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That "parade", though.
It was toe-curlingly embarrassing. The Army obviously didn't want to be there. No dress uniforms, none of them were in step. It looked like a lazy stroll to get a Big Mac and a coffee... sorry, covfefe. I don't know who was in charge of it, but apparently they kept playing Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival, a song written by John Fogerty about draft dodgers being helped to avoid the call up to Vietnam by rich parents. That's got to have been deliberate.
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It's a dangerous time to be alive I'm afraid - when you have someone who clearly is making it up as he goes along the White House then the rest of the world will take advantage. His comment along the lines of 'if Iran would have done a deal with me this could have been stopped' implies that it is in his power to do things but if they don't 'make a deal' with him then he will not stop the bombing of major cities. the bloke thinks he's in an episode of the Sopranos and the sooner the US wake up to that the better.
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Bunker busters deployed. Reports say 3 nuclear targets wiped out. "The world is now a safer place"
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Bombing Iran because no one came to your birthday party seems a bit extreme.
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Buggered up my glidepath, just after the markets had settled back down after the last Trump bullshit move he goes again. Let's watch the markets react this week shall we.
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(06-23-2025, 08:12 AM)baggy1 Wrote: Buggered up my glidepath, just after the markets had settled back down after the last Trump bullshit move he goes again. Let's watch the markets react this week shall we.
Things are pretty stable at the moment. Oil is down slightly, FTSE stable, gilts marginally up. I think the Iran response will dictate where the markets go.
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They’ve recovered well since the tariff debacle, and actually gave the opportunity for everyday people to actually benefit due to the timing (new tax year and chucking money into a SSISA), but that stability is critical to the markets and, like chunk says, hopefully stays that way.
