I liked it better when so many were pessimistic.....bull markets don’t end with the pessimism we had . Now by just about any measure things are overly bullish again .that scares me But we’ve been saying that since at least 2013. And at least one boglehead said the covid crash was “obvious” to him. ...

the Republican attorney general of Ohio, Dave Yost, who argued that what Texas was seeking "would undermine a foundational premise of our federalist system: the idea that the States are sovereigns, free to govern themselves."

Nice.

I liked it better when so many were pessimistic.....bull markets don’t end with the pessimism we had . Now by just about any measure things are overly bullish again .that scares me Yeah, don't get me wrong I don't think this is a great time for long term buy and pray investing. For 10+ year timefra...

Don't bull markets die when earnings fail to prop up P/E's? Nope. Earnings have nothing to do with it. It's all about cash flows. As long as cash flows (which are primarily driven by speculation) are willing to keep flowing in, the bull will continue. P/E's don't matter in a bull market, they matte...

More emerging evidence to back up my 2021 expectations... AirBnB and DoorDash IPO's. If both of these IPO's can double in price day 1, it shows there is still pent up appetite for speculation. Bull markets die ONLY when the appetite for speculation runs out. There's still way too much speculative ap...

I also think the political left needs a PR makeover...not since the 60s or 70s has there really been a strong cultural movement that embodied the ethos of the progressive left. One could look at springsteen as perhaps a later attempt but most of the progressive music since the 80s has really not be...

All flooded with nonsense. It's YouTube. Nonsense prevailing surprises you? It is on my feed. Why are they nonstop sending me SNL clips? I haven't watched that trash since Farley, Phil Hartman etc. Why am I getting clips from "Back to the Future" lol? Virtually everything I've looked at f...

It's cyclical. Life influences art, and then art influences life. Music has always been a very important piece of culture. Country music happens to be the soundtrack of modern conservative culture.

SomeDude wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 8:57 pm All flooded with nonsense.

It's YouTube. Nonsense prevailing surprises you?

Yes, this is correct. One of the most intelligent people I know hates Trump with a passion because he has "destroyed the Republican party", and he is a long-time Republican who was I believe involved in Bush v. Gore. I haven't asked him exactly why he thinks that because I don't want to h...

If you look across the entire globe and rank countries by level of corruption, you'd really be hard pressed to find many countries less corrupt than ours is. So why would "the end" come for our country before all these others? Also, I would agree there is corruption, but I would totally di...

Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 9:16 pm]

I think one of the smarter aspects of the filing is that Texas did not argue that there was election fraud, but only that the swing states violated their own constitutions.

You have to ask yourself, is not claiming fraud a strategy or is it because there is no evidence of fraud?

Wow, I selected the last choice but didn't expect that it would be the majority opinion. I guess there is more agreement here than you would know from all the discussions. equally surprised by the results, based on forum posts i would have guessed at least some in every category except the first.. ...

Still makes absolutely no sense to me why Trump would be challenging election results in counties he already won. Or even why he would be looking at them. He has a specific purpose right now with limited time and resources so why would he do that and how is that shady behavior? Well election are wo...

I will also say that if a Democrat were doing the exact same things Trump is doing right now... Republicans would be losing their shit. They would be saying he was destroying democracy, that this was going to lead to authoritarianism, and they would be ready for revolution. They only reason they car...

Still makes absolutely no sense to me why Trump would be challenging election results in counties he already won. Or even why he would be looking at them. He has a specific purpose right now with limited time and resources so why would he do that and how is that shady behavior? Well election are wo...

Basically, there's a BIG difference between demanding investigation, and demanding a specific result. I'm all for investigation, and I'll accept the result whether it goes the way I believe it will or not. It's hypocritical and makes no sense to demand investigation, but only accept the investigatio...

- The concept of "elected representatives" in the minds of large portions of the American public is going to change dramatically going forward if the countless accusations of shenanigans in the general election aren't fully investigated and resolved to most Americans' satisfaction. The ve...

Two paragraphs pmward? Outstanding! It made it possible for me to read your post. Thanks. I completely agree that there are two separate issues here, and that the current methods are not adequate to safeguard the voting system. Requiring a federal ID (with passport # recorded along with the vote) w...

Might I bring Nixon to your attention... the only politician in U.S. history to be actually proven guilty of such was a "conservative". Your painting of conservatives as angels and liberals as devils is no different from what the liberal media does with "orangemanbad". It's prop...

Investigation is important but that principle goes both ways. Accepting every wild accusation and far-fetched concoction of a narcisstic madman and his whackjob legal team as basis of truth is lunacy (and I'm literally paraphrasing Republicans like Christie and Limbaugh when I say that). Burden of ...

Investigation is important. But so is willingness to accept the result of that investigation, even if it doesn't go the way one wants it to go.

"Ware County, Georgia has broken the Dominion algorithm: Using sequestered Dominion Equipment, Ware County ran a equal number of Trump votes and Biden votes through the Tabulator and the Tabulator reported a 26% lead for Biden. 37 Trump votes used in the equal sample run had been “Switched” fr...

Yeah, what is really impressive on that graph is that Obama had over double the support of the other side that Trump did. THAT level of dislike is impressive right there. This is really the root of the issue with Trump, and really with populist politicians in general. Populists tend to draw a very l...

Getting Republicans or conservatives to take part in a seditious scheme to overturn a legit election seems like a crazy conspiracy theory to me given the nature of such people. Far more likely to get lefties to engage in fraud, organized or not. Might I bring Nixon to your attention... the only pol...