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I’m confident we will both be wrong. Quite frankly, a deal that works for both sides is a compromise and both sides walk away with a deal but each a little unhappy. That’s a deal that will stick.
I’m not going to get partisan with you except to say that without fundamental change we will continue to see 94 million out of work people. I don’t care which side does it but something has to be done. I expect we will see Reagan Econ part two. Our political system has checks and balances. This helps avert disaster. We survived Reagan’s hot mike nuclear bombing Russia joke, I suspect we will survive Trump’s mouth. Quite frankly though, I think globalizing and bemoaning our President elect when he hasn’t taken office yet is not productive.
I have heard Trump is a deal maker and it’s very clear that many of his positions are beginning points, not red lines. I have read there will be attempts to keep kids on their parents policy until 26 and the high risk coverage where they have to cover the person will stay.
So I’m not going to freak out over Internet memes, larping and hearsay. I encourage you to explore facts from non partisan sources.
Hopefully, the Left will learn from their mistakes, but that has cost them SCOTUS for a generation.
Democrats suffered greatly at the state level as well.
I agree all politicians should be held accountable. Maybe we will get that wish.
As a pragmatist, I will be happy with policies that make eBay great again.
Bwahaha.
Please don’t ban me. ????
As like others in this forum, I share the disappointment and apprehension of seeing a political post. However, I certainly respect and understand what Jay and Ryanne feel. I have tremendous respect for anyone with a Vulcan avatar. I trust this means facts over emotion.
I feel it is important, if not obvious, to point out that millions of people, roughly half the country voted Trump. Chances are, if trash elves live in the rust belt, middle of the country, and outside certain population centers, the statistical probability favors a Trump vote. We can quibble over semantics, but look at the post election voting maps.they are very telling.
Second the polls were deceptive from day one. I feel this was a huge disservice to liberals. You always have to look at the methodology. Sure enough, just like the pre BREXIT POLLS, the methodology across most of the board was favorable to getting a positive result for HRC. That looks great on realpolitics.com, but the illusion had consequences.
By the Friday before the election, Trump’s digital team was 90% sure they had won the election. Meanwhile HRC campaign staffers and volunteers were blithely unaware of their impending doom. Only Bill Clinton repeatedly expressed concern of the lack of outreach to the Rust Belt and white voters in general. Clearly, the HRC campaign made mistakes that cost them dearly. The “Deplorables”comment, secret Goldman Sachs speeches that got exposed, Brazile giving her debate questions in advance, and bird dogging did not help. We all know sausage making is not attractive, but once that was out, it was out. Nor did Comey, Weiner or Wikileaks do her any favors.At the end of the day, she let Podesta and Mook make a lot of decisions, and she did so at her own peril.
What strikes me as odd is the lack of memory people have. Trump was a democrat much longer than a Republican. I think that Trump is a Reagan Democrat. He is not a neo-con and I respectfully submit to you that HRC is a neo-con. In any event, this mischaracterization of Trump’s political leaning is rather odd. Moreover, some of the Bush family voted for HRC, and the youngest George is very close to Michelle. I don’t say this for political rubbernecking, but that coziness hurt, not helped HRC. However that’s JMHO.
Finally, history was not in HRC’s favor. Had Merkel never basically gave the green light for Syria to come to the EU, and the fall out had never had happened, Americans would be far less wary of letting refugees or immigrants in. Had there not been this increased divide between white collar service jobs going up and blue collar jobs going down, things would be different. Had anyone applied the walks like a duck, quacks like a duck scenario instead of hiding behind PC, and not calling wide swathes of the American population racists, nazis etc ad nauseum, things would have been different.
We are an ethnically diverse country with a big heart and a lot of guns. We are sometimes Globalists, sometimes Nationalists, sometimes naive and sometimes an angry poked bear whose US Dollar Hegemony is threatened.
At the end of the day, we all try to do what we think is best for our lives and our families. I think Trump will ultimately be a good brand for the US economy. I say this because I have to believe it. The alternative is a bad one indeed. (That and my 82 year old dad and his cronies are holding cash they won’t spend and haven’t spent during the last 8 years). Once they see some action, I think a lot of the older generation will buy things they have been holding out on in the last 8 years.
In the meantime, life goes on. We won’t be Polyannas, but regardless of political or religious affliction, we are buddies, you all and me. And if you need me or a place to crash, I will leave the light on for you.
Okay so first up are too cool things from one of my eBay IDs:
I found this odd looking Christian Dior small purse at the Weigh and Go. What was weird about it was that I got to the handbag bin behind many other people and it was at the bottom under other bags. I’m guessing they thought it was fake. Quite frankly, it’s not my cup of tea, and it has marks on it, but it still sold in a few days for a Best Offer of $80.00. I listed at $99.00. Dior is not the power label it used to be, and I priced it to move.
The next is a rather large Squishable frog pillow plush thing I got at the same place. Some Squishables can sell for over $175.00. I as greedy and aimed high, but took a Best Offer for $75.00. That’s not bad for about a buck and waiting a few weeks from a Weigh n Go find.
If you look up the Sold auctions on Squishables and another tag, American Mills, some sell very nicely. I don’t do a ton of plush, but once in a while, these pop up, and they are great to nab if you happen to see them.
Finally, these two are personal Eye Candy. The first picture is of two small ruffled vases. I first thought they were Fenton, but they actually date to the late 1800s by the Phoenix Consolidated Glass company. It’s a layered process, then the overlay has an optic design. They looked modern so I was surprised to discover they were very old.
The second group came with a large lot of swanky swigs. These are candy red striped Hazel Atlas milk glass juice glasses. I like the Xmas inspired design. They can sell in groups of 6 to 8 for anywhere between $50 to $125 as per my most recent check on eBay. Hopefully I can nab in the $100 range with this box of them. As luck would have it, that Casino chip clip I found in the box recently sold for $50 on eBay. Woohoo. Not bad for an estate sale last day find of $18.00
(Swipe above with your finger on mobile device) Those at my goodies of the week.
Wow Retro, our game room currently has about 10 pinball machines, a 50s diner booth set, and one of those modified video arcade machines!
We were breathtakingly reckless with money over the years, unrepentantly so, good times! As we age, it has occurred to us it probably wasn’t the soundest decision ever made. Still, it was a hoot. We are both paying and making up for that now by saving more. But let’s be honest, that Challenger SRT Hellcat isn’t going to buy itself.
Anyway, sold two homely dolls for a bit over $200. Sales on eBay a bit slow, Amazon books moving at a good clip. I read an interesting article about that furthers my tin foil hat conspiracy of cycling on Amazon. http://miami.cbslocal.com/2016/11/14/secrets-of-online-shopping-discrimination/
If this happens, then cycling is not a stretch.
Winter will be cold this year or so the Farmers Almanac and the wooly bear caterpillars tell us. Here is my Winter is Coming What Sold video. http://youtu.be/LN0BYbYFmSI
Hey everybody! First a huge THANK YOU to Jay and Ryanne for doing all of this for us. If you ever need a kidney…ok, I will hit up the tip jar later and I hope others do too.
Managed steady sales and Christmas themed items are moving faster as well with some boxed Christmas themed flatware I scrounged from a curbside for $60.00.
I always feel a bit um, undignified scrounging freebies, but there were bags of vintage stuff from the 70s thru 90s put on the curb by folks hired by a bank to clean out a foreclosed house that had been abandoned for several months. I saw it driving back from a coffee run, stopped and got the low down from the cleaners. So far that haul of freebies has made roughly $200 from two concert t shirts, fishing items and the flatware. I might do a haul video, but only because the vintage clothing is really fantastic.
Anyway, I just did this video and it includes my Amazon selling. I don’t generally talk Amazon, but I thought it might be useful to talk about how I pick and flip books.
Good Hunting out there folks
