Monday Homestretch
Stocks trading lower today (NASDAQ especially weak) as investors wrestle with fears about rapidly rising rates against expectations for strong corporate results in the coming weeks. Many are thinking 10 Year TSY yields at 3.5% could become a big problem for stocks. In prior cycles, the 10 Year had to get to 5% before it became a major headwind, but some think 3.5% would become the trigger point in this post-financial crisis period.
REITS and Utes only strong sectors on a small flight to defensive safety.
The bond market is closed… Happy Columbus Day.
Not sure if these dubious facts are indeed accurate, but if you get a sec to read over this list, maybe you’ll agree that while numbers 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, and 4 are all appalling, we have all been guilty of numbers 5, 3, and 1 at one time or another… So maybe pump the brakes on Indigenous Day for now, and let the Italians enjoy their pastries.
BARSTOOL FINANCE CALENDAR for the week ending 10/12
Tuesday — Google hardware event
Wednesday — Large co-hosting Barstool Breakfast; Podfathers podcast drops; Fastenal (FAST) and Lindsay (LNN) earnings
Thursday — Delta (DAL) earnings and Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) earnings; Deadline for Sky shareholders to accept Comcast offer; Monthly OPEC report; NOBU 57 dinner
Friday — Large co-hosting Barstool Breakfast; Citigroup (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), and Wells Fargo earnings (WFC); US consumer sentiment for October
Twitter Jail- So my Twitter account was suspended this weekend for 36 hours… I went live again this afternoon.
I was watching the McGregor fight, and I wanted to gloat a little after because I was brave enough to take the favorite.
When the tweets wouldn’t go through, I was prompted that my account was suspended for violating Twitter’s terms of use.
My mind immediately went back to one of the more recent tweets I posted after Peter Gammons compared Fenway Park’s “Yankees suck!” chant to the chants heard outside of courthouses…
I thought for sure that was the culprit because I mentioned Hitler who, for the uninitiated, killed over 6 million Jews during the Holocaust.
However, that wasn’t the tweet they were going after.
A couple of hours before the McGregor fight started, I tuned into the Notre Dame/Va Tech game, and it was the first time I witnessed that Enter Sandman opening in Blacksburg. I was very impressed, so I quickly tweeted out that a night game at Virginia Tech versus a ranked opponent would be the newest addition to my bucket list… Right before sex on horseback, and right after losing enough weight to fit under an umbrella.
That tweet led to a handful of comments from Hokie fans giving me advice on what to do on Gameday if I ever made the trip down, including one gent who gave me the heads up that they serve smoked turkey legs in the concession stands at Lane Stadium.
I am a huge smoked turkey leg guy, as you may have guessed, so I had a little back and forth with the gent who informed me of their availability there.
After that, he sent me an actual picture of the concession stand that was smoking the legs, and I sent him back this pic of me from Dollywood a couple months ago.
Instead of realizing that these tweets were the beginning of a fat guy friendship, the Twitter bots saw “I will fucking kill you.” as a threat to cause another user harm, and I was banned immediately. Apparently, 350 million people send 2-3 billion tweets a day, and the phrase “I will fucking kill you.” is a series of words that gets caught in the filter easily.
I had to fill out an appeal to return, and the social media guy here was able to expedite my case, so I am back. I think without the benefit of a social media guy, I would have been in the box for a couple of weeks, but for me… no harm, no foul.
3 thoughts:
1) If you’re going to get suspended from any social media platform, being suspended over talk about turkey legs is a real pussy way to go. In my defense, had the lazy bots at Twitter paged up from the Va Tech thread, they would’ve found a cornucopia of shrouded racism, sexism, and misogyny that should get me a lifetime ban… Real gangsta shit.
2) People here call the suspension “Twitter Jail” which I feel is insulting to people in real jail who spent the last 36 hours trying to preserve the structural integrity of their own anuses. Whereas I was just champing at the bit for a day and a half to post another dumb picture of me with a wine glass stuck to my head.
3) “I will fucking kill you.” is certainly incendiary, but I have been on Twitter now in earnest for 4 months straight and I know I am just a couple keystrokes away from the type of porn that would make a priest blush… But those accounts only mention “killing” when referring to “Watch this clip of a Kimbo Slice look-alike killing that pussy”, so they get a pass.
I logged back into Twitter when I was reinstated and the first thing waiting for me was this DM…
An Asian man walks up to a bank teller to exchange yen for dollars… The teller gives him $180.
The Asian man complains: “But yestaday, I get $200…Why less today?”
The teller shrugs and replies: “Fluctuations”
Livid, the Asian man yells, “Well, fuck you Americans too!”
But I’m the bad guy.
Take a report.
-Large