***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[IATT]

You forget about Florida?

maybe not.. pretty sure texas is the only for sure L

florida could potentially get an auto recount if the margin falls within 0.5%

and I thought Jeff Flake was leaving the Senate

cant stop.. wont stop.. smmmhhh

 

[tay1]

maybe not.. pretty sure texas is the only for sure L

florida could potentially get an auto recount if the margin falls within 0.5%



cant stop.. wont stop.. smmmhhh

Oh I see. Didn't know things were still narrowing, but didn't he concede?

 

[elpablo21]

concerned crowd is growing, watch out folks

 

[HarlemShakeStory]

As a Florida resident, I’m embarrassed for my state.

One thing I noticed this time around was that my Cuban friends and family all of a sudden became hardcore conservatives. To them, Gillum was a socialist. They equate the Democratic Party to the communist regime that took over Cuba. While I get where they are coming from, it’s not a very logical argument. You would also think a group that came here seeking political asylum would favor politicians who sympathize with this, instead of those who are staunchly opposed to it. Boggles my mind...

 

[KingdomFlatbush]

I'm seeing a lot of Republican senators on Twitter renouncing the Sessions dismissal.

Let's see if they act on their words

 

[KingdomFlatbush]

Oh I see. Didn't know things were still narrowing, but didn't he concede?

Concession is just a formality. Whoever wins wins

 

[danikerhino]

As a Florida resident, I’m embarrassed for my state.

One thing I noticed this time around was that my Cuban friends and family all of a sudden became hardcore conservatives. To them, Gillum was a socialist. They equate the Democratic Party to the communist regime that took over Cuba. While I get where they are coming from, it’s not a very logical argument. You would also think a group that came here seeking political asylum would favor politicians who sympathize with this, instead of those who are staunchly opposed to it. Boggles my mind...

I think a lot of Cubans(and many Americans for that matter) has a misconception that Socialism is the precursor to Communism. In reality, Communism is far more extreme.

 

[Belgium]

The FTC under the Trump administration sued the firm last year, resulting in a $26m settlement.
Excerpt:
In May this year, a judgment requiring World Patent Marketing to pay the government $25,987,192 was entered against the company by a federal court in southern Florida. Whitaker was not named among the defendants in the case.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/07/matthew-whitaker-trump-attorney-general-us-firm
Trump's acting attorney general was part of firm US accused of vast scam
Matthew Whitaker sat on advisory board of World Patent Marketing, which was ordered to pay $26m settlement in May

Donald Trump’s new acting attorney general was part of a company accused by the US government of operating a multimillion-dollar scam.

Matthew Whitaker was paid to sit on the advisory board of World Patent Marketing, which was ordered in May this year to pay a $26 million settlement following legal action by federal authorities.

Whitaker was appointed acting attorney general on Wednesday afternoon after attorney general Jeff Sessions was fired by Donald Trump.

A court filing in the case said that Whitaker received regular payments of $1,875 to represent the Florida-based company, which allegedly tricked aspiring inventors.

Whitaker publicly vouched for the company, claiming in a December 2014 statement that they “go beyond making statements about doing business ‘ethically’ and translate those words into action.”

Whitaker said at the time: “I would only align myself with a first class organization.”

World Patent Marketing and its founder, Scott Cooper, were sued by the Federal Trade Commission in March last year. The government said it had “operated an invention-promotion scam that has bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars”.

The company was accused of tricking hopeful inventors into paying it thousands of dollars to obtain patents and licensing deals for their inventions. In fact, they “failed to fulfill almost every promise they make to consumers,” the complaint said.

In May this year, a judgment requiring World Patent Marketing to pay the government $25,987,192 was entered against the company by a federal court in southern Florida. Whitaker was not named among the defendants in the case.

Cooper later agreed to hand over $1m in assets and the proceeds of the sale of his $3.5m home in return for the rest of the judgment being suspended.

Whitaker, who was appointed acting attorney general by the president, right on the heels of the midterm elections, could not immediately be reached for comment.

 

[KingdomFlatbush]

 

[Belgium]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-month-market-leaves-london-because-of-brexit
A $240-Billion-a-Day Market Is Leaving London Ahead of Brexit

• Europe’s biggest repo trading venue is moving to Amsterdam
• BrokerTec is the first company to relocate an entire market

The City of London is being dealt another Brexit blow.

CME Group Inc. is moving its European market for short-term financing, the largest in the region, out of London because the exchange operator wants to guarantee continental firms can continue to use it if there is a no-deal Brexit.

The decision, which was taken before CME took over the business from NEX Group Plc last week, is the first example of a major financial market leaving the U.K. While every sizable trading venue has set up a regulated entity in the EU because of Brexit, BrokerTec -- as the business is known -- is the first to move an existing market from London to a continental European city: Amsterdam.

“All of our euro-denominated bonds and repo will move to Amsterdam,” John Edwards, managing director of BrokerTec Europe, said in an interview. “We saw no benefit in splitting liquidity pools. Our U.K. business will not be able to provide services to the European clients.”

Contingency Plans
BrokerTec isn’t alone in planning for the worst. Stifel Financial Corp. is ensuring it can continue offering financial services in Europe by buying the brokerage operations of Germany’s MainFirst Holding AG. And BNP Paribas SA plans to move between 85 and 90 employees from its global markets unit in London to other European financial centers in case of a hard Brexit.

BrokerTec Europe currently employs as many as 90 people in London, according to a person familiar with the matter. A third of those are front office, with the remainder working in technology or support roles.

About 210 billion euros ($240 billion) per day of European short-term financing instruments were traded on BrokerTec in October, Edwards said. That market will be shifted to CME’s Dutch subsidiary, NEX Amsterdam BV. BrokerTec’s U.K. entity traded an additional 59 billion euros of U.K. gilt repo deals, which will all remain in London post-Brexit.

BrokerTec’s European government bond cash market will also move to the Dutch city, while its gilt market will stay in the U.K. The company doesn’t disclose trading volumes for its cash bond markets outside the U.S.

New Customers
CME completed its takeover of BrokerTec’s owner, NEX, last week. BrokerTec has been signing up customers to trade with NEX Amsterdam BV, which still needs regulatory approval, since the summer. It plans to open the new market in February, well before the U.K. leaves the EU on March 29.

BrokerTec wanted to eliminate the risk that its EU-based clients could lose access to the European repo market. Some of Europe’s biggest trading venues and trading firms have warned of the danger of “split liquidity pools,” where trading becomes more difficult and costly because investors on different sides of the North Sea can no longer trade with each other.

“Nobody knows what the European landscape is going to look like in five months’ time, let alone three years’ time,” Edwards added.

Edwards declined to say whether NEX Amsterdam would employ more than the 12 people that it said would work for the Dutch entity when it announced its choice of the Netherlands a year ago.

BrokerTec has applied to be a regulated market in the Netherlands, even though it operates as a multilateral trading facility in the U.K. Multi-lateral trading facilities have to apply the Dutch bonus cap — Europe’s toughest — on employees, but regulated markets are exempted from the limits on pay.

A report released in July by EY showed investment from abroad in British financial-services firms fell 26 percent in 2017. During the same period, Germany experienced a 64 percent increase, while the figure for France more than doubled. London still attracted more inward investment in financial services than any other EU city, but the gap with Paris, Frankfurt and Dublin was narrowing.

 

[elpablo21]

McConnell isn't going to do anything

 

[boris]

McConnell isn't going to do anything

McConnel is a complicit piece of ****. All these **** headed Senators could have done something a long time ago.

 

[fargin]

I just want to congratulate Belgium on his decision to sex up his walls-of-text with some animations for those of us, who have an understanding of fifth- or sixth-graders.

 

[KingdomFlatbush]

 

[anomolie]

I’ll answer this one. I’m Puerto Rican and I voted for Gillum. Most Puerto Rican’s vote for Democrats, while Cuban’s lean Republican, so keep that in mind. The counties which have the most of us actually voted heavily for Gillum, but these are also the more liberal parts of the state and where most blacks live as well.

In regards to the question about electing a Black man, both Puerto Ricans and Cubans would not elect a black man to office, period. Puerto Rico has never even had a tan skinned governor, let alone a black man. They view blacks as inferior, and not intelligent enough to hold office. This is a view held by most over 40, and is just beginning to change now amongst the younger generation.

Even our representatives in the House of Representatives fall on the lighter end of the spectrum.

Thanks for that info. Sucks but you’re being honest.

 

[blastercombo]

For someone totally not guilty of a crime that actually isn’t even illegal but if it was could change that but totally doesn’t have to becuase he super duper did not do anything.......... Trump sure does try his best to get rid of everyone associated with it

 

[Quincy McCall]

If/When Trump is out of office, can't imagine what he'll do now that his cult has grown

Hopefully it involves jail time

 

[boris]

Apparently protests are going to take place tomorrow.

 

[boris]

https://www.trumpisnotabovethelaw.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response/

 

[Fozz]

Concession is just a formality. Whoever wins wins

That's good to know. Hope he gets a chance.

 

[IATT]

 

[el Chief]

Thanks for that info. Sucks but you’re being honest.

Yeah man, it does. I think it’s directly tied to a self hate thing. Over 90% of Puerto Ricans identified as white last census.

 

[Mark Antony]

All of this constitutes a conflict of interest, shouldn't he recuse himself?

 

[Belgium]

All of this constitutes a conflict of interest, shouldn't he recuse himself?

There's a whole lot more than that.


https://web.archive.org/web/2014111...2014/07/whitaker-announced-chairman-campaign/
Sam Clovis, Republican candidate for State Treasurer, announced Tuesday that Matt Whitaker has been named Chairman of his campaign for Treasurer of State.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/06/...uld-curb-mueller-whittaker-opinion/index.html
By Matthew Whitaker
Mueller's investigation of Trump is going too far

Whitaker on CNN in 2017 laying out a potential scenario of how to cripple the Mueller probe without firing him:
"Really, I think ultimately what the President's going to start doing is putting pressure on Rod Rosenstein, who is in charge of this investigation as acting attorney general, and really try to get Rod to cut ... the budget of Bob Mueller and do something a little more stagecraft-y than the blunt instrument of firing the attorney general and trying to replace him."

 

[QU!K]

Heard Jeff Sessions got fired