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NOTE! I am "neutral" so I am against all crap undepending of which side they belong to :)
In Swedish messure I am politicaly in the middle and have stoped voting because there are only crap parties to vote at. The few good PERSON politicians at high level, are so few so they soon give up geting tired of having to do with such idiots...
I see very little difference between Biden and Trump ethically,
🤣 Biden is a I believe kind FOOL,
while Trump is a known SCAMMER. (I dont know how much he scammed - was it New York? - at.)

Its remarkable how much embarrassing things A, which are "common knowledge" in Europe, but many AMERICANS dont seem to know!!! Are American main news chanels cencored or are that huge part of American voters ignorant idiots? :)
(In Sweden are around 20 percent of the voters sure idiots or very crap people, because they vote at new nazi party after the skinheads have let hair grow and put on suits!!! )
however, policy wise it is night & day. As someone who had to delay retirement 3 years from 62 to 65 because I lost over half of my 401K during the Obama/Biden years, only to recoup a little less than what I started with when Trump came into office which was enough to be financially able to move here, I am grateful to Trump.
Trump is CLEVER and say - and sometimes make - things to get VOTES but dont bother at all about anyone else than himself (and perhaps his family)...

Isnt it as in Sweden? The rich party side do things as lower taxes so the country get in dept, and when the other side winn they get a dept to try to solve?
I left a government office where the overwhelming majority of the workers were scheming friends and family. Trying to get anything useful done and not getting blame for every one of their mistakes was impossible.
Do you claim it wasnt same crap when Republicans was in power? 🤣 The employees are more or less the same...
In Sweden its no difference, similar crap public service undepending of which side are in power. Its because the bosses in public service are them private sector rejected - or the not rejecting companies got cleaned out by bankrumptcies... :) These crap public service bosses dont promote any of the good workers, because then it would become to obvious how crap they are... 🤣
Even when Sweden have privaticied some earlier public services, most of these privaticied ones continue to be bad because them they employ e g to caretaking come from public service, bringing that crap culture...
My major criticism of Trump is that he is totally naive and let the uniparty destroy him.
Everyone has an opinion and is entitled to it. I am not a blind Trumper. I form my own opinions from what I see, touch and feel, rather than some media outlet content.
WHAT?! 🤣🤣🤣
Trump is a KNOWN SCAMMER. How have you managed to avoid knowing that???!!!
I youtube America in Cebu and almost cry everyday to see the country I served 20 years in the Navy degenerate into a hot mess I never thought possible.
Where have you lived to avoid knowing the horrible things done since Europeans arrived and became strong enough to start TAKING things native Americans. USA act like that still =TAKE what USA want UNDEPENDING of whats right...
So not odd USA is among the most UNliked countries in the world...
(I have forgot investigation sourse. UN? I told in other topic a while ago. The research asked anyway BOTH which countries each person liked and disliked most. If I correct USA finnished second worst after NorthKorea, sure among 4 worst.)

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/In general "Fighting for Democrasy" claim BS. The truth is USA fight for power to USA at least since the SECOND atom bomb in Japan...
/After Americans wonn the freedom war against England - inspite of having LOWER taxes than people living in UK :) - native American tribes, which had fought at AMERICAN side, got "rewarded" by geting killed/forced away from their land :mad:
Btw a founding father - I have forgot which of them - LEARNED DEMOCRASY from these four (?) tribes, which lived in peace with each other by making agreements...
/The paranoid actions against American "communists" counting everyone with oppionions left of the Democrats as communists! In West Europe very few are coimmunists, but majority have oppinions left of American Democrats...🤣 Thats why West Europe have had much better social security system and healt care in decades than USA have still...
/1973 USA ed the military dictators AGAINST the DEMOCRATIC elected Chilenian government, because that assisted AMERICAN interests...
/Similar with Iraq. USA ed the dictator ethnic murderer Saddam Hussein - until he stoped doing what USA gained at...
/El Salvador fiasco 🤣🤣🤣 Them, who dont know can study it e g here
Too often the history of El Salvador's civil war lets the United States off too easily
and/or see the movie about how CIA was much involved...
 
It makes me laugh when the GOP accuse the Dems of overspending tax payers money.
A Quick Look at the facts, easily verified:
Clinton inherited a $290 billion deficit and left behind a $236 billion surplus. That’s a swing of about $526 billion.
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(y) Thats what I suppoused but didnt know when I answered Kanakadak.
plebians that voted for popular
Much more common in USA and its much worse such happen in USA by there are the candidats BOUGHT by election campains financiers, who expect favours if his ed get elected. Musk thought of ing BOTH sides so he could expect faviours undepending of who winn 🤣
He told he changed to none f them. True? :)
Btw from news it seem Musk Putin too...
I'd be sacking my investment advisor rather than trying to blame a president.
Better sack almost all investment advisors 🤣 because most of them earn more by higher trade volume UNDEPENDING of if good or bad advise :mad: Similar with fund handlers, they earn much even if they reach crap results!
A friend of mine handled investors for others himself, but he charged only a percentage of how much he BEATED INDEX with. But he has quit having that, only handling his own millions which he grew from starting with only 25k some assisted by me. ( = Now and then we have cooperated in finding bargains. We have NEVER been wrong when both say "Buy".)
But I stay out, switched to start businesses in Phils, since "western" stock markets got to many people paying to much so so few bargains so I dont find it worth searching such stock markets anymore, and Phils stock market has CRAZY rule, companies dont need to tell amount of shares!!! which make it impossible to calculate value of each share.
(Although investors interested in "safe" dividends, not going for higher earning bargains, can chose Phils stock market, following the rich families companies, because the rich live of dividends not salaries because of lower tax.)

While my friend and Warren Buffet more or less stay out now too by TA-idiots have pushed up the prices even more to high compared to when I skiped.
Your two last staples I suppouse depend much of COVID though by the covid money and many ignorant new investors became home at daytime stocktrade time by covid and got FOOLED by TA-tool selling promotors, so the TA-idiots got much biger influence at the prices than FA-investors...
(FA =Fundamental analysts = try to invest based at what things are WORTH.
TA =Technical analysts = ONLY look at (trade volumes and ) price changes pattern, which in big part are what other TA-idiots do...)

Btw - I KNOW theese TA buy/sale signals, so in some low volumes share trades companies/documents even litle I can TRIGGER TA-traders to sell or buy when I want to... - but thats illegal in Sweden :)
(Back when I traded shares I used TA though sometimes to decide WHEN to buy or sell, but never WHAT. I earnen much by finding bargains instead back when there were enough many such.)

Perhaps you want to what I am doing in Phils? :)
PART of reason I do it is to very poor Filipinos to earn by add jobs and pay some more than the normal.
ORIGIN plan was to make one profitable business for myself
and an other for Help-to-self-help aid ok if it just break even.
BUT during research I found some business ideas which can do BOTH for the poor and good earning for investors, so I have started businesses such instead. AFTER the salaries are paid in the slow earning expected profit will be 3 - 8 times the investment, to be shared some with the tribe in bohnuses and for leader part of work.
An American do some similar by himself. Sometimes we cooperate a bit.

BUT I dont have enough money to employ all known good workers myself in many years yet, inspite of I plan to reinvest my earnings, thats why I try to get other investors to there too.
I "had" a huge investor for huge project much biger than mine, but they blow it by making a stupid offer to Filipino owner, making owner angry by it didnt fullfil why they wanted to sell it, instead of asking me first :( I had a solution idea which BOTH would have been much better for investor AND even better for the seller than they asked for for a tiny work extra faviour. Foreign investor screwed up by not thinking "Filipino" mind and situation... :)
I believe that one is sold now, but I have some more project ideas needing some more research - not fully done - to be sure if good but it seem so so far. They are to big to ever be done with my wallet.
But there are smaller investment projects too. One can easy be r to the ed business and partly to permits we have allready, or start separate if investor prefer that, by there are more similar ones for sale than what I have bought so far. I plan to buy more such from future profits anyway. But bargain sell offers of such pop up now and then anyway by most owners get bad results by they dont know how to handle their businesses! so they offer to sell cheap... Before we bought we got 20 offers just by telling one we want to buy such. tsismis made the rest :) Most werent interesting but some.
 
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Trump was let off easy. If there was a court judgement against you or me, and we appealed, do you think they'd allow us to just pay 38% while we filed an appeal?

So he should be gagged, if not thrown in jail for contempt of court.
The coward has been attacking the judges daughter, a young woman with nothing to do with his case. Trump proves that he's unfit to be president, over and over again.
 
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In Michigan Trump called immigrants “animals,” and doubled down on his Hitlerian rhetoric, insisting that he will call them animals, because, he says, they’re not human.

Does that include his wife and her parents?
 
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Trump is now sueing Andy Litinsky and Wes Moss. The two morons dumb enough to go into business with him and start Ignore The Truth Social.
He is trying to void their stock.

First rule of business: Never do business with a Trump.
 
It's funny and politics aside, in most western countries all are immigrants whether last month or a thousand years ago, that's what build countries, even the indigenous Aboriginals living in Australia for 60,000 odd thousand years migrated.

Tolerance as well as humility win the day, we are all human.

Left field, sorry.

Cheers, Steve.
 
The news I watched it was stated collectively "their all animals". We don't have crap and rhetoric liked that in Australia, most countries for that matter and anyone sprouting like that doesn't deserve my/any vote.

OMO.

Cheers, Steve.
 
Not what I heard on Fox and CNN and N and N Howard, play his speech on the subject not doctored news. Perhaps some, many pollies need to think about what they are saying, you know put your brain into gear before the mouth opens.

OMO.

Cheers, Steve.
 

 
LOL Howard seems you watched but never listened. "They're all animals" twice it was said and then generalized "they"

Regardless so many countries these days are going down the drain and the rhetoric they all spout seems to be acceptable these days and to top it off believed by so many. Wait till A.I. gets involved.
Why are so many politicians corrupt? Money. Get out of jail free cards, feathering their own nests.

OMO.

Cheers, Steve.
 
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