Trump: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody.”

[User]

44 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:

What war he says LOL. There’s still no peace deal. 

Oh man! Maybe if you deployed some shade trees!

45 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:

First of all regardless of what the pentagon may have planned for over the years in the Trump administration none of that matters.

LOL, always shifting those goal posts. So, there was a plan! Now it doesn't matter!

46 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:

Its obvious this outcome was not what Trump was expecting.  A year and half into his presidency inflation that has grown to staggering levels that is not “ending inflation on day1”. So if he knew this was going to happen this whole time was he lying to the American people or was this not what he was expecting?  It can’t be both. 

Now its the classic Beaver throw more mud at the wall move. 

46 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:

I don’t think they’ve ever “held it over the world’s head” before now

Oh... so you think Iran never had a plan now? They just decided after this attack, oh hey, I have an idea, lets deploy our military forces to threaten the Strait! 

How convenient we just happened to have been building a fleet of speedboats equipped with mines for asymmetric warfare, other missiles, and hardened underground bunkers all along there, with everything we need!

So, Trump was supposed to have planned for something Iran was never threatening to do? 

You are trying to have it both ways now. 

Keep crying, plant some more trees. 

[BeaverFever]

1 hour ago, User said:

LOL, always shifting those goal posts. So, there was a plan! Now it doesn't matter!

DUMBASS:  TRUMP HAS NO PLAN. WHATEVER PLANNING PEOPLE AT THE PENTAGON DID IN THE PAST IS SITTING UNREAD IN A DRAWER SOMEWHERE AND CLEARLY ISN’T BEING FOLLOWED 

Thats what I am telling you. No shifting of goal posts,  just your obtuse excuse brain that can’t comprehend ehat others ate telling you. 
 

1 hour ago, User said:

Now its the classic Beaver throw more mud at the wall move. 

Nope that’s a concise argument you have no rebuttal to. So you reply with a generic insult 

 

1 hour ago, User said:

Oh... so you think Iran never had a plan now? They just decided after this attack, oh hey, I have an idea, lets deploy our military forces to threaten the Strait! 

How convenient we just happened to have been building a fleet of speedboats equipped with mines for asymmetric warfare, other missiles, and hardened underground bunkers all along there, with everything we need!

So, Trump was supposed to have planned for something Iran was never threatening to do? 

You are trying to have it both ways now. 

You said “holding over our heads”  You didn’t say a plan to defend themselves if they were attacked  If I have a olan to shoot an intruder who comes into my home that doesn’t mean I am holding a gun over my neighbours heads who is shifting the goalposts now?

 

Your whole argument here is that because rheybhad a plan to defend themselves attack, attacking them is justified  
 

You’re saying:

1) you had to attack them because for 50 years they have had the ability to close the strait even though they never have,

2)  Trump knew they actually WOULD close the strait and cause a global economic crisis in response to the attack and ignore his constant threats to unconditionally reopen the strait or their  “whole civilization will die”  and now he is forced to negotiate with them as equals….that’s all part of his master plan 

3) SOMEHOW COMPLETELY UNEXPLAINED BY ANYONE By ignoring Trump’s threats and demands for unilateral surrender and reaching a negotiated peace deal, Iran will somehow magically never be able to close the strait again because something something  gibberish you don’t know what 

 

Edited May 24 by BeaverFever

[Reg Volk]

On 5/21/2026 at 4:04 PM, BeaverFever said:

Meanwhile:

 

"I do not get up first thing in the morning thinking about the United States... I think about Canadians." 

-Mark Carney

 

 

 

Mark Carney thinks about Brookfield.  He's a total grifter and scumbag.  As for Trump's comment, of course you take it out of context, all to feed the Elbowzo Liberal fool boomers in Canada.  Have to keep that disinformation campaign against Americans going at all costs.  So gross and so DUMB.

[Legato]

2 hours ago, BeaverFever said:

WHY TRUMP LOST

The president failed to deliver on his Iran bluster, and in the end fooled only himself.

By David Frum
MAY 24, 2026, 10:45 AM ET

 

“The first surprising thing about President Trump’s impending defeat in the 2026 Iran war is that he already fought and won a successful war against Iran last year. In June 2025, U.S. and Israeli airstrikes badly damaged the Iranian nuclear program in 12 days of bombardment. Exactly how badly remains controversial. But they didn’t do nothing. If Trump had quit while ahead, he could have banked his gains from last August as a solid if imperfect win.

“Trump hates procedure. A lot of the apparatus of the modern presidency exists to force confrontations with unwelcome realities. Cabinet officers are confirmed by the Senate to assure the country that major offices are filled by people of character and competence. The National Security Council is supposed to process challenging data to ensure that the president receives necessary information. But to run the Department of Defense, Trump nominated and the Senate approved Pete Hegseth. Instead of choosing a national security adviser to replace Mike Waltz after Waltz’s resignation on May 1, 2025, Trump tapped Secretary of State Marco Rubio to take on the role. But to double up that particular job dooms the job not to be done at all, especially because Trump has shriveled the NSC’s staff and subjected it to loyalty tests demanded by his most screwball supporters.”

“For three years in his first term, Trump benefited from the strong economy that he inherited. Then the pandemic struck, and his first instinct was to hunt for someone to blame. In this second presidency, his main work has been spectacular self-enrichment, even as the economy has sagged under the weight of his catastrophic trade wars. He made no case for an Iran war to the public and never sought approval by Congress. There are some Iran hawks on the Democratic side, especially in the Senate. Trump never tried to ally with them.

Trump’s vision of the presidency is authoritarian and kleptocratic: Issue orders, grab money, luxuriate in flattery, erect monuments to oneself. That’s no way to lead a nation through the hazards and difficulties of war. Now the war is ending on disadvantageous terms for the United States. Trump’s old methods will be turned to a new task: trying to deceive the American people and the world into believing that the war he lost was really a big win, the biggest ever, so big you cannot believe it. He’s likely to discover that, indeed, nobody does believe it.”

 

Excerpt From

“Why Trump Lost”

David Frum

The Atlantic

https://apple.news/AjurgUdwwRh-024cb_9BQ2A

This material may be protected by copyright.

 

Wow!! That was so loud and echoing.

You must have been shouting from inside one of those underground gas reserves that don't exist.

[BeaverFever]

5 hours ago, Legato said:

Wow!! That was so loud and echoing.

You must have been shouting from inside one of those underground gas reserves that don't exist.

Yeah I was looking for the “barrels of gasoline” that are somehow going to supply extra electricity to the grid during peak demand when all the generators are running at full capacity. No luck yet!

[Legato]

Just now, BeaverFever said:

Yeah I was looking for the “barrels of gasoline” that are somehow going to supply extra electricity to the grid during peak demand when all the generators are running at full capacity. No luck yet!

Whilst you're looking see if you can find some barrels of electrons. I'm sure there are a few kicking around.

[User]

1 hour ago, BeaverFever said:

Yeah I was looking for the “barrels of gasoline” that are somehow going to supply extra electricity to the grid during peak demand when all the generators are running at full capacity. No luck yet!

Still pushing your pathetic lies. 

[WestCanMan]

22 hours ago, BeaverFever said:

No you’re the stupid high school dropout who has fallen for everything from Trump’s 2020 election lies to Krackpot Kovid Konspiracies to Putin’s lies about his invasion being self-defense against non-existent Ukrainian bio weapons.  You’re a Konservative Krackpot Klown. clown. You’re not even the smartest of the right wing posters in this forum, which is already a really low bar. 

Beave, your new name is The Energizer Dummy, on account of your dogged defence of long-debunked cultist narratives.

FYI the pangolin theory is no longer law. You are allowed to talk about the BSL4 lab in Wuhan online now. Awwwwww. And shadow-bans, and bans, etc, etc....

Do you still think that "You can't get covid, and you can't pass it along to granny if you're jabbed" is the truth, Beavey-boy? Where are you at with that?

Did you think that the jabs lowered hospitalizations and deaths in 2022, Beavey? Did you have to find out from me that they were both up by a very large margin? Why is that? Why didn't CBC or CNN tell you that? 

And FYI there were bioweapons still in the Ukrainian labs back when the war started, no one's even denying that. They just tried to say there was "a bit of stuff that they were studying, that they never got rid of". What did Victoria Nuland think the Russians might get there if they seized a lab, if not bioweapons, dummy? There was nothing bad there, right, cultist?

The "dumbest" conservative poster still runs circles around  you Beave...

Compared to you, Biden was still a high-functioning, capable adult with sharp mental focus. That's why it was only conservatives who considered him to be mentally unfit. 

The fact that you'd even admit to being an Obama/Trudeau/Biden/Clitnon/Kamala cultist after all this time is all that anyone needs to know about you.

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LMFAOOOOO!!!!    That is a hilarious line comes from someone who is an admitted high school dropout and has never graduated from ANYTHING. The only person who would have to PRETEND for that to happen is you!

I never dropped out of school, but I read somewhere that you failed your way of grade 7 because you were still insisting that "3+3 = 6" was Russian disinformation.

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As has been said many times The whole Iran war has been a debacle that has erased trillions from the global economy.

"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed by Beave and everyone else with an IQ under 70."

Just remember that "There's new bombshell evidence coming out this weekend" was also said many times, Beavey. And you believed it every time, you poor little sap. Just like Charlie Brown trying to kick that football.

At the end of the witch hunt, there was how much "evidence of collusion", Beavey? None. Not any.

Learn this, stupid: just because CNN and theur cultists said something "many times" doesn't make it any more true. In fact, the more often CNN says something, the less likely it is to be true.

Remember the "Gentle Giant", and GG V2.0?

 

If Iran wasn't bombed, people would be dying in nuclear blasts within the decade.

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If the justification is “these guys have had it coming for 50 years” and all the resulting Trumplflation was known and planned for then it would have been part of his election platform and he would not have campaigned as a president who will end foreign military intervention and stop inflation on “day 1”   And he would have gone to congress for authorization instead of making a secret deal with Mike Johnson to keep votes on Iran off the congressional voting agenda. 
 

Iran has a large uranium stockpile thanks to the incompetence if the first Trump administration which ended the controls that were in place and were highly effective. But having uranium isn’t the same as being able to design and build a nuclear weapon  just like having jet fuel isn’t the same as being able to design and build a fighter jet and Iran is still many years away from being able to weaponize. 

Everything that you say is stupid, at a pre-juvenile level.

FYI Trump talked about being tough against Iran all the time, but of course he wasn't going to tip off Tlaib, Jeffries, Omar, etc before he executed a surprise attack against the ayatollah. 

Would you have told those guys? Are you really that stupid? Do you really have no clue what would have happened if those guys had a ten-minute warning? Hell, Schumer and Pelosi would have helped the ayatollah escape if they could have. CNN would have broadcast that plan if they knew about it in time.

You're just the dumbest of the dumb, Beave. A class "A" clown that failed out of school in grade 7. 

[WestCanMan]

16 hours ago, BeaverFever said:

Yeah I was looking for the “barrels of gasoline” that are somehow going to supply extra electricity to the grid during peak demand when all the generators are running at full capacity. No luck yet!

Canada's energy struggles are no laughing matter.

We had our energy needs completely handled until the LPoC and the NDP gov'ts in Alberta and Ont screwed everyone.

But, as usual, when you should be hanging your head in shame you're running your Energizer Dummy mouth.  

[BeaverFever]

19 hours ago, Legato said:

Whilst you're looking see if you can find some barrels of electrons. I'm sure there are a few kicking around.

You probably think so. 

[BeaverFever]

5 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

Beave, your new name is The Energizer Dummy, on account of your dogged defence of long-debunked cultist narratives.

FYI the pangolin theory is no longer law. You are allowed to talk about the BSL4 lab in Wuhan online now. Awwwwww. And shadow-bans, and bans, etc, etc....

Do you still think that "You can't get covid, and you can't pass it along to granny if you're jabbed" is the truth, Beavey-boy? Where are you at with that?

Did you think that the jabs lowered hospitalizations and deaths in 2022, Beavey? Did you have to find out from me that they were both up by a very large margin? Why is that? Why didn't CBC or CNN tell you that? 

And FYI there were bioweapons still in the Ukrainian labs back when the war started, no one's even denying that. They just tried to say there was "a bit of stuff that they were studying, that they never got rid of". What did Victoria Nuland think the Russians might get there if they seized a lab, if not bioweapons, dummy? There was nothing bad there, right, cultist?

The "dumbest" conservative poster still runs circles around  you Beave...

Compared to you, Biden was still a high-functioning, capable adult with sharp mental focus. That's why it was only conservatives who considered him to be mentally unfit. 

The fact that you'd even admit to being an Obama/Trudeau/Biden/Clitnon/Kamala cultist after all this time is all that anyone needs to know about you.

I never dropped out of school, but I read somewhere that you failed your way of grade 7 because you were still insisting that "3+3 = 6" was Russian disinformation.

"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed by Beave and everyone else with an IQ under 70."

Just remember that "There's new bombshell evidence coming out this weekend" was also said many times, Beavey. And you believed it every time, you poor little sap. Just like Charlie Brown trying to kick that football.

At the end of the witch hunt, there was how much "evidence of collusion", Beavey? None. Not any.

Learn this, stupid: just because CNN and theur cultists said something "many times" doesn't make it any more true. In fact, the more often CNN says something, the less likely it is to be true.

Remember the "Gentle Giant", and GG V2.0?

 

If Iran wasn't bombed, people would be dying in nuclear blasts within the decade.

Everything that you say is stupid, at a pre-juvenile level.

FYI Trump talked about being tough against Iran all the time, but of course he wasn't going to tip off Tlaib, Jeffries, Omar, etc before he executed a surprise attack against the ayatollah. 

Would you have told those guys? Are you really that stupid? Do you really have no clue what would have happened if those guys had a ten-minute warning? Hell, Schumer and Pelosi would have helped the ayatollah escape if they could have. CNN would have broadcast that plan if they knew about it in time.

You're just the dumbest of the dumb, Beave. A class "A" clown that failed out of school in grade 7. 

High school dropout is triggered and all of a sudden is now backpedaling on his admission that he dropped out of  high school   Sorry pal. I’ve been ragging you on that since I joined here a few years ago and you openly admitted it. And then you were like “but but I applied to BCIT for a-dolt ejucashun and got accepted!”  But you didn’t graduate from there either. Now suddenly you want to deny it all. Sorry pal. 

[WestCanMan]

10 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:

High school dropout is triggered and all of a sudden is now backpedaling on his admission that he dropped out of  high school  

Stop fantasizing about me, E-D. I never said that I dropped out of school, you're the only person here who ever said that. 

And wouldn't that just make it more embarrassing for you to get spanked by a dropout all the time? 

You should be telling people I'm a history professor. At least that was you'd look better getting dummied.

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Sorry pal. I’ve been ragging you on that since I joined here a few years ago and you openly admitted it. And then you were like “but but I applied to BCIT for a-dolt ejucashun and got accepted!”  But you didn’t graduate from there either. Now suddenly you want to deny it all. Sorry pal. 

Wrong again, stupid. 

I went to BCIT to take Electronics Technology, but I had to take a year off to make some extra money at a sawmill here and then never went back for my second year.

I know that graduating high school would have been a really high hurdle for you, but for 90% of Canadians it's easy AF.

[BeaverFever]

6 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

Stop fantasizing about me, E-D. I never said that I dropped out of school, you're the only person here who ever said that. 

And wouldn't that just make it more embarrassing for you to get spanked by a dropout all the time? 

You should be telling people I'm a history professor. At least that was you'd look better getting dummied.

Wrong again, stupid. 

I went to BCIT to take Electronics Technology, but I had to take a year off to make some extra money at a sawmill here and then never went back for my second year.

I know that graduating high school would have been a really high hurdle for you, but for 90% of Canadians it's easy AF.

Dude you’re a high school dropout in your 50s who works a low paying menial job in a remote ugly grubby little town. Gimme a break

FTR I am a university- educated white collar professional and I guarantee that at the age of ten I was more intelligent than you ever were or will be  

 

[WestCanMan]

9 hours ago, BeaverFever said:

Dude you’re a high school dropout in your 50s who works a low paying menial job in a remote ugly grubby little town. Gimme a break

Dude, my wife and I have a company that makes over $1M a year most years and we live in Murrayville BC. It's not the most affluent neighbourhood in the lower mainland but it's above average.

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FTR I am a university- educated white collar professional and I guarantee that at the age of ten I was more intelligent than you ever were or will be  

You're not intelligent at all, Energizer Dummy, and I probably read more books by the time I was 14 than you've read in your entire life. And don't lie... I can tell that you're not a reader because you glean nothing from pages right under your nose, and you lack the ability to recall pertinent facts as you're eagerly committing new propaganda to your memory.

I know that you clawed your way through university learning by rote, and for that reason you've never learned to think for yourself. That's why your unfiltered little brain just absorbs CNN/CBC propaganda without question. And that's why I'm always years ahead of you. 

Eg, when you took Fauci's word about the pangolin, I didn't. I suspected the Chinese gov't right away. I just never suspected Fauci yet.

When you decided to call everyone a cultist for talking about the BSL4 lab, I had it pegged as about a 90-10 likelihood.

When you were sitting there on your log, believing that everyone had an equal chance of dying from covid, I was looking for statistics to find out who was really at risk from covid, and then more stats to back that info up. FYI I knew that it was only a real threat to the elderly and people with serous underlying health issues back in Feb 2020, that's why I knew my family didn't need jabs long before they came out.

When you were calling Trudeau a hero for keeping our airports open for people from China, and calling Trump a racist for blocking non-Americans from coming in from there, I was correctly labelling you as an idjit. Then you thought it was a great Idea when Trudeau blocked flights from India during the delta wave 😂.

When you were saying that banning flights from China would never help, I knew that the truly dangerous advice was stuff like "ride the subway like normal and keep eating in restaurants like normal" (DeBlasio, two weeks after the airport ban), and "come to Chinatown for an indoor hugathon" (Pelosi, last March) was the truly awful advice. Now that you think back on it, can you admit that DeBalsio and Pelosi gave the worst advice possible? I was appalled by that stuff, you saw "leadership". 

When you were changing your mind about masks every week, I knew that masks, if used properly, would help. When you were calling Trudeau a hero for giving all of our PPE to China "because we didn't need them" I knew that was stupid.

I knew that the jabs weren't necessary for young people, no doubt you jabbed everyone in your family. 

I knew the jabs had no chance of "preventing you from getting covid or from giving it to granny" because I already knew Fauci and his vax-pimps were liars by then, but you were sucked right in, and went along with vax-fascism, based on that ridiculous statement. If you're being honest, you probably still trust Fauci and you still think the jabs work perfectly.

When covid deaths were way up in 2022, all of you idjits thought that it was over. No amount of charts and stats could convince eyeball that deaths were "the same or higher" and that even a single vaxed person had died of covid. Left4rds here were adamant that there was just "a pandemic of the unvaccinated" 😂

At the end of 2022, when The Star finally put out an article admitting that covid deaths were up that year, and that the vast majority of the dead were vaxed, they literally said that "the vaxed-deaths were mostly among the very elderly and people with serious underlying medical issues", as if that was somehow fking new, and limited to the vaxed. It was truly disgusting for them to throw that propaganda out there.

Beave, if you go back and really look through all the covid threads, you'll see that I was several steps ahead of you at every single stage of the game. The things that you're reluctantly admitting to now (or still denying) are things that I either predicted in advance or figured out several years earlier.

 

What good is "intelligence", Beave, if it 'abandons you' (let's face it, you don't really have it though lol) in a time of crisis for your family, and as a result you end up making all the wrong decisions? You were a covid DUMMY, Beave. Just a true covid10t, gobbling new propaganda out of Fauci's hand as fast as he could pull it outta his underwear. And as with everything else, you never tracked the constant, consistent failures of your info sources... You just believed the shiny new propaganda with all your heart every time, no matter how thoroughly their old propaganda was debunked.

What do you think that you were right about regarding covid, Beave? Can you just name one thing that you believed early on, that didn't just end up in the round file?

[Legato]

10 hours ago, BeaverFever said:

FTR I am a university- educated white collar professional and I guarantee that at the age of ten I was more intelligent than you ever were or will be  

 

Age and intelligence are only loosely related, so not a very intelligent comment.

[robosmith]

On 5/22/2026 at 9:20 PM, WestCanMan said:

FIFY

Sorry you don't get to "fix" direct quotes to make them INACCURATE. That is really stupid. 

Edited May 26 by robosmith

[Fluffypants]

18 hours ago, BeaverFever said:

Dude you’re a high school dropout in your 50s who works a low paying menial job in a remote ugly grubby little town. Gimme a break

FTR I am a university- educated white collar professional and I guarantee that at the age of ten I was more intelligent than you ever were or will be  

 

Interesting you don't say what kind of white collar professional you are. For all I know you work in a cubicle selling air purifiers to old ladies and got your degree in women's studies.

God you "educated liberals" think you are soooooo much better because you got a piece of paper in some liberal arts program that is little more than High School difficulty, that only exists to make sure you keep pumping money into the university after you wash out of the major you really wanted. 

Honestly good on you with not making up some nonsense about how rich you are and have some high end job and a model wife..

 

[BeaverFever]

On 5/26/2026 at 7:26 PM, Fluffypants said:

Interesting you don't say what kind of white collar professional you are. For all I know you work in a cubicle selling air purifiers to old ladies and got your degree in women's studies.

Well a quite few ladies from my younger day can confirm I am advanced in women’s studies but it’s not what I went to school for 😉

Science and Public Administration are what I went to university for and corporate HR is my current field of work  I am not “rich” but my wife and I both have nice salaries and a nice life together  

 

I don’t know that anyone considers door to door or telephone sales people white collar professionals (maybe in some cases)  

 

On 5/26/2026 at 7:26 PM, Fluffypants said:

God you "educated liberals" think you are soooooo much better because you got a piece of paper in some liberal arts program that is little more than High School difficulty, that only exists to make sure you keep pumping money into the university after you wash out of the major you really wanted. 

Honestly good on you with not making up some nonsense about how rich you are and have some high end job and a model wife..

University makes a difference it is not simply 4 more years of high school people who don’t go can’t understand. Especially if you move away to go to school it’s a whole new life outside of the bubble you grow up in and EVERYONE grows up in a bubble of one kind or another. Those “liberal arts” classes which are even required in science programs challenge you to honestly consider new ideas and points of view and engage in respectful debate.  Conservatives hate that. Clinging to one’s specific bubble is a key feature of conservatism, their bubble is what they are trying to “conserve”.  They don’t care to know WHY others disagree with them, they only “know” that those people are WRONG and must be stopped or at least kept in their place. Higher learning frowns on that mentality. 
 

This is the part where you point out all the intolerant radical liberals on campus. But for those who go that route that’s mostly just a phase some youths go through when first emerging from their bubble and seeing the world with open eyes, it’s this “my whole life has been a lie” kind of overreaction when they first realize their country is not the apple pie and honest politicians that they were taught as children. The vast majority drift back towards the mainstream middle as they get older especially when they get jobs and start making money and have bills to pay. Hence their “don’t trust anyone over 30” saying. 
 

As for the kinds of jobs it opens I have not yet seen an entry level white collar job where they say “I hope you kept your textbooks you’re going to need to  them”. Sure in things like accounting there are a lot of specific rules and concepts you need to just know on day 1 but in a lot of fields you just learn on the job as a young new employee. The bachelors degree just shows you can conduct yourself professionally, you can research topics and learn independently, problem solve, form sound arguments and conclusions based on all the relevant facts setting aside personal preferences and interests being able to articulate and defend your position. And most importantly that you can get along and cooperate collaborate with others even if you strongly disagree with or dislike them personally. In a lot of white caller professions there is a lot of discretionary effort and judgment required in day to day work you’re not paid by the hour or the piece you’re paid a salary and expected to make whatever effort is required for the duties to be fulfilled properly if not excellently and on time. University prepares you for that, at least moreso than many alternatives routes and employers don’t have the time or patience to screen applicants any other way.  This is why a lot of graduates don’t end up working in their field of study  I never studied HR in university I moved into an opportunity later,  offered by people who saw potential in me  

 

None of this is  to say that all university graduates possess the desired traits above, some make crappy employees for various personal reasons and there is no other way to really screen people at scale. 

There are downsides to “white collarization” of society as well : analysis paralysis, confusing planning things with producing things, “office phony” culture and isolation/alienation  etc  

 

Edited Saturday at 04:36 AM by BeaverFever

[gatomontes99]

On 5/23/2026 at 9:53 AM, BeaverFever said:

Meanwhile back in reality, here’s the bigger context: Trump is ruining the lives of every day people around the world by creating multiple crises that he personally profits immensely from   it all. And while he is enriching himself on obscene scale he admits that he doesn’t think about Americans finances,  or of anyone  

 

Donald Trump cashes in on power, and investors pay the price

Just before Donald Trump drops some bombshell news, a bunch of mysteriously well-timed bets are placed, paying off obscene amounts of money once the announcement lands. Suspicious trades have become a fixture of Mr. Trump’s major policy moves, whether they pertain to tariffs, the capture of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro or the war in Iran. It’s almost like someone knows exactly what Mr. Trump is going to say, and when. And now we have new details of Mr. Trump’s own investments. His accounts have executed thousands of stock trades this year alone, plenty of them coinciding with market-moving news initiated by Mr. Trump himself.
 

It’s obvious Mr. Trump is leveraging the presidency for immense financial gain. His first year back in office was the most profitable of his life, bestowing US$3-billion in wealth on the family fortune, according to Forbes. Mr. Trump’s self-enrichment campaign comes at a cost to us all. It rips off those on the other side of those trades. And it undermines the fairness of the public markets. This is bad for anyone with a vested interest in U.S. stocks, which includes pretty much every Canadian. Our major public pension plans alone hold at least $300-billion worth of American equities. There are workplace pensions on top of that. Mutual funds. And the ranks of everyday investors who have piled into U.S. index funds. The cost is not strictly an abstract one. A little more than a year ago, Mr. Trump stood in the Rose Garden and happily pummelled the world with absurd tariffs. In the stock market freakout that followed, defined benefit pension plans in Canada saw their $18.4-billion surplus virtually wiped out in just two days, according to Aon’s pension risk tracker. Their funded ratio dropped to its lowest since June, 2023.
 

A few days after that, some anonymous traders started betting heavily on U.S. stocks. For one fund that tracks the S&P 500 index, the number of contracts leapt to more than 10,000 a minute, up from the hundreds, according to a BBC report. 

 

….In March, more than US$800-million worth of oil futures changed hands just minutes before Mr. Trump announced on Truth Social that strikes on Iran’s infrastructure would be postponed, according to the Wall Street Journal. Same thing a couple weeks ago, as detailed by the influential market commentator The Kobeissi Letter. In the early hours of May 6, someone bet nearly US$1-billion on crude oil shorts, which pay off if the price of oil drops. About an hour later, Axios reported that a deal to end the war in Iran was in the works. Oil prices quickly dove by 12 per cent, and those shorts netted a cool US$125-million. There are also problems with the investments that we know for sure are on the President’s behalf. A U.S. government filing released last week detailed roughly 3,500 stock trades in Mr. Trump’s investment accounts since he returned to office. Some of those trades have their own red flags: A purchase of Nvidia Corp. shares, one week before the U.S. government cleared the company to sell some of its AI chips to China, for example. Mr. Trump’s accounts also loaded up on Palantir Technologies Inc. shares just before he promoted the company on social media.
 

…Meanwhile, the Trump family has gone on a business blitz around the world, parlaying the power of the presidency into lucrative deals with foreign governments – something Mr. Trump restrained in his first term. No more. “I found out that nobody cared, and I’m allowed to,” Mr. Trump told The New York Times in January. He’s right, presidents are exempted from federal financial conflicts-of-interest laws. He’ll walk away rich, and we’ll all be poorer for it.

 

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/inside-the-market/article-donald-trump-stock-insider-trading-bets/P

 

 

Correlation does not equal causation. Proximity does not equal guilt. 

If I say Beaver's bank got robbed and Beaver was there the day it happened, that creates the impression you robbed the bank. 

In this case, normal trading volume expressed in dollars, as if that volume is somehow abnormal, is a lie. Check it out yourself: https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/energy/crude-oil/light-sweet-crude.volume.html

$800 million is actually light volume. 

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14 hours ago, BeaverFever said:

Well a quite few ladies from my younger day can confirm I am advanced in women’s studies but it’s not what I went to school for 😉

Well, based on how you leftists define what a woman is, you were likely shacked up with some young ladyboy from Thailand. 

 

On 5/24/2026 at 6:41 PM, BeaverFever said:

Yeah I was looking for the “barrels of gasoline” that are somehow going to supply extra electricity to the grid during peak demand when all the generators are running at full capacity. No luck yet!

You can't even figure out something well-known and easily researchable that Natural Gas plants use underground storage...

Hell, even after it was shown to you, you had to lie and act like it was only some kind of fringe French thing!

LOL, what a pathetic, ignorant, lying, cowardly loser you are.