Gregmal

Doo no one is talking about being the gay friend…

This is what happens when you raise boys not to be alphas…

That’s a highly individualized question. For me, I’ve generally found risking permanent impairment on 5-7% of capital acceptable for a higher quality idea. From there you reverse into the size of your position. If it’s a well timed equity position that might mean a 20% position. If it’s an OTM option, it might only be a 5% position. Gotta figure out what works for you and your style.

Why not just buy futures options in the underlying commodity if that’s the expectation?

Don’t know. Haven’t read or watched any MSM news in probably a decade, maybe longer. Well, except for Election Day I flipped between CNN and MSNBC. The tears are just too good to pass up.

This is why the “tax the rich” people are naive suckers. Yea, in theory those of us whom are productive and positive contributors to society could afford to “pay a little more” and doing so should help fix a lot of problems. In reality the money just goes to lobbyists, special interest groups, and foreign countries. Not what we signed up for.

There were a TON of people who got sucked in with Putin the Imperialist narrative. Especially in 2022…

What line? Greenland I have no opinion on, I don’t care. It’s people should be able to do what they want. Panama Canal we built, not sure why we gave it away…but whatever. WW2 clearly got to a point where picking sides and getting involved was necessary from a survival perspective. Totally different than all this fake shit and media nonsense about how “Putins gonna take over the world if we don’t fight a proxy war thru Ukraine” or how we constantly need to be “sending messages” to China/Xi or whatever.

I’ve said before I think tariffs are dumb.

Huh? I’m being pretty clear in saying the US needs to fuck off and stop getting involved in stuff outside its borders. It is also hugely hypocritical complaining about foreign nations “meddling” when we are the Babe Ruth of meddling.

They all openly state the purpose of this is to undermine a foreign government. But, sure…and oh yeah, the CIA was only in Ukraine in 2014 to show support for democracy! Meanwhile, in the same breathe we sit here and say “it’s only the internet”, these losers will tell Google and Facebook and Twitter they need to censor things they don’t like because the internet can be dangerous and used to manipulate people apparently! So….drumroll, the hypocrisy is staggering and either way, it’s a foreign country, the US can fuck off with its….whatever we wanna label it. The Open Technology Fund (OTF), launched in 2012, was intended to allow people who live under repressive regimes to circumvent restrictions and access the internet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/20/trump-ends-internet-access-china-iran-otf/

Once upon a time it was Christianity instead of Democracy that was the convenient excuse for getting involved in the affairs of other civilized and self governing regions….we have all the answers and no one else’s way of life is comparable and as such, we are entitled to mind their business for them. In fact, they should thank us! Please…..the hypocrisy is staggering but not outdone by the straight face with which we believe it is our mission to be hypocrites. We meddle-saving the world and enlightening the oppressed. Others do 1/10th what we do, evil dictator run regimes that need sanctions and condemnation…again, good fuckin lord.

Jesus Christ this is pure comedic gold and exhibit A why warmongers keep finding their way into public office. When we meddle and interfere with others, it’s because it’s our divine right since we re inherently better than everyone else and educating them about the superiority of “our way” is “the right thing to do”. When they return the favor, we need to be tough; stand tall! and take action…. Because you know, not everyone likes their governments propaganda. After keeping our yaps shut and smiling while we re fed fake covid numbers, fake crime stats, and fake jobs numbers for 4 years lmfao….incredible!

Nah I just prefer to laugh rather than cry. Just a better way to live. It’s all a joke and the people that get too wrapped up and emotionally invested in it are the comedic fodder. It is what it is.

Yea it’s not likely and certainly not the desired outcome; but I could see a world in which it does and if people vote for that…so be it. All the crying and mental breakdowns would just be a bonus!

Gundlachs been quoted on this board predicting the imminent recession since like 2021....

The constitution was written "for the people". Today it's weaponized and manipulated "for the ruling class". Even outside of government, the obvious stuff, big stuff like Epstein, or even small stuff like Justin Timberlake's folly in the Hamptons...you wanna benefit from your "rights", you need lots of money to grease the system so you get the desired outcome. Everyone else just has the old scroll used against them.

We woulda been better off with Blowjob Bill than changing to old Dubya just cuz the old scroll said so....

3rd term it would be. First term was absolutely stolen. They took 3 years with the Russia thing which was a total embarrassment given the only thing determined was that it was fabricated by a guy who was paid for opposition dirt by the Clinton Campaign. The whole system was weaponized against him. He had these clowns even within his own party undermining him constantly. This is the first term where he has his people and no overhead BS so if he's effective why not? So we can get back to the swamp things running it all?

Nah...I mean when the idea was first brought up, I was pretty against it. However, given the fact that his first term was effectively stolen....there isn't a President whom wasn't assassinated that one could argue got more of an unfair first term than Trump...doubt even his critics can argue that...the Russia Hoax, the undermining from the swamp creatures even within his own party and Cabinet, then the Covid nonsense led by all the blue states deliberately killing their economies....folks forget, prior to COVID, Trump was seen as a runaway for a second term....then also consider that what he's trying to do, described by @changegonnacome, is indeed something that likely isnt feasible in just 4 years. So when I think about it, given the Swamp stole term 1, given that voters would still have to actually vote for him, given also probably his age(definitely nearing the expiration date), given that the critics just sat around and pushed Kamala on us even though they completely shit all over the democratic process doing so...I'd guess I could live with a 3rd term.

Isn’t this just plain and simple meddling? Deliberately trying to undermine foreign(dare I say sovereign!) nations under the standard guise of “bringing the gift of democracy to the world”? Imagine if China or any of these other countries did as much as maintain Twitter accounts in America…oh wait.

Democrats were also hugely in favor of slavery and founded many of the white nationalist orgs. The party has a 200 year history of supporting and enabling bigotry and violence. And when they’re confronted with this truth all they do is turn around and blame republicans.

Exactly. They supported war, even took amusement in its gossip and speculation; a game for the haves to play. Their outspokenness now only validates that their precious silence was a show of support for the previous regime. The MO now is just to undermine progress and kick the can down the road trying to run out the clock so we can get back to good ole business as usual.

Everything is about the flow of convenience here. Next move is for rates to come down a little and then the builders exchange some margin for volume. This has all been very predictable, making and befuddlement of the "experts" even more bewildering.