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L'autista
Administrator
Sep 23, 2003
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What to expect from the guy who never earned a dollar in his life and managed to bankrupt a casino…
Not to repeat myself, but did I ever mention the true story of when my father worked with Trump on the artwork needed for his casino and resorts IPO in 1995? Apologies to those who heard this before...

Because they were NYSE shares, a minimum number of shares have to be issued with paper certificates. The NYSE also has regulations on the artwork on the certificates, such as requiring things like a human face, line drawings for scaled reproducibility, etc., to also help prevent counterfeiting.

My father was a lifetime commercial artist and did everything, but he loved detailed drawings. So after being canned as the last sole survivor of an art department at a packaging company after 30 years, at age 61 he got his dream job at a bank note company and loved it ... doing more drawing than he ever did in his life.

He was assigned to work with the Trump Resorts & Casinos for their NYSE certificates and IPO.

Trump's people provided my dad all sorts of photographs of Trump to work from as source material, and he developed various sample line drawings from their photos.

Trump rejected them all, saying, "I don't look handsome enough."

My dad was like, "Who is this clown? I'm working with what he actually looks like."

My dad was a crazy-detailed line-drawer obsessed with realism and gifted with insane patience ... as in detailed woodcarvings. So he wasn't some slapdash paint smearer like the woman who painted Trump for the Colorado State Capitol.

So my dad had to add some Prince Charming vibes and Instagram filter his image by hand before Instagram even existed. Attached is the result.

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Hence I've been laughing my ass off at the Colorado Capitol story, because he's making it sound like the freaky bust of Ronaldo at the Funchal, Madeira airport. He is as shallow as he was 30 years ago with my dad.

Asian markets are rising so fuck you Trump. The days of "Chinese knock offs" are gone and jusk like Deepseek, they're going to ruin this Orange baboon.
98% of Americans I know have no clue that China has over 100 EV companies and that their level of tech makes things like Teslas look like dinosaurs. BYD builds twice the car for 1/4 the price. So those tariffs are going to have to go up 800%.

With so much EV competition in China, they have no margin to go cheap and low so they're competing by building high-end luxury EVs on the cheap.

Just getting in an EV cab in Shanghai, the entire dashboard is a gigantic video display screen... stuff unheard of in the US today.
 

Ronn

Mes Que Un Club
May 3, 2012
20,854
don't believe a fucking word he's saying. this is no politics, this is just some random thoughts of a 70+ lucky dude who inherited a fortune, and now enjoys cosplaying as a president while he's not playing golf


Yeah so much for cutting Pentagon’s budget. Cut money from everywhere to give it to the military industrial complex.
Disgusting.
 

Nomuken

“Year Zero”
Contributor
Dec 14, 2009
5,646
Political nonsense aside.

Let me give you some political nonsense that may or may be true from about 100 years ago.

Your brain is mush dude. Not everything is a meme.
You know you’re an oxymoron, right?

Politcal nonsense aside, you’re transfixed on the Nazi ideology yet you do know you drive a Nazi car everyday, right?
 

Osman

Koul Khara!
Aug 30, 2002
61,480
And he wants to do a massive military parade in DC just like his heros Kim and Putin, tearing up our streets on his birthday nonetheless.

Imagine the military personnel in that parade.

Knowing your leader not only dodged draft service, but mocked/insult servicemen in past interviews multiple occasions as dumb for giving up their life's in battle.

Not to mention didn't even bother attending the procession to show respect to the 4 soldiers that died in the Baltics just now. Preferring to go golf instead.
 

s4tch

Senior Member
Mar 23, 2015
33,514
oh boy. so much misinformation or straight up lies once again. american brands sold in the eu:
- ford (including shelby)
- multiple stellantis brands (jeep, dodge are surely available)
- tesla
- chevrolet (corvette only)
- cadillac
- sapphire

and i might forget smaller brands


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this is after navarro (maybe falsely) called musk a car assembler lol



musk will lose a lot with the tariffs, so he's understandably pissed



looks like they hate musk's guts already

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fun to see maga vs maga wars erupting this early into their 4 year cycle. they'll hire hitmen against each other in 3... 2... 1... :numnum:
 
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AFL_ITALIA

MAGISTERIAL
Jun 17, 2011
31,778
damn bro hope things work out for you someway somehow
wishing you the best :heart:
Save me some space and a nice thick habibti when you get to the desert just in case pls

It's okay bruh. Our generation is retiring at 86 anyway.
I can't wait to begin my government mandated $2/hr factory job at the sneaker production plant.

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Tag yourselves. I'm the first guy

 
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