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Accept contract to smuggle 620 units of drugs.

Complete contract, get paid 105,000 credits.

Buy 620 recently smuggled drugs for 95,000 credits.

Take 620 drugs elsewhere, sell them for 370,000 credits.

They’re not getting Abrams for a long, long time. They take a great deal of training - which probably isn’t going to be given in Ukraine - and they take a lot to maintain, and I think they wouldn’t be given from the present US stock but procured through private contractors (at least according to a BBC article I read).

I think the US said they’d give the Abrams so Germany would consent to the Leopards.

What metaphor, Hector13? I'm not hectoring Pelosi because she is a liberal, but because by several accounts, she is a most, um, accomplished of traders. It's not illegal though because Congress exempted themselves from insider trading laws. It's still insider trading by the definition, just that they can't be charged with it. I don't know why you are so hyped about talking about something that probably every Congresscritter is doing and that's not even illegal.

But I'd be willing to make you a bet. I'll bet Paul Pelosi cannot keep up his 150% annual ROI going after his wife no longer has access to all that inside information she gets as a member of Congress. How sure are you his VC background is sufficient explanation? What stakes shall we set?

Source on the 150% ROI?

Pelosi may be immune from prosecution for insider trading, but I very much doubt that would extend to husband Pelosi. Why hasn’t he been investigated and prosecuted for insider trading? Just because he’s not the one with access to the information, using non-public information to benefit from buying or selling stocks is illegal.

Quote from: hector13 on January 25, 2023, 06:45:13 pm

Equally so, your parroting of conservative talking head lines that the FBI is targeting conservatives while protecting liberals does throw your claim of being impartial onto shaky ground a little bit. If that is indeed the case, how are the Republicans still able to win elections when they have a federal agency trying to thwart them at every turn, and boosting their opponents?

Are you saying the FBI also bugged candidate Biden and President Biden? Did they hide Eric Trump's laptop? Is there anything remotely close? Did Hillary's server get a middle of the night raid? Remember, she didn't even have the fig leaf of having authority to declassify. Was there similar vitriol for her when her tech team destroyed the hard drives, first with BleachBit, then with hammers? How about an example or two?

If Biden associated with criminals being tracked by the FBI I imagine they’d do that to him too. If Trump didn’t associate with criminals being tracked by the FBI, he wouldn’t end up on FBI recordings

They didn’t hide the laptop. The laptop had 130,000 emails on it, and the NYP broke the story with… two emails I think it was? Do you think the FBI has the resources to go through 130,000 emails in 20 minutes?

Why would they smash the drives to bits after having used BleachBit? Why would they use BB if they intended to smash the drives to bits anyway?

Equally so, why would they use BB in the first place, a free to use program described by Jonathan Zdzairski as amateur?

Like… I’m one that believes conspiracies are undone by the incompetence of the participants, but really? A free to download program to try to hide… whatever it is she’s supposed to have done? Breaching national security or whatever.

Remember how she was investigated for it though? Twice!

Again, though, do you have anything more interesting to rail against? These are all re-hashed conservative conspiratorial codswallop. I want some Q-Anon level of nonsense, like a cabal of pedophile Satan-worshippers in pizzerias running the country or something. You can do it.

I didn’t notice the links tbf.

Notably only presented after being challenged over presenting arch-Lib Pelosi as the poster child of the phenomena, but whatevs, sure, I’m the one arguing in bad faith here.

If you have evidence they outperform the best managed funds I’d be interested to see that.

Equally so, Pelosi isn’t making those transactions, her investor husband is. He founded a venture capital company in the early ‘70s - over a decade before Nancy was elected to congress, I might add - and I would postulate that having done it for almost half a century, he’d be quite good at it.

Contrast this with the investigations into four senators, 3 Republicans and a Democrat, over allegations of insider trading regarding trades they made following coronavirus briefings in 2020.

Like I say, your biases are plain to see but just really boring.

You’re so boring with the biases man.

At least come up with something interesting, like she was attempting to corner the pizza ingredient market because her alien overlords like a decent bake and a ridiculous profit.

Hey conservatives are alright, we have some right-minded (no pun intended) folks around here with some conservative ideals, but when they start verging into the conspiratorial nonsense is when there’s an issue.

It is sad given the displayed intelligence, but confirmation bias affects us all, so it’s not all that surprising either.

… is your line of thinking here that because Zelensky is Jewish he hates Russia(ns?), and that as a consequence of that he’s killing his own people to make Russia(ns?) look bad?

‘cause I’m not really sure what the relevance is to Russia’s current invasion of Ukraine of your “research” of geopolitics from hundreds of years ago.

It’s sad to see someone who appears to be so intelligent be unable to look beyond their own biases, engaging in whataboutism regarding Russias current actions, and blaming Ukraine for what amounts to a Ukrainian genocide by the Russian state.

I suppose Ukraine is engaging in missile strikes on its own civilian infrastructure to make NATO sad enough to give them more and better materiel in order to… I dunno, become a military superpower in the region? Kill more Russians? I don’t drink the Kool Aid, so I can’t think of a reasonable conclusion for such a ridiculous base.