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Plat/Gold still stuck on major downtrend

Posted by Maddog @ 7:52 on November 11, 2025  

pl/au

Here is the Weekly

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Re Reagan

Posted by Maddog @ 7:40 on November 11, 2025  

If he had done nothing else, other than bringing down Communism, without fireing a shot, he can take his place among the true greats…….Communism was/is pure evil and nothing but misery for all its sufferers.

Funnily enough I watched The Death of Stalin last night….a very good black Comedy…..but there was nothing funny about what Stalin via Beria, were doing to people…he and many others were horror stories.

ferret

Posted by Maddog @ 7:31 on November 11, 2025  

Re Trump yr demanding perfection, in a very imperfect world……and look at the alternatives, in the west most are zombie globalists, except for a few like Milie and Orbon, or you have despots like Xi or Putin .

aufever, I agree.

Posted by ferrett @ 5:54 on November 11, 2025  

But if he is going to achieve permanent benefits, and finish the jobs he’s started, he has to start behaving like a statesman rather than a showman. Or it will be back to square one, or square minus two, within four years.

ferret

Posted by aufever @ 5:20 on November 11, 2025  

Trump has worked to overhaul HUNDREDS of problems with the U.S. dating back at least 150 years, and especially since the early 1900s.
It’s not his fault that EVERY level of government and every institution was taken over and completely and corruptly controlled by evil and greed.
A corrupt mis-education system, including much fake history. Bloated, corrupt, thieving governments at ALL levels. Corrupt, controlled media empires, universities, medical systems, schools, etc.
It’s not his fault nearly everyone is sick from poisoned water and food supplies. Glyphosate and pesticide poisoning. Processed foods. Vaccinations. Hormones and excess antibiotics in all ‘factory farm’ animals. Chemtrails (100% true and proven and admitted).
The hundreds or thousands of ways they have been stealing our money through federal agencies and NGOs. And using all of that money against us.
It’s not his fault that practically everyone in this country has been completely brainwashed for over a hundred years, and especially since WWII. A medical system that hides and bans cures, and knows and does nothing but surgery and prescribe synthetic drugs. Again for money and greed.
Countlesss, unnecessary wars. Destroying entire countries, and ecosystems, and millions and millions of human beings. For money and greed.
Using other countries, many with the same controllers, to rip us off via monetary and trade policies. Allowing the CIA, corporations, WHO, Gates, etc. to destroy the lives of millions of people around the world via ‘foreign aid’, vaccinations, etc.
The list goes on and on.
Yes, he has done some things that don’t make sense.
The CIA et al CAUSING the crack addictions in the 80s and 90s. Trafficking the cocaine and heroin for profit for decades. Fetynal has been killing 10s of thousands every year.
I haven’t even mentioned all the human and child trafficking and blood and organ harvesting that has come to light over the last several years, thanks to Trump.
Or the border, and all of its isssues. And all the illegals, many of them very dangerous, let in here.
Yes, he has done some things that don’t make sense.
It’s also possible that some of what we are presented is not real, as has been the case, again, for a very long time.

Yep. That’s why he’s got to stop his high profile piracy on the high seas

Posted by ferrett @ 2:33 on November 11, 2025  

and work to get the republicans on board with his MAGA, real MAGA not feel good maga, focussing on the majority of Americans’ issues.

Let’s be blunt. Is the average working class American more concerned about putting good food on the table, meeting his mortgage and having health care at a price he can afford, or a bunch of drug addicts not getting their fixes? Murdering poor fishermen on a side hustle to put food on their tables might be great optics of sorts, but it’s MAFeelGA. Threatening to sack air traffic controllers because they refuse to work without pay, or more probably can’t work because they have found a side hustle to get some money,  when the military is being funded is a really poor look and could well backfire.

It was the common people who put him there. Some republicans like Massie and Paul realise he’s becoming a liability to their re-election chances or those of their colleagues, and if that number isn’t to grow he needs to show some reconciliation skills or he’ll lose the senate and maybe the house at the mid-terms and become a paper tiger. That would be so frustrating for him, and not good for America.

Ferrett

Posted by goldielocks @ 1:50 on November 11, 2025  

Btw If prices go up it simply means that these companies didn’t negotiate with Trump on fair trade since most the manufacturing and intellectual property was ours in the first place. Not counting the ones that want one sided trade or unequal priced.  I imagine the ones that did aren’t going to have a problem

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Ferrett

Posted by goldielocks @ 1:37 on November 11, 2025  

I’m pretty sure his tarriffs succeeded to bring back jobs to  America where it’s base and main business shouldn’t of left as well as new investments. Over a 100 companies including some foreign like Nivida are bringing in thousands of jobs all over the US. Also 7 countries pledged to invest billions. He’s been busy while others have nothing to do but whine.

However that isn’t going to happen over night The crime would be the commie demos getting a hold of them in the next election where they will go right back out the door taking American jobs with it with their tax the rich work to welfare and crime rules BS instead of welfare or school to work and safe streets. There used to be many lighted streets all over the US with night life but not anymore.

They created a lot of these problems now they pretend to worry about it. Oh you poor people look what happened to your city’s.

. Wall street and unscrupulous dirt bags buying up property to drive the prices up not to mention slum.lords building for illegals. Newsom’s idiotic catastrophy on million dollar net zero units for homeless unsustainable or affordable they’ll wreck anyways  dropped on.the tax payers, He’s such a frigging idiot it’s unbelievable, doesn’t know what he’s doing   and wants to be president????? So they create problems, pretend to worry about it, only to create more problems and chaos.

Wall street and scum bag realtors who live in their own fantasy world need a reality check. They should be tariffed themselves  right out of family real estate and give it back to the people where it belongs instead of these fantasy island wanna be kings collecting easy money fantasy jerk offs.  They’re helping the communist party’s right along.

These states voting for these demos are gonna miss out on these opportunities and dig themselves a deeper hole..

They need to make college more affordable. They totally took advantage of student loans jacking up prices saddling people with all this debt. It’s a total rip.off and so is the education they’re getting now. Pretty soon there gonna be able to make their own grade.

The words are so tiny on this phone so this is not really edited.

Gold Train

Posted by Maya @ 0:14 on November 11, 2025  

The White Pass & Yukon route
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/889654/

 

funny you should post that Goldie, when ZH have just posted

Posted by ferrett @ 23:59 on November 10, 2025  

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/latest-us-attacks-drug-boats-brings-total-19-conservatives-urge-trump-stop-foreign

saying the republicans have lost their way.

Treefrog

Posted by goldielocks @ 21:38 on November 10, 2025  

Btw speaking of the repub party. They broke with Trump this last election. They didn’t address the real issue of the people like the cost of living and why they lost The ones voting have no clue the communist free stuff propaganda by taxing the rich like the commy in NY has never worked. All they’re going to do is raise taxes and the cost will fall in the laps of the voters who fell for it and it business and citizens  will leave a increasing demise with increasing crime . Either way they’ll lose.

Treefrog

Posted by goldielocks @ 21:17 on November 10, 2025  

Did you see the packed schools of Orange county back then? Maybe one or two white or black American kids rest children of mostly illegal migrants and refugees. By the time they grew up many of the neighborhoods including all around Disney  were unrecognizable as a American city.  Now with Americans having less kids me and others are seeing the same thing in the schools of northern Calif. And asked where are they coming from

It’s a miracle OC still has a Republican party. They even had the law in on it like what’s going on in England to cover up crimes. As prices went up in certain areas out of reach of most citizens unless equity in other properties was part of the reason.

ronnie reagan

Posted by treefrog @ 20:48 on November 10, 2025  

i lived in california for almost a year (summer of love et seq) while ronnie was governor.  i came to believe that nancy had the brains in that family, and that she and ronnie were the front for the orange county (ca) republican committee.

nothing since then changed my opinion to any great degree.  he styled himself as “the great communicator.”  well, that’s essentially what he was, a communication device.  the o. c. r. c. spoke into one end, and the words came out of his mouth.

he was a competent actor.  he could follow a script.

We want more divvys please

Posted by ipso facto @ 20:04 on November 10, 2025  

Mark
@Mark_IKN
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9h
Newmont $NEM beat guidance, stayed pat on its dividend, shares dropped.

Barrick $B missed guidance, juiced its dividend, shares rocketed.

Maybe, just maybe, there’s a lesson for the Newmont tightwads here.

Aufever Mr Copper

Posted by goldielocks @ 19:26 on November 10, 2025  

He was a lot better then the opposition who would of made thing much worse. Like Trump there was too much uniparty and corruption around him. He had to settle for let them eat cake deep state Bush who could run business as usual behind the scenes and we seen where that went.

Mr.Copper

Posted by aufever @ 17:12 on November 10, 2025  

No argument here.
Many Republicans I have met/known over the years idolize Reagan. I no idea why.
The National Debt also approximately tripled during his presidency to nearly $3 Trillion

while they last…

Posted by treefrog @ 16:13 on November 10, 2025  

 

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aufever @ 11:54

Posted by Mr.Copper @ 15:46 on November 10, 2025  

You forgot Reagan was a puppet. Re your “Reagan facilitated the production of Gold Eagles.”

No it was Ron Paul.

The American Gold Eagle coin program was created by an act of Congress — the Gold Bullion Coin Act of 1985 — which was introduced by Representative Ron Paul of Texas.

The coins were first issued by the U.S. Mint in 1986 under this law.

So, in short:
➡️ Creator/Sponsor: Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
➡️ Authorized by: Gold Bullion Coin Act of 1985
➡️ First issued: 1986

CDE has some serious shorts building here…been sold all day….

Posted by Maddog @ 15:35 on November 10, 2025  

I’d say it is ultra cheap.

Alligators

Posted by aufever @ 15:29 on November 10, 2025  

The alligator climbing the fence was hilarious, and rare.

Ten areas where Trump is having an impact.

Posted by ferrett @ 15:26 on November 10, 2025  
  1. Inflation. He hasn’t started direct money printing yet. But he’s promising $600bn tariff distribution, $1,000 per child savings scheme, subsidies to soy farmers, $5,000 to households as a DOGE dividend, 50 yr mortgages and the tariffs themselves. Fail.
  2. Tariffs. Like a bull in a china shop. You don’t know what’s happening next. On, off, up, down, sideways; destabilising to trade, uncertainty and retributions. Fail.
  3. Health. Great stuff! Go Bobby, Go! Pass.
  4. Foreign policy. Tempted to make this an automatic fail as he shot his mouth off with unkeepable promises, but on the basis of he is doing less bad than his predecessor; neutral. (Must try harder).
  5. Homeland security. Pass.
  6. Climate and energy. Pass.
  7. Fiscal. No attempt to rein in spending, quite the opposite. Debt increasing, artificially trying to keep rates low because he can’t afford the interest bill. Fail.
  8. Markets. Pumping them like mad for the feel good factor; stocks, bonds, crypto, tokenisation etc. The bigger the pump, the bigger the fall. Fail.
  9. Mental stability. Look at his latest rant against air traffic controllers. He’s telling them to eff off because they can be replaced tomorrow with new staff on a best in the world new system that they haven’t ordered yet. He’s getting booed at the game. He isn’t used to things not happening as he wants, and this makes him dangerous – see also his tariff chaos. He isn’t good at thinking anything through. Fail.
  10. MAGA. Maybe internally it looks good, but from down here there’s a litany of broken promises and uncertainties. More like Make America Feel Great Again. We’ll see where it ends up. Neutral.

So in the poll, four (three passes and two neutrals).

If they protecting your brain is important to post

Posted by goldielocks @ 14:50 on November 10, 2025  

Common over the counter pills along with some prescription that can cause brain damage and dementia Read the comments, a lot of testimonials. Common as Benadryl …

Aufever

Posted by goldielocks @ 14:44 on November 10, 2025  

There’s amazing creatures and survivors. If you like being in the water could be a problem though. Here we have much water through many rivers, lakes and the ocean. The waters cold because we have mountains too that keep away tornados and brings skiing and kids sleighing  here though which also keeps down things like brain eating amoeba especially although pool water less treated well on warm days or some lakes could be at risk and flesh eating bacteria your more at risk there particular after hurricanes. So water proof any scratches or healing wounds, before hand.

goldielocks

Posted by aufever @ 14:24 on November 10, 2025  

Alligator in Florida
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1617195272585785/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Mr Copper

Posted by goldielocks @ 14:17 on November 10, 2025  

My Grandmother knew Reagan too since the acting days I think she said in Chicago. I meantioned to her the young wanted to vote for him because he wanted to legalize pot which I.believd it should too even though I didn’t smoke it I thought arresting people over it was ridiculous. She told me he smokes pot too. It’s not too much a hidden thing now but I don’t think he was much worried about it since he even had it placed on the table after dinners.

I looked up Reagan and the great SS heist. See what it said. It left out obummer who also borrowed. They all used up all the decades if reserves it needs now that never got paid back.  Not to mention demos giving it including disability to new illegals. Ordered them to make up things to put them in SS  disability after giving them a SS number.perbwhiztld blower shocked and disgusted by it.

Ronald Reagan did not directly “take” money from Social Security to balance the budget, but his administration’s policies, established through the bipartisan Social Security Amendments of 1983, led to the accumulation of Social Security surpluses that were invested in general government expenditures. 
Here’s how the process worked:
  • 1983 Amendments: Facing an imminent funding gap in Social Security, a bipartisan commission appointed by Reagan developed a compromise plan to ensure the system’s long-term solvency. This plan included accelerating payroll tax increases, gradually raising the retirement age, and for the first time, taxing the benefits of higher-income recipients.
  • Creation of Surpluses: These measures generated significant Social Security surpluses, meaning more money was collected in payroll taxes than was paid out in benefits at the time.
  • Investment in General Fund: By law, these surplus funds were (and still are) invested in special-issue U.S. Treasury securities, which are essentially loans to the federal government backed by the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. government. The money received from the sale of these securities goes into the Treasury’s general fund and is used to fund general government operations and reduce the need for borrowing from the public.
  • Budgetary Context: The practice of including Social Security trust fund transactions within the unified federal budget began under President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968. While this accounting practice made the overall budget deficit appear smaller, the funds were always legally separate and accounted for as an asset of the Social Security trust funds (in the form of the special bonds). The 1983 amendments actually included a provision to eventually remove Social Security operations from the unified budget, a change that was fully implemented by 1990. 
In essence, the Social Security program generates interest income from the government on the money it “lends” it, and the government is obligated to repay these funds with interest when needed to pay benefits. Every president since Reagan has continued this practice, but the idea that Reagan uniquely “stole” or “diverted” the funds for other purposes is a common misconception about federal budget mechanics.
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Multiple presidents have seen the federal government borrow from the Social Security trust fund, though the practice began with Lyndon B. Johnson to pay for the Vietnam War. More recently, the George W. Bush administration is cited for borrowing from the fund, and Ronald Reagan signed legislation that increased Social Security taxes to ensure the system’s solvency.

  • Often cited as the first president to borrow from the trust fund to help cover costs associated with the Vietnam War.

  • Signed the Social Security Amendments of 1983, which included a bipartisan vote to raise payroll taxes to shore up the system’s long-term solvency. This increase generated a surplus that the government later borrowed from.

  • The government borrowed a significant amount from Social Security surpluses during his presidency to cover budget deficits from tax cuts and the Iraq War.

  • Critics have pointed to accounting methods in his proposals that they claim double-counted the Social Security surplus.

 

 

Ronald Reagan did not directly “take” money from Social Security to balance the budget, but his administration’s policies, established through the bipartisan Social Security Amendments of 1983, led to the accumulation of Social Security surpluses that were invested in general government expenditures. 
Here’s how the process worked:
  • 1983 Amendments: Facing an imminent funding gap in Social Security, a bipartisan commission appointed by Reagan developed a compromise plan to ensure the system’s long-term solvency. This plan included accelerating payroll tax increases, gradually raising the retirement age, and for the first time, taxing the benefits of higher-income recipients.
  • Creation of Surpluses: These measures generated significant Social Security surpluses, meaning more money was collected in payroll taxes than was paid out in benefits at the time.
  • Investment in General Fund: By law, these surplus funds were (and still are) invested in special-issue U.S. Treasury securities, which are essentially loans to the federal government backed by the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. government. The money received from the sale of these securities goes into the Treasury’s general fund and is used to fund general government operations and reduce the need for borrowing from the public.
  • Budgetary Context: The practice of including Social Security trust fund transactions within the unified federal budget began under President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968. While this accounting practice made the overall budget deficit appear smaller, the funds were always legally separate and accounted for as an asset of the Social Security trust funds (in the form of the special bonds). The 1983 amendments actually included a provision to eventually remove Social Security operations from the unified budget, a change that was fully implemented by 1990. 
In essence, the Social Security program generates interest income from the government on the money it “lends” it, and the government is obligated to repay these funds with interest when needed to pay benefits. Every president since Reagan has continued this practice, but the idea that Reagan uniquely “stole” or “diverted” the funds for other purposes is a common misconception about federal budget mechanics.
+6

Multiple presidents have seen the federal government borrow from the Social Security trust fund, though the practice began with Lyndon B. Johnson to pay for the Vietnam War. More recently, the George W. Bush administration is cited for borrowing from the fund, and Ronald Reagan signed legislation that increased Social Security taxes to ensure the system’s solvency.

  • Often cited as the first president to borrow from the trust fund to help cover costs associated with the Vietnam War.

  • Signed the Social Security Amendments of 1983, which included a bipartisan vote to raise payroll taxes to shore up the system’s long-term solvency. This increase generated a surplus that the government later borrowed from.

  • The government borrowed a significant amount from Social Security surpluses during his presidency to cover budget deficits from tax cuts and the Iraq War.

  • Critics have pointed to accounting methods in his proposals that they claim double-counted the Social Security surplus.

 

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