The Outrage over the Biden Ad

[rsbs]

Guess the evil republicans didn't actually get a picture of Basement Biden hiding in his basement for the ad but used some stock photos. Faux outrage by the leftists. Notice that that the fake news article does go on to say that what the evil doers say about Biden is correct, just that the photos are not of him in his basement.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/08/trump-ad-features-edited-out-of-context-biden-photos/

[Packard27]

The most fascinating part of this year’s political campaign is what the MSM is choosing NOT to cover. Not since the old Soviet Pravda Daily News has the world seen such clever journalism practices. What you see is not always what you get...ehhh?

[See also the deplorable lack of journalistic curiosity on Joe Biden’s cognitive lapses, the continued peaceful protests in Portland, NYC, & Seattle, Chicago’s recent spike in violently premature deaths among its indigenous urban people, tens of millions of public school students being left behind due to the Covid pandemic, and the historical rise in the S&P 500 Index.]

“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”

Thucydides

[sam1wiseone]

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@Packard27 wrote:

The most fascinating part of this year’s political campaign is what the MSM is choosing NOT to cover. Not since the old Soviet Pravda Daily News has the world seen such clever journalism practices. What you see is not always what you get...ehhh?

[See also the deplorable lack of journalistic curiosity on Joe Biden’s recent cognitive lapses, the continued peaceful protests in Portland, NYC, & Seattle, Chicago’s recent spike in violently premature deaths among its indigenous urban people, tens of millions of public school students being left behind due to the Covid pandemic, and the historical rise in the S&P 500 Index.]

“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must".

Thucydides

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On that historic rise in the 500.

In late January/ early Feb who didn't see a massive crash coming?  Pandemic was all over the news. In April who didn't say "not going down much further".       Back to where it started, wisdom says to lock in some profits.  

[rsbs]

all of my stock accounts are net positive for the year, and I took quite a bit out of stock and went to cash just a week or so ago after doing something similar the first week of January. I have some huge assessments coming due in the next year and I will live with having paid down debt with stock market gains, and let others worry about not being in the stock market going forward. 

If we go into a 1930's environment, I don't want to be the guy with a lot of debt, even if it supposedly will be serviced with cheap interest. I never trust anyone on that. 80 percent of what I had in the market is now protected, and I have the funds in hand to pay off some huge bills coming due soon. 

Was listening to the radio and it said that here in MN, literally hundreds of farmers are in debt mediation talks with their bankers right now, and it makes me shudder. It doesn't take very many bad decisions to end up on the wrong side of the equation when it comes to making money or losing money.

[Packard27]

Sam,

I’m not sure. I rode that tiger all the way down to the bottom in March and was prepared to wait another decade or more for it to return to its highs. Neither a buyer nor a seller was I. So who really knows what is going to happen in either the near or distant future when it comes to dynamic markets?

If you had told me with 100% certainty on January 1, 2020 that we were going to impeach the President, turn a leading Iranian general into a small grease spot on an Iraqi highway, endure a global pandemic, shut down the world’s largest economic engine in all of history, close our schools, vote to eliminate entire police departments, and see our major cities getting burned, looted, & pillaged by thousands of angry BLM/Antifa rioters; I think I would have predicted dire consequences for the markets. 

Instead, what we got after seven months was a big Mehhh!

[sam1wiseone]

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@Packard27 wrote:

Sam,

I’m not sure. I rode that tiger all the way down to the bottom in March and was prepared to wait another decade or more for it to return to its highs. Neither a buyer nor a seller was I. So who really knows what is going to happen in either the near or distant future when it comes to dynamic markets?

If you had told me with 100% certainty on January 1, 2020 that we were going to impeach the President, turn a leading Iranian general into a small grease spot on an Iraqi highway, endure a global pandemic, shut down the world’s largest economic engine in all of history, close our schools, vote to eliminate entire police departments, and see our major cities getting burned, looted, & pillaged by thousands of angry BLM/Antifa rioters; I think I would have predicted dire consequences for the markets. 

Instead, what we got after seven months was a big Mehhh!

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Yep, I think half of us would like to catch the year 2020 in a dark alley somewhere and beat the crap out of it.

The other half are never let a crisis go to waste traitors.