Tesla, a failed venture living off government subsidies
It’s not a failed venture precisely because it lives off government money. Show me a Fortune 500 company and I’ll show you a large stream of public sector receipts.
Tesla, a failed venture living off government subsidies
It’s not a failed venture precisely because it lives off government money. Show me a Fortune 500 company and I’ll show you a large stream of public sector receipts.
Citadel commands something like 8-10% of daily market volume. They’re the textbook Too Big To Fail investor. SEC won’t touch them for that reason alone, although there are plenty of other ideological/conflict of interest reasons, too.
Long term market rate of return is positive (extremely positive of late), where as casino gambling is EV negative.
But options and futures exist as a short term hedge on equity investment. Combine that with the vig Robinhood takes on the front end in the form of higher contract prices, and you end up with an EV negative return - more consistent with high stakes gambling than equity investing.
Really knows how to give a pounding
Me, at the opener for Bright Eyes
A joke so old it has grandkids.
A lot of the people falling for these scams are straight up mentally ill or disabled.
It’s funny to think of some blowhard yacht guy getting fleeced. Less funny to see an adult with Down’s Syndrome or Schizophrenia or Dementia or a child who got hold of a parent’s credit card and sucked in by some Mr. Beast tier grift get played.
What is with people and self-snitching?
It’s AI generated and getting passed around Twitter/Right-Wing Facebook ad part of MAGA hysterics.
My wife is predicting a civil war.
I don’t think the police or the military are particularly divided on who to support. A coup maybe.
But liberals won’t be putting up a fight once the media starts labeling them Hamas/Hezbollah and you can’t post your pink pussy hat on Instagram without getting put on a list.
Any countries who are not sliding into fascism that would be interested in hiring two well-educated adults?
There’s always Ireland. Mexico is looking pretty good right now, given the flood of cheap imports and the resurgent manufacturing sector.
Depends on who wins. They’re only insurrections and riots when brown people and leftists do them.
The next J6/Charleston will be covered more favorably than the '64 March on Washington was, now that Bezos et al have shown their colors.
You live through enough of these “Most Pivotal Elections” and the effect is muted.
I remember Bush winning in 2004 vividly, the soul-crushing realization that Americans were ready to continue the relentless slaughter of Arabs for another four years with a fuck-you kicker to anyone LGBT looking to come out of the shadows and get married. (Nevermind the shady vote counting in Ohio).
That was after the 2000 election was stolen in full view of the public by a nakedly corrupt court.
“How could so many people be so blaise about this shameless disregard for democracy, civil rights, and rule of law?”
But then 2008 rolls along and suddenly I’m surrounded by conservative revanchists who want to talk about secession, because a black guy just won the presidency. And it begins to occur to me… “Oh, I’m just living in a fascist country”.
Now, having familiarized myself with US history a bit more, another fascist winning in one more corrupted and propaganda soaked election cycle makes perfect sense.
It is now easier to identify political whackadoos and disengage
I would have said that four years ago, but between Elon’s Twitter and COVID anti-vax hysteria, it feels like crazy people are coming out of the woodwork.
What you’re talking about is wielding government power against a political opponent.
Either Democracy Is At Stake or it isn’t. If you’re willing to unleash the full power of the federal government on some anti-war activists and civil rights marchers, but you balk at employing the same methods on billionaire real estate magnets and their financiers, I’m forced to assume it isn’t democracy you’re trying to defend.
Give me a true analogy of democrats going outside of norms and traditions
Guantanamo Bay is both figuratively and literally outside of US norms and traditions. PRISM is outside our norms and traditions. The illegal arms sales to Israel are outside our norms and traditions. I can keep going.
How do the democrats go outside of the systems granted to them by current norms and traditions
The same way they’ve always done it.
Democrats only abide by Norms and Traditions for the wealthy and privileged. They are perfectly happy to endorse police brutality, indefinite detention, flagrant violations of civil and property rights, and explicit war crimes when the victims of those actions are political outsiders.
Treat Donald Trump like George Floyd. Treat the J6ers like Columbia student protesters. Treat the Russian collaborators in the US like we treated Arabs (long) after 9/11. Treat FOX News like RT. Treat Clarence Thomas like George Santos. Treat Israel like Venezuela and Netanyahu like Nicholas Maduro.
We all know you can. We’ve seen the Democrats do it. We watched Obama keep Gitmo open for the full eight years of his presidency and Biden keep it open four years after that. We know all about the FBI doing COINTELPRO on progressive activist groups and environmentalist organizations. We know how the DOJ handled Edward Snowden and Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner.
Democrats routinely go outside the bounds of the system, particularly when Republicans pave the way for them. Now the question is whether they’re going to defy a SCOTUS in defense of democracy, or whether they’re going to twiddle their thumbs while Rome burns, because carrying water has been declared unconstitutional.
Stonetoss wouldn’t have been nearly so subtle. Also, not remotely racist enough.
Christ, so much of this shit on social media. People need to recognize that when you show up to try and help out with depression and anxiety (because they went online begging for someone to help) its some emotional fucking labor, too. Like trying to pull someone onto a boat who is drowning, only for that person to keep shoving you away and insisting you’re saving them wrong.
Ain’t no party like a Liz Lemon Party, cause a Liz Lemon Party is MANDATORY
No friend, this is not the the democrats doing.
The Democrats run the FBI, they run the DOJ and command an army of USAs, and they run the federal prison system which includes a little spot at the tip of an island off the coast of Florida that the SCOTUS has already said you can stuff people indefinitely without even pressing charges.
Dems have had no problem exerting Unitary Executive Privilege, exercising powers under the Patriot Act, and going over the heads of the courts dating back to the Obama administration (and straight back to the Jefferson administration if we’re counting honestly). Trump’s repeatedly delayed trials, his repeated exemption from lockup as a flight risk, his repeated violation of court orders that suffer no reprisal (the man broke a gag order during the Storm Daniels trial no less than ten times without spending a minute in jail for contempt), and his continued ability to ignore any election law or criminal liability he finds inconvenient are fully consequences of a derelict current administration.
Think about this because you really haven’t considered it if you think just saying
The argument that you are putting forward boils down to “The SCOTUS said ex-Presidents can do crimes, so there’s nothing the current President can do”. It presumes enormous amounts of authority held by the SCOTUS and no authority enjoyed by the executive branch. Anyone who has been following politics inside the last ten minutes knows that’s nonsense.
The question is not a legal capacity to rein in Trump. It is of a willingness by the sitting administrators. Biden’s government has been so conflict averse and so cowardly in confronting his political opposition that he is going to hand the presidency to Trump in the same way Clinton handed the presidency to Bush Jr twenty-four years ago.
Want to spell it out for me?
Donald Trump should already be in jail, serving an extended sentence for a litany of crimes
The fact that he is not is a huge failure of the Democratic Party and the Biden/Garland DOJ specifically.
These people are unwilling to apply the legal code to privileged elites like Trump. And they are the reason so many J6ers are running around plotting the next set of coups
Crypto scams have overwhelmed the news feeds. I see scams showing up on the front page of my fucking retirement account. Dumb money retail investors chasing fictitious capital are setting off a feeding frenzy.