[Coronita]

actually, the reason I thought a lot of democrats care about immigration is because I read CNN.com and just about every day there are tons of “analysis” on page one about immigration, DACA, trump, russia….and how this administration is racist against minorities, black and Latinos….

opinion pieces like Obama is just what Democrats need. Or Democrats need to redefine what progressive means…
Or Opinion: anonymous is a hero.

or how California needs rent control. or how California needs legislation to restrict kids meals to not include any drinks other than water or milk.

Somewhere between the lines, I still can find news articles that report on current events like the cnn I use to know beyond just everything wrong with the trump administration, which we all know about…..factual only articles like how the justice dept sided with the Asian American lawsuit against Harvard buried on page 3.

just saying….

[Coronita]

I didn’t say every democrat is a fool, that was your choice of words interjected into my thoughts which couldn’t be further from the truth.

and that’s what exactly is happening . extreme view points. Many democrats and republicans are falling for it. no I don’t watch fox news or breibart , and yet I disagree with your viewpoint you probably immediate think I do. I think many people in this country are just sick and tired about extremism from both parties. And me thinks a lot of democrats, have been pushed to the other side in as much as several republicans have been.

Plenty of moderates republicans still are left that don’t agree with the rest of our party, but here you are labeling everyone the same.

we haven’t learned anything for the past 12 years .

Anyway, I am just pointing out the polarization of our country that both parties have been responsible for something people can choose to understand and fix next time, or we can keep violently swinging back and forth like between one sided perspectives for a long long time.

there is a reason why everything happens. trump didn’t win on a fluke. and no I didn’t vote for him

just one tiny issue. I find it hard to believe that every democrat agree with affirmative action. I suspect many of them strongly disagree with it… However , how come the idea of AA reform has never been brought up by democrats? Could it be that every democrat is just going with the party flow, irrespective of how bad things have gotten for some? If so, how is that any different from a bunch of republicans just running off the cliff with Donald trump?

That’s the problem with our political parties … members often are so extreme same thing rehashed by s different party brand is viewed good bit from a different party is bad.

Just a few years ago, a lot of democrats were pushing Obama for protective tariffs. now that we have them, some of the same leaders are saying how horrible it is…

I am pretty much done on this subject . I don’t want to get into a argument here. basically I have a feeling that trying to discuss this will you will end up on you calling me a dumb trumptard, despite me not liking him and not really supporting most of his policies except one.

It’s usually how it goes when we get hell bent on party affiliation. Me? I couldnt give a shit about either party affiliation.

Peace.

[Coronita]

you really think there is a massive blue wave?

Stats say that when then economy is humming along, incumbent party stays in control. Thus far, it doesn’t seem the like the US economy has crashed and burned to the extent that BrianSD was predicting. About two more months until the midterms, it doesn’t seem like that is going to happen beforehand.

That’s why all the talk from the blue side and blue leaning media avoids talking about the economy. Me thinks for most people , it’s good.

I think outside of the blue states like CA, most of the rest of the country only really care about 1 thing. Jobs.

I mean what counter pitch can blue candidates make? We need to increase taxes to pay for more benefits? How would this win if the economy is doing alright and unemployment is at a low and most people are working and we finally have some wage growth now, as reported by the same system that’s been used even before this administration?

I don’t think Americans on the fence will change their vote simply because someone at the oval office is a dispicable person. And unfortunately, those most affected by this administration can’t vote (at least not legally).

The funny part is all this thing about peotective tariffs , curbing H1Bs, making more in US, and punishing businesses that outsource overseas is not typically something that comes out of the GOP. It’s something that normally comes out of unions and the Democrats…..the most vocal about foreign competition and anti-“free trade” were all the labor unions and workers losing their manufacturing jobs ….. So from their prospective, I don’t think things are worse. and I seriously doubt they care about some migrants plight at the hands of ICE.

That’s why I think what most of the democrat party and the left leaning media trying to do is very ineffective. I think the only people that care about this administration’s despicableness are the folks in blue states like CA and NY, who generally have had it good economically throughout the past few years who can afford to care more about the social issues, including migrants/immigrants/etc…. For the rest of middle america, most people are more concerned aboutjust putting food on the table…..That’s why I think there’s a pretty big disconnect with the current Democrat’s party leadership. Barking up the wrong tree…imho.

The democrat party probably won’t win by a landslide and regain full control if it’s trying to make the argument that some immigrant/migrant/foreigner should have the same economic rights/benefits as someone who is a citizen in america in desperate needs of those benefits….It has nothing to do about human decency, and has everything to do with human survival.. There are plenty of people in this country struggling and have been struggling for so long, they don’t understand politicians that seem to more concerned about helping people that aren’t even americans before helping them… That’s a losing campaign… That’s why they’ll end up putting up with a despicable Trump versus any sort of polite, polished individual from the left championing migrant/immigrant/DACA rights….. Unlike some of us, who are more or less immune to the economic situation in the US……..when you are struggling financially in America, you have no choice….
The issue about helping migrants/immigrants/DACA/etc has been positioned/perceived as a zero-sum game in which many americans feel they lose economically if those migrants/immigrants/DACA folks win economically. I don’t agree that is really true, but a lot of people think that way. And so, for those people, obviously the care more about their own future than someone else’s…. For that reason, I think some democrats still don’t get that yet.

Just saying….

[Coronita]

it’s pretty funny that all the articles about how affirmative action abolishment will affect university donations from alumni…..

https://www.propublica.org/article/affirmative-action-how-the-fight-against-at-harvard-could-threaten-rich-whites

“If preferences for black and Hispanic applicants are abolished, expect a backlash against admissions boosts for children of alumni and donors”….

Wrong, all itm means is the demographics of admissions would shift to those that fit the new system/criteria irrespective of color…..”

Second type of articles claim abolishing affirmative action would be determent all to minority rights. Wrong. It would be detrimental to some minorities that got in under a two criteria system. it would not be detrimental to those minorities that can get in normally. And it would definitely help those minorities that were held back because they aren’t considered minorities and quota limited.

Notice no mention of Asians anywhere in these articles… Things are only white and black….no consideration for yellow….How convenient…..

Point: What’s at Stake? Affirmative Action

Now consider this..Most Asians probably only care about the education unfairness institutionalized mainly by progressives. Things repeatedly challenged over and over again as far back ago 20 years+ by Asians, including me. Constantly falling on deaf ears from progressives… no hearing, no thought, no compromises from progressives….Same old policy or worse as the years progressed. Without reform, or a say, Id say there’s a pretty large body of pissed of people that would be glad to see this entire system torn down…and this is just over one issue … there’s countless other issues that that a lot more people are equally pissed off over all over the country, again unmet over decades. It finally boiled over….and what we ended up with is an extreme, ugly backlash of the status quo that is now known of the Trump Era… It’s pretty ugly, it’s pretty extreme… and it will undoubtedly undo a lot of changes bad OR good….but certainly, it shouldn’t be a surprise why this happened..
on as much if we stay on this extremity, in 10-15years, well end up violently swinging back to the far left….10-15 years is probably when another supreme court judge seat will be available…..

That’s what our country has become a violent swinging between far left and far right where anyone in the middle is perceived as weak, in part stirred up by the media for ratings. We deserve every bit of crap we are getting.

[Coronita]

another upgrade. uh oh.

[Coronita]

Moneymaker. 3 things I plan on doing….

1. I’m reducing my exposure to international funds, particular ones that are in Asia.
I think emerging markets are having issues, and the international indexes have done well for the past few years. Nothing lasts forever, so my I’m reducing my allocation from roughly 30% to about 15%… Part of that will be moved into one of them “Target 2030 Blend Funds”, part of that will be held in a 2.5% money market account for the time being until I figure out what to do.

2. I’m trying to reduce the number of stocks i still hold in my after tax trading account.

3. I am selling one property and going to be adding some cash to probably do a 1031 exchange to a slightly larger place in a better location that rents better. Maybe Carlsbad… Don’t know exactly yet.

In summary, I’m trying to reduce my level of risk as I get closer to early retirement I hope. we shall see

AMD was a simple being lucky like a broken clock twice a day….I’ll stay in to at least year 2020, since I already sold something to cover my initial costs + a little extra. So anything else extra at this point is pure profit….Contemplating selling all my 1/18/2019 $12 calls and adding more 1/17/2020 $15 calls. It’s roughly $1.50 price difference, but gets me one extra year to expiration, and at the current stock price, both contracts move almost $1 per share per $1 actual stock price increase…Doing so will allow me to pick up an additional 20 contracts without adding any more money to the pot, and extends the expiration by 1 year.

[Coronita]

Once again, Brian, you are clearly demonstrating you lack any consistency or only support “a progressive agenda “simply because it’s progressive, even as backassward it is. By your own admission, you are blinded even when a policy is awful.

But I’ll bite….with an example…

Fair Housing Act.

With your own rental properties, Brian, I dare you to publish something on craigslist or zillow, with your real contact information for rent to your private property…something that says ..I will only consider 25% of the qualified african americans and latinos applicants for my available condos/houses…

Let’s see how far you get with that one…

If you cannot see this as the same thing or try to weasle around it like you normally do…then, you sir, are a progressive parrot moron.

As much as I hate Mr. Trump, Brian, I have to say, you and your type of “progressiveness” (not all democrats or liberals, or progressive…. just your flavor of it), constantly reminds me of why he won…And might continue to win if your flavor keeps it up….

[Coronita]

I admit… I do enjoy watching AMD short sellers get totally burned bigtime the past couple of months…Time to take some money off the table and laugh all the way to the bank at their expense. Especially, now it’s approaching $28. Hopefully, a good quarterly report will slaughter whatever is left of AMD shorts.

[Coronita]

[quote=spdrun]Flu — thank G-d for a law that bans asking about prior salary or even salary expectation. Be straightforward, list a damn salary for the job, don’t make it a guessing game.

With the salary question:

Pick too low? You look stupid and ignorant. Or are punished if you came from an academic or non-profit job.

Pick too high? You have too high expectations from the job, they might as well not call.[/quote]

No amount of legislation can fix people who can’t negotiate their comp packages well.

I never had a problem with asking for a comp package that I wanted.I liked it when, unlike others that lied , I could actually prove my comp package.

The other angle is that no one ever works for a published salary because everything is negotiable. I’ve had so many offers from companies that initially published one low ball number, only to go through the interview and end up with something 20% higher than my current comp.

I suspect the reason for wage disparity had a lot to do with how well one negotiates, and quite often, people are too willing to settle for less than they could be compensated for. Maybe because they are desperate,syne they need a paycheck to make ends meet, maybe they waited until the got laid off before they started looking….For some reason, some people dont negotiate well, particularly geeks. You can’t legislate to fix that.

Even when I am perfectly happy at a current job, I always answer
every head hunter, and I am always upfront I will only consider a position that is either a lateral move paying a lot more, or a move upward paying a lot more. Confronted with “wouldn’t you want to work for an exciting startup” , I always answer “show me the money” and if I get “this is a startup without a lot money”, I say “show me the equity”, and if I get “we’ll determine that after youve worked for a few years” I say “good luck with finding your candidate, I don’t run a charity”.

For me, I not obligated to work, they were trying to recruit me, and considering I am much more leaning towards retirement these days, yeah I’ll postpone my retirement only if a nice number is thrown my way with decent hours. This is the best negotiation tactic I have found. No amount of legislation can help that.

[Coronita]

[quote=FlyerInHi]What if women have the same or superior academic credentials than men?

You are not consistent, Flu. Pick a position and stick to it.[/quote]

You make no sense. Typical left progressive.

IF a woman is the same or has superior academic credentials, she would get in to college or a get a high ranking corporate position by her credentials by merit, as several women already do.

Just like AMD CEO Lisa Su runs AMD far better than the sort of “leaders” that Intel has been hiring based on diversity for diversity sake. That’s probably one of many reasons why Intel is now in deep shit, and AMD is back from a near death.

Since when did you care about woman’s rights Brian? Past posts, you were heavily misogynist, especially towards caucasian women. All the sudden, you care about women rights? Wow Brian, speaking of consistency….Typical of a hypocritical ultra “progressive”.

But anyway, thank god someone is trying to do something about the monstrous thing affirmative action. Burning the entire system down hopefully will be sooner than later.

[Coronita]

Speaking for Ford, I think Ford won’t make it.

They changed their business strategy in the U.S. so that in the U.S., Ford will only make trucks and SUVs. They are taking on considerable debt to retool factories here to build more trucks and SUVs.

Ford’s plan was to move sedan/car production out of the US and import them back to the U.S. However, now that Trump is imposing import tarriffs, Ford just announced they won’t be doing this..

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-trade-ford/ford-kills-plan-to-sell-chinese-made-vehicle-in-the-united-states-idUSKCN1LG22S

If gas prices keep going up, and a recession hits the U.S., American consumers are likely to switch back to smaller, more fuel efficient cars. Ford won’t have the correct product portfolio to sell to American consumers, and they won’t be able to quickly re-tool to make small cars in the U.S.

My 2 cents

[Coronita]

ford was just downgraded 1 level above junk status. good luck.

[Coronita]

…meanwhile…

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/30/pf/california-women-company-boards/index.html

“California wants to mandate a woman on every company board”

…and…..

https://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/New-law-bans-California-employers-from-asking-12274431.php

“New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary”

Because obviously, the way to solve gender inequality is to legislate it…

Ah, yes, from the state filled with fruits and nuts…

[Coronita]

[quote=ucodegen]
Well griping about Trump does fit the far left progressive narrative, while race-based admissions processes (which these groups support) are inherently racist, discriminatory and racially biased. This is the hypocrisy of the far left.

If you want to get more Blacks and Hispanics into college, don’t force feed at the college level. Fix the respective elementary, intermediate and high schools. Push the parents to be more involved in their children’s education. Push the focus to be on the basics and not ‘feel good’ classes or social promotion. If you try to force it at college, too much time is spent on remedial classes to try to bring them up to speed.
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As I talk to more and more parents with kids that have gone through or are going through the college admissions process, the more it seems like it way worse (more discriminatory) these days than it was when I had to go through this process… Not just for asians, but also for white kids (sorry, I’m sick of using the term caucasian to be politically correct, especially when talking about college admission processes, when colleges these days seem to care more about skin color than anything else)

This problem isn’t just occurring in Ivy League schools..It looks like it’s happening at other schools, some public too

https://www.city-journal.org/html/fewer-asians-need-apply-14180.html

A lot of schools these day leave a large percentage of college admissions based on a “fit and feel” hollistic view that is very subjective… I believe even UC schools have this something like this, to a lesser extent….up to 25% of one’s admission is subjective based on “life experiences, educational upbringing, social issues” and a bunch of other bullshit crap that has very little educational/performance results. Other schools, that percentage goes way up and the field of “subjectivity” touches things that here in CA is blatantly illegal (prop 209), but still 25% subjectivity, smokescreened as “hollistic view” can still be abused to tilt admissions one way.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/20/local/la-me-0120-uc-regents-20110120

Coupled with the already audited issue that UC schools are heavily biasing admissions to overseas applicants that can pay a full out-of-state tuition ride, that leaves in state Asian Americans at a very interesting predicament… Reduced admissions…

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article68782827.html

It’s this 25% subjectivity that some parents have been saying is very unfavorable for white or asian kids (asian kids worse), unless your kid is in the top 1% that makes this 25% subjectivity irrelevant…(Why must my kid being asian or white subject to a 25% penalty, just because????)

Most recently, there were two boys I know, caucasian, that from elementary school has competed in every single FLL, VEX robotics competition all the way to high school. By the time they were a juniors, both of these kids had won so many STEM awards, rebotics awards that both of their resumes, if they had one, would have been 10x more impressive than most graduates from college these…Both grades were pretty decent too. It wasn’t over 4.0. They weren’t athletic, per se (who really is)…Anyway, neither got into a single UC school or Ivy League engineering school, which is all they wanted to do. I was like WTF?

Here, we have American CEOs at tech company who constantly complain about how we, America, don’t home grow enough engineers and scientists for the future, and why American schools needs to admit foreign students into engineering programs and hire H1-Bs to fill a skills void that most Americans do not have…..Meanwhile, we have some white kids from elementary school who’s loved math and science, competed and done well in math and science throughout school, and wants to do engineering (when most high school students are goal-less), and is probably more qualified than most applicants to the top rank engineering school, but doesn’t get in. Probably because that 25% subjectivity went against them, maybe because they didn’t play sports, or didn’t put down they do 200+hours of community service that people really don’t do….or wasnt poor or didn’t have any social-injustice life changing experiences….Sorry, maybe those kids were just too busy being good STEM kids and spending most of their time doing what they were naturally good at instead of immersing themselves a bunch of “filler” bullshit.

That’s pretty fucked up. It’s making me re-evaluate where I recruit my fresh out of school candidates…It certainly explains why I’m seeing so many U.C. and Ivy League candidates can’t code out of a wet paper bag, and wonder how the hell did they get into a good engineering school to begin with.

So here’s an interesting predicament I’ve been thinking about. Asian american kid from a normal upper middle but not uber wealthy class
1) Can’t get into Ivy League schools based on his/her heritage alone (no white privilege like a Bush, Clinton, insert your favorite white family with a long history in America that just gets because of his/her heritage)
2) Has to work a lot harder than someone latino or african american to get noticed by Ivy League admissions board

And then, if he/she does get in
3) Parents have to pay roughly $80,000/year …., because obviously their parents won’t qualify for financial aid…..
… while kids from “disadvantaged background” (and I wonder how many are trully disadvantaged) get a free or reduced tuition ride….

Do I really want my kid and my wallet to go through this bullshit system?
$320k (and probably more if you factor in a 4% increase in college expenses per year on average)….That’s a lot of money to give to your kids to help them build their financial future….It’s not that I can’t afford that amount and write that check right now…It’s the principle of this entire situation.

And the sad part is, at least I can talk about this without being accused of being a racist because I’m Asian. All progressives will do is just sweep what I have to say under the rug and ignore me and other Asians, because that’s what usually happens and has been happening all these years, well at least until they want my vote…..If you’re a white family and you bring this up as an issue, you probably get tarred and feathered and labeled a racist. Go figure.

Where are those cheaper online college degree courses again????
There’s got to be a better way of doing things.

#BoycottHarvard

[Coronita]

Funny also CNN buries this on the back pages and it isn’t page 1 content. I guess negative coverage of Trump (which we all already know about) is far more important than some of the social issues, especially when it doesn’t fit with the far left progressive narrative of being all inclusive of all “minorities”…. lol

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