US Politics, October 2019 — I guess statement you could say with thread. I made a thread. The thread was PERFECT.

seems like it

xp yes sounds like it, it's all insane

By the way, Rudy is admitting to manufacturing White House logos and sticking them on non-White House documents and pushing the real government to act on them. https://t.co/8NEfRmvTXy

— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) October 3, 2019

theyre like little boys playing wargames

what a bunch of dim-witted criminals

It's like playing chess with a dude who says his moves to himself out loud in advance and accuses you of cheating

I mean the IG included memos critical of the narratives in the materials, calling them fake narratives. I would put more money that this was the IG trying to remove himself from the situation early by dumping literally everything he had without comment.

xpost

Dim witted indeed but could Giuliani be prosecuted for that?

It's more like a chess game where all the pawns have to announce whether they actually respect the rules of the game or not, before the game itself can begin.

HAs Giulianin just been trying to work up his insanity defence over zealously?

Also I was hearing yesterday that the pretty much direct effect of the Trump shakedown being timed as it was is that Ukraine has gone to a meeting with Putin in a weakened position so it looks like the Western Ukraine area that Russia invaded is going tro be forced into a Russia influenced election to determine its future. & that the reason Zelenskyy was looking for a further arms deal at that time was to strengthen his position as regards this meeting which was going to happen at some point inevitably but under what he would have expected to be different circumstances.

Have you been railroaded by the criminal justice system for a crime you (winks knowingly) didn't commit? Then call me, Rudy Giuliani, right now. I will fight for you by going on national television, every single day, and explaining in great detail how I and your collaborators helped you to commit this so-called 'crime'. It's a defense strategy so batshit crazy that it just might work! Give me a call...right now.

You're not the only one to have that idea!

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-rudy-giuliani-fake-subway-ad-20191001-w2ii4l5egzaildggt2qrtk6enm-story.html

https://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/gKNs8Azhf9ARgTaesSNWuFSbuNU=/800x600/top/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/U5ITHUNMQRHINDHMKN3SMUR5HE.jpg

I thought insanity defense just reduced the amount of sentence or the way it was served by showing diminished responsibility for one's actions. Might just mean he wound up in Bellevue instead of actual prison.
& the hinge-point would be knowing that he was already sunk so trying to control the way he was dealt with.

why is so rudy so desperate for trump's approval? he's put himself in legal jeopardy and tanked what was left of his reputation. he seems pathetic.

good morning!

as has been pointed out, Trump treated him like shit for years before their alliance xp

there is definitely some kind of obsessive psychology at work here. or he is being blackmailed.

Always assume projection with this crew. Their obsession with corruption and digging up dirt is just another sign that they're all hopelessly compromised by some entity or another.

In a world where a less successful Rudy wasn't engaged in high-level acts of senility like incuriously accepting 'Ukrainian' dirt he was handed without even asking for it and proudly blabbing about it to the world, he would be sitting by the phone in his rest home eagerly waiting to fork over his bank account information to anyone willing to half-ass their way through an IRS agent impersonation.

I think w/ Rudy it has everything to do with what happened to him in NYC.

Between his exploiting'leveraging of 9/11 and gestapo "quality of life" dictates he endeared himself to an increasingly gentrifed NYC. No doubt he planned on having airports and parks named after him. It's been an ugly, precipitous fall. He's roundly reviled in his hometown, and this is his last desperate grasp at getting some of that back.

iow He saw *another* outer borough septugenarian detested by New Yorkers figure out how to make a bunch of idiots outside the city love him, why not latch onto that guy

liking that take

It makes sense

LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH! pic.twitter.com/QQYTqG4KTt

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2019

And they say that a hero could save us

Another question about US President Ronald Reagan. Who has told him it would be treason even if Schiff lied to Congress about the transcript? Or even if they were falsifying evidence, doesn’t treason mean collaborating with an enemy?

President Ronald Reagan parrots strings of phonemes he's heard other people use. A spoonful of alphabet soup which miraculously forms a word isn't a sign of sentience or intention.

words have long sinced stopped meaning anything iirc

The new 25% EU tariffs are nutty. good luck USA. Product list:
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/enforcement/301Investigations/EU_Large_Civil_Aircraft_Final_Product_List.pdf

a friend who sells in 50 states worked out a representation of cost to wine and whiskey:

I.E. A $50 bottle (landed, US after freight and taxes- but not tariffs) X 1.45 ( average wholesale distributor markup = $72.50 wholesale price X 1.5 (usual retail markup) = $108.75 sell price in a retailer.

WITH THE 25% TARIFF
$50 (landed) x 1.33 markup (25% tariff) =$66.50 X 1.45 distributor markup = $96.45 X 1.5 retail markup = $144.64 retail price that YOU WILL PAY after trumps added tariff... so that 25% tariff on a $50 (laid in) bottle translates to an EXTRA $35.89 on the final price you pay ...

Dumb question, but why does a 25% tarrif equate to a 1.33x markup?

Ugh, didn't realize previously this hit scotch. Not cool, man.

Mike, it's because the distributor and the retailer do the mark-up on the price they pay for the goods including the tariff, so the percentage gets higher with each step of the distribution process.

hmmm, I don't know. let me ask. It may be an error because I can't work it out either.

oh xpost. That makes sense.

but wait let me ask because it still looks slightly wrong.

But it makes no difference - it was x*Dist*Whole before and now it's x*Tariff*Dist*Whole. The price is the old price * Tariff.

The issue I was having was the very first term in the maths: "25% = 1.33".

xp

Oh I see, yeah I dunno.

yeah, i will revert in a bit. I shot them a message.

The real issue is the “price you pay” part. The price after the tariff plus the usual markup is what I don’t pay, tyvm. I foresee many people switching from scotch to bourbon.

maga! (markup all grain alcohol)

Isn't it because the tariff is 25% of the price, so in order to still have the original price you need to add 33%, since 25%*1,33=1,00.

frig. I've already turned our chest freezer into a beer fermenting chamber. Now there goes the bathtub.

Cheese is already crazy expensive in the US. Blah.

these are worthwhile because they will help boeing make better self-crashing planes

xps it's because you DIVIDE by markup, i.e. 50/0.75 (25%) = 66.6 which is the same as 50 * 1.333

I think.

President teetotal raises taxes on booze, checks out

Ok - sorry for the maths derail :) It's a lot, either way.

it's a fun thread for a maths derail because half the people on this thread probably had math and science funding cut for their schools so they could spend extra time considering the theory of creationism

i love how the photo in that rudy subway ad is the heaven's gate guy