Bright giggles aside, must add some dark humour ...
On 24 Feb 2020, at 9:14 AM, J wrote:
Italy down
Austria should not be far behind
Switzerland wide open
France and Germany likely already prepped
I hope the EU is ready to secure its future w/ Russian cooperation rather than doing Norway and Poland did, committing to be front line of war against Mother Russia
I think the Neo people were counting on too many things beyond their very limited imagination
euronews.com
Austria suspends train traffic to and from Italy over coronavirus
On 24 Feb 2020, at 9:14 AM, D wrote:
Trump loves to troll people with TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) by tweeting jokes.
This video will cause heads to explode
twitter.com
On 24 Feb 2020, at 9:10 AM, J wrote:
If not now then when?
Trade war is about to bite hard.
Unconditional surrender only way out; else cut off human and animal medicines, and cease supply of industrial rare earth vitamins
I hope the Neo people rare earth processing facilities are up and running
The excuse would be perfectly reasonable, China has been shut down by Neo people bio warfare
But, of course Team China would not do any of above obviously winning tactics borne of long range strategic positioning, because
Team China is exemplary, and not a small kibitztariate-run cretinocracy
On 24 Feb 2020, at 8:34 AM, T wrote:
food for thought...
Excerpt:
In the discussion, Gary Cohn, then chief economic advisor to President Trump, argued against a trade war with China by invoking a Department of Commerce study that found that 97 percent of all antibiotics in the United States came from China. “If you’re the Chinese and you want to really just destroy us, just stop sending us antibiotics,” he said.
On 24 Feb 2020, at 8:03 AM, B wrote:
scmp.com
Coronavirus: Wuhan to quarantine all cured patients for 14 days after some test positive again
Recovered and discharged people were sent to designated centres from Saturday onwardsDecision follows several instances in which recovered patients were found to be still carrying the virus and able to infect others
On 24 Feb 2020, at 7:46 AM, T wrote:
Reading the classics is considered racist now. Even Oxford wants to ban the Greek classics from its humanities programs as required reading.
The west is entering a new dark ages.
On 24 Feb 2020, at 7:29 AM, C wrote:
Totally Tom. I was in a Buddhist Studies and Comp Lit PhD program at UCLA in 1989-91 (before I left w an MA, thanks to a couple of teachers who made it interesting in the end), and the lead professor had us reading Marxist anthropology. It was a disgrace. Even in our private high school now I see alot of teachers as left leaning. And I am not a conservative by any stretch.
But the problem with education is not really left or right in a first instance. It is just that it is quite weak across the board. Not enough of the classics. Not enough foreign languages and cultures in US. And so many other issues.
On 24 Feb 2020, at 5:43 AM, T wrote:
US 30 Year Treasury Bond Yield Lehman: Dec 2008: 2.52% Sept 2008: 4.40% ==>1.88% bond rally (188bps) COVID19 - Trade War: Feb 2020: 1.91% Nov 2018: 3.45% ==>1.54% bond rally (154bps) The bond panic - flight to quality - is on par with the GFC...
On 24 Feb 2020, at 4:33 AM, T wrote:
I think it has more to do with a failed education system which glamorizes communism and socialism and fails to mention the price in human loves of this lofty and unattainable goal.
Intellectuals have always had a love affair with communism (even Hitler at the time, and he was a communist in all but name) because they believe they know what's best for us and dictatorships are just so efficient.
And therein lies the evil.
Show me a teacher who isn't left wing in the way they teach and I have a bridge in Manhatten to sell you
And therein lies the failure of the education system.
Millenials were taught about Kwanza and not the genocidal mass muderer Stalin.
On 24 Feb 2020, at 4:08 AM, D wrote:
Your question: why now?
I'd say that the most important reason is because the Millennials are not doing well. Link. Then lots of corporate greed and the weight of baby boomers who promised for themselves a great retirement.
On 24 Feb 2020, at 3:20 AM, S wrote:
Bernie may be a good animation team leader, but I think that particular model only gets you so far, and I don't believe it gets you far enough. I understand the whole "the poor and the young will vote for free stuff" shtick, but if it were that simple, with that magic bullet the contemporary Democrat party should have controlled the House, Senate and White House a lot more than they have. And I believe that's because there are enough rationale voters out there who know, in the collective at least, that there's no free lunch and therefore won't be bribed with their own money
We shall soon see what Mr Market thinks about Sander's improved prospects, in the short term at least
More fascinating to me about this whole angst situation is why the matter of who's going to be the next President is even open to question. Despite his accomplishments, King Donald is still his own worst enemy, because if he backed off his egregious behaviour even just a little bit, most swing voters would probably buy it and he'd win in a landslide no matter who the Dems ran against him. So why doesn't he back off? Surely his ego could self-justify shutting up for a few months if it meant avoiding going into the history books as a one-term President
Maybe trotting out a kinder and gentler Donald is his hole card strategy if things are still looking neck and neck closer to election day?
On 24 Feb 2020, at 2:37 AM, T wrote:
I know plenty of Dems who will hold their nose and vote for Bernie. But then I live in Cali.
On 24 Feb 2020, at 2:34 AM, D wrote:
I feel that Bernie can really energize poor and young.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
'When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.'
Benjamin Franklin
On 24 Feb 2020, at 2:22 AM, S wrote:
Hmmm, I was thinking the exact opposite -- if Bernie is looking like he'll be the candidate, I think that should hearten the Trump camp (and the market) because "Comrade Sanders" is unelectable in a national vote
Some Americans may be pissed about King Donald, but I don't think enough of them are ready to install the far left just to voice their displeasure
A similar situation played out in Canada last fall, where Trudeau should have gotten trounced in the general election but nobody could abide the alternative
On 24 Feb 2020, at 2:08 AM, D wrote:
From Martin Armstrong
Bernie's Victory Inspires a Panic Next Week?
armstrongeconomics.com
Just to let everyone know, since more than 50% of our clients are outside the USA, we have a very international reach with sources around the globe. Get prepared for volatility next week. Despite the Democrat’s personal hatred of Trump, the international view is that Trump is the ONLY sane leader in the world right now. The world is leaning so far to the left everywhere, capital is deeply concerned about where to hide. The #1 question we are getting from overseas:
What if Bernie beats Trump?
Capital can flee and seek shelter offshore. Labor cannot hoard itself nor move offshore. The average person is stuck for they cannot protect their labor so the working guy suffers the arrows that come from politicians who never understand that capital will just abandon their crazy agendas leaving only the wage earner to pay the bills which ends in revolution.
Bloomberg is the authoritarian dictator whose staff has just been “yes sir” and that was self-evident in his debate skills. He could not respond to negative attacks because he was not use to that. Bloomberg is really is no match for Trump no less Bernie. Despite all his money, he did not even make a respectable showing. He cannot buy the White House. Hillary tried that and spent 10x what Trump did and still failed.
The Democratic elites are beside themselves. They are not going to take this lightly. In United States politics, a brokered convention (sometimes referred to as an open convention and closely related to a contested convention) can occur during a presidential election when a political party fails to choose a nominee on the first round of delegate voting at the party’s nominating convention.
This time, the unpledged delegates, better known as superdelegates, will make up about 16% of Democratic Party delegates in 2020. These are the real party insiders who are not committed to voting based on the outcome of the state’s primary or caucus which flies in the face of the very purpose of primary voting. As Stalin said about elections, it is not the votes that matter, but who counts them.
The 2016 election was stolen from Bernie when many superdelegates announced early support for Hillary Clinton. The Democrats have claimed that they made a significant change for 2020. Superdelegates will no longer vote on the first ballot at the convention unless there is no doubt about the outcome. To win on the first ballot, the frontrunner must secure the majority of pledged delegates leading up to the Democratic Convention. There are 3,979 total pledged delegates, so they are supposed to use the total required being 1,991. There is a loophole. If they can prevent Bernie from a majority on the first ballot, Hillary takes 16% again and they will then flip to her camp. That assumes they abide by this latest rule and do not change them again.
We are looking at the split of the Democrats for the elites are not about to accept Bernie and they will lose the financial support of both the corporates and the 1%. The rumblings are to draft Hillary. That will most likely be the straw that breaks the back of the Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, brace yourself for while markets next week. We may begin to see European and Asian liquidation of equities in fear of the 2020 election ahead. |
