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When Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit recommended GE stock about 53 weeks ago its quarterly dividend was 24 cents.
Today’s announcement that the dividend has been slashed to a single cent pretty much completes my takedown.
Not a millionaire. Not a competent attorney.
He’s merely a dumbfuck.
@1 Sez the dumbfuck who didn’t take my advice to short GE when it was $23. But it’s not too late! As of this morning, you can still short GE at $11, and considering that Justice and SEC just opened new fraud investigations of GE’s accounting practices, I don’t see this stock going back to $23 in this lifetime.
Meanwhile, Trump asserts he can amend the Constitution with an executive order.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/politics/donald-trump-ending-birthright-citizenship/index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Some on the left may think he’s gone power mad. A few might even start worrying that he’s contemplating Trump versions of Hitler’s Racial Purity and Enabling Acts.
Even though the market’s up this morning, GE’s stock looks like a lab experiment of the Law of Gravity. Physicists will be interested in how it picks up speed as it plunges toward the center of the earth. It’s already too late to short it at $11, that opportunity passed 15 minutes ago, but Doctor Dumbfuck can still short it at $10 if he gets off his ass fast enough.
“Already, the CNN analysis shows, about two-thirds of House Republicans represent districts where the education level lags the national average and nearly three-fifths hold seats where the median income is lower as well.”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/politics/2018-midterm-election-blue-wave-realignment/index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: In other words, CNN’s analysis confirms the popular belief that Republicans represent trailerbillies.
Here in Washington, anti-Semitic attacks have septupled since Trump became president. Probably just a coincidence. Words can’t hurt anyone.
https://tinyurl.com/ycw884p2
Looks like doc woke up at 6:30 am to check his stocks and options, flitted into HA to rant about GE, then went out to the barn, fucked the mare, and fell asleep in the straw.
@7 I thought he was blowing the stallion.
Mobster Whitey Bulger, 89, was whacked in a federal prison today.
Meanwhile, Roger Rabbit bought 3M stock today.
Bankrolling white supremacists is bad for business. Who the heck wants all-white butter?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/land-o-lakes-steve-king_us_5bd86902e4b07427610b7bf3
Robert Mueller’s office has asked the FBI to investigate reports that GOP operatives offered women money to falsely accuse him of sexual misconduct in order to discredit his investigation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/special-counsel-refers-scheme-targeting-mueller-to-fbi/574411/
Given the high risk of a right-wing terrorist attack or two occurring during the coming days, if we still had the Homeland Security Advisory System, we’d be at Threat Level Orange! Heh. Orange.
There are times when being Hispanic isn’t a good idea either.
“White Florida man opened fire on his Hispanic neighbors for checking if their home was damaged by hurricane: police”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/white-florida-man-opened-fire-hispanic-neighbors-checking-home-damaged-hurricane-police/
How many of those worthless always wrong wing dumb ass “pundits” touted low life Walker’s miserable Faux Con deal?
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/29/18027032/foxconn-wisconsin-plant-jobs-deal-subsidy-governor-scott-walker
That’s just one fuck up. What? $1,774 per Wisconsin household? Corporate welfare at its worst.
@14
Hispanic, African American and Jewish people, as well as other minorities, need to realize that if they don’t like gay people and allow hate towards gay people then they too will become targets.
Hey, I learned the same just in reciprocal order.
If you allow one form of discrimination and hate, just one, then you open the door to all, even towards the non minority.
Good luck people. Long Live Ireland!
@16 “This nation will not be fully free, until all its citizens are free”
@14 Does “stand your ground” still apply if the ground washes away?
#realclimatechange.org
@15 Walker lined the pockets of the rich. Mission accomplished.
#fucktheworkingclass
At least there were no goats involved.
“New Hampshire state Rep. Frank Sapareto, who is up for re-election next week, is being sued for assault by California porn producer Jonathan Carter.”
“Carter claims Sapareto assaulted him after after he got mad about the filming of a sex scene. Sapareto claims they were shooting travel videos together, but footage reviewed by New Hampshire public radio shows the lawmaker nude, next to a female actress.”
Will he find a way to play the Kavanaugh card?
“This is so absurd. Nobody is giving credibility to this except the press,” he said. “Even the police know it’s false…I know it’s juicy and it’s a week before the election,” he continued, before drawing a parallel to the Kavanaugh hearings. “I know how Judge Kavanaugh feels.”
“I’ve served my community for over 20 years. People know me here. This stuff that this dirtbag is saying is obviously just to discredit me,”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/maker-accuses-new-hampshire-republican-assault-nude-filming-lawmaker-revealed/
@20 Anyone who does business with a Republican ends up being a goat. Don’t buy a used car from any of them, especially right after a hurricane.
When you’re a Republican congressman facing a tough reelection, the obvious thing to do is paint your Democratic opponent as the Trump bootlicker in the race.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/kevin-yoder-sharice-davids-trump-debate-endorsement/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: If I were the Democratic candidate, I would run ads asking voters, “Do you really want someone this dishonest representing you in Congress?”
It’s probably just a matter of time before some desperate Republican candidates start putting “Prefers Democratic Party” on their yard signs if they aren’t doing it already.
Oops, I’m already 14 years late with that one.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/21/politics/donald-trump-election-democrat/index.html
The conservative “legal argument” (if you want to dignify it that way) that the 14th Amendment doesn’t necessarily confer citizenship upon every person born on U.S. soil has a certain amount of practical attractiveness. After all, should a Russian oligarch be able to get U.S. citizenship for his child by parking his yacht in New York Harbor and squatting there while waiting for his wife or mistress to give birth? And, more controversially, should illegal immigrants be able to get U.S. citizenship for their children simply by being here when they’re born? A growing chorus of Republicans is arguing they shouldn’t.
They’re not entirely without an argument. After all, the 14th Amendment doesn’t say, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States.” It says, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” Why should a Russian who gives no allegiance to the United States, then takes his child home and raises him as a Russian who gives his allegiance to the Russian state, be allowed to contrive U.S. citizenship for that child in this manner?
Yes, it’s legitimate to offer legal arguments about how the 14th Amendment should be interpreted, and to argue for changing the current interpretation.
But there’s a problem with Trump claiming he can change it with an executive order, and that’s this: The current interpretation is established by Supreme Court opinions, and there’s no precedent for a president unilaterally overruling the Supreme Court.
In short, anyone who wants to change the current interpretation has to go through the Supreme Court. And that indeed may be Trump’s plan. If he issues an executive order, it’s sure to be contested in the courts, and that’s a way to get the issue before the Supreme Court where proponents of a new interpretation can take a run at persuading the Court to revise its long-standing precedents on the issue.
On the other hand, there’s an argument that long-settled issues should stay settled. If someone wanted to try carving out an exemption to the 13th Amendment’s ban on slavery, would anyone condone an executive order authorizing slavery in certain circumstances as a device to court-test the current interpretation of the 13th Amendment?
I don’t think so.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/trumps-ideas-about-birthright-citizenship-can-be-traced-to-these-two-controversial-legal-scholars/
@ 23
Plessy v. Ferguson was long-settled. Until it wasn’t.
For Hallowe’en YLB is dressing up as Sandra Fluke.
@ 15
$1,774 per Wisconsin household? Corporate welfare at its worst.
Divide Boeing’s $8.7B welfare by the number of WA households, YLB, and it’s significantly worse.
That’s on Inslee, girlfriend. So are all of the Boeing job cuts after the tax break was granted.
It’s a worse situation than the Walker one you linked to, ya dumb twat.
LOL @ 26.. Boeing in 2015 alone spent 13 BILLION in WA State..
Faux Con is vastly reducing its promised investment.
WI taxpayers are on course to almost NEVER getting anything back for their 4.1 billion. Oh wait wasn’t that UP from 3 billion??
moron..
For Halloween boob is dressing up as Lean on Pete.
Faux con wanted to locate in a great lakes states to manufacture panels – panels need lots of water.
Michigan (republican governor) offered something and was passed over.
Ohio (republican governor) offered something and was passed over. Kasich made fun of Walker’s folly.
What did those other Republican leaning states know that Walker’s crew didn’t?
Uh arithmetic? WI voters will get what they deserve if they give that jerk another 4 years.
@24 Plessy v. Ferguson was never settled, it was a festering wound on society and the body politic, plus it was simply wrong by the moral standards of our society as they had evolved by the 1950s, which is why the Court was forced to revisit it.
But if conferring citizenship on U.S.-born children of illegal migrants drives conservatives to extreme violence, akin to the violence they inflicted on blacks in the Deep South between 1898 and 1954, then I suppose you could argue this issue is the same kind of festering wound that requires the Court to reinterpret long-held precedents in order to keep our society from blowing up.
Are you gonna argue that conservatives should resort to extreme violence threatening the very foundations of our social fabric in order to get their way?
@25, 28 For Hallowe’en Boob is dressing up as himself.
Hmmmm. Minority voters in Dodge City, KansASS have to literally travel out of Dodge to vote.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/us/dodge-city-kansas-voting.html
ONE polling place for 13 THOUSAND voters..
Howz that for voter suppression?
Harry Enten of Nate Silver’s Five Thirty Eight issued his House forecast tonight. The most likely outcome, he said, is a 225-215 Democratic majority, representing Democrats gaining 62 seats. Within 95% probability, potential outcomes range from an 89-seat gain for Democrats to a 31-seat gain for Republicans.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/forecast
@32
Resist!
People standing against The Hump yesterday inPittsburgh did more than any one vote did, especially if they make it harder for you to make that vote.
Resist! Let Bob know he can live with Hillary in the past. It’s ok Bob, have fun with it or be a man.
@31 question is – which Horse will he be taking along with him.
@ RR @ 23:
“If someone wanted to try carving out an exemption to the 13th Amendment’s ban on slavery, would anyone condone an executive order authorizing slavery in certain circumstances as a device to court-test the current interpretation of the 13th Amendment?”
There is already a wide hole in the 13th.
Amendment XIII
Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
The bolded part there allows for forced labor after a conviction for just about any crime a State Legislature can come up with. Thus, in many states, especially in the south, you have people, mostly black folks being sentenced to multi-year terms for crimes like shoplifting and possessing minor amounts of drugs. There are cases in several states where people are being sentenced to 20 year terms for crimes that wouldn’t get a honky a citation.
A side benefit of that is those folks are also permanently enjoined from voting or running for public office.
Angola Prison in Louisiana is still open and active, and above capacity. The prison labor pool is still very much a thing in almost every state in the Union. Practically every prison in the country, either State-run or private, has at least one factory or farm attached to it. Their workers are paid as little as $.15 an hour.
Privately run prisons are very lucrative for the people that own them if they can keep them full. That’s why they keep armies of $500/hr Lawyers on retainer to lobby state legislatures to continually broaden the definition of felony, and increase sentences for even minor crimes. Then the prison companies demand that any contract they sign with a state include provisions that maintain those prisons at capacity or even higher or the state is required to pay financial penalties to the company.
There are a hundred good reason why the convicts are going on strike.
Sometimes it takes a wee bit longer to demonstrate Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit has his head up his ass.
Varian (VAR), now at $121.69, up 8.4% on the day.
Hey, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, ya gonna tell me that VAR doesn’t pay a dividend and therefore the one penny dividend that GE will be paying is preferable?
@36 The chain gang exemption. Look for Trump to extend it to anyone who receives a parking ticket.
@37 After watching Varian go down for months, Doctor Dumbfuck now can brag that his favorite stock is back to where it was on June 19.
Meanwhile, I bought 3M yesterday, which pays a $5.44 dividend — which is $5.44 more than Doctor Dumbfuck’s favorite stock pays — and 3M is already worth $4 more than I paid for it in the first 24 hours I’ve owned it.
I don’t have Doctor Dumbfuck’s patience (or stupidity, take your choice). I don’t like to wait four months for a stock to go “up” to what I paid for it.