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LifeInMultipleChoice

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  • Trump’s mental decline is undeniable — so what now?

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  • If the Presidents stayed in their roles, the people would follow their congressmembers/senators if they thought things werent how they liked. It wouldn't be a giant publicity show, because you'd have 435 people with a vote that's equal, and 100 in the other house. Making 270 people popular is much harder, and when they can't count for more than everyone else, their standing doesn't "demand" as much respect.

    Right now it's the executive branch manipulating the rest, which is rediculous

  • Trump’s mental decline is undeniable — so what now?

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  • I agree, but to me I just wish we could have the branches do their actual jobs. The president shouldn't be doing anything but executing legislation that's previously written. I don't think they should be pushing for new legislation, concluding what old legislation means, or pushing any agenda, they should be/ are a glorified cop when it comes to the internal aspects of our country. International relations are another subject. We have 535 people making legislation. 1 person shouldn't ever have say over them, as they are our individualized representatives designated for their purposes, and are a completely different branch of government. When the president says, I don't think this legislation means that, the courts can take a look at it, but they shouldn't be doing that either. It should go back to the legislature, and they should say no actions can be performed until we tell you how high to jump bitch. Now sit and stay or we'll throw you out of that office and charge you with treason.

    They are public servants

  • Donald Trump praises registered sex offender invited to speak at White House event for children’s fitness

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  • Look, that part of the Bible was written by the Obama administration, it was a clear set up.

  • Trump’s mental decline is undeniable — so what now?

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  • Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's a few years after leaving office, but his son said the symptoms were there in 84, before he started his second term.

    It's like a time honored tradition around here

  • Nancy Pelosi Comes Out In Support of Stock Trading Ban After Trump Says He Doesn’t Really Know About It

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  • They might not be enforcing it strongly enough, but it's already illegal. Meaning the punishments and review process should just be reviewed/changed. That said if you look at where everyone made giant amounts of money last year it was Nvidia. It wasnt about insider information. The company just took off, and the legislative branch has actually put restrictions on the company, not voted to allow them to operate freely. Had Nvidia been able to sell in China and build more factories there the company would have been able to increase more rapidly. So the insider information would have been to sell Nvidia stock, not buy it.

    If we want to fix the issues at its core we need to find ways to ban everyone from investing in the stock market, not just government members.

  • Senate Republicans Vote to Allow Trump to Keep Gifted Qatari Jet After Leaving Office

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  • Makes sense, I remember Obama and Jerry Seinfeld, and Biden and Jay Leno, and Bush owns his ranch, so it's possible he just drives around his ranch

  • Senate Republicans Vote to Allow Trump to Keep Gifted Qatari Jet After Leaving Office

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  • Biden, Bush, and Obama drive. Trump's the only one that doesn't. Actually Biden drove during his presidency, but only on enclosed areas I believe.

  • TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.

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  • Ah gotcha, yeah I thought you meant the workers

  • Nancy Pelosi Comes Out In Support of Stock Trading Ban After Trump Says He Doesn’t Really Know About It

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  • Well the truth is likely different than people want to hear. Every trade over $1000 dollars has been reviewed by an ethics committee since the stock act was passed back in 2012. It made sure Congress members trading with insider information was a crime. Aka, everyone who's bitched about insider trading since 2012 has been going off their feelings of how it's unfair rich people can make money off the insane amounts of money they have.

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/2038

  • ‘Britain’s most tattooed man’ claims he is unable to watch p*rn as 'new age check system mistakes his ink for a mask' | Need To Know

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  • At some point I think he just said fill the rest in with Aquaman to the artist

  • TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.

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  • Hey you want to buy some cocaine? 220 a ball, 1450 an ounce.

    #jokesfortheNSA

  • TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.

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  • I assume because they can't find work closer to them, and can't afford to move / have something holding them where they are at that time. No one's doing it because they want too

  • Nancy Pelosi Comes Out In Support of Stock Trading Ban After Trump Says He Doesn’t Really Know About It

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  • Buffett is what, 480x her worth, with most of his money coming from investment banking as well. The Pelosis out performed him for the last ten years but she only made 250 million in that time supposively.

    To put that in perspective buffet makes her net worth twice a month. That's at 5% growth, and the 10 year market average is over 10. Meaning he really should be making $1 billion dollars a month with average market investments.

    If you have money to invest the markets make you stupid money, the problem is that most people will never have money to invest like they do. Then again if everyone did, inflation would skyrocket as well.

    Our capitalistic system is designed around those who get ahead taking off, and the majority griding day after day filling their pockets. Banning Congress from trading stocks may help some day, but only if there was some way to make people impregnable to greed. Otherwise guess what, Buffet who wasn't in Congress keeps going, Pelosi's kids take control of assets and invest, the Trump organization is split between names, so nothing stops Ivanka/Jr/the rest of them from making the trades. Hell they can just make the trades in their kids names and the kids can say they are just taking care of their elderly parents anytime they want to buy something. (Those people are to old to use anything really) But the same principle applies elsewhere.

    Its better to just make strict regulations with a 3rd party investigative body.. or put wealth caps, or if we could, come up with a new system. A democracy would be nice. A democratic communist society could be nice as well. Haven't seen many of those outside of small pirate crews.

  • Trump administration says federal employees can encourage co-workers to "re-think" their religious beliefs

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  • From what I understand Luther doesn't believe in transubstantiation, he/they believe Christ's blood and body are just naturally occuring in the Eucharist. It doesn't have to become it, but you have to believe you are actually eating the body and blood of Christ. How would that be opposite if I never even mentioned transubstantiation? I just mentioned the Eucharist, which both Catholics and Lutheran's eat, believing it physically is/contains Jesus.

    In my experience, most Christians don't study their beliefs, so many people who claim they are Catholic, like my mother when she sent both my brother and I as kids to Catholic stuff, doesn't know/believe that to be Catholic she must really believe she is doing so.

    So she may really believe in Jesus, and not go to church in the last 15-20 years, but she in reality isn't a Catholic, she's another form of Christian and doesn't know it.

    My brother and I both got dragged through the whole communion and he did his confirmation thing back in the 90s. Whole thing was stupid. I was rejected by the Church to be baptized as a baby because my father worked weekends and only my brother and mother went. So my grandparents lived next to a priest from another church and they just had me baptized there and brought me to the church that refused me anyways. I'll never understand the things people do just to fit in.

  • Senate Republicans Vote to Allow Trump to Keep Gifted Qatari Jet After Leaving Office

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  • That's the part that doesn't make sense to me. It's either a gift to him, and it's his problem to take care of, or a gift to the government, and their problem.

    When you get elected president your car(s) doesn't suddenly get overhauled with bullet proof glass and security features paid for by the government. You hop in a government provided vehicle, and when you leave (outside of specific instances and time frames) you hop back in your normal car and live your life. Sure the secret service is around for things, but George Bush buys a truck from dealership, it doesn't get taken to a military installation and reworked with our taxes.

  • Nancy Pelosi Comes Out In Support of Stock Trading Ban After Trump Says He Doesn’t Really Know About It

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  • Info he's referring to: Rep. David Rouzer (R-NC): 149.0% Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL): 142.3% Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): 123.8% Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX): 111.2% Rep. Morgan McGarvey (D-KY): 105.8% Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-IN): 98.6% Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX): 95.2% Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME): 77.5% Rep. David Kustoff (R-TN): 71.5% Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): 70.9%

    149% in a year, that's wild. Must have owned mostly NVidia

  • Nancy Pelosi Comes Out In Support of Stock Trading Ban After Trump Says He Doesn’t Really Know About It

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  • Now that would change things drastically. I would think for the better.

  • Nancy Pelosi Comes Out In Support of Stock Trading Ban After Trump Says He Doesn’t Really Know About It

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  • Nah it looks like she was for banning trades using insider trading, and against banning Congress members and their spouses from trading stocks.

    If your husband/wife's entire career is trading stocks I highly doubt you'd be for such. It's hypocritical that she would be for it now though. She should have kept her stance that she had in that 2012 article, that increasing scrutiny and verifying their trades should be done to make sure no inside information was used.

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  • I mean they are. She publicly posted every trade she made for like 2 years and they beat every model out there, and none of the companies had ongoing congressional votes.

    Has she made stock trades in the past, probably/possibly. But if you look at the stocks she invests in, it's mostly all large tech companies. She was up 74% in 2024 which is rediculous. That said NVIDIA was up 190% in 2024, which is where she likely got a lot of her gains. She started trading a bunch in 2020.

    That said I'm sure her trading will slow/stop soon enough, it appears her husband just had a kidney transplant (her daughters kidney) so I imagine he'll kick the bucket soon enough. He's 85 from what I just saw.

    https://valueinvesting.io/nancy-pelosi-stock-trades-tracker