DeepEnigma
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Thought so.
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Monitoring the situation in Iran
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
As in he does the thing, then reverses the thing after the market tanks.
And a bunch of mysterious people conveniently profit from shorting the market.
Must be a coincidence.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
That's never happened ever for anyone else in the cesspool of DC and massive hedge funds every so often, only with him, surely.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
That's never happened ever for anyone else in the cesspool of DC and massive hedge funds every so often, only with him, surely.
Surely the
Unknown?
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I'm not. That was just one example of a mountain of bad money-grubbing policies that has led to people and businesses fleeing the state. What I was actually doing was criticizing a state that is self-destructing. 1 trillion in business and investments lost all because they wanted more currency and couldn't budget correctly.
Another thing is I don't care how much currency someone has if they worked hard for it. If they worked for it and do a service to society, I don't care and it's not my right to tell them what they should do with that.
And finally, introducing taxes like that means someday I'll get taxed even if I never become wealthy. Once the state gets desperate again, they will lower the threshold from Billionaires to Millionaires, then to Centi-Thousandaires, and finally to everyone. This always happens. To get the income tax approved in 1913 it was claimed to be temporary and only for the 1%. Well I'm still waiting for it to end and now everyone is paying it.
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DeepEnigma
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Surely selective outrage is the highest form of currency, innit.
If that could only be invested in. The wealth would flow to the peasantry, or not.
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Then I surely must be poor?
calico
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Oh interesting, because earlier in the thread the term was being used to explain President Trump not taking military action against Iran.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Interesting how? It applies to the context then, and it applies to the context of the hypothetical situation discussed now.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
We're all GafRich.
squallheart
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Yup were here hitting close to 5.00 in California. That also could be due too our idiot governor and refineries leaving @.@California gouging and taxing the life out of their people. They should never be used as any form of litmus when it comes to energy costs.
Even when I was paying $2.98 for 93 here in an expensive part of FL a month or so ago, CA was sill in the $4.20-$4.50 range.
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And it's still lower than the bleeding of us they did from 2022 - 2024. How soon we forget.
FullMetalx117
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It's really not that interesting at all. Many of Trump's ilk along with himself have embraced the taco and made money from it. Come on this is a national grift, hop on the train from last year.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Meanwhile,
Cyberpunkd
Member
Ah, the embarrassed millionaire mindset.
calico
Member
Is it as wrong this time as that time?
Maybe the term should be Trump Could Hypothetically Chicken Out At Some Undetermined Point In The Future.
If President Trump himself is complicit in this alleged conduct for financial gain then 'chickening out' is a stupid term for what is being described, but I suppose that's to be expected from terminal TDS sufferers.
FullMetalx117
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I mean TACOing is a pretty tame term, nothing to be offended by, don't be a snowflake. It's kind of funny actually and people make money out of it, including Trump himself.
It's not a symptom of TDS, everyone loves a good ol Taco and we all make money out of it. Nothing wrong with taking part of the grift.
Hari Seldon
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Good fucking luck against that union lmao.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
How is it wrong? It describes stuff that has already happened. As in Trump does/threatens to do a thing, then doesn't do the thing, as I stated earlier. This happens a lot, which is why there's a term for it.
DeepEnigma
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Been doing it for a while, ever since he would tell all of America to invest in certain areas and the ruling class inside traders lost their shit over it. Fun times.
Been also following Nancy's trades for a while and those were very fruitful as well, only they never told Americans before passing their inside trade legislations.
calico
Member
Agree to disagree.
I think it's fair to say that the earlier suggestions that President Trump would not take military action against Iran because 'Trump always chickens out' were proven wrong.
Though apparently 'chickening out' no longer refers to a lack of courage to go ahead with some action, but to a deliberate plan to reverse course later in order to personally profit from the reversal (something the term has never meant before), so who knows?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
The context for that was limited to that specific time frame. There were rumors that they wanted to go in earlier than they did.
It means a lot of things to different people. I wouldn't really get too hung up on it.
I mean, I'm pretty sure you agree with the general concept. Let's put it this way - as a person who generally supports and agrees with what President Trump does, you would acknowledge that he is often known for negotiating in a hardball fashion. He shoots for the stars and then settles for the moon. Me makes outrageous claims in order for the eventual agreement to look not so bad by comparison and seek victory on a relative scale rather than an absolute one. Many of his supporters call this "art of the deal" or "4D chess". Do you agree?
This describes the same behavior and actions. It's just that some people view it as just according to keikaku and other people view it as belligerent incompetence.
DrFigs
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It's an understandable mistake honestly. There was a bomb near the mayor's house; if you just saw the headline it's only natural to think the mayor was the target. And she corrected the mistake anyway.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
No it wasn't.
DrFigs
Member
I think you are probably not able to be charitable. But she apologized and corrected her mistake.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
When it comes to Joy Reid, The View, Rachel Maddow and the like? No.
She's only sorry she got caught spitting bullshit when the video and proper information as out on day 0 of the incident. "Different realities" be damned.
Baemono
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But it's true though, did you see how Fox News showed the ceremony for fallen soldiers ? They didn't want to show Trump wearing his merchandise hat and showed another ceremony instead, and had to issue apologies for it
The people who only watch Fox News (and there are many) wouldn't understand why people called the president « disrespectful »
Gp1
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There's an entire book about TACO, it's called Art of The Deal "written" by non other that DT.
"I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after," "Sometimes I settle for less than I sought, but in most cases, I still end up with what I want."
"I still hope you won't follow my advice" "Because that would just make it a much tougher world for me."
What's most surprising is how this caught the market and international diplomats off guard in the first place. I suppose that this type of person would have an entire dossier of these thing when someone as public as him got to his first term.
"I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after," "Sometimes I settle for less than I sought, but in most cases, I still end up with what I want."
"I still hope you won't follow my advice" "Because that would just make it a much tougher world for me."
What's most surprising is how this caught the market and international diplomats off guard in the first place. I suppose that this type of person would have an entire dossier of these thing when someone as public as him got to his first term.
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DeepEnigma
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I want Tacos now. But it's not Tuesday.
Embearded
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Has there ever been another time when "journalists" injected their views in their articles so strongly?
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