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Ha ha ha. Here it comes. The spin machine. At the end of 4 years of destruction he will still be blaming Biden.
There are two people Trump will never blame: himself, and Putin.
/me shakes fist at those DAMNED BIDEN TARIFFS, and screams at the clouds: THANKS OBAMA!
“I don’t believe you”
—Ron Burgundy (and everyone else except Republicunts)
Pizzacake is often pretty mid (there's worse crimes than being mid), but this one is spot-on.
Honestly, I've gone from not knowing who PCC is to hating her work for its mediocrity to subtly appreciating that sometimes what the world needs in the face of overwhelming AI slop and neo-Nazi comics is someone whose work may not be the best but who enjoys what they do, puts thought and effort into it, and makes the masses exhale through their nose.
Good thing to come around on. Mediocrity is the norm, and there's not really a great reason to hate on it.
It's like hating on Garfield. Sure, Garfield became really mid after it stopped being just Jim Davis and started being Paws, Inc., but plenty of people still love Garfield so who cares? It's perfectly okay to enjoy things that aren't perfect.
Not to mention the patron saint of mediocrity was really good himself:
They wanna remove govt spending from GDP calculations to hide how bad shits gonna get.
Guess what that level of asinine obvious Jedi hand wave bullshit is gonna do?
Make everyone scared to invest scared to spend. We're in for a recession for sure.
I just massively shifted my retirement accounts from being ~80%/20% US/international stocks to more like 50/50. I'm increasingly doubting myself and thinking I ought to shift the ratio even more.
Honestly what countries are you betting on?
I feel like literally everyone is going to lose big in this.
I'm thinking gold, thinking puts on markets I believe to be currently overvalued that are bound to suffer...
I'm pretty skeptical about the notion of being able to time the market in general, so changing my asset balance at all based on external factors (i.e. not my age-based glide path or whatever) takes some pretty extraordinary circumstances re: systematic and sovereign risk. Frankly, weird stuff like gold and options have been outside my scope of contemplation up to this point. Maybe I should revisit that.
Anyway, concretely, what I did was just exchange a bunch of VTSAX for VTIAX. I don't know what the country breakdown of VTIAX is, and I honestly don't want to care (although I acknowledge I may be forced to, at some point).
Depression.
Bigly Depression.
How did Biden change the forecast to negative tho?
With Obama's time machine. Thanks, Obama!
Was that 77,000 just the federal workers that they were forced to rehire?
With these shit heals, it's always the last guy's fault in their first term, and it's always the new guy's fault after they get replaced. They are liars, cheats, and hypocrites who wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire if they didn't get paid, and even then, they are more likely to pocket the money and let you burn.
That'd be true if it was business as usual but no, the responses for drastic direct actions are your fault.