Three Olives posted:

It's really impressive how terrible everything at Mar-a-Lago always looks, the place looks dirty and run down, cheap furnishing, disgusting food and the trashiest looking people on earth are everywhere.

How do you take a photo of that and not realize it looks loving disgusting.

weg posted:

Frank Frank posted:

Welp!

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I've lived in New York all my life and still my father was somehow convinced that Trump is a genius and told me several times "The US needs two Presidents; one for the politics and one for the economy. And Donald Trump should be the Economy President"

I haven't spoken to him in twelve years.

Bottom Liner posted:

triple checking this wasn't a bird dick post

Data Graham posted:

Let's not forget the power of nominative determinism with these "movies are real" type people. Trump hit the loving jackpot by lucking into being born with a name that basically means "the winning hand at cards". So all everyone hears is "rich casino playboy", like James Bond or David Niven or some poo poo

IBroughttheFunk posted:

At first glance I thought that I was looking at actual, genuine poo poo on a waffle.

Scags McDouglas posted:

I'm officially calling a 5-4 ruling today but in either direction.

Data Graham posted:

Let's not forget the power of nominative determinism with these "movies are real" type people. Trump hit the loving jackpot by lucking into being born with a name that basically means "the winning hand at cards". So all everyone hears is "rich casino playboy", like James Bond or David Niven or some poo poo

Disco Pope posted:

Economy President sounds about right.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

same. i think it will depend on what the crimes were and if the entered the building. i think they will narrow it to defend some of the chuds who hosed around on the outskirts.

quote:

hares of TMTG (DJT) tumbled 14% Tuesday after closing 18% lower Monday. Driving the stock lower Tuesday: The company’s premier product, Truth Social, announced a major expansion into streaming, a notoriously cost-intensive business in which media behemoths like Disney have struggled to turn a profit.

TMTG’s stock, majority-owned by former President Donald Trump, is down more than 70% from the all-time high it set on March 26, the day after it merged with a blank-check acquisition company to go public. Although the company is still worth billions of dollars, it is struggling to make money and desperate for cash. Experts have warned investors to be careful if they choose to trade the stock, because the company doesn’t have the fundamentals to back up its sky-high valuation.

Trump Media lost $58 million in 2023 and made just $4.1 million in revenue. So, it announced Monday it would sell 21.5 million more shares to the public to raise cash — even though that would dilute the value for existing shareholders.
A home for ‘suppressed’ content

The streaming initiative didn’t give investors any reason to get enthused about the company. Truth Social said it spent the past six months testing its web, iPhone and iPad apps for live TV streaming, and it hopes to launch a content delivery network to stand up streaming apps for phones and tablets — and eventually smart TVs.
Former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan criminal court with his legal team ahead of the start of jury selection in New York, Monday, April 15, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/Pool Photo via AP)

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Truth Social suggested its streaming network could host live news, religious programing and family-friendly shows, movies and documentaries that “has been cancelled, is at risk of cancellation, or is being suppressed on other platforms and services.”

“With our streaming content, we aim to provide a permanent home for high-quality news and entertainment that face discrimination by other channels and content delivery services,” said TMTG CEO Devin Nunes, a former Republican congressman for California in a statement. “There is a lot of great content that simply can’t find an audience for unjust reasons, and we want to let these creators know they’ll soon have a guaranteed platform where they won’t be cancelled.”

Truth Social’s latest push sounds similar to Elon Musk’s X, which claims to be the streaming platform that best defends free speech. But X has hundreds of millions of active users — hundreds of times Truth Social’s audience — and has still struggled to attract advertisers after Musk reshaped the business, allowing hate speech and conspiracy theories to run rampant on the platform.

Trump’s association with the brand appears to be the primary reason for its sky-high valuation. That helped turn shares into a meme stock — that is, the company doesn’t trade on its fundamentals so much as it trades on emotional responses.

Trump added billions of dollars to his net worth after TMTG’s merger with the blank check company in late March. But his shares’ value has plunged from a peak of $5.2 billion to about $1.8 billion. Trump’s net worth fell roughly $300 million Tuesday from the stock’s plunge.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

same. i think it will depend on what the crimes were and if the entered the building. i think they will narrow it to defend some of the chuds who hosed around on the outskirts.

kazil posted:

financial goons, can anyone tell me if this is good

TulliusCicero posted:

Holy poo poo can no one one really find undeniable dirt on these 5 pieces of human waste

TulliusCicero posted:

This is an openly traitorous court

Holy poo poo can no one one really find undeniable dirt on these 5 pieces of human waste

TulliusCicero posted:

Holy poo poo can no one one really find undeniable dirt on these 5 pieces of human waste

Buce posted:

so is the sc gonna let a bunch of traitors off the hook or what

kazil posted:

IIRC most of the J6 charges are serious things like assaulting police. I think it's like 350 of the 1000+ were obstructing a proceeding.

It's not great but it's not like all J6ers are TOTALLY EXONOERATED

weg posted:

canyoneer posted:

the Spirit Airways of presidents, except Spirit has been profitable for years.

Three Olives posted:

It's really impressive how terrible everything at Mar-a-Lago always looks, the place looks dirty and run down, cheap furnishing, disgusting food and the trashiest looking people on earth are everywhere.

How do you take a photo of that and not realize it looks loving disgusting.

TulliusCicero posted:

Holy poo poo can no one one really find undeniable dirt on these 5 pieces of human waste

Pump-Action Gerbil posted:

His true name is Donald Drumpf. His grandfather was Friedrich Drumpf, who later was known as Fred Trump.

Pump-Action Gerbil posted:

His true name is Donald Drumpf. His grandfather was Friedrich Drumpf, who later was known as Fred Trump.

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

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-drumpf/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnpO_RTSNmQ (18:45)

Bonus clip at 8:45 of Ivanka saying how he was 8 billion in debt and completely broke at one point.

HolidayDrunk posted:

There's plenty of dirt on Thomas at this point, but there isn't really a lot anyone can do about it. That US Constitution we're supposed to see as a pinnacle of political philosophy actually has no mechanisms for removing a Supreme Court Justice. Those "brilliant" founding fathers we're supposed to look up to never gave it much thought. I believe there was one attempt, ever, to impeach an SCJ - and it failed. Great loving system we have here.

Shishkahuben posted:

Anyone who still gives a poo poo about "drumpf" or whatever should be shoved in a locker with the other weenies

Shishkahuben posted:

Anyone who still gives a poo poo about "drumpf" or whatever should be shoved in a locker with the other weenies

StrangersInTheNight posted:

two things

1) Frederick Trump's last name was recorded as "trumpf" upon immigration

2) if a person changes their name and then has kids and gives those kids that last name, then that's the new family name.

he's not donald drumpf, nor has he ever been, the john oliver bit is old, tired, and factually inaccurate.

IBroughttheFunk posted:

At first glance I thought that I was looking at actual, genuine poo poo on a waffle.