Stock Market Still Betting on Trump

With the election campaign headed down the stretch, investors are still betting Trump will win. The Dow Industrials have risen to within striking distance of February’s 29,568 record. Does anyone think this could have occurred if Biden were a shoe-in, as the pollsters would have us believe? More likely is that the Dow would be trading 5000 points lower, on its way to 10,000, if the stock market caught even a whiff of a possible Biden/Harris victory. A few pundits have asserted that Biden is Wall Street’s choice. This claim is so outrageous that no one in America, including Trump’s foes, could possibly believe it.  It holds up only if you think Biden’s path to the White house is certain. Then it would be logical to infer the stock market is not merely comfortable with this outcome, but exuberant about it. In pushing the Wall Street-for-Biden narrative, the mainstream media have wishfully channeled Joseph Goebbels: Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth. Not quite, though, since there is Fox news commentator Tucker Carlson to firmly set the record straight. His nightly show is not only the most-watched news program, it is the most-watched program in cable television.

Americans Have Eyes

Concerning the pollsters, we wonder whom they’ve been calling. Not us, for sure, nor anyone we know. But we do have more than a few left-leaning friends, including some Berkeley liberals, who will be surreptitiously voting for the incumbent. There are also nearly a half-million blacks, gays, trannies and Latinos who have left video testimonials to Trump on Facebook as part of the #WalkAway Campaign. But the vast majority of Trump supporters, including a significant number of swing voters who can’t stand Trump personally, will be pulling the GOP lever on November 3 simply because they watch the news and see what is going on in America. The summer’s spectacle of nightly urban riots in particular, which the Democrats not only failed to condemn but supported legally and financially, will help put Trump over the top.

Dems’ Radioactive Platform

I remain confident Trump will win because I do not believe most Americans will choose to support:

*  The toxic, patently false narrative that we are a racist nation

*  An all-encompassing Green New Deal that Karl Marx would have loved

*  The hollowing out of local law enforcement and the criminal justice system

*  A Supreme Court with a permanent super-majority of left-wing, activist judges

*  A newly emboldened teacher’s union eager to kill charter schools once and for all

*  Mandatory sensitivity training for all of us

*  Crushing tax increases for the middle class to pay for free everything

*  Scorched-earth legislation to punish red states

*  The re-regulation of businesses by federal, state and local commissars

*  A nauseating, years-long victory celebration by the new media, Hollywood and Whoopi Goldberg

Covering Our Bases

The polls have got it even more wrong this time than they did in 2016. Millions who plan to vote for Trump aren’t talking about it because they fear censure and the disapproval of even their closest friends. Their votes, along with those of the growing  army of ‘Walk Away’ apostates noted above, should suffice to give Trump a comfortable victory margin. Even so, we are covering our bases with bearish stock-market bets just in case. For detailed suggestions, check out the recording on butterfly spreads that will soon be made available to all Rick’s Picks subscribers. _______ UPDATE (Oct 12, 6:20 p.m.): Here’s a related, feel-good anecdote from the chat room today, with thanks to ‘Formula’ for sharing it: Where we spend weekends at our lake home, it’s on Beaver Lake in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Though we’re on the lake, which is pretty rural and lake people are largely God fearing American patriots that love the outdoors, fishing, hunting, skiing etc. etc. Anyway, the town of Eureka Springs, is the town where we shop, dine, attend Mass etc. The town of Eureka Springs is wildly liberal as it’s a sanctuary city for the LGBTQ scene, has been since the ’70’s. As such, it’s also an arts community which is essentially the same cloth.

When leaving church on Sunday mornings, we take the long way home and drive through the city of Eureka which is absolutely jammed with bed and breakfasts that are literally almost every other Victorian home. In driving home over the last 2-3 weeks we’ve noticed that the streets are now being sprinkled with Trump flags which I never thought possible in all my years in Arkansas. What I’m witnessing is amazing, and had you told me four years ago this would happen in Eureka, I would have said NO WAY! Rick, in reading your home page write up today, I believe the red wave is going to be MASSIVE!!

  • Ben October 12, 2020, 5:32 pm

    I fail to see what electing Trump will do to end or even slow PC. He’s President now, but PC is worse than ever. But it’s not like he can even do anything about it. People have to do something about it. In fact, it’s a wonder PC is even still a thing, since so many claim to hate it. Yeah. Really makes ya think! But I know what it is…

    The other day, I was scrolling the headlines at Breitbart. Another celebrity tweet story. There’s so many of those at Breitbart, anymore. For people who say they don’t care what celebrities have to say, Breitbart seems to have created a team, whose sole job is to monitor and report what the celebs are tweeting.

    Go figure.

    But the sad reality is, people keep clicking on that crap because they either don’t have anything better to do and/or wouldn’t know what to think about something, unless someone they don’t like says something about it first. It’s a sick, twisted need. Just the same…

    PC is still a thing and will remain a thing because more people than not, apparently, find some kind of value in it, even though they hate it. And Trump can tweet at it, rather than getting actual important matters taken care of, while reaping a popularity bonus. More empty reward, less work for him!

    In summary: Too late to do anything about it. Your non-PC side is but a tiny, crumbling bird skeleton, held in the brutish grip of a gigantic, hairy, red-eyed troglodyte..!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUBw1hzBavA

    • Rick Ackerman October 12, 2020, 6:10 pm

      PC is on its way out and would die even faster if Trump loses (which is not likely). It’s a case of people tiring of being admonished. Instead of falling in line, they would say, simply, “Jump up my ass, douchebag.” Come to think of it, let’s capitalize those letters and start — here and now — the JUMAD movement.

      • Ben October 12, 2020, 7:25 pm

        “PC is on its way out and would die even faster if Trump loses (which is not likely). It’s a case of people tiring of being admonished.”

        Exactly. With Trump, it stays around longer. I realize that, you realize that… so a lot of people probably realize that, too. Yet, Trump is regarded as the “un-PC” candidate, even though it will live longer and stronger, under his second term.

        It’s things like this that leave me with no wonder as to why humanity needs Christ to save it, and not any of its own.

        Anyway, of course I’m mad. JUBMAD, too, if you realized that we’re in the grips of a big evil gorilla and aren’t in control of anything!

  • Pan October 12, 2020, 8:24 am

    Mandatory sensitivity training for all, scorched earth legislation to punish red states .. . . now there’s a thing. Good to see you’re all keeping your heads during these divisive election times : )

    • Rick Ackerman October 12, 2020, 9:48 am

      With respect to sensitivity training, virtually all public-sector employees are already there. They cannot dodge their diversity czars without putting their employment at risk. In the corporate world, based on employees and bosses I talk to, I’d estimate the figure is probably around 90%. They all love it.

      • Pan October 12, 2020, 10:05 am

        Fair comment, boy am I glad I don’t live in the west anymore.

  • johngreene October 11, 2020, 6:50 pm

    Encouraging words which hopefully will help me keep calm for the next three weeks.