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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is a bloodbath - 1,935.35 - update −2,016.06
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Damn

Walleye
(41,375 posts)Irish_Dem
(72,190 posts)roamer65
(37,677 posts)Treasury bonds, baby!!!
Irish_Dem
(72,190 posts)roamer65
(37,677 posts)
Irish_Dem
(72,190 posts)Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,724 posts)I went 100% treasuries when I was preparing for retirement in 2023 on my TSP account. I didn’t want to take gambles on the stock market at that point and with Numbnutz Krasnov driving the market into the shitter, I’m comfortable with my decision.
roamer65
(37,677 posts)
homegirl
(1,791 posts)shut down the Stock Exchange when it drops FIVE PERCENT in a day?
Irish_Dem
(72,190 posts)EdmondDantes_
(609 posts)Bengus81
(8,996 posts)Response to homegirl (Reply #54)
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Bernardo de La Paz
(57,006 posts)W_HAMILTON
(9,300 posts)DENVERPOPS
(12,987 posts)The farmers are just beginning to get royally freaked out........Major FAFO............none of them wondering deep down why they voted for Trump and all the other RepubliCON Politicians that promoted Trump and enabled him to carry out this Tragedy......
The RepubliCONS in the House and Senate, as well as the USSC members are so ignorant, they don't realize there is no need for a Legislative Branch or Judicial Branch in a tyranny, and they ALL will be kicked to the curb shortly, like everyone else in Trump world, his ENTIRE life............All of them should have noticed that his voters have all been thrown under the bus already....they have fulfilled their usefulness this one last time for electing Trump again.......They are no longer needed by the Republican Party......and just starting to figure it out.............All Rural Red Trumphumping Farmers are totally freaking out today..........and they should be.........
Cirsium
(2,732 posts)Farmers are not a significant voting bloc and are no more or less likely to vote Republican than any other group of business owners. I every farmers started voting Democratic it wouldn't change the results of elections, even in rural districts. Here, in a very conservative farming area there are about 300 growers - farm owners - and 40-45% of them vote Democratic. Yet Trump got over 10,000 votes here.
It is the eaters that will suffer when farms are hurt and Trump will bail out the big farm owners, especially the large grain operations, the cattle ranchers, and the meat packing industry.
Trump and the Republicans are expert at invoking rugged individualist imagery, Hollywood stereotypes that resonate with people - cowboys, ranchers, farmers, miners, lumberjacks; Reagan on horseback, Bush with his fake ranch, Trump with his he-man collectibles. But we shouldn't buy into that propaganda and think that those represent significant voting blocs. They represent Walter Mitty fantasy voting blocs.
Trump makes people think they are somehow associated with heroic stereotypes when they go with him. It is all a bunch of nonsense.
wolfie001
(5,664 posts)What a clown creep. Eff her AND her Wonder bread bags.
stollen
(905 posts)I made $200,000 in the market during Biden's last yr. *poof*
Little Marco fuck-face tells me I'm supposed to be happy. This is for the good of the country. I flation is now good. Recession is now good.
I got on a fb page of a friend with 350 friends, several whom I know to be wingnuts and with TSPs. I said that those who'd voted for Trump had created this debacle. Now FIX IT!
Nobody responded.
vapor2
(2,659 posts)REALLY ??? Such boorish words
stollen
(905 posts)I'm on an extended vacation from fascism. But thanks for the update.
Ocelot II
(125,892 posts)spooky3
(37,642 posts)mnhtnbb
(32,636 posts)Slightly less today than the SP500.
Bernardo de La Paz
(57,006 posts)W_HAMILTON
(9,300 posts)erronis
(20,564 posts)malaise
(286,431 posts)Enjoy your weekend Slobby
sinkingfeeling
(55,868 posts)December 2024.
hatrack
(62,956 posts)TomSlick
(12,577 posts)They have to be feeling the heat from back home.
Captain Zero
(8,109 posts)No need for them to complain.
erronis
(20,564 posts)TomSlick
(12,577 posts)If a pissed-off constituent can't get a call through, they will become more pissed-off. No matter how red the district, pissed-off constituents are dangerous. If nothing else, a primary opponent is possible.
hamsterjill
(16,096 posts)That's the whole plan. Rocking the markets benefits the wealthy who have cash on hand. Screws ordinary people who live paycheck to paycheck.
Fuck every idiot MAGA that voted for Trump because they were too stupid to listen to the rest of us.
jmowreader
(52,522 posts)This is the time to short the living fuck out of the market.
Pacifist Patriot
(25,050 posts)We really don't understand the lack of proverbial pitchforks.
It would be useless to apply pressure to my GOP legislators. They are so far up the Trump backside, they see with orange eyeballs. And the thought of a democrat being elected around here is about as likely as the manufacturing on Heard Island to kick into high gear. But surely some swingier districts must be feeling the heat.
zorbasd
(437 posts)and come after them in the halls of congress with pitch forks, then they will realize....
TheBadWolf
(60 posts)jmbar2
(7,041 posts)The short squeeze is going to be epic.
kentuck
(114,350 posts)This is not good!
Frasier Balzov
(4,459 posts)Arazi
(8,130 posts)obamanut2012
(28,633 posts)Arazi
(8,130 posts)Level 1 (7% decline): Halts trading for 15 minutes.
Level 2 (13% decline): Halts trading for 15 minutes.
Level 3 (20% decline): Halts trading for the remainder of the trading day.
obamanut2012
(28,633 posts)kentuck
(114,350 posts)During the Covid pandemic.
krkaufman
(13,957 posts)"Worst day for our economy since COVID. Just a little reminder ... This time, HE's the disease."
CoopersDad
(3,197 posts)Make it stop.
IronLionZion
(49,422 posts)Trump insiders are trading based on his idiotic policies. Somebody is getting wealthy from this while everyone else loses.
erronis
(20,564 posts)Wonder why they were knee-capped?
IronLionZion
(49,422 posts)Captain Zero
(8,109 posts)I doubt you and me we included in HIS "we".
Pacifist Patriot
(25,050 posts)The change in investment strategy is obvious. I still lost 3% of my retirement funding overnight. Single digit loss may not seem like much to some folks, but in one day? Yes. This is a bloodbath.
I have been desperately trying to get my house market ready to sell so I can flee Florida. I think I've lost the window and there is no way I am going to be able to relocate to Virginia before everything crashes. Call me Chicken Little, but I don't see a good end in sight here. No reason to believe the administrations mismanagement (stupidity and cruelty) is going to abate any time soon.
malaise
(286,431 posts)and falling
Pacifist Patriot
(25,050 posts)underpants
(191,398 posts)CanonRay
(15,425 posts)-2092.32
LymphocyteLover
(8,313 posts)FloridaBlues
(4,581 posts)I have to still hope for the best on selling. Don’t have an option right now.
Good luck to you!
Pacifist Patriot
(25,050 posts)mnhtnbb
(32,636 posts)of the orange a$$hole. Largest two day wipeout in history, says MarketWatch
https://www.marketwatch.com/
Ping Tung
(3,003 posts)He'll conquer Canada, Greenland, Panama, Haiti, Venezuela, and Hollywood
and then sell them to his pal Putin for $1 trillion each
mikelewis
(4,505 posts)In 4 or 5 months... Smart... And Fox will pat him on the back.
flashman13
(1,383 posts)I expect it just to get worse today. Trump has undermined confidence and sown doubt. No reason to think we are approaching the bottom of this crash. Monday morning will tell the tale.
flashman13
(1,383 posts)roamer65
(37,677 posts)mnhtnbb
(32,636 posts)into stocks yesterday, buying the dip.
Again, MarketWatch headline.
https://www.marketwatch.com/
littlemissmartypants
(28,434 posts)gab13by13
(28,804 posts)"Are We Great Yet"
IronLionZion
(49,422 posts)
roamer65
(37,677 posts)I knew this Trumpcession was coming.
SunSeeker
(56,151 posts)Sure, we are better off than folks holding Nvidia and Apple. But nobody is escaping untouched from the building shitstorm.
roamer65
(37,677 posts)So is gold, because it is easily convertible.
westen
(25 posts)The market always sells off Friday afternoon so bleeding won't stop.
SheltieLover
(71,259 posts)obamanut2012
(28,633 posts)You know that isn't what this is.
Welcome to DU.
Xipe Totec
(44,347 posts)Now I understand what Trump is liberating; our wallets.
ImNotGod
(850 posts)

Wiz Imp
(5,960 posts)That's after yesterday's drop of 4.84%. So about a 10% drop in the span of 2 days.
MayReasonRule
(3,542 posts)
OverBurn
(1,250 posts)Trump is the biggest traitor in American history. He is bought, paid for and solely owned by Putin. Only way to explain all the stuff he's doing. He's destroying us from within.
I've been watching this last hour. I've lost--in two days-- the equivalent of what I receive in net Social Security benefits for a year. Two days.
Prairie Gates
(5,624 posts)
mnhtnbb
(32,636 posts)Prairie Gates
(5,624 posts)I though S&P was going to really test 5000 before the close.
mnhtnbb
(32,636 posts)obamanut2012
(28,633 posts)They are almost 80.
I don't even want to know what is happening to my pension investments.
surfered
(7,852 posts)The Stable Genius did file for bankruptcy 6 times.
Wiz Imp
(5,960 posts)Point drop was -322.44 which is the 2nd largest single day point drop ever. Biggest drop was -324.89 on 3-16-20. Yesterday's drop is now the third biggest single day drop.
S&P 500 is down 14.0% since the beginning of 2025
S&P 500 is down 15.6% since Trump's inauguration.
S&P 500 is down 17.4% since its peak in mid February
S&P 500 is down 10.5% in just the past 2 days