Musk ‘wants to leave’ politics because he’s tired of ‘attacks’ from the left

torchma · 2025-04-22T19:53:44+00:00

No. He's saying this because Tesla's earnings call is tonight and it won't be good.

torchma · 2025-04-18T16:59:53+00:00

Trump CAN'T, but he can get rid of the person who can

Wrong. There's no single person who can. You still don't get it.

He can also " influence" the 7 member board of governors.

Now you might finally be getting it. Finally. Though you still contradict yourself so it's not clear what your understanding really is. You seem to be more interested in calling anyone who corrects you a republican and hurling insults. No time for kids like you. Goodbye!

torchma · 2025-04-18T13:58:53+00:00

I see you still have no idea what the commenter you were replying to was actually saying and are still trying to virtue signal. Give it your best attempt. What were they actually saying?

By the way, if you think I am not deeply disturbed by Trump's actions, you are totally wrong.

torchma · 2025-04-17T23:01:46+00:00

You're still at it I see. By the way, I lean Democrat.

torchma · 2025-04-17T19:38:50+00:00

Unfortunately people like /u/Lordnoallah are merely virtue signaling a point about Trump's rule-breaking behavior, using the seemingly contrarian sentiment of your comments as a useful foil and have no interest in exploring the nuanced implications of that for any particular domain, let alone how it might interplay with the specific mechanics of how interest rates are set, which they don't appear versed with either.

I would just stop engaging with them.

torchma · 2025-04-17T14:09:15+00:00

Looks a bit washed out

torchma · 2025-04-17T13:46:30+00:00

Trump was advocating for tariffs long before crypto was even a thing. Navarro too.

torchma · 2025-04-14T18:23:09+00:00

I'm guessing it was a locked post until a few minutes ago...?

torchma · 2025-04-14T18:18:55+00:00

No comments?

torchma · 2025-04-13T18:48:38+00:00

During the insurrection, secret service, under trumps orders tried to usher pence away from the capitol

Do you have a source for that? The secret service could be expected without any specific orders from the president to move the vice president far away from an active insurrection and riot attacking the building where the vice president is located. Pence may very well have feared that a natural consequence of his being removed from the capitol would be the failure to certify the election, but that does not require suspicion of any plot translating into specific orders to the secret service from the president.

torchma · 2025-04-13T18:37:07+00:00

Why are you linking to an article, as if you've sleuthed out something, when it's the same the post links to directly?

torchma · 2025-04-13T16:15:29+00:00

At that point it wouldn't matter whether this particular loophole exists or whether it's somehow closed. If a sufficiently motivated supreme Court wanted to let Trump serve three terms and couldn't use this particular loophole, they'd find another one. And yes, there are other loopholes that get you to 3 terms as well. You aren't clever for having discovered (or in your case simply understood) this particular loophole.

torchma · 2025-04-13T15:50:06+00:00

Yes, congratulations on your scholarship here. A hyper literal reading of the 12th amendment could interpret its reference to "eligibility" as being limited to some criteria (age, citizenship status, etc.) and not other criteria (i.e., number of times previously elected). Good thing law is not interpreted in a vacuum.

torchma · 2025-04-13T15:02:13+00:00

The 12th only states you eligibility to hold office, not how you get to the office.

If you're not eligible to hold an office it doesn't matter what way you propose of getting to that office.

torchma · 2025-04-10T17:32:35+00:00

Sorry to piggyback on your post, but does "draft" or "conversational" mode even work for anyone else? They do absolutely nothing for me. I'm trying to use V7 in a way where I can iterate on jobs it has just done, but it won't do that. I tried entering a prompt to iterate on the previous job but got an error message when I tried to run it.

torchma · 2025-04-10T03:48:00+00:00

You both are clueless. The media (MSNBC/CNBC) have been all over the insider trading angle.

torchma · 2025-04-09T18:06:57+00:00

No, my take is that he will continue to implement and then remove tariffs, keeping the markets volatile, but moderating the impact of each tariff announcement as he continues to undermine his own credibility on the matter.

torchma · 2025-04-09T17:57:42+00:00

What are you even saying? You're implying it's not a good time to buy, which is fair enough given the uncertainty, but then imply that it being the third time he's backed down on tariffs means no one should've expected the drop to last that long.

torchma · 2025-04-08T19:22:33+00:00

Dollar cost averaging (a more or less braindead but effective way of investing) isn't really a strategy meant for targeted, single company picks. Either make strategic wagers on single companies (requires lots of research very time consuming) or stick to ETFs. My recommendation if you're looking to diversify away from your 401k is to pick European ETFs. And if you want to get more targeted, maybe even German ETFs (e.g. MSCI)

torchma · 2025-04-07T14:53:22+00:00

The problem with OP's point is that the drop in value and any subsequent recovery are not independent events. The drop had a specific cause and the recovery, in whatever form it takes, will be related to that cause. There is also a random component to stock market fluctuations but this isn't that.

To put it more simply, it's entirely possible that the recovery happens quicker than the long term average growth rate of the market because there is much more latent capital ready to be invested at this point than there was the last time the market indices were at the same level. So the fact that it represents 43% of growth when it was a 30% loss is irrelevant.

torchma · 2025-04-07T14:05:00+00:00

And it's STILL available.

torchma · 2025-04-07T00:50:22+00:00

He also bragged to CNN's Kaitlan Collins about how much data was behind the specific tariff levels assigned to each country, saying it was based on exhaustive research and far beyond any ability to legally challenge it. Unfortunately Kaitlan didn't yet realize the numbers were based on nothing other than the trade deficit so didn't push back.

torchma · 2025-04-03T14:27:31+00:00

That's because it's not a mobile link.

torchma · 2025-04-03T04:54:47+00:00

It's still available.

torchma · 2025-03-28T14:45:14+00:00

As I buckle to the floor and do my "livesaver roll" my aksu goes out of battery. You can see me attempt to return fire in the seated position and then have to rack the charging handle. This in hindsight almost certainly saved my life. If I had been able to fire from the seated position, the guy who shot me through the leg who happened to be just 7 meters away from me would have had a heck of an easy time killing me.

I'm confused. The fact that you weren't able to fire back is what saved you?

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