# Hi, Sam Stone! -- I Pit the Blathering Bullshit about Stock Market movements **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 3, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-sam-stone-i-pit-the-blathering-bullshit-about-stock-market-movements/811706 "2018-04-03T10:42:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-sam-stone-i-pit-the-blathering-bullshit-about-stock-market-movements/811706/101 "2019-02-06T18:36:19Z")
Returns on the DJIA under Trump are basically the same as they were under Obama and Trump accomplished a lot of that by giving corporations over a trillion in tax cuts. Why that is a vindication, I have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-sam-stone-i-pit-the-blathering-bullshit-about-stock-market-movements/811706/102 "2019-02-08T23:07:57Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > \ > Sorry. Just looking for my keys. Carry on. > \ Oh there you are! There’s a few questions here you’ve left unanswered. Start with #1. Then #90. TIA. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-sam-stone-i-pit-the-blathering-bullshit-about-stock-market-movements/811706/103 "2019-02-08T23:52:36Z")
Bad move, there. You have challenged Brave Sir Robin. You _know_ what happens when you do that. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-sam-stone-i-pit-the-blathering-bullshit-about-stock-market-movements/811706/104 "2019-02-09T09:27:07Z")
In another thread, defending himself from sexism, **Mr. Stone** writes: > [@Warren forms Exploratory Committee](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-forms-exploratory-committee/826983/346): > > I also called Jeff Sessions an authoritarian scold. @ **Sam** — Was this clause intended as a factual fact? Or just another colorful turn of phrase? Just for fun, I Searched for Sam Stone mentions of “Sessions.” I found - [a post where Stone compares Jesse Jackson to Falwell and Robertson](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2582182&postcount=68). "Yet, I’ve heard lots of people say, “The world would be a better place if we could just get the Christians to stop being Christians.” How many college bull sessions have you been in where someone had to mention that “More people have been killed in the name of christianity than anything else”? " - [The Iraqi misadventure was justified despite that “It’s not that Saddam sat in on planning sessions for the WTC attacks”](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8333414&postcount=20). An elegant diatribe which covers all the bases. The young Hillary (who campaigned for Barry Goldwater) appeared to be a dangerous radical. But it seemed that no mentions of Jeff Sessions turned up, let alone about him being a “scold.” Factual facts? Colorful turns of phrase? Bombastic flatulence? You decide. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-sam-stone-i-pit-the-blathering-bullshit-about-stock-market-movements/811706/105 "2019-10-11T06:08:03Z")
I see that the **Blathering Stone** is blathering again. I’m bumping this thread because I don’t think he’s ever explained why the performance of the stock market under Obama — the NASDAQ average didn’t Quintuple, it only QUADRUPLED — was so disappointing, and a proof that Democratic policies don’t work. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-sam-stone-i-pit-the-blathering-bullshit-about-stock-market-movements/811706/106 "2019-10-11T10:08:09Z")
Darn. I was hoping for another YouTube link. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-sam-stone-i-pit-the-blathering-bullshit-about-stock-market-movements/811706/107 "2019-10-11T11:45:52Z")
From the guy who NEVER provides cites. He doesn’t even cite Alex Jones — Jones is too far past his intellectual level. > [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Darn. I was hoping for another YouTube link. How do you like them Patriots this season, Bubba? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-sam-stone-i-pit-the-blathering-bullshit-about-stock-market-movements/811706.md?page=5)