Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

LOL.....go ahead and SPIN SPIN SPIN.....

No Greg, it's SPEND, SPEND, SPEND:
Costco (COST) is the latest retailer to warn that the US-China trade war will hit consumers.

"At the end of the day, prices will go up on things," Costco CFO Richard Galanti told analysts on Thursday. Galanti said prices had already gone up on some items such as patio furniture.

Costco wasn't the only retailer on Thursday to predict prices will rise for consumers.

"We believe our shoppers will be facing higher prices as 2019 progresses," Dollar General's (DG) CFO said on a analyst call.

Walmart (WMT), Target (TGT), Home Depot (HD), Macy's (M) and others have also said recently that the tariffs have forced them to either alter their financial outlooks, remodel carefully-crafted supply chains or consider raising price tags for customers.The average price increase for a new vehicle is 1300.00:
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-mexico-tariffs-trade-war-cost-1440938
AND: 1.1 TRILLION lost due to sell off from the trade wars:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/13/1point2-trillion-in-stock-market-value-lost-so-far-from-trade-war-sell-off-with-more-expected.html
I doubt if GREG can comprehend any of it...

Yeah, the tariffs aimed at Mexico are such a great idea that Republican senators are rallying against it:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/04/trump-mexico-tariffs-senate-1353180
Oh, I also got a kick out of Mexico's latest response to the tariffs. If we hit them, they hit us by specifically directing their tariffs at pro-Trump states!  If Greg's state gets hammered, I'll be laughing my ass off...

The latest? The Trump tweet from Ireland: No deal with Mexico on immigration or tariffs. The meeting between key GOP senators and WH lawyers on the tariffs was so screwed-up because nobody, including the tweeter himself, really knows what's going on with all of it and a senior GOP senatorial aide said that he believed the technical term for it is a cluster----.

Well, I see, you're  "well meaning"...

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

You wouldnt?

A huge bonfire was burning at Joaquín Guzmán Loera’s mountain hide-out one night when the crime lord’s bodyguards brought him two enemy soldiers slumped across the backs of two A.T.V.s. The men — members of the Zetas, a rival cartel — had been tortured for hours and many of their bones had already been broken. The soldiers, as listless as “rag dolls,” according to a gunman who was there, could barely move.
In the glow of the firelight, Mr. Guzmán ordered the Zetas to be placed beside the flames and then approached them with a rifle. Pressing its barrel to the first man’s head, the kingpin cursed the soldier’s mother and abruptly pulled the trigger. After he had done the same to the second, he ordered his assassins to dispose of the bodies.
“Put them in the bonfire,” the gunman recalled Mr. Guzmán saying. “I don’t want any bones to remain.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/nyregion/el-chapo-trial.html
"Guzmán's family is heavily involved in drug trafficking. Several members of his family, including his brother, one of his sons, and a nephew were killed by Sinaloa's archrival cartels, Los Zetas and the Beltrán Leyva Organization.[86]
In 1977, Guzmán married Alejandrina María Salazar Hernández in a small ceremony in the town of Jesús María, Sinaloa. The couple had at least three children: César, Iván Archivaldo, and Jesús Alfredo. He set them up in a ranch home in Jesús María.
When he was 30 years old, El Chapo fell in love with a bank clerk, Estela Peña of Nayarit, whom he kidnapped and had sexual relations. They later married.
In the mid-1980s, Guzmán married once more, to Griselda López Pérez, with whom he had four more children: Édgar, Joaquín, Ovidio, and Griselda Guadalupe.[84][260]
Guzmán's sons followed him into the drug business, and his third wife, López Pérez, was arrested in 2010, in Culiacán.[261]
In November 2007, Guzmán married an 18-year-old American beauty queen, Emma Coronel Aispuro,[262] the daughter of one of his top deputies, Inés Coronel Barreras, in Canelas, Durango.[263][264][265] In August 2011, she gave birth to twin girls, Maria Joaquina and Emali Guadalupe, in Los Angeles County Hospital, in California.[266][267]
All in the family...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_%22El_Chapo%22_Guzm%C3%A1n

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

LOL....ok

So you wouldnt?

Greg,
I think you ought bring over the entire family! You can sponsor them...

https://abc7.com/el-chapo-mother-says-us-approved-visa-to-visit-drug-lord-in-prison/5326300/

Oh come on Mel, we won! It's Miller time!...

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer explains to ya all the title of my thread and the point of my post:
"This is an historic night! @realDonaldTrump has announced that he has cut a deal to 'greatly reduce, or eliminate, Illegal Immigration coming from Mexico and into the United States.' Now that that problem is solved, I'm sure we won't be hearing any more about it in the future."
Now, not having read the stuff from Rich, because I don't have to since I already know what he'll say anyway, I'll just sit back and let him revel in his victory...

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

A couple of days ago a newsman was claiming that Trump's poll numbers are slightly better than Obama's were at this point.

Some unnamed newsman said Trump's poll numbers were "slightly" better than Obama's at this point? What? They should be stellar now that Trump has solved the illegal immigration problem and all without a new wall now. He said so...I wonder what he's drinking...