President Donald Trump

people like viktor love twitter because without it, they would be without affirmation of their nut job thoughts by other nut jobs. without the internet in general, people like him would be completely ignored outside of his immediate family who would be stuck with him....just as they always had been previous to the internet...

I agree that those comments on social media are factually inaccurate. Did you explain to them that their actual concern should be that Trump needlessly escalated the situation for pretextual reasons?

I mean, even for trump this is pretty ****ing depraved

Not to go too far in the weeds but yes, technically speaking I’m paid based on AUM on managed funds (a lot of funds are unmanaged, CDs, money funds, self directed ****, etc for which I do not get paid on) or other assets that are sold

The gain I have on that based on market fluctuation is truly negligible. What Lucy predictably does not understand is how much time is spent talking clients off ledges who wanted to pull from the market when the tariff insanity first began and how much time is spent advising clients to put more into the market to take advantage of a buying opportunity

Long and short of it, I owe trump absolutely nothing for being a ****ing clown. Luckily I’m just capable at my job

and yet you gordi still dont know how to use twitter. its pretty baffling indeed.

Hey look. Victor tries again and gets the very first thing wrong. Again. I used twitter for literally over a decade before the df bought it. I had an account with thousands of followers. I know quite well how to use it.

Honest question, do you have a humiliation kink?

damn bro thousands?!?!? well you got me there.

I'll take that as a yes.

No because he didn't escalate anything. The national guard is only protecting federal employees, that's not escalation of anything.

And police should quell the riots at any cost using as much violence as necessary, immediatly, as a moral imperative, regardless of Trump. Not doing that is horrific and trump making it clear not doing that is horrific is 100% right and the only acceptable answer to that is "yes, we should quell the riots at any cost, on this topic republicans are absolutely right and any democrat who disagrees is absolutely wrong".

There is no gray area here, no complex situation, there is either you do commit to quell the riots as an absolute moral imperative with every tool you have, or you are an eversive enemy of the state, a domestic one at that, fully incompatible with civil society.

Dereliction of duty in preserving law and order should be a death penalty crime for elected officials.

So if markets agreed with you anti-trump people, and asset prices were down 30% or more because trump and congress republicans a direct threat to the american economy and yadda yadda, you would make far less money.

Markets are telling you trump and congress republicans are not a threat, you see that every single day on the job, and that puts you into cognitive dissonance because you would actually prefer to be right and poorer, than to be wrong about something you care so much about (trump being bad).

But at the end of the day you actually don't hate making money so one part of you isn't sad that trump isn't actually half as bad as you claim for the most important topic of all (the economy).

That creates a lot of stress for you, which you direct to mongidig and others here.

This was my point.

I understand that this is the sort of show of state power that you absolutely love. You don't have to make that point over and over.

I obviously have no way to prove it to you, but I promise you that what Trump is doing has escalated the risk of violence for immigrants, protesters, civilians, ICE employees, local police, and National Guard. And it also has increased the risk of property damage. I believe that increasing those risks was part of the point from Trump's perspective, although I obviously can't prove that either.

very dishonest characterization - oh no that evil fascist said if soldiers don't want to be present they can opt out

and the very idea that trump - the most incompetent and hands off exec we've ever had in our entire history - a history which includes many notable incompetents and at least two senile men - somehow has both the ambition and fotitude to personally take time off from his busy golf and cheeseburgers while watching tv and refusing to read memo schedule had his hands on the wheel for this is bonkers

there are so many good and vaild critiques of the man and yet when you swing and whiff at such idiotic ragebait like this is really underscores how you've simply lost all rational and objectivity - he can cross the road and you'll find some horrific way to describe it

and ironically - this is why he wins and gets away with all the stunts he pulls because you're all chicken little on everything he does so the general public just tunes you out and ignores it

Yeah Trump stayed relevant for 4 years because Dems were like chicken little during a period of relative prosperity

Have a 4 year period of relative prosperity.
Get slaughtered in the next election.
Oof

I mean, yeah oof that’s why we point out how dumb these people are. Why we say things like “you’d happily lower your own quality of life to own the libs”

It also wasn’t a “slaughter”.

I feel like this should generate some self reflection on your part.

I'm supposed to reflect on you not liking the way I post here?

The fact that "cut off ones nose to spite ones face" has been around forever should clue you in that this behavior from right wingers isn't new or unique

So has defending doing pretty much **** all to reform/fix anything when in power and then blaming eveyone else.

I honestly have no idea what this is even meant to be arguing. Do you think it’s a good thing that the president is intentionally politicizing the military? Do you think that the people in the military complaining about it are also being hysterical?

Besides I don’t even know if we have much agreement on what the problem with Trump actually is. I would say his incompetence is actually the only thing that is giving us any type of chance. If he was more competent and less lazy I suspect he and his administration could do a lot more damage.

read carefully

those who didn't want to attend were told it wasn't mandatory

that is necessary in the military where nearly all instructions are mandatory - it takes a very dishonest appraisal of that to be construed as "you can't attend unless you support the president" which is how you are trying to paint it - and it's nothing close to that

this is literally "the president is going to talk, if you don't want to attend you don't have to" and you oddly think that means "politicizing the military"

and if you think presidents don't normally speak before troops then you're extremely naive

would trump like the military to be pro trump and blindly follow his orders - you betcha

is allowing soldiers the option to not attend his rally an example of that - not unless you're a complete idiot

lol talking in absolutes when we all know that you have no ****ing clue what actually happened.

maybe I'm a complete idiot but I think the politicizing the military part was giving a partisan speech laced with attacks towards political opponents set to the resounds jeers and cheers from the military members