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jfish26 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:29 pm

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:10 pm struggling in your 20’s and 30’s is what your 20’s and 30’s are all about.

Sure, I don't disagree.

But, in my opinion, things right now are set up in such a way that if you do not start from a position of advantage, it is SIGNIFICANTLY harder today than it was 40 years ago to put your own kids in a position of advantage.

KUTradition wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:49 pm so glad “we” decided to give someone like musk so much power

good job, ‘murica

RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:53 pm randy and Deleted are both actually asking those questions?
If they both truly care about their questions then I suggest they take 5 or 10 minutes to do a little research and reading/listening about Musk.

I'm going to say I feel Musk has power in which SOME of it he uses for good purposes but if someone doesn't recognize and acknowledge the bad, then I might as well assume they are either brainwashed or uneducated/ignorant. That's coming from a typically uneducated/ignorant person (me) - but at least I make some effort to try and learn about and recognize all facets of a person. Not just what I want to pick and choose that supports my own feelings and beliefs.

DeletedUser wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:02 pm

RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:53 pm randy and Deleted are both actually asking those questions?
If they both truly care about their questions then I suggest they take 5 or 10 minutes to do a little research and reading/listening about Musk.

I'm going to say I feel Musk has power in which SOME of it he uses for good purposes but if someone doesn't recognize and acknowledge the bad, then I might as well assume they are either brainwashed or uneducated/ignorant. That's coming from a typically uneducated/ignorant person (me) - but at least I make some effort to try and learn about and recognize all facets of a person. Not just what I want to pick and choose that supports my own feelings and beliefs.

I wasn't insinuating he has no power. I was asking a genuine question.


And yes, I could have done google research and formed my own opinion instead of asking others for their opinion.

RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:12 pm

DeletedUser wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:02 pm

RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:53 pm randy and Deleted are both actually asking those questions?
If they both truly care about their questions then I suggest they take 5 or 10 minutes to do a little research and reading/listening about Musk.

I'm going to say I feel Musk has power in which SOME of it he uses for good purposes but if someone doesn't recognize and acknowledge the bad, then I might as well assume they are either brainwashed or uneducated/ignorant. That's coming from a typically uneducated/ignorant person (me) - but at least I make some effort to try and learn about and recognize all facets of a person. Not just what I want to pick and choose that supports my own feelings and beliefs.

I wasn't insinuating he has no power. I was asking a genuine question.


And yes, I could have done google research and formed my own opinion instead of asking others for their opinion.

My genuine answer without doing a Google search is...
He owns a major public forum that not only allows "hate speech" but also promotes and thrives on division. Heck, he himself being guilty of it.
He owns or is a major stake holder in companies that can and will change the way people do things in the near term and distant future. Major things. Every day things.
He has power over our (and other country's) Government and has already proven he knows they are reliant upon him in some regards.
He has incredible amounts of money and can manipulate so many things because of it - that could have a major bearing on the world.
etc., etc., etc.

Jerry Dean McLain first bet on former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social two years ago, buying into the Trump company’s planned merger partner, Digital World Acquisition, at $90 a share. Over time, as the price changed, he kept buying, amassing hundreds of shares for $25,000 — pretty much his “whole nest egg,” he said.

That nest egg has lost about half its value in the past two weeks as Trump Media & Technology Group’s share price dropped from $66 after its public debut last month to $32 on Friday. But McLain, 71, who owns a tree-removal service outside Oklahoma City, said he’s not worried. If anything, he wants to buy more.

“I know good and well it’s in Trump’s hands, and he’s got plans,” he said. “I have no doubt it’s going to explode sometime.”

For shareholders like McLain, investing in Truth Social is less a business calculation than a statement of faith in the former president and the business traded under his initials, DJT.

Even the company’s plunging stock price — and the chance their investments could get mostly wiped out — doesn’t seem to have shaken that faith. The company has lost $3.5 billion in value since its public debut last month.

As a business, Trump Media has largely underwhelmed: The company lost $58 million last year on $4 million in revenue, less than the average Chick-fil-A franchise, even as it paid out millions in executive salaries, bonuses and stock.

For shareholders like McLain, investing in Truth Social is less a business calculation than a statement of faith in the former president and the business traded under his initials, DJT.
Even the company’s plunging stock price — and the chance their investments could get mostly wiped out — doesn’t seem to have shaken that faith. The company has lost $3.5 billion in value since its public debut last month.

As a business, Trump Media has largely underwhelmed: The company lost $58 million last year on $4 million in revenue, less than the average Chick-fil-A franchise, even as it paid out millions in executive salaries, bonuses and stock.

Many of Truth Social’s investors say they’re in it for the long haul. Todd Schlanger, an interior designer at a furniture store in West Palm Beach who said Trump had been one of his customers, said he’s invested about $20,000 in total and is buying new shares every week.
Schlanger said he now watches his stock performance every day hoping for positive signs. In a Truth Social post last week, he encouraged “everyone who supports Donald Trump and Truth [Social to] buy a share everyday” and asked, “Do you think we have hit bottom?” (The stock slid nearly 10 percent after that post.)

He suspects the recent drops in share price have been the result of “stock manipulation” from an “organized effort” to make the company look bad. There’s no proof of such a campaign, but Schlanger is convinced. “It’s got to be political,” he said, from all the “liberals that are trying to knock it down.”

Another account, @realJaneBLONDE, posted on Sunday that she was “NOT panicked NOT worried” before, two days later, posting a message to Trump and congressional Republicans urging them to make it “illegal” to bet against or short-sell stocks.

“Sick of MY investment money being stolen!!” she wrote. “They’re stealing peoples money and you’re allowing it!!”

Some users said they were “baffled” by the stock’s ups and downs, and one asked for advice on how to tell her husband she didn’t want to sell. One user posted a meme image saying, “If you’re worried about your Money, Remember This, DJT stock is about FREE SPEECH & Without FREE SPEECH Money won’t mean much.”

Carol Swain, a prominent conservative commentator in Nashville who previously taught political science at Vanderbilt University, said she invested $1,000 in Trump Media stock earlier this month, at $48 a share, over the objections of her financial adviser, who predicted the stock would dive.
“If I lose it, fine. If I make a profit, wonderful. But at the end of the day, I wanted to show my support,” she said. “There’s such an effort to destroy him and strip his wealth away, and so much glee about it. I would like to see him be a winner.”

She, too, suspects stock manipulation, arguing that “the people who hate Donald Trump would do anything to try to hurt him.” As for Truth Social itself, she said she posts there only sparingly and prefers X, where she has 35 times as many followers. “I have always wanted not to just preach to the choir,” she said.

McLain, the tree service owner in Oklahoma, said he believes the stock could “go to $1,000 a share, easy,” once the media stops writing so negatively about it and the company works through its growing pains. The company’s leaders, he said, are being “too silent right now” amid questions about the falling share price, but he suspects it’s because they’re working on something amazing and new.