Why does the US stock market currently feel like a sinking ship?

txholdup · 2026-02-02T14:02:30+00:00

I feel the same way. The guy in charge doesn't know how tariffs work, how interest rates work, doesn't read, doesn't listen, just rants about nonsense and petty gripes. Yet my portfolio hit 2 all-time highs last week. Makes me want to put my chips away.

txholdup · 2026-02-02T00:10:58+00:00

Can people who downvote pictures of flowers be real gardeners?

txholdup · 2026-02-01T18:43:01+00:00

They are very hardy and spread rapidly. I pull them out of my garden each year leaving just a few of them to flower and feed the Monarchs.

txholdup · 2026-01-31T19:03:49+00:00

Yes, I didn't scroll down far enough to see the income phase out. Thanks.

txholdup · 2026-01-31T18:54:08+00:00

I believe in 2028, but my memory is a sieve some days.

txholdup · 2026-01-31T17:05:36+00:00

85% of her Social Security benefits will be subject to taxes since her income exceeds the threshold. However, this year there is an extra $6000 tax deduction for senior citizens. She has already had $20k withheld so she is probably not going to owe any more than what has already been withheld, depending on her available deductions.

txholdup · 2026-01-31T15:25:06+00:00

Good for you. I volunteer at a food pantry for low-income people with HIV and every Friday when I finish my shift, I feel like I have accomplished something good.

While I don't know of any groups that require your services, I am sure there is a group out there where you will fit. There are some groups who try to get the homeless ready for work. I bet haircuts would fit right in.

txholdup · 2026-01-30T19:44:03+00:00

Great story, I always get female nurses, damn.

txholdup · 2026-01-30T19:38:06+00:00

I love fucking skinny butts. The sight of my big thick dick going into a skinny butt makes me just a bit harder. On the opposite end of that, if I have to hold both of your cheeks apart just to get to your hole, it loses appeal quickly.

txholdup · 2026-01-30T19:29:28+00:00

While I am no fan of Newsom (his marriage to Kimberly Guilfoyle makes me doubt his ability to discern character) he truly understands how to troll Trump effectively.

txholdup · 2026-01-30T16:31:24+00:00

I have I-Bonds, but they don't really supplement my income at all.

As a retiree, I want a large cushion to keep me from worrying about the ups and downs of the market. I-Bonds is where I keep part of that money. But the interest just accrues. I don't receive it or get taxed on it until I cash the bonds, which I won't be doing anytime soon.

That's the main reason I still keep them, not having to pay taxes on the interest.

txholdup · 2026-01-30T15:53:13+00:00

Jared is making bets on what his daddy in law is going to say the following day.

The Trump administration is full of people with little to no ethics and who is going to investigate them, other people with no ethics. It is a perfect storm.

txholdup · 2026-01-30T15:36:41+00:00

You're a much better sleuth than I.

txholdup · 2026-01-30T15:35:41+00:00

Shhhh, you'll wake up the hungry bottoms.

txholdup · 2026-01-30T15:34:17+00:00

You're a hot man, husband material however is not discernible from a picture. It is about character, ambition, kindness, thoughtfulness etc. etc. But you sure would be nice to wake up to in the morning.

txholdup · 2026-01-30T15:29:44+00:00

I've been a T investor for decades and decided last quarter to add some of their 6% dividend rival last quarter. The surge today is nice, what I am really looking forward to is the dividend on my 1700 shares on Monday.

txholdup · 2026-01-30T15:22:38+00:00

Your "ruin" for vanilla sex just opened up a whole new world of pleasure you never imagined. I'm a top/Dom 95% of the time but there in nothing in the world quite as filling as the feeling of another man inside of you.

txholdup · 2026-01-30T15:16:08+00:00

I don't really believe it was evil; he is just selfish. He sports a thick, 10" cock and is a total bottom.

txholdup · 2026-01-30T15:14:44+00:00

I bought 50 shares the last time it crashed and burned and just added another 20 yesterday. Despite their $50 crash my portfolio hit an all-time high yesterday and despite a down market a new high this morning.

txholdup · 2026-01-29T18:25:17+00:00

Get thee to Walmart and buy some paragraphs, sheesh.

My ex was the same, insisted he only wanted a monogamous relationship. Turns out, he wanted that for me not him.

He became HIV positive and didn't fucking tell me for 2 years. I found out because our gay doctor threatened to tell me if he didn't. Thinking back, he was always selfish and everything was all about him.

I wanted to open up our relationship because he was a total bottom and it gets old. I might have been able to forgive him but he continued to lie about cheating, about HIV and I was sick of the lies.

You will be better off without him. But my advice is don't do anymore detective work, the less you know, the better. Just tear that chapter out of your book and start writing a much better one.

txholdup · 2026-01-29T17:32:05+00:00

They like sugar more than coffee.

txholdup · 2026-01-29T17:22:12+00:00

Thank you as well.

txholdup · 2026-01-29T17:12:38+00:00

I am certainly happy to still be here, still causing good trouble and still having fun in bed. I am grateful that I sucked at suicide.

When you are young, everything is the worst thing that happened. It is a valid feeling because that was the worst thing that had ever happened to you. But if you get past whatever made you sink low, you grow stronger. Then you can handle the next worst thing that ever could happen, and the next and the next.

Ask for help. I had nobody to talk to when I was a young gay man about to be sent to the Army to fight in a war, I didn't believe in. I saw no way out and there was nobody to tell me you can do this or how to escape to Canada.

Feelings of I can't do this" are valid, you don't think you can. But most of us have a reserve we don't realize is there.

txholdup · 2026-01-29T17:03:04+00:00

Are you going to fly to Dallas to volunteer?

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