• iAmTheTot
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      61 year ago

      It’s not ironic nor unexpected to anyone that’s paid the smallest amount of attention to the news in the past eight years.

  • originalucifer
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    i almost feel bad for these guys… but i dont. its common knowledge that no good comes from going into business with trump

    • @jkrtn@lemmy.ml
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      171 year ago

      I don’t feel bad in the slightest. Everyone knows Donald is a sociopathic grifter. These guys wanted to run a con with him and got burned. I hope their lives are full of misery.

    • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
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      It makes me feel bad that people go into business with him, despite him telling everyone over and over again, over the largest megaphone in human history, exactly who he is.

      Much less drive to the polls to voice their opinion to keep him in office.

    • @Wrench@lemmy.world
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      In fact, they specifically targeted that demographic. They put their face inside a starving leopards mouth

      • experbia
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        there are always the people in every horror movie who think that if they deliver their friends into the open drooling maw of the monster stalking them, they’ll get a reward.

        the “reward” is usually at least as bad as their friends’ fate. it’s just narcissism really. they think they’re more like the enemy than they are like their friends, so it would be natural to spare them. but they’re all just meat to the monster.

        trump is just a shitty xenomorph. small hands instead of small mouth, and substantially less physically threatening. I think they both probably have the acid blood though.

      • @dynamojoe@lemmy.world
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        Each one of Trump’s business partners thinks “I’m not gonna get screwed by this guy!” and in the end each one of them does.

        • @jkrtn@lemmy.ml
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          61 year ago

          You’d think after walking past hundreds of guys with knife stabs in their back they wouldn’t enter a business deal with the dimwit waving a bloody dagger around.

          • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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            91 year ago

            nO oNe SaId He WaS a CoN uNtIl He RaN fOr PrEsIdEnT

            -my parents, who give zero fucks about all the counterexamples given to this idiocy

      • fmstrat
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        71 year ago

        Took him in? They pitched the idea. They deserve what they get.

    • @CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world
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      121 year ago

      Except me. Right? He totally promised to make me president of Puerto Rico.

      Because I’m one of the good ones.

      I’m the exception.

      Right?

  • Maple Engineer
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    181 year ago

    Wait until all the rubes who bought stocks find out that they’re next. The fine print actually says that your stock purchase is actually just a non-refundable donation to the Donald J. Trump legal defence fund.

  • theodewere
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    121 year ago

    he wakes up in the morning, looks in the mirror: “so who are we screwing over today”

  • @BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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    581 year ago

    So Trump Media is operating on a revenue stream of 4 million a year, and is reporting a yearly loss of 58 million. How the fuck is that company’s stock rated at $60/share?

    • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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      I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s just like essentially “Trump Bitcoin.” Effectively worthless but he’s got a gigantic pool of people who will throw money at him.

    • @FlowVoid@lemmy.world
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      It’s worth $50, not $60. Anyway, share prices are arbitrary because they depend on the number of shares.

      Trump Media has a market cap of $5b, about the same as Lyft which also hasn’t turned a profit.

      • @RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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        He overvalued it like he does everything he owns. The same thing he already got in trouble for in new York. This time it’s with a fake tech company instead of real estate.

        • @Windex007@lemmy.world
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          You can set the initial sell price in an IPO but nobody is obligated to buy it. Markets determine market price, and especially in tech they’re speculative in nature. This is in no way shape or form the same as what he did with his real estate.

          This current valuation is probably propped up by the same idiot base who buys his Bible’s and NFTs, or by foreign (or domestic) investors looking to indirectly buy his favour in anticipation of a 2nd presidency. Maybe a combination of the 2.

          • @paddirn@lemmy.world
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            I wonder if there’s actual serious investors valuing it that high, basing it on the possibility of a Trump win in the presidential election? Trump comes to power, does all his crazy fascist things and becomes dictator-for-life, and Truth Social becomes THE state media. Stock in in any other media company becomes worthless when Trump starts using the power of the presidency to shut them all down and we’ve only got one state-owned media company reporting on everything. It’s scary, but as an investor it might make a certain amount of sense.

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              Given how much government money was spent at mar-a-lago it’s not at all absurd to say that part of the market price is based on the speculation of DJT receiving favourable government treatment/contracts if we see a second Trump term.

              I’d be curious to see how tightly polling correlates with DJT market value. It’s basically a corruption perception R2 index.

    • Kid_Thunder
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      Share price has never really been a representation of company health. Shares are traded at what people will buy them for. There also may be a lot of short selling going on waiting for the plummet.

    • @Stupidmanager@lemmy.world
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      141 year ago

      Well first, throw logic out the door and you’ll come by your answer a little easier. hint, it’s because of capitalism.

  • Chaotic Entropy
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    121 year ago

    Who knew that a renowned ruthless bastard snake oil swindler, and sexual predator, would be a bad person to get in to bed with.

  • Panda (he/him)
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    361 year ago

    Breaking news: People who cozy up to face eating leopards will eventually get their faces eaten. More at 8.

    • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      11 year ago

      Look at all these losers getting their faces eaten. I’m sure I am smart enough to not have that happen to me!

  • RubberDuck
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    1151 year ago

    May their court battle be drawn out and their legal bills astronomical. They deserve it. All of them.

  • @Mastengwe@lemm.ee
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    He’s going to get that money any way he can. No one is safe. He will sue his own children if it bails him out.

  • dblsaiko
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    11 year ago

    Imagine still putting your money anywhere near the newest BS of one the biggest current con men. Too bad.