I’m going to buy some at 10am

Going to be an interesting morning for U.S. tech stocks.

I suppose, Dieter. I just think that if we compare every form of heavy-handedness to Nazis, then “nazi” loses all meaning.
The only people more hyperbolic than Trump are his opponents.

Xan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:05 pm
How many times in history have the conquered people been granted the rights and privileges of citizenship in the conquering nation, merely because they had been conquered? Such a thing is a very new idea.

The Romans did it (eventually).

yankees60 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 4:30 pm Perplexity Pro says:

Wrong. I heard it in one of the money show episodes.

The Russian conscripts are cannon fodder, for sure. so are many Ukraine conscripts. I’ve asked this before: aren’t the Ukrainians in this because they want to be? Not because the Americans or British or Germans asked them to be. I’m not speaking of the hapless low level conscripts but of Ukrainian l...

My father’s family was mostly murdered for their identity.
Being hassled by ICE? Nah, not so much.

Didn’t Harry Browne approve of the US outsourcing manufacturing? One of the few things I disagree with. I hope Mike Rowe’s school has success.

Interesting. I’m a registered independent and voted Dem until this last round.

It sucks that Native Americans are getting harassed. It's insulting. But we all know they aren't going anywhere.

On the whole war .... another example of "don't take him literally"? If so, how do you take him on this matter? https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/trumps-promise-end-ukraine-war-day-meets-harsh-realities-rcna188167 Trump's promise to end the Ukraine war in a day meets harsh realities ...

Feigning Retreat, Ukrainian Troops Lured Attacking Russians Into A Devastating HIMARS Ambush
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2 ... rs-ambush/

Ancient gold artifacts stolen in Drents museum robbery
https://nltimes.nl/2025/01/25/ancient-g ... um-robbery

So you think this is going to escalate to extermination?

If I may nitpick, it’s Capitol Police
With an O

The natives should have deported us while they had the chance.
Well, they tried. Some of them did try.

See parallel thread ⇢ viewtopic.php?p=256131#p256131

ochotona wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:38 am Now one is complaining about the stock market the past four years, except doomers like me who think it's overvalued.

But if I recall, your dooming served you well with respect to gold purchases.

Yep

I Shrugged wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2025 12:47 pm Nevertheless, I don't like it when someone is singled out and made an example of.

Agree.

I have an Iraqi friend who told me some years ago that they refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf. I guess I should have figured.

I remember thinking about him during the Gail Gale Boetticher episodes in Breaking Bad.
(Walt’s superlab lab partner when Jesse was persona non grata)
https://breakingbad.fandom.com/wiki/Gale_Boetticher

Xan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2025 4:50 pm I believe I've mentioned here before that Trump's supporters take him seriously but not literally, and Trump's detractors take him seriously but not literally. This is a good example.

Is the 2nd one supposed to be inverted or are they both ‘seriously but not literally’?

I have the REAL ID, but maybe I need to consider the suspenders too, given my natural all year round tan. I get profiled all the time when flying. I think this came up some years ago when Ocho was worried about some Iranian-American students. Before 9/11, everyone assumed I was Italian. After, Arab...

I just read Vinny’s post at B’heads about ‘The Band’ and chest fever without knowing it was Vinny.