Nancy Pelosi

[sctrojan]

If they really had some balls they'd visit Ukraine.

Take a couple of selfies with Zelensky holding AR's, while standing in front of a drone.

Nancy Pelosi did go to Ukraine.

Mitch and Kev haven't yet because they came out in support of Russia and even if they went Zelinsky would send the local dog catcher to greet them at Kiev train station

[FuqMizzou]

If they really had some balls they'd visit Ukraine.

Take a couple of selfies with Zelensky holding AR's, while standing in front of a drone.

[BChris]

Well… another, bipartisan congressional committee is now visiting Taiwan. What nefarious scheme is behind this round?

Pelosi's husband put them up to it.

[Deschet]

Well… another, bipartisan congressional committee is now visiting Taiwan. What nefarious scheme is behind this round?

[sctrojan]

I was saving that for the political corruption in the Big Pharma thread. Would this also be a good place to bring up the Clinton's Haitian aid corruption?

Maybe John McCain's connection with the building and loan fiasco?

Or the Enron debacle?

the list is never ending.

What was Clinton's Haitian aid scam?

[DPR]

Modern capitalism as far as I can tell seems to be about accumulating as many wins and losses as you can in hopes that the former offsets the latter. As long as a corporation has enough cash flow, it can stay afloat almost indefinitely, even if their entire business model is broken.

Yes, which is why the criticism of the DoE loan program from supposed free-market capitalists is so fucking stupid.

If that DoE loan program was done by a bank, that bank executive would be on the cover of Forbes billed as a business genius.

[Spartan]

Modern capitalism as far as I can tell seems to be about accumulating as many wins and losses as you can in hopes that the former offsets the latter. As long as a corporation has enough cash flow, it can stay afloat almost indefinitely, even if their entire business model is broken.

Modern capitalism is about socializing losses and privatizing gains.

[tOSUfanboi2]

The loan program that lost money on Solyndra ended up being profitable in the end because all of the other loans were repaid with interest.

Big Brain daCat is like a bank boss who fires a loan officer who is making the bank a lot of money because one of the hundreds of loans he wrote defaulted while all of the others were profitable. In daCat's mind, capitalism means that you never take on a loss.

Modern capitalism as far as I can tell seems to be about accumulating as many wins and losses as you can in hopes that the former offsets the latter. As long as a corporation has enough cash flow, it can stay afloat almost indefinitely, even if their entire business model is broken.

[DPR]

I have no idea what prompted this bullshit.

I have nothing for China but a giant raspberry.

And as far as more government corporate welfare to chip companies. I'm sure a name change is in order for Solyndra.

The loan program that lost money on Solyndra ended up being profitable in the end because all of the other loans were repaid with interest.

Big Brain daCat is like a bank boss who fires a loan officer who is making the bank a lot of money because one of the hundreds of loans he wrote defaulted while all of the others were profitable. In daCat's mind, capitalism means that you never take on a loss.

[sctrojan]

I was saving that for the political corruption in the Big Pharma thread. Would this also be a good place to bring up the Clinton's Haitian aid corruption?

Maybe John McCain's connection with the building and loan fiasco?

Or the Enron debacle?

the list is never ending.

You're not fooling anybody about not being in the tank for repubs.

[daCat]

Yep right on cue DaCat trotts out Solyndra but completely forgets about Kodak that got 765million to make drugs under Trump admin
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...-to-make-drugs

I was saving that for the political corruption in the Big Pharma thread. Would this also be a good place to bring up the Clinton's Haitian aid corruption?

Maybe John McCain's connection with the building and loan fiasco?

Or the Enron debacle?

the list is never ending.

[sctrojan]

I have no idea what prompted this bullshit.

I have nothing for China but a giant raspberry.

And as far as more government corporate welfare to chip companies. I'm sure a name change is in order for Solyndra.

Yep right on cue DaCat trotts out Solyndra but completely forgets about Kodak that got 765million to make drugs under Trump admin
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...-to-make-drugs

[daCat]

LOL at daCat siding with China just because a Democrat stood up for Taiwan. I mean, it was expected, but still LOL.

Trump - gets tons of patents and trademarks approved for Ivanka's clothing line, starts coddling China and helping them muddy the message on their concentration camps while foolishly trying to get a favorable trade deal done when he had zero leverage.

Biden - helps pass CHIPS to restart US microchip manufacturing after a shortage from China denied DPR a PS5 for 2 years and gives those commies the finger re: Taiwan.

daCat - Biden is compromised by China, unlike Trump.

I have no idea what prompted this bullshit.

I have nothing for China but a giant raspberry.

And as far as more government corporate welfare to chip companies. I'm sure a name change is in order for Solyndra.

[daCat]

Hard disagree. We need to take the same posture towards China that we had towards the USSR. Choke them out and make that shitty government collapse. Maybe then the Chinese people will actually have a chance in this world beyond inhaling smog 24/7.

Disagree with what? I'm merely pointing out that her visit didn't help Taiwan. Like,,, at all. That has nothing to do with what WE as a country should be doing.

[Deschet]

And good for him. I knew Intel has big plans in central Ohio for a chip factory, I just hope they all pull out of that shit hole so we can move beyond their bullshit and let them rot.

Apple has big plans in Southern California.