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April Fools! Trump Media stock is falling faster than Matt Gaetz’s shorts at a Girl Scout pool party!
Trump Media stock reportedly worth $30-$40 Billion!
— cjmmn (@ChuckCjmmn) April 1, 2024
April Fools! Trump Media stock is falling faster than Matt Gaetz’s shorts at a Girl Scout pool party! pic.twitter.com/jC4fRh4hBg
Shares of Donald Trump's social media company fell by more than 20% on Monday, less than a week after it began publicly trading under the DJT ticker.
The drop comes after Trump Media & Technology Group reported it had lost nearly $60m (£48m) last year while only bringing in around $4m in revenue.
The price plunge caused the former president's net worth to shrink by $1bn, according to Bloomberg.
Last week, shares surged, giving the company an eye-popping $11bn valuation.
But experts had warned the stock was bound to tumble, as its main product - Truth Social - loses users and burns cash.
The price spike drew comparisons to the pandemic-era "meme stock" mania, when the share prices of companies like GameStop and AMC soared even though basic parts of their businesses, such as revenue, were weak.
Shares of Trump Media, which makes its money exclusively through advertising on Truth Social, are still up nearly 200% so far this year.
Trump poised for billions as stock market deal passes
The surge has been driven by small-time investors, at least some of whom appear to be showing support for the former president as his legal troubles, and the bills that accompany them, pile up.
Mr Trump holds a nearly 60% ownership stake in the company and stands to earn a billion-dollar windfall when he cashes out his shares - though he is legally barred from doing so for another six months unless the company's board grants him a waiver.
But these investors are making a bet on a company that, in a special filing on Monday, told the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) it "expects to continue to incur operating losses and negative cash flows from operating activities for the foreseeable future".
According to the financial filing, Trump Media paid about $40m in interest expenses and $16m in operating losses in 2023.
The company said its management had "substantial doubt" that it "will have sufficient funds to meet its liabilities as they fall due".
Truth Social launched in February 2022, about one year after the former president was banned from Twitter (now X) and Facebook in the aftermath of the violent riot at the US Capitol.
While Mr Trump's accounts on both platforms have since been reinstated, he has continued to use Truth Social as the main avenue for his social media posts.
But his presence on the platform has not helped it gain a broad audience. Estimates from Similarweb show the company has roughly five million active monthly users, far fewer than rivals.
Truth Social has claimed it has about 8.9 million sign-ups, but it has declined to share the commonly disclosed performance metrics that could give shareholders a better sense of its operations.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68708648
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Trump%20Media%22&src=trend_click&vertical=trends
Hard to be the "perfect victim".
Your lecture… was framed with a tension between patriotism on one hand and journalism on the other. Russia is at war with your country, and yet your job is to cover that war. When has that tension between patriotism and journalism been at its strongest for you?
I think at the end of 2023, because I noticed that our fair reporting about corruption during war, about our problems during war that made us seem not such a [perfect] victim, has become a weapon in the hands of those who wanted — and still want — Ukraine to fall. Many radical politicians who suppressed freedom of speech in their own countries, who destroyed opposition, who take control over the media at home, like Viktor Orban in Hungary, started saying, 'Hey, look, Ukraine is corrupt. Look, Ukraine is controlling information during a war. That means Ukraine is not worth helping.'
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/ukrainian-journalist-veronika-melkozerova-stursberg-lecture-1.7157217
My idea to name and spotlight the First Family of Black Country was conceived in that moment. It was nurtured in the silence of missing names. Quiet as it was being kept, country had Black founders. I knew it; Buddy Killen, who arrived in Nashville playing bass for a blackface comedy act on the Grand Ole Opry, knew it; Roy Acuff, who had played on stages with Bailey, Ray Charles, and Pride, knew it. And more than four decades later, Beyoncé knew it when she broke the internet on Super Bowl Sunday by surprise—releasing two country songs and announcing an album, Cowboy Carter, which has her devoted fans in the Beyhive buzzing about line-dancing into the summer of country.
https://time.com/6960671/beyonce-black-country-legacy-essay/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
"Dems like a dog, gotta piss on everythang"
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68691977
Just like any other "policeman of the world" - flies off the handle once in a while.
I thought pee was considered an anti-septic
Also, thought I heard some people drink it
Outta some need I think had to do with survival
Suppose, combining the two
An anti-septic and something you put in your mouth
It could act as a mouth wash
Two birds kinda thing.
edit
Might want a beer handy if you don't like the pee after taste.
Jeff Bezos And His Ex-Wife Let Their Children Use 'Sharp Knives' At Age 4: 'Rather Have A Kid With 9 Fingers Than A Resourceless Kid'
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jeff-bezos-ex-wife-let-163011122.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9maW5hbmNlLnlhaG9vLmNvbS9xdW90ZS9GT0JJLlYvY29tbXVuaXR5Lz9fZ3VjX2NvbnNlbnRfc2tpcD0xNzExMTI4ODAz&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHCdol0pa0zu5IoWtBcL3W_RhXYIZTTXoiu3zZwD2I_MDQ0qzIyObFBI6R5m2sdU1n2eFn4dYS7-O0wJukxuaov12deKN0EtSs5t6N1f1Mdyznr62emMLETjsOeHTPNBkFV5sSGw_j_MX_J2gCkdrwCyTxUZ6iZPee2o-1uKqxWB&_guc_consent_skip=1711128811
What is the origin of that one Sorta?. The "macho, bravado, Rambo, etc,.."
Not expecting you to do my own DD and satisfy my inquiring mind I went down the muck hole:
I have seen women be surgeons, lawyers, astronauts. My ex could program a VCR a week in advance. But a toilet seat vexed her. She fell into a toilet at least once a week. always someone else’s fault. Go out to dinner and she goes to use the toilet, splash, falls in. Someone did that to trick her. Visiting friends, uses the toilet, splash, again, someone knew she was coming over and set a trap for her to fall in. To my knowledge she never did learn all the complexities about a toilet seat. Knowing when to flush seemed confusing too. But I have seen similar things from other women. Educated women. Some are engineers, designers, inspectors. Somewhere is a gene that is amiss that forbids them from looking at a toilet and seeing if it needs moved. As a male I need move it up or down depending on what I am going to do. This was a skill, oddly, I learned from my mother. And she was female. Puzzling. Wonder if we can get a grant to study this?
As you know, it's bigger than Cali. Goes back to Maggie Thatcher.. Reagan a year later.
It’s a paradox: we live in the most prosperous era in human history, but it’s also an era of profound insecurity.
In the third of her Massey Lectures, Taylor suggests history shows that increased material security helps people be more open-minded, tolerant, and curious. But rising insecurity does the reverse: it drives us apart, and it also drives the rise of reactionary politics.
We’re in the middle of an attack on our essential nature, she says, an attack on our economic and emotional well-being.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174081421
Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer, and political organizer, born in Winnipeg, Man., and raised in Athens, Ga. She currently lives in New York. Her previous books include Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions, Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, and the American Book Award winner The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. She regularly writes for major publications, has directed three documentaries — Zizek!, What is Democracy? and Examined Life — toured with the band Neutral Milk Hotel, and co-founded the Debt Collective, a debt relief advocacy group.
I expect that southern gentleman will be reading.. ;).
You likely have something there. The Partisanship here is palpable. Where I bet y'all intersect and can agree is systemic and wonderfully described in these lectures:
“Insecurity is really central to the functioning of our political and economic system.”
Taylor takes a deep dive into the history of capitalism and explores how, paradoxically, the ways that we’ve been encouraged to achieve security — purchasing health and wellness products, buying life insurance, acquiring property — actually work against us.
She also looks forward at the ways we might be able to achieve true security, using collective action.
https://www.cbc.ca/radiointeractives/ideas/2023-cbc-massey-lectures-astra-taylor/lecture-1-curas-gift
Thanks for taking me up on that lovely play on words iissm
Tornado Alley as the intro says is an invitation for all kinds of topics and posters
Inherent in that will be some "overboarders", or extremes, out there views, etc,.. not a profound statement.
I'll look later,.. nothing coming to mind (for now, maybe Sorta's sharp tongue or Newmed when he was drinking lol ;).
Definitely the tightie whities cognitive dissonance ..
I won't go over board cuz you sound uptight and defensive but yes - it is a very good board Fuagf ;)
I thought my Super Model comment was quite overboard.
Off to shinny, hope to catch up on the board later, cheers!..
Oh yeah, oh gawd .. not that B4 business again. I support good comments and challenge bad ones all imo, usually if replied to - otherwise more of a reader. You guys go back and forth all day every day.. a bit over board imo ;).
That's why I commented on the talking point or standard reply - cuz no one is supporting Hamas. To use your word - the statement or argument isn't credible.
Reminds me of a Chomsky quote, "the way to not create terrorism is to not do it" .. something like that.
Good read, thanks. Interesting study and points by Kushel the author - $300-$500 bucks a month could have made the difference which sounds like the greater percentage of people out of their residences compared to the other (usual) reasons.
Speaking of taking sides or at least a position -
This one caught my eye and since on previous subject
Canada to halt arms sales to Israel after non-binding vote in house of commons
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East called the motion “watered-down” in a statement, but said it represented a “small step forward for ending Canadian complicity in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza”.
Following the vote on the motion, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs lobby group called the outcome “misguided and disingenuous”.
“It will not effectively address the humanitarian crisis. It will not liberate Gazans from the tyrannical rule of the Iranian proxy, Hamas. It will not promote peace,” the group said.
“It is shameful that the Liberal government has drawn moral equivalence between Israel, a declared democratic ally, and Hamas, a Canadian government-listed terrorist entity.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/19/canada-halt-arms-sales-to-israel
So,.. there we go - a political gesture and measurement using a ruler of what is too much or too little.
Maybe, Brook can comment on what would be the rest of the Israeli argument to go along with what looks like a deflection of the issues involved by "Hamas this Hamas that" .. sounds kinda familiar;
Dems this Dems that?.
MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is giving $640m (£504m) to non-profit organisations, more than double her previously planned donations for the year.
The billionaire announced this week she would give the money to 361 small groups, out of the more than 6,000 organisations that applied for funding.
She had initially planned to make 250 awards of $1m each this year.
Ms Scott has given away $16.5b since divorcing Mr Bezos in 2019.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68609687
That overboarding is across the board including this one lol
But, do read Fuagf's article particularly how little science and data is available that with the legal system will determine where in the middle those extremes will be arbitrated.
.. If you missed reading between the lines of my post
My truth is best elicited at the juncture of a mutual love and feeling of oneness expressed and experienced
From the muscular grip of vaginae on membrum virile
Just one more contribution to the courts of law and science lol.
Richards has since expressed ambivalence about her legacy, and came to believe her past as a man provided her with advantages over her competitors, saying "Having lived for the past 30 years, I know if I'd had surgery at the age of 22, and then at 24 went on the tour, no genetic woman in the world would have been able to come close to me. And so I've reconsidered my opinion."
Fucker Carlson's dad .. In 1976, Richards's gender reassignment was outed by local TV anchor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Richards
These debates remind me of bashers and pumpers with their FUD and fun facts.
I never really considered the issue outta my general liberal stance for most things of "whatever".
This stuff goes back eons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-affirming_surgery
History
Reports of people seeking gender-confirming surgery (vaginoplasty) go back to the 2nd century, such as the Roman Emperor Elagabalus.[21][22] In the Byzantine Empire "reconstructive" surgeries on intersex people were performed at least from the seventh century on, in Alexandria possibly as early as the 2nd century.[23]Paul of Aegina (c.?625 – c.?690), quoting Leonidas (Alexandria, 2nd – 3rd centuries), describes in section LXIX (On Hermaphrodites) of his sixth book four types of intersex and how to "cure" three of them by surgically removing the "useless parts".[23][24] In the next section (LXX, On Extirpation of the Nympha and Cauda Pudendi) he deals with clitoromegaly and how to remove the enlarged clitoris.[25] The first modern gender-confirming surgery was performed in the 20th century.[21]
Although, having given it serious thought just this morning - mostly based on a bit of a queezy feeling that comes with exploring the unknown world and it's plethora of phenomena manifestations.
[Me. ..plethora of phenomena manifestations. Is that the proper phrasing?
Bot. Yes, the phrase “plethora of phenomena manifestations” is grammatically correct. It conveys the idea of a large and diverse number of observable occurrences or events. The word “plethora” emphasizes abundance, while “phenomena manifestations” refers to the various ways in which phenomena become evident or appear. Well done! 😊]
Chatbot buddy thinks I'm great but not without bias.
Anyhow, I just want people to be happy. If some super model type with a big round and fleshy azz
Wanted to do a Vaginoplasty on either or both those cheeks I'd be happy to marry her.
I thought it a weird idea at first so thought to ask:
.. has any woman ever done a vaginoplasty on their buttocks - added a vagina?
No reply.
This post may also be considered rhetorical and just another phenomena manifestation.
Again with the 12 year old stuff, sheesh.
That piss may have aged differently like most things as well..
https://www.mensjournal.com/food-drink/whiskey-age-statement-bottle-meaning
Lol, no it wasn't and not my phrazin' ;)
‘A 1939 moment’: Jim Sciutto on Russia, China and the threat of war
The CNN analyst’s new book considers threats outside the US, in Ukraine and Taiwan, and within, as Biden battles Trump
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Sun 10 Mar 2024 09.00 GMT
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At CNN in Washington, Jim Sciutto’s dimly lit office is both man cave and shrine to a foreign correspondent who has reported from more than 50 countries. A typewriter he bought on Portobello Road during a decade in London. Photos he took in Afghanistan and Ukraine. A Vietnamese newspaper account of the time he rode over the South China Sea on a US spy plane. A corked bottle of water from his trip to the North Pole in a US nuclear submarine. A fragment of the Black Hawk helicopter destroyed in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. “I’m not sure I should have that,” Sciutto confesses, “but I do.”
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There is also an important fragment of newspaper, a gift from Sciutto’s grandfather containing a quotation from the author and journalist Eric Sevareid: “What counts most in the long haul of adult life is not brilliance or charisma or derring-do, but rather the quality the Romans called ‘gravitas’: patience, stamina and weight of judgment. The prime virtue is courage, because it makes all other virtues possible.”
When Sciutto’s father died, the quotation was on the funeral mass card.
It was during an assignment that the idea for a book came to Sciutto, 54, CNN anchor and chief national security analyst. As Russian tanks rolled across the Ukrainian border and missiles fell on Kyiv, he sensed a clean break from the post-cold war world he grew up in. He remarked, live on air, that this was a “1939 moment”. What did he mean by those ominous words?
“You have a territorially aggressive leader in [Russian president Vladimir] Putin who’s willing to use force to change borders, and has done,” says Sciutto, who this week publishes The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War. “You have some in the west who recognise that and others who say just give him this much and it’ll be fine.
“It does have echoes of 1939 and you’ve already experimented with this where you give a little bit of Georgia, you give a little bit of Ukraine and then he calculates, ‘I can take more’ and even when he fails, he tries again. He’s trying again in Transnistria now, to take a little slice of Moldova.”
Man wearing plaid suit and blue tie
Jim Sciutto. Photograph: John Nowak/CNN
Then there is China, which also feels wronged by history and the west.
“If you look at Putin’s maps of Europe, the echo is [Chinese president] Xi [Jinping’s] maps of Asia, the nine-dash line. It’s just made up historical justifications for territorial aggression. Then on our side of it you have folks who say: ‘That’s not our war, it’s too far away, just give them a little bit, actually we can work with him.’
“There’s a bit of [1930s British prime minister] Neville Chamberlain in that. Listen, should we all understand why folks don’t want to get in a bloody war with Russia? Absolutely. Or send their sons and daughters to die? 100%. Chamberlain saw world war one and said: ‘I don’t want to have another,’ and you get that. The trouble is, can you actually have peace in your time given the track record, or are you just waiting for the next war, the next land grab?”
A strand of leftwing thought opposes the military industrial complex (a phrase coined by a Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower) and points to misadventures in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. But now an allergy to foreign entanglements is all the rage on the populist far right, led by Donald Trump, who espouses “America first” isolationism. Keeping the US out of a third world war has become a staple of his campaign speeches as he seeks to regain the White House.
For Sciutto, there are echoes of Charles Lindbergh, the celebrated aviator who became the leading spokesperson of the America First Committee in the build-up to the second world war.
“You could quote directly from Lindbergh’s speeches and it seems almost verbatim to what you hear today,” Sciutto says.
“I get the argument that no one wants a war and, God knows, you don’t want a nuclear war with either [China or Russia]. On the flip side, there’s no intellectual consistency to that rightwing Republican view because what you’ll often hear them say is: ‘Well, Ukraine’s not our war but maybe China is.’”
Many Republicans are turning their backs on Ukraine but vowing to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion. Sciutto continues: “The trouble is, China is watching the response to Ukraine. What’s the fundamental difference? If it’s about sovereignty, you have a sovereignty argument in both places.
“If it’s about trying to stand up to taking territory by force, you have it in both places. Explain to me the difference there. Or even if you relate it to Israel, there’s no intellectual consistency. What’s the argument to defend one but not the other? I suppose looking for intellectual consistency in Washington is a big ask.”
Even worse, he argues, is a false narrative about the Ukraine war.
“I’ve had these conversations on the air with some GOP lawmakers. They’ll be like: ‘Listen, there’s a lot of killing on both sides here.’ I was like: ‘Do you remember how did the war start? Who rolled across the border?’ ‘Well, if we arm them, lots of people are dying here.’ ‘You do remember how this war started and what the fundamental conflict is over?’ A lot of the arguments just don’t stand up to the facts.”
Republican intransigence on Capitol Hill is having consequences on the battlefield as Russia makes territorial gains and Ukraine runs low on ammunition. The White House describes the situation as “dire”. Last month, Politico reported: “Four American senators recounted a story Ukrainian officials told them at the Munich security conference: a soldier in a muddy trench with Russian artillery exploding nearby, scrolling on his phone for signs the US House would approve military aid.”
Soldiers in battle
Ukrainian soldiers train at an undisclosed location, as the war with Russia goes on. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Sciutto has been in contact with soldiers, families and others in Ukraine. “They were absolutely terrified that they’re going to be abandoned,” he says. Based on conversations with Ukrainian and European sources, he believes there is a “real danger” Ukraine will lose the war if the US cuts off funding.
Such an outcome would be followed intently in Beijing and Taipei. In his book, Sciutto writes that a war over Taiwan would look very different. Instead of tank battles, artillery barrages and trench warfare, planners foresee lightning air and sea combat, with rapid waves of missiles, anti-satellite weapons and cyberattacks. Biden has effectively abandoned strategic ambiguity by vowing to defend Taiwan with US troops.
Sciutto notes: “Biden has created, in effect, a new red line there by saying the US will defend them militarily. Not everyone believes that and I go to Taiwan and I ask people that and they’re not so sure. But it’s an open question.”
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What would Trump do? In Sciutto’s book, John Bolton, formerly national security adviser, recalls a stunt Trump would perform in the Oval Office: “He would hold up the tip of his Sharpie pen and say: ‘That’s Taiwan. See this Resolute Desk, that’s China.’” His point was that Taiwan is too small to successfully defend itself and too small for the US to care.
As Biden often notes, such debates are putting US credibility on the line. Sciutto had spells in Britain and Hong Kong and was chief of staff at the US embassy in Beijing from 2011 to 2013. During the presidency of George W Bush, he spent a lot of time in Europe. What did he observe about how the world views the US?
“There’s an endless US-bashing that goes on. You’re either too weak or too strong or too involved or not involved enough, some of which just comes with being the richest country in the world and the most powerful military that talks a big game about solving all the world’s problems. To some degree, I’ve been hearing this for years, but I will say that the last decade or two hasn’t improved the US record or soft power abroad. I can say that pretty safely.”
American polarisation doesn’t help. It used to be said that politics stops at the water’s edge. The world knew more or less what to expect from Democrats and Republicans. But just as Biden and Trump radically differ on abortion, crime, guns, healthcare and immigration, so their foreign policy agendas give any foreign diplomat whiplash.
Sciutto observes: “This is the danger. Because foreign policy has become another partisan issue in the country, each election can bring a 180-degree turn in how the US behaves in the world. That has to make our partners say: ‘Right, so Joe Biden is going to abide by article five [Nato’s collective defence clause] but Trump isn’t, where does that leave me? That means we’ve got to make a plan ourselves.’ You hear that more. [The French president Emmanuel] Macron has said it out loud. Others have said it out loud: ‘We’ve got to make our own way.’”
In the week that Trump wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination, forcing his former UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, to end her campaign, the stakes have been clarified. In his book, Sciutto notes that Trump has expressed admiration for Putin, Xi and even Adolf Hitler. Presidential elections are seldom decided by foreign policy considerations, but the consequences of who owns the nuclear codes could be incalculably far reaching.
Man wearing suit and touching his glasses looks at another man wearing suit
John Bolton looks on as Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
“This election has a real and very defined choice for voters as to what role they want the US to play in the world and how they want to react to this great power competition,” Sciutto says, “because whatever you think of the politics, what Trump has said and done in actions during his first presidency and his positions going into this race show that he somehow envisions a friendly relationship with Xi and Putin.”
In his book, Sciutto quotes a senior US official, who served under Trump and Biden, as saying that in a second Trump term “the US will be out of Nato”. Bolton agrees: “Nato would be in real jeopardy. I think he would try to get out.”
Sciutto adds: “That’s the explicit position of the presumptive Republican nominee, which is the opposite of Biden’s approach to this. That’s a real choice. It’s not going to be a kind of subtle rebalancing. It’s going to be, we’re going to go this way or that way in terms of how we deal with Russia, China and these other places. It’s a real choice.”
Sciutto is old enough to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall and the political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s prognostications on the “end of history”. Sciutto’s book leaves no one in any doubt it did not turn out that way. It reports on US concerns in 2022 about the possibility Russia was preparing to use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine. James Stavridis, a former Nato supreme allied commander, tells him America is already engaged in a “hybrid proxy war” with Russia.
Book cover of The Return of Great Powers
The Return of Great Powers. Photograph: Dutton
Sciutto takes no pleasure in playing Cassandra, warning of a world that for all its 21st-century sophistication and irony is backsliding towards Greek tragedy.
“There’s a sadness about it for me personally, because I’m far from a warmonger,” he reflects. “The reason I spent the whole last chapter in the book talking to folks around the world about how to avoid open conflict is because I certainly don’t relish it.
“I don’t want my kids to fight in a war. I don’t want to live in a place where it’s not safe to go to parts of Europe or Asia, for that matter. I brought my family to Beijing for two years and they went to school there and they speak Chinese. I don’t want it to be a world that is divided along those lines, but the sad fact is that’s where we’re heading unless we find a way to navigate away from it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/10/jim-sciutto-return-great-powers-book
I'm not blind to that "Dems this Dems that" and would even go so far as to say it could also be considered one of his basic tenets but
I have an amazing capacity for filtering out the partisan noise and focus on (new) content. In this case my point about Hanauer was
Everyone seems to be in agreement. On a lessor important point (for me), I've been insulted countless times as well but don't care (after I explain to them why they are wrong lol ;) - again, more interesting to me is the content and in those cases, motivations. I've stated many times as well that to me, this is the interwebz at an ipub and expect no less. Cognitive dissonance involve competing interests and beliefs in an individual. Paradoxical too. My god is absurdity lol.
Wife's car ready for pick up - the absurdity is she'll just break it again lol. c u.
Thanks and good to hear ur on some sound footing with those.
I call it a winter sport and too undisciplined to think it a job. Hobby really.
$glta lol..
Didn't find it that damning. This is a campaign not an economic summit. Blame the teleprompter guy. Watched some highlights - thought he was pretty solid despite the exaggerations.
Lol, that ties in with my first thought for god makes you do hard things
.. actually when I feel closest to god.
Lol, back on schedule.
Paradoxicals:
How can homelessness and homed working poor be worse off in these last 4 years (referenced) when the economy is in far better shape for and during those same 4 years. Could Newmed and B4 both be right at the same time?.
Getting more insights into why I don't like chat about other posters lol.
Speaking of common ground - I haven't heard anyone criticize Nick's "pitch forks are coming unless..."
I think it safe to say that is one of .. if not main basis of B4's "whining"
Cognitive dissonance anyone?.
Lol, nope - just baffled how people can be so reluctant to consideration and open the door to maybe changing their mind.
That number was what I paid in tax when you saw me vent - not a recurring problem lol ;).
Lol, that one took some context searching and agree I mangled that second line ;)
Not important but we were discussing those first graders/magats/cognitive dissonants/etc,...
(no, I didn't mean to refer to myself - left out a couple those little connecting words ;)
Nor was I referring to Mr. B4
You had referenced him with the phrase constant whining in the same exchange but I was thinking of that mass of humanity we often see interviewed, but would just respond by - some gripe; blaming the gov't, etc,.. and conclude "yes, I'm voting Trump again".
That young senator from Alabama last night I suffered thru most of the 17 minutes captured that gripe wonderfully - not much substance.
For sure Mr Fuagf re [...]
[.. if you link back to other articles I've copied I expect you to (mostly or entirely) find it's use! ;]
Question for the board. What is the preference - less or more; whole article or as much brevity as possible.
Often times I find a whole article worthy, don't expect others to find what I find important and reluctant to bold lines as it is another form of editing.
Also, I like when a whole article is posted cuz saves me following a link and possibly being stymied by a pay wall or worse disastrous encounters.
Just to get the opinions going.
Cool. That puts paid to Trump and 4 years - how about 50 years and $50,000,000,000,000?:
https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/
There are some who blame the current plight of working Americans on structural changes in the underlying economy—on automation, and especially on globalization. According to this popular narrative, the lower wages of the past 40 years were the unfortunate but necessary price of keeping American businesses competitive in an increasingly cutthroat global market. But in fact, the $50 trillion transfer of wealth the RAND report documents has occurred entirely within the American economy, not between it and its trading partners. No, this upward redistribution of income, wealth, and power wasn’t inevitable; it was a choice—a direct result of the trickle-down policies we chose to implement since 1975.
We chose to cut taxes on billionaires and to deregulate the financial industry. We chose to allow CEOs to manipulate share prices through stock buybacks, and to lavishly reward themselves with the proceeds. We chose to permit giant corporations, through mergers and acquisitions, to accumulate the vast monopoly power necessary to dictate both prices charged and wages paid. We chose to erode the minimum wage and the overtime threshold and the bargaining power of labor. For four decades, we chose to elect political leaders who put the material interests of the rich and powerful above those of the American people.
There is little evidence that the current administration has any interest in dealing with this crisis. Our hope is that a Biden administration would be historically bold. But make no mistake that both our political and economic systems will collapse absent solutions that scale to the enormous size of the problem. The central goal of our nation’s economic policy must be nothing less than the doubling of median income. We must dramatically narrow inequality between distributions while eliminating racial and gender inequalities within them. This is the standard to which we should hold leaders from both parties. To advocate for anything less would be cowardly or dishonest or both.
Good and poignant post B4 - crazy; richest country in the world - gotta have that cheap indentured labor fo sho.
Money is just playing now "what it make a good man bad, what it a make a good man mad"....
Lol, good comments. I was wary of you picking up on the "tingles" comment ;).
Off topic recco while shit posting (listening now ;):
Indentured slaves my friend. Can't speak for anyone but I'd boycott that Dimon crap from the get go.
Lol, perfect. Besides the irreparable damage was preconception.
Holy Crap B4!, Katie Porter with the quick math there gave me tingles (queue Newmed comment ;).
Lol, you made me reflect and as stated I really really prefer not to speak about others.
My reflection was on what I may be perceived for as "consistent whining"
Upon reflection, those issues are irrefutable to date ;).