Is Douchelini in Jail Yet??

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Let's not forget that Douchelini Jr is still out there, and it looks like he's still into the hobby of killing for fun.

Italian politicians seek action against Trump Jr. hunting party for allegedly killing protected duck

Politicians in Italy have asked authorities to take action against a hunting party including Donald Trump Jr. that may have killed a protected species of duck near Venice

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Italian politicians on Tuesday asked authorities to take action against a hunting party including Donald Trump Jr. that may have killed a protected species of duck near Venice.

Andrea Zanoni of the Europa Verde party in the northern Veneto region cited a video posted on the Field Ethos website for male adventurers founded by Trump. It shows Trump on a recent hunt in the wetlands in the Valle Pierimpie’ bordering the Venice Lagoon.

At one point, Trump is shown next to a dead duck that Zanoni identifies as a ruddy shelduck. The species is protected in Europe, and killing one is a criminal offense in Italy, Zanoni said.

 

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🏴‍☠️ Maddox 🏴‍☠️ (@realmaddox.bsky.social)

Oh cool, a goat idol with golden hooves covered in fake bills where "In God We Trust" is replaced with "In Trump We Trust" seen at Maro Lago. If this was in a movie about a cult leader, it would be too on-the-nose.

bsky.app

 

[Myradyl Muse]

🏴‍☠️ Maddox 🏴‍☠️ (@realmaddox.bsky.social)

Oh cool, a goat idol with golden hooves covered in fake bills where "In God We Trust" is replaced with "In Trump We Trust" seen at Maro Lago. If this was in a movie about a cult leader, it would be too on-the-nose.

bsky.app

Wonder how the radical evangelical 'Christians' will spin this golden idol. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but hasn't a goat figure long been associated with the Devil? Not to mention, golden hooves and plastered with mr. christianity himself root of all evil bills. Ugh.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Wonder how the radical evangelical 'Christians' will spin this golden idol. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but hasn't a goat figure long been associated with the Devil? Not to mention, golden hooves and plastered with mr. christianity himself root of all evil bills. Ugh.

Well, I think we've already established that they aren't actual Christians, at least not in the biblical sense.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Well, I think we've already established that they aren't actual Christians, at least not in the biblical sense.

The phrase "in the Christian Club" occurs to me.

 

[Free]

Wonder how the radical evangelical 'Christians' will spin this golden idol.

They won't. They'll ignore it, like always.

 

[Free]

Womp womp.

Trump Supporters Lost a Staggering Amount of Money as They Bought His Meme Coin

Hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters lost money on his meme coin after its price crashed shortly after launching.

futurism.com

Crypto offers an extremely lucrative way of making money. It's also an easy way to get duped.

Case in point: supporters of President Donald Trump who bought his meme coin, $Trump, amid a wave of enthusiasm preceding his inauguration.

As The New York Times reports, while a few cashed out in time to steal away with huge profits, the vast majority — over 810,000 wallets — were left holding the bag. Collectively, the unlucky suckers lost more than $2 billion after the price of the coin crashed.

That said, just under 700,000 managed to cash out with a profit, fat or slim, totaling $6.6 billion. But a sizable chunk of that, about $699 million, was clinched by just 31 early investors.

It appears that the house, as always, has won. According to Chainalysis data cited by the NYT, the Trump family and its partners made out with nearly $100 million in trading fees alone. Currently, the $Trump coin is at around $15, which isn't even a quarter of its $75 peak.
turism.com/trump-supporters-lost-money-meme-coin

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Womp womp.

Trump Supporters Lost a Staggering Amount of Money as They Bought His Meme Coin

Hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters lost money on his meme coin after its price crashed shortly after launching.

futurism.com

Could someone please explain cryptocurrency to me; specifically, where it comes from and how it gets its value? And explain it to me like I'm five.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Could someone please explain cryptocurrency to me; specifically, where it comes from and how it gets its value? And explain it to me like I'm five.

Tag Dakota in this thread, offer bribes maybe, he's good at explainers on this. https://www.virtualverse.one/forums/threads/nobody-cares-the-non-fungible-thread.11192/page-31#post-268633

 

[Casey Pelous]

Could someone please explain cryptocurrency to me; specifically, where it comes from and how it gets its value? And explain it to me like I'm five.

In the end, it gets its value the same way all currencies, stocks, bonds, etc. get their value -- a group of people agrees that they have value.

The blockchain system limits the supply; thus far, it is impossible to counterfeit a Bitcoin, so far as I know, and I think that's true for the others.

New Bitcoins (etc.) are created by a process called "mining." Miners a) record the transactions made with Bitcoins and b) attempt to solve a very difficult piece of cryptography created by the blockchain software. If your computer is the one to solve it, you get rewarded with some quantity of new Bitcoin. Then a new puzzle is created and the process loops back to the start. (I'm a little fuzzy on exactly where the puzzle comes from, but you get the general idea.)

 

[Khamon]

I'm still waiting for the wave of pitchforks demanding that their President sign an executive order declaring their Trump bucks legal tender.

 

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Right now, I'll take the hits to Trump where I can get them.

Trump's Failing Social Network, Truth Social, Lost an Absolutely Staggering Amount of Money Last Year

President Donald Trump's social network, Truth Social, lost a staggering amount of money last year, according to the latest filing.

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President Donald Trump's social network, Truth Social, lost a staggering amount of money last year.

As CBS News reports, the platform's parent company Trump Media and Technology Group revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last week that it lost a staggering $400.9 million in 2024.

Annual revenue dropped to an abysmal $3.6 million, while the meme stock's losses ballooned more than six-fold compared to 2023. As Bloomberg points out, that means the company's deficit has risen to a staggering $2.9 billion.

Despite the immense losses, TMTG's market capitalization is still almost $6.5 billion, highlighting it's astronomically overvalued.

 

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Obligatory "What a Maroon" comment.

Trump Accidentally Insults Himself: 'Who Would Sign A Thing Like This?'

President Donald Trump criticized the 2020 trade deal called the 'US-Mexico-Canada Agreement' for putting unfair financial burdens on American citizens amid his threats of tariffs on goods from US neighbors. However, it was Trump himself who signed the USMCA in 2020. , US News News - Times Now

www.timesnownews.com

President Donald Trump slammed the 2020 trade deal called the 'US-Mexico-Canada Agreement' for putting unfair financial burdens on American citizens. During a press conference on Monday, the 78-year-old claimed that Canada and Mexico took advantage of the US on manufacturing due to USMCA and wondered who would sign such a deal. Turns out, it was Trump himself who signed the 2020 USMCA during his first term.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Still calling it CAMUS.

 

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Oops!

Trump Posts AI-Generated Video of Genderqueer Bellydancers Frolicking

President Trump posted a baffling AI-generated video promoting his vision for "Trump Gaza" — bearded belly dancers and all?

futurism.com

Late last night, Donald Trump took to Truth Social, the social media platform he has a majority stake in, to publish a hallucinatory AI-generated video of what he purports a Trump-ruled Gaza Strip might one day look like.

The video opens with synthetic clips depicting a war-torn Gaza, where ominous automatic rifle-wielding figures stand by while children run through rubble. That dire scene then melts away, and viewers are instead greeted with a string of AI-generated clips advertising an imagined Gaz-a-Lago: seaside high-rises, a person who looks like billionaire Elon Musk eating snacks and throwing cash at kids, a giant golden statue of the current American president, and Trump himself dancing with a scantily-clad woman and lounging poolside with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

People in this imagined Gaza also, apparently, according to the video, carry around golden balloons designed to look like Trump's head, and buy tiny golden statues of the self-styled American king. (The advertisement is even soundtracked by a promotional song, which sounds to be likely AI-generated as well.)

And yet, somehow, that's not even all.

Incredibly, the video also showcases a cohort of AI-generated dancers moving sensually on a beach, who despite their more traditionally feminine, ab-baring outfits have long hair and beards that present as masculine. Indeed: in Trump's gold-filled Gazan fantasyland, his imagined "riviera of the Middle East" includes gyrating trans, genderfluid, or otherwise gender-nonconforming bellydancers.

 

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ffs...

Trump takes seized boxes back to Florida on Air Force One

President Donald Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022.

“The Department of Justice has just returned the boxes,” Trump said in a statement. “They are being brought down to Florida and will someday be part of the Trump Presidential Library,” he said, going on to claim that “justice finally won out” and that the investigation into his mishandling of presidential documents, including highly sensitive classified documents, was “merely an attack on a political opponent.”

The classified documents case against Trump, in which he pleaded not guilty, was dropped in November after he won the 2024 election.

Back to the bathroom, where they belong!

 

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Well, well. Grok speaks truth.

Elon’s Grok Chatbot Calculates Probability That Trump Is a Russian Asset

Elon Musk's "anti-woke" AI chatbot, Grok, seems to think there's a very high likelihood that Donald Trump is a Russian asset.

futurism.com

Elon Musk's supposedly "anti-woke" chatbot, Grok, keeps spewing outputs that are hilariously opposed to the billionaire's views — including that newly-minted President Donald Trump is likely a Russian asset.

Responding to a prompt from Arizona Republic columnist EJ Montini, Musk's "maximally truth-seeking" AI, which is built into X, said after an analysis that the probability of the president being in the pocket of Vladimir Putin is between 75 and 85 percent.

Weighing the real estate magnate's dealings with both pre- and post-Soviet officials, the KGB, and the Russian mobs, Grok said that although there is no "smoking gun [that] proves direct control," there's a good chance that Trump is a "useful idiot" for Putin — especially given that "Trump’s ego and debts make him unwittingly pliable."

"Adjusting for uncertainty and alternative explanations (e.g., ideological alignment or naivety), I estimate a 75-85 percent likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset," the chatbot said, "leaning toward the higher end due to the consistency of his behavior and the depth of historical ties."

The math doesn't lie.

 

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Eh, what do they know about dictators...

Majority of French, Germans and British think Trump is a 'dictator'

 

[Soen Eber]

Could someone please explain cryptocurrency to me; specifically, where it comes from and how it gets its value? And explain it to me like I'm five.

Well, you know how fiat paper currencies are backed almost entirely on faith, and could suddenly wobble and crash just on basis of a few, mere whispers? Those are the currencies which are stable.

Cryptocurrencies, on the other hand, are almost the same thing, for the most part.