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Brisketexan

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  1. Duh. Listened to Kai Ryssdal this morning, and he is breaking form and really not holding back. And he’s also saying the obvious: most of the capital in the world is sidelining itself because it’s apparent that one man can upset the entire global economy on a whim, there is no discernible plan or path, and he is “at best, mercurial.” He will change his mind minute to minute, to accomplish…nobody knows. Our trade issues with China are real, but will take years to unwind. If he’s trying to accomplish that in weeks, it’s madness. While money and business do some irrational things, on the whole, they at least require some certainty. And it is clear that the world’s largest economy will change course 180 degrees on one man’s whim, multiple times a week, even a day. So everyone just stays put, hunkers down, and works on their plan to weather the storm of insanity. This is catastrophic, by the way. That’s not an overstatement.
  2. We can’t all agree on that at all. I’m sure this court, at best, would conclude “he didn’t disappear someone the right way - here’s how he should do it.”
  3. Well, if you’re looking for something designed to shoot your own dick off, you chose wisely.
  4. I’m really looking at doing the same. Lemme know what you think when you get it.
  5. Yep. The SCOTUS just killed that man. Because that's the direction a cornered regime will take.
  6. See? "Meat added" makes ALL of those better. Especially the last one, says my pal Vic Mackey.
  7. But some antics do. Like, for example....a briefcase monkey.
  8. Fuck, even if he was on to something, the "as long as there's no nuclear war" is doing some HEAVY lifting. A big part of the reason we've avoided a nuclear war is because American hegemony has helped keep local rivalries (including potential wars) relatively under control. And now? We are disengaging, telling everyone out there "it's every man for himself," and pursuing policies and approaches that couldn't be better crafted to incentivize every country that can to obtain nukes. Dimon...you're a fucking fool. Not that it was in doubt, but he keeps removing any possible scintilla of doubt.
  9. Probably a ball bearing failure.
  10. Hey man, jerkin the gherkin is jerkin the gherkin. Don't judge.
  11. What....the....fuck? Because.....
  12. ....and stuff like this is how it really gets going, and snowballs. We take our ball and go home....which leaves us stuck at home, inside and alone, with our ball. Yay. What sweet victory.
  13. I know that Muscle Shoals has got the swampers.
  14. Sigh. But the people who would enforce against the hedge fund people ARE subject to the EO. “Hey SEC, don’t enforce against the guys at Hedge Fund Alpha. They’re friends of the admin. Capiche?” That’s it. That’s how a fascist mafia state works.
  15. Charles Barkley says “that real Mexican tang” found in San Antonio is…rather large.
  16. Dude. DUDE. These things are not limited to “employees of the executive branch.” This is about the Trump Regime, which includes a shitload of people who are not technically employees of the government. There are people affiliated or connected to the Trump orbit who are getting special info/favors, to their immense profit. Do they then slip a little something to the Godfather, by any of a jillion mechanisms? Yep. Wake. Up.
  17. Perfection. And truly spot-on and undeniable. That’s how Fox plays it.
  18. "Regulated." The SEC and its enforcement mechanism - as anything independent of what they are directed to do/not do by Trump - no longer exists. There is no SEC. Insider trading by affiliates of the Trump Regime is not a thing, as no entity can enforce it. Are you starting to get it now?
  19. "Make hoarding commodities because everything else has gone to shit great again." My potato cellar is looking to be a pretty solid store of value, amigos.
  20. Wait....."IDEAS?" They are.....literally....."Thought Police?" I mean....credit for not even trying to deny it anymore, I guess.
  21. Also, here's a fundamental - and giant, potentially fatal - problem created by what the Trump Regime has been doing over the past week (and longer, but painfully evident the past week): they have set up the entire US economy, particularly the stock market, as a private casino where the Regime and its insiders are tipped off to the next cards to be dealt. There's a reason why insider trading is a crime: it creates winners (who cheated) and losers (who didn't have the benefit of the inside information, and thus sold for lower than they otherwise would have/bought at higher than they otherwise would have). When it's (1) a single or small group of insiders from an enterprise and (2) those actions are/will be prosecuted, then everyone else has reasonable confidence and faith in the fairness of the markets. HOWEVER, when it's (1) a large group of very wealthy people who have advance, inside knowledge of upcoming large market swings (to be caused by Trump's specific actions), and (2) not only will they NOT be prosecuted for it, but instead, their profit-taking is by design and is functionally a gift/reward provided by the Trump Regime to its favored parties but to nobody else, then nobody who is outside of that group has any faith in the fairness of the market. Why should I sink my money into a market knowing that, at any moment, the Trump Regime will tank the value of my investment in order to reward its chosen beneficiaries (who already had the necessary info, and set up to profit massively on the dip)? This is exactly how you kill a market. And not just to the little players, but also to the big players who aren't part of the Trump Regime Inner Circle. Trillions of dollars of money is starting to realize "wait....why should I place any bets at a casino where the game is rigged in favor of a handful of other players at my expense?"
  22. Buy generic cat food futures.
  23. In case any of y'all still wondered whether the plan includes flat-out "disappearing" dissidents (including US citizens). Sentencing people to life in prison.....without formal adjudication etc....tells you EXACTLY what these people are all about.
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