Corporate welfare in the Golden Age of Fraud.
This remains my favourite item in $MU earnings - How a company printing cash can still get billions of taxpayers' money incentives is frankly mind-blowing
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Replying to @honestpollster
If there’s one gripe I have as a 3x Trump voter it’s that he didn’t go after the “titans of industry” who padded their margins with cheap illegal farm, construction, and industry labor.
Punish (capitally, if laws allow) these demons and the behavior changes.
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"No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life."
Teddy was the best.
Replying to @honestpollster
Great hat tip to Teddy Roosevelt in your latest YouTube video.
From same speech: 👀
"No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life."
Zero Technocracy retweeted
"Primary them!"
We've tried. More impossible every year.
Primaries are rigged for many candidates.
There is a ton of AIPAC money.
In open primary states, Dems and Reps collude to install the worst candidates.
Trump endorsed every traitor in the party.
GOP doesn't fund non uniparty candidates.
What’s interesting about bitcoin is how people use it as a count noun and others use it as a non count noun. How do you says 10 BTC? Do you say 10 bitcoin or 10 bitcoins?
It feels difficult to think of BTC as discrete coins vs a blob of something you pull a bloblet from.
Obviously Asian refineries are different — they process sweet and sour crude
The war in the Middle East started 207 days ago and in this stretch of time over 2 billion barrels of crude oil supply have been lost. Most of those barrels are of the kind used to make Diesel. This is why Diesel prices have been going up globally and any sort of export ban won’t be effective in lowering prices sustainably.
Because oil prices have been kept artificially suppressed and Data on oil inventories and Hormuz flows heavily tampered since the very beginning of the war, many people, including “experts”, have been misled - the reason why you keep seeing a continuous change of narratives and “analysis” while I have been warning about this outcome since the very beginning of the crisis. Surely Ukraine striking Russian refineries contributed to tighten the diesel supply in the market further, but another thing people and “experts” have been overlooking is that REFINERIES ARE NOT ALL THE SAME. US, EU or Asian refineries are set up to process specific types of crude and switching to other types more available in the market requires significant repurposing investments. Because everyone has been brainwashed to think the crisis can suddenly end anytime and all can quickly go back to normal, no refinery set up to process Middle Eastern crude oils in the world so far took the risk to go through repurposing - maintenance has been also broadly delayed to make the most out of higher prices till they lasted since nobody, except myself and few others, attached any meaningful chance of ending up in today’s scenario.
Be ready for a fierce snap back to reality of crude oil prices to the level they should have been for long already because of the fundamental laws of demand and supply IN THE REAL WORLD.
Sure, you're going to lose money today.
Probably a lot.
But take solace in knowing that in 150 years, no one on Earth will remember your name or anything you did and that none of this mattered at all.
And that you could have been fishing.
Or writing poetry.
Or in love.
Oh well.
Everything is fake and gay in the Golden Age of Fraud. TM
In this scene from the Daily Wire movie, the terrorists are lining up the girls and inspecting them for sex.
But the leader tells his men they can't have sex with the girls yet, since the caliph gets to pick first.
One of the jihadi underlings asks if he can at least have one of the old ones, who is a liberal administrator. Surely the caliph isn't going to pick this hag, when he has so many hot college girls to choose from?
The leader of the group responds no, because "our caliph has varied tastes, and only Allah knows which ones will please him."
The scene ends with them discovering a trans student under a mask.
This is 50 Shades of Grey for conservatives.
They come over and don’t compete on a fair playing field. They ignore our cultural rules especially those related to theft and fraud. They also are usually exempt from taxes citizens pay, and often are also subsidized.
They all have to go, yesterday.
Replying to @technocracyzero @AngelaLMorabito
America always wanted to be a global superpower,,dollar is global,its tech companies are global then talent pool should be global as well,,a american citizen should not afraid of competing with people all around the world
I believe in merit for all people in the United States, but also that our immigration policies have been too lax and permitted a loss of cultural cohesion that we previously enjoyed. Once foreigners within the past 5 generations account for more than ~10%, we lose our culture.
Zero Technocracy retweeted
My son is not even two
His world right now is buses and trucks and stuffed bears
He is white and western and he will grow up being proud of that
They want him replaced
They want him to be a foreigner in his own country
And that’s just the conservatives
The left wants him dead
Brothers, we cannot stand for this. We need thick skin and steel spines
I for one am done playing games
No it’s not. Preserving a literally dying ethnic group (white people, 8-12% of global population) in their own home countries from foreign invasion is not racist.
We are under occupation. Our foreign friends need to return home.
Real leaders would have built them just the same except in a cross configuration. To hell with Israel and the Mohammedans! God save the Republic!
Technocracy is just oligarchy by purveyors of the newest thing.
There is not a 1:1 correlation of technical skill or entrepreneurial ability to wise republican governance.
Endless 2 week rallies that precede large declines which never materialize.
Let’s hope this time is different. 🍻
No rally, massive decline. Market stays down for the count for years.
Only then, capital becomes wisely allocated.
Expecting a larger market selloff on Monday on "AI fears" to mark the bottom.
Then a sharp 2 week rally that will make absolutely no fundamental sense given the risks of:
The AI bubble popping
Houthis closing the Red Sea
Federal Reserve rate decision Sep 16
Bank of Japan rate decision Sep 18
OpEx Sep 18
This brief 2 week counter trend rally is exactly what happened in February 2020.
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Boomers: *exclude American men from education*
American men: *go straight to the workforce*
Boomers: *exclude American men from the workforce*
American men: *can't find work, go on to build new industries and tech companies worth trillions of dollars*
Boomers: *ban these new industries, and American men now face 20 years in prison*
American men: *disallowed from value creation at every angle*
Boomers: "American men are lazy and don't want to work."
The Macro Bear Club in the United States is increasingly intersecting with what is best for the Republic and — oddly — with the interests of Iran and Russia.
Capital in the United States is poorly allocated, and capital in the hands of morons and sociopaths leads to today.
All the fire hoses of “social welfare” aka fraud need to be turned off.
I work with the Constitution, which exists and specifically forbids federal social welfare programs.
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Mike Huckabee spent years telling us these people were “God’s chosen” and that we had to bless the bombs, the settlements, the theft of land, the starvation, the genocide, and keep our mouths shut or God would curse us. He even told us they are owed land that he believed “they could take it all”.
Then, he acts shocked when they steal the land, the house and pretend it’s owed to them by God. Well Mike, you told them they could.
This is the blasphemous lie of Christian Zionism, and this false theology creates terrorists.
Then, Mike Huckabee, goes to the West Bank and calls Israeli settlers terrorists. So which is it? Because terrorists don’t get to commit a heinous genocide and then make you shut up because they tell you they are God’s chosen people.
God’s people don’t shoot kids in the face, bomb churches, steal houses, bury people alive, and mass murder innocent human life.
You don’t get to feed us your Christian Zionist slop and hope Christians are too theologically illiterate to call it out. Christian Zionism is a heresy and people are finally seeing these monsters for exactly what they are; terrorists.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited the occupied West Bank on Saturday, where he characterized some Israeli settlers "as being terrorists" after hearing from Americans living in the region.
"There may be a few hundred that are responsible, but that's a few hundred too many," he said. "One of the messages that we have been sending, and we will continue to send, is that people in these communities have a right to live with a level of security and safety."