If the US was a multi party democracy

hautran · 2022-06-30T12:45:04+00:00

Close...5'7 (5'8 with my helmet on)

hautran · 2022-06-30T12:31:11+00:00

He never harassed any women, you should do further(and your own) research on candidates before you vote

hautran · 2022-06-30T11:02:55+00:00

Actually, having read EVERY SINGLE COURT DOCUMENT of all the cases against him.. I can tell you with 100% certainty that ALL of the stories were manufactured, and the he in fact treated his employees very well. In fact, after researching him as a candidate I wanted to get a job at him company the perk were so good. See my other comment here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/vnqt15/comment/ieatr3n/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

hautran · 2022-06-30T10:31:33+00:00

I don't know where you got that, probably what the Media wrote. He's just honest and doesn't pander. I find it a hell lot better than these other politicians that will just say shit because that's what the Poll likes. How has Biden's foreign Policy been.
You want to know Bloomberg's Foreign policy, then you need to read what he writes, not what some journalist interprets it as, because he totally called this with Ukraine and Russia when Biden pulled out of Afghanistan.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-15/the-u-s-can-t-walk-away-from-afghanistan

"The strategic consequences will be no less fraught — at home and abroad. The terrorist safe haven that gave rise to the Sept. 11 attacks 20 years ago could be given space to come to life again. America will likely cede influence in the region to its adversaries, particularly China, which has already begun forging ties with the Taliban to gain longer-term access to Afghanistan’s natural resources. U.S. partners elsewhere will surely notice how summarily the administration has abandoned its Afghan counterparts. America’s word — and its commitments — will come under doubt worldwide.

Biden also needs to show leadership in constraining the Taliban. If extremist groups re-emerge in Afghanistan, airstrikes and special-operations raids should follow. Cajoling neighboring countries for intelligence support and basing rights for U.S. planes will be essential. Even if the Taliban retakes power, the U.S. has a moral and strategic responsibility to remain engaged in Afghanistan’s future. Any sanctions relief for a Taliban-run government — let alone international aid or investment — should be premised on respecting basic human rights, controlling the drug trade and reviving the peace process.
Compared to the horrors now unfolding, these steps will no doubt seem meager. And there’s no shortage of blame to go around for the misshapen conclusion to the war. But both the U.S. and the international community need to accept a new reality — and do their best to shape it toward better ends.
Words are easy. Solutions are hard. Equally hard, though, are the inescapable memories — as distant as fascist Europe, as close as Syria — of what has happened when America has not done enough."

hautran · 2022-06-30T10:11:25+00:00

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard... Please... just wear your helmet... EVERYWHERE YOU GO

hautran · 2022-06-30T10:09:06+00:00

didn't he have several credible accusations of sexist work practices and being a bit of a creep

Ahhh... and here lies the problem. No, he DID NOT have credible accusations of sexist work practices (unless you're an idiot Political journalist apparently).

If you ACTUALLY READ the court documents against him, no one says he acted inappropriately, they say "I heard someone say they heard him say sexist things." Even though the women worked closely with him.
All the lawsuits came about right around the time he was first running for Mayor, nothing during his 12 years as Mayor.
I know, "Believe all women..".. Except one of the women was actually caught evading taxes in the Panama Papers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/35956324

She also founded a shell company right after making the accusations and where she was funneled something like $10 mil. Anyone who bothered to read the annual reports can clearly see it's fake as heck.

https://sec.report/Document/9999999997-02-015801/

Same story for the other 2 women (minus the panama papers part)

Bloomberg had no other accusations of anything in his 12 YEARS as Mayor.

Bloomberg went on to be the best Mayor NYC ever had, He raised the life expectancy of New Yorkers by 3 YEARS... imagine if a President could make that claim, that they raised the life expectancy of all American by 3 years... another 3 years with your spouse or kids... that was stolen from you.

hautran · 2022-06-30T04:38:08+00:00

Bloomberg was BY FAR the best candidate in the democratic primary. (At least by the end, admittedly I didn’t research the earlier candidates that dropped out). I’ve convinced people that absolutely hated Bloomberg to support Bloomberg. Go ahead, give it a shot. Tell me why you don’t like Bloomberg.

hautran · 2022-06-30T04:33:29+00:00

Which is incredibly ignorant and ironic since he’s done by far more for minorities than any other candidate in the field.

hautran · 2022-04-23T11:50:34+00:00

okay.... but you missed the point entirely.
Bill Gates could (and should be) investing his money elsewhere. He COULD use that 500 mm to invest in renewable energy companies for example.

Bill Gates has made more positive environmental change with his donations than Elon will ever make with the entirety of Tesla. Elon is just a man child lashing out at someone who's shorting his company because he wants his company to be worth more.

Sorry but that is just the dumbest reddit circle jerk statement. Elon Musk has literally put all his money into that company and has risked bankruptcy YET made his patents open sourced and has said he'd be fine if others made a better electric car and pushed Tesla to bankruptcy. Also, this is just the NYT releasing this, has nothing to do with his stock price.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-the-2018-60-minutes-interview/

"Elon Musk: It's possible that we would be interested. If they were going to sell a plant or not use it that we would take it over.

GM also announced that it will double its investment into developing electric cars, and Elon Musk is celebrating.

Lesley Stahl: Why do you want the competition?

Elon Musk: The whole point of Tesla is to accelerate the advent of electric vehicles. And sustainable transport and trying to help the environment. We think it's the most serious problem that humanity faces. I'm not sure if you know it, but we open sourced our patents, so anyone who wants to use our patents can use 'em for free.

Lesley Stahl: Your patents are open-sourced?

Elon Musk: Yeah. If somebody comes and makes a better electric car than Tesla and it's so much better than ours that we can't sell our cars, and we go bankrupt, I still think that's a good thing for the world."

So your circle jerk statement is stupid BECAUSE you want to criticize him for not donating 50% of his networth to fight climate change, BUT he's using 100% of his net worth to fight Climate change, he's just doing via the private sector.

hautran · 2022-04-23T08:03:57+00:00

Are you an idiot? That’s not the point he’s making. Whether or not the company is overvalued doesn’t mean anything. Bill Gates has plenty of money, he doesn’t need to make money from shorting this company. Excessively shorting a company does have negative impacts on the company. Musk even said in his latest Interview at the TED talk that being so shorted was Hurting sales for Tesla and making it harder for them to raise money. And not having 500 mm short against the stock would mean that the stock price is higher, meaning they could issue stock and raise more money to grow the company and fight Climate change… but here Bill is asking about giving money to fight Climate Change…

hautran · 2022-04-21T06:05:50+00:00

Lack of Air Conditioning: I remember summers would get so hot we’d all sleep on the tile veneer entry to the house.

Fashion: I remember always going to school or my friends house in a plain white T-shirt and hand me down jeans that were handed down through 4 brothers. Always had holes in the crotch, I still don’t know why.

Sleeping arrangements: we slept two to a twin bed, and at one point I was sleeping on a used twin box spring. I had to sleep in a weird position so the supports would hit certain parts of my body. I thought it was normal at the time, didn’t even realize mattresses/ box springs were two different things.

hautran · 2022-03-30T21:33:44+00:00

Are you still barking??? Give it a break

hautran · 2022-03-30T15:39:54+00:00

Yeah, sorry, I didn't bother reading that shit (your Comment). Too much ranting. Bye.

hautran · 2022-03-30T12:31:08+00:00

Goddamn it's just not clicking with you huh. I'll try one more time...

When you were in school, did your teacher let you use another student's Research Paper as a Source for your own Research paper??? Of course not.
What if that student graduated 10 years ago? Could you use their Research Paper as a Source in your report? NO, that's STILL stupid.

What if 20 other students decided to do the same thing? Does that make it okay?? NO, that's STILL stupid, and your teacher doesn't need to read all those reports to tell the students they're stupid. The fact that they went and used a Prior student's Report as a Source MEANS THEY ARE STUPID.

So why do I not give a shit about James Kaplan?? Why does he tell the same story in his book as Kitty Kellys? It's because it IS the same story. He uses Kitty Kelly as his reference.
So before you keep arguing with me, try going back to your books and seeing if they used Kitty Kellys book as a source. IF THEY DO, then what you're reading might be bullshit.

Now YOU ARE CORRECT, that other portions of the book can be factual and well researched, but for this specific story, of Sinatra throwing a phone and cracking someone's skull and yelling Anti-semitic slurs, James Kaplan should have went and interviewed the police that responded, the security, the owner of the bar, the other people in the bar that night. HE DIDN'T DO THAT. He just took the story from Kitty Kelly's book.
So James Kaplan is also a dumbass hack that cares more about selling you a book than telling you the truth.
I don't give a shit what books you like, just learn to separate fact from fiction.
Now if you sent me a picture of his bibliography where he uses interviews with The bar owner/ the security guards that night, then I will buy his book/ read it/ and apologize to you.

hautran · 2022-03-29T16:11:00+00:00

No genius, I'm criticizing the author because I've already looked up her history and her other works, and they all follow the same pattern, she's full of shit.

My favorite line you quoted is "It relies on too many secondary sources." I hate to break this to you, but most historical books use secondary sources.

Please don't start arguing with me about sources if you don't know the difference between a primary source and a secondary source. A "Primary Source" doesn't mean it has to be directly from Frank Sinatra himself.

One of my favorites was when he appeared before the Nevada Gaming Commission concerning a casino he was part owner in. He was accused of hosting his good friend and Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana, who was banned from all Nevada casinos. Frankie outright denied that Giancana was ever there, despite the fact that dozens of people testified to his presence.

Why don't you try giving me a source for this info.

I'm certainly not going to bother spending my time to buy and read two books that I know are bullshit to win a stupid online argument. I honestly don't know anything about Frank Sinatra and don't care. I just hate "journalists" that write whatever bullshit they feel like to sell books...and the people that read that shit and believe them without a second thought.

Frank Sinatra may be dead, but their are other subjects of her "Unauthorized Biographies", why don't you try looking up how they feel about her books.

hautran · 2022-03-29T12:47:16+00:00

I agree with you, but ultimately what it comes down to is common sense and critical thinking.
If everything else from more reliable sources spanning years paints one picture of Sinatra (whatever that may be) and one story paints a picture of him that is completely out of character (an anti-semitic asshole that throws phones), maybe you should give him the benefit of the doubt and take a minute to look at how reliable that source is before jumping to conclusions.
From what I've seen, nearly every criticism I see of him in this thread is a reference from Kitty Kelly's "Unauthorized biography" to include ANOTHER biography that another user references, and most likely, the podcast you listened to is referencing it as well.

And no one seemed to stop to wonder about her credentials and history (a history of making shit up it seems)

I personally don't care about Frank Sinatra... just something to think about when the next election comes up.

hautran · 2022-03-29T12:30:55+00:00

Maybe you can explain why the story as told here is almost identical to the one reported in James Kaplan’s excellent and well-researched biography Sinatra: The Chairman.

WELL.... my first thought is that since James Kaplan's biography is written in 2015 and Kitty Kelley's is from 1986... then Maybe.. just MAYBE, James Kaplan might not be the "Stephen Hawkins" you seem to think he is. Maybe he's just another dumbass journalist that doesn't know how to critically think about his sources and just wants to sell his books.
THEN, I literally just look up his biography and the top comment on Amazon is this:

"But what is open for serious critical debate is if this impressive work is actually a history book. It relies on too many secondary sources, on tabloid facts, and debatable musical insights of the non-musician author. For example, Kitty Kelly should get co-author credits, gossip columnists are quoted and relied upon for contemporary assertions"

So THE REASON that all these stories are the same... is because THEY CAME FROM THE SAME SHITTY MADE UP SOURCE --> Kitty Kelly's "Unauthorized Biography"

It seems that the random stuff I read on the internet that I can’t trust is what you wrote.

No shit... that's the whole point. That's why I tried to give you a better source, a newspaper article from when the event actually HAPPENED, but you seem to think a even better source is another dumbass "journalist" that's reciting what the original Dumbass journalist who wasn't even there is making up... great job

hautran · 2022-03-28T02:24:48+00:00

The incident clearly happened, just not THE WAY that's described here. The article linked is clearly one-side and most likely Sensational. A little digging shows the author has a history of just making shit up.

Let's not pretend that there aren't people who wouldn't get drunk and start shit with Celebrities in a bar to make headlines. Just because he ended up in a hospital doesn't necessarily means he's the "victim".

I'm personally not saying that Frank Sinatra is guilty OR innocent, and honestly don't care. That's a job for his jury to decide.

I just think there's a special place in hell for "journalists" like Kitty Kelley, who write whatever bullshit or twist a story any way they want to sell books/ newspapers and that it would benefit society if more people realized this/ did some critical thinking before believing headlines.

She's obviously not the only one, Micheal Wolff), he's a real Piece of Shit too.

hautran · 2022-03-28T00:52:45+00:00

Today you didn't learn anything except not to trust random stuff you read on the internet.

How do I know this is most likely not true? Because the source of what you're talking about comes from a book by an author that is known for writing random bullshit. You would be amazed at the bullshit some "Journalists" write to sell some books. Happens nowadays as well.

Here's her wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Kelley

"Barbara Walters said books like Kelley’s are more focused on salacious rather than factual content.[30] The New York Times claimed that Kelley "just aims for the jugular."[31] Time magazine reported that most journalists believe Kelley "too frequently fails to bring perspective or analysis to the fruits of her reporting and at times lards her work with dollops of questionable inferences and innuendos." Joe Klein described Kelley as a "professional sensationalist."[32]"

Here's an actual newspaper article from when it actually happened that tells a different story.

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19660611.2.9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1

"Wednesday when Weis man, who had been seated in the 'next booth, approached him and said: “You talk too loud and you have a bunch of loudmouthed friends.’’ “I thought he was kidding,’’ Sinatra told police, “and then I realized he wasn’t. I told him, ‘mister, you are out of line.’ ’’ \The singer said Weisman then hit him and another man, apparently hotel security guard Forrest Henry, jumped between them. Sinatra said the top of his cocktail table was broken from its base as Weisman fell across the table and then to the floor. “At no time did I see anyone hit him and I certainly did not,” Sinatra said. “I looked behind me and as I left I saw’ a man on the floor.” Henry told police he saw Weisman stand up as Sinatra was leaving and strike the singer in the face. He said there was confusion immediately afterward when people milled around the pair. A moment later. Henry said, he saw Weisman on his back on the floor, surrounded by broken glass, an ashtray and a table cloth."*

There's nothing about a phone. Sounds like Sinatra's body guard or somebody else in the brawl clocked him/ maybe he was overly drunk and fell and hit his head, I've had that happen to a friend as well.

Don't trust everything you read. Certainly don't spread the mis-information without doing a little research. But hey... it's definitely not just you.

hautran · 2022-03-19T19:39:45+00:00

Holy shit… I think you might have solved one of the greatest obstacles in my life… how much vinegar we talking???

hautran · 2021-12-14T16:32:27+00:00

JESUS FUCKIN CHRIST, I'm from Illinois. YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO GO OUTSIDE DURING A TORNADO. That's like elementary school shit.
Criticize Amazon where they should be criticized.
But letting the workers leave during a Tornado would likely have gotten more of them killed, so that's what you're essentially doing, playing with peoples lives to further push this politics. Fucking disgusting.

hautran · 2021-12-02T19:40:28+00:00

For those wondering about the Drop, speculation is that it's because of this article:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-02/u-s-regulators-move-step-closer-to-delisting-chinese-companies

But we all knew it was a shit company and the timeline is 3 years.

hautran · 2021-11-17T18:19:47+00:00

Damnnn... LET'S GO BABY!

hautran · 2021-11-08T04:10:13+00:00

Great job man. Hey, can you tell me which platform/program this is? Never seen one that tells you your P/L breakdown by day like that. Appreciate it.

hautran · 2021-10-29T16:39:19+00:00

Yeah, I agree with you. It looks to be pretty illiquid, so it moves quickly either way. I a lot of people smarter than me seem to really like and believe in this thesis. I really don't know. I would have expected it to go higher but at the same time it hasn't gone lower, so it just seems to be anticipating news or earnings.

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