Walker88

The Third Man, The Man Who Would Be King, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Lawrence of Arabia, The Maltese Falcon, The Comedians....and if anything more modern, Body of Lies (especially Mark Short's performance), The Big Short, and Margin Call (most accurate depiction of a Wall Street firm and trading floor).

Let me fill in the missing parts of Bob's story.... He forgot his phone but had his camera. Since Bob is a Rolex guy, I assume his camera is a Leica M6 rangefinder, and he probably had the 35mm Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0 attached. The camera is film, however, not digital, and in his haste he grabbed a roll of Kodachrome 25 from the freezer. Sadly, the last two labs that developed K25---Yodobashi Camera in Tokyo and a neighborhood lab in New Jersey, stopped doing K25 about 15 years ago, so Bob was stuck on the sidewalk, conclusive evidence in hand, but nowhere to develop the film and subsequently post the image here. Just the luck of that nasty taxi driver that Bob is a bit of a Luddite and still uses film. Otherwise, he would have used his connections and gotten Big Joke all over this affront to geometry and theology.

The "Great Disaster" that was Bidenomics delivered the highest US growth in two and a half decades, and saw unemployment drop below 4% for the longest stretch in 64 years. Since taking office and inheriting the Recession and 6.8% UE left by 45, the US grew at 3 times the rate of the average G7 nation. I guess---to quote Bill Clinton---it depends on what the meaning of 'disaster' is. I fully understand that the modern tech economy requires labor bring talent and marketable skills to the table. Those who cannot do that were left out, while those who did bring those things to the table saw their wages rise and lifted overall national savings rates and spending, which is truly rare. What is somewhat surprising, or maybe amusing, is that those who did not see their net worth soar under Biden failed because they lack the skills the modern economy demands, so those who diss Biden as some sort of economic failure are really admitting that THEY are the failures. Good that those who post here about how bad the Biden economy was (or rather their own ability to benefit from it) freely admit their personal shortcomings for all the community to see. Now during the campaign I did hear things about Hannibal Lecter and things about Arnold Palmer's junk I never knew, but unless I missed it, I do not recall 47 outlining his plan to help those the modern economy has left behind. Maybe it's still just a concept of a plan? I know it's not "Drill, baby, drill", because under Biden the US produced more energy than it used, and still has 9000 approved drilling leases nobody has picked up. His disciples can correct me i"m wrong, but I don't think massive tariffs nor military tribunals to get Liz Cheney in jail are going to help the kind of person who voted for 47. Lacking any other info about 47's plan, which no doubt "some people....many people...are saying it's the best plan they've ever heard", I have to assume his cult is chomping at the bit to get those strawberry picking jobs currently being staffed by undocumented migrants. The fresh air and exercise will be good for them, as I see from his rallies much of his supporters are on the obese side of things.

Take a number. Many similar potential disasters out there. While I have absolutely no doubt 47 will mess up the Biden Boom and drop the US into a Recession or Depression, one has to look at debt from a different perspective. Here's the Debt-to-GDP ratios of some ostensibly developed economies. In a relative sense, the US is not too bad. US: 89.79% Japan: 304.51% Germany: 80.89% UK: 110.76% France: 130.17% Italy: 175.39% Brazil: 108.09% Belgium: 126.06% Spain: 137.15% Greece: 231.76% hat the US has going for it, besides being less indebted relative to Japan, the UK, France, Brazil, etc., is that it has massive capital markets where money can flow in and out easily, and has a rule of law that the rest of the world trusts. Servicing debt is the key. Nobody thinks any sovereign debt of any nation will ever be repaid; it just gets rolled over and funds are printed to service it via interest payments. Now here's the rub: foreign entities---govts and private corps/individuals---finance around 25% of the yearly deficit. In his earlier iteration as the supposed President, 45 said he would consider defaulting on debt owned by non-US entities. That's not good. That doesn't build confidence. If foreigners went on strike and stopped buying US paper, rates would soar, and nothing the Fed could do that would not result in wild inflation.

He's a conspiracy theorist. Don't bother him with things like facts. Delusion is his stock in trade.

Well, there's a comment based on nothing but ignorance. Geopolitical eks bert are you? And what did 45 do that was a miracle? Better than the fish and loaves myth? Silly. Explain how Syria is Biden's fault. Maybe Tulsi Gabbard, the nominee for DNI, and Assad's best friend in the US can give you the lowdown?

You must be one of those poor guys who missed out on the best US economy since the late 1990s. Wages up, savings up, UE ran below 4% for the longest period in 64 years, and the Recession and 6.8% unemployment left by 45 was brought to a screeching halt. The US grew 3 times faster than the G7 average since 2020. Admittedly it required having talent or marketable skills to benefit from the Biden Boom, but to think 47 either has a clue how to bring obviated workers into the economy or even cares anymore (since he got the losers' votes) is the height of naivete and wishful thinking. Tell me what crime a civilian like Liz Cheney committed that 47 says she has to face a military tribunal? Sounds rather fascist to thinking people, which is to say music to the ears of the cult. The world has changed. It's Darwinian Capitalism now, where those with talents and skills prosper, while those without will be left farther and farther behind. If you failed to get rich under Biden and the economic boom, it's only going to get worse under 47. In his disastrous MtP interview, he followed his comment about jailing January 6 Committee members with saying he's re4ally concerned with "drill, baby, drill". What a willfully ignorant moron! It seems he failed to notice the US now produces more energy than it uses, and already there are 9000+ approved drilling leases that no one has decided to take up. Comments like he made fool the equally willfully ignorant, which is to say his cult.

I think maybe you meant Tass, not Fox. The guy is a traitor to everything for which the US supposedly stands. The fascist said in an interview he intends to pardon the terrorists who stormed the Capitol, wanted to hang the US Vice President, and injured 140 police officers, but jail the members of the January 6th Committee (who committed no crime). Perhaps Biden will pardon the guy caught with an AR-15 near where the bloated one was playing golf?

Lots of fertile imaginations among the cult members, stating fantasies as fact, or maybe just "alternative facts". Patel stated in his book and in interviews he would prosecute people who failed to believe the stolen election lie. Failing to believe a lie is not a crime, but Patel has stated he will go after former govt officials and media personalities. Kind of smells lie Fascism. But the cult is okay with that, though they cried like babies when their messiah was indicted for stealing hundreds of classified documents, which IS a crime, or getting intimately involved in the fake elector scheme.. Maybe Patel will investigate the investigators of the investigators, which is kind of a second or third derivative. John Durham gave, inter alia, John Brennan a clean bill of health for the manner he handled the intel received from liaison and other sources related to 45's campaign cooperation with Russian intel assets, such as Konstantin Kilimnik.* (I know John set up a Bigot List as soon as the intel came in, hand carried it to the WH for Obama to read, and sent all of it to the FBI, the agency with the authority to investigate Americans. That is textbook handling of intel of that sort. Durham not only interviewed everyone on that Bigot List, he even interviewed agency personnel who had no knowledge of the intel. The agency came out 100% clean. Maybe Patel is unhappy about that and will now investigate Durham. *(Recall that in his first week as Campaign Manager, Manafort traveled to Spain and met GRU asset Kilimnik and handed him detailed internal polling data, which Kilimnik passed to the GRU's Internet Research Agency in St Pete, who subsequently produced fake tales about HRC and other Dems and forwarded them to voters in swing States via Facebook and other social media feeds. All of that was in the Republican-led SSCI 1000-page report on the Russia investigation.)

You keep hearing these rumblings from your barstool? Maybe it's the alcohol talking? Anyway, even if you're correct that there are rumblings, I really don't think Biden is going to pardon Matt Gaetz.

LOL! Most members of the cult are obese, out of shape, dumb old men ("I love the poorly educated"...45). As for me, the government spent a lot of time and money teaching me to be skilled in things I would have preferred not to have ever had to use. "Snowflake" is probably not the right term for me and those like me. Gym Rat, maybe, but not snowflake nor blubberbutt like most of the cult. Oh, and you know absolutely nothing about "most illegals", nor do you know how most terrorists enter the US (#1 is via commercial airline, #2 is from Canada). Many terrorists are stopped, quietly, before they board a commercial flight, because foreign liaison intel services provide shared intel, from their own sources, to US intel. Already allied nations have said they will not share while 47 is POTUS, as he has both a history of mouthing off (Israeli penetration of ISIS was outed by 45 in his Oval Office chat with FM Lavrov and Amb Kislyak) and is wildly cavalier and irresponsible with the handling of classified documents. If you know nothing about all of this, best keep quiet, lest you do---as Lincoln once said---"want to remove all doubt" about your total lack of knowledge.

Really? How about "perhaps" you might be a pedo, so you should be investigated? Maybe you are unaware of how justice is carried out, but there must be suspicion of criminal activity in order to investigate. You have inside info? What crime did Liz Cheney commit? What crime did journalists and media personalities commit? Not believing the stolen election lie is not on the books as a criminal offense, except in magastan. As for FBI or the former DCI (all on the list), they are required by virtue of their jobs to pursue intelligence data. I know the former DCI well, and he followed his job mandate to the absolute letter of the law, and was even given not only a clean bill of health, but also was praised by 45-appointed SC John Durham. He is a target of Patel simply because he was critical of 45. What Patel claims he will do, if confirmed or recess appointed, is nothing less than weaponization of justice and fascism.

Let me guess...you did not read the LINKED article, nor did you listen to Patel's interview with Bannon. It was Rudy who said "truth is not truth", but you've changed that to "truth is nonsense".

Remember the George Carlin quip: "Think of how dumb the average person is. Now think half the people are dumber than that." The people who missed out on the Biden Booming Economy are not going to be helped by massive tariffs, nor cutbacks in programs that supplement their income (which DOGE will slash). 47 has absolutely no solution, not even the 'concept of a plan' to address the redundancy in unskilled human labor. It is only going to get worse as AI comes online. Perhaps a cult member has inside info on "a plan we'll be releasing in two weeks; some people are saying it's the most amazing plan they've ever seen". (Anyone who has listened to 45/47 knows this silly, albeit regularly issued line.)

Who are these communists and socialist left-wingers? Do you even know the meaning of the ideologies you mention? Doubtful. The Biden economy boomed. It was Darwinian Capitalism, admittedly, but it boomed. Those with marketable skills and talents saw their net worth soar and their services in constant demand, reflected in the longest stretch of unemployment being below 4% in 64 years. Those left behind by the modern tech economy did not fare as well, but they will do much worse when the resurrected Misters Smoot & Hawley implement their massive tariff plan. Sorry is you missed out. In the meantime, the DirFBI nominee, a believer in the QAnon drivel, stated he plans to go after former government officials (who committed no crime) as well as journalists and media personalities who did not buy into the stolen election lie. Now THAT^ is FASCISM by anyone's definition.

So as an adherent of QAnon, I guess little Kash believes Hillary and Tom Hanks, among others, are part of an international cabal that kidnaps, rapes, roasts and eats babies. And the basement of a basement-less pizza restaurant in DC is their base. 47 certainly does have access to 'the best people'. Sadly for the magas, it looks like alcohol abuse and violence against women just might put the breaks on the candidacy of Pete Hegseth, with Ron "Desanctimonious" (per 47's nickname) on deck.

Hey, I know of a woman who lied on her visa application and was granted an "Einstein Visa". In actuality, she was a softcore porn model who apparently was less than factual about her educational credentials. She married a loud mouth silver spoon baby, and later used chain migration to get her Slovenian parents into the US. No doubt you're in favor of deporting her and her Mom and 'keeping our borders secure'. Oh, and perhaps you missed it, but a very conservative Republican Senator put together the most comprehensive border security measure ever in a Bill he introduced, even getting major concessions from across the aisle. It would have resulted in, inter alia, the hiring of hundreds more Border Patrol Agents as well as shoring up existing fences and surveillance systems. A phone call from a certain Republican Presidential candidate to the Speaker of the House quashed the Bill and let the border remain an issue throughout the campaign. Rational people might begin to wonder if that candidate is actually sincere.

Yes, that is some next level groveling sycophancy, no doubt competing with Speaker Johnson and Sean Hannity climbing up 47's alimentary canal vying for that first bite of the Quarter Pounder. But as they say on Late Night Infomercial...But wait! There's more! Never one to dismiss a conspiracy theory because it's batsh!t crazy, Patel added to his child's book the acronym: WW1GWGA In other words, Patel is an adherent of QAnon. Kind of embarrassing to have a nominee as DirFBI who is 'woke' and 'awake' on Pizzagate and the other absurdities like that. I wonder what he'll do when---according to "Q"---JFK, Jr comes back and claims the Oval Office and Resolute Desk? Now THERE's some cognitive dissonance!

47 pardoned Manafort and Stone, both involved---according to the Republican-led SSCI, who issued a report on the Russia investigation---in active cooperation with Russia to subvert the 2016 election. 47 will absolutely pardon himself for stealing highly classified documents, as well as his various efforts to engage in a coup and retain power after losing the 2020 election. He cannot pardon himself for State charges, such as his bank fraud and insurance fraud felony convictions, nor can he pardon himself for State charges brought by Georgia to interfere in that State's 2020 election, but I suspect he will sick his stormtroopers on anyone in those States involved in his righteous prosecution (such as Fani Willis, Judge Merchan, Merchan's daughter, etc.). Oh, and he not only pardoned his son-in-law's criminal father just before leaving office, he has now named the convicted felon as Ambassador to France. But Joe !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So if a combo of Antifa and BLM storm the Capitol on 5 Jan 2025, set up gallows to hang the little Speaker, beat 140 cops, break windows, defecate on the floor and rub it on the walls, and try to overturn the results of 5 November, can we expect 47 to issue blanket pardons to those 'innocent victims'?

No need to look inward. You simply are too deep in the cult or simply not smart enough to see the threat., likely both.

It seems cult members need a remedial lesson on the First Amendment to the US Constitution. So here it is: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. If you listen to Patel's recent interview with Bannon, you will see his plans are to violate virtually the entire Amendment. 47 wants him to go after: 1) Former officials who did their job 2) Journalists and media people who criticized 47 3) Anyone who did not back the 'stolen election' lie. You might also recall as 45, the clown ordered a violent clearing of peaceful protesters in Lafayette Park just so he could go hold a Christian Bible upside down for a photo op aimed at pandering to his Christian Nationalist fans. That violates free speech, peaceful assembly and separation of church and State.

Hate for those who would destroy what much better people than you or 47 or any of his cult built and defended over 250 years.

Tears? Big boys don't cry. We leave that to the Crybaby-in-Chief, your bloated, lying, corrupt, convicted felon and treasonous messiah. Fat bloated old men, like the average cult member, have been whining for 4 years, unable to accept the 2020 loss. You have no concept of real patriotism or the actual ideals upon which the US was founded. Best you lay low and stay out of the way, like all the cult cowards and clowns.

Perhaps you missed his recent interview with Bannon, where he says he is going after former officials, journalists and media personalities who refused to accept the 'stolen election' lie. It is fascism, pure and simple.