Led by Rand Paul, Republicans say the Senate trial of Citizen Trump is unconstitutional (also, Leahy in hospital for observation)
Forty-five Senate Republicans voted Tuesday to dismiss the trial as unconstitutional. The motion failed by a vote of 45-55, enabling the trial to move forward. But it signifies that a critical mass are leery of the trial and underscores the unlikelihood of finding the two-thirds majority needed to convict.
So who were the five who didn’t vote that way? You already know who they were:
Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
“I think it’s pretty obvious from the vote today, that it is extraordinarily unlikely that the president will be convicted,” Collins told reporters. “Just do the math.”
It may even be that, in a trial, Collins would vote to acquit even though she failed to vote against the trial itself. That would be typical of Collins, trying to have it both ways – that’s how she has ended up as Maine’s representative for so long. Murkowski might have a similar trajectory, Romney might vote to convict, and I have no prediction about Toomey.
So once again, it’s a small group doing this. McConnell backed Rand Paul’s motion and voted for it, as well. So those MSM reports alleging McConnell was in favor of the trial seem to have been ways for the MSM to stir up the right against him, as I believe such rumor reports often (not always, but often) are.
Here’s part of Paul’s speech:
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— Cerno (@Cernovich) January 26, 2021
Here’s an excellent discussion by Alan Dershowitz on the legal wrongness of the recent impeachment in the House and the unconstitutionality of any Senate trial of Trump as non-president. I think it’s very clear – not that the Democrats care:
Meanwhile, Justice Roberts will not be presiding, because Trump isn’t president. I guess that, like Dershowitz, Roberts isn’t into show trials. A Democrat senator, president pro tempore Leahy of Vermont, was slated to take his place, but now it has been announced that Leahy (who is 80 years old) has been hospitalized for observation after having some troubling symptoms such as shortness of breath.
The Democrats may actually come to regret pushing for this show trial.
Rand Paul – I like the cut of that man’s jib.
The Democrats may actually come to regret pushing for this show trial.
Not a chance.
Leahy has been a US Senator for a freaking 46 years.
Collins’ posturing to keep her job is offensive, but so it goes in New England!
You said nothing about pompous, self-righteous Sasse, Neo. Well, he is a former small college president, so he knows it all. POS in my book.
Cicero:
Sasse is obviously awful.
Ben Sasse, trying to be the new Maverick and Conscience, but is there room in the GOPextinct for two romneys?
Do they say, there’s always room for Senator Jello?
“The Democrats may actually come to regret pushing for this show trial.”
Of course they will… if either party gets both house and senate in sufficient numbers than only their party candidate can be president given the way the falsehoods show as truth and that opposing them in a cogent way is nigh impossible.
gonna bite them real big in the tuchus
they are such schmendricks anyway
I am very pleased that both my senators, Tillis and Burr, voted against this unconstitutional trial. We worry about how “squishy” they will be, but in this case, they knew NC Republicans would not stand for this garbage.
“The Democrats may actually come to regret pushing for this show trial.”
Never. Gonna. Happen.
Regret, like shame or remorse or guilt require something of a moral compass or code that detects right vs wrong. Ds have long since abandoned anything other than power-as-god (aka the Evil One) & have therefore no code other than the acquisition of power & wielding it like a mighty sword against all who would stand in their way.
They might hate their loss in 2016…but the road since then & beyond on which we all now tread…they’re just getting started.
But Collins was just re-elected, so she has a 6 year grace period to showcase her principles. Doesn’t hold up very well does it? Points one toward an obvious interpretation of animus, doesn’t it? Having admired her for past principled stands, I am disappointed in her endorsement of the anti-Constitutional Kabuki. Toomey is just positioning himself to run for Governor – he’s not seeking re-election.
I guess the end objective here is for Democrats to Proclaim: TRUMP! IMPEACHED TWICE AND BANNED FROM POLITICS FOREVER! They have 3 years to brainwash the country – and themselves, so they can appear sincere – but the really interesting part will be when it comes time to enforce it.
First you have to accept that you did something WRONG. When have the Dems ever acknowledged that they did something wrong? NEVER
jack; John Guilfoyle:
What makes you think that regret implies that you think what you did was wrong? It doesn’t require that at all, and it’s definitely not what I meant regarding the Democrats and their possible future regret. Did you never hear of someone regretting an action because it came back to bite them? Because it had consequences that hurt them? That’s what I’m referring to.
They WILL come to regret it.
Oh, I see you just said that.
Well I’m agreeing with you for just the reasons you gave.
Powerline had a good take on Rand.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/01/rand-rules.php
RAND RULES
Boss…not to be argumentative…but
What makes you think this is going to have any blowback on the Ds?
They own the voting system. Stole a fistful of elections including ones that matter. Will steal even more.
And…?
John Guilfoyle:
I didn’t write that I thought it would happen. I wrote that it may. Meaning: possibly.
I don’t think it’s likely; I think it’s possible. A Senate trial could reveal to more people how the Democrats do not follow the Constitution, and it might reveal how empty the charges were and end up exonerating Trump. That could make some people angry with the Democrats, especially people in the middle.
But what of voting fraud in coming elections? It seems as though, at least for now, the Democrats are not able to end the filibuster. I thought they would be able to do that, and that they would have nearly unlimited power as a result. But at least for the moment the worst legislative excesses that they have planned can be blocked.
Also, I have written posts that say that in many important states the GOP plans to tighten the voting rules. If that happens and is successful – that’s several “if’s,” of course – then the 2022 election could be more fair than the 2020 election was. Put those two things together – more people turned off by the awfulness of what the Democrats are doing regarding Trump (not to mention Biden’s excesses as well and their economic effects) and some tightening up of the voting rules in key states – and you have the possibility of which I spoke.
I originally thought, and have written, that the Democrats’ first order of business in this legislative session would be to pass their Orwellian “voting reform” act and institutionalize voting fraud opportunities in every state. That would be “game over.” Since I doubt that will be happening (at least for now), there’s a chance.
Neo, that judge in Virginia found that states voting illegal, as will other judges in other states.
Repub legislatures (and there are more now) will fix their states voting or else.
Even if Pelosi got her voting bill through, like the impeachment, it is patently unconstitutional.
But they won’t dump the filibuster, so they are in slow-mo.
They are exposing and embarrassing themselves to people whose eyes are being opened.
We have started the Cadaver Synod.
Great day for the country…sigh
Cheers for Rand Paul. I confess that I never paid a lot of attention to him in the past; but, he is rising rapidly in my estimation. Although I speak for no one else; I should think that many would look favorably upon his principled stance on a number of issues.
While I would not call it probable that the Democrats will regret their behavior, I believe that it is becoming more likely with each outrage. I see no indication that they intend to scale back their excesses. A growing number of Republican Senators are disgusted; and we know that millions of Americans started the new year in a foul mood. I suspect that a number of others, maybe a huge number, who were primarily voting against Trump will be sickened by what they wrought. That is aside from the impact that the policies of Biden-Harris (or Harris-Biden), Schumer, and Pelosi will have on their personal well being.
“McConnell backed Rand Paul’s motion and voted for it, as well. So those MSM reports alleging McConnell was in favor of the trial seem to have been ways for the MSM to stir up the right against him”
Yeah…I think this is a better take on it.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/01/26/mitch-mcconnell-goes-into-full-retreat-over-impeachment-n317060
If McConnell didn’t like those MSM stories, he had every opportunity in the world to correct/rebut them. And if he thought a Trump impeachment trial post inauguration would be unconstitutional, he could have said so and greatly changed the entire conversation of the last few weeks.
I give McConnell credit for being smart enough to not spit in Trump’s face while he was President but McConnell’s given plenty of signals that he thought things post-Trump were going to go back to “normal.”
Mike
MBunge:
Earlier today I already saw and read that bonchie article you linked. It’s one of those many “it’s all the GOP’s fault articles” I read all the time. I don’t think much of that piece, and that’s my reaction to most articles of that type. I think that, as I’ve said before, McConnell is no conservative, nor does he like Trump, and there are plenty of things wrong with McConnell, but he has been surprisingly good at defending and promoting Trump’s agenda. I did not expect as much.
Now McConnell is not in charge any more and he is still sticking up for the unconstitutionality of a trial. I think he is doing things behind the scenes, too, to make sure that there are enough GOP votes to acquit.
Paul is pointing out the grossest double standard imaginable. This would impress civilized, ethical people. But that excludes dems and their supporters. It’s completely irrelevant.
Am I speaking too harshly? Try, or imagine trying, to get Paul’s speech past your nearest Biden supporter and see if he feels bad about Paul’s points.
The fraudulent Dominion software is being used in 28 States.
28×2=56 Democrat Senators… Georgia demonstrated that the democrats can fraudulently install the most racist and radical of Senatorial candidates. They’ll continue to do so.
Does anyone imagine that Schumer actually plans to refrain from doing away with the filibuster? Totalitarians, of which Schumer is one, droll with lust at the prospect of forcing their agenda down the throats of their opposition. Count on it, Schumer won’t be able to resist gaining the power to pass whatever they wish. That disenfranching half of America guarantees societal instability and serious confrontation bothers him not in the least.
As for regretting holding this sham trial, any future setback will be rationalized and blamed on some other factor. When have the democrats ever said, ‘well we did it to you, so you’re now just doing to us, what we first did to you’…? They utterly lack the self-reflection needed to face their overreach. To face any personal or ideological flaw.
If you don’t want to listen to Senator Paul, NTB has the “highlights” transcript.
https://notthebee.com/article/watch-sen-rand-paul-absolutely-school-leftists-as-impeachment-20-gets-underway
“The Fightback Has Begun” to the Left’s takeover of government, law, and corporate persecution, says JoAnne Nova.
https://joannenova.com.au/2021/01/the-fightback-begins/
She cites Sen. Rand Paul on the impeachment, a Judge who has blocked the Biden EO reversal of accepting violent illegal immigrants (thanks to Trump’s own EO wording], and an activist buy-cott of Bed, Bath, and Beyond for “cancelling” Mike Lindell for wongthink!
“Bed Bath and Beyond stopped stocking the MyPillow range after the CEO openly supported Donald Trump. In reply, activists wandered through the store filling up their trolleys, then abandoning them with a note asking the store to Stop Promoting Cancel Culture, and promising not to shop there until they did:
FIGHT, FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT!
Beyond Bed Bath & Beyond…,
Beyond this BS impeachment travesty lurks the Derek Chauvin trial. Hopefully someone has the guts to stand up for the obviously innocent Chauvin.
Conservative Americans are ripe for a boycott. Cripple one target, put the others on notice.
But the Bed Bath Beyond won’t be the one to catch fire, imo. Because conservatives will shrink from inconveniencing innocent staff who have to restock the goods.
Keep alert, please, for the chance to join in when the Real Thing comes along.
We can do this. We should do this
Bed Bath and Beyond? I dont think conservatives can have much impact on that unless your Republican wife shops there regularly. But I agree with the sentiment.
Imagine though that Starbucks decides to put up artsy Republican “shamimg” posters as part of its decor. Would they be likely to lose much of their already progressive-minded traffic? In my never very humble opinion, “No”. Starbucks is part coffee house, and part secular communion exercise, already. So as with Starbucks, so too to a lesser degree with some of those other ‘shopping experiences” meant to emphasize a lifestyle statement so important to “gurls” of both sexes.
Sometimes these affectations can appear ridiculous though, and provide a bit of comic relief while still presenting a minor moral dilemma. The appearance of Al Gore during a rally on an outdoor stage on a too warm day, while swathed in a stiff, shiny bright, brand new, waxed cotton Barbour upland game coat, almost caused me to throw my old one out. But as I noticed Sir Paunchy sweating in his maladapted get-up I figured ” Why dump an old standby to spite a Dem?”
As for BB&B, I think bought some packaged wine bottle replacement corks with wooden tops there 6 or 7 years ago around Christmas time. They were hard to find anywhere But all the same I’ll try to make sure I, or we, never shop there again.
Yes. When it comes to so-called ‘double standards” we are instantly referred back to that theme I am always harping on: It is only a double stamdard if the discrimination is applied to a subject recognized as a fundamentally like kind.
Now, traditionalists because of their religious beliefs and attachment to natural law, and by implication natural kinds, will see, (or are eventually forced by their own doctrines to acknowledge) the notion of and an appeal to, a “common humanity” as something more profound than a rhetorical device. ” Made in the image and likeness, etc., etc.”
But for the progressive, and that is most Democrats, there are no natural categories. Hell, they can`t even acknowledge the sexes as natural categories. So, when they decades ago began to smugly refer to Republicans as Repukelickans, and as ‘Neanderthals slated for extinction’, and the like, it became obvious that apart from a tactical intention to emotionally wound and unsettle the conservative, they were simultaneously exposing something of their … well … moral ontology, you might call it.
You have to remember too what an outsized role emotional “alienation” and “inclusion”, as opposed to objective categorization, play in the projective mind of the progressive.
There is no ” hypocrisy” as they see it in applying a different standard to a ” deplorable” or to an ignorant and contemptible “Jebus” worshipper. These “Neanderthals” as seen by them constitute a different, recalcitrant and obsolete alien kind altogether, and can therefore be treated as such. Eric Swalwell then, can comfortably smirk about nuking them if they refuse to yield on their rights.
They see no need for good faith in the evolutionary war of conflicting appetites and dreams …
Reciprocity as a moral principle is part of the natural law system; it is not part of the subjectivist and materiaIst reign of appetite which they recognize and stipulate as constituting their reality.
“…conservatives will shrink from inconveniencing innocent staff who have to restock the goods.”
That was exactly my thought. I certainly wouldn’t do it–not that it matters, as I’m not sure I’ve ever been in a BB&B. My wife goes there to get co2 refills for the SodaStream.
I think the BB&B cart war is a neat idea and I would not worry about the staff,
“…conservatives will shrink from inconveniencing innocent staff who have to restock the goods.”
The staff is being paid by the hour and if the customers are not making purchases then the staff can be busy restocking and if too many people come in filling baskets they store will have to hire more staff. Keeping stores clean and stocked, even from returns is part of the cost of doing business and making a statement with carts is much better than breaking windows and spray painting the exterior or just stealing all of the stuff which we have seen in the protests from the left this past year.
I was in retail employment, management and ownership for a number of years going back to 1959 which was a long time ago, restocking is not an inconvenience just part of the job.
Completely off topic:
There is the strangest financial news this morning that I’ve seen since the flash crash of 2009 (2008?). The stock of Gamestop is/was up by as much as 800% in the last few days. Ok, it is a short squeeze, like VW & Porsche had years ago. Those guys were all pros maybe, but this one is weird.
This is a partial summary.
Hedge funds had shorted Gamestop by as much as 140% of the stock float. How is that possible? It should be entirely illegal, as well as just not possible. Where was the SEC? Are hedge funds making their own rules?
Little retail investors “colluded” on Reddit to crush the above short position and succeeded. I believe many were using stock options and in many cases did not have the cash to exercise those options.
The entire market is down because … Either a vague panic caused by such craziness or because of direct knock-on or chain reaction trades. I vote for the latter. TDAmeritrade has stepped in (where the SEC or exchanges would not) and blocked some of these trades, causing another “outrage.”
This is another example of government and regulators really not doing their job.
One need not be a constitutional scholar to realize that impeachment applies ONLY to removing a sitting president.
As for the dems over-reaching, well, they can’t ; their compliant and deferential media (i.e., the propaganda arm of the demokrats) will make sure that only the “correct” news reaches the public.
About half of the citizenry believes everything the MSM reports as “news,” and they will make damn sure that Bidet and the demokrats will be the heroes (no matter how bad they F up or lie or violate the Constitution).
How ironic is it that two of Bidet’s EOs will/may help out Putin/Russia; the Keystone Pipeline cancellation and the halting of new oil/gas leases on federal land.
By the way, Alberta will still be able to send their oil into the USA by rail; a far less safer way than a pipeline.
John Tyler:
Warren Buffet is a big progressive (some of his chillun are leftists though) who owns a big part of Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad. “It’s good to be a king!”(I’ve heard) so Warren will make money on the rail shipment. Now it will raise the costs of Alberta oil, but we should expect that now that Creepy Joe and the Ho are implementing the green gospel of Gaia. Who pays the freight? Where is that mirror again?
Should we expect an Executive Order closing down the Dakota Access pipeline? I’d be shocked!
I hear that Gaia is trans. 🙂
OT:
https://redstate.com/michael_thau/2021/01/27/chicoms-now-recommend-anal-swabs-to-test-for-covid-wish-i-were-kidding-n317272
Next trend to watch for; N95-rated Depends, for that other exhalation. It’s all about safety.
OldTexan: “I think the BB&B cart war is a neat idea and I would not worry about the staff”
Are you going to do it? Will you do it multiple times? Please post here 🙂 🙂
I think a boycott or similar action is a great idea, but we need an action that a million or hopefully tens of millions will join. If our OldTexan thinks it’s a neat idea but isn’t actually going to do it, that’s a sign to me that it won’t catch fire.
I’m coming to the conclusion that an action like this is the correct “next action” our movement should take. Waiting for the right influencer/leader to pick a target.
It could be boycott: “Don’t buy from P&G”
It could be a partial “Don’t order anything from Amazon on Tuesdays” to gradually build support over time as the action gathers steam.
A lot of people are migrating off Twitter/Facebook. Some are going to Gab/Parler/MeWe, some just don’t use that style of social media and are deleting dormant accounts.
A boycott-like action would be a fitting next step. Just dreaming here … C’mon folks (esp we former Lefties), we can shoot random Dems in the street, we can knuckle under and let them win, or we can start taking other semi-symbolic actions. But if we can’t scale to thousands and millions, it’s meaningless.
Maybe I’m wrong. But that’s how I see it.
btw, no intention to “gut check” OldTexan. Totally just using him to make a general point. He’s a valued commenter with a lot of wisdom.
JimNorCal,
Thanks for the valued commenter and not always sure about the wisdom. In my case I am not going out of my way to go into a store I have not shopped in for decades. If one of the places I do shop with come up on the radar for this type of shopping cart protest, yep, I would make at least a couple of trips in there. By the way I have left carts sitting out next to checkouts several times in the past when shoppers were backed up with one or two registers open and the poor cashier waiting for a price check. Usually when I did that if I saw a management type person I would stop them and let them know they did not earn my business that day. I have also returned home and sent a complaint email about bad service and good companies appreciate the feed back, positive and negative.
An important thing to remember is if you are expressing dislike for a store or its policies try avoid taking it out on the cashier or clerk, let them know it is not personal directed against them then let them know how you feel, just state your problem and don’t be profane.
There’s a Bed, Bath and Beyond not far from me. I will do the full-cart thing, but I would like to have the text of a statement I can leave in the cart.
The Dems MUST come to regret this.
Cooperation comes from Tit for Tat (see The Evolution of Cooperation).
Rep voters and a 2023 Rep majority Congress should impeach ex-Sec. of State HR Clinton for Top Secrecy violations.
They should also impeach ex-Pres. Obama for Obstruction of Justice (in Clinton’s case), as well as 10 other reasons.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/01/26/ten-reasons-a-post-presidency-impeachment-of-barack-obama-should-happen-n1409484
All Reps should then claim THIS Senate vote changed the de facto implementation of the Constitution. “Rule of Law”, including interpretation of the Constitution, means all are treated the same.
And, after Clinton & Obama are impeached, and tried in Congress for actual crimes that the Dem dominated Dept. of Justice refuses to investigate, such Reps would be willing to work with Dems to pass a law explicitly restricting the House from doing such a silly thing in the future.
After the Dems get Titted for this silly Tat.
Rand Paul, semi-libertarian Republican (small “l” Libertarian) – doing good.
TommyJay, There is noting wrong in “shorting” a stock whose fundamentals are such that the investor expects the stock to drop in price.
Why are “big” investors busy shorting a $20 or $6 stock anyway? Well, many of those who bought, raising the price higher, will find out that they lose money. IF, or is that when?, the price comes down.
From the link:
Investor Michael Burry said in a now-deleted tweet Tuesday that trading in GameStop is “unnatural, insane, and dangerous” and there should be “legal and regulatory repercussions.” Burry shot to fame by betting against the housing bubble and was featured in Michael Lewis’ book “The Big Short.”
It might be unnatural & insane, much like Burry’s huge short of MBS (mortgage backed securities – he focused his shorts on middle tranches), but it’s only financially risky & dangerous. Not necessarily physically dangerous.
It’s pretty weird and interesting – and sort of unique. Who are the big short holders who become short losers? Who are the big long buyers who are buying at over $100, who I expect will see their values go down quite a bit this year? Bubbles go up, and up, and up …
until they come down.
Often very quickly.
I’d check ZeroHedge more on this:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/biden-administration-monitoring-marketwide-short-squeeze
Looks a bit like reddit chat room little investors (thousands!) Against a few huge hedge funds looking to make a killing in shorting stocks, and maybe killing those companies.
Tom Grey,
I’ve trying to respond but keep getting a server error.
GME went from $40 to a top of $380 per share.
In the latter stages of a short squeeze, most of the buying comes from the shorts who are covering in order to get out of their money losing positions.
(The server won’t let me use the full company name for GME??)
Tom Grey,
My consternation comes from the fact that much of the trading going on in GME is trading in fictitious shares, also called naked short selling. There are only so many shares available to short in any given stock, usually something like 20 to 90% of the float. The GME short position a couple days ago was 140% of the float. That’s just wrong. It’s like a precinct where 200% of the eligible voters voted. Fun and games with computers!
I heard that there are 2M users on the Reddit stock trading forum or what ever it is called.
TommyJay – this explanation article seems to agree with you, plus, at the end, notes how some short sellers have exited (after losing billions with a B like really Big), yet new short sellers are entering.
https://www.theverge.com/22251427/reddit-gamestop-stock-short-wallstreetbets-robinhood-wall-street
“Pump and Dump” is the idea of buying shares, or call options, in expectation that the shares go up. With many doing it, the prices DO go up.
Right now, more people are betting against GameStop than betting it will succeed. “Short interest is 71.2 million shares, while GameStop has only 69.7 million shares outstanding,” Matt Levine of Bloomberg points out. Some people will notice that kind of thing and think, Hm, this stock is prime for a short squeeze! Basically, because so many people are short, it may be possible to trigger a chain reaction where you buy enough stock to send the price up, forcing some shorts to cover, sending the price up further, forcing more shorts to cover, and so on.
My youngest son is still a teen, and a game player like his 3 older siblings – and they all often use Discord.
*** Neo *** you might like to try discord sometime for an open talk. I think your blogging commenters might like to have a conversation with you and others.
Discord is quite big for gamers – far better than Skype.
But … Discord did just suspend the big reddit group which was the driving part of the retail investors pushing up GME shares.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/27/22253251/discord-bans-the-r-wallstreetbets-server
r-wallstreetbets. My kids also use reddit the most. On my list of things to try this year.
It doesn’t quite look illegal – but SOMEBODY will be losing tons of money (or a million folk losing hundreds of bucks?). In the real economy, it can be positive sum. But Wall Street is pretty much a zero-sum game – plus the amount the gov’t prints for inflation. Not so much. At least, not in the past. Maybe now it’s a lot more. I think hyper-asset inflation, like Apple becoming a two Trillion (with a T even Bigger than B) dollar company is how the rich are getting richer faster than normal folk, and why the money printing isn’t causing normal consumer price index inflation.
If it wasn’t 4am I’d look into it even more – quite exciting. Tho, as a real buy and hold kind of investor, I’d be more looking to crypto for now. Usually you need to buy shares in blocks of 100, so that’s $5,000 if the shares are at $50. Tho call options when “out of the money” are much cheaper.
More fun than a barrel of “Sad Trump lost – see how Biden will destroy, or weaken, America” posts and essays and news …
Want to enjoy soccer or any other sport you find “boring”? Try this: BET some $20-$50 on one of the teams. Then watch the game. It will be MUCH more exciting, and if you don’t know the rules, you’ll want to find out more.
Instapundit linked:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stop-laughing-about-gamestops-stock-mania-no-really-11611760785
https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/another-gamestop-here-are-the-next-10-most-shorted-small-caps-51611688092?mod=mw_more_headlines
Now for dreams…
Tom Grey: the 12 pack of 12 oz. Pepsi soda cans pricing index is still going up.
Someone else might be able to address the indexes for wine, beer, or liquor.
And yes, the increases in our Apple stock are not real wealth, but maybe when our grandchildren inherit them, they can provide some sort of semi-protection against semi-hyper inflation.
I am enjoying the GameStop brouhaha although I know next to nothing about the financial Deep Weeds.
It reminds me somewhat of GamerGate if only because both involved Games, people who play Games, people who buy Game stocks, and people who don’t know that the first rule of Game Club is don’t diss gamers.
“There’s a Bed, Bath and Beyond not far from me. I will do the full-cart thing, but I would like to have the text of a statement I can leave in the cart.” – F
JoNova (see TJ’s comment) linked a sample used by the group that started the initiative. I think we should call it a cart-cott and use it wherever stores decide to get woke & go broke.
https://www.basketboycott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Bed-Bath-Beyond-letter.pdf
Bonus tactic from JoNova commenter, can be adapted for non-material-product establishments.
Harves
January 27, 2021 at 9:22 pm · Reply
Best way is to go to a bank and ask what account they’d recommend for depositing $100k. Get them to go through the details then after 30 mins or so ask about their stance on coal. When they give you the answer they think you want … walk away.
Tom – the Market Watch author, who is so worried that the amateur Redditor investors are going to lose their homes buying GameStop stock, is totally getting ratioed by his commenters.
Want to enjoy soccer or any other sport you find “boring”? Try this: BET some $20-$50 on one of the teams. Then watch the game. It will be MUCH more exciting, and if you don’t know the rules, you’ll want to find out more.
If it’s cricket, you’ll never figure out the rules. If it’s jai alai, you might figure out the rules, but you wont care because you can’t actually see the ball.
AesopFan,
I think I read that Marketwatch piece yesterday. Thought it was complete crap at the time. Ratioed? Never heard that one. I presume it is a bad thing.
Just for the record :
ratioed comes out of the Twitterverse, but seems to me to have generic application to blog posts.
Getting a higher ratio of comments (usually snarky or disapproving) to likes or retweets on a post. this usually only happens when whatever was said is sparking a discussion or is cringy.
When a tweet or post has less likes than the replies to the post, which only happens when the original post is pretty dumb.
We used to call it “roasted” or “creamed” but I’m trying to keep up with the zeitgeist.