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Not to mention also coming off a 4 year span where fake jobs numbers and crime statistics were met with raucous…silence from todays concerned citizens.

Plus I mean all the noise and sore puss gotchas but Tesla stock is…basically flat from when the election happened and up 50% over the past year. Contrary to naysayers, we don’t only get to cherry pick success and failures based just on the occasional stock market drawdowns that last I checked…are just part of the game.

I mean you can read even the most abhorrent propaganda and still get what you need to out of it. I can read the NYT and conclude that our government and others are weighing the implementation of tariffs…no harm done. You just don’t want to get tricked into listening to these shitbags opining on anything qualitative…I’m aware there’s conflict between Russia and Ukraine and can surmise that from any news outlet. I can familiarize myself with the history of the region, its politics, and its various issues…without giving any consideration whatsoever to some loser or blowhards choice of how they wanna frame the conflict or present us with their own curated versions of the “story”.

Yea I heard it was great at one point and briefly found some search value through using similar filters, but over time much like with Google Search it seems they keep messing with the algorithms and making it harder and harder to refine what you’re searching for.

Totally. Blocking things you don’t want to hear is not exactly the way to hone in on truth.

Yea Twitter is a waste of time, period.

You’d be surprised how easy it is to keep up with the world just living in it. SEC filings do plenty. I haven’t watched CNBC since we used to just have it on in the office cuz “that’s what finance firms do” in 2014. Havent seen FOX since my wife’s grandmother was around and she passed in 2015. MSNBC I watched for 2 hours on election night to revel in their distress. Otherwise, no TV really. Events are pretty black and white especially if you drown out the adjectives. A wildfire is a wildfire. Like did we need the clown in the lynchpinned yellow coat to know there was a disaster? Proposed tax changes are theoretical and numerical and crossed against probability of passage and durability of their tenure. What is popular is visible in everyday life. Do I need tune in anywhere to see 3/5 people has an IPhone permanently stuck to their hand? If I want data on customer traffic at Dunkin, I can seek that out. The problem occurs when no matter what happens, you can tune into a station, name one, and immediately know the bias and slant that’s gonna be put on everything and I see zero, if not negative value to that. We really don’t need these fucks for much. They’re good at making us think that we do, but they’re just worthless propaganda machines we re better off without.

Exactly, and they should all be treated like the slime that they are. Everyone knows what these organizations stand for. What kind of person knows this and seeks employment anyway? Exactly the type of person whom deserves to be looked down upon and disparaged.

Where did I say this? Except this same line of thought was thrown out the window when this scumbag and his organization decided to actively participate in hiding the fact that the President of their team was cognitively impaired the past 4 years….

Huh? This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard? Why would I be obligated to defend two totally different things? Biden was the answer chosen by many of these critics, while clearly being in a near vegetative state. That’s wholly different than whining and complaining about the same exact type of stuff you previously ignored just because it was being done by “your team”.

Started ULTA last few days

No, but the silence then invalidates all the concerned citizens now. If you've* been consistent, I applaud and encourage you to continue. But if your mouth was shut then, and now it's open, or vice versa, you can go fuck yourself because youre part of the problem.. *I dont mean you individually @dwy000, but generally speaking, the media people, the pundits, and the concerned citizens alike.

The press is not free if they are beholden to ideology. 90% of the "press" is slaves to a side. Ive said it before, you go to a website...mentioned before NYT, but sub in any one you want...Take the first 20 articles. If 70% of them have the same agenda/slant...let alone 90%, who in their right mind cares what those people are saying? He should have handled it the same way he would've if it happened a year or two ago. We know from his character that he wouldn't have gone about it the same way. Asking for consistency isn't too tall an ask.

Yea so they’re scum…that doesn’t absolve people in government, it just means no one should care how they’re treated. I would love for full scale accountability in government. I’m all for it. Sadly for some, that means saving their pout parties and disdain for the system for only certain “security breaches” but not others. Keeping calm and quiet and saving their patriotic protests not for when troops die because of neglect and incompetency, but when improper text messages get sent; seeing the perils of “recovered” drug addicts in and around the government, but of course remaining cool as a cucumber when the coke is found….yea…

This is true but I think you guys should save your outrage for when they find drugs in the White House….oh wait….

Well for one I already said my piece and cast blame in multiple places. But for him? He’s a POS journalist with no agenda other than undermining the administration. These people deserve the admonishment 100%. We saw how they played their part covering up so much the last 4 years and now all of a sudden they pretend to be about transparency…please. He enabled the last admin and now wants to undermine this one…nothing else. Ponder this…. Washington Post…HUGE deal was made of “not endorsing a candidate”…the crying and screaming and protesting and all that childish bs…why, one must ask? Who cares about an endorsement? Well, these losers REALLY, REALLY, REALLY felt strongly about the endorsement…because they believed it would influence the election! But wait, influence the election? Removing their bullshit verbiage switcharoo let’s call that what it is; election meddling…but wait! That’s rich! Because nobody has been more vocal with the columns and literature and sanctimonious lecturing regarding “election meddling!” And “the evils of trying to influence the election”…than these scumbags…how fuckin rich! But wait! There’s more! The Wapo decisions was to “stay out” of endorsements and be more neutral! The exact opposite of interfering in the election to appease these pissants. And what do they do? Dishonesty try to gaslight everybody by proclaiming that by NOT endorsing their candidate of choice, and CHOOSING NOBODY! That Wapo was actually “endorsing a candidate”! lol you can’t make this shit up but these people are such world class pieces of shit.

I said someone should be accountable. I also think we need consistency on policy. If media is enemy of the people, this Atlantic guy is enemy number 1 or 2. So they inadvertently emailed sensitive dialogue to the enemy.

Would I? I was pretty consistent saying Hillary’s “issue” wasn’t a big deal either. But, on the subject, if this occurred a year ago…you think this dildo at the Atlantic would’ve behaved the same?

It’s funny cuz all the usual suspects started foaming at the mouth and doing their thing….meanwhile I read it and my only takeaway was “wow these guys are really focused and committed to keeping oil prices low” lol

Exactly its an amateurish mistake that hints at some incompetency and perhaps procedural unawareness. But it’s over and nothing material happened. Meanwhile over at The NY Times, the propaganda/brainwashing machine is in full force trying to convince people that this is the only thing going on in the world and the single most important event in human history. Like 2/3 of the homepage is dedicated to….one sided analysis of this lol.

It could be. Last administration there were plenty of traitors doing stuff like that….but guess what? If your entire Campaign 2.0 this time was based on blind loyalty and people whom didn’t make their money in the swamp…it’s on you for letting this happen and having someone infiltrate your operations. If it’s accidental, someone should still be held responsible.

Yup, that’s the only place the blame lands here….media is enemy of the people and Atlantic is like tier 1 propaganda status sooooo….why TF do you even have this losers contact information then? Quite contradictory.

Maybe if you only believe whats fed to us. He's been in power what, 25 years lol? He was besties with Dubya, heck even Time's man of the year. I know they dont let it be published here but there were very clear lines in the sand with NATO and Ukraine and we of course did what we do with those. So after 2+ decades big bad imperialist Putin has expanded the empire by how much? Oh and by the way he's been deathly ill now for 7-8 years...between all the threats and gossip I guess Ive lost track of what Im supposed to be terrified of. But we all know it doesnt matter. People will continue to exist in the world of the narrative they are fed.

Totally. As a staunch neverbonder I’ve been surprised how my go to accumulation during any sort of uncertainty/lack of super idea for stocks is often just buy some duration. I guess too my thinking is I can always just convert it. But yea, lotta that and a lotta 2-5% yielding stocks that are just kinda doing the same thing, which seems to be what you’re describing.

You went to the Middle East for a sabbatical, did you? Heard its a blast there!