Grudgie The Whale

@grudgie
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Trump's media company is valued at $5 billion after losing $49 million in the first 3 quarters of 2023.

It's now trading at $37 per share. His first publicly traded company lost money every year but it was trading at $35 before its share price crashed to 17 cents five years later. Lost shareholders well over a billion dollars, but he did great. #trump #maga

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/as-its-stock-collapsed-trumps-firm-gave-him-huge-bonuses-and-paid-for-his-jet/2016/06/12/58458918-2766-11e6-b989-4e5479715b54_story.html

As its stock collapsed, Trump’s firm gave him huge bonuses and paid for his jet

Despite losing money every year under his leadership, the company compensated Trump handsomely, including a $5 million bonus in the year that shares lost 70 percent of their value.

The Washington Post

In the latest issue of my OUR LAND newsletter, I examine Trump Normalization Syndrome and the threat it poses to the nation. (Plus lots more.)

https://link.motherjones.com/public/34789523

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Someone of global stature needs to stand up and say that House Republicans under direction from Trump are trying to hand Ukraine to Putin who will help Trump get a 2nd term so Trump can break NATO.

Won't shame Republicans. But needs to be at least clear that this is happening.

If one more mofo who says “I am not voting, or not voting for the lesser of two evils (as if there wasn’t a one),” calls me a “scold” for shaming them for it, I am going to unravel in a very ugly way.

We are not having an election about optimal governance. We are staring a full-blown fascist movement in the face that could end democracy everywhere. And they’re boasting about it. Anyone that doesn’t help stop them is complicit with them. There is no counter argument. So don’t even try.

And the ever snarky #DougJBalloon puts it all in context with a #GlennGreenwald parody.😂

Bless Doug for making us laugh on point in these trying times.

“It is just over,” journalist @caseynewton told The Post.

“If you wouldn’t join Gab, or Parler, or Truth Social, there’s no reason you should be on X. I think it’s time for journalists and publishers, in particular, to acknowledge the new reality and to get the heck off that website.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/19/antisemiticism-interent-elon-musk-israwl-war/

Antisemitism was rising online. Then Elon Musk’s X supercharged it.

Antisemitism has long festered on the internet, but the Israel-Gaza war and the loosening of content moderation on X have propelled it to unprecedented levels.

The Washington Post
Took off near Brownsville, Texas, US.

James Comer CAN'T BELIEVE someone would misuse the term "shell company" to suggest wrongdoing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/14/comer-biden-shell-company/

James Comer is mad someone would abuse the term ‘shell company’

This appears to only apply when the target of the pejorative is himself.

The Washington Post
We had mass shootings in Texarkana, Indianapolis, Tampa and Chicago this weekend that barely made the national news. #guns #gopcrimewave
Ron DeSantis defended his attempt to ban pro-Palestinian groups from state colleges in Florida, claiming that the move is “not cancel culture.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/desantis-defends-ban-palestinian-groups-colleges-1234865448/
DeSantis Defends Banning Pro-Palestinian Groups from State Colleges

Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his attempt to ban pro-Palestinian groups from state colleges in Florida, claiming that the move is "not cancel culture."

Rolling Stone