TGIF! [DOT 25/8/23]

Happy Friday!


It’s Mugshot day!

Trump on his way to Georgia to surrender at Fulton county jail in election interference case – live
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/aug/24/trump-georgia-fulton-rally-republican-debate-politics-live-updates


Sure Jan Dot Gif

Prigozhin most likely dead, and an explosion may have downed his plane, U.S. officials say
https://wapo.st/45iF90g [Gift Article]


Stonks!

Stocks sell off Thursday as Nvidia-led rally fizzles, Dow drops more than 300 points: Live updates
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/23/stock-market-today-live-updates.html


Sprots!

Stephen Strasburg, the Nats’ World Series MVP, plans to retire
https://wapo.st/3OPsFGr [Gift Article]


Wait did people think it was?

It’s not pumpkin you’re tasting in your pumpkin spice latte
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/health/pumpkin-flavored-foods-wellness/index.html


Hey Barbie!

‘Barbie’ is now the highest-grossing domestic film release in 2023
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/24/barbie-is-highest-grossing-domestic-film-release-in-2023.html


Today in Cute!


Have a great day!

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25 Comments

    • Something is hinky about that report. The tabloid that MSN scraped the story from cites Zillow, of all places, and says MAL sold for $422 million despite an estimated value of around $24 million.

        • It’s got to be worth $422 million! According to the Trumps, Mar-a-Lago has more square footage than the Pentagon! Every unit has 18 bathrooms, all of which are the same size as a football field. Residents have monorails that take them from their bedrooms to their front doors.

          Surely the Trumps wouldn’t lie, and overstate property values. Why, that would be unethical.

        • The Trump corporation has been technically under the leadership of the boys for a while, and dad always plays games with where titles move around between shell corporations. My guess is that whatever database Zillow pulls from isn’t set up to reflect any of the craziness that he does.

          One of the odd things recently is why did Trump go through a bail bondsman instead of paying the whole bail himself?

          https://www.salon.com/2023/08/25/cant-afford-a-200k-bond-lawyers-question-why-billionaire-needed-help-of-bail-bondsman/

          In one way it makes a bit of sense — it may have let him shift the extra cost to a PAC. But on the other hand, it extends his legal liability if he defaults, and bondholders often have extra options for chasing down defaulters that regular debt holders don’t have. Weird that a guy in his situation does this.

        • They could be taking money from “investors” again….

          It’s *probably* the ‘ol shell game, “borrowing” from the campaign coffers yet again, and *not* a sudden flip like that other Palm Beach mansion a few years back…

          But with ol Don-the-Con’s mention of fleeing to Russia the other day, it kiiiiinda feels like it’d be remiss, if we didn’t at least mention this old gem of a quote;

          …”Most notably, Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. made that very claim at a real estate conference in New York in 2008, saying ‘Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.” Donald Trump Jr. added, “we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.'”

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