Since a small minority of Slopers don’t enjoy posts dedicated to asian transsexuals, I thought I’d mix things up a bit and point out something interesting: I’m very gung-ho about energy short positions, as you know, and I contend that the overall energy stock sector (represented by XLE, shown below in blue) is going to “catch down” to oil’s crumbling price sooner or later.
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Drag Race
I watched Trump’s speech last night, and although I’m certainly not going to get into politics here on Slope, I do want to at least note this: when he mentioned in carefully enunciated letters LGBTQ I had one of those “whoa!” type moments.
To be clear, I certainly have no quarrel with his (ostensible) expression of support. But can you imagine teleporting back to, say, the 1984 Republican convention and telling those folks from not-that-long-ago that their candidate in 2016 would proclaim his support for…………..transvestites? (I know the term is “trans-gender”, but we’ll use a more 1984-ish type term).
It’s bizarre enough that a real estate developer and reality television star is this close to the most powerful office on the planet. Pandering to cross-dressers, though – – – pretty wild stuff! One can only imagine what groups will be embraced in 2020.