cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43360124

His Bored of Peace that he’s asking $5 billion for a seat that goes straight to his Qatari bank account.

Ya’ll Americans getting fucked and no one has the guns to do anything about it.

  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Just imagine how all of this will read in the history books.

    Also, let’s recontextualize how much money $10 billion is, because written like that it just feels like “yeah big number idk”

    If you started spending $100k every day, which is a decent amount of money to spend in a day, starting right now, how long would it take you to reach $10B? Take a second, guesstimate in your head.

    answer

    274 years. At a full $1M per day, that’s still 27.4 years to reach $10,000,000,000

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    This is madjo’s complete lack of surprise. As soon as he announced his stupid board of piece of shits I knew it was another grift. That money was always going to go into his own bank account, because he only became president to stay out of jail and to make himself rich, and the republicans will just excuse this away as they have with all the other corruption that’s been happening from the Soiled House.

    The US is a failed experiment.

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    Why bother with this grift when you can just nationalize Elons companies and then gift them to yourself?

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      Elon’s companies aren’t actually worth anything though. Their perceived value is from people believing Elon’s blowhard lies.

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      ‘Well, I didnt vote for him…!’

      ‘It was the dems fault!’

      ‘No deviation from bidens policy’

      ‘Funny laugh’

      ‘All funded by corporate interests’

      ‘Candidates are ‘equivalent’™’

      ‘Im a fucking moron’

      ‘Adulting is hard

      • sitouts
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      2 months ago

      Pretty sure ~30% will still answer he will use that better than any UN org for the world’s best interests.

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      2 months ago

      He’s mentally impaired. A malignant and grandiose narcissist wants more money, attention, fame, and so on for themselves no matter what they have.

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      No he isn’t.

      The last year has proven that the Epstein class is untouchable here in the US. They may have to make some kind of symbolic gesture, like Larry Summers’ resignation, but that’s all it’ll be.

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        2 months ago

        He might look it, but not feel it. There’s a LOT of eyes looking at the big chair and saying “wow Trump is doing a shitty job, I could easily do better if only he’d move out of the way.