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Brony Car
May 22, 2014

by Cyrano4747
Lower than expected job growth means that the markets are now going to open with upward movement. Less job growth means less inflation, which means less likelihood of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes.

Wall Street is not necessarily your friend.

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Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

James Fields trial could end today

https://mobile.twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1071032833114890242
https://mobile.twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1071033129912147968
https://mobile.twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1071047525308817409

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


https://twitter.com/BySteveReilly/status/1070803109298036736

DandyLion
Jun 24, 2010
disrespectul Deciever

Brony Car posted:

Pumping and dumping is when you engage in shady tactics to raise the price of a stock you already own (the “pump”) and then sell your holdings at peak price (the “dump”) while the people you sold to are often left holding the bag and soaking all the price declines resulting from your sale.

If you know what’s going to happen in the future because the market rises and falls on your tweets, you could make a tom of loney off of shorting or options as well.

All Very Cool, and Very Legal.

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

Why not praise Enron, he likely ran his casinos the same way

Slowpoke!
Feb 12, 2008

ANIME IS FOR ADULTS

Brony Car posted:

Pumping and dumping is when you engage in shady tactics to raise the price of a stock you already own (the “pump”) and then sell your holdings at peak price (the “dump”) while the people you sold to are often left holding the bag and soaking all the price declines resulting from your sale.

If you know what’s going to happen in the future because the market rises and falls on your tweets, you could make a tom of loney off of shorting or options as well.

Yeah, in normal circumstances Trump would be locked up because of his tweets, but he is President.

The market rallied hard when Trump tweeted about the trade deal with China, and fell 800 points the next day when everyone realized that it was literally a lie. That is a huge SEC violation. Elon Musk did a similar thing when he falsely tweeted that Tesla had secured private funding at $420/share, because that is the CEO telling the world that the value of Tesla shares is about to jump. He manipulated the price of a company he owns shares in. Trump almost certainly does this on a weekly basis. Imagine if it ever was uncovered that he or his family was shorting Amazon or Facebook prior to his tweets about those companies.

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

Party Plane Jones posted:

morning folks wait what's that

https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1071021878884622338

gonna be a packed as gently caress news day

Dun dun dun, another one bites the dust!

Goddamn

Skippy McPants posted:

I wonder what would happen to his twitter if he actually got impeached. Would he start blathering every state secret he could recall for the sake of sheer spite? Would Twitter finally ban him if he did?

I like to imagine the CIA arranges an "accident" to shut him up. If not them, then Putin

Brony Car
May 22, 2014

by Cyrano4747
The usual Right Wing Media suspects have gone all in on criticizing Weismann to discredit the Mueller Investigation. I admire their discipline.

pookel
Oct 27, 2011

Ultra Carp

Kammat posted:

Is that when you wank on the toilet while taking a poo poo? Pretty sure that's what he does every morning while tweeting.
I thought pumping and dumping was what you're supposed to do with your breastmilk if you party too hard.

DandyLion
Jun 24, 2010
disrespectul Deciever

pookel posted:

I thought pumping and dumping was what you're supposed to do with your breastmilk if you party too hard.

I thought pumping and dumping was a drinking game me and my boy Bret used to play back in highschool.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser



Is this illegal from the billionaire side as well, or just Pruitt?

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
https://twitter.com/TimothyNoah1/status/1071040714446987266

Brony Car
May 22, 2014

by Cyrano4747

SocketWrench posted:

Dun dun dun, another one bites the dust!

Goddamn


I like to imagine the CIA arranges an "accident" to shut him up. If not them, then Putin

Read Legacy of Ashes. The CIA isn’t competent enough to make that happen. They couldn’t kill Castro one time because the guy they tasked with the job left the poison pill that was supposed to go into Castro’s ice cream in the freezer too long and it got stuck when he tried to take it out.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

selec posted:

1. Bernie is talking about making a promise to voters and pushing the party left. Voting for M4A in the House does a few things: it forces Dems to get on the record supporting it, and any GOP reps against it; but more importantly it’s the promise to the base that this is what will happen if you give us control. Remember way back in the Before Time when we laughed at the GOP quixotically voting to repeal Obamacare over and over, knowing it wouldn’t actually happen? That wasn’t a Hail Mary that they hoped might actually go through; it was a dogged political strategy to affirm to their base, over and over that they heard them and we’re gonna do it for real the moment they seize power. It’s a little LARPy in some ways, but I think the additional effect of forcing Blue Dogs and wavering Dems to get on the record supporting it, and starting the internal debate about what it should actually look like as a policy is a big positive. If it makes it to a senate vote, great. If not, use it to paint a target on McConnell’s back and send protestors to his house and dinner. Let him get screamed at by terminal cancer patients on TV. Turn the intensity of the desire for M4A into the kind of ravenous fever for the base that an ACA repeal was for the GOP, and you will see results.

Yeah the time to hammer out the details is now. If Bernie waits until Democrats win a supermajority like the lanyards are telling him to, they will immediately turn around and say "oh you haven't even worked out the details, you should have done that before, we need to move on something now oh look here's a bill Cigna helpfully wrote for us. Why can't you be organized and proactive like them us :smug:"

See: California single payer. "Oh gee the single payer bill isn't ready, sorry too busy for it now you should have done this before!"

VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Dec 7, 2018

an AOL chatroom
Oct 3, 2002


Trump is a child running into the room, sweating, out of breath, telling you without any prompting how they definitely didn't break the vase in the dining room table, and can't imagine why you would even think he did

Loonytoad Quack
Aug 24, 2004

High on Shatner's Bassoon
He's only gone and done it...

quote:

President Donald Trump has nominated William Barr to be the new attorney general, a post he held in the 1990s.

By replacing Jeff Sessions, who was fired by Mr Trump last month, the 68-year-old will take charge of the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election.

US media report he has been critical of some aspects of that inquiry.

A well-known conservative lawyer, Mr Barr held the role under President George H W Bush from 1991 to 1993.

Barr nominated to be US attorney general

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

I don't think it was reported they won't, we all know republicans are too petty to not throw some captain kangaroo court in response. It was just reported that this Republican version is going to do nothing for anything and thus be as useful as a wet fart

cr0y
Mar 24, 2005



No obstruction you're the obstruction

https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1071054657173315584?s=19

marshmonkey
Dec 5, 2003

I was sick of looking
at your stupid avatar
so
have a cool cat instead.

:v:
Switchblade Switcharoo
https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1071034143729831937

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
It’s interesting that Trumps team is able to write a counter report before the actual report comes out. It’s almost like they’re already aware of the crimes he’s committed and he’s guilty as all hell.

Kaal
May 22, 2002

through thousands of posts in D&D over a decade, I now believe I know what I'm talking about. if I post forcefully and confidently, I can convince others that is true. no one sees through my facade.

pookel posted:

I thought pumping and dumping was what you're supposed to do with your breastmilk if you party too hard.

This is actually an urban myth founded on the patriarchal idea that women shouldn't drink. There's no reason to pump and dump, the alcohol levels involved are extremely low.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/12/breast-feeding-and-alcohol-its-fine-to-drink-while-nursing.html

what happened
Dec 2, 2018

by Nyc_Tattoo
Is there a good reason Barr should recuse himself?

Does donny even know why recusal exists?

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

not as evil as Sessions but I was hoping Trump would keep flailing around and fail to have an AG

odds of Barr not getting confirmed are low

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

It’s interesting that Trumps team is able to write a counter report before the actual report comes out. It’s almost like they’re already aware of the crimes he’s committed and he’s guilty as all hell.

I didnt do it...but if I did

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

what happened posted:

Is there a good reason Barr should recuse himself?

Does donny even know why recusal exists?

unless Donald routinely has his AG conspire with him to commit Russia related crimes, then no; Sessions recused over his campaign involvement

and "does Trump know" is always a fraught phrase

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
I think Trumps freakout this morning should put to rest any of the remaining holdouts who believed that Mueller report was going to just be some procedural stuff that didn’t really accuse Trump of anything. He is loving SHOOK.

Gen. Ripper
Jan 12, 2013


Wait, is this "the" Mueller report? I thought it was just more indictments/perpwalks. Or does "the" Mueller report not really exist as a singular thing?

skylined!
Apr 6, 2012

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

I think Trumps freakout this morning should put to rest any of the remaining holdouts who believed that Mueller report was going to just be some procedural stuff that didn’t really accuse Trump of anything. He is loving SHOOK.

I also very much doubt that Barr won’t get a glimpse of it when he is confirmed, and see the absolute poo poo storm that he would be responsible for should be terminate the SCO investigation, in the same way Whitaker apparently has.

Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!

Brony Car posted:

Read Legacy of Ashes. The CIA isn’t competent enough to make that happen. They couldn’t kill Castro one time because the guy they tasked with the job left the poison pill that was supposed to go into Castro’s ice cream in the freezer too long and it got stuck when he tried to take it out.
Then there was the exploding seashell, the radioactive powder in his slippers, the bomb in the cigar, the LSD in his radio studio, the literal poison pen, the botulism toxin in his wetsuit...

The CIA versus Castro: not so much SAD as sad clowns.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


the only good part about trump's admin is it's showing how absolutely psychopathic the "normal" republicans are. poo poo like the federalist society ghouls being reported on more. this barr guy buying into the insane uranium one conspiracy theory. they're all nutjobs.

skylined!
Apr 6, 2012

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Gen. Ripper posted:

Wait, is this "the" Mueller report? I thought it was just more indictments/perpwalks. Or does "the" Mueller report not really exist as a singular thing?

The SCO will give a confidential report to Congress after it concludes its findings, and it’s up to Congress of what to do about it and what to release to the public.

There is speculation that through overly detailed court filings Mueller is compiling his report publicly to work around partisan efforts to suppress his findings.

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

skylined! posted:

I also very much doubt that Barr won’t get a glimpse of it when he is confirmed, and see the absolute poo poo storm that he would be responsible for should be terminate the SCO investigation, in the same way Whitaker apparently has.

I must admit that Barr getting confirmed, going "oh good the President is super guilty and I'm in deep poo poo if I kill the investigation", and getting fired for it is now my only mostly insane optimistic outcome

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
I've never seen him this shook.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1071055923848855553

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

enraged_camel posted:

How do you even abolish the Senate?

I mean, I know the answer is "violently", but I'm asking more in terms of a step-by-step.

I have a strong feeling it would require a Constitutional amendment. Right?

It would require a constitutional convention and riots. Lots and lots of riots.

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

yeah what the heck set him off today

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


it is weird that we assign a specific reason for trump melting down. it could just be it's been eating at him and he's blowing a gasket. the idiot thinks constantly being on the attack works.

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

GreyjoyBastard posted:

yeah what the heck set him off today

The White House always gets a heads up when the major stuff is about to go down.

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1071056294046507008

doot doot doot

mutata
Mar 1, 2003

Last Friday's :toxx: but for today instead.

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Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

The White House always gets a heads up when the major stuff is about to go down.

I'm trying to not get overly :getin: at 10am EST okay

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