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

Warmest condolences still sounds odd to me

he had been sitting on them for years

I'm gonna go ahead and predict that we don't get through an entire 24 hours before he says/does something to undermine that completely rote expression of decency. Perhaps by retweeting something racist about Cummings? Who can say.

There is no way for another trader, let alone an outsider such as me, to know who is making these trades. But regulators know or can find out. One longtime CME trader who has been watching with disgust says he’s never seen anything quite like these trades, not at least since al-Qaida cashed in before initiating the September 11 attacks. “There is definite hanky-panky going on, to the world’s financial markets’ detriment,” he says. “This is abysmal.”
In the case of Trump, market manipulation also yields political dividends. Perhaps the most obvious example dates to late August, when Trump, desperate to reignite trade talks with China, boasted during the G7 summit that his counterparts in Beijing had come back to the table. “We’ve gotten two calls—very, very good calls,” he told reporters. “They mean business.” The market rose more than 900 points over the next few days. But a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry said he was not aware of any such calls. An editor at the Global Times, the state-controlled newspaper, tweeted that he knew of no calls made in the days leading up to the G7 meeting and that “China won’t cave to US pressure.” Two U.S government officials later told CNN that Trump misspoke and “conflated” comments from China’s Vice Premier Liu He with direct communication from the Chinese. According to CNN, the officials said Trump was “eager to project optimism that might boost markets.”

Indeed, this single Trump lie briefly inflated domestic markets by hundreds of billions of dollars. “What this describes is, quite literally, market manipulation that constitutes criminal violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,” commented George Conway, the conservative attorney and Trump critic.

I am pretty ignorant on stock market stuff but i saw this transparent shit and had to believe i wasnt the only one

I swear every time the stock market takes a hit there is "news" of optimism regarding a trade deal with China so it goes back up. seems odd but idk anything about this shit

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, September 25, 2019 5:38 PM (three weeks ago)

dude, seriously. The "eCoNOmy & mY 401k" is his supporters main crutch for the last 2 years.

there were definitely a lot of rumors in 2017 that someone was making tons of cash by knowing in advance when he was gonna tweet something that would affect the markets but I forgot about it amongst all the other corruption

some young GOP intern-weasel

Flagged for this egregious and uncalled-for insult to weaselkind.

sea otters are weasels you clod

All the mustelidae are sleek and fleet (indeed, on fleek).

They are a noble lineage

Indeed, this single Trump lie briefly inflated domestic markets by hundreds of billions of dollars.

not to exonerate trump here, but hundreds of billions of dollars hinging on the offhand remarks of an inveterate liar is more an indictment of our financial system than of him

TOTAL EXONERATION

well, yeah

All the mustelidae are sleek and fleet (indeed, on fleek).

fuck, RIP Elijah. Good man.

I'm sorry did the President of the United States call the President of Italy "President Mozzarella" several times

— Don'tBeAFoolHat (@Popehat) October 16, 2019

Wouldn't say Sondland's testimony is devastating but he confirmed Giuliani was running the show re: Ukraine

xp i thought you were kidding but of course you're not
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7581913/Social-media-lights-Italian-translators-reaction-Donald-Trump.html

ME NAMES GARU G AND IM A NICE FELLA ME NOB CHEESE SMELLS LIKE MOZARELLA
― GARUG, Saturday, September 17, 2005 9:25 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Watching MSNBC cover Italian President Sergio Mattarella’s visit to White House and the bewilderment on his translator’s face as she translates Trumpese to English then to Italian. pic.twitter.com/TV4iXfP75c

— James M. Reeves (@jimnassau) October 16, 2019

It's the Great Pumpkin!

I like the idea of him eating just one ... more ... little ... mint, and then getting choked unconscious by his tight collar.

Presumably in response to Sondland but we'll see

Inbox:
Mulvaney to do a press briefing at the White House podium at 12:30 p.m.

— Tal Kopan (@TalKopan) October 17, 2019

"in conclusion, Trump has ended the impeachment inquiry and Nancy Pelosi is in jail."

Turkish government sources told BBC News: “President Erdogan received the letter, thoroughly rejected it and put it in the bin.” On the day the letter was received, Turkey launched a cross-border offensive against Kurdish-led forces in Syria.

Mulvaney says from the White House podium that the G-7 will be at Trump National Doral, Trump's golf course.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 17, 2019

Amazing

One final cash grab...

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maybe this announcement was intended as a distraction from the sondland testimony? we can only process so many absurd things at once

Jimmy Carter should hold a shadow G7 at his peanut farm

He doesn't have a peanut farm because he had integritude and divested when he became presidetn

I see that the president has moved into the scorched earth phase of his decades-long trollfest.

So apparently there are anti-impeachment rallies going on...good use of time there

Still bummed about Cummings :(. Always found him to be an upstanding guy and one who wasn't afraid to go toe to toe with assholes like Chaffetz and Nunes

I don't exactly get why the G7 announcement is such big news. Haven't we known about this for a while? And hasn't Trump been using his properties this way since day 1?

It's just brazen considering he's facing impeachment and still does things like this in the open

he has not hosted an international summit at any of his properties before

He also wants Putin there.

the big news is the other 6 countries apparently being as pissweak as cowed Republican congresspersons and going along with it

Did either Bushes host shit at Kennebunkport or Texas?

no

The Bushes own Texas?

wouldn't be equivalent to what Trump is doing even if they had

"A reporter then questioned Mulvaney on his explanation saying it sounds like a quid-pro-quo to which Mulvaney said: “We do that all the time with foreign policy.”

Like...poor choice of words there

I hear Merkel's gonna cherrybomb the plumbing, and Trudeau's gonna tp the Ivanka wing.

The Trump family's brazenness runs on different lines than the Bush family brazenness. The Bushes grabbed at global power using the US military and were content to let the money roll in on its own, in the form of people who insisted on cutting them in on sweet deals like obscene speaking fees and sitting on a dozen corporate boards. How could they refuse?

These guys that stick around like Mulvaney and Pompeo, I always have to wiki their history to remind myself why they suck on their own and how it's likely they will hang on until the end.

wow.

US says Turkey agrees to a ceasefire in Syria

Vice President Mike Pence said at the news conference announcing a ceasefire in Syria that the United States will not impose further sanctions on Turkey as part of the agreement.

"Part of our understanding is that with the implementation of the ceasefire, the United States will not impose any further sanctions on Turkey," Pence said. "And once a permanent ceasefire is in effect, the President has agreed to withdraw the economic sanctions that were imposed this last Monday."

More background: On Monday, Trump said he was applying harsh new sanctions on certain Turki
sh officials. In a phone call with Turkish President President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Trump "could not have been more firm" in expressing his displeasure at the incursion, according to Pence, who updated reporters at the White House on Monday evening.