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To: koan who wrote (124355)	11/10/2016 2:15:36 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217545

I think you're going to sorely disappointed if you buy gold, silver and other commodities. Trump says he wants to fix America's infrastructure but he doesn't want the government to pay for it. Trump is expecting big banks like Goldman Sachs to privatize and own the repaired roads, bridges, sewer and water systems. Americans will pay back Goldman Sachs with tolls and increased water and utility bills. You can see this in real estate stocks as Wall Street and bank funding is directed away from home ownership and home building toward privatizing infrastructure. Real estate prices are fairly extended currently and think last week was the top of the real estate market for quite some time. Most in the financial industry are expecting Trump to make it mandatory for working Americans to pay a certain percentage of their income, perhaps 15%, into Wall Street investment funds, in addition to paying their Social Security taxes. This new source of money management income is another reason why bank stocks are shooting up. The tech stocks which are dropping are those which have significant revenues from the government's cyber warfare - so it seems people are expecting Trump to eliminate or scale back these programs due to what he believes is his close friendship with Putin. So far wealthy Democrats are doing quite well under Trump, and he may even lower our income tax rates further. At least things are working out well for me. I'm not sure how Trump voters like my little brother are going to react to all this, particularly the mandatory investment program which will reduce his take-home pay by 15%. With a far smaller income than my sister and I, and three kids to pay for, he's never been a big saver. I increasing confident Trump is going to be a terrific President for people with money who are not too invested in real estate or commodities. Interest rates will rise too, which is good, as new opportunities for people with capital open up privatizing America's infrastructure.

To: koan who wrote (124355)	11/10/2016 2:33:30 PM
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For full disclosure, shouldn't you point out how many times in the past you've lost your savings by recklessly gambling on penny stocks? Did you save up another grubstake and now feel confident enough again to dish out investment advice? Mirabile dictu! siliconinvestor.com

To: koan who wrote (124355)

11/17/2016 12:19:38 PM

From: koan

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There is a huge surge in sign ups for Obamacare. I am sure it is because people are now afraid it will be taken away.

I never understood why the right wing folks were against a single payer system like medicare for all.

Did people really think it was easier to get good insurance on their own? That is complicated. I have medicare and love it. All my friends love it.

Why do the pubs want to take it away and why are the right wing folks supporting them?

To: koan who wrote (124355)	11/17/2016 9:08:13 PM
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When asked if entitlement reforms were going to be necessary to accomplish the Trump agenda, Hatch said, "I think that is probably the understatement." .... When asked if he could support House Speaker Paul Ryan's long-standing proposal for Medicare "premium support" – which is another way of saying Medicare privatization – Hatch seemed to dodge. "For some people, you'd have to have premium support. There's no quick answer to any of these things. I'm open to good ideas," Hatch said. Yeah, that's a good idea. Let's get rid of Medicare so that we can give the top 1% of wage earners a $2.5t tax decrease. And everyone else another $2.5t tax decrease. And we will still shred the budget. Yeah, that's a really great idea. God, these people are sooooo stupid and/or venal. I know those Monet's are getting expensive, you'd think that they would figure out why that is so.

To: koan who wrote (124355)

11/25/2016 12:08:02 AM

From: koan

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Don't Forget It Happened
Talking Points Memo
by Josh Marshall

This news should not surprise you if you've been reading TPM over the last year. It's something I've discussed a number of times in different contexts. But we're now getting the first comprehensive studies showing that Russian propaganda campaigns played a major role in spawning and in other cases simply spreading "fake news" stories aimed at damaging Hillary Clinton and aiding Donald Trump.

This Washington Post piece does a nice job in explaining some of the patterns which have emerged.

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To: koan who wrote (124355)	11/26/2016 3:04:09 PM
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washingtonpost.com Trump will disappoint his supporters: Washington post. And it’s not just that; at the same time, the Trump administration and congressional Republicans are getting ready to move on their highest priorities, cutting taxes for the wealthy, scrapping oversight on Wall Street, and lightening regulations on big corporations. Imagine you’re one of those folks who went to Trump rallies and thrilled to his promises to take America back from the establishment, who felt your heart stir as he promised to torture prisoners, who got your “Trump That Bitch” T-shirt, who was overjoyed to finally have a candidate who tells it like it is. What are you thinking as you watch this? If you have any sense, you’re coming to the realization that it was all a scam. You got played. While you were chanting “Lock her up!” he was laughing at you for being so gullible. While you were dreaming about how you’d have an advocate in the Oval Office, he was dreaming about how he could use it to make himself richer. He hasn’t even taken office yet and everything he told you is already being revealed as a lie.

To: koan who wrote (124355)

12/2/2016 6:04:03 PM

From: koan

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Trump, dangerous as hell and not even in yet.

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Diplomats Jarred by Trump's 'Cavalier' Phone Calls

White House wants him to tap State Dept. expertise before the calls

By Jenn Gidman, Newser Staff
Posted Dec 2, 2016 9:01 AM CST

newser.com

(NEWSER) – Donald Trump isn't exactly known for following protocol, but his penchant for picking up the horn to talk with world leaders is causing special concern among US and world diplomats, the New York Times reports. The president-elect has been speaking with heads of state— some say with no preparation and on personal phone lines—including a recent call with Kazakhstan President (and "enduring dictator") Nursultan Nazarbayev in which he called the country's "success" a "miracle." The paper says this week's call with Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif has so far

"caused the most angst" due to what White House press secretary Josh Earnest deems the "quite complicated" relationship between the two countries. The Times notes the Pakistani readout of that conversation left some DC diplomats thinking it was a joke.

Daniel F. Feldman,

a former special rep to Afghanistan and Pakistan, says Trump's "cavalier" approach to the calls could be dangerous, especially those involving nuclear-armed regions. "He's made himself not only a bull in a china shop, but a bull in a nuclear china shop," he notes.

The White House has offered to help Trump out. "I'm confident that as ... Trump takes office, those same State Department employees [who helped Obama] will stand ready to offer him advice as he conducts the business of the United States overseas," Earnest says. "Hopefully he'll take it." The Times piece has more on how Obama has carefully handled Pakistan, a country he never visited as president.

To: koan who wrote (124355)	12/24/2016 4:20:16 PM
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2/2/2017 12:19:28 PM

From: koan

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Trump gets into a fight with Australia and also lies about the issue. Getting in a fight with Australia is like getting into a fight with mother Teresa. He also threatens to invade Mexico.
Good lord, how do we survive four years of this dolt? #BREAKING Sky News sources say Donald Trump was 'yelling' during his phone conversation with PM Turnbull and hung up after 25 minutes https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/826996882744373249

To: koan who wrote (124355)

2/3/2017 8:37:51 PM

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Trump to throw out financial regulations including rules protecting retirees
vanityfair.com

To: koan who wrote (124355)	3/4/2017 1:26:47 PM
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"People hate it, but now they see that the end is coming, and they're saying, 'Oh, maybe we love it.' There's nothing to love. It's a disaster, folks." -- Trump on public support for Obamacare "I know we're now in a world of 'alternative facts,' but look at the facts in Kentucky...Three years after implementing the Affordable Care Act, our uninsured rate dropped from over 20 percent to 7 percent. Our uncompensated rate for providers dropped from like 25 percent to less than 5 percent...Not only is it working, it's creating jobs. It created 12,000 jobs in the first year..." -- former KY Gov. Steve Beshear

To: koan who wrote (124355)	3/11/2017 8:21:27 PM
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Not sure where this fits? Just an observation. Once again last night on CNN I watched Natalie Portman talk about how the park supporters in South Korea are accusing the left (the kids) of being communists. I wanted to set my hair on fire it was such a stupid comment. Of course they are, just like they did to us in the 60's. What is going on in South Korea is as simple as apple pie. Park is being championed by the elders. Parks father was a dictator and corrupt. And his daughter is corrupt. She apologized. What you have going on in South Korea is simply what we had in the 60s with our counter culture movement. It is the young against the old. The young are exactly like our young were in the 60s. And the elders are like our Eastern establishment elites, except on steroids as they engage in super caste systems and super misogyny and have cultural philosophies that extend back a couple of thousand years e.g. extreme Confucianism where the elder patriarch dominates. The young who were opposing Park are the good guys. They are simple progressives, just like the progressives round the world with the same ideology. I wish CNN would advise their pundits about the reality and knock off these comments about communism. That's what the straight world called us in the 60s. They thought we were communists. I never met a single communist. And those people in the streets in South Korea supporting the ouster of Park are the future of South Korea and they are the good guys and the smart guys and humanitarian guys and gals.

To: koan who wrote (124355)

4/13/2017 11:29:01 AM

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Medicare Still on the Chopping Block Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall Note here: Trump's budget chief says Medicare Phaseout is still on the agenda.\| He's working on convincing Trump. And big Social Security cuts too.