A Political Thread pt. 2

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Anyone riding GME to the moon?
If this was a year ago and Covid hadn't caused me to protect my savings I would've hopped on at $100. Honestly I prob would've hopped on at $275.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Find the whole thing so hilarious,

Hedge funds are bricking it - Only they're allowed to manipulate the market, how dare the plebs do it

Edit: Just seen Tootsie Rolls and Blackberry are both soaring as well

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

AMC is one I might get on.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Market is crazy.
Robinhood stopping all buying of AMC, GME, NOK, BB
Trading212 doing the same
Other companies not taking new clients

 

[TRF_Olyy]

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

Class action incoming v Robinhood. They've ****** up bigtime here

 

[Reiser99]

Coronavirus: Government withdraws 'sexist' Stay Home advert

An "infographic" urging people to remain indoors during lockdown showed only women doing chores.

www.bbc.co.uk

Good old Tories. Can always trust them to put their foot in it.

 

[ncurd]

Coronavirus: Government withdraws 'sexist' Stay Home advert

An "infographic" urging people to remain indoors during lockdown showed only women doing chores.

www.bbc.co.uk

Good old Tories. Can always trust them to put their foot in it.

How bloody hard is it to depict one man doing a job around the house. I thought these marketing people did it as a default these days and usually get in trouble for doing that.

 

[Reiser99]

How bloody hard is it to depict one man doing a job around the house. I thought these marketing people did it as a default these days and usually get in trouble for doing that.

Begs the question who signed off on it. As you say how hard can it be?

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

How bloody hard is it to depict one man doing a job around the house. I thought these marketing people did it as a default these days and usually get in trouble for doing that.

A bloke with a vacuum cleaner is a pretty safe bet as it's a gadget and makes noise.

 

[ncurd]

Class action incoming v Robinhood. They've ****** up bigtime here

 

[TRF_Olyy]

This whole situation has got Ted Cruz and AOC agreeing on things



Robin Hood is owned by a company that also owns a hedgefund that is set to lose billions (seen it estimated anywhere between 30 and 80 billion) from all this.

Shut it down illegally, pay the $50m fine, dust yourselves off, done.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy

The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

Quite an interesting claim. Helps explain why Trump was in Putin's pocket the last 4 years. Not that his supporters would ever believe it.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Hong Kong residents now eligible for special UK visa

From Sunday, those eligible can apply for a special UK visa using a smartphone app.

www.bbc.co.uk

Would help the economy a lot potentially once this COVID **** is sorted.

Almost like free movement isn't the worst thing for a country.....

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Hong Kong residents now eligible for special UK visa

From Sunday, those eligible can apply for a special UK visa using a smartphone app.

www.bbc.co.uk

Would help the economy a lot potentially once this COVID **** is sorted.

Almost like free movement isn't the worst thing for a country.....

Be interesting how they settle if they do take it up. A lot back in 1997 preferred to settle in Canada and Australia, especially Canada from family and friends of family who I knew.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

There's suddenly a lot of interest in Tory circles in the work of Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel prize-winning psychologist and behaviouralist. They are attracted to the professor's thesis about how people recall difficult periods in their lives: they disproportionately remember, and therefore place the greatest weight, on how a harrowing episode came to an end. The contention is that even a deeply grim crisis can be thought of positively if the conclusion to it is an uplifting one.

Tory strategists are calculating that this is a trait of human nature that can be exploited to their party's benefit. They reckon that a successful vaccination programme will induce voters to forget the government's contribution to all the distress and death that came before it. The challenge for the Tories' opponents will be stopping Boris Johnson from getting away with this.

The bad taste question about Covid that everyone in Westminster is asking | Andrew Rawnsley

Will the vaccination programme give Boris Johnson’s popularity a shot in the arm?

www.theguardian.com

 

[Reiser99]

The bad taste question about Covid that everyone in Westminster is asking | Andrew Rawnsley

Will the vaccination programme give Boris Johnson’s popularity a shot in the arm?

www.theguardian.com

The irony being that one of the reasons we got so far ahead with the vaccine programs is that the UK chucked a large sum at companies before they were proven. Whilst that tactic failed hugely with PPE and Test and trace, it seems to have paid off with vaccines. It will be interesting to see how the UK responds to calls to share the vaccine with other countries to vaccinate their most vulnerable. Wouldn't at all be surprised if they ignore them to vaccinate everyone and get a great British summer after which they'll call a November election and ride the high.

 

[Which Tyler]

 

[Reiser99]

And yet Trump still won't be impeached by morally bankrupt Republicans.

 

[Which Tyler]

And yet Trump still won't be impeached by morally bankrupt Republicans.

Of course not - inciting and abetting an armed revolt with the purpose of overthrowing the institutions of democracy (complete with a lynching gallows ready and waiting) - that's not a crime worthy of impeachment, and trying to paint it as such is a nakedly political act.
If you want to know what a crime worthy of impeachment look like - look no further than Bill Clinton getting a blow job in the oval office!