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I wish I could get 45,000 people to pay 99 bucks a piece for a jpeg of my face photoshopped onto a cartoon body.

Man, nice work if you can get it.

Steve Bannon: I can't do this any more.
Look, I'm on board for an insurrection, but I draw the line at digital trading cards.
 
We might have just witnessed the founding investment in Trumpistan and its digital currency, Trump Bucks. As long as he maintains scarcity, we can finally get the depreciating currency experiment we've always wanted.

Remember, Trump was calling for QE in April of 2019. The erosion of the USD is part of the plan!
 
You just watch. It'll turn out that the root cause of these two banks that have failed will be some regulation dropped under the Trump administration.

Just like that train wreck.
 
You just watch. It'll turn out that the root cause of these two banks that have failed will be some regulation dropped under the Trump administration.

Just like that train wreck.
It seems to me there is no doubt that the root cause is the bailouts of 2008. I am not really sure we can blame trump from those.
 
You just watch.
Edit: first analysis I've heard (from someone who wouldn't hesitate to blame Trump, if it were on him) didn't blame Trump. So maybe that was just my knee-jerk reaction.:blush:
 
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I wish I could get 45,000 people to pay 99 bucks a piece for a jpeg of my face photoshopped onto a cartoon body.

Man, nice work if you can get it.


Look, I'm on board for an insurrection, but I draw the line at digital trading cards.
I am confident that you can get someone to pay 99 bucks for a jpeg of your face photoshopped onto a cartoon body. I wish I knew some way to make a "synthetic CDO" based on exactly that bet, whereby I would receive an exponential payout worth many times the face value of the jpeg, upon someone agreeing to buy one from you. As for "45,000 people"... Somewhere I can almost faitly hear George Santos saying... "Hold my beer"

So much of what Trump does/says invokes PT Barnum's (in)famous observation that "there's a sucker born every minute".

There is certainly someone on this planet, who could, under the right circumstances, be persuaded/convinced/motivated to buy a Gori jpeg and indeed, many other things far more ostensibly ridiculous and/or of far more dubious value... and furthermore, there are such transactions taking place on a regular, even daily, if not hourly basis.
 
There is certainly someone on this planet, who could, under the right circumstances, be persuaded/convinced/motivated to buy a Gori jpeg
I guarantee you that this is not the case.

Once a person becomes famous it's a different matter. Then he or she can parley that fame into suckers paying $99 for a jpeg. At an early age, Trump realized this (on some level). That by creating the character of a real-estate playboy, he could get the NY press to cover him--as a character. He turned that into "The Art of the Deal" and that into "the Apprentice" and he turned that into a term as President of the United States.

And then he turned that into getting 45,000 people to pay him $99 apiece for the certified version of a jpeg that they could download as a jpeg for free.
 
I guarantee you that this is not the case.

Once a person becomes famous it's a different matter. Then he or she can parley that fame into suckers paying $99 for a jpeg. At an early age, Trump realized this (on some level). That by creating the character of a real-estate playboy, he could get the NY press to cover him--as a character. He turned that into "The Art of the Deal" and that into "the Apprentice" and he turned that into a term as President of the United States.

And then he turned that into getting 45,000 people to pay him $99 apiece for the certified version of a jpeg that they could download as a jpeg for free.
Dogecoin is incontrovertible proof that it is the case. The makers of dogecoin were not famous. Some people will buy anything, given the proper persuasion and circumstances.

The real point here, is that you (the royal you) can make money cheating, tricking, taking advantage of people, and engaging in general grift... if you are willing to cheat people. The obstacle is not fame, seductively simple as it seems... the obstacle is scruples.
 
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Dogecoin is incontrovertible proof that it is the case. The makers of dogecoin were not famous. Some people will buy anything, given the proper persuasion and circumstances.

The real point here, is that you (the royal you) can make money cheating, tricking, taking advantage of people, and engaging in general grift... if you are willing to cheat people. The obstacle is not fame, seductively simple as it seems... the obstacle is scruples.
I would just add that the best and most sustainable cons make the mark think they're in on something. That applies to Trump completely; his voters all think they're in on the joke.
 
Edit: first analysis I've heard (from someone who wouldn't hesitate to blame Trump, if it were on him) didn't blame Trump. So maybe that was just my knee-jerk reaction.:blush:
Not so fast :nope: ... put down that plate of crow for a second Gor ;)

SVB collapse: Progressives blame 2018 rollback of Dodd-Frank for bank failures​

Progressive lawmakers are blaming the collapse of two U.S. banks over the weekend on a 2018 bill that rolled back regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis.
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"No one should be mistaken about what unfolded over the past few days in the U.S. banking system: These recent bank failures are the direct result of leaders in Washington weakening the financial rules," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wrote in a New York Times op-ed published Monday. Warren pointed out how SVB was one of multiple banks that lobbied Congress and then-President Donald Trump to weaken the Dodd-Frank Act, which established banking rules to prevent another financial meltdown. The regulations were pared back with the support of both parties in 2018. "Had Congress and the Federal Reserve not rolled back the stricter oversight, SVB and Signature would have been subject to stronger liquidity and capital requirements to withstand financial shocks. They would have been required to conduct regular stress tests to expose their vulnerabilities and shore up their businesses," she wrote. "But because those requirements were repealed, when an old-fashioned bank run hit S.V.B‌., the‌ bank couldn’t withstand the pressure — and Signature’s collapse was close behind." Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) also blamed the Trump-era law for the collapse of SVB, saying in a Sunday statement: "Let’s be clear. The failure of Silicon Valley Bank is a direct result of an absurd 2018 bank deregulation bill signed by Donald Trump that I strongly opposed."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/svb-collapse-progressives-dodd-frank-blame

It also appears that there were quite a few Democrats who went along with this rollback, FTR.
 
Conservative talk radio is saying that bank failures are a good thing and the real issue that SVB is being bailed out by bad boy Biden.
 
There is an obvious inconsistency there; in that if bank failures are a good thing,
and they happened during Joe Biden's watch; they ought to be congratulating him.
 
See my post on the balloon frenzy:


It used to be possible to like some things about your president and not like others. Now everything about a president has to be cast as grounds not to like him.
 
It also appears that there were quite a few Democrats who went along with this rollback, FTR.

I'm sure being wined and dined by Wall Street had nothing to do with this. Also we need to reform campaign finance
 
There is an obvious inconsistency there; in that if bank failures are a good thing,
and they happened during Joe Biden's watch; they ought to be congratulating him.
The complaint also includes the use of Tax dollars for the bailout which I've read is not the case.
 
The complaint also includes the use of Tax dollars for the bailout which I've read is not the case.
It depends on what exactly you mean by "tax dollars". They are getting a massive below market rate loan with unheard of low security requirements. As long as the proverbial does not hit the fan it should be OK, but "we" are taking on a lot of risk at well below market rates. That is much the same, and would be treated much the same by the bankers if they were on the other end of the deal.
 
See my post on the balloon frenzy:


It used to be possible to like some things about your president and not like others. Now everything about a president has to be cast as grounds not to like him.

hmm , ı went back to see the entire thing . Seems that BBC link is a frontpage or something that changes daily . Currently talks of new members of the coalition to relect the PM . Most notable is the political arm of the Turkish Hizbullah which used to bury people alive after improving on throwing acid on high school girls and stuff . Their payment reportedly involves the abolishing of the law that will see you fined and stuff after you beat your wife .

but yes , America is offering good deals . To New Turkey . Ankara has banned entire areas of trade with Russia . UAE is blocking the exiled mafia boss who was supposed to start his campaign against the PM and A-K-P today . That is talked about only because the major attraction has been claimed to be video evidence of passive gays in the country .

though it will confuse people with poor English skills , on a day when the idiots with tin foil hats will be all babbling about the very first use of a Soviet era system on the American drone . Even if the allegations are all like that the Flanker hit the propeller with a ventral strake while trying trying to dump fuel from closer range . All those kids in CFC will not know it but the first time clear Flanker pictures were released to the Western media was when one damaged a propeller of a Norwegian spy/patrol plane with a vertical fin ...

ı have no fear of Chinese dictatorship .
 
If Trump is indicted by the DA in NY, we will learn of the fact from Trump.

He won't be able to keep himself quiet on *Truth Social.

*un

Oh, and it will come out that part of the reason Bragg went forward is because Weisselberg gave him more on this case during his financial crimes case.
 
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I predict the new loans to banks based on the face value of their collateral will not drive any additional inflation.
 
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