Walker88

LOL!

Here's the numbers from the first Quarter:

Revenues: $770,500

Profit or loss: -$327,600,000

With those stellar numbers, I bet Devin Nunes is in for another huge bonus.

Obviously it's a meme stock, or maybe also a way to 'contribute' to a campaign without directly violating FEC laws. Yes, one can make money playing it by either being lucky or not being greedy, but it does look as if the long term target for the stock price is $0. As the stock ages and more becomes available to borrow, shorts will increase and suckers will be left holding the empty bag. No doubt they will scream "RIGGED" or "UNFAIR!", but it will be their own damn fault. Their messiah will have long ago cashed out.

The primary shareholder took decades to find his calling in life, which is fooling those easily fooled. I think he might have looked at the IQ Bell Curve, moved far left of the mean, and said to himself "Those are my people".

The guy was a disaster in all of his businesses, living off of inheritance, allowance, daddy co-signed loans, and hyperbole, but only when his goober demographic was identified and isolated, did he begin to earn money on his own. First it was via his Game Show, where he pretended he was a successful businessman despite 6 bankruptcies and dozens of failed companies (but inheritance kept him afloat), and then as a "politician", where he could sell junk to his cult. His leaked tax returns indicate that he was moments away from belly-up, but was saved by Mark Burnett, who came up with the idea for the Game Show.

This stock is another of his "Just how dumb and gullible is my Cult" enterprises, like fantasy NFTs, Golden Sneakers, or outright begging for cash via his PACs.

In his first term playing President, he gave us a clue as to how incompetent he is, taking the 4.8% unemployment and growing economy he inherited and turning it into 6.8% UE and a Recession, but in his second term (if it happens), where he will lack anything even remotely approaching competence (no Steve Cohn or other of that ilk this time), he will reek economic havoc on a scale not even seen in the 1930s. I anticipate 20% UE, Stagflation, and a collapsing US dollar (but blame for anyone and everyone except himself). Perhaps fairly, it will be his cult who suffers the most, as they offer society the least and will be first to feel the decline.

3 hours ago, Ultrathai said:

Wrong again.  80 million Americans say he is the best.   Trump's economy was far stronger than Biden's could ever hope to be.

Wow, it's not easy to get every fact wrong, but you did that.

Rather than educate you, best you educate yourself.

You can look up the votes in the 2020 election, and then correct yourself.

As for the economy, you can go to the Dept of Commerce website, or even any investment bank site, and they will give you the GDP numbers under both guys. NOT EVEN CLOSE.

What the previous guy has going for him, however, are two points that force historians and data jockeys to go all the way back to WWII and even to Herbert Hoover in the early 1930s.

1)Your guy presided over the worst economic performance (as measured by GDP change) going all the way back to the 1930s. Even before Covid the GDP change was in the bottom 30% of all Quarters since the end of WWII.

2) Your guy is also the first President since Herbert Hoover to leave office with FEWER Americans employed than when he took office.

He achieved that dismal record by running up $8,400,000,000,000 in new National Debt, a 41% increase over the combined total of the first 44 US Presidents.

Now I'll do some math for you....that debt is not only more than the GDP change during his tenure (in other words, even the mediocre growth was debt fueled, not organic growth), but it is the equivalent of $25,000 for every man, woman and child in the US, or $1000 for every person on the face of the Earth.  If you wonder what caused inflation, imagine everyone in the US suddenly having $25,000 to spend and compete for goods and services. It took ratcheting up interest rates to get that under control. Oh, and your guy says if elected, HE---not the Fed---will set rates. Of course he will set them low, so expect hyperinflation and a total USD collapse. Your guy will bring all the skills and talents that had him produce 6 bankruptcies for his own companies, and a Recession to the US.

Frankly, those who want him again deserve what they will get....UE probably popping 20% and the vast majority of his cult unemployed and suffering Stagflation. Darwin Awards all around for his cult.

It would take Rube Goldberg to draw something that represents any connection between an office romance or what Grassley manufactured now, and "just find me...11,780 votes".

On the other hand, how do trumpers justify a Supreme Court Justice, who hung a flag upside down in his yard for days (according to his neighbors), which is the symbol of "stop the Steal" idiocy, not recusing himself when he rules on the indicted ex-POTUS and election-related issues? How about when another Supreme Court Justice, who failed to report trips and gifts paid for by a major Republican donor, and this justice has a wife who was directly involved in trying to overturn the 2020 election, but said justice can also stay involved in ruling on issues related to the election and the indicted ex-POTUS?

Fani's romance in no way has any connection to the facts of the Georgia case, while two obvious biased justices are allowed to rule on matters directly related to the indictments against the ex-POTUS? Maybe Grassley can't keep two thoughts in his head at the same time, so isn't the least bit concerned---nor is any other Republican---about Alito and Thomas.

16 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

But it's all replaced a few days later.

I'm not sure where you get your data, but it is wildly at odds with what medical journals such as the Lancet report from meta-analysis of research.

The average person has trillions of bacteria, both good and bad varieties, in their gut. "Good" bacteria is involved in a host of body-necessary processes, such as manufacturing or refining the substrates to make essential hormones. One could almost believe that humans evolve merely to be vessels for bacteria to survive. At the very least the relationship is symbiotic. Antibiotics are equal opportunity killers, both good and bad bacteria are eradicated.

An extremely healthy individual will restore most of his or her microbiome after a few months (NOT days), though the bacteria makeup may be different than before antibiotics, depending on the specific diet. Less healthy individuals can take years to fully recover from a single course of antibiotics, their immune system weakened for the entire period and their hormone production disrupted.

In terms of worldwide deaths from 'superbugs', the latest data I could find was for 2019, and the number was 1.2 million people. In a world of 8 billion, that isn't much (unless you're one of them) but the trend is worrying. Many people are saved from superbugs, at least in the developed world, by last chance super antibiotics.

There is also something called antibiotic scarring, which refers to bad gut bacteria building up antibiotic resistance after a single course of pills. After two courses, more resistance, after three, etc.

Given the time and expense of developing new antibiotics, plus the lengthy approval process, we would be well advised to be careful in how we take and how we prescribe antibiotics. There are crazy people who come to Thailand and down doxy and zithro supposedly as a prophylactic because they plan on schtupping bargirls bareback, and think that will protect them from STDs. Idiocy!

TV Host George Stephanopoulos  was asked what the first question should be in the debate.

His answer:

"Who won the Presidential Election in 2020?"

4 hours ago, Hanaguma said:

Love how nobody on the left side of the aisle actually wants to talk about the...topic...of the discussion, instead they prefer to obfuscate and repost their talking points ad nauseum.

I'm happy to discuss it.

Cohen is an admitted liar under oath, when he lied to protect his boss trump. Yes, that may impact some members of the jury, but the documents, signed checks and telephone tape are like a combination of the Rosetta Stone and the Dead Sea Scrolls. They point without a doubt to trump's intimate involvement in the hush money payoff and subsequent fraudulent accounting. Tie in Hicks' and Pecker's testimonies, and the fraudulent accounting is directly tied to trump's fear of how it would hurt him in the election. Thus, the evidence says "felony".

As I have noted, Cohen is on probation, and any violation---such as perjury---will send him back to the slammer. Defense can attack his credibility, but that Sword of Damocles threat of jail hangs heavy over Cohen, and the jury will be reminded of that. No one has called any of Cohen's testimony this week perjury.

Of course one person could take the stand and accuse Cohen of perjury, since he claims---when not under oath---that it's all lies. That would be the criminal defendant himself. The odds of trump taking the stand and testifying under oath make buying a winning ticket for Powerball look like short odds in comparison.

Soon enough it's in the hands of the jury.

Here's a prediction: if the jury finds trump guilty of a felony, every trumper here and on Fever Swamp media will accuse Biden of stuffing the jury with his people. There will be a shortage of capital letters on social media to write UNFAIR!.

I suspect it will be a hung jury and the traitor will walk free, giving him another chance to bring a second disaster to the US if voters the Electoral College chooses him again. I also predict that if sanity prevails and trump loses in November, he will foment another terrorist attack on the Capitol and on critics and opponents, because his other indictments will finally reach a court of law, and trump knows full well that means he is likely to die in jail.

A loss would also keep the power of SC appointment in the hands of Biden. By 2028 Sotomayor will have retired, and Alito and Thomas will probably be deceased.

This isn't the trial most patriots wanted, as it is one of trump's lesser crimes....kind of like Capone's income tax evasion....but it is the only one that can't be blocked by trumpian sycophants or endless appeals. The stolen docs indictment should have been the easiest to bring to trial, as trump even admitted he took the documents, though he lied both about returning all of them, as well as claiming he 'declassified with his mind', which is a farce. No paper trail, no declassification, and there is no paper trail of any declassification.

The Georgia case is held up because of an office romance that in absolutely no way is relevant to the actual crime.

The DC case should long ago have gone to trial if not for the obviously tainted clowns on the Supreme Court, who despite ostensibly being Constitutional scholars, do not seem to have ever read the document nor the other founding documents of the United States. They are confusing the US Constitution with the Magna Carta, which grants the anachronism known as monarchs to be above the law. They also seem not to have noticed that the first 44 Presidents were not in any way hamstrung by lack of immunity; it's only the career criminal trump who is in dire need of it, or at the very least, a lengthy delay so that maybe the election can take place without the voters knowing if a sitting President tried to subvert 250 years of American democracy.

While defense has tried its best to chip away at Cohen's credibility, the fact the documents and tape exists is really evidence enough to show trump was intimately involved in the fraudulent scheme.  Also, attacking Stormy was meaningless because the fact of the tryst doesn't matter: it's the fraudulent accounting of the payoff that matters. Of course, it will also be pointed out that trump's crack legal team let slip that an NDA with Stormy does exist. Why would there need to be an NDA if the tryst never happened? trump's credibility takes a bigger hit with that than any cheap shot defense or trump's Gag Order Violating Proxies might have made.

Cohen has held up well. Even admitting taping trump on the phone isn't nice, it is not against NY State law to record someone without their knowledge. Then there's the docs, the 9 signed checks, the gross up of the repayment to cover Cohen's supposed tax liability, and Hicks' testimony that trump said he feared exposure would hurt his election chances.

In closing arguments (or in redirect if it happens), Prosecution will likely remind the jurors of the documentary evidence as well as other testimony from folks like Hicks and Pecker. Prosecution might also remind the jurors that Cohen is on probation, and if anything he said under oath is a lie, he would be returned to jail to complete his term plus additional time for perjury. Mob bosses are almost always convicted via the testimony of an insider, even one so flawed as a hitman for the Mafia, such as Sammy The Bull Gravano.

The groveling sycophants using US Taxpayer funds to go to NY, when they should be at the work for which the taxpayer pays them, are cute. Embarrassing to the USA, but cute. I wonder if another groveling sycophant---Gov DeSantis---will change Florida law if trump is convicted of a felony, as currently felons cannot vote in Florida.

Can’t tell the players without a scorecard:

Trump: Arrested 4 times, convicted sex offender, convicted bank fraudster, convicted insurance fraudster, convicted charity fraudster

Campaign Chair: Convicted Felon (Manafort)

Deputy Campaign Chair: Convicted Felon (Gates)

Personal Lawyer: Convicted Felon (Giuliani)

Chief Strategist: Convicted Felon (Bannon)

Political Advisor: Convicted Felon (Stone)

National Security Advisor: Convicted Felon (Flynn)

Trade Advisor: Convicted Felon (Navarro)

Foreign Policy Advisor:  Convicted Felon (Nader, convicted of child sex offenses)

Foreign Policy Advisor: Convicted Felon (Papadopoulos)

Campaign Fixer: Convicted Felon (Cohen)

Company CFO: Convicted Felon (Weisellberg)

“The Best People”

Biden can win some points by being slightly self-deprecating, something of which trump is not capable. trump can only portray himself as "unbelievable" and "best ever", which is as far from reality as is his 6'3", 215 lb physicality. If he's 6'3", then I'm 6'6".

For example, Biden could say, "Some say my memory isn't what it once was, but I seem to remember you left office with 6.8% unemployment and a Recession. In my time in the White House, we've seen the best growth since the late 1990s, and 27 months straight of UE below 4%, which hasn't happened since the 1960s."

Or, "Maybe I've forgotten, but how much did Mexico pay for the 58 miles of border wall built in your 4 years?"

Biden might be old---trump isn't any fully cognizant spring chicken himself---but trump has the dubious 'honor' of inheriting 4.8% UE and leaving 6.8%, inheriting a growing economy and leaving a Recession behind, and achieving that disaster by running up $8,400,000,000,000 in new National Debt, a 41% increase over the combined first 44 Presidents.

If that is maga-ing, no thanks.

It will be fun if trump gets convicted of a felony in NY, since that means he is unable to vote, as is the rule in DeSantis' Florida. Biden can make a good joke of that.

If there aren't any questions about Hannibal Lecter or fighting uphill at Gettysburg, trump might be stumped. Oh, and windmills causing cancer and injecting Lysol to cure Covid....gotta give him a chance to show his, you know, really stable genius ability.

If those topics are not discussed, the only thing left for trump will be to claim he has 'the best Healthcare plan ever', how he could end the war in Ukraine in an afternoon, how Mexico is going to pay for the wall he failed to build his only term, and how next week is Infrastructure Week. He would be well advised to stay away from the fake 'misremberances' he had in the recent TIME interview, as virtually every single point he made was false. The moderator might have this article at hand:

Trump’s bombardment of dishonesty: Fact-checking 32 of his false claims to Time | CNN Politics

Odds also favor trump trying to show off by saying "Man Woman Person Camera TV", as if he's the sole person on the planet Earth capable of such feats of cerebral magic. Wow, did the testers hoodwink him into thinking that was something special!

I will call 'bias' myself if on CNN the debate is sponsored by trump's Depends adult diapers. That would be---to use a trumpian social media favorite---UNFAIR!

1 hour ago, proton said:

Biden will probably get the questions in advance, or have an ear piece in giving him the answers, he will still make a fool of himself, then claim he won.

My understanding is that they've brought Hugo Chavez out of his crypt again to write code for Italian satellites which will beam the answers into Biden's ear piece.

I mean, if old dead Hugo could write the code to alter Dominion voting machines, as trump's lawayer Sidney Powell claimed (albeit not in court), beaming answers is a piece of cake.

Some people have called trump's cult "trailer park trash"

I guess if it fits....

Here's a photo from the aftermath of trump's Hannibal Lecter Lecture the other day in NJ.

Considering how their messiah left America after his term (6.8% unemployment, a Recession, and a 41% increase in the total 240 year National Debt, amounting to $8,400,000,000,000), the image is fitting.

10 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

What evidence? 

Many different media sites have the trial proceedings in great detail, listing each piece of evidence entered plus transcripts of all testimony. Rather than list fifty odds pages here, perhaps you might take it upon yourself to go look. It's all readily available online.

I suspect the defense will try to disparage Cohen as an ex-con and a proven liar. I don't think that will work, firstly, because he is an ex-con as a result of doing what trump told him to do, and secondly because there is plenty of precedence of a mob insider---someone who has committed crimes---of being taken seriously by juries when on the stand and under oath.

Sammy "The Bull" Gravano was the right hand man of John Gotti as well as a "made man" in an organized crime syndicate, but his testimony that Gotti ordered the killing of Big Paul Castellano outside Spark's Steak House was believed by the jury and led to Gotti's conviction.

Cohen remains on probation, so if he was found to have committed perjury, he would be returned to jail for the remainder of his original sentence. Defense is going to have to try to make Cohen not believable, because no way will defense allow trump to take the stand. I would not be surprised if in their closing arguments, the prosecution brings up Sammy The Bull.

Cohen's testimony today laid bare that trump's concern was the election and how it would impact female voters. Cohen said trump told him to try to delay payment if possible, because if trump won, it wouldn't matter anymore (so no need to pay) and if trump lost, he wouldn't care if it came out. That kind of says trump didn't care if it would hurt his 3rd wife.

When word came that the Stormy tale was about to come out days before the election, trump told Cohen (about the payment to Stormy), "Just do it".

Hope Hicks has already testified that trump told her he was worried word of the Stormy thing would hurt the campaign, and Hope Hicks is not, unlike Cohen, an ex-con. Cohen yesterday corroborated what Hicks testified.

11 minutes ago, Hawaiian said:

Ever heard of Frank Edward Terpil?

Yes. And also Wilson. Your point is what?

The agency also had Aldrich Ames, Edward Lee Howard, Jim Nicholson, and others who broke the law. The Bureau had Robert Hansson and others. None equates to agency or bureau policy.

Now a question or two for you....

Why did a country club owner and wedding planner need TS, SCI, SAP, SITK, Codeword, HCS and RD documents at his country club? That recklessness and theft represents infinitely more national security threats than all the names noted above combined.

Are you aware anyone willing to put down $200K can join donny's club and would have had access to all of those documents? Do you know what the MSS is, and that an MSS case officer joined donny's club? She didn't join for the food, that's for sure.

Any idea what sort of damage control the entire intel community had to do to determine what might have been compromised by trump's theft? Do you know what the term "exfil" means?

Do you know what happened when donny showed off to FM Lavrov and Amb Kislyak in the Oval Office by sharing intel Mossad had given the US under the promise that it not be shared? Do you have any clue what such cavalier and reckless behavior does to other liaison relationships and even to foreign clandestine sources (who pay attention to the news)?

I doubt you care and nothing trump could do would take away one iota of the worship you have of him, but the clown cost the country a lot---and not only the $175,000,000 the OMB and CBO estimated was spent by the US Taxpayer so trump could golf.

6 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

"I think the vast majority of former and current case officers---see the threat to everything the US stands for in trump..." 

 

You mean you guys are going to have to start doing something? Seems everything we hear from the CIA is wrong. 

 

I guess that Hunter laptop Russian disinformation OP worked out though, you got a leftist elected, yeah? 

 

Figures you live on the public teat and seem to have so much contempt for the people that pay you. 

 

You might want to go read the SSCI report on the Russia investigation. The Repubs were the majority when they released it, and I don't think you could call them "leftists".

They noted the travel to Spain of Paul Manafort his first week in the job of trump's Campaign Manager, where Manafort gave GRU asset Konstantin Kilimnik internal polling data from the trump campaign. Kilimnik then passed it to the GRU's Internet Research Agency, where they made up stories about such things as Uranium One and got them in the Facebook feed of voters in key swing States.

That kind of smells like cooperation.

The SSCI Report also noted the relationship between Roger Stone and Julian Assange, who had received emails hacked by a Romanian FSB asset from John Podesta and the DNC. Stone gave trump regular heads up on when new emails were going to be released.

That, too, kind of smells like cooperation.

Oh, and 140 contacts during the campaign between Russians and trump campaign officials, including donny, jrs "I love it!" meeting with a Russian asset in trump tower.

Maybe the CIA gave the Repubs on SSCI special "leftist vaccines"?  LOL

Lucky for trump he had Barr as his AG.

The good news is trump lost in 2020, the trump Recession and trump's 6.8% unemployment ended under Biden, and we've now seen 27 straight months of UE below 4%, the first time that has happened since the 1960s (You can go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a part of the Dept of Labor, to get the numbers if you so choose.)