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A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

The fact that he even has a business at all decades on instead of blowing everything he got on Maseratis and child hookers is a testament to equal portions the staggering wealth he began with and a kind of cunning rarely seen among the children of privilege. He probably can't read all the way through this paragraph but he can bilk other rich folks out of their birthrights like nobody's business

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old beast lunatic
Nov 3, 2004

by Hand Knit

priznat posted:

This explains why the appearance of time has slowed and a news week now seems like several months.

If you were to look at us from a safe distance you'd see a hmbol that appears to be frozen in time.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
Regardless of actual wealth, Trump has been an awesome modern example of why narcissists should be handled like serial killers, there's no end to how dangerous they can be over time.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









priznat posted:

This explains why the appearance of time has slowed and a news week now seems like several months.

general theory of lolativity looking good

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

communism bitch posted:

Wasn't he forced to make some disclosure about his assets just recently that proved he had been lying consistently and for years about his net worth, by like an order of magnitude?

Nah mueller has the books

Oscar Wild
Apr 11, 2006

It's good to be a G
Rumor has it that Sarah H Sanders can't really raise one of her eyebrows, instead she is a cleric who can transfer Donalds micro-strokes to herself.

nooneofconsequence
Oct 30, 2012

she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.

communism bitch posted:

Wasn't he forced to make some disclosure about his assets just recently that proved he had been lying consistently and for years about his net worth, by like an order of magnitude?

yes

Trump Organization worth one tenth of value previously reported
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...s-a8058236.html

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

sebmojo posted:

general theory of lolativity looking good

we've reached the event horizon of the HMBOL singularity.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Oscar Wild posted:

Rumor has it that Sarah H Sanders can't really raise one of her eyebrows, instead she is a cleric who can transfer Donalds micro-strokes to herself.

in a characteristic dominance maneuver Trump refuses to allow her to upgrade her human suit

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

she can't have one better than his

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

nooneofconsequence posted:

yes

Trump Organization worth one tenth of value previously reported
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...s-a8058236.html

This seems really short and from one of those foreign sources. Anything local and juicer?

Kernel Monsoon
Jul 18, 2006

The Walrus posted:

if there's MORE juicy stuff than is in this article that recaps it I don't even

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html

The proest of clicks and the biggest of lols. I need to find my balls as they have been soundly howled off.

Kumo
Jul 31, 2004

sugar free jazz posted:

what is even happening

last days of rome

Trump has poo poo for a backbone and the pressure of the presidency, the investigations and well, everything is edging him closer to a nervous breakdown. His old tricks don't work anymore, but he has nothing else.

RobotDogPolice
Dec 1, 2016
God drat the post 9/11 era sucks. It just won't stop.

Shanghaied
Oct 12, 2004

BIG PAD

Tumble posted:

He only beat the market (barely) if he's not lying about both his net worth AND his debt

I think everyone just assumes the $3 billion figure Forbes calculated. Like there's not a single person in the world who believes he's worth $9 billion, like he said he was. Not even Trump himself.

Edit:

nooneofconsequence posted:

Trump Organization worth one tenth of value previously reported
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...s-a8058236.html

lol what?

I think even the $9.5 billion revenue figure that the Trumps claimed earlier would have placed the Trump Org something like no. 30+ in the list of the largest privately held businesses in the US. It was probably not even in the top 100 worldwide. In the real business world Trump was basically a nobody.

Shanghaied fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Jan 4, 2018

old beast lunatic
Nov 3, 2004

by Hand Knit

Kumo posted:

last days of rome

Trump has poo poo for a backbone and the pressure of the presidency, the investigations and well, everything is edging him closer to a nervous breakdown. His old tricks don't work anymore, but he has nothing else.

...except the ability to end civilization on earth on a whim lol

Avirosb
Nov 21, 2016

Everyone makes pisstakes

:gonk:

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

nooneofconsequence posted:

yes

Trump Organization worth one tenth of value previously reported
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...s-a8058236.html

Thanks. I said "order of magnitude" as an exaggeration for emphasia lol. I didn't inagibe it was that bad.

Burt Sexual posted:

This seems really short and from one of those foreign sources. Anything local and juicer?
The Indy is a poo poo paper (owned by one of those exiled Russian oligarch kleptocrats) but not actively dishonest as far as I know.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

RobotDogPolice posted:

God drat the post 9/11 era sucks. It just won't stop.

The pre-9/11 political consensus that we'd arrived at the end of history and things would just continue as they were indefinitely was heartstoppingly depressing, this is much better.

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

:lol:

in right wing world

Obama is not a christian but a guy who called a woman a oval office and bragged about loving other peoples wives is.

nooneofconsequence
Oct 30, 2012

she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.

Burt Sexual posted:

This seems really short and from one of those foreign sources. Anything local and juicer?

try clicking the citation links you loving slacker

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20171115/REAL_ESTATE/171119940/the-trump-organization-sees-fortunes-fall

old beast lunatic
Nov 3, 2004

by Hand Knit

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

:lol:

in right wing world

Obama is not a christian but a guy who called a woman a oval office and bragged about loving other peoples wives is.

Just try to find a justification for this that isn't either stupid or racist o wait you cant

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.
How many folks here are getting that book? It will give the highlight function of the kindle reader a workout that’s for sure.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

old beast lunatic posted:

Just try to find a justification for this that isn't either stupid or racist o wait you cant

it's 2018 and the only real sin in conservative God's eyes is being a cuck

Kumo
Jul 31, 2004

old beast lunatic posted:

...except the ability to end civilization on earth on a whim lol

there is that, but i don't think he would because while he's a bully he's also a coward, because he couldn't control the consequences, and because i am in the process of being convinced that it would be too easy an out for us, and the simulation has other plans

that last one may be the doing of a recent episode of black mirror

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

sugar free jazz posted:

what is even happening

Donald Trump is president

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Away all Goats posted:

Donald Trump is president

....the retard!?

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Kumo posted:

there is that, but i don't think he would because while he's a bully he's also a coward, because he couldn't control the consequences, and because i am in the process of being convinced that it would be too easy an out for us, and the simulation has other plans

that last one may be the doing of a recent episode of black mirror

I can't imagine what would lead you to believe Donald James Trump has a levelheaded sense of perspective about his own concerns, or any sense that there is a meaningful distinction between the end of the world and the end of his celebrity, but it can't be watching the actual person.

He's not going to start WWIII because none of his staffers have sat him down and told him that there isn't actually a big red NUKE EVERYTHING button on the Oval Office desk over and over until he absorbed it.

A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Jan 4, 2018

red19fire
May 26, 2010

communism bitch posted:

Wasn't he forced to make some disclosure about his assets just recently that proved he had been lying consistently and for years about his net worth, by like an order of magnitude?

I think Forbes had to admit that they ranked Trump on the Billionaire list based on estimates that were way overstated. Like, they estimated the worth of the buildings he owns and factor that in, as well as asking trump what his net worth is. Like just calling him up and asking, and publishing whatever he says. While it's well known that trump grossly exaggerates his net worth. For example, if a $5 million dollar company pays him $100k to use his name on their lovely water bottles, or mail-order steaks, or whatever, Trump adds $5 million to the running tally in his mind. And most of the buildings he 'owns' were purchased with loans from Russian oligarchs because American banks won't loan him a dime after going bankrupt like 5 times in the 90s.

Fun fact: Trump owns the only hotel in Las Vegas without a casino or gaming of any kind in it, because the law in LV is that you can't open a casino if you've ever declared bankruptcy.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

I can't imagine what would lead you to believe Donald James Trump has a levelheaded sense of perspective about his own concerns, or any sense that there is a meaningful distinction between the end of the world and the end of his celebrity, but it can't be watching the actual person.

He's not going to start WWIII because none of his staffers have sat him down and told him that there isn't actually a big red NUKE EVERYTHING button on the Oval Office desk over and over until he absorbed it.

Pretty sure he's tried to use the brief case already but they give him fake codes. He totally wants to go down in history having nuked something other than a gold plated toilet.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

LifeSunDeath posted:

Pretty sure he's tried to use the brief case already but they give him fake codes. He totally wants to go down in history having nuked something other than a gold plated toilet.

Pentagon totally coulda got us off the hook but the media really hosed it up telling him it was actually a MOAB got dropped on that random Afghan gulch

Kumo
Jul 31, 2004

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

I can't imagine what would lead you to believe Donald James Trump has a levelheaded sense of perspective about his own concerns, or any sense that there is a meaningful distinction between the end of the world and the end of his celebrity, but it can't be watching the actual person

Not his concerns, his needs. If you figure out a person's needs, you can get a pretty good handle on their sense of self. What does Trump need? He needs an audience, he needs the attention of others, whether it is love or hate. I can't imagine why anyone would paint a tower gold & live in such ostentatious opulence unless he desperately needed it. He is dependent upon that because he is a narcissist, it's why he flies off the handle every time he feels he's being attacked. Because it endangers his dependency on others attention.

Counterpoint, if he goes down, he takes us all with him.

Shanghaied
Oct 12, 2004

BIG PAD

old beast lunatic posted:

Just try to find a justification for this that isn't either stupid or racist o wait you cant

No no no but you see, Obama went to one of those scary black people churches, whose pastor Jeremiah Wright said "God drat America" because he thought US killed too many innocent people overseas.

Incidentally, while a navy corpsman, Jeremiah Wright was on the surgical team that operated on President Johnson's heart in 1966. The surgery was successful and Johnson recovered and went on to sign the Fair Housing Act in 1968. Five years later the Justice Department sued Trump for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against blacks. Just another reason to hate Obama, really.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
Anyone catch Huckabe stating that Trump will in fact be giving out fake news awards at some point soon? How exactly is this going to go down? Is this the point he attempts to assassinate the press? I'd be really sketched out going to that event.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

LifeSunDeath posted:

Anyone catch Huckabe stating that Trump will in fact be giving out fake news awards at some point soon? How exactly is this going to go down? Is this the point he attempts to assassinate the press? I'd be really sketched out going to that event.

It involves Secret Service men popping out of nearby dumpsters and administering wedgies

Dr.Caligari
May 5, 2005

"Here's a big, beautiful avatar for someone"
That book being at the #1 spot forever is going is going to be what finally Fatality’s Trumps broke brain. Not his kids flipping on him, not Mueller with a stack of embarrassing, irrefutable evidence, but the fact that book is ‘winning’ .

Tumble
Jun 24, 2003
I'm not thinking of anything!

red19fire posted:

Fun fact: Trump owns the only hotel in Las Vegas without a casino or gaming of any kind in it, because the law in LV is that you can't open a casino if you've ever declared bankruptcy.

The funniest thing is that according to the Nevada Gaming Commission he was in fact granted a license in 2004, so they've had the opportunity build one for quite some time. (Unless people are lying for Trump which is quite possible.)

So this genius operation couldn't even find a way to get a casino built when they've had an opportunity to do so.

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

LifeSunDeath posted:

Anyone catch Huckabe stating that Trump will in fact be giving out fake news awards at some point soon? How exactly is this going to go down? Is this the point he attempts to assassinate the press? I'd be really sketched out going to that event.

I think he said next Monday sometime? It'll be hilarious if the media shows up to a scrum that's openly stated to be purpose-built for bagging on them.

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Away all Goats posted:

Donald Trump is president

The bald rapist? Wtf

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trem_two
Oct 22, 2002

it is better if you keep saying I'm fat, as I will continue to score goals
Fun Shoe
owned, bitch
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/948702880973942784

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