you suggest Panama?
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 23 June 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
the 1997 NYer profile of Trump is start-to-finish amazing but if I had to pick a favorite part it's this https://t.co/reqFZ79eZd pic.twitter.com/Qnwnuiyxqh— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) June 23, 2017
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 23 June 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
hard to tell who is more obsessed with him the right or the left.
libs/"centrists" for sure
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 23 June 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
it's sobering to realize that Trump is probably the most famous person in human history now
― flappy bird, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
*not adjusted for population inflation
― flappy bird, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
indicative of a deep flaw in our universe
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
truly he is king of the narcissist personality disorder sufferers
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 23 June 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
i think jesus still beats him out unless we're only counting contemporaneous fame
― ciderpress, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
Michael Jackson sold a hundred million records
― frogbs, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
contemporaneous fame. MJ is up there but there are twice as many people on Earth now than there were in 1984.
― flappy bird, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
Donlad Turmp sold a hundred million and one. Sad!
― President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
Part of my problem is that I have to do a lot of things myself. It takes so much time. Julio Iglesias is coming to Mar-a-Lago, but I have to call Julio, I have to have lunch with Julio. I have Pavarotti coming. Pavarotti doesn’t perform for anybody. He’s the highest-paid performer in the world. A million dollars a performance. The hardest guy to get. If I call him, he’ll do it—for a huge amount less. Why? Because they like me, they respect me, I don’t know.
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 June 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
I think you might need to look into a thing called history if you think this is the most violent nation ever.
idk Native American genocide plus slavery plus nuclear bomb-dropping... surely we're in the running
― Οὖτις, Friday, 23 June 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
probably a million people killed by u.s. in vietnam/laos/cambodia. nobody will ever know how many. not pol pot numbers, but still...
mao would be the world champ though.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 June 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
this is a ridiculous statement
― Οὖτις, Friday, 23 June 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
Man, if only Trump would tweet that he's bigger than Jesus...
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 June 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
well he's certainly fatter
― Οὖτις, Friday, 23 June 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDBB4IMWAAAO6sN.jpg:large
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:18 (six years ago) link
stahp posting this I cant handle it
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
The relatively-youthful US has certainly done what it could to catch up with the accrued violence of much older nations, I'll grant you that. Maybe Donnie will get us there.
― President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:25 (six years ago) link
My god, it's made of scrote.
― President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
I feel badly for his clothes.
― President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
trump wearing a shirt with "trump" on it is like that thing where ppl wear band t-shirts to the same band's concert only 1000x worse
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
If you blow the image up to its full size (not that I'm recommending you do so) the swollen, boiled-looking bullfrog neck is almost Lovecraftian.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
dainty watch worn to make hands look bigger.
― new noise, Saturday, 24 June 2017 01:50 (six years ago) link
Is he going to be remembered as the worst thing ever? Would be deeply ironic if he just got forgotten but then people wouldn't learn from history.JUst hope his wrongness doesn't get outdone shortly after he dies painfully,choking to death on a shagpile carpet would be fitting, though too redolent of Elvis.But fingers crossed he doesn't act as a harbinger of things to come.
Just would be so funny if he went to all this bother and wasn't remembered in 20 years time.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 24 June 2017 10:15 (six years ago) link
"Sorry no parliamentary email access today - we're under cyber attack from Kim Jong Un, (Vladimir) Putin or a kid in his mom's basement or something..."
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 24 June 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDF8ptxVYAQxha7.jpg
― soref, Monday, 26 June 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
very few things gross me out as much as donald trump's watch band pic.twitter.com/mWOA8sQKi7— joe mande (@JoeMande) June 25, 2017
― j., Monday, 26 June 2017 06:10 (six years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/06/frank-rich-nixon-trump-and-how-a-presidency-ends.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 26 June 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
Jesus, how has he not lost his hand yet?
― President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 June 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
"Look, having nuclear - my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart - you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world - it's true! - but when you're a conservative Republican they try - oh, do they do a number - that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune - you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged - but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me - it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are - nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? - but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners - now it used to be three, now it's four - but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years - but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us."
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
^ shows nearly doc casino level aptitude
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 29 June 2017 00:23 (six years ago) link
"To the career men & women at DOJ/FBI: your actions and integrity will be unfairly questioned. Be prepared, be strong. Duty. Honor. Country."
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 June 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
saw a beer called alternative facts with a reference to it being the bigliest of IPAs :-/
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Friday, 30 June 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
http://redcollar.ca/impeachment-and-alternative-facts-cans-join-the-red-collar-line-up/
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Saturday, 1 July 2017 03:36 (six years ago) link
xxxp reggie's quote, if that was a mathematical function it's be piecewise continuous but nowhere differentiable
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Saturday, 1 July 2017 07:59 (six years ago) link
Gentlemen, what you pansies are are a bunch of starving artistes who live off the kindness of the American government or mommy and daddy. You are angry at your own failings and struggle for survival, mock the GOP and ridicule its members, but when Republicans do it to the Democrats and you, you call out racism and class warfare.
You all yammer on like you do, but let me tell you this here message board is one kooky place with as many double standards as the Grand Old Party, which is why I voted TRUMP!
― The Sniper, Monday, 10 July 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
Someone's gotten into the sock drawer again.
― Duane Quarterdump (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
He voted Trump because of ilxor.com??
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
anger at your own failings is the first step to personal responsibility, my friend
― j., Monday, 10 July 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
This new poster seems extremely not mad. In fact, I'd venture to suggest he's actually laughing.
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
Gentlemen, what you pansies are are a bunch of starving artistes who live off the kindness of the American government
Bitch i am ballin' atm.
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
watch out guys it's a trick, you say 'but i'm doing ok' and then it's like aaaahhhh so ur an elite then and ur like curses curses damn damn damn not again
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
O snap good lookin out.
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
pew pew sniped ya
― sciatica, Monday, 10 July 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
^ best Nas song
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
source your quotes, sniper
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 10 July 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 21 July 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link
1/ About that “interview” he gave to three Times reporters I have not stopped thinking. A thread to explain why. https://t.co/dCDqxnQcUT— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) July 23, 2017
― j., Sunday, 23 July 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
hey, again - i'm sympathetic to the idea that truth social is actually worthless and that the 3.5 billion valuation (that i've seen attached to it in various headlines/articles over the last few months) is way too high and is being propped up by professional liars. sounds like tesla, which is definitely a worthless house of cards which will fall apart at any second once everyone sees that.
but in the meantime, in the world that is both real and more fake, which is to say, the world we live in
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/25/truth-social-trump-media-stock-market-billions/Trump Media soars in first day of public trading
The newly merged Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns the social network Truth Social, saw its share price climb roughly 35 percent in its first morning on the Nasdaq exchange under its new ticker symbol, DJT — Trump’s initials.The company took over the stock held by Digital World Acquisition, its merger partner, which saw its share price soar on Monday more than 30 percent. Shareholders on Friday approved the merger, which was first announced in 2021.Trump owns 60 percent of Trump Media, or roughly 78 million shares, a stake now worth more than $5 billion.The company’s valuation, however, stands at odds with its business performance. Trump Media earned about $3.4 million in revenue and lost $49 million in the first nine months of 2023, a Securities and Exchange Commission filing shows.By noon, the Trump company’s shares were trading for about $67 — around the same price as the discussion-board platform Reddit, which went public last week, has tens of millions more active users than Truth Social and generated more than $800 million in revenue last year.The trading frenzy has helped make the company one of the largest parts of Trump’s net worth, according to Bloomberg, which said Monday was “the single-greatest day on record for the former president’s wealth” and had elevated him for the first time onto its list of the 500 richest people.Trump, however, can’t sell his shares or use them as collateral for six months due to a common business-deal provision, known as a lockup, designed to give investors confidence that major shareholders won’t quickly cash out once a deal closes....
The company took over the stock held by Digital World Acquisition, its merger partner, which saw its share price soar on Monday more than 30 percent. Shareholders on Friday approved the merger, which was first announced in 2021.
Trump owns 60 percent of Trump Media, or roughly 78 million shares, a stake now worth more than $5 billion.
The company’s valuation, however, stands at odds with its business performance. Trump Media earned about $3.4 million in revenue and lost $49 million in the first nine months of 2023, a Securities and Exchange Commission filing shows.
By noon, the Trump company’s shares were trading for about $67 — around the same price as the discussion-board platform Reddit, which went public last week, has tens of millions more active users than Truth Social and generated more than $800 million in revenue last year.
The trading frenzy has helped make the company one of the largest parts of Trump’s net worth, according to Bloomberg, which said Monday was “the single-greatest day on record for the former president’s wealth” and had elevated him for the first time onto its list of the 500 richest people.
Trump, however, can’t sell his shares or use them as collateral for six months due to a common business-deal provision, known as a lockup, designed to give investors confidence that major shareholders won’t quickly cash out once a deal closes.
...
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:21 (two days ago) link
also, regarding that 6 month waiting period until he can cash out:
The merger agreement says Trump could waive his six-month lockup provision with approval from Trump Media’s board, whose directors now include Nunes, Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., and several high-profile Trump allies, including Robert E. Lighthizer, Linda McMahon and Kash Patel, an SEC filing shows.But allowing Trump to cash out early could flood the market and erode the company’s share price, financial experts told The Washington Post.
But allowing Trump to cash out early could flood the market and erode the company’s share price, financial experts told The Washington Post.
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:25 (two days ago) link
Meanwhile, all I can conclude at this point is that Trump likes being gagged: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-hush-money-case-hits-trump-partial-gag-order-rcna145170
Which, I mean, no kink-shaming here.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:26 (two days ago) link
sadly my account didn't have access to shares to sell, it was up near $75 when I was looking at it, now below $67
xp
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:27 (two days ago) link
the world we live in
yup. stock manipulation has a proud history stretching back to the first stock markets in London and Paris and it's one of the more lucrative of the dark arts. this is one for the record books.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:34 (two days ago) link
God Bless The USA Bible
― visiting, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:41 (two days ago) link
"Make America PRAY again' barf
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:47 (two days ago) link
Organizers of the 'Make America Pray, Or Else' movement cite the Second Amendment as a great assistance to their efforts.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:53 (two days ago) link
a bible with a bill of rights appendix, the pledge of allegiance... can't get more christian nationalist than that
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:56 (two days ago) link
the bible shit is just noise to defray talk about his legal position. effective tactic for this guy over the years. clown a little, they focus on the clown shoes
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:59 (two days ago) link
All Americans need a bible in their home and I have many … to sell.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 20:48 (two days ago) link
In re that gag order I find this bit mentioned by the NYT even more telling:
In an unrelated order Tuesday, Justice Merchan issued a stern warning to Mr. Trump’s lawyers as well. He reminded them to behave professionally, or risk being held in contempt.“This court emphasizes that it hopes for and fully expects zealous advocacy from counsel as well as spirited contribution from witnesses and parties alike,” Justice Merchan wrote. “Nonetheless, the court expects that the line between zealous advocacy and willful disregard of its orders will not be crossed.”
“This court emphasizes that it hopes for and fully expects zealous advocacy from counsel as well as spirited contribution from witnesses and parties alike,” Justice Merchan wrote. “Nonetheless, the court expects that the line between zealous advocacy and willful disregard of its orders will not be crossed.”
This is not how you want to be addressed before the case has even begun.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 20:53 (two days ago) link
where's the consequences?
/qualmsley
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:01 (two days ago) link
they're hidden in 21 cardboard file boxes stacked in a secret cupboard at Mar A Lago
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:31 (two days ago) link
There's not a Cross nor a picture of Jesus on the page, but plenty of photos of Trump. Who do you think this $60 bible is for?It sure isn't for Jesus. https://t.co/9Q9v8Gk2qf— Gregory Minchak (@gminchak) March 26, 2024
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:10 (two days ago) link
“This is not how you want to be addressed before the case has even begun.”
Yuuuup
This is the court saying “fuck around and find out”
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:37 (two days ago) link
i'm sympathetic to the idea that truth social is actually worthless and that the 3.5 billion valuation (that i've seen attached to it in various headlines/articles over the last few months) is way too high and is being propped up by professional liars.
Supposedly most of the market was people who were buying DJT in order to short it. But I'm afraid of some sort of The Producers scenario, in which between the would-be short sellers and the true believers who HODL on to stiggit to the libz, somehow leads to TS having enough market value for Trump to realize substantial gains.
(Disclaimer: I have not seen any version of The Producers.)
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 16:55 (yesterday) link
Not even the 1931 version?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 16:56 (yesterday) link