but when you ain't got nothing you got nothing to loose...so I'm fine
Meh. It was all a dream anyway. A stock ain't worth a damn untll you sell it.
And the market was gonna crash anyway.
No, what we have here is a buying opportunity.
Well said!
I hate when the media acts like real money evaporated into thin air. What actually happened is people are now simply unwilling to fork over as much of their real money for stocks as they were previously. But the real money they would have spent is still in their pockets, it hasn't gone anywhere. No actual money disappeared. The supply/demand equation just got tweaked a bit (less demand).
I think Trump is the geiger counter through which the overworld attempts to measure the density of the river of shit heading their way.
I tried to think of a way to say that one day but decided it would take too much typing. You did it succinctly in one sentence.
Thanks, backtoiam. As to how that river of shit might pertain to his candidacy:
“Britain’s stunning vote to leave the European Union suggests that we’ve been seriously underestimating Donald Trump’s ability to win the presidential election.”
“When you consider all his controversies and self-inflicted wounds over the past month, combined with how much he’s getting outspent on the airwaves in the battleground states, it is actually quite surprising that Trump and Hillary Clinton are so close in the polls. He’s holding his own, especially in the Rust Belt.”
“The British campaign to exit the European Union… like Trump’s, was fueled by grievance. Those agitating to cut off formal ties to the continent were less organized and less funded than those who wanted to stay connected, but that deficit didn’t matter in the end, because the energy was against the status quo.”
They were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off. I remember Semper making that joke to me after the rogue independence poll that put Yes in the lead towards the end of our own referendum, but it seems more appropriate this time. Boris and Gove really didn't want this to actually happen. You can see in their faces that they have no plan whatsoever to deal with the new reality.
Boris wanted to be Prime Minister really badly. Cameron just called his bluff, and dropped a hot potato (slathered with shit) right in his lap, then walked out the door whistling.
Now Boris can be the Prime Minister that has to deal with (potentially - and I certainly wouldn't bet against it this time) the end of the UK, a recession of 70s proportions, bruising negotiations with Merkel and Juncker et. al. on issues that he is pretty clueless about, and even the possible loss of Gibraltar.
How do you lose the loyalty of Gibraltar ffs? lol
Then again, this exit might drag on forever. I seem to remember Greenland had to fight through the courts for six (or eight?) years to eventually extricate itself from the EU, and I doubt their membership was as complex as Britain's. Either way, it's been a highly entertaining day. I was gutted at first, which surprised me, but now I can't stop laughing. Brexit might prove to be such an unholy mess that it discredits Johnson, Gove, Farage, Fox, Truss, Patel, etc. forever, and their belief system too. That'd be nice.
Re: The Brexit thread
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:26 pm
by AhabsOtherLeg
82_28 » Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:32 am wrote:I know it seems totally unconnected but as I brought up in the first page of this thread, the NFL is looking to expand to London.
Apparently the NFL used to have a rival organisation, the US Football League. It was pretty successful, and presented an actual challenge to the NFL's popularity for a while, until a new owner came on the scene with great fanfare - and ran the whole thing into the ground within a year. That man's name? Albert Einstein.
Nah, it was Donald Trump. The guy who managed to lose money running a casino.
“Hopefully, a result of the Brexit will be the breakup of the European Union and NATO,” says Dr. Paul Craig Roberts.
Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU) could probably prevent the United States from launching World War III to establish control over the entire world, says Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, an American economist and author.
Dr. Roberts, who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Friday, a day after British citizens voted in a historic referendum to leave the EU, a bloc that the UK joined more than 40 years ago.
“Hopefully, a result of the Brexit will be the breakup of the European Union and NATO – the British have shown that a large country, important numbers can lead. So this should encourage smaller countries, who are being ruthlessly exploited, such as Greece and Portugal, Italy and Spain to also vote to leave,” he said.
“The European Union is a dictatorship; there’s no democracy in it. They have a parliament for show but it has no power. The power is in a non-elected commission that makes the decisions. So the government of the EU is removed from the European people,” he stated.
“And this is beginning to dawn on people. And it’s used by German and Dutch banks to loot the poor countries like Greece,” the analyst stated.
“Also, if the EU breaks up, then mostly likely the NATO and NATO is the cover mechanism for Washington’s aggression. The only reason Washington has been able to destroy Libya and Iraq and Afghanistan and tried to destroy Syria and to attack Iran with sanctions, the only reasons Washington could do that is because of NATO,” he noted.
“So if NATO were to break up, Washington’s cover for its aggression would be gone, and Washington could no longer use NATO to drive Europeans into conflict with Russia… and Iran,” he pointed out.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
“So this exit from the EU on the part of the British has the promise of saving humanity from World War III, because Washington is determined to have World War III in order that it can establish control over the entire world, which means Russia, China and Iran,” he said.
“Washington will not give up this goal, and the only way it can be frustrated is to have the EU and NATO break up. So hopefully the British exit would be the beginning of the breakup of these two most evil of all institutions,” the journalist emphasized.
“But the fight is not over… perhaps it has to have really yet begun, because the American Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of Japan, and George Soros, most likely will now conspire to attack the British pound, driving it down and down and terrorizing the UK economy in order to make the British think ‘Oh, we made a huge mistake. Let’s go back in. Our economy is being destroyed.’ This is entirely possible,” Dr. Roberts warned.
Re: The Brexit thread
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:54 pm
by brekin
So, I'm a little late to this party...so what I've gathered is the UK voted and will lose Mr. Bean, but will get to keep James Bond? And the rest of the world is nervous because production of Dowton Abbey may be delayed? And most suprisingly the Queen has surrendered the crown to Gordon Ramsey? Rumors abound in White Hall Trump to be next Dr. Who making Smileys People grim. Send telegram to confirm, radio chatter is in and out on this side of the pond.
Re: The Brexit thread
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 10:10 pm
by seemslikeadream
actually this is all happening because Dowton Abbey was cancelled
Re: The Brexit thread
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 10:11 pm
by Agent Orange Cooper
I'm stunned, stunned at the prevailing opinion (programming) I'm seeing everywhere that this is a horrible thing and the world as we know it will be coming to an end. since when was the EU some sanctified bastion of common sense and decency? no folks, it's a globalist conglomerate of fascist oligarchs who want to start WW3, always has been.
here's the inimitable Joe Farrell on the result (his book The Third Way is a good examination of the connections between the EU's inception and the so-called Nazi International):
Re: The Brexit thread
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 10:12 pm
by seemslikeadream
The world’s 400 richest people lost $127.4 billion Friday as global equity markets reeled from the news that British voters elected to leave the European Union. The billionaires lost 3.2 percent of their total net worth, bringing the combined sum to $3.9 trillion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The biggest decline belonged to Europe’s richest person, Amancio Ortega, who lost more than $6 billion, while nine others dropped more than $1 billion, including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the wealthiest person in the U.K.
actually this is all happening because Dowton Abbey was cancelled
splain that I don't get it. i'm not being a smart ass either this is a serious inquiry. i'm an american so i'm only so bright. i could study that for hours upon hours and still not understand the true nuances of it. if you would be so kind...
Oh where are you going?
Eventually you must come back
How many ignorant people have regretted this
Before you and me
How many overpopulated countries and empty lands have you seen?
How much time have you wasted?
How much have you yet to lose?
Oh emigrant in the country of others
Do you even know what's going on?
Destiny and time follow their course but you ignore it
Why is your heart so sad?
And why are you staying there miserable?
Hardship will end and you no longer learn or build anything
The days don't last, just as your youth and mine didn't
Oh poor fellow who missed his chance just as I missed mine
Oh traveler, I give you a piece of advice to follow right away
See what is in your interest before you sell or buy
Oh sleeper, your news reached me
And what happened to you happened to me
Thus, the heart returns to its creator, the Highest (God)
if that one isn't relevant there's this one
The lesson was not learned
Remembers they chose to forget
Everywhere I hear what they say
Foreigners, you are the cause of our problems
Me, I thought it was all over
But in fact it was only a pause