I break things. Then I put them back together. Then I break them again. Just to show I mean business.

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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • Like these for example:

    * Lowest unemployment numbers since 1969, economy seeing strong growth in GTP, wages, stock market returns, household net worth
    * Expanded overtime guarantees for millions
    * Established the Office of Gun Violence Prevention awarding $286 million towards student mental health
    * Made transition to green electricity a priority and accelerating approval of renewable energy projects
    * Sealed nationwide Infrastructure deal for $1.2 trillion for roads, waterlines, broadband networks, airports, et c
    * Opened for over-the-counter birth control pill (in stores in 2024)
    * Issued a sweeping crackdown on junk fees and overdraft charges from banks
    * Effected anti-redlining frameworks preventing discriminatory mortgage lending
    * Forced Chinese companies to open their books
    * Issued the Inflation Reduction Act, authorizing funds to jump-start the transition of American agriculture toward less carbon-intensive practices
    * Helped broker a deal to save the Colorado River
    * Signed an executive order directing agencies across the government to promote competition and take on monopolies
    * Loosened federal restrictions on cannabis
    * Instituted penalties for college programs that trap students in debt
    * Enacted the CHIPS and Science Act, offering more than $50 billion to subsidize construction of new microchip facilities in the U.S
    * Aligned U.S trade policy with antitrust actions against big tech firms
    * Brokered a deal to halt conflict between Rwanda and Congo to stall impending Cobalt crisis
    * Released a new national cyber strategy, strengthening international cyber diplomacy, securing emerging critical technologies and taking more aggressive steps to disrupt hacking groups
    * Countering China with a new alliance between Japan and South Korea
    * Reinvigorating cancer research to lower death rates
    * Making medication more accessible through telemedicine initiative
    * Installed union-friendly allies on the NLRB board who have adopted positions that boost workers in confrontations with businesses
    * Issued a national radio frequency spectrum strategy to fix 5G chaos
    * Empowered federal agencies to monitor AI
    * Strengthening military ties to Asian allies
    * Creating a new agency to investigate cyberattacks
    * Forcing airlines to pay up when flights are delayed or canceled
    * Expansion of Benefits and Services for Toxic Exposed Veterans
    * Stood up against Russian aggression by direct support for Ukraine
    * Protected marriage rights for LGBTQ couples
    * Historic student debt relief for middle-, working-class families
    * Implemented aggressive climate and environmental justice agenda
    * ...
    

    Sources: https://www.vox.com/politics/24094752/biden-trump-strong-economy-2024-inflation https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/02/joe-biden-30-policy-things-you-might-have-missed-00139046 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Joe_Biden_administration#:~:text=His Inflation Reduction Act was enacted in August 2022.&text=Biden’s first year in office,the pandemic recession of 2020. https://www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/ https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2021/politics/biden-executive-orders/











  • You hit the nail on the head.

    Druggies may steal from you, but gamblers ruin the lives of everyone around them.

    Funny you should say that by the way, and horrifyingly sad, but two Russians drove my friend to his mother’s home in the middle of the night, shoved her in the car with her son, then was told to pay $10K (which was pure interest at that time) for her son’s life. She did. A couple of weeks later he was dead, drowned about a hundred yards away his childhood home.

    There was never ever ever ever any reasoning with him. The sheer number of girls he hustled, and by god the money they “gave” him, they were all permanently psychologically damaged after their encounters. Actually a very insane story. He was an amazing guy, literally everybody loved him. He walked into a room, a bar, a subway car… He dominated it instantly, like the lone hero out of some Western movie.

    Sorry, I wax sentimental.

    RIP Joni.

    E: he actually came to me in those weeks leading up to his death and asked me, “if it was a matter of life and death, would you borrow me $10K?”, and I answered, “No, because you’d be back next week asking for the same thing, and one day I’d say no and then you’d die anyway”. We were always sarcastic and fuck you towards one another but like brothers you know. I didn’t understand it at the time, but he was literally asking me to save his life. In hindsight, I don’t know how to feel about it, because I was 100% right, yet, what kind of human wouldn’t do anything to save their friend’s life?

    Fuck this woke some feels, sorry for ranting.


  • This is not aimed at you or anyone particular just my thoughts, but it’s amazing how uneducated people are when it comes to finance. I know I am, and every day I learn a little more of how gullible I’ve been. I did live on the streets selling drugs though, and once you see how that game is played, you see how every fucking game is played. You do this and he does that and they do this and that for you and we all come out on top, right? Throw a couple of million dollar lawyers, accountants, legal experts, think tanks, connections to the monetary and industrial elite of the world, and stack the SEC with 92% former and future employees of yours, and suddenly the game makes sense without any need to get the academics.

    It’s not about the math, it’s about who you know.

    If anyone is skeptical then remember exactly what Clump was convicted of and what his punishment was.

    Now he’s crowdfunding that punishment away, and people think that somehow it’s impossible that it’s a scam because of financial regulations? Bruhs…