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TingTime

@ekting.bsky.social

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40 year of IT drudgery, now retired to the beach. Garden, play tennis, SCUBA, travel, and becoming an historian of Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in China.

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TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 8h

Melania has been to the White House this term? I doubt it.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 8h

That’s just so they won’t also be accused of sexism.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah - now that the administration has eliminated race as an admission consideration, schools like Harvard and Berkeley will eliminate their cap on Asians. The only “real” Americans that will help are the legacies.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 16h

“By sheer coincidence”?

Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 16h

A very frightening reality coming to life. There is a bunker under the ballroom. Hitler history is repeating itself. With Trump sycophants now controlling the FBI, DOJ, Defense, and Supreme Court, future elections are at risk.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 16h

I’m sure we taxpayers paid for the salaries, travel, food and lodging for these non qualified hires. Is there any competent “administrator” in this administration? Any junior HR professional could have done better.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 17h

Speaks for itself.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

This is the Canada ad Trump lost his mind over. Shocker, he’s lying—it is Reagan’s real voice.

He’s now cutting off trade with Canada because he’s scared it could mess with the Supreme Court case over his “reciprocal” tariffs.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 1d

Of course they have.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks.

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Johnson has not heard anything about the entire East Wing being demolished and cannot speak to that.

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TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 2d

Why is ICE training still happening. If it is at the Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Brunswick, shouldn’t it be closed for the shutdown?

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TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 3d

I will never feel confident about my “fellow Americans” again.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 4d

The $$ is supposedly coming from “donations”. No records, no accountability, pay for play and grifting.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 4d

More surreal that our fellow citizens voted for him and still believe he is a great man.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 4d

China bought Argentine soybeans. The US is bailing out US soybean growers for $20 Bil and bailing out Argentina’s economy for $20 Bil because our dictator likes their dictator. This is not “winning” for US taxpayers.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 5d

what a mean spirited, small lackey.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you for what you are doing.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you Madrid.

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 6d

Madrid Spain: No Tyrants - #NoKings - a very large number of protesters answered the call and came in mass in the city center! Vamos!

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Shaun Pinner @olddogua.bsky.social · 8d

Trump told Europe not to buy Russian oil, now he’s championing a meeting in the one EU country still buying it. Hungary.

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NOTUS @notus.com · 8d

Politicians whose campaigns still owe large sums, according to October FEC filings:
- Newt Gingrich: $4.6 million
- Al Sharpton: $925,000
- Rick Santorum: $983,000
- Mehmet Oz: $25.5 million
- Mike Pence: $127,000

via @davelevinthal.com & @taylorgiorno.bsky.social
www.notus.org/money/politi...

Deadbeat Political Campaigns Still Owe Creditors Millions

Old campaigns of also-ran politicians remain hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in debt. Will they ever pay?

www.notus.org

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 9d

…So this Venezuela thing is just Argentina pt 2 — aka debt vulture billionaires using US taxpayer money to convert Latin debt?

Suddenly reminded of the 1930s when the State Dept/Treasury was fine with the Nazis as long as they thought Germany would make good on its huge debts

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Venezuela's dollar bonds have surged more than 50 per cent in price this year as investors bet that pressure on Nicolás Maduro's government from the Trump administration has increased the likelihood of Caracas one day regaining access to global markets.
The South American country defaulted in 2017 and has been barred from restructuring its debts by US and international sanctions.
However, the bonds still trade, in effect allowing investors to buy and sell claims on an eventual debt workout.
Prices have rallied this month to about 25 cents on the dollar, their highest level in more than half a decade, up from 16 cents at the start of the year as Maduro's grip on power has appeared to weaken.
Venezuelan debt is "pricing a higher optionality that 'something' could happen in Caracas", one bondholder said, referring to the possibility of Maduro being forced out.

"Venezuela has gone from deep freeze, to people asking why it keeps going up and being forced to get involved," said Edward Cowen, chief executive of Winterbrook Capital, a London-based specialist asset manager that advises and manages more than $130mn in Venezuelan assets.
Venezuela's enormous potential for increased oil production — it has the world's largest proven reserves - is one reason investors believe that eventual recovery on the bonds will be much higher than current prices, even though oil output is in a parlous state because of sanctions, mismanagement and decay.
Distressed debts of Petróleos de Venezuela, the state-owned oil company, have joined the rally, with a bond due in 2035, for example, rising from 11 to about 19 cents on the dollar.
Prices for the bonds "could climb further as the Trump administration continues to ratchet up pressure toward an outcome that remains auite deliberatelv — undefined". said Daniel

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TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 8d

no that Trump feels he has his Nobel because of Israel, he’ll let Ukraine dangle.

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TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 12d

per Wikipedia “The largest U.S. military installation in the Middle East is Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, which serves as the forward headquarters for the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and houses approximately 10,000 troops” so why not train there?

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 12d

Trump has made it obvious in many ways that he has no interest in the security of America or Americans.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 12d

Everyone on a ship had roles & training for combat. But mess attendants were not “shoulder to shoulder with trained gunners. Unlike Dorrie Miller’s response at Pearl Harbor, most did not overstep. For a story of “shoulder to shoulder” in the integrated navy, read about the USS Kittyhawk.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 12d

Trump wrote off Ukraine in 2016. The GOP had support of Ukraine in their platform. Manafort/Trump made them take it out. While Manafort was an agent of the opposition government.