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Woke Leftwing Super-Investment Firm BlackRock Announces Layoffs After Suffering "Heavy Losses"
I wonder how much they had in FTX.
BlackRock plans to dismiss some 500 workers as the asset management company seeks to contend with heavy losses. The company's assets under management declined from $9.5 trillion in the third quarter of 2021 to $8.0 trillion in the third quarter of 2022, according to the firm's most recent earnings report. The reduction in headcount, which represents less than 3% of the BlackRock workforce, occurs after one of the worst years for the stock market in history and similar layoffs in other industries.Thomas Paine clarifies that losing $1.5 trillion in assets under management means they've lost that much in customer money they have control over. They haven't "lost" that money as in it was theirs and now it's gone, but they used to have control over and were making fees and interest off of investing in it, and now aren't. So they've lost, if I can do some quick arithmetic, almost one-sixth of their total investment pool, which will put a huge dent in their revenue. Plus, we know they also had "heavy losses" -- we just don't know how much those losses were. The only numbers we have are for their loss of assets under management. But they also lost actual money, in addition to losing assets under management.
The losses come amid BlackRock executives' promulgation of the environmental, social, and corporate governance movement, also known as ESG, by which managers commit themselves to pursue green energy, appointing minorities to serve as managers, or otherwise blending profitability with activism. BlackRock has taken "voting action on climate issues" against dozens of portfolio firms, according to a company stewardship report. Critics say the recent poor performance of ESG funds discredits the movement. "This is just the beginning. As more and more clients, including state pension funds, realize that BlackRock has been misusing the assets entrusted to them to push a radical political agenda, the more the company will suffer," Consumers' Research Executive Director Will Hild said about the BlackRock dismissals in remarks provided to The Daily Wire.Speaking of Woke Corporations going broke, an activist investor in Disney has launched a proxy fight to take control of the company's board, saying Disney's woes are "self-inflicted." A proxy fight is a bid to get stockholders to lend your their votes -- their proxy votes, that is -- so that you can use those votes to elect board members of your preference. He would be mounting a persuasion campaign targeted at Disney shareholders to convince them that the current board is garbage and badly managing the company. Which shouldn't be that hard.
[T]he company also disclosed that it is facing a proxy fight from activist investor Nelson Peltz and his fund Trian Partners. Trian has nominated Peltz to serve on the board. In a presentation published on Jan. 11, the investment firm described many of Disney's challenges as "self-inflicted" and advocated for the entertainment giant to restore its dividend by fiscal year 2025, seek more "efficiencies and additional profits" and expressed concern that Disney management's direct-to-consumer streaming push with Disney+ "failed to effectively communicate the financial rationale behind the strategic pivot."They're not mentioning Disney's Woke, "Not-So-Secret Gay Agenda," but they are making note of the effects of that agenda:
How did you take three four billion dollar plus production companies -- Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar -- and reduce them to minor-to-mediocre players in just five years? I'll just mention Kamran Pasha's conspiracy theory again: his theory, which is his theory and not mine so no one sue me, is that Disney's CFO put a lot of their money into FTX and lost it, and this explains the mad panic to fire Bob Chapek on a Sunday night via a hastily arranged meeting while Chapek was at an Elton John concert, because they had to fire him before he had a look at the books and noticed several billion dollars had vaporized. He claims further vindication in the fact that Susan Arnold has just been forced to step down from Disney's board. She was a Chapek backer. He claims this is part of the cover-up. I'm not telling anyone to believe this. I'm just saying it's an Interesting Theory that Some Guy On the Internet Said. I would say generally that there must be some companies out there that have been badly burned by FTX that we don't even know about yet. Whether Disney's one of them, I don't know.
Peltz' fund went on to elaborate its concerns with Disney+, adding: "We are surprised that Disney's best-in-class IP, franchises, and scale have not led to in-line, if not superior, unit economics compared with Netflix, which generally lacks high quality, franchise IP." It also claimed that Netflix is more cost effective in its production and programming costs compared to Disney.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 13, 2023 01:10 PM (Wy1BU)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2023 01:10 PM (1FGdS)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:11 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:11 PM (C1Zwz)
Posted by: kallisto at January 13, 2023 01:11 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 13, 2023 01:12 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: Mad Max in VA at January 13, 2023 01:12 PM (Gu48G)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 13, 2023 01:13 PM (2NHgQ)
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Also...they bought 20th Century Fox to mine their IP for new content, and all they've really gotten from it that they've started is cheap, shitty Disney+ product that no one remembers anymore like the newest Home Alone movie.
Avatar doesn't count, but they're damn lucky they have it because they've screwed up the rest of the 20th Century Fox acquisition.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:13 PM (LvTSG)
get back to us when the entire operation goes BOOM
Posted by: kallisto at January 13, 2023 01:13 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 13, 2023 01:13 PM (v3mBl)
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:13 PM (C1Zwz)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 13, 2023 01:12 PM (2tUFv)
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In the 80s, they were talking about bankruptcy.
Disney was a shit brand for something like 20-30 years from the 60s to the early 90s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:13 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 13, 2023 01:13 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Mark now in South Jordan Utah at January 13, 2023 01:13 PM (VYQCI)
do you recall though, the weird stuff that was leaking out about Walt Disney? Back when Disney was still wholesome and normal
Posted by: kallisto at January 13, 2023 01:14 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:14 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:13 PM (C1Zwz)
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"You are an immoral monster who wishes to politicize healthy living for children."
-Bob Iger
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:14 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 13, 2023 01:14 PM (xcxpd)
No. No, you did not.
We've done pretty well this morning, not disappointing Ace. Not disappointing Ace brings us nice things in the Café. Don't start now.
#BeBetter
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2023 01:14 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: blaster at January 13, 2023 01:14 PM (pwExq)
I wonder for what percentage of US corporations this is untrue.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 13, 2023 01:15 PM (z99Zw)
#BeBetter
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2023 01:14 PM (a3Q+t)
This means we will get bats then?
Posted by: blaster at January 13, 2023 01:15 PM (pwExq)
We will know at the end of the quarter, when they have to report.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 13, 2023 01:15 PM (lTGtQ)
Just from the outside looking at them? The majority.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 01:15 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: blaster at January 13, 2023 01:14 PM (pwExq)
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"If we don't we'll have another Lehman Brothers! You know...the only signal that Wall Street ever received that told them to stop the fuckery."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:15 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: huerfano at January 13, 2023 01:16 PM (dTFZY)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2023 01:16 PM (xhaym)
But also part of that decline would be the general decline of the stock market.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 13, 2023 01:16 PM (Cus5s)
The sheer amount of "license to print money" IP they've fucked up is colossal. And Disney+ is being swamped in daily views by the Roku Channel which costs a lot less to run. The quips on Twitter about "someone just bundle everything and call it 'cable'" are getting louder.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:16 PM (zm+d5)
Posted by: blaster a
uggghhh
less a joke than a dark prophecy
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:16 PM (C1Zwz)
Posted by: blaster at January 13, 2023 01:15 PM
IF we don't disappoint Ace, maybe.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2023 01:16 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Archer at January 13, 2023 01:17 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: davidt at January 13, 2023 01:17 PM (SYTee)
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well if they Lost it, they aren't managing it anymore are they. If they lost it because it was withdrawn by red states or lost it in the market could be either, probably both actually.
Posted by: Ha ha Nelson MUntz at January 13, 2023 01:17 PM (U5Gha)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:16 PM (zm+d5)
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Buy your media individually on home video and don't stream. If you have to stream, stream ad supported services like Pluto and Tubi.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:17 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 13, 2023 01:13 PM (2NHgQ)
We shall see. I have YET to see a debt limit showdown work out to the benefit of Republicans. Even Trump got rolled on it.
They should get rid of the concept its artficial anyway, and it never works out.
Posted by: blaster at January 13, 2023 01:17 PM (pwExq)
in a small way, yes. It did not help.
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:17 PM (C1Zwz)
oh, so what makes the "Top 7" special? Are you profiling us?
Posted by: kallisto at January 13, 2023 01:17 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 13, 2023 01:18 PM (d2bW3)
Meanwhile, the Public Health Department, which I left after 24 years, in the midst of record retirements and quits, and the lowest morale I've ever seen, has hired their first manager of Equity, who includes the question in her e-mail signature: "What are your pronouns?"
We are so screwed.
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at January 13, 2023 01:18 PM (AD14M)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 13, 2023 01:18 PM (r8Qje)
Posted by: wth at January 13, 2023 01:18 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 13, 2023 01:18 PM (v3mBl)
For the first time ever, the EU now gets more natural gas from the US than Russia!
Gosh, I guess blowing up those pipelines really did the trick, didn't it?
It's the new American export policy - opening up new markets via sabotage.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 13, 2023 01:18 PM (2tUFv)
Over course, stock losses will also reduce that value, so the fee income also drops.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 13, 2023 01:19 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 13, 2023 01:13 PM (2NHgQ)
When did the term "debt limit" lose its meaning?
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at January 13, 2023 01:19 PM (AiZBA)
Assets under management is the total of the customers' money.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 13, 2023 01:19 PM (lTGtQ)
I can believe it. I wonder how many companies have been using FTX and other scams to paper over losses in other areas for years.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 13, 2023 01:19 PM (wmDcS)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 13, 2023 01:19 PM (d2bW3)
With most brokers letting you buy stocks with $0 commission now, I don't really see the point of ETFs at all to be honest.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 13, 2023 01:19 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: Archer at January 13, 2023 01:19 PM (gmo/4)
right so they haven't lost that, they've just lost that chunk of business.
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:19 PM (C1Zwz)
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:20 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Capital gains tax is what drove the switch. Companies used to issue dividends and people did not rely so much on stock appreciation but rather dividend reinvestment and steady income.
Now, under the law, dividends are not tax advantaged like debt in buying other companies, etc. So, with the switch to capital gains by investors, means companies use debt as leverage in order to increase stock prices. Executive suites often have their compensation tied to stock appreciation and not the soundness of the underlying company.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2023 01:20 PM (bDjBG)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 13, 2023 01:20 PM (8GeFp)
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 13, 2023 01:20 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 13, 2023 01:20 PM (wtvvX)
For the first time ever, the EU now gets more natural gas from the US than Russia!
It would be nice if the U.S. got gas from the U.S., instead of shipping it to other countries.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 13, 2023 01:20 PM (d2bW3)
Hahaha like that time I blended my liver with gasoline by drinking it
I don’t think Disney and Netflix make a good comparison point if we think Nelson Muntz or whatever his name is is blaming Gay Disney content for its struggles. Netflix is as gay as a French horn.
Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at January 13, 2023 01:21 PM (grTml)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 13, 2023 01:13 PM (jTmQV)
..........
It's simple. You must pursue green energy and appoint minorities as managers.
Posted by: wth at January 13, 2023 01:21 PM (v0R5T)
It would be a combination of net in flows/out flows of new investment vs pay outs, for pensions as an example, combined with the performance of the investments made with money on hand.
Posted by: The Underpants Gnomes at January 13, 2023 01:21 PM (cupoy)
*imagines Disney cartoon with Sam the Sham, and Caroline Ellison*
C'mon, we can 'imagineer' this.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 13, 2023 01:21 PM (vILiQ)
If I feel like I'm being swindled, out comes the weapon, so avoiding the situation lets me avoid jail.
How these billion dollar crooks get away with billion dollar scams without being flayed or burned alive is beyond me.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 13, 2023 01:21 PM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2023 01:21 PM (x0n13)
Likely a combination of the two.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 13, 2023 01:21 PM (JMAcK)
oh, so what makes the "Top 7" special? Are you profiling us?
Posted by: kallisto at January 13, 2023 01:17 PM (dCxaZ)
He was the One who Nooded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:21 PM (zZu0s)
Could be both. AUM is calculated by looking at the value of securities you manage. So price movement from market value or actual withdrawals from securities portfolios will impact value.
Also keep in mind the full value loss represented by states pulling portfolios may. It be fully reflected financial statement. But I believe (I'll have to check) they've been noted as potential adverse events in their 10k.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2023 01:21 PM (8Voqu)
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I wonder how much they HID in FTX
Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 13, 2023 01:13 PM (v3mBl)
This is a very interesting point. If you recall with the Madoff scheme, you heard sob story after sob story of individuals like Kevin Bacon and Elie Wiesel, the Wilpons (former Mets owners), nonprofit foundations and financial institutions that couldn't function because of all the money they lost with Bernie. We've heard very little of this with FTX. Why?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 13, 2023 01:21 PM (tLAQV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 13, 2023 01:13 PM (jTmQV)
..........
It's simple. You must pursue green energy and appoint minorities as managers.
Posted by: wth at January 13, 2023 01:21 PM (v0R5T)
^^this^^
Posted by: Underware Gnomes at January 13, 2023 01:22 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Mayo Pete at January 13, 2023 01:22 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2023 01:22 PM (8Voqu)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:15 PM
Former employee of Lehman here. (Was let go long before they went kaboom).
Also, Merrill Lynch selling itself cheap to BOA and a lot of brokerage places deciding they will be banks (my current company included).
I have always said, the US Government should not have bailed ANYONE out. You have a bad business model and you want the taxpayer to save you? Fuck You, Die should have been the response.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 13, 2023 01:22 PM (WsJuq)
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The quips on Twitter about "someone just bundle everything and call it 'cable'" are getting louder.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:16 PM (zm+d5)
I got several streamers and between those and my internet it's still way cheaper than cable.
Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, Available 4/14 at January 13, 2023 01:22 PM (ixShC)
Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2023 01:22 PM (hH7mj)
Bad Day at Black Rock.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2023 01:21 PM (x0n13)
Nice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:22 PM (zZu0s)
I prefer Allan Sherman's "The Streets of Miami," but it wouldn't fit this.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2023 01:22 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 13, 2023 01:22 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
If you are relatively proficient at reading financials, you are better off with individual stocks than with ETFs. Pick the best one or two from a market segment and go with them.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 13, 2023 01:22 PM (lTGtQ)
With most brokers letting you buy stocks with $0 commission now, I don't really see the point of ETFs at all to be honest.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 13, 2023 01:19 PM (UuD2k)”
So individual investors don’t have to pick winners. It’s less risky in theory to bet on an index than a specific stock.
Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at January 13, 2023 01:23 PM (grTml)
For the first time ever, the EU now gets more natural gas from the US than Russia!
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One of the most admirable elements of this Democrat approach to everything (and I assume all socialist/communist dictatorships function this way) is that no one knows what is right and moral from one day to the next.
It was just a couple of days ago that we needed to ban gas stoves.
Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 13, 2023 01:23 PM (v3mBl)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 13, 2023 01:23 PM (8GeFp)
Posted by: NC Ref at January 13, 2023 01:23 PM (w3DYt)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 13, 2023 01:22 PM (WsJuq)
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"Oh, shit...we've made a huge mistake. Quick, call up DC and get them to give us a shit ton of money!"
-Wall Street the morning Lehman went under
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:23 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 13, 2023 01:21 PM (tLAQV)
Yeah, that is weird.
Posted by: The CIA at January 13, 2023 01:23 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:23 PM (zm+d5)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 13, 2023 01:23 PM (r8Qje)
Posted by: nevereno
Too easy. I almost feel guilty.
Biden and Schumer get what they want.
Posted by: I'll ruin the ending for you at January 13, 2023 01:23 PM (GbyKo)
Posted by: Archer at January 13, 2023 01:24 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 13, 2023 01:24 PM (8GeFp)
Could be both. AUM is calculated by looking at the value of securities you manage. So price movement from market value or actual withdrawals from securities portfolios will impact overall AUM value.
Also keep in mind the full value loss represented by states pulling portfolios may not be fully reflected financial statement. But I believe (I'll have to check) they've been noted as potential adverse events in their 10k.
Updated because I can't type.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2023 01:24 PM (8Voqu)
Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at January 13, 2023 01:21 PM (grTml)
Asshole! Why are you picking on me when there's the clarinet right over there?
Nothing says homo more than just putting the tip in your mouth over and over and over and over.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, just saying..
Posted by: French Horn at January 13, 2023 01:24 PM (FCbAQ)
Now, under the law, dividends are not tax advantaged like debt in buying other companies, etc. So, with the switch to capital gains by investors, means companies use debt as leverage in order to increase stock prices. Executive suites often have their compensation tied to stock appreciation and not the soundness of the underlying company.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2023 01:20 PM (bDjBG)
In short, the government made it profitable for upper management to destroy the foundations of their companies so that the government could squeeze a few billion dollars more per year in taxes out of the middle class.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 13, 2023 01:24 PM (z99Zw)
1) Do everything to stop the development of new natural gas production in the United States
2) Export as much natural gas as possible to Europe
3) Get huge increases in the price of natural gas both here and abroad
4) Profit!
It would be interesting to see if senior people in the Biden Administration were buying American natural gas stocks before the pipelines were sabotaged.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 13, 2023 01:24 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: Big club. We're not in it. at January 13, 2023 01:24 PM (s2na+)
Biden and Schumer get what they want.
Posted by: I'll ruin the ending for you at January 13, 2023 01:23 PM (GbyKo)
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"The FBI only got a 11.5% increase in their funding! Victory!"
-Kevin McCarthy
"We only asked for 10%."
-Schumer and McConnel
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:24 PM (LvTSG)
This is a decline a bit north of 15%, you'd have to compare this to the performance of the market over the same period.
Also, Larry Fink is a spectacular douche nozzle.
Posted by: The Underpants Gnomes at January 13, 2023 01:25 PM (cupoy)
Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at January 13, 2023 01:23 PM (grTml)
You can now buy every stock in that Index, even in small amounts, with no added cost for the multiple transactions.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 13, 2023 01:25 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:25 PM (C1Zwz)
If you pay for all of the major streamers it does cost more than cable, not counting Internet. Silicon Valley really *does* reinvent everything. (That's Netflix+Hulu+Disney+Apple+Peacock+Paramount+Discovery).
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:25 PM (zm+d5)
Peltz' fund went on to elaborate its concerns with Disney+, adding: "We are surprised that Disney's best-in-class IP, franchises, and scale have not led to in-line, if not superior, unit economics compared with Netflix,
So is the consensus Netflix will stop making kiddie porn if you embarrass them enough and Disney ain't gonna stop until they spend their investor's last dollar?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 13, 2023 01:25 PM (lc5cP)
It was just a couple of days ago that we needed to ban gas stoves.
Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 13, 2023 01:23 PM (v3mBl)
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"doublethink" is a hell of a mindfuck...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2023 01:26 PM (BpYfr)
Today, they suffer from becoming too hip. Problem is, I think they believe it. I also doubt they're going to wake up and smell the coffee, instead doubling down. Their films suck, and their former saving grace - the theme parks are in squalor and decay. They've literally painted themselves into a corner. I'll probably attend the fire sale.
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at January 13, 2023 01:26 PM (zB/T/)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 13, 2023 01:22 PM (WsJuq)
Amen. The 1800s had several big financial panics, and we came out of them OK. Ol' J.P. Morgan himself was the financial backstop to stopping another panic, before the Fed got into that business, and he turned out better than ever because of it.
Moral Hazard. It's not like anybody even respects the concept anymore.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 13, 2023 01:26 PM (tLAQV)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 13, 2023 01:23 PM (r8Qje)
What about this guy?
https://tinyurl.com/2rnzzbv8
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:26 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:13 PM (LvTSG)
Wasn't Avatar and it's massive ballooning budget what caused Rupert Murdoch to sell 20th Century Fox?
Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, Available 4/14 at January 13, 2023 01:26 PM (jpkp0)
You can't cheat an honest man.
Posted by: Tony Soprano at January 13, 2023 01:26 PM (0A5+1)
Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at January 13, 2023 01:21 PM (grTml)
Didn't Netflix recently give a big payday to Ginger Bollocks and the Whore?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 13, 2023 01:26 PM (z99Zw)
Now they have to dump holdings, reducing their AUM, and hopefully reliving 2008.
Taxpayers, or what's left of us, will have to bail them out.
Posted by: Regular joe at January 13, 2023 01:26 PM (nnp+f)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 13, 2023 01:26 PM (uNylN)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2023 01:26 PM (D+F6R)
Posted by: The Clarinet at January 13, 2023 01:26 PM (grTml)
What annoys me about that is not so much the crap they are making from Fox IP, but rather the fact that if you get Disney+ almost NOTHING that they bought to plunder is on their streaming service. They have tons of great content but make almost none of it available to watch.
You get a bunch of basic Disney stuff, lots of new marvel content, and a very small scattering of the gigantic library of content Iger bought.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 01:27 PM (0hOvj)
I know LA has bailed out with prejudice from ESG crap. Why not 25 states or more?
Posted by: rhomboid at January 13, 2023 01:27 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 13, 2023 01:27 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
........
Bet she could really blow.
Posted by: wth at January 13, 2023 01:27 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 13, 2023 01:19 PM (UuD2k)
There are foreign stocks that aren't represented on the markets and the only way to purchase them is via ETF
Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2023 01:27 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 13, 2023 01:27 PM (S5jV/)
So the value of the assets tanked this past year so Blackrock feels the pinch. Also, if States like Texas or other places took the assets out of Blackrock, that would also effect the number.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 13, 2023 01:27 PM (WsJuq)
Don't forget that Nancy Pelosi raised the maximum salary for House staffers to $212,000 on her way out.
Those salaries are untouchable too.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 13, 2023 01:27 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 13, 2023 01:20 PM
Your nautical allegory might have been better served if you'd used "run aground" instead of "into the ground".
These days, we say "the ship was run aplanetoid".
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 13, 2023 01:27 PM (a3Q+t)
Blending, replacing.
Potayto, potahto.
Posted by: mikeski at January 13, 2023 01:27 PM (X/3V0)
JP Morgan CAUSED a panic to force the creation of the federal reserve.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 13, 2023 01:28 PM (qpt7c)
Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, Available 4/14 at January 13, 2023 01:26 PM (jpkp0)
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It seems like Disney started the talks with an eye towards increasing their ability to create content for their then in development streaming option.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:28 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2023 01:27 PM (xhaym)
Get an Interactive Brokers account. You can buy them.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 13, 2023 01:28 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:28 PM (zm+d5)
They should get rid of the concept its artficial anyway, and it never works out.
Posted by: blaster
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It is a blunt instrument just like the discount rate is for the Fed.
But, no one has tried only giving short term debt increase authorizations--like for 3 months tied with spending cut triggers. The few times a straightjacket approach like Gramm Rudman or the 2011 spending Cut, Cap, and Balance worked is by restraining spending without raising taxes.
Cutgo is actually a superior version of Paygo in House rules that makes it difficult to increase taxes (with the commensurate 2/3 majority required) but makes it compelling to cut spending.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2023 01:28 PM (bDjBG)
really? Then I am super-happy.
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:28 PM (C1Zwz)
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at January 13, 2023 01:28 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Big club. We're not in it. at January 13, 2023 01:24 PM (s2na+)
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Now ask how many CEO's of the Fortune 500 are born in America and don't plan on going back from whence they came after they've bled us for our last ducat.
Posted by: Oschisms at January 13, 2023 01:29 PM (0A5+1)
Posted by: illiniwek at January 13, 2023 01:29 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 13, 2023 01:23 PM (r8Qje)
I always thought that blowing into one end with your balled fist stuck into the wide orifice at the other end was a bit, well, odd.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at January 13, 2023 01:29 PM (dOCyf)
You get a bunch of basic Disney stuff, lots of new marvel content, and a very small scattering of the gigantic library of content Iger bought.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 01:27 PM (0hOvj)
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There's some stuff on HULU that's part of it, but yes, the vast majority of the 20th Century Fox library is simply...missing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:29 PM (LvTSG)
What annoys me about that is not so much the crap they are making from Fox IP, but rather the fact that if you get Disney+ almost NOTHING that they bought to plunder is on their streaming service. They have tons of great content but make almost none of it available to watch.
You get a bunch of basic Disney stuff, lots of new marvel content, and a very small scattering of the gigantic library of content Iger bought.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 01:27 PM (0hOvj)
Another explanation for the purchase was that it was a defensive move, made to prevent anyone else to use the IP for their benefit. Now that DIS locked it up, you're forced to eat the gruel they serve.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 13, 2023 01:29 PM (tLAQV)
You could make a pretty good series of action movies about this.
Terror on the SS Mousef*cker!
Well, maybe Disney wouldn't want to make them, but someone could.
Posted by: spindrift at January 13, 2023 01:29 PM (h5TKJ)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 13, 2023 01:25 PM (UuD2k”
You sure can. If you want to.
Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at January 13, 2023 01:29 PM (grTml)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:25 PM (zm+d5)
The most expensive part of my streaming is the $30 ROKU box I have on the bedroom TV. I don't pay for any service, and have more than I can watch for free (I guess you could say I pay for Amazon Prime, which has some not so free free stuff. Other than that, zip. The last I paid on Directv was around $150/month. That only included better than shitty picture and local TV affiliates. Much better spent on beer.
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at January 13, 2023 01:29 PM (zB/T/)
i just saw picnic at hanging rock last year. It was good.
some hot chicks in it. (I hope they're of-age.)
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:29 PM (C1Zwz)
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I feel similar. Sure, they're ruining these companies. But the ones responsible for making the rest of us swim in their woke primordial ooze culturally need to suffer immense financial pain, personally. I want to see their bank accounts flatline. I want to see them begging for change to be put in their tin cups as they hold up cardboard signs saying "G*d bless." Too bad they won't. They'll just leave the smoldering earth they created and move on to the next very lucrative thing.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 13, 2023 01:30 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at January 13, 2023 01:29 PM (grTml)
Why bring Louisville into this?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:30 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 13, 2023 01:23 PM (r8Qje)
Did she have sex with you? No? Then by the sour grapes rule of hot women she must be a lesbian which is just gay with better boobs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 13, 2023 01:30 PM (z99Zw)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Disagree. Those financials are wholy dependent upon accurate reporting, which isn't always the case. Every company that blows up looks just great a few quarters before. Few people have the time to follow 100+ companies quarterly. Also, people tend to have a bias towards headline stocks, which is a no-no for buy and hold.
The point of ETFs is 'safety in numbers.' If couple of companies in your ETF blow up, no biggie. If you have 15% in one co and it goes, you just lost a lot of money.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 13, 2023 01:30 PM (XF9Gj)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 13, 2023 01:29 PM (tLAQV)
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Which is such a corporate mindset.
It'd be like locking up Flash Gordon in the 1960s and expecting nothing to ever come along like it by 1977.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:30 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:29 PM (C1Zwz)
ace says the quiet part out loud for every lover of research on the internet.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:30 PM (zZu0s)
some hot chicks in it. (I hope they're of-age.)
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:29 PM (C1Zwz)
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Like, the 1970s Australian movie, or the newer miniseries?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:31 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 13, 2023 01:22 PM (lTGtQ)
THIS.
If you are just starting out, first buy an index fund that essentially mirrors the market (like SPY, the S&P 500). Then start putting cash in selected individual stocks. I seem to remember that if you get to about 40 stocks, the law of large numbers kicks in and your specific stock risk is reduced and will approximated the market. Of course good picking will give you a better return than a random selection.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 13, 2023 01:31 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 13, 2023 01:31 PM (r8Qje)
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"blending" is an odd way to spell "replacing".
Posted by: Methos at January 13, 2023 01:31 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:31 PM (C1Zwz)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 13, 2023 01:31 PM (nHGQX)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 13, 2023 01:32 PM (Er3sM)
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:29 PM (C1Zwz)
.......
It's Hollywood. Doesn't matter, right?
Posted by: wth at January 13, 2023 01:32 PM (v0R5T)
the movie. I wouldn't watch a miniseries.
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:32 PM (C1Zwz)
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 13, 2023 01:30 PM
This, too, is the story of Californians leaving and californicating their neighboring states, and now Texas.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2023 01:32 PM (a3Q+t)
Even in the golden era of home video (the 90s/early 2000s), Disney's thing was fucking around with limited releases and all that instead of just making everything available and printing money like everyone else was doing.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:32 PM (zm+d5)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 13, 2023 01:32 PM (tLAQV)
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 13, 2023 01:33 PM (HszyU)
A roughly 17% reduction in assets under management in a year where the markets lost about 20% would ordinarily mean that customers continued to invest, but that Blackrock suffered net market losses of MORE than $1.5 trillion, perhaps to the tune of several hundred million. (But Blackrock isn't ordinary, so we really don't know).
Posted by: BizzyBlog at January 13, 2023 01:33 PM (2lLpr)
Posted by: Jen the original at January 13, 2023 01:33 PM (N6MZz)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mookie at January 13, 2023 01:33 PM (Y+2kU)
Posted by: wth at January 13, 2023 01:27 PM
Don't forget, she is also putting her hand up inside the bell of the horn. It's like she is blowing AND giving a reach around. :-p
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 13, 2023 01:33 PM (qoLdL)
the movie. I wouldn't watch a miniseries.
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:32 PM (C1Zwz)
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Ah...early Peter Weir. Peter Weir is good movie stuff. Gonna go through all his movies soon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:33 PM (LvTSG)
I advised her against it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)
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To demonstrate the illogical basis of this statement, replace "played the French Horn" with "sucked c**k."
One of the hottest girls in my high school sucked c**k. Sucking cock is definitely not gay.
I shall see myself off to the barrel.
Posted by: Isaac Newton at January 13, 2023 01:33 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 13, 2023 01:31 PM
What am I, four on the floor?
Posted by: Rat at January 13, 2023 01:33 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: John Fetterman at January 13, 2023 01:34 PM (vwCZJ)
Fink is also coming under pressure from some of the other shareholder groups who actually want the stock to make money and operate according to SEC guidelines, not this work garbage that's eating into their profits and, some would argue, causing adverse material events.
Blackrock and its FA's have a regulatory obligation to make prudent investments that produce the best returns for investors. They have further similar regulatory obligations with respect to giving investment advice. ESG demonstrably underperforms almost all other investments and should not be recommended to anyone- unless they want to lose money and feel good about it.
By the way, this is why the SEC and other agencies are trying to skirt market regulations and issue "guidance" on ESG. They are trying to provide cover for situations like this where they are pushing investors and the company into losing investments to meet their political goals. Sooner or later they are going to get sued. The underlying regulations have been around for decades and are well established.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2023 01:34 PM (8Voqu)
Crazy Sheila is looking good in her green top with the shoelace like apparatus.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 13, 2023 01:34 PM (ufFY8)
It's not gay if she's doing it. It is if Pete Bootyjudge is.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:34 PM (zm+d5)
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they're sad and wistful not gay
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:34 PM (C1Zwz)
Posted by: Big club. We're not in it.
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Read up on The Managerial Revolution by Walter Dean Burnham. Essentially, managers run the corporations for their benefit rather than the stockholders--the investment firms run their investments based on their desires and bureaucrats run their agencies for their benefit and not for the public. Burnham's idea is essentially capitalism (he was writing during the 40s as basically a communist) has become divorced from ownership and so Rockefeller's old maxim that ownership meant nothing but control means everything came into play. The question is who controls the organization rather than its purported mission, owners, or stakeholders.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2023 01:35 PM (bDjBG)
Posted by: Barack Obama at January 13, 2023 01:35 PM (lc5cP)
District 17 Natural Gas
District 22 Paper Straws
District 29 Marvel Movies, good work if you can get it
District 33
District 36 Starbucks
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 13, 2023 01:35 PM (44ww/)
One of the hottest girls in my high school sucked c**k. Sucking cock is definitely not gay.
I shall see myself off to the barrel.
Posted by: Isaac Newton at January 13, 2023 01:33 PM (lf83v)
Check out the logical/rhetorical skills of Isaac over here!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:35 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:31 PM (C1Zwz)
Ah, the Ed Wood method.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 13, 2023 01:35 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
This one time, at band camp. . . .
I always thought that blowing into one end with your balled fist stuck into the wide orifice at the other end was a bit, well, odd.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont
Hey! $20 is $20.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2023 01:35 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: ace at January 13, 2023 01:34 PM (C1Zwz)
Like messenger bags, crocs and french anything?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:35 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Alexandra Occasio Cortez at January 13, 2023 01:36 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 01:27 PM (0hOvj)
I think they've determined that most of the IP they own is "problematic" for today's audience. Disney has always locked away their own IP for 10 or so years, only to re-release it as a special limited box set. Now, they can sit on all the things. Wait until people start to pine for the old days, and then do a new updated version of it for today's audience to eagerly consume. Get the physical copies before it's too late.
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at January 13, 2023 01:36 PM (zB/T/)
I have not seen the movie, but the book is pretty odd too.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 13, 2023 01:36 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: wth at January 13, 2023 01:36 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Alexandra Occasio Cortez at January 13, 2023 01:36 PM (lf83v)
make is shaped like a curly fry.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:37 PM (zZu0s)
Release a staggering line of incredibly shitty movies no one wants to see, all while paying top dollar for anyone and everyone involved in producing the shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2023 01:37 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 13, 2023 01:37 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: Idiocracy at January 13, 2023 01:37 PM (lc5cP)
Great, now I have Teri Garr on my mind... :-)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 13, 2023 01:37 PM (qoLdL)
Well that's not my experience.
Posted by: Barack Obama at January 13, 2023 01:35 PM (lc5cP)
Thread winner. (I guess it's kinda awkward for Barky to win a thread at the HQ, but...)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:37 PM (zm+d5)
I have not seen the movie, but the book is pretty odd too.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 13, 2023 01:36 PM (ppBhU)
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It's been a very long time since I've seen it, but I remember the movie just doesn't have an ending. Nothing is resolved, and that ends up being kind of the point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:37 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 13, 2023 01:38 PM (8GeFp)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 13, 2023 01:37 PM (qoLdL)
Modest: 'Oh. Thank you, Doktor!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:38 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Number one with a Nutribullet at January 13, 2023 01:38 PM (s2na+)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2023 01:38 PM (8Voqu)
Greg Abbott
@GregAbbott_TX
Texas was the first state to ban BlackRock from doing business with our state.
I signed a law in 2021 to ban financial companies that have ESG policies that discriminate against the oil & gas sector.
That includes BlackRock and several other financial companies.
And Governor DeSantis pulled $2 bln from BlackRock in largest anti-ESG divestment
Let the dominoes fall
Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2023 01:38 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)
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Someone made the comparison of what Disney is doing now is what they were doing in the late 90s: cheap, direct to video sequels to more successful movies like the two Aladdin sequels (did you know there were 2 Aladdin sequels?).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:38 PM (LvTSG)
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Right, my recollection too. It's been years since I saw it. When it ended, I just remember thinking, huh, that was different.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 13, 2023 01:38 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: Alexandra Occasio Cortez at January 13, 2023 01:36 PM (lf83v)
Ram your tongue down it's mouthpiece.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 13, 2023 01:38 PM (8GeFp)
Moral Hazard. It's not like anybody even respects the concept anymore.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 13, 2023 01:26 PM (tLAQV)
the panics in the 1800s were caused by Congress issuing payment guarantees and bonds to the railroads and by screwing around with the ratio price between gold and silver, both of which caused inflation, business cycles, and economic malinvestments that hid market signals to investors, who panicked when they found out their investments were toast.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2023 01:39 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: wth
Any woman that can handle a Bach 18 mouthpiece deserves some attention.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2023 01:39 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: activist investor nelson peltz at January 13, 2023 01:39 PM (Vwz3I)
https://tinyurl.com/English-MF-Do-You-Speak-It
Posted by: Sharkman at January 13, 2023 01:39 PM (xaFiY)
I didn't know there was one Aladdin sequel.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:39 PM (zm+d5)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude
"Damn your eyes!!"
Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2023 01:39 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: Regular joe at January 13, 2023 01:39 PM (nnp+f)
Posted by: Mookie at January 13, 2023 01:40 PM (Y+2kU)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2023 01:38 PM (8Voqu)
Ok. I wondered why the search returned xvideos.com links until I added translation to the string.
Good thing I have safesearch on on the work laptop.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:40 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 13, 2023 01:38 PM
I thought they went 'round and 'round?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 13, 2023 01:40 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)
I didn't know there was one Aladdin sequel.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:39 PM (zm+d5)
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Robin Williams even voiced the genie in one of them (the third entry). He refused to voice the genie in the second because Disney went against their contract with him and used his name in marketing for the film.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:40 PM (LvTSG)
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They might not have Petty on the car, but everyone can see they're petty regardless.
Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 13, 2023 01:40 PM (v3mBl)
some hot chicks in it. (I hope they're of-age.)
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The Movie from 1975 or the TV miniseries from 2018?
Posted by: Um at January 13, 2023 01:40 PM (pDg+g)
Posted by: Regular joe at January 13, 2023 01:39 PM (nnp+f)
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Heh.
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 13, 2023 01:41 PM (HszyU)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Rusty trombone!
Posted by: Pete Buttgig at January 13, 2023 01:41 PM (s2na+)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2023 01:39 PM (qoGsy)
You're definitely a band geek.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 13, 2023 01:41 PM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: NR Pax at January 13, 2023 01:41 PM (4olE8)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2023 01:39 PM (qoGsy)
You're definitely a band geek.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 13, 2023 01:41 PM (FCbAQ)
Julia Roberts over here.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:42 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Alexandra Occasio Cortez at January 13, 2023 01:36 PM (lf83v)
........
You can't. Too many teeth.
Posted by: wth at January 13, 2023 01:42 PM (v0R5T)
Peltz does raise an interesting point. Logically, DIS+ ought to be doing better on a unit basis.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 13, 2023 01:42 PM (lTGtQ)
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Investing at twice the speed of sound -- it's easy to get burned!
Posted by: crosby, stills & nash inc. at January 13, 2023 01:42 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: OneEyedJack
Guilty as charged. Band girls do it in the back (of the bus).
Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2023 01:43 PM (qoGsy)
I wonder where the losses were. Real estate? Energy? Manufacturing? Finance?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 13, 2023 01:43 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:25 PM (zm+d5)
Don't forget Amazon and HBOMax.
I think one of the advantages is if you feel you're spending too much you can start dropping services easily and quickly without any fuss.
I have Amazon Prime (which has value beyond streaming), Hulu, Disney+, Criterion and a couple of anime streamers. (My sister shares her Netflix with me.). I feel that Amazon, Hulu and Netflix covers 80-90% of everything worth watching. If I had to decide I'd keep those and dump the rest. Money saved, reinvested in booze.
Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, Available 4/14 at January 13, 2023 01:43 PM (AEU1V)
I wonder where the losses were. Real estate? Energy? Manufacturing? Finance?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 13, 2023 01:43 PM (t0OGg)
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Sex trafficking.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:43 PM (LvTSG)
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Uh-oh. He is uttering that which must *not* be uttered.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 13, 2023 01:44 PM (t0OGg)
That MBA-speak gives me a boner.
Posted by: Ride The Non-Operating Reefer With gp at January 13, 2023 01:44 PM (24fqN)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2023 01:43 PM
One time, in band camp............
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 13, 2023 01:44 PM (qoLdL)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mayor Pete Booty juice at January 13, 2023 01:44 PM (mE9+1)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2023 01:45 PM (8Voqu)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 13, 2023 01:46 PM (qoLdL)
Posted by: JT at January 13, 2023 01:46 PM (T4tVD)
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Uh-oh. He is uttering that which must *not* be uttered.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 13, 2023 01:44 PM (t0OGg)
No financial rationale. Pure tribal signaling/propaganda.
They may have tried to sell it as a vast untapped market of woke people willing to buy their shit, but they did not realize how antithetical and repulsive it would be to 90% of their fans. In fact they both overestimated woke and underestimated true fans.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:46 PM (zZu0s)
Where's the pivot man?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, hoarder and wrecker at January 13, 2023 01:46 PM (ou3RP)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 01:46 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 13, 2023 01:46 PM (qoLdL)
We saved over $80 a month cutting the land line. Cutting the TV part saved us another $160+. Now I think we're somewhere around $40 a month for fiber internet 50/50.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Oh a thought just occurred to me. What if uh, I uh, if uh hmmm, uh never mind
Posted by: John Fetterman at January 13, 2023 01:34 PM (vwCZJ)”
I can’t stop laughing at this
Maybe if I pee myself
Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at January 13, 2023 01:47 PM (grTml)
Posted by: Just Wondering at January 13, 2023 01:48 PM (DhOHl)
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I don't buy it, because *someone* will look at the books eventually. Iger has to sign off on the financial statements and they might couch it, but they won't hide a theft of that magnitude.
I subscribe to a much simpler explanation. Chapek sent out marching orders to executives to get their shit together, prepare for major layoffs and prioritize making money ASAP. Those layoffs were likely going to sweep a lot of the trash (e.g., the egregious Woke Folk) out. If Disney starts making stuff for entertainment first and propaganda second rather than the other way around, that is a serious problem because they're a state-aligned firm. Chapek had to go before he could do potentially irreversible damage at a key outlet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 13, 2023 01:48 PM (t0OGg)
It may have been this floor speech in which he masterfully blended word plays and humor to mock the administration (Reagan) for its slipping fiscal discipline. Amazing stuff. Always with no notes (and no staff - only his poor long-suffering CoS was allowed on the floor).
Posted by: rhomboid at January 13, 2023 01:48 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Ride The Non-Operating Reefer With gp at January 13, 2023 01:48 PM (24fqN)
I can’t stop laughing at this
Maybe if I pee myself
Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at January 13, 2023 01:47 PM (grTml)
MY BUTTS BEEN WIPED!!!
Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at January 13, 2023 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)
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Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at January 13, 2023 01:48 PM (MkuC5)
Now yhou know what it feels like to see every single animal show, science program, or STEM related thing have Darwinism shoehorned into it, no matter how little it relates, makes sense, or is remotely on topic because its a religion for some people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 01:48 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 01:46 PM (0hOvj)
It is not just that, in almost every single one of these cases, they take the old property and then write an entirely new, contradictory in some cases one that they want to write. They merely use the old property as a cheap veneer.
IF what they wanted to do was good, then it would be successful (except to the real purists) as it is, it is just repellant to everyone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:49 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 13, 2023 01:50 PM (2eKfM)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:49 PM (zZu0s)
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"What if we made a show about Willow that was not at all about Willow?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:50 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: JT at January 13, 2023 01:50 PM (T4tVD)
I have to make sure I have good internet, not just for the streaming but for work.
Work from home 2 days a week and a lot of data going back and forth.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 13, 2023 01:50 PM (qoLdL)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 13, 2023 01:51 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 13, 2023 01:51 PM (44ww/)
That's not entertainment, Disney. It's a call to arms, idiots.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2023 01:51 PM (8Voqu)
I didn't know there was one Aladdin sequel.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:39 PM (zm+d5)
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Robin Williams even voiced the genie in one of them (the third entry). He refused to voice the genie in the second because Disney went against their contract with him and used his name in marketing for the film.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:40 PM (LvTSG)
Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson) did the voice of Genie in part 2 as well as the Saturday morning cartoon series.
Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, Available 4/14 at January 13, 2023 01:51 PM (cUpqH)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:50 PM (LvTSG)
That's it exactly. I am trying to think of a show where they actually did something completely different to the original property, but it was still good.
Cobra Kai, maybe?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:51 PM (zZu0s)
I have to make sure I have good internet, not just for the streaming but for work.
Work from home 2 days a week and a lot of data going back and forth.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 13, 2023 01:50 PM (qoLdL)
Same here. Wife is now working full time from home, so we MUST have quality connection.
Should be interesting if we can sell this place and get our asses to the country this year.
Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at January 13, 2023 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)
If the US somehow survives intact and functioning a decade from now it is due to Donald Trump.
This country was plunging into decadency and corruption and there never would have been an ounce of effective push-back without him exposing DC for what it is "Sell Out City".
Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2023 01:51 PM (kYVzH)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 01:52 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:51 PM (zZu0s)
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The concept of Cobra Kai works because Daniel was actually a complete asshole in the first Karate Kid film and no one really realized it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:52 PM (LvTSG)
That's it exactly. I am trying to think of a show where they actually did something completely different to the original property, but it was still good.
Cobra Kai, maybe?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:51 PM (zZu0s)
Cobra Kai isn't really all that good, TBH.
Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at January 13, 2023 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)
Or a He-Man show without He-Man. Or a Scooby Gang show without Scooby.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:52 PM (zm+d5)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 13, 2023 01:52 PM (r8Qje)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude
Congrats.
You could tell them you're tired of supporting the sports channels because they lecture you whenever they interrupt the play.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2023 01:52 PM (1FGdS)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 13, 2023 01:53 PM (OTzUX)
This country was plunging into decadency and corruption and there never would have been an ounce of effective push-back without him exposing DC for what it is "Sell Out City".
Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2023 01:51 PM (kYVzH)
"We sold this city on Chinese hoes......"
Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at January 13, 2023 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)
I don't necessarily mind this. There are lots of novels that would be better as six to twelve episodes or whatever. The problem is not committing to a single season, telling the story, and being done. Though not based on a book, Stranger Things is a good example. They had a single season planned, and then planned to move on to an entirely different story. Then it became a hit and we ended up with the trash they made in response trying to stretch things out.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 13, 2023 01:53 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: OneEyedJack
Guilty as charged. Band girls do it in the back (of the bus).
Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2023 01:43 PM (qoGsy)
I used a Bach 7c
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 13, 2023 01:53 PM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)
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Appreciate the sentiment, however, if we are still intact and functioning in 10 years, it will be an act of God, not Donald Trump.
Posted by: Put not your faith in princes at January 13, 2023 01:53 PM (ZNyrQ)
Well, until Enterprise and they got, I dunno, Bryan Adams to do a crappy song.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 01:53 PM (0hOvj)
When you go broke as an individual, the 401k becomes a source of funding for your lagging mortgage payments.
When you hit retirement age, as boomers increasingly are, you start to divest your nest egg from the markets.
I'm not sure the long term prospects of hedge funds and mutual fund management companies is all that rosy. Perhaps that why the central bankers decided to try to jump start the meltdown with the fauxvid pandemic.
Break the system, say the system is broken, propose a new system with those that broke the old system at the helm.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 13, 2023 01:53 PM (D0eLk)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 13, 2023 01:53 PM (ppBhU)
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If Spielberg has never adapted Jaws in the 70s, it would have gotten adapted in the past decade by someone like Netflix as a 10-episode limited series, and it would suck.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:53 PM (LvTSG)
YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
lol come on it's awesome
LOVE the hell out of it.
btw Brand New Cherry Flavor (limited series, based on an out of print book) is pretty darn great
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2023 01:54 PM (w0NJk)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 13, 2023 01:54 PM (DhOHl)
Nuts and bolts and screws and gears,
The French horn sections full of queers...
Sound off.....
Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2023 01:54 PM (kYVzH)
Not holding my breath.
Posted by: Just Lily at January 13, 2023 01:54 PM (EvsLt)
Should be interesting if we can sell this place and get our asses to the country this year.
Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at January 13, 2023 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)
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Starlink. Reliable, low-latency, fast enough. Expensive, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 13, 2023 01:54 PM (t0OGg)
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*shifty eyes*
nothing to see here, move along. . .
Posted by: Lois & Clark at January 13, 2023 01:54 PM (ZNyrQ)
This is one fan property I just cannot care about. It doesn't matter to me how lousy the new show is or how it misses the "feel" of the original because Scooby Doo was such a crappy cheap product to begin with, who cares? Its like complaining that your new chef isn't doing the Big Mac justice. Its a crappy burger to begin with.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 01:55 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2023 01:55 PM (dHzaG)
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I always cannot remember the third author of that bill. I do remember Fritz Hollings though vaguely.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2023 01:56 PM (bDjBG)
Become (inexplicably) the darling heroes of the west, and you get if for free. We love it!
Posted by: Commander, 53rd Independent Brigade, Ukrainian Armed Forces at January 13, 2023 01:56 PM (OTzUX)
LOVE the hell out of it.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2023 01:54 PM (w0NJk)
We've watched every episode, don't get me wrong.
It's just, well......teenagers trashing everything around them every week in massive karate battles can only go so far.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:52 PM (LvTSG)
Plus, they went back and made Johnny an actual Character instead of the role he played in the movie- generic, rich, 80s bully.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Sponge
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Mote. It could be a mote.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 13, 2023 01:56 PM (esps4)
Should be interesting if we can sell this place and get our asses to the country this year.
Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at January 13, 2023 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)
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Starlink. Reliable, low-latency, fast enough. Expensive, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
If you can get a cell phone connection you can check out Instyconnect.
Initial equipment not cheap; but, then you're just paying for a cell phone plan.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2023 01:56 PM (1FGdS)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:56 PM (zZu0s)
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He was just a popular guy with a pretty girlfriend that some new kid decided he needed to destroy for no reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:56 PM (LvTSG)
It's just, well......teenagers trashing everything around them every week in massive karate battles can only go so far.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)
These days it is stepping over a VERY low bar, Sponge.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:56 PM (zZu0s)
I never thought of it like that before but yes, French horns are *the* sound of TOS. (And of the many moments on Strange New Worlds where they just copy the TOS score).
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 01:57 PM (zm+d5)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, hoarder and wrecker at January 13, 2023 01:57 PM (ou3RP)
Posted by: King Charlie at January 13, 2023 01:57 PM (DhOHl)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 13, 2023 01:57 PM (8Voqu)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 01:53 PM (LvTSG)
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Sure. The problem isn't adaptation per se, it's that the writers of all this stuff *suck.* Sometimes the actors are bad, too, but even a great actor can't make shit writing any more watchable. Hollywood needs storytellers far more than it needs new ideas. Adapting and extending old ideas can work okay if you have the talent to do the storytelling.
They don't have the talent.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 13, 2023 01:58 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)
Lupus?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2023 01:58 PM (prQx9)
it's freaking hilarious
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2023 01:59 PM (w0NJk)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2023 01:59 PM (fs1hN)
ok sponge YOU should probably not watch Brand New Cherry Flavor
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2023 01:59 PM (w0NJk)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2023 01:59 PM (prQx9)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 13, 2023 01:59 PM (u4CEu)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)
Lupus?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2023 01:58 PM (prQx9)
*types* *deletes obvious play on words*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 01:59 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld clip at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (DhOHl)
Hollings was very memorable. Senators would flee the floor under certain circumstances when Fritz showed up - why? Because - sort of like those civics movies of the historical Senate you might have seen in junior high - he'd engage in actual, spontaneous debate. Not just read through the crushingly dull and uninteresting stuff the staff wrote for him, like almost all senators. Fritz loved to actually argue the merits of topics of interest to him, old school-style.
Of course his infamous press conference remark in Geneva during a trade talk delegation trip is unmatched in modern times.
Posted by: Commander, 53rd Independent Brigade, Ukrainian Armed Forces at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 13, 2023 01:58 PM (t0OGg)
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Nope. As Critical Drinker and others (Nerdrotic, Knights Watch, etc.) have pointe out, Hollywood simply isn't interested in finding talented writers to churn out interesting, character-driven stories anymore.
It's ALL "MESSAGE" ALL THE TIME. Audiences are clearly tired of having that shoved down their throat in EVERY. SINGLE. SHOW.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2023 01:59 PM (prQx9)
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Right after Rambo the Animated Series and right before Robocop the Animated Series.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Ride The Non-Operating Reefer With gp at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (24fqN)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2023 01:59 PM (prQx9)
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Only if it was about the loss of ocean habitat due to microplastics and they race-swapped the shark!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (t0OGg)
true but mostly they have no life experience and in previous gens even young people did have that
but these people only consume media so everything they produce is so meta and derivative it is shallow and lifeless
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (w0NJk)
Should be interesting if we can sell this place and get our asses to the country this year.
Posted by: Joey
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Hold it...didn't Obama dump a ton of money into BPL?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (esps4)
What is baffling is Blackrock deciding, without the owners of the funds knowing, investing in ESG ways. That is to say, they have decided to potentially take financials losses with MY money so they can feel good about THEMSELVES.
FTX is exactly the same story - the owners of the fund literally stole money form the investors so they could donate it to "worthy" causes.
ESG investing should be clearly illegal without expressed permission form the owners of the funds.
Posted by: Inspector kemp at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (+DS2f)
It would. But there's almost no story there, period. I know this will be hurtful to Jaws fans, but that movie is no great shakes and only managed to be something because it had Spielberg.
Still, I'd almost like a Netflix Jaws series. Watching them make Quint gay, Brody black, and the shark attacks a product of climate change really appeals to the masochist in me.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)
Lupus?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2023 01:58 PM (prQx9)
That's my line, motherfucker!
*Pops pills*
Posted by: Dr. Gregory House at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (oOqMH)
A roughly 17% reduction in assets under management in a year where the markets lost about 20% would ordinarily mean that customers continued to invest, but that Blackrock suffered net market losses of MORE than $1.5 trillion, perhaps to the tune of several hundred million. (But Blackrock isn't ordinary, so we really don't know).
Posted by: BizzyBlog at January 13, 2023 01:33 PM (2lLpr)
Interesting. I think Blackrock and Vanguard have been leading the ESG charge. A quick Google shows Vanguard's AUM in 2021 was 8.6T and 2022 7.1T.
Schwab, I think, has kept their nose out of the ESG grift. 2021 AUM 7.2T and 2022 7.1T.
Now Schwab is primarily personal brokerage and Blackrock in institutional so maybe those numbers mean nothing. But Vanguard seems to be lagging Schwab for some reason.
Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (tDAwn)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)
Lupus?
It's never lupus.
Posted by: Gregory House at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: Captain Kirk at January 13, 2023 02:01 PM (DhOHl)
Posted by: The Underpants Gnomes at January 13, 2023 01:25 PM (cupoy)
Larry Fink is a spectacularly rich douche nozzle.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2023 02:02 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2023 02:02 PM (prQx9)
this is right on point
see: AI "painting" and "artwork"
Posted by: kallisto at January 13, 2023 02:03 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Dutch Van der Linde at January 13, 2023 02:03 PM (zm+d5)
Posted by: House at January 13, 2023 02:03 PM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: Hedley Lamarr
When the States started dumping ESG supporting Asset Managers Vanguard decided they'd rather keep the money under their management and dumped their vocal support for ESG.
Now I have to wonder if they dumped their vocal support and still support ESG without claiming it.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2023 02:03 PM (1FGdS)
but these people only consume media so everything they produce is so meta and derivative it is shallow and lifeless
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (w0NJk)
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It's worse than that. You don't have to have life experience to be a great--or even just good--storyteller, though it helps. You do need to be well-read so that you understand and practice the craft of storytelling. Today's Hollywood writers are explicitly *against* reading, even if they are producing a show for an established IP, like The Witcher. They deliberately destroy the lore because they *hate* it and can't be bothered to understand it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2023 02:04 PM (YIVH2)
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Don't discount the possibility that they fired him because he was at an Elton John concert...,
Posted by: Muldoon at January 13, 2023 02:04 PM (ykeLU)
Posted by: Sponge
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Could be a stroke
Posted by: John Fetterman at January 13, 2023 02:04 PM (vwCZJ)
I blame Quentin Tarantino and his generation of film makers. Its not their fault, so much, because while they made meta jokes and references and had geek culture stuff in their films, they did so from a richer background and more lived life. They know that there's more to life than comic books, video games, and cheap pop culture nostalgia.
The new generation of creators doesn't have that background, has not lived a life of challenge and growth, and do not have a rich background of film, literature, and life to draw on. All they know is "wasn't it cool when that guy talked about how Superman is the real identity and Clark Kent is his disguise?*" and they want to make everything based on that. They're shallow as hell and it shows.
*which is crap, by the way. Clark Kent is what makes Superman grounded and virtuous, his upbringing as a good man by good parents is what keeps him from turning into a tyrant or monster
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 02:04 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (ppBhU)
I'm sure they take suggestions.
https://help.netflix.com/en/contactus
Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, Available 4/14 at January 13, 2023 02:04 PM (G6Zfw)
What is baffling is Blackrock deciding, without the owners of the funds knowing, investing in ESG ways. That is to say, they have decided to potentially take financials losses with MY money so they can feel good about THEMSELVES. ...
Posted by: Inspector kemp at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (+DS2f)
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It's beyond that. A guy putting his money into an ESG fund that only invests in firms with high ESG scores or whatever is stupid, but it's his money.
The real problem at places like Blackrock and Vanguard and others is that they use their ownership positions in companies to become activists on the boards and force those companies down the ESG path or they'll pull their investments and crash the stock and cause massive black marks in the media. They use their stakes to force *everyone* into ESG by going after the companies.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 13, 2023 02:04 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 13, 2023 02:05 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Ride The Non-Operating Reefer With gp at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM (24fqN)
_____
They all do.
Posted by: Jesus at January 13, 2023 02:05 PM (EvsLt)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at January 13, 2023 02:05 PM (KyYMq)
Posted by: mr too woo-woo fo me at January 13, 2023 02:05 PM (Vwz3I)
I suspect that it actually IS illegal because it is not in the best financial interest of their clients.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 02:05 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Clark Kent at January 13, 2023 02:05 PM (DhOHl)
The function of well-run DEI offices is that of a subsidiary to legal and insurance objectives, that is, to scare away the BLM left from extorting money from the company.
Posted by: Auspex at January 13, 2023 02:05 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2023 02:06 PM (D+F6R)
I am a corporate board member.
Therefore I am an astute business person.
Which means I am hot shit.
Posted by: Mr. Barky at January 13, 2023 02:06 PM (jIaGU)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Child Protective Services: "So, Mr. and Mrs. Kent, you are going to stick with your story of finding Clark IN A FIELD!!??"
Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2023 02:06 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 02:06 PM (0hOvj)
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I Make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market-Place.
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings.
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 13, 2023 02:06 PM (u4CEu)
Gotta disagree with you there. Jaws told a good story with great actors. The suspense building whenever you heard those notes from the cello. Magnificent.
Here's to swimmin with bow legged women. :-)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 13, 2023 02:07 PM (WsJuq)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2023 02:07 PM (prQx9)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 13, 2023 02:07 PM (44ww/)
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Heading said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 13, 2023 02:08 PM (u4CEu)
They don't want an opponent (Trump) - who may still have some friends in high places - to get ahold of the story and use it in a campaign.
All you have to do is look at how convenient the timing is. You can't get further from election season than after the last one just ended. Also there is more to this story. It will come out and by then it will be "old news". It's already almost old news now.
Posted by: ... at January 13, 2023 02:08 PM (7HyDs)
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They're not doing it to feel good about themselves. They're doing it to get in on the fascist oligarchic government grift madness taking over and intentionally impoverishing the Western World.
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 13, 2023 02:08 PM (5SW2U)
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew,
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four —
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
* * * * *
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man —
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began —
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire —
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 13, 2023 02:08 PM (u4CEu)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 13, 2023 02:09 PM (44ww/)
Posted by: Jesus
Most of us have planks
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 02:06 PM (0hOvj)
That's why you can't see your motes.
Posted by: Jesus at January 13, 2023 02:09 PM (EvsLt)
More generically, todays creators don't know the primary sources of the Western canon, just various prior riffs on it.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2023 02:09 PM (zm+d5)
He also beats his wife and skewers innocent babies while in his cups. That is a reference to "Scooge" with Alistair Sim.
Seriously, I don't think we can call him a traitor for merely showing up at the WEF.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2023 02:09 PM (D+F6R)
Posted by: Secretary of Trans at January 13, 2023 02:09 PM (8ocB+)
Posted by: artisanal ette at January 13, 2023 02:10 PM (9qHsE)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 13, 2023 02:10 PM (WsJuq)
Posted by: Secretary of Trans
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Challenge accepted!
Posted by: Kamaltoe Harris at January 13, 2023 02:11 PM (u4CEu)
Posted by: Pa's epitaph at January 13, 2023 02:11 PM (DhOHl)
Park van with great stereo system as close to beach as possible.
Crank up stereo with Jaws cello notes.
Watch reactions of people in water.
Drive to next beach before becoming targets.
Repeat.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2023 02:11 PM (1FGdS)
Seriously, I don't think we can call him a traitor for merely showing up at the WEF.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2023 02:09 PM (D+F6R)
I'm HOPING he's there for 'recon.' I have serious doubts, however.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 13, 2023 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Whatevers, Fen.
He better explain why he's buddies with Schwab.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at January 13, 2023 02:12 PM (KyYMq)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 13, 2023 02:12 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at January 13, 2023 02:12 PM (KyYMq)
The irony, c'est magnifique *chef's kiss*
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 13, 2023 02:13 PM (DT8lM)
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It's absolutely unrelenting, and so obvious it's ridiculous. Not just Disney related programs either. It's everywhere. Every program. Every station. Every network. It's inescapable. Unless you turn it off, which is what we do.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 13, 2023 02:13 PM (sVtYq)
Right. Each generation builds on the work of the previous, but until recently, at least the best of the generation were going back to the origins. I loved Rush Limbaugh's work and what he accomplished, but he went back to the original material, the founders, and philosophers they were based on like Locke.
Too many modern "conservative thinkers" learned from the son of the son of the son of the great thinkers rather than going back to the source. I appreciate their efforts, don't get me wrong, but they're too shallow and too unlearned to really answer the tough questions and handle new events. You can see especially with new events how they don't really understand the philosophy and morals of the movement and so often stumble or have the wrong responses until corrected.
This is true EVERYWHERE today. The internet makes it too easy to learn the right cool and proper response to something without knowing why or how you got there.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 02:13 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 13, 2023 02:14 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at January 13, 2023 02:12 PM (KyYMq)
I have no idea who Trump is buddies (as in a close and respectful relationship in which he generally agrees with what Schwab puts down.). I think he just hangs around with lots of rich people and can probably talk the ear off a stalk of corn.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2023 02:14 PM (D+F6R)
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He was at Studio 54 every night for quite a while, never drank or did drugs.
Recon.
Posted by: Trump, Donald Trump, Double Scoop Vanilla at January 13, 2023 02:14 PM (fsUxR)
They had been known for the number of IPs they had acquired exclusive rights to (Batman, The Walking Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy to name a few).
The thing is, the more IPs they acquired, the more their games sucked. Until it sank the business (at least according to the articles I have read).
I wonder if that's a common problem. A company gets the rights to publish content with well-known names and they forget about quality, relying entirely on the franchises to sell that content to existing fanbases.
Posted by: Fifty Three Years an Imbecile at January 13, 2023 02:15 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Fool Otto at January 13, 2023 02:16 PM (DB16e)
I hope they make it, they have a nice service. But honestly I don't know how they can make it on just subscription, the way people hop around. Watch a series, drop the service. Get a new service for the next series, drop it. You cannot make money with people doing that, but how do you stop it?
I'd like to watch Tulsa King but I'm not gonna sign up to Paramount+ to watch it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 02:16 PM (0hOvj)
This is good news
I wonder how much they had in FTX"
Second look at Sam Bankboy Fried? heh
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 13, 2023 02:16 PM (DT8lM)
nood
Posted by: mr too woo-woo fo me at January 13, 2023 02:17 PM (Vwz3I)
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Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 02:17 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 13, 2023 02:12 PM (2NHgQ)
++++
That *might* not be a big deal. If Roku goes tits-up, most of the value is in the software. If they open-source it, things will probably be able to continue along. There is a huge install base and massive market penetration, so there will be takeover or license-based appeal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 13, 2023 02:17 PM (t0OGg)
I'll note that the "Kents legally adopted Clark" bit has been eliminated from the canon since 1986. The new interpretation is that Clark landed and was found, then a massive blizzard happened to the point where it was feasible that Martha had given birth to him herself at home, and the Kents just went along with it. The town doctor being one of the Manhunters and intentionally going along with it for their purposes helped.
Posted by: American Hawkman at January 13, 2023 02:19 PM (VfMhS)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 13, 2023 02:10 PM (WsJuq)
Heh. When in that environment, I realized how fucking huge the ocean was and just how small and powerless I really am. Especially night diving.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2023 02:20 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 13, 2023 02:00 PM
TIL via this comment and wiki that there actually were animated series for both of these
Posted by: Chuck C at January 13, 2023 02:23 PM (xttsV)
This is one fan property I just cannot care about. It doesn't matter to me how lousy the new show is or how it misses the "feel" of the original because Scooby Doo was such a crappy cheap product to begin with, who cares? Its like complaining that your new chef isn't doing the Big Mac justice. Its a crappy burger to begin with.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 13, 2023 01:55 PM (0hOvj)
Sure it was low quality like all Hanna Barberra props in that era, but people remember it for the theme - that factual investigation is better than magic and ghost stories. In the past several adaptations have broken that contract, and if this woke version is like so many others it is moving away from his even farther. The spitting on the fans even before they reject it is another clue. Why adapt a property if you aren't faithful to the IP?
Posted by: Oldcat at January 13, 2023 02:37 PM (eoQWY)
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It's absolutely unrelenting, and so obvious it's ridiculous. Not just Disney related programs either. It's everywhere. Every program. Every station. Every network. It's inescapable. Unless you turn it off, which is what we do.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 13, 2023 02:13 PM (sVtYq)
I bought a book on the Roman Parthian wars of 50 BC to 200 AD a while back. When the Romans started a war it was American Imperialism. When the Parthians did it was justifiable response to American power.
I wish I were exaggerating.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 13, 2023 02:41 PM (eoQWY)
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Posted by: Eric at January 13, 2023 03:13 PM (t6MIL)
All investment companies should be down by a large amount if you just look at assets under management because Biden destroyed many trillions of dollars worth of the economy. There was nowhere to hide. The ESG stuff makes for poor investment decisions, but unless I misunderstand the figure Ace is using I don't think we can point at this particular metric.
Posted by: Thatch at January 13, 2023 03:15 PM (A+k5G)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at January 13, 2023 04:22 PM (ytSiK)
They take bets. The goal is to take bets from BOTH sides, in equal amounts. The price is 10% from the losing side. It's a really easy business. Just make sure that both sides bet the same amount, and voila ... 10% interest ... called "the vig." You can make sure both sides bet the same by offering odds to make one side or the other bet more. It's really simple.
Unless you get greedy.
If you get greedy, maybe you don't think Dallas can cover the spread, so you load up on those bets and you don't really care if the other side is covered. Then you can keep all that money.
Maybe you take bets, but don't offload them to your Mafia guy.
Maybe Dallas covers, and now you gotta cover a LOT of bets that YOU now lost. Maybe you spent that money on hookers and blow.
That's what is happening on Wall Street.
They spent the money on hookers and blow.
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