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Another Moment of " Duh!"
By Blackvegetable
5 Dec 2025 10:18 am in No Holds Barred Political Forum
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5 Dec 2025 10:18 am
Fareed should be fed to the dogs as far as I’m concerned, but he's starting to smell the smoke...
Populists are replacing meritocracy with something far worse
Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy.
One number surely says it all. Reuters calculates that the Trump Organization’s income for the first half of 2024 was about $51 million — and about $864 million in the first half of 2025. That is a leap of roughly 1,600 percent. To give you a rough sense of how steep that rise is, Nvidia’s net income rose about 44 percent in that time frame. Take one almost parodic example of plutocratic politics: the planned $300 million White House ballroom, funded by private donors — many of whose fortunes depend on federal contracts, regulatory decisions, antitrust enforcement, tariffs and export licenses.
Trump says this is a great idea because it comes “with zero cost to the American Taxpayer.” But history tells us that when government asks Big Business for favors, in return it dispenses special treatment, tax breaks and regulatory advantages to its favorites — and taxpayers are the ones who foot the bill. Taxpayer funding of the ballroom would be cheap by comparison.
Everything Grafty has done has been with the intent to consolidate discretionary power...the tariff program is terrible math hitched to an extortion racket..."woke" and "dei" are just witchsmelling for the purpose of replacing expertise with servility.
And the results are telling.
Populists are replacing meritocracy with something far worse
Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy.
One number surely says it all. Reuters calculates that the Trump Organization’s income for the first half of 2024 was about $51 million — and about $864 million in the first half of 2025. That is a leap of roughly 1,600 percent. To give you a rough sense of how steep that rise is, Nvidia’s net income rose about 44 percent in that time frame. Take one almost parodic example of plutocratic politics: the planned $300 million White House ballroom, funded by private donors — many of whose fortunes depend on federal contracts, regulatory decisions, antitrust enforcement, tariffs and export licenses.
Trump says this is a great idea because it comes “with zero cost to the American Taxpayer.” But history tells us that when government asks Big Business for favors, in return it dispenses special treatment, tax breaks and regulatory advantages to its favorites — and taxpayers are the ones who foot the bill. Taxpayer funding of the ballroom would be cheap by comparison.
Everything Grafty has done has been with the intent to consolidate discretionary power...the tariff program is terrible math hitched to an extortion racket..."woke" and "dei" are just witchsmelling for the purpose of replacing expertise with servility.
And the results are telling.
5 Dec 2025 4:19 pm
Show everyone the benefits received...oh wait...telling...Blackvegetable » 05 Dec 2025, 11:18 am » wrote: ↑ Fareed should be fed to the dogs as far as I’m concerned, but he's starting to smell the smoke...
Populists are replacing meritocracy with something far worse
Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy.
One number surely says it all. Reuters calculates that the Trump Organization’s income for the first half of 2024 was about $51 million — and about $864 million in the first half of 2025. That is a leap of roughly 1,600 percent. To give you a rough sense of how steep that rise is, Nvidia’s net income rose about 44 percent in that time frame. Take one almost parodic example of plutocratic politics: the planned $300 million White House ballroom, funded by private donors — many of whose fortunes depend on federal contracts, regulatory decisions, antitrust enforcement, tariffs and export licenses.
Trump says this is a great idea because it comes “with zero cost to the American Taxpayer.” But history tells us that when government asks Big Business for favors, in return it dispenses special treatment, tax breaks and regulatory advantages to its favorites — and taxpayers are the ones who foot the bill. Taxpayer funding of the ballroom would be cheap by comparison.
Everything Grafty has done has been with the intent to consolidate discretionary power...the tariff program is terrible math hitched to an extortion racket..."woke" and "dei" are just witchsmelling for the purpose of replacing expertise with servility.
And the results are telling.
JuCo 5 percenter...72
“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime” ~ LAVRENTIY BERIA
"Try to get past your passionate ignorance and learn to accept what actually happened." ~ brown's unheeded words of wisdom 
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?
"Libruls are often fascists on vacation..."
5 Dec 2025 5:19 pm
Benefits received from what?
5 Dec 2025 5:36 pm
**** you ya *** piece of ****!Blackvegetable » 05 Dec 2025, 11:18 am » wrote: ↑ Fareed should be fed to the dogs as far as I’m concerned, but he's starting to smell the smoke...
Populists are replacing meritocracy with something far worse
Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy.
One number surely says it all. Reuters calculates that the Trump Organization’s income for the first half of 2024 was about $51 million — and about $864 million in the first half of 2025. That is a leap of roughly 1,600 percent. To give you a rough sense of how steep that rise is, Nvidia’s net income rose about 44 percent in that time frame. Take one almost parodic example of plutocratic politics: the planned $300 million White House ballroom, funded by private donors — many of whose fortunes depend on federal contracts, regulatory decisions, antitrust enforcement, tariffs and export licenses.
Trump says this is a great idea because it comes “with zero cost to the American Taxpayer.” But history tells us that when government asks Big Business for favors, in return it dispenses special treatment, tax breaks and regulatory advantages to its favorites — and taxpayers are the ones who foot the bill. Taxpayer funding of the ballroom would be cheap by comparison.
Everything Grafty has done has been with the intent to consolidate discretionary power...the tariff program is terrible math hitched to an extortion racket..."woke" and "dei" are just witchsmelling for the purpose of replacing expertise with servility.
And the results are telling.
5 Dec 2025 6:11 pm
Blackvegetable » 05 Dec 2025, 11:18 am » wrote: ↑ Fareed should be fed to the dogs as far as I’m concerned, but he's starting to smell the smoke...
Populists are replacing meritocracy with something far worse
Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy.
One number surely says it all. Reuters calculates that the Trump Organization’s income for the first half of 2024 was about $51 million — and about $864 million in the first half of 2025. That is a leap of roughly 1,600 percent. To give you a rough sense of how steep that rise is, Nvidia’s net income rose about 44 percent in that time frame. Take one almost parodic example of plutocratic politics: the planned $300 million White House ballroom, funded by private donors — many of whose fortunes depend on federal contracts, regulatory decisions, antitrust enforcement, tariffs and export licenses.
Trump says this is a great idea because it comes “with zero cost to the American Taxpayer.” But history tells us that when government asks Big Business for favors, in return it dispenses special treatment, tax breaks and regulatory advantages to its favorites — and taxpayers are the ones who foot the bill. Taxpayer funding of the ballroom would be cheap by comparison.
Everything Grafty has done has been with the intent to consolidate discretionary power...the tariff program is terrible math hitched to an extortion racket..."woke" and "dei" are just witchsmelling for the purpose of replacing expertise with servility.
And the results are telling.
5 Dec 2025 6:50 pm
Your absence would do.
5 Dec 2025 7:00 pm
Which scenario is an example of survivorship bias in evaluating business success?Blackvegetable » 05 Dec 2025, 11:18 am » wrote: ↑ Fareed should be fed to the dogs as far as I’m concerned, but he's starting to smell the smoke...
Populists are replacing meritocracy with something far worse
Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy.
One number surely says it all. Reuters calculates that the Trump Organization’s income for the first half of 2024 was about $51 million — and about $864 million in the first half of 2025. That is a leap of roughly 1,600 percent. To give you a rough sense of how steep that rise is, Nvidia’s net income rose about 44 percent in that time frame. Take one almost parodic example of plutocratic politics: the planned $300 million White House ballroom, funded by private donors — many of whose fortunes depend on federal contracts, regulatory decisions, antitrust enforcement, tariffs and export licenses.
Trump says this is a great idea because it comes “with zero cost to the American Taxpayer.” But history tells us that when government asks Big Business for favors, in return it dispenses special treatment, tax breaks and regulatory advantages to its favorites — and taxpayers are the ones who foot the bill. Taxpayer funding of the ballroom would be cheap by comparison.
Everything Grafty has done has been with the intent to consolidate discretionary power...the tariff program is terrible math hitched to an extortion racket..."woke" and "dei" are just witchsmelling for the purpose of replacing expertise with servility.
And the results are telling.
A) Believing that reading business books increases revenue after finding many CEOs recommend them.
B) Concluding that most startups fail after analyzing bankrupt companies.
C) Thinking entrepreneurship is easy because most media profiles focus on successful founders.
D) Surveying customers to understand why they chose your product over competitors
Predictions:
Deal:Let me prove how predictable you narcissists are. Watch this:
1. Phase 1: You will say that you answered it.
Phase 2: I will remind you of :"are these your words?" from yesterday and if "will" is future tense.
Phase 3: You will deny that I showed you, because of your meltdown with my link provided...and then you will say "I didn't ask for a link."
Repeat
2. Your next move will be to claim that you answered it by giving your definition, to which I replied that isn't the question...etc...etc...blah...blah...blah..
3. You will also say that you answered through your non-answers.
Moron.
Deal: If Veghead can prove that he answered the survivorship multiple choice question, as the question is written and asked, along with his defense of his answer, then I will agree to never come back for as long as I live. If he cannot, then he is out of here for a month. Additionally, his defense cannot be "Because it fits my definition." That is a claim, not a defense. He is to defend why.
Exception: I will allow for an exception. If he loses, then I will allow him to stay if he answers it the way it is asked, along with his defense. However, he must do it immediately after the deal has been decided. Not 100 posts later. The very next post of his must be his answer/defense.
Blackvegatble's hypcorisy summed up in one post:
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Blackvegetable » 7 minutes ago » wrote: ↑7 minutes ago
Very simple questions...
From which you are running...
Blackvegetable » 7 minutes ago » wrote: ↑7 minutes ago
Very simple questions...
From which you are running...
5 Dec 2025 7:55 pm
From butt **** you in the mouth.
6 Dec 2025 9:15 am
White House ballroom, funded by private donors — many of whose fortunes depend on federal contracts, regulatory decisions, antitrust enforcement, tariffs and export licenses.
where's the data to back up what looks to be a specious claim...
JuCo 5 percenter...72
“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime” ~ LAVRENTIY BERIA
"Try to get past your passionate ignorance and learn to accept what actually happened." ~ brown's unheeded words of wisdom
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?
"Libruls are often fascists on vacation..."
6 Dec 2025 9:51 am
That's your answer?ROG62 » 06 Dec 2025, 10:15 am » wrote: ↑ White House ballroom, funded by private donors — many of whose fortunes depend on federal contracts, regulatory decisions, antitrust enforcement, tariffs and export licenses.
where's the data to back up what looks to be a specious claim...
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