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Post by evileeyore on Jan 21, 2021 7:38:12 GMT
That last kick in MAGA's balls as he goes out the door...
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Post by mustrumridcully on Jan 21, 2021 14:25:42 GMT
That last kick in MAGA's balls as he goes out the door... Ah clever. So I guess Biden could invoke the same or a similar order, but it would be too late, because it can't apply to people already out of office? So Trump's cronies are fine?
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Post by 3catcircus on Jan 21, 2021 14:38:32 GMT
That last kick in MAGA's balls as he goes out the door... I'm guessing it is so folks who were in his admin can now be a thorn in the side of the Dems. |
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Post by evileeyore on Jan 21, 2021 18:00:09 GMT
Ah clever. So I guess Biden could invoke the same or a similar order, but it would be too late, because it can't apply to people already out of office? So Trump's cronies are fine? Biden could, and he could make it a blanket sweeping rule meant to remove people currently lobbying, but he runs afoul of actual anti-discrimination laws. Technically Trump could have run afoul of that as well, but I suspect his people knew going in it would either be revoked last minute (so it was always just a ploy to give the minimal appearance* of 'draining the swamp') or it was last minute decision based on his people's fears they be frozen out of getting jobs in the non-lobbyist industries over backlash from his behavior in his last 30 days (in which case his people were fine with not being able to going into the lobbying industry until the rude kerfluffle† that got stirred at the end). * My personal take, since a lot of his business history is scam after scam, I'm leaning towards "always a ploy". † Note I don't blame Trump directly for the "Lamest 'Insurrection' In History", but he is one of the four pillars of the event. Trump's "overthrow the process" rhetoric and behavior‡ (Pillar 1) directly fed the Q-Anon movement (Pillar 2) which was also fueled by the Dems/Left MSM anti-Free Speech, anti-working class attitude the last 30 years (Pillar 3) and there were false flag elements that acted to help make Trump "Teh Worsetested Not-My-President Evah" at that protest turned riot turned 'insurrection' (Pillar 4). ‡ I don't blame Trump for Q-Anon, nor did his last 30 days create them, but rather without the rhetoric it would have been harder for the Q-LARP to fool so many people into attempting insurrection/LARPing their way into federal crimes. And Q was a grift. It may have started as an ARG or LARP or Troll, we'll never know for sure I suspect, but it quickly morphed into the Watkins grifting the cultists. |
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Post by evileeyore on Jan 22, 2021 4:07:07 GMT
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Post by 3catcircus on Jan 22, 2021 4:38:09 GMT
Yep - such a dictator. He allowed them to shit all over him in the press for 4+ years and didn't mandate central 5-year plans. Soooo dictatorial. I'd love to see one of these shitheels wind up trying this in NK, China, Iran, etc. They'll be begging to lick the back of Trump's balls to be released from a *real* dictatorial country. |
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Post by kirinke on Jan 22, 2021 14:06:07 GMT
He's a wanna be dictator and did his damnedest to silence critics. Fortunately for the rest of us, Trump's an idiot who could never get over that final hump into true dictatorship. That hump was the constitution and people unwilling to bow to his illegal demands.
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Post by evileeyore on Jan 26, 2021 7:07:50 GMT
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Post by kirinke on Jan 26, 2021 13:36:46 GMT
Poor guy. Can't mistreat homosexuals, can't mistreat brown or black people, can't mistreat women. What's the world coming to eh?
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Post by evileeyore on Jan 27, 2021 8:11:10 GMT
So that GameStop stock yeah? Who else thinks the FTC is going to create new rules to stop Joe Sixpack from being able to day trade without going through a broker or manager, just to keep the meme warriors of Reddit from burning down hedge funds that were prepping to short stock?
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Post by 3catcircus on Jan 27, 2021 13:08:28 GMT
So that GameStop stock yeah? Who else thinks the FTC is going to create new rules to stop Joe Sixpack from being able to day trade without going through a broker or manager, just to keep the meme warriors of Reddit from burning down hedge funds that were prepping to short stock? This. All kinds of armchair analysts in the various media are decrying the fact that wsb is manipulating the market and openly doing it instead of doing it in secret like every scumbag hedgie. Apparently gambling with someone else's money should be legal but gambling with your own money shouldn't.. They don't like that their fake-o short selling tactics are being called out, forcing them into a margin call. Too fucking bad hedgie - you gambled and lost in this one. I think they especially hate that they're being exposed as non-value-added charlatans because the market isn't a way for real industry to obtain an infusion of capital to continue producing, but a way to roll them bones to make a quick buck off of ethereal value that disappears the moment that wall street takes their profits. I especially like the response from them - something along the lines of "...motherfuck wall street..." |
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Post by evileeyore on Jan 28, 2021 7:37:21 GMT
Who else thinks the FTC is going to create new rules to stop Joe Sixpack from being able to day trade without going through a broker or manager, just to keep the meme warriors of Reddit from burning down hedge funds that were prepping to short stock? It's not quite a "law to stop Joe Sixpack from burning down hedge funds and the banks they rode in on", but the stock exchanges* have repeatedly temporarily halted trading of GameStop stocks to stop the rapid fluctuations of the stock price. So they can maybe, just maybe get it paid off before too many more hedge funds go bankrupt (it looks the hedge funds are all trying to purchase out their short sells, which has only made the stock price rise even more, normies are going to make some bank on this). * So much for the 'free market' when the market can be suspended at will by the exchanges. |
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Post by 3catcircus on Jan 28, 2021 12:57:01 GMT
Who else thinks the FTC is going to create new rules to stop Joe Sixpack from being able to day trade without going through a broker or manager, just to keep the meme warriors of Reddit from burning down hedge funds that were prepping to short stock? It's not quite a "law to stop Joe Sixpack from burning down hedge funds and the banks they rode in on", but the stock exchanges* have repeatedly temporarily halted trading of GameStop stocks to stop the rapid fluctuations of the stock price. So they can maybe, just maybe get it paid off before too many more hedge funds go bankrupt (it looks the hedge funds are all trying to purchase out their short sells, which has only made the stock price rise even more, normies are going to make some bank on this). * So much for the 'free market' when the market can be suspended at will by the exchanges. This isn't going to end any time soon. The autists are already buying up $BBB and $AMC - and on the hunt for others. This is what happens when scumbag hedgies short > 100% of the available stock. Motherfuck them. It doesn't hurt that Dr. Michael Burry noticed the $GME shorts and that Elon Musk commented on it (probably to fuck Melvin Capital who heavily shorted Tesla and publicly gloated about it). So long as those who bought up $GME refuse to sell until after Friday, multiple hedgies are going down the shitter. Current estimates are $23.6 billion in losses. 😬 "Margin call, gentlemen." "Turn those machines back ooonnn!!" Apes together strong... |
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Post by 3catcircus on Jan 28, 2021 20:16:54 GMT
It's not quite a "law to stop Joe Sixpack from burning down hedge funds and the banks they rode in on", but the stock exchanges* have repeatedly temporarily halted trading of GameStop stocks to stop the rapid fluctuations of the stock price. So they can maybe, just maybe get it paid off before too many more hedge funds go bankrupt (it looks the hedge funds are all trying to purchase out their short sells, which has only made the stock price rise even more, normies are going to make some bank on this). * So much for the 'free market' when the market can be suspended at will by the exchanges. This isn't going to end any time soon. The autists are already buying up $BBB and $AMC - and on the hunt for others. This is what happens when scumbag hedgies short > 100% of the available stock. Motherfuck them. It doesn't hurt that Dr. Michael Burry noticed the $GME shorts and that Elon Musk commented on it (probably to fuck Melvin Capital who heavily shorted Tesla and publicly gloated about it). So long as those who bought up $GME refuse to sell until after Friday, multiple hedgies are going down the shitter. Current estimates are $23.6 billion in losses. 😬 "Margin call, gentlemen." "Turn those machines back ooonnn!!" Apes together strong... Booyah!  |
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Post by evileeyore on Jan 29, 2021 7:45:13 GMT
So long as those who bought up $GME refuse to sell until after Friday, multiple hedgies are going down the shitter. Robinhood* has been selling on investors without permission, so far I haven't seen any proof they weren't margin sales, so perfectly legal... but... there are enough claiming they weren't on the margin that this could close a few trading platforms when this all shakes out. * Not the only one, just the most numerous and egregious one. And notice that it's Webull and Apex that went against the group pressure and reopened free day trading? Yeah, not sure how I feel about China and Singapore being a source of 'free' trading on US stocks when US trading houses are denying trades... but it's damned sure something wild. |
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