Comments by "prism828" (@prism8289) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

  1.  @johnpuri1024  exactly. In 2005 at a bbq, these guys were talking about buying 2nd and 3rd houses as investments. I said this whole thing is going to blow up. When the price is going up for the reason the price is going up, it will sooner of later go kablooey.
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  2. It’s a casino. It’s all about the hustle and momentary perception of what a stock will do, and not how good the company is.
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  3. It’s not like Trump would spit in the face of the national security community, or think he is subject to the law, or pursue his personal interests over those of the country. Of course not.
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  4.  @tomlxyz  no. When you are no longer betting on what a company is or does, and instead on what the stock market will do say to day, it’s a casino. 70% of trades are high frequency. It has forced CEOs to play the game to bend the company to manipulate a share price and not build a strong company that endures. Even Buffett says so. Carvana is an excellent example. Anyone looking into Carvana for ten minutes saw problems. But they kept buying stock because they thought it would go up, not because it was a good company.
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  5. Try something. Tonight, sneak in to a car lot. Steal a car. Maybe the security systems are deficient, but see if the police come to arrest YOU for stealing a car.
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  6. Well, one major reason is Carmax doesn’t have the operational problems that Carvana does. A major strength of Carmax is its supply chain and logistics, which when it is operating as it should, it’s seamless and bulletproof. The downside of that is when something doesn’t quite work as it should on the system, it can really come off the rails fast, which unfortunately management doesn’t seem to concerned about in the rare times it happens. For the most part, cars we MOSTLY good. The big horror stories you hear about of extreme ripoffs and completely taking advantage of customers almost never happened. People knew they were paying more, but for that piece of mind were willing to pay it. They took the sleaze factor out, and that reputation matters a lot. It sells A LOT of cars. That said, as the bean counters take over and with the reputation established, suddenly execs are thinking more about their bonuses and shareholders. The quality care declined, which is something they were kind of forced into doing. They have been busted in the past for not doing the inspections they claimed they were, or they weren’t fixing them. But overall, things were really good. However when all their online sales and deliveries were starting to roll out, they were getting sloppy. When buying from anyone, buy a car with a return policy, and immediately take it to a trusted, objective mechanic to do an examination of it. Pay the $100 for that. It is very well worth it and could save you thousands.
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  7. And unless he was trying to steal the recipe for Diet Coke, I’m thinking he would not hand pick the recipe for invisible ink.
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  8. Except there is a process. They must be officially declassified and the proper channels and departments notified. No, sorry, EIGHTEEN of Trumps own top people said that is BS.
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  9. Know what else is? The names of our humint operatives working abroad. And the technology for the F-22. And the strategic plans for the Pacific Fleet. Get it?
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  10.  @Pro3110  if only there was such a position. There isn’t. As for the library, it’s a fine. As for removing federal classified documents, it’s a felony. Use those documents? It’s espionage.
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  11. The recipes for KFC, Coke, and Big Mac special sauce?
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  12. Guess what. That is the idea when you are protecting top secrets and the identities of informants and sources of info.
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  13.  @papawheelie5576  uh, no. Whether he can do it, he can. But there is a procedure that must be followed. He can’t just ship off the plans to the 6th Gen fighter to Mattel or Lego without telling the Joint Chiefs of Staff, yknow. Besides, Trump probably has more to fear from the FSB than the FBI.
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  14. Uh, it wasn’t declassified. And the now unredacted letter from Barr shows not charging Barr after the Mueller report was a sham.
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  15.  @SirDurpal0t  and sorry, EIGHTEEN of his own top security people said those claims were horsehockey, including two Chiefs of Staff and his White House Counsel.
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  16.  Goblin' Boostahs  right, Joe Biden persuaded CNN and others to file a request for the release of an affadavit they never wanted to release, and to get a judge to order that release ahead of time - in the future - on the day the stock market would fall in one day. That is some 8th level Candyland thinking there.
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  17. Use Diet Coke. Or lock him in a room all by himself with no tv and no one to talk to. That would destroy him.
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  18. Guess what: that is the point in redacting affadavits with info on top secrets and human intelligence operatives.
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  19. It’s kind of like PBS with Sesame Street and Masterpiece Theatre or Frontline. One is for educated adults and the other for those whose brains have a long way to develop. Although, i can never get enough Grover.
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  20.  @mikeyerian2562  the J6 investigation has. They can’t indict or hadnt you heard? So did the impeachments. But, hey, suppose you loaded up the John Gotti jury with members of the Mafia. And say they already decided on their vote before the first bit of evidence was presented. And say if the jury voted guilty, they themselves would get burned too. Boy, if Gotti had Trumps “jury,” he would be hanging out in Palm Beach drinking Pina Coladas right now. Now, if Trump had the type of jury when he got caught scamming a childrens cancer charity in New York, where he knew he was going down so he agreed that the family could never own or operate or sit on the board of a New York non profit again, ya, that would be a different story. What did Donald say? It’s only the mob that takes the 5th. It’s only the guilty that take the 5th. Of course, Trump was caught partnering with the mob in ownership of the Trump SoHo, so there’s that. And this time, unlike the previous for years, Trump can’t fire three different US Attorneys that he himself appointed because they caught on to his criminal activity. He can’t fire Merrick Garland, so there’s that. But McCarthy and Jim Jordan and Lindsay Graham, Donald’s pets, will do everything they can do to obstruct Justice. Now, please remind me how many times they tried to get Gotti before they finally did. They never got Capone for murder, so I guess he never did. And by your argument, Obama had zero indictments in his administration- whereas Trump had the most indicted admin in four years in history - so by your reasoning, Obama is a squeaky clean super Boy Scout, right? That never did anything wrong? Good to know.
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  21.  @mikeyerian2562  oh, and he doesn’t have an Attorney General running interference for him and refusing to prosecute when the evidence was clear. Maybe you haven’t heard. Trump expects Attorneys and Generals and Vice Presidents to support him over the country. With his AG, it worked.
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  22. Ya, that is what they do when they are protecting national secrets and sources of information. Hey, did you see Trumps attorneys never went to court to have them released? That is because they didn’t want it out there either.
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  23. I guess you mean accurate and objective in this case. It’s kind of like where Trump said he had the biggest inauguration of all time, and CNN said no he didn’t and here are the aerial photos to prove it.
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  24. There were definite problems even before the stock skyrocketed, which means analysts were not doing their job or did not care. So much of a stock price now has little to do with how solid a company is, but how much someone can make of it in a short amount of time. No one invests in companies anymore, but simply what they think they can yank out of a stock. It’s a casino.
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  25. He buried her on the golf course so he could call it a burial ground and claim tax exemptions. For real. It’s not his first time. But you might be right about what he buried. Probably the keys to Trump inc so Don Jr and Eric could never take over when he is gone.
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  26. Mighty big dif between classified and top secret held in an area that is a known major security risk and proven to be infiltrated by foreign spies, and can be accessed from the pool, held by a guy who has proven time and time again he has no respect for security or our national security operations. And he is Putin’s pet.
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  27. You’re guessing. I’m pretty sure Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, and Judge Reinhardt we’re not.
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  28. Ya, like evidence of collusion with his pal, Vladimir.
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  29.  @cathymac6472  no, there was a peep, a very loud peep. The National Archives called that story horsesh*t.
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  30. Here’s a thought. Let’s say within there was the blueprints for a new hypersonic bomber that can deliver multiple nuclear weapons. Now, they are exactly going to say out loud hey everyone, Donald might now be carrying the hypersonic bomber on his phone that a 12 year old in Islamabad could hack.
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  31. And well, in the case of Georgia, there are tapes. So there’s that.
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  32. Are you talking about Barrs redacted comments about the Mueller investigation?
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  33. Because, well, it’s Donald Trump being Trump and the GOP being the GOP, and they needed a bullet proof case.
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  34. It makes you think about when the CEO of GM said we’re not a car company, but a finance company. And quickly tanked the company. All the CEOs who are master of financial engineering and not building and making things destroy everything in their wake. GE, Boeing, it’s a plague.
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  35. They knew. They’ve been trying to get them back. Trump refused.
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  36. They haven’t fixed their operational issues. Talk about their tech all you want, but if they can deliver titles, their reputation is shot. That scares off investors and customers. If they are existing on subprime and securitization of loans, ya, that’s never gone bad anywhere before. Things were looking pretty good for Countrywide until they weren’t.
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  37.  @SirDurpal0t  you obviously don’t understand that even the president has to follow laws and protocols. Here is an example. King Donald, no matter how much he throws a tantrum, could not order the Secret Service to take him to the Capitol to lead his coup. See there, that’s the dif between a king and a president subject to law.
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