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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,207
    it's a direct response to the maga "I can't imagine how anyone would think what trump is doing is bad" posts. So, yeah. 
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  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,042
    edited February 21
    There are people here that are actively rooting against the United States to fail. Mind boggling. 
    Correct. Many here are actively rooting against the United States to fail. Thats why we didn't vote for Trump.
    I often root for the Steelers and Bengals to fail.
    While rooting against the Ravens failing.
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  • Merkin BallerMerkin Baller Posts: 11,965
    There are people here that are actively rooting against the United States to fail. Mind boggling. 
    Correct. Many here are actively rooting against the United States to fail. Thats why we didn't vote for Trump.
    I often root for the Steelers and Bengsls to fail.
    While rooting against the Ravens failing.
    I am rooting against Baltimore not failing. 

  • DE4173DE4173 Posts: 1,330

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    DE4173 said:


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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,207
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 42,040
    There are people here that are actively rooting against the United States to fail. Mind boggling. 

    yes, I am in fact rooting against the failure of the united states.
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 42,040
    I'll concede that you did say "as long as you don't sell"....true... my response was due to seeing tons of people panic and sell when it's low and then wait until it goes back up to buy. 

    And yes...I understand the stock market and its historical returns. I've got my series 7 after all. I was dissecting your comment that everything that goes down will comes back up which is definitely not true when you look at individual stocks. If you are referring to the market in general sure it will go back up...always does. But tons of people still lose.

    And I'm sorry about the red hat comment. You probably don't need another one. :)

    I subscribe to the ronco method of 401k investment.

    set it and forget it.
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 42,040
    There are people here that are actively rooting against the United States to fail. Mind boggling. 
    Correct. Many here are actively rooting against the United States to fail. Thats why we didn't vote for Trump.
    I often root for the Steelers and Bengsls to fail.
    While rooting against the Ravens failing.
    I am rooting against Baltimore not failing. 


    me too.
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,207
    trumpers: how could anyone not be ok with everything he's done??

    non-evil people:

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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 42,040
    video.....


    Trump says he thinks autism in children is caused by a “spray that we spray that nobody else does”

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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 42,040
    video....


    Q: Republican members of Congress are facing pushback from voters in town halls. Voters say they’re angry at what your administration is doing. What do you say to them?

    Trump: I have the best poll numbers

    (Polls show that Trump’s approval is plunging)
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    ALERT: While you were distracted, Trump just ordered the Justice Department to DELETE the federal police misconduct database. That means no records, no accountability, and no way to track abuses. This is how a police state starts.
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 42,040
    NEW: One of Trump’s most damaging strikes against U.S. climate policy is buried in an executive order that would obliterate a critically important calculation the government uses to gauge the real-world costs that climate change imposes on the economy.

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    Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals

    by Abrahm LustgartenFeb. 21, 2025, 5 a.m. EST

    The change would effectively transfer financial responsibility from oil drillers, auto manufacturers and others and leave Americans to face greater direct costs as warming continues.

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    One of President Donald Trump’s most damaging strikes at the foundation of U.S. climate policy is buried deep in a sweeping Inauguration Day executive order focused on “Unleashing American Energy.” Half way through the lengthy document is a directive that would obliterate an obscure but critically important calculation the government uses to gauge the real-world costs that climate change is imposing on the U.S. economy.

    Getting rid of the measure, called the “social cost of carbon,” would upend energy and environmental regulations meant to address climate change and could have the long-term effect of shifting costs from polluting industries directly onto Americans as the expenses of climate change rise.

    The measure essentially establishes a price for each ton of carbon emitted, based on the long-term damages it is expected to cause in the future. It has become the government’s primary tool to weigh the economic costs of climate change — such as disaster cleanup or health impacts from warming — against the burden of regulations.

    The executive order disbanded the working group, which included the treasury secretary, energy secretary and director of national economic policy, that set the social cost of carbon and advised how it should be implemented. It revoked that group’s previous decisions. And it directed the Environmental Protection Agency, which calculates the figure and bases regulatory proposals on it, to reconsider using the social cost of carbon altogether with the goal of eradicating “abuse” that stands in the way of affordable energy production.


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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 42,040
    Today, Jan. 6 rioters returned to the Capitol chanting "Who's house? Our house."

    Yesterday, Trump cleared insurrectionists of even more crimes, including illegal gun possession and drug dealing.

    How is this making America safer?

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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 42,040
    Doesn’t the timing seem a little bit too convenient that the same time Trump appoints Alice Marie Johnson as “Pardon Czar” and does the photo opp at the White House, he also shuts down the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, a federal misconduct tracking system ordered by Biden, that was intended to prevent officers with disciplinary records from being rehired by other agencies ?
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    Trump instructed the Department of Homeland Security to waste $200 million of taxpayer money on an ad campaign to thank him “for closing the border.”
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 42,040
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book?CMP=share_btn_url
    This really explains the affinity and subservience of comrade president krasnov to putin and russia ‼️
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    audio.....


    Trump claims it’s not fair to blame any economic problems on him for “a year” because it’s not his economy
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  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,596
    He’d sure as shit be taking all the credit for it if it was going well. 

    It’s wild to me how his supporters just gloss over this move of his and no seed of questioning is ever planted. 
  • Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 21,357
    Just did a tax return on a retired couple...they aren't old enough to take RMDs from their IRAs yet so social security and interest income is their only reportable income.

    Total interest $5,440, Total SS $66,148....taxable income $0

    Just pointing out how the "no tax on social security" thing is geared heavily toward the wealthy. 
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,779
    Just did a tax return on a retired couple...they aren't old enough to take RMDs from their IRAs yet so social security and interest income is their only reportable income.

    Total interest $5,440, Total SS $66,148....taxable income $0

    Just pointing out how the "no tax on social security" thing is geared heavily toward the wealthy. 

    $66K plus social security for one year?  Holy shit!  We get no more near that much.
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  • Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 21,357
    brianlux said:
    Just did a tax return on a retired couple...they aren't old enough to take RMDs from their IRAs yet so social security and interest income is their only reportable income.

    Total interest $5,440, Total SS $66,148....taxable income $0

    Just pointing out how the "no tax on social security" thing is geared heavily toward the wealthy. 

    $66K plus social security for one year?  Holy shit!  We get no more near that much.
    High earner...two high earners together can gross about $80K. Kind of crazy.

    And zero tax if that is your only income. 
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  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,526
    Yeah but I wonder if the return equals the investment. I will wait until 67 to claim it but it seems like have been paying much more. Probably from age 20 or so.
  • Get_Right said:
    Yeah but I wonder if the return equals the investment. I will wait until 67 to claim it but it seems like have been paying much more. Probably from age 20 or so.
    I started putting into social security when I was 14 years old. I went and got a job at a local hot dog stand. Haha 
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  • Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 21,357
    Get_Right said:
    Yeah but I wonder if the return equals the investment. I will wait until 67 to claim it but it seems like have been paying much more. Probably from age 20 or so.
    depends on how long you live...that's what makes the decision of taking it at 62 vs full retirement age hard to answer. 

    I ran my numbers and found that if I knew for a fact that I would live to 80 it would make sense to wait to pull SS until I was 70. Then if I live to 90 my SS benefit payout would have been about $120K higher than pulling at 67...$319K more if I pulled at 62.

    If I pull at 67 vs 62 and live to 90 it's a gap of about $200K. Can be significant
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 42,040

    The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library was forced to cancel events featuring authors of books on civil rights, climate change, and homelessness after the Trump administration fired the National Archivist. The National Archives oversees programming at 13 presidential libraries.
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    NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind. https://propub.li/4386GDt
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 42,040

    Remember the underground "mine" President Musk mentioned? The federal workers there were interviewed, and it's no surprise they voted for Trump. What frustrates me is that now they're regretting their vote because it hurt them. They fail to see the bigger picture—how social services, undocumented tax dollars, and free education for all children benefit our country. For them, it's all about "me, me, me," mixed with hate for anyone who doesn't look like them.
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