https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-media-lost-3276-million-first-quarter-year-revenue-just-771000-rcna153165
I genuinely do not understand how they could lose this much, there has to be some sort of money laundering going on here
― frogbs, Monday, 20 May 2024 22:18 (one month ago) link
Not sure that money was real in the first place
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Monday, 20 May 2024 22:27 (one month ago) link
how they could lose this much
when the founder raids the till, it can go pretty quickly
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 20 May 2024 22:53 (one month ago) link
genuinely do not understand how they could lose this much, there has to be some sort of money laundering going on here🙀
― bae (sic), Monday, 20 May 2024 22:56 (one month ago) link
last year they lost like $50m, idk how it could be that much in just one quarter
― frogbs, Monday, 20 May 2024 22:57 (one month ago) link
well, they went public - more suckers to fleece
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 20 May 2024 22:59 (one month ago) link
I hope it's the RNC's money going into that black hole, but more likely it's the Saudis and UAE currying favor.
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 20 May 2024 23:28 (one month ago) link
It’s just the dipping value of his meme stock, right? It was worth a gazillion dollars on paper, and then it dropped, so I guess he can write that drop off on taxes?
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Monday, 20 May 2024 23:38 (one month ago) link
No, he cannot, unless he sells, and only then in certain circumstances to offset gains in other stucks.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 20 May 2024 23:54 (one month ago) link
stocks
STONKS
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 20 May 2024 23:54 (one month ago) link
I don't think that is the stock price dropping, I think that's actually saying "the company lost 328 million dollars last quarter", unrelated to the company's like total value stock-wise
― The Yellow Kid, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 00:07 (one month ago) link
"i'll vote for him, he's a successful business man!"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 00:11 (one month ago) link
Ah… Seems on the level then:
“The company told the SEC last week that it would delay its quarterly filing, after the agency charged its former auditor, BF Borgers CPA, with “massive fraud” of hundreds of companies, raising red flags about the accuracy of the financial information that the firm had audited.”
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 00:14 (one month ago) link
Funny, Borgers are Trump’s BF.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 00:34 (one month ago) link
I feel like I understand the core parts of Trump's appeal to the people he appeals to, but the thing that just trips me up over and over is how anyone fails to see what a cheap crook and grifter he is. Every single thing about him screams CON MAN in big red letters, which to me seems like it shouldn't really be a matter of ideology just basic self-preservation. Afaik even right-wing nuts don't enjoy getting ripped off. But maybe I'm wrong.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 00:46 (one month ago) link
You're not wrong, and it's what has baffled me most about Trump's rise to the presidency and his continuing hold on his base. It's really a study in mass psychosis.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 00:53 (one month ago) link
They think that all politicians are crooks and cheats. If you say Trump is a swindler they'll say "They're ALL crooked! At least he's honest about it!"
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 00:55 (one month ago) link
Something I hadn't realized: if Trump doesn't testify, he has to say so clearly and unequivocally in open court:
https://mitchellepner.substack.com/p/on-donald-trumps-decision-not-to
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 01:13 (one month ago) link
xp the lack of a real core competence-- outside of bluster and lying-- makes me wonder wtf is up with these people, they have like, no standards for either ruthlessness or dominance. so far.
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 01:51 (one month ago) link
hmmm very strange to put this in an official campaign video
https://i.imgur.com/wbDNYe9.jpeg
― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 03:02 (one month ago) link
As Trump once said during a presidential debate, "I don't know much about QANON, but I hear they like me."
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 03:58 (one month ago) link
Apparently he doesn't know much about neo-Nazis either, except that they are "fine people".
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 04:03 (one month ago) link
Getting ripped off to own the libs.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 05:52 (one month ago) link
lol, putting the headcase Costello on the stand has been such a classic Trump-knowing-better-than-his-lawyers disaster move
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 06:10 (one month ago) link
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqk-ssa7xNXTyJhzi_G7WQxMp3K5RnAbgj8ytxMAC78CvuZKIGhdnyu7CYpcCWElnedwwpfNw5T7S95cqanldIG1ETPSrzqgABnhTitwYRQBc5G9pDR6jXIryc_zkUJphCeh2Cvj87Rv1x/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/The+Mass+Psychology+of+Fascism.jpg
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 06:29 (one month ago) link
the art of the heel
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 06:50 (one month ago) link
tired: silence in court.wired: CLEAR THE COURT!!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 08:14 (one month ago) link
that hard-hitting science from the Orgone Institute
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:20 (one month ago) link
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac)
*applause*
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:37 (one month ago) link
I think that's a wrap folks, it's been announced on twitter that the extremely relevant Superstar Amber Rose has endorsed DJT! rip Biden
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:45 (one month ago) link
Fame (chasers) recognize fame (chasers)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:49 (one month ago) link
She was married to Johnny Depp or something?
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:50 (one month ago) link
damn i just googled her and 1) she appears to have had her forehead tattoo removed? and 2) the only thing i know about her is that she was on an episode of Intervention trying to save a childhood friend (and her children) from a florid opiate addiction. It was really intense. This endorsement makes no sense.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:52 (one month ago) link
Anyway, Trump not testifying, etc. etc. Closing arguments next Tuesday.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:53 (one month ago) link
well yeah he can't testify he has a gag order put on him by a very conflicted judge
― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:55 (one month ago) link
So corrupt!
Amusing note from Mitchell Epner:
I suspect that MAGA-sphere articles that hyped Costello as a “killer” witness to debunk Cohen led FPOTUS to insist that he be called as a witness. Not calling any witnesses precludes prosecution from commenting on defense failure to present a case. But, presenting 1 witness means DA can argue it.
Not calling any witnesses precludes prosecution from commenting on defense failure to present a case. But, presenting 1 witness means DA can argue it.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:56 (one month ago) link
Further to which, as he noted earlier:
I am reading the liveblogs of the testimony of Robert Costello, who will be the lone substantive witness called by Trump's defense. I cannot imagine how the testimony could have gone worse for the defense. Defense knew Costello wrote emails that would undermine his testimony, but did it anyway.
I cannot imagine how the testimony could have gone worse for the defense.
Defense knew Costello wrote emails that would undermine his testimony, but did it anyway.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:57 (one month ago) link
b-b-b-but his emails!
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 15:11 (one month ago) link
This piece is a fun read:
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/how-to-blow-your-defense
Not least for including this of Merchan and Costello:
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc15c0aa9-ae7c-4d03-8b9c-c2d68bcf5624_660x371.webp
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 15:24 (one month ago) link
Jonathan Turley:
Quite frankly, Costello is a killshot witness. You only call him if you want to killshot at trial, that you feel that you need to make sure this doesn't result in a conviction, even though I think it's going very well for the defense. And it went very well today for the defense.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 15:28 (one month ago) link
lol Turley is such a clown
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 15:32 (one month ago) link
Great book. Goes increasingly off the rails as it progresses though - a bit like Wilhelm himself.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 15:33 (one month ago) link
Isn't Turlet a "constitutional scholar" and not a trial lawyer?
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 15:47 (one month ago) link
he's a killshot pundit
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 15:51 (one month ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 16:13 (one month ago) link
Like sorry, I don’t trust ANY politician, down to city council members in minor backwaters. You have to have a certain amount of toxic narcissism in order to want to do that kind of work, which partly explains why most decent people don’t want to get into politics
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 16:15 (one month ago) link
otmfm
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 16:21 (one month ago) link
I get that, but tbh I spend a LOT of time talking to local/state politicians and watching them in action, and there are really quite a few who try to do their jobs diligently and are not in it for whatever minor power or celebrity you get from being a local official. (There are also quite a few who very much are into the minor power and celebrity, getting invited to lunches and ribbon-cutting and all that shit, no doubt.)
There are people who even when I disagree with them philosophically or pragmatically are doing the legitimate work of considering complex issues and trying to come up with good solutions. So I try to not be cynical about them as a class, because we actually need decent reasonable people in those positions.
EXCEPT FOR: the fucking Republican state Legislature, they are the absolute WORST, craven and corrupt and cruel. Even the "sane" ones go along with all kinds of unconscionable shit.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 16:23 (one month ago) link
the diligent ones are just as bad sorry. oh it looks like i've reached my daily politics post quota, have a good one.
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 16:31 (one month ago) link