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We're not on a 17 day vacation, not us. We have meetings and calls! Now where did that golf ball go?...Trump cont.

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MicrowaveSpy · 07/08/2017 08:51

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PlectrumElectrum · 09/08/2017 17:41

I've been offline for 5 days - don't have time to add a witty place mark, too much to catch up on!

cozietoesie · 09/08/2017 17:42

Plectrum?

I'd go back offline if I were you. Grin

BossyBitch · 09/08/2017 17:49

Across, it's not only you! I'm nervous, too, and, FWIW, so is the most relaxed person I know: my mentor, who shrugged his shoulders and called it 'only a minor glitch in the system' when, as a new graduate trainee, I made a stupid mistake that lost the firm 1.5 million. He's selling his stock holdings and buying commodities. He's not a conspiracy theorist, just a reasonable, extremely smart person senior enough to have been trained to spot the shot before it hits the fan.

I am actually reading Jonathan Freedland's book. Not my usual preferred style of fiction, it's a bit too airport-novelly for my normal tastes. But I started the first chapter and that opening scene where the insane president insists on launching nuclear attacks because NK said something that pisses him off just really hit home. I could envisage Trump doing that for the reasons book Trump POTUS does. It chilled me to the bone because, albeit fiction, it rings true.

Yes, I'm nervous. Not scared, not panicked, but nervous and acutely aware that there may be a 5% chance of this man being the reason I'll never see the other side of 40.

Lweji · 09/08/2017 17:55

Indeed, the Dow Jones is pointing downward.

orlantina · 09/08/2017 18:00

CNN‏Verified account @CNN 3m3 minutes ago
More
Pentagon chief Mattis: N. Korea "should cease any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime" cnn.it/2upXoiO

cozietoesie · 09/08/2017 18:04

There's been some rallying, Lweji. I'll put it in two words.

Defense stocks. Wink

Lweji · 09/08/2017 19:00

I'm sure cozie.

BTW, anyone missed the West Wing?
This is from November 2016, but eerily accurate.

And, on a side note, Allison Janney in the WH, but playing Trump.

and vs Bradley Whitford

Lweji · 09/08/2017 19:10

Oh, it IS Game of Thrones. Or, guess who's also on a 17 day working vacation.

But, North Korea, The U.S. Just Isn't That Into You
(what is Dennis Rodman doing?)

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/08/2017 19:20

A president arracking his majority leader

Donald J. Trump
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Senator Mitch McConnell said I had "excessive expectations," but I don't think so. After 7 years of hearing Repeal & Replace, why not done?

cozietoesie · 09/08/2017 19:29

Grief.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/08/2017 19:29

Slate@slate
It has finally dawned on the business world that Trump causes “uncertainty.”

www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2017/08/businesses_are_finally_realizing_that_trump_causes_uncertainty.html

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/08/2017 19:32

I can't see what has given any business the impression that he was the least bit stable, especially when they were worried when Obama was in power, showing that it's not that they're always so cavalier, but there we are.

Lweji · 09/08/2017 19:40

This is not good.

From 7:15.
Are you in favour or military action in NK? (Yes. Shock)
Do you know where is NK? (No, that's Canada. No, that's Australia. And so on...)

Lweji · 09/08/2017 19:41

Reportedly, business thought he'd push for lower corporate taxes.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/08/2017 19:44

I understand that they supported deregulation and lowering of taxes etc but surely his incompetence shone bright from pretty early on!

PerkingFaintly · 09/08/2017 19:45

Still, good job people didn't vote for Hillary, eh? The warmonger who'd lead the US into WWIII.

AcrossthePond55 · 09/08/2017 19:52

Ribena, cozie? Yum! Ribena+Pelligrino+gin x 3 = "What nuclear crisis?"

Your mentor isn't the only one Bossy, we moved our investments over into lower risk products a few months back. DH and I don't have the time to re-earn money as we're both already retired.

Pain I think this whole thing about 'Trump good for business" was 50% Scrotus' bullshit and 50% unscrupulous business who thought they'd be able to cash in like big dogs on unethical business practices made legal under Trump.

He's done some of that shit, but I don't think it's been the massive deregulation and shady legislation that he promised his cronies. And now they realize also that he's pissing off the GOP big dogs and that the 'big movers' GOP Reps and Senators are rapidly becoming disenchanted (as are their constituents), so any future 'shady moves' may face opposition from Congress.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/08/2017 20:04

You had the eyes, ears and brains foresight to manage your risks, across. It just baffles me that businesses failed to heed the giant alarm bells of failed travel ban, inappropriate tweets, inability to focus or display a grasp on many subjects ("speech" on uranium anyone?) before now!

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/08/2017 20:06
Grin

@AnthonyMKreis
Better to tweet jabs at the senior senator from Kentucky than the unstable leader of North Korea.

  • An American proverb
Lweji · 09/08/2017 20:07

Greed

It's the greedy who fall for con people.

BossyBitch · 09/08/2017 20:08

Great, I'm now having to ponder the question whether I should sell my stock holdings. Not an easy decision, they make up some 80% of my net decisio

Also, see picture. Grin

We're not on a 17 day vacation, not us. We have meetings and calls! Now where did that golf ball go?...Trump cont.
Lweji · 09/08/2017 20:11

Jon Snow should sue.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/08/2017 20:14
Shock

NBC News @NBCNews
State Dept. spokesperson on Trump admin messaging about North Korea: "I know you all want to obsess over statements and all of that… "

mobile.twitter.com/NBCNews/status/895359032659259392/video/1

BossyBitch · 09/08/2017 20:15

I think the original is actually of Ned Stark - surely the embodiment of Anti-Trump if ever there was one. Not sure dead people can bring lawsuits, though.

BossyBitch · 09/08/2017 20:18

Pain, Confused

And, no, they're not all singing from the same hymn book, thank goodness. Otherwise we'd all have been reduced to a smoking pile of rubble by now.

Thankfully, there is only one barking madman among this choir.

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