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Investment Strategies / Index Investing
No. of Recommendations: 3
long live me! blithers Mad King Donny
it’s becoming apparent that we’ve been looking at this all wrong. Donny Convict doesn’t want to be Agolf Shitler. he doesn’t want to be a Putin-style autocrat, or an Orbán-style neo-Fascist.
oh sure, those rackets are a pretty cool deal, if you can swing it. you’re still the Big Boss. you can still torment the shit out of your enemies, and reward your cronies. you can still demand everyone’s attention, and you can still embezzle the fuck out of your country’s treasury.
but even all that is not enough for Donny. there’s something missing. the needy, insecure fuckwit has a crown-shaped hole in his life. what Donny wants is to be king.
“CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!”
oh look, Mad King Donny just SAVED New York, with a stoke of his magical pen. just like he SAVED California by draining a reservoir and almost flooding fragile farmland.
but check out how the megalomaniacal fuck signs off: LONG LIVE THE KING!
and then, to add insult to injury, the official White House not-twitter account not-tweeted this:
[Inserted here (can't post a photo image) is a Times magazine look-alike cover with a picture of Donny with a crown on his head and the caption "Long Live the King"]
what the hell? what American president does this? the very idea that a president would imagine himself to be a king is fundamentally un-American — we fought a whole fucking Revolutionary war about it, remember?
also: how weird is it that the White House already had this artwork on hand, ready to tweet out after Donny’s post?
let’s say that Joe Biden had posted imagery of himself tarted up in a crown. Republicans would have burned the White House to the ground. Comer Fudd would have started shrieking in a register that could only be heard by dogs. but when Donny does it? crickets.
I’m not aware of any clause in the Constitution that says eventually we get a king again.
but this I-am-your-king business makes perfect sense for a lazy narcissist like Donny. he has no interest in governing. don’t pester him with any of this how a bill becomes a law crap. that shit’s for losers. executive orders are the true path forward.
what Donny wants is to sit on a throne, make a few kingly pronouncements — there are only two genders. everyone must wear their underwear on their head — and then fuck off and play golf for the rest of the day, leaving his Lord Chancellor, the Space Nazi, to deal with making whatever Donny decreed so. Tiedrich
No. of Recommendations: 12
Lyin' King.
Pete
No. of Recommendations: 1
you can still embezzle the fuck out of your country’s treasury. - Turdrich
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An empty accusation. Does anyone here know how exactly Trump is accomplishing the transfer of wealth from the US Treasury? The last time I posed this question to the board, I mainly got crickets, but there were two responses, vague incomplete responses, that postulated Treasury Funds would be used to buy crypto. Not explained was how these treasury owned crypto assets get transferred to Trump ownership without being detected.
No need to stick with crypto. The open question remains, what mechanism does Trump use to embezzle the fuck out of our country’s treasury?
No. of Recommendations: 1
No need to stick with crypto. The open question remains, what mechanism does Trump use to embezzle the fuck out of our country’s treasury?
I guess the same method that others have used to embezzle (fraud) that Trump says amounts to hundreds of billions. Surely you don't think that federal workers are smarter than Trump?? If Federal workers can, he must be able to do much better.
Aussi
No. of Recommendations: 2
If Federal workers can, he must be able to do much better. - Aussi
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A non answer consisting, without examples, of what Trump must be doing to embezzle rather than what he actually is doing. Thanks for playing.
No. of Recommendations: 9
you can still embezzle the fuck out of your country’s treasury.
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An empty accusation.
Now, now, Mike. Tiedrich didn’t say ‘embezzled’, he said ‘can still embezzle.’
To be fair, Trump has only been in office 1 month and he’s busy still counting the millions that American oligarchs have been stuffing into his coffers, let alone the amount he overcharges the Secret Service for space at Mar-a-Lardo.
Trust me, he’ll bamboozle a ton before he figures out how to lower the price of eggs.
What did you think would happen when you put a 34-count felon in a position of responsibility? Please don’t tell me you’re foolish enough to think he’ll be looking out for people like you and me.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Lyin' King.
Congratulations - you win the internet for the day! But Hakuna Matata won't really fit anymore:
"Hakuna matata" (pronounced [hɑˈkunɑ mɑˈtɑtɑ] ⓘ) is a Swahili language phrase. In English, it means "no trouble" or "no worries" and "take it easy" (literally hakuna: "there is no/there are no"; matata: "worries").
Sadly, now it's gonna be "Matatizo Zaidi" - "more problems", per google translate
( PS - I wanted to turn Hakuna MAGAta into something fitting but failed. )
No. of Recommendations: 5
Does anyone here know how exactly Trump is accomplishing the transfer of wealth from the US Treasury?
Taking a trip to your golf resort, requiring a large Secret Service contingent to secure the entire course, then charging that large contingent of Secret Service agents full rack rate for staying in your resort hotel.
Awarding contracts to your cronies, who then give you a kickback by buying worthless stuff from your business as part of that contract.
On the crypto thing, you've got the mechanism wrong. Get the Treasury to buy a bunch of your crypto, which raises the price so that you can sell your crypto at top dollar. Then have the Treasury sell your crypto (because the price is crashing) and re-buy your own crypto at a lower price.
That's just the easy stuff I can think of quickly. One of which he already did in his previous administration, and will certainly continue in this one.
--Peter
No. of Recommendations: 6
but there were two responses, vague incomplete responses, that postulated Treasury Funds would be used to buy crypto. Not explained was how these treasury owned crypto assets get transferred to Trump ownership without being detected.
It was explained. Granted, it’s on the order of “for instance……”
And my example did NOT involve direct transfer of Treasury funds to Donnie’s bank account.
It involved direct transfer of Treasury funds for the establishment of a United States Sovereign Wealth Fund, which Donald has been advocating.
Then (also a “for instance” as an example of how the grift can work)- the Sovereign Wealth Fund, flush with tens or hundreds of billions in tax payer cash, purchases tens or hundreds of billions of dollars worth of cryptos- perhaps even Trump’s cryptos (why not? Nobody seems to care about Trump’s incessant crossing the line when it comes to his own financial interests)
The object is NOT to transfer cash from the United States Treasury to Donald Trump.
The object IS to inflate the value of cryptos already held by Trump and pre-selected billionaires, who will sell their crypto portfolios when Trump signals to them (but to nobody else) that the Sovereign Wealth Fund is buying its last (and largest) tranche of cryptos.
The billionaires sell their cryptos into that massive buying by the USSWF, cashing out at or near the high, leaving US taxpayers as the proud owners of billions in cryptos in a market where the government is no longer buying and the billionaires have already sold.
Classic pump and dump with the US taxpayer as the bagholder.
No. of Recommendations: 5
What did you think would happen when you put a 34-count felon in a position of responsibility? Please don’t tell me you’re foolish enough to think he’ll be looking out for people like you and me.
I imagine Mike is smart enough to know that Trump will not be looking out for 'us'.
But he is hurting a bunch of people that MAGA has been taught to hate, and for many MAGAs that seems to be enough.
No. of Recommendations: 0
Bow before royalty then, you - subject of the Crown.
No. of Recommendations: 4
