• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    In magamath, 13=21,000. And don’t get me started on the bothsiderist geniuses that love to debbie downer everything and build moral equivalencies between the two parties.

    I saw some Republican dipshit politician on television waving away the blatant corruption of the Donvict crime family just this very week and then pivoting to Hunter and Joe, FFS. Because, hey, Donvict is being transparent about it argle bargle something something Hunter and Joe covered it up.

    🤣

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
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    8 hours ago

    It’s ok the guy has dementia…he doesn’t realize that he’s basically closer to the eternal life than most of us. Can’t take anything with you. Not even clothes.

    If I was the guy, I would spend my money on happiness.

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    8 hours ago

    Do professional day traders even make 21,000 in a year? That’s 57 trades a day. That’s wild.

    Edit: 80 if you exclude weekends, even more if you exclude holidays.

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    17 hours ago

    I can envision the Trumper response:

    “He had Hunter do the trades FOR him”

    Or maybe

    “Well obviously! The Biden crime family only does backdoor deals. At least Trump uses the same stock market as everyone else!”

    Which one will the right-wing propaganda machine go with, I wonder?

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    1 day ago

    “yeah, but both sides are bad though!!!”

    Side 1 - 13

    Side 2 - 21,000

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      21 hours ago

      To make the trade? Not actually that long. Planning and evaluating take longer, but he’s inevitably not the one pushing the buttons or making the plan, which is also not something that needs to be done for each one.

      It takes me longer to move money between my checking and savings accounts.

      The concerning thing isn’t the time investment, it’s the active nature of financial involvement in a situation where there’s a major conflict of interest.
      Stock trading isn’t automatically problematic for an elected official, but it’s very easy to produce the appearance or actuality of improper conduct.
      The safest route is to turn control over to a third party who doesn’t know who they’re managing.

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      1 day ago

      That would be about a day traders worth of time… probably 4-5+ hours/day depending on variable factors. It’s definitely an aggressive trading strategy and not something I can see a “super busy president who looks out for his people” able to accomplish normally.

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    1 day ago

    How many wars did Biden start to boost those 13 stocks?

    How many fishermen did he bomb? How many Iranian schools?

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    Yeah well, he’s such a high level business genius its natural that he increased his net wealth by $2b a year while president. the real question is how he managed to not make any money in the first 79 years of his life. /s

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      23 hours ago

      Because he’s an absolute shitty business person who’s entire plan was to send in lawyers who did nothing more than file infinite extensions until the other side ran out of money…and embezzling money from “charities”.