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Which is why we can leave liberal crime center cesspools like NYC, Chicago, LA/SF as is for the stupid ones, and let everyone else enjoy their freedoms! Go Zohran! Go Gavin!

Intelligent people like to make their own decisions. Stupid people need to be told what to do. Intelligent people with mental disorders like to get their rocks off by controlling others, and stupid people with mental disorders like to do things that harm themselves long term in exchange for getting their rocks off short term. It's all pretty simple.

Their problem, not mine. 5 years ago we went on an 8 month family road trip; staying at $800 a night hotels for $100 and eating a great restaurants because they were abandoned by uneducated folks and virtue signalers. We avoided being persecuted for exercising these freedoms because we left authoritarian states that were abusing people’s constitutionally given “rights” due to a manufactured “crisis”. At one point what we were doing wasn’t even consensus like it is now. Everyone lies in the bed they make for themselves. Bottom line, if your answer to every problem is “the government”….you’re a loser who deserves to be mocked, ridiculed, and at no point, ever taken seriously.

At some point, like with AIDS, society determines that. My kids are all vaccinated as are my wife and I. Flu shots are not mandated and we get them yearly. I don’t need the government telling me to do that. Anyone who relies on the government for health guidance is frankly a loser. Not to mention, there’s varying laws individually at the state level, and even within that, there’s different options generally presented at the school level depending upon whether you’re public/private or in an extreme example, homeschooled. But again, why would I be so arrogant to assume that just because I arrive at a specific conclusion on a specific subject, that I need some bureaucratic bully to force that conclusion on everyone else?

Eh just look above…speaking of the “what about rape” re:abortions as the horrible extremist liberal talking point, enter the conversation re:vaccine mandates…what about AIDS! lol. PS exposing someone to AIDs is a crime punishable with jail time in America. It effects a very small and specific portion of the population due to the nature of it, and it sure as fuck ain’t a reason many Americans are going to sign their rights over to the whims of some sleazeball politicians with respect to broad vaccine mandates.

That’s the thing; I don’t give two shits what’s other people do. I make my own choices for the circle that I have some control over. Otherwise I mind my own business and respect the rights of others to do the same. If I ever had more than marginal concerns about the state of things, I’d consider leaving, which is something I’ve already done once.

100%. But then they wanna post Reddit threads showing videos of people telling ICE they’re breaking the law and then acting like it’s a civil rights violation they get chased lmfao Freedom ain’t for everyone. None of them are forced to be here.

This is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party is losing the average person. They are just incapable, whether because of stupidity or dishonesty, of making a credible argument. It’s like how their main argument, of all things, for abortion is instances of rape like it represents 80% of abortions lol. I guess they didn’t read shitbreaks 47 pages of college textbook literature on “ways to spot dishonest debate”….

This has nothing to do with it though and continues to make these same wild assumptions. Like Spek mentioned above, is there some kind of assumption that if measles wasn’t mandated he wouldn’t get it? Or phrased differently, the only reason he d get it is because of the government? Whether vaccines or surgeries or weight loss drugs are mandated or not, I have the ability to make those decisions without big government. So yea, I don’t get why they always frame it so stupidly; basically, if the government doesn’t make you get them, no one will get them…or reversed into how many of them operate, I need the government to force me and everyone to do what they want us to do….such a shameful, sheepish, low IQ way to live life. Just like a donkey that’s basically just waiting to get kicked so it can find its next direction.

I mean up thread there’s this automatic kinda of assumption and association like thinking that because people do not think the government has a right to force somebody to get vaccinated, that all those people are anti vaccination. Which is first off pretty stupid. And second off directly contradicts the “my body my choice” stand that Gavin’s crew like to run around in the streets protesting every now and then.

Isn’t it weird how liberals automatically associate thinking for yourself with extremism or an individual lunatic? Rather than just simply a natural course of action one takes with life? It’s like these folks just need to be told what to do by some greater government prescribed master.

Imagine being anti tax and then getting a government that wants to slash taxes and having pundits be like “how come they ain’t protesting lower taxes”…..LMFAO…

Probably nothing considering policy finally makes sense…..or are we gonna act like/insinuate it’s some big conspiracy theory that business leaders are praising pro business policy?

Meanwhile, in California they are elated because contrary to popular belief, they’re thriving…no exodus of capital, businesses are booming, homeless problem solved, crime at historically low levels, and Harvey Weinsteins old sidepiece’s husband has formally declared his intention to run for president lmfao!

+1. It’s a pleasure watching them lose their minds.

One of the greater mysteries in WS history is how this chap became a “billionaire”. Even by his own fancied up, aggrandized autobiography, he basically graduated from school, held no real job, and then did well from late 90s thru GFC largely running mommy/daddy money. Since then he’s been dreadful but it’s near impossible to back into billionaire status here based on any sort of reality based fees.

Is there a worse investor out there? You’d think this is satire if you didn’t know any better. I bet he’s still short Tesla too.

Viking publishing is one of the biggest names in publishing.

I’m flabbergasted as an American that we aren’t donating all our high end weapons to some random country that looks like it’s in Russia but also could be considered Europes problem….yawn.

What is this worth on the other side of the cycle? Think you can make the case for high teens or low 20 multiple on trough-ish EPS.

If you have a textbook education on anything, you can very easily write about it; and if youre somewhat above average, you can sound eloquent. Hence the NONSTOP experts who chalk post GFC success up to solely "low interest rates, QE, and tech bubbles"...the post mortem covid dip buyers, or most recently, the soaring inflation and bond vigilante stock market bears whom showed up in 2022 which 3000 and below SPY targets and whom are still hanging around 3 years later....all of whom......90% are full of shit, didnt make money(well, unperformed is probably a better way of putting it), and happen to be great writers. Most good investors are kinda just focused on investing, and there's a reason that many prefer, of all things, AOL Instant messenger for their trader chats and prime brokers....

Yea so my process all along is similar what a few of the above guys have said. My first objective when getting money in my early/mid 20s was to get a house that I could raise my family in, and then write it off and the personal balance sheet. We bought a 5 bedroom home on an acre with a pool in 2013. I did not give two shits about an IRR or anything…it checked a huge box for us, it was stability. From there, I built out the investments. I bought a few rentals next where the driver was purely future, like 15-30 years down the line, stability and income. After that I built out the investment portfolio in terms of stocks. Along the way I’ve never considered the primary home as anything until I had substantial equity that could be tapped, which we did in April 2020. Shortly thereafter the investment properties also could be tapped and the rents inflected which also helped. So mainly, it’s about compartmentalization. Build your core. Have stability and comfort. Then take more risk. Then build out the quality of life stuff…for me, a boat. Along the way let the situation dictate your ability to take well calculated risks. During Covid our eyes opened to things and we started planning a move and during that our primary home, mentally was something we started viewing as an asset with optionality on the investment front. So I guess to be simple, stay mentally flexible. Today I own a bunch of homes, publicly traded stocks and bonds, and some privately held non traded investments. Have some balance but don’t be afraid to either completely write off certain stuff, or circle back and take something totally written off and use it as a platform to grow with.

Yea but a lotta folks think “normal rules” are that stocks should trade at 17x…

Isn’t there some poetic justice to all these? Getting Fat Latisha for a loan? Bolton now for classified docs. Comey for lying about Russia. Kinda the epitome of that whole what goes around comes around thing.

I think he was actually a seller during some of those periods LMFAO