It's the ages old excuse about why given stock isn't making someone rich. They blame "shorts" and "market manipulators" for keeping the artificially stock low through illegal or globalist or deep state practices. For the ringleaders it's just an attempt to make money on a short squeeze (pretty much doing exactly what they're complaining about). For the sheep, it becomes a cult. And this being 2024, of course, it's a cult x 10 that brings in politics.ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 10:22 am I was reading that the GameStop thing is just more conspiracy stuff. Apparently conspiracy theorists are insisting that "globalists" are artificially keeping GameStop low and if they stopped manipulating the market the stock would take off (or something like that - I don't have the desire to explore this any further). Seems like it's more likely to siphon off Trump voters than Biden, so I'm all for it.
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Wasn't the GameStop meme-stock run just a joke the participants were having?
I mean, in a world where almost no one buys physical game media any more, how could GameStop continue to be profitable? What did they think would happen when the narrative moved on?
I mean, in a world where almost no one buys physical game media any more, how could GameStop continue to be profitable? What did they think would happen when the narrative moved on?
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I saw a documentary on it, and while it started as a middle finger to wall street, some people actually made out big time while some hedge funds who insisted on shorting the stock lost their shirts. It was a great illustration that monetary value of stock has nothing to do with intrinsic value.
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Here is RFK Jr hanging out with deeply crazy Roseanne Barr and explaining how he staged a roadkill bear in Central Park in an effort to evade responsibility for it.
Money quote: "I wasn't drinking, of course."
Money quote: "I wasn't drinking, of course."
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I wonder how many crimes that adds up to.
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Apparently he posted this because an unflattering New Yorker article is coming out this week.
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Why is Roseanne's hair flickering?
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The video is filmed with filters, presumably to make everyone look less weird.
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I assume it makes editing out the parasitic brain worms easier.
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Well, he has lost the furry contingent.
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Teddy Roosevelt would have kicked his ass without breaking a sweat.
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He somehow manages to make that story slow and boring.
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He's the main story on the just-released Last Week Tonight episode.
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I couldn't get through it and assumed that was more of a statement on me than him.LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 11:49 pm He somehow manages to make that story slow and boring.
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I saw this story today and thought "Yep thats when he got that brain worm"
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I love how he blames it on drinking too much, "but of course - not him drinking" - just all the people he was with.
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"Should we continue to grift or just drop out and stop pretending we weren't trying to help Trump win all along? It's just such a tough, principled decision for us to make..."
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Didn't we just see a few days ago RFK would drop out and join Harris if she gave him a position? Like that would ever happen for a vac skeptic. What a fuckin' set of tools. And yeah, every one has known all along you were pulling your brand of nuts from the TFG squirrelly nest.
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It's understandable. Most Conservatives nowadays are essentially wanna-be influencers, content creators selling click bait for cash and attention.
This goes a bit more into it.
There's a reason they keep trying to prop up famous people as policy-makers.the mediocrities and opportunists who identified his rancid charisma as their own tickets to ride, know that they can only ever and always do more. This is the nature of this type of content-creation gig, which can never turn off or calm down, but also this is the dead end that conservative politics was steering towards long before Trump took the wheel. A politics whose most fundamental idea is Make Progress Stop Happening would inevitably find itself fetishizing the torment of having to live in a world in which other people, who are not even you, are somehow supposed to matter just as much.
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John Oliver did an RFK Jr. story a couple of weeks ago. Not that he said much of anything that we didn't already know but figured it just belongs in this thread for posterity.
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Yeah, it was a good synopsis of where it started (ages ago) and where it is.
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And it was recorded right before the bear story.
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And it’s carefully timed to come out as the DNC is on! It’s such a coincidence it’s as transparent as hepcats couch gags.
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FTFYwaitingtoconnect wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:18 pm And it’s carefully timed to come out as the DNC is on! It’s such a coincidence it’s as transparent as hepcats couch gags. JD's couch covers.
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I’m not the one making them. I’m simply a humble audience member that enjoys when you and others bring them to me. Now dance, monkey!waitingtoconnect wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:18 pm It’s such a coincidence it’s as transparent as hepcats couch gags.
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Uhm...what? It aired on 8/11, it didn't just come out "as the DNC is on".waitingtoconnect wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:18 pm And it’s carefully timed to come out as the DNC is on! It’s such a coincidence it’s as transparent as hepcats couch gags.
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It’s funny you say you’re a couch joke person and you respect their traditions and yet now you’re a humble audience member…hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 8:23 pmI’m not the one making them. I’m simply a humble audience member that enjoys when you and others bring them to me. Now dance, monkey!waitingtoconnect wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:18 pm It’s such a coincidence it’s as transparent as hepcats couch gags.
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The news is reporting the vp candidate comments on Tuesday: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/rf ... r-AA1p8vDlgilraen wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 11:03 pmUhm...what? It aired on 8/11, it didn't just come out "as the DNC is on".waitingtoconnect wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:18 pm And it’s carefully timed to come out as the DNC is on! It’s such a coincidence it’s as transparent as hepcats couch gags.
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Not funny enough. Dance!waitingtoconnect wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 7:13 amIt’s funny you say you’re a couch joke person and you respect their traditions and yet now you’re a humble audience member…hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 8:23 pmI’m not the one making them. I’m simply a humble audience member that enjoys when you and others bring them to me. Now dance, monkey!waitingtoconnect wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:18 pm It’s such a coincidence it’s as transparent as hepcats couch gags.
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You have to wonder what was promised that will never be delivered. I know others saw him pulling votes from Harris (or more probably Biden) but I never saw it. Neither Biden nor Harris go in a bowl of mixed nuts.
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That's certainly going to give trump a bump, but Harris was already looking good in one-on-one polls. It makes the hill a bit steeper, no doubt.
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A bearskin rug?LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 5:25 pm You have to wonder what was promised that will never be delivered.
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As expected, Kennedy shamed the family name by endorsing TFG. The pundits' reactions are mostly "eh, whatever." RFK drew voters who didn't like either party, and those who bother to vote at all aren't all going to flock to the fascists.
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A gently used couch, perhaps?Jaymann wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 7:52 pmA bearskin rug?LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 5:25 pm You have to wonder what was promised that will never be delivered.
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Harris should start suggesting that this means Trump is offering weirdo RFK a cabinet post or other leadership position.
RFK's reputation is bad enough that Trump will either have to deny it (diluting gains from the endorsement) or accrue additional points in Weird.
RFK's reputation is bad enough that Trump will either have to deny it (diluting gains from the endorsement) or accrue additional points in Weird.
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She shouldn't but one of those independent PACs sure should.Holman wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 4:54 pm Harris should start suggesting that this means Trump is offering weirdo RFK a cabinet post or other leadership position.
RFK's reputation is bad enough that Trump will either have to deny it (diluting gains from the endorsement) or accrue additional points in Weird.