No doubt that some of them are doing it for the love of the game. 🫤

They'll just take a page out of Imperial Japan's warbook and resort to living off the land post-invasion.

Assuming we manage to get a much more reasonable government in place in the coming years, hopefully they'll be the ones paying for what they're doing.

I think it is. Can't recall the exact scene though.

Yeah it is. I saw that movie for my 12th birthday and it still holds a special place in my heart.

Boris and his wife, Doris.

It’s one of the most hilarious things to me, just a masked face with Arnold’s lips making Arnold groans. That scene was gold, fuck that whole movie was gold

The american legal system is catered to one principal:

if you owe your bank $10 that's your problem, if you owe your bank $10 billion dollars, that is your banks' problem.

This is why salespeople and scammers flourish in america: get enough loans and debt and you can uno reverse any monetary problem here but often rich people and bullshit artists are the only ones who have enough collateral to get that kind of debt.

The courts are designed to take a lifetime to figure that kind of stuff out - it keeps going as long as you have money. This is why republicans are obsessed with the estate tax: if you pass it on to your kids before the scam gets sorted out, all the ill gotten gains are laundered. Your kids are set for life and all the people you conned foot the bill.

It also shows how much a high estate tax would cripple these incentives.

My understanding is the not paying people is “legit” in that the remedy is the courts but his lawyers are good at making it too costly to pursue. If they believe they weren’t paid, they should sue: notice there are few judgements against him like that.

It’s just like all his shell companies. During the first reign of terror, there were articles that they found over 500 companies with payments going back and forth so the web was impossible to decipher and there were always Trump owned companies with huge losses/writeoffs. I don’t remember them actually finding anything illegal but it sure smells like it. He even bragged it was so complex that the irs didn’t have enough auditors to dig through that for tax fraud. It was almost a dare. What happened to that?

What if in our world of infinite universal timeline probabilities, this is the timeline where Trump always gets what he wants?

To think there's a potentiality where he always loses and we missed it by this much.

Same way I stuck with my wife for 20 years despite her being a rotten person - I kept hoping it would get better, and she'd string me along with promises... Then she cheated on me with our son's best friend's dad, that finally made it easy to leave, and once I left, hindsight made all the previous mistreatment so much more obvious...

Unscrupulous people use other unscrupulous people as patsies... They're all so up their own ass that they don't think they'll be the one that has one over on them. They are all narcissistic.

He doesn't screw over the Epstein class, and that's all that really matters

I don't get it either. My cousins lived in Southern New Jersey, near Atlantic City, where all of his casinos went bankrupt. He was notorious for not paying local contractors and some went into horrible debt due to his refusal to pay. Yet that whole region is crazy about him. I suppose they just don't have very good memories around there.

Where can I learn more about this?

yeah he did trash all those science fundings for a reason and part of it is to pay his own policing force aka ICE

"TNPD" doesn't roll off the tongue as well as "TACO", but I'll take it.

Ya know, I don't keep up with the rap world. The only "diddy" songs I know are a song from the 1998 Godzilla soundtrack, which uses a Led Zepplin sampled song as the basis for the song, and a collaboration with Lincoln Park where he uses a their entire song, with him replacing their lyrics with his own in which he calls all women bitches.

So my view of him from my vantage point is that he's unoriginal, and needs other peoples work to survive.

I know even less about 50 cent's music. I don't know a single song. I just know he got famous around 2007 for getting shot 7 times. But any idiot can get shot. Just ask Brett.

That being said, outside of music I know diddy used to host parties in which he needed 10,000 bottles of baby oil.

50 cent on the other hand I've been told got the creeps from diddy, and that led to some confrontation, which left 50 cent with a grudge. Then he said he felt happy taking diddy down, and was happy there were no more parties.

So even though I will probably never listen to a single one of his songs, and even though I can't imagine how or why I'd ever spend money on 50 cent, I can still say I at least respect the fact that he saw diddy as a creep who needed to be taken down. I can respect that. Even if the music isn't for me.

ICE had a signup bonus (dunno how much, $4000, I think?), and nobody received it yet.

The guy who is 'famous for not paying' is Trump, who has a history of being in debt/not paying his debts off.