Saturday, April 26, 2025

Republican Voters

After listening to Republican supporters, and thinking about it a bit, I've concluded that there are three types of people that vote Republican. 

(1) Those that have always voted Republican and always will vote Republican. It's like breathing for them. They do it with no thought or emotion. It's just automatic. If it was Jesus (D) vs Satan (R) they would still automatically vote for the guy with the (R). 

(2) Those that think the Republicans will make lots of money for them. These people are getting a rude awakening with the tanking stock market. Trump and the GOP are actually losing them money. This is the only group that might learn their lesson. 

(3) The people that just want to make someone else miserable. These people will gladly cut off their own noses if they think it will hurt the people that they don't like.

Friday, April 25, 2025

Play that Funky Music White Boy

 Well, the first round of the NFL draft is done. I went to bed early satisfied with the Giants pick of Abdul Carter a defensive linemen from Penn State.

My daughter is recovering from surgery to correct a torn ACL so when I went in to the injury room (which used to be the Covid sick room) to check how she was doing I said something the Giants not picking a quarterback.

Her reaction, no, they traded up and picked that white boy from Mississippi. That would be Jaxson Dart by name. He's originally from Utah. He's young, only 21 years old and has decent size at 6'2" and 220 pounds. The evaluation on him is "Good backup with the potential to develop into starter" which is hardly overwhelming.

So, I suppose we get Eli Manning phase 2? One can only hope. 

I'm guessing Russell Wilson will start, Jameis Winston will be backup and Dart will be the student. Maybe Eli can become a special coach?

Friday, April 11, 2025

The NFL Football Player on the Supreme Court

 There was a pro football player that served on the Supreme Court of the US. His name was Byron "Whizzer" White and he was on the court from 1962 to 1993.

He played in his college days for the Colorado Buffalos, was runner-up for the Heisman Trophy in 1937, was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates (now Steelers) in 1938 and led the league in rushing in his rookie season.

He then graduated from Colorado as valedictorian and attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. The outbreak of World War II forced him to return to the US and he played two more seasons in the NFL for the Detroit Lions.

During WW 2 White served in naval intelligence in the Pacific (he wrote the intelligence report on the sinking of John F. Kennedy's PT-109), was awarded two Bronze Stars, and was honorably discharged as a lieutenant commander in 1945.

They don't make men like this anymore.

The Market Whiplash Continues

After a 2,900 point gain on Wednesday after Trump announced a 90 pause in most tariffs, but raised the tariffs on China to 124%, the market gave back 1,000 points yesterday and then clawed back about 600 points today.

I'm talking about the Dow but the Nasdaq and the S&P have been just as volatile.

It's the volatility that ridiculous. Swings of 1,000 points are becoming normal. I've never seen this type of wild behavior before.

Tuesday, April 08, 2025

The Disaster Continues

 After a 300 point drop yesterday it looked as if the market was going to rally today starting out with a 1,400 point gain.

It then proceeded to drop all day and is now sitting at over A 600 point loss. I've stopped looking at my accounts because it's just too depressing.

Saturday, April 05, 2025

Trump's Tariffs

On April 2nd Trump initiated tariffs on just about everyone. China reciprocated and other countries are mulling over their response.

World markets crashed as a result. The Dow lost about 3,500 points in two days and I personally lost $113,000. 

What I don't understand is why so many people are cheering him on? I suspect it comes down to he hasn't done anything to hurt them personally...yet.