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zeo
Serbia6306 Posts
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
On November 09 2016 17:43 iPlaY.NettleS wrote: Good news guys. Obamacare is over. Yea that is bad news for a lot of people. | ||
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Vin{MBL}
5185 Posts
On November 09 2016 17:36 Xendarii wrote: Yeah, I mean, it's not even about technology, it's about the fact that the US is a western country with so many chances to educate and inform yourself. There should absolutely be no way for a racist asshole who doesn't know anything about politics or, basically, everything that a president needs, to become president and get the power to use the nuclear weapons of one of the mightiest countries in the world. I'm legitimately afraid and I can't believe how stupid the Americans (not all of them, of course, but A LOT) are. The US is such a huge country with a very diverse population. A person living in Nebraska or Kansas has a completely different life to someone in NYC on a scale that is very different to any other country. | ||
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iPlaY.NettleS
Australia4356 Posts
The similarities between this and brexit are just bizarre. ![]() ![]() Also that 538 article saying the cubs have as much chance of winning the world series as trump does of becoming president (when they were down 3-1) | ||
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ForTehDarkseid
8139 Posts
On November 09 2016 17:29 dAPhREAk wrote: if you think looking at a small snapshot (i.e., a few days) is in any way a reasonable way to handle investing, you have no business investing for yourself, or giving others investment advice. retirement funds should not be readjusting anything, private investors should not be readjusting anything, in light of what has happened today. to do so is folly and people will only lose money. stay the course. there is a great quote (paraphrased): there are two kind of people, those who know they cant predict the market, and those who dont know they cant predict the market. your statement that "today is nothing compared to what's to come" is completely useless. i hope no one is foolish enough to believe your doom and gloom, or worse, act on it. Oh, please, it might not have occured to you, but that's the losing strategy in the bear market, lol. | ||
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Danglars
United States12133 Posts
On November 09 2016 17:35 KT_Elwood wrote: What computers will america use, now that Trump will ban all chinese made products or enforce taxes on them? Very expensive and possibly unaffordable ones. On November 09 2016 17:37 clickrush wrote: Dear Americans thank you for voting for Trump! Trump is by far the more entertaining choice out of the two. I'am looking forward to comedy and arts comming out of the US in the upcomming years. Don't forget journalism. Reporters remember how to be critical when there's a Republican in the White House. That is, when they're done doing the self-serving post-defeat analysis of why they really really really wanted to be in the White House instead but a bunch of | ||
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Vin{MBL}
5185 Posts
On November 09 2016 17:46 ForTehDarkseid wrote: Oh, please, it might not have occured to you, but that's the losing strategy in the bear market, lol. Uhhhhh if you're doing any adjusting it should be to buy more tomorrow. Otherwise you will be perfectly executing the buy high- sell low strategy. | ||
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a_flayer
Netherlands2826 Posts
On November 09 2016 17:44 zeo wrote: How long before European politicians start tripping over themselves to suck up to Trump? Ugh don't even start. I know I will once again be looking for signs of the rejection of Americanism in our upcoming elections. The whole situation is just so depressing. Edit: the more I think about the mismatch between the "established polls" and the actual results, it seems to me the this mismatch reflects the problem between the "establishment" and the actual people. On November 09 2016 17:57 Lazare1969 wrote: If you're a Trump supporter, it's too early for any celebration. He might just flipflop his foreign policy views once he's president due to pressure from his advisors and the Deep State (military industrial complex, oil companies, CIA, AIPAC, etc.) and just be another George Bush. This is why there should have been a massive third party vote this election, but maybe the media decided Trump would get them more views. | ||
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arb
Noobville17921 Posts
On November 09 2016 17:45 Slaughter wrote: Yea that is bad news for a lot of people. I really cannot speak for the rest of the US only my state. But forced healthcare here made finding jobs a really difficult task. My hate for Obamacare aside, no longe ris it possible to get directly hired by ANYONE, first one must go through a temp service, which either A) does not offer health insurance or B) has it at such a high rate on top of taxes + the fee they already take i'd be better off working a fucking mcdonalds or something. Even the biggest thing to come out of this shithole Lowe's which hires directly wont give you more than 20 hours just because our state doesnt require them to give health care if you dont reach a certain thresh hold, absolute bullshit. Meaning i must go to a 3rd party, which is expensive as fuck on top of the fact i don't get hours at the job anyway, or not get it at all and get a huge fine at the end of the year. | ||
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mantequilla
Turkey779 Posts
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dAPhREAk
Nauru12397 Posts
On November 09 2016 17:48 Vin{MBL} wrote: Uhhhhh if you're doing any adjusting it should be to buy more tomorrow. Otherwise you will be perfectly executing the buy high- sell low strategy. to be fair, you should also be tax loss harvesting, but i dont really consider that an adjustment if you are actually doing it correctly. i dont know ForTehDarkseid, but i am 105% sure he/she is not qualified to give investment advice. | ||
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ShoCkeyy
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the bear jew
United States3674 Posts
On November 09 2016 17:39 DannyJ wrote: I personally know 3 Trump voters who don't think Trump will do most/all of what he promised. I don't think they even care either way. Their main reason for voting Trump is they simply absolutely HATE Hillary Clinton. I don't really get it, but obviously after tonight its clear that kind of person wasn't rare. I almost feel like Democrats should have seen that coming... They should of. Such hubris by the Democratic leadership. Hear the news stories about them fighting over who will be appointed in hypothetical Clinton Administration, well good news, nothing to fight over anymore! Democrats nominated probably the one candidate that could lose to Trump, who was the one person she could beat. An extraordinary unpopular candidate who had active FBI investigations. Regardless of the fact she was cleared, the fact she was investigated alone should of made her step down for the good of the party. BUT NOPE, WE ARE FINE AND THE DEMOCRATIC "LEADERSHIP" AT THE DNC FELL OFF A CLIFF | ||
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ACrow
Germany6583 Posts
On November 09 2016 17:51 ShoCkeyy wrote: I just hope that Trump turns around and releases a lot of government secrets after his meeting with Obama and the rest of the agencies. I mean, that's the lease he can do for everyone. I'm sure he will do that right after releasing his tax returns. Maximum transparency is what he stands for after all. Lul. | ||
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Maenander
Germany4926 Posts
On November 09 2016 17:51 ShoCkeyy wrote: I just hope that Trump turns around and releases a lot of government secrets after his meeting with Obama and the rest of the agencies. I mean, that's the lease he can do for everyone. Why? Because he is a man of principle? I am sorry, it's not Ron Paul in office. | ||
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Falling
Canada11369 Posts
would mean the same US bullshit thats been going for more than a decade (giving weapons to local terrorist groups, using them to fight proxy wars, Were you supporting the Paul's? Because I think Trump is just as much not the droids you are looking for. Whereas both Ron and Rand were very consistent abou not wanting foreign interventions, but as far as I could tell, not the most popular positions most any of the debates that they participated in. | ||
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Lazare1969
United States318 Posts
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stilt
France2754 Posts
On November 09 2016 17:13 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: These are not oversold and please take a good hard look at yourself tonight before you say it again The fact that most of the so called good and educated ppl are thinking these are the core reasons of Trump's elections is why the far right wing is so strong. You should look over the inequality, the crisis, the social conditions who become more and more difficults.The absolutely contempt that the white trash receive, the way there are treated at works, under the constant threat of losing their jobs with less and less rights to defend it, the way workers are treated is just horrible. But hey, you can keep being smug and blind, there are no problems about that, anything that the international bourgeoisie dislikes seems friendly to me and I am not the only one apparently. 2005 french referendum 2015 greece referendum 2016 Brexit 2016 Trump election And I feel like this is just a beginning. You will manage to invalidate the brexit but that would not stop the processus. A more social and equal economical policy? Yeah, it would but billionaires already pay too much taxes right? Maybe you should start ask to question this world outside the community aspect. By the way, even if Trump has nothing to do with the working class, he manages to incarnate himself as an opponent of the globalisation, that's the thing. | ||
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zeo
Serbia6306 Posts
On November 09 2016 17:57 Lazare1969 wrote: If you're a Trump supporter, it's too early for any celebration. He might just flipflop his foreign policy views once he's president due to pressure from his advisors and the Deep State (military industrial complex, oil companies, CIA, AIPAC, etc.) and just be another George Bush. Still better than Hillary who would have been a Putin puppet through and through. Trump can actually end conflicts in the World and keep the balance. | ||
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Big J
Austria16289 Posts
On November 09 2016 17:46 iPlaY.NettleS wrote: Really weird these charts they come up with. The similarities between this and brexit are just bizarre. ![]() ![]() Also that 538 article saying the cubs have as much chance of winning the world series as trump does of becoming president (when they were down 3-1) The one thing I couldn't care less about. The fear of wall street capitalists about the donald trump capitalism causing them to lose capital. The whole bizzare neoliberal system in a nutshell. Enough is enough! | ||
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