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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. I will be surprised that Trump doesn't find a judge somewhere that will give him a temp reprieve from posting a bond for the amount. But then again people like Trump eventually run out of options.
  2. Didn't Navarro just decide to ignore the Congressional subpoena and not show up? I realize others have done that and not been indicted but not a smart move to break the law just because "everyone else did it." If he had shown up and claimed executive privilege, then at least he would have an argument. I'm out of my depth here, but I would think that it would be Trump who would have to convince a judge to keep Navarro silent due to executive privilege. Navarro basically tried to invoke executive privilege as a defense when he spoke to the media instead of a court. Crazy how so many will go to prison for Trump.
  3. Since the national and state GOPs want Trump as their candidate, I saw let the party organization pony up the money. Maybe give the Vermont and DC GOP parties a break since they went with Nikki.
  4. They don't accept real estate as collateral, or they don't accept his real estate as collateral? Those 2 are not necessarily the same. Would any financial institution not believe that they would struggle to get money from Trump, even if he has the equity in the properties? You have a guy asking for money and he could be any or all of the following situations in less than a year: in prison, in bankruptcy, in the White House.
  5. What is Trump Force One worth?
  6. I’ve wondered about that last item. Likely that banks and other institutions may end up owning a large percent of bitcoin but that doesn’t make it less decentralized. It’s the network that’s decentralized not the bitcoin holders. But still institutions today may own larger percents of corporations but that doesn’t mean they get up to the high 90 percentile of ownership. There will always be individual ownership especially with a coin/share that’s divisible to 8 decimal places. and if the price drops because lack of buyers, then institutions will sell because their shareholders will want out. The price and institution ownership will find a balance. And that balance will periodically shift.
  7. Their open ocean cleanup is interesting but their real work is with rivers carrying plastic and other trash out to sea. Here is one of the videos from this group that is working to fix a wall of plastic flowing down a Guatemala river. They fail in this attempt but failures are not always negative. It's easy to say that poor people need to learn to properly dispose of trash but I bet most of the problem is due to lack of nearby infrastructure . Still there could be an opportunity to educate them on the importance of attempting to properly dispose of trash. Once again, if the option is there for them. Putting these locals to work continuously cleaning out the rivers seems like the best return on the dollar but you also have to independently monitor it. It could create an perverse incentive for an enterprising person to purposefully dump trash into the river to be paid to clean it up. See the story about the Brits paying Indians to kill cobras, or the Hanoi rat massacre.
  8. The Don Lemon firing definitely points out how thin skinned Elon is. He obviously saw Lemon as a potential to reach out to new audiences. Actually a good idea to pay well known, left commentators to produce shows for X. Elon must have wanted to be the first interview but then fires Lemon hours after being interviewed. If you don't want a true independent interview that might have tough questions, don't agree to an interview.
  9. Overall Dems seem to win the early vote. The GOP is now about picking the people who will be allowed to vote. It's not easy to flat out stop Dems from voting, so its going to be about making it difficult for them to vote in the manner they prefer to vote.
  10. The man was preoccupied with Infrastructure Week. Why can't you understand that!
  11. Is a bitcoin worth $0.01 or $100K? It's worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. And today people are willing to pay $70K for one, mainly on the hope that someone will want to pay $80K for it tomorrow. Or whatever amount or timeframe. The person selling it thinks the other. There are plenty of financial products that also rely on the greater fool theory. As for bitcoin supporting crime or terrorism activities. Yes, it 100% can be used for that. You know what also supports criminal activities: phones, internet, social media, mail, $100 bills, bank transfers, etc. I know it's tough for the govt. to prevent crime but it's also not innocent people's responsibility to suppress their freedoms to make the govt's job easier.
  12. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/us-oil-record-2023-permian-shale-boom-18933093.php If Biden and his dementia are leading our economy, keep the dementia coming. And the Permian area of Texas will vote heavily for Trump. I guess they feel that Biden is holding them back.
  13. The Trump campaign and the RNC will only care about causing so much chaos that it gives enough Rs in Congress cover to declare the 2024 election uncertifiable. Then Mike Johnson gives the WH to Trump. honesty this is 1 of 2 options in how a dictator takes over a democracy.
  14. meh. There's no perfect system. It's the earth's fault for tilting.
  15. I wasn't far off with my prediction by Mar. 8th. As of close Friday, IBIT reports owning 0.997% of all bitcoins. Of course, they still trail GBTC but quickly GBTC is selling bitcoins quickly as investors leave that ETF. note: Let's keep presidential politics out of this.
  16. I picked a bad day to quit drinking coffee. <insert Airplane pic>
  17. What does E Jean Carroll going to receive in the next trial since Trump has defamed her again?
  18. Felt like lifetime of not being able to break 70/4 and I wake up to 71 and 4. as Americans are groggily waking up today after the time change, I predict it could pop up to 75 (only a 4.6% gain from now) today before settling closer to 71. Should be a good day for the ETFs and micro strategy stock.
  19. Boss man should have put his foot down years ago but I guess he has some combination of liking this guy or feeling sorry for him. If the employee is smoking pot on the job, that’s not a difficult conversation to tell him to cut it out. Of course I’ve known more than one person to call a vape pen a weed pen, so maybe the boss is just incorrectly describing it.
  20. The trafficked woman in Katie Britt’s story after the SOTU has spoken out today against politicians using her story for their own good. Link Fairly amazing that someone on TikTok tracked down the likely situation where Britt met this woman, and then journalists were able to force Britt into admitting the timeline and now Britt may have to apologize. or at least it will be a GQP apology. In a high pitched whisper, Britt will say that she didn’t disingenuously use this story and that she hopes the woman is doing ok today. Then she will say something negative about Biden’s failures on the border.
  21. IMO tomorrow is worse because of work. I will wake up early as usual but actually will be running late.
  22. Yeah. It’s very unlikely that a person and their team is going to spend a couple of year winning their first election to not run a second time. There can be circumstances that prevent someone from running but it’s rare. Not that they’re recent but I believe Truman and LBJ were the only 2 presidents that could have run again. I assume Truman was done after serving close to 2 terms, and LBJ was 5 years with an extremely unpopular war with his party. It’s probably not a coincidence that both of them were VPs of Presidents who died.
  23. Wouldn’t surprise me if the ufc pays trump to be there. This explains why Trump posted that his folks should give Bud Light a chance again, after the UFC signed a big deal with Bud Light.
  24. For people that believe Lindell, how many of them fall from that belief when he makes this statement every few months? 1%? Less than that?
  25. I find sports fairly unviewable these days anyway. Except for Longhorns football games, I’m cool with only turning on games in the last 15 minutes. edit: but to the OP’s question, I find the attention on sports gambling during games and pregames to be distracting. It’s also adds to the hypocrisy of sports. Which I don’t care except many sports announcers refuse to acknowledge it.
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