I hope this creates historic consequences. I don't think Trump can handle taco Wednesday.

The puppeteers know what day of the week it is, even if dump doesn't.

When he finally shuffles off, there'll be a worldwide holiday. Tacos will be the traditional meal, but I can't figure out what the holiday itself would be called.

sorry, The Red Right Hand, as in Nick Cave’s song

"PEDO" if you want an = character count

A lot of rich people act exactly like that, they know their lawyers will get them out of any trouble they really get into. A lot of times other folks just stop arguing with them and they get their way because they just kept the lie up in such a delusional way, it's easier to walk away.

Well not like the teacher, principal and PTA is doing anything about it.

"Dog ate my peace settlement."

Except Trump hates dogs and it's mutual.

If anyone could bankrupt the casino economy of the the post reagan america, its Trump.

Not exactly. Roosevelt scheduled talks with Japan, and then had the diplomats to Japan skip the meetings. He did this multiple times. IIRC that was either the 12th or 13th meeting that the US delegation didn't attend. At that point Japan decided that the US wasn't actually interested in peace talks and attacked.

So in that case, as an American, I am inclined to believe that Japan was genuinely interested in the peace talks. We weren't, or more specifically our president wasn't interested in peace talks.

Wilson also didn't help matters by setting the stage for WWII.

The US wasn't even in the war until pearl harbour

Japan, champion war crimerer

It dropped 5% for the holiday weekend.

Off an 80% spike since the year started.

30+% of the population still think he’s a good president

As a person in the O&G industry, I regret to say he's good for me. My salary/bonus is fully outrunning inflation. Nevermind the compound stock gains juicing my 401k.

Trump's still shit in my book. But if I started out a Republican, why would I object to any of this shit?

A Global Crusade Against The Wretched Islam, ballooning profits, violent police actions against all those horrible minorities we don't like, that cool new ballroom, kidnapping the president of Venezuela, our SCOTUS is rigging the next election, what's not to love?

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent

After 2008, what's the worst that can happen?

The House is covering all bets.

They're gambling with monopoly money.

There is just no where else to park money in the amounts the markets currently service. That is it, simply that there is so much capital just sitting around in the market that it becomes a self fulfilling cycle.

Market prices are based off of amount of money put in the market --> There is not another place to get returns on investment as good as the market --> More money is put into the market (stock buy backs instead of hiring for example) --> Markets rise to "new all time highs" --> Those with assets in the market gain as prices are based off the amount of money put in the market --> Those gains have to be used in some investment (otherwise they erode due to inflation) --> There is not another place to get returns on investment as good as the market.... And loop over and over.

The markets are now de laminated from the real economic reality, and as they grow they become more so. Investments in real things (and not wild schemes like crypto and LLMs) becomes less and less desirable compared to just putting the money back into the market. Bonds and other securities used to compete with the stock market and worked as a grounding force to the market, but not anymore. So now all the capital is off in la la land and since the market can't crash if there is more money always being put into the market, the market will see "all time highs" as long as there is money to be put into the market. How does this cycle end? No idea really, you could have something else show up that gives better returns making the markets finally crash or you could have this continue until functionally money will not exist outside of the market (both situations are so wildly outlandish that it seems nothing will change).

UK bank holiday yesterday. Still a pretty important financial hub. Might explain why the snip snap is a day late.