Month: March 2024

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Business Donald Trump Social Media

Trump’s Truth Social Stock Shares Could Be Worth ‘Almost Zero’ In 6 Months

The stock of failed former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social site skyrocketed in value this week, rising from $8.23 a share to $66.22 at the close of trading on Wednesday, boosting the value of Trump’s Media & Technology Group to a market value of $9.4 billion. Since Trump owns 58% of the company, that means he’s now worth $5.2 billion, at least on paper.

And therein lies the rub, according to New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Suzanne Craig, who explained on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that the Donald’s billionaire status is illusory and could plummet even quicker than it rose.

“It’s a very volatile and high-risk stock, so it could be anywhere from worth a lot more in six months to almost zero in six months, we don’t know,” she said.

The meteoric rise of Trump’s social media stock comes at a time when he’s desperate for money to pay massive defamation and fraud judgments against him, and Craig noted he may still not be able to raise the funds he needs to meet his court obligations.

“We don’t know where he’s going to get the money from. He said that he’s going to put up cash, but you can get cash from a lot of places.”

The disgraced ex-president might try to leverage his stock holdings into some sort of loan, but that also seems dicey, Craig explained.

“Who knows what [the shares] are going to be worth in six months. There is speculation he’ll get a loan off those shares. I don’t know who would lend him money on those, because you don’t know what it’s going to be worth down the road.”

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Donald Trump Elections Social Media

Mark Hamill’s Timely List Of Trump’s ‘Best Words’ Is A Must-Read

Mark Hamill (aka Luke Skywalker of “Star Wars” fame) has been paying close attention to failed former president Donald Trump’s utterances over the past few years and has now complied a list of the Donald’s “best words” which he shared Wednesday on Twitter for the world to enjoy.

“His made up words are fun, Hamill wrote. “(DISINFORMATES, MISINFORMATES, COVFEFE, etc.) but his more-than plentiful misspellings absolutely RULE!”

Then came the list.

  • “Stollen” for stolen
  • “Honered” for honored
  • “Unpresidented” for unprecedented
  • “Smocking” for smoking
  • “Sole” for soul
  • “Frorida” for Florida
  • “Melanie” for Melania
  • “Capital Hill” for Capitol Hill
  • “Infair” for unfair
  • “Shoebiz” for showbiz
  • “Marine Core” for Marine Corps
  • “Boarder” for border
  • “Loose” for lose
  • “Leightweight” for lightweight
  • “Grest” for great
  • “Hearby” for hereby

And who can forget a timeless classic, Hamill concluded: “Hamberders.”

Others on social media had some suggestions, too.

Ah, yes. Only the best words. Even though they usually make no damn sense at all, just like everything the former guy says.

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Crime Donald Trump Jr.

Whiny Don Jr. Is Begging Fans To Send Him $5 So He Doesn’t Lose His ‘Boyhood Home’

The Trump brood are not happy, but instead of trying to change their behavior or even admit their many crimes, they’re doing what they always do: Grifting.

There is no more perfect example than Donald Trump Jr., who sent out a whiny bid for money from his daddy’s idiotic supporters, suggesting they send him a mere $5 so that he doesn’t get booted out of his “childhood home” at Trump Tower in Manhattan.

“The radical anti-Trump Attorney General in New York wanted to seize my boyhood home,” Trump Jr. insisted. “She wanted to get her hands on Trump Tower, and take control of one of the most iconic buildings in American history.”

Just send 5 bucks, Junior continues, so that the Trumps can “Save America” from President Joe Biden.

A couple of things come to mind when reading that pathetic plea:

  • The use of “boyhood home” is a clear attempt to tug at the heartstrings of the MAGA faithful.

  • Trump Tower is one of the most iconic buildings in American history? Since when?

Reactions to Don Jr’s begging were on point.

 

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Abortion Supreme Court

Ketanji Brown Jackson Swats Down Alito For His Bogus ‘Scientific Knowledge’ Of Abortion

During oral arguments in the Supreme Court case of FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on Tuesday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made it clear to fellow justice Samuel Alito that she wasn’t about to put up with his so-called “scientific knowledge” of abortion or drugs that allow women to exercise their reproductive freedom.

The Daily Beast notes that the case involves the drug mifepristone, a drug that can be used by women in the privacy of their homes and is now the method of choice for 63% of women across the country.

The justices heard arguments Tuesday morning from a lawyer for the anti-abortion Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, which holds that the FDA erred in allowing mifepristone, one of the drugs used in a medication abortion, to be dispensed remotely. The FDA and most major medical associations say the ruling is sound, pointing to studies showing no difference in severe complications when the pills are dispensed via telemedicine versus in person.

Attorneys arguing on behalf of the drug noted that the plaintiffs in the case had no legal standing to even bring the case, which led Alito to ask, “Shouldn’t someone be able to challenge that in court? The American people have no remedy for that?”

Alito later asked essentially the same question of an attorney for Danco, the company that manufactures mifepristone.

“During the questioning of the solicitor general, the statement was made that no court has ever previously second-guessed the FDA’s judgment about access to a drug,” Alito said.

“Do you think the FDA is infallible?”

That prompted Justice Jackson to inquire, “You were asked if the agency is infallible, and I guess I’m wondering about the flip side, which is do you think that courts have specialized scientific knowledge with respect to pharmaceuticals?”

“Do you have concerns about judges parsing medical and scientific studies?”

As Justice Jackson rightly observed, courts and judges do not have special medical knowledge. Doctors and scientists, however, do, and they’re the ones who should make the decisions on what drugs are safe and are available to the public.

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Fox News Fox News Lies WTF?!

Fox Host Maria Bartiromo Suggests Baltimore Bridge Accident May Be Linked To Border Crisis

Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo suggested this morning that the late-night accident that caused the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore may be linked to what’s transpiring at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Speaking with Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott, Bartiromo remarked, “Let me also get your take in terms of what’s going on in world affairs. The White House has issued a statement on [the bridge collapse], saying there’s no indication of nefarious intent in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge … You’ve been talking a lot about the potential for wrongdoing or the potential for foul play given the wide-open border … Why have the Republicans had such a hard time securing this border?”

What in the actual f*ck is she talking about? There is absolutely NOTHING about the accident that would suggest any connection to the border or immigration, as the Baltimore Sun notes when it comes to the investigation.

In the middle of the night, a massive, driftless container ship traveling 9 mph issued a “mayday” as it traversed toward the iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge. The ship had departed the Port of Baltimore only 30 minutes prior, but as it tried to navigate the channel, it lost power before colliding with a support column, causing a din that could be heard ashore and immediately toppling the essential mid-Atlantic thoroughfare into the frigid waters below.

Twitter users were outraged by Bartiromo’s comments.