UK Posted January 9 Posted January 9 4 minutes ago, dealraker said: Anyway, the market is going up. Who gives a shit what Trump does! +1
John Hjorth Posted January 9 Posted January 9 (edited) 1 hour ago, dealraker said: Poor Parsad, he's a stable, mentally strong/smart and healthy, and logical human being. Trump complete dominance and popularity makes no sense to him. Anyway, the market is going up. Who gives a shit what Trump does! 1 hour ago, UK said: +1 ROFL! [<- Friday, but only one beer and two 'snapses' to lunch! Tuna sandwiches, delivered Uhhmm!] Expectations of large amounts of green flooding the enormous icecube into an economic state of bliss, prosperity and excesses? - - - o 0 o - - - For CofB&F members about the Greenlandic sentiment now - instructions and guidances to parents of kiddoes about how to talk with them about what's going on [they percieve, sense and understand something is going on before most of us even imagine or know] : Danish : mio.gl : Hvordan taler vi med børn om usikre tider? Greenlandic : mio.gl : inuusuttunullu Inersimasunut Ilisimasat saqqummersitallu MIO pillugu MIO saaffigiuk Angajoqqaanut Ilinniagalinnullu ilitsersuut: Ullut toqqissisimananngitsut pillugit meeqqat qanoq oqaloqatigissavagut? [<- Please don't ask me about it! ] No english version [, please look up and to the right for language buttons, and try them! ][<-! ] - - - o 0 o - - - Danish language page translated to English, using Google Translate : English : mio.gl : How do we talk to children about uncertain times? - - - o 0 o - - - To me, telling, symptomatic! Edited January 9 by John Hjorth
UK Posted January 9 Posted January 9 12 minutes ago, John Hjorth said: ROFL! [<- Friday, but only one beer and two 'snapses' to lunch! Tuna sandwiches, delivered Uhhmm!] Yay, your talk somehow everytime makes me hungry...and thirsty:)))
dealraker Posted January 9 Posted January 9 (edited) 7 minutes ago, UK said: Yay, your talk somehow everytime makes me hungry...and thirsty:))) Angela and I are hiking the Uwharrie's today, beer afterwards in great pub in Albermarle, NC. Meanwhile for those thinking the Supreme Court could rule against Trump's tariffs thus limiting his power? Don't make me laugh. If you want to really increase Trump's dominance then rule against him. That's fuel for his power train. With no one actually willing to stop Trump from anything he does he will march is fat ass right around the Supreme Court ruling, thus making them just like Congress ---- "N/A" -- not applicable. What the Supreme Court should rule is: "What we decide is irrelevant; Trump rules...not us." Edited January 9 by dealraker
gfp Posted January 9 Posted January 9 POTUS leaked the Jobs numbers 12 hours before the report... https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115862513677602476
SharperDingaan Posted January 9 Posted January 9 (edited) Orchestrated rioting across Tehran last night, magically starting at 8 pm, and a regime cutoff of all in-country internet/social media etc. Yet images of the rioting on western media this morning .... Mossad hard at work? It would seem that some of the regime leaders, along with their families, have already been moved to nearby states (not Russia). Khomeini supposedly evacuated last night, if the media is to believed Polymarket odds are a useful predictor .... https://polymarket.com/ At time of writing .... Khomeini out by Jan-31, slightly higher than a US invasion of Greenland. An Israeli strike on Iran by Jan-31, at near double the odds on Khomeni. Asia suddenly rushed to buy Saudi cargoes (put on sale), and WTI is rapidly moving towards USD 60/bbl. Interesting times. SD Edited January 9 by SharperDingaan
Gregmal Posted January 9 Posted January 9 Yup. Always follow the money. Biggest idiot indicator is someone posting "polls"....unless of course theres an agenda. For those more interested in reality....the moneylines dont lie.
SharperDingaan Posted January 9 Posted January 9 (edited) Oil Prices Rise as Protests in Iran Escalate https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Oil-Prices-Rise-as-Protests-in-Iran-Escalate.html On Friday, oil was supported by escalating protests in Iran and President Donald Trump’s comments late on Thursday that Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khomenei, was planning on fleeing the country following the protests in the OPEC producer demanding a change in regime. The Ayatollah is “looking to go someplace”, President Trump told reporters. Maybe sometime later this evening, EST, he gets a helping hand. SD Edited January 9 by SharperDingaan
Spooky Posted January 9 Posted January 9 1 hour ago, gfp said: POTUS leaked the Jobs numbers 12 hours before the report... https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115862513677602476 How much can we trust official US data these days?
Spooky Posted January 9 Posted January 9 https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2026/01/china-venezuela-taiwan-trump-security?lang=en Thought this was a good analysis of China's reaction to the Venezuela operation.
Gregmal Posted January 9 Posted January 9 2 minutes ago, Spooky said: How much can we trust official US data these days? Honestly I always thought all the people whom traded it like degenerates were idiots anyway. Whether it’s reliable or not, it’s one stupid, delayed, flawed in terms of its accuracy even when best efforts are made, data point. Why anyone EVER gave a shit is beyond me. If anything, the private sector compiled data is way better; if obsessing over that sorta stuff was your fixation.
Spooky Posted January 9 Posted January 9 14 minutes ago, Gregmal said: Honestly I always thought all the people whom traded it like degenerates were idiots anyway. Whether it’s reliable or not, it’s one stupid, delayed, flawed in terms of its accuracy even when best efforts are made, data point. Why anyone EVER gave a shit is beyond me. If anything, the private sector compiled data is way better; if obsessing over that sorta stuff was your fixation. Ya, it's also crazy to me how the media always takes figures like Chinese GDP at face value. The numbers are cooked! Any good private data sources you look at?
dealraker Posted January 9 Posted January 9 1 minute ago, Spooky said: Ya, it's also crazy to me how the media always takes figures like Chinese GDP at face value. The numbers are cooked! Any good private data sources you look at? Agree. But it is just as much fun to believe and quote Buggs Bunny (aka Kevin Hassett) stating this morning that the oil bigs will be investing big in VZ much sooner than anyone expects.
Spooky Posted January 9 Posted January 9 3 minutes ago, dealraker said: Agree. But it is just as much fun to believe and quote Buggs Bunny (aka Kevin Hassett) stating this morning that the oil bigs will be investing big in VZ much sooner than anyone expects. There was a good article in the WSJ about the VZ oil operation - calling it "Low risk low reward".
dwy000 Posted January 9 Posted January 9 8 minutes ago, dealraker said: Agree. But it is just as much fun to believe and quote Buggs Bunny (aka Kevin Hassett) stating this morning that the oil bigs will be investing big in VZ much sooner than anyone expects. NEWS: A U.S. oil executive told the Financial Times concerning Venezuela: “No one wants to go in there when a random fucking tweet can change the entire foreign policy of the country”
Gregmal Posted January 9 Posted January 9 17 minutes ago, Spooky said: Ya, it's also crazy to me how the media always takes figures like Chinese GDP at face value. The numbers are cooked! Any good private data sources you look at? Honestly, no. Someone’s always gonna be getting it earlier, and frankly the way I invest now it’s totally useless to me. Back in the day though Bloomberg aggregated the majority of what one needed.
Spooky Posted January 9 Posted January 9 Just now, Gregmal said: Honestly, no. Someone’s always gonna be getting it earlier, and frankly the way I invest now it’s totally useless to me. Back in the day though Bloomberg aggregated the majority of what one needed. Fair enough. I haven't looked at a Bloomberg terminal in over a decade... thank god.
changegonnacome Posted January 9 Posted January 9 18 hours ago, UK said: FOR 12 years Nicolás Maduro terrorised Venezuela. He stole elections and, when people objected, his goons killed, raped or tortured them by suffocation with plastic bags. Every single person in the regime minus Maduro that terrorised Venezuela, is still there and are still in their positions in fact 'we' promoted Maduro's hardline right hand woman. Indeed her brother was the chief architect of stealing the election from the people of VZ. For decades the USA usually had a good guy story, a narrative around why we decided to interfere in another countries internal affairs, this time we didn't even pretend.....we just took from that country that which was useful to us by coercive force. Must be very pleasing for Putin and Xi to see such behaviour. America is/was the biggest beneficiary of the rules based international order post WWII - hilarious to see a rich kid nepo baby with a history of destroying the value he inherited not realize that and start to rip it up before our eyes....a bit like he did with the fortune Fred Trump left him, now the fortune left to him is the global system that much wiser men than him built post-WWII and Trump is in the process of wrecking it.
Gregmal Posted January 9 Posted January 9 7 minutes ago, changegonnacome said: Every single person in the regime minus Maduro that terrorised Venezuela, is still there and are still in their positions in fact 'we' promoted Maduro's hardline right hand woman. Indeed her brother was the chief architect of stealing the election from the people of VZ. See this is the kinda stuff I struggle with. Personally, my preference as stated 1000x prior is that the US mind its own business. So there’s that. In this situation, they take out a guy whom up until Trump got involved, was pretty unanimously considered someone everyone agreed would be better off being removed. But now Trump does it, probably in the swiftest, in and out fashion I’ve ever seen accomplished, and this is what you guys are pulling? At first it was “what about Maduros civil rights?”….and “geee now he’s looking like Dubya”….to which I think is somewhat valid and also somewhat stupid because this or the one shot strike on Iran were pretty effectively done and done. And now the gist of what you just highlighted, in terms of what you wrote is what? That they should go back and remove everyone? Cuz “everyone but the figurehead is still there”? Like I genuinely don’t get what will make some of you folks happy. If you send them back in to “get the rest of them” I’m sure you guys will be the first to complain about “endless wars for oil”. If he doesn’t, it’ll be cuz he “chickened out”. Just kind of wild the never ending need to spin.
John Hjorth Posted January 9 Posted January 9 15 minutes ago, dwy000 said: NEWS: A U.S. oil executive told the Financial Times concerning Venezuela: “No one wants to go in there when a random fucking tweet can change the entire foreign policy of the country” The whole thing is totally surrealistic, to a degree it becomes funny! - Financial Times, reporting from 'somewhere'.
cubsfan Posted January 9 Posted January 9 3 minutes ago, Gregmal said: See this is the kinda stuff I struggle with. In this situation, they take out a guy whom up until Trump got involved, was pretty unanimously considered someone everyone agreed would be better off being removed. Hey, don't change their narrative now.. It's almost like you're asking the boys to make sense. All you need to know @Gregmal is "Trump Bad" LOL
Gregmal Posted January 9 Posted January 9 14 minutes ago, cubsfan said: Hey, don't change their narrative now.. It's almost like you're asking the boys to make sense. All you need to know @Gregmal is "Trump Bad" LOL lol reminds me of Liberation Day where the loudest mouths whom for the past decade were screaming about how Trump is always lying and how “you can’t trust anything he says” then turned around and claimed “but we took him at his word”…..pure gold!
dwy000 Posted January 9 Posted January 9 30 minutes ago, Gregmal said: See this is the kinda stuff I struggle with. Personally, my preference as stated 1000x prior is that the US mind its own business. So there’s that. In this situation, they take out a guy whom up until Trump got involved, was pretty unanimously considered someone everyone agreed would be better off being removed. But now Trump does it, probably in the swiftest, in and out fashion I’ve ever seen accomplished, and this is what you guys are pulling? At first it was “what about Maduros civil rights?”….and “geee now he’s looking like Dubya”….to which I think is somewhat valid and also somewhat stupid because this or the one shot strike on Iran were pretty effectively done and done. And now the gist of what you just highlighted, in terms of what you wrote is what? That they should go back and remove everyone? Cuz “everyone but the figurehead is still there”? Like I genuinely don’t get what will make some of you folks happy. If you send them back in to “get the rest of them” I’m sure you guys will be the first to complain about “endless wars for oil”. If he doesn’t, it’ll be cuz he “chickened out”. Just kind of wild the never ending need to spin. This is ridiculous. Nobody (and I mean nobody) is claiming Maduro was a wonderful guy or didnt deserve what he got. And even setting aside the legality of just taking out a foreign leader, its a question of what is the end game? There was no regime change and in fact all the stories seem to suggest the crackdown on political opponents are even stronger. Its not about drugs because this obviously wont change anything. So not only is there no rationale but there also doesnt appear to be a plan from here. Rubio and Trump keep contradicting each other almost daily. So the administration that claims to be America First is doing things that even they cant explain. And the big winners appear to be China and Russia. The incompetence is staggering.
73 Reds Posted January 9 Posted January 9 Just now, dwy000 said: This is ridiculous. Nobody (and I mean nobody) is claiming Maduro was a wonderful guy or didnt deserve what he got. And even setting aside the legality of just taking out a foreign leader, its a question of what is the end game? There was no regime change and in fact all the stories seem to suggest the crackdown on political opponents are even stronger. Its not about drugs because this obviously wont change anything. So not only is there no rationale but there also doesnt appear to be a plan from here. Rubio and Trump keep contradicting each other almost daily. So the administration that claims to be America First is doing things that even they cant explain. And the big winners appear to be China and Russia. The incompetence is staggering. So we don't do it unless we have answers to all your questions and only to your satisfaction. Interesting way to look at things.
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