[Rich Toscano]

[quote=ucodegen][quote=Rich Toscano]
When I get around to upgrading the site software, I am really hoping to put in an “upvote” capability…[/quote]Don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing. If you look at how the main stream media is chasing ‘popular’ thoughts vs digging for truth.. it might degrade this place to a elementary school level popularity contest – though the periodic name calling does seem drop down to elementary school mentality.[/quote]

I’m not really sure what mainstream media trends have to do with the piggington forums getting a comment voting system… but regardless… if we had one, you could have downvoted my comment. See how handy that is? 😉

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=svelte][quote=flu]
Let me know when your next revelation will be the next time you’re high. Entertainment factor, of course.[/quote]

Conjures up images of phaster and bearish sitting around in an opium den pondering how to take a succinct three sentence thought and expand it into a monolithic, over-quoted, bolded, italicized, grotesquely pictured, 20 paragraph manifesto.[/quote]

When I get around to upgrading the site software, I am really hoping to put in an “upvote” capability…

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=CA renter]Did they really include that pic in an MLS photo? Crazy stuff![/quote]

Hi CAR! Haven’t seen you around much, welcome back.

You know, I’m giving the site owner the benefit of the doubt that these are legit listing photos, but who knows. Then again, the pic does have a “casa.it” watermark on it – that looks to be an Italian property site.

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=mixxalot]H1b and outsourcing of STEM engineering jobs to India and China has severely impacted American engineers! That is fact which you cannot deny. In USA and Europe, there are still good jobs but not that many.[/quote]

That’s doesn’t seem to be the case in software, from my observation. Everyone I know in the software tech industry is desperately trying to find good people to hire… there are more job openings than there are qualified candidates.

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=mixxalot]If you call having the Demoncraps in power and constantly taking our constitutional rights away good then I have a bridge to sell you at a discount.[/quote]

http://piggington.com/threadjackers_will_be_persecuted_maybe_even_prosecuted

[Rich Toscano]

Someone here in Bay Park isn’t shy:

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[Rich Toscano]

[quote=harvey]
I understand that your list of Trump’s despicable qualities is incomplete because otherwise it would go on and on … but you can’t leave out the hypocrisy.[/quote]

Yep — hypocrisy should have been on there too. Good one. He’s an unbelievable hypocrite… how he runs his business and life is at complete odds with what he says in the campaign. That’s another list that could go on forever…

[Rich Toscano]

BG, a couple further thoughts on your “Dem leaning” comment. If you look through this forum’s long history and try to find me ever taking a side on the R-vs-D debate, you won’t find anything. I don’t participate in those debates (and don’t find them very useful or interesting fwiw).

This is not about R vs D or L vs C. It’s about Donald Trump, the person. My antipathy towards him is not because of his political party, but because he is a terrible, terrible person who brings out the worst in other people.

He takes everything I loathe about modern US politics — the mean-spiritedness, the disdain for facts and analysis, the bullying, the shouting, the anti-intellectual and anti-science bias, the conspiracy theories, and more — and he multiplies it by 10, and discards the rest. To me, he represents the very worst of American culture, distilled, with nothing to redeem him.

I don’t care what party he is with. I just couldn’t care less. He’s an abomination, whatever his party. I would vote for practically anyone over Trump. Even you, BG!

So please, spare me the accusations of “partisanship”…

[Rich Toscano]

My only “leaning” is against your buddy Trump. It’s not because of what party he’s in, but because he’s a bullying, blatantly lying, probably psychotic halfwit.

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=bearishgurl]It would be more helpful to readers if posters would just stick to the important issues at stake in this presidential election and dump the “presidential personality contest.” [/quote]

Idunno, when a presidential candidate is an obviously deranged aspiring fascist who literally cannot even spell… I guess I see that as important.

BTW… me a few weeks ago in a comment to you:

[quote=Rich Toscano]And I’ll admit to some personal bias here, but it doesn’t help that so many of your novel-length comments these days are impassioned defenses of that goose-stepping canned ham who you inexplicably think would be a good president.
[/quote]

And your reply:

[quote=bearishgurl]Well, Rich, I actually haven’t commented on why anyone would make a good president so I don’t know where you are seeing that.
[/quote]

So is this you “not commenting” again on who would be a good president?

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=harvey]
I’m generally pragmatic with personal finance, but he takes it to a level that’s a little too cold and calculating.

Stuff like “you only need one kid” and “you don’t need a dog.” Yes he actually did the math, and a dog in your life means that you’ll have to work X number of years longer before retirement…

I keep a budget but don’t think it’s healthy to be calculating the lifetime cost of a family member.[/quote]

If dogs are too expensive, how does he justify having a kid?

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=zk]Compensating for something, but without a trace of subtlety, taste, or dignity.[/quote]

Just to circle back, that would also be an excellent description of Trump’s apartment, or his life.

[Rich Toscano]

I’m not sure how high a bar that is… but thanks. 😉

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=kev374]
I see a lot of people in the media say it’s not like the last time just because NINJA loans are absent.. that is hogwash. Bubbles can be caused in a variety of ways..[/quote]

You’re right, that doesn’t disprove a bubble. But it’s NOT a bubble like last time.

I didn’t watch the video past the intro (it’s just an advertisement it seems?), but there hasn’t been much mention of the defining characteristic of bubbles: valuations. Valuations now vs during the bubble are not even in the same ballpark. (And that’s without considering that rates are much lower now).

Is it a bubble? That’s kind of a squishy term, so I guess it depends on your definition. By the definitions I favor, it is not; maybe some could argue otherwise for other definitions. But it does not compare at all to the mid-2000s bubble.

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=no_such_reality]To the point I wonder if it’s not an intentional throw.
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Suspicions like this, and the “Hillary plant” thesis mentioned by someone else above, give Trump way, WAY too much credit.

Which is more plausible:

– He’s an evil genius with a cunning master plan that somehow involves convincing everyone he’s a mentally unstable halfwit

– He actually just is a mentally unstable halfwit

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