Luke Ford

Bloomberg: Financial markets are starting to “wake up” to the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s recent health concerns and tightening polls, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch Head of Global Rates and Currencies Research David Woo. He says investors are still underestimating the real estate mogul’s chances of ascending to the highest office in the land, and what a seismic change this could be for markets and the world’s largest economy.
While the outsider candidate poses a risk to one of 2016’s hot investment strategies, he could prove to be a massive boost for the greenback and U.S. economy.
“The U.S. economy would take off in a big way” if Trump were elected and Republicans control both legislative houses next year, said Woo, thanks to the fiscal stimulus that Trump would enact. Trump has pledged to spend at least twice as much as the Democratic nominee on infrastructure and also enact a massive tax cut, two measures that would entail a renewed issuance of Treasuries.
Against this backdrop, the greenback would strengthen and U.S. Treasury yields would rise, a view shared by Woo and other fixed income veterans as well.

It does not seem like American tech firms are on the side of America. They’re all lined up for Hillary Clinton and against the nationalist candidate Donald Trump. They all want more foreign visas so they can displace American workers with foreigners.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Major technology companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter are urging Congress to support a plan for the U.S. government to cede control of the internet’s technical management to the global community, they said in a joint letter dated on Tuesday.

The U.S. Commerce Department has primary oversight of the internet’s management, largely because it was invented in the United States. Some Republican lawmakers are trying to block the handover to global stakeholders, which include businesses, tech experts and public interest advocates, saying it could stifle online freedom by giving voting rights to authoritarian governments.

The years-long plan to transfer oversight of the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, is scheduled to occur on Oct. 1 unless Congress votes to block the handover. The California-based corporation operates the database for domain names such as .com and .net and their corresponding numeric addresses that allow computers to connect.

In the Sept. 13 letter, a copy of which had been reviewed by Reuters before it was sent, the technology companies said it was “imperative” that Congress does not delay the transition.

“A global, interoperable and stable Internet is essential for our economic and national security, and we remain committed to completing the nearly twenty year transition to the multi stakeholder model that will best serve U.S. interests,” the letter said.

Other signatories include Amazon, Cloudflare, Yahoo and several technology trade organizations.

Former presidential hopeful Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who leads the opposition against the handover, will hold a congressional hearing on Wednesday to review the transition, which he has criticized as a “giveaway of our internet freedom.”

I can’t wait for Trump’s enemies to get it good and hard.

Washington Post: Last week wasn’t a good one for Gary Johnson. In fact, the Libertarian presidential nominee who stunned the political world with a single, dizzying question — “What is Aleppo?” — had the worst week in Washington, according to Chris Cillizza.

Yet Johnson still managed to earn the endorsement over the weekend of the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal. That’s notable because it is a) Johnson’s second endorsement by a daily newspaper and represented b) more daily newspaper endorsements than Donald Trump has collected so far in the general election. The Republican nominee, as of this writing, has zero.

From the Chateau:

Racism
Sexism
Anti-Semitism
Islamophobia
Homophobia
Xenophobia
Judgmentalism

The above is a riff on thecunt’s LGBTQ speech from Friday, in which she labeled Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables” (aka normal, sexually dimorphic Americans).

“You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables.’ They’re racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it,” Clinton said.

Hillary recites a moral panic laundry list of -isms and -phobias & ends with “you name it”. That coda is very telling. As an id-blurt it reveals that Hillary and her ilk don’t really feel the moral urgency of their frightwords as much as they use them as weapons to intimidate their cucked-up enemies into a cowardly submission.

Thecunt, whether she understands it or not, enunciated the tenets of the Left’s new Secularism faith. The Seven Deplorable Sins are a guide to how the typical shitlib measures a person’s worth, because everyone needs a religion, even shitlibs who have discarded Christian Puritanism for “enlightened” atheism. The religious compulsion is an evolved trait in humans; all that differs across generations is how it’s expressed.

Compare and cuntrast with the Seven Deadly Sins of traditional Christianity:

Lust
Gluttony
Greed
Sloth
Wrath
Envy
Pride

The difference? The Seven Deplorable Sins of Secularism are affronts to the high priests. The Seven Deadly Sins of Christianity are affronts to God and self.