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Trevor wrote: Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:27 am

John wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 7:44 pm ** 28-Feb-2021 World View: Trump's speech

That was really quite a speech that Trump gave, under the banner
"Uncanceled America." The one thing that was missing that I was
hoping for was some sort of plan to get around the Stalinist
censorship and control of 74 million people that the Democrats have
imposed, in league with the media and Big Tech as part of the
Democrats' Forced Universal Compliance Operations Program (FUCOP). As
I've said several times, this massive anti-constitutional censorship
is the darkest time in America in my memory, and I was hoping to hear
something about how it would end.

The impression I get is, many aren't sure what to do. By this point, most of America's institutions are leftist and if you try to weaken them, you're likely to be destroyed. Look what happened when Trump made the attempt. I don't think the demand to impeach is so much because he got elected as it was a Republican won. If Rubio or Cruz became President, I doubt the response would have been much different. Silicon Valley has the kind of power the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age could only have dreamt of. I don't know how you could reverse it, either.

A lot of the people I know are conservatives and they're starting to realize how hated they truly are. They've always known progressives look down their noses at them and scoff, with a response of: "Who gives a shit what they think?" Now, however, they're realizing the sheer depths of loathing leftists hold, not just for Trump, but anyone who votes Republican.

Genocide awaist us.

I have lost friends that I have had for almost 30 years because I refused to condemn Trump. it's the G.W. Bush mantra of "either you're with us or you're against us." It's BS. I can't say that I miss any of them; I don't. These people are all white like me. They have condemned me for my "White male priviledge" while somehow failing to notice that their husbands, brothers, and sons are white males and will soon be on the chopping block. They will get theirs.

Let them all drown in their own vomit.

Cool Breeze wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 4:54 pm

Tom Mazanec wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 8:00 am Inflation Dec 2020 to Jan 2021 is 0.43%, or 5.2% per annum.
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
Is this a blip or a trend?

You know what it is my man. But Michael Burry is also an idiot like me, he doesn't know what he's talking about, except ... our track records are phenomenal.

"But Michael Burry is also an idiot like me, he doesn't know what he's talking about, except ... our track records are phenomenal."

???

'Big Short' investor Michael Burry slams bitcoin as a 'speculative bubble' - and says a crash is coming

Theron Mohamed

Mar. 1, 2021, 12:57 PM

Bitcoin's price has surged to unsustainable levels, and buyers have taken on dangerous amounts of debt, Michael Burry cautioned in a recent tweet.

"$BTC is a speculative bubble that poses more risk than opportunity despite most of the proponents being correct in their arguments for why it is relevant at this point in history," the investor wrote before deleting the tweet.

"If you do not know how much leverage is involved in the run-up, you may not know enough to own it," he added.

Burry is best known for his billion-dollar bet on a housing-market crash in the mid-2000s, chronicled in the book and the movie "The Big Short."

In a tweet on Saturday, the Scion Asset Management chief compared the hype around bitcoin, electric vehicles, software-as-a-service companies, and "meme stocks" like GameStop and AMC to the housing and dot-com bubbles.

"Fads today (#BTC, #EV, SAAS #memestocks) are like housing in 2007 and fiber/.com/comm/routers in 1999," he said.

The enormous buzz isn't entirely unfounded, Burry said, but he doesn't expect it to last.
"On the whole, not wrong, just driven by speculative fervor to insane heights from which the fall will be dramatic and painful," he said.

Burry doubled down on his bearish stance in other tweets last week.

"Those saying me and Munger and Singer are so out of touch are not considering that we have seen this all before, and not just once," he said, referring to recent warnings about market speculation from Charlie Munger - Warren Buffett's business partner - and the hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer.

"The market is dancing on a knife's edge," he said in another tweet.

Burry said in February that he didn't "hate" bitcoin but had doubts about its long-term prospects. He said he expected authorities to squash threats to their currencies and launch their own digital notes and coins.

The Scion chief added that he wasn't short bitcoin, as "anything is possible" in the near future. He was short Tesla as of December, and he cashed out his GameStop shares last quarter after laying the groundwork for the spike in GameStop's stock price in January.

*** 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry slams bitcoin as a 'speculative bubble' - and says a crash is coming

https://markets.businessinsider.com/cur ... 1030134627

Guest wrote: Mon Mar 01, 2021 9:33 am I have lost friends that I have had for almost 30 years because I refused to condemn Trump. it's the G.W. Bush mantra of "either you're with us or you're against us." It's BS. I can't say that I miss any of them; I don't. These people are all white like me. They have condemned me for my "White male priviledge" while somehow failing to notice that their husbands, brothers, and sons are white males and will soon be on the chopping block. They will get theirs.

Let them all drown in their own vomit.

Well said.

There's still a chance the internal insanity might abate, but it's just a symptom of many stresses globally all coming together at the same time. A force of nature, awe inspiring and terrifying indeed. Emotions and now actions that were once relegated to the bin of history as "never again". And again it is. Maybe it will be different this time but it's on the path to historical rerun, sadly.

John wrote: Mon Mar 01, 2021 5:33 pm *** 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry slams bitcoin as a 'speculative bubble' - and says a crash is coming

https://markets.businessinsider.com/cur ... 1030134627

I looked this guy up and this story popped up.

These are some of the highlights of the news article. M.B.'s twitter posts are there too.

America is in real trouble.

Michael Burry Slams "Out Of Touch, Rich White Man" Bill Gates

Less than two weeks ago, we reported on the fact that The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is bankrolling an activist educational group that believes math is racist and that arriving at an objective answer is an example of “white supremacy.” Yes, really.

Specifically, as Summit News noted at the time, a conglomerate of 25 educational organizations called A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction asserts that asking students to find the correct answer is an “inherently racist practice.”

The organization’s website lists the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as its only donor.

“In fact, over the past decade, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded over of $140 million to a variety of groups associated with Pathway. Their “antiracist resources” are at the epicenter of a new training course for teachers offered by the Oregon Department of Education throughout the state,” reports National File.

A guidebook for teachers produced by Pathway called ‘Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction’ ludicrously claims that mathematics “is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views.”

Teachers are instructed to blame non-white students getting answers wrong on “white supremacist practices,” which are truly to blame for the “underachievement” of minorities.
This liberal, progressive insanity appears to have triggered Michael "Big Short" Burry who unleashed his usual acerbic, and entirely accurate, wit on Gates and the entire concept of math being racist...

"Math is a form of #whitesupremacy? Where I'm from, whites are the dummies in math. South and East Asians apparently didn't get the message whites use math to #suppress them. Would be a #LOL moment at the local high school, at whites' expense. "

Burry went on:

"Apparently an old rich white man is behind this. I'm really starting to think old white people are out of touch. Wait, I already knew that..."

The outspoken market savant concluded:

"I am of a generation that I know junior people who worked with Gates. Brilliant, exacting, and intimidating. Could and would pick apart and embarrass anyone in the room who was not prepared. Open conflict was his weapon. The right answer was never wrong."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mic ... bill-gates

The organization’s website lists the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as its only donor.

Okay.

** 01-Mar-2021 World View: Holocaust percentage

Trevor wrote: Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:22 am > Just a minor note on the book: Germany's population in 1940 was
> around 70 million, so 5 million people would have been around 7%
> of the population, not 3%, regarding the Holocaust.

Thanks for the correction. This contradicts some other figures
I've seen, so I'll check it out.

** 01-Mar-2021 World View: Trump's leadership

Trevor wrote: Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:27 am > The impression I get is, many aren't sure what to do. By this
> point, most of America's institutions are leftist and if you try
> to weaken them, you're likely to be destroyed. Look what happened
> when Trump made the attempt. I don't think the demand to impeach
> is so much because he got elected as it was a Republican won. If
> Rubio or Cruz became President, I doubt the response would have
> been much different. Silicon Valley has the kind of power the
> Robber Barons of the Gilded Age could only have dreamt of. I don't
> know how you could reverse it, either.

> A lot of the people I know are conservatives and they're starting
> to realize how hated they truly are. They've always known
> progressives look down their noses at them and scoff, with a
> response of: "Who gives a shit what they think?" Now, however,
> they're realizing the sheer depths of loathing leftists hold, not
> just for Trump, but anyone who votes Republican.

I think that you have a good point that public opinion among a lot of
people, especially Republicans, has reached a kind of tipping point.
People are shocked that the Democrats have been so thoroughly
successful in completely censoring conservatives. I know that I'm
shocked. A year ago, I never would have believed that it would be
politically possible for Twitter to shut down the accounts of the
President of the United States, but they did. I never thought that it
would be politically possible for Amazon to flip a ship and shut down
parler.com, a business will millions of members, but they did. All of
a sudden, people are shaking their heads and wondering what the hell
is going on and, as you say, they don't have any idea what they can do
about it.

So people are looking to Trump to tell them what to do about it. A
lot of people are counting on Trump to lead the way out of this
suddenly Stalist society that a year ago no one (including me)
believed was even possible in America. This has nothing to do with
whether Trump runs for president again. This is people looking to
Trump to tell them what to do to get out of this Stalinest mess that
the Democrats have created.

80 million people voted for Joe Biden, but a large segment of those
were not voting for Biden. They were voting against Trump. It was
impossible to vote for Biden, because Biden spent the year in his
basement, and nobody knows what his policies are. He simply signs
whatever his staff puts in front of him. The policies are decided by
AOC, who can't do second grade math, and by Nancy Pelosi, who tore up
the SOTU speech and is driven by vitriolic hatred of the 74 million
people who voted for Trump.

Now the Democrats are saying that there was no vaccine available
before Biden took office. Biden himself has made that claim, even
though he was personally vaccinated in December. During his speech,
Trump said of this claim, "Joe is being malicious. He just doesn't
know."

And people are becoming increasingly aware that teachers unions are
keeping kids out of schools in order to extort more money, and so
teachers can stay home and practice interpretive dance. Even
Dr. Seuss was canceled a few days ago by these Democrat morons.

So the Democrats have no leaders, and the Republicans have Trump as a
leader. That's why the Democrats are scared shitless, and the
Republicans are looking to Trump for leadership.

** 01-Mar-2021 World View: Becoming a pariah

Guest wrote: Mon Mar 01, 2021 9:33 am > I have lost friends that I have had for almost 30 years because I
> refused to condemn Trump. it's the G.W. Bush mantra of "either
> you're with us or you're against us." It's BS. I can't say that
> I miss any of them; I don't. These people are all white like
> me. They have condemned me for my "White male privilege" while
> somehow failing to notice that their husbands, brothers, and sons
> are white males and will soon be on the chopping block. They will
> get theirs.

> Let them all drown in their own vomit.

I know what you mean because I've felt that way for a long time, long
before Trump as president, since Generational Dynamics has made me a
pariah. It's ironic that being a Trump supporter has made you a
pariah just as Generational Dynamics has made me a pariah.

There are people whose friendship I've lost, which has made me
extremely sad. But in most cases, I feel the same as you -- good
riddance. Even trying to talk to these people is just aggravating and
a waste of time.

These days it's gotten pretty bad because Democrats have no idea
what's going on in the world because of the Stalinist censorship.
Conservatives can watch Fox News and get both sides of the news, but
Democrats only watch CNN and MSNBC which provide only a narrow
censored version of the news. In the last year, we've seen this over
and over again with the antifa-blm riots, the Hunter Biden charges,
and many other subjects.

The situation with the antifa-blm riots was really ridiculous.
There's one clip that's really hilarious. CNN reporter Ali Velshi is
in Portland saying that all the protests are peaceful, while you can
see multiple buildings burning down just a quarter mile behind Velshi.
Fox shows that CNN clip all the time, to great hilarity.

Talking to the Democrats is a waste of time, and just gives you a
headache, because the Democrats have no idea what's going on. Here's
a typical conversation:

Me: There are violent antifa-blm riots burning down cities.
She: Those are just peaceful demonstrations.
Me: But they're being reported on Fox News.
She: Fox News is all racist lies, a white supremacist hate fest.
Me: But there's video.
She: If there's violence, it's being caused by white supremacist
Trump supporters.

So as I said, these people are stupid, vile and worthless, and losing them
as "friends" is no loss at all.