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RE: Elon Musk
February 4, 2025 at 6:16 am
You've got a bigger problem. In 2008 the US subprime debts collapsed financial instiutions left right and centre. As I understand it there are still places in the US that haven't recovered.
The rest of the world set up international accounting standards to try and deal with the issue. The US decided to create it's own accounting standards, (Sarbanes-Oxley IIRC) so as not to disturb the American 'Sell anything to anyone regardless of ability to repay so the salesman gets commission' culture. This amounted to sweeping the problem under the rug and continued to sell on bad debt as 'conglomerated assets' until bought by the bank that issued the debt.
The issue was known to be over an order of magnitude worse than 2008 before the pandemic and Quantitative Easing was largely to avoid exposing the debt.
That won't remain hidden when they tank the economy, when it goes it will go fast.
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RE: Elon Musk
February 4, 2025 at 6:45 am
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2025 at 6:47 am by The Grand Nudger.)
An evergeen suggestion with these ghouls being that they knowingly tank the economy to buy up the debris for pennies on the dollar, and then run it again. They're not clever. It's never original or interesting. Doesn't have to be. They got richer through the crash, they got richer through the pandemic, and they'll get richer again near future.
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RE: Elon Musk
February 4, 2025 at 11:08 am
Question - why have we been so worried about foreign entities hacking into our data and then give full access to Melon Husk and his band of teenaged hacker boyz?
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RE: Elon Musk
February 4, 2025 at 1:19 pm
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I was going to type something witty but the answer is that Donald Trump is a foolish child fueled only by appetites.
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RE: Elon Musk
February 5, 2025 at 9:39 pm
Quote:The share of Republicans who say they want tech billionaire Elon Musk to have significant influence in the Trump administration has fallen substantially in the months since President Trump was elected.
In The Economist/YouGov poll taken in the days after the November 2024 election, 47 percent of surveyed Republicans said they wanted Musk to have “a lot” of influence in the Trump administration, while 29 percent wanted “a little” and 12 percent wanted him to have “none at all.”
Today, however, the share of Republicans who say they want Musk to have “a lot” of influence has fallen substantially to 26 percent. Meanwhile, 43 percent of Republican respondents say they want Musk to have “a little” influence, and 17 percent say they want him to have “none at all,” according to the latest poll from The Economist/YouGov released Wednesday.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administrat...ally-poll/
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RE: Elon Musk
February 5, 2025 at 9:43 pm
They love what he's doing, they just hate how visible it is. They sent donald to the white house to destroy the government the first time, and they sent him back to finish the job.
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RE: Elon Musk
February 5, 2025 at 9:54 pm
(February 5, 2025 at 9:43 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: They love what he's doing, they just hate how visible it is.
Agreed, this is about optics, not policy. Musk is just being open about the Republican agenda they've had since Gingrich's Contract on America.
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RE: Elon Musk
February 5, 2025 at 10:02 pm
Will someone explain to me why the Democrats (and all the other politicians) are sitting with their thumbs up their butts watching all this crap happen?
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RE: Elon Musk
February 5, 2025 at 10:49 pm
In fairness, they're waking up. All of this was timed for when they were back in their districts.
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RE: Elon Musk
February 5, 2025 at 11:12 pm
(February 5, 2025 at 10:49 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: In fairness, they're waking up. All of this was timed for when they were back in their districts.
Now that Melon Husk already has access to tons of data...this waking up may be a bit late.
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