Here’s a fresh thread before yhe other expires.
If anybody else has anything interesting and can throw it up, please do. I’m in class.
If not, fire away…
Wacky Wednesday!
by Bumr50 ( 255 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at January 27th, 2021 - 7:59 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
ya beat me by 5 minutes! thx!
i had to get the monster 16lb brisket on the smoker.
YUGE!
i’ll post pics much later. this is gonna be 16 hours of fun
Good morning. The Reddit degenerates have picked another target, AMC (movie theaters) and now they’ve had to stop trading. At least two online sites are down, TD and Robinhood.
Somebody had better figure out a way to stop this. If people can’t trust the security of the markets, it’s all over. We’re looking at a barter system.
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/reddit-and-elon-musk-sparked-a-gamestop-stock-surge-why-amc-and-blackberry-are-next/
a good explanation of ‘short selling’
How to get someone taken out, Part 1.
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio reportedly worked as an undercover informant
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio previously worked as a “prolific” undercover informant for local and federal law enforcement — leading to the prosecution of more than a dozen people, according to a new report.
Tarrio, 36, began cooperating with authorities following his 2012 arrest on fraud charges in cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling, Reuters reported Wednesday.
Details of Tarrio’s secret work were lodged in a transcript from a 2014 court proceeding in Miami and obtained by the outlet.
Tarrio’s lawyer Jeffrey Feiler had asked for leniency in his client’s sentence after he and two co-defendants pleaded guilty to relabeling and selling stolen diabetes test kits, the report said.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/27/proud-boys-enrique-tarrio-worked-as-informant-for-cops-report/
Lunchbreak LOL:
Hikers told to forgo entire Appalachian Trail due to virus
https://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/hikers-told-forgo-entire-appalachian-trail-due-virus/JRITVFQ3RZGM3MBL34W3QDAKNU/
@ coldwarrior:
No prob. Didn’t see any in the hopper.
Of course…
https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1354463903992983557
Biden’s EO will direct the Federal Government to replace vehicles with “net-zero” emission electric vehicles, which do not exist, and create the framework for the US to become carbon neutral by 2050, which is more aggressive than the Paris Accord mandate.
National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy says Biden’s clean plan has a $2 trillion price tag. No specifics on what the $2 trillion plan is.
Biden’s Executive on Climate Change will all direct 40% of federal Climate Change funding to Black and Hispanic communities, to “address the impacts that Climate Change and Covid-19.
coldwarrior wrote:
I wonder if this is all about going after hedge funds, tho.
Fox Business – TD & Aneritrade put restrictions on GME and AMC
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
I used to hike that a lot (even climbed Old Rag Mountain!) – and frankly, I would not risk it. It’s outside, yeah, but serious hiking requires being comfortable with being dirty. A short hike, say 4 hrs round trip back to the car is one thing. But days on the trail? Nah. During ‘the season’ the place is crowded. I did Old Rag over Labor Day weekend. There was an hour-long line. They needed an elevator. Then some kid got trapped in a chimney, took 2 hours to get him out, which backed up everything even more. And a lot of people simply don’t know or don’t observe proper trail hygiene/etiquette.
uh huh. Expiration Apr 30. Except it will be extended, you just know it.
https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-january-27-2021
SUMMARY
The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin due to a heightened threat environment across the United States, which DHS believes will persist in the weeks following the successful Presidential Inauguration. Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence.
The 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting is cited as part of the justification
eaglesoars wrote:
It is. WallStreetBets is the group that’s been doing this
https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1354191614982426624/photo/1
TLDR: Fuck hedge funds. This is a crosspoint into the future
An open letter to CNBC from WallStreetBets
https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1354202176499965958/photo/1
Your contempt for the retail investor (your audience) is palpable and if you don’t get it together you’ll lose an entire new generation of investors.
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These funds can manipulate the market via your network and if they screw up big…..they just get a bailout from their billionaire friends at Citadel. Then they have the nerve to turn us into public enemy #1…
@ eaglesoars:
i’m really having a hard time disagreeing with these cats.
@ coldwarrior:
I imagine you’re not alone………..
@ coldwarrior:
C Schwab told me early on not to invest in short selling. Told me I could quickly lose everything I owned. It’s a very very small part of a risk portfolio.
@ eaglesoars:
It seems like new territory to me. A new sort of communication around investing that competes with the big investors. I was consistently locked out of tech stock IPO’s as a small investor. The big friends of Ameritrade and Schwab gave preferential treatment and discounts to million dollar buyers. Enough to dry up the stock IPO available before it trickled down to the small investor
Fox Business headline
Reddit Ruins Wall Street’s Short – GME continues rally
I get that this is in one way hilarious, but it has to be scaring traders/fund mgrs pantless.
@ coldwarrior:
I wonder why the big tech giants don’t perceive this as economic terrorism? This is way more of a threat to them than a few measly million peaceful Trump protestors on Jan 6th.
If they crash the stock market with uncertainty the government will step in and control Facebook et al. Biden and crew would welcome that. Makes every Biden voter a fool x’s 1000.
Confidence: What it shows me is that the illness in society is not covid but those 5 GoP Senators that voted to impeach Trump. Ground Zero. If Mitch McConnell can’t wrap his head around that then it makes him on of the biggest dumbasses on the planet. He has a kindergartners appreciation of the Constitution.
@ darkwords:
I won’t touch short selling because there is no way I have access to info that pro traders have, we can leave for another day whether I have the smarts to use it if I did.
The one regret I have is that I didn’t get Amazon back in the day….as for IPOs – let’s see what Yellin does with her ‘tax unrealized gains’ crap.
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s an interesting turn of phrase
Loudon County Virginia dad goes OFF on the school board……..
https://rumble.com/vdbq0x-this-dad-has-had-enough-with-his-school-board.html?mref=ah9c7&mc=cfcoh
@ eaglesoars:
I found myself disagreeing with the Reddit Tactic because I suspected motives. Where is the cash coming from to do this?
Then I saw it as ingenious warfare against big Wall Street investors. It’s economic brinksmanship. People will pull their money out of banks eventually.
If I wanted to destroy the world economy and go back to a New Deal I would do this. Accelerate a bubble til it snowballs.
To control it one has to control all the talking channels fueling it. That is Google and Facebook. Reddit you can just cancel as Reddit proved themselves by canceling Trump sub Reddits.
@ eaglesoars:
I wonder if this is Chinese money as a response to being delisted from the stock exchanges. The Chinese might understand our economy better than we do.
Apparently you only have to have insider knowledge of a short seller. Wait for them to make a big move. Then punish them by busting the short sell. Big fish eats little fish. But if you can shake the confidence of Qanon et al by eating the little fish then the US economic system trends the wrong way.
@ eaglesoars:
Social media as a mass panic spreader.
AZfederalist wrote:
They persisted
darkwords wrote:
CNN sez ‘no’
How Trumpism explains the GameStop stock surge
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/politics/gamestop-stock-surge-trumpism/index.html
And if you ask Jen Sackofsomething – she’ll take this opportunity to remind you WE HAVE THE FIRST FEMALE SEC. TREAS!!
cut to the video………
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1354498225059713025
darkwords wrote:
But twitter is ON IT! They now have crowdsourced ‘misinformation’ control, called Birdshit or something.
@ darkwords:
@ eaglesoars:
i wont do short selling. you will get crushed.
These reddit guys are actually on twitter @reddittrading
WSB Dgens Rocket We Follow High Interest Short Float Stocks & Kill Hedgefunds. Not Investment Advice. See You @ the Moon.
https://twitter.com/reddittrading
Last year, Kodak (a camera company) received a huge loan (765M) from the gov to work on a COVID vaccine. What do camera’s gotta do with vaccines Man shrugging
Somehow, the stock pumped 200-300%. I didn’t hear anything then.. did y’all?
I also don’t see any vaccines from Kodak…
https://twitter.com/reddittrading/status/1354518554369024004
darkwords wrote:
He’s an institutionalist. He cares about the Senate, period.
HAR!!
Nasdaq CEO Suggests Halt to Trading to Allow Big Investors to ‘Recalibrate Their Positions’ to Combat Reddit Users
recalibrate = bailout
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1354504710695362563
Gotta run. But today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Watch this (it’s ok, it’s happy – but you’ll still cry)
https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1354520797172424704
eaglesoars wrote:
see how that works?
I bet Biden will create a Department of Pronouns and Funny Walks. (DPFW)
First EO will be to require Americans to register for a government issued pronoun that is randomly assigned.
@ darkwords:
The only true way to be equitable is to randomly assigned a pronoun.
Looks like the leader of the Proud Boys was either outed or gaslit as a former federal informant by the prosecution, then the media.
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/27/proud-boys-leader-enrique-tarrio-fbi-informant
eaglesoars wrote:
This school board meeting must have been something. It’s on talk radio and apparently The View picked it up. Callers into Larry O’Conner’s show were there and they are BEYOND furious. Speakers had to register in advance and were given 1 minute. One father of a severely autistic son, not terribly verbal, registered his son and brought the boy to the podium with him. He said he is the only voice his son has, etc. – and they cut him off. HE had not registered to speak, only his son could speak and after his minute was used up with this back and forth they cut him off.
I dunno – tar and feathers too gentle, I think?
Oh darn! Cloris Leachman has passed. She was a ripe old 94, tho. She was great.
Charles Payne on fire…….
“All of this whining by Wall Street it’s making me sick.”
“I didn’t hear one person on tv complaining about Wall Street trying to crush GameStop.”
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1354530757520179200
Wall Street Bets reddit guys have a msg for the SEC
To the SEC retards in the sub: go fuck yourself. Why don’t you start investigating why companies can shut down trading so their hedge fund buddies don’t lose money. But when people lose money, it’s completely ok. Eat a dick
Grammer is good, simple declarative sentences. Minus 1 point for punctuation (question mark after ‘money’ needed). A-.
@ eaglesoars:
linky
https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1354538173972545537/photo/1
Here’s is the SEC statement. I’d copy it but it doesn’t say anything except “Thumbs up our ass, be right back”
https://twitter.com/BowenXiao_/status/1354550055290744839/photo/1
This was Reddit funny to me,.
Bryce Du pont VC THC PCP
@richassvc
Top 5 richest people:
-Elon Musk
-Jeff Bezos
-Bill Gates
-Bernard Arnault
-Retard6969
@ darkwords:
brilliant!
I’m reading the Daily Mail article on this (it’s quite comprehensive, worth your time). Apparently some youtuber “Roaring Kitty” is part of the game.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9193697/GameStops-three-largest-shareholders-gotten-3BILLION-richer-two-weeks.html
And I’m going to post a comment there FWIW. Do your own research, this is not investment advice.
Everyone should take a look at SAVA. Cassava Sciences Alzheimer’s Drug is about to get BTD status for use. 1st Drug treatment that give dramatic results approved since 2003. On top of that there is a massive Naked Short position when shorts hit the company in May and June of last year because they thought the drug had failed it’s Phase 2 trails. They shorted 179M shares that day and drove the stock from 9 bucks to 1.60 instantly. They didn’t know it was a lab screw up and when reassessed it showed the Drug is so effective that it improved 11 Biomarkers and 2 key memory tests in only 28 day trial. It has been developed over a decade and has no side effects though several years of testing. It repairs a damaged Gene FLNA that over time leads to Alzheimer’s. The stock has doubled to 19.72 in a week. This is you next short squeeze with only 35M shares in the company and $20 Billion in yearly revenue from AD coming up!
poster is ‘toolguy’ from Orange, U.S.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/01/27/china-needs-a-hundred-bombers-to-punch-through-an-american-flattops-defenses/?sh=cb192233de54
the takeaway:
If the Soviets needed to sortie 100 Tupolevs to have a shot at an American carrier back in the 1980s, today the Chinese probably would need at least a hundred H-6s to do the same thing. “The Chinese would have to fight it in similar fashion,” Cooper said.
The situations aren’t exactly the same, of course. The F-14s and their Phoenixes no longer are in U.S. service. The F/A-18s and AMRAAM missiles that replaced them lack the same long range. “Self-defense capabilities of the USN’s carrier strike groups nowadays are weaker than back in the 1980s,” Cooper said.
This is an interesting question and I have zero clue what the answer might be.
A friend writes wondering how all the retail brokers just happened to go offline this morning Possible class action suit? “If you ask me they were preventing retail from buying on the open possibly to help Wall St. cover their short positions”
Good luck proving that in court, the case would be another Bleak House and run up costs far beyond any damage award could cover. But it IS an interesting question. Do institutional/professional entities ‘deserve’ more protection than retail? The argument can be made that the pro entities are actually proxies for the retail as so many people have IRAs, 401ks etc.
coldwarrior wrote:
I assume they war game this stuff, but frankly, my view of the Navy is that is has been so woked and broken, that I don’t know how reliable it is.
eaglesoars wrote:
best LOL comment…
I can just see a bunch of IT guys in the server room pulling every cable out of the back of the servers, as some manager is yelling ‘Stop the bleeding!!’
hell, just cut the cable……….
oopsie…..
https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1354570005686398979
just in: Discord has shut down the /r/WallStreetBets server for “hate speech, glorifying violence, and spreading misinformation”, a spokesperson for Discord tells me. “To be clear, we did not ban this server due to financial fraud related to GameStop or other stocks”
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yeah, bullshit.
https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a18949/how-luxury-headphone-took-over-the-world/
my pair got here today. they are amazing.
not as good as my wired beyer dynamic 770’s plugged into a schiit valhalla 2 headphone tube amp…that would be impossible. my venerable and beloved travel parter(made in nyc) grado headphones were getting the snot knocked out of them on the road because i was asking them to do something that they were not designed to do.
these master and dynamics are built like ww2 aviator headphones. solid. and they do sound great, even with bluetooth. aluminum, stainless, leather, canvas.
i am impressed.
(i get no money for this…but, if yinz is looking for headphones….)
eaglesoars wrote:
🙄
Well, I used to be all rah-rah about this stuff. Now I’m just – ‘go ahead, piss into the wind…’
The Biden administration was sued on Jan. 27 over its executive order to halt oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters.
The lawsuit (pdf) was filed in the U.S. District Court in Wyoming by the Western Energy Alliance, a group representing fossil fuel producers on federal lands. They say President Joe Biden exceeded his authority with the recent order.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-administration-sued-halting-oil-gas-leasing-federal-lands
um…
Has anyone asked Biden what happens when an EMP or a solar flare hits wiping out the $2 trillion of electric cars he is buying for the Federal government?
That is one huge national security risk.
Because shut up?
https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1354587538988658690
@ darkwords:
That’s Department of Silly Walks. John Cleese as the first Secretary of Silly Walks.
eaglesoars wrote:
Forget the feathers Eagles
Just the hot tar applied internally!
I don’t even care which aperture is the entry point!
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Where are all of the multi-role SM-6s when you need ’em?
The SM-6 does everything except intercept mid course strategic missiles in vacuum. Even that is getting upgraded as we speak. Long range AWD anti-air, anti-cruise, anti ship, anti sea skimming missile, even anti-sub with a lightweight torpedo with parachute fitted. (AKA to Cold War ASROC)
So where are all of the AWDs and cruisers?
I’m looking at my Tesla stock. In 4 months I’ve almost doubled. It’s not a lot in terms of shares but – I’ve done better than any of our so-called ‘investment portfolios’ –
I’m looking for companies that make batteries and robots that can replace fast food workers. And if these idiots are going to insist on electric vehicles, – who does all those ‘charging stations’?
Tips welcome.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I haz an idea! The newest thing that Bunk pointed out is anal swabs. As all the teachers are yelling testing and vaxes – straight up
@ eaglesoars:
When I first heard about the Proud Boys, I wasn’t sure what to think of them. It didn’t take me long to get what they were doing, and I like it.
Boogaloo Bois are the opposite – pure violent anarcho trash.
In addition to re-writing history, these tools are just making it up.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/christian-textbooks-trump-capitol-riot_n_6000bce3c5b62c0057bb711f
These Textbooks In Thousands Of K-12 Schools Echo Trump’s Talking Points
Their religion-centered, anti-Democrat, anti-science, anti-multicultural message mirrors the Christian nationalism seen at the U.S. Capitol riot
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Yinz know I’m not Christian, so I don’t have a dog in this fight from a personal perspective. But there’s NO DOUBT that the Judeo/Christian ethos is the bedrock of western civilization so any undermining of the tenets, flawed tho they be, gets my attention. You may or may not ‘like’ the lessons found in these textbooks, but that’s beside the point. The point is that the assertion made – that it is the belief system promulgated by these texts that prompted Jan 6 – is an assertion w/o evidence, total garbage and is simply a proxy attack on the foundation of Western Civ.
At one point in an Abeka textbook, slavery is described in purely economic terms, saying that “slaves seemed to be better investments than indentured servants.”
“I absolutely thought of these textbooks when watching what played out last week,” Wellman said. “It’s the anti-science culture, anti-elite, the identification of Christianity with military culture.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/christian-textbooks-trump-capitol-riot_n_6000bce3c5b62c0057bb711f
I’m betting he will rue the day he said ‘anti-elite’. I wanna watch.
@ eaglesoars:
Every Discord server could be shut down for hate speech. I’ve been on about 5 gaming ones and the language is Neanderthal. So many of these “public servers’ appear not to actually be part of any public square. But instead lying to develop a customer base.
Bunk X wrote:
I have no idea what they’re doing because I don’t trust anything I read about them. But that their ‘leader’ is a felon/informant does not bode well.
I think there needs to be a full fledged assault on “Biden Truth”. It’s a wizard of Oz thing. They have to crack as the lies catch up to them.
They say people age in office as POTUS. I don’t see how Biden can age any more without morgue makeup.
Bought health food Cheetos the other day. I never learn. They taste like sawdust with garlic salt.
Tucker is covering the Loudon Co. school board mtg
eaglesoars wrote:
And the Chicago dance teachers video I posted yesterday.
Tucker owes me a finder’s fee
In the meantime, this is fine………
AOC says that “there are legitimate white supremacist sympathizers that sit at the heart and at the core of the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives” and that “@GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy answers to these Qanon members of Congress, not the other way around.”
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1354602715884752907
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
I say gaslit.
coldwarrior wrote:
Wish I could. Now even my bone induction are causing me headaches. It’s gettings worse. I really hate this. I ordered some fit over gaming glasses the other day. Could only handle them 15 minutes before the headache set in. F–ing compression headaches.
darkwords wrote:
Your optimism is…cute.
I suggest you get over it
eaglesoars wrote:
Always recognizable in old Playhouse 99 & Twilight Zone episodes, she nailed Granny in the awful (but fun) Beverly Hillbillies movie. The late Jim Varney played a great Jed Clampett.
darkwords wrote:
Well, that’s just a sin against God and man and you deserve whatever you got
@ Bunk X:
That’s my take on it, too
Tucker is on a rant
ONLY PEOPLE WHO MANIPULATE THE MARKET CAN MAKE MONEY!!! (this is the GME/reddit stuff)
Occupy Wall Street goes digital
@ Aussie Infidel:
Reading USNI mag this morning, article talks about China threat. One line caught my eye, that there are some who roll their eyes if you call it a Cold War as that term carries baggage. We should use what the Chi-coms call it: “a war without gunsmoke.”
lobo91 wrote:
I posted this upthread somewhere – it’s more than gaslit, it’s a way to get someone taken out by proxy. There’s a price on this guy’s head. Dead man walking.
@ eaglesoars:
That too
I had my second Covid shot this morning. Felt fine until a short while ago.
Now…not so much. I think I’m going to go to bed early.
eaglesoars wrote:
Most of the MSM descriptions of them are biased, if not outright lies. They’ve backed off the white supremist anti-semetic trope once that was easily *ahem* debunked. They don’t start the shit, but the guys who dare to throw the first punch get hammered. The police work with them as secondary non-deputized violent mob control.
Bunk X wrote:
I best remember her from Mary Tyler Moore. But there was another part she played in a theater thing that was broadcast on TV that I don’t remember the name of and she was glorious.
She played a widow – say, in her 60s, my age – who got involved with a much younger man – say in his 30s (never seen) – and she was absolutely transported. The women in her circle – also widows/divorcees – were consumed by jealousy. And eventually, the inevitable did the evitable – she got dumped for a younger woman. Humiliation and heartbreak beyond understanding. But her girlfriends were downright gleeful in their I-told-you-so sympathy.
That was a tough part to play to not make the woman look like an idiot and not someone who had reason to believe she was truly loved. She was brilliant.
Bunk X wrote:
!!!
lobo91 wrote:
yikes…if you don’t show up tomorrow, I’m going to worry.
I tend to break things when I worry………..check in even if it’s with 1 finger typing……
eaglesoars wrote:
There has been a price on his head once they found out that he isn’t a white supremist, isn’t an anarchist and his ancestry is cuban-african. Oh, and the Proud Boys take a knee – to pray – before they walk into a hot zone.
Compare the Proud Boys with this group:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8559841/Black-militia-members-brandish-guns-demanding-charges-against-cops-linked-Breonna-Taylors-death.html
@ eaglesoars:
I’m not dying, or turning into a zombie (as far as I can tell). Basically feels like flu symptoms, although no fever.
What happened when a beloved mom influencer donated to Trump
Taking Cara Babies taught her 1.3 million followers how to get their babies to sleep. Then her political affiliations sparked a social media meltdown.
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22252360/taking-cara-babies-trump-instagram-donation-drama
But these morons never question their premises……….
Pure gold
https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1354540248999591940
Today, hedge funds called in favors to have trading shut down for specific companies across several giant platforms so they could buy time to gather in private to decide what to do next. If that’s not market manipulation, I don’t know what is.
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Are the same people that can get trading stopped in the middle of a trading day, the same people that can get vote counting stopped in the middle of an election night??
off to read. nite.
oh wait! WallStreetBets is back!
r/WallStreetBets went private — and now it’s back with a message
here…
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/27/22253339/reddit-wallstreetbets-subreddit-private-gamestop
@ eaglesoars:
Every popular organization with multiple members and rapid expansion is going to be saturated with informants. Avoid them.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
dunno.
im an army guy, i can kill you in hand to hand or put lead on you at my best 1000meters.
i dont know navy stuff.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
the gop killed the tea party by overrunning it with born again shit.
i was there. i saw it.
by design.
lobo91 wrote:
yep.
not yet…
zombie.
@ eaglesoars:
Frau Blücher
@ Bunk X:
u take the blonde, i’ll take the one in the turbin.
coldwarrior wrote:
ywp.
my jewish friend and my hindi business owner buddy and VERY close friend walked out of the last meeting we were at,
why ,
all of a sudden did there had to be an opening prayer to jesus?
praise jesus! who are these new lodmouths?
here we go….borne again praise! …umhmmm. JEEEESUUUS!!!
fake shit to destroy a movement.
the two biggest doners… a jew and a hindi…walked off, driven of by the hired protestant borne agains.
and me,,,,im orthodox.
i dont need to praise JESUS our lord in public or otherwise because i already know.
tea party in beaver county was murdered by plan just like the next threat will be murdered by those above.
tea party was fun while it lasted until it was killed by the fake jesus wing sent by the gopsters
Hazard tools. https://tackyraccoons.com/2021/01/27/hazard-fraught-tools/
I’m going to get the whale gutting knife. Looks handy.
@ coldwarrior:
I consider myself Christian but when I get in non religious groups that lead and close the political conversation religiously I think its not for me. I’ll listen but if the person doesn’t qualify themselves I’ll feel there is nothing I can say to them.
@ Bunk X:
That has to be one of the best movies ever.
@ lobo91:
Make sure to get your zinc, Vitamin D and C, and water.
Good morning. Robinhood has removed Gamestop, AMC and a couple others from their platform so no one can trade them. People are enraged and now have Robinhood in their sights. The Barstool Sports guy is threatening to burn them to the ground.
This is getting interesting.
Gamestop, AMC trading has been halted (on the DOW I think, I don’t think they’re on NASDAQ)
Ben Shapiro needs to shut up
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1354793278810574850
The stock market provides three goods:
1. Liquidity options for companies;
2. Investment opportunities for stockholders;
3. Proper pricing of assets through aggregation of information, conveyed through transactions.
Somebody tell me how shorting 140% of a stock results in ‘proper pricing’
@ eaglesoars:
Shapiro was simply smart enough to not associate with the Lincoln Project, Bulwark types during the Trump presidency. But he’s simpatico.
after delisting GameStop and AMC, Robinhood has gotten over 100,000 1 star reviews in one hour on the app store, now set with a 1 rating. they deserve it
https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1354803580713111553
Not only that, they’re only allowing sell transactions on Nokia and the other casino stocks, forcing people into a loss. I don’t know how that’s legal. I think they just cut their own throats.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Ben wants you to know he has a very high IQ. I could care less. Some of the finest people I’ve known have Down’s Syndrome.
Unexpectedly
New York may have undercounted COVID-19 deaths of nursing home residents by as much as 50%, the state’s attorney general said in a report released Thursday.
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-coronavirus-pandemic-nursing-homes-a6c214f4467976efdfca9ba75f8adaef
uh oh. Look who Wall Street just pissed off.
This is beyond absurd. @FSCDems need to have a hearing on Robinhood’s market manipulation. They’re blocking the ability to trade to protect Wall St. hedge funds, stealing millions of dollars from their users to protect people who’ve used the stock market as a casino for decades.
https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1354807292667981828
I feel somewhat better than I did last night, but not great. Decided to stay home from work, though.
From what I heard, I’m not the only one.
@ lobo91:
Thanks for checking in. Also, I’m not taking that vaccine.
Class action lawsuit against Robinhood is underway.
And they were just about to launch an IPO. Man, this one is going into the textbooks.
Oh, nice. RobinHood is now SELLING peoples shares of the casino stocks. If they try to stop the sale before it clears they get a message: ERROR We’re sorry this order can’t be canceled, as we placed it to mitigate the risk to your account.
GM aims to end sale of gasoline, diesel-powered cars, SUVs, light trucks by 2035
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-emissions-idUKKBN29X2AY
idiots
eaglesoars wrote:
Watch this to the end, it’s only a minute or so. Like I said, idiots
https://twitter.com/ReutersBiz/status/1354859322027745281
See how this works?
Melvin Capital closed their position on GME last Tues after they were bailed out by Citadel. Yellin pulled in over $800k for speeches to Citadel. And guess who is a portfolio mgr there?
Jeff PSAKI
Yep, Jen’s hubby
eaglesoars wrote:
No, he is not. There is a Jeff Psaki as Citadel portfolio mgr, but her hubby is Gregory Mecher
*snort*
Listening to irate New York hedge fund billionaire Leon Cooperman on CNBC right now lamenting people “sitting at home getting their checks from the government, trading their stocks.”
“This fair share is a bullshit concept,” he shouts. “It’s a way of attacking wealthy people.”
cut to the video…
https://twitter.com/jangelooff/status/1354846320494784515
FWIW
I work for Robinhood. Don’t kill me.
Low-level, technical shit, comp sciences major, not finance side.
Guess what we overhead today?
Vladimir, yes founder Vladimir, and the C-Suite, received calls from Sequoia Capital and the White House that pressured into closing trading on GME etc. I guarantee you the same took place at E-Trade and the others who closed trading.
File reports on the SEC page. If I wasn’t scared to be out of work in a pandemic I’d quit. I’m disgusted. We all need to rise up, this is as bad as it gets when we talk about how the rich get one set of rules, and the rest of us get screwed over, and over, and over again left to bail them out and pick up the tab for their trillion dollar tax breaks. We need to pile pressure on every government and financial institution involved in this travesty of justice.
I’m taking a massive career risk even posting here but fuck these motherfuckers
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassActionRobinHood/comments/l723kf/robinhood_insider_information/
@ lobo91:
Universal Income
Crimeny. Short sellers down $91B in January
https://twitter.com/reddittrading/status/1354873435382558732
@ eaglesoars:
totally rigged system
Told ya
New statement from acting US Capitol Police chief: “Vast improvements to the physical security infrastructure must be made to include permanent fencing”
https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1354871296664993795
John Kerry tells laid off pipeline workers to “learn to code” (actually, “learn to install solar panels”):
Holy crap. Sheila Jackson Lee just introduced an insane gun registry/licensing bill: HR 127
@ coldwarrior:
@saxena_puru
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Buyers and sellers determine price – this is how the market is meant to function.
Not fair for billionaires to determine what price action is legit and what isn’t!
When they are making $, its all legit but when they get taken to the cleaners, they want to change the rules!?
** Apparently Socialmedia and these apps are giving the little guy too much collective power. When I was in stocks the only knowledgeable person I talked to were brokers. They were also the people that let me know I was handicapped in buying and selling stocks because I wasn’t rich enough.
Even people want to say it ain’t there is Chinese money here holding the stocks to bust the short sellers. Chinese will be aware of and intensely focused on gold, real estate, and stocks. The CCP more so. IMO they would know who the short selling targets are and would just drop names.
It does look like a class war where the little guys vote doesn’t matter nor does his dollar. Some big transparency occurring.
@ lobo91:
Attach it to a national voter ID and she’ll run away.
Watch Fauci declare guns a public health emergency.
@ eaglesoars:
I suppose its time to eat the rich? We are all anarcho capitalists now?
I’m well insulated from immediate stock market issues. I don’t own any stock in any company. But that’s a bad attitude to force on the economy as a whole.
@ eaglesoars:
Who in the Biden cabinet was shorting stocks based on their appointment?
Just got this in my inbox from RobinHood.
It’s been a tough day, and we’re grateful to you for being a Robinhood customer. In light of the extraordinary market conditions this week, we temporarily limited buying for certain securities this morning. Starting tomorrow, we plan to allow limited buys of these securities. We’ll continue to monitor the situation and may make adjustments as needed.
This was a temporary decision made to best continue serving you, and was not an easy one to make. We know it’s led to frustration and confusion, and wanted to provide some clarity.
As a brokerage firm, we have many financial requirements, including SEC net capital obligations and clearinghouse deposits. Some of these requirements fluctuate based on volatility in the markets and can be substantial in the current environment. These requirements exist to protect investors and the markets and we take our responsibilities to comply with them seriously, including through the measures we have taken today.
To be clear, this decision was not made on the direction of any market maker we route to or other market participants.
The past year in particular has shown us that the financial markets are for everyone—not just institutional investors and hedge funds. We’ve seen a new generation enter the market, and they’re sparking conversations about what it means to be an investor. We stand in support of you, our customers. Democratizing finance for all means giving more people access, not less.
We’ll keep monitoring market conditions and will update this Help Center article with the latest changes. We also published a blog post regarding today’s events.
Thank you again for being a Robinhood customer. We’re so grateful for your support.
@ eaglesoars:
Election and Stock systems both being shown as weak and behind the times. Wisdom needed. I thought Ben Shapiro is really smart but lacks a lot of wisdom. Unlike a Victor David Hansen type. Shapiro needed a blue collar job when he was young.
I wonder if Trump is buying stocks that the Bidens are shorting?
I’m not sure what to think of all this. I think its a market that is supposed to balance out based on anyone buying and selling a stock. I think the Billionaire shorters should know their risk better and not let greed grab them so hard. I’m impressed that there is this whole group of small buyers that know what they are doing better than the stock market does.
darkwords wrote:
I think when you join the admin, you have to have everything held in a blind trust. You don’t get to call the shots.
Not true for Congress, tho, IIRC Pelosi and her husband apparently had some puts out for Tesla. I think the strike price was around $500 and they allocated $100k-$500k. I don’t know what the date was tho. Anyhoo, they’re big traders, not little people like me.
darkwords wrote:
Well, if he ever did you just KNOW he spent most of his time telling them how to do it better.
I saw where one guy had a 17 million dollar position in a company that became worth 200 million. I’m not sure if he maintains that or is a winner or a loser.
It’s a zero sum game in the market isn’t it?
It does seem like a casino where you place your bet and the house closes the game and lets the whale keep his last roll winnings but not you.
@ eaglesoars:
Lol and in that voice…….
@ eaglesoars:
Yes I had forgotten Congress was immune to insider trading illegalities. Probably some of them hurt in all this. AOC complained.
From the innertubes.
The guy that led the Reddit revolt put $50K in GameStop in and turned it into $15 Mil by squeezing the short sellers. Kind of awesome.
Meanwhile in other insider trading news, Pelosi bought options in Tesla just prior to Biden announcing the federal gov’t would be buying electric cars.
** I’m not sure of the mechanics of that $50K. It seems like he got in first at the low ball price the short sellers were trying to drive to. Then he got a lot of people to also buy in and reversed the trend of the stock to go up and not down. So his investment doubled, doubled again, doubled again, doubled again, doubled again, doubled again, doubled again, doubled again then he sold. Not bad for a few days work. He should be rewarded for his acumen.
Soros, Gates, Cuban, and those silver market brothers all made their money this way. Cornered the market on a secret.
Mixed feelings on this Robin Hood thing.
Without researching it I have the feeling that they may be obligated to make sure their clients are not insane.
When I transferred my UK pension a few years ago I had to have a telephone discussion with the company that transferred it. The discussion was over an hour.
I have a trading account with a well known very large bank that I have never used. Just looked at the agreement I signed and it was 94 PAGES LONG!
Did I read it before I signed it? Well no…
My personal feelings are a very small group of people got a very large number of stupid sheep to buy shares in order to make themselves a huge profit.
A classic ” pump and dump ”
Buy shares/crypto at a very low price then start a rumor that the stock/crypto is under valued and all the sheep start buying. Price goes up dramatically!
The clever ones then sell….
Sheep hang on hoping they will be millionaires.
@ coldwarrior:
My BIL was part of the Tea party in Columbus. He said it fell apart when it was attempted to be hijacked by GOP f*ck boy. Once the Boomers realized their benefits would not be taking a hit, they split. The end.
*I saw that you called. Having issues with phone and getting back across the pond. Call you on the weekend.
@ darkwords:
And probably some of his compatriots did the same but were blocked from selling their windfall by Yellen pressure on the companies.
Same sort of corrupt effort made against Trump. Country is not going to last of the GoP is all ok with this and willing to let bygones be bygones.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Weird that they can’t just fly you back? Hold up is on the German end?
Sounds like large scale ineptitude to me.
darkwords wrote:
LOL you just confirmed what I said.
MOre innnertubes.
Melvin Capital had returns of 47 % in 2015. In 2017, the fund finished up 41 %. That’s incredible. But they just lost 30 % (of the entire fund in one week!) because their short bets were bad. Ha ha. Are we supposed to feel sorry for these creeps? Do they deserve a bailout?
darkwords wrote:
How long did he hold it and did it split while he did?
darkwords wrote:
They GOT a bailout. From Citadel.
darkwords wrote:
I think he got in at about $8 (a lot of the short sellers got in at the top, tho, no sympathy there). But it wasn’t just one guy – it was a whole group of them that got together and basically flooded the zone. I saw one guy who invested about $500 at the beginning. His student debt is paid off and then some. Good for him!
Here’s what I’d like to know. How did those reddit guys find out about Melvin Capitol’s (I think that’s their name) position to begin with? I THOUGHT short positions don’t require disclosure. UNLESS – because this wasn’t just a short, this was a naked short (usually illegal, but there are loopholes in the regs) – and maybe those do need to be disclosed.
http://pointsandfigures.com/2021/01/27/the-gamestop-gme-saga/
An interesting look at the shorts. I’ll have to read it again. Author points to some further resources.
eaglesoars wrote:
And the rest of the sheep lost a lot of money.
She needs to go
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says more money is needed to protect lawmakers from threats of violence coming from an “enemy” within Congress – a startling acknowledgement of how internal tensions over safety have escalated since the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1354919457894883328
@ eaglesoars:
Someone told Adam Schiff he could make a buck or two.
@ eaglesoars:
I saw a screen cap of a thing that showed how many shares that GME issued and how many were in circulation.
@ eaglesoars:
I see her as like my old grandparents that were full of fears. And fears that could barely be allayed by talking to them constantly. She can’t make good decisions like this. Nor can Biden.
I see people wanting to wait this out and run another election. But take her cars and license from her.
Hubby is having a ball now that retirement is just a few months away. One of his board members said Elise Stefanik voted to overturn the election. Hubby cut loose called him a ‘stupid shit, one of the stupidist I’ve ever worked with”.
Next board mtg should be fun.
darkwords wrote:
The krauts are screwing the pooch. They implemented a national policy that US passengers had to have proof of being negative for covid 48 hours before getting on the plane. I took the test, waited 2 days for the results and returned to the airport. Now they are saying you have 48 hours from the moment taking the test to get the plane. Airline was apologetic, but they said the rules are changing daily. Nuts.
I predict the riots in Netherland to spread.
darkwords wrote:
Did you watch the video? That guy gave ALL his profit from GME $500k – to barstool sports to help out small businesses during the lockdown
darkwords wrote:
There a several ways to be in the markets that basically fall into 2 categories; traders and investors. Traders don’t hold anything, they’re churning constantly. Investors – people like me – are looking at some fundamentals, but more long term.
Electric cars are not going away. They’re going to become more common (altho I suspect there’s a threshold that will be partly controlled by grid capacity). And Tesla is well-placed to dominate market share. As long as Elon stays off the LSD during the week, I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
For traders, the market really can be a zero sum game. But for investors like me – we just watch the stuff compound, compound, split, compound. Like that.
This is the guy who is giving all his GME profits to barstool
I remember when I met the @RobinhoodApp founders when they were raising their Seed, Series A and Series B. I passed.
Why?
Optimize for integrity whenever possible because integrity compounds and assholes will fuck you.
https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1354947541125611526
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Never Trumpers never Trump.
Shapiro has always been too smarmy for me.
@ eaglesoars:Comments shut down by moderator.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassActionRobinHood/comments/l723kf/robinhood_insider_information/gl55fuo/
hunh. somebody tweeted this link to investment tutorials on youtube. so, FWIW
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLRO0_rs8oCIylc0QyLuKxDsJtYZAZtyy
Bunk X wrote:
Good. Other platforms I saw that posted on said it was just a little too good to be true and to be skeptical w/o more verification. I’m assuming the reddit guys can track this person down and pull his fingernails out to get to the truth.
eaglesoars wrote:
I believe someone upthread said his name is Retard6969.
Here’s a vid of Patrick Byrne talking about the perils of naked shorts
https://twitter.com/mikemudd79/status/1354949385856159746
Dan Bongino posted this a short while ago.
Bunk X wrote:
no that was a joke referring to the reddit guys who made millions. They had posted WE CAN STAY RETARDED LONGER THAN THEY CAN STAY SOLVENT
I think the Barstool Sports guy is going to be on Tucker. Maybe.
eaglesoars wrote:
He’s raised close to $33 mil to help small businesses
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah. My comment was intended as sarc.
LMAO!!
Yeah, the new look is greasy hair, arm pit hair and general grunge. Homeless people get to finally be fashion icons.
Ella Emhoff Gets a Major Modeling Contract
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/fashion/ella-emhoff-model-img.html#click=https://t.co/hrDM1QlW8v
(She’s Kamala’s step daughter. When I saw how her ‘fashion sense’ was being touted I said I’d rather piss blood.)
Bunk X wrote:
oh. sorry. I’m not always as smart as I look.
@tg61124
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3h
Replying to
@JesseKellyDC
The Right is a guy who agreed to a fight with no low blows and, even though the other guy keeps kicking him in the nuts, he never responds in kind because that would be against the rules. So, he complains to the ref but the ref kicks him in the balls too
here we go
Unless JANET YELLEN receives a written waiver, she will be barred by her ethics agreement from participating in any matter involving CITADEL, which makes millions in fees from ROBINHOOD, until Oct. 2021 (or 1 year after her last paid speech to Citadel).
https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1354963986865860613
darkwords wrote:
That’s a perfect summary.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
More like studio wrestling, where it just looks like he’s getting kicked in the balls.
Article V Convention of States please
@philthatremains
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Robinhood “Let the people trade”
Google “Don’t be evil”
Twitter “The free speech wing of the free speech party”
The United States of America “Land Of The Free”
How we doin guys?
@ eaglesoars:
I like armpit hair.
I lived in Italy.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m not as witty as I think I am.
Meds are squeezing my head today.
@ darkwords:
I’m waiting for Molon Labe to go belly up.
bed time. nite.
@ Bunk X:
yes you are
Brown bear chases skier down mountain.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1354647956415111169
coldwarrior wrote:
Hopefully Robinhood is now destroyed and if there was any justice in the world would take billions on losses with it. Couldn’t happen to a ‘nicer’ bunch
🙂
Apologies to the women present.
The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
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Jan 27
Biden All-Female Communications Team Won’t Tell Nation What’s Wrong, Nation Should Already Know
@ Aussie Infidel:
They are rebranding as @sheriffofnotingham
The Semi0finals of the Prada Cup is ON!
American Magic vs. Luna Rossa
The American boat showed up yesterday after 400 man hours of repair work thanks to the iwi team, The Brits and the Italians. American Magic is sporting a graphic on her hull of a giant couple of band-Aides with thanks and the 3 ‘helpers’ flags.
Right now Luna Rossa are marginally ahead with good crew work.
Good breeze today and blue skies as far as you can see.
28C on the water.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Actually people have to be very careful taking down a site/company that they gave money to and who controls the shares they think they own.
darkwords wrote:
HEH!
🙂
The Robinhood must be ann equity worth …. pennies on the dollar.
Serves them right
Possum wrote:
Trouble is that these scumbags own nothing. They merely ‘borrow’ shares which they then use to scam the system.
They are criminals and need locking up
American Magic is doing well after two Luna Rossa ‘SNAFU’ around the last mark
I just don’t think that the American Magic boat is fast enough.
Luna Rossa back with a 300 metre lead!
@ Aussie Infidel:
and the borrowed shares then vaporize.
I traded on Cryptopia. They went bust and I lost all my hard earned coins.
About $60 of them.
LOL
https://www.coindesk.com/hacked-exchange-cryptopia-users-claim-stolen-funds
Luna Rossa is sailing away with this again. American Magic is now 1000 metres behind (over a minute). American Magic’s skipper didn’t help himself either with a boat that is still full of gremlins. Barker made an error and risked putting more pressure onto the rudder. It snatched and the boat skidded sideways out of control down at the bottom marker.
Luna Rossa looks a much easier and controllable boat to sail. American Magic seems almost out of control all of the time as they try risky tactics to claw back losses due to lower boat speed.
Luna Rossa just needs to relax and sail a controlled race to take this one. 1:53 ahead for Luna Rossa
Possum wrote:
You learn from your mistakes and never make the same one twice. My learning moment came on the Aussie market.
The American Magic boat almost totally lost it again and came close to capsizing … AGAIN
eaglesoars wrote:
The Court Jesters have ascended to the throne. This is absurd but hilarious. Pretty sure the gig is just a no-show job to pay off favors.
Two … Zip to the Italian boat today
We could see the end of the Semi-finals tomorrow at this rate. Best of 7 races, so the Luna Rossa crew only have to win both of tomorrow’s races and they are into the final against a VERY strong Brit Team on Britannia.
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Paladin was my learning moment.
There was skull-duggery at Board level.
Their funds ended up in Singapore where they re-established themselves and the Aussie investors got the rough end of the cactus.
My only other learning moment was investing in a private equity fund. NEVER allow someone else to have all of the access to the decision making when they are sociopathic bastards. One of my University Professors suckered many university staff and students and then gave himself a massive golden handshake and trotted off into the sunset.
He got his just deserts in the end when the VC of the University fired his corrupt arse. His skank of a psycho wife who was pulling down a hefty 5 figure retainer said I had a angry aura. I told he that she hadn’t seen anything yet.Just watch my bloody aura turn blood red … bitch !
She was one of the self serving ‘elites’ we have hanging around out necks these days! All into weird religions and spirit guides.
Nutty as squirrel turds.
Possum wrote:
I had a friend who worked in foreign exchange for a bank over the weekend. At the close of business he had access to tens of millions of deposits that had not yet been processed and were there for the ‘playing’. He’d use them to play the short term money market over the weekend and then give himself a large chunk of money for the privilege of using other peoples money and the balance went into the banks … slush fund.!
Possum wrote:
Then there was a syndicated scheme to fund Hollywood movies. In my syndicate was the Minister of Finance and loads of luminaries. Trouble is they were running loss leading operations on the side and were using these financing deals to cover tax debts. The poor ‘regular’ folks who invested in $10k a share finance deals never saw a movie produced. The loss-leader syndicate members were cool as they had their ‘money’ out within under 12 months leaving the rest of us waiting…. and waiting … and waiting for resolution of the contract. After 4 years of delay we got our money back.
I twice visited this arsehole of the Finance Minister and complained and both times he just said …. ‘tough luck loser’.
Hi was eventually outed and lost his government portfolio and was disgraced. He didn’t however lose his bloody knighthood !
Thieving Maori bastard
$500.
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/jen-psaki-at-the-obama-legacy-panel-during-politicon-at-news-photo/824321670
I’ve got about 30 bucks on Robinhood. All of it free from my initial free funds from them. Currently all invested in Cannabis and Ammo. Lol. I’m not even a cannabis supporter but I see a growth industry when I see one.
Good morning.
‘investors’
Robinhood CEO appears on CNBC, BBG and CNN, says has no liquidity problems.
Two hours later raises $1 billion in new capital from investors.
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1355127624394301441
This is a very interesting – and clearly written – thread from a guy who smelled Robinhood last September and watched it unfold. The story as we know it is a very small part – the untold part is all the naked shorts (a LOT) that had been playing this stock. And financially, the company was quite healthy, not about to go bust at all.
https://twitter.com/endtwist/status/1354547622133051393
You Can’t Make This Up: Disgraced Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok’s Wife, Melissa Hodgman, Named Acting Director of the Division of Enforcement for the SEC
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/cant-make-disgraced-former-fbi-agent-peter-strzoks-wife-melissa-hodgman-named-acting-director-division-enforcement-sec/
I have no idea what this means
Here we go. Major bank publishes list of illiquid, heavy shorts that will ramp next.
The banks are now set to destroy their biggest clients
(Full list coming shortly)
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1355154257469706242
They’re really cranking things up toward the “Great Reset,” aren’t they?
@ lobo91:
yep. so how are you feeling today?
@ eaglesoars:
I’m fine. Arm’s still a little sore, but that’s it
@ lobo91:
Excellent!
Citron Research discontinues short selling research After 20 years of publishing Citron will no longer publish “short reports”. We will focus on giving long side multibagger opportunities for individual investors
Note what they DON’T say. They don’t say they will no longer hold short positions. Can’t blame them, the odds of getting squeezed are pretty high.
https://twitter.com/CitronResearch/status/1355152873487798274
@ eaglesoars:
shorts always seemed like cheating to me. i am not sorry for these asshats.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
they are having serious problems
@ coldwarrior:
I don’t think so. Most people buy a stock expecting/hoping it will go up, betting the other way is ok too, as long as it’s transparent. NAKED shorts are definite no-nos, tho, even tho regs allow them under certain circumstances. But I understand that shorts require a bit of leveraging and that can be scary.
But if I’m the brokerage house loaning shares for what turns out to be a naked short play – well, I wouldn’t be that brokerage house and I’d punish the trader. Or at least increase my fee to make the play a lot less profitable. Someone said today that short positions in AMC are larger than the float.
What I would like to see highly restricted is derivatives.
I’m trying to figure out how to get into an IPO right now, but I’m so busy w/real life stuff today I don’t think I’ll have time.
I any event, my approach to all this is to know for a fact that I’m kinda dumb so don’t get cute. Keep it simple.
Here is a bitcoin-for-dummies thing if you’re interested. Must run, laundry beckons.
https://dossier.substack.com/p/buying-and-securing-bitcoin-for-dummies
LOL I just started playing with the free brokerage account that comes with my bank account.
Bought some shares just to see how it worked and to practice.
Bought 10 shares of Boeing because they are having a bad time and it can only get better.
Got 5 shares of Johnson and Johnson because they got bad news today re covid vaccine but they are a very large company who really does not depend on vaccine to survive.
The LOL is when I started typing this I was down $28 and as I end I am up $17
This trading stock shit is crazy.
@ Possum:
Boeing is going up. Johnson and Johnson down. Really laughing my ass off. I have a ” Balanced portfolio “
better to get sick and recover than to have the vax
This decision follows Merck’s review of findings from Phase 1 clinical studies for the vaccines. In these studies, both V590 and V591 were generally well tolerated, but the immune responses were inferior to those seen following natural infection and those reported for other SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 vaccines.
https://www.merck.com/news/merck-discontinues-development-of-sars-cov-2-covid-19-vaccine-candidates-continues-development-of-two-investigational-therapeutic-candidates/
Possum wrote:
well done!
day trading is a little too insane for me.
https://www.aier.org/article/whos-to-blame-for-the-rash-of-short-squeezes/
Chinese warplanes simulated attacking US carrier near Taiwan
People familiar with intelligence collected by the US and its allies said the bombers and some of the fighter aircraft involved were conducting an exercise that used a group of US Navy vessels led by the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the same area as a simulated target.
https://www.ft.com/content/e6f6230c-b709-4b3d-b9a2-951516e52360
@ coldwarrior:
That’s the real explanation.
Here’s how the narrative is going:
Former SEC Commissioner Laura Unger compares short squeeze to January 6th at the Capitol
https://twitter.com/pghowie3/status/1354915156199944194
Bill de Blasio: We Must Redistribute The Wealth Of New York City
*snort* He already did. It’s in Florida
https://bucksexton.com/2021/01/bill-de-blasio-we-must-redistribute-the-wealth-of-new-york-city/
If there were a prize for gaslighting….
Biden, according to the person, seemed to know then what is becoming plainly obvious now: His family’s business ties threatened to undermine an administration whose messaging is centered on restoring integrity in the White House
Zero acknowledgement that they smothered the story
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1354962927091126272
Progressives are pushing Biden to get every American earning less than about $130k a guaranteed $2k/mo until the economy recovers.
First I think that 130k is FAR too high, even if it were for a family of 4. And I know the money will come from ‘the rich’ finally paying their ‘fair share’ of taxes. But just how long does the left think that any group of people will turn over 60 or 70 or 90% of their next dollar?
I’d love to get an extra $2000 a month. That’s almost what I make working! We have our credit cards paid off in just a few months, and could start paying the house down very very quickly.
But this is just another lousy idea by the far left.
Suzi Levine was Washington state’s unemployment dept person. On her watch Nigerian scammers bilked the state of AT $600 mil dollars. And audit found she had failed to address known software issues, etc.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/state-auditor-weak-security-accounting-errors-in-600-million-unemployment-fraud/
She is now joining the Biden admin as an ‘economic first responder
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/suzi-levine-head-of-washingtons-unemployment-agency-to-take-job-in-biden-administration/
@ right_wing2:
It’s the foot in the door for universal income
I just found my nice little robotics stock and it also makes electric vehicle charging stations. It has 17% of the global market share in robotics.That’s a two-fer!
ABB Ltd
ABB Ltd manufactures and sells electrification, industrial automation, and robotics and motion products for customers in utilities, industry and transport, and infrastructure worldwide. Its Electrification Products segment provides electric vehicle charging infrastructure, solar power solutions, modular substation packages, distribution automation products, switchboard and panel boards, switchgears, UPS solutions, circuit breakers, measuring and sensing devices, control products, wiring accessories, enclosures and cabling systems, and intelligent home and building solutions. This segment serves building, data center, rail, wind and solar, distribution utilities, food and beverage, marine, e-mobility, and oil and gas industries. The company’s Robotics and Motion segment offers robotics, motors, generators, drives, wind converters, components and systems for railways and related services, and digital solutions for applications in industries, transportation and infrastructure, and utilities. This segment serves machinery manufacturers, process industries, hybrid and batch manufacturers, transportation equipment manufacturers, discrete manufacturing companies, utilities, and customers in the automotive industry. Its Industrial Automation segment provides process and discrete control solutions, advanced process control software and manufacturing execution systems, sensing, measurement and analytical instrumentation and solutions, electric ship propulsion systems, machine and factory automation solutions, and turbochargers, as well as remote monitoring, preventive maintenance, and cybersecurity services. This segment serves companies in the oil and gas, minerals and mining, metals, pulp and paper, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, power generation, and marine industries. ABB Ltd has a strategic collaboration with IBM. ABB Ltd was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
It’s not expensive and has a diverse customer base w/a lot of industrial solutions.
@ eaglesoars:
Jay Inslees error.
<blockquoteFriday’s audit called out OFM, the state’s budget office, for failing to categorize the fraud as an “extraordinary event” on the state balance sheet.
The Dems want to enable fraud then deny fraud is possible.
@ darkwords:
Apparently it wasn’t an extraordinary event. Those nigerian scammers got a lot of states on bogus covid unemployment claims
eaglesoars wrote:
What makes him fit to determine how to use that which does not belong to him?
eaglesoars wrote:
You can’t make this stuff up. Babylon Bee is going to go bankrupt; they can’t make up stuff this crazy.
Someone should ask Bill Barr AG why this important case escaped his notice.
The complaint claims that Mackey and unnamed co-conspirators agreed to violate a federal statute protecting citizens in the exercise of their civil rights. Specifically, Mackey and the others are alleged to have propagated intentionally dishonest “memes” on social media in the days and weeks leading up to the 2016 election. Specifically, Mackey and others are alleged to have encouraged “unenlightened” (my word) voters to cast their vote in the 2016 Presidential election by Twitter, Facebook, or “text” to a specific number they posted on social media.
Let’s point out a few objective facts about the documents that have been filed,
First, this is a criminal complaint based on an affidavit filed by an FBI Agent with only 3 years of experience. The conduct described in the affidavit took place more than 4 years ago. Ummm… okay.
https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2021/01/29/about-veg-heads-ricky-vaughn-involvement-in-a-conspiracy-to-commit-criminal-memes-you-want-to-file-what-n318275
AZfederalist wrote:
Progressives are more highly evolved than the rest of us. If there were a God – but they know there isn’t – they would be [instert possessive pronoun here] annointed.
Babylon Bee is going to restyle itself as a prophet/predictor and put Jean Dixon on the masthead.
@ eaglesoars:
Need a voterID I tell you…. Just validate the unemployment claim in person against the ID.
shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
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Enough from you. You have no idea how it works. “Sentencing” is not agreed upon by Pros. and Def. There are no discussions with the judge in advance. Fed. judges sentence THOUSANDS of defendants over their career. They develop patters and habits in how they approach cases.
** Just a comment. Though Ship is a good legal follow. I have the actual experience in court which apparently he does not.
All lawyers and clients in the hallway at 8 AM. Lawyers go into the courtroom at 8:05 to talk the case with each other. Periodically they come out and ask clients for clarifications in subdued whispers. The lawyers go back in. The plaintiff and the defendant remain in the hallway. 9 AM court room opens. The Judge has listened and directs the speedy system along the lines the lawyers have created.
Unload any stock you own that a hedge fund owns.
Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray
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Correct. Do some research. Find out what stocks these hedge funds own and unload those before they do or you’re going to lose a lot when they sell those off to pay off for your other gains.
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Here’s the issue enough people aren’t talking about.
In order to cover these shorts, some funds are going to have to unload their other assets: meaning there could be a huge stock sell-off incoming.
If you are balls deep in other stocks, re-assess your risk.
@ darkwords:
Oh, shipwrecked got his article up! I knew he was writing it and I’ve been waiting for it. I’ve seen a lot of tweets about this case but everyone focused on something different and I couldn’t get a handle on what’s really going on. Except the unanimous opinion is that our justice system is irredeemably stupid. I figured he’d have the full story/perspective on it.
@TheBabylonBee
‘I’ve Been Shot!’ Screams AOC As Ted Cruz Greets Her With Set Of Friendly Finger Guns
darkwords wrote:
Hedge funds own ABB. If they drive the price down, I’m buying more. It’s a solid company.
I buy for value, to hold.
As a matter of fact, I hope somebody tracks the selloff, so I can look for more value. I’ve got another $2k to spend. Fuck ’em.
The exception I was going to make was an IPO. But I think it’s not for me. That I WOULD flip. But then I found out I get taxed capitol gains rates if I hold it less than a year. The only other way to do it was to buy a fund that would hold it. Not interested. I’m still researching to be sure I’ve covered all the basis, but it’s probably not for me.
darkwords wrote:
ship was a Fed proscecutor for 22 yrs, private practice for 6. Whatever idiot wrote that is going be be licking glass with his tongue
@ darkwords:
I read plea agreements every day (literally).
They all say “no agreement is made as to sentencing.” It’s boilerplate text, in fact.
@ right_wing2:
It’s actually worse than that. Your hypothetical family of 4 would get $5,000 a month, not $2,000. And the income limit would be $260k.
It’s $2000 per adult and $500 per child, and the income limit is per adult.
Tiny Oil Company Gets 1000% Wall Street Bets Bump
An oil company producing the equivalent of 70 barrels of oil daily surged in value almost 1,000 percent to $128 million thanks to a surge in trading activity coming from retail traders.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Tiny-Oil-Company-Gets-1000-Wall-Street-Bets-Bump.amp.html
DOJ is now investigating Elon Musk (probably because he criticized Biden for delaying Mars mission)
The DOJ’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section received a complaint of employment discrimination from a non-U.S. citizen claiming that the company discriminated against him based on his citizenship status.
“The charge alleges that on or about March 10, 2020, during the Charging Party’s interview for the position of Technology Strategy Associate, SpaceX made inquiries about his citizenship status and ultimately failed to hire him for the position because he is not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident,”
well then what status does this person have? Every employer makes hiring decisions based on that, I certainly did.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/28/doj-investigating-spacex-after-hiring-discrimination-complaint-.html
SpaceX Can’t Hire International Rocket Scientists Even If It Wants To
The basics of these regulations is pretty simple: Information about military technology is to be limited to citizens and U.S.-based companies. The law actually uses the term “U.S. Person” to include full-blown citizens and green-card holders. When sensitive information is being bandied about, the government wants to keep companies inside the U.S. where they can be better vetted. In an age of byzantine networks of contractors and subcontractors, it seems like a prudent measure to ensure the United States doesn’t hire, say, a Chinese firm that may be interested in an advanced warplane design. The U.S. State Department can grant an exception to ITAR rules. Violations bring hefty fines and can harm companies trying to win future government contracts.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a23080/spacex-elon-musk-itar/
eaglesoars wrote:
It gets taxed as standard income if you hold less than a year (thought it was 6 months?). Capital gains taxes are lower than standard income rates
@ lobo91:
Wish they’d add cats to the eligibility. We’d be set!
AZfederalist wrote:
then I misheard.
Thanks
@ lobo91:
My experience is that lawyers and judges do find ways to talk about sentencing and the addons outside of the actual trial. Maybe that is just from knowing each other really well.
Ship is a great read from his insider knowledge. I agree with him but see things from the outside and can point to a few times where I signed docs that I didn’t agree with but the judge and the lawyer maneuvered the sentence to that outcome. Not because of evidence but because they were in a hurry.
The bottom line is money makes a huge difference in court. And court is best avoided except for the most extreme of issues.
Not sure if I already posted this, but so what. Scrolling is free.
Here’s Jen Psaki diligently dodging questions in 2014 – she’s a pro at it.
There are more examples here:
https://www.rt.com/usa/162608-jen-psaki-fails-grilling/
coldwarrior wrote:
Day #2 of the Semi-finals on the Waitmata Harbour
Day #1 saw Luna Rossa the Italian boat sail two great races. Amercian Magic almost capsized…. again and looks like a really unstable boat that is forced to sail right on the edge all the time to just keep up.
Day #2 Luna Rossa sailed a great tactical race and American Magic just followed it around the course. Three to Zip
Race two on day #2 . American Magic looks disorganised and they seep to be running out of hydraulic energy. The crew are pumping the hydraulics as hard as they can but the boat just seems to demand more than they can produce.
In the end Luna Rossa sailed to a 3minute: 51 sec win. Massive for a boat race like this.
So it’s Luna Rossa vs. Britannia for the Louis Vitton Cup and the rights to challenge Team NZ for the America’s Cup
@ Bunk X:
@ Aussie Infidel:
beat by the italians.
i’m just sick.
@ Aussie Infidel:
all hands on deck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBUTJG3Hf_s
well done all the lads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5K23GpiQCw
coldwarrior wrote:
Someone installed the Italian’s gearbox backwards. It was supposed to have 5 backwards gears!
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
The American Magic crew gave it their all. Something happened between the Christmas racing and the Louis Vitton series. The Brits found their mojo and the Yanks found that their boat could compete only when sailed right on the edge. Stats won out in the ens.
Maybe next time
🙂