Trump's first 100 days

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Oldbear83 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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His charging for actionable policy information sooner with a subscription? Nah, that is very Presidential and above board. The gymnastics you are able to play to justify his actions are incredible. If this were Biden you would be going nuts....

Show me where Trump specifically promised "actionable policy information".

I dislike the move but your imagination is taking you to LooneyLand again.

Have you never read his tweets? He tweets actionable information all t he time. He brags about tweeting it to break the news first.

Ask your mom to buy you a dictionary for your birthday.

You are so dumb. Amazing how hard you try at not engaging, just posting your silly little defenses of Trump.

You keep proving you don't pay attention. I am not defending Trump, just pointing out that your little tantrum is because you believed some rant from delusional malcontents.

Again, it's entirely reasonable to see this move from Trump and say 'this is a bad look and I disapprove', but the mark of the screeching hysterical loon to say 'this is a hundred times worse than Watergate'.

If by now you still cannot grasp the distinction, you should not reply anymore to that Nigerian prince or buy the device that promises you will never have to pay a power bill again.
A bad look??? The man has created a scheme to sell informational advantage derived from his position as President of the United States by monetizing a private business he owns. Have some modicum of intellectual integrity here and stop defending the indefensible. Good grief…
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Oldbear83 said:

Porteroso said:

Oldbear83 said:

FLBear5630 said:

His charging for actionable policy information sooner with a subscription? Nah, that is very Presidential and above board. The gymnastics you are able to play to justify his actions are incredible. If this were Biden you would be going nuts....

Show me where Trump specifically promised "actionable policy information".

I dislike the move but your imagination is taking you to LooneyLand again.

Have you never read his tweets? He tweets actionable information all t he time. He brags about tweeting it to break the news first.

Ask your mom to buy you a dictionary for your birthday.

man you have turned into your "Personal Jesus", Pig-Man Trump. Vindictive, cutting, lying, re-direction. whataboutsism ....come on man.
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Sweet Donny Baby!

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they're all teves.

yes, teves.

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SHOCKING SCANDAL:

Senator's Votes Pump MILLIONS into Wife's NGO Cash Cow You Won't Believe the Payoff!

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse funneled over $14M in federal grants to Ocean Conservancy, where his wife Sandra raked in $2.7M.

Ethics complaint filed, but his team cries 'politics.' Corruption or coincidence?

Taxpayers deserve answers!
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historian said:

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47% of retirees in the US live completely on Social Security.

Any plan going forward has to take that into account, because the next generation is also wondering how they will survive.

A reasonable pat from you, wow. Yes, if you want to fo away with entitlements, which SS is not really, you have to do it gracefully. Better yet, fix it so SS doesn't lose out to inflation and sustains itself.


Social Security needs to be redone totally. The payout you get from all the money you put in is pitiful.

That's why it should be privatized, the only way for that to happen. The govt does not create anything. It only destroys. The more people realize that fact the better off everyone will be.

Are you kidding??? You say this with a straight face?

IT WAS!! Trump hired who he wanted and paid them what they charged! This in NO WAY went through the typical procurement we do in the road industry. Under typical State or Agency contracts they would have filed a bond and we would have a claim against them to fix it. We would have a CEI that would be responsible to make sure they work was done according to plans. We would never do final acceptance until the work was complete and the CEI signed off/They would be on the hook for this and involved in the settlement. The private sector transaction is the LEAST secure way to provide public infratructure. You do not build and maintain public parks this way.

Using your system it would be a civil court. You really HAVE NO IDEA what you are talking about.

I have no idea what you are talking about! I was engaging in a theoretical discussion about Social Security and the possibility of privatization. You're talking about roads!

If it were to happen, obviously it would require a lot of thought and debate to work out the details. It would be very complicated and difficult. Personally, I don't think it will happen for those reasons and more.

If you think you are talking about govt in general, you are fantasizing. I'm no anarchist and I don't want to eliminate government completely. I just don't want corrupt and incompetent politicians & bureaucrats running our lives. I am a firm believer in capitalism and an opponent of socialism. You seem to think the choices are between 100% capitalism or 100% socialism when neither extreme is possible.

Reality is somewhere in between and it is possible to have a capitalist, free market economy while accepting some degree of government service: security (police & military), schools, and yes roads. But government is only a necessary evil and we should have the bare minimum.


the man just keeps on a-slicin'

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Oldbear83 said:

Porteroso said:

Oldbear83 said:

Porteroso said:

Oldbear83 said:

Porteroso said:

Oldbear83 said:

FLBear5630 said:

ge daHis charging for actionable policy information sooner with a subscription? Nah, that is very Presidential and above board. The gymnastics you are able to play to justify his actions are incredible. If this were Biden you would be going nuts....

Show me where Trump specifically promised "actionable policy information".

I dislike the move but your imagination is taking you to LooneyLand again.

Have you never read his tweets? He tweets actionable information all t he time. He brags about tweeting it to break the news first.

Ask your mom to buy you a dictionary for your birthday.

You are so dumb. Amazing how hard you try at not engaging, just posting your silly little defenses of Trump.

You keep proving you don't pay attention. I am not defending Trump, just pointing out that your little tantrum is because you believed some rant from delusional malcontents.

Again, it's entirely reasonable to see this move from Trump and say 'this is a bad look and I disapprove', but the mark of the screeching hysterical loon to say 'this is a hundred times worse than Watergate'.

If by now you still cannot grasp the distinction, you should not reply anymore to that Nigerian prince or buy the device that promises you will never have to pay a power bill again.

Im throwing a tantrum? LOL. I am just saying it's bad. Man you snowflakes are victimized by the smallest things.

Find a mirror, son.

I'm not the one between us throwing a fit every day over the President's words and actions. Some things I like, some things I don't, but I at least manage a sense of proportion and can keep my argument consistent.

You, on the other hand ...

Selling access to the President is a ridiculously un-American travesty. Even worse that it is the President himself doing it. Worthy of impeachment.

We elected a really bad guy. The electorate is truly shameful. A bunch of sheep.
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Porteroso said:

Oldbear83 said:

Porteroso said:

Oldbear83 said:

Porteroso said:

Oldbear83 said:

Porteroso said:

Oldbear83 said:

FLBear5630 said:

ge daHis charging for actionable policy information sooner with a subscription? Nah, that is very Presidential and above board. The gymnastics you are able to play to justify his actions are incredible. If this were Biden you would be going nuts....

Show me where Trump specifically promised "actionable policy information".

I dislike the move but your imagination is taking you to LooneyLand again.

Have you never read his tweets? He tweets actionable information all t he time. He brags about tweeting it to break the news first.

Ask your mom to buy you a dictionary for your birthday.

You are so dumb. Amazing how hard you try at not engaging, just posting your silly little defenses of Trump.

You keep proving you don't pay attention. I am not defending Trump, just pointing out that your little tantrum is because you believed some rant from delusional malcontents.

Again, it's entirely reasonable to see this move from Trump and say 'this is a bad look and I disapprove', but the mark of the screeching hysterical loon to say 'this is a hundred times worse than Watergate'.

If by now you still cannot grasp the distinction, you should not reply anymore to that Nigerian prince or buy the device that promises you will never have to pay a power bill again.

Im throwing a tantrum? LOL. I am just saying it's bad. Man you snowflakes are victimized by the smallest things.

Find a mirror, son.

I'm not the one between us throwing a fit every day over the President's words and actions. Some things I like, some things I don't, but I at least manage a sense of proportion and can keep my argument consistent.

You, on the other hand ...

Selling access to the President is a ridiculously un-American travesty. Even worse that it is the President himself doing it. Worthy of impeachment.

We elected a really bad guy. The electorate is truly shameful. A bunch of sheep.

Agreed. I would also add the Spineless R's , save a couple. Thems a bunch of Meows!
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The guy is making it look like a mistake not to vote for Kamal... Now, THAT takes work. You have to really work at it to be worse than Biden/Harris and have people wondering if we would be in a better place with Kamala.

I wonder, could we have funded all of Biden's program's that actually would have helped Americans and still be LESS debt or a push than what Trump has done predominantly for Israel, the Trump Boys and the wealthy?

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boognish_bear said:



The guy is making it look like a mistake not to vote for Kamal... Now, THAT takes work. You have to really work at it to be worse than Biden/Harris and have people wondering if we would be in a better place with Kamala.

I wonder, could we have funded all of Biden's program's that actually would have helped Americans and still be LESS debt or a push than what Trump has done predominantly for Israel, the Trump Boys and the wealthy?




I doubt very highly Kamala would have been better (and there is no scenario where I will/would ever vote for her), but that bar is so low it's in hell right now, so who knows. If I had November 2024 to do over, I would not vote for Trump this time.

Wild the level of grift and corruption being acceptable to some here.
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meanwhile, in other news:

wunderkind pisses away $35,really, really, really LA-arge.........

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How Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $45 billion AI hedge fund and lost most of it in days
Published Fri, Jul 31 202610:44 AM EDTUpdated Fri, Jul 31 20264:19 PM EDT

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  • Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund, Situational Awareness, collapsed from $45 billion to around $10 billion in assets on falling semiconductor stocks and mounting margin calls.
  • Driven by reported leverage of up to 400%, the 20-something manager was forced to sell off all his leveraged public stock bets including hard-hit names like SK Hynix and CoreWeave to Ken Griffin's Citadel at a discount.
  • The crash marks a dramatic turn for Aschenbrenner, who launched the fund after gaining Silicon Valley fame with his 2024 AI manifesto, drawing scrutiny from critics over his lack of money management experience and his past ties to FTX.
Two years ago, Leopold Aschenbrenner argued he was one of few people in the world who saw the future clearly.

In a sprawling, 165-page essay that became required reading in Silicon Valley, the former OpenAI researcher positioned himself as a kind of prophet for the coming age of artificial super intelligence.

But this week, the limits of Aschenbrenner's vision were on display when the AI-themed hedge fund he runs named Situational Awareness, also the title of his viral June 2024 manifesto ran into the harsh reality of tumbling semiconductor stocks and Wall Street margin calls.

At its peak earlier this month, his fund sat atop $45 billion in assets. By Thursday, however, after being forced to offload all of his leveraged stock bets including hard-hit names like SK Hynix
and CoreWeave
to Ken Griffin's Citadel at a discount, the fund's holdings plunged to around $10 billion, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

The story of Aschenbrenner's meteoric rise and sudden fall has captivated both Wall Street and tech circles, making him the most high-profile casualty yet of the volatility accompanying the AI boom.

A polarizing figure, his online followers saw Aschenbrenner a Columbia University valedictorian at age 19 as a genius of the next big thing and followed his fund's quarterly filings for clues on hot AI stocks.

Before this month's decline, Situational Awareness racked up gains of more than 1,000% since inception, The Wall Street Journal reported last month. The Journal noted Aschenbrenner was just 24 years old.

Others on Wall Street, including former traders at global investment banks, noted that in light of reports Situational Awareness used as much as 400% leverage, the collapse wasn't shocking.

"A lot of people saw this blow-up as a matter of not if, but when," said Jerry Diao, who runs a Wall Street coaching firm. "Maybe his views on AI are correct in the long run, but in the public markets, you have to be prepared for the short-term."

The hedge fund didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC.

Earlier this week, before the sale to Citadel, about two-thirds of Situational Awareness holdings were in long and short positions in public equities, according to one source. The rest were stakes in private companies, dominated by a multibillion-dollar Anthropic investment, the person said.

CNBC's sources spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss nonpublic details.

The near-collapse of Situational Awareness coincides with the hedge fund manager's wedding, set for this weekend, sources told CNBC's David Faber. Aschenbrenner is engaged to Avital Balwit, chief of staff for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, according to a Fortune profile.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/leopold-aschenbrenner-situational-awareness-fund-fire-sale.html
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I hear you. I would not vote for her. But this crew has me thinking, is incompetent better than the BS and grift we are seeing. This is making the Big Guy's 10% look like above board finders fee...
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william said:

meanwhile, in other news:

wunderkind pisses away $35,really, really, really LA-arge.........

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How Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $45 billion AI hedge fund and lost most of it in days
Published Fri, Jul 31 202610:44 AM EDTUpdated Fri, Jul 31 20264:19 PM EDT

Points
  • Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund, Situational Awareness, collapsed from $45 billion to around $10 billion in assets on falling semiconductor stocks and mounting margin calls.
  • Driven by reported leverage of up to 400%, the 20-something manager was forced to sell off all his leveraged public stock bets including hard-hit names like SK Hynix and CoreWeave to Ken Griffin's Citadel at a discount.
  • The crash marks a dramatic turn for Aschenbrenner, who launched the fund after gaining Silicon Valley fame with his 2024 AI manifesto, drawing scrutiny from critics over his lack of money management experience and his past ties to FTX.
Two years ago, Leopold Aschenbrenner argued he was one of few people in the world who saw the future clearly.

In a sprawling, 165-page essay that became required reading in Silicon Valley, the former OpenAI researcher positioned himself as a kind of prophet for the coming age of artificial super intelligence.

But this week, the limits of Aschenbrenner's vision were on display when the AI-themed hedge fund he runs named Situational Awareness, also the title of his viral June 2024 manifesto ran into the harsh reality of tumbling semiconductor stocks and Wall Street margin calls.

At its peak earlier this month, his fund sat atop $45 billion in assets. By Thursday, however, after being forced to offload all of his leveraged stock bets including hard-hit names like SK Hynix
and CoreWeave
to Ken Griffin's Citadel at a discount, the fund's holdings plunged to around $10 billion, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

The story of Aschenbrenner's meteoric rise and sudden fall has captivated both Wall Street and tech circles, making him the most high-profile casualty yet of the volatility accompanying the AI boom.

A polarizing figure, his online followers saw Aschenbrenner a Columbia University valedictorian at age 19 as a genius of the next big thing and followed his fund's quarterly filings for clues on hot AI stocks.

Before this month's decline, Situational Awareness racked up gains of more than 1,000% since inception, The Wall Street Journal reported last month. The Journal noted Aschenbrenner was just 24 years old.

Others on Wall Street, including former traders at global investment banks, noted that in light of reports Situational Awareness used as much as 400% leverage, the collapse wasn't shocking.

"A lot of people saw this blow-up as a matter of not if, but when," said Jerry Diao, who runs a Wall Street coaching firm. "Maybe his views on AI are correct in the long run, but in the public markets, you have to be prepared for the short-term."

The hedge fund didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC.

Earlier this week, before the sale to Citadel, about two-thirds of Situational Awareness holdings were in long and short positions in public equities, according to one source. The rest were stakes in private companies, dominated by a multibillion-dollar Anthropic investment, the person said.

CNBC's sources spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss nonpublic details.

The near-collapse of Situational Awareness coincides with the hedge fund manager's wedding, set for this weekend, sources told CNBC's David Faber. Aschenbrenner is engaged to Avital Balwit, chief of staff for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, according to a Fortune profile.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/leopold-aschenbrenner-situational-awareness-fund-fire-sale.html
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Is there anyone here who would be upset if their net worth "collapsed" to only $10 billion?
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303Bear said:

FLBear5630 said:

boognish_bear said:



The guy is making it look like a mistake not to vote for Kamal... Now, THAT takes work. You have to really work at it to be worse than Biden/Harris and have people wondering if we would be in a better place with Kamala.

I wonder, could we have funded all of Biden's program's that actually would have helped Americans and still be LESS debt or a push than what Trump has done predominantly for Israel, the Trump Boys and the wealthy?




I doubt very highly Kamala would have been better (and there is no scenario where I will/would ever vote for her), but that bar is so low it's in hell right now, so who knows. If I had November 2024 to do over, I would not vote for Trump this time.

Wild the level of grift and corruption being acceptable to some here.


We'd have been much better off. We'd have not had a $500B + exposure in Iran, we'd still have functioning military bases in the Middle East, no tariffs and not $1T tax cuts.

Finally, we'd not have the griff. We have lost our standing as reliable and moral people. That cost we can't measure.
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Oldbear83 said:

FLBear5630 said:

Oldbear83 said:

FLBear5630 said:

His charging for actionable policy information sooner with a subscription? Nah, that is very Presidential and above board. The gymnastics you are able to play to justify his actions are incredible. If this were Biden you would be going nuts....

Show me where Trump specifically promised "actionable policy information".

I dislike the move but your imagination is taking you to LooneyLand again.


Come on, he announces everything on Truth Social, bombing, tariffs, embargoes, Federal investments, crypto you get that info forst for 100k what do you think it is for?

Come on, yourself!

You have been one of the loudest people complaining about Trump shilling all kinds of crap (the watch, the shoes, et cetera) and now you imagine he's going to sell legit details on real policy decisions?

Get serious. This is just another rant you take from 'reasonable dislike' to 'screeching overreaction'.


You can't think that's ok?
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Mitch Blood Green said:

Oldbear83 said:

FLBear5630 said:

Oldbear83 said:

FLBear5630 said:

His charging for actionable policy information sooner with a subscription? Nah, that is very Presidential and above board. The gymnastics you are able to play to justify his actions are incredible. If this were Biden you would be going nuts....

Show me where Trump specifically promised "actionable policy information".

I dislike the move but your imagination is taking you to LooneyLand again.


Come on, he announces everything on Truth Social, bombing, tariffs, embargoes, Federal investments, crypto you get that info forst for 100k what do you think it is for?

Come on, yourself!

You have been one of the loudest people complaining about Trump shilling all kinds of crap (the watch, the shoes, et cetera) and now you imagine he's going to sell legit details on real policy decisions?

Get serious. This is just another rant you take from 'reasonable dislike' to 'screeching overreaction'.


You can't think that's ok?

You need to take time to read, not just react.

No, I think it's crass and distasteful. It's also legal and nowhere near your claim.

Anyone dumb enough to pay early for Trump's AI-created memes and predictable posts deserves to lose their money.

And anyone claiming it's "impeachable" is saying a lot about their own mental limits.
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boognish_bear said:




Shooting your age is impressive

Shooting 10 strokes below your age is damn impossible. Was he teeing up at the 100 yard marker?
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boognish_bear said:




Shooting your age is impressive

Shooting 10 strokes below your age is damn impossible. Was he teeing up at the 100 yard marker?



Pete Hegseth was keeping score
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boognish_bear said:



Time for all income to be subject to SS.
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boognish_bear said:



Time for all income to be subject to SS.

oh no.....old bitter 83 gonna get his govt cheddar cut! Go Maga.
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awesome. Glad he has time to play golf in his club championship. How bout you worry about winning a war you started by yourself. Way to prioritize, Piggy. Viva la Cheeto!
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Oldbear83 said:

Mitch Blood Green said:

Oldbear83 said:

FLBear5630 said:

Oldbear83 said:

FLBear5630 said:

His charging for actionable policy information sooner with a subscription? Nah, that is very Presidential and above board. The gymnastics you are able to play to justify his actions are incredible. If this were Biden you would be going nuts....

Show me where Trump specifically promised "actionable policy information".

I dislike the move but your imagination is taking you to LooneyLand again.


Come on, he announces everything on Truth Social, bombing, tariffs, embargoes, Federal investments, crypto you get that info forst for 100k what do you think it is for?

Come on, yourself!

You have been one of the loudest people complaining about Trump shilling all kinds of crap (the watch, the shoes, et cetera) and now you imagine he's going to sell legit details on real policy decisions?

Get serious. This is just another rant you take from 'reasonable dislike' to 'screeching overreaction'.


You can't think that's ok?

You need to take time to read, not just react.

No, I think it's crass and distasteful. It's also legal and nowhere near your claim.

Anyone dumb enough to pay early for Trump's AI-created memes and predictable posts deserves to lose their money.

And anyone claiming it's "impeachable" is saying a lot about their own mental limits.

Selling access to the Presidency is exactly what impeachment is for. No specific law against it but clearly a total refusal to serve the American people in the area of information access, and try to profit personally instead.
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You are delusional.

Yet again.

That which does not kill me, will try again and get nastier
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Poor JR still mad about so many good things, God alone knows why.
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J.R. said:

FLBear5630 said:

boognish_bear said:



Time for all income to be subject to SS.

oh no.....old bitter 83 gonna get his govt cheddar cut! Go Maga.


Alot of people are going to be hurt, and they cant afford it. To the wealthy, it is a theoretical annoyance. To alot of people that spent their lives doing the working, it matters. You know this as much as I do.

i have no issues with a new system, but it has to be build in a system that protect those that already did theirctime and played by the rules.
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Oldbear83 said:

You are delusional.

Yet again.



Somebody is delusional.

But it isn't who you think it is.
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Oldbear83 said:

Poor JR still mad about so many good things, God alone knows why.

good things foo? Tell me about the good things that lying mfer has accomplished? Can't wait to hear about "Your own Personal Gold Jesus"? . Yeah I'm mad. lol. I have a job and don't have time to *****. Just stay ahead of the corrupt US Govt. Get a job, clown. Get off the govt cheddar. How's the war that was gonna last 4 days. How's your gasoline prices, how's tariffs? He is a effing embarrassment. Keep the faith Bitter! Govt will take care of you and momma!
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