Donald Trump

[stevebrooks]

It appears Trump's golden sneakers, for which one man paid US$9000 for a signed pair, are exactly the same as a set available on Temu for US$18, oh dear!

[stevebrooks]

It appears Trump's golden sneakers, for which one man paid US$9000 for a signed pair, are exactly the same as a set available on Temu for US$18, oh dear!

Even more good news, it appears the man who paid $9000 for a signed pair is actually, and this will indeed make you laugh......of all things a RUSSIAN CEO....lol!

[stevebrooks]

The scam continues to improve, and in fact may actually be a scam rather than a grift, that signed $9000 pair of sneakers may be the actual only pair that exist or ever will exist. You see some journalists looked into it, it's an LLC of course paying trump money for using his name to sell stuff, it's supposedly a shoe manufacturer. However this shoe manufacturers address is one of the shop front things, you know a private house that is used by thousands of scam and overseas ripoff companies to register businesses in countries they don't exist in.

Further, on the website of the shoe company it states that delivery date is not guaranteed and may be as late as August 2024, also that the contents of delivery may not match the actual "as seen on social media/TV" items that were used to promote the sale. So the actual contents could be..well..anything!

I am almost certain that no-one will ever see s single shoe, the company will vanish and take all the money and by the time the news comes out, August or later, it will be a long forgotten minor grift that Trump promoted just to get a small amount of money. These Trumpers really are fools of the highest order!

[stylofone]

Even without much knowledge of history, I am not surprised.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... biden-list

[pipbarber]

For long term damage, social collapse, wealth inequality, the industrial prison complex, neo-liberalisation of the world, dodgy warfare pand so on, i think Reagan's eight years was far more disastrous than Trump's four.

Of course, that assessment reflects my politics more than anything 'objective.' But Trump version 1.0 didnt actually do anything much due to his complete incompetency, oh beside hundreds of thousands of covid deaths, and stacking the supreme court. Trump 2.0 on the other hand promises a whole new level of disaster.

[joele]

Trump 2.0 on the other hand promises a whole new level of disaster.

My concern for 2.0 is he will be off leash, to a degree.. He doesn't have to worry about being re-elected, his supreme court is now pre stacked, he will likely go pardon crazy and frankly he is going to be out for revenge.

[stylofone]

For long term damage, social collapse, wealth inequality, the industrial prison complex, neo-liberalisation of the world, dodgy warfare pand so on, i think Reagan's eight years was far more disastrous than Trump's four.

Of course, that assessment reflects my politics more than anything 'objective.' But Trump version 1.0 didnt actually do anything much due to his complete incompetency, oh beside hundreds of thousands of covid deaths, and stacking the supreme court. Trump 2.0 on the other hand promises a whole new level of disaster.

Nearly all of them are bad in various ways. At this point in time assessing the dismal failures is more useful than ranking the greatness.

It's weird to see the Dems (since Clinton) and Labor (Hawke and Keating) carrying on with lots of the Reagan philosophy, while Trump has become a protectionist and a socialist, as in "National Socialist".

Clinton's neo-liberal architects were key advisers in the establishment of post-Soviet Russia's economy, with the idea that a free society grows out of free markets. How's that going? They didn't get the message from Tiananmen Square. When you look at Bush Sr's press conference after that, he basically said "sorry, there's too much money at stake so we'll continue to engage with China." Business trumped human rights in that case, sorry you Chinese people, you can all die for the sake of our joint venture.

[stevebrooks]

Yesterday in a Town Hall Trump claimed that he was now very knowledgeable in the law, probably in his head he thinks he's the bestest and superior to many actual lawyers, and to demonstrate that he has apparently instructed his lawyers to write Judge Engeron a very interesting letter!

On Wednesday, Clifford Robert filed a letter in the New York City civil court addressed to Engoron which argues Trump was "deprived" of the chance to speak out against the ruling before it was filed.

According to court records, Roberts requested the chance to propose a "counter-judgment" to Engoron's ruling, adding that it would be "contrary to fundamental fairness" if not allowed to submit a counter-judgment.

So they want the found guilty criminal in this case to have the ability to file their own judgement, presumably to state that Trump is innocent of all charges and should be paid 3 billion in damages by Letitia James or something equally stupid. Did anyone tell them this is not how the law works? I mean they had plenty of time, an entire trial, where they could say anything they wanted against the charges, what on earth makes them think they get a chance to argue against the judgement after the trial is over? That's bizarre, anything they have to say that could affect the judgement should have been said during the trial, that's how you affect a judgement, not afterwards. I wonder of a private meeting with Judge Engeron would feature some sort of bribe or threat.....not that I think there's going to be one, it's over Trump!

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-l ... ng-1872137

[Irrev-Black]

(el snippo)

So they want the found guilty criminal in this case to have the ability to file their own judgement, presumably to state that Trump is innocent of all charges and should be paid 3 billion in damages by Letitia James or something equally stupid. Did anyone tell them this is not how the law works?

I think the Christmas Beetle -v- Flyscreen precedent applies here, and old mate will do as most Rethuglicans do: keep boofing that thick head up against whatever, until the result they want appears.

[stevebrooks]

Following Elon Musk's piegate is other important news, Trump and his lawyer, note that I use that word only in the sense that she has a qualification on paper not that she in any way actually knows anything about law, Alina Habba, have decided that writing down a different address on a piece of paper automatically changes the business location. In a letter to the judge they wrote a Florida address instead of the registered New York address for a number of Trump's companies, this was of course immediately spotted and objected to by an actual lawyer!

https://imgur.com/gallery/GhpQboC