably think that he earned his wealth though hard work and they also like the way that he spends it.
Regarding the rest of your statement there - I think that Trump fans like him for a number of different reasons. I have a friend who was born in 1973 and is a big admirer of Trump. So really doesn’t have any memory of the economy of the early ’70s. Also, I haven’t heard Trump say anything about dramatically increasing the minimum wage, or doing anything to help unions recover the influence that they had in, say, 1970. This is another part of the Trump story. He doesn’t supply much in the way of details to explain how he will make America great again, but his followers aren’t bothered by that. They trust him to take care of business. It’s a kind of a cult of personality.
Irrelevant.
The problem is grossly inflated prices, rigged markets and bottlenecked supply. The solution is falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels.
I haven’t heard Barney Sanders discuss the solution.
There are a number of articles in the MSM these days calling on Americans to come to their senses.
And I specifically identify them as authored by “real journalists.”
The model of scripted outrage narratives isn’t working anymore.
And real journalists are running scared…
Because they’re the petit bourgeois, aka the cowering class.
“Real journalists” are paid to parrot The Narrative laid down by the oligarch owners of the six corporations that own the entire US media-disinformation complex. Google it. These “real journalists” quail at the nightmare scenario of the sheeple finally opening their eyes and thinking for themselves, then canceling their MSM subscriptions and refusing to pay for MSM programming (propaganda).
“to come to their senses.”
That is the talk of an abuser or the facilitator of an abuser.
It could also be the talk of someone who is seriously concerned about a repeat here in the U.S. of the political mistake that Germany made during the interwar period that opened the door to Hitler’s rise to power.
My academic training provides the advantage of a degree of rational objectivity the average angry old white middle-class American voter lacks.
GOP leaders, you must do everything in your power to stop Trump
Why? I thought that the center-left Washington Post would have *welcomed* a Trump candidate, knowing that Hillary would destroy him in the general election with her inevitability.
So now are they thinking that Trump might defeat Hillary too?
Donk it’s beyond conclusive by now. Clinton is the weakest candidate in the field.
Clinton has the Democratic nomination in the bag.
And Goldman Sachs has her in the bag.
Told you Barney was a put up fake candidate.
Hillary and the DNC always owned the superdelegates. Bernie is just out there to create the illusion of a democratic process.
Bernie is just out there to create the illusion of a democratic process.
And Trump is just the Clinton’s Manchurian candidate, destroying the GOP as he paves the way to Hillary’s inauguration.
Trump might surprise and beat Hillary. I think there are a lot of closet Trumplings… Ashamed to admit it, but they’ll trumple in the secrecy of the voting booth.
Neither will get my vote.
Trump might surprise and beat Hillary.
That’s the danger of creating a monster. They’re notoriously hard to control. I believe someone wrote a book about it.
Frankentrump?
“closet Trumplings”
I’m going to make a bold prediction that many of those closet Trumplings will be:
1. Disaffected Sanders voters, especially those Millenial women who want to spite Hillary for her reverse-sexist talk.
2. Voters who want Hillary’s policies without voting for the actual unlikable Hillary. Remember, before everyone got distracted by the racist/Godwin bandwagon, Trump was sounding awfully centrist. If Trump survives to be the nominee, I think you’ll see that centrist Trump come back in September.
It would be a delicious irony if Citizens United is broken by united citizens.
Hillaryous is unelectable.
Hillary is, in fact, the US equivalent of Angela Merkel, IMO. I could see her inviting millions of refugees to the US and providing them the means to do it, at taxpayer expense. And she would certainly know how, due to her “experience” in the State Department. Actually, by taking out Muammar Gaddafi, she unleashed the African/North African component of the “refugee” crisis on Europe.
“Clinton has the Democratic nomination in the bag.”
Hillary’s speeches are impressive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY8kL6-Gvfg - 229k -
That means Obama gets his third term! Yay!
Trump is the middle finger to the status quo. It isn’t any more complicated than that.
One either wants more Clinton/Bush/Obama or one doesn’t.
One would think that it’s important what is desired instead.
Think all you want. Promises will be made and broken and nothing changes.
What is needed first is some house cleaning. Then there will be opportunity to build something “desired”. When there is entrenched corruption, things cannot proceed in opposite order.
Consider the American Revolution. First the rude brutes threw the bums out. Then they sat down to discuss how to accomplish a more perfect union.
I keep saying it is too early for a real hero.
“What is desired” is so 2008.
The Obama presidency taught us that “what is desired” or even “what is best” can be blocked and filibusted by “what is bought and paid for,” be it a cable news network or an entire side of the Senate.
Didja notice that the one thing Trump isn’t, is bought and paid for?
“blocked and filibusted”
Like Obamacare? Mr. Promises did not even know what was in it. “Pass something, anything. Save my Presidency.”
There is what was desired.
It was widely known what was in it. It was very similar to what Governor Romney pushed through in Massachusetts.
It was the blocks and filibusters that gave us Obamacare in its present state. Without the blocks and filibusters, I think we would have had a public option.
You very astutely commented that the goal of our financial system was the skim. Well, nothing is a better example of The Skim than making a profit skimming government subsidies for the sick.
Donk,
“Public option” is just cover for the fact that government involvement in delivery of medical services has driven prices to grossly inflated levels.
Government creates problems.
Consider the American Revolution. First the rude brutes threw the bums out.
Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Payne, Adams were rude brutes? On the contrary, they were very sophisticated and thoughtful revolutionaries, adjectives that would never be used to describe Trump.
lol@lola
Trump’s recent success has reduced the probability of a Republican win in the general election.
As reported by Huffington Post real journalists:
“Democrats, meanwhile, have been mostly sitting on the sidelines, trying to contain their glee. Indeed, the common (and snarky) thinking on the left is that “it couldn’t have happened to a nicer political party.” They watch the wreckage of the establishment Republicans with amusement, confident that their nominee will handily defeat Donald Trump in November. To think any differently is to spit in the face of conventional political wisdom, after all. Except for one big thing they haven’t even started to come to grips with yet: Donald Trump has gotten to where he is by continually spitting in the face of conventional political wisdom. It’s what he does, and he’s very good at it.
Which brings us to our main point. If Donald Trump is so hard to beat in Republican primaries, is he really going to be all that easy for a Democrat to beat in November?
Salon dot com real journalists provide the following narrative:
“Before any votes were cast, when Donald Trump was the theoretical front-runner, the optimists preached patience. Just wait, they said. This will blow over. He’s a clown, a huckster, a TV personality. There’s no way he can win. It’s just not possible.
Well, it’s not only possible – it’s likely.
With a vocabulary of roughly a dozen words – wall, Mexicans, low-energy, loser, Muslims, stupid, China, negotiate, deals, America, great, again – he’s bamboozled millions of Americans. And it’s not just splenetic conservatives supporting Trump or your garden-variety bigots (although that’s the center of his coalition), it’s also independents, pro-choice Republicans, and a subset of Reagan Democrats.
As reported by Washington Post real journalists:
“Should Trump become the Republican nominee, his current low standing among Hispanic voters could jeopardize the party’s hopes of winning the general election in November. In current matchups with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, Trump scores worse among Hispanics than any of the three other leading Republican candidates — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
The Post-Univision survey tested those four GOP candidates against Clinton and against Sanders. While all trail badly among Hispanics at this point, Trump does the worst — losing the Hispanic vote to Clinton by 73 to 16 percent. That 57-point gap is little changed from a 54-point deficit recorded last June, but is significantly wider than the 44-point margin by which former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney lost Hispanics four years ago and bigger than in any presidential exit poll since the 1970s.
The lame stream media can unload all they want on Donald, his supporters aren’t listening and could care less. They are shills and liars.
Dismissing a huge section of the population that gets up and goes to work and lives their lives productively and admirably as simply stupid ignorant racist bastards is a mistake, especially when you are constant championing people who do not live their lives productively.
Meanwhile, Wall Street’s captured establishment GOP whores and swindlers are dazed and confused as The Donald goes from strength to strength by tapping into the viceral popular disgust with our political “elites.” The presstitute media’s assurances that Trump would flame out by now have been proved catastrophically wrong, and the oligarchy is in a cold sweat as they contemplate the horrific reality that this time around, far fewer sheeple will be bending over for them by cast votes for their annointed puppets, Hillary, Rubio, and Cruz. And horror of horrors, Trump has even come out in favor of auditing the Fed, which would show the magnitude of the Fed’s racketeering with the banksters and rip-offs of US taxpayers.
Heh, in other election cycle news, I see Mitt (Corporations are People, Too) Romney is oozing out of his lair like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, now that JEB! has crawled back to his.
Interesting, other than his order to Nikki Haley to take down the Confederate Flag, hardly a peep out of Mitt until JEB! was safely put away. Now he’s endorsing Rubio, and dissing the Don. Why’s he piping up now? Maybe he’s going to jump into the race?
The whole JEB!-Mitt placeholder thing is fascinating.
The lame stream media can unload all they want on Donald, his supporters aren’t listening and could care less. They are shills and liars.
+1.
If Kronkite or Murrow had unloaded on The Donald, Trump would not have made it out of the first debate. But now, the perfectly coiffed and pimped up MSM shills are in the tank and everybody knows it except them. The media doesn’t even realize that the more they unload on Trump, the more votes Trump will get.
Depends on how many people show up to vote “OMG Not Trump” vs how many secret trumplings there are.
Once the nominations are done, we’re going to see a lot of Trump’s dirty laundry. The hildebeast has held back to ensure his nomination, but once that’s past, it’s on.
We’ve already been beaten about the ears with The Lizard Queen’s dirty laundry for years. It won’t have any zing.
The Veep pick will either vindicate or vacate the sad panda boo-boo theory. I’ll be watching that one with great interest and will give you due props if it bears out. Should the Don get that far.
And the very fact that I and others are still saying “should the Don get that far” shows how screwed up and biased the doo-wop-a-lee electoral process is. As some said after Nevada, if it were any other election, they’d already be talking about the nominee-apparent. Nope, the neocon establishment is still trying to “stop Trump”. Fer cryin’ out loud, if they don’t want the guy, the Republican party should just be honest about it and kick his butt out.
But they want it both ways: let Trump draw in the disaffected voters that Romney lost and maybe they can convert them to some neocon water boy at Trump’s expense.
They don’t call it the stupid party for nuthin’.
They ain’t gonna stop him. His followers are stupid and stubborn.
Another failed prediction, grasping at any straw to preserve your cognitive bias against Trump. You’re like the shills over at 538blog, so steeped in their own hate for Rs they can’t see straight.
Admit it, as a Southern California university level academic who believes in the SJW model of diversity, you are in the tank for the Ds.
Did you vote for Obama?
Comment by Professor Bear
2008-10-27 19:23:26
Just voted for Obama. I would not risk contributing to a McPalin-Cain win by voting on the basis of principles…
Fake post by an equivocal poster…
Fake post by an equivocal poster…
I found it easy to prove that it’s you - and not a fake post - just by searching for it in Google. Interesting that you now pretend that you didn’t post that. It’s a bald-faced lie you just told.
Here’s a snippet of something you posted in 2011-07-30: “Because the bought MSM lets Republicans get away with bald-faced lies.” I wonder why that bothered you given that you tell bald-faced lies…
Take the planks out of your eyes!
Prof typically is surrounded by socialists, along with hoards of wide-eyed, pliable, unworldly 20-year-olds.
It is, therefore, to be expected that when anyone who calls him to the mat, he tags them a liar.
Cognitive bias? Anybody with any cognition at all can see that Trump is scamming you fools.
They have entire forests in their eyes that block the view of Trump’s trees.
That’s what you want, so why you complaining?
That’s every establishment types (both left and right) want, why are they complaining? Let the Don suffer the humiliation in November.
Win win, no?
Burning question: Will the GOP flush their prospects of winning the WH down the toilet as they did in the two previous elections?
As reported by Washington Post real journalists:
“The global economy has changed more rapidly than many people’s ability to adjust to it,” Louisville’s Democratic mayor Greg Fischer said in an interview. “It’s changing so fast that many people are asking, ‘Why am I being left out of this?’ ”
If Trump’s campaign leaves behind one useful legacy, it will be a heightened awareness of the deep hurt among the Americans Fischer is describing. They have been brutally battered by globalization and technological change. So far, Trump’s Republican rivals have had little to say to these voters.
“people are asking, ‘Why am I being left out of this?’
Obviously because they care about money.
They should be more like Chelsea Clinton.
“I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,”
She told Fast Company in an interview that ran in the magazine’s May edition.
They have been brutalized by 0.1% who have pushed globalization, who have stripped wealth from the middle class via taxes trade market manipulation labor laws etc.
Let’s put a face on it.
What’s it to you if Rs are choosing Trump? Cruz and Rubio are much worse national candidates. At least Trump has crossover appeal.
Maybe stick to the Baltic dry index.
Caw on, crow boy.
The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.
That’s funny Ray! Maybe ProBeer’s answer to whether he voted O hasn’t popped up for me yet. If not, I’m sure he’ll get around to answering that soon enough.
Caw on, crow boy.
Please remind me again, GetStucco, Professor Bear, split personality-man, what it is you’re always saying about people who use ad hominem?
Those planks in your eyes are so big you can’t even see yourself anymore.
I don’t routinely post under five handles to up my blog footprint. And everyone (even you, Michael!) knows that I posted as GetStucco back when subprime was all the rage and Professor Bear after the crash.
Indeed, but I’m not the one who said this:
Comment by Professor Bear
2016-02-25 03:56:16
Split personality disorder is a serious mental illness.
“I hate being bi-polar…it’s awesome!”
Is China’s stock market crash the ungift that keeps giving?
MarketWatch dot com
China stocks plunge 6.4% on worries about market liquidity
By Chao Deng
Published: Feb 25, 2016 4:31 a.m. ET
Rough day puts Shanghai 47% lower since last summer
Reuters
A staff member walks through the venue of the upcoming G20 meeting in Shanghai, China, on Thursday.
Stocks in China plunged Thursday amid heightened worries about market liquidity, just as leaders of the world’s largest economies are preparing to meet in Shanghai.
The Shanghai Composite Index (SHCOMP, -6.41%) tumbled throughout the trading session to finish down 6.4% at 2,741.25. That was the worst percentage drop for China’s leading benchmark since Jan. 26 and took the benchmark down to a 47% loss since last summer.
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Is another stock market crash baked in the cake, or will further rounds of electronic printing save the situation?
MarketWatch dot com
Opinion: This is why you can expect another global stock market meltdown
By Satyajit Das
Published: Feb 25, 2016 5:08 a.m. ET
Crash Course: Stocks and other investments are wildly overvalued
MarketWatch illustration/Shutterstock
This story is part one of ‘Crash Course,’ a five-part series from commentator Satyajit Das on threats to investors in the current market climate. Coming on Monday: The destructive impact of excessive debt.
The mispricing of assets across world markets has reached epidemic proportions.
Stock prices have made strong advances over the past several years, yet market analysts see further gains, arguing that the selloffs of August 2015 and early 2016 represent a healthy correction.
But this rise in stock values has been underpinned by financial engineering and liquidity — setting the stage for a global financial crisis rivaling 2008 and early 2009.
The conditions for a crisis are now firmly established: overvaluation of financial assets; significant leverage; persistent low-growth and deflation; excessive risk taking reliant on central banks for liquidity, and the suppression of volatility.
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a closely watched pot never boils over?
AS long as you have central banks shaking out shorts this mark could levitate for awhile.
I have to agree with you there. Stock market, housing market, both have been manipulated by central bank coordination with the government and the media.
2008 was not a real crash by any means. Sure, some air was let out, but there should have been way more opportunity for people to buy houses cheap than there was. JMO.
MarketWatch dot com
It may be a bear market, but it’s not yet nowhere-to-shelter time
By Victor Reklaitis
Published: Feb 25, 2016 9:07 a.m. ET
Critical information ahead of the U.S. market’s open
Getty Images
It’s ugly out there, but at least you can still get an umbrella.
Today’s silver lining: It may be a bear market, but it’s not yet “nowhere-to-hide” time.
That’s the suggestion from Dana Lyons of J. Lyons Fund Management, who is among those finding pockets of strength even as the Dow (DJIA, +0.32%) wallows 10% off its peak after a meager gain yesterday.
A consumer staples ETF (RHS, +0.42%) is showing strength, Lyons notes in a blog post that offers the chart below. He says “as long as something is still displaying positive relative strength, it is a good omen for the immediate-term stock market prospects.”
“It is really only during the teeth of a bear market — when there is no place to hide, everything is getting smashed and correlations go to 1.0 — that relative strength loses any and all utility,” Lyons adds.
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Now think about this logically too. If I was ABQDan would I be able to contain myself and not comment on the China stuff ? I don’t think he had that kind of restraint on that issue.
Economic Calendar dot com
Baltic Dry Index Continues Upward Climb – But Downside Pressures Remain
February 24, 2016 @ 02:30 GMT
The Baltic Dry Index is continuing its slow upward climb, rebounding after hitting an all-time high in early February.
Encouraging the gradual ascent is an overall, improved risk sentiment and improved economic outlook for China as Beijing plans to stimulate the economy. To see a meaningful improvement in the index, demand from China, a top consumer of raw materials, has to remain on steady footing, and as of late some major cracks have surfaced in the health of the country’s economy. The stimulus programs should mitigate this.
The Baltic Dry Index market continues to be underpinned by oversupply, as demand is still not enough to put all of the ships constructed in the last economic growth cycle, before the Great Recession, into service. Historically, the BDI has been a key leading indicator for the health of the global economy, but right now due to the massive oversupply analysts argue that the unless some ships are scrapped the index will remain under pressure, and will lose its effectiveness as a leading indicator because it does not represent the true supply requirements of the new normal for demand.
Even though the overall fundamentals remain weak, the sector’s key benchmark has risen 16 points since hitting all time low of 290 on February 10. The index will likely remain underpinned by oversupply, but could see some upside in the second half of the year when seasonality kicks in and provides increased demand.
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“Historically, the BDI has been a key leading indicator for the health of the global economy, but right now due to the massive oversupply analysts argue that the unless some ships are scrapped the index will remain under pressure, and will lose its effectiveness as a leading indicator because it does not represent the true supply requirements of the new normal for demand.”
This time is different, because it’s a new normal.
CR8R
Financial Times
February 25, 2016 5:59 pm
World trade records biggest reversal since crisis
Shawn Donnan in Washington and Joe Leahy in São Paulo
Weaker demand from emerging markets made 2015 the worst year for world trade since the aftermath of the global financial crisis, highlighting rising fears about the health of the global economy.
The value of goods that crossed international borders last year fell 13.8 per cent in dollar terms — the first contraction since 2009 — according to the Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis’s World Trade Monitor. Much of the slump was due to a slowdown in China and other emerging economies.
The new data released on Thursday represent the first snapshot of global trade for 2015. But the figures also come amid growing concerns that 2016 is already shaping up to be more fraught with dangers for the global economy than previously expected.
Those concerns are casting a shadow over a two-day meeting of G20 central bank governors and finance ministers due to start on Friday.
The International Monetary Fund this week warned that it was poised to downgrade its forecast for global growth this year, saying the world’s leading economies needed to do more to boost growth.
The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of global trade in bulk commodities, has been touching historic lows. China, which in 2014 overtook the US as the world’s biggest trading nation, this month reported double-digit falls in both exports and imports in January. In Brazil, which is now experiencing its worst recession in more than a century, imports from China have collapsed.
Exports from China to Brazil of everything from cars to textiles shipped in containers fell 60 per cent in January from a year earlier while the total volume of imports via containers into Latin America’s biggest economy halved, according to Maersk Line, the world’s largest shipping company.
“What we are seeing right now from China is not only a phenomenon for Brazil; we are seeing the same all over Latin America, declining [Chinese export] volumes into all the markets,” said Antonio Dominguez, managing director for Maersk Line in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. “It has been going on for several quarters but is getting more evident as we move into the year [2016].”
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Just another day in De Blasio’s progressive utopia New York City:
“The frightening wave of slashing attacks terrorizing New York since the year began has gripped both hardened city folks and tourists with fear and left experts searching for an explanation.
Through Sunday, the NYPD had recorded 567 slashing attacks, some 20 percent above the pace set in early 2015. Police and criminologists have identified no single pattern for the slashings, which have plagued the city’s subway system as well as both trendy and tough neighborhoods.
“New York has been shocked by a spate of stabbings and slashings in the subway system,” the Manhattan Institute noted in a new report. “After two decades of lower crime, New Yorkers have gotten used to safe subways, but riders are now being warned to exercise a level of caution that harks back to an earlier era.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/02/24/dramatic-spike-in-nyc-slashing-attacks-frighten-citizens-puzzle-experts.html?intcmp=hplnws
Police and criminologists have identified no single pattern for the slashings,
They haven’t “identified a pattern” because they refuse to see or state the obvious. In addition, thanks to Bloomberg and his fellow billionaire oligarchs and their crusade to disarm the populace, all of the victims were easy targets with no means to defend themselves or retaliate against such vicious unprovoked attacks.
no single pattern for the slashings,
They’re running amok.
New York Times real journalists provide a narrative on the poors:
“The gap between the richest and poorest American communities has widened since the Great Recession ended, and distressed areas are faring worse just as the recovery is gaining traction across much of the country.
While the problems in many poorer cities predate the recession, what has felt like a real recovery for Americans in healthier cities and towns has left the worst-off locations — many of them concentrated in the nation’s old industrial heartland — even further behind.
“The most prosperous areas have enjoyed rocket-shiplike growth,” said John Lettieri, senior director for policy and strategy at the Economic Innovation Group. “There you are very unlikely to run into someone without a high school diploma, a person living below the poverty line or a vacant house. That is just not part of your experience.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/business/economy/poorest-areas-have-missed-out-on-boons-of-recovery-study-finds.html
Just not part of your experience? A familiar feeling indeed for HBB’s resident progressives.
Just not part of your experience? A familiar feeling indeed for HBB’s resident progressives.
Why do you choose to live in one of the most progressive cities in America, where you rarely meet anyone without a high school diploma, etc.?
Seems kinda…hypocritical.
Better, know that Denver =/= Boulder.
If you consider Denver “most progressive” you’ve obviously not spent any length of time visiting or living here.
Look at the election results going back a few decades on any proposed ballot initiative tax increase here.
Got TABOR?
Denver isn’t as progressive as Boulder? Is that what you guys tell each other so you can feel like you’re tough cowboys out west while enjoying the perks of life in a very progressive city with bike paths and legal mj?
Funny.
you’ve obviously not spent any length of time visiting or living here.
Better, don’t let that get in the way of the narrative you’re scripting.
Twentieth most liberal city in the US, according to Pew Research. More liberal than LA!
You’re riding on the progressive’s bike paths, lesser. Playing war games in the progressive’s bird sanctuaries. Climbing rocks and camping in the progressive’s parks and preserves.
Twentieth most liberal city in the US, according to Pew Research. More liberal than LA!
City of Denver. Not metro Denver. City of Denver is a fraction of the metro area: 600K out of 3 million.
TABOR would never have become law without metro Denver. And Colorado is the ONLY state to ever pass such a law. Hardly the hallmark of a “liberal” population.
I would say that Colorado (of which Denver is 60%) is one of the most libertarian states in the country.
I would say that Colorado (of which Denver is 60%) is one of the most libertarian states in the country.
And Texas is one of the most conservative states. Except for very progressive Austin.
Most people here don’t know what libertarianism means. It means simply the consistent practice of the nonaggression principle (which also means most non libertarian’s automatically get brain flatulence and think we are opposed to self defense and retaliatory force. But the nonlibertarian a are wrong. We are against initiated aggression.).
If you consider Denver “most progressive” you’ve obviously not spent any length of time visiting or living here.
+1. Denver is a redneck town. Denverites mock places like Boulder, even calling it “The People’s Republic of Boulder”
So is it safe to assume that most Denverites live in neighborhoods that look suburban rather than urban?
So is it safe to assume that most Denverites live in neighborhoods that look suburban rather than urban?
Yes, Denver is very “sprawly”. It’s mostly the winos and hipsters who live downtown.
Denver is very “sprawly”.
It reminds me of Atlanta.
Salon dot com real journalists provide a public service announcement narrative (why did they select a Shutterstock photo for the article of a dude who weighs 135 pounds? Reflective of their readership in Brooklyn and the Bay Area?)
“Americans are really scared of catching sexual transmitted diseases. If you don’t believe me, just check out the Scrotoguard, a latex panty for men designed to cover all the bases a condom doesn’t reach. Fortunately, most people run in mellower circles. For them, the condom seems to suffice. And as the Condom Facts campaign reminds us, “Condoms provide the best protection against STDs and HIV. Every time.” Still, whenever the subject comes up, people tend to ask, what more can I do? How can I keep clean, and stay clean? Nobody, it seems, wants the stigma of getting a big bad STD.
Roger V. Short, a reproductive biologist at Australia’s University of Melbourne, might have some answers. Beyond condoms, a set of measures exists that might help arm us in the fight against STDs.
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/24/4_ways_to_cut_stds_partner/
“Still, whenever the subject comes up, people tend to ask, what more can I do? How can I keep clean, and stay clean? Nobody, it seems, wants the stigma of getting a big bad STD.”
Bahahahaha … I have an idea; Become a bit more picky when you decide to stick that thing of yours into somebody else’s orifice.
What? Mr. Banker is actually offering good advice that will benefit the recipient?
Say it ain’t so, Joe!
If these pukes are stupid enough to stick it where it doesn’t belong then they automatically qualify to join my customer base which is entirely composed of stupid pukes.
But if they are to join my ranks of stupid pukes then their health needs to maintained so that I can extract the max, but I cannot extract the max if the max is to be shared by somebody else or by something else.
The efficient parasite doesn’t kill the host. The most efficient parasite is the one who makes sure that he has the host all to himself.
We weren’t expected to win too much and now we’re winning, winning, winning. And soon the country is going to start winning, winning, winning.
Caw, caw, caw.
I’m voting for The Donald in next Tuesday’s caucus. And my contribution (contribution that matters, anyway) ends there, as I will vote for the Libertarian nominee in November.
Hillary can’t win.
First a Cock for SC, then a crow for NV, what bird is next? For you it’s clearly an ostrich.
what bird is next?
A chickenhawk?
Mr. Trump…… you create engagements with enragement causing mass derangements. You are truly living in millions of empty skulls…. rent free.
Make America Great Again? I wonder what year he thought we were last great??
More poors eating soup in our Obama-Fed-Goldman Sachs “recovery.”
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/campbell-soup-profit-rises-above-expectations-2016-02-25?link=MW_latest_news
A preview of coming attractions for our permanent Democrat supermajority collectivist utopia. Forward!
http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/20/the-game-changed/
The boneheaded logic of NIRP.
http://wolfstreet.com/2016/02/22/a-new-level-of-absurdity/
Are traditional Democrat constituencies finally getting fed up with voting for corruption and patronage that does not deliver any benefit to them personally?
http://www.businessinsider.com/ohio-poll-hillary-clinton-trump-kasich-2016-2
Yes, they are, but they will pinch their nose with a c-clamp and vote for Hillary to stop the Bully (trump) or the American Taliban (the GOP.)
Stop Calling Bernie Sanders a Socialist
By Thor Benson
April 30, 2015
Bernie Sanders is a Socialist
By phony scandals
February 25, 2016
Outrageous!
All the Repubgnants and Dipumbocraps are socialists.
Washington Post real journalists provide a globalist narrative:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/migrants-find-doors-slamming-shut-across-europe/2016/02/23/056b0f78-d9a1-11e5-8210-f0bd8de915f6_story.html
I have an idea, maybe we could crowdfund this. Put all of the migrants on buses and trains and send them to Davos. And to all of the Davos attendees’ homes and second homes and third homes and fourth homes in West London and the South of France and Aspen and Manhattan and West Los Angeles and San Francisco and Washington D.C.
Finding doors slam shut. Gee, I wonder why? Could it be because all they really want to do is join the FSA? Notice the zillions of refugees camping in Calais. Aren’t they already safe in France? Why do they want to get into the UK? It couldn’t possibly be because the free cheese is more bountiful there.
That, and the fact that they seem to have a predilection for groping and raping the local women.
Open borders sounds nice in principle. Very kumbayah and libertarian too. That is until the newcomers arrive. Then suddenly everyone wants to slam the doors shut.
Really shouldn’t let military age single men barge into your country in mass quantities.
I bet they deport most of them over the next few years.
The Walking Dead: Life immitates art as the thinking 5% are pitted against the zombified herd creatures.
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2016/02/22/no-way-out/#more-115142
45% of ‘Muricans pay no taxes, yet have no problem voting themselves benefits someone else will have to pay for. The Democrat Party is a garden for such vegetables.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/45-of-americans-pay-no-federal-income-tax-2016-02-24
When your goal is to dismantle the middle class, that’s what you do and what you support.
When half the country earns less than $500 a week it’s hardly surprising that they pay no income tax and vote for more free sh!t.
the FSA = the working class
America’s working middle class was always a proletariat middle class, dependent on government and unions for education, health care, housing, and retirement.
What would FDR do?
Blue Skye added some important information to this yesterday:
Comment by Blue Skye
2016-02-24 18:42:54
“Forty-five percent of ‘Muricans pay no tax”
Well that right there is completely false. No IRS tax maybe. However, anyone with a job pays payroll taxes to the Feds. Anyone who buys stuff pays sales tax and hidden excise taxes, and the stuff they are buying is made more expensive by taxes and duties along the way. Everyone lives in housing that is taxed.
An important point to emphasize here is that payroll taxes are federal taxes that are levied on a worker’s income. Yet they are not considered to be federal income taxes when articles like this one on marketwatch.com are written.
Obviously the indigent should be taxed even more to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.
Yes, the phrase frequently screamed is that everyone should “have skin in the game”. Thus the people who complain about the taxes that they pay would like to have taxes cut for everyone except the poor, who should have their taxes increased.
Spending money we do not have is a tax on the yet to be born. Let’s stop doing that.
Here’s another piece of information. Ronald Reagan began his presidency with a number of big tax cuts. Of course, the vast majority of the money involved went to the wealthy, but he made sure that everyone who paid federal taxes got something.
I knew someone who worked as a surveyor for the local township who said that his tax cut enabled him to purchase an extra sixpack of beer weekly.
There was an announcement from the White House at least once to the effect, “Every taxpayer will get a tax cut with this bill that I’m signing today. As a matter of fact, five million families will be removed from from the tax rolls completely!”
Then Mitt Romney came along 30 years complaining about the large number of people who don’t income taxes.
Irrelevant.
I didn’t know Hillary called young black children “superpredators” in 1994.
Black Lives Matter Activist Interrupts Hillary Clinton [2/24 … - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqLfvQfuvsA - 352k - Cached - Similar pages
9 hours ago … Hillary calling young black children “superpredators” in the 90s: ..
I like when Hillary the race warrior is done dismissing the chick she says…
“Back to the issues”
“falling housing prices”
Yup.
http://www.zillow.com/homes/80210_rb/
Exactly. Why buy a house when prices are falling from grossly inflated levels? Buy later after prices crater for 65% less.
The Hill dot com provides a neocon narrative titled:
Rubio attacks Trump on ObamaCare, Israel
“The front-runner in this race, Donald Trump, has said he’s not going to take sides on Israel versus the Palestinians because he wants to be an honest broker,” Rubio told supporters in Houston on Wednesday night, NBC News reported.
No smaller government or less regulation or lower taxes happening here.
Neocons gonna neocon.
Speaking of neocon, NPR aired a segment this morning with fat old hag Dianne Feinstein criticizing Apple for refusing to allow a Big Government backdoor to crack encryption.
Ron Paul was this country’s last hope for civil liberties and privacy.
Why say was? If it is that important he will work even harder to promote his vision;he has name recognition in his favor for free air time that others couldn’t get!
You can do full encryption of your Droid. As for Apple iPhones, the screen lock feature on some of the models allows you to use long strings of characters. Very costly to crack. In addition there are tools to fully encrypt messaging. You can even write your own app to do it.
Cryptographers ignore state edicts.
“You can do full encryption of your Droid.”
Explain.
http://www.howtogeek.com/141953/how-to-encrypt-your-android-phone-and-why-you-might-want-to/
I have not read the details.
I did say I’m a cryptographer by profession. I’ve done FDE for our servers using LUKS and TPM. If you are interested, Google is your friend.
“Google is your friend”
Duck Duck Go Go is a cryptographer’s friend.
Just another swindle from the Land of the Con Man?
My car went out of new car warranty the first week of February.
Starting last September, my phone started ringing weekly, then multi times weekly, with calls trying to sell me extended warranties, initially camoflaged as “warranty reviews”. Just got my latest one a few minutes ago.
Of course, much like most extended warranties, they are cunningly designed to seperate you from the maximum amount of cash, while not covering anything that might actually wear out or break.
BTW, “100,000 mile powertrain warranties” are a joke. Because of EPA regs, every car sold in the US has a defacto “100,000 mile” warranty.
BTW, “100,000 mile powertrain warranties” are a joke. Because of EPA regs, every car sold in the US has a defacto “100,000 mile” warranty.
Pretty much every manufacturer offers those already.
Of course, that doesn’t deter the dealer from trying to sell you one of those useless 3rd party extended warranties. The newest con is trying to sell you a pre-paid “service package”.
That’s not true at all. With the exception of Duramax equipped trucks and a few Asian brands, all the powertrain warranties are around 50k miles.
The price of new autos is just not worth it. Prices are grossly inflated due to sub-prime financing.
Yeah, but the EPA mandates that cars maintain their “new car” emissions levels to 100K miles.
100K platinum plugs. Durability improvements in the “long blocks”. Hence warranty coverage, if it fails to pass emissions with less than 100K miles.
This is true but thats not powertrain.
The EPA mandates are borderline criminal. And they stack on more requirements every year on manufacturers. Manufacturers don’t care. They just stack the burden on the price the buyer pays.
What a way to destroy a market.
There are parts that might not be covered though. Turbos come to mind. So many cars have them now and they’re delicate. I could see manufacturers dialing back on the powertrain warranties because of turbos. And they won’t offer 100K on normally aspirated vs 60K on turbos, because that would be admitting that turbos aren’t as reliable. Dealers will tell you that turbos are just as reliable.
Also, would trannies be covered?
I recall when Chrysler was offering unlimited powertrain warrantees (only to the original owner).
lease your new pc on wheels. repairs cots are insane and only dont at the dealer!!
or drive an 10 yr old car and do the work yourself. RockAuto is your friend.
Getting all new shocks and struts today. All 4 with labor less than $500.
lease your new pc on wheels
Indeed. The mechanical parts might not break, but all those electronics … hoo boy.
Why would you need a “hot spot” in your car?
One new feature I do like is the back up camera. But that’s about it.
Both of our cars have 100K powertrain warranties.
You were wrong again. Get over it and get on with it
Only those who want fpdictatorship support Trump.
http://rare.us/story/ron-paul-says-he-would-never-support-donald-trump/?utm_source=JulieBorowski&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Partnership
“Ron Paul says he would never support Donald Trump”
What happened to all the Ron Paul supporters who used to post here?
Swept away by a blonde toupee.
Larken Rose’s full speech at Anarchopulco. First three minutes the audio is low quality, but worth it to hear the full speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z49sGYeBUxs&feature=youtu.be
I still remember when Acapulco was a great place to go, back in the 70s. It was just a 4 hour drive from Mexico City and if you didn’t stay at at one of those high rise beachfront hotels it was very affordable. We would go 2-3 times a year. I won’t say that it was super safe back then, but the worst that would happen would be a mugging or having something stolen from you.
Now, they are averaging 3 murders a day. And they take place in broad daylight. I was reading a story about how some dude was walking downtown in the afternoon when a guy pulled up on a motorcycle and shot him point blank in the face. He didn’t care that there were hundreds of witnesses. After verifying his target was dead he hopped back on his bike and was gone.
From what I am told Chilangos (people from Mexico City) are shunning Acapulco and going to Cancun or Huatulco instead. I’ve also heard that Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo isn’t safe anymore either. And that Cancun, while “safer” isn’t all that safe.
Actually the cops went on strike and no one cared. The crime rate went down while on strike. Use your search engine and you will see.
Actually the cops went on strike and no one cared.
That was two years ago. Given how ineffective and corrupt Mexican police are I can definitely see how no one cared.
That said, Acapulco is still a dangerous place and my contacts in Mexico City tell me that it is best avoided. Even US travel agents are recommending not going there.
Of course the crime rate will go down when there is no one to receive crime reports.
Is Mexico less safe than Detroit?
Are journalists murdered in Detroit?
Are people kidnapped and forced to join drug cartels?
Are people shaken down for protection money? I was reading about a public school in Acapulco where parents had to pay protection money for their kids.
legalize it, no more cartels.
Shots heard every four hours in Detroit hotspot
A three-square-mile section of the east side community has been the focus of an anti-crime pilot program that uses sound sensors to detect gunfire and alert police. Under the study, California-based SST provided its ShotSpotter technology for free, recording 8,896 gunshots in 15 months. The data revealed that a gun is fired every four hours in the pilot zone, with 49 percent of the incidents involving two or more shots.
I used to hear gunshots a couple of times a week back when I was a repossessor working the San Francisco East Bay ghettos. Many of the vehicles I bagged had weapons in them… mostly handguns, but found a cut-down shotgun once too.
Larken Rose’s full speech at Anarchopulco.
Wait a minute … I thought anarchy was supposed to be the way to go
Jeff Berwick threw the first annual convention of anarchists there a few days ago.
I guess those anarchists don’t care to own guns. I do. Otherwise Berwick thinks Acapulco is ideal for anarchists. I think he basically will show how you can live freer there than where ever you are. I personally don’t think so. I think you can live free wherever you are. And for now I prefer living free in California. Ignoring victimless crime laws where they apply to my life, of course.
Just when I thought the rip snortin’ rage topped out.
CRATERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://goo.gl/oikLRe
From CNN Money…
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/25/investing/struggling-retailers-sears-best-buy-kohls-store-closings/index.html
“…Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) is eating almost everyone’s lunch. And consumers aren’t spending as much as many economists thought they would — despite lower gas prices and rising wages. It seems that people are saving more and paying down debt.”
“…saving more and paying down debt”. That’s the smartest thing I’ve read ALL DAY!
About those rising wages…they’re falling big time.
check out the graph on IRS payroll tax decline:
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/financial-time-bombs-hiding-in-plain-sight/
If those numbers are correct, then we are hosed. That said, I would expect to see some very anecdotal evidence for this, and so far I haven’t, at least not in my neck of the woods. But that could change.
David Stockman lives in Aspen? lol
I wonder if he attends Davos? Probably yucks it up with Soros there.
David Stockman’s Note: Tonight, I’m streaming a live video broadcast from my home in Aspen, CO.
The Corporate Aviation version of the “Steely-eyed Missile Man”.
http://tinyurl.com/juzzfju
The pitch trim ran away to full “nose up”. Aircraft pitched up uncontrolled, due to the system design, crew couldn’t disable primary trim. Aircraft climbed, was going to eventually stall, probably spin in after that. A problem you never see in simulation, because it supposedly can’t happen.
WTF to do????????
The pilot rolls the airplane over on one wing, between 40-80% bank angle. Scaring the crap out of the passengers, I’m sure
This manueuver also kills a lot of the lift, keeping the nose down and the airspeed up. It kept the aircraft flying long enough to figure out the problem and for the primary trim to hard fail, allowing secondary trim to be engaged and the aircraft recovered.
And upon landing, everybody needed fresh pants.
goofy voters dont know any better, though
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox to Trump: We’re “Not Paying For That F***ing Wall”
Maybe we should organize a rush of undocumented gringos into Mexico, to do the jobs Mexicans don’t want to do.
Or better yet, establish a new nation-state. Call it “Randland”
Unlike the US, the Mexican government agents arrest, beat and then deport illegal immigrants. Just ask Guatemalans what they think of Mexico.
Quick, somebody tell the Pope!
Make America Great Again? I wonder what year he thought we were last great??
Reagan yrs? Clinton yrs? Jefferson?
They’re going to pay for it…… and like it.
How do they sneak stuff into prisons? Got walls?
Every last penny of it.
Else weeza gonna whoop ‘em!
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox to Trump: We’re “Not Paying For That F***ing Wall”
Trump to Vicente Fox
The wall just got 10 feet taller.
Anyone who thinks a wall is any match for human ingenuity and desperation is a moron. And Mexico couldn’t pay for it even if they wanted to.
It would be a hell of a footer which would make it harder to tunnel.
Easy design.
-50′ Z sheets
-Cast strip footings embedding top 2′-4′ of sheets
-Double mat 20″ wall with corbel or cantilevered sidewalk at TOW
-Monthly pay req sent to Mexico City for processing.
When does bidding start? NTP date? When can we mobilize?
What about camps for the deportees? Where we could concentrate and process them?
The direct end result of price rigging, market fixing and supply bottlenecking. The solution? Falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels accelerating the economy and creating jobs like nothing else can.
“Business Is Worst Since The 80s Recession - Kansas City Fed Survey Crashes To 7-Year Lows”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-25/business-worst-80s-recession-kansas-city-fed-survey-crashes-7-year-lows
What would Trump do if the Chinese offered to build the wall for 65% less than the Mexicans?
China is collapsing my friend. They can’t build anything.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-16/china-to-build-high-speed-rail-line-in-indonesia-joint-venture
And china will continue collapsing until market interference ceases.
my house went up in value again, just in time.
Are you sure?
Ventura, CA Housing Prices Crater 16% YoY
http://www.movoto.com/ventura-ca/market-trends/
I ran across this: It’s Australia’s version of 60 Minutes and its title is “Home Groans” and I believe it is well worth watching …
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ktN_h7-J4&feature=youtu.be
Yep… took a dump on Aussie Kate yesterday.
San Diego, CA Housing Market Craters; Prices Nosedive 9% YoY As Demand Collapses Nationally
http://www.zillow.com/san-diego-ca-92130/home-values/
the Kinks - Got To Be Free:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7qChiEGugE
For Bill in Los Angeles, the only Eagles song I like, Already Gone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTrEAo0mbgA
Vote Libertarian
I confess I don’t like “Hotel California,” which came out on vinyl in my senior year. Didn’t care much for “Witchy Woman,” but like “Already Gone,” “Lying Eyes,” “Taking it Easy,” “Peaceful, Easy Feeling.”
I am curious to know if you like a lot of Billy Joel songs? I can think of only two I like: “Piano Man,” and “We didn’t start the Fire.”
Look how happy Jerry looks, how happy he is to be alive:
Grateful Dead — Eyes Of The World — 04/26/1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBj7igoatWY
Neil Young — Tonight’s The Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6LVIi7pzZI
Think about your own death. How will you be remembered if it happens tomorrow? Will anyone notice? Will anyone f*ing care?
“Why Hillary Clinton Cannot Beat Donald Trump”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-25/why-hillary-clinton-cannot-beat-donald-trump
Larken Rose discusses Trump, how ignoring the State is effective (I.e. Ignore victimless crime laws) and the. Time when the world will be far less statist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm8yEJ1_8tc
Boycott Apple
Boycott the surveillance state.