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  #3268590 6-Aug-2024 12:13
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The problem Trump will have with Harris is that his "social intelligence" is outsourced to his advisors, while Harris still has it herself. He is already dead, he just doesn't know it yet. The only question is how much more direct and collateral damage he can cause before he is finally buried.




     

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  #3268607 6-Aug-2024 12:52
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kingdragonfly: A company who's

 

  • deep in debt,

  • with a CEO with a master's degree in agriculture in 1996, and a dubious job history as a community college trustee

  • the CEO continues to sue Twitter for $250 million for a parody account "Devin Nunes' Cow"

  • the company holding a huge amount of currently "locked-up" shares becoming salable all at once on September 25

  • had a weak first quarter report

  • has gone silent on its second quarter report, or set a date for its earnings report release

is putting on its big boy pants by writing its own custom streaming service, content delivery network / CDN.

What could go wrong? :)

Investor Place: DJT Stock Stumbles as Trump Media Launches the Truth+ Streaming App
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“First, we created Truth Social to provide a safe harbor for free speech on the Internet,” said CEO Devin Nunes. “Now, we’re establishing a reliable home for great TV content that is neglected by the big corporations or is at risk of cancellation—and we are securing our own tech stack and hardware infrastructure to make our new CDN uncancellable.”
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I literally thought all of that referred to Musk & Twitter until I got to the 'DJT Stock Stumbles...' part.

 

 

 

Yes, even the part about 'CEO continues to sue Twitter...'.




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  #3268614 6-Aug-2024 13:23
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Tinkerisk:

 

The problem Trump will have with Harris is that his "social intelligence" is outsourced to his advisors, while Harris still has it herself. He is already dead, he just doesn't know it yet. The only question is how much more direct and collateral damage he can cause before he is finally buried.

 

 

This is why she would tear him up even in a Fox debate. 

The problem his team has is, when he is confronted by any direct accusation or even just a question, he cannot help himself turn to vicious attack mode with off topic rants, which back up the concern most americans have is that he is not mentally fit enough to run the country.

Provided Biden can soften the stock market and get lower interest rates.

all she needs to do is lean into all his legal problems, his lies, his age, his mental health (that will send him wild, Id get onto that asap).

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  #3268625 6-Aug-2024 13:59
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TeaLeaf:

 

all she needs to do is lean into all his legal problems, his lies, his age, his mental health (that will send him wild, Id get onto that asap).

 

 

As a former Attorney General, she certainly has the tools to counter Trump's smokescreens with precise questions. Joe was not trained to do such things as he was far too decent for these smears and did not consider them in his thinking. An Attorney General doesn't even get involved in trivialities (of the accused).

 

 




     

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  #3268713 6-Aug-2024 16:39
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Tinkerisk:

 

As a former Attorney General, she certainly has the tools to counter Trump's smokescreens with precise questions. Joe was not trained to do such things as he was far too decent for these smears and did not consider them in his thinking. An Attorney General doesn't even get involved in trivialities (of the accused).

 

 

Yes, spot on. Joe would have made a great two term president back in the early 2000s. Obama was good but Joe had MUCH more experience. His weakness was his public speaking. I think he was expecting too much of himself this late. I think Joe would have handled Geopolitics the best (without his weak sauce Jake Sullivan). and he knows how to get stuff through all the red tape, which Trump wants to dismantle, but the reason its there is Democracy is much more powerful than Dictatorships, because everybody is represented. Its not the 50000 civil servants fault Trump is too lazy to know how to get stuff through like Joe. 

 

But Joe was not expecting Trump to un again. after all even at the outset he was give a 20% chance. So I think the entire Govt were way too slow in prosecuting Trump, who if prosecuted before he was running would unlikely have got all this help from SCOTUS and judge Canon. They left it all way too late, perhaps more importantly, not enough urgency.

The US deserves better, so it needs somebody like Harris who has the skill set to tear his ideas apart and show a better way forward. If they get a majority in Congress and Senate, I think she will sign the SCOTUS bill Biden is putting together, which will make it much easier to prosecute the one case that seemed a slam dunk, the Cannon national security documents case. Im sure it will be reopened, likely with a new judge.

Likewise the Insurrection case in Georgia, all evidence can be used, although I think Chutkin will go down the line of not presential duty/work  anyway.

So there is the Sentencing for the "hush money" case which looks to be going ahead with the presidential evidence being very limited and not impacting the case, I forget the term used (no trial by Jury is perfect essentially).

and while he likely wont get a prison sentence just yet, the Georgia case Chutkin is not holding up and all the evidence will be presented to her, causing further embarrassment to Trump.

and whilst statute of limitations make the $10M Egypt bribe money case was squashed by Trumps attorney general, it wont stop investigative journalists prosecting him via media.

None of this is good for his presidency chances.

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  #3268933 7-Aug-2024 03:50
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Was just up watching the news they look like they going to risk Penn without Shapiro and use Walz as a Veep.

He wont hurt, so many positives, but Trump is +4 in Penn. So Walz who will appeal to both party moderates and is just down to earth, they better have a plan for pulling back Penn from Trump.

But the reason Im on hear, more news on Thomas not declaring trips to Hawaii and New Zealand which were gifted by one of his Billionaire gifters.

To hear the Justice Garsulch lecture Biden on SOCTUS reform to remove corruption possibility and to update the constitution to reverse and add Presidents do NOT get Special Presidential immunity. It is also to add 18 year terms and to keep the judges from both party persu even keeled etc

 

The nerve of the guy, I think hes hiding a donor.

Oh goodness, even Fox is flipping on Trump somewhat with many reports stating he is too divisive. Interesting to see how that plays out.

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  #3268963 7-Aug-2024 07:59
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That have become wary. At some point Trump's dropping popularity loses Trump republican support and affects viewer numbers. Fox has the same problem as the republican party. Dump Trump too early and the support goes to another station. Fox News web has always run anti opinion now and then so don't get too excited.

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  #3268982 7-Aug-2024 10:02
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Trump crowned? No faux King way!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  #3268986 7-Aug-2024 10:41
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Adin Ross is one of the most obnoxious, dumbest streamers out there. His audience is mostly young males under 18.

To show you how brain dead Adin is, his best bud Andrew Tate has four British women accusing him rape and sexual assault. The influencer read Tate's messages about his plans to "leave Romania and never [come] back" out loud on a Kick stream in March. Tate was arrested after Adin Ross blabbed about his escape plans.

I'd recommend Trump focus all his efforts on under 18 years olds, since they can't vote.

I'm sure the Federal Election Commission is interested in the gifts.

New York Times: Adin Ross Gives Trump a Cybertruck, a Rolex and Access to a Heavily Male Audience

The 23-year-old internet celebrity is enormously popular with a testosterone-heavy demographic that the former president sees as critical to his bid for office.
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Adin Ross, an internet celebrity known for stirring controversy, answered that question with a gold Rolex watch and a customized Tesla Cybertruck, both of which he presented to Donald J. Trump during an interview that was livestreamed on Monday afternoon.
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The car — closely associated with the Trump-supporting chief executive of Tesla, Elon Musk, and subject of an ongoing culture war — has been in short supply since Tesla began selling it in late 2023. This one, which Mr. Ross drove to the interview, was festooned in red, white and blue with Mr. Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” emblazoned on the hood.

On each side was the now-ubiquitous photo of the Republican presidential nominee, fist raised defiantly, taken seconds after the attempt on his life at a campaign rally last month.
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Per Tesla’s website, a base model Cybertruck has a sticker price of $60,990, with high-end trims topping $100,000. A customized wrap — the printed vinyl sticker covering every exterior surface of the vehicle — starts around $4,000. Rolex watches typically start at $5,000.

All of those price tags far exceed the federal limit on individual campaign contributions, which is $3,300 per election cycle, in cash or in-kind — making Mr. Ross’ show of generosity a potential campaign finance violation.
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  #3269026 7-Aug-2024 12:41
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-latest-attack-kamala-v-164139316.html

 

 

 

Trump’s Latest Attack on Kamala’s V.P. Pick Hilariously Backfires

 

Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt released a statement Tuesday decrying Vice President Kamala Harris’s selection of “Radical Leftist Tim Walz” as her running mate.

 

Leavitt criticized Walz for “embracing policies to allow convicted felons to vote,” as part of his obsession “with spreading California’s dangerously liberal agenda far and wide.”

 

As Minnesota governor, Walz signed a bill in June 2023 restoring the right to vote to more than 50,000 Minnesotans on parole, probation, or community release due to a felony conviction.

 

Despite Leavitt’s griping, Trump himself is the beneficiary of a policy allowing convicted felons to vote.




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Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

 

Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale 

 

 

 

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  #3269100 7-Aug-2024 15:57
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The Week: How could a $10M Egyptian cash withdrawal upend Trump's campaign?

For years, Donald Trump and his extended network have been dogged by allegations of influence peddling by foreign actors
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Cairo's state-run National Bank of Egypt, just days before then president-elect Trump was set to be sworn into office in early 2017, employees were reportedly told to withdraw some $10 million in American currency by an account holder associated with Egypt's national intelligence service.

As it happened, shortly before the suspicious withdrawal, Trump himself donated the same amount into his campaign in the waning days of the 2016 presidential election — a conspicuous congruity that helped intensify a highly classified Justice Department investigation. The probe stemmed from an earlier CIA report that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and others were involved in a high-level effort to aid the then-struggling Trump campaign as the presidential election was drawing to a close.

While the basic thrust of these explosive allegations has been public since CNN first published an exposé on the federal investigation in late 2020, a new report from The Washington Post has pushed the story back into the public eye. In it, the Post details not only the previously unknown cash withdrawal, but the scale — and the ultimate shuttering — of the Justice Department's inquiry under then-Attorney General Bill Barr.

With these previously sub-rosa allegations in the spotlight again as Trump again runs for high office, how will this renewed scrutiny of the once-and-potentially-future president's foreign entanglements affect his current campaign?
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kingdragonfly: The Week: How could a $10M Egyptian cash withdrawal upend Trump's campaign?

For years, Donald Trump and his extended network have been dogged by allegations of influence peddling by foreign actors
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Cairo's state-run National Bank of Egypt, just days before then president-elect Trump was set to be sworn into office in early 2017, employees were reportedly told to withdraw some $10 million in American currency by an account holder associated with Egypt's national intelligence service.

As it happened, shortly before the suspicious withdrawal, Trump himself donated the same amount into his campaign in the waning days of the 2016 presidential election — a conspicuous congruity that helped intensify a highly classified Justice Department investigation. The probe stemmed from an earlier CIA report that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and others were involved in a high-level effort to aid the then-struggling Trump campaign as the presidential election was drawing to a close.

While the basic thrust of these explosive allegations has been public since CNN first published an exposé on the federal investigation in late 2020, a new report from The Washington Post has pushed the story back into the public eye. In it, the Post details not only the previously unknown cash withdrawal, but the scale — and the ultimate shuttering — of the Justice Department's inquiry under then-Attorney General Bill Barr.

With these previously sub-rosa allegations in the spotlight again as Trump again runs for high office, how will this renewed scrutiny of the once-and-potentially-future president's foreign entanglements affect his current campaign?
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  #3269346 7-Aug-2024 20:55
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Giuliani made a series of bad decision, first with sexual harassment of an employee and also becoming president Donald Trump’s personal attorney.

While bankruptcy sounds terrible, in the US at least it may have several positive aspects (not always):
  • discharge or reorganize debts

  • once bankruptcy is filed, an automatic stay is put in place, which stops most collection actions, including lawsuits, wage garnishments, and harassing phone calls from creditors.

  • halt foreclosure proceedings and repossession of property

  • stop wage garnishments
Long and short, it gives someone declaring bankruptcy a moment to catch their breath, and handle creditors in an organized manner.

But Rudy Giuliani chose the middle finger approach, and now it's going to be a feeding frenzy of creditors tearing him to shreds without bankruptcy protection.

And trust me, in the US it's not a kind place to be facing even one creditor without bankruptcy protection.

Washington Post: New York judge finalizes dismissal of Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case

A federal judge in New York on Friday finalized the dismissal of Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case, opening the door for creditors to pursue and potentially seize his assets. That includes two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation claim against him [plus an additional $350,000 fine for wasting New York court's time].
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In his order finalizing the dismissal, Lane approved terms of that settlement and formally closed the case. The order prohibits Giuliani from seeking bankruptcy protection again for “a period of one year from the dismissal effective date.”
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The formal dismissal paves the way for the former election workers and other creditors to now pursue legal remedies to collect money owed to them by Giuliani, the former New York mayor. It also allows other pending lawsuits against him that had been frozen by the bankruptcy proceeding to resume, including defamation suits by the voting machine companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, and a sexual harassment and wage theft claim by former Giuliani associate Noelle Dunphy.
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Almost seven months after Giuliani sought bankruptcy protection after he was ordered to immediately pay millions in damages to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two Georgia women he falsely accused of helping to steal the 2020 presidential election while he was serving as former president Donald Trump’s personal attorney. Giuliani also faces criminal charges in Georgia and Arizona related to his alleged actions after the 2020 election.

Giuliani’s creditors accused him of using the bankruptcy case to stall litigation and collection efforts against him. The former mayor was criticized by the judge for his “uncooperative conduct”
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  #3269348 7-Aug-2024 21:08
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kingdragonfly: The Week: How could a $10M Egyptian cash withdrawal upend Trump's campaign?

 

as ive been reporting on this, I think it could possible end up an October surprise. I dont see real Investigatory journalists dropping it even if time is passed, people will form their own opinions.

 

With the sentencing, the debate which if he doesn't show too will give Harris as much wiggle room to prosecute he questions as she wants.

 

and then the Georgia case, every peace of evidence in mini trial style, dragged through the mud.

and just possible another October surprise, the "apprentice" show, the sole reason people think Trump is good for the economy, ignoring its a game show. anyway, possibly the video of the "N" word from Trump describing a contestant possibly floating to the top.

Justice can wait if they win and some of the justice may impact his campaign in ankle bracelet and two to three hour probation interview every day he wants to leave home. He could well and truly lose it.

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  #3269353 7-Aug-2024 22:09
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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-coward-trends-truth-social-130703325.html

 

Bet that stung! 😀

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