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Being from Ohio, this is interesting

I intend to probably retire elsewhere, so I am investigating being an expat actually. True to an extent, but I know a bunch of really cool Greek orthodox folks.

Some "light reading" for Sunday: https://www.assetprotectionplanners.com/planning/homestead-exemptions-by-state/ Go right to the table that shows the maximum homestead exemption amount by state. It varies from none to unlimited, with both some high cost and hick states providing for some very paltry amounts that are less than the cost of a new Mitsubishi Mirage.

Speaking of Chrysler products. I love the look of this.

It looks quite different from the current model, all new I think. They are calling it a 2026, so the '25 is probably carryover. https://jalopnik.com/2026-hyundai-palisade-looks-awesome-and-has-a-front-ben-1851715336 Had to hunt around to find pics that were jpgs, most are the webp crap.

I wrote this post on November 7 because I saw MY investments rise in accordance to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk's wealth also rise... I am not complaing. But I will repeat. I wonder if the poor people realize what it means to vote for rich greedy people to lead them when these types of rich people NEED to keep them poor...

I wanted to respond to this. But then said no more politicall talk for good. The investments part that is but then I also negelected to say good for you for your investments and thoughts about EARLY retirement. To coincide what I wrote to @G. David Felt, I too have had investments made recently and those have SKYROCKETED. I sold my restaurant and got a very big amount for it. I also inherited most of the money back when I bought out my ex-partner when he passed away. So with both amounts of monies, I invested more or less 2 years, that money stayed stagnant but when Donald J. Trump won the elections, that money INSTANTLY grew. Like about 40%. THAT is HUGE making ME a VERY VERY big amount of money. Of course that is all relative as I havent touched it and it could very well go down. But this is how the game is rigged for the very rich. Nothing economically transpired before Trump won. And the same ole same ole situation was there when he won. Now why would my monies grow IMMEDIATELY 24-48 hours after he won all the way to now to grow to an astonishing 40%? VW is losing money and is quite dangerously close to folding. Nissan is said to fold in as soon as the next 12 months. Investors are giddy that Trump won? You mean, slick snake oil salesmen are giddy that one of their own is in charge of the chicken coup... My wife and I joke often the last month that we should become Trumpsters now. I wonder though, if poor people that voted for Trump, if their fortunes have change for the better as drastic as mine has?

It will be very bad for the next 4 years that will lead to be very very VERY bad for the 4 years after that. Unless you are a very very rich person. Trump and Republicans in general, work for the rich folk. Tax cuts for the rich and incredible amounts of wiggle room for corporatons to cheat lie and steal were his masterpiece achievements during his 1st presidency. Masterpieces because NOBODY really noticed what he was doing. Inflation hits because of Covid and because his policies were for the rich and were masterfully blamed on Biden... His 2nd presidency will be more of the same... Trump is not so much as incompetent as he is a con man working for himself and the very few allies he chooses. He most DEFINETELY knows how to run a business. Its just NOT in the accepted conventional way of producing profit for everyone involved sharing the wealth that a profitable business usually does. Its the fact that he runs his businesses like mafia bosses do. 1. A long term business for crooks like Trump and mafia style organized crime syndicates do is that they keep 1 or 2 or 3 businesses running smoothly as fronts so they could clean dirty money. Dirty money acquired from all kinds of illegal activity. 2. The other businesses that they keep are disposable. They run them to the ground ON PURPOSE frauding people and insurances and whatnot. They will open and close businesses at will. This is to what you refer to as a failed business man. The thing is, he and he ALONE pocketed plenty of money while closing his businesses up. Some of his businesses went bankrupt and so he didnt pay ANY creditors, but the money he received from money lendors of all kinds went somewhere. And that would be into his pockets. He ONLY pays to entities that he can't willfully AVOID paying. A fast example. With the help of crooked evaluaters, he inflated the value of some of his utmost valuable properties and businesses that he NEEDS to keep to continue the fraud cycles, he got glorious amounts of monies to start other businesses. Got investors to invest. Again, great amounts of monies. And then, the project that he deemed not necessary, well, he bankrupted that project. Never paid construction companies, investors lost their investments etc... But ALL that money that that so called failed project and HE and the Trump organization ALL got that money. Only to start up another project with the same fraudulent practices to defraud investors and construction companies and the like. He treated his presidency the first time around like this too. Led MOST governmental spendings unto HIS personal businesses. Found himself immune to any accusations since he has presidential immunity and so forth. All kinds of accusations of this. Of course he denied. Fake news and witch hunts he called those. But dont make the mistake in thinking he does NOT know how to run a business. He ABSOLUTELY knows how to get financing to defraud OTHER business men BECAUSE he knows the INS AND OUTS of running a business. He chooses to do it the illegal way its because its probably more profitable and easier and faster money to do it this way...

Nissan, I give 12 months at most, Renault just sold their 36% holding in Nissan and there is no new investor lined up for Nissan. They have no new products, Hybrids/EVs that the market wants. As it seems, this could be the first legacy OEM to die. Will Nissan be the First Major Car Company Bankrupcy in 12 Months? | NextBigFuture.com In regard to Stellantis, I would not touch a Jeep, Ram, Dodge, Chrysler product here or any other product overseas. They are bottom feeding terrible and the stories both here and abroad are continuing to state that the Executives have taken their bonuses on meeting certain goals and replaced quality of product with terrible quality due to lower skilled, cheaper paid work force abroad and the death of new product here due to taking the U.S. profits to shore up the rest of Stellantis and not re-investing back into the local brands. Stellantis is experiencing software issues due to lower-quality workforce - ClubAlfa Global Stellantis is struggling. Here's why - CNBC The trickle-down affect is going to be HUGE IMHO, folks thought it was bad under Biden, they are about to find out how bad it will be under Trump as he is too incompetent as a Narcissistic person who does not know how to run a business let alone a country properly. Musk is not as smart as many people think he his. He is a Marketing mouth piece who has been lucky to get smart people around him to build amazing tech that he takes credit for. If Musk wants the IRA dead, he needs to pull back the 10's of billions in oil subsidies the Feds give them. Then lets start by killing off the Space Defense agency that Trump approved, lets also kill off DOGE, plenty of places to go before you attack SS or Medicaid. Before anyone says it, Social Security is NOT an Entitlement program as much as the GOP wants the public to believe. If they kill SS, there will be many people who will be out on the street due to NOT having any income at all. Social Security benefits aren't for everyone: Who isn't eligible Good read if you never really understood who can and cannot get SS or why it is NOT an Entitlement program. Education is the best way to understand your rights. Based on their website for press releases, I have not seen anything on a new Palisade yet. Releases - Hyundai Newsroom @Robert Hall Figured it out, Hyundai is calling it a carry over and very little new, so they only had a chart under the Model 2025 changes. Hyundai Newsroom

Didn't see a thread about it, but the new Hyundai Palisade is sharp...kind of Range Roverish from the rear 3/4. Interior looks sharp.

I wonder what people will think when they see 25% tariffs on Chevy, Ford, Ram, Dodge, Jeep, Nissan and VW vehicles? People think cars cost too much now, just wait. And if you deport all the illegals and loose construction and agriculture workers, housing prices will go up, produce prices will go up. The inflation will hit hard, which will probably lead to recession like 2008. Good chance Nissan goes bankrupt in the next 2 years, Stellantis is a mess (I have seen $26,000 off brand new Grand Cherokees or lease for $299 a month with $0 down, and $19,000 off 2025 Ram trucks already). When these big companies fall it has a trickle down effect. The only positive will be Elon will have pissed off all the liberals that used to buy Teslas before he went "dark MAGA" and once Trump turns on him for failing to cut money from the deficit, the MAGA people will turn on him too.

I really hope they do fail in their own incompetence as the Rich need to pay their fair share and right now letting the tax breaks for the 1% and corporations so they pay a fair share of taxes to fund the government is the right thing to do imho. House GOP faces 'fate worse than death' because of its own 'incompetence': analysis From the tech side, I get accountability, but who is going to keep the House and Senate members accountable to being in DC to do their job, right now they already take 1/3rd of the year off and many times members do not even show up to vote. Elon and Vivek Issue First DOGE Decision, And 94 Percent of Feds Will Be Hit First Interesting times we live in.

Nah. NOWAY! THAT is just an excuse for people to behave badly... It has NOTHING to do with taboo or anything. Who the phoque actually does what the bloody bible says anyway? NOBODY has EVER done what the good Lord has told us to do. Which is to be good little children. Like EVER in the HISTORY of the Judeo-Christian religion. Which mostly is the Jewish Faith anyway... All that we have in the Western world is just fragmented branched off parts of the ORIGINAL Jewish Faith. It is branched off and fragmented BECAUSE NOBODY has EVER followed what Jehova has been saying to us. INCLUDING the JEWS themselves... Oh...the Muslim religion is ALSO a fragmented branch of the original Jewish Faith. And those followers too, dont really follow what their good book the Koran, tells them to do. Oh...you do get some goodie two shoes in ALL religions that follow their good books to a tee, but some of those the nefarious religious leaders use those goodie two-shoes to manipulate and bad things happen... So here we are, talkin' about how same sex marriage got normalized recently and it was taboo before so it will take 2-3 generations to get acceptance... You actually believe that? PLEASE... Them bible thumpers have probably experimented with ALL KINDS of sexual acts that would make a Hindu person with knowledge of the Kama Sutra blush. All kinds of sexual innuendo keeps on creepin' up from the bible belt. From pedophile priests to ironically, homosexual senators that cheat on their wives getting caught in a hotel room with either a gay lover or gay prostitute. All kinds of sins goin' on down that bible belt area... Nah! Its deeper than that. An anecdote... In MY experiences with bible thumpers of the Greek Orthodox kind. These are one of the most gossipy people on the planet. And they will use that gossip to try and DESTROY their neighbours. (Other Greek families) Some of these husbands cheat on their wives. They will STEAL from their business partners. The wives, are not innocent. They will cheat on their husbands. Some of these Greek people I have met when I was young or now, are some of the most hatefull people I know. But they will ALWAYS shine God to you. Sound familiar? Yeah... Its not because its taboo from religion. Its that Bible thumpers of ANY kind are full of self hate and vitriol. And if they have nothing better else to do, that self hate just continues on inside them. Generation after generation until one generation cuts that cycle and gets a damn education...