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Post by Willie Dog on Dec 9, 2020 16:26:31 GMT -5
I'm ok with having an advisor, it's like anything, you have good and you have bad... I've heard real horror stories about advisors and I've heard great stories too. All I know is wouldn't have put money in energy funds at the start of the pandemic, I'm glad he suggested them to me. He also suggested gold and precious metals a while ago and they have done very well also. Be careful with energy stock. Biden has already said he will try to shut down "tar sands oil" and i suspect he will will nod to senile agreement to the whacky end of his far left wing Oil is Death. If he gets the Senate, duck.... If the Republicans lose the Senate then I'll take my energy winnings and put them elsewhere |
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Post by PTH on Dec 9, 2020 16:35:18 GMT -5
I'm ok with having an advisor, it's like anything, you have good and you have bad... I've heard real horror stories about advisors and I've heard great stories too. Still, the average indexed dollar will always outperform the average managed dollar, net of costs. |
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Post by Cranky on Dec 9, 2020 18:18:44 GMT -5
Be careful with energy stock. Biden has already said he will try to shut down "tar sands oil" and i suspect he will will nod to senile agreement to the whacky end of his far left wing Oil is Death. If he gets the Senate, duck.... If the Republicans lose the Senate then I'll take my energy winnings and put them elsewhere Keep an eye on that. If he gets the Senate he will stack the court. If he does that then he can pass any idiocy that rumbles in his senile mind. Right now, everything he tries will be challanged in the Supreme court and high chance it will be crushed. Without that, with a stacked "progressive" court, unless it's related to solar, wind and unicorn farts, all other energy stock is in peril. |
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Post by jkr on Dec 9, 2020 18:39:31 GMT -5
Just because Biden is 78 doesn't mean he is senile. Do we have to start the next 4 years of his administration with insults?
Based on what I have seen since November 3rd, Biden has a far greater grasp on realty then his predecessor.
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Post by PTH on Dec 9, 2020 19:54:10 GMT -5
Just because Biden is 78 doesn't mean he is senile. Do we have to start the next 4 years of his administration with insults? Based on what I have seen since November 3rd, Biden has a far greater grasp on realty then his predecessor. Making him seem senile is kind of the right-wing playbook right now, largely based on his stuttering. Frankly, given his predecessor, any large potted plant would've been an improvement. Seriously, most posters here would've been improvements, even the Canadians who know nothing of the US system, so to me the Biden-bashing is pure partisan politics. Kind of like making AOC seem insane and out of touch, regardless of her actual proposals. |
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Post by Cranky on Dec 9, 2020 22:58:31 GMT -5
Obviously Biden is cognitive enough to know which flavour of ice cream he likes, because that is the really tough questions he's capable of handling. Although his dog feels guilty for tripping him.
So sorry if you don't like it but Biden is not all there and pretty much scrapping the bottom of the barrel. From 330 million Americans...really?
As for anyone taking offense in calling him what he is....no one had any problem tossing every invective imaginable at Trump even though 65 million Americans voted for him in 2016 and 75 million in 2020. Although I'm pretty so sure no Canadians voted for him...legally.
And....in case it's not clear, I am Conservative.
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Post by jkr on Dec 10, 2020 7:17:31 GMT -5
Biden is " not all there"? Do you have access to information that the rest of us don't? That's not a fact, it's just your opinion. 81 million Americans disagree including Republicans & conservatives.
Can you honestly look at the words and actions of Trump over the last 4 years & say he doesn't deserve the criticism he has received?
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Post by PTH on Dec 10, 2020 9:09:25 GMT -5
Biden is " not all there"? Do you have access to information that the rest of us don't? That's not a fact, it's just your opinion. 81 million Americans disagree including Republicans & conservatives. Can you honestly look at the words and actions of Trump over the last 4 years & say he doesn't deserve the criticism he has received? I mostly find mentions of conspiracy theories interesting since Trump clearly believes in many and dog whistles are common on his twitter. The Republican party is the party of QAnon... |
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Post by Cranky on Dec 10, 2020 14:38:21 GMT -5
Biden is " not all there"? Do you have access to information that the rest of us don't? That's not a fact, it's just your opinion. 81 million Americans disagree including Republicans & conservatives. Can you honestly look at the words and actions of Trump over the last 4 years & say he doesn't deserve the criticism he has received? Who is "the rest of us"? A spokesperson for whom? As far as I see, you are talking about your opinion and "us" is others of like minded opinion. No more and no less "us" as those of like minded of my opinion. Other then the democratic party deliberately limiting Biden exposure, for obvious reasons that escape none, the only interview of any length was 60 Minutes. Carefully crafted theater that those who believe Biden is all there can exercise their full confirmation bias that he is fit to be President. I saw a slow, plodding, rehearse answer interview of an elderly man who is unfit to run anything, never mind the most powerful nation on earth. As for Trump, I'm not a fan. He is the boisterous porcupine that is unfit to be a politician. It doesn't mean he is unfit to be President. Unless of course the only criteria of the Presidency is a**kissing media and pretentious regurgitation. Clearly half of Americans think that Trump is fit to be President despite his well documented, well known quills and despite the most vicious, lopsided hostile media ever. And of course, despite what Canadians think. More importantly....and my caution to Willie Dog, a lot of criticism of Trump was his "hostility" to Canada. A narrative that the obviously politically blinded biased CBC and CTV fed Canadians 24/7. Reality check is that Biden was cognitive enough on one of those rare stump speeches, to promise that he will shut down Keystone and "dirty tar sands oil". Given that 94% of our oil exports go to the US, yes, 94%, shutting down our oil would cripple 10% of our GDP. This isn't aluminum and steel tarrifs that amount to nothing more then a pin prick to the GDP, this is economic slaughter of Alberta and Canada. But that's OK....he's not Trump. *sigh*. |
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Post by jkr on Dec 10, 2020 15:36:58 GMT -5
Isn't there confirmation bias on your part while watching that interview? Sure it's carefully crafted but what presidential interview is not carefully crafted and rehearsed? You are a conservative that thinks he is too old so you see a doddering old man.
He got 81 million votes, a record number. Clearly many people don't see what you see & are willing to give him the opportunity to govern.
As for the media coverage of Trump, yeah it's been relentless. But IMO, I have seen too much behaviour that is beyond the pale for a president.
He has placed unqualified family members in positions of importance, he has displayed behaviour that I would term racist, he ignores science and embraces conspiracy theories like Qanon. But the worst of course is the complete mismanagement of the pandemic. Even now, as it rages through the U.S., he is indifferent; more concerned with overturning a legitimate election.
You see Biden as too old for the job, I see Trump as a wannabe dictator.
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Post by PTH on Dec 10, 2020 15:48:44 GMT -5
Isn't there confirmation bias on your part while watching that interview? Sure it's carefully crafted but what presidential interview is not carefully crafted and rehearsed? You are a conservative that thinks he is too old so you see a doddering old man. He got 81 million votes, a record number. Clearly many people don't see what you see & are willing to give him the opportunity to govern. I suspect the Democrats might have been able to find a better candidate if it weren't for the fact that Trump attracts so much press, so they needed a safe, known choice from the start. I don't think Biden was the best choice, but he was a choice that a lot of people could get behind, whereas a new name might have seemed risky. If Biden seemed to slip, they could always go and ask Obama to come and show a bit more support. As to HA's point about Canadian's opinion of Trump, I read the Washington Post and other American sources. He comes off far worse there, since they dig through every little scandal, and he rarely comes out smelling like roses. In fact, I'd say his top 20 scandals would each have brought down most other administrations. People called Reagan the teflon president, but Trump deserves the title far more. |
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Post by Cranky on Dec 10, 2020 15:58:02 GMT -5
I'm fully aware of my confirmation bias....and that's why I dig further. Always. Including spending more time reading "the other side" opinion then confirmation biased articles/news.
Opportunity? Half the American people are going to give Biden the EXACT same opportunity to govern that the democrats gave Trump.
Canadians don't count.
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Post by PTH on Dec 10, 2020 16:19:59 GMT -5
Opportunity? Half the American people are going to give Biden the EXACT same opportunity to govern that the democrats gave Trump. Please avoid the false equivalency. It seems like balanced reporting leads people to think misdeeds are balanced, as well. "But her emails", when that scandal wouldn't be top 20... and actually, it isn't, since Ivanka had the exact same email issue. |
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Post by Cranky on Dec 10, 2020 16:21:10 GMT -5
As to HA's point about Canadian's opinion of Trump, I read the Washington Post and other American sources. He comes off far worse there, since they dig through every little scandal, and he rarely comes out smelling like roses. In fact, I'd say his top 20 scandals would each have brought down most other administrations. People called Reagan the teflon president, but Trump deserves the title far more. Reading WaPo and "American sources".....he NEVER comes out smelling like roses. I'm pretty sure that you are aware of the lopsided left bias in WaPo, NYT and a vast majority of the entertainment info-media. The best thing to come out of Trumps presidency is to crush any pretense of "news" and "journalism" in the media. It's now fully degraded into infotainment that use to be the preserve of the Enquirer. Worse still is the bias that is now openly displayed by Google and Twitter/Facebook. When that well known deep political mud puddle thinkers of Variety Magazine are prominent in political searches on Google, then all is lost. Even worse is that the CBC and CTV "news" think that it's now fine to follow the CNN path of outright bias. There was never a question of where the CBC sat politically, but now CTV has joined it in an attempt to "reach the spending demographic". They actually changed their "news editing" to spin and draw the target audience. Forget Trump or Biden.....this is a far more important issue. |
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Post by Cranky on Dec 10, 2020 16:26:22 GMT -5
Opportunity? Half the American people are going to give Biden the EXACT same opportunity to govern that the democrats gave Trump. Please avoid the false equivalency. It seems like balanced reporting leads people to think misdeeds are balanced, as well. "But her emails", when that scandal wouldn't be top 20... and actually, it isn't, since Ivanka had the exact same email issue. Please avoid false equivalency. Russia....Russia....Russia....outright collusion fabrication and an outright attempt at a coup by the democrats. What goes around comes around. Biden will be given the exact same treatment. |
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Post by PTH on Dec 10, 2020 16:27:24 GMT -5
As to HA's point about Canadian's opinion of Trump, I read the Washington Post and other American sources. He comes off far worse there, since they dig through every little scandal, and he rarely comes out smelling like roses. In fact, I'd say his top 20 scandals would each have brought down most other administrations. People called Reagan the teflon president, but Trump deserves the title far more. Reading WaPo and "American sources".....he NEVER comes out smelling like roses. I'm pretty sure that you are aware of the lopsided left bias in WaPo, NYT and a vast majority of the entertainment info-media. Well, reality has a left-wing bias. Objective information usually favors leftwing policies, and actual numbers of convicted members of cabinets shows Republicans are far more criminally inclined. If anything, the media is bending over backwards to seem objective when the actual misdeeds aren't on the same planet. I disagree. If anything, the importance of actual journalists actually doing their job has been shown. A lot of WaPo and NYT stories that were abundantly critisized when they came out were later proven true. "anonymous" sources aren't popular but they usually do bring to light actual issues. I don't watch those. I think way too much complaining about the media is about the headlines rather than the substance. Too much prominence is given to headline-worthiness, but that doesn't mean there isn't solid reporting behind it, it just isn't front-page or in the first 5 minutes of a newscast. |
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Post by Cranky on Dec 10, 2020 16:45:58 GMT -5
Reading WaPo and "American sources".....he NEVER comes out smelling like roses. I'm pretty sure that you are aware of the lopsided left bias in WaPo, NYT and a vast majority of the entertainment info-media. Well, reality has a left-wing bias. Objective information usually favors leftwing policies, and actual numbers of convicted members of cabinets shows Republicans are far more criminally inclined. If anything, the media is bending over backwards to seem objective when the actual misdeeds aren't on the same planet. No it isn't. It's just your view of your reality. You're heavily left biased, which is fine, but at least see it. I'm right biased and I see it. To claim that "objective information" is "left wing" is trying to move it from an opinion to a fact. Sorry. Your perception of "facts" is your bias to them. Which ones? Like "anonymous sources" endlessly claiming the Russian hoax by CNN, WaPo and NYT? Three years of nothing but spin and garbage in nothing less then an attempt to bring down an elected President. Or is it the wholesale burying of Bidens son in Burisma and Chinese companies? Unless of course one is so naïve to believe that they hired his son and paid him $50,000 a month on his non existent expertise. Solid reporting? Right now, we are about to vaccinate billions of people with scarcely ANY criticism or concern about a new vaccine that was "impossible to create" only six months ago. Where is the skeptical journalism? But hey, we certainly get lots of little personal stories that sell heartstrings. |
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Post by Cranky on Dec 10, 2020 17:06:30 GMT -5
Isn't there confirmation bias on your part while watching that interview? Sure it's carefully crafted but what presidential interview is not carefully crafted and rehearsed? You are a conservative that thinks he is too old so you see a doddering old man. He got 81 million votes, a record number. Clearly many people don't see what you see & are willing to give him the opportunity to govern. As for the media coverage of Trump, yeah it's been relentless. But IMO, I have seen too much behaviour that is beyond the pale for a president. He has placed unqualified family members in positions of importance, he has displayed behaviour that I would term racist, he ignores science and embraces conspiracy theories like Qanon. But the worst of course is the complete mismanagement of the pandemic. Even now, as it rages through the U.S., he is indifferent; more concerned with overturning a legitimate election. You see Biden as too old for the job, I see Trump as a wannabe dictator. jkr....please don't wholesale change a post. it's hard to argue or rebuttle backwards....lol You should check the facts on Trumps "mismanagement'. While he has not done a good job of putting on the correct political sad face, his "management" of the virus is just as "good" as that of the leaders of Belgium, UK, Italy, Spain and others. USA is the third most populated country on earth and on a per capita basis, those countries have FAR higher deaths per million. Even France is only a a few percentage points away. Have you heard the 24/7 criticism of those leaders? But you certainly heard.....trympytrumptrump. He could of done more, reacted much faster, closed down the borders much quicker, but so could our Cottage Boy. Just the facts.....https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ As for "unqualified family members" you mean Kushner? As a senior adviser? You did read the news about agreements between Israel and Arab countries? The intractable ME has moved into more sanity. We need far more unqualified people like him if those are the results. Although I'm sure that Hunter Biden is well qualified, on something that is yet to be identified, for the right price, to mention something to daddy. |
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Post by PTH on Dec 10, 2020 17:19:08 GMT -5
Well, reality has a left-wing bias. Objective information usually favors leftwing policies, and actual numbers of convicted members of cabinets shows Republicans are far more criminally inclined. If anything, the media is bending over backwards to seem objective when the actual misdeeds aren't on the same planet. No it isn't. It's just your view of your reality. You're heavily left biased, which is fine, but at least see it. I'm right biased and I see it. To claim that "objective information" is "left wing" is trying to move it from an opinion to a fact. Sorry. Your perception of "facts" is your bias to them. Well, we won't agree here. Did you read the Muller report ? It pretty much says Trump needs to be impeached. The Republicans managed to bury it by stalling its release for a week while claiming it went their way, but reading the actual report it's clear that he was guilty as sin. Whataboutism. Classic republican tactic. And with a Trump administration deep in corruption with multiple unqualified family members in the administration, there is no comparison, even to the worst possible interpretation of Hunter Biden's actions - which, every time I've read something in depth, weren't all that bad. For sure he was paid with the idea that he was going to have information and contacts, but there wasn't the kind of conflict of interest which is SOP for Trump. And I'm not even getting into pandemic mismanagement by someone clearly unable to understand public service. On just about everything about this American administration; there'd be a NYT or LA Times or WaPo story, tons of denials from the administration, and a few months later confirmation, often by Trump himself, that he'd been lying all along. But by then we had new scandals taking up headlines, so information about old news never made it past the headlines. No one ever said it was impossible to create, it was based on the work for a SARS vaccine that hadn't been followed up on. The time actually spent working on the vaccine and going through trials is about the same as any other vaccine, it's the financing and the paperwork that got pushed through. IDGAF about the personal heartstring stories either. |
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Post by Cranky on Dec 11, 2020 2:15:43 GMT -5
I have and a giant nothingburger. Kind of tragic how far fabricated innuendo and guilt by association can flourish when there is a willing and conspiring press ready to feed nightly doses of it. And willing ones to soak it in. Never knew there were so many "anonymous sources" or "experts said" which are fever free delusions by said media, knowing full well that they can use "freedom of the press" to protect and never prove their non existent delusions, err, sources. There is an off chance I'm wrong and some of those those sources are real, except Billy Tthe Plumber and partisan hacks are still not much of an upgrade. There wasn't anything there and the democrats knew that, but they hoped it would damage Trump. Obviously they miscalculated how much some of the willing are going to keep it alive and rent free in their minds. "Onlymytruthcounts". Classic leftist tactic. The son of the Vice President getting a $50,000 a month for absolutely no reason other then influence his father, from a company which considers this normal business....yet..this is NOT a conflict of interest? In 2015, two officials of Obama administration told Biden outright that this is a conflict of interest...yet apparently it still isn't for some. "Letsdiscusstheaccusationagainstyou"...from garbage biased articles. Another leftist tactic. NYT? WaPo? LaT? You missed the Guardian, Vox, Slate, CNN and dozens of left to far left "news sources". Sources that churn profitable eyeball catching articles for their willing biased readers. Reading multiple biased "articles" from the multiple biased sources doesn't cancel bias. It simply takes bias confirmation to the next level. Here is a refresher... www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratingsBTW...I like Real Clear Politics. They present opposite articles on the same subject. Try it. Actually... Two weeks ago there wasn't full disclosure by Pfizer. Since then, they have submitted information to NEJM today. TODAY. The very same time it is approved. Peer review has yet to be done...but approval is full steam ahead. Here is the link...note the date. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577As for the vaccine itself, there is potential greatness and issues. It's a synthetic messenger RNA that eventually stimulate antibody...but....it used to be done through a host virus. That is now gone and somehow it's passed through cells without explanation or peer reviewed. Those were major issues before, now they are magically solved and gone....afsin, without peer reviewed secondary studies. Or independent lab proof. My wife and I are perfectly willing to wait and see how that will go. In others. Lots of others. We have lots of masks and sanitizer. And patience. And Netflix. |
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Post by PTH on Dec 11, 2020 10:26:13 GMT -5
I have and a giant nothingburger. Well, disagree here. Both that and the actual impeachment were more than justified, but the Republicans managed to squach all actual debate. Yet even republican sources (ie, Muller report) go in that same direction. The fact that Facebook was used by foreign countries to influence key parts of the electorate, which were identified by Americans, isn't a claim, it's a fact. And the FBI has a strong right-wing bias overall (as do most law-enforcement agencies), so their claims have a lot of weight here, it's not the "easy" answer for them. An actual paycheck of 50K$ a month isn't as bad as having your kids in your administration, wielding real influence. Well, those are generally considered the best media sources out there. Fox news gets out of jail by claiming it's an entertainment network and that no one should take their reporters seriously. My favorite trick is to go see right-wing articles when large events occur, and see how they spin them. Sometimes it's just a different spin, but sometimes key facts are deliberately omitted, like the difference betweeen Trump's son meeting a Russian lawyer, and a Russian *government* lawyer, ie, the very definition of foreign I might take a look, though I've found balanced reporting these days usually means digging up dirt on left-wing candidates to make up for all the actual dirt spilling out of the right. "But her emails!". Molecular biology is complicated. When I've been able to dig up information in a digestible format, the vaccines all make sense and are based on years of research, and even the peer review shouldn't be an issue. Right now that vaccine has no more claims against it than classic anti-vaxxer BS. I'd love to find a name for the process in which progress is stalled by a minority blocking in the early stages of research in a topic, in such a way to keep the discussion at the very basic level of "is it happening" (climate change) or "is it generally safe" (vaccines) rather than being able to delve into details about specifics, like which policies are best for climate action and vaccine schedules and how to balance out pros and cons. |
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Post by Cranky on Dec 11, 2020 14:21:14 GMT -5
To wind this down...
Yes to Russian Facebook and Twitter interference....no to Trump involvement.
Almost all if not actually ALL "news sources" are now compromised by heavy bias. With the "everything is free on the net" they need the eyeballs of their target audience to sell advertising space or subscriptions so they skewer the articles to meet their bias following.
It will get worse as free is now the norm. A bit of a suprise. Twenty years ago i thought truth would be easier to find on the net....never accounting the damage to the established media and how they will respond with...even more bias. Unintended consequences....
Case in point...
A few momths ago, in the interest of balanced reporting, NYT published an article by a Republican.....and got mouth drooling and howling "i will cancel my subscription" threats from it's paying base. So the editors actually apologized for their crime of trying to bring a balanced viewpoint. Left or right, media is now as biased as the old Pravda. Thus my constant reference to the media as....propaganda media.
The trick now is for all who care to find any resemblance to truth is to recognize their bias, put on their virus mask on, get a bag of salt, put on a garlic collar....and venture out from ones own biased island and into enemy territory.
As for the vaccine.....sure. Wonderful. All must take it. I'll just wait to make sure it's thoroughly tested by a billion others before we line up.
Beyond covid, we have been free of any regular flu and the price for that is a bit of effort and time, which we have an abundance of it. Might as well bake it into a habit.
Anywho....try to move this back on topic....
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Dec 16, 2020 13:27:55 GMT -5
... now back to our regularly-scheduled topic ...
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Post by Cranky on Dec 16, 2020 15:17:53 GMT -5
Because of the declining oil prices, Alberta lost 20,000 in January 2020, before Covid was even on anyone's knowledge.
Then it got way worse with the Russian and Saudi price wars, where at one point in April it was negative.
Covid collapsed demand even further and is destroying Alberta's economy.
Kenney can not do anything about events totally out of his control....but of course, trust an NDPer to ignore reality and blame it on the economic victim.
It will get far, far worse for Canada and Alberta when the American regime makes good on "stopping dirty tar oil". Who needs 10% of our gdp anyway...
Time to start looking into those unicorn breeding farms...
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Post by Tankdriver on Jan 2, 2021 23:58:42 GMT -5
Cranky did you see the news regarding people coming back from vacation in the south that have to self isolate for 2 weeks and miss work due to quarantine and is not covered/paid by their employer gets $1000 from the government? Great loop hole there...
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