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Elizabeth Truscott's avatar

If I need a gun at 74, then I'm just going to be canon fodder.

jill_uss's avatar

At 77 and 80 years-old, we have amassed a large portfolio of bonds and stocks. We are so angry about what the Republicans are allowing this madman and his criminal administration to do to our country. We are thinking of divesting and investing in International countries. If enough of the baby boomers do this, it will be worse than picking up a gun. Fair warning, I will email my Senators and Congressional Representative and see if I get any reaction from them.

Stephen H Siemsen's avatar

I have nothing left to "divest" (did not during Trump 1.0), but I can join others in BOYCOTTS. Who is funding their campaigns? BOYCOTT! Who kowtowed and paid tributes to the orange oligarch? BOYCOTT! Who in Congress still supports him or REMAINS SILENT? Contribute to the opposing candidate; if he/she is your rep., let them know how you feel. One 10 people sit a table and one is a NAZI, but the other 9 say NOTHING, then there are TEN NAZIS at the able. Silence is complicity. If you can't take to the streets, at least put a sign in your yard or window.

jill_uss's avatar

We have boycotted CBS, NBC, and ABC since day after the election. They helped Trump by sane washing his gibberish AND LIES!! We don't buy from Amazon, no FACEBOOK, no Target. We won't travel to Red States that are extremely gerrymandered by Republicans.

Tung no's avatar

Absolutely. Boycott all oligarch businesses.

John Hurlbut's avatar

I wish that would make a difference. But since they own just about everything (the companies that supply most of what we consume) I think that the only way to “hurt” them would be to increase the taxes that they pay. And that takes an honest, moral government, which we don’t have.

Erica Zwick's avatar

It's not about hurting them, it's about following my conscience.

John Hurlbut's avatar

In hindsight the term “hurt” was a poor word choice for me to use. I was trying to convey a more “fair” taxation system where people and corporations are taxed based on their income. This is supposed to be the way that it is now, but it isn’t. Trump has been paying $700/year now in income taxes. Which definitely isn’t fair. Now that trump is in power he has changed the tax laws so that he and his rich buddies will pay even less, whereas the middle and lower class will pay more. Trumps legal tax problems stem from the fact that he changes the values of his properties, he appraises them high (or low) when he needs to get a large loan, or at tax time, when he wants to pay a small amount in income tax. He has always been a cheater and conman.

John Hurlbut's avatar

I like your analogy, but all of the Republicans have let trump get away with murder, literally, since day one. Some are crossing the aisle now, but it’s too late. If they had a conscience they would have condemned trump in his first month, when trump gave himself absolute power with a law that wasn’t even legal. His team have gone down the rabbit hole too far to back out. Trump and all of his cohorts/thugs are guilty of treason. And I hope that they are all prosecuted for treason.

Angus Young's avatar

Stephen - thank you. You nailed it 👍🏻🔨

Elizabeth Truscott's avatar

I'm in the same position. I'd like to hear what you learn. I'm on Substack.

jill_uss's avatar

I will tell them today and see how they respond. This is not an idle threat.

jill_uss's avatar

I never heard back from them. I'm surprised because they always respond. Are they overwhelmed by everyone contacting them? I don't know. We have a large CD coming due next week. I will be going on Morningstar to start my analysis of international funds.

MTNYC's avatar
Jan 9Edited

Unfortunately, I have never had the aptitude to understand investments, taxes or legal jargon, (I am embarrassed to admit), but my 2 younger brothers & I inherited portfolios in 2022 after our Dad passed. Wish I was as smart & savvy as you, but what you are saying sounds brilliant. I know some of my stuff is with the evil giant BlackRock. Wonder what would happen to these big giant evil oligarchy companies if many Americans did just what you are saying. Love to see these billionaire oligarchs squirm. MAGA & these financial giants need the rugs pulled out from under them.

jill_uss's avatar

My dad was an accountant, we are born and raised NYC. He told me always save for a rainy day. My husband worked since 12, after school. I worked from 17. We both worked two full time and part time jobs for about 15 years. We were poor and wanted a house. We finally got to graduate from college, worked our way through. I studied finance. He is a C.P.A.

MTNYC's avatar
Jan 9Edited

You sound awesome!! You and your husband are my late folks type, they'd have surely admired & liked you folks. Similar to my late Dad & Mum who did much like you and your husband. You have a handful of years on me (72 this month). NYC here since 1985, but very small town roots. Followed my muse & had career in music & arts. Although lucky to work pretty constantly in the biz, never made a ton of $$, and not easy to save much living in NYC. Never gave a thought about inheritance but my 2 younger bros & I were blessed our folks were successful and were generous with us. Dad was smart (and partly lucky) with his investments & having a great investment guy. Like you and your husband, Dad worked 3 jobs (post WWII & Korea went into Army Reserves...retired as Col.), teacher/principal, coach/athletic director and Mum held the fort on the home front (he could not have done it without her). They were a good team, not perfect by any means & ours not the American dream family dynamic, but would never change them or any of it. They owned 3 homes in succession (built 2 of them). I will always admire & cherish them and the memory of them. They left us in 2019 & 2022, (91 & 95) independent until last couple years of their lives but lucky to pass at home in their beds, miss them both desperately still. Thanks for hitting me back!

Angus Young's avatar

Look at the power we had when Jimmy Kimmel was taken off air 👍🏻. The big boys crumbled.❤️

Tung no's avatar

The really evil actor is Black Stone. Blackrock is just your run of the mill heartless financiers.

Tung no's avatar

Yes tell them You are selling all US treasuries.

Angus Young's avatar

Don't expect anything, Jill, my elected Democrats aren't doing anything either.😬

jill_uss's avatar

We'll see what he says. I do get responses. I email and call often. You should have heard me when Schumer folded. I still laugh at the memory!

kevin whalen's avatar

Washington has become a mass of quicksand for logic and humanity.

Some wacko who somehow got elected president blows up rowboats just for fun and admirals blindly obey, same pedo-nosoris invades a country, kills 70-80 people grabs their president and flies him to New York using the same plane he lent to some other muli billon dollar drug dealing pardoned president of a neighboring country and let that guy fly to who know where. 'Just fill up the gas tank when you're done". Now our embezzling, west wing recking, 400 million dollar ballroom building felon in a chaotic chain of thought is thinking of taking over or bombing (maybe both) a few countries that I visited several times in my 78 years.

What will lunch hour bring? A call to arms, by who for who? Thats the trillion dollar question?

I did go to boot camp almost five decades ago so I guess I could stand a little pain but I'd rather move to a small hole in the ground and stand in the rain then watch another ICE agent shoot another young lady four times from three feet away....What a brave scum bag that guy was,.....not much difference though from the navy guy who blew up the two guys hanging on to an already blown up rowboat.

So its thoughts of beans, dried or in cans, of where I might buy a second or third tank of gas, gun ownership and road maps...........roll around in my head.

and to all, a good night!

Val Soper's avatar

U.S. LIES to THE PEOPLE!! There are lies, damn lies, and outright dirty, filthy lies, as perpetrated by the [failed] president, on down. Regarding the reprehensible, cold-blooded murder of an innocent citizen at the hands of the ruthless, masked, and gun-toting goons, who gets to “investigate” this totally false narrative? The [partial (??!)] FBI, that’s who. And whose pocket are they in? The criminal, mentally-unstable, sick, bloated, unhinged, incredibly stupid, deranged, and deplorable personage of a Donald J Trump! The self-serving administration of bald-faced untruthers—LIARS(!!!) MUST ALL BE IMPEACHED for their outrageous, dangerous, murderous threat to the people of the United States of America, and THE WHOLE WORLD!! Call them out. Make a fuss. TELL THE TRUTH. (Were we not all told that as children?!) It’s your country, your lives, your choice. For the sake of the gods, be it known worldwide that the U.S. government is a criminal national and international terrorist organization! Your lives are at stake. RISE UP! PROTEST!!!

Valerie Pulker Soper

John Hurlbut's avatar

Trump has never said a true word to Americans. His brain is fuked.

Angus Young's avatar

That would be TRUMPSTEIN 👍🏻❤️😆

Angus Young's avatar

I LOVE your comments. I really enjoy reading them ☺️

Angus Young's avatar

Hi Val❤️👍🏻. How are you doing?

Elizabeth Bannister's avatar

This is unbelievable "stuff" occurring in the United States! Thank heavens for Independent Media Organisations who can qualify, and explain the absolute corruption of the Trump Administration. As an Australian, I'm totally "bamboozled". How on earth did Americans allow these events to happen?

John Hurlbut's avatar

I’m Canadian and I’m waiting for the US to conquer us, right after Greenland. Fortunately for us however (Greenland and Canada) there are some Generals in the US who are saying to trump, “You want us to conquer WHO???, our allies?”. There’s got to be responsible people in America who know when to draw the line. Also, as it has been pointed out to trump, “It is illegal to follow illegal orders.” Fortunately the real US military know this.

louis nagy's avatar

ANY INFO about the Couple coming off cruise ship in MIAM, where ICE "STORMED" his cabin at 6:30 in the morning. Husband is RTD VETERAN, Wife was in the Service too, Son is in the Navy, and Daughter in the Service as well. Turns Out, ICE got the WRONG GUY. The couple name was JOSE MARTINEZ, and they were looking for person of that name, BUT WRONG PERSON. ( UNREAL, just because the name may be of HISPANIC ORIGIN, ICE "goes to town" ) ! THANKS.

Hound's avatar

After that ICE Gestapo criminal thug shot that woman in the face a physician announced to the members of Trump‘s Gestapo he was a physician and a response from one of those rectal cancer deserving neo Nazis shouted to the doctor, “We don’t care”.

It took 15 minutes for EMS to arrive. I can stay under the law that’s another crime that ICE committed by not allowing the doctor to render aid to the victim of ICE but the law doesn’t matter anymore.

This should never have happened, Trump should never have happened. Corporate should never exist. Billionaires should never exist.

Angus Young's avatar

TRUMPSTEIN should have never been born. But hey, so was Hitler.

Hound's avatar

One of the good things about the French Revolution and the Nuremberg trials and executions was the fact that a lot of really horrible people were killed. You’ve probably heard the saying that the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree. That’s not just a saying it’s the truth. Science proved it. It called behavioral genetics.

Even the Bible speaks of it. It’s called predestination. God, is all knowing so God already knew what Donald Trump would do and what Hitler would do and what Stalin would do but he created them anyway knowing what they would do. Like Trump doesn’t give a rats ass about anything about himself and his insatiable ego which he wants us to go to heaven and massage it for all eternity.

Trump torments humanity for his pleasure and so does God.

David's avatar

Stupid circle of life crap!!!

Sohel Bahjat's avatar

It is laughable that JD Vance praises the Iranian legitimate protest against the Ayatollahs while calling the peaceful American victim Renee Goode, a mother of 3 children, as "A Leftist Terrorist"! Democrats should be tough when they get power next time and depend on serious people, unlike the useless Biden's AG.

Angus Young's avatar

It's also cry able for losing Renee Goode😢

Sohel Bahjat's avatar

Yes, we lost an awesome human being! 😔

David's avatar

More guns doesn't solve anything!

jill_uss's avatar

Money talks with these politicians especially the Republicans. It is time for baby boomers to make a BIG NOISE. I've been so angry since criminal Trump got reelected. I think it has affected my personality

David's avatar

jill_uss you are correct in saying donnie has affected our personalities. Sleep patterns, trying to keep the truth in the forefront and the not knowing what's going to happen next but, knowing it won't be good is mentally draining! Knowing we're not wrong is what keeps me hopeful about the future. Logic has to prevail! Great comment!

Angus Young's avatar

Yes David. I enjoy everyone's comments here. I'm not "allowed" to leave comments or replies on U TUBE anymore because I am pro-democracy. I have never sworn, made threats, anything like that. But on pro Trumpstein sites they get away with everything.😡

Angus Young's avatar

I am totally censored and deleted. I've gotten into fights with U TUBE and META. Still waiting for my right to speech to be returned to me.

jill_uss's avatar

On Monday, January 26th, I withdrew a maturing Jumbo CD from Goldman Sachs. When they asked why? I said, GENERAL STRIKE against lawless Trump Administration. Fellow baby boomers, join me.

Douglas Gilligan's avatar

Trump is busy losing his s***. He is scared spitless about being removed from office, because he knows the only thing keeping him out of jail is his being the POTUS.

Historically, he was always able to normalize his crimes, distract from his scandals, confuse and change the narrative by making a crisis, which he would later 'fix' by stopping what he had been doing. When people hear about a crime, then hear the 'other side' declare it is the accusers who are bad people, never have ti me to dive into the facts of the case, soon all the rest of the Republicans get in lock step with the favored talking points and soon nobody is talking about it because... another crisis, another crime, another obscenity of a policy / choice ... is consuming all the news media and nobody is talking about the old one.

Problem for Trump is that a number of his bad actions are piling up and not all are getting forgotten. He knows this, which is why he is panicking, causing the crisis and other bad 'things' to be coming too extreme, too frequently... He can not forever escalate without it eventually falling apart.

It is good to keep the pressure up, on multiple fronts: Epstein, Inflation / Tariffs, War, ICE (goons, murder, kidnapping, cruelty...) - these seem to be the ones that have some stickiness to them.

The Kennedy Center and the White house demolition may hit some people stronger, being very symbolic.

Just remember, Trump has already factored in that ALL Democrats are against him and any moderates that he conned into voting for him in 2024 have pretty much left him, so what he worries about most is the people in MAGA who are not happy with his choices. He assured them no new wars. He assured them lower cost of living. He assured them the release of the Epstein files and the prosecution of the elite pedophiles that have been central to the online conspiracy community for decades now.

At this stage, Trump is no longer getting any new converts. It is now a game of subtraction. Trump has never been good at math.

John Hurlbut's avatar

I heard trumps flunky say that trump considers all of the western hemisphere to be his, from Canada down to the bottom of South America. And that trump is going to fight for all of this land. Not to mention Greenland. I know that there is approximately 400 million Americans, but how many of them are willing or able to fight for trump? Certainly not the number needed to take over the Western Hemisphere. I know that trump wants Greenland real bad, but that will spread his troops pretty thin, maintaining order. I’m Canadian and I think that we’re next on his list, but the reason that he wants the northern countries is for Northern defence, to see which enemy comes over the North Pole first. For over 80 years Canada and the US have worked together in Northern defence, so if trump invades us it’s not for that reason.

Angus Young's avatar

I feel SO damn bad for all of you in Canada. And Greenland. It's frightening that NO ONE chooses to get a set of balls and stop the American Hitler - TRUMPSTEIN.

Colin Skelding's avatar

Trump needs to die....

Angus Young's avatar

Ain't soon enough, Colin 👍🏻😆

Mary Ellen's avatar

Don't chance it. Stay. I'm sure you are one of those who will not be let back in.

Sally M Henry's avatar

I believe that Trump has caused more humiliation for the United States then any other President. It's why I have never listened to one of State of the Union speeches.

Julie A Thompson's avatar

Re the U.S. invading Greenland, Hitler (next) had his sights set on the Soviet Union to invade and dominate the world. This was when Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill sat down together at Yalta. (Stalin didn't care about the dead Jews. All he cared about was preventing Hitler from taking over his continent.)

Thomas Fath's avatar

How can Karolyn's legit wear her cross and actually lie so damn much