Posts by Larry Fox5

Terry Howard7 said:Talk about a little treat for all you conspiracy theorists out there

Man, we really are living through some wild times. Between the pandemic, endless wars, meteors hitting... it’s constant—barely even time to catch a breath...

A meteor or a plane would have caused way more damage—plus, you’d still see plenty of recognizable wreckage from a plane. It definitely wasn't some kind of bomb, and it couldn't be a drone either because you'd see those parts too...

Look, if you actually want to make it in the business world, you’ve gotta get a grip on your emotions—don't just let them run wild. Honestly, there's zero point in reporting everything, and you might just end up making life harder for yourself. Say you file a complaint or start whining... suddenly you're stuck dealing with some witness or getting dragged through endless court hearings, all while painting a target on your own back.
What's the actual value in all that? None. You're just being a liability.

The whole trick is to learn from the mess, make sure it doesn't happen again, and manage your professional relationships better so you don't find yourself in this spot to begin with.

Just some friendly advice. 😉

Karen Hill40 said:Lowe spent five days guesting on my local radio station, and by some stroke of luck, I happened to be driving home right when he was on air. He was spouting such monumental nonsense that I was actually getting annoyed at first, but eventually, I just started treating it like a comedy sketch. The whole thing was basically a promotional tour for his book, 'The American Warrior,' where he tries to explain how the greatest warriors in history were all Americans. To top it all off, he ends by saying the book isn't even in stores—if you want a copy, you have to come straight to my house to get it. 🤣

Give me a break. 🤣 🤣🤣

Just Big City life and a bunch of beggars... nothing else.

Justin James10 said:Unbelievable... they actually made the call... so the GOP decided they could just rebuild the entire Banovina in a single year! 🙏

Vekjo is the absolute perfect voter 🙏

Vekjo this, Vekjo that—your entire body of work basically boils down to spitting on one person or another and finding all your worldly joy in criticizing just for the sake of being a critic. Whether it’s about the Anteater, Pike, Barcelona, politics, the leftists, Hajduk, or the black and red devils... whatever. As long as you can spit on someone, that's clearly your only talent... 🤣

Paul Sanders5 said:It was never okay to be dependent on Russia. Period. You're talking about an aggressive, undemocratic superpower that you have absolutely zero leverage over. Now, relying on Norway or Canada? Sure, you can do that, because they’re decent Western nations. Even the Saudis—you can lean on them because one phone call from the White House reminds them exactly who's running the show. But China? That's where the real nightmare begins. They're just like Russia, only x100 times worse. Honestly, we basically brought this on ourselves. We tripped and fell, and then we finished the job.

Schroeder needs to go stand in front of the Brandenburg Gate. And Merkel should be right there next to him.☕

The whole damn world depends on China. What are we even talking about here? 🤣

Maybe we can all join them up there at the gallows next to Merkel and Merkelica—you, me, and the rest of Western civilization. Technology got sold out just so people could chase a quick buck and grab cheaper products.
And yeah, politicians aren't any more to blame than us consumers—we've known this for years and we still don't care.
That's why it's all just empty talk and finger-pointing instead of actually looking in the mirror.

Kyle Campbell4 said:I can see him hanging from a flagpole; I guess I’m just a bullfighter at heart.🙂

I'm just sitting here waiting for Vekjo to jump back in and explain once again why the current sanctions are essentially nothing. I’ve told him this before: there is absolutely no chance they will ever hit where it actually hurts or force any real concessions, because European nations are far too dependent on Russian energy. It is pure hypocrisy and double standards in politics, plain and simple.

How is it even hypocritical if you openly admit you're dependent on that gas? At least right now, until some other alternative is found. Even if it's pricier or more complicated, there's nothing wrong with being honest about it.

What, are they supposed to just wreck their own economies just to prove to idiot Putin that we don't need his gas?
The world doesn't work like that, for Christ's sake. 🤣

Now you'll probably argue that because they became dependent on Russian gas, we should just go back to the dark ages because certain governments took that risk at one point in time.
That risk seemed fine once, but it sure as hell isn't anymore. The world shifts, people change, nations change—what works today doesn't mean it works tomorrow.

Stop looking at everything through such a narrow lens, trying to judge the whole world based solely on what's happening "right now."

Amanda Allen4 said:Oh, it was absolutely due to business operations. I’m sure there are plenty of folks over in the West who poured money into Russian ventures and are now sweating over the possibility of losing everything.

Look, almost every single trader out there has some kind of Russian stock sitting in their portfolio. Most of them weren't even considered risky before this war—which, let's face it, has completely flipped the world upside down...

Nicole Jackson3 said:Šarić doesn't live in San Francisco anymore. Last I heard, he was in Washington, D.C., around the end of summer last year.

Just imagine if he actually lived in Bijesov's neighborhood... what a nightmare.

Jacob Price95 said:We aren't surprised at all—we’d actually be shocked if they showed any principles for once. ☕

They're being principled toward the voters who put them there, anyway. It wouldn't be right if it were any other way...

You guys just copy-paste this mindless news from Index and then act all shocked by it—as if someone finally told you Santa Claus was just a myth.

Ukrainian tennis player Sergej Stahovski just leaked his private messages with Novak Djokovic.

It’s pretty wild how Djokovic was the only one to actually reach out and offer any kind of help—meanwhile, apparently Federer and Nadal wouldn't even pick up the phone...

Yeah, Feen made a solid point there. That gap between the Dollar and the Euro just doesn't make sense to me—I've never noticed anything like it before, whether I'm looking at Forex or trading stocks and crypto. It’s usually always within like 2-3%...

Just gave that "Offside knowledge" quiz a shot. 😁

I don't really get this spread on Forex between the Euro and the Dollar against the Ruble.

USD/RUB 103.73 - 107.27
EUR/RUB 112.74 - 138.94

Why is there such a massive gap with the Euro compared to the Dollar? There’s zero logic here... right?

Who actually knows where this war is headed?

It’s not like we have some crystal ball to see exactly how things play out in Ukraine. Every single outcome is still on the table... nothing is set in stone. And honestly—what does "winning" even mean to you? Like, does Russia even have the resources to hold down a massive country like Ukraine if they actually manage to win militarily?

Beating someone in a fight is one thing—keeping them under your thumb in an occupation is a whole different beast entirely.

Justin James10 said:Regardless of all that mindless propaganda being pushed around, it’s pretty obvious why Azov makes such an easy target for them. It really comes down to those fucking runes in their emblem and a handful of idiots within the ranks who make stupid outbursts or wear questionable patches. Honestly, people like that do nothing but cause damage.

But what exactly were you expecting during wartime?

It’s totally normal for a slice of the population to coalesce into some hyper-aggressive war machine. That’s how every single war works. You aren't going to see Hare Krishna groups sitting around meditating for the good of humanity when everything is blowing up...

Carl Lee27 said:Look, man,
Who actually argued against that? Seriously, did anyone in this thread even suggest that Europe is actually ready to handle enough LNG cargo to finally kick Russia to the curb?

I asked the same question twice now—and I'm really just trying to follow the logic here regarding your opposition to fracking—so, if we aren't doing that, where else is this diversification supposed to come from? You guys are clearly against fracking, which basically shuts the door on imports from the US, so I'm genuinely curious: if not from there, where on earth is the gas supposed to come from?

Whether it’s from Qatar, Norway, or Canada—they’re all riding with the USA and leading the pack in LNG exports. Honestly, for the US to source from Norway just makes the most sense since shipping costs are way lower... You could definitely ramp up production there too, so we'd see even more gas flowing in from Norway down the road...

Look, all the stats say gas demand is gonna tank over the next decade—so this whole thing is basically just a short-term headache... Building some massive pipeline across the Mediterranean wouldn't even make financial sense anyway.

Regarding those Russian sanctions—I'm reading that they’re actually hitting them way harder than expected because all those foreign companies are just pulling out of Russia entirely... It's like they didn't even see that coming, and honestly, there's no way for them to make up for that kind of loss...

AMD, Intel, Samsung, Apple... the whole damn tech industry basically bet everything on the Russian market...

People are losing their jobs left and right—the whole economic backbone of this country is just collapsing... And let’s be real, Russia is way more dependent on the West than anyone wants to admit. Take oil extraction, for instance—they need our tech just to get the stuff out of the ground. Even the aviation industry is hitting a wall now that Boeing and Airbus have cut off the supply of spare parts... everything is falling apart...

Aeroflot, S7 Airlines, Nordwind Airlines, AirBridgeCargo, UTAir, and Rossiya Airlines—it’s a massive hit, and we're talking about just one single slice of the business...
Volkswagen basically shuttered all their plants in Russia—they'll probably just scrap the whole production line for good at this point...

Nord Stream 2 is dead—shut down completely and they’ve handed out pink slips to every single official involved. You realize that was probably the biggest private investment ever, right? So yeah, all that cash just vanished into thin air... but honestly, that’s not even the worst part of this whole mess...

Germany's building two new LNG terminals—which basically means Russia is gonna lose its biggest customer for good... finally...

I don't think we can even begin to wrap our heads around the total damage here—we're looking at a massive wave of Russian banks and corporations just going under... They’ve already bled out so much capital on the stock market, not to mention the plummeting value of every single Russian company out there...

With his military sitting right there on the border, Putin had every single card in his hand—he could've demanded anything... But by launching this invasion of Ukraine, he didn't just wreck that country, he basically signed his own political death warrant too...

I don't know if anyone actually caught Jefferson's column about Zelenskyy, but man, it’s worth a look.

Just one little gem from the piece regarding Biden.

It’s been two years since he took office, and honestly—I can't even remember why I voted for him in the first place. Actually, if someone wanted to get to him, I wouldn't lift a finger to help. If I'm out walking near The White House and some muddy Jeep pulls up with four bearded Chechen guys inside asking, "Excuse me, do you know where Joe Biden lives?"—I'd just point right up the street: "Of course I do. That white house right there, number 241."

🤣 🤣

I'm reading that Russ is hitting way harder than expected when it comes to foreign companies pulling out to dodge those sanctions—it’s something they clearly didn't account for and there's just no way to make up for that loss.
People are losing jobs left and right and the whole economic foundation of the country is basically crumbling. I mean, Russia is incredibly dependent on the West for so many things—take oil extraction tech, for example. Now both Boeing and Airbus have stopped shipping spare parts for their aviation industry.
Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, FedEx Express, United Airlines, and JetBlue... we're talking about massive damage here, and that's just one single sector of the economy!
Ford, for instance, shut down all its factories in Russia and will probably pull production for good.

Nord Stream 2 is dead, and everyone working on it just got handed their walking papers. Do you realize that was one of the biggest private investments ever? All that cash—just tossed straight down the drain, but honestly, that's not even the worst part.

Germany is building two LNG terminals now, which means Russia is looking at losing its biggest customer forever.

I don't think we can even wrap our heads around the total damage yet—so many Russian banks and companies are going to go under. They've already bled massive amounts of capital on the stock market and seen the value of every single Russian enterprise tank.

While he was just sitting there with troops on the border, Putin had all the leverage in the world and could have demanded anything. By attacking Ukraine, he didn't just lead that country to ruin—he led his own right along with it.

Nathan Murphy said:Insane

I hate generalizing entire nations, but honestly—you look at their news sites and see like 70% of people rooting for the Russians in this war.

So, besides having totally broken eyes, you're out here backing unhinged aggressors who invaded another country for zero reason. They’re leveling whole cities, killing civilians—they're literally responsible for war crimes.

I don't know how much clearer you can get about how messed up someone is...