MrVH

🚨 BREAKING: Canada’s MAiD euthanasia machine just hit rock bottom. A Quebec physician has formally suggested assisted suicide for infants — babies from birth to one year old with severe deformities and syndromes. Parents “should have the opportunity” to have their newborn killed. Federal committees are now pushing to expand MAiD to “mature minors” (children), where a doctor — not the parents — decides if the kid can “consent” to their own death. Ontario’s Chief Coroner confirms hundreds of MAiD deaths are driven by poverty, loneliness, and lack of housing — not terminal illness. People are being offered lethal injection because they feel like a burden. This isn’t healthcare. 
This is a moral horror show. Years of Liberal-NDP rule have turned Canada into one of the most dangerous places on Earth for the vulnerable — from newborns to the poor. Danielle Smith is fighting this insanity in Alberta. The rest of the country needs to wake the hell up before it gets even worse. Watch the full press conference 👇 #MAiD #EuthanasiaCanada #cdnpoli #ProtectOurKids #CanadaIsBroken #LiberalFailure

So many people commenting about things they had no idea of until two days ago. It's not cheating. It's a missed penalty call by the ref. That said it's a missed penalty call on an "infraction" that happens often, that has absolutely no consequence on a 40lb rock and that has never been called probably in the history of curling. Cry some more.

NEW: Canada men’s curling wins gold after being accused of cheating their way through the Winter Olympics. The team is now gloating, telling people who accuse them of cheating to get a picture of them hugging each other “burned into your brain.” “For anyone who called us cheaters, for anyone who said negative things about Marc Kennedy, about us, about Canada, about our families,” said Brad Jacobs. “I hope that the image of us standing on top of the podium, embracing one another, smiling ear to ear with our gold medals is burned into your brain forever.” In response to the cheating accusations, the team accused others of setting up cameras to catch them in the act.

I refuse to refer to Jesse Strang/Van Rootselaar using female pronouns. He was a monster. He. He. He.

BREAKING: The Federal Court of Appeal has now twice ruled that the Liberal government unreasonably invoked the Emergencies Act. In 2022, Cabinet approved extraordinary powers that violated Charter rights without meeting the legal threshold for a national emergency. Freezing bank accounts and suppressing freedoms to deal with a political protest was wrong and unlawful, yet the Liberals still spent millions in taxpayer dollars fighting Canadians in court. These decisions were made by Cabinet, and the ministers responsible must be held accountable. Canadians deserve a full apology for the trampling of their Charter rights. nationalpost.com/news/politics/…

Psalm 46:1 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

#XRPCommunity #SECGov v. #Ripple #XRP BREAKING: The parties have filed a Joint Dismissal of the Appeals. The case is over.

@TYCHO219 @castlerockjock What in the world are you guys buying for electric mowers???? I have a Dewalt DCMWSP244U2-CA and I can mow my whole lawn on one charge in about 60mins. I'd never go back to gas. Quiet and cheap to run. I'll take it.

@castlerockjock My neighbor has an electric mower. It takes him two days to mow the yard. If he had a gas mower it would take 45 minutes.

Fuck you, Ryobi and your shit lawnmowers that shut off every fucking turn from all the bullshit "safety features". Takes me an hour to mow a 700sq ft lawn. Also fuck the Colorado dems for passing electric lawnmower laws. Fuck.

What looks to me to be, a credible airdrop for #XRP holders coming soon...

Well, #XRP looks like its on a trajectory to just over $5 by my, albeit amateur, TA. And $13-ish for it's top. Seems pretty cut and dry and it's what I'm basing my exit strategy on. 6.5% exit at around $5 and the remaining somewhere near $10. If $XRP continues up to $20-$30, so be it, I won't mind in the least, I'll still be out by $10. It's all I need and for me the rest is just greed, so why risk it for something which has such a negative effect on one's life. Gordon Gekko was wrong, which is clearly the message of the movie... #greedisnotgood . Figure out your exit strategy and stick to it, don't let your greed manipulate into clawing for more.

One of the greatest theologians of our time. What a great loss.

Everything I've come to know know about charts informs me that the next trend in this mystery market will be Up Up Up The market is just pausing in the yellow box

#XRP Clean break out of the falling wedge on the daily chart. If $XRP can hold the week above about $2.37 it will break out on the weekly as well.

@freddyriz This is exactly what I posited to happen back in March of this year... Both drop their appeals and just do what they agreed to, nevermind the courts. x.com/MrVH/status/19…

SEC v. Ripple Update: This is a long post on my thoughts here but the TLDR is: "Welcome to the new SEC, for now more or less the same as the last one." And: Ripple and SEC will settle the appeal for the reduced, agreed upon amount and leave the Torres judgment in place, while the SEC will publicly or privately communicate to Ripple that it is not restricted in its business operations with Ripple transparent about those operations and demonstrating how they no longer fall into the category that was deemed illegal by Torres. I thought Judge Torres would grant the first motion, recognizing that the anti-crypto war of the Gensler Era was political animus and that the agency was moving in a different direction under new leadership. There was zero obstacle to her granting the motion and moving on. She chose not to. There are only two reasons for this. One, she was pissed that the parties wasted 4.5 years of her time with bitter litigation. This reason is 100% in play. Two, she is hostile to the Trump administration and will do what she can to throw up obstacles. This reason is 100% in play for some federal judges (it is no matter who is in charge as there are judges that are political rather than objective). I'm not sure if this reason is in play for Torres but now I will be following her other cases to test this hypothesis. Once Torres denied the first motion, and the language she used in so doing, it was clear that the @SECGov (and to a lesser extent, @Ripple) needed to do some begging in the second motion and both utterly failed. Pages 3 and 4 of this ruling parrot back the SEC's own words of how egregious, dangerous, and reckless the SEC believed Ripple to be and why a $1 BILLION fine was necessary. I said that the second motion had to have some actual testimony by SEC Commissioners (meaning affidavits/declarations) to counter this, such as "I, Commissioner Peirce, voted against this ridiculous lawsuit because it was a waste of our enforcement resources and unfair in light of our piss poor guidance to crypto companies." Or: "I, Commissioner Atkins, took over as Chair with a mandate to correct the wrongs of the prior SEC regarding crypto guidelines. A majority of the commissioners determined the SEC enforcement division under the prior administration acted arbitrarily, capriciously and often with bad faith in targeting crypto companies. The most serious example of that, of course, being the Debt Box case where our attorneys were so brazen in their unethical behavior that the SEC was sanctioned in excess of a million dollars and the lawyers were terminated. Our position in the Ripple litigation was misguided and flat our wrong. The court should evaluate all prior pleadings from the context that our enforcement attorneys acted in a partisan manner and not out of faithful allegiance to the law, as Judge Netburn noted herself in this case." This obviously did not happen and there are only two reasons why: (1) Ripple and the SEC did not discuss this necessity. I find it hard to believe this to be the case, as it could arguably be legal malpractice if the attempt was not made. (2) Ripple did ask and the SEC said, "We are not making ourselves look like idiot assholes. This crappy motion on SEC letterhead is the best I can offer ." Because (2) is likely what happened, this tells me that the SEC is going to do what it has done for decades: protect its own regardless of the administration in charge or detriment to the public. If you ever want to know the types of pieces of shit that sit atop the SEC, type into your browser "david aguirre sec whistleblower" and read up (and this happened under W Bush btw). Also, I sue .gov agencies all the time for despicable behavior they commit against my fellow American citizens. They are all like this (and I mean as institutions; there are some good folks fighting upstream but they are vastly outnumbered). This is the reason I am so invested in crypto--to opt out of our crumbling system. Another reason you know the SEC hasn't fundamentally changed (yet at least) on crypto will be revealed on the appeal. SEC claimed it is dropping their appeal but I don't believe that has been formalized. The SEC has the power to formally drop their appeal and simply not respond to Ripple's appellate brief (i.e., leaving it unopposed) thereby giving a huge boost to Ripple winning it. I put that happening at 0%. The parties will drop their appeals, settle at $50M and move on with the injunction in place. Regarding that injunction, it doesn't affect $XRP on the secondary markets nor will it impact XRP ETF approvals. And remember the injunction is just a piece of paper issued by a court. Although technically Torres has the ability to haul Ripple and SEC back into her court and say, "I see Ripple is selling to institutions, tell me why that is not violating my injunction," the odds of this are extremely low. In other words, the injunction only substantively matters if the SEC wants it to matter, meaning, the SEC files a motion to enforce the injunction because it believes Ripple is violating it. Torres in her ruling acknowledged this general principle on page 5. Presumably the "pro-crypto" Commission wouldn't do that. Lastly on the injunction, I have researched it but have yet to find a basis why the answer to this question has to be 'no': Doesn't the SEC have the authority to grant Ripple the exemptions and waivers required to remove any restrictions necessitated by the injunction (such as time restriction on IPO)? From my research this seems to be entirely within the executive authority of the SEC to do. Further, Ripple has already claimed that it has changed its operations such that the behavior it got tagged for by Torres is no more. If you look at the @s_alderoty post on this ruling from today, I noticed for the first time that he used the term "historic institutional sales" to describe the Torres-determined-bad-behavior. Maybe he used it before but I didn't notice it. Anyway, this signals to me that the parties are going to settle and move on with the understanding that XRP sales to institutions will be done in a way the SEC can live with. If you read all of this, I am impressed. Any replies that demonstrate you read the whole thing will bring me joy. At the same time, under The Reply Laws Of X, I hope to see the most appropriate reply in the comments when it comes to ridiculously long posts by a user.

@Vet_X0 @xrp_rich_bot How accurate is this list though? I know it's not accurate by at least one account that is not listed correctly.

There's no significant drop in XRP reserve at major exchanges. You can check hourly changes with this rich list actually querying the XRP Ledger - @xrp_rich_bot

We are pleased to announce that after just three days of trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), the 3iQ XRP ETF (Ticker: $XRPQ) has accumulated C$32 million in assets under management, making it the largest exchange-traded fund focused on #XRP in Canada. XRPQ is one of the first in North America providing indirect access to XRP, and with a 0% management fee for the first six months, it is also one of the most competitively priced digital asset ETFs on the market. “Our XRP ETF’s impressive success after only a few days of trading, similar to what our Solana Staking ETF experienced very shortly after its launch, underscores the benefits we offer to both retail and institutional investors looking to increase exposure to digital assets,” said Pascal St-Jean, President and CEO of 3iQ. Press release: 3iq.io/press-media/3i…

Why does no one ever ask what the guy that GOT the 10,000 #BTC for the pizza did with it?

@BCBacker I should note, I am also a small business owner, so I have personal sweat in the game.

I think you are misunderstanding the purpose for the tariffs... the prime reason for the tariffs is not to bring the manufacturing back to the US, although that would hope to be a future ancillary effect. The prime reason for the tariffs is to level the playing field and get the corresponding countries to remove THEIR tariffs from the US imports to those countries. THAT is the prime reason for the so-called "tariff war". I say this as a Canadian, living in Canada, but that doesn't mean I don't understand the purpose of what is happening, and I actually would support the actions of President Trump if I were a US citizen. It is unfair that US products continue to be tariffed so highly when the opposite is not true. I just wish we had a Prime Minister that cares as much about helping the Canadian economy as Trump cares about the helping the US economy.

I rarely chime in deeply on topics outside of charts. But, I think I'll chime in the tariffs thing a little bit because I do understand how this impacts small businesses and why they are freaking out. 1. The U.S. does not have the infrastructure in place to support manufacturing in the the country. Nearly all of the items made overseas are done so because the factories don't exist in the U.S. to do so. Even if they did, we'd need to still import materials. But the idea of "just make it in America instead of overseas" is a misconception. It's not a choice of "it being too expensive so I'll choose somewhere else," it's a necessity as "it does not exist in America." 2. Enforcing high tariffs doesn't cure that immediately. It will take years for facilities to be built. 3. The profit margins for small businesses are going to be squeezed to zero from product costs. Anyone operating on a 20% profit margin effectively loses their entire margin with the tariff, unless if they raise their prices equivalently, as it is the U.S. company who outsourced the manufacturing who pays the tariff bill. So, small businesses become unprofitable without raising prices to match the new tariff cost. 4. Demand is going to collapse. Especially with the stock market selloff. Now, demand is going to be cut in half as everyone is going to tighten up their household budgets to weather this stock market and economic storm. We saw this in the first initial months of Covid. Sales picked up once stimulus checks and insane unemployment payments were going out, along with people bored at their home with nothing to do but order on Amazon. But, without those specific elements, demand collapsed. And it did, demand collapsed for the first couple of months. Now small businesses will be met with higher product costs along with collapsing demand. A recipe for going out of business. So, without manufacturing facilities already available to produce goods, the economic recipe for the foreseeable future is actually quite bad. Which begs the question, will Trump really go forward with all of this? Or come out and delay it and have another plan? There isn't manufacturing capability in the U.S. for the years ahead. And, prices to import will skyrocket, along with collapsing demand, killing many businesses. It just doesn't seem like he can really go through with it without destroying the small business sector. There has to be some kind of plan beyond this.