Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

man, nothing says "successful Manhattan real estate titan" like Jared's sweet new deals:

"One of the proposed projects would be the development of an island off the coast of Albania into a luxury tourist destination.

A second — with a planned luxury hotel and 1,500 residential units and a museum — is in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, at the site of the long-vacant former headquarters of the Yugoslav Army destroyed in 1999 by the NATO bombings, according to a member of Parliament in Serbia and Mr. Kushner’s company.

These first two projects both involve land now controlled by the governments, meaning a deal would have to be finalized with foreign governments."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/politics/jared-kushner-pursuing-development-deals-in-albania-and-serbia.html

its almost like he's preparing Putin's future retirement digs.

but what do i know. maybe vacations to Serbia and Albania are all the rage these days for wealthy eco-tourists.

i would actually like to hang out in Romania. i watched a doc about the forests and mountains there and it looked like heaven.

Albania supposedly has some of the best unclimbed rocks and boulders in the world, would absolutely go to Albania.

I've been to Albania, it's a little like Greece and parts of Italy. I'd heard it'd been rising the tourist ranks, so I guess ... true.

This reminds me of Trump's big 2:00 AM speech from North Korea where his main point was about their miles of beautiful beaches awaiting resorts from American developers.

I've been to Albania, it's a little like Greece and parts of Italy.

I've been here
I've been there
I've been every fucking where

good morning1

I've never been to Italy, but I've seen pictures!

"Corruption is still considered one of the most problematic factors for establishing business in Albania.[6] Even though anti-corruption legal framework of Albania is moderate, its enforcement is weak and corruption conviction rates are still very low."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Albania

sounds like a good fit for jared. it all makes sense now.

i looked it up. serbia is much the same. my point being: if you were a bigshot real estate guy wouldn't you be buying a hotel in los angeles or miami or tokyo or somewhere fancy? my conspiracy spidey senses are tingling. you pretty much have to deal with heavy mobsters if you do business in serbia. maybe nobody else wants him around.

I think that's pretty OTM. These assholes aren't subtle.

This kind of thing predates his presidency. I'm reminded of this article from shortly after he took office:

"The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal

I've been to Albania but I've never been to me

That story about the tower in Azerbaijan illustrated so many big bright glaring red flags and alarm signals, but the fact that afaict literally nothing came of it pretty definitely put to rest any hope that any of these people would ever face any real consequences, as much as I'd love to see it happen.

man, reading some article about the horrible conditions in jared's apartment complexes down south was so gross. just the worst kind of slumlord stuff.

is this the same Jared who brought peace to the Middle East?

Yes, and he fixed the prison system.

I heard on the news that Steven Mnuchin is gonna buy Tiktok for Trump. Trumptok. Truhthtik.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/14/former-treasury-secretary-mnuchin-is-putting-together-an-investor-group-to-buy-tiktok.html

This is how they reach the yutes, you see.

his wife's new movie was a really good investment...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dESyA8IgA_M

oh no!

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/16/trump-bloodbath-biden-november-00147453

to fair, this country DOES need a bath. have you smelled it lately?

“This is who Donald Trump is: a loser who gets beat by over 7 million votes and then instead of appealing to a wider mainstream audience doubles down on his threats of political violence,” Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer said in a statement.

i mean, this is inarguable. and it's terrifying anyone, let alone such a large minority, would vote for Trump. I know that's naive and obvious but it should be said more often.

And similarly naive and obvious, if a brown-skinned politico threatened a bloodbath if they didn't win a vote, there'd be a bullet between their eyes before anyone could pontificate.

Sleeve OTM

Wouldn't have thought it possible for him to get significantly worse in the last few weeks, but here we are I guess, openly threatening "a bloodbath" and referring to immigrants as non-humans.

chatgpt make a picture of djt dying like frank pentangeli

How a sleuth defense attorney and a disgruntled law partner damaged the Trump Georgia case

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/16/fani-willis-misconduct-accusations-ashleigh-merchant/
gift link: https://wapo.st/4cbf3jE

i just want to kindly remind everyone who was trying to shut discussion down about this, at the beginning, because it was so obvious that it was dumb and would have no effect on the case, that you all don't know everything that is going to happen

that came off way more whiny than i intended, sorry. i agree that it seemed ridiculous at the beginning, and that it should not have affected the case whatsoever. alas

none of this makes Trump innocent but it was bigly stupid

NY Times called his speech in Dayton, Ohio yesterday "freewheeling" where he called migrants "animals" and said there would be a "bloodbath" if he's not elected

The speech was "Dylanesque"

Very nice of this country to move Heaven and Earth to ensure this man stays on the ballot

lol the reporting on the “bloodbath” thing is dumb as fuck

The chapter on him in the new Village Voice book is interesting--in the very first piece dating back to the mid-'70s, the writer (Wayne Barrett, I think) is accusing him of overvaluing and undervaluing properties according to the situation.

NY Times called his speech in Dayton, Ohio yesterday "freewheeling" where he called migrants "animals" and said there would be a "bloodbath" if he's not elected

Donald learned tax evasion and cooking the books at his daddy's knee.

And Wayne Barrett for the Voice did a great job for years of covering Trump financial slimy criminal tactics, and the mainstream press largely just ignored Barrett's writing as left wing ranting

NY Times has subsequently updated "freewheeling" article to : Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses

The NYT learns from its mistakes, then promptly forgets what it learned.

The chapter on him in the new Village Voice book is interesting

Recommended for anyone who likes their books proofread by >1 ilx0r.

lol the reporting on the “bloodbath” thing is dumb as fuck

my friend bartended a reggae festival this weekend and these two married assholes in MAGA visors showed up and one of them was loudly complaining that her husband's truck got pissed on because it had MAGA shit written on it, then promptly turned to her husband and told him to eat the pineapples because they would make his 'cum taste gewd'

NYT is attempting to locate the couple for a follow-up

Trump supporters are such massive hypocrites on everything even whether or not the stuff that comes out of your weiner is any good

So he can't secure the bond for the $464 million judgment, but his lawyers argue that he shouldn't have to ... just because ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-unable-get-bond-464-million-judgment-lawyers-say-rcna143860

While the filing says Trump can't afford the bond, it also argues that the attorney general doesn't have to worry about being able to collect her judgment.

"Defendants’ real estate holdings — including iconic properties like 40 Wall Street, Doral Miami, and Mar-a-Lago, — greatly exceed the amount of the judgment. Such assets are impossible to secrete or dispose of surreptitiously, leaving the plaintiff effectively secured during the pendency of an appeal," the filing said.

lol at simultaneously saying you can't come up with the bond, but also don't worry about it, we're good for the money because we have all these expensive properties (that we were literally found guilty of overvaluing in this very case).

“Iconic”

"moronic"