I'm guessing the commenter above was asking what trading places and commodities futures have to do with the referenced article. I'm trying to figure out if you view Trump + cronies as the good guys in Trading Places (Dan Aykroyd + Eddie Murphy) or the bad guys (Ralph Bellamy + Don Ameche). Or if you think the old institutional guys conspiring to ruin young Dan Aykroyd's life over a bet were the bad guys or the good guys? I'm not trying to be snarky, it's just that there are a lot of opinions offered on this site and we don't all view the world the same way.

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piltdownman 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

The use of "cronies" is generally pejorative!

	▲	OhMeadhbh a day ago \| parent [-]
		There are a great number of opinions expressed on this site. I generally think "cronies" is pejorative and you generally think "cronies" is pejorative, but I take it on faith that there is at least one person out there thinking "hunh... cronies? yeah. That sounds good. I don't know why people get so upset when I say that." And I do not know whether the person using it in a sentence is using it pejoratively. And heck, there are PLENTY of heresies I subscribe to: testing software is more often useful than it isn't, the web was done by amateurs, adding comments to code documenting the programmers' intent is useful, the rust borrow checker should have just been an add-on tool for C++, etc. So it may be ME who is against the grain on this one. Which is to say... just be careful out there when you assume things about a large audience.

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pstuart 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It should be self-evident which side he's on if one were to look at his hustles.