I'm going by the most recent polls
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/13/politics/presidential-race-near-even-split-biden-trump/index.html
It's a measure of the damage that Trump and the far right have done to the institutions of the State over the last 10-15 years.
They have essentially convinced a significant chunk of the US population that the "system" cannot be trusted and it fake and rigged against them.
That is by far the worst thing that the MAGA movement has done , it has broken the faith in the country for millions of citizens who they have convinced that everything is fake unless a MAGA leader tells them otherwise.
Hard to see how you recover from that scale and scope of mass indoctrination.
You can make the same case for any president that they only got early/mid 30% of the vote.
The electoral college system Is similar to TD's or MP's voting for a Taoiseach or MP's. Its a democratic system not 100% perfect but a he'll of a lot better than 70-80% of countries.
You don't. Not with the right in America the way it is. Nothing wrong being right wing in general, but when you allow religious extremism to become your manifesto, and have an absolute degenerate scumbag like Trump as your moral compass, they've effectively surrendered their sanity and identity to the warped logic of Donald Trump's scumbag gangster style deranged mental state and declared him God on Earth.
They want a system where politics is utterly broken so they can reach a situation where the federal government no longer exists, a mad mix sort of like Russia where Trump is dictator instituting a religious system of governance and insularism like the Taliban. Sort of like the Divided States of Western Russia Trumpistan.
Due to the rise of the ultra-religious right in America, at it's current direction and speed of it, it's either civil war, dissolution of the Union, or become an ungovernable and unforgiving police state which bans politics altogether. Or the right succeeds, and it becomes the Divided States of Western Russia Trumpistan
There is a Blackadder quote which seems apt today:
Melchett: Anything to say before we kick off, Captain Darling? Darling: May it please the court, as this is clearly an open and shut case, I beg leave to bring a private prosecution against the defence council for wasting the court's timeMelchett: Granted. Council, he is fined fifty pounds for turning up.
Melchett: Anything to say before we kick off, Captain Darling?
Darling: May it please the court, as this is clearly an open and shut case, I beg leave to bring a private prosecution against the defence council for wasting the court's time
Melchett: Granted. Council, he is fined fifty pounds for turning up.
Those people only have a thin veneer of religiosity to add a sense of righteousness to their exceptionalism. For this reason, it's easy to understand why the American Christian fundamentalists gloss over all that loving the least of one's fellows bollocks from the New Testament, but are all in on that bit where God hurls burning slag at Sodom and Gomorrah. To them, God's plan for the world includes one where America has an iron-clad white European ascendency. There's nothing specific about this in the Bible, but they're not going to let that stop them pursuing the goal. They'll twist the word of God endlessly, or pick and choose the verses of the Bible which would appear to superficially agree with this or at least aids progress towards it.
They'd vote for Satan if he promised to establish the theocracy they want and defend their decision by saying that he was a 'baby Christian', as they've called Trump.
Truth Social stock getting absolutely minced in pre-market trading.
And this is before the trial starts…
Reading online that they've filed paperwork to issue more shares thereby diluting the stock considerably..
And if ever you needed proof that it's all a scam..
Trump on track for $1 billion stock bonus — while outside investors lose up to 50%
He tried to pull a Zuckerberg on the co-founders by diluting their stock by issuing more shares
As it stands ,everybody but Trump is going to lose their shirt here - So pretty much a standard Donald Trump business model.
He hasn't put a penny of his own money into this, so everything he gets from the shares is pure profit for him - He's got 75/80 Million shares already and now he's in line to get another 36M shares so even a share price of only a few dollars makes him several hundred million dollars for absolutely nothing.
Con-man extraordinaire.
OK, don't go to town on me, but this trial is for the pornstar payment?
what was the last trial for? Rape? and he has to pay nearly half a billion dollars, to who?
or was it over valuing his properties?
Yes.. The one starting is for the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels and unlike the others so far , this one is a Criminal case with the possibility of a Prison sentence if convicted.
The two previous ones that have had judgements were both civil cases.
He was found liable for sexual assault (but the Judge said we can call it RAPE) and was fined $83M dollars , on top of an earlier fine of ~$10M relating to the same case.
He was also found liable for fraud relating to the valuations of his properties (High for loans/insurance , low for taxes) and was fined ~$450M plus interest for that one.
Also up for consideration today is whether the bond he has submitted for his appeal of the Fraud judgement is valid.
If it's found not to be valid (and it isn't in many many different ways) then the NY AG can start seizing his assets straight away.
Thanks for the reply.
Wow.
how is this guy up for president.
Some say murica things, I'd say repealing of the Fairness doctorine
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fairness-Doctrine
Agreed.
The combination of that and Citizens United is what has the US is the absolute state it is in right now.
From my understanding, the most recent ones are as follows:
This is just an extremely high level overview. Trumps legal matters have gotten so confusing it honestly breaks my brain. I don't envy people like Devin Stone, who runs the YouTube channel Legal Eagle, who try to stay on top of everything.
Reading the details of the submission from "DJT" this morning - They are applying to release another 21.5M shares AND to sell 146M shares.
Now , there are currently only 136.7M shares outstanding so applying to sell 146M is basically ALL the shares outstanding and some of the newly created ones as well.
The only way they can sell that many shares is if the 6 Month block is removed to allow Trump to sell his shares as he owns 75/80M shares already.
So , basically they are cashing out and running for the hills, hence the absolute slaughter of the share price happening today.
Ponzi-scheme , simple as that.
Literally a Trump Pump & Dump
Stormy Daniel's knows all about that.
Apologies for the mental image that now won't leave your head
Todays barely a blip in the slaughter that will happen if they get approval for that
Where did you read that?
If he's "Irish" it can only be in the same way that a lot of Americans claim Irish heritage.
His father and grandfather were all born in the US as were his maternal parents/grand parents..
He was never Irish, he was from Virginia.
It'll be free money for him regardless of how much it drops. What will happen to that money though?
Being a a patriotic, born and bred Virginian was kind of his thing if I remember correctly.
Further details show that Trump himself is looking to sell 115M shares , which is his entire current stake plus the majority of the "bonus" shares that he's due to get.
Nothing says "This is a great company with a fantastic future" like it's namesake dumping his entire holding a few weeks after the IPO.
Once again though the slimy bugger makes bank while everyone else is left taking a beating. - No matter what the share price , it's all profit for him.
Absolute scam artist..
If the ruling on his "bond" in NY goes against him today , the money will be going straight to the NY AG's account.
If she's given the go ahead to seize assets she absolutely HAS to seize the shares , his melt-down would be magnificent…
who is going to buy it? Is it a scam for people to actually give him cash without announcing they are doing it?
Read earlier that a lot of MAGA, specifically older folks, are buying shares to both support Trump, and because they believe the value will rise because they're shares in a Trump company. Some have invested $20k+
That's certainly a significant concern - An easy way to get past the "foreign influence" type rules and any other campaign finance restrictions.
The only other people buying it are the MAGA's who are happily emptying their pension accounts to give to this gimp.
No one is buying it because it's a good company with any chance of profitability.
Heh. TFG said so:
"Gettysburg, wow—I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look and to watch," he said. "And the statement of Robert E. Lee, who's no longer in favor—did you ever notice it? He's no longer in favor. 'Never fight uphill, me boys, never fight uphill.' They were fighting uphill, he said, 'Wow, that was a big mistake,' he lost his great general. 'Never fight uphill, me boys,' but it was too late," Trump added."
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gettysburg-civil-war-historian-1890325
If you listen to it, it sounds like he's imitating the Lucky Charms cartoon leprechaun. So, TFG clearly thinks Lee was Irish. Far be it for me to dispute him /jk
