Post #1424020

2026-04-19 23:17 UTC

Just checked stock market futures and everything is heading down, on a elevator to Hell as the prophet Hudson put it. Is this anything to be concerned about? Depends on whether you want to believe Trump, who's sending failson JD back to negotiate, or the Iranians, who say they won't be at the table. But don't worry. Trump will just make some shit up in the morning to spike the market and enrich his cronies and family. Again. What a time to be alive.

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@noondlyt@hellions.cloud 2026-04-19 23:19

@lisamelton Oil futures are straight up right now. That's the play of the day and why he pulled those particular strings.

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@TheJen@beige.party 2026-04-19 23:22

@lisamelton Makes the runup to 1929 look like a garden party.

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@kevbob@xoxo.zone 2026-04-19 23:24

@lisamelton one week, maybe two, this will all be over. /s

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@bhasic@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 23:28

@lisamelton Maybe if Trump lies enough, the Iranians will believe him.

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@mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca 2026-04-19 23:32

@lisamelton Yup. One would think he would get into trouble for doing such things, but here we are.

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@aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org 2026-04-19 23:53

@lisamelton Warhammer 401k: In the grim dark future stocks are only down.

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@shredder7579@mastodon.social 2026-04-20 00:28

@lisamelton Tangentially related: the whole "we're going to ban all routers" thing and then "netgear is approved through our opaque requirements" just reeks of grifting

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@Meyerweb@mastodon.social 2026-04-20 00:43

@lisamelton Somebody wake up Hicks.

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@humourmetom@newsie.social 2026-04-20 00:53

@lisamelton Sad we live in a time when a country wages war to enable stock market profiteering

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@randocity@mstdn.social 2026-04-20 02:31

@lisamelton Eventually, “the boy who cried wolf” will no longer be listened to. 🍊 is on the verge of that dilemma now.

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@Npars01@mstdn.social 2026-04-20 03:12

@lisamelton https://nypost.com/2026/04/13/opinion/how-the-strait-of-hormuz-saves-the-world-from-starvation/ https://www.desmog.com/2024/05/03/bp-was-warned-gas-driven-climate-change-could-cause-unprecedented-famine-us-congressional-investigation/ Not for long. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html Trump's fossil fuel funded billionaires bought a global famine & they're going to get what they paid for, darn it! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/04/maga-soft-eugenics https://www.salon.com/2024/07/31/most-extreme-ever-project-2025-contributors-have-a-history-of/ There's no such thing as infinite growth on a finite planet. https://thewalrus.ca/data-centres-are-on-track-to-wreck-the-planet/ Pronatalism is fascist Lebensborn in disguise. https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/health/pronatalist-movement-families-kff-health-news https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/revisited/20241108-the-lebensborn-programme-when-nazi-germany-sought-to-create-an-aryan-elite 1/

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@Amorpheus@kind.social 2026-04-20 07:25

@lisamelton I already disliked that "Simon says" game as a child. Today, entire stock markets seem to play along with it.

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