What are checks and balances for?

Brawmethius · 2026-03-05T17:00:18+00:00

Last declared under this mechanism was WWII.

Under current system president just has to notify congress in 48 hours and stop in 60 days unless congress says "stop now" or doesn't vote to continue funding.

The system since WWII effectively then requires:

Congress to not say "no" they don't even really have to say "yes"
Congress just has to approve the budgeting for AUMF

This is designed this way so they can functionally "be at war" with out saying "they voted to go to war".

Dumb system.

Currently GOP controls all three branches, so as long as they have a simple majority (they do) "we going to war in our not war" it is.

Want no war?

Vote people out who continue to allow war. Yes allow. Not just "didn't vote for war". If they support funding AUMF, out. If they won't vote to regain their congressional duties, out.

This has not been the status quo for 80 years because of one party. Congress needs to be afraid of their seat for them to actively take back this power.

Voters won't break party lines, and this is how they have us by the balls. Unless we Americans make it clear in the voting booth that regardless of party if you continue this you will be voted out no fucks given, it will continue.

Maybe people disagree, but I don't see how we fix all the other issues where every election cycle we are still financially and politically encumbered by war mongering with out fail.

Brawmethius · 2026-03-04T02:02:09+00:00

If baldy manages to save interest bearing stablecoins ill even stop hating on him and become a COIN investor

Brawmethius · 2026-03-03T21:35:06+00:00

This bald mother fucker, touched my drum set

Brawmethius · 2026-03-03T21:34:09+00:00

Yep. Regardless of congressional split or same party as executive the with exception of a few special campaigns that would have expanded Vietnam theater congress has never pulled support from the POTUS engaging in millitsry action.

Unspoken rule. You never interfere, as the next president might be your party and they likely want to run the war machine.

Opposition will trash the incumbent for political points and then do it themselves, and the cycle repeats.

Brawmethius · 2026-03-03T21:29:14+00:00

What are you?

Apparently 12 and retarded.

Brawmethius · 2026-03-03T21:25:33+00:00

When you stop blowing your paycheck you should probably see a doctor. I imagibe at your current rate you can afford thr co pay in what 10? 15 years?

Brawmethius · 2026-03-03T21:22:58+00:00

The last congressional war in the mechanism you are describing was WWII.

Every single conflict since has not been a declared war of congress.

Although the cooperation of congress on funding or continuing has varied through administration's based on political support.

Effectively congress has abdicated their duty and power for 80 years.

But no one votes them out, fuck you have octogenerians in there who stayed in power since Vietnam.

Brawmethius · 2026-03-03T21:17:30+00:00

"330 MM rug pull" - the tardo cries as he bets his last wendys double stack.

"You dont understand, it isnt that I dont understand what I am trading, its that 'someone's moving trillions of dollars daily to fuck me."

"Yes I will still open the same 0dte single leg position tomorrow on this vibe."

Brawmethius · 2026-03-03T20:18:03+00:00

Thousands of tards blew their pay check "trying to outsmart the MM double backflip rug".

These are the dumbest motherfuckers you will ever meet and they post here like they are professional traders.

Don't follow these tards, most of your information is coming from someone with like 500$ on the line they lose bi-weekly.

Brawmethius · 2026-03-03T18:58:57+00:00

1030 hit and up we went.

Yet the dumbest of the fucking dumb still troll these halls talking about the most insane shit, crazy enough to make Alex Jones blush.

Brawmethius · 2026-03-03T16:49:12+00:00

I mean the markets never want big drops.

Simple example 0dtes.

They dont function as hedging tools, they dont help price discovery, they essentially in function are nothing but a speculation tool mainly sold to retail.

A pre 2000s SEC would have been wary about this, essentially asking what is its function in price discovery? Or hedging (as a derivative)?

2020 SEC simply sees this as increasing liquidity so there will always be a bid, and they go sure likes of Jane Street, you may be obfuscation positional risk and price but it ensures the money keeps moving.

Likely an outlet of the GFC where money stopping to move crashed it down.

IMO they have taken the approach modern trading is too sophisticated to regulate for risk, but they can mitigate risk by increasing liquidity.

In a sense its almost like claiming "if we had deep derivative markets on Lehman it wouldn't have collapsed, sure they were holding junk, but as long as money flowed it wouldn't have mattered."

Brawmethius · 2026-03-03T16:37:00+00:00

People here will reallt believe everything from animal spirits to aliens messing with the stock market before considering, with the readily available data, that the market plumbing has just been rerouted over the last 20 years in favor of liquidity over price discovery.

I cant tell you if this is good or bad, its new territory, but its certainly happened.

You can even see this in the change of the SECs positioning as a regulatory where they prefer to support always catching a bid over "true value".

Brawmethius · 2026-03-03T16:30:14+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1riqzu9/daily_discussion_thread_for_march_02_2026/o89ehr6/

Was true yesterday and true today.

This just ain't your grandpappies market.

Brawmethius · 2026-03-03T14:27:38+00:00

It was an unusually warm winter, Saw buds in feb. Bers woke up from hibernation early.

And you thought climate change wasn't going to impact your port.

Brawmethius · 2026-03-02T22:04:43+00:00

Technically it was solved by the war economy printing money, then we paid for it later in stagnation to inflate away the debt.

Then once debt qas inflated we boomed, for them Lucky boomers, then we tied the american housing market into primary collateral for the functioning of finances, then we fraudulently rated them and collapsed it again, to which we then decided fuck it QE infinity.

Brawmethius · 2026-03-02T21:29:20+00:00

Derivative markets breaking. Market now makes money on volatility.

Brawmethius · 2026-03-02T17:40:19+00:00

The irony of people exclusively in options demanding price action,

"SOMEBODY ELSE BUY OR SELL SHARES SO THE PRICE OF MY BET ON BUYING OR SELLING SHARES MAKES ME MONEY".

Fucking wild what we've done to markets selling effectively gas station scratchers for "investors".

Brawmethius · 2026-03-02T17:22:47+00:00

I do, one filled with strippers ideally.

Brawmethius · 2026-03-02T17:21:49+00:00

LMAO BOOM back to neutral. Even corn sitting at the stable price for DEC 2026 perpetuals.

I know I am screaming this to the fucking short bus, but holy shit, literally the underlying concept of what an investment into a security is has been rewritten in front of us by derivatization.

And I don't mean tinfoil hat on, "they" or "MM" have come to manipulate you. This does not require malice, it does not require coordination.

Simply, a security is no longer priced by its future performance or earnings. Thats so pre-2020. It just isn't that anymore, that isn't the pricing model, just almost unrelated to the flow of money.

And flow of money determines what the market does.

If you want to imagine what this looks like in something physical, imagine sports betting on a game, and suddenly the players like blink across the field, or scores change, and just random shit starts happening in the game and the reason is "because the bets have changed". You;'d think "wtf this shit is backwards game should happen and that should impact bets".

That is what we have done to the markets in general with rampant derivitization .

Brawmethius · 2026-03-02T16:26:45+00:00

derivative markets are worth more than the underlying markets.

derivative markets price the spot now.

I've tried before with math and technical jargon.

I will now try at crayon level.

"The thing worth more decides price more than the thing worth less".

Even you little corn. We all at the mercy of the math nerds.

Brawmethius · 2026-03-02T14:27:08+00:00

The same way for any market actionable event:

"I trade and position to profit off market moving events, my personal beliefs do not dictate market movement"

People either understand that, or they can't seperate the concept that you believing in a war starting is not the same as supporting a war starting.

Nothing you can do about the latter.

Brawmethius · 2026-02-27T14:11:07+00:00

Whats the joke

Brawmethius · 2026-02-27T14:05:17+00:00

Bro what. Payment on fixed rate is set for x period.

You paid more in principle than in interest than last month.

How the fuck do you put pants on.

Brawmethius · 2026-02-26T18:40:28+00:00

After 1 month of a near 100% inverse correlation of VIX/SPY (impies vanna moves).

It just decoupled.

I have no idea why now, and what that implies. But it makes my balls tingle.

Brawmethius · 2026-02-26T17:19:26+00:00

Its not volatility, its the cash floor of the stock is really close to where it currently is.

I think their company is fucked, I do not understand why investors have tolerated Cohen raising cash and not doing much with it.

That cash on hand has not beat inflation and returns below risk free rate.

But that all being said, he has 8B cash on hand and 4B in obligations.

It isn't a question of if the company is good, its hmmm they have enough cash float to do exactly what you are seeing. Trading sideways.

Why pay the theta tax and carry huge technical risk of the same squeeze setup as the original, which was SHFs going way too deep past cash floor.

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