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News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0

Started by GeekyBugle, June 18, 2019, 08:04:46 PM

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GeekyBugle

#15
June 19, 2019, 07:38:16 PM
Quote from: HappyDaze;1092811
And they were so hopeful back in April.

Problem is he truly has "alternative" facts. And can't do math he's stunted trying to multiply 30X8000
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

jhkim

#16
June 19, 2019, 08:36:33 PM
Quote from: GeekyBugle;1092813Problem is he truly has "alternative" facts. And can't do math he's stunted trying to multiply 30X8000
The Twitter graph you posted shows the job creation dropping starting from June last year - prior to the election. The election in December comes about halfway through the drop - so he came in while it was dropping, and it's continued to go down. What do you think started the downturn? Also, do you have a source other than Twitter for reliable stats on the Mexican economy?

I'm not disagreeing - the economy looks in bad shape. The mainstream foreign news seems consistent (economy still shrinking), but it's hard to see details. For example, here's one article:
QuoteMexico received some $10 billion in foreign direct investment in the first quarter, up 7% from the same quarter last year, and inflation was slightly lower than expected in the first half of May at 4.43%.

The peso has appreciated over 6% since Lopez Obrador took office.

Still, some of the president's decisions have rattled investors, prompting concern among private sector analysts.

The International Monetary Fund on April 9 lowered Mexico's 2019 growth outlook to 1.6% from 2.1%, citing shifts in perception about policy.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-economy-gdp/mexican-economy-shrinks-in-first-quarter-economists-downgrade-outlook-idUSKCN1SU1KX

Spinachcat

#17
June 19, 2019, 09:08:17 PM
Quote from: Opaopajr;1092730I look forward to our high speed rail connecting San Francisco to the Yúcatan. :) Only as long as Mother Earth says we can though. ;)

I'd be more open to the high speed rail if we were connecting Seattle through Mexico City.

And if it was actually high speed.


Quote from: GeekyBugle;1092743Yep, have you heard how people live up in the Ozarks I think?

Doc Sammy who posts here can speak in detail about the Ozarks.


Quote from: GeekyBugle;1092743Imagine the poorest among you but not homeless, well here in México city we have (separated by just one street) McMansions to the right and huts made of cartoon boxes and recycled wood from pallets to the left.

Imagine it? I live in Los Angeles! I was doing research in the Hall of Records downtown and had to navigate through multiple tents and piss stank mats to get there, and you can see City Hall down the block!

My favorite are the mostly naked meth addicts sunbathing on the sidewalk a block from the courthouse who the cops bumrushed out of the neighborhood when the governor came for a visit. Couldn't have that on camera!

Of course, they're all back!


Quote from: GeekyBugle;1092743Lets see how it works for them to fuck with the poorest in so many ways tho.

What do you think will happen to Mexico in the next few years?

How will the poor accept what's happening?


Quote from: GeekyBugle;1092809Our beloved comrade leader to launch effort to create jobs in El Salvador

WTF?

I am genuinely confused. Why not focus on job creation in Mexico?

GeekyBugle

#18
June 19, 2019, 11:28:18 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;1092821I'd be more open to the high speed rail if we were connecting Seattle through Mexico City.

And if it was actually high speed.

No thanks we have enough commies here already, and then you also have there La Raza, although it would be fun to drop them and El Frente Nacional (Honest to God Mexican Neo-Nazis) in a desert island and see what happens, they either kill each other or do sweet sweet racist love to one another.


Quote from: Spinachcat;1092821Doc Sammy who posts here can speak in detail about the Ozarks.

Yeah, he could.


Quote from: Spinachcat;1092821Imagine it? I live in Los Angeles! I was doing research in the Hall of Records downtown and had to navigate through multiple tents and piss stank mats to get there, and you can see City Hall down the block!

My favorite are the mostly naked meth addicts sunbathing on the sidewalk a block from the courthouse who the cops bumrushed out of the neighborhood when the governor came for a visit. Couldn't have that on camera!

Of course, they're all back!

Dude those are meth addicts, I'm talking hard working people who can't afford to move (the transport price would kill them) or to build a half-decent house, smack next to The rich fucks.


Quote from: Spinachcat;1092821What do you think will happen to Mexico in the next few years?

It's anybody's guess, I think it all depends of how much worst things get here. We have a saying here: Mexicans are the most macho of them all, they fuck us in the ass daily without lube and we don't cry.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1092821How will the poor accept what's happening?

It depends on if they manage to drop their blindfold and see what these assholes are doing to our country. I don't have much hope f that tho, El Presidente has a cult of personality already going and they can always blame the market, USA, CIA, etc.


Quote from: Spinachcat;1092821WTF?

I am genuinely confused. Why not focus on job creation in Mexico?

Because they are fucking socialist internationalists, and because their followers are still clapping like seals anything they say/do.
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

GeekyBugle

#19
June 19, 2019, 11:34:33 PM
Quote from: jhkim;1092817The Twitter graph you posted shows the job creation dropping starting from June last year - prior to the election. The election in December comes about halfway through the drop - so he came in while it was dropping, and it's continued to go down. What do you think started the downturn? Also, do you have a source other than Twitter for reliable stats on the Mexican economy?

I'm not disagreeing - the economy looks in bad shape. The mainstream foreign news seems consistent (economy still shrinking), but it's hard to see details. For example, here's one article:

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-economy-gdp/mexican-economy-shrinks-in-first-quarter-economists-downgrade-outlook-idUSKCN1SU1KX

That graph is from the IMSS, of course the economy was already slowing down, everybody believed the socialist was going to win, and he did, if he wasn't such an idiot things might have started getting better after the elections, but he keeps on doing stupid shit, and his croonies don't help talking of nationalizing this or that, threatening industrialists if they dare criticize El Presidente, and he keeps on closing down stuff and firing lots of people.

Putting good money in PEMEX (when they should just sell it)
Taking a huge debt to cancel the NAIM because it wasn't his plan and then expending more money to build a different NAIM in a not optimal location.
And then the crime rate goes thru the roof thanks to them releasing thousands of criminals because reasons.
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

GeekyBugle

#20
June 20, 2019, 12:00:17 AM
And now no more tourism promotion, because fuck the 10 million mexicans working there.

https://twitter.com/osoriochong/status/1141485945809702912
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

GeekyBugle

#21
June 20, 2019, 01:19:15 PM
Quote from: jhkim;1092817The Twitter graph you posted shows the job creation dropping starting from June last year - prior to the election. The election in December comes about halfway through the drop - so he came in while it was dropping, and it's continued to go down. What do you think started the downturn? Also, do you have a source other than Twitter for reliable stats on the Mexican economy?

I'm not disagreeing - the economy looks in bad shape. The mainstream foreign news seems consistent (economy still shrinking), but it's hard to see details. For example, here's one article:

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-economy-gdp/mexican-economy-shrinks-in-first-quarter-economists-downgrade-outlook-idUSKCN1SU1KX

https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/finanzas/baja-88-la-creacion-de-empleos-formales-3789168.html
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

jhkim

#22
June 20, 2019, 01:40:43 PM
Quote from: GeekyBugle;1092938https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/finanzas/baja-88-la-creacion-de-empleos-formales-3789168.html
Thanks. It does make me curious about the Sembrando Vida and Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro programs. I'd be skeptical of the programs, but would still want to evaluate them fairly.

GeekyBugle

#23
June 20, 2019, 02:24:45 PM
Quote from: jhkim;1092942Thanks. It does make me curious about the Sembrando Vida and Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro programs. I'd be skeptical of the programs, but would still want to evaluate them fairly.

Those are vote buying programs, it's "free" money for the NINIs (Ni Trabaja Ni Estudia) Not Working Not Studying. Like most of the "social" programs any mexican government has implemented. Tax payers money thrown to the trash because there will never be a return of the investment either in less crime, jobless, homeless, etc. We don't have a single fucking non-leftie party, it's just a degree of how far to the left they are. Unless you count the confessional parties and I wouldn't vote for those in a million years.

EDIT: And seems like our beloved comrade leader is counting people in some of those programs as being in the work force.
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

Opaopajr

#24
June 20, 2019, 05:44:12 PM Last Edit: June 20, 2019, 05:49:01 PM by Opaopajr
Quote from: Spinachcat;1092821Doc Sammy who posts here can speak in detail about the Ozarks.

Unless he recently moved, shouldn't he be speaking only for north-west Virginia? :( Ozarks are by Arkansas & Missouri. :) They, too, could use a bullet train to the Yúcatan (if Pacha Mama permits, of course :D ). It could be a works program under NAFTA. ;)
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GeekyBugle

#25
June 20, 2019, 06:00:41 PM
Socialized medicine is shit, never ever let them establish it there https://www.animalpolitico.com/2019/06/salud-compra-medicinas-marcapasos/
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

GeekyBugle

#26
June 20, 2019, 06:05:31 PM
But it was a lie that the invaders had contagious diseases right? https://heraldodemexico.com.mx/pais/en-refugios-hay-varicela-sarampion/
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

GeekyBugle

#27
June 20, 2019, 07:04:33 PM
In planing stages still, our beloved comrade leader wants to associate with the reptilian Zuckerberg to create a nationalized internet provider, think of China's internet since we know Zuckerberg likes to censor people and El Presidente doesn't like people being able to criticize him.

https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/finanzas/amlo-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-socios-crear-empresa-de-telecomunicaciones-conectividad-internet-3784764.html
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

Shasarak

#28
June 20, 2019, 07:28:41 PM
Quote from: GeekyBugle;1092992Socialized medicine is shit

Socialised medicine works pretty well actually.  It does not have the best medicines at the top but has a better over all safety net at the bottom with the added bonus of not driving you into bankruptcy just because you are sick.
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GeekyBugle

#29
June 20, 2019, 07:33:48 PM
Quote from: Shasarak;1092999Socialised medicine works pretty well actually.  It does not have the best medicines at the top but has a better over all safety net at the bottom with the added bonus of not driving you into bankruptcy just because you are sick.

Except if you need a peacemaker and there's none because your government wants to buy them at 90 pesos. Dude we have socialized medicine here since before I was born, don't try and tell me how it works or not.
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell
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