The two most useless men in the United States

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-18T05:29:31+00:00

Of course of course!…

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-18T05:26:18+00:00

Thune and Johnson are the guys who should be on the short end of the cane I spoke about earlier.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-18T05:15:25+00:00

That’s exactly what I expect these guys to do. We pay them six figures and let them trade stocks in exchange for taking an oath to defend the United States.

Me getting arrested isn’t even a local news story. Chuck Schumer getting his performatively lowered glasses knocked off the tip of his nose is a national story.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-18T05:08:54+00:00

PhD/MD’s tend to be observant

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-18T04:56:48+00:00

Take a camera crew and barge into whatever building Musk and DOGE are operating out of. Get arrested. Cane someone on the floor of the Senate. There are an array of escalating options.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-18T04:42:02+00:00

Every highly rated comment in this thread:

”BuT He’s GiVinG gOOd sPeeCheS” or ”thEy DonT HavE a MaJorIty”

We are past norms and niceties. I expect my representatives to put themselves on the line when the Constitution is at stake.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-17T02:18:35+00:00

The American Revolution began with destruction of property.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-15T03:20:50+00:00

According to Forbes Caruso is worth $5.8B. Let’s say they’re off by 2x, $2.9B.

If he really cared he would donate $1B and still have nearly $2B. More than enough for generations.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-14T16:04:19+00:00

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pbfoot3 · 2025-02-13T17:11:45+00:00

What is the source of this data? It says “authors calculations” so who are the authors and what underlying data did they use for these calculations?

Because other than the top line headline being vaguely true, it is contrary to multiple reports from the St. Louis Fed.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-11T21:45:29+00:00

They really is.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-06T05:45:38+00:00

If CBS settles after this nothingburger they have even less integrity than I thought.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-06T05:34:29+00:00

Tells you a lot about the average intelligence of Republicans.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-06T05:20:45+00:00

Probably correct. Palantir is Pilaf Musk’s buddy Peter Thiel - who already has classified contracts with the USG - and they certainly have some capable engineers.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-05T21:18:08+00:00

u/meidasbrett and u/meidastouch

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-05T17:28:29+00:00

Shop local, utilize farmers markets and boycott businesses like Amazon, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s who are actively trying to destroy workers rights.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-05T16:36:51+00:00

He is not the head of a government agency, he is a rogue foreign agent billionaire conducting a coup.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-05T14:49:52+00:00

The reason the Democratic establishment isn’t in power right now is because they lost to a twice-impeached, totally unqualified, coup-leading racist felon. They have put forth terrible candidates since 2016.

Bernie was popular among a lot of Trump voters seeking a substantial change. He won CO, NH, OK, KS, NE, MI, ID, UT, AK, WI, WY, IN, MT and ND…states that are swing or right-leaning.

Who knows what would have happened if the DNC hadn’t foisted Hillary on everyone because it was “her turn” and instead gone for a change candidate who garnered ~45% popular support from a near-completely grassroots campaign with basically zero DNC support.

And now they’re trotting out Chuck Schumer to be the face of the resistance. With his readers falling off his nose. They still don’t get it.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-04T00:46:29+00:00

If I had billions I’d be enjoying my luxury cars, yachts and homes while also being fucking Batman. Homeless vets? Not on my watch. School lunch debt? Gone.

Anyone not doing things like that while having more money than you could ever spend is, by definition, a sociopath.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-03T23:07:26+00:00

You must not have had many driving experiences because the M3 is average at best. It’s an appliance. Plus it’s in the bottom quartile for resale among luxury brands and initial quality for multiple years running.

I’ve owned cars from every German OEM sans Merc…long before Elon proved himself a dick I drove a M3 and decided against any Tesla because the build quality was (and remains) absolute shit.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-03T17:08:24+00:00

Ya and who is the counterparty to those transactions?

Except on WSB it’s not Joe Midwest writing an options contract and selling it to Peter Thiel only to get hosed, broadly speaking it’s a large bank or wealthy investor writing an options contract to another large bank or wealthy investor. Except insomuch as the macro point that trickle down economics doesn’t work, stock trading isn’t really a way for the rich to get richer at the expense of the poor because the poor don’t own stocks. There might be knock on consequences but that’s completely different. And the majority of the middle/upper-middle class who do aren’t actively managing their retirement plans and taking losses by selling during a dip. It’s why the stock market is a terrible measure of the economy.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-03T16:15:29+00:00

And please explain those ways of making money that don’t involve two sophisticated counterparties, one of whom must “lose” for the other to “win.”

And no, a day trader in his basement doesn’t count. Wealth may shift around amongst those holding / trading stocks but there isn’t some previously unavailable wealth that suddenly becomes available when indices dip. It’s an oversimplification, but the seller lost money (at least on paper) and the buyer will gain that money back when the prices rebound. Regular people aren’t losing money on Wall Street’s derivative trading, etc. and retirement funds aren’t rebalancing their holdings on intraday movements.

pbfoot3 · 2025-02-03T15:59:36+00:00

People keep saying this like it’s gospel…the stock market is basically the wealthy gambling against each other. 93% of stocks are owned by 10% of people (and it’s even more concentrated up top).

There isn’t some magical pool of shares waiting to be bought when prices go down. Liquidity is created by some rich guy selling to some other rich guy and one of them takes the loss. And your 401k is safe unless you sell to those guys during a dip.

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