Mr.TaterSalad Posted February 6 Posted February 6 2 hours ago, mtutiger said: That's capitalism people. You all want a free market, you all will get a free market. Quote
pfife Posted February 6 Posted February 6 "opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits" "defiance of statutes" Thats a lot of word salad to say he lettered in breaking the law. Quote
Tiger337 Posted February 6 Posted February 6 I have noticed a recent trend on facebook where if someone complains about Trump or Musk, the MAGA response is the hug emoji. MAGAholic is probably just following protocol. 1 Quote
pfife Posted February 6 Posted February 6 4 minutes ago, Tiger337 said: I have noticed a recent trend on facebook where if someone complains about Trump or Musk, the MAGA response is the hug emoji. MAGAholic is probably just following protocol. Thank you. Quote
smr-nj Posted February 6 Posted February 6 I just can’t wrap my head around reacting to a clicked “like” or “laugh”, etc…. Reacting to that the same as if there’s a physical posted answer. It just doesn’t pass the smell test of “this is trolling” to me. You’ve now explained the “repping”, while also so kindly indicating that management (in particular- mine) is stupid, with a smirky “sorry you don’t know”, and labeling my non-response as being indicative of me being in denial. Not in denial… because I can’t/won’t classify an emoji response as trolling. It just seems a reach to me. Then again, could be generational….but I just don’t give a flying you know-what. Bottom line, the one interesting fact I’ve come away with at the end of this day is this: the two members here who have responded to posts I’ve made attempting to modify behavior had this same answer as a comeback to me ….. it was, and I quote : “Ban me”. (and in each instance, I never once brought up threatening anybody with being banned.) the two members giving the same answer? But of course ……. tigerholic and pfife. 🙂 You both are cut from the same cloth, and that fact has to drive you mad… am I right? Well, bonne soir, mes petites.😈👹 Quote
Hongbit Posted February 6 Posted February 6 There is no smell test. He’s a troll. Everything he does here is a troll He’s admitted such on multiple occasions. 4 Quote
pfife Posted February 6 Posted February 6 (edited) 1 hour ago, smr-nj said: I just can’t wrap my head around reacting to a clicked “like” or “laugh”, etc…. Reacting to that the same as if there’s a physical posted answer. It just doesn’t pass the smell test of “this is trolling” to me. You’ve now explained the “repping”, while also so kindly indicating that management (in particular- mine) is stupid, with a smirky “sorry you don’t know”, and labeling my non-response as being indicative of me being in denial. Not in denial… because I can’t/won’t classify an emoji response as trolling. It just seems a reach to me. Then again, could be generational….but I just don’t give a flying you know-what. Bottom line, the one interesting fact I’ve come away with at the end of this day is this: the two members here who have responded to posts I’ve made attempting to modify behavior had this same answer as a comeback to me ….. it was, and I quote : “Ban me”. (and in each instance, I never once brought up threatening anybody with being banned.) the two members giving the same answer? But of course ……. tigerholic and pfife. 🙂 You both are cut from the same cloth, and that fact has to drive you mad… am I right? Well, bonne soir, mes petites.😈👹 You can ban me, but I prefer lectures on my behavior from people who don't have weird, immature, ignorance-feuled, cursing meltdowns in my dms. That would be.... literally everyone here but you. frickin hypocrite. Sorry you don't know the situation you chose to walk into as evidenced by multiple posters with decades of history here telling you. And the troll themselves admitting it. Thats a you issue. Edited February 6 by pfife Quote
pfife Posted February 6 Posted February 6 39 minutes ago, Hongbit said: There is no smell test. He’s a troll. Everything he does here is a troll He’s admitted such on multiple occasions. no doubt. It's beyond obvious. Quote
romad1 Posted February 6 Posted February 6 10 hours ago, CMRivdogs said: Lawsuits and filibuster until this is resolved. 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 6 Posted February 6 (edited) This could go in the investment thread, except it is political. https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-markets-610f0280-e3c9-11ef-9e6c-fd3148ff9206.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmarkets&stream=business Quote A sovereign wealth fund of the kind proposed by President Trump, likely funded by debt and primarily investing in domestic assets, violates nearly all of the principles that usually undergird the asset class. Why it matters: Dani Rodrik, a Harvard economist known for his support for industrial policy and government involvement in markets, tells Axios that this particular proposal "makes no sense at all." Flashback: The most prominent such fund, 1MDB, ended up collapsing in scandalous ignominy. Malaysia wanted a sovereign wealth fund, but it had no sovereign wealth to invest. It therefore created a vehicle, 1MDB, that borrowed money on the international bond markets. Most of that money, which was ostensibly invested in domestic development projects, ended up being stolen by government cronies. Where it stands: 1MDB is the only real precedent for a debt-funded sovereign wealth fund, per Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen. While a U.S. version would not necessarily need to fund itself directly by issuing bonds like 1MDB, ultimately any money flowing into it could alternatively be used to decrease the deficit, therefore it makes sense to think of the fund as directly increasing the deficit and the national debt. It exacerbates, rather than addresses, the country's fiscal imbalances, notwithstanding Trump's claim that the fund will "promote fiscal sustainability." The White House did not return requests for comment. Between the lines: As Axios' Neil Irwin notes, sovereign wealth funds are by their nature prone to suggestions of cronyism, even if the behavior is entirely legal. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner secured a $2 billion investment from the Saudi Public Investment Fund within a year of leaving the White House and starting out in private equity, leading to accusations that he leveraged his ties to Saudi royalty as a U.S. official into a private sector payday. Kushner has not been accused of violating any laws, and rejects the idea he has crossed any ethical lines. The big picture: The archetypal sovereign wealth fund — think Norway — exists to solve a luxury problem: What should the country do with its windfall oil wealth, given the knowledge that those revenues won't last forever? The answer: Instead of spending the money today, it's better to invest it in a diversified set of international assets, so the country's future citizens can share in the wealth even after the oil money runs out. The United States, by contrast, doesn't have windfall wealth. Rather, it has a $36 trillion national debt. Trump's executive order is extremely vague on where the money might get invested. The president even said, "We're going to be doing something perhaps with TikTok, and perhaps not." The bottom line: Eichengreen sums it up for Axios this way: "Can you say 'recipe for disaster?' Which is the appropriate thing to say even in the absence of cronyism. Of which there is bound to be plenty." Edited February 6 by CMRivdogs Quote
Tigeraholic1 Posted February 6 Author Posted February 6 You guys, this is now your safe echo chamber. No one will hurt your fee fees or challenge you here anymore. I will continue to read what is posted and may react with an emoji. If that triggers you please seek professional help. Quote
pfife Posted February 6 Posted February 6 (edited) No ones triggered by you. Quit obsessing over us, its weird. Reminds me of you being in dc for the inaug and still coming here and trolling a bunch of middle age dudes. Weird stuff. Edited February 6 by pfife Quote
pfife Posted February 6 Posted February 6 Just more not being here and not responding and not trolling. 1 Quote
pfife Posted February 6 Posted February 6 (edited) Nice smell test. Lol Nailed it. Edited February 6 by pfife Quote
romad1 Posted February 6 Posted February 6 Have uncleared individuals been allowed access to classified systems? Yes. Is that illegal? Yes. Defend that. 1 Quote
chasfh Posted February 6 Posted February 6 16 hours ago, mtutiger said: Just what we need... A bunch of kids not old enough to rent a car handling air traffic control Just what we need … a president making stupid off the cuff “suggestions” that stand a good chance of being implemented because he’s the king. Quote
Tigeraholic1 Posted February 6 Author Posted February 6 Huh, lil chief literally tagged me in this thread but he was not triggered....... Weird, he is like the Stan guy in the M&M song. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 6 Posted February 6 Parody from the Bullwerk..worth the read Quote The Trump-Bannon Conversation by William Kristol THE FOLLOWING IS AN NSA INTERCEPT PURSUANT TO SECTION 702 OF THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT. CLASSIFICATION: SUPER TOP SECRET. HIGHLY SENSITIVE. CONE OF SILENCE. DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTED TO DEEP STATE AND BULWARKLEADERSHIP ONLY. TRANSCRIPT OF PHONE CONVERSATION BETWEEN PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP AND MR. STEPHEN K. BANNON. CALL INITIATED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AT 2:17AM, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6. Bannon: Uh, hello? POTUS: Steve, we’ve got a problem. Bigly. Bannon: Mr. President, good to hear from you. It is two o’clock in the morning. POTUS: Who gives a ****. We got someone we got to deal with. Bannon: Yes sir! Fire that twerp Rubio. He’s not making the case for you. He’s going around looking apologetic about what you’re saying. And I just heard from Anton—thank God we stuck him in there to spy on Rubio—that all Marco talks about is how “we’ve got to figure out how to manage Trump” and that kind of BS. He’s as bad as McMaster and Bolton. But now that it’s clear the Republican Senators will go along with anything, you can replace Rubio with MTG, or at least Ric. . . POTUS: F*** Rubio. F*** the State Department. Who cares what they do? And I kind of enjoy humiliating Lil’ Marco. I’m leaving him there for a while. He’s not the problem. Bannon: Sir, who is the problem? POTUS: You know him. You hate him. Bannon: (interrupting, shouting) ELON! POTUS: Yup, Elon. Bannon: GREAT GREAT GREAT. You know, I warned you, sir— POTUS: (interrupting) F*** what you warned me. I needed him in the campaign. He was useful in the transition. But now he’s hurting me. Scavino showed me some poll from those globalist wimps at the Economist. Can you believe he reads that crap? Back in November people were ok with Elon. But now only 13 percent want him to have “a lot” of influence; 25 percent say they want “a little” influence; and 46 percent want him to have “none at all.” As long as Musk is hogging the spotlight, I can’t get the numbers I deserve. All his BS overshadows my brilliant moves with Greenland and Gaza and Canada and all that other good stuff. Bannon: Yes, sir, Musk is hurting us. You know sir, populist movements require— POTUS: Christ, Steve. Focus on the important thing. Miller and Vought—now those guys are good aides, they come up with all these plans but they know their f***ing place. They say Elon’s talking secretly with JD and that lunatic Tucker, about “managing” me and telling the press I’m losing it and gradually edging me aside. You warned me about their plotting when I let them convince me to take JD as VP. But that worked out for the campaign. Now it’s time to make a move. I’m stuck with JD. But Elon’s gotta go. Bannon: Great! This is the happiest day of my life since I discovered the writings of Julius Evola . . . POTUS: No one cares about Ebola, Steve. I need you to figure out how I can get rid of Elon. He’s got money. He’s got Twitter. He’s got all those weirdo friends from Silicon Valley. This is a tricky one. Bannon: You know sir, the best advice I ever read about how to get rid of a guy working for you who’s become a problem is in Machiavelli. You’ve heard of him, right? POTUS: Yup. Roy Cohn used to carry that book of his around. What’s it called? The Little Prince? Bannon: No sir, just The Prince. Anyway, it’s in chapter seven. I’ll fax you the whole chapter, it’s only a few pages. But the key part is when Cesare Borgia needs to get rid of a henchman, Ramiro d’Orco, who’d been very useful but got too big for his britches. Here, let me read you a couple of sentences—I got it right here, I always keep Machiavelli along with Evola at my bedside. In the original Italian of course. But here we go, in English: Because he knew that past rigors had generated some hatred for Ramiro, to purge the spirits of the people and to gain them entirely to himself, he wished to show that if any cruelty had been committed, this had come not from him but from the harsh nature of his minister. And having seized this opportunity, he had him placed one morning in the piazza at Cesena in two pieces, with a piece of wood and a bloody knife beside him. The ferocity of this spectacle left the people at once satisfied and stupefied. “Satisfatti e stupidi”! Man, that Machiavelli is pretty good, huh? POTUS: [silence] Bannon: Sir, are you there? POTUS: Yeah. Just thinking. Bannon: Now of course you couldn’t literally do what Cesare Borgia did— POTUS: (interrupting) Why not? Wow! Where would it look best? Lafayette Square? The Ellipse? The steps of the Capitol building . . . again! Hey, Steve, stay in touch. I got some calls to make. [BANNON DISCONNECTED] POTUS: White House operator! Get me Enrique Tarrio. CALL ENDED AT 2:23AM Quote
pfife Posted February 6 Posted February 6 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said: Huh.... Just more not being here, not responding, and not trolling. Nice smell test. Nailed it. Edited February 6 by pfife 1 1 Quote
pfife Posted February 6 Posted February 6 (edited) Imagine thinking ~10 keystrokes on a keyboard means you're triggered. LMAO. You can just admit you can't quit us, it's ok. Edited February 6 by pfife 1 1 Quote
chasfh Posted February 6 Posted February 6 13 hours ago, mtutiger said: Trash behavior The performative cruelty is the point. Quote
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