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3 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

They'll refer to him as The Big Guy like companies refer to the Super Bowl as The Big Game.

Dems should start referring to him as The Former Guy and solicit funds.

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29 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

They add: “Any split that is higher than 5% will be seen favorably by the RNC and President Trump’s campaign and is routinely reported to the highest levels of leadership within both organizations.”

Big lulz

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Political hatred for the man aside, I am honestly shocked his opening number was 5%.  For such a "brilliant negotiator", he could probably have asked for 15-20% and likely gotten it to both collect much needed cash and 'permit' the other candidate to show fealty/save face.  Effectively getting them into "who likes Trump the mostest out of everybody in our homeroom class" kinda thing.  Which may very well still unfold.  

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Political hatred for the man aside, I am honestly shocked his opening number was 5%.  For such a "brilliant negotiator", he could probably have asked for 15-20% and likely gotten it to both collect much needed cash and 'permit' the other candidate to show fealty/save face.  Effectively getting them into "who likes Trump the mostest out of everybody in our homeroom class" kinda thing.  Which may very well still unfold.  

When you have no agenda except kleptocracy and extortion, it makes it easy to not trade in favors. He has no respect or understanding of branches of government and believes he’s king.
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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

They add: “Any split that is higher than 5% will be seen favorably by the RNC and President Trump’s campaign and is routinely reported to the highest levels of leadership within both organizations.”

That sounds like a statement embedded in all his spam emails begging for money from the rubes. 

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52 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Political hatred for the man aside, I am honestly shocked his opening number was 5%.  For such a "brilliant negotiator", he could probably have asked for 15-20% and likely gotten it to both collect much needed cash and 'permit' the other candidate to show fealty/save face.  Effectively getting them into "who likes Trump the mostest out of everybody in our homeroom class" kinda thing.  Which may very well still unfold.  

Couple of things - first, they know quite a few in toss up races might be willing to “donate” more money for his endorsement.  And make no mistake, this is him selling his endorsement.  Sure, if you send only %5, that just means you get to use his words or his photo (I’m sure the RNC has a press kit with ready-to-go photos), but if you send more, you might get a truth.social post, or if you send a big chunk, you might get a video.

Second, a lot of races are not competitive for Republicans, the (R) next to their name is more important than a Trump photo, and their budgets can be pretty thin and/or they want to save as much as they can for future campaigns.  15-20% is a hefty fee for something that might only get them a few points and MAGA won’t be donating to them personally to help make up that 15-20%, they’ll be donating to Donnie.  It would be embarrassing if they asked for 10% or more and a lot of Republicans said “nah, we’re good”.   5% minimum is a decent sweet spot, given how many will probably toss in more for some special attention, and how many won’t care about 5%.

I do love that even if you took a photo with Trump a year or two ago, or got an endorsement for the last election, you now have to pony up 5% of everything you take in if you want to continue using it.  That’s brilliant and is such a shitty thing to do, but completely on-brand for today’s GQP, and I think it’s pretty savvy.

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Posted (edited)
9 hours ago, C-Man said:

 

And we all want to wear gold lady watches:

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Roy Moore's LadySmith pistol was more masculine. 

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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/18/trump-media-tells-djt-shareholders-how-to-block-short-sellers.html

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Trump Media in an update to a FAQ on its website provided tips to shareholders on how to avoid their stock being loaned out for short selling. Trump Media is making a point of telling its shareholders how to prevent their stock from being loaned to short sellers — who bet the price of the shares will drop.

The short-selling-prevention tips posted Wednesday on Trump Media’s website come as its DJT stock has sharply fallen in price since it began being public trading on March 26 — and as short sellers have taken a keen interest in the owner of the Truth Social app despite relatively high fees to finance such trades

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“For long-term shareholders who believe in the Company’s future, the Company is highlighting the following actions you can take with your brokerage firm to prevent the lending of your shares for short selling,” Trump Media said in its supplement to its FAQ Wednesday.

The tips include holding DJT shares in a cash account at a brokerage firm as opposed to a margin account, “opting out of any securities lending program,” moving Trump Media shares to the company’s designated transfer agent, and transferring shares to a bank and “holding them in your retirement account.”

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The instructions include a helpful form letter that shareholder can send to their brokers. The letter says: “Please accept this written instruction to make sure that the following securities are held in my cash account only and accordingly are not available for any stock loan activities.”

“I hereby expressly opt-out of any securities lending programs and instruct you to not loan out any of my shares,” the letter says, before a section that the sender can fill out with their number of shares.

 

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In Soviet USA, National Campaign Office take campaign donations from you.

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Sean, we were looking over donations to Trump Truth Defense Fund and see that you have not yet responded. Now more than ever, we need patriots who love America as much as President Trump to stand with him to defend this great country. Make your commitment today to our great country. Tomorrow, I will take the list of donors to the Oval Office for President Trump to review. He will disappointed if your name isn't on the list.

Here is a photograph of President Trump in the Oval Office reviewing the list of patriots who support the Trump Truth Defense Fund.

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He's looking for your name!

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Posted (edited)
17 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

“Would you like to add a tip?”

Trump: Just to be clear, it’s another 20% tip, for a total of 25%. It’s for the the great service I give you.

 

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57 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

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In Soviet USA, National Campaign Office take campaign donations from you.

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Sean, we were looking over donations to Trump Truth Defense Fund and see that you have not yet responded. Now more than ever, we need patriots who love America as much as President Trump to stand with him to defend this great country. Make your commitment today to our great country. Tomorrow, I will take the list of donors to the Oval Office for President Trump to review. He will disappointed if your name isn't on the list.

Here is a photograph of President Trump in the Oval Office reviewing the list of patriots who support the Trump Truth Defense Fund.

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He's looking for your name!

That's not the Oval Office, that's the bathroom of a mid-priced Mediterranean restaurant. 

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2 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

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In Soviet USA, National Campaign Office take campaign donations from you.

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Sean, we were looking over donations to Trump Truth Defense Fund and see that you have not yet responded. Now more than ever, we need patriots who love America as much as President Trump to stand with him to defend this great country. Make your commitment today to our great country. Tomorrow, I will take the list of donors to the Oval Office for President Trump to review. He will disappointed if your name isn't on the list.

Here is a photograph of President Trump in the Oval Office reviewing the list of patriots who support the Trump Truth Defense Fund.

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He's looking for your name!

 

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Posted
7 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

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2 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

Yea not touching DJT stock at all. Up 25%

Yeah, at the end of the day, it still only has two million active users.

Whoever is pumping up the stock would have been better off pumping up the active users.

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55 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

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tl;dw:

You sell a bunch of shares you don't have (short selling), planning on buying them later (covering). If everyone's shorting a stock at once, the sells drive the stock down; they then all might end up covering at once, making it go up slightly, also known as the Dead Cat Bounce.

Longer:

Trading Places' ending is downright educational. Winthorpe and Valentine give the Dukes a fake crop report, making the brothers think there was a shortage of oranges, so the Dukes start buying a lot of shares, expecting the value of OJ to increase greatly once the report is made public. A bunch of traders see this, and try to get in on it, driving the price up. Then Winthorpe and Valentine start short-selling once it gets high enough -- they don't have any of these shares, yet, they just grab a ton of money on shares they promise to buy in the future, suddenly driving the price down a little bit, alerting the Dukes that something is wrong.

Then the actual report gets read, and everyone realizes they're holding overpriced OJ shares, and start selling it off, driving the price down like crazy. Once it gets to a fraction of its starting price, Winthorpe and Valentine cover, buying back at a fraction of the price all the shares they'd sold. In the end, W&V pocket a shit-ton of money and own most of the OJ market, and the Duke brothers' assets get seized to cover their losses.

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13 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

Then Winthorpe and Valentine start short-selling once it gets high enough -- they don't have any of these shares, yet, they just grab a ton of money on shares they promise to buy in the future, suddenly driving the price down a little bit, alerting the Dukes that something is wrong.

Then the actual report gets read, and everyone realizes they're holding overpriced OJ shares, and start selling it off, driving the price down like crazy. Once it gets to a fraction of its starting price, Winthorpe and Valentine cover, buying back at a fraction of the price all the shares they'd sold. In the end, W&V pocket a shit-ton of money and own most of the OJ market, and the Duke brothers' assets get seized to cover their losses.

Don't believe this is true.  The sold shares they did not have (the short) and then they bought them later at a lower price (the cover) to deliver to the people that bought from them at the higher price.  If it is a pure cover play they only buy enough to satisfy the obligation to deliver the shares they sold short.

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Once the covers are bought then you might see another round of short selling.  

 

When Gamestop was a big deal this was happening except the meme traders did not sell their shares so the short sellers had to cover with inflated stock prices and actually lost money.

 

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3 minutes ago, TexasEd said:

If it is a pure cover play they only buy enough to satisfy the obligation to deliver the shares they sold short.

I mean, the movie doesn't say one way or the other how much of the OJ market they end up with.

BUT: It does say that the Dukes are aiming to corner the market, and yet W&V were selling (at the start of trading) so many shares that, despite the Dukes and everyone else buying, the price actually started to fall before the real crop report was read. Which means W&V were selling, and later covering, a fuckton of shares.

It's implied that they ended up with a substantial portion of the market when they covered.

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33 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

tl;dw:

You sell a bunch of shares you don't have (short selling), planning on buying them later (covering). If everyone's shorting a stock at once, the sells drive the stock down; they then all might end up covering at once, making it go up slightly, also known as the Dead Cat Bounce.

Longer:

Trading Places' ending is downright educational. Winthorpe and Valentine give the Dukes a fake crop report, making the brothers think there was a shortage of oranges, so the Dukes start buying a lot of shares, expecting the value of OJ to increase greatly once the report is made public. A bunch of traders see this, and try to get in on it, driving the price up. Then Winthorpe and Valentine start short-selling once it gets high enough -- they don't have any of these shares, yet, they just grab a ton of money on shares they promise to buy in the future, suddenly driving the price down a little bit, alerting the Dukes that something is wrong.

Then the actual report gets read, and everyone realizes they're holding overpriced OJ shares, and start selling it off, driving the price down like crazy. Once it gets to a fraction of its starting price, Winthorpe and Valentine cover, buying back at a fraction of the price all the shares they'd sold. In the end, W&V pocket a shit-ton of money and own most of the OJ market, and the Duke brothers' assets get seized to cover their losses.

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3 minutes ago, TexasEd said:

I disagree, The Dukes ended up with a substantial portion of the market but they overpaid and when they go to deliver to grocery stores or whatever they will not recoup their investment.

The Dukes ended up penniless before they left the trading floor. Their guy on the floor was buying up until the end, but they didn't have the cash to cover what they'd purchased, so all of their assets were seized. The exchange leadership went Laetitia James on 'em.

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The Dukes also had a combination of a plot device and margin call advantage being that "We founded this Exchange"  But the basic Call/Put/Coverage mechanisms still hold as firm as Jamie Lee's buttocks on a crisp December's morn.  Cash calls are Cash calls until you get raped by a gorilla on a train.  Wait, what are we talking about again?  The tacit implication is that they got greedy with their spread attempt.  They would have gotten away with it had they not gone so naked on the commodity delta.  It's an inside joke because they only bet $1 on a man's life.  Speaking of Delta, what's that Constance song again?  And she stepped on the ball? 

Anyway, the gamestop model would work here but for the much more intense media spotlight on it all.  The downfall of the stock won't be the valution/PE/revenue models...we've all seen worse.  It will be the inevitable SEC filing disclosing who bought up the shares and took the company private to provide Trump the much needed liquidity.  His minions won't care but the average American with the average 401k/IRA will take note, "Why didn't a foreign government buy my portfolio and cash me outside?" 

He's playing it one week at a time.  Which is understandable, considering this orange buffoon is at the steps of its last weeks...  

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