FAFO

[superrific]

Re: FAFO - I'm waiting for the rich bastards with all of the stock holdings - who only voted Trump/Maga for the benefit of their wallet - to finally get their comeuppance. The Markets are still booming with the S&P 500 going over 6500 and the Dow getting a new record high. The government said US GDP rose 3.3% in the second quarter, a surprise bump up from its first estimate.

1) Is the Wall Street economy really reacting to Trump policies positively? Or is this some sort of calm before the storm - with folks now trying to "get ahead" of looming tariff repercussions - before the tsunami hits Wall St.?

2) Can we even trust reports coming out of the Government for accurate and truthful data - now that it's surely to be skewed to "look" better than what it really is? Can we even trust reporting from the corporate-run Media (especially Legacy Media) now that they've bent the knee and sucked off Donnie?

As long as Reuters and AP remain neutral, truthful and accurate I'll keep my lethal combination of sleeping pills and hard liquor in the cupboard... for now... However, I reserve the right to have my libations in a moderate fashion on the daily... for now...

It's unclear if the stock market actually continues to process news or estimates with any accuracy or reliability.

For years, the lions' share of trading has been done by high frequency trading algorithms that don't know of or care about anything fundamental. Combine that with bubbles that have persisted for a long time and the stock market might be mostly just a big game of poker. Crypto doesn't help at all. You have a generation of young people who have made a lot of money buying stupid shit with no value, watching it go up in price, and then crash, but go up again, and still goes up, all despite there being absolutely no use or value to that crap.

I have no idea what drives the Wall Street economy at all.

 

[farce©]

Rachel Roth Aldhizer, ladies and gentlemen. Quite the Megan McCain vibe.

Is there some context here? Are we supposed to know who this is?

 

[Molotov Mocktail]

Is there some context here? Are we supposed to know who this is?

She’s a “proud conservative” that wrote an opinion piece in the NYT about a week ago. The Medicaid cuts are going to cause serious problems for her and her special needs child. Just another in a long line that don’t care until it affects them.

 

[Wolfslayer]

Is there some context here? Are we supposed to know who this is?

"I’m a registered Republican who just watched her party spend much of the summer pushing through new cuts to Medicaid."

-> Opinion | I’m a Proud Conservative. My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live.

And she might as well say ...
"And now that Trump's policies affect me and my disabled child negatively, I'm mad. ... But I'd vote for him again! "

 

[SmilingJack]

"I’m a registered Republican who just watched her party spend much of the summer pushing through new cuts to Medicaid."

-> Opinion | I’m a Proud Conservative. My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live.

And she might as well say ...
"And now that Trump's policies affect me and my disabled child negatively, I'm mad. ... But I'd vote for him again! "

PDIF…was my daddy’s line which stood for Poor Damn Ignorant Fools. Hopefully and I am eternally optimistic grateful and empathetic.
Assholes are always assholes!

 

[altmin]

Rural America is suffering an economic crisis as crop prices plunge — 'U.S. soybean farmers cannot survive a prolonged trade dispute'

"Prices continue to drop and at the same time our farmers are paying significantly more for inputs and equipment."

fortune.com

 

[altmin]

GOP president, GOP Senators, GOP Representatives, GOP Governor, GOP Supermajority in the state legislature, GOP AG, GOP Secretary of State, and don't forget the Conservative Supreme Court and so on...

AND YET it's not a magical wonderland of unquestionable success so these farmers are begging for more handouts.

I know maybe they should vote for the gop even harder next time, maybe then their children won't inherit debt and dust.

‘I have never been as worried as I am now’: Arkansas farmers gather to share concerns

Hundreds of farmers gathered in Brookland to speak with representatives of Arkansas leaders to share with them their urgent plight: the difficulties they face in farming today.

www.kait8.com

You think they have the phrase "Get fucked" in Arkansas?

 

[SnoopRob]

GOP president, GOP Senators, GOP Representatives, GOP Governor, GOP Supermajority in the state legislature, GOP AG, GOP Secretary of State, and don't forget the Conservative Supreme Court and so on...

AND YET it's not a magical wonderland of unquestionable success so these farmers are begging for more handouts.

I know maybe they should vote for the gop even harder next time, maybe then their children won't inherit debt and dust.

‘I have never been as worried as I am now’: Arkansas farmers gather to share concerns

Hundreds of farmers gathered in Brookland to speak with representatives of Arkansas leaders to share with them their urgent plight: the difficulties they face in farming today.

www.kait8.com

You think they have the phrase "Get fucked" in Arkansas?

In my Arkansas experience, the closest would be "you reap what you sow".

But also very applicable here is a well-known Southern phrase..."bless their hearts".

 

[gregh1]

GOP president, GOP Senators, GOP Representatives, GOP Governor, GOP Supermajority in the state legislature, GOP AG, GOP Secretary of State, and don't forget the Conservative Supreme Court and so on...

AND YET it's not a magical wonderland of unquestionable success so these farmers are begging for more handouts.

I know maybe they should vote for the gop even harder next time, maybe then their children won't inherit debt and dust.

‘I have never been as worried as I am now’: Arkansas farmers gather to share concerns

Hundreds of farmers gathered in Brookland to speak with representatives of Arkansas leaders to share with them their urgent plight: the difficulties they face in farming today.

www.kait8.com

You think they have the phrase "Get fucked" in Arkansas?

More socialism and bailouts? Maybe the Fed Gov can own 10% of all farms in Arky?

 

[ZenMode]

Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates, a longtime cornerstone of public health policy for keeping schoolchildren and adults safe from infectious diseases.

State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who announced the decision Wednesday, cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as “immoral” intrusions on people’s rights that hamper parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children.

“People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,” Ladapo, who has frequently clashed with the medical establishment, said at a news conference in Valrico. “They don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.”

Florida’s move, a significant departure from decades of public policy and research that has shown vaccines to be safe and the most effective way to stop the spread of communicable diseases, especially among schoolchildren, is a notable embrace of the Trump administration’s agenda led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist.

Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates

State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who announced the decision, cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as “immoral” intrusions.

apnews.com

 

[uncgriff]

 

[finesse]

Doe

Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates, a longtime cornerstone of public health policy for keeping schoolchildren and adults safe from infectious diseases.

State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who announced the decision Wednesday, cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as “immoral” intrusions on people’s rights that hamper parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children.

“People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,” Ladapo, who has frequently clashed with the medical establishment, said at a news conference in Valrico. “They don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.”

Florida’s move, a significant departure from decades of public policy and research that has shown vaccines to be safe and the most effective way to stop the spread of communicable diseases, especially among schoolchildren, is a notable embrace of the Trump administration’s agenda led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist.

Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates

State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who announced the decision, cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as “immoral” intrusions.

apnews.com

Does this change Florida's stance on parents' rights in transgender treatments or is this just more blatant hypocrisy?

 

[altmin]

GOP president, GOP Senators, GOP Representatives, GOP Governor, GOP Supermajority in the state legislature, GOP AG, GOP Secretary of State, and don't forget the Conservative Supreme Court and so on...

AND YET it's not a magical wonderland of unquestionable success so these farmers are begging for more handouts.

I know maybe they should vote for the gop even harder next time, maybe then their children won't inherit debt and dust.

‘I have never been as worried as I am now’: Arkansas farmers gather to share concerns

Hundreds of farmers gathered in Brookland to speak with representatives of Arkansas leaders to share with them their urgent plight: the difficulties they face in farming today.

www.kait8.com

You think they have the phrase "Get fucked" in Arkansas?

more on these folks not happy with the consequences of their own actions

Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them

Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers are pleading with the federal government to provide emergency funding amid a farm economy crisis.Almost everything that

katv.com

comment section is brutal too

someone will have to eventually tell them that their going bankrupt was part of the plan. Large corporate farms can't afford to piss off the share holders by buying more land at retail price, they need the foreclosure price, sillies.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

more on these folks nto happy with the consequences of their own actions

Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them

Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers are pleading with the federal government to provide emergency funding amid a farm economy crisis.Almost everything that

katv.com

someone will have to eventually tell them that their going bankrupt was part of the plan. Large corporate farms can't afford to piss off the share holders by buying more land at retail price, they need the foreclosure price, sillies.

And yet for all of these people it will somehow, in some way, be the Democrat's fault. Just watch.

 

[hedge]

I have no idea what drives the Wall Street economy at all.

Truer words...

 

[tarheelbillie]

“Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates”

Well…ultimately, that may raise the state’s average IQ score above MAGA level.

 

[BillOfRights]

 

[ZenMode]

“Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates”

Well…ultimately, that may raise the state’s average IQ score above MAGA level.

Edit: if you mean the low IQ people will die, I agree.

 

[UNCatTech]

I really feel bad for people like this, who shouldn't have to worry about their personal circumstances, but trump told them that ALL immigrants were murders and rapist, so if trump believes they are all bad and he's going after the bad ones, they should have been able to read the writing on the wall.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

I know a couple of Latino immigrants who have been married for years to American spouses, and they voted for Trump (their spouses are very conservative, and they are both very socially conservative, especially on transgenders). One of them had a job they loved with a company that worked through USAID and they lost that job thanks to DOGE cuts a few months ago, and both of them have told me that they're afraid to leave the country and visit their parents and relatives in their homeland for fear they may not be allowed back into the USA, even though they've been living legally in the US for many years. They're both very nice people, but I still have a hard time feeling much sympathy for them, try as I might. You get what you vote for, so to speak.