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It's about THEMSELVES, you see, not about the issues, about mere ephemera, not about real things. The narcissism is absolutely amazing.
He misunderstands that the contempt is just a twofer:
People are drawn to Trump and the contempt he expresses toward his
opponents, especially liberal politicians and the news media, precisely
because of the contempt he draws in return. This is the through line of
his politics.
Joe's administration began with the deaths of US soldiers in the ignominious Afghanistan withdrawal, and ends with the death of a US soldier in the ignominious attempt to help the enemy which attacked America's ally Israel on October 7, 2023.
I wonder if Kamala can think of anything now that she would change.
Nearly half of 2020's electorate have already cast ballots in 2024
Around 100 million people voted early, either in person or via mail, in 2020. ... Of those who have cast their vote so far in states that report party registration data, Democrats hold a slight lead — 37.9% to 36.2% — per [University of Florida Election Lab's] count.
Ford sold 7,162 units of the Lightning in Q3 2024, up from the 3,503 units in Q3 of last year. ... Year-to-date, Ford sold 22,807 F-150 Lightning EVs. ...
[22,807 units lol. Ford sold nearly 751,000 F-series pick up trucks in 2023, so that's like 3% of the 2023 total]
Overall, Ford’s all-electric vehicle sales in the third quarter of this year amounted to 23,509 units, up 12.2% from last year’s 20,962 vehicles. Year-to-date, Ford sold 67,689 EVs, up 45% compared to last year’s 46,671 units. ...
Ford sold 432,429 combustion-powered vehicles in the third quarter, down 2.8% year-over-year, and 1,340,139 units year-to-date, down 1.8% year-over-year.
Reported here.
That means year-to-date total EV sales are just 5.05% of total combustion-powered vehicle sales year to date.
People aren't buying these dogs.
None of these stories mention these facts.
CBS: Ford to pause production of F-150 Lightning electric pickup trucks
CNBC: Ford to halt production of electric F-150 Lightning next month until January
MarketWatch: Ford to Pause Production of F-150 Lightning EV Pickup Trucks
Reuters, to it's credit actually reported some actual numbers: Ford to halt production of F-150 Lightning EV pickup trucks for six weeks :
Because some asshole complained.
People have been complaining for what seems like forever about all the diseased illegals flooding the country, but the Feds and the state of New York don't check them, now do they?
TMZ.
Orphaned squirrel who became social media star was euthanized after being seized from home
Goodlander's home is currently out of district in Portsmouth and she is worth a lot of money, with median estimated assets of $24 million.
She's renting an apartment in the congressional district in Nashua in order to qualify to run and is being called a carpetbagger. She was born and raised in Nashua, however.
The Republican has median estimated assets of $6.3 million and isn't exactly a native of the district. She has resided in the district since sometime after 2016 when she ran for US Senate from Colorado as a Libertarian Party candidate.
She really lets Goodlander have it, though, for pretending to understand the problems of middle class people, and of using her wealth to take an apartment away from somebody poorer and more deserving during a period when housing is very unaffordable just so she can run for this seat.
She has a point.
Meanwhile Goodlander is a dyed in the wool progressive with deep connections to people like Merrick Garland and Stephen Breyer, and of course Jake.
Here.
The S&P 500 averaged 5,792.32 in October 2024 (the all-time high was on 10/18 at 5,864.67).
Nominal GDP was updated on Oct 30th at $29.349924 trillion for 3Q2024.
That yields a ratio of SPX/GDP of 197.35 vs. median of 81.
Stocks remain wildly, obscenely, off-the-chart overvalued.
The formula is GDPx = SPX.
29.35(81) = 2,377.
The market would have to fall 3,415 points just to hit median valuation at current GDP, or about 59%.
You can see a similar analysis here, where the median is 79.7 vs. current 200.7.
Real return from SPX since Aug 2000 is now about 5.1% per annum vs. 7.4% before that (including the Great Depression, the depression of 1920, and every collapse before that going back to 1871), 31% worse.
We are living through developments echoing the lunatic era of the 1920s, which ended in tears.
Owe no man anything . . ..
Spot gold fell 0.2% to $2,736.28 per ounce. Prices fell 1.5% on Thursday as some traders took profit after bullion hit a record high of $2,790.15.
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