I agree, that’s a good message. Vote in primaries.

That IS what you meant, right?

Yes, everything bad that happens is really caused by the Dems.

Our best option is clearly to not vote. You’ve convinced me.

My point is that despite there being a public component, this information was targeted.

Well, you and I can’t. You’d need a previous heads up that it’s market manipulation vs begging.

They can’ literally print money. They don’t even have to print it.

Ironically, it would weaken the dollar enough that the rich would lose money on their tax cuts. So in that sense you’re right. I just don’t want anyone thinking that the government actually needs to find all the money it spends.

You’d have to be watching the speech, ready to react within a minute it two and you could have caught most of it.

DJI with source.

https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/

Just search for DJI and go to 1pm on the 9th.

But OP was on SPY.

“Great time to buy” could just as easily be “plz make stock market go up”. You can’t really make a decision based on that statement.

The budget bill? Things were going to be worse if there was a shutdown that hands more power to the executive.

El Salvador.

Neither will the color of your skin.

That’s part of why everyone should have cared about BLM, even for purely selfish reasons. The cops will kill you if they don’t like you. They have enough room to not like black people AND to not like you.

How much more risk are they really taking if they report a random, white citizen vs a brown green card holder? Neither is legal. Does it matter.

I don’t know why people think they’re safe just because they’re not a minority. Our police problem has spread. Now it’s the cops, ICE, half the judges, and the administration.

And now that would be the reason they didn’t get elected.

It’s an excellent accounting by the person running the country. It’s going better than planned.

Here it is again, a desperate attempt to blame Democrats.

I didn’t believe you. Here’s a source showing you’re right.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/04/upshot/trump-tariffs-reciprocal.html

The Trump administration calculated the trade deficit using only goods — physical items that can be shipped — and not services, such as technology, media, banking and tourism. (A DVD counts; a Netflix subscription doesn’t.)

I bet Putin and Xi would prefer that to change.

What a heavy handed line that’s being pushed on Lemmy. And we’re not even near the election yet.

Apparently not. A group of intelligent people would never pick Trump.

That smoke filled room of Republicans talked about the Overton Window 30 years ago. They decided that they could move that window just by pretending to be much farther right than they really were. The thing about pretending is that if you do it for long enough it’s not pretending anymore. Thirty years later they realized they’ve lost control of what they started. A quarter of the elected officials are now true believers, another half are under Russian blackmail. And anyone who speaks up (Liz- Dick Cheney, a list of others) loses their seat.

I do believe that underneath it all, he does want to make America a great nation.

I gave W that credit. I don’t believe it’s true for Trump, outside of the fully narcissistic version.

It appears his first priority is pleasing Putin. His second is getting a small number of people to applaud him. He doesn’t give a single fuck about America or Americans as a whole.

The judge in the New York former mayor Eric Adams case dismissed the charges with prejudice. He gets away with his crimes scott free, but they don’t get to hang them over his head.