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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.
The Secretary is unfit to lead.
My impression is that a lot of political experts and other commenters are conflating winning a debate with winning an election. People might agree that Harris won the debate, but they still might vote for Trump. And there are thousands of potential voters who like his lies and like that he lies and then lies about his lies.
Trump is absurdly, pathetically, desperately "running from prison," as George Conway says. He's desperate to regain power, to hang on to his money, and to not be "the loser" …
I had the sense that this was occurring. UGGG. Small focus groups on CNN and elsewhere of undecided voters *seem to be leaning toward Vice President Harris. Those who say they prefer Trump were already leaning towards Trump.
People are really hung up on the economy.
Presidents Trump and Biden likely forestalled the collapse of the economy coming out of COVID by sending out all those checks; the resultant inflation came from ramping up the money supply to keep the economy afloat. A spat of inflati…
While I think that true, there is plenty of Greedflation in the mix, oligarchical, omnivorous conglomerates, raising prices because the can.
Here in Florida, where greed goes unchecked, people blame the high costs in the Biden Administration, not the greedy oligarchs who have bought and paid for Desantis.
I think of some of the greedy oligarchs as "Buy Back Bandits" endlessly ratcheting up their equity share of everything profitable at the expense of the increasing numbers of citizens and workers that can't begin to match the percentage of savings, buying power, or accumulating wealth.
This is why I think Vice President Harris seeking a tax on unstruck stock options given as part of compensation makes sense. Control the micro-incentives.
I'm not an expert but know of a few people that just missed the boat having to wait 6 months for the selling window to open on their holdings. One had a great looking tech application that had his valued at $400 million (if the government chose it instead of a less likely competitor). It seems that dropped to the price of a house in the Bay area a few days before he could sell.
I'm convinced they had, like other inventors I knew, a great design but a better one came out just before they could get to the market. Good work, but someone else had something better before they knew it. The good thinkers still get hired by other companies, but don't hit the jackpots like their new bosses do (looking at Elon, here).
Then there is Trump who looks to be getting set for another of his well deserved financial disasters according to:
"...The date on which former President Donald Trump is eligible to offload shares in his social media company is rapidly approaching—though when it finally comes, it’s likely to offer far less of a treasure than it was earlier this year...
...The company’s latest prospectus filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission outlines three factors that would trigger the lock-up period to conclude: The end of the first six months of DJT stock trading as its own entity, Trump Media shares trading above $12 for any 20 of 30 trading sessions beginning Aug. 23, or a transaction, like a merger, in which all shareholders have the opportunity to trade in their Trump Media holdings at the same price.
That means the earliest possible date Trump can sell is Sept. 19 if Trump Media shares remain above the $12 threshold, not a guarantee with a $17 share price Friday, and the latest his selling window would open is Sept. 25, the end of the opening six-month period of DJT’s direct public listing..."
It's already down 80% (so far), making me think he should have waited until after the window opened before debating Kamala, he probably could have found some suckers before the debate, but who would buy now?
Should I feel sorry for other investors?
Sometimes when people keep asking for it, they get what they deserve (something my great grandmother taught me).