This is one thing I never understood… how does he keep getting away with it? Repeatedly screwing people over and over and over and over again and somehow no one doing shit about it?
He doesn’t just screw over workers, he does it for his business partners, too. Wealthy anf powerful people… people who can hire hitmen and also pay to make the evidence disappear. If they can kill Epstein why wouldn’t they have gotten rid of him in the 80s and 90s when he didn’t have as much power as he does now?
He doesn’t screw over the Epstein class, and that’s all that really matters
This is one thing I never understood… how does he keep getting away with it? Repeatedly screwing people over and over and over and over again and somehow no one doing shit about it?
All his fans and supporters believe that he only screws over their common enemies. In fact, they love that he does that. They falsely believe that he would never screw over them. He will never eat their faces. They think they’re the in group with Trump.
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.
Have to agree there.
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…
Yo dawg pardon my language but fuck that bitch. Stay strong and sorry someone played with your heart like that. Your example speaks volumes for your son.
Good god. Makes me thankful that I leave people behind easily. You’re overdue for treating yourself to some unrestrained enjoyment of life.
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.
The Russian agents keeping tabs on their useful idiot must have protected him.
How exactly are you imagining that? Did they stand in the way every time someone tried to wipe Trump out?
Considering how rare assassination attempts are now despite him being objectively the most hated person the world has ever seen (by sheer numbers - there weren’t nearly as many people alive when Hitler lived), it’s admittedly unlikely, but still plausible.
Its the old bait and switch. Did you know that Federal Deposit Insurance can be paid out in a period of decades? They can make you ‘‘whole’’ over a period of time that can stretch over years. Technically you will not lose any money but practically you can die before you get your money.
An authoritarian typically keeps the military and police well-fed, or alternatively allows them to rob the plebs as they see fit. Otherwise bad things may happen to the emperor.
Unfortunately, Trump is likely to kick the bucket before he sees any blowback of 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
Also because science is woke and/ or gay. I believe it says so in the executive order.
And that’s because Trump is a Russian shill and Russia promised to bring down America in this exact way, a half a century ago. Edit dmn I’m getting old that’s closer to 3/4ths of a century
except the words are not allowed so they are also reducted from the executive order
Ok, what did I miss?
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.
It was way more than that- like 50-70k…
*Edit* never mind me, apparently that was a retention bonus, different thing
Specifically not paying contractors. He would regularly hire contractors for jobs at Trump buildings/companies where it was x% up front and x% on completion. Then when they came for the completion percent he would just not pay and make them take him to court. Sometimes he paid, but other times they just couldn’t afford to litigate as long as he could so they’d get stiffed.
Edit: USA Today Article because citing your sources is important: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/
Or paying the buses to his rally in winter but not back, abandoning a ton of his followers to freeze the night or find other ways home.
If you run out of money you run out of justice
Afaik the bonus promised is 50k, which is a bit more significant. Leads to people joking that they’d like to join, get the bonus and then just not do the job.
Signup bonus is different from retention/quota bonus. Signup bonus is all him
But the big one, the retention bonus can probably be pushed off long enough to blame democrats and/or not paid because they’re not making their quotas
You have to stay with the agency several years. The plan is to fire them before paying.
Exactly it’s a retention bonus that gets paid out in stages, but DHS can also recoup all of it if the agent/goon leaves before the period expires. I wouldn’t be surprised if they dangle a “reenlistment” bonus near the end of the term which locks them in longer.
Gosh, who would’ve thought it.
sadly I would not put it past a lot of those psychopaths to do it for free.
No doubt that some of them are doing it for the love of the game. 🫤
Those are probably the ones ending up in viral clips either threatening to kill someone or actually doing it (or in one case failing because they didn’t know their safety was on).
I was recently thinking, this recruitment drive must be heaven for the common proud boys brownshirt.
Who of them wouldn’t sign up, they get to harm immigrants, they get cover from the very top if they catch public attention, they get gear, and they might even get paid for it.
This is what he meant by “stand back and stand by”
Maybe some of them just show up in masks with their mallninjashit, and they’re not on the payroll and no one asks if they did the two week training.
They’ll just take a page out of Imperial Japan’s warbook and resort to living off the land post-invasion.
The sooner they start living off the land, the better. And by that, I mean “swimming”. Lash a bunch of them together to form an ICEberg.
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.
Is that from true lies?
I’m sure it’s Arnold’s face
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
Except for that weird strip scene with Jamie Lee Curtis. That did not age well.
I watched True Lies again a few years back, and that scene made me cringe hard.
Boris and his wife, Doris.
Yeah it is. I saw that movie for my 12th birthday and it still holds a special place in my heart.
I think it is. Can’t recall the exact scene though.
When he uses a squad to break into Bill Paxton’s sleazy getaway spot where he tries to seduce Jamie Lee Curtis. It’s followed by this scene:
I think it’s right when he sees someone’s about to hurt her, so he hurts the guy or something, and the guy ends up getting kicked in the balls by Curtis. The scene ending with some awesome “action helicopter” cam of the extraction completed, home boy limping back to the heli holding his balls, “Son of a…”
It’s such a well directed movie with perfect pace too. Even when it goes over top, it makes just enough fun of itself for doing so.
“That’s a fine looking animal you got there!”
Haha, I chucked it on last night after typing this comment. There’s so many scenes where characters have no place being there but they are, because it’s just the public dealing with an action hero.
My partner hadn’t seen it before.
“There’s no way he’s about to jump the building with a horse… Yeah, I was gonna say. A horse would never do that.”
“But that’s the point. You’re so into the action hero stuff that you didn’t notice they played a screeching rubber SFX when the horse stopped.”
😙👌
Even Curtis’s line, “I married Rambo…” is another subtle joke in an otherwise action flick that has all the usual action flick appeal.
The opening scene
The beginning at the fancy party that has snow outside?
It’s where the squad attacked bill paxton when bill was trying to convince Jamie Lee Curtis to leave the country. They cut the trailer in half, bill fell on Jamie and arnold flipped his shit, made this face.
It’s even better because when they do get paid if they leave before their 5 years they have to pay back their bonuses INCLUDING tax.
So they’re kinda paying for the privilege of hunting minorities. Really sick to think about.
Where can I learn more about this?
A trump never pays his debts
“TNPD” doesn’t roll off the tongue as well as “TACO”, but I’ll take it.
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Pedos are like that. Diddy is well known for never paying anybody, which is why 50 Cent was given all of that footage.
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.
So my view of him from my vantage point is that he’s unoriginal, and needs other peoples work to survive.
I’m a huge rap fan and this is 100% correct.
Although, not for the reasons you listed. Having a huge hit that leans heavily on an obvious sample of an older hit song isn’t necessarily awful. But the guy writes corny shit, is a terrible rapper and is just not very talented. He built an empire off of surrounding himself with amazingly talented people and exploiting them in the worst possible ways.
In hiphop a beatmaker is typically separate from the rapper. And outside hiphop, music writers and lyricists are often different people, plus covers exist (including those changing the lyrics). So him using others’ music is the least problematic thing about him.
‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ is considered a classic, but its entire music track and the vocal melody of the chorus are lifted from Stewie Wonder’s ‘Pastime Paradise’.
I’ve never listened to any of Diddy’s music. All I know is everything that’s been revealed. Another important fact is that he paid to have Tupac killed for a million dollars. Funnily enough, he didn’t pay that guy either. Also got Biggie killed. He’s a piece of shit.
The only thing I know about all this nonsense is that on occasion you may find me in certain establishments, with a glass of champaign.
It’s not often, but it does happen.
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.
Diddy invited him to come shopping and then tried to pay for everything and didn’t let 50 pay for anything. 50 recognized that Diddy was trying to trap him with favors and using social graces as a way to take advantage of 50.
It’s like a meta-analysis of politeness in society by two people who are excellent at reading others.
Unless I missed something that collaboration is jay z and Lincoln park. I assume it’s points of authority/99 problems?
The only other things I can find are that, allegedly, Linkin Park sampled a Biggie song (Until it Breaks, allegedly sampled “Who Shot Ya”, but when I listen to them I don’t hear it. Maybe it’s actually just a lyrical reference not a true sample?)
Also Chester’s son Jaime Bennington has gone off on a lot of rants against Shinoda and other LP members and seems real salty about the band continuing now. He accused Shinoda and other members of Machine. shop records of attending two Diddy parties in 2004 and 2010. And one time Diddy tweeted out that he liked LP and they re-tweeted it. So… Everything seems pretty innocuous to me.
This may help in regard to the ‘sampling’.
Also 50 cent has a couple alright games. They aren’t great but honestly for a celebrity game they’re only outclassed by the Riddic games.
@[email protected] You know this is Lemmy Shitpost not Political Memes?
I do indeed! But what is a political meme, if not a shitpost?
I understand that your American politics are shit. But that doesn’t mean they belong in shitposting.
We’re here to have a fun time posting shit. Not to turn yet an other community into a complain sub for Americans.
Some of us are getting tired of being overwhelmed by a politics that we don’t have a say in since it is on the other side of the fucking planet.
How is this political?
It’s 100% American politics
Simply mentioning ICE doesn’t make it political. By that logic, any mentioning of anything related to any country, any type of police, any type of military would be ‘political’ and I’ve never seen anyone complain about that
Simply mentioning ICE doesn’t make it political
It’s internal US political news, why do you think anyone outside of your country cares about your immigration officers and how they’re dealing with immigrants within America?
By that logic, any mentioning of anything related to any country, any type of police, any type of military would be ‘political’
Yes?
and I’ve never seen anyone complain about that
Because nobody else posts about their police force in a shitpost community and gets 1k+ upvotes for it
Is this also not political?
Doesn’t seem like it’s trying to sell me on Trump or Obama or Putin or Israel or anything. Just because a shitpost mentions current news doesn’t mean it’s automatically bad political. Seems to me like if you just don’t want to see anything about other countries, you should just find some communities specific to your own
So no one can mention any type of American anything? Ok
You can mention lots of American things, just not American politics! I come to shitpost to see shitposts, not more american politics
But… American Politics are the ultimate shitpost.
I mean, look how upset y’all are getting at it. 🤷♂️
