I feel like an idiot looking for houses in US Virgin Islands or Guam just hoping to get away from politics.

This may have been to easy for folks 50 and over lol

1970's Quiz

You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger

And you don't ... (do what? That's the quesion)

WSJ: Trump Team Proposes 20-Year Freeze on Ukraine’s NATO Bid in Exchange for Peace

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Hmmm? Ukraine had pledged not to join NATO and NATO said Ukraine could not join NATO before both invasions. How did that work out?

October 9

The thing we all missed (because we know how things work):

The current 52% of voters rating the economy as an “extremely important” influence on their vote for president is the highest since October 2008 during the Great Recession, when 55% of voters said the same. In polls conducted closest to the election in other presidential election years since 1996.

@Alfred How often does Donald Trump lie?

Reporter: "Can the President demote or remove you or any of the governors of the FOMC"

J Powell: Not permitted under the law.

Note: If Trump and a Republican Congress try to change this, expect bond rates to soar.

Trump will enter office with a strong economy and things like beef prices--if nothing else changes--falling within a couple years,

But remember, he's incompetent and can screw all that up. Massive tax cuts, for example, could lead to soaring bond rates, tariffs could depress many market segments, He is not very popular despite the election outcome, so it won't take much to turn people against him.

Fact: So far it seems about 12 million less Democratic-leaning voters stayed home.

But... it also seems about 4 million Republican voters stayed home.

Democratic Party infighting determined to miss the point that inflation in 2023 cost them in this election.

Why? Because there's nothing they could have done about inflation that would have made things better.

So some fighting and finger-pointing.

Prediction: In a couple years or so beef prices will possibly fall due to herd size increases post-drought if something isn't done to screw up things.

And whoever is President if that happens as it should if nothing else changes, will get the credit.

It's stupid, so it will happen probably.

Well founded hypothesis:

There is nothing Joe Biden or Kamala Harris legally could have done (in retrospect) to change this outcome in the election because ...

the electorate thinks the White House can control the economy and was responsible for inflation in 2023--something Republicans were happy to atrtribute to the White House falsely.

And that was the deciding factor. Economic literacy is poor in the USA.

I lived long enough to see the Democratic party transformed into the National Security and Law and Order party but also lose an election to a covicted felon and his enablers.

Eugene Vindman was elected to the House

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/11/07/trump-impeachment-whistleblower-vindman-wins-house-seat-veteran-vs-veteran-race.html

I'm a big believer that so long as honest elections happen, the majority of voters get the government they deserve.

This time around, I was not in that majority, so I can honestly say I do not deserve what is coming.

Going all the way back to USENET, there were Flat Earters, Young Earth Creationists, and all kinds of disgusting deviancy, and don't get me started on the piracy and other illegal activities on IRC.

It amazes me that the Futurists of the late 80s and early 90s painted such a utopian view of the information age largely with only a few exceptions.

That should be "electorate", no idea electorage hapened or what it means.

I cannot predict the future, but I know almost 1/3rd of the public will believe whatever the MAGA party tells them to believe/

Another third of the electorage isn't paying attention and doesn't know how things work.

Part of the remaining third live in their day-dream utopias.

Which leaves less than a third of the public that is paying attention, knows how things work, and who think the ideal of the USA is worth fighting for.

I need more time to grieve.

I have nothing to say. I am not ready to hear others either.

Yields soar as Trump win stirs 'bond vigilantes'

LONDON/SINGAPORE, Nov 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasuries fell sharply on Wednesday, sending yields surging, as Donald Trump's election victory stoked bets on economic policy shifts that could boost deficits and inflation.