• metaStatic
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    25423 days ago

    anyone else buy the dip? because you know all his criminal friends did.

        • @[email protected]
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          6223 days ago

          The biggest most beautiful insider trading, you’ve never seen bigger insider trading. String him up!

          • @[email protected]
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            1323 days ago

            String him up!

            This is the only appropriate response, but Americans would prefer their symbolic cinematic marches with idols giving speeches as opposed to any real solutions.

          • @[email protected]
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            “I get it, people are upset. It’s a big deal, a great deal, it might even be the biggest deal in the history of deals. The Democrats are mad about it, very mad. ‘He can’t do that,’ they say. They’re poor losers. They tried to make good deals like this. Tried many times. They failed, and they’re mad because I didn’t. I make the biggest, best deals. But their deals, those are no big deal. I get it, they’re mad. Mad that I did what they couldn’t. The Democrats lie, they say ‘President Trump, you can’t do that.’ But I could do it. I did do it, and I proved them wrong. Just like when I beat Biden in 2024. They said I couldn’t do it. I did it. Just like when I beat Hillary in 2020. I couldn’t do it, I did it. Just like with Obama, I did it. They keep saying I can’t do this or I can’t do that. They say it’s impossible to do these things. They say many things, most of them wrong. They don’t want to look bad, weak. The Democrats, Antifa, they’re weak, so they lie. They think everyone is weak, just like them. That’s fine, that’s fine. You see, they’re copying me now. They see a strong leader, very successful businessman, and they want to be one too. They copy me. They say what I say, do what I do, and they try to stop me. They want to be me, but they don’t want me to be me, so they lie and cheat. They rigged the economy, set it to collapse with forced ‘vaccines’ and wasteful D-E-I. I come here with my tremendous plan, going to make America great again. Bring all the business and jobs back. The Democrats cheat again, they go on CNN. They go on CNN, sell their stocks, rig the market. They didn’t think. Stocks are going to go up, way up. Numbers like you’ve never seen before. And they sold. The tariffs, I paused them. They thought they could cheat, and I turned it around. They lost big. Really big. Real Americans, we’re fine. Better than fine. The Democrats, they’re not fine. They lost, they’re mad. Only the Democrats are upset, it’s fine. Nobody should be upset about that. They played their hand and lost, and they’re mad. Don’t listen to them, they’ll get over it. They lie and they cheat, and they lose every time. We’re winning, winning big. So big. We’re going to win even bigger next week. 300% tariffs on Democrat businesses. No more foreign workers. More jobs for America.”

      • @[email protected]
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        1523 days ago

        What is the source of this chart? I’d like to use the image on other sites, but I can’t without knowing what the source is.

        • @[email protected]
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          723 days ago

          If you plan to use it, you should know that there was a separate “good news”-event at that point in time. It would not surprise me if insider trading happened, but that spike could also be from the bond auction. As much as I want the US to lose their influence in the world, it’s important to not jump to conclusions for political reasons. The spike should be investigated properly, but at this point the US might be too corrupt for that to happen or have consequences.

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        There must be a way to surface this info? Surely there are known “insider” accounts one can track?

    • edric
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      I was just talking to my coworker at lunch that I’ll create an account and buy the dip. By the time we got back to our desks, I saw the news of the pause and everything shot up.

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          223 days ago

          You’d have to be watching the speech, ready to react within a minute it two and you could have caught most of it.

    • @[email protected]
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      2623 days ago

      I bought the dip once, years ago. Made like, I donno. Couple hundred bucks. Sold all my crypto at the same time. That was cumulative with the other thing. Made a couple hundred bucks.

      • @[email protected]
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        3423 days ago

        That’s the great thing about capitalism: anyone can make a ton of money, so long as they have a few tons of money.

    • JackbyDev
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      222 days ago

      I got a little lucky in that I filed my taxes on Sunday and made my 2024 IRA contributions then. Only some of the funds were available Monday but I was able to buy. I would’ve bought regardless of the price (I don’t really time things) but it worked out nicely.

  • @[email protected]
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    11623 days ago

    The American legal system will be unable and/or unwilling to deal with it. Best chance is to send HIM to El Salvador if he ever relinquishes the office.

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    13723 days ago

    And nothing will happen. But i bet a new trans athlete will win 5th place in an event somewhere to divert magas attention.

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      2323 days ago

      Didn’t that already happen? I thought they were all butthurt about some pool competition, like it fucking matters.

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          Well you are that’s cause they developed a cunning male brain at birth, and now with hormones they also have a crafty female brain. Having two brains is an unfair advantage over the poor cis men and women who only have one brain.

    • @[email protected]
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      Distraction is a primary job of capitalist media. Even better if it’s attacking a marginalized group. Always has been.

  • SeeMarkFly
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    1123 days ago

    If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

    THIS looks like a scam, doesn’t float so there’s some doubt, it sounds like a scam, yep, it’s a scam.

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    2822 days ago

    Is it 125% for China and 10% for everyone else currently?.. for 90 days?

    Or is it 10℅ across the board for 90 days?

    I’ll wait for his next tweet to make all my speculation pointless. Fuck this guy.

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      1322 days ago

      This is why countries need to make export tariffs in retaliation and leave them on during the chaos. Let the prices of everything in the US soar but allow them to collect none of it.

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        422 days ago

        Except the EU who did but apparently Trump didn’t know about it until a reporter asked him. Only the best people.

  • @[email protected]
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    5322 days ago

    Yeah, no shit. His first term was 100% him playing golf and using the treasury as his personal piggy bank, why the fuck would we expect anything different this time around? Wake me up when someone actually does something about it.

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    4922 days ago

    I’ve been saying this all along. Not just about this time, but he has pulled off a similar trade scare every month since he took office, with the same result - he announces tariffs, the market tanks, he rattles his sabre a bit, then pauses the tariffs, and the market rises again.

    This has been the third, and biggest one, probably because he needed to make it a big one as he cried wolf for a third time. Which means the next time he does it, it will have to be even bigger.

    Its clearly market manipulation, of a type that only president could do, but only if he were corrupt enough.

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      1122 days ago

      Unfortunately, if it were only the president who’s corrupt, he would have already been impeached and removed. Even if there were a question about whether he does or does not want to become an authoritarian dictator, ignoring everything that is hinting at it, he is digging himself in the sort of hole that he can only survive in as long as he retains power and I’m sure he knows it.

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            Point to me the trade wars and civil rights rollbacks that happened during those times. We just had to keep doing the thing and keep pushing the needle towards progressive ideas and socialist policies that help people. That’s ALL we had to do together, it was working for a while.

            But nope. Everyone lost their attention spans because social media and russian bots amplifying the worst of all sides of every issue until everyone said “fuck it, I don’t care, I rather see drama than boring, slow, incremental progress.”

            edit: I am fully aware of how absolutely wicked Obama was, I don’t care in this context, we were making PROGRESS, even if small amounts, your knee-jerk desire to educate me about how bad the system is on both sides just makes me think you’re not reading and feel entitled to something and you will be blocked. You’re a huge reason we’re in this mess. I’m fully convinced that most of you don’t actually want good outcomes and you just want to feel validated and recognized.

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              A lot of them are arguing in bad faith or have been brainwashed by the people that do. It is clear people can not only still protest, but protest far better with fewer worries and more effect under the lesser evil. These clowns would be complaining about the US winner-takes-all system of democratic governance if they truly cared, and there was only basically one option where protesting for that didn’t make you a potential deportee to El Salvador prisons.

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              322 days ago

              US gained the rights to legally murder its own citizens without due process under Obama.

              Also loads of giving corporations and capital rights, and rolling back protective anti-investment gambling under Democrat administrations, which ate up the rights of non-capital.

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              322 days ago

              Boring, slow incremental progress is great. Not ideal, but great.

              However, a two-party system where one party is ALWAYS a single lost election from the advent or fascism is a democracy too brittle to survive.

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                422 days ago

                Point me to the better alternative and who’s leading it. Otherwise we’re stuck with the systems we have and nobody is going to be perfect, or even “good” in most regards. But I don’t see a choice unless we find a way to destroy capitalism entirely.

                • @[email protected]
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                  522 days ago

                  We destroy capitalism or capitalism (finishes) destroying us. Appear to be the only two options available.

    • @[email protected]
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      922 days ago

      They’re pumping and dumping like mad so when the major crash happens they can buy buy buy. You think corporations are consolidated now…just wait. The same that happened 100 years ago is happening now. Just people are too fucking stupid to see it.

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    3623 days ago

    You know he’ll never face charges tho, right? I mean SCOTUS essentially gave him carte blanche to do anything he wants, whenever he wants to whomever he wants, no questions asked.

  • Lit
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    Impeach. 3 times at least before it will work.

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          Only the house of representatives has the power to impeach. This isn’t a thing “everyone” gets to do.

          • Lit
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            121 days ago

            Can everyone petition, encourage the members of the house of representatives to impeach, assuming there are solid reasons to.

    • @[email protected]
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      322 days ago

      Clearly impeaching him again will work this time guys. Just one more time guys, that’ll get him! /s

      • Lit
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        422 days ago

        Yup 3rd time the charm as the ancient saying goes.

        • Goldholz
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          222 days ago

          happy germany noises

          Soo you are saying. This time we can make it to vladivostok?

  • @[email protected]
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    4222 days ago

    He made the announcement at 1:18, but there was a high volume spike in SPY at 1:02. He then introduced some friends, like Charles Schwab, in the white house later and said they had made billions. This crash was also the first time MTG bought stocks.

    Should be an SEC investigstion with actual consequences for once. Probably won’t be, but there should.

    • @[email protected]
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      1122 days ago

      Hahaha an SEC investigation? I haven’t seen a single working class win at the federal level for about 16 years now

    • TheProtagonist
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      521 days ago

      Hasn’t Elon fired most of the SEC staff, to make sure they don’t get in their way…

  • @[email protected]
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    3023 days ago

    Not market manipulation, he tweeted in the morning that it’s a good time to buy, we should’ve just trusted the orange man /s

    • @[email protected]
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      523 days ago

      If you’re some twitch character, you already cashed in. I am not sure how to explain to some cartoon: pull all your money now you absolute troll

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          422 days ago

          12653 is a quote from when he voiced Mr. Conductor on Thomas the Tank Engine. Think it was quote 14694-a.

          • @[email protected]
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            422 days ago

            There is no way he-

            [George Carlin] was the second narrator for Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, narrating from the first to the fourth series and played Mr. Conductor from series two to three on Shining Time Station and in the spin-off series Mr Conductor’s Thomas Tales, after Ringo Starr left the series to focus on his music career.

            I had no idea. Thank you for leading me to this lore.

            What a strange and beautiful world…

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        And since we are now in episode two of this shit show there are three more words: fart, turd, and twat.

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    Jail Trump! Jail Trump!

    …and he pardoned himself.

    Hold on, is he raping two old ladies on main street while also shooting a dog, stealing 10 cars, developing an illegal DNA chemical and polluting the environment?

    …and he pardoned himself.

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    100%, its incredibly obvious.

    No, I was watching the bond market. The bond market is very tricky. I was watching it, but if you look at it now, it’s — it’s beautiful. The bond market right now is beautiful. But, yeah, I saw last night where people were getting a little queasy.”

    Hard to believe these are US Presidential quotes. Sounds more like some teenage barista smoking pot.