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38 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

It's not a 'pill', alright?  It's a 'Protein Recovery System!  Big difference..."

 

I like how when you click on the "ingredients" tab, it's literally about 10-revolution spin of scrolling deal my mouse and not once are the actual ingredients named.  Just vague names of things that are actually good for our cellular regeneration but it never actually says that's what's in the pill.  I mean, I'm sure it has Electrolytes, it's what Morons crave...

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22 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

I like knowing what the "enemy" looks like.  I'm an undersized middle aged man who hasn't really been in great shape since early college, but I'm not a pussy like these twits.  I'll take my chances if the shit really hits the fan.

Imagine taking lessons on how to be a man.  What the ever-loving fuck?

These people could not handle a pandemic where they had to cut their own hair, and had to do curbside at Chilis instead of going inside and eating.

It’s completely on-brand for them to have to take lessons on being a man.

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52 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

“We’re not stupid”

 

…yeah 🤦🏽‍♂️ 

We laugh, but that ol' boy is the one you want by your side when Santa Anna's lancers come galloping up on the flank. Y'all just load em and pass em up to the palisade, he'll do the rest.

Not his fault the world changed.

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6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

It’s completely on-brand for them to have to take lessons on being a man.

Instead of imitation boot camps, they could swing by a recruiter and find out about a real one.

If they've got bone spurs or some other condition, they could still volunteer for Civil Air Patrol or similar, make themselves useful.

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On 4/13/2024 at 4:08 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

Are 40 million american morons and a few evil billionaires enough to keep the Trump stock propped up at a value greater than zero until Trump can cash out?  

Only if those 40 million suddenly got active on truth.social.  Hell, even just doubling the current numbers to 4 million active users would be huge.  I’ve looked at their PR stuff, and outside of Trump somehow winning, it seems like they don’t have a plan to rapidly grow the active user base.

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30 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Instead of imitation boot camps, they could swing by a recruiter and find out about a real one.

If they've got bone spurs or some other condition, they could still volunteer for Civil Air Patrol or similar, make themselves useful.

Their corpses will be useful as temporary substitutes for sand bags.

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10 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

Their corpses will be useful as temporary substitutes for sand bags.

That smell is just fear leaving the body. And maybe cadaverine and putrescine.

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12 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I’d rather sleep at night. God dammit. I wish I could be that person. But it’s better I’m not. 

Seeing as how it's been 8 years of "we oughta do x y z to grift them," with no actual grift, I'd say nobody on here is that person.

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I saw that interview. Sununu’s a fucking tool. One point he made repeatedly was that “it’s like reality tv” with Trump’s supporters, as if that’s justification for ignoring the seriousness of his crimes. What’s particularly galling is that Sununu knows it’s not reality tv. The reality of Trump is that he’s a criminal, totally corrupt, totally unfit for office. But Sununu doesn’t care because Trump’s supporters are living in their fantasy world so he’s going to live in it to. Because, you know…power.

He’s setting an example that I still think Nikki Haley will eventually follow. 

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Rubes gonna rube..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/14/truth-social-investors-faith-trump/

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Jerry Dean McLain first bet on former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social two years ago, buying into the Trump company’s planned merger partner, Digital World Acquisition, at $90 a share. Over time, as the price changed, he kept buying, amassing hundreds of shares for $25,000 — pretty much his “whole nest egg,” he said.

That nest egg has lost about half its value in the past two weeks as Trump Media & Technology Group’s share price dropped from $66 after its public debut last month to $32 on Friday. But McLain, 71, who owns a tree-removal service outside Oklahoma City, said he’s not worried. If anything, he wants to buy more.

“I know good and well it’s in Trump’s hands, and he’s got plans,” he said. “I have no doubt it’s going to explode sometime.”

For shareholders like McLain, investing in Truth Social is less a business calculation than a statement of faith in the former president and the business traded under his initials, DJT.

Even the company’s plunging stock price — and the chance their investments could get mostly wiped out — doesn’t seem to have shaken that faith. The company has lost $3.5 billion in value since its public debut last month.

As a business, Trump Media has largely underwhelmed: The company lost $58 million last year on $4 million in revenue, less than the average Chick-fil-A franchise, even as it paid out millions in executive salaries, bonuses and stock.

And in two years, Truth Social has attracted a tiny fraction of the traffic other platforms see, according to estimates from the analytics firm Similarweb — one of the only ways to measure its performance, given that the company says it “does not currently, and may never, collect, monitor or report certain key operating metrics used by companies in similar industries.”

But for some Trump investors, the stock is a badge of honor — a way to show their devotion beyond buying Trump merchandise, visiting Trump golf courses or donating to Trump’s presidential campaign.

Trump Media spokeswoman Shannon Devine said in a statement that “Truth Social has created a free-speech beachhead against Big Tech for a fraction of the start-up and operating costs that the legacy tech corporations incurred, while having no debt, more than $200 million in the bank, and the support of hundreds of thousands of retail investors who fervently believe in our mission.”

Trump Media has boasted that it has benefited from a flood of “retail investors” — small-time and amateur shareholders betting their personal cash. Its merger partner, Digital World Acquisition, said its shares were bought by nearly 400,000 retail investors, and Trump Media’s chief executive, Devin Nunes, told Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that the company had added over 200,000 new ones in the past couple of weeks.

“There’s not another company out there that has retail investors like this,” said Nunes, who this year will receive a $1 million salary, a $600,000 retention bonus and a stock package currently worth $3.7 million.

In an interview last month with conservative commentator Sean Hannity, the former Republican congressman recounted a recent discussion with Trump where the men celebrated having “opened up the internet and kept it open for the American people.”

“I’ll never forget the conversation we had,” Nunes said. “He said, ‘You know, once we’re all dead and gone, this will last forever.’”

Many of Truth Social’s investors say they’re in it for the long haul. Todd Schlanger, an interior designer at a furniture store in West Palm Beach who said Trump had been one of his customers, said he’s invested about $20,000 in total and is buying new shares every week.

Schlanger said he now watches his stock performance every day hoping for positive signs. In a Truth Social post last week, he encouraged “everyone who supports Donald Trump and Truth [Social to] buy a share everyday” and asked, “Do you think we have hit bottom?” (The stock slid nearly 10 percent after that post.)

He suspects the recent drops in share price have been the result of “stock manipulation” from an “organized effort” to make the company look bad. There’s no proof of such a campaign, but Schlanger is convinced. “It’s got to be political,” he said, from all the “liberals that are trying to knock it down.”

That range of emotions is on full display on Truth Social, where thousands of mostly anonymous accounts have flocked to meme-filled investor groups, one of which is emblazoned with a computer-generated image showing Trump pumping his fist on a Wall Street trading floor.

Some accounts there have recently encouraged traders to keep investing in a fight they said was about “good vs evil” — a way to defend Trump from the liberal elites laughing at him and, by extension, them. The user @BaldylocksUSMC said “the fight has been long and hard on most of us” and that “this stock is not for the weak,” but that one day they would triumph over critics who were “brainwashed beyond repair.”

After the billionaire media mogul Barry Diller called Trump Media a “scam” stock bought by “dopes,” one account, @Handbag72, claimed to have bought more shares, arguing Diller didn’t “get it” or was “at risk of [losing] $$$$.” The next day, the account shared a 2021 blog post from the investing forum Seeking Alpha saying Truth Social could be worth $1 trillion in the next 10 years.

But there are also flickers of uncertainty and disenchantment, with some saying they faced thousands of dollars in losses or had “risked [literally] everything.” One user who had posted “Tired of WINNING yet?” earlier this year when the stock spiked posted that this week’s losses were “painful to stomach.”

“Come on DJT, every time I buy more, the price drops more,” the user @bill7718 wrote. “When will it be the BOTTOM!!” (He posted a chart Thursday showing the stock rising slightly alongside the caption, “moving!!” The price has since gone back down.)

The user @manofpeace123, who said they bought shares at $65 and that 71 percent of their portfolio was DJT stock, said on Wednesday that investing was a way of telling Trump, “I believe in you and I stand with you through good times and bad.” But a day later, the user added: “can’t help but feel sad. … feel like I’m trying to catch a falling knife.”
Another account, @realJaneBLONDE, posted on Sunday that she was “NOT panicked NOT worried” before, two days later, posting a message to Trump and congressional Republicans urging them to make it “illegal” to bet against or short-sell stocks.

“Sick of MY investment money being stolen!!” she wrote. “They’re stealing peoples money and you’re allowing it!!”
Some users said they were “baffled” by the stock’s ups and downs, and one asked for advice on how to tell her husband she didn’t want to sell. One user posted a meme image saying, “If you’re worried about your Money, Remember This, DJT stock is about FREE SPEECH & Without FREE SPEECH Money won’t mean much.”

But other users saw such questions as displays of unacceptable doubt. When the user @seneca1950 asked whether anyone was concerned that the company’s upcoming plans to issue tens of millions more shares would sink the stock price, two accounts criticized the account for spreading “FUD” — fear, uncertainty and doubt.

“Are you a Fudster,” wrote a user named “Jesus Revolution 2024.” Wrote another, called Rabristol: “You must be short with no way out!”

In moments of apparent despair, some users work to lift one another up by arguing that they are enduring the same kinds of “deep state” attacks that had long shadowed Trump himself. When user @BingBlangBlaow said they were embarrassed to be so “deep in the red” and questioned why “everyone [was] acting like everything is fine,” Chad Nedohin, a Canadian investor and prominent cheerleader of the stock on Truth Social and the video site Rumble, responded, “No [one’s] fine with it, but we are DJT now. The deep state is making their run at Trump … and us.”

The user, however, posted afterward that the argument left him unconvinced. “I’m tired of blaming the deep state,” he said. Later, he added, “You would think that the ‘biggest political movement of all time’ would want to support the man leading it and get much better numbers than” this. (The accounts did not respond to messages and offered no way to contact them.)

Carol Swain, a prominent conservative commentator in Nashville who previously taught political science at Vanderbilt University, said she invested $1,000 in Trump Media stock earlier this month, at $48 a share, over the objections of her financial adviser, who predicted the stock would dive.

“If I lose it, fine. If I make a profit, wonderful. But at the end of the day, I wanted to show my support,” she said. “There’s such an effort to destroy him and strip his wealth away, and so much glee about it. I would like to see him be a winner.”

She, too, suspects stock manipulation, arguing that “the people who hate Donald Trump would do anything to try to hurt him.” As for Truth Social itself, she said she posts there only sparingly and prefers X, where she has 35 times as many followers. “I have always wanted not to just preach to the choir,” she said.

McLain, the tree service owner in Oklahoma, said he believes the stock could “go to $1,000 a share, easy,” once the media stops writing so negatively about it and the company works through its growing pains. The company’s leaders, he said, are being “too silent right now” amid questions about the falling share price, but he suspects it’s because they’re working on something amazing and new.

McLain is an amateur trader — he invested only once before and “lost [his] butt” — and said he hasn’t talked to his family about his investment, saying, “You know how that is.” But he believes the Trump Media deal is a sign he is “supposed to invest,” he said.

“This isn’t just another stock to me. … I feel like it was God Almighty that put it in my lap,” he said. “I’ve just got to hold on and let them do their job. If you go on emotion, you’ll get out of this thing the first time it goes down.”

It puts a smile on my face that all these idiots are gonna lose their ass, fucked over by their orange Jesus himself. I wonder how many of our resident magtards are balls deep in DJT?

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"When Trump was in office, my stock portfolio never did better!"

-Well, what about the actual Trump stock?  How'd that do?  It's lost over 50% of its value.

"The Biden Stock Market is rigged!'  

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10 minutes ago, Blotto said:

Rubes gonna rube..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/14/truth-social-investors-faith-trump/

It puts a smile on my face that all these idiots are gonna lose their ass, fucked over by their orange Jesus himself. I wonder how many of our resident magtards are balls deep in DJT?

A fool and his money…

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35 minutes ago, Blotto said:

He suspects the recent drops in share price have been the result of “stock manipulation” from an “organized effort” to make the company look bad. There’s no proof of such a campaign, but Schlanger is convinced. “It’s got to be political,” he said, from all the “liberals that are trying to knock it down.

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2 hours ago, C-Man said:

 

I’d be ok if she exited before the election, just go ahead and speed it up if you hate it here so much 

 

These America loving patriots sure do hate them some fellow Americans 

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3 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Seeing as how it's been 8 years of "we oughta do x y z to grift them," with no actual grift, I'd say nobody on here is that person.

It would be interesting to consider the possibility of providing a value-add product and app to the maga market. I mean, you’d have names, addresses, phone numbers, and social media usernames for hardcore maga.

Imagine what you could do with that data. One might be able to profile users in swing states that are conspiracy minded and do a targeted information campaign to shift their allegiance to a conspiracy embracing third party candidate.

Hypothetically speaking of course.

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3 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Seeing as how it's been 8 years of "we oughta do x y z to grift them," with no actual grift, I'd say nobody on here is that person.

Yeah.  I just wish they'd all die then.  But I can't even have that.  It's so disheartening.

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3 hours ago, C-Man said:

These people need to be eradicated from the earth.
 

Trump is a religious figure. Like the Pope.  We need MAGA to go on a modern day children’s crusade.

He needs all of his followers to go to Russia, where they follow Christ and don’t pander to Trans rapists in the bathrooms. He should tell them to bring all their money, but none of their possessions - and to travel to Georgia, so they can walk (or use scooters) to undertake a Pilgrimage to Russia and meet the Patriarch.  I’m sure they’ll arrive there safely.   

But first we need to hack his Truth Social account. 

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On 4/13/2024 at 5:24 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

Drop a pin, Alaska is…not small. and how do I signal you so you don’t shoot us?

Denali Borough

I’m the only year round Longhorn in the Borough 🤘

Just wear something burnt orange. Anyone in Sooner attire will be shot on sight if the maga ‘pocalypse starts

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5 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Seeing as how it's been 8 years of "we oughta do x y z to grift them," with no actual grift, I'd say nobody on here is that person.

Condoms,   We need to sell them. We can probably do better AI stuff.

 

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18 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

I drove from San Marcos through Wimberley and up to Austin today (hit up Vista Brewing, nice place).  Saw exactly ZERO dotard flags on residences where a few years ago there would have been many.

Another data point:

Monday, 4/8, while chasing optimum eclipse viewing, I drove 250 miles through the heart of Trumpistan, across SE Oklahoma and western Arkansas.  Saw one Trump flag.  One…. It was tattered, torn, and sun-faded.  Even two years ago, there would’ve been too many, even for an aggy, to count.

Perhaps the meteor of mediocrity is indeed burning out.  

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18 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Seeing as how it's been 8 years of "we oughta do x y z to grift them," with no actual grift, I'd say nobody on here is that person.

We've have some pretty damn solid ideas.  Forgive my pride of authorship, but I've had a few decent ones-one of which would actually work---the Presidential Library Exploratory Committee.  I could get away with it for at least 90 days, it not longer and easily clear six figures before anybody knew anything about it.  I can handle myself, trouble is---I realized my wife and children would be looking over their shoulder for the next ten years.  I'm not smart enough to leave no digital trace behind of what we did/how we did it.  I can easily setup the finance/payments mechanism but somewhere, somehow, even with these rubes-one of them will trace it back the "concept" borne by me online and get my real identity.  

We can't do anything in person because these people film this shit constantly to share with friends about how they got invited for $250/person to this cool conference to discuss possibly being on the Presidentjial Library Planning Committee.  

There's a sweet-spot in there though that the trading cards, coins, bibles, and now stock has proven.  They won't admit they've been fleeced, then even also kinda like it.  All it takes is one guy though out of millions who does realize he's been wronged and knows how to digital sleuth and comes heavy.  Even if we pay somebody overseas to build out the website and merge it into the depository platform I can setup in my sleep with a reputable 50-state chartered bank (that's still small and unknown), we still have pay those developers somehow.  Or I guess just let them skim off the top before the money hits our ACH/Stripes system here in the States.  Or our bank has a govt-approved remittance overseas transfer with about a half dozen countries where the OCC only does an annual audit and wouldn't even bother looking a 6-figure line item, so we get paid first and then send their payment back (the tech guys) as a remittance from some relative over here making boatloads of cash in some small business.    Shit, now I'm starting to go down a rabbit hole.  

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1 minute ago, YGIFS said:

We've have some pretty damn solid ideas.  Forgive my pride of authorship, but I've had a few decent ones-one of which would actually work---the Presidential Library Exploratory Committee.  I could get away with it for at least 90 days, it not longer and easily clear six figures before anybody knew anything about it.  I can handle myself, trouble is---I realized my wife and children would be looking over their shoulder for the next ten years.  I'm not smart enough to leave no digital trace behind of what we did/how we did it.  I can easily setup the finance/payments mechanism but somewhere, somehow, even with these rubes-one of them will trace it back the "concept" borne by me online and get my real identity.  

We can't do anything in person because these people film this shit constantly to share with friends about how they got invited for $250/person to this cool conference to discuss possibly being on the Presidentjial Library Planning Committee.  

There's a sweet-spot in there though that the trading cards, coins, bibles, and now stock has proven.  They won't admit they've been fleeced, then even also kinda like it.  All it takes is one guy though out of millions who does realize he's been wronged and knows how to digital sleuth and comes heavy.  Even if we pay somebody overseas to build out the website and merge it into the depository platform I can setup in my sleep with a reputable 50-state chartered bank (that's still small and unknown), we still have pay those developers somehow.  Or I guess just let them skim off the top before the money hits our ACH/Stripes system here in the States.  Shit, now I'm starting to go down a rabbit hole.  

^^^Exhibit A in my case that Surly Talks, Surly Don't Grift.

I am not a lawyer but when I put own this heah gumbo accent, Y'Honah, ain't nuddin a jury gonholaginmenohow. HYAH.

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1 hour ago, Blotto said:

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It's just so depressing. Republicans trust Donald Trump, the lifelong conman and NY liberal who decided to run as a republican because of rubes like these people who would fall for it.

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23 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Sununu .. Jesus fuck.

 

 

 

Have I ever taken such ridiculous, pathetic, spineless positions, meant solely to ingratiate?

Yes.  Yes I have.  But in fairness, it was when I was MUCH younger, and it was always in pursuit of getting laid.  Thus, the honorable nature of my pursuit excuses my perhaps pathetic tactics, I'd think y'all would agree.

Otherwise....what a pathetic creature he is.  Simping himself out without even the prospect of a decent BJ (well, of RECEIVING one, at least -- he may well blow DJT before this is all over) at the end of it.

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10 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Good. Fucking. Christ.

So HIV was created by the US government nearly 100 years after it first jumped from chimps to humans in Africa?

Good take, Aaron.  USN&WR needs to downgrade Cal Berkeley even more.

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