At 9.50pm AEDT yesterday, there was a sudden spike in trading on the oil and S&P 500 futures market.

6.50am New York time is an unusual time for a rush on trades on West Texas Intermediate May futures.

But it showed that all of a sudden, a substantial sum of money was bet on oil prices dropping and the stock market rising.

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    2 hours ago

    I wonder why our representatives get so rich on such a small salary? …and not just them, but their families, too! It’s like they’ve won the lottery.

    It’s so weird. Oh well, I guess we will never know

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    Once chucklefuck is gone (rest in piss), the chickens will come home to roost. All you dickless wonders will be indicted. Be ready to fined as high as it will fucking go or face jail tome-- hopefully both.

    Fuck the lot of you selfish ghouls for ruining our country.

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    I have half an idea here, but let’s say we eventually figure out President Joffrey is part of this. They’ll try some bullshit argument about “he gets away with it because he’s president” and fight about it in court. Fine. Loophole, courts will sort it out.

    What I’m interested in: Couldn’t the US government still seize the illicit money and force him to prove he earned it legally. They do that shit to other criminals in America. Why not use that legal concept on Mr Trump’s crime family?

    Use Trump’s money as leverage to get him to squeal on everyone else for criminal charges they all can eat.

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    Lol.

    Such a weak nation.

    Never in my wildest dreams did I think Americans would get walked all over like this.

    Right now I’m not seeing any other future for us than permanent subjugation.

    It’s almost like we enjoy the punishment.

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      My elderly father thinks “workers don’t know how to run businesses”, which is funny to me considering how many bone-headed decisions I’ve seen management make. Plus pointlessly cruel ones, alongside selfish and short-sighted ones.

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    The stock market is such a goddamn pyramid scheme. The only reason it hasn’t full on collapsed is because the people running the scam get bailed by US tax payers every time it breaks. Nevermind that they tricked us into tying our retirements into the continuous survival of this casino in a trench coat.

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    In any other country on earth, Trump would have been dragged into the street a lynched by now.

    I think the best American’s can hope for is that his own security detail order 66’s him.

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        9 hours ago

        so far

        Yup. Pandora’s Box is open now. Going forward every conservative grifter is going to acknowledge what Trump got away with and attempt to get away with as much and more. Why wouldn’t they? They’ll want their turn at the grift so they can create their own dynasty using America’s wealth.

        We’re cooked. Our system is weak.

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          Dems are going to do the same thing. Again, why wouldn’t they? Trump just lowered the bar for all future administrations. He showcased the failures of our checks and balances and proved that you can do whatever the fuck you want, laws and judges be damned, and no one will do a fucking thing about it.

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      The most blatantly corrupt. They literally do not care if their corruption is on full display to the world.

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        I think they actually revel in it. Like, “look what we can get away with and you’re not going to do shit about it”

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        They seem like exactly the kind of evil that has to push the bounds of human depravity just to prove to themselves how privileged and powerful they truly are.

        Like with those Epstein files we aren’t talking about as much since we’re waiting to see if this is WW3 – you have a variety of powerful people who are probably not pedophiles in the mental illness sense, but they fuck teenagers because it’s a combination of forbidden fruit and domination/control and half a dozen other things that stimulate their dark triad brains.

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        i think they are just stupid. previous administrations were pretty bad too, but they kept it quiet, but i think they knew and told each other what they were really doing. these morons either didn’t understand or cannot follow the instructions

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          Sorry but you’re the dumb one for misunderstanding them. They’re bad at lots of stuff, sloppy and lazy in many ways, etc. Not stupid.

          The incredible number of gigantic income streams they DIRECTLY manipulate - traditional stocks and options sure, what about their scam coins (bribery funnels)? What about Kalshi and Polymarket where the crime family is on the board of both, directly influencing world events and the related bets?

          The various other ways Trump has said “world leaders if you simply give money to this thing here…”?

          But sure, they’re just stupid I guess. So stupid they and all their friends are just getting richer and richer with every fucking awful thing they do, cuz they get to telegraph it and profit from the foreknowledge every goddamn time, whether it’s good news or bad news for everyone else, it’s all just profit for them.

          Please stop calling these people stupid.

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            to be clear, i meant it that these people are dumb and evil, previous ones were shrewd and evil
            it’s just more obvious that they are evil, because they are stupid

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              Well, I hear you, but I really couldn’t disagree more. They correctly assessed they can do it all openly, they were right, and now it’s much easier. They were ahead of the curve, they are actively profiting in extreme, ridiculous ways from their correct assessment and follow-through - you’re the one behind here, clinging to the old rules that clearly barely apply today. Not trying to antagonize or be a jerk, hope it’s not coming across deliberately jerky, I just really think it’s a dangerously incorrect misunderstanding you have.

              There is nothing whatsoever stupid or accidental about the exact stuff you’re describing from them. It just doesn’t work toward ends that you easily recognize, and thus looks stupid to you, but again, only because your world model is badly out of date now. Incidentally, everyone like you that is failing to update quickly is making it all work even better. This is what I mean. What you’re saying is not just wrong, it’s dangerously wrong.

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                i might be too optimistic, but i think they are screwed in the long term, the dems could have will-they won‘t-they-d progressives forever, but trump had to get EVERYTHING and now even fans seem to turn away
                then again, i’m not an american, maybe i don’t feel the temperature correctly over the pond