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Eastwood

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  1. Well, yeah. A good football coach doesn't tell his team that they're going to win when they're up by 21 with 5 minutes left in the 3rd.
  2. I don't want to garner a reputation here of being the short squeeze guy, but the short interest is 57% of float and institutional investors are 106%. Low share supply with a pretty high demand. Looking at the 5 minute chart, most of the pops this morning are when volume is low. It might be as simple as a supply/demand issue with shares. Any small amount of news that moves the needle creates issues for short sellers. Looking at the news feed, BBBY actually beat its earnings estimates on October 1, followed by a series of price target upgrades, performance rating upgrades, a partnership with Shipt for same-day delivery, and now a selling of non-core assets giving it more runway to right the ship before bankruptcy. That's a lot of upward pressure on a heavily shorted stock. I'm kind of bummed that I missed all that.
  3. A tradition as old as time.
  4. Ptolemaic Dynasty also had a ton of inbreeding, so there's was no chance for Cleopatra to be any ethnicity but Greek. Anyone outraged by an olive skinned Cleopatra is just showing they don't know the history of Egypt like they thought they did.
  5. We're less than 12 hours away from in-person voting in Texas in the biggest election of our lifetimes and this thread has turned into an absolute disaster.
  6. No CR, but I'm seeing a lot of articles that are saying a Biden win will actually speed up the recovery. Even Goldman came out and said Biden would be good for oil prices, of all things.
  7. Eastwood

    Hate Week

    If this was a normal year, I'd be 3 beers deep and a turkey leg into the morning. But I'm stone cold sober in my own home on the best weekend of college football every year. The worst.
  8. I see it as an excuse to put an organized timeline of his erratic behavior into the center of the conversation at the government level and make Republicans defend the behaviors. Also puts an organized timeline into the congressional record for all eternity.
  9. Taking resumes from people who are set up to work 100% from home?
  10. The only thing more painful than a "bless their little hearts" is a gay man's "bless their little hearts." Savage.
  11. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/10/08/2105861/0/en/GameStop-Announces-Multi-year-Strategic-Partnership-with-Microsoft.html Gamestop just resumed trading after being halted due to volatility. Was up 21% on the day, back down to 17.5% as of now.
  12. Use the money to file lawsuits? Trump is known for skipping out on the bill at the end of the day. Trump isn't paying for the lawsuits that will be inevitably filed. He'll probably even try to use tax payer money to fund it.
  13. Yeah, how dare I advise exercising caution when other evidence of voter suppression exists in the state, such as limiting ballot drop offs to only one location in an area that has millions of people.
  14. I would assume that they would try to claim some constitutionally vested right in the state was violated by the decision. It's a Hail Mary, but it's all they have left.
  15. The only relief left for them is to take it to SCOTUS. If SCOTUS doesn't grant cert between now and then, which I don't think they will, then I would have serious doubts that SCOTUS would step in at any point in the future. It's a very positive development, IMO.
  16. Wow. I'm pleasantly surprised that they called them on their shit and there was only one dissent. Fantastic.
  17. Remember when Obama tweeted around twice a day and Fox News labeled him Twitterer in Chief? Those were the days...
  18. Pretty much. As long as a non-zero amount is permitted, they can go ahead. I can't remember the case off the top of my head, but there is a specific case that dealt with trespass and seismic.
  19. All we really need is another round of direct payments and the streamlined PPP forgiveness for borrowers under a certain amount. That will at least kick the can to January.
  20. No CR, but WH just announced they are stopping negotiation on the stimulus until after the election. Lookout below.
  21. Yeah, that's my fault for not distinguishing in-person early voting from mail-in ballot voting.
  22. Should and could are the operative words. We might just be left shaking our heads while reading an opinion. Look, I'm not trying to be chicken little here. If a person absolutely must vote any time between the 13th and 19th because of their circumstances, then please, please, please vote. I don't care if you're R or D or I, just vote. We need 100% of the eligible voices to let the country and world know who we are as a people. However, due to the conditions of our time and the uncertainty that the Texas GOP has put around the extension, however minute, I choose to follow the legislature's start date for in-person voting and not Abbott's. I intend to remove all doubt, within my control, that my vote will be counted.
  23. I think you and I are actually circling the same thing here, but with different results. The Republicans are attack the Abbott extension BECAUSE it wasn't done by the legislature. Therefore, it was an illegal extension and the votes cast during it were not under the laws enacted by the legislature.
  24. There is absolutely a distinction. The states set their own dates on when a vote can begin. Why would Republicans challenge their own governor over the extension of the early voting period? They are attacking it by saying that it was an overreach of emergency powers and that it was the state legislature's job to issue the extension. There is a non-zero chance that it could happen, so why risk it? I could see them pulling language out of Bush v. Gore to attack it. For example, "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States unless and until the state legislature chooses a statewide election as the means to implement its power to appoint members of the electoral college." That's pulled directly from Bush v. Gore. You can say it is literal nonsense, but the case law is there for the possibility. Further, "History has now favored the voter, and in each of the several States the citizens themselves vote for Presidential electors. When the state legislature vests the right to vote for President in its people, the right to vote as the legislature has prescribed is fundamental; and one source of its fundamental nature lies in the equal weight accorded to each vote and the equal dignity owed to each voter. The State, of course, after granting the franchise in the special context of Article II, can take back the power to appoint electors." Your vote is vulnerable in Texas, even after you cast it. SCOTUS has said so. The Texas legislature is accusing Abbott of overstepping his bounds and will lean on this language. I choose to remove all doubt and use the state legislature appointed date of 10/19.
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