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[–] [email protected] 70 points 6 months ago (2 children)

People are starting to realize everything he says is a joke? I can't imagine actually trusting an investment to anything he touches.

[–] Eheran 11 points 6 months ago (4 children)

No, people do not. Roughly 50 % would still vote him.

[–] negativeyoda 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Less than 30%. A full third of the USA can't be bothered to vote at all

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Don't forget the gerrymandering and efforts to make it unreasonably difficult for people to vote.

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices 2 points 6 months ago

remember, less than 50% of people who voted voted for him. Over a million more people voted for Hillary than Trump. Largest loss in both % and people in history, I think (for a winning presidential election).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Roughly 50 % would still vote him.

Evidence?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

The last election and current approval polls?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, unfortunately I'm aware. Of course it's just making it more obvious every day that 50% of the population are below the average intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah, that's how averages work. But what isn't obvious is why so many trump followers are intentionally and proudly ignorant, going so far as to attack education as being nothing but indoctrination

There's a big overlap between trump followers and conspiracy theorists

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Agreed... It's unfortunate that we're finding out so many people didn't take their education seriously.

[–] mojo_raisin 3 points 6 months ago

Trump Steaks? No?

[–] DevCat 64 points 6 months ago (2 children)

One more overvalued trump property. Are we surprised?

[–] Jesusaurus 19 points 6 months ago

Benefit with this one is everyone can short it once the option trades become available

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I am a bit surprised. I figured it would be an easy way for fat cats to pay off Donnie's massive debts and make him look like a big shot.

I'd love to be the fly on the wall when the top GOPs meet up with the main donors.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It feels like someone is pumping the stock up.

Not your average small business owner either, someone with weight is basically defying every metric of long term/short term investment on a stock that has done nothing but depreciate in value over the past year.

On a product, no one uses.

And said, "That's worth at least as much as Amazon."

[–] Jimmycakes -5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like the work of Blackrock or gs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Blackrock may have deep pockets but they're not that idiotic.

[–] Jimmycakes -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

They are corrupt and if they want to help Trump get into office so their shady investments can continue then it wouldn't cost them even pocket change to pump up trump stocks. It's such a small amount of money to them they probably assigned an intern to the account.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bud, I know it's pretty easy to jump down into conspiratorial rabbit holes whenever talking about Blackrock, vanguard, etc but let me ask you this:

Which sounds like a more solid plan? Investing in a platform that was dead in the water from the start, with no financial future. Or just donating to a bunch of politicians that are okay with your business practices?

I'm not saying they aren't causing a good bit of harm but you don't become the largest investment management firm on the planet by being that stupid

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago

Maybe so, but they’re also on the opposite side of the aisle. The company that owns Sweet Baby Inc. and deliberately pushes inappropriate levels of DEI via bribery-with-extra-steps probably isn’t about to aid or endorse a Republican, especially one who’s that brazen about the shitty things he does.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Trump selling truth social stock was so that foreign entities could legally give him money so he could pay the bail for the NY case.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

he cant sell any, hes lokced to it for 6 months

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Doesn't need to, it's asset that can be used for collateral.

[–] nutsack 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit I didn't realize it was worth that much that's crazy

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It wasn't.

Like everything trump touches, it was ridiculously overvalued

[–] TIMMAY 2 points 6 months ago

he's like king midas except instead of gold everything just gets slathered in shitty bronzer

[–] snausagesinablanket 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So he has no way of cashing out?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's just another roundabout way to accept bribes. Don't be surprised if we find out later on that the Saudis or the Chinese bought a bunch of this stock. If he gets elected this stock will skyrocket.

[–] grue 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Boy, I sure miss the Emoluments Clause.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

If only they decided to add a punishment to those presidential crime laws. Pretty naive to count on congressmen to do the honourable thing and impeach.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Unless their board approves an earlier date.

[–] givesomefucks 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

6 months is the standard.

But the whole thing is a shit show. John Olivers show last night was on it.

Edit:

I actually put that episode on, saw this article, and like 10 minutes in this article is basically a summary without all the jokes...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Former President Donald Trump's fledgling media business is losing its sheen among investors a week after going public, with a sharp reversal in the company's stock price lopping $4 billion off its value.

The plunge in Trump Media & Technology Group's shares, which debuted on the Nasdaq Composite Index on March 25 under the ticker "DJT" (after the former president's initials), comes as it disclosed mounting losses in a regulatory filing.

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, whose primary asset is the Truth Social platform, tumbled $14.50, or 23%, to $47.46 in Monday afternoon trading.

To be sure, Trump Media continues to maintain a heady market capitalization for a business that's in the red and that booked just $4.1 million in revenue last year.

Yet Truth Social has positioned itself as an alternative to more established tech giants such as Meta's Facebook, which also endured losses in its early years.

"GameStop was the meme stock of a lifetime, but Trump Media has put it to shame," Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, told the Associated Press last week.


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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

How is a mastodon instance assigned a value?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

rip bozo, lmao. looks like you cant sustain a social media network around a personality cult around some wet old dude.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Looked like it was enough to get him bail, though

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Not bail specifically, it's a bond. A bail keeps you out of jail until a court judgement has been made, a bond keeps the court from taking your assets away to pay off a debt (including from a previous judgement). The bond is held by the court until appeal is over, then given to the winning party when the final judgment is in.

[–] Hackerman_uwu 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What is the antonym of ‘go woke go broke’ pls?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Go fash lose cash

Turn altright feel the plight

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

MAGA brain, Capitalist pain. Or just Capital pain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What a great businessman! Much smart! So WOW! Big brain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Do people actually use that?