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Old 03-10-2025 | 08:19 AM
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Originally Posted by jerryleber
Trump's meme coin is down 99.4% from the peak. Talk about scams, TDS and teaching pigs to sing (sad songs).
Not correct. It looks like most SPACs as far as price. It is down 85%(the peak to trough) NOT 99.4%

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/

https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/official-trump


Is Solyndra, which used 585M of tax payer dollars and went to 0 better than losing 85% of an individual investment of choice. I think not, even if $TRUMP goes to zero. As a taxpayer, I was forced to be a stakeholder in Solyndra, as an Individual I will lose nothing even if $TRUMP goes to 0.

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Old 03-10-2025 | 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Buck Rogers;[url=tel:3890900
3890900[/url]]Not correct. It looks like most SPACs as far as price. It is down 85%(the peak to trough) NOT 99.4%

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/

Is Solyndra, which used 585M of tax payer dollars and went to 0 better than losing 85% of an individual investment of choice. I think not, even if $TRUMP goes to zero. As a taxpayer, I was forced to be a stakeholder in Solyndra, as an Individual I will lose nothing even if $TRUMP goes to 0.

Facts and all
that's a bingo
Old 03-10-2025 | 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by hummingbear
Government is unilaterally canceling union contracts & our union brothers are applauding it. File that under “this is why we can’t have nice things”. I certainly have my opinions about the size & scope of TSA but the administration’s (dis)regard for organized labor is discouraging.
Remember we’ll be at the negotiating table again in a few years & possibly trying to claw back some purchasing power from the tariff economy. Question: do you think this move creates an environment that empowers labor or management?
You don’t see a problem with the fact that TSA has more people doing full-time union work than performing screening functions at 86% of our airports? Is that productive? A good use of tax payer dollars?
Old 03-10-2025 | 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Buck Rogers
It is down 85%(the peak to trough) NOT 99.4%
That's hilarious!!!
Old 03-10-2025 | 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Buck Rogers
Not correct. It looks like most SPACs as far as price. It is down 85%(the peak to trough) NOT 99.4%

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/

https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/official-trump


Is Solyndra, which used 585M of tax payer dollars and went to 0 better than losing 85% of an individual investment of choice. I think not, even if $TRUMP goes to zero. As a taxpayer, I was forced to be a stakeholder in Solyndra, as an Individual I will lose nothing even if $TRUMP goes to 0.

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Originally Posted by jerryleber
That's hilarious!!!
Well, your selective editing and misrepresentation fits the definition of fake news. I acknowlwdged the bad performance of $TRUMP and gave another example that was more egregious(Solyndra)but yet you fail to understand.

Are you butt hurt because I pointed out your poor math skills and/or purposeful lies. If you have to embellish to prove your point you are already losing.
Old 03-10-2025 | 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Buck Rogers
Are you butt hurt
No, I am just amused how you don't get it. Too funny.
Old 03-10-2025 | 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by N6279P
You don’t see a problem with the fact that TSA has more people doing full-time union work than performing screening functions at 86% of our airports? Is that productive? A good use of tax payer dollars?
As I said, I’ve got plenty of issues with the scope & efficiency of the TSA, but that’s another conversation. The government’s ease in tearing up a union contract- & their general hostility to labor at large- should be concerning to all Americans, but most especially those of us represented by labor unions. ALPA represented pilots celebrating this move are a bit like a flock of sheep celebrating wolf conservation efforts.

I believe there’s a section in Flying the Line that talks about the risk to our union’s strength of pilots who make enough money to start thinking they have more in common with management than labor. Make no mistake we will always be grunts pulling levers to them & they dream of the day they can do the same thing to our contract & start paying us what they think we’re worth. (Spoiler: it’s less than we’re making now.)

Again, I’d ask my union brothers & sisters- which side of the negotiating table is feeling empowered by this move?
Old 03-10-2025 | 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Buck Rogers
Well, your selective editing and misrepresentation fits the definition of fake news. I acknowlwdged the bad performance of $TRUMP and gave another example that was more egregious(Solyndra)but yet you fail to understand.

Are you butt hurt because I pointed out your poor math skills and/or purposeful lies. If you have to embellish to prove your point you are already losing.
If you can’t see the difference between a poor government investment & the sitting POTUS creating a meme coin perfectly designed to embezzle money with no transparency, you’ve already lost. Plenty more at stake w/ these types of high level conflicts of interest than a few MAGA rubes losing their shirts buying Schrute Bucks.
Old 03-10-2025 | 10:16 AM
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Guys, TDSers and MAGA, we are hemorrhaging TRILLIONS of dollars every year. We can’t keep this up. Eventually lenders won’t lend the Government any money and we can only print so much before inflation goes insane.

I honestly don’t care if we go into a recession or not. We cannot sustain this level of spending. Governments have gone “bankrupt” before, the Weimar, Argentina, Greece. It can happen here too. A recession is temporary. Losing our position as the dollar being the worlds reserve currency would be devastating and take decades if ever before we could get it back.

There is more at stake than KCM and USAID and China is nipping at our heels.
Old 03-10-2025 | 10:31 AM
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Not that many pilots take the time to read about our own history, but in Flying The Line, author George Hopkins lamented (many years ago) about airline pilots' tendency to align themselves with the Republican Party to their own detriment. Many among us like to view themselves as something other than skilled, front line, hourly paid workers who rely on the ability to bargain collectively for their protection and prosperity. Too many of us look down on other organized labor groups and even cheer on their being "put in their rightful place." History gives us many examples of the right wing giving us our own slap down, or at least turning a blind eye to the likes of E.L. Cord and Frank Lorenzo doing the honors. If you're wondering, "Who dey?," you owe it to yourself and our profession to find out.

Hopkins also authored a lesser known piece titled, "Comeuppance." It's quite blunt, and a good read.
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