props to Murdoch’s propaganda empire, for somehow convincing the majority of americans (rich too, via WSJ, not just MAGA idiots) that somehow republicans are actually good for the economy.

their entire modus operandi for the last 40-50 years has been that of disaster capitalists, purposefully collapses the economy to buy up distressed assets on the cheap

compared to it’s immediate neighbor it might as well be

it takes less dV to launch em out into the void

americans always act surprised when someone throws rocks back at them

you need an address to rent a PO box

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whats this image from?

she’ll still pull a(n even bigger) salary and keep her benefits, they did this during his first term plenty.

it’s essentially a pay-off, she’s too high-profile to assassinate now and they want to keep her from doing a tell all

he 100% knows what he’s doing, he just doesn’t believe words have meaning

yes, manufactured consent/propaganda in general is a delicate thing.

i actually saw a guy with someone else in their cybertruck the other day, first time for everything i guess

eh, when all the algos turn off is cheapest time to buy. long as your not shorting stuff/otherwise trading on margin/overexposed to debt-laden companies, it’s pretty much a non-issue

granted, that also takes the ability to ignore your emotions as well. it’s easy to tell yourself your not gonna sell/try to time a bottom or something but it’s another to see like half your life savings dissappear in a day.

is why alot of rich people just pay others to manage their money (especially if they know how many behind the scenes games), keeping emotion out of it takes practice. tends to be an expensive lesson learned the first time around.

they’re stressing the american propaganda machine to it’s limits i think, even under Bush they got like a good month or 2+ of narrative building before attacking the ME.

whether it matters…who the fuck knows, i’v been disappointed by my fellow americans far too many times to count by now. presumably this is all just creating a crisis to build towards trying to suspend/generally manipulate elections this year?

for example, insider trading is regulated

lol, sure it is. stock market is the biggest casino around, and there are a dozen different ways to extract “liquidity”

just like the stock market, actually enforcing the rules takes a sbmhitload of overhead and with enough influence even those aspects of the casino (SEC/FINRA/Fed) got compromised or neutered in no time at all.

honestly…my lines are going up crazy good, stock market is honestly easy as fuck way to make $ in a bull market, to a point.

little bit of risk tolerance and basic understanding of underlying market mechanics (legal and technically not legal) makes gambling like shooting fish in barrel, but there are scaling/reward for time-effort issues past like 6 figs

the “pros” do challenges like “how quickly can i turn this 500$ account into 50k”, just for shits and giggles.

all these rich cunts ratfucking our public funds all the time through backroom deals? all of them (and just rich people in general) throw their $ into the stock market cause they have nowhere else to spend it, building various bubbles because our market rules are designed to be exciting to “facilitate liquidity”. eventually, republicans come into power and play disaster capitalist, force austerity (bear market) onto everyone but themselves, specifically to stress the system with the goal of purposefully popping the bubbles. neolibs on the dem side do the same thing, but stop just short of purposefully collapsing the economy.

we have done this cycle many times over by now. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a pretty good entry into the subject, for anyone curious or thinking “surely it can’t be that easy, your exaggerating”…is basically a tongue in cheek guidebook to trading like Wolf of Wallstreet, written over 100 years ago

bu…but the lines are going up!

then…why stay where you are? it doesn’t sound like your happy wherever you are

chicago

when it comes to bars, the best ones ime only open once a week or less (especially punk live music bars). a local dive bar that only opens once or twice a month will attract different crowd than some daily bar.

far as your “demographic” goes…where are you at if you don’t mind me asking? there’s always an underbelly of working stiffs in any area, rich people don’t clean their own toilets or prepare their own food…somebody in the area has to be working to maintain/service everything

the most i bother with celebrity stuff is lamenting when another actor/actress fucks their face/body up with bad plastic surgery.

they (they being our general society/entertainment industry, which is mostly designed around exploiting insecurities it seems) got to jim carey recently…rip