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Drkala's avatar

And Anna Banana just died 😭

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beb's avatar

Will someone enforce the emolence clause of the Constitution?

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marydn's avatar

I don't think it has been emphasized enough that what this guy spent $6 mil on was a certificate that gives him the right to duct tape a banana to a wall and call it "Comedian". The artwork was "created" in 2019. That is not the original banana or even the original duct tape. This guy thought he was being edgy by eating it. In reality everyone (including, I assume, most billionaires) thought he was being a fool. Sigh. Has anyone found a portal out of this timeline yet?

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KEITH TAYLOR's avatar

And they said Joe Biden was old and incoherent.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

How many hungry kids could have been fed with that $6.2 million?

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marydn's avatar

Not to mention housed and clothed. But ya know, they're just kids, right? Not as important as buying artwork and then eating it.

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

At this point, I'm actually in favor of bankrupting every dumbfuck MAGA moron in the country.

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tehbaddr's avatar

This influence peddling should be looked into, strongly!

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

𝘉𝘛𝘞 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘔𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘛𝘺𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘹𝘦𝘥?

Only in the sense that Tyson was 58 years old and hadn't fought for decades. Jake Paul has yet to fight a competent opponent in his own age bracket. If he ever does, I won't be betting on him.

Oh, and this crypto thing is just legalized bribery, of course. Who cares? Certainly not the electorate.

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Bruce's avatar

The "Web3 is going just great" entry when this blows up is gooing to be epic. https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

And Phony Stark has a bunch cryptobros hounding fat Nixon to make the "US Invest in Crypto" so the cryptobros can convert their magic beans money to US dollars at taxpayer expense. https://www.onmanorama.com/news/business/2024/11/29/us-fed-reserve-creating-bitcoin-stockpile-how-sound-the-plan-is.html

We are sooooo fucked in the dark without any lube.

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Deb Vitkova's avatar

I stopped giving a number of years back and was able to help my Philippines cousins leave a termite infested house after a typhoon blew off the roof and kept killed her only source of income, a water buffalo.

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Cincinnatus's avatar

Slate really goes to town on this guy:

There are so, so many more Justin Sun stories we could dive into here, but let’s just cap this off with some 2024 lowlights: There were sanctions against Sun’s businesses by fellow players in the crypto industry, flailing attempts to keep more crypto businesses aloft, and Sun’s appointment as prime minister of a fake country (https://qz.com/crypto-entrepreneur-justin-sun-prime-minister-of-liberl-1851669959) that claims to use Bitcoin as its currency.

https://slate.com/technology/2024/12/justin-sun-banana-art-crypto-billionaire-criminal-comedian-maurizio-cattelan.html

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tim gueguen's avatar

Liberland is on territory neither Serbia or Croatia want. This makes me think it's probably a major environmental disaster area. Perhaps when Yugoslavia was still a thing Tito used it as a dump for toxic chemicals, or as a site for Yugoslavia's nuclear weapons program.

I think we can make a reasonable guess that Sun isn't some kind of Chinese intelligence operative. His behaviour sounds too wacky for that.

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Stephanie Hobbs's avatar

It's only December and I can't stand his name being EVERYWHERE. MAKE IT STOP. Thank you.😕

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Zen Gali's avatar

Eat the Rich, Save a Banana.

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Delmarva Peninsula's avatar

Is there anyone attached to crypto who isn't a completely bankrupt human being?

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Noted, and added to the Encyclopedia of Fun!

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carovee's avatar

I'm not mad at Biden for pardoning his son but I am pissed that the media will focus on it like a laser and ignore Trump's blatant corruption happening on a daily basis.

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"M"'s avatar

David Rothkopf has the Blue Sky Tweet 💙 for you

If you don't beat me to it I will bring it to you later

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carovee's avatar

I did not know that Kash Patel had a special obsession with Hunter. OHJ's decision makes more sense now. He put politics ahead of his family for a long time and for what? I'll give him this one moment. It's not his fault the media love to beat up democrats and fellate republicans.

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