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.
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.
Re: RFK for President
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 7:04 pm
by Holman
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?
Re: RFK for President
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 11:25 pm
by Jaymann
Holman wrote: Wed May 22, 2024 7:04 pm
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 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.
Re: RFK for President
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2024 6:47 pm
by Holman
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.
"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..."
"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..."
Fucking clowns.
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.
"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..."
Fucking clowns.
It's understandable. Most Conservatives nowadays are essentially wanna-be influencers, content creators selling click bait for cash and attention.
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.
There's a reason they keep trying to prop up famous people as policy-makers.
Re: RFK for President
Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 2:03 pm
by gilraen
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.
Re: RFK for President
Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 3:00 pm
by Unagi
Yeah, it was a good synopsis of where it started (ages ago) and where it is.
Re: RFK for President
Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 3:08 pm
by Isgrimnur
And it was recorded right before the bear story.
Re: RFK for President
Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:18 pm
by waitingtoconnect
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.
Re: RFK for President
Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:28 pm
by Unagi
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. JD's couch covers.
FTFY
Re: RFK for President
Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 8:23 pm
by hepcat
waitingtoconnect wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:18 pm
It’s such a coincidence it’s as transparent as hepcats couch gags.
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
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.
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.
Uhm...what? It aired on 8/11, it didn't just come out "as the DNC is on".
RFK Jr is officially out and endorsing Donald Trump.
Re: RFK for President
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2024 5:25 pm
by LordMortis
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.
Re: RFK for President
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2024 6:28 pm
by Kraken
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.
Re: RFK for President
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2024 7:52 pm
by Jaymann
LordMortis wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2024 5:25 pm
You have to wonder what was promised that will never be delivered.
A bearskin rug?
Re: RFK for President
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2024 4:48 pm
by Kraken
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.
LordMortis wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2024 5:25 pm
You have to wonder what was promised that will never be delivered.
A bearskin rug?
A gently used couch, perhaps?
Re: RFK for President
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2024 4:54 pm
by Holman
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.
Re: RFK for President
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2024 4:56 pm
by LordMortis
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.
She shouldn't but one of those independent PACs sure should.