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1 hour agoAs a life long NYC resident I’ve seen my share of great buildings. I went to Trump Tower once, long before 2015. The walls of the lobby were all gold and there was a waterfall. I thought it looked like a giant, golden toilet.
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7·13 hours agoHe never went for the big bucks. Think of it this way; $10 million wouldn’t buy an apartment in Trump Tower.
I’m a life long New Yorker who has seen all of his scandals in the local media [he’s been trying to get his name in the papers since the 1980s] Back in the 1990s there was a local satire magazine called Spy. They ridiculed the pompous and Trump was a favorite target. They once wnated to find the cheapest person in the City.
They sent a few dozen rich folks checks for less than $2.00. Personal checks to home addresses. Most threw the checks away, but a few cashed them. The magazine kept sending checks in smaller and smaller amounts.
In the end, only Trump and an arms dealer cashed the last check. 13 cents. $0.13. Not enough to make a phone call.
I’ve literally never heard one good story about him.
In the comics the real Punisher knows he’s insane and tells anyone who idolizes him that they should try to be like Captain America instead.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/tony-schwartz-author-donald-trumps-art-deal-trump/story?id=40662196
BTW, Trump pretty much gave away the farm to his co-author. Schwartz got full credit and half the profits, unheard of for a ghost writer. Schwartz also left Trump’s circle after the book came out and has bad mouthed him ever since.
Beyond everything else, the fact that Donald Trump made so little money off the White House is staggering to me.
He could have gotten $50 billion from the Saudis on Inauguration Day if he’d had the balls to demand it.
He wouldn’t have had to change any policies or make any new laws, just tell them that it was what it was.
You’re just finding out about John Barron at this late date?
On the other hand, keeping track of all of Trump’s lies and scandals is like trying to read Lord of the Rings while watching Avengers Endgame and listening to an audio book of Game of Thrones at the same time.
actual human, etc.
Magneto has entered the chat
He was tried and found guilty of raping a woman.
She wasn’t some sugarbaby coming on to him; she was going about her day and he decided that he could do what he wanted.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/
He also perved on teenage girls
https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-walks-in-miss-teen-usa-contestants-changing/
This story is from when Trump was putting up Trump Tower. The biggest scandal that he used illegal immigrants to demolish the original building. He ended up havign to pay them over $1 million for the abuses.
The part of the story that made him anathema to the Manhattan elites was that he destroyed the building after promising to preserve it. It was considered one of the loveliest buildings in the city.
4·1 day ago“Clevon Little voice”
That’s not his leg…
“My dad says you sued to be evil, but now you’re just cranky.”
iirc
Or organization like ISIS will have recruiters. Mr. A shows up in a town, talks with the locals and arranges a few meetings. The locals know who might be receptive. Say Mac is a likely recruit. Angry at the powers that be, not a lot of prospects, ready for some adventure. Mr. A will give him a few tests. Graffiti this building, throw a rock through that window. If Mac does well he gets an offer to visit the big city. Train fare and a few bucks. There he meets others like himself. There’s training and more training. Mac is now part of something big and important.
In a lot of ways it’s not much different from High School ROTC. A sense of belonging and purpose mean a lot to many people.
He was the head of a crime family, the Don. Like Don Corleone in the Godfather. Corleone’s first name was Vito, but he was the Don of the family. Later his son Michael became the new Don.
3·4 days agoBy that logic, every Union is a cult. All I said was that people should organize and show up and vote.
2·4 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicked_%2B_The_Divine
the tl, dr is that every 90 years a dozen young people become reincarnations of various ancient gods from all over the world. Amaterasu is one of these.
Fun book and worth a look
“The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” by Robert A. Heinlein. It’s a really good science fiction novel and the handbook for a lot of Libertarians.
You can read and enjoy it as a story, but if you examine it you’ll see all the hoops the author had to jump through in order to make his society work.
One of the most glaring examples is that there are almost no guns in a prison where machine tools are readily available.
The GOP pushed both the Greens and the Libertarians to siphon votes from the Dems.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/10/metro/jill-stein-new-hampshire-ballot-republican-help/
Iran has WMDs and so does Israel. As much as Iran loves to talk about destroying Israel [and vice versa] both sides are aware that they aren’t going to survive a full on war. Look at the Cuban Missile Crisis. Russia felt they had to put weapons in Cuba, even though they knew that if they were found the US would take action. Back in the day they called it ‘Brinksmanship,’ a variation of ‘statesmanship.’ A ‘brinksman’ was a leader/diplomat who could bring his country to the edge of war without going over the edge.
You can trust Harris or Biden to have some cooler heads in the War Room. Trump listens to no one and acts like a child.