At an International Republican Institute Dinner last night, Senator John McCain said the Trump scandals were getting untenable, saying “We’ve seen this movie before. It’s reaching Watergate size and scale.”
“The shoes continue to drop, and every couple days there’s a new aspect,” said McCain.
The wretched Senator from Arizona also weighed in on Russia’s Foreign Minister, Lavrov, being in the Oval office, taking fierce opposition to it, saying “I’ve known this guy Lavrov for 30 years, he’s an old KGB apparatchik stooge, and Putin is a murderer and a thug. And to have Lavrov in the Oval Office and be friendly with the guy whose boss … sent aircraft with precision weapons to attack hospitals in Aleppo, I just think it’s unacceptable.”
According to McCain, we should have zero diplomatic ties to the Russian government, eschewing their foreign minister and severing ties with Putin — because he is ‘a murderer and a thug.’
Look at this guy, descending from the Council on Foreign Relations, literally part of the famed Trilateral Commission, a regular attendee of the Bilderberg meetings, David Gergen, savior of the republic. In a moment of candor, David Gergen told CNN that the Trump administration was in ‘impeachment territory.’
Who the fuck is David Gergen, you ponder?
I know some of you get triggered when I say the words ‘deep state’, you ADD-addled millennial faggots. So I’ll use a different word: shadow government, mercenaries who don’t give a shit about you.
David Gergen, former ‘counselor’ to Bill Clinton, Director of Communications for Ronald Reagan, Director of Communications for Gerald Ford, White House Director of Speechwriting for Richard Nixon, educated at both Yale and Harvard, lives in Cambridge, MA, 2 kids and a wife named Anne.
If you were writing a book about the ‘deep state’, you couldn’t create a more auspicious personal profile than Mr. Gergen, if that’s even his name.
In his spare time, Mr. Gergen works for CNN, Newsweek, NPR, NY Times and Parade Magazine. Wait, there’s more.
He teaches leadership, public service and politics at the Harvard Kennedy school.
He’s on the board for Teach for America, City Year, Schwab Foundation, Aspen Institute, Harvard Graduate School of Education and the New School of Law at Elon University. David is a member of the DC bar, Yale, Duke, World Economic Forum, Center for Global Development, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the North American executive committee for the Trilateral Commission.
He also has 25 honorary degrees — because he’s such a great guy.
Trump is Nixon now.
Here’s a little insight on how David Gergen thinks. In an interview with the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County, Gergen praised President Obama for eschewing white males, saying he was impressed by the diversity, a big change from the ‘lily white’ personnel he was accustomed to seeing during his many years in the Whited House.
UPDATE and Flashback: David Gergen admits to being a ‘happy member of the Bohemian Grove’ and chimps out on a young Alex Jones for asking questions about it.
Steven Cohen, Professor of Russian studies at Princeton and NYU (an obvious Russian spy) was besides himself tonight, in sheer disbelief over the with hunt of gigantic nothing-burgers that are being used to assault the Presidency of Donald Trump.
He declared, “today, I would say (the greatest threat to national security) is this assault on President Trump. Let’s be clear what he’s being accused of is treason. This has never happened in America, that we had a Russian agent in the White House. Cohen believes Flynn did nothing wrong by talking to the Russian ambassador, describing it as ‘his job’ to do so.
He then illuminated the indelible fact that there is a 4th branch of government, the intelligence community, who have been meddling in American foreign affairs, obstructing the other 3 branches of government.
“In 2016, President Obama worked out a deal with Russian President Putin for military cooperation in Syria. He said he was gonna share intelligence with Russia, just like Trump and the Russians were supposed to do the other day. Our department of defense said it wouldn’t share intelligence. And a few days later, they killed Syrian soldiers, violating the agreement, and that was the end of that. So, we can ask, who is making our foreign policy in Washington today?”
Professor Cohen added, “you and I have to ask a subversive question, are there really three branches of government, or is there a 4th branch of government? These intel services. What we know, as a fact, is that Obama tried, not very hard but he tried for a military alliance with Putin, in Syria, against terrorism and it was sabotaged by the department of defense and its allies in the intelligence services.”
Dow futures are tumbling, off by 107, as memogate menaces the Trump administration with fresh happenings. I guarantee you the market will drop by 20% should Trump earn an impeachment. Because of that eventuality, market shills are barreling out of stocks as the odds of Trump dying in jail increase.
The main beneficiary of all this tumult is gold, currently higher by 0.5%.
If you recall, last week I postponed reallocating into the market because both gold and treasuries outperformed all market cap quantiles of the market. According to the math that I’ve been doing in my spare time, my model will fucking humiliate yours, reduce you to Hillary Clinton seizing out near her mobile ambulance outside a 9/11 memorial.
My current allocation is 5% GLD, 5% TLT. Should they both outperform again this week, my allocation will increase to 20%.
A whirlwind of venomous hatred and pain is heading your way. For every action, there will be a reaction. Welcome to the end game.
It’s all coming to a head now. The firing of James Comey has opened up a pandora’s box that is sure to obliterate the Trump presidency. What will follow this deep state coup is something that will likely be remembered, along with the same vein as the civil war. There isn’t a chance that his ardent supporters will accept his removal from office on such obvious acts of sabotage.
But it’s happening.
According to CNN, sources close to Comey say the former FBI director is hoping Trump taped their conversations, in order to corroborate his contemporaneous notes regarding a request to end the Flynn investigation.
Comey is very eager to testify, but only if it’s in a public forum. Hmm, I wonder why?
Before I get into the impeachment proceedings, I want to let my fellow leftarded readers know that I am with you on the removal of Dronald Drumpf — but for entirely different reasons. I couldn’t support Hillary and her cadre of homosexual opera singers because it went against the essence of my being. I hate those people with vim. I’ve always felt a vote for Trump was equal to tossing a pinless hand grenade into DC and that’s exactly what he’s doing.
Does this make me a ‘bad person’ per se? Probably. I don’t have a particular affinity towards ‘democracy’ or ‘capitalism’ at this present time. For me, I’d much rather see this country delve into anarchy and chaos, pitting neighbor against neighbor, in a civil war to end all civil wars — olde school fire and brimstone. It is my belief that the only way to “fix” society is to completely break it.
Truly, it’s tragedy worth fighting for.
Let’s be clear about what is happening. From even before Trump took office, establishment shills were talking about impeaching him. From the second he took office, the uniparty has been working towards that end. It was briefly suspended when Trump became a neocon and bombed out Syria, menacing N. Korea with nuclear war. Since then, Trump has dialed it back and has been rejecting the neocon strategy of ‘war at all costs.’
So now the wheels are turning in DC, hastening towards the end of the Trump administration.
Fresh off getting shitcanned for being a jerk-off, James Comey is leaking private memos to the NYT that said Trump asked for him to stop the Flynn investigation.
President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly after the meeting.
“I hope you can let this go,” the president told Mr. Comey, according to the memo.
The existence of Mr. Trump’s request is the clearest evidence that the president has tried to directly influence the Justice Department and F.B.I. investigation into links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia.
Mr. Comey wrote the memo detailing his conversation with the president immediately after the meeting, which took place the day after Mr. Flynn resigned, according to two people who read the memo. The memo was part of a paper trail Mr. Comey created documenting what he perceived as the president’s improper efforts to influence a continuing investigation. An F.B.I. agent’s contemporaneous notes are widely held up in court as credible evidence of conversations.
Mr. Comey shared the existence of the memo with senior F.B.I. officials and close associates. The New York Times has not viewed a copy of the memo, which is unclassified, but one of Mr. Comey’s associates read parts of the memo to a Times reporter.
“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Mr. Trump told Mr. Comey, according to the memo. “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
Mr. Trump told Mr. Comey that Mr. Flynn had done nothing wrong, according to the memo.
Mr. Comey did not say anything to Mr. Trump about curtailing the investigation, only replying: “I agree he is a good guy.”
In other words, we have a bunch of handwritten notes that cannot be proven, saying the President made the request, hardly impeachable, but getting there.
The White House, naturally, denied the claim.
“While the president has repeatedly expressed his view that General Flynn is a decent man who served and protected our country, the president has never asked Mr. Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn,” the statement said. “The president has the utmost respect for our law enforcement agencies, and all investigations. This is not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation between the president and Mr. Comey.”
Bear in mind who’d running the FBI now, Andrew McCabe — a super shill of the democratic pary whose wife gave $500,000 to Gov. McAuliffe’s super pac and another $200,000 to the Virginian Democratic party. These aren’t small sums of money. Clearly, they’re invested.
These are two of the worst restaurants in American history and both stocks are soaring in the after-hours on better than expected results. In the case of JACK, their results were actually abysmal, missing and blaming the rain on the lack of foot traffic following tax refund distributions. What an abhorrent and irrevocably pathetic excuse for mediocrity. Nevertheless, JACK is sprinting higher based off future guidance — which is LOWER.
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHA. Stupid fuckers. Everyone knows Qdobo is the retarded half-cousin of Chipotle. No one unironically eats there. It’s one of those places that you visit when everything else is closed, or CMG is busy poisoning people with thier local sources burritos.
Red Robin Gourmet is a piece of shit wanna be chic hamburger joint. Seriously, it’s like Friendlies, but less cringy. I don’t know of anyone who has ever eaten there. I am familiar with it only because it was domosciled in the King’s Plaza shopping mall in Brooklyn. Growing up, I’d visit that crimewave of a shopping experience and sometimes grab a bite there, while continuously peering over my shoulder for prospective combatants.
Red Robin Gourmet beats by $0.32, reports revs in-line; guides FY17 EPS above consensus (58.00 -1.25)
Reports Q1 (Mar) earnings of $0.89 per share, excluding non-recurring items, $0.32 better than the Capital IQ Consensus of $0.57; revenues rose 4.1% year/year to $418.6 mln vs the $416.48 mln Capital IQ Consensus.
Co issues upside guidance for FY17, sees EPS of $2.80-3.10, excluding non-recurring items, vs. $2.76 Capital IQ Consensus Estimate
Co expects ~45% of the $2.80-3.10 in earnings to come in the first half of 2017 and 55% in the second half of 2017
Revenue in the quarter increased $24.8 million primarily due to new restaurant openings and acquired restaurants, partially offset by decreases of $4.6 million, or 1.2%, in comparable restaurant revenue and $3.8 million from closed restaurants…
Franchise and other revenue decreased $0.3 million, primarily driven by the loss of royalties from 13 franchised restaurants acquired during the first quarter of 2016
System-wide restaurant revenue (which includes franchised units) for the first quarter of 2017 totaled $498.8 million, compared to $493.0 million for the first quarter of 2016.
Comparable restaurant revenue decreased 1.2% in the first quarter of 2017 compared to the same period a year ago, driven by a 1.7% decrease in guest counts, partially offset by a 0.5% increase in average guest check
The increase in average guest check comprised a 1.6% increase in pricing and a 1.1% decrease in menu mix
During the first quarter of 2017, the Company opened six Red Robin restaurants, including one restaurant that was temporarily closed during 2016, and relocated one Red Robin restaurant. Co’s franchisees opened one restaurant during the first quarter of 2017
Reports Q2 (Mar) earnings of $0.98 per share, excluding non-recurring items, $0.07 better than the Capital IQ Consensus of $0.91; revenues rose 2.3% year/year to $369.4 mln vs the $369.36 mln Capital IQ Consensus.
Jack in the Box comps -0.8% vs. (2)-0% guidance; Qdoba -3.2%. Consolidated restaurant operating margin, a non-GAAP measure, decreased by 240 basis points to 17.5 percent of sales in the second quarter of 2017, compared with 19.9 percent of sales in the year-ago quarter.
Q3 Guidance: Same-store sales of up 1.0 to down 1.0 percent at Jack in the Box system restaurants versus a 1.1 percent increase in same-store sales in the year-ago quarter. Same-store sales of up 1.0 to down 1.0 percent at Qdoba company restaurants versus a 1.0 percent increase in the year-ago quarter.
Co issues downside guidance for FY17, lowers EPS to $4.10-4.30 from $4.25-4.45, excluding non-recurring items, vs. $4.35 Capital IQ Consensus Estimate. Same-store sales increase of ~1.0 percent at Jack in the Box system restaurants (down from +2%). Same-store sales decrease of ~1.0 to 2.0 percent at Qdoba company restaurants (from flat). Commodity costs of ~flat for both Jack in the Box and Qdoba. Consolidated restaurant operating margin of ~19.0 percent, depending on the timing of refranchising transactions and the margins associated with the restaurants sold.
“After a sluggish start to the quarter, which we believe was attributable to delayed tax refunds and record rainfall in California, Jack in the Box system same-store sales improved to positive territory as these transitory issues passed and we pivoted our advertising towards value messages.
However, same-store sales at Qdoba company restaurants worsened in the latter two months of the quarter, as we lapped more aggressive discounting in last year’s second quarter. While margins at Qdoba were still disappointing, they improved to over 16 percent in the final month of the quarter as we were able to manage labor and food costs more effectively than in the first quarter, despite the larger decline in same-store sales. We are also encouraged that Qdoba company same-store sales have improved thus far in the third quarter.”
JACK is higher by 10% and RRGB by 16% in an after hours casino royale.
I have three pages of fucking winners today, thanks to my handy-dandy momentum screen. For those of you who just sit around here, sponging information, fuck off. As an aside, both GLD and TLT outperformed today, my only two positions.
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BBRY +6% on bullish notes by worthless Australians at Macquarie praising them.
ETSY +22% after TPG Group Holdings discloses 4.3% active stake. Seriously, this means more than nothing, but traderfags love it. BTW: I was a victim of fraud at Etsy. They suck.
JCP +6% on news that Saba Capital Management took a stake. Plus, the stock is likely tired of getting punched around for weeks on end.
LL +5% on zero news. That stock is retarded.
GGB, RIO, VALE +3.5% because MAGA (international edition)
AMBA +3% on a note by Canaccord Genuity suggesting that once GPRO is finally dead, the company would be ok.
ZG +2.5%, sizzling hot BBQing real estate. Get some.
NTES, CTRP +2.3% on news that China still rocks. So awesome.
SINA, WB +25% see above
Are you man enough to buy them here? Just think about all of the people being flushed out today, after their beloved TJX got blown the fuck out on worse than expected results. Envision the margin calls, weddings being canceled, families torn apart, lived shattered. Now think about how you might profit from that situation. Sounds enticing, doesn’t it?
The Exodus predictive mean reversion oscillator is suggesting Apparel is oversold now. Have a look.
Full disclosure: I have zero interest in playing in the sandbox with shitty companies. There are too many ways to lose. However, knowing the degenerate class of my readers, both liberal and conservative in their retardation, I figured you’d like to gamble on the ponies just one more time until barreling towards alcoholism and eventual death.
Names of possible interest and % of shares sold short.
The mall is dead, indeed. But before the padlock closes it forever, perhaps the defibrillators will be put to use, providing mallfags with a little hope to carry them into the future.
If Seth Rich did in fact leak the DNC emails to Wikileaks, it’s important to remember why he might’ve been motivated to do it. At the time, Bernie Sanders was being railroaded by the DNC, who were behind the scenes stealing the nomination for Hillary Clinton. I seriously doubt Rich did anything for the benefit of republitards. He was, after all, working for the DNC. He was slain on July 10th, 2016, by two shots in the back, in what investigators called a ‘botched robbery attempt.’ Zero personal items were stolen and Rich was, apparently, beaten pretty badly before being executed.
Fox News is reporting that a federal investigator claims the FBI has proof that Seth Rich sent emails to Wikileaks, 44,053 in total.
“My investigation up to this point shows there was some degree of email exchange between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks.”
“I have seen and read the emails between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks,” the federal investigator told Fox News, confirming the MacFadyen connection. He said the emails are in possession of the FBI, while the stalled case is in the hands of the Washington Police Department.
Rod Wheeler, PI and Fox News contributor who was hired by the Rich family said, “My investigation up to this point shows there was some degree of email exchange between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks. I do believe that the answers to who murdered Seth Rich sits on his computer on a shelf at the DC police or FBI headquarters.”
He adds, “My investigation shows someone within the D.C. government, Democratic National Committee or Clinton team is blocking the murder investigation from going forward. That is unfortunate. Seth Rich’s murder is unsolved as a result of that.”
Mr. Wheeler also said he has a source inside the DC police who said they were told to ‘stand down’ on the Rich case.
DC police have not released the footage of the incident, which was partially captured from a corner crosswalk camera, depicting two assailants accosting Rich. Not even the Rich family have seen this footage, according to Fox.
If you recall, Wikileak’s Julian Assange all but admitted that Rich was his source for the DNC leaks, in a Dutch interview last year.
The murder of #SethRich was covered up by the DC Police as a "robbery" – but there is zero evidence to support that.
