NO MEANS NO!
Posted on 05/12/2014 3:31:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Here's a riddle: Many Republicans deny it's happening. Some Democrats don't want to talk about it. What is it?
The answer is the growing U.S. economy, on pace to expand as much as 3.5 percent this year, about the best performance in the industrialized world. Unemployment has fallen from 10 percent to about 6.3 percent and consumer confidence is at a six-year high.
Better economic data could help persuade voters in November to look past President Barack Obama's weak approval ratings and his unpopular healthcare law and give Democrats enough lift to hold onto the Senate and limit their losses in the House, political strategists said.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Oh, and you are as errant a debator as you are an asshole on this forum.
Go back and read what I wrote and come back when you can quote me right. KTHXBAI
Yeah, well, everyone has figured out by now that you can’t support your nonsense, so you try to change the subject, mostly by resorting to ad hominems.
Now we also have your opinion that you think the market “is completely out of joint, completely out of any touch with reality” which explains why you don’t want to admit that there is even crummy 2% growth in the economy.
Let me put it this way. You are obviously ill-equipped to form any conclusions worth reading about the market.
BTW, everyone also knows that anyone who has to claim how smart they are usually isn’t. You’ve certainly proved that.
My point remains unrefuted by you or anyone else.
The economy has withstood the worst jug-ears could throw at it and still grows despite his idiocy. The market is busy discounting our more prosperous future, whether you or any of the others on this thread like it or not.
where is it growing?
Instead, please steer a very wide berth around me. I will for you, as well, because you are a true asshole.
Don’t bother, friend. He’s a genuine asshole.
As I said. You have nothing but ad hominems. Pitiful.
See, here’s the deal:
You’ve consistently misunderstood or misrepresented what I’ve said. Normally, I’d try to explain it, but you’re too much of an asshole.
I may or may not have agreed with what you’ve said, and I would normally have asked for more clarification, but you’re too much of an asshole.
You like you use the little ‘quote’ thing and claim I have nothing to back my points, but yet you yourself employ the fallacy known as the Appeal to Authority, instead of presenting your evidence to back your positions. Again, you’re too much of an asshole.
I took a look at your posting history. You pop in here every few years, like some Zombie Free Republic Cicada, and crap on one FR member or another. Today, it was me.
So, tell ya what: If your ego is so delicate that you need to win in a war of opinions by shouting yours louder, and using the Appeal to Authority (with yourself as said ‘authority’), then you go right ahead and call this a win. Then maybe you will disappear for a few more years. :)
I’m counting on it, anyways.
Can I count on that? :)
Sorry, but your continued attempts at misdirection won’t work — I’ve only quoted your EXACT words.
I copied and pasted them from your posts. I don’t need to misrepresent what you said, it’s there for everyone to read.
All you have is ad hominem attacks on me.
Face it, you can’t defend your idiocy. Stock prices cannot be attributed to the declining dollar beyond the extent I mentioned — ~25%. Out of 150%.
You’ve been silent on that for good reason. You’re flat-out wrong.
I’ve appealed to no authority (where did you get that, anyway? Do you think it makes you sound smart?) I’m only pointing out that you can’t defend your proposition — you haven’t even tried in your last half-dozen posts. Or, for that matter, ever. All you do is attack. Nothing but ad hominem. I’m an “asshole.”
You have lost the argument. Decisively. Give it up.
Yes, in a piecemeal fashion and without my intended meaning behind them.
I’ve appealed to no authority (where did you get that, anyway?
When you cited yourself as The Ultimate Authority because you traded for a while.
No facts behind your assertion.... just the fallacy.
You have lost the argument. Decisively. Give it up.
Bludgeoned. O! Woe is me! My body, bloodied and tattered. I am humiliated, routed and in utter disarray! Decimated and depressed that I ever set foot on the forum. Hell, I'm sorry I even mastered the English language, such is my shame!!! Leper, leper, clear the way, a leper passes!!!!
(to everyone else: this is known as 'placating' the asshole because I really don't care to try to explain what I meant, nor do I wish any further conversation with such an enormous ego and who is unable to have anything approaching a normal human conversation) :)
Oh yes, you sure showed me! Why, you made me grind glass in my teeth, you did! I shall never be able to emerge from my house again, the shame is so great!!!
Now, don't you have the habit of disappearing for a few years? :) Anxiously awaiting that payoff. :)
So, let’s review. You haven’t spent even two words attempting to defend your completely and totally indefensible position that stock prices are due to depreciation of the dollar, but you have called me a/an:
asshat
moron - twice
liberal
troll
asshole - 10 times
Your debating skills are awesome!
BTW, an “appeal to authority” is for the purpose of supporting a point. I only mentioned that I’ve traded this stuff for 30+ years so that you would understand that you weren’t dealing with one of your fellow know-nothing idiots.
Which had absolutely NOTHING to do with the issue at hand — that the economy is growing despite jug-ears and the market is discounting the future.
But, I wouldn’t expect you to understand the distinction.
NO MEANS NO!
Yes, I have seen you mention on numerous occasions that you feel the Free Republic forum is largely populated with idiots and know-nothings.
One wonders why you come here every few years.
Well, I suppose it beats kicking your cat, right?
In CA, gasoline IS $4.25 a Gallon for Regular.
Some how, some way, the price of Gasoline isn’t even worth a blurb on the Local News, much less the National News.
Besides the obvious manipulation by the Press, just like the Troop Deaths in Afghanistan under Obama, where is the Public outrage?
The Malaise is terminal, it’s that simple.
I think people are just burned out and really don’t give a Rat’s A$$ anymore, which means the hoped for 2014 Election sweep by the GOP is just another pipe dream.
Just my opinion, as usual.
I don’t know what it is in California, but in Florida, bacon is $ 8.00 a pound now, but the Obama voters don’tgive a damn. To them it is free, courtesy of the ETB card.
And you still haven’t spent two words on trying to defend your nonsense.
You continue to attack me in your lame effort to divert attention from the fact that you can’t defend what you said.
What a surprise.
Isn’t it time for you to go off to some teacher/student thread and tell everyone that you’d hit it?
I say that because logic and facts don’t seem to be your strong suit and you’ve already embarrassed yourself sufficiently here.
HmmmmmMMMMMMM....?
Sure. Although I’ve never called anyone a “no-nothing.”
“Know-nothing” is accurate. For instance, you. To which I would add attempted bully, although you’re not very good at it.
Even though you claim to have read my previous posts, either you’re a really bad liar or really bad at math, as obviously I don’t post “every few years,” as you would have it.
But, hey, that’s just you — good at generalities, bad at facts and details. Good at throwing crap around with nothing to back it up.
Fact is, I bother to post maybe once every 3 months or so on average, as anyone who bothers to look can see. Only when I see some really outrageous idiocy. I pass on the run-of-the-mill stuff. Of which there is a lot.
Notice how there are no longer any tax-protester idiots around this place? I had some small part in that in that I relentlessly hammered and buried their BS every time I saw it.
Go back a few years, my posts are there. Either they gave up out of embarrassment or the mods finally figured out that they were full of crap and zapped them. I have no idea, but I wasn’t going to let their garbage stand without a response.
In this case, it was you who responded to me with ridiculous nonsense you can’t and haven’t once defended other than with meaningless opinion.
And, as is your apparent predilection, no, wait, maybe it’s a compulsion, you have once again tried to divert the conversation from your indefensible BS.
The economy is growing at a crummy 2% or so and the market is discounting our better future, all of which has nothing to do with the dollar, and that better future is coming soon in November when jug-ears is totally defanged and turned into a nice little lame-duck puppy who runs around yapping his Marxist crap while everyone ignores him and wonders how in the hell he was ever elected.
I'd already forgotten about you, then there you are, posting to me again.
I suppose I should be flattered, but I'm more amused, and just a little creeped out.
Have you gotten more than your share of complaints of stalking by women?
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