The Schadenfreude thread

sweetcell wrote:
Trump’s Truth Social Media Platform Plans to Go Public via SPAC
Look, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center is a great ampitheater but I just do not understand what it has to do with an IPO. Perhaps Truth Social would be better served to look for an influx of cash from some sort of publicly traded company that exists for the purpose of raising money ahead of time for a future investment opportunity instead of the traditional Private Equity/Venture Capital route or this ill-conceived "music venue investment" idea.
sweetcell wrote:It also prohibits ‘excessive use of capital letters.’

I love this, I'm constantly telling my techs to disable the client's cap's lock

Julian, wrote:
sweetcell wrote:
Trump’s Truth Social Media Platform Plans to Go Public via SPAC
Look, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center
nice…but SPAC's is a new financial instrument for extremally wealthy people/orgs to hide money from gov't regulations, so on brand for JA's cheif PR rep to muddy the waters
Via Twitter:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick was just forced to hand over the reward money to progressive PA poll watcher Eric Frank for busting a Republican committing fraud. Patrick offered cash rewards for fraud, and this is the only one he got. https://t.co/TROAor1mDZ
Fetterman’s Twitter is going to be something to behold, he was dogging Patrick for months to pay up
sweetcell wrote:
looks like it's just 45's latest money-grab, 99% chance he cashes out immediately after going public (let the rubes hold this turd)
Trump’s Truth Social Media Platform Plans to Go Public via SPAC
Former president says Trump Media & Technology Group will create Truth Social to combat large social-media platforms

i really expected better from Wall Street:

Trump SPAC skyrockets as much as 1,657% since deal was announced
sweetcell wrote:
sweetcell wrote:
looks like it's just 45's latest money-grab, 99% chance he cashes out immediately after going public (let the rubes hold this turd)
Trump’s Truth Social Media Platform Plans to Go Public via SPAC
Former president says Trump Media & Technology Group will create Truth Social to combat large social-media platforms

i really expected better from Wall Street:

Trump SPAC skyrockets as much as 1,657% since deal was announced


"This is clearly meme stock territory. It's totally disconnected from fundamentals. There are no known fundamentals," said Kennedy, who warned investors that $10 should be looked at as the floor for this stock.
"Be prepared to lose potentially everything else," he said. "This is a stock trading purely on momentum."
Former President Donald Trump’s new social media site — The Truth Social — appears to be based on computer code that was appropriated from another source and may well result in him getting smacked with a lawsuit, according to a report from Gizmodo

What could all of this mean for the future of Truth Social (if Trump was sued over code theft)? Probably that the site won’t be able to launch anytime soon, and even if it does, it would likely be tied up in court for years, meaning that Donald Trump would still be without a platform to spread his hatred, lies, and conspiracy theories. That alone is the very good news indeed.
sweetcell wrote:
Former President Donald Trump’s new social media site — The Truth Social — appears to be based on computer code that was appropriated from another source and may well result in him getting smacked with a lawsuit, according to a report from Gizmodo

What could all of this mean for the future of Truth Social (if Trump was sued over code theft)? Probably that the site won’t be able to launch anytime soon, and even if it does, it would likely be tied up in court for years, meaning that Donald Trump would still be without a platform to spread his hatred, lies, and conspiracy theories. That alone is the very good news indeed.
yes, but the checks were cashed and that's all that really matters
Aaron Parnas@AaronParnas
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been fined 20 times by the Ethics Committee for her failures to wear a mask. $48,000 has now been deducted from her salary.
hint: MTG is in congress for neither the money (re: taking away her salary), nor to govern (re: taking away her committee assignments)… so there is little that can be done to influence her behavior.  she's essentially an untouchable misbehaving employee. 
sweetcell wrote: she's essentially an untouchable misbehaving employee.
I love that analogy
A double schadenfreude

William Hartmann, the Republican member of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers who made national headlines for initially refusing to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, died Tuesday following a battle with COVID-19.


https://twitter.com/crooksandliars/status/1466436509897216008?s=21

Also an anti-vaxxer

Shocked face

Not really sure where this one falls but

Crazy conspiracy Q-heads buying Faraday cages for their WiFi routers and then writing bad reviews because their wireless no longer

https://twitter.com/bradbatt/status/1334746387003695104?s=21
Brown-hatch wrote:
sweetcell wrote:
sweetcell wrote:
looks like it's just 45's latest money-grab, 99% chance he cashes out immediately after going public (let the rubes hold this turd)
Trump’s Truth Social Media Platform Plans to Go Public via SPAC
Former president says Trump Media & Technology Group will create Truth Social to combat large social-media platforms

i really expected better from Wall Street:

Trump SPAC skyrockets as much as 1,657% since deal was announced


"This is clearly meme stock territory. It's totally disconnected from fundamentals. There are no known fundamentals," said Kennedy, who warned investors that $10 should be looked at as the floor for this stock.
"Be prepared to lose potentially everything else," he said. "This is a stock trading purely on momentum."


you know what happens when you hype a stock with no fundamentals?  you get investigated by federal regulators.  shocking, i tell you.
$10 Trump doesn’t end in jail and gets to keep the money

You think he cares about being investigated?
not disagreeing with you.

at best, investors have been given yet another signal to not invest in trump.  TBD if they take the hint.
sweetcell wrote:
TBD if they take the hint.
I gotta imagine it's a badge of honor to have been scammed by the Cheeto