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“ On one side, Elon Musk and RFK Jr. are pushing for Howard Lutnick, with Musk praising the Cantor FItzgerald CEO as a disruptor compared to Key Square Group (and George Soros protégé) Scott Bessent - the latter of whom met with Trump on Friday, and has the backing of many including noted investor Kyle Bass.
"Scott Bessent is eminently more qualified than Howard Lutnick to run the U.S. Treasury," said Bass in a Wednesday post on X. "Scott understands markets, economics, people, and geopolitics better than anyone I’ve ever interacted with. Markets have already anticipated a Bessent choice. Lutnick is not Trump’s answer."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bessent-vs-lut...
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I think Lutnick. First, both elon and RFK are twittering publicly to support Lutnick. They are the inner trump circle people. Second, trump values loyalty more than talents. Lutnick has been going to rallies etc. trump doesnt want some smart and rich guy, he want someone who do whatever he ask.
It will be a mistake if trump pick lutnick though.. seems a lot of hedgefund guys want trump pick bessent.
No. of Recommendations: 17
This should be marked very OT.
Anyway......we saw how lawfare works. The process in the punishment. Make charges, drag out investigation, drop case.
As far as "loyalty more than talent". Trump saw what happens when you pick people whose primary loyalty is elsewhere.
trump doesnt want some smart and rich guy, he want someone who do whatever he ask.
Uh, yeah. The top boss of an organization tells the subordinates what to do and they must do what he asks. I don't know many of the guys, but it looks like they are smart, maybe rich, who will do what he asks.
He's doing something else, which I forget the name for. Sun Tzu probably has a chapter about it. Hit the opponent with hit after hit, don't let them take a breath, don't dump everything all at once, don't drag out the hits. Make a hit, give the opponent just enough time to prepare to make a counter-move, make the next hit. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
Ah, now I remember. OODA loop.
Can we please take this way OT stuff off of the BRK board to a board where it's on topic? There are a zillion places on the internet for this stuff, let's not crap up shrewdm with it.
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Can we please take this way OT stuff off of the BRK board to a board where it's on topic? There are a zillion places on the internet for this stuff, let's not crap up shrewdm with it.
You mean like you just did?
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He'll pick whichever one has a history of sexual assault, of course.
Because of unfortunately those posts even getting rec's on the Berkshire board instead of being ignored here I want to utter just one comment:
Having no idea about American politics I followed the links very stable genius supplied and did not find a conviction in the articles they point to. Doesn't "history of [whatever]" require that? I thought the US adheres to the Golden principle "Innocent until proven guilty"?
No. of Recommendations: 12
<<He'll pick whichever one has a history of sexual assault, of course.>>
Don’t know what this has to do with Berkshire—but since you opt to a.) play in the gutter and b.) go OT and c.) print pure lies and erroneous serious allegations —let’s apply facts to your printed smear.
Your “history of sexual assault”:
Hegseth had consensual sex with a woman a who came on to him at a Conservative Conference. The “victim”, the woman, was in big trouble days after when her husband got hold of what she did. Her defense was that she was sexually assaulted by Hegseth….the person SHE went after. So, several days later—she decided her best defense against her husband was offense against Hegseth claiming he assaulted her.
Hegseth couldn’t deny having sex. He admitted it. He wrote her a check.
THIS is your “sexual assault”?
This your “HISTORY of sexual assault”? Brief history, huh?
Not too stable..not too genius. Idiot post of the year.
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LongTermBRK,
You're combining politics with personal attacks. This is the wrong board for both. If you guys insist on keeping this up that's all that will be happening on this board. Take it to US Policy or some other place. Not welcome here.
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Several of the kids from the US policy board will never get over the fact that Harris found a way to lose to the evil orange man. The crypto gang won, period, which is not bullish brk. Trump has already been rude and obnoxious to Jamie Dimon, is it that hard to figure out why? We now deal with the fact that Buffett may not outlive this four year team trump administration. Who will deploy the 300 billion in his absence and how have they done managing our cash the past ten years? Therefore outstanding opportunities may be limited and adults who own Brk should consider this possibility. Good luck to those who don’t think these issues are on topic for Brk partners. ☮️
No. of Recommendations: 2
I chat with a small private group of young crypto freaks, I’m the outside old school skeptic. This morning a guy shared this, “ How's Warren Buffet doing? You old timers need to step into the game. It's too big to ignore now bro”. And this, “ It's not funny. What's funny is you all kept your investment schemes a secret from us, and I'm trying to help you guys back in the game. I must be a right wing, redneck conspiracy theorist 😘🍿“”. And this, “ In all seriousness I have made more money on my investments in the past week than I've made in my lifetime. I took some hits for 4 years but the next 4 are gonna be EPIC.” “ 12 billion entered the XRP market alone this week””. Anyway, this guy is the lead singer in a country band here in Vegas, he’s very conservative. For years I lovingly told him that he was a “ redneck conspiracy nut “ on many issues including Fauci, the lab leak, and other critical issues,turns out the nuts were spot on and us liberals look like we were conned. The crypto gang is not fond of Buffett or Dimon, we shall see. ☮️
