Padme: as in “fucking crying”, right?

I thought that Musk and Trump kept their wealth as cash in vaults for swimming purposes.

Now now, he’s not lying lying, he’s just really into “alternative appraisal and accounting methods”. Kinda like that aunt who does her own research and swears by essential oils and homeopathy, but with money.

Let me give you an example. Let’s say that I have a truck load of coarse sand, like 25 tons. I manage to sell a single 10mg grain of sand for 1 USD. By appraising my sand based fortune on this single data point, I could claim that a gram is worth 100 USD, thus I have 2.5 billion USD tied up in sand. We both know that I obviously can’t liquidate my sand for that amount, but that doesn’t matter, because all I need is to convince a bank that my appraisal is sound and then use the sand as collateral for a 100 million USD loan. Some of that loan I’ll further invest in the sand business, after all it’s booming. More sand equals more collateral, and seeing as one bank was satisfied with my collateral, then I will be able to get other banks in on it too. And now I can live like a billionaire, all because I have invested in coarse sand. And if the banks figure out that I’m full of it, then what are they going to do? Take me to court and look like idiots for buying into my sand appraisal? And risk bankruptcy as it’s revealed that the collateral the bank has for its lending business is worthless? Better to keep quiet and prop up the sand mogul.

Great, just what we need, an even louder Trump

IANAL (goes without saying, I guess)

If the city of Springfield can document damages resulting from Vance’s lies, then the city should definitely try to recoup their expenses. But from Vance personally, not the campaign org. The organization will be shut down by mid November and Springfield isn’t going to get a ruling before then. Besides, are we sure whether the campaign organization is even responsible for what unvetted shit a candidate spews?

Could this be a class action? I mean the city had OT to the police, but individuals had to miss work, kids missed school, and many other people were terrified. IDK but this smells like punitive damages.

Legal Eagle should do a take on this.

Oh I totally think you’re right in applying Hanlon’s razor here. The opposite would spell doom.

But sometimes you’ve got to wonder how incompetent can they be. And at those times “they’re not babbling buffoons, it’s a clever ruse” seems a plausible explanation. I mean Trump parading his mistress on the campaign trail, what the actual fuck?

Or, and I know it’s going to sound like a conspiracy theory, Trump picked JD because JD is so weird, and he knew that JD would tank. So when Trump drops JD it’ll give him a boost, like the one the democrats got when Biden dropped out. Trump has repeatedly kept lowering people’s expectations, to the point that if he somehow managed to put the round peg in the round hole, it would be a success. So imagine the boost Trump would get, for making the obvious decision to drop JD.

But that plan requires that Trump is able to play the long game, and stay quiet about it. Two things we know isn’t plausible.

You think they don’t? See

1. Kyrsten Sinema
2. Joe Manchin

Oh yes, yes YES! Maybe we could do a casting call for unknown voluptuous clean shaven chesterfield couches?

Does bring a different meaning to the backroom casting couch concept.

No, who are you calling a weird timeline? this timeline is extremely solid. It’s a very solid timeline. When we’re talking these kinds of numbers, then we tax countries when they ship stuff here, and they will not like it, but we can see how solid the timeline is…

I feel like I should have left out all punctuation in that paragraph.

Wow! 95%? President Tebboune is really popular! Nobody gets 95% of the vote without being very popular. /s

Why do people do this? Is it a show of force? Like “imagine what I can do to you, if I’m able to cheat this boldly”.

I noticed that I had blown the front left speaker in my first car when bohemian rhapsody was missing vocals. I don’t remember when “a night at the opera” came out, but I’m going to be bold and say the 70s.

Will the US respond? Yes! By reimbursing the ammunition used

I like the fairphone idea, I really do, and I realize that maintaining the fairphone ecosystem is expensive… But! 550€ on sale for a 128GB storage and 6GB RAM phone? GTFO. Update promises are great, but a small company promising 7 years? I hope that the fairphone company survives that long, and even longer, but I wouldn’t be basing my phone purchase on that promise.

For my usage I can get comparable phones for the same cost per day, but with less of an initial investment, and without the risk of time.

Where is that in relation to the section saying dogs can’t play?

Yeah, I’m thinking of a rewrite of “the greatest trick the Devil ever did was convince the world he didn’t exist”

The Mouse, uh, finds a way…

I definitely wouldn’t want to steal from Mr Mouse

Either it’s a demotivated Trump, or it’s a Trump who figures that if he’s going on the offensive now, then the Harris campaign will still have time for a comeback.

Friends don’t let friends get lazy, remind everyone to vote!

The only cool part I thought was looking through the binocular things and spying on other tourists. I was an odd kid whatever

Yes, that is indeed extremely strange behavior. I don’t believe that it has ever been reported before /s

What? How do you brew your poptart tea then?