@InteractiveCams@Western_Exile@Lordoftheringsu "But at that something snapped: suddenly Wormtongue rose up, drawing a hidden knife, and then with a snarl like a dog he sprang on Saruman’s back, jerked
his head back, cut his throat, and with a yell ran off down the lane."
Whose ignorance?
Sir Christopher Lee was deeply disappointed when Saruman’s death was cut from the theatrical Return of the King. As a devoted Tolkien fan, he felt it was “shocking” for such a major character to simply vanish. In protest, he refused to attend the world premiere.
Peter Jackson argued the scene slowed the pacing yet the Extended Edition restored it: Saruman stabbed by Gríma and falling from Orthanc.
And the most iconic detail? During filming, Jackson asked Lee to scream when stabbed. Lee replied:
“Do you know what sound a man makes when he’s stabbed in the back? Because I do.” Thanks to his WWII experience, he explained a real stab produces only a sharp gasp not a scream.
@allenanalysis Trump knows that his dementia will kill him before the year is up, so let him say things that comforts him in the face of the eternal void.
Trump just said:
“When I get out of office in, let’s say, eight or nine years from now…”
His current term ends in 2029.
Eight or nine years from now is 2033 or 2034.
The 22nd Amendment limits presidents to two terms.
His own judicial nominees refused to confirm that on camera this week.
He’s not hiding it anymore.
Never stop connecting the dots.
@Western_Exile@Lordoftheringsu I guess people in Russia don’t read, because that is what happened in the books. Thanks for proving the ignorance of non-readers though!
@BKR1988NE@Ric_RTP He doesn’t mean “actual cash”. He would never do that because inflation will devalue it. Berkshire has about 90% of its cash in U.S. treasuries.
@Ric_RTP Most interesting part is that he's sitting on $380 in CASH yet he says the US dollar could collapse.
Difficult position to be in I suppose since there aren't many places you can park that much $$ other than US treasuries.
Buying more farmland myself to get out of the US$.
Warren Buffett just warned that the US dollar could collapse and admitted he doesn't understand most of the stock market anymore.
95 years old, sitting on $380 billion in cash, and the first time watching from the sidelines instead of actively investing.
And what he revealed at this weekend's Berkshire shareholder meeting is genuinely concerning:
On the market, Buffett didn't hold back.
He compared it to "a church with a casino attached" and said the casino has never been more packed. On one-day options: "That is not investing. It's not speculating. It's gambling. Totally."
He pointed to the Avis short squeeze THIS WEEK. A rental car company that's been around for 50 years getting meme-squeezed in 2026. The same behavior that blew up retail traders with GameStop is back, except now it's hitting boring legacy companies with zero business being volatile.
"We have lots more regulation now, but people spend their time figuring out how to get around the rules rather than follow the rules."
That one sentence explains more about the current market than every CNBC segment combined.
When asked why he's hoarding $380 billion instead of investing it, Buffett said something no one expected:
"I understand fewer of the businesses as a percentage of the whole than I did 10 years ago. I have not learned new industries for some years. I'm not going to have an edge on a whole bunch of younger people that have actually grown up with it."
Think about what he's actually saying...
This is a man who made $140 billion by understanding businesses better than anyone alive. And he's telling you the current market is so detached from reality that even HE can't make sense of what's being valued and why.
He quoted IBM's Tom Watson Sr.: "I'm smart in spots and I stay around those spots."
In 60 years of managing money, he said MAYBE five were "really juicy." Five out of sixty. That means 92% of his career was spent WAITING while everyone else gambled. And he still ended up richer than all of them.
Then the conversation turned to inflation and that's where it gets really interesting:
Buffett said America is "not immune" from runaway inflation. He brought up countries that went bankrupt "six or seven times" in his lifetime.
Compared today to right before Volcker had to rescue the dollar, when Americans were borrowing at 12% to buy farmland earning 6% because they believed the dollar would disappear.
"Cash is trash" was the mentality.
Nebraska farmers collapsed
because of it. Entire communities wiped out not by a recession but by a BELIEF that the currency was dying. And Buffett sees that same energy building again.
Then someone asked the question everyone wanted answered: Do you see a crash coming?
"If you saw it coming, it wouldn't happen. The things people are talking about and thinking about? It's not going to happen. But there are things that can come out of the blue."
He compared it to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 that triggered World War I. Nobody was discussing or anticipating it. But it changed the world overnight.
"That's particularly true now because of the things that can come out of the sky."
A 95yo man who has survived every crash, every war, every crisis of the last six decades just told you the market is a casino, the dollar isn't safe, and the real collapse will be something nobody sees coming.
$380 billion in cash is his answer because he believes things are about to get much worse.
@JulenBollain Trump is so dumb that he doesn’t realize that being asked to take 3 cognitive test within one year is nothing to brag about. The doctors know he has dementia and he won’t be in office by the end of the year.
Trump: “Me hice tres pruebas cognitivas. Saqué sobresaliente en todas, por cierto. Soy el único presidente que se ha hecho una prueba cognitiva. No creo que Obama pudiera aprobarla. La primera pregunta es muy fácil: hay un león, una jirafa, un oso y un tiburón. Te dicen: ‘¿Cuál es el oso?’”
Trump acaba de explicar con orgullo una prueba médica diseñada para detectar señales tempranas de demencia como si fuera un test de inteligencia.
Le han hecho tres. Presume de haberlas aprobado. Y aun así, parece que no ha entendido de qué iban.
@krassenstein He had the shotgun in his hand, so if he shot a cop then it was with that gun. The odds of a shotgun round only hitting a bulletproof vest is low. So personally, I think he didn’t shoot at all and that cop was shot by another cop.
BREAKING: Here is Newly released, high-resolution, slow-mo footage from the Trump DOJ showing the alleged WH Correspondents Dinner shooting suspect, Independently registered Cole Allen running past a security checkpoint.
Thoughts?
@allenanalysis No other president passed a cognitive exam before because none were going senile like Trump and had to take one. So technically he is correct here, lol.
YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP
Trump says candidates should be required to pass a cognitive exam.
He then clarified he has served THREE terms as president.
There have been two.
He also claims acing the exam is something “doctors say has rarely been done before.”
The test asks you to identify a drawing of an elephant. 🤦🏽♂️
@mrlotobvious@Maximumatheist Which day is three days after Friday? Hint, it’s not Sunday. Also, dying on a Friday evening and rising on a Sunday morning is about 36 hours later, which is a day and a half (not 3).
@InteractiveCams@Maximumatheist No because the knife and guillotine alone aren’t what makes Christian’s wear the cross or use it as a symbol. It’s the event that occurred. Due to his crucifixation Jesus died while taking all of our sins from all times with him and resurrects after three days
@Anatolydaily It’s amazing how so many people thinks this is real, lol. Besides the fact that he both of the people in that video and is front squatting with no rack in front of him, his max lifts are: Deadlift: 639 lbs, Squat: 463 lbs, Bench Press: 325 lbs. His videos all staged.
Kai Trump opens up about being judged because of her last name
"50% of the world doesn't like me because of my last name but they don't actually know me"
“One time I was out in public and someone literally walked up to me to tell me that my grandpa sucks”
@ShallNotBeCivil@For_Film_Fans Of course you aren’t. You just have a whole X account dedicated to bashing Democrats because you never vote Republican, lol. 😂
@ShallNotBeCivil@For_Film_Fans Yeah, Mar-a-lago women are sooo natural, lol. Also, why are republicans so obsessed with penises? Maybe you and Lindsay Graham should talk?
@EdKrassen Never in the 18 years that I worked in the restaurant industry have I ever confused a waiter getting 86’ed with them being killed rather than being fired.