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It's just not true that Russia is diverting supplies to Asia. Hello, there aren't any pipelines to Asia in which to move gas. As for oil, yes, but they are competing against oil coming from other countries which are closer to Asia and can deliver it more cheaply.
If Trump was now in office, Russia would be in Finland and most likely, a bunch of other countries formerly in the USSR. In Trump's eyes, Putin could do nothing wrong.
Imagine a sitting President of the United States publicly stating the he trusts Putin's version of events over that of all of his own intelligence agencies. It truly boggles the mind.
One of Vlad's long standing goals has been to destabilize western alliances and he found a willing puppet in Trump.
The Steele Dossier has been rightfully discredited, it's backer, Fusion GPS, is truly despicable. That being said, there's a theory going around that a few obvious falsehoods were thrown in so that it could be, as a whole, discredited. But, apparently, there's' enough in it that's true enough to have enabled Putin to make Trump dance to his piper.
Surely one of the 5 worst American Presidents of all time. Incredibly, he was able to make his father's term seem not completely terrible in retrospect.
A bona fide idiot, W's rosy path through life was paved by family connections and inherited wealth. His attempt to forge the model of President as CEO left us with Cheney and Rumsfeld running the country, and doing it very poorly.
Bush's legacy is a major terrorist attack on the country, which had been, most likely, preventable, the Great Recession, and the grotesque invasion of Iraq.
And at the same time, an uptick in the number of American assets being killed around the world.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/575384-cia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-informants-around-the-world-nyt/
Putin isn't letting Gorbachev have a state funeral, but I'll bet he'd give Trump one.
Few people on the planet have done as much to advance Vlad's agenda for breaking up western alliances as Dear Leader has done. It's possibly the one area in which he showed real skill during his time in office.
Weakening NATO, believing Putin over his own intelligence agencies, tariffs on products from allies like Canada, insulting leaders of other western countries, stealing classified documents, the man was outstanding in his subservience to Putin.
It's possible that Republican love for Putin actually started with W, though.
“I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy,” Bush said. “I was able to get a sense of his soul.”
Where's McCarthy when you need him?
Maybe, but I clearly understand what a history of terrible investments means as far as a person's analytical skills are concerned. LOL. And you seem to be batting 100% in that category.
It's a bit ironic that you have this at the bottom of all your posts:
"Successful Trading is the art of minimizing long term risk and maximizing capital allocation."
You moderate the board, and presumably own shares in MARA, which is at about 1/8 of its 52 week high.
Ditto for CORZ, which is at 1/7 of its 52 week high.
BPTS is at 1/10 of its 52 week high. BTOG also at about 1/10, and BITF at 1/8/
It seems like your inability to analyze situations runs the gamut of your experience. Remind us why you think you are so right about political stuff when you're so wrong about investing stuff.
Exactly. There are a lot of really stupid people living in America, but no way there's that many.
By illegal immigration you mean my grandparents, 2 of whom came here on
someone else's passports to flee the Nazis? Do you mean the Irish who were fleeing the Brits and jumped into NY harbor and swam ashore - there were a lot of them by the way, there were bars and furniture moving companies in NYC that only employed illegal Irish and I mean in the 1970's. Or maybe you mean the English and the Spanish who came here and took the Indian's properties.
Or maybe you mean Italians who came up through Mexico in the 1920's? Maybe you think the French were invited into the Louisiana Territory by the natives? See, if you only mean the black and brown people, that's the definition of being racist. It was ok when whitey did it, but not so much any more. I'm not sure where you live, but if you look around maybe you can find somewhere to buy a clue.
The problem with people who refuse to be educated, like yourself, is that they don't understand that when a colonial power goes into another country and steals their resources, that will ultimately come home to roost. Like we did in Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico. We owe these people, bigly, and your plan is to lay on the carpet and kick your feet up and down and make meaningless noises about it.
"I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916."
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/253269-i-spent-33-years-and-four-months-in-active-military
Yup, but you're probably ok with subsidies to agribusiness, the military industrial complex, the fossil fuel industry, ports, airports, PPP loan forgiveness, saving the auto industry, etc.
It's just them damn poors, how dare we give them any money. It's been shown that housing the homeless is less expensive than letting them remain on the street:
https://www.usich.gov/resources/uploads/asset_library/Ending_Chronic_Homelessness_in_2017.pdf
https://endhomelessness.org/resource/ending-chronic-homelessness-saves-taxpayers-money-2/
So, you're good with this, right?
And what's with your obsession with white / non white stuff? I'm guessing you're a suffering member of the oppressed white majority?
If this is the only board they post on. I'll go with "poor ignorant rubes", too, but might add "stupid" as well.
Actually, upon further reflection, I've come to believe that it's highly likely there was massive voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
It's obvious that 74 million people could not have possibly voted for the lying moron, Trump - I'd like to examine those voting machines myself to determine how votes were flipped from Biden to Trump.
Indeed, it was more of a rhetorical question. These guys are shameless thieves of shareholder value. They borrow the money, pay themselves, and we pay off the debt.
The actual issue is to create dissension amongst different America groups and, hence weakness in America's resolve. This is Vlad's goal and he's being actively assisted by Trump and his followers. We know he has stuff on Trump and sycophants like Lindsay Graham, and a large number of them, otherwise, are paid.
It's said that Russia has 3 things it exports: grain, military equipment, and cyber terrorists.
They discount democratic norms and are overjoyed at any sign of economic distress in the country. I believe most of them are being paid by clicks accumulated, so my advice, not that anyone asked, is to ignore them.
You won't change their minds or convince them on the facts, and your responses actually empower them. My guess would be that these guys posting here are most likely teenagers or very young adults, in somewhere like Mumbai, making a few bucks for their families by trying to create doubt about the American process.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
Wow, they signed on to repaying $7.5M, plus future royalties, as repayment for a $1.5M loan?
ZRFY has no incentive to actually litigate this, other than giving it lip service, since the money is repaid "only in the event that the company achieves recoveries.....". I seem to remember another $1M loan to pursue patent litigation a few years ago, but maybe it was this one and I misremember the amount.
Regardless, having to repay 5X + on a loan is sheer desperation and the terms indicate an implicit unwillingness to act in good faith by the company. Which should surprise no one who follows this company and makes one wonder how the lenders could possibly have made the loan.
Back then, in 2017, BlankRome was representing SFOR on contingency. Ropes & Gray did charge for the miserable job they did at Appeals Court, but there's no way it came to $1.5M. Where did the money actually go? Again.
All these orthodoxies, indeed. I never watch Maher, he seems a bit full of himself and played out.
Dreams, huh? I have one that the entire MAGA management team will be in jail and sooner rather than later.
It is interesting that the same word to describe sleeping fantasies is also used for real world aspirations. I guess that 13th century, Middle English cohort didn't have much hope for upward mobility.
I was led to believe some years ago that Libertarians are mostly conservatives who like to smoke pot.
More recently, though, I've read that the Libertarian Party receives funding from the Koch(s) and maybe Thiel, so, not the harmless dingbats I previously had imagined.
SS Trump just hit an iceberg, 3 icebergs:
1) Election interference in Georgia, duh
2) Tax fraud in NY State - inflating assets values for bank loans, deflating their value for tax filings - Wesselberg will be testifying soon and the judge has threatened him with 15 years if he plays it too cute
3) Treason - boxes of highly classified files on American spies, among other things, lying around in unlocked rooms and access to them unguarded.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/us/politics/trump-affidavit-intelligence-spies.html?unlocked_article_code=4ueIVXNx9ivC84qkIPHiPWf8Un3VIaPSGoutbXuss14q05P-gyG_JpquW_-rcWjIOazmIbBKMMdmfhfzflaBajus7LGluIhhUyhYEW_436DajU1esl6JyBLaO7rttbbxRJixNl0LfK62q49FF_8vLIuighRXJZEPonkUb0pwgB9ZQpS1Rwxj5UctQMBF9anovFLIzmwmERiq_yL_lHL150PEvt7H1OX7TokYYWkTB5Tc8z-57ZmRicTS5dBem_SXZJyBK4xf82jiTiFe1oXunvJ1tBz3U2Q0RFUCkg6eoFr4fYdAfTSHL15sYjOTOtxObPWsuGTsU2dx5SzHBmvnl42dFzcvTfuiww3H6dhX4NI&smid=tw-share
None of this even includes the J6 activities, his was a criminal conspiracy masquerading as an administration. But, oh oh, the Fat Boys are getting together with the Dumb Boys to violently resist this Deep State overreach. Wake me up when they're all in jail.
it's great what Texas is doing, sending unwanted immigrants to NYC. what you probably don't know is that NYC is currently working on a plan to send busloads of imprisoned violent felons to Texas. we get who they don't want and they get who we don't want. sauce for the goose, etc., it's a win win!
Your white privilege is showing, although you're not really sure what that is, or if it even exists. Anyway it's white people being discriminated against, amirite?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/realestate/housing-discrimination-maryland.html
Here, Trumpster, check this out:
https://v-dem.net/media/publications/dr_2022.pdf
Back in the U.S, back in the U.S., back in the USSR.
Ironically, as it turned out, in light of the seats held now by Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, the mediocre amongst us do have representation on the country's highest court.
Way back when, Nixon nominated Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. Famously not too bright or accomplished, Senator Hruska defended the pick by stating:
“Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance? We can’t have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/right-be-mediocre-jonah-goldberg/
And so it was with Trump, who truly proved that, indeed, anyone can grow up to be President, something we were all taught as children but came to believe not really possible as we got older. For, as Dear Leader demonstrated, if a not too bright, racist, lying, failed businessman who was also a traitorous serial sexual assaulter, can make it, anyone one of the rest of us can. And for that, we are dubiously in his debt.
Why bother? Do you think you're going to change anyone's mind with facts?
wow, a message from the Stupidverse. executing a search warrant, one approved by a Trump appointed judge is hardly a raid.
you insult everyone who's family was murdered by the Nazis by comparing this to the Gestapo.
go fuck yourself.
How old are you? Do you have any of these other symptoms:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy/symptoms-causes/syc-20370921
All you've described is depression, which is horrible, I don't mean to make light of it. I met a guy who played lineman in the NFL for 4 years, is in his forties, and claims to be already dealing with memory loss.
I didn't realize CTE can be diagnosed among the living. Is that a new development?
In a democratic republic, such as ours, for better or worse, we pretty much get the leaders we deserve. Sure, the Electoral College is a mess, but that's the same as it always was. Hillary lost, primarily, because she ignored a couple of states that could have given her the edge in the EC, by not campaigning seriously in them. Unbelievable as it appears, she seemed to not have fully grasped the process.
If the people elect a Trump, we can't all of a sudden cry foul, unless we also cried foul when Obama or Bill Clinton won. If most of the people in this country want an incompetent clown for President, that's who we'll get, who Trump is, just look at England and Johnson as well.
All that being said, it does not excuse the complete lack by accomplishments of Trump, other than creating dissension in the homeland in service to Vlad. It's ironic that the exact same people who are now out to defund the FBI were completely fine with Comey's interference in the 2016 election.
I'm afraid that one has to conclude that the people on the right are, overwhelmingly, self serving idiots, or as JS Mill, famously said, "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
Nah, not Kushner not Melania. They both owe way too much to Dear Leader and are still sucking at his teats. Don't know who, but I'd bet it's not them. Someone completely devoid of principles who has to cut a deal with the Feds? Like Meadows, maybe?
Be careful what you wish for. The judge who signed the warrant is a Trump appointee. Judges generally do not sign warrants unless there is compelling evidence. Just the fact that boxes of classified material were found in Dear Leader's Winter Palace is a crime in and of itself, it hardly matters what they were about.
The FBI must have had serious info on this stash to convince the judge. And, by the way, how did the Feds know where to look for the stuff in a 100 room palace?
Defund the FBI (except when they interfere with a Presidential election to the benefit of a Republican)! MAGA!
God's will, seriously? Now we see how Trumpism survives and thrives. Commitment to the unprovable and irrational, talk about alternative facts.
Exactly. Or like some clown reality show host claiming he's a "billionaire".
And yet, you won't or can't, respond to the question of what metrics you are using to define a recession.
And citing an alleged 500 mentions on CNBC doesn't really count.
Ok, ignore the facts, just keep repeating the same lie over and over again and maybe you can get a few people to believe it, truly a Trumpian tactic.
I think a case can be made that the brain dead have been a majority of the Republican primary electorate since, and including, the candidacy of Ronnie Raygun.
And what a nasty piece of work he was. Went from being a union president to busting unions, went from working with tons of gay people in Hollywood to being a homophobic shit heel - all for personal gain. And no one's explained satisfactorily how he ever managed to afford to buy a big ranch in some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
"it wasn't until September 1985, four years after the crisis began, that President Ronald Reagan first publicly mentioned AIDS."
https://www.history.com/news/aids-epidemic-ronald-reagan
https://lithub.com/ronald-reagan-presided-over-89343-deaths-to-aids-and-did-nothing/
The good thing, from my point of view, is that this case is just about one of the families and there are nine that have sued him.
Here's hoping he gets what he so richly deserves, he's earned it.
I'd be very surprised if sleaze ball Jones doesn't have a sizable fortune stashed in an untraceable offshore account.
He could be busted from the settlement and still enjoy his life from the Bahamas or some place that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US.
That was before he was caught in outright perjury, though. And this judge has not appreciated his antics. So here's hoping that a long stint in jail will delay life in the Bahamas.
Ok, what's your definition of a recession, specifically, since you insist this is one?
There are metrics, number things, that go along with terms like recession, so what are yours?
For example, in October, 2009, the unemployment rate reached 10%, at which time there were over 3M home foreclosure filings and 25 bank failures, you know, stuff like that.
In July 2008, gas at the pump was recorded by AAA to be, on average $4.14 per gallon, which in today's dollars is $5.84
It's a little hard to tell if you're functionally illiterate or willfully a moron (I'll take both for $200, Alex). Check out global inflation rates:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/15/in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world-inflation-is-high-and-getting-higher/
Now let's hear how it's all Biden's fault.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/inflation-stats-usa-and-world/
It's not only that driving will be less expensive. Everything shipped by truck should cost less as gas prices decline, like food.
Except for climate change, I can't think of another time in the past when things were better than they are now.
The major problem in providing context for national or global events is our inability to distinguish news that's being reported from our 24/7 access to news. Who knows if some situation is no longer a rarity or if it's really a matter of the internet's ubiquity.
Apparently, America isn't becoming such a country it already is one.
In your fevered dreams, maybe. Biden won't be on the ballot this November, but you know what will be? Access to legal abortions. Look what happened last night in super conservative Kansas.
You think suburban women and young women, both groups being courted by both parties, will vote for the theocratic fascists who want to outlaw abortion, make traveling for abortion illegal, punish doctors, ban the day after pill, make rape victims carry those babies, and, eventually, maybe, ban contraception?
Or maybe veterans will forget the Republicans killing the bill for health benefits for burn pit victims? Why will Republicans even bother to vote when they know elections are rigged?
Biden won't win re-election, he won't run. Meanwhile gas prices are going down and while Trump was sucking up to the Saudis a few days ago at a golf tournament, Biden was assassinating someone Trump has never heard of.
Negro is Portugese / Spanish, from the Latin, Niger. And those two countries were known for how well they treated indigenous people.