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American mutual funds are performing quite terribly compared to last 12 years. Could be worse, I suppose.Chips wrote: ↑Sun, 12. May 19, 21:12I'm being very lazy... someone lent me Crimes of Grindlew.... erm, Harry Potter fantastic Creatures part 2... so not doing much searching.
But I notice every time there's a twitter (not tweet, but murmur) in the media about Trump, China, various taxes etc - a fund of mine (not China) takes a few percentage points hit. It's basically gone no-where in 9 months. I'm annoyed.
Has Trump's protectionist pontifications given any benefit to the US? He's talked about blah blah, just wondering if it's just what people want to hear or having a positive impact?
Now it may be too early, but there should be some signs surely?
Gimli wrote:Let the Orcs come as thick as summer-moths round a candle!
Trump is not a secret racist. He is not a secret sexist. He is not a secret cheat and he is not a secret liar. He’s not even a secret idiot; there is no gap between the most eviscerating parody and the man himself. A reality this twisted not only resists satire, it cannibalizes it. There are no jokes to be had at Trump’s expense, because he can afford them all.
We're misinformed, but maybe we've also been desensitized. This prompts the question (it doesn't beg it!) how did we get here?Bishop149 wrote: ↑Fri, 17. May 19, 10:56I though this was quite insightful about how politically ineffective it seems to be to attempt to expose Mr Trump through ridicule / satire
Trump is not a secret racist. He is not a secret sexist. He is not a secret cheat and he is not a secret liar. He’s not even a secret idiot; there is no gap between the most eviscerating parody and the man himself. A reality this twisted not only resists satire, it cannibalizes it. There are no jokes to be had at Trump’s expense, because he can afford them all.
I answered this question before using this example: the current situation is like deceases that had became immune to antibiotic due to abusive usage. Criticism tend to be more effective when it's used with scrutiny and solid reasoning, but in the past 2 years it has become a trend, an addiction. It has reached a point where I think people turn it into a ritual that each day they have to find something bad about Trump and tell others about it. Well, it's not just about Trump but with about anything really, you spend too much time preaching to everyone that's the world is DOOOOOMMMMM! upon even the smallest infraction .... eventually people just gonna look at you and ask "why the world hasn't been doom yet?"Viridian Knight wrote: ↑Sat, 18. May 19, 07:41We're misinformed, but maybe we've also been desensitized. This prompts the question (it doesn't beg it!) how did we get here?
It's a situation of your own making.
Exactly! It may not what we want, but it is what we deserved. I just hope that the people who throw around such accusations realize and include themselves in that responsibility instead of excluding themselves from it. If they are Americans of course.
@Mightysword I'm happy to admit that we've been at odds in this (long!) discussion, many times. But I am also happy for the fact that you are you, and have stayed your course - sometimes it's taken me a while to get my head around it, but I appreciate the fact that you've been here, to a) be you and b) give your opinion.Mightysword wrote: ↑Mon, 20. May 19, 19:47Exactly! It may not what we want, but it is what we deserved. I just hope that the people who throw around such accusations realize and include themselves in that responsibility instead of excluding themselves from it. If they are Americans of course.
Well can't say i disagree with the you got what you deserved sentiment, though now you've not only got to solve the problems that got Trump elected in the first place AND fix the damage Trump has done. Not a great place to be in and taking collective responsability for what went wrong is sadly one of the US's poorest attributes.Mightysword wrote: ↑Mon, 20. May 19, 19:47Exactly! It may not what we want, but it is what we deserved. I just hope that the people who throw around such accusations realize and include themselves in that responsibility instead of excluding themselves from it. If they are Americans of course.
This is about a damning as carefully constructed legalese can get.If we had confidence the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
