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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Not really relevant at his level of inherited wealth. He could have done nothing other than maintain his dad's apartments - or stopped after the trump tower development - and easily lived the billionaire playboy image he played up to the media. Instead he went in over and over again on failed investments that were based more around image than profitability until he got to the point where he had to play a clown on TV for the cash flow. And because america, he was able to leverage his kayfabe rich person image into the highest position of power by throwing in some xenophobia and authoritarianism. I believe it's been calculated that if he'd put all that inherited money into index funds he'd be wealthier than even what he claims today, let alone what he actually has.
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Zamujasa posted:as a native vegas-born idiot the fact that he managed to bankrupt a casino is still astounding to me My first trip to Vegas was during the Trump Admin. One of the employees in the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower was this elderly African American gentleman who claimed there wasn't a question about a Vegas hotel he didn't know the answer to. He pointed out various hotels and talked about their history, number of rooms, how the expanded and changed over time, who the owners are and other random trivia about them. He took absolute glee in pointing out the Trump hotel and saying that Donald Trump was too shady to get a casino license in Vegas.
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hobbesmaster posted:I have not followed this at all and completely tuned out all the media about this. Is the one sentence summary “the county clerk tampered with the jury to write a book about the case” yeah
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Soylent Pudding posted:My first trip to Vegas was during the Trump Admin. One of the employees in the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower was this elderly African American gentleman who claimed there wasn't a question about a Vegas hotel he didn't know the answer to. He pointed out various hotels and talked about their history, number of rooms, how the expanded and changed over time, who the owners are and other random trivia about them. My understanding is that the NV Gaming Commission is heavily populated with real estate types who'd already had interactions with Trump.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I believe it's been calculated that if he'd put all that inherited money into index funds he'd be wealthier than even what he claims today, let alone what he actually has. Lol there’s a great scene in Silicon Valley where a tech guy who lucked into $1.2 billion dollars early is bragging about making $200 million more since then, and someone does the math that the returns were only about 1% a year & not keeping up with inflation, and he would have made more only putting his money in CDs.
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https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1751373046487613819?t=fACD_q30FjUPPt6NvZdBww&s=19 I don't know, remember that time JFK went for a ride in Dallas and had his head ventilated?
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1751373046487613819?t=fACD_q30FjUPPt6NvZdBww&s=19 No one ever remembers McKinley.
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OddObserver posted:No one ever remembers McKinley. Bah, he's buried 5 miles from me. It's Garfield that doesn't get any love.
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Flikken posted:Bah, he's buried 5 miles from me. True. I did forget him myself.
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OddObserver posted:No one ever remembers McKinley. Was that really unfair?
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Flikken posted:Bah, he's buried 5 miles from me. Honestly my first thought, mostly because of the song "Mr. Garfield's Been Shot Down".
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1751373046487613819?t=fACD_q30FjUPPt6NvZdBww&s=19 Well tell ya what, when someone Lincoln/JFK's him let's see how it shakes out in the history books which one is labeled as treated worse. It's an experiment I'm willing to try out.
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That extreme talking with hands thing that Trump does reminds me of a guy from my father's job, who does the same thing continuously due to being addicted to cocaine (or some drug along those lines) for decades on end and is unable to control his arms properly unless actively using them for work. I wonder if Trump always did that.
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hell even reagan got shot and seeing as how MAGA was reagans thing...
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1751373046487613819?t=fACD_q30FjUPPt6NvZdBww&s=19 Kind of a weird club to want to be a part of but I suppose he must be starting to think of his legacy
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1751373046487613819?t=fACD_q30FjUPPt6NvZdBww&s=19 Not a lot of candidates would reach this far across the aisle, I have to admit.
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Jimmy Smuts posted:That extreme talking with hands thing that Trump does reminds me of a guy from my father's job, who does the same thing continuously due to being addicted to cocaine (or some drug along those lines) for decades on end and is unable to control his arms properly unless actively using them for work. I wonder if Trump always did that. I can't find the quote, but Maggie Haberman (NYT) has always used specific language like "Trump has said he's never done drugs". Just like how donnie has claimed he's never drank, but per esquire: quote:One, named Laraby, says in a new book about Trump's rise, The Method To The Madness, that Trump would come into the New York nightspot Spy with modelling agent John Casablancas and drink beers - "usually Miller Lite or Bud Lite" - over the course of an evening. "He drank his beer out of the bottle," Laraby says in an extract published by Vice. "He would nurse his beer. Even if they were there for hours, he would have three beers at the most." So yeah, big ol' liar and I can see him ignoring his brother that drank himself to death and went coke-heavy.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I believe it's been calculated that if he'd put all that inherited money into index funds he'd be wealthier than even what he claims today, let alone what he actually has. Wealth is not about the amount of dollars in the bank/index fund/stocks etc. It’s about how you can influence the world, and being a real estate tycoon gets you some measure of influence versus just being passively wealthy.
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vuk83 posted:Wealth is not about the amount of dollars in the bank/index fund/stocks etc. You're not really rich until you own a senator.
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A.o.D. posted:You're not really rich until you own a senator. Maybe we've been going at this the wrong way.
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Could you own shares in one? Could you pool money to buy one and own him collectively? Would collective ownership make him a communist? What are the rules?
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They only cost a couple grand, think bigger
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It's not really the money you give to the campaign, it's the "jobs" you give to family members, the free rides on luxury jets and stays at exotic locations, the gifts you slide under the table. Just on the ledger Senators look cheap, but the real going rate is immense .
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https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1751643715087520222 https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/28/politics/us-troops-drone-attack-jordan/index.html "First on CNN: Three US troops killed in drone attack in Jordan, at least two dozen injured " Pine Cone Jones fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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Loitering munitions when we use them, suicide drones when they do.
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FWIW it's only that lovely "OSINT" account tacking suicide on there, the CENTCOM statment they're reposting says "one-way attack UAS"
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Generation Internet posted:FWIW it's only that lovely "OSINT" account tacking suicide on there, the CENTCOM statment they're reposting says "one-way attack UAS" How lovely? Inventing movements of Russian nuclear weapons, that's how lovely.
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I was trying to find the official press release at first, my bad there.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Loitering munitions when we use them, suicide drones when they do. Suddenly remembering that brief period of time when Fox News tried to replace "suicide bomber" with "homicide bomber" in the common parlance.
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Discussion Quorum posted:Suddenly remembering that brief period of time when Fox News tried to replace "suicide bomber" with "homicide bomber" in the common parlance. Seems like a square/rectangle thing.
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Biden to require fed contractors to disclose salary ranges on job postings https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/biden-orders-us-contractors-to-reveal-salary-ranges-in-job-ads i presume this would be interesting to a lot of vets going for contractor jobs
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Similar proposal of rule for federal jobs, though not entirely sure it is yet in execution: https://www.opm.gov/news/releases/2023/04/opm-releases-proposed-regulations-to-prohibit-use-of-previous-salary-history/ A good change in general, but particularly since when jumping from one federal scale to another (i.e. NAF to GS or NH or whatever) sometimes jobs with near-identical qualifications of scope of work and supervisory roles would have pretty different pay.
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That's a great change. Since most tech jobs went remote and CA and a couple other states already require this, that's pretty much standard for those postings. It's a very good indicator for when you should not waste your time.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:silicon valley is one of the funniest things i've ever watched Silicon valley is an amazing show, and extremely accurate the excesses of peak VC tech startups. There were several times they had to tone things down compared to reality because the actual amounts of money being slung around without a care were too unbelievable for TV. If you want to see what VC tech startups look like in 2014-19 to a person who hasn't drunk the koolaid, you have to watch Silicon Valley.
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I hear rumors that Zelenskyy has fired Zaluzhny.
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Hannibal Rex posted:I hear rumors that Zelenskyy has fired Zaluzhny. You should also have heard official denials from everyone important by now.
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OddObserver posted:You should also have heard official denials from everyone important by now. Yeah, and I posted it in the wrong thread on top of that. Let's see how this shakes out.
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