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Matthew Hooper's avatar

I’m taking the day off. Questions on the drink go here, I’ll get around to them eventually.

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JustDontSayDittos's avatar

Wednesday, hell. I'm making this now, except no Noccino.

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Matthew Hooper's avatar

Try maple syrup instead.

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JustDontSayDittos's avatar

OK, we did that. It was a little too sweet, but I'll try again with a little less of both sugar elements.

Cocktails are fun!

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JustDontSayDittos's avatar

I just remembered we're out! It's going on the list. Drink was pretty tasty with the double-amaretto substitution. It took some sips to get the bitters right - the bottle wouldn't produce "dashes" only "droplets". But I'm now going to explore this walnut bitters flavor some more.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Please collect your posts into a book on cocktails. i may be old fashioned, but I still love holding a book in my hands. These posts are memorable, Mr. Hooper!

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Matthew Hooper's avatar

If all goes according to plan, I hope to take the winter off from my second job and write the book.

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Georgiaburning's avatar

Nice recipe. The first cocktail I learned to make (at age seventeen) was the old fashioned that my grandma liked. My dad kept Seagrams VO around for her but that side of the family was not picky. I’ll try this when I get some Maker’s Mark.

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Mole Child of Cluelessness's avatar

There's no noccino available in Oregon but there is a nocello, would that work?

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Crystalclear12's avatar

You are working on an Orange Blight pop off drink, right?

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Dogfather's avatar

The opposite of orange is blue, so curacao on the rocks?

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Matthew Hooper's avatar

I don’t indulge in wishful drinking.

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JustDontSayDittos's avatar

Dude, I gotta make this. But today's a dry day. I will add walnut bitters to the shopping list. I need to see if we have amaretto already.

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Thatsit Fortheotherwon's avatar

But today's a dry day...

WTF is that?

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JustDontSayDittos's avatar

Moderation management, baby. Ain't gonna let this admin kill my liver.

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JustDontSayDittos's avatar

Wednesday, I drink!

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

Drink question: since I’m out of vermouth and every other mixer at the moment, what cocktail would you suggest for bourbon, rye, vodka, amaro cherries, and a jar of Kalamata olives? Surely there’s a Greek martini out there.

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AJ Milne's avatar

Someone actually made me a martini with kalamata olives once.

(... it was not good.)

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"M"'s avatar

I love both those things

but I do not believe they are to be combined

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Matthew Hooper's avatar

Pour 1/2 oz of the syrup from the amaro cherries into a mixer with 2 1/2 oz rye and 2 shakes bitters.

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JustDontSayDittos's avatar

I save the syrup from the Luxardo cherries for this exact thing.

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

that office of yours (or at least the ceiling) looks pretty darn cool

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Glad you're enjoying the new gig, mate!

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"M"'s avatar

Thank you Matthew for bringing us drinks even on your day off

All my friends in Kentucky are extra grateful

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penfield888's avatar

I am 🙂

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"M"'s avatar

LOL

I was just looking for you

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cvh's avatar

Those of us in Canada are boycotting all American booze, so which Canadian booze would you recommend to replace the bourbon?

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𝘋𝘏𝘚 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊-𝘜𝘈𝘚 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 8, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘋𝘏𝘚 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴, 𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦.

𝗗𝗛𝗦 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 $𝟭𝟬𝟬𝗠 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿-𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮

Our drones are OK, but those other drones?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/dhs_100m_anti_drone_tech/

To protect America from its own citizens? Sounds about reich ...

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𝗡𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗲𝗿, 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆’𝘀 𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗚𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱, 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿

Representative Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat who has been one of Congress’s leading liberal voices for three decades, will not seek re-election next year, heeding a call for generational change roiling his party.

The decision will mark the close of a 34-year congressional career that put Mr. Nadler at the center of major civil rights battles and three presidential impeachments. It will also almost certainly touch off a crowded primary fight over a rare open Democratic seat in the heart of Manhattan.

In a recent interview in his downtown Manhattan office, Mr. Nadler, 78, said he hesitated to step aside when he believes that President Trump is threatening the foundations of democracy. But he said he had been persuaded it was time for a changing of the guard...

Unfailingly voluble in his left-leaning views, Mr. Nadler will not quickly be replaced. The yeshiva-educated son of a chicken farmer, he fought his way into Manhattan politics with a group of Vietnam-era reformers known as the West Side Kids while still a student at Columbia University. He has played a role in many of the biggest political and cultural debates since, including recently endorsing Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City...

When he showed up at the House’s impeachment proceedings against Mr. Trump in 2021 carrying a grocery bag from Zabar’s, he went viral. Asked what was inside, he answered: “A babka and the Constitution, what else?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/nyregion/jerrold-nadler-congress-retires.html

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Hopefully making way for the new Democrats who aren't afraid of Orangini and actually have fucking spines.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Pretty sure Nadler already had a spine

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tehbaddr's avatar

Right? He's been a fighter, one of the HIGHLY CONFLICTED PARTISAN UNSELECT COMMITTEE!

Or at least was instrumental in the EMPEACHENING TOTALLY EXONERATED!!!111!1!

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

He does. I'm hoping he has someone in mind to replace him.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Knowing him he will be very hands off in the primary. That way no one can accuse him of selecting his successor or swaying the primary or anything.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

So fire all of NASA, and Elno's SpaceX runs everything with AI and twitter is the comms channel. What could go wrong?

𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝘅𝗲𝘀 𝗡𝗔𝗦𝗔 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆

Executive order adds space agency to National Security Exclusions, voiding collective bargaining rights for staff

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/01/nasa_unions_nixed/

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Fog of Jen's avatar

How. How can the white house just nix unions. Jesus fucking Christ

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Bobathonic's avatar

Everything is national security now.

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The Wanderer's avatar

With Ben Franklin's words ringing in my head.

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

Everything is also national insecurity now.

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

If Donnie's tariffs are illegal, the government will have to refund the money to the businesses who paid them. Wall Street being Wall Street, they've already bought and bundled "refund rights" for investors to buy and sell.

Paul Krugman, commenting on this, makes a hilarious observation:

"And who’s facilitating these bets that Trump’s whole tariff strategy will collapse? Cantor Fitzgerald, an investment bank run by the sons of Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-bonfire-of-trumps-vanities?publication_id=277517&post_id=172528758

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Better get ICE ICE Barbie to build a couple more concentration camps. The number of corrupt people in the Orangini administration is growing exponentially. This is just fucking nuts: selling a financial instrument that *bets* the government will eventually have to pay BACK all the tariffs that Orangini instituted. Talk about cynical greed.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Not only selling a financial instrument that bets the goverment will eventually have to pay back alll the tariffs, but to have the son of the fucker who is MAKING the tariffs sell said thing.

It's mind boggling. Christ on a cracker, a Democrat trying to pull something like this would have been screamed at by the press. A Republican and their call is "well, what are the Democrats doing about it"

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Sojourner Truth's avatar

Follow The Grifted Money

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Fog of Jen's avatar

It's so goddamn corrupt. How can even Wallstreet fall for this shit

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

Wall St. is just making money off of the situation; "investors" are the ones winning or losing their bets.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

oh you mean alll us peons who have "invested" our retirement savings into the stock market because "some people did really well?"

yeah.

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

Zohran Mamdani is the guest on the IHIP Podcast this morning.

Zohran Mamdani State of Mind

I've Had It (58:19) : https://youtu.be/PM88cTxx0hw

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wobbly's avatar

‘𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗔𝗺 𝗜 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹?’

Ashley Hamrick’s doctor was trying to get to the bottom of something: Why, exactly, did Ms. Hamrick want to get off birth control? “Are you feeling any side effects?”

No, that wasn’t it. Ms. Hamrick, who was 26 at the time, felt normal. No unusual weight gain, no mood swings. But a couple of questions had wormed their way into her mind and lodged themselves there: Who am I without birth control? Will I feel some sort of difference coming off it?

Ms. Hamrick had started taking birth control pills a decade earlier, when she was 15. Now, as she browsed her social media feeds, she kept stumbling on videos of women saying how much better they felt when they stopped taking the pills, content she wasn’t seeking out. The posts typically went like this: a glowing blonde in a workout top — the picture of health! — saying that she had stopped taking birth control pills and immediately felt more clarity of mind. Like an emotional fog had lifted, like she was a brand-new, much happier person.

Ms. Hamrick’s doctor was clear with her. If she wasn’t experiencing any side effects, there was no reason to stop taking birth control. Ms. Hamrick wasn’t so sure. The more videos about the pill she watched, the more skeptical she became, and the more she felt drawn toward experimenting. She was, after all, in a moment of change. She had moved, on a whim, from Indiana to Texas. Soon after settling near Houston she met a guy and they started dating, then looking at engagement rings.

Just over a year since Ms. Hamrick decided to stop taking the pills, she has figured out who she is without birth control: She is a mother. Her baby is four months old...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/style/birth-control-skepticism-wellness-tiktok.html

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Think we're gonna need at least two Piccards and a Riker face palming on this one

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

When I was a teenager, I had awful cramps the first few days of my period. Mama couldn't understand it, as she had never had that trouble, but Grandma had, and advised taking me to a doctor. Thank goodness for Grandma, Mama taking her advice, and an understanding doctor! He put me on birth control and no more cramps! I was much healthier and happier being on the pill. Same with some of my friends, who had the same problem, or had irregular periods or both.

Fuck the assholes pushing that shit.

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Bobathonic's avatar

So who's pushing those videos?

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wobbly's avatar

...Alex Clark, the popular Turning Point USA podcaster, has suggested that the way women are prescribed birth control is indirectly linked to “major fertility issues” (because of the underlying health issues it might mask), or that birth control can change who women are attracted to (“*whispers* the birth control pill can falsely make women feel bisexual,” Ms. Clark posted on X), which doctors say is untrue. In an appearance on Joe Rogan’s show, Calley Means, now an adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said that the medical industry views birth control as “recurring revenue”: “Oh interesting,” Mr. Means said with a conspiratorial lilt. “You can actually convince someone to take a pill for years, for almost most of their life.”...

Earlier this year, a study by public health researchers at La Trobe University found that among the top 100 TikTok videos about reproductive health, just 10 percent were from medical professionals, and about 50 percent of creators made comments rejecting hormonal contraception. The top 100 most popular posts on TikTok about birth control had amassed some five billion views...

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

Remember when the Internet was going to make all of human knowledge available to everybody?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

It has.

Not the internet's fault that it has also made all of human ignorance greed and stupidity also available

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Concentrated propaganda then

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Bobathonic's avatar

Come onnnnnnnn, giant meteorite!

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MRK's avatar

So, she didn't really think things through, did she?

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

She did, but she was influenced by bullshit as so many are.

You and I, we might listen to boring fucks like Liz Warren or that tossbadger Hawking, but some people listen to people in athletic tops who talks their language.

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MRK's avatar

I see that she was influenced by bullshit. Even still, if you want to experiment with not taking birth control, and aren't looking to have kids (and it sounds like she wasn't), there are steps she should have taken to help with that experiment.

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

We both know that and I ain't gonna speak for women.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

I will speak for one woman anyway. She was an idiot.

And very very actually fucked around and found out.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

The doctor could have given her different BC, that's for sure.

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MRK's avatar

I don't think that would have helped in this case. It doesn't sound like she had any trouble with her birth control until the wrong social media nonsense got in her head.

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wobbly's avatar

From the article:

...“I decided to cut it cold turkey,” Ms. Hamrick recalled, “Which I know they don’t always tell you to do.” Right away, she felt a burst of new energy. Her brain seemed less foggy. She didn’t start a new method of birth control. “We weren’t being the most safe on not having kids,” she said. “From time to time, we used condoms.” Four months later, she was pregnant...

Recently, Ms. Hamrick went back on birth control pills. “I don’t want to get pregnant again,” she told her doctor."

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

I never felt any different when I went off birth control. But that was in 1988, when my husband and I decided to try to have a baby, and there wasn't any nonsense about feeling better without birth control.

BTW, does she mention if the new energy and less fogginess lasted?

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wobbly's avatar

Probably went away when the baby arrived.

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

Well, stopping birth control by acting like it's an addictive drug is the most ridiculous thing I've heard since I don't remember when.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Well, I again dreamed I had a horse to ride to and from work. In my dreams I also work in the movie theater part time where I worked as a teen. The horse is awesome--brown with white socks and a saddle. I wish I had a horse in real life.

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The Estivating Hibernian's avatar

If wishes were ponies... Well, you're gonna need a shovel.

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Bobathonic's avatar

For some reason this reminds me of the great molasses flood.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

I will name my horse Molasses!

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Tecolote's avatar

And if I had a pony

I'd ride him on my boat

https://youtu.be/4evzpIVnMVs?list=RD4evzpIVnMVs&t=13

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Oh, great ... US consumer banking isn't bad enough already ...

𝘈𝘤𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘜𝘒 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦.

𝗨𝗞 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘀, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝘂𝗽 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝘆 𝗨𝗦 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗨𝗦 𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝟱𝟬 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 — Revolut and Starling among start-ups weighing acquisition of nationally chartered bank

https://archive.ph/urvwc [Financial Times]

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Are these the companies that like advertise debit cards but that aren't issued through banks? No FDIC for my $230!

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Morning, Diane!

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Good morning Diane.

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If this is your spokesdipshit, then ...

𝘐𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰, 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴.

“𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯, 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴. 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 + 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 + 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘍𝘐𝘙𝘚𝘛,” 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘑𝘳, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵’𝘴 𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘟.

𝗪𝗟𝗙𝗜, 𝗿𝘂𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆'𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹, 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝟮𝟱% 𝘁𝗼 ~$𝟬.𝟮𝟭 𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝗮 ~$𝟲𝗕 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗽; 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽'𝘀 𝗪𝗟𝗙𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 ~$𝟯.𝟲𝗕 — WLFI tokens in circulation have a total nominal value of $6.4bn — The crypto token of a project backed by US President Donald Trump fell 16 per cent to about $0.23

https://archive.ph/1Br34 [Financial TImes]

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Fog of Jen's avatar

"worth"

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Stulexington's avatar

Trump put his name on something that's losing money? This is un presidented.

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

It's made billions for his vile foetid spawn and himself, but it's fucked everyone else.

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

WLFI is a multilayer scam predicated on PAB becoming Prez.

First launch it as a non-tradable token in the US where anyone else can buy it.

That's the genesis stage and used for bribery from other countries and to a lesser extent from US entities.

Then PAB is prez, and float on NASDAQ and now those magical beans are tradable as if they were real securities.

Who holds a quarter of all extant "securities"?

Not that this shit is backed by anything.

"𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 + 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 + 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘍𝘐𝘙𝘚𝘛,” = gigantic scam

They made five billion dollars with this float. Fucking crime family.

IT IS NOT WORTH ANYTHING! IT SHOULD HAVE NEVER FLOATED ON NASDAQ! IT IS AN EGREGIOUS VIOLATION OF THE EMOLUMENTS CLAUSE!

https://makeagif.com/gif/snl-aint-nothing-gonna-happen-ITeOSi

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Whale Chowder's avatar

Sez who? Is it illegal if no one will prosecute you for it?

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MRK's avatar

If you didn't already know crypto was a scam, the enthusiasm the Trumps have for it should clue you in.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Really ... if that isn't the BIGGEST red flag

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aktlib101's avatar

Dum-Dum threatened the country with an announcement today, and, apparently. Netcitizens are concerned:

"'Is he resigning?' Trump’s Oval Office announcement plans fuel wild rumors"

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-announcement-2673946258/

Or, maybe he IS dead, already?

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Tecolote's avatar

Is he dead, or is he just camera-shy?

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Khavrinen's avatar

I don't know, some of that "art" looks suspiciously non-white...

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Goonemeritus's avatar

I'm boycotting Kentucky Bourbon because fuck Kentucky.

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Whale Chowder's avatar

There's lots of good whiskey in the world. I'm not buying American for the foreseeable future.

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

You and most of the rest of the world.

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Goonemeritus's avatar

To be fair I don't think Kentucky has noticed.

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

I expected them to all go bankrupt when I quit drinking, but somehow they keep plodding along.

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

They fucking will.

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