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[changegonnacome]

19 minutes ago, John Hjorth said:

 

Yes, @changegonnacome,

 

Wednesday, on page 578, I posted this :

 

 

The more one try to think about it, the more hilarious and absurd it appears to become! , ... Hey, wait ... Russia forgot that the Little Rocketman should be a security guarantor, too - equipped with VETO rights, too, because he has been providing North Korean troops and likely stuff to the war on the Russian side! -Russian logic, you know!

 

We're living in crazy times.....what a waste of time for Europe's collective brain trust that spent the guts of a week spilling untold ink on security guarantees that simply won't fly.....Lavrov no doubt told Witcoff and Trump in Alaska how exactly Russia defines 'security guarantees'....that they both came to their European and Ukrainian partners afterward with this security guarantee 'win' and left the important part out is quite something....with 'friends' like these who needs enemies!

[RichardGibbons]

2 hours ago, TB said:

Canada vs America by a Canadian

 

Wow, that Canadian is really not very bright--strange that people want to speak to him.

 

Canada and America both have their own version of censorship right now, and it's completely unclear to me which type is worse. America also has a king right now, while Canada has a figurehead, so it's pretty funny that he thinks it's the reverse.

 

Both legal systems are pretty messed up right now, bogged down by politics. But one of the big things Canada has that the USA doesn't is due process. I think that's pretty important, and could easily make a big difference to outcomes in the two countries.

[changegonnacome]

28 minutes ago, cubsfan said:

 

A truly great President would have done everything he could to avoid this tragedy from beginning. This President ran on the platform of exiting involvement with Ukraine - one way or another - first and foremost with diplomacy. Exiting at any time is fraught with unanticipated risks - so we will see what happens.

 

But he's doing exactly what his base wants him to do - attempt to negotiate an end to the war - successful or not.

 

Yeah one of the saving graces of the MAGA movement is that its called bullshit on lot of the interventionist neocon and liberal nation building dreams that's defined US foreign policy since end of WWII.......way too many extracurricular activities & projects that became boondoggles that fell outside of the true definition of national security. 

[cwericb]

Ya just cant make  this stuff up. A certain guy who had bone spurs is now referring to himself as a "war hero". Disgusting!

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/us/video/trump-refers-as-war-hero-adam-kinzinger-vrtc

 

That man is a complete embarrassment.   

Edited August 22, 2025 by cwericb

[DooDiligence]

1 hour ago, cwericb said:

Ya just cant make  this stuff up. A certain guy who had bone spurs is now referring to himself as a "war hero". Disgusting!

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/us/video/trump-refers-as-war-hero-adam-kinzinger-vrtc

 

That man is a complete embarrassment.   

 

Before the year's out, he'll be wearing a uniform with a chest full of medals that would embarrass a north korean general officer.

[Spekulatius]

8 hours ago, cubsfan said:

Yup, all talk, no action.   When Trump said Zelensky & Putin should sit down and negotiate, I figured - well that will be a shocker if it ever happens. Neither want to give up anything - so if they aren't willing to talk - we're pretty close to done.

 

No one is willing to get involved with Ukraine after all the tough talk.

 

Maybe they will try again in a couple of years, when there are another couple million dead and Putin has 50% of Ukraine by then.

Putin does not want to sit down with Zelensky and negotiate. It is not going to happen.

[Spekulatius]

$INTC Win win:

Quote

I said, I think you should pay us 10% of your company,” Trump said of his conversations with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. “And they said yes.”

Trump said the deal will was a win for both sides.

“I negotiated this Deal with Lip-Bu Tan, the Highly Respected Chief Executive Officer of the Company,” Trump wrote in his Truth Social post announcing the deal. “The United States paid nothing for these Shares, and the Shares are now valued at approximately $11 Billion Dollars. This is a great Deal for America and, also, a great Deal for INTEL.”

Who is next?

Edited August 23, 2025 by Spekulatius

[dwy000]

37 minutes ago, Spekulatius said:

$INTC Win win:

Who is next?

What company is going to accept a "grant" ever again?  

[DooDiligence]

Elect a clown, expect a circus.

[adesigar]

52 minutes ago, dwy000 said:

What company is going to accept a "grant" ever again?  

I think it’s absolutely fine to get equity in a company that’s receiving Billions in taxpayer money. Intel could always just pay back the money. 
 

I think maybe some Oil/Gas companies, Pharmaceutical/Healthcare, Defense and Agriculture could be next. 

[cubsfan]

15 minutes ago, DooDiligence said:

Elect a clown, expect a circus.

 

^^^ Another tough week.   Trump wins keep piling up.

 

-  DC Crime plummets

-  Texas gets new voting districts 

-  Trump mega lawsuit of $500M DEAD

-  Stock market new highs

-  Bolton raid

 

It's tough when you lose all political power, cause all you can do is post silly pictures out of frustration.  

 

Oh well. Like they say --- Make America Great Again

[Parsad]

8 hours ago, cubsfan said:

 

Oh please. You are really going to excuse her behavior?

 

Trump already paid his price.

 

Imagine a scenario where every Fed governor betrayed the most trusted institution in America - but you want Powell to sweep it under the rug???

 

The least she could do is say: "Yeah, I did it. Bad judgement. I'll resign and accept my $500M judgement from the court"  instead of allowing the Fed Reserve to be badly tainted.

 

No one has to excuse her behavior.  She should just run for POTUS and she can get everything fixed like Trump did!  

 

Trump has now set the bar for every crooked shill to run for President so that they can dismiss every charge or crime nailed against them.  Welcome to America!

 

Cheers!

[Parsad]

4 hours ago, DooDiligence said:

 

Before the year's out, he'll be wearing a uniform with a chest full of medals that would embarrass a north korean general officer.

 

Like Idi Amin?  Cheers! 

 

[John Hjorth]

6 hours ago, Parsad said:

Like Idi Amin?  Cheers! 

 

 

lol! Now thats some serious stuff there!  

 

Please note he also is wearing his wings! That's because he thought he could fly! The row of stuff just below the wings is likely his medals! The rest below is likely orders.

 

That stuff hanging around his right arm and then lifted to get attached to a button, looking like it it has been stolen from some old fashion classic curtains  is called a shoulder band!

 

He is missing a cross band over his right shoulder and across his chest  down left to his left side, going back up again to the right shoulder over his back, but there is no space available for it! lol!

 

In Danish a term for all such stuff in a metaphoric meaning is the word 'sildesalat' [translated to English by 'herring salad'], metaphorical use for 'large quantities of military decorations, orders', or 'a disorderly jumble of things'. lol!

Edited August 23, 2025 by John Hjorth

[changegonnacome]

11 hours ago, Spekulatius said:

Putin does not want to sit down with Zelensky and negotiate. It is not going to happen.

 

Yep - what Putin is interested in doing is getting Trump to stop threatening secondary sanctions, putting any ceasefire talk to bed and ideally isolating the Europeans and Ukrainians from further US support....Putin is going to settle this one militarily and put himself in a position where he is de facto dictating terms....one must admit that when one thinks of the strategic aims of both parties heading into the Alaska summit its pretty clear who was the winner...the first two Putin outcomes are done.....the final domino to fall is when Trump puts on an exasperated act with the Europeans & Ukrainians in a few weeks time throwing his arms in the air that 'they' (not Putin) wont do peace..... and washing his hands of the whole thing to create political distance.

[Spekulatius]

Let rename Intel US semiconductor:

TSMC is going to be next. The government will get a stake in their US fabs.

 

I mentioned Francois Mitterrand nationalizations in the early 80’s here before, but there was one big difference. France paid for the business they acquired a fair price (decided by a court), the US paid nothing, but retroactively changed the rules and gets equity stakes for formerly given grants.

 

I guess to beat China, we have to become China.

Edited August 23, 2025 by Spekulatius

[changegonnacome]

8 hours ago, Parsad said:

Trump has now set the bar for every crooked shill to run for President

 

Yep - nobody can deny that standards in public office have been slipping for decades....if one could graph such things what you would see is that Trump has accelerated the decline like no other before him.....the 4th turning would suggest that such degradation leads to chaos and then a grand reset where trust is restored in institutions and politicians....Trump has hit warp speed on that process!

[Spekulatius]

1 minute ago, changegonnacome said:

 

Yep - nobody can deny that standards in public office have been slipping for decades....if one could graph such things what you would see is that Trump has accelerated the decline like no other before him.....the 4th turning would suggest that such degradation leads to chaos and then a grand reset where trust is restored in institutions and politicians....Trump has hit warp speed on that process!

Not just that, any incoming president  can throw out everything a former admin station did and everyone who worked for the former administration. So the rules could change every 4 years assuming we have free elections of course going forward.

[changegonnacome]

Just now, Spekulatius said:

Not just that, any incoming president  can throw out everything a former admin station did and everyone who worked for the former administration. So the rules could change every 4 years assuming we have free elections of course going forward.

 

Yeah you might not have liked the deep federal state.....be it gave a baseline of consistency to federal policy that nobody  appreciated..... till it was gone......Trump's expansion of the Presidency to an imperial one  introduces policy volatility that will see things whipsaw between administrations if left as is.....what people thought was a bug was actually a feature of American democracy....slow molasses like incrementalism.....Trump has uncovered all the policy whipsaw cheats codes on the books....Trump is only making things better in the sense that he's a hacker attacking the countries operating system for vulnerabilities and surfacing them.....a new Congress needs to issue some update patches pronto....the question is if Trump will completely corrupt the O/S before they can get to it!

[DooDiligence]

2 hours ago, John Hjorth said:

 

lol! Now thats some serious stuff there!  

 

Please note he also is wearing his wings! That's because he thought he could fly! The row of stuff just below the wings is likely his medals! The rest below is likely orders.

 

That stuff hanging around his right arm and then lifted to get attached to a button, looking like it it has been stolen from some old fashion classic curtains  is called a shoulder band!

 

He is missing a cross band over his right shoulder and across his chest  down left to his left side, going back up again to the right shoulder over his back, but there is no space available for it! lol!

 

In Danish a term for all such stuff in a metaphoric meaning is the word 'sildesalat' [translated to English by 'herring salad'], metaphorical use for 'large quantities of military decorations, orders', or 'a disorderly jumble of things'. lol!

 

TBF, at least Amin actually served with distinction before ruining that legacy. Cadet Bonespurs would award himself a medal for making it through a particularly harrowing bowel movement.

[cubsfan]

 

When they start defending the Deep State in Washington, DC - you know it's been a tough week. Next they'll want the DC police takeover stopped, so the crime can come back.

 

You guys really are funny!

[cubsfan]

Meanwhile, in Canada - the elimination of free speech continues:

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/amy-hamm-discipline-bc-nurse-1.7610933

 

B.C. nurse suspended by college, asked to pay $94K in costs for comments about transgender people

Fined $94,000 for saying Men are Men

 

She can always apply for political asylum in the United States!

[whiskybravo]

2 hours ago, changegonnacome said:

 

Yeah you might not have liked the deep federal state.....be it gave a baseline of consistency to federal policy that nobody  appreciated..... till it was gone......Trump's expansion of the Presidency to an imperial one  introduces policy volatility that will see things whipsaw between administrations if left as is.....what people thought was a bug was actually a feature of American democracy....slow molasses like incrementalism.....Trump has uncovered all the policy whipsaw cheats codes on the books....Trump is only making things better in the sense that he's a hacker attacking the countries operating system for vulnerabilities and surfacing them.....a new Congress needs to issue some update patches pronto....the question is if Trump will completely corrupt the O/S before they can get to it!

For sure, a new Congress will fix everything!

[cwericb]

2 hours ago, cubsfan said:

She can always apply for political asylum in the United States!

 

One sometimes thinks of the United States AS an asylum.

[whiskybravo]

43 minutes ago, cwericb said:

 

One sometimes thinks of the United States AS an asylum.

In Ottawa it’s against the law to warm up your car for more than a minute without getting  in.

Edited August 23, 2025 by whiskybravo