SoCal Deek

So you’re okay with green lighting the Biden corruption? Good to know. At least we see who we’re dealing with here. Sad.

Santos was not a case of corruption! Neither is Gaetz. Geez you’re really off your game today. You’re aware the roles of King and Court Jester are already taken, right?

YOU said that the Republicans are known for widespread corruption, then YOU listed a bunch of guys all working for a single campaign. Please try and stay up with the conversation you appear to be having with yourself.

Just listing everyone in the Trump campaign doesn’t qualify as systemic corruption. Really pathetic try.

Huh? Other than your ridiculous hard on for Trump, where’s all of the cheating you cite? Just randomly saying stuff is no way to go through life.

This is NOT about the truth. This about rocking the cart back and forth enough times that you tip it over completely. It’s all baby steps on the long road to fundamentally transforming America into the leftist utopia where minimal effort is required to live an utterly meaningless state-supported life. So if your leaders skim a bit off the top, it’s just fine with them. Give them their cradle to grave mediocre existence and it’s just fine.

Corruption? Try thinking just a bit before you go with the canned knee jerk reaction….Pee Wee Herman “I know you are but am I?” defense.

It’s actually WAY WAY worse than that. The Left knows this old fart is guilty as heck of what he’s being accused of. The distinction is that they simply don’t care. Corruption makes no difference to them anymore. They figure it’s just built into the cake on their journey towards a leftist utopia. I mean why care if government officials are skimming off the top so long as you’re getting a bunch of free stuff out of it yourself.

The court jester runs away from the issue as usual.

On the contrary. It isn’t like ANY of those things. Being in silent support of corruption is completely out of the traditional character of those on the Left. Whereas most would say that supporting the America First policies espoused by Trump only exposed what critics maintain are the true colors of the Right. So again, when did the Left lose its way? Or…was it always like this wherein the ends were used to justify the means?

Apparently if you just keep saying there’s “no evidence”….then there isn’t. I have no idea when the Left fell into complete synchronized lockstep with defending corruption but it’s amazingly sad.

If that’s supposed to be a disgraceful mug shot the Left has failed again miserably. It looks more like a passport photo. Total idiots!

Hilarious! I thought we weren’t supposed to be judging people based on their looks. Or is it only acceptable if the Democrats do it? (Just trying to figure out if we still have any rules.)

Are you sure that’s not Tony Soprano? 😉

Now wait for the spin machine to snap into action!

In short, all that’s happened in the last three years is we’ve come right back to where we were before the economic shutdown, except inflation has made those gains worth way less.

Ugh! I’m not trying to be political here. The point is that these returns have NOT been stellar….just okay at best. I was responding to an earlier post which was implying that investors had seen a windfall at the expense of the drowning middle class (who’re being eaten up by inflation). That is simply not true.

So you’ve picked that one window of time from three years ago? The original discussion was on how the investor class has been doing….lately.

So we’ve gone from ‘having it easy’ all the way down to being in ‘relatively good shape’ in the span of a single paragraph? 😉 As usual, we agree on. A lot of it. Especially on the interest rate part. I long advocated for the Fed to slowly increase rates. Mostly so they’d have someplace to take them if the economy hit a rough patch…which I consider a global pandemic to be pretty rough.

That’s also true. But you can always say it could’ve been worse, or it could’ve been better. My point was that the ‘investor class’ (of which I’m one) have not had fair sailing over the last few years. Saying that they have is just another low-hanging talking point by those thinking “somebody else must be making all the money, right?”.

That’s true but only if looked at in a vacuum. It should be doing way way better coming out of a pandemic. I wouldn't call less than 5% per year a roaring performance.

I disagree. The stock market has been going nowhere since Biden took office. Up, down, up, down, up, down.

I agree. This season’s roster has the feel of something being held together with rubber bands and scotch tape to me. I really hope I’m wrong, but my expectations are not very high. But…. Wouldn’t it be great if this was the year it all came together? Go Bills

I wouldn’t go so far as to call Elam a bust. It could be that the later round player just happens to be really good. That’s not Elam’s fault.

It’s an interesting comparison for sure but I’d imagine you could pick out any of the many also-rans around the league and make similar ones. The fact is that for almost a decade now, the league has been dominated by two teams: New England and Kansas City. They’ve appeared in 7 of the last 9 Super Bowls, with a plethora of other teams making a one-and-done run to try and compete. It’s been the hunters versus the hunted with 30 other teams chasing the front runners.