A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]

[Francisco 2.0 32389]

It's always the fault of someone or something else.  And Biden is an old senile fuckstick who drools and can barely put together sentences, but by God, he can orchestrate something this elaborate:

 

 

 

[TeeDubya 3362]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

 

Fuck off, you irrelevant conman.

[TeeDubya 3362]

4 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

It's always the fault of someone or something else.  And Biden is an old senile fuckstick who drools and can barely put together sentences, but by God, he can orchestrate something this elaborate:

 

Sleepy Joe has become Market Manipulator Joe...  What an eeeevil genius he is.  

[dcbc 14471]

2 minutes ago, TeeDubya said:

Sleepy Joe has become Market Manipulator Joe...  What an eeeevil genius he is.  

Meanwhile, MAGA types are trying out as the latest drummer for Spinal Tap.

[Sawbonz 27546]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

I pray that God calls him home and ends our—I mean his—suffering

[tx 3 putt 76905]

That poor poor child ….

 

[atomheartbevo 89648]

[Rimbo 25919]

4 hours ago, safe sex said:

But is there not a difference between someone who invests because they believe in the business and want to have a say in how it's run in order to, ultimately, make more money, and someone who sells something they don't own yet in hopes of manipulating the market for a quick turnaround that probably harms a lot more people than it helps?

 

Putting money into things you believe in isn't investing, it's charity.

You don't have to go full Duke Bros., you just have to have an enlightened self-interest and an understanding of how money makes money.

[TheStoicPaisano 9922]

On 4/16/2024 at 5:48 PM, YGIFS said:

They're so close to promising investors that the stock will double in price in just "TWO WEEKS."  Which of course is 100% illegal.  C'mon Nunes, c'mon Lindell.  Say it out loud on national TV.  Say it.  You know you wanna say it.  Inducing others to buy a stock to prop up your price on information you know to be false.  SAY IT, TWO WEEKS, DOUBLE YOUR MONEY IN TWO WEEKS!  

 

[Blotto 23497]

2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

 

Oh no.....they are praying to their impotent sky daddy for Donald to win.

Just like they did in  2019.

You'll worship the dark lord like the rest of  us, Frank. 

[RDCanecutter 26411]

9 hours ago, dcbc said:

It's off-track betting in a fancy frock.

Got on a lucky one, came in eighteen to one. I've got a feeling this year's for me and you.

[RDCanecutter 26411]

1 hour ago, TeeDubya said:

Sleepy Joe has become Market Manipulator Joe...  What an eeeevil genius he is.  

Imagine what he could do if he would just wake up.

[Underdog 28611]

6 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

That poor poor child ….

 

Mr. President, I’d like you to meet my date… 

[YGIFS 19450]

6 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Got on a lucky one, came in eighteen to one. I've got a feeling this year's for me and you.

And the bells are ringing out

On TrumpDeath day…………….

[Hermanator 7038]

10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

 

Dude never learned from his dad to commit your sin of conning the stupid and gullible for self enrichment with class so you can remain above the fray. He wants to take the full Jim Bakker route

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19100]

8 hours ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

 

[Underdog 28611]

Devin Nunes Cow >>>>>>> Devin Nunes. 

[Francisco 2.0 32389]

 

 

 

[Horn Dog 9818]

[SimonBolivar 10958]

Juror 2 gets their news from Truth Social and X? 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/nyregion/trump-trial-jury-news.html

 

[DigglerontheHoof 21186]

Yup

[Party_Taco 3724]

Not sure how that wasn’t disqualifying… juror gets their “news” from defendant’s own platform?!

Seems teed up for impartiality…

[Pig Bellmont 8712]

MAGA jurors convicted Manafort. I wouldn’t freak out 

[Pato del Muerto 52489]

20 minutes ago, Party_Taco said:

Not sure how that wasn’t disqualifying… juror gets their “news” from defendant’s own platform?!

Seems teed up for impartiality…

Not during the trial they won’t. “Can you be impartial “ cuts both ways. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19190]

19 hours ago, safe sex said:

My opinion remains unchanged.

Is there an actual purpose other than increasing personal wealth?

Short covering can provide needed liquidity when the price does crater.  If everyone was long and the price craters, you don't have a lot of buyers at that point and the price drop accelerates.  Short sellers provide the buying liquidity when they cover their short position.

[TwiceHorn 31449]

3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Not during the trial they won’t. “Can you be impartial “ cuts both ways. 

Yuuuup. But, as juror 2,the state no doubt had strikes left to use. Something must have indicated that this person was going to be ok. 

Because we have an underlying criticism of the justice system on this thread, this is one. It is a noble goal to remove biased/prejudiced jurors from the panel. 

But voir dire sometimes reaches the level of almost pure gamesmanship: attempting to place jurors biased in your favor on the panel. 

This is not the only instance in a trial where notions of fairness may take a back seat to winning at all costs. 

The adversarial, competitive nature of trials is supposed to produce a good facsimile of truth in the sense of iron sharpens iron. But I wonder sometimes if the gamesmanship doesn't produce unjust results. 

[Texas Jeff 1945]

DJT will go to zero, give it time.  I worked for a startup for a while. I joined after the IPO and stock crash. We had an actual product and revenue, but an unclear product roadmap.

The stock IPOed around 18 and zoomed up to 200.  At that point every employee was a millionaire on paper.  Six months later, the day I interviewed, the stock was at 51 cents a share.  Everyone's options were underwater.  The founder and a few early employees made millions.  I got a lot of options at the lower price, so I figured it might work out.  It did not.

My interview was the standard "talk to six people for an hour each" format.  One interviewer walked in, said "You want to work here?  Sure, whatever..." and walked out.

[Captainant 27653]

12 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

The adversarial, competitive nature of trials is supposed to produce a good facsimile of truth in the sense of iron sharpens iron. But I wonder sometimes if the gamesmanship doesn't produce unjust results. 

Good faith is a fertile ground upon which trumpism and fascism thrives. That basic presumption of civility is exploited and weaponized to create the sort of unequal justice we've been enjoying for a good long while. 

Trump is getting free extensions on his prima facie fraudulent bond, simply because the system is built with the expectation of people not lying to the courts face. The system is so incredibly vulnerable to garbage in; garbage out, and it's the main lever of obstructionism he routines uses. 

The gamesmanship doesn't guarantee unjust results, but it certainly sets the table for them. 

[Pato del Muerto 52489]

4 minutes ago, Texas Jeff said:

the standard "talk to six people for an hour each" format

What now?

[Captainant 27653]

9 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

What now?

That's how most big tech companies do interviews, one or two phone screens and then a big day of interviews across a panel of interviewers that then give feedback and assess the candidate wholsitically. 

It's a big pain in the ass lol. On #bothsides

[SimonBolivar 10958]

4 minutes ago, Captainant said:

That's how most big tech companies do interviews, one or two phone screens and then a big day of interviews across a panel of interviewers that then give feedback and assess the candidate wholsitically. 

It's a big pain in the ass lol. On #bothsides

Jesus, and I complain about the normal one hour with six people. I can't imagine a 6-hour interview, that sounds exhausting and really boring as you repeat the same damn answer 6 times in a day.

[Captainant 27653]

1 minute ago, SimonBolivar said:

Jesus, and I complain about the normal one hour with six people. I can't imagine a 6-hour interview, that sounds exhausting and really boring as you repeat the same damn answer 6 times in a day.

Where I am, we break it up into 4 or 5 45 minute interviews that are intentionally planned to cover different disciplines and skills and traits, so it's at least not monotonous for the interviewee. But it is a grind, wether you're the sausage or turning the crank

[Pato del Muerto 52489]

Effort into the hiring process seems like it’s going higher and higher, but retainment by decent salary increases doesn’t seem to match.  My last interviewing was 30 minutes each with 3 peer level, then hiring manager, then a skip level. And it still felt like a lot for the job level. 

Edited April 20 by Pato del Muerto

[Radical Larry 28582]

Have you ever worked with anything “high tech”?

[SydneyCarton 48075]

12 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Effort into the hiring process seems like it’s going higher and higher, but retainment by decent salary increases doesn’t seem to match.  My last interviewing was 30 minutes each with 3 peer level, then hiring manager, then a skip level. And it still felt like a lot for the job level. 

If they just keep getting better at the hiring process they’ll be able to find those employees willing to work more hours, for way less pay and benefits and zero consideration for their own mental health and work life balance. 

[Pato del Muerto 52489]

23 minutes ago, Radical Larry said:

Have you ever worked with anything “high tech”?

I dunno. Biotech has tech in the name so maybe?

[Underdog 28611]

 

[miguelito 11262]

I worked at Initech for a couple of years.

[Bozo_Casanova 26444]

21 hours ago, safe sex said:

My opinion remains unchanged.

Is there an actual purpose other than increasing personal wealth?

Is your question the human motivation for the practice or are you trying to discern the utility of the practice?

Edited April 20 by Bozo_Casanova

[safe sex 11709]

2 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Is your question the human motivation for the practice or are you trying to discern the utility of the practice?

I know the human motivation: greed. I was interested in the utility beyond personal wealth, which appears to be putting needed liquidity into the market, which is fair enough, but I think the practice needs guardrails that it currently lacks (and that feeling applies to almost the entirety of our financial system).

Edited April 20 by safe sex

[SimonBolivar 10958]

1 hour ago, Radical Larry said:

Have you ever worked with anything “high tech”?

I tech-nically have a job, if that counts. 

[YGIFS 19450]

1 hour ago, Underdog said:

 

I dated a manager that worked there.  She still haunts my dreams. 

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20395]

[TwiceHorn 31449]

1 hour ago, safe sex said:

I know the human motivation: greed. I was interested in the utility beyond personal wealth, which appears to be putting needed liquidity into the market, which is fair enough, but I think the practice needs guardrails that it currently lacks (and that feeling applies to almost the entirety of our financial system).

I think the distinction needs to be made between "personal wealth" in the form of "retail" investments that you and I can make and some people richer than us can make. 

And those investments made by institutional types that make money only for institutions, some of which are "worthwhile," like those that benefit universities and retirement funds, and some that only benefit private, wealthy interests like banks, ibanks, hedge funds, etc. 

I think a lot of the latter have lost most or all connection to benefit the capital markets. Or at least it's very tenuous. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33868]

1 hour ago, miguelito said:

I worked at Initech for a couple of years.

I believe you have my stapler.

[Bozo_Casanova 26444]

1 hour ago, safe sex said:

I was interested in the utility beyond personal wealth,

It’s even more essential than that. Sure it performs some functions, but most importantly it punishes poorly allocated capital, which is very beneficial to everybody. In the long run, it’s probably the most beneficial aspect of a free market system to society.

Edited April 20 by Bozo_Casanova

[Fudge Nuggets 19190]

3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

But I wonder sometimes if the gamesmanship doesn't produce unjust results. 

Gee, ya think?  Surely not, the legal system is the most bestest greatest thing ever and is as pure as the driven snow.

Or,

[tx 3 putt 76905]

100%’ he’s getting off on this. No way in hell are 12 People going to agree

The only redeeming drama will be watching trump get raked over the coals 

[4th&Five 41525]

I’m not as pessimistic as y'all but either way him having to sit there while 2 of his mistresses, Cohen and Hope Hicks talk shit about him will be glorious. 

[TwiceHorn 31449]

14 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Gee, ya think?  Surely not, the legal system is the most bestest greatest thing ever and is as pure as the driven snow.

Or,

No one here has ever contended that it's perfect. But the latter two are probably more the result of bringing charges when you don't have the evidence or the law to convict.  

And if you want evidence of gamesmanship negatively affecting outcomes, the better examples are prosecutorial and police misconduct.