Marge, going full on stupid. She seemed upset her expulsion attempt on Palestinian-American member of Congress, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), over her public support for Palestine didn’t go well.
Catfight! I can hardly wait for the hairpulling scene. I wonder who will play the roles of their seconds.
Regardless of gender, we now see what electing a couple hundred emotional children in adult bodies does to politics. And, unfortunately, to governance as well. Politics is not merely showbiz.
Indeed. It’s showbiz with real world repercussions.
There are also disclaimers on speculative investment opportunities, which is closer to what I think Trump thinks this is. Basically, if I’m trying to get you to invest in my billion-dollar idea to import Bolivian Yak Butter, this disclaimer says, “These plans are subject to abject failure, so I can’t guarantee that you’ll ever get your money back.” This covers me so long as I make a good-faith effort to import my yak butter, but protects me if, by no fault of my own, it turns out they don’t have yaks in Bolivia.
What it doesn’t protect me from is if I just blow all your money on drugs and prostitutes, or something similar.
If they’re just using a standard ‘past performance is not indicative of future results’, that’s one thing. But, if they’re basing their current worth on those future results, they’re getting into Enron territory.
Come to think of it, I’m guessing it’s safe to assume that many of his bankrupted companies had taken on debt from his other companies before shutting down. Either opportunistically or shell companies set up for that purpose.
What we’re hopefully about to find out with the kids, or at least DTJ, is that even if that “good faith effort” involved people smarter than you, telling you the yak butter deal will bring in millions of dollars, it’s ultimately your signature on the paper and your responsibility.
Also, as a side note, I find it funny when DT, speaking about the worthless clauses said ‘do your own research’. Looking at a business’ financial statements is doing your own research. It’s funny, not surprising, but funny that the ‘do your own research’ crowd doesn’t understand how doing your own research works.
Granted, what he means is ‘well, the loan officer could have come to mar a lago and done the appraisal themselves’, which would be difficult given Trump’s infamous rule of not allowing people to take notes.
I can only hope that no one trusts a financial statement from a Trump Company unless it’s fully audited by Arthur Anderson Deloite and Touche or Price Waterhouse or some reputable accounting firm that isn’t interested in putting their brand at risk for a few bucks.
Oh you sweet summer child …
Yep. I mean, they’ll follow GAAP and do enough due diligence to avoid following Arthur Anderson down the plughole, but that’s pretty much the line.
(Also, they’re not “Deloitte and Touche” anymore - the brand name is just “Deloitte”; the company is now Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.)
This is not a Stupid Republican Idea of the Day. It’s a complete acid trip into another dimension; bizarro world, incel fused, misogynistic, white replacement theory, alternate reality. You might guess Stephen Miller is involved. And it’s incredibly mundane in the current “bigger fish to fry” judicial world we are experiencing. I’m stunned there are even more idiotic lawyers running around debasing the legal profession.
I told you it was off the wall.
I sort of daydream about hateful racist assholes being swallowed up by active volcanoes, but I don’t think there are enough of those on the planet to handle the necessary workload. We may have to offshore it all to Io.
I really wish the rest of the conventional media would quit calling abject insanity “conservative”. There is nothing conservative about anything those ranting loons are going on about.
I kind of agree, but kind of not. The long-term effect is that the term “conservative” is going to have a “bat-shit crazy” connotation. In 2040, someone calling themselves a conservative is going to provoke similar rolled eyes as someone being libertarian is today.
Maybe. Or it’ll still be a way for completely anti-social trogloditic assholicness to be relabeled as acceptable ordinary mainstream opinion.
I wish they’d be more conservative with their crazy stuff. That is, only spew it out once in a great while.
Touché.
I’ve been hoping this would happen, and it has, but only to a minor point, an ineffective point. I’ve seen just so may people I’ve known a long time admit, even sheepishly admit that the bat-shit crazy stuff is over the top, only to shrug it away in the service of their single issues…mostly guns or *“sticking it to the libs”. ( *as a matter of speaking )
Bumper sticker on a car in front of me today:
Proud To Be Everything Liberals Hate
And I thought to myself, “You’re proud to be stupid?”
I think that’s assholicity.
Congressman introduces bill to expel Palestinians from the US.
You misspelled “Congressman virtue signals”.
Racist Bowtie Man is angry that Mike Johnson wants to send aid to (((those people))).