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wildcat09

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  1. I think me betting my entire 401k on the Rockets to win the finals would be safer than me trying to play this market.
  2. Part of the reason the bond markets started freaking out yesterday is that everyone finally woke up and realized that everything they thought still existed to constrain Trump's worst impulses (regarding international trade) has failed. Congress refuses to assert its power, the courts are too slow to get in his way, and until his 180 yesterday it sure as hell looked like nobody in the business world had the ability to change his mind. American treasury bonds have been perceived as the safest investment in the world for a hundred years because everyone believed they were backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. Even through the S&L crisis, the dotcom bubble burst, the great recession, and the covid recession the world still thought that our debt was far and away the safest, because it was backed by the strongest economy on earth, protected by the largest military on earth, and guaranteed by a state composed of institutions that fully understood how important and how powerful the full faith and credit of the United States of America is. Even after we elected Trump once, enough guardrails held that the world still generally believed that. Now everyone realizes what a huge fucking mistake that was and our credit has been substantially diminished (at the very least) forever.
  3. In Wulaw's mind, shaving 5% off the trade deficit with China by reducing the amount of Chinese goods we buy by slightly more than American companies lose in exports to China while destroying the dollar's status as reserve currency is a win. It's like shooting ourselves in the dick and balls so that we can aim for our feet a little easier.
  4. Pim Tool, Russian Israeli agent.
  5. For 25+ years now I've seen conservatives online whine about "unsustainable" deficits. Not once have I ever seen one who was able to explain the negative consequences they seemed to be so terrified of. Now, for the past 10-15 years or so, I've constantly seen those same conservatives cheerlead for actually imposing the very consequences they never understood that they were (erroneously) warning about when they whined about deficits. They're just the dumbest fucking people alive.
  6. Hey, maybe they'll fuck something up and accidentally cancel all of our mortgages.
  7. Those are the people we really need to be sending to a gulag in El Salvador.
  8. Gretch what the fuck are you doing.
  9. Two House Dems who won election 5 months ago have already died in office.
  10. Nobody is going to be negotiating anything with us in the next 90 days. The rest of of the world will be negotiating with each other, with the goal of disentangling from us as much as possible.
  11. Nobody else swerved. Donald Trump pulled the pin on a grenade and said he'll kill everyone if the rest of the world doesn't hand over their wallets and everyone else began backing away. Then he panicked and put the pin back in the grenade, while saying he'll pull it again in 90 days. Meanwhile, nobody actually knows what tariffs are now in effect against our two largest trading partners.
  12. The only "strategy" that makes sense is to have control over Trump's phone so you can fuck with the market yourself. None of this is rational.
  13. A really fundamental thing about deals is you have to trust your counterparty will stick to it once the deal is made. The rest of the world knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that we won't. There's no reason for anyone to even attempt to negotiate any trade deals with us and there's no evidence anyone is actually trying to do so.
  14. It shouldn't need to be explained at this point, but they intend to discover whether it's legal by doing it and seeing if SCOTUS will stop them after the fact.
  15. From what's been reported, they don't tell the people they kidnap where they're taking them or give them the opportunity to contact anyone. The only practical way for anyone who has been detained to file a habeas petition is for a friend or family member to know that they've been taken and hire a lawyer for them. If you're kidnapped, you have no way of knowing where you and you have no way of hiring an attorney for yourself.
  16. The system is its actors.
  17. These are not deportation. “Deportation” refers to a specific process by which an immigrant gets a hearing in front of an immigration judge and if they are not qualified to stay in America are returned to their country of origin. These are kidnappings and illegal imprisonment performed under the color of law.
  18. Oh good, he's citing AI now.
  19. A fucking Reagan appointee just noted that this is a path to perfect lawlessness and supposedly-not-a-nazi Ojo is here explaining that actually it's fine. You're either lying to us or to yourself, and I'm entirely out of patience for people doing either.
  20. Let's say ICE black bags you in New York. Within one hour, they move you to New Jersey, then within two hours they fly you to Louisiana. Within another 12 hours, they're flying you to El Salvador. During this time, you're not told where you even are and you're not allowed to contact anyone. How the fuck are you going to file a habeas petition in the correct jurisdiction? We all have issues right now. Some of us are more honest about them than others.
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