78 Replies to “April 12, 2025: Reader Tips”

    1. I see that the left is finally learning how to meme.
      That first reference was actually quite good.
      Where a meme loses it’s appeal is when it starts to deviate from the truth, like your second reference did.
      Because tariffs are quite good — as a base of negotiations, which is what Trump is actually doing — using tariffs as a sledge hammer to knock down the current trading system.
      If I could, I would be wearing a MAGA hat, but sorry… as I’ve clearly demonstrated in the past, I am not an NPC.

      1. Incorrect. Tariffs are never good, and Trump has no idea how to negotiate trade. He doesn’t even understand how trade works.

    2. Tariffs CREATED the urgent negotiations which are now balancing the unfair, one-sided tariffs imposed by greedy, selfish exporting nations. There is NO inconsistency cheering both tariffs and the pause FOR NEGOTIATIONS. JEEZE leftists and RINOs are dumb.

      1. Many people think Trump’s playing fancy chess. His tariffs are more like poker, seeing which countries are going to call his bluff.

      2. “Tariffs CREATED the urgent negotiations which are now balancing the unfair, one-sided tariffs imposed by greedy, selfish exporting nations. There is NO inconsistency cheering both tariffs and the pause FOR NEGOTIATIONS. JEEZE leftists and RINOs are dumb.”

        They really are, especially when they allow their TDS to run rampant.

        That said, the tariffs were genius and the *clearly planned* 90 day pause (anyone who believes otherwise is an idiot) was perfectly executed to get President Trump what he really wanted: all the nations who trade with the US (over 70 at last count) at the bargaining table to negotiate a level playing field.

        The exemptions today, though, for cellphones and computer chips? A really BAD move in my opinion.

        It makes Trump look like he is ‘winging it’, and does not have an actual plan, as the cowardly left (eg: KM and Scar) have been accusing him of all along.

        1. “It makes Trump look like he is ‘winging it’, and does not have an actual plan,”

          He is winging it and has no plan you imbecile. It is amateur hour every hour of the day and night. He tries to appease morons like you and Kenji, then reality knocks and he back out. Then he tries again, and every time the circle repeats itself, you brag about genius and fairness.

        2. >It makes Trump look like he is ‘winging it’, and does not have an actual plan, as the cowardly left (eg: KM and Scar) have been accusing him of all along.

          Sure, and when someone fatally shoots himself in the head it makes him look like he killed himself. Sometimes you go so much over the top in your stupidity that it makes me wonder if you aren’t just trolling.

      3. Ok NPC. You trying to form a logical argument is about as panful to watch ad Freddie trying to form a logical argument.

        Every time a low IQ douche like you uses the word “fairness” in any form in an argument, it is a clear sign that you either don’t understand or have no logical retort.

    1. Don’t laugh.

      Earlier today, I bought groceries and I struck up a conversation with the woman behind me. We chatted for a bit but, suddenly, she asked me when someone was finally going to shoot Trump because of the stock market. According to her, the current turbulence is because of insider trading either by him or someone he knows.

      TDS is widespread here in Edmonton.

      1. I agree it is not insider trading that caused current market turmoil. What do you think did? Let’s hear the pretzel logic.

        P.S. Libtards should understand that Trump’s death means President Vance, do they really want to go there?

        1. I’ve been an investor long enough to know that this time of year, the market is often turbulent.

          We had a good run earlier, largely due to the year-end Santa Claus rally. This time, it went a little longer, so we were probably due for a market correction in which people take profits. In addition, the tariffs came into effect right after the end of the first quarter, which is also a time when there’s a lot of trading. Companies release their results, dividends are usually declared, and the market reacts accordingly.

          Often, it doesn’t take much for a major sell-off. Emotion and sentiment have great influence, so some fund manager or financial analyst makes and announcement and people start heading for the exits. If the tariffs hadn’t set things off, something else would have.

          I’m riding this one out.

          1. LD (aka BAD)
            Much trading is emotionally driven, especially at the lower end. And when people don’t grasp what is going on , they act with knee jerk reactions, my brother being a prime example of that when he dumped his brookfield, and kissed 40K down the shitter.

            Butt TDS Jessica wants to blame Trump, who is doing what he’s good at, and appears to be achieving his goals. But Jesasica is to STUPID to understand what is going on.

          2. I’ve been an investor since the mid-1980s. After surviving Black Monday in ’87, I’m not worried. Besides, there’s not much I can do about it.

            The people who’re often most concerned are those who’ve bought on margin. Circumstances like what we’ve got now mean that brokerages would like to settle some of their outstanding accounts.

            As some wag once said, “Bulls make money, bears make money, but pigs get slaughtered.”

          3. @gym…
            If you’re going to insist on smearing “Jessica,” the least you can do is get the name right.
            I see “stupid” runs in your family.

          4. Yes, there is an old stock market adage of “Sell in May and go away! Come back in September”

          5. JMM:

            Even September can be a bad time to get back into the market. October’s not much better. Remember, that was the time of year that both Black Monday ’87 and the 2008 hiccup occurred.

            Mind you, those could provide some buying opportunities, but don’t expect to make money right away. Mid- to late November is when the Santa Claus rally usually starts, lasting for 6 – 8 weeks.

            Now that I have my inheritance, I don’t trade much any more unless I have to raise some quick cash.

          6. “If the tariffs hadn’t set things off, something else would have.”

            Do we have a ‘weasel of the week’ award? We should. Talk about a dance around the issue to finally admit in passing that maybe this was all caused by tariffs going up and down and up again.

          7. Do we have a ‘weasel of the week’ award? We should.

            I’m speaking from nearly 40 years of actual experience in the market, having been in situations like this many times.

            But, then again, apparently my knowledge is worth about as much as flatulence in the wind–your expert assessment, as I recall.

          8. People like you only prove that ‘experience’ is overrated and subject to the delusions and rationalizations of old people who have bones to pick. You will lose it all. The US is trading like an emerging market. The country is now uninvestable.

          9. “I’m speaking from nearly 40 years of actual experience in the market”

            You’re speaking around the question in every way possible. That is what you were called on. Cope.

          10. You’re speaking around the question in every way possible. That is what you were called on. Cope.

            “Thou wouldst make a good fool.” King Lear, Act 1, Scene 5

            “Were I like thee, I’d throw away myself.” Timon of Athens, Act 4, Scene 3

          11. You should be more humble, you have plenty to be humble about ~ sir Winston Churchill paraphrased.

          12. You should be more humble, you have plenty to be humble about ~ sir

            “I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester.” The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth, Act 5, Scene 5

        2. “Trump’s death means President Vance”

          Vance the diplomat? He may have an Ivy League degree like Trump but somehow they come off as Dumb and Dumber. Both of these guys think they are infinitely smarter than the experts and as a result the world economy is going down the crapper.

          1. Trump and Vance and their team are the experts, not the phony ones you allude to.

          3. Hey, I liked Vance in Europe defending free speech and basic freedoms that Euros raped over and over again in UK, Germany, France or Romania. There is a lot of good with a lot of bad and a lot of incompetent in the Trump-Vance duo. On top of it they’re put in a very difficult economic situation and are hampered by the need to appease all the Kenjis and Freddies. this would not be easy even if they were up for a job.

          4. “Your arrogance and bigotry will be your undoing.”

            LOL, you wanna be called Pot or Kettle?

        3. @ C…
          Ok… let’s suppose there’s actually legs to this “insider trading” issue.
          Why is it that they’re only talking about it now, when it’s been going on throughout all the time the democrats were in control for the past 8 to 12 years, and made a pile of money as a result?
          Are you listening, Nancy Pelosi?

          1. I really don’t think there is anything to the insider trading theory. I don’t think Trump is motivated by greed at all. He is a narcissi and a megalomaniac, an arrogant prick who wants to be worshiped but his is not dishonest or greedy. One can be wrong and confused without being evil. One can be blinded and destructive without being motivated by personal gain.

      2. Morons. I made 29% on my accounts last year. A significant correction was long overdue.

        Of course, these are the same people too stupid to realize that right now is the perfect time to buy more stocks.

          1. One thing I’ve noticed during my years as a stock market investor is that if there’s an opportunity that I couldn’t take advantage of, another one–perhaps even more favourable–will eventually come along.

            Patience in this business is essential. There’s a lot of “hurry up and wait” and, while one is waiting, one can look for possible future opportunities.

          2. I got out in November, best decision evah. I knew a shitstorm was coming and one way or another I would get caught up in it and either lose or devote a disproportionate amount of time and effort to monitor it and react. Not worth it.

          3. I got out in November, best decision evah.

            Oh? You gambled away all your money in day trading? Did you at least have enough cash left to buy a barrel as it sounds like that’s what your wardrobe is now reduced to.

          4. Yeah, sure I did, whatever helps you fall asleep before your prostate calls.

        1. You really don’t need to be an expert to know that tariffs are bad and Trump’s tariffs and other lunacies are instigating capital flight from America.

  3. Ukraine allies promise €21bn in military support for Kyiv
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/11/ukraine-allies-promise-21bn-military-support-kyiv

    Ironically, I think it’s just about a year since Flinny the Fv¢kwit from 20000 BC (who is the intellectual leader of scweinie-lovers here) pompously claimed “the seemingly endless stream of aid for Ukraine will soon dry out”. When I, in a few months, asked him how many more months / years / decades / centuries / millennia it would take for him to admit he was wrong, the poor thing couldn’t find the nerve to answer.

    1. When do you think that money will show up or is the cheque in the mail?

  4. [Finnish] Parliament approved a ban on real estate transactions by Russians
    https://yle.fi/a/74-20155496

    Hopefully, it’s a start of a Pan-European push to confine the human-fancying pigs to their pig-sty. When there’s no Ruϟϟische Schweine on your territory, there’s no excuse for old Poo to “protect” them the way it was done in Ukraine.

    “The Parliament has today approved the government’s proposal for a complete ban on Russian real estate acquisitions, the Ministry of Defense announced . The implementation phase of the ban will now begin.
    The law prohibits Russians from buying real estate in Finland. According to it, a permit to purchase real estate would not be granted to a person whose country of citizenship is waging a war of aggression and may pose a threat to Finland’s national security.”

    1. They should be taking all the Russian refugees they can. That’s fewer bodies for Russia’s armies.

      1. There’s plenty of space for “Russian refugees” in Kazakhstan. They’ve got no business being in Europe; they don’t belong there.

  6. I have just come across of a poll made in Russia, according to which 63% of Russians believe that their county is “leading” in space. That makes me think that a true Russain isn’t just a 25+ generation alkie quadruped, but someone who literally has vodka for blood and cow manure for brain.

    A fun fact: in 2024 there were, among others, 144 space launches from the USA, 17 from Russia and 14 from New Zealand. If Russia has a “robust space program”, as someone here repeatedly alleges, then so does New Zealand.

    1. You like slamming people here but you are too limp-wristed to provide evidence that they said what you accuse them of saying.

        1. Why, yes. Where’s the specific comment about Russia’s “robust space program” you referenced in order to slam “someone”.

          Also, who here has actually said they “love” Russians or Putin. Show us specifically what the actual “scweinie lovers” said instead of just linking to super long comment threads about the stupid CIA-directed Ukraine war.

          1. Well, if you can’t see the words “robust space program” at the links, there isn’t much I can do for you. I’m not going to bother with taking screenshots and uploading them somewhere unless you pay me for it; I’m sure anybody who isn’t completely inept and has a properly functioning browser would have no difficulty finding the words.

            Also, you don’t have to say you love Russians or Putin to qualify for a schweinie-lover; heaping undeserved praise on them is enough; like for example praising their space programme, which doesn’t reach much farther than mindless use of equipment designed in 1960s and has zero substantial achievements for the past 35 years.

          2. You make a very specific accusation but you expect others to do the work finding it. Fat chance numbnuts.

          3. And you, apparently, expect me to take control of your eyeballs and light receptors. If you really weren’t able to find where “robust space program” allegation was posted at the links I provided, you’re the most pathetic example of a bungling biped ever to walk this Earth.

          4. In other words, you won’t back up your assertion.

            Still, that’s only one example you cite as Ruskie love..

          6. One example, yet your Surfer Wan and Lonely Clone fingered Fred and unnamed nonexisting “scweinie lovers”.

            One comment doesn’t make your case.

          7. Bitch please, go send someone else to do your internet searches for you.

          8. “One example, yet your Surfer Wan and Lonely Clone fingered Fred and unnamed nonexisting “scweinie lovers”.”

            Jessica then responds with this devastating retort:

            “Also, who here has actually said they “love” Russians or Putin. ”
            https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/08/31/take-that-putin-8/#comment-1928531
            LOL it is like kicking cripples.

            …posting a link that shows NO ONE claiming to “love” Russians or Putin. She’s so precious… 😉

    1. Fred calls out IDIOTS, and the 2 biggest that post in here show up.
      Yup Trump has got things going like he wants.

      1. Every time “Fred” posts, there’s always at least one idiot around, even if “Fred” is totally alone.

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