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At 9.50pm AEDT yesterday, there was a sudden spike in trading on the oil and S&P 500 futures market.

6.50am New York time is an unusual time for a rush on trades on West Texas Intermediate May futures.

But it showed that all of a sudden, a substantial sum of money was bet on oil prices dropping and the stock market rising.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

In any other country on earth, Trump would have been dragged into the street a lynched by now.

I think the best American's can hope for is that his own security detail order 66's him.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I honestly never thought Americans were this weak.

We're being abused and asking our abuser for more. It's pathetic.

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

You act like fascists don't exist outside USA

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Eh, up here in Canada we’re not too far behind. Still better, but the bar is super low and we’re kinda cowards when it comes to standing up for ourselves. Hopefully the most recent utter failure of strategic voting helps, but who knows.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Referencing the clones in Star Wars when order 66 is activated and they kill the Jedi.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. A hidden command gets sent out by the Secret service and suddenly the security details of Vance, Trump, Kegsbreath, Bondi, etc... all do what needs to be done.

[–] MortUS@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

For sure. I'm well aware that real life doesn't work that way. Because real life kinda sucks right now.