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bok_viking wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:04 am

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 8:31 pm Among the other casualties of last nights debate performance, was the orange felons net worth, as he lost ~$200M in the valuation of the shares he holds in his shitty SM company.

[Edit] Dispite the Andrew'esque bravado claiming that the debate went well afterward, the panic has clearly struck, as the gutless shitstain in the Speakers seat has pulled the vote to continue funding, so now the US is looking at the 8th? Government shutdown caused by this GOP.

Now those few Republicans with functional brains know that this will be disasterous for all those GOP candidates on the down ballot in November, so they'd already privately admitted that the DNC was going to control the House, but a dumb shit stunt like this might put their control of the Senate in doubt, because they just don't have that much margin to play with.

I think the investors left in that little sham of a company might get screwed by the end of the month. I believe the the restriction on Trump selling his shares expires at the end of this month. I think there is a big likelihood that he would want to cash in on whatever value is left and leave the rest of the shareholders completely screwed. Though I have no sympathy for anyone who invested in the sham in the first place.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:19 am

bok_viking wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:04 am

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 8:31 pm Among the other casualties of last nights debate performance, was the orange felons net worth, as he lost ~$200M in the valuation of the shares he holds in his shitty SM company.

[Edit] Dispite the Andrew'esque bravado claiming that the debate went well afterward, the panic has clearly struck, as the gutless shitstain in the Speakers seat has pulled the vote to continue funding, so now the US is looking at the 8th? Government shutdown caused by this GOP.

Now those few Republicans with functional brains know that this will be disasterous for all those GOP candidates on the down ballot in November, so they'd already privately admitted that the DNC was going to control the House, but a dumb shit stunt like this might put their control of the Senate in doubt, because they just don't have that much margin to play with.

I think the investors left in that little sham of a company might get screwed by the end of the month. I believe the the restriction on Trump selling his shares expires at the end of this month. I think there is a big likelihood that he would want to cash in on whatever value is left and leave the rest of the shareholders completely screwed. Though I have no sympathy for anyone who invested in the sham in the first place.

Next week actually, the 18th is the end of the lock-in. It puts the traitor in a proper quandary.

His first instinct must be to take the money & run, but that will trigger a total collapse of the Stock, & company being de-listed, possibly before the Election,. This would be another blow to his ego, & again give the lie that he is a great business man. It would also show he believes that he no longer can win the Presidency, as that's the only value the company possibly has, to have it be the megaphone of the POTUS, & again, that would be a huge blow to his ego & reputation with his believers.

That is would fuck, financially, many of his supporters would be irrelevant to him.

Biffer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:31 am

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:19 am

bok_viking wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:04 am

I think the investors left in that little sham of a company might get screwed by the end of the month. I believe the the restriction on Trump selling his shares expires at the end of this month. I think there is a big likelihood that he would want to cash in on whatever value is left and leave the rest of the shareholders completely screwed. Though I have no sympathy for anyone who invested in the sham in the first place.

Next week actually, the 18th is the end of the lock-in. It puts the traitor in a proper quandary.

His first instinct must be to take the money & run, but that will trigger a total collapse of the Stock, & company being de-listed, possibly before the Election,. This would be another blow to his ego, & again give the lie that he is a great business man. It would also show he believes that he no longer can win the Presidency, as that's the only value the company possibly has, to have it be the megaphone of the POTUS, & again, that would be a huge blow to his ego & reputation with his believers.

That is would fuck, financially, many of his supporters would be irrelevant to him.

He absolutely would not be able to unload the amount of stock he has at the current price anyway. There aren't enough shills out there to buy it all.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:19 am

bok_viking wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:04 am

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 8:31 pm Among the other casualties of last nights debate performance, was the orange felons net worth, as he lost ~$200M in the valuation of the shares he holds in his shitty SM company.

[Edit] Dispite the Andrew'esque bravado claiming that the debate went well afterward, the panic has clearly struck, as the gutless shitstain in the Speakers seat has pulled the vote to continue funding, so now the US is looking at the 8th? Government shutdown caused by this GOP.

Now those few Republicans with functional brains know that this will be disasterous for all those GOP candidates on the down ballot in November, so they'd already privately admitted that the DNC was going to control the House, but a dumb shit stunt like this might put their control of the Senate in doubt, because they just don't have that much margin to play with.

I think the investors left in that little sham of a company might get screwed by the end of the month. I believe the the restriction on Trump selling his shares expires at the end of this month. I think there is a big likelihood that he would want to cash in on whatever value is left and leave the rest of the shareholders completely screwed. Though I have no sympathy for anyone who invested in the sham in the first place.

Next week actually, the 18th is the end of the lock-in. It puts the traitor in a proper quandary.

His first instinct must be to take the money & run, but that will trigger a total collapse of the Stock, & company being de-listed, possibly before the Election,. This would be another blow to his ego, & again give the lie that he is a great business man. It would also show he believes that he no longer can win the Presidency, as that's the only value the company possibly has, to have it be the megaphone of the POTUS, & again, that would be a huge blow to his ego & reputation with his believers.

That is would fuck, financially, many of his supporters would be irrelevant to him.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 3:49 pm

Biffer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:31 am

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:19 am


Next week actually, the 18th is the end of the lock-in. It puts the traitor in a proper quandary.

His first instinct must be to take the money & run, but that will trigger a total collapse of the Stock, & company being de-listed, possibly before the Election,. This would be another blow to his ego, & again give the lie that he is a great business man. It would also show he believes that he no longer can win the Presidency, as that's the only value the company possibly has, to have it be the megaphone of the POTUS, & again, that would be a huge blow to his ego & reputation with his believers.

That is would fuck, financially, many of his supporters would be irrelevant to him.

He absolutely would not be able to unload the amount of stock he has at the current price anyway. There aren't enough shills out there to buy it all.

Space Karen had no problem finding mugs to back his forced purchase of twitter !

Plus, this is a nice way to funnel cash to the traitor.

The conversations I’ve had over the last three months have made it clear to me that there is a large, unified movement committed to the destruction of American democracy. This campaign claims to want to save our country — to make it great again — but it is working to do exactly the opposite. These rally goers cheerfully and earnestly call themselves “patriots,” but true patriotism is nothing like the hateful, authoritarian, anti-institutional platform they support, and I believe many of these people do not grasp this — or how they are being used.

epwc wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 8:54 amBrilliant

MAGA stalwart Marjorie Taylor Greene called out far-right agitator Laura Loomer on Wednesday, accusing the failed congressional candidate of racism and misrepresenting the Republican party for a post about Kamala Harris featuring racist stereotypes about South Asians.

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:36 pm The pope, leader of the world's largest organised Pedo ring, says Kamala is the "lesser of 2 evils"

Kiwias wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:59 pm

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:36 pm The pope, leader of the world's largest organised Pedo ring, says Kamala is the "lesser of 2 evils"

That was what I referred to with my earlier post. I am not eve sure why he feels the need to mouth off about the US election.

Biffer wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 1:09 pm

Kiwias wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:59 pm

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:36 pm The pope, leader of the world's largest organised Pedo ring, says Kamala is the "lesser of 2 evils"

That was what I referred to with my earlier post. I am not eve sure why he feels the need to mouth off about the US election.

For a country that was set up to get away from religious persecution and has a clearly defined separation of church and state, religion has a huge part in their politics.

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 2:55 pm

Biffer wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 1:09 pm

Kiwias wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:59 pm

That was what I referred to with my earlier post. I am not eve sure why he feels the need to mouth off about the US election.

For a country that was set up to get away from religious persecution and has a clearly defined separation of church and state, religion has a huge part in their politics.

It was less religious persecution than, "Go away, Protestant Taliban."

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 3:02 pm

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 2:55 pm

Biffer wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 1:09 pm

For a country that was set up to get away from religious persecution and has a clearly defined separation of church and state, religion has a huge part in their politics.

It was less religious persecution than, "Go away, Protestant Taliban."

Was significantly more about founding their own religious persecution than anything else.

As Robin Williams memorably said ‘the Pilgrims were kicked out of *England* for being too uptight’

Kiwias wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 4:43 am After Trump and JD Vance's hysterical rants about Haitians eating pets, these flyers are apparently being distributed in Springfield.

Kiwias wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 1:35 am A well-written and thoughtful piece on the MAGA movement.

The conversations I’ve had over the last three months have made it clear to me that there is a large, unified movement committed to the destruction of American democracy. This campaign claims to want to save our country — to make it great again — but it is working to do exactly the opposite. These rally goers cheerfully and earnestly call themselves “patriots,” but true patriotism is nothing like the hateful, authoritarian, anti-institutional platform they support, and I believe many of these people do not grasp this — or how they are being used.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-t ... ENEWS00001

Calculon wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 12:08 pm

Kiwias wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 1:35 am A well-written and thoughtful piece on the MAGA movement.

The conversations I’ve had over the last three months have made it clear to me that there is a large, unified movement committed to the destruction of American democracy. This campaign claims to want to save our country — to make it great again — but it is working to do exactly the opposite. These rally goers cheerfully and earnestly call themselves “patriots,” but true patriotism is nothing like the hateful, authoritarian, anti-institutional platform they support, and I believe many of these people do not grasp this — or how they are being used.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-t ... ENEWS00001

Yes, they're scum, and that's half the American electorate

Almost everyone wants to talk about 2016 and how they’d been waiting for someone like Trump to come along with the guts to say what they were thinking but they weren’t “allowed” to say out loud. “Is he an asshole? Sure. But he’s our asshole,” one man emphatically told me, and those around him nodded in agreement. They love that Trump created a space to speak their minds, which, in many cases, means being able to spout racist, sexist, hate speech that was all but forbidden in public life just a decade ago.
These individuals fully embrace the former president’s crass, offensive, disrespectful way of speaking, and imitate it, too. The mainstream media does not show the obscenity and profanity of these rallies, but it is everywhere and, for me, a defining characteristic of these events.
“FUCK BIDEN” flags are still for sale from most vendors (even though Joe Biden dropped out of the race weeks ago) and appear on cars across the parking lots near the venues. Families wear matching T-shirts reading, “The Hoe is worse than Joe.” Kids wander around in “No more bullshit” visors with fake Trump hair attached, and browse bumper stickers that read, “I like big boobs and small government,” or show a naked woman’s torso with pistols resting on her hard nipples and the slogan “I <3 guns, titties, & whiskey.” After the assassination attempt in July, graphics featuring Trump with two raised middle fingers have popped on every type of merchandise you can imagine with taunts like, “You missed, BITCHES.”
The people I chat with drop slurs into our conversations, often with the glee of teens testing their parents’ boundaries. Since Kamala Harris has become the Democratic nominee for president, the men I interview at every event tell me that she got to where she is “on her knees.” They shift from foot to foot as they say it to me, knowing it’s offensive, and wait for my reaction. As someone who has endured a career full of misogyny and sexual harassment, I feel waves of disgust and anger when I hear these comments, but I just blink, remain blank-faced, and wait for them to continue.
Conspiracy theories and misinformation are threaded through every conversation I have:
The assassination attempt was an inside job.
Obama is still running the government.
People in the country illegally are being given vast sums of money, benefits, houses and free education.
Crime is at an all-time high.
Antifa has burned major American cities to the ground.
There is a globalist cabal in control of everything.
The discussions are infused with dehumanizing language. Immigrants are a common target for their attacks and, as someone married to one, I sometimes physically bite my tongue to keep from responding. As the attendees bemoan the alleged “border invasion,” they simultaneously (and disingenuously) claim that they would welcome these people if they came to this country “the right way.”
Minorities are also frequently disparaged by Trump’s white fans while we’re talking, but there are some non-white attendees at these rallies, and they are celebrated. Trump supporters enthusiastically point out the “diversity” of the movement and even take cringey selfies with the “Koreans for Trump” group that seems to show up at every event I attend.
No one I talk to believes there will be a peaceful transfer of power if Trump loses the election in November. Lots of people mention “civil war” (though no one volunteers to fight it), “civil unrest,” or “the end of America as we know it” and “the fall of the American empire.” They, like many people across the political spectrum, see this election as determining whether America survives.
The conversations I’ve had over the last three months have made it clear to me that there is a large, unified movement committed to the destruction of American democracy. This campaign claims to want to save our country — to make it great again — but it is working to do exactly the opposite. These rally goers cheerfully and earnestly call themselves “patriots,” but true patriotism is nothing like the hateful, authoritarian, anti-institutional platform they support, and I believe many of these people do not grasp this — or how they are being used.

Trump loses Electric Avenue song legal fight

Former US President Donald Trump has been found liable to pay damages to London singer and songwriter Eddy Grant for using his song Electric Avenue without permission.

It has taken Mr Grant, 76, more than four years to sue the Republican candidate in this year’s presidential election in the US courts, over his 2020 campaign video that used a 40-second clip of the song.

The video was viewed 13.7 million times before Twitter, now known as X, took it down.

A federal judge in Manhattan ruled Mr Trump breached Mr Grant's copyright for his 1983 hit, and is now liable for damages as well as paying for the singer's legal fees.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1488zz8jnzo

TB63 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 9:13 pm Useless septics,,

FFS. At least have a good shot for once...

geordie_6 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 8:44 pm https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rllnd1pypo

Former President Donald Trump is safe following gunshots "in his vicinity", his campaign said, after an incident took place near his Florida golf club on Sunday.

Secret Service agents saw a man pointing a rifle at the golf course where Trump was apparently located at the time, law enforcement sources told the BBC's US partner CBS News.

Agents fired multiple times at the suspect, who tried to run away, the sources said, adding that a suspect is now in custody and a weapon has been recovered.

Calculon wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 4:12 pm sure it is
They're a bunch of cunts who support a cunt, and the more cuntish Trump acts, the more they support him

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 10:29 pm

geordie_6 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 8:44 pm https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rllnd1pypo

Former President Donald Trump is safe following gunshots "in his vicinity", his campaign said, after an incident took place near his Florida golf club on Sunday.

Secret Service agents saw a man pointing a rifle at the golf course where Trump was apparently located at the time, law enforcement sources told the BBC's US partner CBS News.

Agents fired multiple times at the suspect, who tried to run away, the sources said, adding that a suspect is now in custody and a weapon has been recovered.

I'm going to guess that the arsehole holding the gun being still alive means he was white, & thus not a shoot on sight for LEOs

ScarfaceClaw wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2024 6:41 am I see Space Karen is covering himself in glory by tweeting about “why is no one trying to shoot Harris”. He’s an absolute bell end and now a dangerous bell end.

ScarfaceClaw wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2024 6:41 am I see Space Karen is covering himself in glory by tweeting about “why is no one trying to shoot Harris”. He’s an absolute bell end and now a dangerous bell end.