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Lutnick sounds exactly like a 2-faced bastard that I hate dealing with. "Friendly and constructive" when meeting with Ford, but dissing Ford on Fox News as someone trying to act like the big man, and that he got put back into place by Trump. At the end of the day, he is just another yes man follow whatever orders his ridiculous boss has given him. I have zero respect for this kind of scumballs.
At the end of the day, I am pretty disappointed with Ford too as he seems to have over-estimated the amount of bargaining power he had, and overplayed his hand as a result.
Love how everyone on Reddit is calling him "Nutlick"
The guy was the head of Cantor Fitzgerald too, the firm that was almost entirely obliterated at the WTC on 9/11. You'd think he'd have some perspective in life and humility. Instead he hands over the company over to his son before joining Trump as Nutlicker-in-Chief.
In almost every video Trump posts from his office at the WH that clownshoe is standing behind him to the right and laughing at every stupid “joke” Trump says… guys an absolute weasel
Lutnick sounds exactly like a 2-faced bastard that I hate dealing with. "Friendly and constructive" when meeting with Ford, but dissing Ford on Fox News as someone trying to act like the big man, and that he got put back into place by Trump. At the end of the day, he is just another yes man follow whatever orders his ridiculous boss has given him. I have zero respect for this kind of scumballs.
At the end of the day, I am pretty disappointed with Ford too as he seems to have over-estimated the amount of bargaining power he had, and overplayed his hand as a result.
He's the same guy you've seen lately always standing or sitting beside Trump clapping and grinning like a monkey on every word he says, it's gross to watch.
In almost every video Trump posts from his office at the WH that clownshoe is standing behind him to the right and laughing at every stupid “joke” Trump says… guys an absolute weasel
Jesus are we connected to the same hive mind? You posted the same thing as I was typing that
Pull the trigger all you want, it would be like bouncing a rubber ball against a tank.
For someone with a grade 9 education, whose own mother unalived herself when he was 19, to a father who was never there, to being in the adult industry for 15+ years, to getting a coke habit from nihilism, then to have gone through so much personal growth to write my first book to show others the pain we are collectively suffering through, then having my child, quitting porn and throwing myself into the service of others, just to be dumped on my ass for refusing an American vaccine, for an American-made illness, for American profits, and then being punished so hard that I've had to reboot my life for a 2nd or 3rd, fuck, I don't even know now, time, all while maintaining and even honing my creative edge this entire battle... like buddy, whatever words you can string together with your plebian tongue, please, do your worst.
I'm carved from stone at this point, and I will continue to finish more books and my online business willl rise again out of the ashes of the last 4-5 years. Whatever you say will only make me stronger.
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I for one honestly hope you succeed and then some. I mean that.
Just wish you were less of a dink trying to force beliefs on people, your posts don’t come off as hypothetical or discussionary, they come off as pushing your version of the world onto… “plebs” as you so not insultingly (?) put it.
I for one honestly hope you succeed and then some. I mean that.
Just wish you were less of a dink trying to force beliefs on people, your posts don’t come off as hypothetical or discussionary, they come off as pushing your version of the world onto… “plebs” as you so not insultingly (?) put it.
You'd understand if you made 10k a month for 15 years working maybe a couple hours a day. Nothing could have prepared me for that kind of freedom having come from being a homeless, couch-surfing, dropout, unloved teenager.
When I went back into the 9-5 world and had to live like a commoner again, I truly discovered how much of a grind life is for the majority of the population. Watching dudes(and women) bust their asses for next to nothing, treated like garbage, and then people with seniority get fired just to hire back other people for $10 an hour less than them. Just the tip of the iceberg of what I witnessed back in the "real world", fucking incredible.
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The Liberal government is immediately ending the consumer carbon price and made the change official during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first cabinet meeting this afternoon.
Carney says people who have been getting a rebate on the carbon price will get one final payment for the next quarter in April.
He signed an order-in-council to make the change official while cameras were in the cabinet room.
Carney pledged to end the consumer price during the Liberal leadership race and said he would bolster the industrial price paid by big polluters.
just to be dumped on my ass for refusing an American vaccine
I might regret this, but... this doesn't make sense. There are vaccines from Europe as well. And even if you just say you don't like the new mRNA type (I get it, new tech is scary) you could have just had the more traditional one.
I don't know you enough to suggest with any conviction why you did what you did, but it sure feels like people self sabotaged somewhat here. Perhaps in your case you wanted a push away from where you were? That way you don't have to take responsibility for the change. I get it.. it was a major step down from what you were doing before.
I have a now dead uncle that did something similar decades ago. He was a very smart guy that snapped and went down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories. He spent 40 years shut in an apartment in Amsterdam just drinking and 'doing his own research'. It took a while for anyone to realized that he had died.
I have a friend my age in Vancouver that's 10 years into that same path, and another friend who's dad is a literal genius doing the same in Central America, eating nothing but tahini and I think bananas because of some crackpot theory or another. He has never seen his grand kids because he feels America is going to abduct him if he gets on a plane.
My own brother is also this exact stereo type. Smart guy, feels slighted because he's making shit money (he passed up some amazing opportunities.. I don't know why). At one point he tried the whole sovereign citizen thing and my dad had to pay off his CRA bill that built over years of non-payment to keep him out of jail. Now he posts all the same garbage about vaccines, Trudeau, anti-wokeness, bla bla bla. He owns a shot gun in case the culture wars actually heats up and they come for him.
It's just tragic. I love the internet, but social media so just so harmful. I wish we'd implement some more powerful safeguards. Perhaps something like what the Aussies have at the very least.
I might regret this, but... this doesn't make sense. There are vaccines from Europe as well. And even if you just say you don't like the new mRNA type (I get it, new tech is scary) you could have just had the more traditional one.
I don't know you enough to suggest with any conviction why you did what you did, but it sure feels like people self sabotaged somewhat here. Perhaps in your case you wanted a push away from where you were? That way you don't have to take responsibility for the change. I get it.. it was a major step down from what you were doing before.
I have a now dead uncle that did something similar decades ago. He was a very smart guy that snapped and went down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories. He spent 40 years shut in an apartment in Amsterdam just drinking and 'doing his own research'. It took a while for anyone to realized that he had died.
I have a friend my age in Vancouver that's 10 years into that same path, and another friend who's dad is a literal genius doing the same in Central America, eating nothing but tahini and I think bananas because of some crackpot theory or another. He has never seen his grand kids because he feels America is going to abduct him if he gets on a plane.
My own brother is also this exact stereo type. Smart guy, feels slighted because he's making shit money (he passed up some amazing opportunities.. I don't know why). At one point he tried the whole sovereign citizen thing and my dad had to pay off his CRA bill that built over years of non-payment to keep him out of jail. Now he posts all the same garbage about vaccines, Trudeau, anti-wokeness, bla bla bla. He owns a shot gun in case the culture wars actually heats up and they come for him.
It's just tragic. I love the internet, but social media so just so harmful. I wish we'd implement some more powerful safeguards. Perhaps something like what the Aussies have at the very least.
Oh buddy... with all that we know about the medical industry... from the history of the lobotomy, thalidomide babies, Pfizer's billions of dollar fines in 2009, to how the FDA recalls 100's of drugs in the average year, to how my OWN IN-LAWS who are specialist doctors and ONLY took the first 2 shots so they could keep working and travel, no boosters...
The censorship, the 50+ billion dollars Pfizer made, the fact that billionaires had such a MASSIVE windfall... and you don't think for youself:
"Gee, hmm, all of the most powerful people stand to gain so much money and power from this current_thing, I wonder if it is exaggerated for their benefit and maybe, just maybe, the bought-and-paid-for media and social media companies are in on it?"
Like buddy... The former CEO of Reuters is on the board of Pfizer, and who fact-checked Twitter during COVID? Reuters. Like so many of these coincidences of the most powerful people happened. All of the most elite people gained so much during this time, and people without money and power, like myself, were crushed by the system for being skeptical. Do you add 2+2 together and start to wonder if the billions and billions of dollars and power structures may have worked together to push an agenda, or is everyone skeptical just mentally ill?
Whether they're evil or not, you're wrecking your life over it. Or wrecked I guess since it's past tense now.
I mean, even if I thought the shot had a 1 in 10,000,000 chance of killing me (for sake of argument, I think it was actually way less than that) and I didn't believe in it or whatever other conspiracies... but if I knew the result, however unfair it might be, was to lose my livelihood and family... I'd still take the chance and do it for my family and not be selfish about my own beliefs. I had concerns like everyone else did taking it, but luckily my sister and a childhood friend of mine both work in the field of vaccine development/cancer drug research who are both beyond reproach honesty and integrity wise, and they were able to scientifically explain to me how they work and are constructed, so I felt better about it.
You take more a chance of death waving bye bye to your daughter every day getting in your car to drive to work.
Sometimes making a statement isn't worth it. Or a post on goodreads. Nobody is going to say "At least Jason stood up for what he believed in no matter what!!!!" at the end of your days. That's what Dbone is saying.
I get you want someone to say you were right after the fact so that your sacrifice has meaning and convince others of the same... but no matter what you say, there's a lot of data out there to say it's wrong. Both sides can argue each other into the ground based on their own sources. I don't know that you'll ever be successful. The only empirical data I personally need is that I had 3 shots (I think?) and I'm fine and they were free to me and I had no issues with my work or family or livelihood. It makes no difference to me whether Pfizer or Moderna or whoever makes money or not. I also don't care who fact checks on Twitter or X for that matter, never used the platform and have no plans to. I'm not sure why that's so important to you, especially since it's also in the past and not the case anymore.
Whether they're evil or not, you're wrecking your life over it. Or wrecked I guess since it's past tense now.
Wrecked? Maybe. But wreckage is where the real ones are forged. If I could go back in time, I wouldn't change a thing. Maybe I would have told myself to pay attention to the suffering around me earlier, but that's hard when you're making 10k a month and have a new woman on your dick every week.
Fifteen years riding high on the hog, then five years in the gutter. If that’s the ratio and the price I have to pay, I’ll take it. The hunger makes the feast taste better. And trust me, when I climb out of this fucking pit, I won’t just be eating, I’ll be devouring.
Just had my first meal in 48 hours, courtesy of GFY.com member's kind $100 donation. A painful hernia keeps me from lifting on labour gigs at the moment, but it doesn’t keep me from thinking. Doesn’t keep me from coding. I fire up Cursor, have you heard of it? Last night I was up to 5 AM coding the bones of a machine that’ll claw me out of this mess, dollar by dollar. If this shitty road of pain and suffering runs me back through the adult industry, so be it. When you're renting the basement at rock bottom, you don’t have the luxury of picking the path of a saint. Still, I know where I’m headed: fatherhood, leadership, a real contribution to this country. None of that fake ass "elbows up" bullshit.
I’ve been tossed aside by the same ideology that cut balls off of the West, but I’ve never been afraid to speak. To see the emperor is naked. When I walked through downtown Vancouver in 2024, past the tents, the needles, the bodies that might’ve been breathing or might’ve been corpses, who fucking knows or even cares? My heart didn’t just break, it fucking burned. The slaughter is invisible and yet the smiles of the politicians are everywhere. Vancouver isn’t so much a city. It’s a mass grave with coffee shops, new Teslas, and- Oh fuck, the Canucks are on the TV! Wait, what? Nobody says a damn thing because it means we're admitting that we lost the soul of this city. Even as I sit here, 400 kilometers away, I know where my heart beats.
But I’m not done. If nothing else, I’ll be the last motherfucker standing who dares to call it what it is. Maybe one day, some of you will see it too. Maybe one day, you’ll help me fix it. But first, I have some filth to upload so I can get my turbo car fixed and pay the rent.
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Might move back to Vancouver
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