Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"Fox News and Republicans would all be screaming for their heads!"

I check the Faux for the latest on the MAGA craze and how they're spinning it. The headline I saw today is, "Trump Announces Massive Payday For America To The Tune Of $5,000,000,000,000." 

Nowhere in the article does it say anything about it or where or how the money is coming to America. But the comments from the MAGA types are all in...

Not only that but Trump fights back against the naysayers!

“The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!” Trump said on Truth Socia"

I ASK YOU, ARE YOU A "PANICAN"?...

Originally Posted by David Cotterell

Instability caused by the reaction to the tariffs is clear in this graph of today's DJIA up to about 2:20pm EDT.

Buy at A, sell at B.   Make about 5.5%.  Now take that as the new principal , buy at C, sell at D, make about 3.4%, E to F  2%, the G to H 2.7%.

How did you do overall..?    (1.055)(1.034)(1.02)(1.027) = overall gain 1.143 or 14%.  in less than 6 hours.

If you started this with a million dollars you'll have made $140 000 which is more money than the vast majority makes in one year. In 6 hours.

Create the chaos and ride the wave to make, as Dire Straits put it, Money for Nothing......  But only the top 1% or fewer people could do this..  

the broligarchs are making bank on this.  

Dave

If you look at at Faux today, they always seem to have a knack for finding some so-called "financial expert" that backs up whatever Trump says or does:

"Trump is preventing the biggest credit crisis the nation has ever seen: Jeff Sica"

https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6371178281112

Where do they find these guys and what planet are they living on?

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

If you look at at Faux today, they always seem to have a knack for finding some so-called "financial expert" that backs up whatever Trump says or does:

"Trump is preventing the biggest credit crisis the nation has ever seen: Jeff Sica"

https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6371178281112

Where do they find these guys and what planet are they living on?

Meanwhile, Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, says the CEOs of various financials in the markets say we're already in a recession.

Additionally, Ron Johnson and Mike Lee, two of the most conservative GOP senators known to mankind, are supporting a proposed deal by Musk for a "free trade" zone with the EU. Trump, of course, is ignoring all of this. 

If Obama or Biden had done what Trump is doing, the articles of impeachment would have already been drafted and set for a vote in a GOP-controlled congress...

“If you look at the companies that were talking at big conferences in March, a lot of things are slowing. And so, I think this is more than a growth scare already. This is actually like a growth slowdown. And so the question is, will we get negative guidance in April?” Adam Parker, CEO of Trivariate Research, told CNBC’s “Closing Bell” on Friday."

"Wall Street is coming off yet another brutal week for equities. The Nasdaq Composite
sank deeper into correction territory last week, while the small-cap Russell 2000
neared a bear market, or 20% off from its high. The S& 500
briefly dipped into a correction as well, before snapping back above that level."

"Those moves come as investors have struggled to keep pace with President Donald Trump’s fast-changing tariff policies, on top of growing signs of economic weakness, that have put markets in a tailspin. The uncertainty has many wondering whether the stock market correction could turn into a bear market."


https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/16/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

To hear the WH and Tommy Tuberville tell it, the latter with a big slap-happy grin on his face, "no pain, no gain!"

Geez, what alternate reality do those people live in?...

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

One on the forum?  

I'm pretty sure you forgot to mention Jim Mosceck, so there are 2 on the forum You and Jim M.

The rest aren't really lunatics, but just angry leftists, just slightly to the right of Your communism.

If you need any other clarification, let me know.

"'m pretty sure you forgot to mention Jim Mosceck, so there are 2 on the forum You and Jim M."

"Mosceck"? Who the heck is "Mosceck"? 

Has our resident Trump, "JD" Putin-commie supporter been imbibing?

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"'m pretty sure you forgot to mention Jim Mosceck, so there are 2 on the forum You and Jim M."

"Mosceck"? Who the heck is "Mosceck"? 

Has our resident Trump, "JD" Putin-commie supporter been imbibing?

Burp!

I think Roberts *might* regret his immunity decision on Trump for a couple of reasons: 1st Trump reportedly told him "I owe you one" after resuming office, and 2nd, at The State Of The Union address where Trump, at the end, upon leaving and saying goodbye to the judges, told Roberts, "Thanks and thanks again, I won't forget it."
To his credit, Roberts appeared to be looking for the exits...

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

It is called the US Constitution and the Separation of Powers implied.

You might want to read the US Constitution sometime before you become more senile, and then maybe some history about it.

I realize this will definitely collide with your Communist/Marxist political philosophy but then at least you wouldn't be so uneducated and ignorant about the situation.  

Yet another profound example of our resident supporter of the Trump "JD" Putin-commie team specific to his stupidity in citing the constitution in his post.

As noted here, there are three major flaws in the Roberts opinion, noting the constitutional argument:

"The three flaws are: the majority’s reliance on separation of powers to justify finding criminal immunity for all official presidential action (even outside the areas of exclusive presidential authority) despite its absence from the text or history of the constitution, its seeming preclusion of reliance on the criminal law to differentiate official from unofficial presidential conduct (again even outside of areas of exclusive presidential authority), and its similar preclusion of the president’s motives in making the determination as to whether conduct is official or not."

"To justify this new-found presidential immunity, Chief Justice Roberts could not draw on the text of the constitution or even any history around the time of its adoption. Instead, Roberts justified the criminal immunity protection by resort to the Court’s role in protecting the executive branch from encroachment by the legislative branch – what is termed in the law as “separation of powers” principles that prevent one branch of government from impermissibly encroaching on the constitutional functions delegated to another branch."

"The Court’s cloak of separation of powers to justify its ruling is threadbare. The criminal case before the Court in Trump v. United States is one instituted by the executive branch against a former head of the executive branch. The Court’s decision operates not to restrict any branch of government from intruding on another, but the current executive branch from prosecuting a former executive branch member."

https://www.justsecurity.org/97781/three-flaws-supreme-court-immunity/

The above citation is a terrific read that exposes how and why the immunity decision is as flawed as it truly is...

"Chief Justice John Roberts pushed back on President Donald Trump’s escalating rhetoric against the federal judiciary on Tuesday in a highly unusual statement that appeared to be aimed at the president’s call to impeach judges who rule against him."

“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said in a statement released by the Supreme Court. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”


“This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President - He didn’t WIN the popular VOTE (by a lot!), he didn’t WIN ALL SEVEN SWING STATES,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chief-justice-roberts-rebukes-trump-162831636.html

Well, we all know who the lunatic is here, including the one on the forum, so...

"We've already come across plenty of incidents involving the nine-foot piece of boomerang-shaped window flying off, seemingly as the result of a botched gluing job."

"I ran a quick errand tonight," one driver complained in a post on the Cybertruck Owners Club forum last month, "and while merging and accelerating on the interstate in normal traffic, at about 70 mph, I heard a loud ripping sound and the metal panel liberates and flew into traffic behind me."


"This is actually really dangerous," he said. "I've seen quite a few people online where these have come off on the highway."

"And it's not just the cantrail panel. The truck's massive front plate has also been glued on by the carmaker, and images circulating online show how easily the panel can be ripped off."

"Tesla delivery specialists have been telling waiting Cybertruck customers that there's a "containment hold" on all deliveries, a problem that's seemingly related to a giant piece of metal becoming unglued from the car's stainless steel-clad exterior."

"It's the latest in a long list of glaring problems plaguing the truck. The vehicle has been hit with more than half a dozen recalls in less than a year of being on the road, highlighting the EV maker's shoddy design work and questionable quality control."


https://futurism.com/tesla-stops-cybertruck-deliveries-trim

"Tesla halts Cybertruck deliveries after panels held together by glue come apart"

https://nypost.com/2025/03/17/business/tesla-halts-cybertruck-deliveries-after-glued-panels-come-apart/