Brian

Yeah, just found the numbers. Of the 6 SPACS he took public, 5 lost value between 70 and 98%. The only one that wound up with a positive share price since 2020 was SoFi (and not by much).

Not voting for or funding anything to the right of 'turn his whole cabinet, all MAGA congresscritters, his tech-right funders, and right-wing influencers into lamppost ornaments for the full Mussolini.'

Fucking Clover Health, never was viable. He has to be lugging 80+% losses on some of those SPACs.

I became truly angry watching All In, where he and Sacks were asked about foisting pre-mined Solana on retail just before it dropped 80%, and both of them laughing, like, yeah, that was the point.

You know, if I had a gazillion dollars, you would never see or hear from me again in public. Only if I absolutely had to, I'd hire someone to write the most anodyne, non-committal, committee-approved posts you've ever seen.

I can always use a nap.

I'm just saying, I'm not seeing it where I work, not really anywhere, yet.

There are no safe rooms anywhere.

And, appropriately, ended with a US president humiliated in the deserts of Iran.

Choo choo, motherfucker.

No one's even looking at the DevOps stuff my guys do. Not sure they even understand the range and chaos of what we're responsible for. Probably helps that we all actively work to construct an entire alternate reality to the AI stuff already in place. It's sorta like a maliciously-trained parrot now

People have made noises for 2 years about automating my capital markets apps, but nothing's come of it. Not a line of AI-generated code in production. No one trusts it with real money and live trades.

Remediating the cruft from 6 massive creaky apps, built in layers for 25 years, will take years.

His job - manager of city engineers for a rural town - wouldn't be the disqualifying thing.

Almost certain he was a Klansman. I'm quietly proud that's a cycle I personally broke in the family forever, and told my younger cousins if I heard they ever did some racist shit, I was gonna beat them.

This setup reminds me of 1973. US materially supported Israel in its near-disastrous war with Egypt and the Arab states. OPEC froze the US out of the oil market.

It was a daily -1% grind for years. Gas went from .35 in 1970 to $1 and change by the end of the decade. 15% 30y by 1980, car loans 25%.

I wonder if anyone is left that remembers how grinding and endless the bear market was starting around 1973?

Setup is pretty similar, except OPEC won't be nearly as cohesive, and oil is far more fungible than it was then.

It's a bedrock political truth of America that no billionaire must be even mildly inconvenienced in his exploitation of any peon, or an entire nation of peons.

She's done with congress for now, she can rip people new orifices. Must feel very freeing.

I often wonder what it must be like to work with people who intentionally plotted a domestic terrorist attack to have you killed in 2021 and then have an executive branch and courts that do nothing about it.

I... don't think that's what he'll be remembered for.

Hard to imagine anyone out the right of Berger, unless it's a guy who wants to legalize hunting Trans people for sport.

Sounds a lot like "fired on a ship under a flag of truce".

Yeah, I just needed something ready to describe it in 300 chars.

I fully expected Karoline to tell is that it was a direct revelation from jeebus hisownself into the ear of the anointed one.

The biggest shock the night was Phil Berger, President pro-tem of the NC Senate, and the most powerful conservative politician in the state for the last 25 years, losing by 2 votes as of last night.

That one still has to play out through recounts, etc, but what a shot across the bow.

3 other Dem lawmakers in NC who voted for the GOP's anti-trans legislation were beaten by 20+% yesterday, too.

Centrist DINOs ate shit last night in NC.

Honestly a little shocked she didn't claim it was a revelation from her deity. I mean, they're going pretty full-bore with this as the final holy war.

FWIW, I went to the No Kings march, and the normie position is now that Israel is committing genocide and the US shouldn't fund that.

Absolutely no one ever even considers it. They don't truly, viscerally believe it.

I always try to make side bets with evangelicals who want to argue: "I'll put up $25,000" that says Jesus will NOT return in thr next calendar year exactly as described in Thessalonians, recognized by all humanity, as it claims, and I'll give you double or nothing each year after until you stop."

My overwhelming impression from talking to people at the No Kings march was that "end ICE" and "Israel is committing genocide" had become normie positions.

Centrist quislings are about to get their own version of a non-astroturfed leftist movement, and they're not going to have a real clue what to do with it. Their instinct will be to fight it.

Personally, it'll take a lot to persuade me to vote for anything right of making lamppost pinatas of MAGA.

It was great, wasn't it? And 3 Dems who voted with the GOP on anti-trans legislation lost yesterday by 20+%.

Phil Fucking Berger, only the most powerful assclown in the NCGA for the last 15 years, lost by 2 votes. Of course, that one's nowhere nearly over.

Dem quislings who voted pro-ICE or anti-trans absolutely ate dogshit last night.

Meck county incumbent who gave the GOP an un-vetoable pro ICE vote lost 75-18.

Eat shit and die, white trash.

I have a theory that one purpose of evangelicalism is to short-circuit the Piagetian stage in which tweens develop empathy, because only IT is allowed to define otherhood.

Also, it's actually a little impressive how deeply damaging the soupy Hal Lindsey books have been to multiple generations.

Very reassuring to be represented in the UN by people with the impulse control skills of an 11 year old boy with undiagnosed ADHD.