Nisdey : No, it just means the alternative is worse.
Do you honestly think Kamala Harris is capable of being President? Really?
Or are you acknowledging that the current president is nothing more than a Muppet for the unelected, shadow government that operates somewhere between the deep state and Barack Obama.
Regardless of who has been in charge, they haven't exactly done a stellar job. We've a drug crisis, a debt crisis, 2 hot wars and another thawing out.
But enough now, Joe Biden is doing a great job at proving what I've always suspected. That the president doesn't really NEED to do anything at all, and in the grand scheme of things is probably not strictly speaking even necessary.
Seems these days the presidency itself is nothing more than a single point of failure in an otherwise fault tolerant system.
Why else would he spend his time beachside, flanked by secret service officers, while the world he's supposed to run burns?
Also, I love how much passion you put into pointing out Trump's "Criminality". If he wins the election, will you respect the legitimacy of his presidential pardon of himself as much as you respect the legitimacy of the which hunt, kangaroo court that convicted him.
To these people it's all games, it's not like he was ever going to do actual prison time. Just a side shown to distract everyone from the reality that were all propper fucked and there's nothing we can do to fix itm.
In the past we may have had a war to sort this out, but nowadays, half the country would be on the enemy's side, and the other half don't think there's anything worth fighting for.

Nisdey 10baggerbamm : I think we're saying the same thing.
You say the deep state will "do to her..." But I think she's complicit in it. Probably more so than Biden. She's obviously a Muppet, and any credibility she has, was manufactured by the liberal media and the deep state.
I have no idea why Trump performed so poorly in that debate, why on earth would the man be sidetracked discussing an internet meme, and divisive topics like the southern border. There's so much more wrong with America and the world that can be directly attributed to the Democratic party's incompetence which would have caught her off guard, and taken her off-script.
At least Vance did a better job.
Still God help us if she's elected.

Nisdey 57AB OP : That is such a sheeple thing to say. He's only a felon because the Democrat government literally changed the rules or the legal system just to convict him.
Where do you think the state gets its legitimacy from? Why are they able to declare someone a fellow?
If you know your history, you'd know it's because they hold "a monopoly on the use of violence for the purposes of corrosion and suppression".
It has nothing to do with the will of the people, or any shit like that. Truth is, if superman existed and he wanted to be president, he WOULD be the president, like it or not. Since he would use his superior fighting capabilities to  literally force his opponents to comply, or die.
So that's what makes a government Sovereign and nothing else. Now you remember that when DEI turns the US military into a weak, inclusive and non violent organisation.

Nisdey 57AB : Ok, let's go find your tinfoil hat

Nisdey 57AB : I was only kinda joking. You'd have to be blind not to notice the entire western world committing economic suicide in the name of reducing emissions of a gas that is a necessary part of life.
Remember the "hole in the ozone layer" or that prediction that the world will be underwater by 2014.
I hate being called a climate change denier like it's a bad thing. the climate simply isn't changing, we've had extreme weather events since the dawn of time. In the 70s "climate scientists" thought we were heading for the next ice age.
So I don't believe this new round of claims.
It's always a catastrophe that requires immediate action, It's always about 10 years away, and the solution is always more tax.

Nisdey JoeyJoe112 : A great stock... yeah. Just like Boeing.

Nisdey JoeyJoe112 : This company has the same systemic leadership problems which lead to those tangible outcomes for Boeing. It's hardly a great stock. Just those tangible negative externalities haven't yet manifested in a public way.
This is the problem with "Wall Street Types" who try to run design and engineering companies, building highly complex, safety safety critical systems, as if it were a railroad in the 1920s

Nisdey : What profound wisdom. There is of course that other problem, the elephant in the room called Kessler Syndrome, whereby the more we fill Low Earth Orbit with shit, the harder it becomes to safely get anything past it.
Starlink and now $AST SpaceMobile (ASTS.US)$.
Aii it would take to permanently (in all practical senses of the word) deny humanity access to space would be for *anyone* to launch a few rockets up there and blow the tens of thousands of things in LEO into tens of millions of things.

Nisdey Hermione Granger OP : So what percentage of your income is derived from teaching courses, vs profitable trades?

Nisdey : yes, well ever since Charlie's passing Warren Buffett hasn't made many good calls. there's This, $Occidental Petroleum (OXY.US)$, liquidating shares and moving to bonds. All of them Genius moves.
But I guess he's right, he did make one decision right. to get into partnership with Charlie Munger, take all the credit and most of the wealth generated by his ongoing good decisions.

Nisdey : Dividend also.

Nisdey : Their monopoly on these machines seems odd, particularly when China doesn't hold EU and US patents in high regard.
Every process can be replicated. Furthermore, it's like the 4 minute mile. Once it's known that it's possible, there is no reason to give up, and eventually someone will crack it.