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Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by SnarkShark, Jan 22, 2016.

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  1. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Like him or hate him, I've got to think Maher will be intriguing viewing tonight.
     
    jr/shotglass, Nov 11, 2016
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  2. Captain_Kirk

    Captain_Kirk Well-Known Member

    Probably not. HRC is probably scheming for a way to get a 2nd chance in 2020.....
     
    Captain_Kirk, Nov 11, 2016
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  3. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I sometimes get a perspective I am missing elsewhere on here. The word Hedge Fund does not = Billionaire. I know guys with hedge funds who don't have a pot to piss in. Making money from managing other peoples' money is way harder than people seem to believe. And billionaire is rarified air. There aren't that many of them.

    I wouldn't put Mezvinsky in the category of "no pot to piss in," but he is NOT getting wealthy from managing money. I am not sure what he is even up to nowadays or how he makes money other than being in the Clinton Mafia. He did have a hedge fund -- it was tiny by hedge fund standards. Him and two other knuckleheads he used to work with started a fund that invested in Greece. I shit you not. Right as Greece was about to implode for good, friends of the Clintons were giving him bits of money to invest and he was loading up on Greek bonds and Greek bank stocks. The thing shut down, I believe, after he lost 90 percent of his investors' money. I am not even sure what he is up to now. Whatever it is, he isn't doing it with a billion dollars.

    As an aside, he didn't get any money from his parents. His mom used to be in Congress and his dad went to prison for running a Nigerian e-mail scam and the Feds took everything (unless he hid some). Again, shit you not.
     
    The Big Ragu, Nov 11, 2016
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  4. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    This is true. ... Carl Icahn left Trumps' victory party early and put a billion dollars to work buying anything anyone wanted to sell. I can't imagine he was thinking it would be a day trade. But he said afterward he would have put more to work. It's just that the liquidity was there and it ran away from him, so he was limited. If you blinked, you missed the trade. Few individual traders were taking part in that. Few people have the money to withstand those kinds of moves with the amount of leverage at work. Without a lot of margin, you'd have gotten wiped out by the volatility. That was computers with hundreds of millions of dollars of margin behind them playing ping pong with each other. And Carl Icahn laughing his ass off because he has a billion dollars of F U money put aside for times like that. I don't say that without respect. I don't care how rich you are, people who can do that are wired differently. Marty Schwartz (great trader) calls it something like the puke factor. When you are so scared that you want to puke, it usually turns out to be the right trade.
     
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    The Big Ragu, Nov 11, 2016
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  5. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    And with self-driving trucks, there go half of the restaurant jobs along the Interstates.
     
    micropolitan guy, Nov 11, 2016
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  6. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    So what are they planning to do again?



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    Songbird, Nov 11, 2016
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  7. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

    Probably have to be more creative in policymaking than banning automation.
     
    JohnHammond, Nov 11, 2016
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  8. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    It's her turn.
     
    Dick Whitman, Nov 11, 2016
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  9. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    It was a quip.
     
    Dick Whitman, Nov 11, 2016
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  10. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    California wants to party like it's 1861.
    Will Catalina Island be the 21st century Fort Sumter?
     
    Batman, Nov 11, 2016
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  11. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    What was?
     
    The Big Ragu, Nov 11, 2016
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  12. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Chuck Pierce: This Story Should Dominate the News Until Trump Is Sworn In

    Maybe it's because I grew up at the tail end of the McCarthy Era and in the heart of the Cold War, and maybe because I spent 13 awful days in 1962 waiting for the missiles to fly, and maybe it's because I believe that, Tsarist or Communist or Kleptocracy, Russia behaves in pretty much the same way, but I honestly believe that this should be the only story dominating the news right now.

    At least, I think it warrants as much space in our various media as was devoted to the BREAKING NEWS about what John Podesta had for lunch last year. Per The Washington Post:

    The statement came from Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who said in an interview with the state-run Interfax news agency that "there were contacts" with the Trump team. "Obviously, we know most of the people from his entourage," Ryabkov said. "We have just begun to consider ways of building dialogue with the future Donald Trump administration and channels we will be using for those purposes," Ryabkov was quoted as saying. Ryabkov provided no further details, and his remarks drew a swift denial from Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks, who said the campaign had "no contact with Russian officials" before Tuesday's election.

    Why in Christ's sweet name isn't this thundering through the news cycle right now? Why aren't hundreds of national-security reporters all over it? We have elected a guy who may well have traded what little integrity he has to a vicious autocrat and his thieves-in-law. (Note to anyone who takes exception: This is not "red-baiting" because these crooks are not Red.) We know he can't get a loan from most American banks, so he has to go overseas for a lot of his financing. What banks is he tied into, and are any of those banks tied into the Russian government? Whom does he owe and how much does he owe them? And how do they plan to collect?
     
    Songbird, Nov 11, 2016
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