News Story of the Day: despite its insignificance to the rest of the world and another sign of the opulent elite abusing average citizens, many people and media outlets are celebrating the upcoming Royal Wedding between that kid who dressed like a Nazi and that woman who was on a show.
Although Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are not directly charging British taxpayers, it seems their mere presence will have taxpayers cover an expensive tab.
It is being reported that manpower, equipment, hours, and red tape for security will cost taxpayers approximately $50 million for the extravaganza. Yikes!
Chart of the Day: is it time to start buying precious metals again? It is inevitable that gold and silver will spike, but gold bugs may be impatient by the paucity of assent in the last couple of years. But this chart suggests that investors better begin acquiring bullion:
From Investopedia:
“The price of gold is trading within one of the most popular chart patterns used by active traders. The ascending triangle is created by having the price trade within a defined range that narrows toward the breakout point near the end of the pattern. The pattern is commonly found amid a defined uptrend and is known as a continuation pattern. As you can see from the chart of the SPDR Gold Shares below, the recent pullback has sent the price toward the support of the 200-day moving average and seems to be readying for another test of the resistance. Traders will keep an eye out for a breakout above $130 over the coming weeks, which would then lead to target prices well above $150.”
Illustration of the Day: how do you fight a tornado? The American way of course…
Quote of the Day: wow! The Washington Post really pummeled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following his speech at Yankee Stadium, which was full of empty platitudes, empty rhetoric, and empty gestures. Here is an excerpt from the newspaper:
As is common among sheltered men of extreme privilege, when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attempts to share relatable thoughts on modern life, his words tend to expose a speaker who has no actual familiarity with social trends but has clearly been briefed to their existence. The commencement speech he delivered Wednesday at New York University is a classic study of an obliviously cloistered poseur trying desperately to feign compliance with current fashions. A belabored reference to Pokémon Go was the least of it.
Trudeau – or whatever team of speechwriters and handlers who do the heavy thinking on his behalf – seems broadly aware that North America is mired in a state of intense sociopolitical polarization, and that amid all this shouting and anger, it is the role of great minds to reassert the case for virtues of free speech and intellectual diversity.
Such was the tone Trudeau’s NYU speech correspondingly struck, with tender protestations to “let yourself be vulnerable to another point of view” accompanied by route denunciations of accompanying sins. One must not “cocoon ourselves in an ideological, social or intellectual bubble,” he implored, or “engage only with people with whom we already agree,” but instead “fight our tribal mind-set” and the dreaded “identity politics.”
To be sure, these are good sentiments. Unfortunately, there is no evidence whatsoever that Trudeau takes them seriously in the context where his opinions most matter: his performance as Canada’s ruler.
Tweet of the Day: following the media, the left, and the Democrats slamming President Donald Trump for calling the barbaric MS-13 gang “animals,” many on the right are making a list of ideas they defend and what should be in their platform moving forward:
Dems 2018 platform:
Bring back ISIS
Restart the Korean War
There are no genders
Open borders
Repeal 2nd amendment
Illegals over veterans
Let’s crash the stock market
God is not real
Raise your taxes
The constitution sucks
Nukes for Iran
Go back on government welfare— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 17, 2018
Video of the Day: and this is why the average American detests out-of-touch, elitist politicians who need to read a book to understand someone from the midwest, rather than just getting out of their own bubble. Well, that’s exactly what Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) does to see what common folk are like.
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