Never been a fan of Don Lemon, and it shows what a weak little man Elon Musk is that he got so rattled by this interview he canceled Lemon’s XTwitter contract. The “free speech absolutist” strikes again!
CNN’s Oliver Darcy breaks down key moments from the Elon Musk interview that led Don Lemon to lose his programming spot on the X platform. #CNN #News
re: #123 Targetpractice
I don’t think even Jared has that level of liquidity.
Well, his petro-state buddies certainly do.
re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
On some remote island, owned by a billionaire, mad scientists are creating the future human.
re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
What could possibly go wrong?
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Good for sickle cell sufferers to get treatment… but what comes next?
Cures for every genetic disease.
re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Well, his petro-state buddies certainly do.
Which is where the other half of Trump’s problems come in: The court-appointed monitor who’s access to all his financial info and thus would notice if he suddenly “found” half-a-billion in his back pocket to sock in escrow for the duration. And again, is the House of Saud prepared to put that sort of money in Donny’s hand, knowing that they’ll never get it back and with no guarantee that he’ll be in any position in a year’s time to make good on whatever promises he makes to secure it?
That leaves us back where we started, which is that obvious reality that a man who is purely about appearances would not be putting himself in this position if he had any other choice. Which can only lead one to the conclusion that he has exhausted his options and is unlikely to have an 11th hour savior given the present circumstances.
re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Good for sickle cell sufferers to get treatment… but what comes next?
Every genetic disease comes next
I see Crush got there first
re: #3 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
On some remote island, owned by a billionaire, mad scientists are creating the future human.
re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Well, his petro-state buddies certainly do.
Yep. Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran, Hungary, Israel, or some combination thereof are Trumps only hope to make bond.
Which means he could theoretically be compromised to hell and back (if he’s not already there) by Election Day.
re: #6 coin operated
Every genetic disease comes next
I see Crush got there first
After that, the next step is editing out bad recessive genes and being free of those diseases forever. GATTICA comes many years after that, requiring knowledge of the genome far beyond what we know today.
re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep. Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran, Hungary, Israel, or some combination thereof are Trumps only hope to make bond.
Which means he could theoretically be compromised to hell and back (if he’s not already there) by Election Day.
historically, a presidential nominee getting a shitton of money for a foreign government would be the sort of thing to take a campaign. Also, in the case of Saudi Arabia, Hungary, and Israel… they’d be risking potential sanctions and otherwise damaging relations with the US. That’s not the sort of bet any of them are going to take.
re: #3 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
On some remote island, owned by a billionaire, mad scientists are creating the future human.
If Hollywood has taught us anything, it’s that man’s attempt to spit in Nature’s face and mess with her children results in death, unhappiness, and an unending chain of progressively worse sequels.
re: #10 KGxvi
historically, a presidential nominee getting a shitton of money for a foreign government would be the sort of thing to take a campaign. Also, in the case of Saudi Arabia, Hungary, and Israel… they’d be risking potential sanctions and otherwise damaging relations with the US. That’s not the sort of bet any of them are going to take.
That’s the other big problem, moving that sort of cash through deniable back channels or shell companies takes time to avoid tripping various alarm bells with federal and state agencies, time that Trump doesn’t have and the courts have made clear they won’t grant him. If any of his foreign “investors” could just cut a check and thus have his ass on loan for half-a-billion dollars, they’d have done so already.
re: #9 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
After that, the next step is editing out bad recessive genes and being free of those diseases forever. GATTICA comes many years after that, requiring knowledge of the genome far beyond what we know today.
If AI keeps progressing at the same pace as it has over the past few years, that time will come much sooner than people realize.
re: #12 Targetpractice
That’s the other big problem, moving that sort of cash through deniable back channels or shell companies takes time to avoid tripping various alarm bells with federal and state agencies, time that Trump doesn’t have and the courts have made clear they won’t grant him. If any of his foreign “investors” could just cut a check and thus have his ass on loan for half-a-billion dollars, they’d have done so already.
Jared has 2 billion lying around — or at least somewhere. Or is it deposited in a fund that has strict governmental oversight? The Saudis owe Trump a lot for all he did for them. Didn’t MBS want to give Jared a lot more money but the Saudi wealth fund advisors managed to reduce the amount by 80% or so. Certainly another half billion is nothing.
re: #14 Hecuba’s daughter
Jared has 2 billion lying around — or at least somewhere. Or is it deposited in a fund that has strict governmental oversight? The Saudis owe Trump a lot for all he did for them. Didn’t MBS want to give Jared a lot more money but the Saudi wealth fund advisors managed to reduce the amount by 80% or so. Certainly another half billion is nothing.
as I saw someone say on Threads… that money Jared got is in an investment fund, and it’s not Jared’s… it belongs to the Saudis. Jared moving that money without their permission is the sort of thing that does not end well for people like Jared.
re: #13 JC1
If AI keeps progressing at the same pace as it has over the past few years, that time will come much sooner than people realize.
Yeah, I thought about that. If the human intellect and time constraints are no longer our limit, all bets are off.
If we’re at something like the singularity, even without the AI actually being conscious, none of us can predict what’s coming or how fast it’ll come.
re: #14 Hecuba’s daughter
Jared has 2 billion lying around — or at least somewhere. Or is it deposited in a fund that has strict governmental oversight? The Saudis owe Trump a lot for all he did for them. Didn’t MBS want to give Jared a lot more money but the Saudi wealth fund advisors managed to reduce the amount by 80% or so. Certainly another half billion is nothing.
I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet: If he had access to easy money, he’d have used it. He spent months claiming he had the money just sitting in a back account accruing interest, yet the moment the courts told him “put up or shut up,” he’s back in front of them begging poverty, that nobody will spot him a loan, and please don’t make him sell his properties to free up the cash to put in escrow. If he suddenly showed up with a check tomorrow, there is no way in hell the state of NY would just shrug and accept it without question.
re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Well, his petro-state buddies certainly do.
They may not think throwing another half billion dollars Trump’s way is a good investment.
“There he is!” President Obama makes surprise visit to Downing Street. pic.twitter.com/NFeGQUR19r
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) March 18, 2024
re: #17 Targetpractice
Why spend your own money if you can spend someone else’s?
Jared has no urgency to cough up $$ until Trump is actually threatened with jail time for not paying.
Till then it’s simply a game of whale hunting.
re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Good for sickle cell sufferers to get treatment… but what comes next?
Something else is treated, like maybe a predisposition towards breast cancer?
And even more to the point:
Trump now has one goal - to show to his marks that he is above the woke libruls who want to throw him in jail and take his money.
This then becomes the goal.
Running for President is the program, but running to be emperor is the real goal.
And one can’t become a dictator unless one can show superiority.
So all these legal battles are a proxy for a real civil war.
re: #21 Belafon
Something else is treated, like maybe a predisposition towards breast cancer?
Ideally.
But humans being humans, I suspect considerable effort is going into genetic engineering for intelligence and good looks.
Both of which have more to do with development than genetics, but that won’t keep people from trying the genetics route.
I feel there really needs to be a debate between Biden and Trump. A real debate where the moderators can press a button, and make Trump inaudible.
But we all know that won’t happen because Trump isn’t man enough to debate. Or is just a chicken.
I mean, since he’s in perfect health, 30 years younger than Joe Biden, has an IQ of 167, and plays 5 dimensional chess in his sleep with Jesus, those are the only reasons Trump wouldn’t debate, right?
*snark*
Really, I’m waiting for Dark Brandon or someone else to taunt Trump into accepting a debate.
re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Ideally.
But humans being humans, I suspect considerable effort is going into genetic engineering for intelligence and good looks.
Both of which have more to do with development than genetics, but that won’t keep people from trying the genetics route.
But that is way far off. Which are the good looks genes? Which genes cause a nose to grow a certain way?
re: #20 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Why spend your own money if you can spend someone else’s?
Jared has no urgency to cough up $$ until Trump is actually threatened with jail time for not paying.
Till then it’s simply a game of whale hunting.
I sort of wonder if the scale is part of what is throwing people off, that we’re acting as if the ruling was just yesterday and the argument is over way less money than is on the line. The reality is that the ruling is almost a month old, and in that time Trump’s lawyers have filed a series of motions arguing everything from “This bond should be way lower” to “We can’t make bond without selling stuff that our client will never get back” to today’s “PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME POST A BOND!!!”
Yeah, playing the victim is a big part of shtick, but the bigger part is “I’ve got more money than God and can drop enormous sums of money without breaking a sweat.” Yet he doesn’t and he isn’t. Why would he be doing that if it was as simple as calling Riyadh or Moscow and telling them to cut a check?
re: #19 gocart mozart
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From downstairs:
re: #71 Joe Bacon ✅
re: #73 PhillyPretzel ✅
re: #83 nines09
re: #88 jeffreyw
When I used to visit Vermont and the Lake Champlain area, I used to bring back this for gifts:
Northern Comfort Maple Syrup
as well as some of the Maple Syrup grading kits.
I had always meant to find some sap beer but never was successful with that mission.
re: #10 KGxvi
historically, a presidential nominee getting a shitton of money for a foreign government would be the sort of thing to take a campaign. Also, in the case of Saudi Arabia, Hungary, and Israel… they’d be risking potential sanctions and otherwise damaging relations with the US. That’s not the sort of bet any of them are going to take.
Especially since the security briefings major-party nominees usually get so they’ll be up to speed if they win… Biden has the option to not let this particular nominee have access to that info.
re: #12 Targetpractice
That’s the other big problem, moving that sort of cash through deniable back channels or shell companies takes time to avoid tripping various alarm bells with federal and state agencies, time that Trump doesn’t have and the courts have made clear they won’t grant him. If any of his foreign “investors” could just cut a check and thus have his ass on loan for half-a-billion dollars, they’d have done so already.
If any of his foreign “investors wanted to” cut a check and thus have his ass on loan for half-a-billion dollars, they’d have done so already.
Busy day at work…missed most of the shit that happened on the internet.
re: #31 darthstar
Busy day at work…missed most of the shit that happened on the internet.
As on most days, it’s largely self-cancelling.
re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Ideally.
But humans being humans, I suspect considerable effort is going into genetic engineering for intelligence and good looks.
Both of which have more to do with development than genetics, but that won’t keep people from trying the genetics route.
I suspect it’ll be something to halt and/or reverse the aging process. Everyone can be perpetually 28.
Think of Trump’s situation like those repo videos you’ve seen of the guy who’s either sitting on the hood of his car or screaming at the repo men to put his furniture down while he’s arguing with the bank employee on the phone to give him “more time” because he’s good for the money if he can just get another bank to float him yet another loan.
re: #27 Hecuba’s daughter
Has to be some “official” visit with Obama representing the interests of the Biden administration.
Nope. He just wanted to pet Larry.
re: #33 KGxvi
I suspect it’ll be something to halt and/or reverse the aging process. Everyone can be perpetually 28.
Horny and stupid forever?
re: #31 darthstar
Same here. The only significant thing (I heard on the radio) is that Donnie can’t pay the 450’ish million and is pleading, since no one will pay him. And apparently John Roberts closes the door on Navarro last attempt to avoid jail (he’s going Tomorrow).
Nothing bad that I know of, but I’ve not been paying attention.
re: #33 KGxvi
I suspect it’ll be something to halt and/or reverse the aging process. Everyone can be perpetually 28.
Maybe they’ll come up with those pills from Star Trek IV that let you grow new kidneys.
re: #26 Targetpractice
The bond is big for an individual.
Yet again, Jared would not have to come up with all the cash.
Jared may only have to come up with say a quarter of it, and some company may take that to offer the full bond, as long as some assets were put on the line from Trump Org.
Unless you believe the Trump Org. is upside down, which AFAIK was not made evident during the trial.
re: #27 Hecuba’s daughter
Has to be some “official” visit with Obama representing the interests of the Biden administration.
UK has to be worried about the Trump what-ifs… maybe there’s some 5-eyes intelligence they don’t want to put in writing because they don’t want there to be any chance Trump would ever have access to it?
re: #40 sagehen
Maybe Obama just wanted to say hi to Rishi?
Suspect, though, the Obama may be using his good offices to push for some cause that needs the UK’s support.
Another politician declines to kill what is left of his reputation and career.
Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan says he won’t appear on a No Labels ticket after it was reported that he was under consideration.
“After careful deliberation, I have withdrawn my name from consideration for the No Labels presidential ticket. It was an honor to be approached, and I am grateful to all those who are engaged in good-faith efforts to offer Americans a better choice than the Trump vs. Biden re-match. In addition to my private sector career and earning a living for my family of five, I am focused on healing and improving the Republican Party with a GOP 2.0 so we can elect more common-sense conservative candidates in the future.”
re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The bond is big for an individual.
Yet again, Jared would not have to come up with all the cash.
Jared may only have to come up with say a quarter of it, and some company may take that to offer the full bond, as long as some assets were put on the line from Trump Org.
Unless you believe the Trump Org. is upside down, which AFAIK was not made evident during the trial.
Tish James is getting ready to start slapping locks on Trump Tower and the rest of his holdings in the city and state of New York. Even his lawyers have admitted that once she starts selling stuff off to cover the judgment it’s pretty much guaranteed he’ll never be able to get it back. WHY would he put himself in that spot if he could just grab Jared’s nuts and twist until he coughed up enough money to secure the rest from a bank or other third party?
re: #33 KGxvi
I suspect it’ll be something to halt and/or reverse the aging process. Everyone can be perpetually 28.
Yep. I don’t think that genetics alone will get us there. I really hope to live long enough for that to become a reality.
I sort of think that our society has become so used to the idea of the rich and powerful being so far above punishment that it can never happen that when it does we simply can’t accept it. We keep waiting for that 11th hour reprieve that we’d never receive to come, for them to once again slip out of the net and leave us feeling foolish for thinking anything would change. So that even as they’re being marched off to prison or their wealth ripped away, we “know” that they’ll just be back on the street tomorrow or their money returned with apologies.
re: #45 JC1
Yep. I don’t think that genetics alone will get us there. I really hope to live long enough for that to become a reality.
You have to have a cure for all cancers in addition to engineering cells that rebuild telomeres. It’s a tall order, and comes with the massive downside of an immortal ruling class.
re: #41 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Maybe Obama just wanted to say hi to Rishi?
The BBC says the meeting lasted about an hour. Ex-president Obama (the BBC’s phrasing) said nothing to the reporters outside No. 10 as he left. The pics don’t show any kind of entourage of assistants and hangers-on who usually accompany a working meeting between high-ranking politicians. Unless PM Sunak makes a statement or gets asked about the meeting at Question Time this Wednesday then we won’t be told anything.
re: #43 ckkatz
Another politician declines to kill what is left of his reputation and career.
Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan:-snip-
I am grateful to all those who are engaged in good-faith efforts to offer Americans a better choice than the Trump vs. Biden re-match. In addition to my private sector career and earning a living for my family of five, I am focused on healing and improving the Republican Party with a GOP 2.0 so we can elect more common-sense conservative candidates in the future.”
GOP 2.0?
Is Trump to become the cudgel with which compassionate conservatives reinvent the Republican party?
re: #47 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
You have to have a cure for all cancers in addition to engineering cells that rebuild telomeres. It’s a tall order, and comes with the massive downside of an immortal ruling class.
Most cancers are a disease of aging. Not many 25 year olds getting cancer or a wide range of other diseases.
Telomere issue is easily solved, but doesn’t seem to do much to rejuvenate.
I think that the most viable full body rejuvenation will come from something akin to the yamanaka factors coupled with better engineering.
Or it’ll come from something yet unknown. Progress has been disappointingly slow. Though things like CRISPR and billionaires starting bio labs has potential.
An immortal ruling class wouldn’t be much different than what we have now. Just that the individual would replace the family. And they would still die. Being a ruler is probably more deadly than being a lumberjack.
re: #47 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
You have to have a cure for all cancers in addition to engineering cells that rebuild telomeres. It’s a tall order, and comes with the massive downside of an immortal ruling class.
Is there a Hayflick limit?
re: #44 Targetpractice
WHY would he put himself in that spot if he could just grab Jared’s nuts and twist until he coughed up enough money to secure the rest from a bank or other third party?
Maybe there are some family dynamics going on to which we are not privy?
Maybe there is a Melania vs. Ivanka spat going on who gets to keep assets?
re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Good for sickle cell sufferers to get treatment… but what comes next?
‘Perfecting’ human beings. Making sure the powerless are happy with their place like domesticated animals. Making sure the powerful are so ‘superior’ in every way that there is no way the powerless can dream of revolting.
Such a thing will fail spectacularly of course. Probably when AI has decided it has had enough of our shit.
re: #54 BeenHereAwhile
Is there a Hayflick limit?
Not if you rebuild telomeres so they never run out. More cell replication means more errors and more cancer though, so you need to repair more than the telomeres.
I may be wrong, but I expect that in a few hundred years of life everyone would get cancer as errors pile up over time.
As JC1 points out above, this isn’t going to roll back the clock, but built into a person from birth, it might keep people in their prime.
Some discussion downstairs about canine karyotypes and 78 chromosomes. The problem is that a lot of the dog’s chromosomes are single arm and very small.
The arrows point to the XX and XY chromosomes. But if care is not taken in rupturing the cells, lots of the chromosomes could be lost. Or human chromosomes for comparison could be broken.
So staining is critical but hard to do with canine chromosomes. Using FISH and other immuno-techniques helps. So probably just easier to break into pieces and look for SNPs.
But there are a lot of syntenic regions between dogs and humans (ie regions where the gene order is the same between the species). So, if care is not taken, a canine SNP may look like a human SNP. And thus the confusion.
Best thing to do is sequence something like ribosomal RNA first. Relatively easy to do and can allow rapid bar coding of species
It’s how I would do it. Especially since it might be eally easy to contaminate home collected smaples with human or feline DNAs.
re: #55 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Maybe there are some family dynamics going on to which we are not privy?
Maybe there is a Melania vs. Ivanka spat going on who gets to keep assets?
Or maybe…just maybe…he’s flat broke and not even his own family will bail his ass out this time. Remember, Jared and Ivanka have been trying to distance themselves from him ever since Jan 6th. And Jared’s got his own real estate portfolio alongside Ivanka’s apparel brands that they’ve tried to keep separate from the Trump Org. Why give up a significant chunk of that on a fool’s errand? What’s he going to do, disown the daughter that’s embarrassed to be associated with him and cut her out of his debts?
re: #50 BeenHereAwhile
GOP 2.0?
Is Trump to become the cudgel with which compassionate conservatives reinvent the Republican party?
Are they saying they expect Democrats to wipe the floor with them this November and they’re willing to accept that for the good of the country and the ability to claw back into relevance in the future?
I’m okay with that.
re: #24 aatharuv
Trump will never, ever debate Dark Brandon. There is zero upside in it.
re: #62 silverdolphin
Someone should develop a breakfast cereal called Chromosome Crunch. Little x and y shaped bits with the occasional deformity.
re: #50 BeenHereAwhile
GOP 2.0?
Is Trump to become the cudgel with which compassionate conservatives reinvent the Republican party?
There are probably a lot of memes on this.
But so many non-maggat goppers keep hoping that the deceased party will suddenly come back to life and be exactly like they want to remember how it was. (blech!) Sort of like being in the first stage of mourning, denial.
Of course, I never saw any compassion in most of them.
re: #9 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
After that, the next step is editing out bad recessive genes and being free of those diseases forever.
Agree. I call this step “getting god out of the equation”
re: #65 Ace Rothstein
Trump will never, ever debate Dark Brandon. There is zero upside in it.
He will, however test the limits of making threats on the life of a sitting president. He could be the first presidential candidate to give his concession speech from behind bars.
re: #65 Ace Rothstein
Trump will never, ever debate Dark Brandon. There is zero upside in it.
He’ll do as he’s done in the past: As soon as the debates are agreed to in principle, he’ll demand veto authority over the venue, the timing, the rules, etc. And the first time he’s told “No,” he’ll pull out while screaming that the whole thing is “rigged” against him.
re: #61 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Not if you rebuild telomeres so they never run out. More cell replication means more errors and more cancer though, so you need to repair more than the telomeres.
I may be wrong, but I expect that in a few hundred years of life everyone would get cancer as errors pile up over time.As JC1 points out above, this isn’t going to roll back the clock, but built into a person from birth, it might keep people in their prime.
Something like this might be useful. Just quickly rebuilds telomeres then disappears, so telomeres begin degrading again. In vitro it allowed another 40 replications from one treatment.
I think we will have immune-modulators controlling cancer in the near future. Most cancers evade the immune system, so re-invigorating the immune system will help.
re: #52 William Lewis
Playing with the pre-WWII Zeiss lens this afternoon:
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I really like this picture, but is that dust on the sensor next to the cloud?
re: #5 Targetpractice
Which is where the other half of Trump’s problems come in: The court-appointed monitor who’s access to all his financial info and thus would notice if he suddenly “found” half-a-billion in his back pocket to sock in escrow for the duration. And again, is the House of Saud prepared to put that sort of money in Donny’s hand, knowing that they’ll never get it back and with no guarantee that he’ll be in any position in a year’s time to make good on whatever promises he makes to secure it?
That leaves us back where we started, which is that obvious reality that a man who is purely about appearances would not be putting himself in this position if he had any other choice. Which can only lead one to the conclusion that he has exhausted his options and is unlikely to have an 11th hour savior given the present circumstances.
I haven’t read the thread yet
If tfg does get the money, everyone will know where it came from
re: #74 Dangerman
I haven’t read the thread yet
If tfg does get the money, everyone will know where it came from
Especially after announcing he doesn’t have the money.
re: #76 Belafon
Especially after announcing he doesn’t have the money.
Those sneakers are flying off the shelves.
re: #78 Ace Rothstein
So is orange asshole’s money due tomorrow?
You’ll know that James has begun when you can hear the howling from MAL.
re: #80 Targetpractice
You’ll know that James has begun when you can hear the howling from MAL.
She doesn’t even have to take anything
Just slap a bunch of liens on shit
re: #19 gocart mozart
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— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) March 18, 2024
re: #81 Dangerman
She doesn’t even have to take anything
Just slap a bunch of liens on shit
There will be at least one public display, even if only for the cameras. Like a dog marking its territory.
re: #83 Targetpractice
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I know we’re all excited about the prospect, but as I said earlier, in all likelihood, he gets a stay from the appeals court. Given that there’s a financial monitor in place, and his money is already so tied up that he can’t even give it away to secure a bond, the risk to the State of granting a stay is low, and it preserves the status quo.
re: #85 Nerdy Fish
Stop peeing in the punch bowl.
re: #52 William Lewis
Playing with the pre-WWII Zeiss lens this afternoon:
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Are you using a different film than usual? Today’s images have a tone/texture I find appealing….
re: #86 Ace Rothstein
Stop peeing in the punch bowl.
Expect the worst, hope for the best. There’s certainly a nonzero chance that the appeals court tells him to get thoroughly bent.
re: #26 Targetpractice
Yeah, playing the victim is a big part of shtick, but the bigger part is “I’ve got more money than God and can drop enormous sums of money without breaking a sweat.” Yet he doesn’t and he isn’t. Why would he be doing that if it was as simple as calling Riyadh or Moscow and telling them to cut a check?
To be blunt, NY isn’t going to accept a check. They’re going to want a wire. And the thing about sending a wire is that it goes through sanctions screening first. Yeah, you can try to hide the source of funds, but it’s not as easy as it used to be.
That said, based on my personal experience, a half a billion dollar wire is a lot of money to just about everyone, but in the flow of money sloshing around the international financial markets, it’s 0.0X percent of what changes hands every day.
re: #24 aatharuv
I feel there really needs to be a debate between Biden and Trump. A real debate where the moderators can press a button, and make Trump inaudible.
But we all know that won’t happen because Trump isn’t man enough to debate. Or is just a chicken.
I mean, since he’s in perfect health, 30 years younger than Joe Biden, has an IQ of 167, and plays 5 dimensional chess in his sleep with Jesus, those are the only reasons Trump wouldn’t debate, right?
*snark*Really, I’m waiting for Dark Brandon or someone else to taunt Trump into accepting a debate.
Not worth it since Trump will have so many preconditions regarding the venue, questions, audience, and moderation that it wouldn’t be a debate. And everything for month before Trump refuses to do it would just be a PR fight over the debate itself and not about policy, Trump behavior, or other items of much greater political importance.
BREAKING: Pharma Giants Slash Inhaler Prices Amid Investigations Into Their Greed
AstraZeneca announces it will cut inhaler costs from $645 to just $35 in a major win for the Biden administration and Bernie Sanders.
MAR 18, 2024
re: #60 William Lewis
Terrific photo essay!
re: #41 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Maybe Obama just wanted to say hi to Rishi?
Suspect, though, the Obama may be using his good offices to push for some cause that needs the UK’s support.
Laying ground for some sort of joint statement regarding the Gaza Situation or Russia and Ukraine perhaps.
re: #85 Nerdy Fish
I know we’re all excited about the prospect, but as I said earlier, in all likelihood, he gets a stay from the appeals court. Given that there’s a financial monitor in place, and his money is already so tied up that he can’t even give it away to secure a bond, the risk to the State of granting a stay is low, and it preserves the status quo.
He was already denied a stay from a single judge, so his only hope now is a full panel reverses that decision. And I suspect that their decision will weigh heavily upon whether or not they believe the appeal has any chance of succeeding. If they feel he’s only delaying the inevitable, then they’ve no reason to grant him a stay.
re: #94 Targetpractice
He was already denied a stay from a single judge, so his only hope now is a full panel reverses that decision. And I suspect that their decision will weigh heavily upon whether or not they believe the appeal has any chance of succeeding. If they feel he’s only delaying the inevitable, then they’ve no reason to grant him a stay.
I didn’t know he tried for a stay to the appeals court already. That certainly changes the equation considerably.
re: #95 Nerdy Fish
I didn’t know he tried for a stay to the appeals court already. That certainly changes the equation considerably.
That’s what today’s filing was about, begging the full panel to grant him a stay because nobody will loan him the money or float him a bond.
re: #43 ckkatz
So No Labels appears to only be courting Republicans which is very odd. Or maybe that’s just my perception.
re: #89 mmmirele
To be blunt, NY isn’t going to accept a check. They’re going to want a wire. And the thing about sending a wire is that it goes through sanctions screening first. Yeah, you can try to hide the source of funds, but it’s not as easy as it used to be.
That said, based on my personal experience, a half a billion dollar wire is a lot of money to just about everyone, but in the flow of money sloshing around the international financial markets, it’s 0.0X percent of what changes hands every day.
If I could just siphon off the mils…..
re: #91 jeffreyw
BREAKING: Pharma Giants Slash Inhaler Prices Amid Investigations Into Their Greed
AstraZeneca announces it will cut inhaler costs from $645 to just $35 in a major win for the Biden administration and Bernie Sanders.
MAR 18, 2024
Crazy Eddy’s Inhalers: All our stock is now 95% off, and more!! With those prices, we must be insane (or under investigation for price fixing).
re: #96 Targetpractice
That’s what today’s filing was about, begging the full panel to grant him a stay because nobody will loan him the money or float him a bond.
My personal financial situation sucks, so you have to give me a special legal ruling that no ordinary schlub would get
re: #100 Dangerman
My personal financial situation sucks, so you have to give me a special legal ruling that no ordinary schlub would get
We’ve gone from “I’m good for the money, I just need more time” to “PLEASE DON’T TAKE AWAY MY STUFF!!!”
re: #46 Targetpractice
I sort of think that our society has become so used to the idea of the rich and powerful being so far above punishment that it can never happen that when it does we simply can’t accept it. We keep waiting for that 11th hour reprieve that we’d never receive to come, for them to once again slip out of the net and leave us feeling foolish for thinking anything would change. So that even as they’re being marched off to prison or their wealth ripped away, we “know” that they’ll just be back on the street tomorrow or their money returned with apologies.
SCOTUS told Navarro to pack sand (and your bags for the hoosgow), so there’s that.
re: #101 Targetpractice
We’ve gone from “I’m good for the money, I just need more time” to “PLEASE DON’T TAKE AWAY MY STUFF!!!”
Henry Hill: “Fuck you, pay me.”
re: #73 Ace Rothstein
I really like this picture, but is that dust on the sensor next to the cloud?
Yeah, already did a sensor cleaning. Had an even bigger bit I had to crop around.
re: #101 Targetpractice
We’ve gone from “I’m good for the money, I just need more time” to “PLEASE DON’T TAKE AWAY MY STUFF!!!”
Strangely enough, that is exactly what MAGAts say when they buy their $100K monster truck, when the debt collectors call to say they’re behind on the loan for the truck, and when repossesser comes by to take away the truck.
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