Would deploying chemical weapons in US cities be enough to finally get Republicans to rein this shit in? Or will they cheer it on?

Shoot, they missed a chance to call it the “Federal Action Reporting Template”. Then we would be reading about how Letitia James "rolled out a ‘FART’. "

They’re probably taking some of the lardasses from the Texas National Guard who were too fat to deploy…

I actually wouldn’t mind this at all. Where I work, we have an office but most people are only in one or two days a week. I try to keep to a schedule, but some weeks I have to move my office days around. When my schedule changes, I update my Teams location so people know where I am, but I wouldn’t mind opting in to do it automatically.

But then again, my boss doesn’t really care where I do my work, as long as it gets done. Not everyone has the luxury of a boss who isn’t an asshat. If you are working in a place where you have to hide your work-from-home time, you should be looking for a new job.

Now that’s interesting. (More info here.)

I wonder what fun listening devices and other random spy shit are being planted there. A future President should probably not use that bunker until the “ballroom” above it is replaced with a structure that wasnt built by someone so obviously under foreign influence.

New Yorkers know he has done shit like this before

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellisicky/2020/10/03/how-donald-trump-took-down-bonwit-teller-a-fifth-avenue-landmark/

At least they didn’t turn the country Left …

Wow, who knew so many bankers were closet Antifa Generals all along?

But you are forgetting the key part: the Narcissist in Chief can take credit for his bold leadership on every step, never mind the fact we didn’t get anywhere.

You are spot on about Stablecoins, there are $180B worth of USDT alone outstanding and nobody believes they have the reserves stored as dollars anywhere. Accounts that large are hard to hide. Yet, they have not failed to meet redemptions yet, so clearly they are doing something right.

But, what I am talking about is a purposeful devaluation of the dollar vs. other currencies. It is so easy to trade in and out of the crypto markets in different currencies now that if the Dollar would take a sudden plunge vs. other world currencies, that plunge would have to be reflected in the crypto market as well, simply because of arbitrage.

Our President has made no secret of the fact that he wants stuff made here, and would intentionally weaken the dollar to get there. He cares about the dollar even less, when his current fortune doesn’t depend on the dollar at all.

I have a theory that the real problem is the sudden crypto bazillionaires. They ran the right software in 2009 -2011, when it was still possible to mine on desktops, and made 50 BTC every few days. At the time, it was worth next to nothing. Now, that 50 BTC haul is worth $5M (and rising), and they have oodles and oodles of 50BTC block rewards. These people have found the cheat code to more money than anyone should have.

Now that Trump has found Crypto religion, they are using it to artificially prop up the economy. I have been reading a lot of articles saying that the economy is flat for everyone except the very rich. Guess what? Crypto nerds are very rich!

I think their plan is to prop up the economy until, somehow, their team is out of power. Then poof! they pull all of their investment into AI slop and the whole country tanks. The Dollar crashes, but crypto doesn’t! Crypto can now buy more dollars, right at the same time when the entire country goes on sale.

Sigh. Donald Trump did not get elected to be President (Twice!) by giving a shit about what experts think…

Who knew that UBS, that venerable 150+ year old Swiss banking institution, was really woke Antifa terrorists all along?

Your phones don’t have letters on the buttons?

Long ago, before cell phones blew up how many numbers people used, American seven digit numbers were often referred to as a combination of letters and numbers. Below was a guide I how to translate the first three letters to a single word for numbers in Chicago

“Eight Sleep confirmed there’s no offline mode yet, but they’re working on it.”

There’s an offline mode after all. Unplug it!

The weird thing about this story is that after finding Crypto, it seems Trump is not hurting for money anymore. Not only is he sitting on a pile of shitty tokens, but the smart contracts governing those tokens constantly funnel money his way. Recent disclosures indicate that he and his family own $5 billion just in WLFI, and that doesn’t count other crypto scams like the NFTs and such.

So, by all accounts, he doesn’t really need this money anymore. Still, he will push to take as much as possible, just out of spite. Whether or not he actually broke any laws doesn’t factor into his thinking. He is out for revenge, pure and simple. And Republicans in Congress will let him grab them by the pussy, because they want a piece of it.

I will be the contrarian in the room and say that you shouldn’t really do anything different – unless you know that you are going to need that money in the next year or two.

Let’s take the S&P 500. Yes, we know there is an AI bubble, and the same 7 tech companies are knee deep in it. But it turns out that bubbles make money, until they don’t. In fact, a good chunk of the growth in the S&P over the past two years has been in those 7 companies.. If you had made this bet 2 years ago, you would be a big loser now.

So what do you do? Don’t panic sell. You can’t time the market. Sell when you need the money for something else. Sell when you have a purpose. But don’t be too upset when the bubble finally bursts, and it all dives 25% (or more!) . That was never real money anyway.

Introverts probably had it much better back then. You couldn’t physically take your work home with you. Your news came once a day, to the front porch, and was not constantly bombarded at your eyeballs. When you were home, you only interacted with your immediate family, unless you had someone physically over to visit. Or if someone called in the telephone, which you could always just not answer.

New Yorkers know he has done shit like this before

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellisicky/2020/10/03/how-donald-trump-took-down-bonwit-teller-a-fifth-avenue-landmark/

This time, it’s a headline that isnt a metaphor, but I wish it was…