Trump thread 2.0

[SkinnyPupp]

Originally Posted by RevYouUp

Had a work function today, everyone kept talking about how sad they are and how the dark days will come. Holy, like just move on with your life. One person left early and didn’t even come back. I don’t know how someone can be so emotionally attached to these things.

Do you ever think about the future beyond maybe the week ahead?

[noclue]

Originally Posted by Harvey Specter

I'm pretty confident Trump would start a trade war. Which country he targets and how far he'd go is anyone’s guess. He's intent on taking a hard line with countries he believes are exploiting America.

He also seems motivated to project strength to his base, showing them that other nations fear American power. But this approach will easily drive up inflation again.

Probably get another trade war going with CHY-NA which will raise up the prices of goods at Dollar General where all the rural hicks live.



The return of the messiah who will lead us to promised lands! Also I dunno why Christians believe Trump is religious, he mocked them in the past.

[RevYouUp]

Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp

Do you ever think about the future beyond maybe the week ahead?

Yea I do.

It’s wild, the same people that talk about politics and all that jazz don’t have their life in check and blame the economy and the government for everything. Most (not all) of these people are in debt from their own actions and don’t look for change within themselves. They’re trying to keep up their lifestyles, buy things they can’t afford, don’t pursue anything with their lives other than low level jobs (I know there’s exceptions to that part, but the majority of the population is just straight up lazy). Blaming the government for this and that. I know the government does have an impact on us, but ultimately it’s up to the individual to take action on how they want to live their own lives.

[Traum]

Originally Posted by Harvey Specter

I'm pretty confident Trump would start a trade war. Which country he targets and how far he'd go is anyone’s guess. He's intent on taking a hard line with countries he believes are exploiting America.

With Trump's campaign promise / plans to impose a 10% tariff on all US imports, and 60% tariff on all Chinese-made products, is there really just one (or a small handful) of countries that he plans on targeting for a trade war? Besides, Trump is precisely the kind of person that believes everyone else is exploiting the US unless they agree to giving 90% of the profits to the US.

For Canada and Mexico, I would assume that the USMCA should exempt us from that tariff BS -- at least until it is due for review in 2026.

To me, the semiconductor market is gonna be an interesting one because a LOT of US tech, many of which are highly profitable or innovative -- nVidia, ChatGPT, Apple, Tesla, etc. -- are totally dependent on TSMC manufacturing in Taiwan. Intel or domestic manufacturing has zero hope in catching up to TW TSMC on this front in the short and medium term. So the only way I see it is -- exemptions will be granted for a list of items that the US desires, with high end semiconductors being at the top of that list. But once the floodgate for exemptions is opened, I wonder how big it would open up to other goods.

[Hehe]

Originally Posted by 68style

This is just a bizarre statement. I don't mean an offence by this, as in I'm happy for you that you made your bag, but you haven't had to work at an actual job-job in like 10+ years, and even when you did it was the type of job where you got flown around the world in first class dealing with extremely wealthy clients.

What makes you think you're in touch with regular folk? Or that you can tell people here that do work in and around regular people every day that they're the ones who don't know what's up?

Having a beer once or twice a year with your tenants =/= knowing regular folk.

Bahaha. People only see the easy side of my life.

What about when I have to put in 14+hrs a day for several months straight to make sure my contractors get the shit done before the deadline or I face hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties? Oh... they have done their 9-5, went out for dinners and are sleeping with their chick.

I put in easily 6hrs everyday going through emails listings and Co-Star system (kinda Bloomberg Terminal for CRE) and running through numbers to see if any listing that passes my criteria. And if something does, I need to prep presentation, which is another few hours a day, in order to present it to my clients.

Then I have to fly every so often to do field researches or meet with tenants, landlords or clients, barely have time to eat, and to top it off, my clients, those wealthy people you mentioned, giving me all sort of craps because something not going as planned.

Yes, I have the freedom to choose how many deals I want to make every year. If I get burned out, I just put a stop to notifications (assuming I'm done with whatever outstanding obligations) and I can just scratch my balls every day and the passive income would be enough to at least bring food to the table.

CRE is quite simple and relaxing if you want it to be. But if you choose to do it as a career and you want to make the most out of it, work is never ending and there is no working hour or holiday. It's not like CRE would suddenly cease to exist one day.

I talk to contractors, lawyers, accountants, landlords, tenants... etc almost on a daily basis. Many of them are struggling with their own stuff. And sometimes I become their outlet if I push too far.

So, I don't know what you do now for a living exactly, but I'm sure the amount of people, throughout all different social levels, that I talk to on a monthly basis is far more than what a regular person would do in an entire year.

Liberals have this "oh, people are struggling and help them" kinda philosophy. It's great on paper, but lefties have push it so far that they are doing in a kinda condescending way.

Economy is fucked? Doesn't matter as long as illegal immigrants are being taken care of. Discrimination is bad? Then let's make anyone who's not being discriminated to taste what's like to be discriminated.

Lefties are usually those who are either elites in our society or direct beneficiaries of liberal policies. But the people can no longer afford to continue with that. Most of us are all decent and nice people and we try to help others whenever we can.

But when your own survival is already on the line, and Dems are still saying "hey, if you don't help these people, you are BAD."... what are they supposed to do? They either feel guilty and push forward or seek change.

That's why I said Dems/libs are so out of touch with regular folks. Fucking stop pretending that you care. You are caring because that makes you feel "oh, I'm being the nice guy/gal", but you know what? Most of you have no fucking idea about what's really going on. It's nothing more than something to satisfy your own ego/guilt/benefit.

[RevYouUp]

Respect to Hehe, if you work hard in North America, don’t do stupid things financially, you’ll come out ahead. There’s literally so many ways to make money here (although money isn’t the most important thing, it definitely is the root of many problems).

[SkinnyPupp]

Originally Posted by Hehe

Bahaha. People only see the easy side of my life.

What about when I have to put in 14+hrs a day for several months straight to make sure my contractors get the shit done before the deadline or I face hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties? Oh... they have done their 9-5, went out for dinners and are sleeping with their chick.

I put in easily 6hrs everyday going through emails listings and Co-Star system (kinda Bloomberg Terminal for CRE) and running through numbers to see if any listing that passes my criteria. And if something does, I need to prep presentation, which is another few hours a day, in order to present it to my clients.

Then I have to fly every so often to do field researches or meet with tenants, landlords or clients, barely have time to eat, and to top it off, my clients, those wealthy people you mentioned, giving me all sort of craps because something not going as planned.

Yes, I have the freedom to choose how many deals I want to make every year. If I get burned out, I just put a stop to notifications (assuming I'm done with whatever outstanding obligations) and I can just scratch my balls every day and the passive income would be enough to at least bring food to the table.

CRE is quite simple and relaxing if you want it to be. But if you choose to do it as a career and you want to make the most out of it, work is never ending and there is no working hour or holiday. It's not like CRE would suddenly cease to exist one day.

I talk to contractors, lawyers, accountants, landlords, tenants... etc almost on a daily basis. Many of them are struggling with their own stuff. And sometimes I become their outlet if I push too far.

So, I don't know what you do now for a living exactly, but I'm sure the amount of people, throughout all different social levels, that I talk to on a monthly basis is far more than what a regular person would do in an entire year.

Liberals have this "oh, people are struggling and help them" kinda philosophy. It's great on paper, but lefties have push it so far that they are doing in a kinda condescending way.

Economy is fucked? Doesn't matter as long as illegal immigrants are being taken care of. Discrimination is bad? Then let's make anyone who's not being discriminated to taste what's like to be discriminated.

Lefties are usually those who are either elites in our society or direct beneficiaries of liberal policies. But the people can no longer afford to continue with that. Most of us are all decent and nice people and we try to help others whenever we can.

But when your own survival is already on the line, and Dems are still saying "hey, if you don't help these people, you are BAD."... what are they supposed to do? They either feel guilty and push forward or seek change.

That's why I said Dems/libs are so out of touch with regular folks. Fucking stop pretending that you care. You are caring because that makes you feel "oh, I'm being the nice guy/gal", but you know what? Most of you have no fucking idea about what's really going on. It's nothing more than something to satisfy your own ego/guilt/benefit.

Man you have it tough, I never knew. Sorry to hear about all this hardship, seriously.