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  1. First order consequences: I have to get out of bed and go to this interview on CNBC

    2nd Order consequences: Everyone perceives me as having all the answers and can manage a fund better then anyone else

    3rd order consequences: All the money in the US flows into my funds.

    You people are masters at making excuses for a broken system.

  2. Last week you said it was 12-18 months away and within a few days, it will be approved in the next month or before the end of the year.

    You’re the authority, so we’ll just go along with whatever you impose on everyone, yeah.

  3. If you were an honest person and honest with yourself, you would’ve have said, a few things have happened the past week that makes us believe that an ETF will now likely be approved anywhere between next month and the end of the year.

    You don’t say we’re looking at 12-18 months and then change it to a 1-3 months like your entitled to do that and it’s acceptable.

    Many people are so stupid that they won’t even notice.

  4. Go fuck yourself dude. Anyone outside that bubble knows its all about access to capital and 90% of the people you come across in business are crooks, so its a minefield.

  5. Go find an angel, ask friends and family and you can all enjoy the spoils of success or fail together.

    Build an MVP first, validste your idea and then after 1-2 years you can start working on a full protype and maybe you can add product

    You’re toxic and life destroying and that’s all you’ll be.

    Youve got almost zero goodwill.

  6. Give away 10-20% of your company to an angel, build a MVP. What a low life thing to say.

    Italians build Colosseums but I’ll build an MVP and validate it in the market first.

    What a low life, what soul destroying people you are. You and your little game you play, so you can remain in control of everything.

  7. Ceasefire now!!
    The moral rottenness of allowing this wholesale slaughter and forced displacement of over a million people is incredible. This is a total breakdown of Western institutions including the press cheering on ethnic cleansing, forced displacement and proto genocide.
    Hamas are abhorrent and their actions revolting but this does not justify committing war crimes against a population where nearly half are children.
    Absolutely sickening.

    • Good God! Mega crook and war criminal Netanyahu has asked Tony Blair to be a humanitarian co-ordinator in the hope that this will reduce pressure over the slaughter of civilians. Apparently they have been chatting for weeks.
      What a fantastic idea to get another war criminal to do your PR for you!!
      Thoughts Margot?!!
      😠😠😠

    • Agree 100% on all counts. Blair went from supporting an illegal invasion to Middle East Peace Negotiator! You couldn’t make it up.
      Can’t look at the pictures from Gaza any more. It’s a massacre, and a massacre of the innocent.
      Bet bPutin has got a hand in all this, cos look where we aren’t looking.

  8. OMG Rishi says he will pass emergency law to say Rwanda is a safe country so he can bypass Supreme court. Such a useful way to spend his time.
    What next?!! Any more countries he wants to shove on the safe or unsafe list?! Apart from being an object of endless mirth it is astonishing how ridiculous and irrelevant this country has become…

      • He is a massive idiot full stop. Some of his mps are in an impossible position as it’s well known they are absolutely inundated with furious emails from their constituents. They don’t really have any choice but to call for a ceasefire.
        Looks like public opinion is coming out strongly in that direction everywhere including most importantly America. France and Spain have called for one thank God.
        Ceasefire now!!!!

        • I don’t support civilians dying in this war on both sides but I support Israel 💯.

          They Palestinian people brought this on themselves, they elected and support Hamas which is an Islamic terrorists coward b@$t@rds who hide behind children and civilians.
          Anyways I can right a book on this but what’s the use.

          Partnering with terrorist or evil people has it’s own fruits their are consequences.
          In every war civilians are a victim sad, I hope less innocent people die.

          Hamas and other terrorist groups are like a cancer they must be totally destroyed or rendered ineffective if not more innocent people will die in the future.

          Like I said I say again I support Israel 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 and I hope all Hamas terrorist are destroyed and those who sympathize with terrorism I hope you wake up from your stupidity one day.

  9. Hi Amy…As Ricky has suddenly got huffy about where to post…..:-0
    The Traitors is all about lies, maniplulation and turning people against each other, remind you of anything?
    Actually it’s very clever, someone smart has dreampt it up.

    • Hi Margot!! Will have a look on iPlayer. Do I have to start at the beginning?
      Trump is his usual psychotic self. It’s Biden ‘s ludicrous despicable behaviour over Gaza which is opening the door to dictatorship. Young voters deserting him in droves. Who can blame them? The genocide Joe label is going to stick especially if he is stupid enough to get dragged into a larger conflict.

  10. Just come here to vent my fury that Rafa is apparently acting as an ambassador for Saudi Arabia to bring tennis there.
    I have never been the kind of fan who can’t criticise Rafa. I was absolutely furious with him over his long silence after the outset of the invasion of Ukraine when Andy and Fed spoke
    up immediately but this is ridiculous.
    Really honestly I may have had enough of him. He looks like a shallow money grubber.

      • It’s awful Margot!! I saw Chrissie and Martina have written a letter saying the WTA shouldn’t go to Saudi Arabia. Iga has,also opposed it. Iga seems to be the only young player speaking out against it. Think I will officially become her fan.
        Andy spoke against it of course. He has more principles than most of the ATP put together.
        Disgusted with Rafa.

  11. Its ok if Ronaldo n neymar sign up for Saudi clubs n play for them but rafa can’t be ambasador ? What’s wrong being ambasador for tennis ..it’s just a sport ..it has nothing to do with human rights there..can’t mix the 2..are we saying ppl in Saudi should not play tennis ?

  12. Entertainment n sports should never be mixed with religion or countries ..everyone should enjoy best content across the globe n everyone should be allowed to play sports .

    Civilians have almost nothing to do with what govmt of a country does..can’t penalize them for no reason…

    • Politics is part of every aspect of our lives including sport. What do you think of black athletes who make a very powerful political statement when they “take the knee?”

      • The headlines are all very nauseating. I mainly follow the weather news; I switch channels the second it goes to Trump.

        My plan to move to Portland fell through in November, but my moving date is now March 15. This time, the plan is solid. 🙂
        It’s so satisfying to return here and read you, Margot, and amy!

          • Hi Elizabeth!!😀 So are you in Spokane now?
            Has anyone seen the clips of Pelosi saying pro Palestinian protesters are in the pay of Putin and should be investigated by the FBI?
            Immediately after saying this she shouted at protesters outside her house that they should go back to China!
            I am literally praying that genocide Joe is forced out and Bernie runs for president. There has to be someone with morals and humanity unlike Biden and Pelosi who should be chucked on the scrapheap of history.
            Pelosi actually sounds like Trump making these stupid dangerous comments…

          • No, amy, I came to my senses about why a move to Spokane is a terrible choice. The Trumpism is worse than in Boise there and has been taken up by many of my relatives. 😵

            I don’t know if you heard the latest of what Trump is saying, but it scares the sh** out of me!

            What would this country look like if it joined with Putin and dropped our NATO alliance? 😧

            I am packing everything up, and my move to Portland is now on March 3!

            Most of my friends there are anti-trump, but I also know a few that will vote for Trump no matter what because they count on the $$ tax break!

          • Am glad you didn’t go to Spokane Elizabeth! It didn’t sound like a great idea but obviously I couldn’t say that. Really glad you are going to Portland finally.
            Why do your relatives support Trump? Am interested to know. He’s a very American phenomenon and I have never been to America.
            Yes I know what he’s been saying but as I said before what really worries me is how unelectable Biden has become for his own base. He shouldn’t be running. His support for flagrant war crimes and war criminals will cost him the election and be the end of American democracy and the death of the planet.
            I have come to loathe much of the Dem establishment. We need Bernie to take over!

    • He is actively making political statement s in talking about ” the progress ” going on in the country. As such he is doing straightforward PR for MBS a man who when he took power tortured his own relatives. Who personally ordered the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi leading to the nickname Mohammed Bone Saws. Who executes large numbers of people for no reason. Who oversees the death penalty for people who are gay. Who jails and tortures women who want equality.
      I just saw Rafa’s contemptible PR video. It made me want to throw up. Very many Rafa fans are angry and sickened and he is going to be hammered by the press. His reputation is going to rightly take a massive hit.

  13. I’m with Amy, I’ve never been a blind fan, however it’s as Sanju says, he’s trying to promote tennis, I’ve thought about it, and I think Rafa is doing this with the best of intentions

    • Hello Alison, nice to see and read you here.!
      I hope life is going well for you and your hubby.

      Finally, I have saved enough money to move back to Portland! Boise is too much of a red state to stay here. My real family is not my biological one. My real family and dear friend is Wendy, who I worked with at the Cancer Center in Portland, OR. It will be a relief to live around like-minded souls in this Presidential election year 🙂

      In all things political, I very much agree with Margot and amy.

  14. Gosh I wish Rafa would just shut up. I was afraid he was going to do this. He has been hammered by the press and especially in Spain. John Carlin also said he was fooled by Rafa and he won’t have anything to do with him now. So his PR team told everyone he wasn’t doing it for the money because it wasn’t a multi million pound deal.I remember thinking well do you honestly think that’s a better look? Like you think this horrible country is so great you want to go there?
    Now Rafa is saying that Saudi Arabia doesn’t need him to wash their image because the country is opening up so everyone wants to go there anyway?!😂 Is he for real? Sports are going there because of the huge sums of money on offer.There are loads of other countries who are genuinely making changes they could go to and if you legitimately want to do good and grow the game go to poor countries who aren’t awash with oil 💰💰. If you want to grow tennis go to Africa.
    There are only 2 countries on the planet who execute more people than Saudi Arabia. If he doesn’t know about the human rights situation he shouldn’t be talking about progress and change everywhere which is extremEly contestable.
    I have been a Rafa fan for so long that I still support him over any other player. But I don’t feel remotely the same about him at a personal level. I would prefer it if he had taken a ton of money and was open about doing so. At least that would be honest.

        • It is Margot. Was just out for walk and chatted with old man who said Starker and Reeves reneging on green deal and coming up with Tory austerity arguments filled him with utter despair. Thatcher said her greatest achievement was New Labour. No. By far her greatest achievement is Starmer and Reeves.
          The left have to offer real alternatives to the vicious horror of neoliberalism. We need Bernie in America and something has to be done about Starmer.
          People are in despair and need hope. The old man I was chatting to is well off but desperate for change.

          • Haha autocorrect is Starker!! He is stark ravingly useless. An empty vessel and cipher for power.
            Meanwhile the world’s most moral army is besieging the last hospital in Gaza and indiscriminately bombing children and almost no one who is white is saying anything. Western values,have been exposed as,a complete and utter sham.

          • Starker Lol! He’s a middle manager promoted way beyond his ability! Nonetheless I am ecstatic about the by election results!

          • Starker he is from now on!
            Yes good results but we need some actual.policies. Starker is very cold and technocratic I agree. Reckon his time in public prosecutions made him into this quasi authoritarian.
            Once we win the election we need to boot him out if he won’t change.

  15. Back to Saudi Arabia. It’s way past time that Rafa,and co stop saying Saudi Arabia is evolving and getting better. It is not. MBS has pursued policies to make it look better superficially while engaging in brutal repression which has made the country even worse.
    If Rafa, Alcaraz and co can’t be bothered to do the most basic research by using a Google search engine for 5 minutes then they should just shut the %%ck up. They are doing endless PR for this violent regime and acting as useful idiots for it.

    • Iga doesn’t wear her Ukraine ribbon anymore. She had it on last fall when she won the WTA Final in Cancun. She wore it on her cap there. Sometimes, I pop on Twitter to post something short, but I try not to linger there because the pressure to finish my profile and stay on (message from Twitter) is omnipresent.

      I have to doubt that Rafa knows anything about the Khashoggi horror or anything terrible and corrupt about MBS.

      amy, I wasn’t done with describing the various people who are trumpsters. The ones who want the high-income tax bracket are not actually into Trumpism. But they don’t care about what happens to the lower classes. They made poor choices or didn’t work hard enough. George is still my friend, but he and I agreed to disagree in 2016. He is not a bad person at all, (if he likes you). If we talk, and we still do, it won’t include politics or climate change or being an advocate for Medicare for all or the poor and homeless.

      He gets why I love Bernie Sanders, but as many like George cast Bernie, he is a socialist or, worse, a communist.

      The problem with leaders of the Democratic Party is that most of them think like George and stamp Bernie as unelectable.

      • Corbyn, proper left wing Labour potential PM, didn’t do very well amongst the general British electorate either, not helped by the ultra right wing press owned by Murdoch *spit.* UK has been traduced and ravaged by 13 years of Tory rule, and still people vote for them!

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