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@Vasilio @nielsen_pe50582 @GuntherEagleman Russia can't even win against the poorest most corrupt country in europe ie Ukraine 😂

@nielsen_pe50582 @GuntherEagleman lol, Germany owes the USA big time! Now you might want to learn Russian.

🚨 TRUMP JUST TOLD EUROPE TO PAY UP OR STEP UP Reporter asks why we’re pulling troops from Germany. Trump: “We’re going to cut way down… and we’re cutting a lot further than 5,000.” About damn time. Europe has been freeloading off American taxpayers for 80 years while they fund their socialist utopias and lecture us on “democracy.” No more blank checks. No more forever occupations.

@ejmarkow @MeatTheDude Your profile says us immigrant in Poland

@pan15537 @MeatTheDude No, I am a Polish citizen.

NO, because then each country loses control of its laws, sovereignty and independence.

@ejmarkow @MeatTheDude Aren't you a migrant in Poland?

@MeatTheDude They do. I'm in Poland and we have the stringent abortion laws in Europe but Brussels wants to force Poland to change that. Brussels is also trying to force illegal migrants into Poland, same-sex marriage, and LGBT instruction in schools. Most Poles do NOT want woke nonsense.

@AwakenedOutlaw Fisyrly it was caused by a bush fire Secondly haven't seen what's been going on in the ME for the past 2 decades?

Weird how it’s never a mosque. What are the odds? No, really. What are they?

@KSArfelt @JohnCleese Didn't know that was linked to a bush fire

@JohnCleese Church fires are a side effect of cultural enrichment from the Middle East. The new citizens simply try to make the UK look and feel like home. Assimilation at its finest: the host adapts to the intruders. Just a shame the imported culture is a bit of a setback.

Does anyone believe these church fires are coincidental ?

@JohnCleese Hey moron, the local fire department literally said they initially went for a bush fire. The video you show just shows one angle.

@mercoglianos Ready for Sunday night doomsday headlines

It must be Friday! Hmmm...why does this always happen on Friday?

@pr0foundly @ciarannugent Fair enough, I would never live in dublin it's a rip off. The whole country has become a rip off. I bought an investment house 5 years ago for 120k in Mayo, just did a bit of decoration work in it. Estate agent estimated it was now at 210... Ridiculous!

@pan15537 @ciarannugent I’m not struggling - I said half my money is scalped my the government. But when I was eating 120k it was hard living in Dublin paying rent and trying to save, pay for school and living costs

An Irish worker on 200,000 euro pays 43% in income tax

@pr0foundly @ciarannugent It's 69k out of 200k the rest is all psri and social charges. As for taxes you use the roads etc. With 189k in Ireland if you're struggling you're just not managing money well

That’s absolute bollox mate - to work nearly 50% of your time as a slave. I earn close to that 189k and I promise you I’m not living like a king. Half of what I earn is stolen by the cunts in revenue and what remains is devoured by greedy energy companies and service providers. You’re a deluded cunt.

@VividProwess Who funded Hamas again?

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Brandon Tatum left Piers and Dave speechless. “Israel removed Jews from Gaza and gave it to them, and what did they do in return? They elected a terrorist organization. They don’t want a two-state solution. There is no peace with those people” He’s 100% correct.

@JohnLeFevre Jp morgan conducted an investigation 😂😂😂🤡, you mean the Epstein bank?

I would wager any amount of money that this JP Morgan woman is 1000% innocent and now she's having her life ruined by some failed banker turned scammer. 1. JPM conducted a full internal investigation. That means they would have forensically analyzed all devices - business and personal - for direct evidence and indirect behavioral patterns. She cooperated. He didn't. 2. Her reputation is rock solid. JPM LevFin employees are calling her kind and professional, and even prudish (i.e. the opposite of deviant). Conversely, they are calling this John Doe coward a creep and a loser. Now she's been meme'd into oblivion by the Daily Mail and the social media masses. How can she get another job? How can she get a promotion? How can she find a life partner? The memes are funny, but they are destroying this poor woman's life. So try to keep that in mind and have some grace.

@TittlyWinks45 @mercoglianos You think the us followed international rules 🤣🤣

Sal, the international order is gone, and it has been for a while. China knows it, and their actions prove they can get away with ramming Philippine ships. Russia knows it, and has proven it by invading a country that posed no threat to it. The Houthi’s know it, and proved they can hit unarmed merchants ships for years with minimum response. Only recently has the US realized it and stopped playing by rules that no one else was following. Whatever flights of fantasy Europe has about notions of human right, just wars, international law, are meaningless without the military to enforce them. We are now in an era where might makes right, as those who championed the old concepts were not willing to fight and sacrifice for them (or not enough of them were). All was traded for cheaper goods and a growing economy.

"Israel Intercepts Gaza Aid Ships in International Waters, Organizers Decry Move" By what authority does Israel seize ships on the high seas? While this ship may be heading to Gaza, they were in international waters. gcaptain.com/israel-interce…

@RobertMSterling Meh jp morgan... ie Epstein friends

If you’ve ever worked in finance, you know women like this are a force of nature, especially at top-tier banks. They might not be the “rainmaker” bringing a deal in, but they’re often the ones making sure the deal actually gets done, the client gets their win, and the bank gets its fees. They’re smart, hard-working, usually the most focused and disciplined person in the room, and utterly ruthless. If you’re capable and you show them professional respect, they will move mountains for you. If you’re lazy, dumb, or a roadblock, though, they won’t hesitate to steamroll you and leave your body in an alley behind the building. The definition of no better friend, no worse enemy. You’d have to to be insane to pick a fight with someone like this, especially if the facts of the case aren’t completely on your side. We’re not even 24 hours into this story and it’s already clear the guy who tried dragging this woman through the mud is likely the dumbest dude who’s ever had a job on Wall Street. He truly has no idea what he’s done or what he’s in for.

@EricLDaugh Great do it it's better for us in Europe anyway like this 0 links to your dumb wars. When is it happening because I keep reading it and don't see it happening

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. President Trump is now considering withdrawing troops from SPAIN and ITALY — on top of GERMANY "Why SHOULDN'T I?" "Italy hasn't been any help...Spain has been HORRIBLE." "When we needed them, they WERE NOT THERE." Trump is DONE with useless allies 🔥

@gothburz Weren't you guys already dealing with epstein blowback?

I promoted Lorna Hajdini to Executive Director at JPMorgan because she understood something most bankers never learn. Ownership. Not deal ownership. People ownership. The kind of leadership where you don't just manage a pipeline. You manage the person building it. Their trajectory. Their compensation. Their future at the firm. Their references when they try to leave. I taught her that. Not at NYU Stern. Not at Harvard. Here. In Leveraged Finance. In my corner office on the forty-second floor with the framed Tombstones from every deal that made this division what it is. Lorna's handshake could restructure a cap table. That's not a compliment. That's a performance review. When the complaint came across my desk, I read it twice. Not because it was disturbing. Because it was familiar. Every behavior described. The direct communication. The after-hours mentorship. The expectation that juniors earn their advancement through demonstrated commitment to the team. That's the playbook. My playbook. The one I handed Lorna when she made Executive Director and inherited a book of direct reports who needed to understand the hierarchy. "I own you." I've said it to thirty-one analysts over twenty-two years. It means: I control your rating, your bonus, your promotion slate, and whether the next firm you apply to hears "top-decile performer" or dead air. It's in the HR manual under "direct management accountability." We call it alignment of incentives. The complainant. A Senior VP in Originations who couldn't close. He alleges Lorna tied his advancement to "pleasing" her. I've read the promotion policy. An Executive Director has full discretion over direct-report advancement recommendations. Full discretion. We designed that authority. It incentivizes loyalty. It builds culture. It creates the kind of deep mentorship relationships that retain top talent. If he interpreted "full discretion" as something other than what every Managing Director on this floor has understood since the division was founded in 1998, that's a communication gap on his end. Not a policy failure. Harvard Business School profiled Lorna last month. "Leveling Up with Perspective, Practice, and People." She described a striking level of humility. A palpable hunger for knowledge. She talked about growing personally and professionally alongside her team. About being curious about perspectives different from your own. I wrote her recommendation for that program. I said: Lorna understands ownership the way very few people at her level do. The profile is still live on the Harvard website. Nobody took it down. That's not an oversight. That's an editorial decision by people who evaluate leaders for a living. The investigation lasted six weeks. I was consulted on a Thursday. They interviewed fourteen employees. Reviewed badge data. Calendar invites. Email metadata. Found no policy violation. The complainant declined to participate. He was already on wellness leave by then. Unrelated. Two witnesses are cited in the lawsuit. They were not cited in the investigation. I am told this is because the investigation's scope was determined prior to the filing. Scope is important. Without scope, every investigation into a Managing Director candidate with eighteen active deal mandates and a direct line to three of our top-ten private equity clients becomes a fishing expedition that puts nine figures of annual revenue in jeopardy. We are not in the business of fishing. Lorna remains employed. The complainant does not. His systems access was revoked on a Tuesday. I know it was a Tuesday because I approved the ticket. Standard offboarding protocol. The building badge, the Bloomberg terminal, the health insurance portal. All deactivated within the same four-hour window. He found out when his laptop locked at 2 PM and his key card stopped working at the elevator bank. The threatening phone calls started that week. "Just wait till you're back in New York, Brown boy." Someone knew his personal number. Someone knew he was out of state. Someone knew the racial thing would land. Those are outside the scope of the firm's responsibility. We cannot police what former colleagues discuss on personal devices during personal time. We did advise him to contact local law enforcement. In writing. Via his personal email, since his corporate account had already been deactivated. I am told he received that email. People keep asking if I'm concerned. I thought about him once. The complainant. On a Wednesday, I think. I was reviewing Lorna's Q3 revenue attribution and his name appeared on a deal she closed after he left. His origination work. Her closing credit. Standard reassignment. And I thought — briefly — about what it must feel like to watch your work get credited to the person who.· Anyway. Revenue attribution follows the active relationship manager. Policy is clear. Am I concerned? I built Lorna's career. I taught her how ownership works in Leveraged Finance. I watched her apply those lessons with a level of intensity I haven't seen since my own early years on the desk, back when nobody filed complaints because everybody understood the cost of being the person who didn't understand. If the system produced what that lawsuit describes, then I'm the system. But the investigation found no merit. So I'm just a mentor.

@Ratkiewicz_s @mercoglianos I don't think you realize the carrying capacity of a ship and how many lorries would be need just for one. Just a 5000 etu container ship (which is small) needs... 5000 loriee

@mercoglianos I don't disagree with your assessment but it still remains an alternate route until the SoH crises is resolved. Another route is the Caspian Sea route.

'Not efficient' according to Sal, but in time of War very sufficient. China's route to Iran goes through Pakistan.

@thomas_eilveis @mimikkiki @Mr72Capital @SebJohnsonUK As for Iceland quality of life is way higher in terms of what you get for your money. I love ireland and would actually prefer to be there full time (nature, friends etc) but our system is shite and corrupt. We don't even have the children's hospital built yet ffs

@thomas_eilveis @mimikkiki @Mr72Capital @SebJohnsonUK In the meantime had no idea what was going and was living with extreme pain (kidney stones every week). Decided I'd had enough went to France, took two months and now it's sorted to the stage I can love again. Childcare is not comparable either.

Europe dominates the list of richest countries. The US ranks as 16th while the UK is not even in the top 20. This is a new ranking which measures, not just GDP, but how wealth concretely translates into the daily life of the ordinary citizen. GDP per capita is generally a terrible metric, as it assumes national output is evenly shared across the population.

@ScottDFricano @nickimoraa Or the family could pay for the seat if that important, knowing the guy paid for his it doesn't seem fair to expect him to move.

@nickimoraa You should have moved for the family: That is what defines Class.

Flight attendant comes up to me before takeoff, very gentle voice: “Hi, would you be willing to switch seats to help a family sit together?” I already know. I just know. Me: “What seat is it?” Her: “It’s a middle seat toward the back.” I said, “I’m happy to help if it’s the same type of seat or better.” She smiles that tight customer-service smile and goes, “It would really mean a lot to them.” I said, “It already means a lot to me. That’s why I paid for it.” She just nodded and walked away. Respectfully, too. Because what argument is left?