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Gatorubet

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  1. I went to the funeral yesterday of a colleague of over 30 years who passed away from lymphoma. She was an extremely talented and accomplished attorney with a national reputation. Fuck cancer.
  2. I am still gob-smacked by this.
  3. This is the fourth time they’ve hit the one in Samara. i’m glad they also took out the main rail transport infrastructure as well.
  4. 18% is likely made up of people who still have their good job and their 401(k)s are doing great. This too shall pass.
  5. Robert Mitchum disagrees…
  6. What if my $3,500 a month was spent on good booze, friendly women and drugs? Or - like - if I said, “thank you!”? That sum is nowhere near the maximum Social Security benefit because… I started drawing it when Trump was in office the first time. I don’t think it will last till 2034 like they say. Which is why I think there is a possibility that a GOP Congress will require Trump hating ex-pats to be cut off Social Security in order to help efforts funding it. TFG will assume many ex-pats hate him. Because that won’t be far from wrong.
  7. I HATE when that happens..,
  8. Well, it was kinda, sorta, meant to be a metaphor for the great depression. As long as some people are doing well, they will not care if others are not. If everyone is going bankrupt, losing their home, becoming unemployed, not having food or healthcare, etc., there is a greater chance that the now-impoverished electorate will see that it as “us versus the oligarchs” than white folks doing well because invisible boot straps versus “the other”. I guess I’m saying people don’t truly ….appreciate….populist ideas when they have self identified themselves as “I’m gonna be richer than I already am!” When everyone is on the metaphorical bread line it is harder for them to identify with the elite making all the coin on the repossessed home. (left column is political control of the House, right is Senate) Black Tuesday was October 29, 1929. The Democrats picked up 52 seats in 1930, one short of control. Republicans passed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930, further fucking up the economy and intensifying the Great Depression. Those rock-rib Republicans became populist Democrats when they were all starving and screwed by tariffs with massive unemployment. It may not work this time, but like Obi-Wan Kenobi, it’s my only hope.
  9. Helpful….hopeful…. Whatever it takes!
  10. I’ve said it before, until MAGA and non-MAGA are standing on the same soup-line, we won’t fix this electorally.
  11. Joby up $1.50. Still below my last sold price. Should I stay or should I go more? Insider sold 500k of his shit-ton of stock. New house in France petty cash or worrisome? Lots of good news lately….
  12. Heh, heh, heh….wait! It won’t!!
  13. Yeah, that tiny movie thing was not my idea of a copacetic Hootennanny.
  14. I’m pretty sure he was referring to Fox News and Company. There was plenty of anti-war counter information on the news every day. Because olds like me were watching it. And you might want to remember the quaint notion of the uproar caused by the fact that Nixon had an “enemies list”, which included press who did not go along with the White House take.
  15. No women in America were ever fatigued before Covid arrived.
  16. I guess this is the golden opportunity to abandon empathy and decency - and those of us with a little cash can wholeheartedly support the policies bringing about the recession - and then buy the foreclosed properties. The New Golden Age of Slum Lords. I’m sure that Roberts’ shadow docket will soon find that restrictive covenants prohibiting the sale of homes to the blacks and browns and gays are valid, and that earlier decisions were violative of the freedom of contract.
  17. i’m guessing that an 18 year-old wannabe rapper star delegates that task to one of his Homies instead of Mr. Wolf. in any event, it seems like they have enough probable cause to charge him with statutory rape.
  18. i’m at $2.62 basis right now after I got in slightly over $3 and bought some more on the mini tumble. I received a small windfall inheritance and had 50K out of the blue. And where did that surprise money need to go?
  19. Watching Constantine’s Wednesday economic report, he reminded me of of a different aspect of people taking all their money out. When the Russian people know they are about to be fucked by the government, they try to take out as many rubles as possible, and buy euros and American dollars. They know there is a real possibility that rubles will be massively devalued, and you don’t want to be left with rubles in the bank. One, they might create some rule that just takes your money or limits the amount of money you can withdraw. Second, the bank might fail, or if not fail, may simply suspend banking until such time as the central bank gives it more money. Either way the customer has no access to the rubles. Constantine was contacted by cold call salespeople who thought he still lived in Russia - both a Lada salesman and a real estate agent in Moscow who were desperate to make a sale, offering up to 50% discount on the Lada, and a condo with payments not due until late 2026, with assistance reducing the interest rate of the mortgage if he chose to borrow. One admitted that everyone was going bankrupt and out of business and nobody was buying anything - so now was the time to get the great discounts. TL;DR - The great Special Operation enshittening is finally affecting every aspect of Russian economic life
  20. I will take next year‘s bet. Tree fiddy?
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