US US Politics General 2 - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Current members of the House of Representatives
https://www.house.gov/representatives

Current members of the Senate
https://www.senate.gov/senators/

Current members of the US Supreme Court
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx

Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/
 
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autistic dog said:
I have 40k in my checking should I buy an index fund?
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Before you invest
Make sure you have some savings built up in case of an emergency. 6 months to a year is usually a good amount.
Don't have any outstanding debt.

Other than that, go nuts.

Vanguard is usually really good. Performs well. Low cost. I think the schwab ones perform a bit better. But I would do some back testing before pulling the trigger.
I like ETFs better than Index funds. Index funds you can't sell until EOD. ETFs can be sold any time during trading.

My personal portfolio was 60 SCHG / 40 SCHD. I did my research. I say was because I didn't follow the two rules above. I am an idiot. I'm working towards becoming debt free and having an actual savings account.

If you're gonna be making a large purchase, say a home or car, in the next 5-7 years, I would hold off investing. You won't make that much money just being in an index fund / etf.

If you're willing to gamble, leveraged etfs are where its at. 3 times the reward, 3 times the risk.

Edit: DISCLAIMER: I am a retard on an internet gossip forum. Take my advice with a grain of salt. Do your research before investing. Or talk with a finance expert.
 
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StudMccool said:
your 100% right but it feels like your coming up to me at the arcade when Im trying to show my buddy how to use the broken Ske ball game to give way more tickets than all the other rigged games and your standing there lecturing me and him about how its

"unstanable for the long term health of the arcade to abuse loopholes in the system"

Mfer if you dont pipe down you KNOW where the next ske ball goes, let us eat.
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Investments shouldn't be 'gambling' or skee ball. The markets are rigged, especially oil. If I knew how to play the system well like Warren Buffet, well... He's really the one to watch because his fortune is based on playing around with emotional reaction to markets which works better than pure Chicago or Austrian style sometimes.

If you have real estate assets hold. If you have market liquid, I don't know what to say for the next weeks. I sure won't say go into crypto, but that might not be a bad idea either right now. I do think this will settle in a few weeks to months like usual, but Trump since he was shot has been doing what he REALLY said since the 90s, this isn't his first term and he's not screwing around.
 
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When we admit countries into nato one of the requirements is that the civilians have control over their militaries right? And the EU only lets in democracies. But when we let countries into the WTO and other economic multilateral organizations what are the prerequisites?

Why did we treat China like just another country and not the totalitarian, commie one party state that it is when we allowed them to join the WTO? I know a theory was that the freer market would allow them to shift towards democracy and less autocratic leadership, but that seems so naive and couldn’t have been the only case, right?
 
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Core Theorist said:
On the other hand, let's admit it's not hard being a slumlord.
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To make it as a landlord you have to either be born the world's biggest asshole or a really strong method actor. Renters will absolutely take kindness for weakness (And in that world they aren't entirely wrong to do so)

You need a lawyer on retainer, never accept excuses, be ready to turn families out onto the street if it comes to that
 
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Thirsty Kitty said:
america has spent the past 5 decades becoming a technological powerhouse and you want to throw it away so paper mills in west virginia will reopen
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"If you bring back manufacturing it has to be shitty fast fasion garment shit and Upton Sinclair death factories and you have to throw away all of your computer tech......because!!! And they're also going to release dihydrogen monoxide into the air and our drinking supply!"
 
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Return of the Freaker said:
"If you bring back manufacturing it has to be shitty fast fasion garment shit and Upton Sinclair death factories and you have to throw away all of your computer tech......because!!! And they're also going to release dihydrogen monoxide into the air and our drinking supply!"
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I think most people in the US want jobs that you can start up in. That you don't have to be a plumber digging into someone's toilet and shit, and not also be some laptop class google worker that makes $500k a day drinking mimosas and partying all day. A normal good job.

It's been a building situation where fast food jobs have gone from a teen summer thing between classes into $40k+ careers. That's why we are in this mess. You have overpaid moron on the top and bottom due to min wages and tech bros and nothing in the middle and it's been this way for 20+ years.'

You have 'developers' that fake their shit and look up the code on google and maybe add 10 lines of code per week and half are bugs to make them seem useful and make $250k a year, and then illegals taking the bottom market.

ETA: The whole thing is the death of the middle class that's the economic problem and it's been a two pronged attack from the top down and the bottom up by the elites and poor.
 
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Vegas casinos are more respectable than the stock market. At least Caesar's Palace isn't pretending that playing their games is a path to guaranteed financial stability and retirement. They even have the courtesy of posting how low your odds of winning are just so you know how hard your happily-deluded nigger ass is going to get taken to the cleaners. Dow Jones would never be that honest with you. The rich stock brokers won't even admit that it's all rigged by insiders. Keep chasing that line, fags. Feed your NASDAQ overlords like proper serfs.
 
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clipartfan92 said:
We want to spend it really on equipment, on defense and increasing our deterrence.”
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Hmm wonder why the tariffs affect this. Oh maybe because you have to BUY your military equipment, you can't even make your own???

Also get screwed, if our tariffs violate it then you've been violating it even more for a much larger amount of time.
 
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StarkRavingMad said:
That flip-flop happened the second Barack Obama became POTUS, and when he renewed and added more stuff to The Patriot Act instead of getting rid of it like he had promised several times in 2007-2008.

Every day during the Bush Administration, I kept hearing about The Patriot Act from Democrats (rightfully so-- The Patriot Act is authoritarian bullshit!). The second Obama because POTUS, The Patriot Act wasn't mentioned by them ever again. Amazing.

There was also the NSA scandal of 2013 during Obama's presidency. Crickets from the left.
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During Biden's administration I grew to miss the Obama era flip flop fuckery. If Obama wasn't the first black president he'd be one of the more forgettable presidencies to be honest.
 
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Balanced Boomer said:
Vegas casinos are more respectable than the stock market. At least Caesar's Palace isn't pretending that playing their games is a path to guaranteed financial stability and retirement. They even have the courtesy of posting how low your odds of winning are just so you know how hard your happily-deluded nigger ass is going to get taken to the cleaners. Dow Jones would never be that honest with you. The rich stock brokers won't even admit that it's all rigged by insiders. Keep chasing that line, fags. Feed your NASDAQ overlords like proper serfs.
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yeh I hate the rich stock brokers, that is why I vote for Trump to give them tax cuts
 
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