> The right-wing billionaire and TikTok investor is about to help the former president add billions of dollars to his net worth. This is what oligarchy looks like.
Maybe not at the level of international poker competitions -- at least, jai alai tournaments aren't ever on the teevee,afaik ? Prolly not as easy to cheat in as poker, either. ;shruggie emoticon:
Yass funds Moms for Liberty and their book banning shenanigans a takeovers of school boards in PA. He also funds anti-abortion-rights candidates. He's just an all around right-wing shit.
Oh listen to the poor victim whining using all his evil terms...
"inflation, election rigging, run by crooked Joe Biden and his thugs, it's back-firing, they're running all these cases, weaponization of DOJ, nobody can believe they raided my house, it's a disgrace, never been done before (despite millions of examples of fraudsters stealing top secret docs), Millions and millions of Terrorists coming in, at most it's a misdemeanor, but it's not even a misdemeanor, Bragg is openly hostile, Engoron blah blah, terrible precedent, it's a hoax, there's no crime, sad day, we'll put up cash or bond very quickly (ie. last minute)"
OMG shut up you whining lying, crooked piece of crap.
There has never been a white guy who has gotten so many effing breaks in life but seems utterly unable to do anything except play the victim. It's disgusting on so many levels. I am now thoroughly convinced that he will never be held accountable, for anything. Today's ruling (both the reduced bond and the pretrial publicity ruling) nails the coffin shut.
It is disgusting that Trump plays the victim every time, every subject, every Court case, every ruling.
The ruling today is a reduced fee for his Bond Appeal just to be able to fight the $464 million verdict. The full Appeals Court will determine if the verdict is fair. He owes the $175 million reduction of the Bond within 10 days and he still faces the verdict. I believe the Appeals Court should uphold the Judge's verdict, though IF he can pay today's $175 million it might reduce the $464 million verdict.
Written in the style of "Ulysses" by James Joyce, but much harder to understand. Stream of consciousness writing is fine, but it does require at least some consciousness.
trump may be the perfect example of "Be careful what you wish for." I suspect that if he hadn't sleazed himself into the Presidency, he could have frauded under the radar for many years to come.
It's true that he got a lot of attention as President, but I suspect he liked that a lot more than the attention he's getting now. Just think of all the attention he'll get if he goes to jail.
Exactly. I worked in big data and I can tell you, the calls are coming from inside the house. Meta, yay ALL social media sites (save for Substacks like this one) TEMU (good God those ads), any place you shop, your viewing of streaming services- everything collects data. TikTok is almost the least of our privacy issues.
It's depressing to see how many billionaires are in the background fucking up our country and other people's countries. It makes it very hard to see a way out of this mess and forward to a more progressive world.
I didn't have a full blown REVOLUTION on my bingo card for the future. But if THAT CRIMINAL gets into the White House AGAIN, we all have some serious choices to make
He pulls us out of NATO and announces a new, grand Russian/American alliance (and it will be in that order). Vlad's got health issues, so he's going to have to act fast. Getting his hands on the American military will be like Trump getting his hands on the RNC cashbox.
After Ukraine, Vlad will attack NATO from the east and insist that we attack it from the West.
Except, Canada's a member of NATO, so we'll have a war on our northern border. And, this being a world war, Mexico might not be happy with a Russian/American alliance divvying things up, and, besides, they're really sick of our shit, so they might invade from the south in a pincer move.
Of course, if the Alliance fails, we're going to be under the rule of people who know how to make us act like a civilized country. The First Amendment will be re-written to deal with the idiocy being spewed with no accountability, the Second's gone, and possession of Nazi, Maga, and Confederate images and memorabilia will be illegal.
Of course, that's after we clear away all the rubble.
More money to lose. The stock was dropping after the merger cleared. #VoteBlue
James will never collect a penny.
Next up Truth Social goes crypto.
Trump and TikTok investor Jeff Yass are showing what oligarchy looks like
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-truth-social-tik-tok-jeff-yass-rcna144951
> The right-wing billionaire and TikTok investor is about to help the former president add billions of dollars to his net worth. This is what oligarchy looks like.
Susquehanna International Group sounds like something Bob and Ray invented during an episode of “Garish Summit.”
Fat fucking parasites.
Jai alai? There's money in jai alai?
I don't know what the exchange rate is but there are lots of pelota and xistera in Jai Lai.
Maybe not at the level of international poker competitions -- at least, jai alai tournaments aren't ever on the teevee,afaik ? Prolly not as easy to cheat in as poker, either. ;shruggie emoticon:
https://giphy.com/gifs/broadcity-season-2-episode-8-3o7aD5KktgCfrZ5gnC
Being financially beholden to investors, bailouts, and foreign governments isn't going to be a problem if he's president again, is it?
Cue the "It turns out it's only custom to not owe millions of dollars to shadowy foreign entities, not an actual rule" articles
Well, it’s not $464M. It’s now $175M. Shit!
Too little too late and the lender calls from here on out will be brutal.
I'm sick of sharing oxygen with these giant wastes of space.
Yass funds Moms for Liberty and their book banning shenanigans a takeovers of school boards in PA. He also funds anti-abortion-rights candidates. He's just an all around right-wing shit.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/tiktok-billionaire-yass-gop-donor-abortion-1234859270/
And while the whole TikTok ban is meaningless performance, it would hurt this asshat's pocketbook as he is invested in TikTok. So there is that.
Oh listen to the poor victim whining using all his evil terms...
"inflation, election rigging, run by crooked Joe Biden and his thugs, it's back-firing, they're running all these cases, weaponization of DOJ, nobody can believe they raided my house, it's a disgrace, never been done before (despite millions of examples of fraudsters stealing top secret docs), Millions and millions of Terrorists coming in, at most it's a misdemeanor, but it's not even a misdemeanor, Bragg is openly hostile, Engoron blah blah, terrible precedent, it's a hoax, there's no crime, sad day, we'll put up cash or bond very quickly (ie. last minute)"
OMG shut up you whining lying, crooked piece of crap.
None of this even makes sense.
SS/DD. Grrr. Also, Gah.
There has never been a white guy who has gotten so many effing breaks in life but seems utterly unable to do anything except play the victim. It's disgusting on so many levels. I am now thoroughly convinced that he will never be held accountable, for anything. Today's ruling (both the reduced bond and the pretrial publicity ruling) nails the coffin shut.
Summed it up for me. I’ve lost hope that this evil mother fucker will EVER be help accountable. Please PLEASE sister Karma. Do your thing.
I think she moved to Canada.
It is disgusting that Trump plays the victim every time, every subject, every Court case, every ruling.
The ruling today is a reduced fee for his Bond Appeal just to be able to fight the $464 million verdict. The full Appeals Court will determine if the verdict is fair. He owes the $175 million reduction of the Bond within 10 days and he still faces the verdict. I believe the Appeals Court should uphold the Judge's verdict, though IF he can pay today's $175 million it might reduce the $464 million verdict.
EVEN WHEN HE WINS he plays the victim
Every. Damn. Time.
This whole nailed-to-the-cross schtick is too nauseating..
Written in the style of "Ulysses" by James Joyce, but much harder to understand. Stream of consciousness writing is fine, but it does require at least some consciousness.
This is much more illustrative of him spewing irrational grievances about how unfair his life seems to be.... https://www.ajc.com/opinion/mike-luckovich-blog/mike-luckovich-031924-drowning-in-sewage/QJEZ4DSJ2RFSXB3P4H6LOW2ONE/
trump may be the perfect example of "Be careful what you wish for." I suspect that if he hadn't sleazed himself into the Presidency, he could have frauded under the radar for many years to come.
Sitting down in Mar-a-Lago, laundering Russian money, but he wouldn't be the center of attention.
It's true that he got a lot of attention as President, but I suspect he liked that a lot more than the attention he's getting now. Just think of all the attention he'll get if he goes to jail.
"Yass’s firm is also a big shareholder in ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company."
aaaand scene!
It's certainly *interesting* we can allow "China" to influence our citizens. Right wing propaganda - no problem!
Exactly. I worked in big data and I can tell you, the calls are coming from inside the house. Meta, yay ALL social media sites (save for Substacks like this one) TEMU (good God those ads), any place you shop, your viewing of streaming services- everything collects data. TikTok is almost the least of our privacy issues.
China likes colonialism. they're all speaking the language of power and influence.
And I just bet the Project 2025 people, who make a big show of punishing and isolating China and its businesses, have no problem with Yass doing this.
honestly, I don't expect consistency from these folks. they're only after power.
R'amen, you said it, Bagels. Which puts them firmly in the same cart as the Rethugs and the Magatroids.
yeah, authoritarians of a feather or something.
It's depressing to see how many billionaires are in the background fucking up our country and other people's countries. It makes it very hard to see a way out of this mess and forward to a more progressive world.
If we aren't allowed to kill all the billionaires, then they at least have to be neutered.
And how do you neuter a billionaire? You take his money away from him.
I didn't have a full blown REVOLUTION on my bingo card for the future. But if THAT CRIMINAL gets into the White House AGAIN, we all have some serious choices to make
If Trump gets back in, here it is:
He pulls us out of NATO and announces a new, grand Russian/American alliance (and it will be in that order). Vlad's got health issues, so he's going to have to act fast. Getting his hands on the American military will be like Trump getting his hands on the RNC cashbox.
After Ukraine, Vlad will attack NATO from the east and insist that we attack it from the West.
Except, Canada's a member of NATO, so we'll have a war on our northern border. And, this being a world war, Mexico might not be happy with a Russian/American alliance divvying things up, and, besides, they're really sick of our shit, so they might invade from the south in a pincer move.
Of course, if the Alliance fails, we're going to be under the rule of people who know how to make us act like a civilized country. The First Amendment will be re-written to deal with the idiocy being spewed with no accountability, the Second's gone, and possession of Nazi, Maga, and Confederate images and memorabilia will be illegal.
Of course, that's after we clear away all the rubble.
Or, we could vote for Joe and the Dems.
It was always going to end with an American/Canadian war wasn't it?
The October Revolution Nomer Dva
Make Bastille Day Great Again.
tax the FUCK outta them. that's the way out.
Tax all their wealth. All. of. it.
^^^ THIS