Gyroscopic Investing

Tortoise wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 1:45 pm

Dieter wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 12:40 pm

Tortoise wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:53 pm I'm assuming most people realize that the whole push for universal mail-in voting and drumming up controversy around the USPS is so that when Trump inevitably wins the election in November, the Left will be able to maximize chaos by claiming the election was rigged/stolen.

I'd flip it a bit, with Republicans doing everything they can to try to keep Trump in power, and will use any and all of these excuses as reasons to question the results when he looses and not leave office.

Can you clarify? Trump and his supporters aren't the ones pushing for universal mail-in voting. The Dems are.

Dieter wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 2:12 pm If there is a lot of voting by mail and [Trump] loses, he could keep going with his rhetoric that see, I warned you, oodles of voter fraud. Our numbers show we didn't lose ; I'm not going to accept these results.

boglerdude wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 11:03 pm > It's so that the Democrats can cheat a lot more than usual.

Please list all the ways they will

WiseOne wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:31 pm On the topic of "what has Trump done that was good", here's a big one:

https://reason.com/2020/08/21/its-time- ... elehealth/

Reason magazine is very much anti-Trump, so they're very careful not to credit him in this article. However, I remember clearly that it was Trump who signed the executive order to wipe away the regulatory barriers that had been choking telemedicine efforts. The result was a revolution in outpatient medicine, and it will be very hard for the bureaucrats to put everything back into their Pandora's box.

I'm not sure how many Republicans would have done this. For sure no Democrat would ever have signed such an order; they only make new rules, they would never take them away. If Hilary Clinton had been elected, I can only imagine what would have happened with the lockdowns in place and hospital ERs mostly overwhelmed with COVID cases. Literally, no one would have been able to get a doctor visit, unless their doctor was willing to return a phone call. Most aren't because phone calls (pre-executive order) could not be billed, i.e. they were a free service. So without Trump and his executive order on telehealth, there would have been an even more serious lack of routine medical care during the worst of the pandemic, the financial hit to outpatient practices would have been far more devastating, and we would not now have this terrific new way of practicing outpatient medicine.

Cortopassi wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 11:21 pm

boglerdude wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 11:03 pm > It's so that the Democrats can cheat a lot more than usual.

Please list all the ways they will

They just will, it's obvious dontcha know, they're democrats (psst..communists, Marxists, Antifa, BLM, coming for your wives, your houses, your guns, etc...)

Dieter wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 11:35 pm

WiseOne wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:31 pm On the topic of "what has Trump done that was good", here's a big one:

https://reason.com/2020/08/21/its-time- ... elehealth/

Reason magazine is very much anti-Trump, so they're very careful not to credit him in this article. However, I remember clearly that it was Trump who signed the executive order to wipe away the regulatory barriers that had been choking telemedicine efforts. The result was a revolution in outpatient medicine, and it will be very hard for the bureaucrats to put everything back into their Pandora's box.

I'm not sure how many Republicans would have done this. For sure no Democrat would ever have signed such an order; they only make new rules, they would never take them away. If Hilary Clinton had been elected, I can only imagine what would have happened with the lockdowns in place and hospital ERs mostly overwhelmed with COVID cases. Literally, no one would have been able to get a doctor visit, unless their doctor was willing to return a phone call. Most aren't because phone calls (pre-executive order) could not be billed, i.e. they were a free service. So without Trump and his executive order on telehealth, there would have been an even more serious lack of routine medical care during the worst of the pandemic, the financial hit to outpatient practices would have been far more devastating, and we would not now have this terrific new way of practicing outpatient medicine.

Interesting article.

Yeah, I think more should be allowed online long term.

Do worry about across state lines and the race to the bottom that this can engender.

WiseOne wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:31 pm On the topic of "what has Trump done that was good", here's a big one:

https://reason.com/2020/08/21/its-time- ... elehealth/

Reason magazine is very much anti-Trump, so they're very careful not to credit him in this article. However, I remember clearly that it was Trump who signed the executive order to wipe away the regulatory barriers that had been choking telemedicine efforts. The result was a revolution in outpatient medicine, and it will be very hard for the bureaucrats to put everything back into their Pandora's box.

I'm not sure how many Republicans would have done this. For sure no Democrat would ever have signed such an order; they only make new rules, they would never take them away. If Hilary Clinton had been elected, I can only imagine what would have happened with the lockdowns in place and hospital ERs mostly overwhelmed with COVID cases. Literally, no one would have been able to get a doctor visit, unless their doctor was willing to return a phone call. Most aren't because phone calls (pre-executive order) could not be billed, i.e. they were a free service. So without Trump and his executive order on telehealth, there would have been an even more serious lack of routine medical care during the worst of the pandemic, the financial hit to outpatient practices would have been far more devastating, and we would not now have this terrific new way of practicing outpatient medicine.

Tortoise wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 9:38 pm Well, it's official -- Tim Pool finally admitted he plans to vote for Trump (link is at relevant timestamp):
https://youtu.be/G62oPzl-FTs?t=1355

Tortoise wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 9:38 pm Well, it's official -- Tim Pool finally admitted he plans to vote for Trump (link is at relevant timestamp):
https://youtu.be/G62oPzl-FTs?t=1355

I figured he would, but now he's actually admitted it.

shekels wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 9:12 am

Tortoise wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 9:38 pm Well, it's official -- Tim Pool finally admitted he plans to vote for Trump (link is at relevant timestamp):
https://youtu.be/G62oPzl-FTs?t=1355

I figured he would, but now he's actually admitted it.

Looks like he has been Red Pilled.

It is habit forming.

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 1:59 pm

jalanlong wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:45 amCapture.PNG

If Trump walked on water to save someone from drowning, the Marxist media would report it as "Trump can't swim".

yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 10:36 pm Michael Cohen releases devastating new TV ad about Donald Trump

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/m ... ump/31854/

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday said that he would debate President Trump shortly after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested that Biden shouldn’t “legitimize” the incumbent president by participating in debates.

“No. As long as the commission continues down the straight now as they have, I’m going to debate him,” Biden told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell when asked whether he would consider not debating Trump following Pelosi’s comments.

“I am going to be the fact-checker on the stage while I’m debating him,” Biden continued.

Cortopassi wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 11:09 pm Trump speech:

--Too long
--Meandering
--I've done more for black people than any president since Lincoln. I just can't get enough of that line. Civil rights act, anyone?
--No bother with social distancing and masks. Whatever you believe on that, that is the government's official position, but then you see people shoulder to shoulder with no masks, yelling and whooping it up. I understand it is maybe to send a wink wink nod nod message, but damn it is brazen to go against everything the rest of your government is telling the American people to do.

And doing it at the White House, I didn't know the "rules" but seems without precedent to hold a campaign/convention rally at government facilities, or at least that's what a lot of the talking heads were saying? And then him turning around saying it's "our house" not "their house." Yikes.

I actually really liked the speeches that were done without an audience and no interruptions from applause.

The fireworks were pretty darn amazing, though. Hope he paid for them and not us.