Episode V: The Persian Empire Strikes Back

[CNCAppsJames]

I inherited $100K worth of Exxon in 2015.
I let it ride, reinvesting the dividends and paying income taxes on those dividends.
In December 2025 I sold enough to pay cash for our retirement home and still have $120K worth of Exxon left.
The capital gains taxes on that stock sale were ugly, but the way I look at it, I still have the initial inheritance and a free house.

Now get off my lawn!

Free addition.  



 

[TylerBeer]

This is not a war
It is a hostile takeover.

It's a war - you know it, everyone knows it. Take the party line any further and you'll fall in.

[Newbeeee™]

It's a war - you know it, everyone knows it. Take the party line any further and you'll fall in.

Constructed. Organised. Pre-arranged. YadaYada

[TylerBeer]

Here you go maga people - since you must be out of Biden stickers for gas pumps

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4477973608/100-pc-iran-your-gas-prices-up-sticker-i?ref=elp_anchor_listing&pro=1&frs=1

[TylerBeer]

This not war is going great!! Thanks Mr President

[TylerBeer]

Oh and just in case you think things are handled at home

https://x.com/KFILE/status/2039313652176523356?s=20

[jstell]

Never much of a reader, self-admittedly, drumpf gets his daily updates in the form of a 'greatest hits' reel.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-gets-daily-video-montage-briefing-iran-war-rcna263912

Each day since the start of the war in Iran, U.S. military officials compile a video update for President Donald Trump that shows video of the biggest, most successful strikes on Iranian targets over the previous 48 hours, three current U.S. officials and a former U.S. official said.

But not about the bad stuff.

One example came this month when five U.S. Air Force refueling planes were hit in an Iranian strike at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, according to one of the current U.S. officials. Trump wasn't briefed about the strikes, and he learned what had happened from media reports, the official said. When Trump inquired, he was told the planes weren't badly damaged, the official said.

Not that badly damaged indeed.
https://www.reuters.com/pictures/photos-show-aftermath-irans-waves-retaliatory-strikes-2026-03-30/

[CNCAppsJames]

Was Biden even awake for his daily brief? Or was he getting his diaper changed. 

 

[TylerBeer]

You talking about this Biden?

[Bucky Cornstarch]

Was Biden even awake for his daily brief? Or was he getting his diaper changed.

Good one Nutboy! Original, too!

[Newbeeee™]

I just read a tweeeety by the Don - he wants 2027 military budget to rise from 1 Trillion to 1.5 Trillion "to build the dream military that we have long been entitled to".

Gunna need a bigger calculator....

[Elmer Fudd]

Stoke up the money printing machines.

[TylerBeer]

Running the country straight into the ground just like one of his businesses.

What's the saying? The problem with the generationally wealthy is eventually you run out of daddy's money?

[Incogneeto]

Running the country straight into the ground just like one of his businesses.

What's the saying? The problem with the generationally wealthy is eventually you run out of daddy's money?

Biden was buying votes, Trump is Buying Guns.

I'm with Trump....

[TylerBeer]

Biden was buying votes, Trump is Buying Guns.

I'm with Trump....

What?