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I seem to recall someone posting here recently about their concern for the US’s dwindling munitions. This poster was quickly admonished and ridiculed by the local Politics Thread experts/trolls/TWS’s for having this viewpoint. Welp…turns out Trumpy has the same concerns! Huh, that’s weird! I guess Trump will now be ridiculed as well as he has the same viewpoint. Trump must have a case of TDS? Have we heard that argument yet? Trump Invokes Cold War-Era Law to Boost Munitions Production https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-invokes-cold-war-era-law-to-boost-munitions-production-74a0f37c “I hereby find that conditions exist which may pose a direct threat to the national defense or its preparedness programs,” Trump wrote in a June 11 memo to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Trump cited “limited production capacity, fragile supply chains, long-lead dependencies, and related production bottlenecks.”

Welp, looks like Trump loves the inflation, so I assume all of his supporters now love inflation. Won’t be long before they’re wearing “I Inflation” t-shirts. Even though we all know it’s not really “inflation” it’s just “higher prices.” MAGA!

Too bad @bearprowler6 won’t be back to explain himself, but I’d be curious to know what exactly he thinks he’s “accomplished”! Act like you’re genuinely seeking advice, only to “take on” and ridicule those who took their time to respond, while bragging about your investment returns and early retirement and then sign off. What a huge accomplishment! I guess these are the weak hands that @SafetyinNumbers talks about.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/berkshire-is-convinced-the-american-dream-of-homeownership-will-stay-alive-aede1610 The article states: The deal is one of the first for Berkshire under Abel, who succeeded Warren Buffettin January. Sheryl Palmer, Taylor Morrison’s CEO, told CNBC on Monday that she began negotiations with Abel weeks ago before striking a deal. Buffett told the TV network that he wasn’t involved in the acquisition and praised Abel’s dealmaking prowess. “He has launched,” Buffett said. He has launched?! That’s a funny quote. Queue the rocket emoji?

Are you just trolling here @bearprowler6? You've asked for people's opinion on FFH, and after reading what seemed like many thoughtful responses, you responded with mostly scorn and lambaste. You mention above many reasons why FFh may be temporarily underperforming the market, so the question to you is, how valid are your concerns? If you determine them to be super valid, then it sounds like you should hold or sell. If you think that these concerns aren't so valid, then you should hold or buy. Just because FFH underperformed for 7 years does not make it a law of nature. Just because it happened once doesn't mean it has to happen again. As has been rightly pointed out, the conditions that led to the 7 years of underperformance have been rectified. Certainly you can see that, correct? And if you did decide to sell, what would you buy with your proceeds? Maybe that would tell us more about your thinking. PS - If a 20% correction, in a stock that has gone up hugely over the last few years, is causing you this much inner conflict, perhaps your position size is too big? And with a name like Bearprowler, maybe you are more predisposed to always be looking for the downside? Maybe you should just be in bonds...or in a company that owns lots of bonds...oh wait:) If I were you, I would zoom out to the 5-10 year chart for FFH, and then spend the rest of the day outside:)

It seems to me that @bearprowler6 is asking why the weighing machine and the voting machine aren’t lining up. Most of the responses indicate that investors in FFH believe that the weighing machine is working just fine and the weight is continuing to climb! Now, as to why the voting machine isn’t working right now? Well…who the hell knows…and who cares…that’s the whole point of the voting machine. It can be very wrong at times. I say just keep what you have, and go enjoy your other hobbies. Chances are that you’ll be happy to did nothing in the next 1-3-5 years.

And you very well may be right! Also something a Boomer would say about their Boomercoin. Time will tell.

"It’s a More Secret Version of Bitcoin and It’s on a Tear" Zcash reminds some of bitcoin’s early days—but some see its privacy features as a red flag https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/zcash-crypto-winklevoss-78d71d51?st=TVzAnD&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink “It feels like bitcoin circa 2013,” said Barry Silbert, founder of Digital Currency Group and Grayscale Investments, which set up the first publicly traded bitcoin fund. https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/05/29/is-bitcoin-dead-here-are-3-reasons-why-it-might-be/ I read another article recently where some younger investors were quoted as saying something along the lines of "Why would I want to buy Bitcoin, which has already increased 11,000% in the past 10 years, when I can buy Z-cash and possibly realize similar returns?"

So Bitcoin is becoming Boomercoin? Apparently the “cool kids” are now into Zcash, because it allows for private transactions. Will be an interesting development to follow.

Interesting article in this weekend’s WSJ from Christopher Mims titled, “The AI Superstars Who Say a ‘Vibe Slop’ Crisis is Coming.” I’m surprised it hasn’t gotten more attention with regards to the Saaspocalypse. The article starts….”Two engineers who built the core of the massively popular OpenClaw AI agent have a stark warning: The artificial intelligence supposedly capable of replacing well-paid software developers is flooding the world with bad, potentially even dangerous, code.” “You have infrastructure that’s falling apart, and you have software that’s now very, very buggy compared to before,” says Mario Zechner, creator of Pi, the agentic harness inside OpenClaw. “We can play this game for a couple more months, or maybe even years, but eventually it will catch up to us.” The article concludes with…”Zechner believes a reckoning is coming. He thinks big companies will soon realize that their overemphasis on AI-produced code is driving up costs and leading to subpar software. ” https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/vibe-coding-slop-ai-tools-e6a99394?mod=author_content_page_1_pos_1

Perhaps it’s not a mischaracterization. From today’s WSJ…”Buffett told the WSJ on Monday that he wasn’t involved in Berkshire’s new Delta position. But he said he gave other investment ideas to Abel…”

Great story. So where are you cutting the 1T? You made it sound so simple, that only us naive people couldn’t figure it out. Apparently not even the genius Elon could do it, but that was because of “them,” according to you. Whoever “they” are in your argument. Ps, I don’t need AI, I have NI.

Who is “they” in your scenario? I must be naive. You think there is 1t “hiding” in plain sight? If so, what are you cutting?

Hahahahaha. Hopefully we don’t get NACHO SUPREME! Good god!

From TACO to NACHO? Not a chance Hormuz Opens? People are funny (Ps - it’ll probably open tomorrow)