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I suspect he's done enough of this pocketing of political funds already in the past 9+ years that if anyone did a thorough job of investigating, AND ACTING ON IT, they could get him. The usual "ooo, he can't do that!" chorus that doesn't go any further sickens me. But looking to the bright side once his disgrace is acknowledged by the GOP they could really distance themselves from him by taking him to court for intercepting donor funds that they think should have come their way.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rakes-in-1-million-selling-nft-trading-cards-of-himself-report-2022-12 Is it the brilliance of the salesman, the stupidity of the buyer, or is the article actual fake news?

I only went there a few times, can't say I saw that but trans guys would get rooms and the otherwise straight guys would wait on line outside the door for their turn.

Gotta wonder what will transpire in the next 6 months such that the "identifiable harm" will disappear.

There were a lot of bath houses in that area back in the day. There was one called Sutro Baths that was the only man-woman place I knew about. But the customers were mostly male, when the straight guys spotted a woman they behaved really aggressively, like baboons in heat, which I guess is why it didn't become more popular with women. There are days when Bkk itself is like a steam bath.

I guess part of his perception is that if he out-does the parodies of him it somehow makes him the victor. Crystal ball prediction: "It was all a joke! I was kidding, didn't you see?"

Now the owner must get the hoodoo guys to protect him from the "testicle-less man" spirit who will pursue him seeking vengeance.

Huh? $44 BILLION and he doesn't even get the building? I used to live near there, those buildings were quasi-derelict for decades. It's weird to see that area become a center for media coverage.

The stock was ~$380 before he announced the buyout in April, by the end of that month it was $280, today it's around $150. Anyone else spot a trend? Maybe he has the aptitude in science and engineering. And of course where his own skills are insufficient he can bring in qualified people. As for business sense he appears to have had luck on his side, but the winds are shifting. Only a few of these tech geniuses succeed in taking on the leadership of the business, the truly smart ones know when it's time to hand it off, like the two original google guys. Zuckerburg is out of his league, betting the company on a technology that does not exist yet -- very 1998, is this his idea of time travel? As for this guy, laying a $44 billion egg, in a very public spotlight, is something he'll always have to carry, save if he dons a cape and flies up to stop a meteor heading toward Earth. Now he's going into celebrity. If he had more business sense than ego he would sell the car company before he damages the brand even further. I'm reluctant to call what he's doing politics, it's more like pranking. As I've pointed out several times, technologically Twitter does not require a special sauce for what it does, I suspect that someone who wanted to build a similar app (and server system) could find the talent out there fairly easily, and probably begin with available open source tech. There is no solid gold formula secured in a vault somewhere, like google's search algorithm. I would think there are people working away at this very moment on what they hope will be Twitter's replacement; they could probably start out using AWS until they scale up. Thanks to his antics Tesla is now being branded as a RIGHT WING car company. Watching the election night returns a few weeks ago the announcers were differentiating GOP candidates from MAGA candidates. I was impressed. Electric vehicles can be said to be anti-Maga: Trump's Attempt to Sabotage Electric Car Growth Challenged by Bipartisanship and on the grass roots level https://futurism.com/the-byte/vandals-are-stuffing-meat-into-electric-vehicle-charging-stations

Well, that's it for Twitter, now it's just another lunatic fringe chat site. That this bozo spent $44 billion to purchase it is another matter: yeah, he ain't going to starve, but as someone who heads publicly-held companies he will definitely lose investor confidence. He is definitely winning the attention war currently, you can't access a news page without that smiling chimpanzee face.

Having the name on a sports arena builds consumer confidence, apparently. Like crypto dot com It's somewhat amusing these celebs that did endorsements will be taken to task, this might lead to a whole new realm of lawsuits involving celebrity representation.

Celebrity meltdowns. The first I can think of is Robert Downey Jr in the 1990s, being a show-biz brat in the full glare of the pre-internet media. Then Charlie Sheen, and the whole lineup. But those were entertainers, now we’re getting rich people, competing with each other in their own weird rich-guy way, and are not young. I try to ignore it, but this idiocy sucks up so much attention actual news gets pushed aside. This guy will keep dancing as long as the spotlight is on him, then on to the next episode of "Hey! Look What I'm Doing!" As for that $44 billion, well, once you're as wealthy as that it's all Monopoly money anyway.

"God wants us to kill you."

old wisecrack: the only way to make money from gambling is to own the casino He couldn't even get that right. And don't forget the fake university that the court made him pay $25 million to get clear of.

I would suspect Dorsey wanted the US$44 billion deal to go through -- he knew he'd never find another sucker businessman willing to pay that. Placating and deference is part of the ritual behavior in Silicon Valley deals in that period between the announcement of a deal and the closing.

Man, doesn't this guy get tired of complaining? He aspires to be a fascist strongman but comes off like full-on wimp. "Treated very very unfairly." "Persecuted!" "No president has ever been treated as poorly as me!" (when he gets to hell he can argue that out with Lincoln) Supposedly he doesn't drink wine, but he sure does love his whine.

Some place names on there I haven't heard since I played Risk when I was a kid.

Let's see how Jack Smith handles it. The 1/6 committee did the job of public awareness and managed to counter the incessant whining by the former president -- I think the midterm results indicate that. I'm also anticipating him taking to task all other looneys involved in the ridiculous events that transpired between Election Day 2020 and the following Inauguration Day, like the goofy lady that called the Pentagon about an ambassador being kidnapped. I can also see an overall review of the antics of DT and his entourage during his term in office, that stuff can go on for years, and some pretty ugly stuff gets revealed. Stephen Miller in the Hague on human rights charges?

Ever deal with the US Postal Service? When you ship a package you can buy insurance: you choose the value and pay the premium when you ship it. If the package disappears and you go to the PO to file a claim they require you to prove that the parcel is worth the amount you insured it for. As I see it they should have asked for that when you purchased the insurance. As for getting $$$ returned (from nearly any entity) the odds are against you. Should you appear at their offices demanding they set things right it is all in their favor -- here they are running their business and this lunatic (you) comes in off the street causing trouble.

Draft dodgers?

I'm waiting for someone to file a suit claiming they paid for political favors and the politician did not come through for them, case goes up to SCOTUS. Once upon a time this was called graft and was considered illegal. Now the money is legally funneled through political action committees (PACs). Is it really necessary to name the party behind this? Consider it this way: if someone has a billion-dollar business and they bought each senator for $1 million each, hell, they probably make that back in a few days.

I guess with Sheldon Adelson (perhaps his biggest single donor, previously) being dead he has no further use for Jews and Israel.

Do what just about any company would do these days: find an excuse to not return it. "Sorry, but it is not my policy to . . ." etc. "My wife handles those things, but she'll be away for a few weeks." "I fell off a horse last week and have no money." You get the picture. My doctor in the US sent me to a lab for some tests. When checking in they told me my insurance might not cover it, so I should front them $150 just in case, and they will refund to me the unused amount. Ok, maybe they will, but how much time and effort would that involve is anyone's guess. I also suspect certain unscrupulous entities may delay such things because they see the customer is of a certain age, so maybe they will forget about it or die. In your case maybe the airline will go out of business or be taken over. Oh, and I went to a different lab, one with no "maybes" involved.

When she got elected to the Senate it was the first I heard of her, and thought she was too good to be true. It took a few years to find out I was right. I saw some vids of her when she was in The House, and she spoke with wit and personality, as if I was watching a different person. She has largely been a major disappointment to everyone. She's unpredictable and unreliable. Put a certain sum of $$$ in her hand and you'll get the predictability. In late of 2021 she helped push through a raise in Medicare premiums, the collected money to go to Pfizer. I wonder what her reward was. I don't think she can make it as a Republican due to her, er, lifestyle. The paleo-Republicans would not approve, especially with the current culture wars silliness.

What do you do for excitement avoid it