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Le Gaucher

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October 19, 2017

Should USA start its own cryptocurrency?

I dont understand a lot of it - but here are some advantages vs Other Cryptocurrencies (CC) and US Dollars

The main purpose of a currency is to be a unit of transaction and for that it needs to be stable. Cryptocurrencies cannot function as currencies precisely because of their volatility (speculators and uncertainty surrounding their wider adoption).

The USA issued Cryptocurrency will wipe out credit card payment gateways like VISA/MasterCard/Amex. It may also wipe many other national currencies as everyone would have faith in a US government issued CC. But it will have many advantages

Right now CCs are an easy way to launder money due to the anonymity provided - but having our own CC and regulating it will provide a hasslefree money transfer mechanism that will aid the economy and bring it fully out into the open. No more dark economies - assuming the other cc's are killed off.

I am hoping hiding income and wealth will become harder with open source verification systems - which means that a greater portion of the money that should be taxed will be taxed.

Any thoughts?

October 16, 2017

The standard way Trump lies and takes no responsibility for his bullshit lies



He always says ... "I was told " .. or "I am told" ... look at the example below

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-falsely-claims-obama-didn-call-grieving-military-families-article-1.3566878


“I don't know if he did (call),” Trump said.

“I was told he didn't often and a lot of presidents don't. They write letters...I do a combination of both. Sometimes it's a very difficult thing to do, but I do a combination of both. President Obama I think probably did sometimes and maybe sometimes he didn't. I don't know. That's what I was told.”



Please Make your own lie up about Trump. For example

I was told Trump is a fucking Moron. No wait -- that is not a lie .. it's fucking true.

I was told Trump is a Genius. There you go !!


October 16, 2017

I owe an apology to Sanders people.

The moment Bernie Sanders lost me was during a debate when he was asked to comment on the opiate epidemic and he launched into a tirade against pharmaceutical companies. I did not believe that pharmaceuticals were involved actively in pushing drugs to create a class of addicted patients.. I concluded that BS was a crazy guy.

I stand corrected. Looks like they are bastards in the vein of Medellin and Cali Cartel, albeit with more sophisticated methods and never having to worry about laundering their loot.

October 15, 2017

Trumps Nuclear Meltdown

Trump is as stupid as stupid can be.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2017/10/now_we_know_why_rex_tillerson_called_donald_trump_a_moron.html


He just wants bigger, shinier, costlier. He wants military parades as a show of strength. He told his aides he wanted 32,000 nuclear weapons because that was the largest number of nuclear weapons that a president ever had, and he wasn’t going to be outgunned by any other president. Forget about how the budget should be allocated, what America’s role in the world should be, or why on earth we need to build tens of thousands of nuclear weapons again. (U.S. Strategic Command officers already have a hard time explaining, when pressed, why they even need the 4,000 nukes they have.) Those things, in his mind, aren’t important.

32,000 was the largest number of nuclear weapons that a president ever had, and Trump wasn’t going to be outgunned


October 15, 2017

Do people realize the following?

It takes Skill, time and effort to build something. It requires far less to destroy something.

It takes years to build a business and develop a reputation for its products and services. It take one asshole manager a very short time to ruin its reputation and destroy it completely.

Donald Motherfucker Trump cannot build jack shit. But he sure as hell can quickly destroy stuff that others have painstakingly built over decades , if not centuries. That makes him no different from Osama Bin Laden.

Donald Motherfucker Trump is a terrorist.

October 14, 2017

Can Trump issue a blanket anticipatory pardon for all in the line of

Mueller's investigation?

He pardoned Joe Arpaio before sentencing.. So technically he could ask everyone to stop cooperation and hand out pardons with the knowledge that congress will never impeach him.

So isn't he safe?

October 13, 2017

Trump is swinging the wrecking ball furiously ..

why the sudden uptick? Does it have anything to do with anything Mueller related?

October 11, 2017

I was forced to listen to fox news this afternoon

OH. MY. FUCKING. GOD


I normally avoid it like the plague... but I was getting my car fixed at the dealer and I had to step out to get lunch ...


They were talking about how Hillary and Obama are hypocrites who were forced to disavow Harvey Wienstien .. those bastards went on and on .. "this is the reason why women dont trust Hillary" .. SERISOUSLY !!! ( But they somehow manage to trust a pussy grabber)


I just stuffed the remaining pizza in my mouth and ran out as fast as I can .....


Ugh !!

October 9, 2017

There is a new Reality Show in town.

Its called "The Real Housewives of Donald Trump"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/10/09/ivana-trump-says-shes-the-first-lady-and-drops-mouth-bombs-while-promoting-her-new-book/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_ivana-melania-250pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.30966244b87f


Things are getting a little “Real Housewives” around the White House.

In one of the stranger sideshows to his presidency, President Trump’s first and third wives, Ivana and Melania, respectively, on Monday had a very public war of words — and his second wife, Marla Maples, is getting some shade out of the spat, to boot.

Here’s a breakdown: To promote her new book, “Raising Trump,” about parenting Trump’s three eldest children, Ivana Trump gave a Monday interview to “Good Morning America” in which she made some comments sure to privately raise the hackles of the woman occupying the role of Wife of Donald.

“I’m basically first Trump wife. Okay?” Ivana Trump said. “I’m first lady.”

She offered faux sympathy for Melania Trump, saying “I think for her to be in Washington must be terrible.” (She had less subtle insults for her ex’s second wife, Marla Maples. “A showgirl” was her epithet of choice.)








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