No but I’m all-in on phrenology

CEOs wanna cosplay Steve Jobs and unvail their crazy new features. They’ve already “trimmed the fat” to appease shareholders.

They just can’t make fixing old issues sexy.

Jupiter - Holst

I can feel it at a funeral, a wedding, a birth, a Requiem for a nation defeated etc etc

I like that the premise of this was that he called up his wife to tell her that.

In a speculative market, which is the reality in which we both exist, share value can absolutely be divorced from a balance sheet. As you’ve pointed out, that is the case here.

So what is the speculative value to an investor? Why ISN’T it zero?

If you have a theory better than “investors believe he’ll use his position as president to increase the value of his own holdings if he wins” I’d be curious to hear it.

Maybe it’s by making presidential decisions contingent on “friendly actions” like buying shares if you’re a foreign nation or even a domestic interest. Maybe he’ll award government communication contracts.

Super interested in an alternative explanation, though.

Oh for sure. It’s effectively been a proxy for election betting since it’s inception. Investors know if he wins it’s a vehicle for people to buy his favour by adding demand pressure. As long as Trump thinks he might win, he has to keep his position.

I’m all for dunking on Trump, but you (or anyone here) should read the article.

It didn’t trigger because the price was tanking. It triggered because it was going up too fast.

It was on news of Trump saying he wasn’t going to sell.

LITERALLY 1484

No efficient way.

If you’re so absent from reality that this far in you still haven’t decided if Trump is a bad guy or not, I’m sure you’re statistically more likely to have an ex wife.

And I agree that anyone who is comfortable saying “my bitch ex wife” on a public forum is already for Trump, but there are plenty of people with ex wives they don’t want to be reminded of.

Again, I’m not going to sugar coat this: the world is unfair and sexist.

People hold emotionality against people differently based on gender, so yeah, I do.

The minute she starts to sound like “my bitch ex-wife” that’s going to do something visceral.

It’s not right or fair, but it is.

Election outcome priced in?

Racially agnostic support for exceptional achievers still exists, it’s not an either-or proposition.

I think you could argue that affirmative action has no place in a society that has overcome the systemic issues caused by generation of racism. But that isn’t the society in which we live. I hope to live in a world where one could abolish it and everyone can agree that the time has come. It isn’t now.

“If we don’t solve the fraud, Republican voters votes will not be counted. Solving the fraud is therefore the most important thing for Republican politicians to address”

Is this what your saying he said? Trying to decipher his dementia is quite a task.

Also a good point that a critical measure for the leader of the free world in the mind of a Trump staffer is how strong the nickname game is.

Delegates are bound to support in all good conscience the person for whom their primaries results reflect.

This bizzare turn of phrase has been largely been untested in the courts… But if, in good conscience, the delegates believe that the results of the primary were for the candidate who was best poised to defeat Trump (as in, they’re not supporting Biden specifically as much as they are against Trump, for example) then they could argue that based on events that have occured since the primaries that they are in good conscience representing those wishes.

So, I dunno. I’m very glad Biden took the high road here, but I am unconvinced that this was truely set in stone. This is the exact justification for having delegates choose the nominee in the first place; that in certain critical conditions they can act in good faith.

The truth is still the truth, even if there is no material difference in the implications.

I agree in principle with what you’re saying.

However, a sitting president is not entitled to the nomination. It’s happened before where a sitting president is denied a nomination for a second term, and it’s been given to someone else in the party instead.

If it had gone that way with Biden though, I think the optics would have been so bad that there would be no hopes of salvaging the election though, so it’s still praiseworthy that he dropped.

For transparency, I’m Canadian, but our situation is pretty much the same: Far right candidate projected to win next election, “meh, status quo centrist” in power now, people letting projections deter them from voting, primitive “electoral college” lite making your votes less effective based on where you live, etc etc…

We do trend towards “looking over the fence” politically. If Biden’s step-down gamble pays off, it’s possible we could get a similar thing to happen here which could be good. So, we’re all watching and hoping that we don’t end up neighbouring a country with a fascist leader…