trump (the former guy, defamer, insurrectionist, contemnor, and rapist - $537M)

[bill_g]

Sounds about par for the course - Qanon pedos adoring their fake Messiah. Talk about Golden Calves.

[cjroberts]

The Jesus drawing is fake news as it depicts Jesus as more bigly yuge that the Donald.

[Sam the Centipede]

The Jesus drawing is fake news as it depicts Jesus as more bigly yuge that the Donald.

And with more luxuriant hair, apparently without five gallons of high tensile lacquer.

[somerset]

The Jesus drawing is fake news as it depicts Jesus as more bigly yuge that the Donald.

And with more luxuriant hair, apparently without five gallons of high tensile lacquer.

You know, it's quite possible that tfg is, in fact, sheltered and guided by a divine spirit. How else to explain his ability to stay alive through events that should have killed most men?

Of course, no one ever said it had to be the "good" divine spirit

[Slim Cognito]

I've been wondering that same thing. Do you think he had a crossroads moment?

[Sam the Centipede]

Consider this: the living Trump has many more disciples and followers than ever the living Jesus did.

More enemies too. And lawyers.

[somerset]

Assuming one believes in Satan, wouldn't tfg be the perfect vehicle to deceive the Christian faithful?

[Slim Cognito]

It's almost enough to make the atheist in me start believing.

[RTH10260]

It's almost enough to make the atheist in me start believing.

I would need proof that the former guy was able to perform the Art Of The Deal on the devil, and how his lawyers were able to defraud the devil.

[AndyinPA]

Sort of on topic (?). I was in Barnes and Noble today, and they had a display of the sixteen most popular magazines at B&N. Five of them were about witchcraft and the occult.

[raison de arizona]

Breaking ABC: Months after leaving office, Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with a member of Mar-a-Lago — an Australian billionaire who then allegedly shared the information with scores of others.

[Foggy]

"scores of others"

Score, in this case, still means 20, amirite? Four score and seven years ago, score?

Several twenties worth of blabbermouth billionaire from Oz, am I following along?

[Maybenaut]

"scores of others"

Score, in this case, still means 20, amirite? Four score and seven years ago, score?

Several twenties worth of blabbermouth billionaire from Oz, am I following along?

Literally, scores means at least 40. But I think colloquially some folks use in place of something like “untold numbers.”

[raison de arizona]

Scores.

In emails and conversations after meeting with Trump, Pratt described Trump's remarks to at least 45 others, including six journalists, 11 of his company's employees, 10 Australian officials, and three former Australian prime ministers, the sources told ABC News.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/after-white-h ... =103760456

[much ado]

All we need now is evidence that Trump was paid by foreign nationals for government secrets.

[Ben-Prime]

It's almost enough to make the atheist in me start believing.

I would need proof the the former guy was able to perform the Art Of The Deal on the devil, and how his lawyers were able to defraud the devil.

From what I've seen of them, his lawyers could be outflanked by The Little Rascals.

[raison de arizona]

tfg has been fixated on the fraud trial, but he has no original thoughts and just repeats himself. Anyway, Jim Jordan endorsement:

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He also promises to triple domestic auto production. Triple!

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[Kriselda Gray]

Sort of on topic (?). I was in Barnes and Noble today, and they had a display of the sixteen most popular magazines at B&N. Five of them were about witchcraft and the occult.

Weird! I didn't think there'd be that many that anyone would have heard of. Of course, I'd have to know which ones they were to konw if this is a good thing or not. I have a bad feeling that some of the most popular ones might be based more on new-agey "fluffy bunny" crap than anything genuine.

[RTH10260]

He also promises to triple domestic auto production. Triple!

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Where will he find the ununionized workers to produce his Model T

[much ado]

He also promises to triple domestic auto production. Triple!

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Where will he find the ununionized workers to produce his Model T

Where will he find the customers to buy them?

[AndyinPA]

Sort of on topic (?). I was in Barnes and Noble today, and they had a display of the sixteen most popular magazines at B&N. Five of them were about witchcraft and the occult.

Weird! I didn't think there'd be that many that anyone would have heard of. Of course, I'd have to know which ones they were to konw if this is a good thing or not. I have a bad feeling that some of the most popular ones might be based more on new-agey "fluffy bunny" crap than anything genuine.

Off Topic

I can remember three names. Witchcraft, Spells, and The Occult. If they were by popularity, they were all in the bottom two rows.

[Gregg]

Is it time to update the thread title to include:

Fraudster

C'mon mate, if all Trump's misdeeds were listed in the title there'd be no space left on the page for posts.

Oh, ok, let's add fraudster, please!

We're gonna need a bigger internet

[Gregg]

Consider this: the living Trump has many more disciples and followers than ever the living Jesus did.

More enemies too. And lawyers.

But he has always known not to piss off the Romans Italians.

[johnpcapitalist]

Where will he find the customers to buy them?

Total sales are somewhere near the top of the historical range of the last 30 years (pulled from the St. Louis Federal Reserve site):

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Unfortunately, US share of the market appears to be declining, because here's the domestic production graph over the same period:

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I should note that the production graph only shows autos with a US final assembly location. All the major automakers have extensive operations in both the US and Mexico and the value of imports from those two countries is larger than the value of imports from all other countries including Japan, Germany and the UK. So the graph above doesn't show the actual share of cars made by US-headquartered manufacturers versus non-US-headquartered auto makers. In other words, the downward trend in production isn't because the Japanese, Germans or Koreans are kicking our butts. But I digress...

If Trump magically triples production, he'd be bringing approximately two million new units per year into the market, where buyers are currently demanding about 16 million units per year. One possible effect of that much extra supply would be to cause massive discounting to absorb those units, wiping out the industry's profits.

I suspect that the number of incremental buyers who would come into the market, attracted by potentially lower prices, is going to be fairly low because interest rates are higher at the moment than they have been in many years, so that's a hurdle that keeps marginal buyers from being able to afford a new car. The only possibility to bring new buyers into the market would be if they bought cheaper cars with subsidized interest. In other words, the automakers would have to bankrupt themselves.

If someone were to press TFG about how to triple auto production in the US, he might be dimly thinking that he could start another trade war. The last one with China worked out so well... But this would be either embargos or tariffs on some of the US's best allies. You don't have to know much about diplomacy to guess this might be a bad idea.

Of course, we all know what's really happening: Trump is vomiting out a soundbite that he not only won't act on (like "Infrastructure Week") but he won't even remember by next Tuesday. But it's one that the dimwits in his fan base will eat up. I know we know this, but I thought it might be fun to hang some actual data behind the discussion.

[raison de arizona]

Of course, we all know what's really happening: Trump is vomiting out a soundbite that he not only won't act on (like "Infrastructure Week") but he won't even remember by next Tuesday. But it's one that the dimwits in his fan base will eat up. I know we know this, but I thought it might be fun to hang some actual data behind the discussion.

Definitely fun, thanks for the numbers jpc!