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[nwoodman]

I am sure it will get taken down but this is pretty funny IMHO.  Especially in the context of Colbert and Paramount. $1.5bn over 5 years well spent IMHO.

 

 

[73 Reds]

9 hours ago, SharperDingaan said:

 

The US has a long history of assassinations as a way of levelling the playing field; and everybody from a JFK/Reagan  through to a Martin Luther and various other civil rights activists. Mid-terms are coming up, and those with absolute power typically don't like to give it up. Trump becomes a martyr, and everything changes overnight.

 

SD 

Even if true, why would you post such a comment?

[dwy000]

2 hours ago, 73 Reds said:

Even if true, why would you post such a comment?

@73 Reds fully agree with u there. 

[SharperDingaan]

6 hours ago, 73 Reds said:

Even if true, why would you post such a comment?

 

Everything about Trump (and his economic transformation of the US) ASSUMES that ONLY he can do it, and that he remains in place (and able) to make it happen; the same as every other fiefdom in the world with a dictator at the top. Remove the current dictator, and you instantly change everything ..... as well as getting a possible career advancement opportunity 

 

Dictators handbook 101 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-NcZObgLr-zbDVvbzF4YWNDVFk/edit?resourcekey=0-AjLf-QH_fS4AeBtmmuUz1w

 

SD

Edited July 24, 2025 by SharperDingaan

[73 Reds]

27 minutes ago, SharperDingaan said:

 

Everything about Trump (and his economic transformation of the US) ASSUMES that ONLY he can do it, and that he remains in place (and able) to make it happen; the same as every other fiefdom in the world with a dictator at the top. Remove the current dictator, and you instantly change everything ..... along with a career advancement opportunity 

 

Dictators handbook 101 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-NcZObgLr-zbDVvbzF4YWNDVFk/edit?resourcekey=0-AjLf-QH_fS4AeBtmmuUz1w

 

SD

Happy you find that explanation satisfactory.  I don't and find it insulting to the conscience.

[SharperDingaan]

1 hour ago, 73 Reds said:

Happy you find that explanation satisfactory.  I don't and find it insulting to the conscience.

 

I live in the real world.

 

Assassination is just another tool of statecraft that most nations routinely engage in. Whether it be directly (via drone), indirectly (via a proxy), or internally (via an aspiring dictator, &/or entrenched power). Most often it is used to decapitate, &/or change the course of world/national events (assassination of Hitler to end WWII)

 

The US has a long history of presidential assassinations; 4 successful and 2 near misses from the mid nineteenth century to present. Not counting the very long list of unsuccessful ones, that near every US president has had on them. 'Many assassination attempts, both successful and unsuccessful, were motivated by a desire to change the policy of the American government' ... i.e. you reap what you sew. Civil rights activism has a similar assassination history.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_human_rights_activists

 

A sudden Trump demise tomorrow, would result in an asymmetric outcome reflective of Taleb's bar-bell approach. A wise man simply accepts human nature for what it is, and positions accordingly. If it ever pays out you're set for life; no different to winning the Powerball lottery  https://www.powerball.com/

 

Thereafter it's just an insurance policy, that many would prefer not to hear.

 

SD

 

 

 

 

Edited July 24, 2025 by SharperDingaan

[changegonnacome]

14 hours ago, TwoCitiesCapital said:

No way Epstein amassed the connections and wealth he did without implicating some of the biggest names.

 

One nugget that has drifted out this week....that is likely in the Epstein files (if the files have lots of Epstein's historical communications)......

 

Everybody knows that Epstein and Donald fell out over a property in Palm Beach in 2004......Epstein had an offer of $30m accepted on the property and seen as Donald was very very very good friend of his for 20+ years in real estate business he asked him to come over to the property, he was yet to close on, to seek advice on reno options for the property.

 

Donald being the dog that he is decided to gazump his good friend Epstein behind his back.......with a $41m offer and bought the property....ironically called Maison de l’Amitie (French for "House of Friendship")!!!!........Epstein, its reported, told numerous people in PB how angry he was and also how he knew for a stone cold fact Donald didn't access to $41m for the house.....and so Epstein told people in Pam Beach he was convinced Donald had been 'fronting' for somebody else to buy the house......i.e. Donald was helping somebody hide their purchase, was hiding the real beneficial owner and the source of funds etc..

 

With Epstein running around Palm Beach bad mouthing Donald......its reported that its Donald that decided to weaponize what he knew about Epstein's young ladies and so tipped off the Palm Beach police that they should look into his ex-friend.

 

Anyway - this Friendship house is the famous house that Donald sold four years later in the midst of the GFC for $90m!!!!! a sale that left Palm Beach realtors puzzled at its high price....the purchaser a Russian oligarch billionaire.

 

All interesting stuff.....especially when you realize that Ghilaine Maxwell was around during all this period...no doubt hearing what Donald was up to....dealing with the fuming Jeffrey about the falling out of the two men who were 'great' friends for the past 20yrs......all that and right now Trump's personal criminal attorney Todd Blanche.....that is now moonlighting as the nominal Deputy Attorney General of DOJ......is flying down to see Ghilaine in-prison.....for a "conversation" on what she knows.

 

All of the above is pure speculation & conspiracy theories of course.....and I'm indulging them here for entertainment purposes.....the facts though are becoming clearer.....these guys we're intertwined in each others lives for a couple of decades.....in NYC and palm beach....via weddings, birthdays, girlfriends , social events & property deals in PB......its quite something....and now the Presidents personal criminal defense attorney is headed down to Florida to meet the only woman alive who has first hand knowledge of this stuff just as her last chance saloon appeal is winding its way to a final, widely predicted, negative decision at the Supreme Court......I can't wait for definitive Trump biography to come out after he's long gone....its gonna be a beauty

Edited July 24, 2025 by changegonnacome

[Spekulatius]

Clueless:

The black dude didn’t get a hardhat either

Edited July 25, 2025 by Spekulatius

[changegonnacome]

Imagine for a second this was the Chairman & CEO of a company you owned (Trump) and the CFO (Powell) doing a walk through of their new plant where they stopped for a press gaggle…..and started passive aggressively lobbing grenades at each other….you’d sell the company in the morning…I don’t care who you think is right or wrong here Powell or Trump….the whole edifice of the Reno walk through is political theatre….the snipping in public unbecoming of the office both men hold. 

[JRM]

am I the only one wondering how you could spend $2B+ on a remodel?  

[Spekulatius]

43 minutes ago, changegonnacome said:

Imagine for a second this was the Chairman & CEO of a company you owned (Trump) and the CFO (Powell) doing a walk through of their new plant where they stopped for a press gaggle…..and started passive aggressively lobbing grenades at each other….you’d sell the company in the morning…I don’t care who you think is right or wrong here Powell or Trump….the whole edifice of the Reno walk through is political theatre….the snipping in public unbecoming of the office both men hold. 

Well foreigners sell the USD. The whole thing is an embarrassment quite simply. I think part of the reason for the cost overruns was Trump MAGA guys pushing for marble. The whole thing is just political theatre.

Edited July 25, 2025 by Spekulatius

[Parsad]

2 hours ago, Spekulatius said:

Clueless:

The black dude didn’t get a hardhat either

 

Hilarious! 

 

1 hour ago, changegonnacome said:

Imagine for a second this was the Chairman & CEO of a company you owned (Trump) and the CFO (Powell) doing a walk through of their new plant where they stopped for a press gaggle…..and started passive aggressively lobbing grenades at each other….you’d sell the company in the morning…I don’t care who you think is right or wrong here Powell or Trump….the whole edifice of the Reno walk through is political theatre….the snipping in public unbecoming of the office both men hold. 

 

I certainly don't blame Powell...Trump said he was using information from the Fed in the letter, so of course Powell is going to correct the error that is accusing him of blowing the budget for remodels.  I would be more upset that the CEO didn't take the grenade for his CFO if the CFO did make the mistake.  Buck stops at the CEO!  Cheers!

[Parsad]

Pay $16M, end Late Night & Colbert, promise to eliminate DEI, seek out any bias at CBS...approve the merger after getting all these concessions...not unlike Columbia paying $220M yesterday!  A fucking tyrant, but he keeps winning his battles and lawsuits!  Cheers!
 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fcc-license-approval-clears-way-220925528.html

[changegonnacome]

7 minutes ago, Parsad said:

but he keeps winning his battles and lawsuits! 

 

Its gonna be funny - with all these expanded powers of the Presidency that Donald is pathfinding right now - with various executive actions, shakedowns and lawsuit wins setting precedences all over the place............oh what fun a left wing populist nut (a mirror of Donald the right wing populist nut) is going to have when he or she (AOC!) gets into the White House.....the GOP will howl and scream till they realize it was Trump who expanded and created the playbook for this type of imperial federal Presidency.

 

Edited July 25, 2025 by changegonnacome

[changegonnacome]

Jeffrey Epstein’s Birthday Book Included Letters From Bill Clinton, Leon Black

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-birthday-album-included-letters-from-bill-clinton-leon-black-a7cd8cb1?mod=hp_lead_pos7

 

The other scumbag Clinton in the book...why am I not surprised....the WSJ sure has made up alot of details about an imaginary fake book.......and set themselves up for another few hundred million dollars of defamation suits from billionaires like Leon Black...and powerful folks like Bill Clinton......Rupert Murdoch, it seems, is hell bent on bankrupting the WSJ and News Corp here with this one story.

 

Oh what a web weave, when first we try to deceive.....what an idiot Trump is......you get the call from the WSJ, you say "so what I wrote/drew a guy I knew 30yrs ago a bawdy birthday wish and 20yrs after that he turned out to be a creep.......suck eggs.....but nope he had to deny and lie.

[Parsad]

50 minutes ago, changegonnacome said:

 

Its gonna be funny - with all these expanded powers of the Presidency that Donald is pathfinding right now - with various executive actions, shakedowns and lawsuit wins setting precedences all over the place............oh what fun a left wing populist nut (a mirror of Donald the right wing populist nut) is going to have when he or she (AOC!) gets into the White House.....the GOP will howl and scream till they realize it was Trump who expanded and created the playbook for this type of imperial federal Presidency.

 

 

Oh, I hope not!  AOC would be the worst thing to happen other than Trump!  

 

I hope the U.S. gets someone like Carney...up the middle, understands decorum, globally-versed, business-minded with actual success and self-made, a unifier rather than divisive figure!

 

Cheers!

[changegonnacome]

3 minutes ago, Parsad said:

Oh, I hope not!  AOC would be the worst thing to happen other than Trump! 

 

me too.....I might go as far to say that AOC might be worse than Trump.......Trump for all his chaos & attrition in the next 3 or 4yrs....is likely not to break the capitalist goose that lays the golden egg......his vandalism of social safety nets, various overreaches can be fixed up fairly easily i think by the next admin......a populist left demagogue.....they would try to tinker with the engine......Trump for all his faults is kinda just a panel beater....he's making a lot of noise, creating alot of attention.....but there's enough real business people around him to stop him messing with the core engine too much.

 

9 minutes ago, Parsad said:

Carney...up the middle, understands decorum, globally-versed, business-minded with actual success and self-made, a unifier rather than divisive figure!

 

Yep haven't seen enough of him myself.....but at the end of the day he strikes me as a guy who could run General Motors if he wanted to.......or run a country (which he is)......astute, assured, structured, strategic, measured, long term oriented, in control of himself and those around him.....Canada is lucky to have him I think (when I look at the global political talent out there, cant think of many with Carney's CV & presense)......will need to see if that all translates into genuine political change. 

[Parsad]

6 minutes ago, changegonnacome said:

 

Yep haven't seen enough of him myself.....but at the end of the day he strikes me as a guy who could run General Motors if he wanted to.......or run a country (which he is)......astute, assured, structured, strategic, measured, long term oriented, in control of himself and those around him.....Canada is lucky to have him I think (when I look at the global political talent out there, cant think of many with Carney's CV & presense)......will need to see if that all translates into genuine political change. 

 

So far, pretty much every Premier of every Province has said positive things about him or given their trust for now.  As well as First Nations representatives are waiting to see what he does.  Rarely has there been such a consensus in Canada's history!  

 

He's pushed for inter-provincial trade barriers to be removed...pretty much on target.  Pushed for faster development and less regulation...pretty much on target so far.  Asked for 15% cuts in the 1st year, 7% cuts in the 2nd year and another 7% cuts in the 4th year from every Federal department minister.  Speeding up defense spending to 5% of GDP.  Already actively working on creating significant new partnerships outside of the U.S. especially with his relationships in Europe and Asia.  Maintains the core cultural, historical aspects of Canada without overly cow-towing to the left or right.  He's accessible, respectful, not afraid of dictators like Trump, a consensus builder!  Time will tell, but so far so good.  Cheers!

[John Hjorth]

9 hours ago, Spekulatius said:

Clueless:

The black dude didn’t get a hardhat either

 

@Spekulatius,

 

HaHa! - It just made my Friday!

[Spekulatius]

7 hours ago, changegonnacome said:

 

me too.....I might go as far to say that AOC might be worse than Trump.......Trump for all his chaos & attrition in the next 3 or 4yrs....is likely not to break the capitalist goose that lays the golden egg......his vandalism of social safety nets, various overreaches can be fixed up fairly easily i think by the next admin......a populist left demagogue.....they would try to tinker with the engine......Trump for all his faults is kinda just a panel beater....he's making a lot of noise, creating alot of attention.....but there's enough real business people around him to stop him messing with the core engine too much.

 

 

Yep haven't seen enough of him myself.....but at the end of the day he strikes me as a guy who could run General Motors if he wanted to.......or run a country (which he is)......astute, assured, structured, strategic, measured, long term oriented, in control of himself and those around him.....Canada is lucky to have him I think (when I look at the global political talent out there, cant think of many with Carney's CV & presense)......will need to see if that all translates into genuine political change. 

He talks a good book but can he walk throttle? Still TBD. Politics is mainly about people skills with common sense mixed in.

Edited July 25, 2025 by Spekulatius

[changegonnacome]

Agree results speak louder than style

[changegonnacome]

Top Justice Department Official Visits Former Epstein Associate Ghislaine Maxwell

Lawyer for convicted Epstein confidante calls it a ‘productive’ day of questioning

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/top-justice-department-official-visits-former-epstein-associate-ghislaine-maxwell-0598e4c0

 

"Blanche earlier this week announced his plans to meet Maxwell. “For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: what do you know?” he wrote on X."

 

More accurately re-written.......Todd Blanche....Donald Trump's criminal defense attorney from his most recent New York case parachuted into the DOJ....but still fundamentally Donald Trump's criminal defense attorney......is spending two days with Ghilaine Maxwell trying to get a sense of what she might say and do to damage Trump when her last chance saloon appeal gets thrown out of the Supreme Court in a few weeks time.....where she has zero to lose and can go beast mode if she wishes......my guess....watch for a subtle shift in the narrative soon........to Maxwell having being "very badly treated" by Biden's DOJ, being unbelievably cooperative with Trump's DOJ, wanting to help in anyway she can the victims cause maybe she's kinda a victim of Epstein herself.....indeed if you think about it what Trump really needs Ghilaine to do next is get the 'Eye of Sauron' on to another man in the Epstein files.....Clinton, Prince Andrew....somebody the MAGA conspiracy theorists will tie themselves in knots with........it sure looks to me, for political expediency, they are also going to strongly hint to Maxwell that a pardon could come down the tracks in 3.5yrs.

 

Edited July 25, 2025 by changegonnacome

[Gregmal]

Nice. So we ve already launched into fullblown "if we dont get the info we need to get him, it's because of a conspiracy" mode. Hopefully one day they "get him", so you guys can have some peace.

[cubsfan]

11 minutes ago, Gregmal said:

Nice. So we ve already launched into fullblown "if we dont get the info we need to get him, it's because of a conspiracy" mode. Hopefully one day they "get him", so you guys can have some peace.

 

LOL - that about sums it up!!

[changegonnacome]

Funny thing is....I think Trump is completely innocent of any paedo/Epstein stuff.....what he is guilty of IMO is being thin skinned that he cant stand to have it confirmed with hard evidence that he = was very very tight buddies with Epstein in the 80's, 90 and early 200's......and to stop that non-crime but embarrassing detail coming out.....he is breaking a bunch of norms that will only accelerate the lost faith people have institutions......

 

norm one.....if this we're any other President he'd have appointed a special counsel on all this Epstein stuff the second he heard his name was in the files........which Trump did hear back in May from Pam Bondi.....

 

second norm.....as President you dont send your god damn personal criminal defense attorney down to Florida to speak with the principal witness in a case where there is even a sniff of criminality on your part in the past...