… PADDLES HIS BEHIND…

Hey, I think you’re onto something.

Trump being a dictator…

“In the short term, the market is a voting machine, but in the long term, it is a weighing machine” - Benjamin Graham (“father” of value investing and mentor to Warren Buffett)

Meaning that in the short term, stock prices can be swayed from a company’s true value by investors’ emotions and opinions.

But eventually the stock price will align with the company’s actual profitability and growth potential.

And you’re right that these are crazy times, and the “short term” irrationality can last a lot longer than past experiences.

Historically, we’ve used examples like the 17th century tulip mania, or the dot com boom, but it won’t surprise me if Tesla becomes the poster child for this quote in the future.

Large industrial farms got subsidies. Many small farms went under permanently.

And for every job that was saved, it cost the US ~$900,000.

But the saddest thing were the TV interviews of some of the farmers who had lost the business that had been in their families for generations. Many of them were saying that they still believed in Trump.

They figuratively shot themselves in the foot and were yelling “Ha! Take that libs”

From the article:

… early humans were able to tap into in the form of roots, starchy vegetables, and seeds.

These foods are all allowed and even encouraged on the paleo diet.

If anything, by limiting the list of starch sources to these foods, this article adds support for paleo.

You’re partially right. Trump originally wanted to ban TikTok because “China.”

However, the platform’s influence on younger voters supposedly helped him to win the election, so he now favors it.

No surprise that Trump’s personal needs are far more important than real US security.

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Yeah, seems most people have forgotten that inflation was already over 6% for the quarter when Liberal left office in 2022. Labor didn’t cause the problem, they inherited it. And they helped start to bring down inflation within 6 months.

I’m not saying Albo and Labor are a godsend, but Liberal are a far worse choice. The Libs blew over $50 billion on the NBN screw up and Snowy 2.0. And their nuclear power project is already looking to easily exceed that.

The problem is that people who stand up to Trump don’t last long. It’s far worse if Trump perceives he’s the one being controlled like he’s “on a leash”.

That’s why Trump had such a massive staff turnover in his first term. For example, over 90% of his original cabinet were fired or pressured out.

On top of that, many of Trump’s picks were imprisoned or indicted. So the odds aren’t good that his people will do the right thing.

It’s already looking to be far worse this time, especially given the corruption we’ve already seen from him since winning the election, and before he’s even in power.