This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen.
That looks to be a cello or bass… Violins would have a chin rest.
Unfortunately, tardigrades love the bass and cello and hate violins so the only way to get a photo of one playing the violin would be to fake it somehow
I’d like to subscribe to your tardigrade facts newsletter, please.
I tried zooming in on the headstock to see which direction the tuners point, but the image is all fucky.
On the shoulders alone, I’d say it’s probably a cello although there are basses with round shoulders.
Unless of course it’s made for a tardigrade which, like Donald Trump Jr, doesn’t have a chin to make a chin rest at all useful.
does he not look well rested to you
“Yoink!”
Now THIS is a meme pic!
Trump and his company need to post a bond for the full amount by next week in order to stop New York Attorney General Letitia James from being able to collect while he appeals.
He doesn’t have the cash to pay, so when NY collects, they can start forcing sales on his property.
If he gets the bond, then it just sits there till after appeals. Which would prevent him from selling property he put up for bond, but he’d still own them.
If he misses that bond, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate
The fact that no bond companies would accept real property as a collateral for the bond and only liquid or easily liquified assets points to the properties being leveraged to the hilt. If he ends up having to pay even a portion of this and has to start selling properties we should see a true picture of his financial status.
Additionally, this judgment is for his civil fraud trial. Where he was found liable for inflating the value of his properties in order to obtain loans against them.
Given that, I can understand a general reluctance to loan against the value of his properties.
Imagine if he wins the election and is flat broke. He’ll auction off everything the US owns in exchange for a cut or finder’s fee. And let’s not pretend that the emoluments clause actually applies to any of elected leaders.
We don’t have to imagine too hard here. The fact that he’s even able to run for president again is a travesty of justice.
What makes it worst is that he’ll get millions of people to vote for him
Tens of millions, even.
I think the reason it was such an issue with Trump is I can’t think of another president that had the infrastructure (i.e. his hotels) to make revenue via emoluments.
Carter was a peanut farmer and those peanuts were sold internationally. He sold the farm before being elected so as not to be in violation of the emoluments clause.
Just setting the record straight. Carter put his farm in a blind trust. And I agree that Trump isn’t fit to clean Carter’s outhouse
Didn’t W divest a bunch of stuff and setup a blind trust for the same reason. And if I’m remembering correctly didn’t the peanut farm had been Carter’s family for a while so he gave up something that meant something more than money.
Every president save Trump in modern times has had various assets and investments, and they have all put them in blind trusts during their terms.
So if he falls to make bond and the state starts seizing assets, how does that work, exactly? They auction it to pay the lawsuit? What if Trump gets a bite on selling a property intending to make bond but it’s a big real estate transaction and that takes time? Will he be allowed to finish the sale before the state seizes assets?
They’d be best to sieze and sell the assets independent of Trump. Chances are he will sell stuff to certain people with Slavic accents, and then we’ll have a potential president even further beholden to enemies of the state, which is generally considered sub-optimal.
The government people who are in charge of collecting the dough from this judgment will be wise to the possibility that he may not have a bonafide buyer and that he’s just fluffing if he says a deal is about to go through.
Any buyer will know that he’s a motivated seller so the offers aren’t going to be all that great.
When the government seizes banks that are about to fail, usually they seem to find qualified buyers privately and the deal is over within days.
I have a feeling that because Trump has allowed things to get to this point, the government is less interested in selling at the highest price possible and instead will take any offer that settles the debt.
I’m wondering what priority the state has over existing lienholders. If State has priority, then some banks may be about to get hosed.
He won’t. I just can’t imagine he’s not going to find some bad actor to step in before that happens. Possibly SA.
some bad actor to step in before that happens. Possibly SA.
Shohreh Aghdashloo is one of the finest actors of our time. You shut your damn mouth.
Edit: Sorry, I just figured out you meant South America. Yeah, I hate that country, too…buncha jerks.
Something Awful is still a thing?
Its 4chan now. Saudia Arabia for those who might actually look here for an answer.
The aggression in Liotta’s laugher makes it the most appropriate gif.
Aww, that’s too bad.
So anyway, what are you guys up to this week?
Applying for emergency funding grant from my workplace to move back home and get a new home. Things are actually looking pretty good for me after seven months of living a complete and utter nightmare. When I got the news that I will probably be given the financial assistance I finally need as long as my paperwork is in line, I had to step off the sales floor and going to the bathroom and cry a little bit. I had a really good day today.
It’s been A really long time since had something to hope for
Thanks for asking
So many good feels from a trump thread. Never expected that!
Neither did I, to be honest. My birthday was on Friday, and I turned 45, and my family had abandoned me. And it was so bad that I had to keep myself from crying all day at work. But today was a good day. And I’ll take it.
Wow! Good for you! Also, thanks for being real! Hope everything stays on this path! Don’t let the bumps bring you down!
Thanks!
Good luck, hope everything works out and you can get to a place that makes you happy!
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I’m sorry, so sorry. Please accept my apology 😭.
Leticia James is a bad ass who painted this guy into a corner. I love it.
He’s got to be fuming. He’s managed to go 75 years without ever being held accountable by anyone for anything. And now it’s happening. He’ll drain the RNC by August.
Does the Rnc have $400 million on hand to pay his for him?
No
$8 Million in cash on hand at the start of 2024 per FEC filings. So no.
Oh man that feels so low for the peak of election season. I know that has already been reported but damn
Side note, i recently found out the guy Bill is playing is Matthew Perry’s step dad.
I’m late, but better late than never!
I wasn’t sure it would happen, but I hoped.
Gee, he can’t pay for his business fraud judgments with his sneaker fraud or his nft trading card fraud?
What about all the bribes he illegally and treasonously accepted by premiers of hostile countries?
Make him sell off his properties. Turn mar-a-lago into an immigration center
Haha, this is a great idea.
If only he hadn’t publicly slandered the same person twice more after successfully being sued the first time.
He’s trying to get his frequent slanderers card punched enough to get the tenth slander for free.
I’m happy for him to repeat the mistakes we know he can be held liable for.
Sadly he posted bond on E. Jean Carol’s settlement so she won’t see a dime for years as it goes through appeals
On the first one, yes. This is the second one, that he’s failed to post bond for, and won’t be allowed to appeal unless he can.
The third was videotaped as he walked out of the verdict on the second.
I missed the sneaker thing, what’s that all about?
Dumps showed up at a sneaker convention a few days after receiving his 454-million dollar civil fraud judgment with some boxes of gold sneakers that cost $399 a pair in a typically transparent ploy to cover his costs.
Allegedly, his 1000 "never surrender high tops sold out, though he hasn’t paid any of that sentence yet and the thousand available pairs would cover less than .1% of his fines for that single judgment.
Also, a lot of people booed him when he showed up at the convention.
Fox hosts notably thought this was a great way for trump to be "connecting with Black America. Because they’re into sneakers, they love sneakers. This is a big deal. Certainly in the inner city.”
Is Sneaker culture racial? I thought all kinds of weirdos were in to shoes 🤣
Haha, you got it right, sneakerheads are all over. Fox is racial.
Can’t he sell platinum Trump steaks?
Russia won’t give him platinum, maybe depleted uranium or plutonium though.
Lock him up
As much as I want Trump to be locked up, it would have to be for one of his multiple criminal indictments. Locking people up for not being able to pay fines is basically recreating debtors prisons and is hugely unfair to poor people.
That’s already the case for everyone else, let’s make it apply to the biggest piece of garbage in the world.
Sort of. The Supreme Court said you cannot be jailed for not being able to pay a fine, only for willingly not paying a fine that you can afford to pay. However, it is up to a judge’s discretion as to whether a person can afford a fine or not.
In this case, Trump has a lot of properties he can sell to pay a fine.
lol, what a loser
“Unpossible! He’s a gabillionaire! Fake News!”
Maybe his daddy Vlad will bail him out.
Oh no. /s
