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Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:


ooh there's a soup channel?

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Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

I would watch that.

Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

Strong Sauce
Jul 2, 2003

You know I am not really your father.





the only good thing that will come out of this is that it will annoy trump that people are making fun of him. no one right now will prosecute him so that's all anyone's got.

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
nvm

Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

Strong Sauce posted:

the only good thing that will come out of this is that it will annoy trump that people are making fun of him. no one right now will prosecute him so that's all anyone's got.

Doesn't it depend if he crosses the line from legal-but-dubious tax avoidance into actually-criminal tax evasion?

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Regrettable posted:

It will and that's why he and his cronies are all freaking out so much right now. Being seen as a wealthy, successful businessman was his entire grift and now even his supporters know he's a broke rear end bitch because they're calling for the leakers arrest. poo poo, his former campaign manager who was demoted a couple months ago just tried to commit suicide.

ah yes, surely THIS time "haha Trump's poor!" will make him and not the speaker look bad

Strong Sauce posted:

the only good thing that will come out of this is that it will annoy trump that people are making fun of him. no one right now will prosecute him so that's all anyone's got.

the tantrum should be decent provided it doesn't involve dropping, like, a double-MOAB on anyone

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

the only notable thing about the trump taxes is how funny the low number is

Archer666
Dec 27, 2008

Jel Shaker posted:

the only notable thing about the trump taxes is how funny the low number is

Imagine if it was $420.69 instead

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

1488 in total

Regrettable
Jan 5, 2010



A Wizard of Goatse posted:

ah yes, surely THIS time "haha Trump's poor!" will make him and not the speaker look bad


the tantrum should be decent provided it doesn't involve dropping, like, a double-MOAB on anyone

It is and always has been his entire persona that he is a wealthy businessman and without it he has nothing. It's why talking about him being bad with money was the one thing he would not tolerate and why the number one defense from his supporters when his failures to get results as POTUS were pointed out was to point to the stock markets "because he's running the country like his businesses." A lot of the people who voted for him did it because they thought he could make them wealthy but now Republicans are having to admit that he can't even make himself wealthy. If it's fake then there's no leaker to go after because there was no leak.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

so are you pretending literally this exact thing hasn't been tried before for some particular reason or did you forget, like a baby, because the last Trump tax return news cycle isn't in your direct line of sight?

it makes him Mad Online, anyone who doesn't already hate Trump like poison gets more pissed at ivory tower liberals hyukking it up at the idea of a lowly sub-billionaire, anyone who actually likes Trump formulates some Q-grade theory about how of course he's too clever to let the IRS see his REAL wealth, in a month it's a moderately embarrassing episode people are making fun of anyone ever caring about and Maddow's back on to Russia stuff

A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 10:33 on Sep 28, 2020

SpaceGoatFarts
Jan 5, 2010

sic transit gloria mundi


Nap Ghost

Regrettable posted:

It is and always has been his entire persona that he is a wealthy businessman and without it he has nothing. It's why talking about him being bad with money was the one thing he would not tolerate and why the number one defense from his supporters when his failures to get results as POTUS were pointed out was to point to the stock markets "because he's running the country like his businesses." A lot of the people who voted for him did it because they thought he could make them wealthy but now Republicans are having to admit that he can't even make himself wealthy. If it's fake then there's no leaker to go after because there was no leak.

Every Trump cultist will simply claim he's so smart for avoiding taxes.

This story doesn't mean to them he's not making tons of money, just that he doesn't pay taxes, something they all want to emulate.

The tax part isn't even that important; the focus should be on how he's paying his children millions in consultancy fees, just another of his scams to funnel public money into his pockets.

Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

Didn't he used to tweet about all those huge evil tech companies paying hardly any taxes and how he was going to put a stop to it?

e: here we go
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/979326715272065024

Stoatbringer fucked around with this message at 10:30 on Sep 28, 2020

An insane mind
Aug 11, 2018

Just spent 20 minutes watching John Oliver's episode on the SC and if I wasn't mad before I'm livid now. How can hispanic people be represented as barely more than half of a white person in the senate in TYOOL 2020, how can black people still on count as barely three quarters of a person. What the actual gently caress. It's so loving disgusting.

I did have a tiny lol when Mitt Romney implied both the Republican party and America are centre-right.

Like...holy poo poo. In Germany twitter would have to block republican senators' tweets (and I'd guess some dems' as well) for how close to neo-nazi rethoric they are.

What can I as a foreign white dude do to help? I don't have much but do some goons maybe have some causes I could donate to to help? This is just so infuriating.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Wow, foreign intervention from Germany of all places???

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

An insane mind posted:

Just spent 20 minutes watching John Oliver's episode on the SC and if I wasn't mad before I'm livid now. How can hispanic people be represented as barely more than half of a white person in the senate in TYOOL 2020, how can black people still on count as barely three quarters of a person. What the actual gently caress. It's so loving disgusting.

I did have a tiny lol when Mitt Romney implied both the Republican party and America are centre-right.

Like...holy poo poo. In Germany twitter would have to block republican senators' tweets (and I'd guess some dems' as well) for how close to neo-nazi rethoric they are.

What can I as a foreign white dude do to help? I don't have much but do some goons maybe have some causes I could donate to to help? This is just so infuriating.

Can you petition your government to like do a reverse Operation Paperclip or something

Just black bag McConnell and have him wake up in some Berlin zoo

An insane mind
Aug 11, 2018

Anne Frank Funk posted:

Wow, foreign intervention from Germany of all places???

I'm Dutch, Germany but worse and smaller. I just used Germany as an example and I know how hypocritcal it is because we in Holland can't even remove Zwarte Piet without throwing a loving fit.

Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

2016: Trump agrees and says "That makes me smart" when Hillary states that he paid no taxes.
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/26/trump-brags-about-not-paying-taxes-that-makes-me-smart.html

2020: How dare you say I pay no taxes? Fake news!

SpaceGoatFarts
Jan 5, 2010

sic transit gloria mundi


Nap Ghost

An insane mind posted:

What can I as a foreign white dude do to help? I don't have much but do some goons maybe have some causes I could donate to to help? This is just so infuriating.

You can probably help stop populism and far-right spreading in your own country, because with the COVID stuff and disinformation campaigns things aren't going well.

Here in Belgium the Vlaams Belang (Belgian far right) is paving the way for taking the power in the coming years, massively targeting younger people and flooding social medias with propaganda.

I mean I feel bad for Americans too, but at this stage, I think all we can do is stop the crazy conspiracy theories from leaking into Europe too much. Because as we can see in the Trump thread, this is what is poisoning the minds of people.

Regrettable
Jan 5, 2010



A Wizard of Goatse posted:

so are you pretending literally this exact thing hasn't been tried before for some particular reason or did you forget, like a baby, because the last Trump tax return news cycle isn't in your direct line of sight?

it makes him Mad Online, anyone who doesn't already hate Trump like poison gets more pissed at ivory tower liberals hyukking it up at the idea of a lowly sub-billionaire, anyone who actually likes Trump formulates some handwavey theory about how of course he's too clever to let the IRS see his REAL wealth, in a month it's a moderately embarrassing episode people are making fun of and Maddow's back on to Russia stuff

The New York Times only had his 1995 tax return and Maddow only had his 2005 tax return which showed that he paid $5.3 million. That's a pretty far cry from what's being shown here which is that he's consistently in massive amounts of debt. And yes, a lot of his supporters will handwave it away like they have done most things while he's in office. I never said every single supporter would abandon him, but this attacks their whole perception of who he is as a person. If this is true then his whole life and every single thing they've been told about him by people that they trust is a lie.

An insane mind
Aug 11, 2018

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

You can probably help stop populism and far-right spreading in your own country, because with the COVID stuff and disinformation campaigns things aren't going well.

Here in Belgium the Vlaams Belang (Belgian far right) is paving the way for taking the power in the coming years, massively targeting younger people and flooding social medias with propaganda.

I mean I feel bad for Americans too, but at this stage, I think all we can do is stop the crazy conspiracy theories from leaking into Europe too much. Because as we can see in the Trump thread, this is what is poisoning the minds of people.

True, sadly loving true. Here it's Forum voor Democratie and the Partij voor de Vrijheid (why are their names always so loving infuriatingly obvious) and people are flocking to them in droves. Meanwhile the centre-right party in power is watching this happen and going OH WE NEED TO BE MORE LIKE THEM gently caress FOREIGNERS gently caress EMPATHY! And I'm just sitting here with my stupid sign that says "Love eachother for gently caress's sake" and trying to deprogram loving family members and sometimes I want to scream.

Lodin
Jul 31, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
My favourite part of the current poo poo show is that we now know for certain that Turmp is paying ridiculous sums of money to have someone regularly show up to slap a dead ferret on his head. Most of it is probably hush money to keep it secret that he's bald as an eagle.

Regrettable
Jan 5, 2010



Basically, you have to admit that he's either a lying conman or a lying conman. Either he's a successful businessman who cheats on his taxes or he's one of if not the worst businessman to ever live.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

i love the idea that the appeal of Trump's persona is that he's some extremely fancy rich guy and not that he's the one oligarch who most resembles an extremely large example of his constituency of timeshare grifters and used car salesmen. It's definitely going to shatter someone's image of this slovenly boob who shits on a gold toilet and gets on WWE to learn that he's up to his eyeballs in debt as he jets between the White House and his private golf course, and NOT merely that way five years ago as once imagined!

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Regrettable posted:

Basically, you have to admit that he's either a lying conman or a lying conman. Either he's a successful businessman who cheats on his taxes or he's one of if not the worst businessman to ever live.

Chuds aspire to this.

SpaceGoatFarts
Jan 5, 2010

sic transit gloria mundi


Nap Ghost

An insane mind posted:

True, sadly loving true. Here it's Forum voor Democratie and the Partij voor de Vrijheid (why are their names always so loving infuriatingly obvious) and people are flocking to them in droves. Meanwhile the centre-right party in power is watching this happen and going OH WE NEED TO BE MORE LIKE THEM gently caress FOREIGNERS gently caress EMPATHY! And I'm just sitting here with my stupid sign that says "Love eachother for gently caress's sake" and trying to deprogram loving family members and sometimes I want to scream.

What I really hate is the only exposure most people here have to immigrants are all the reports of young hopeless Afghans/Iraqis/etc doing crimes, which of course is happening but not like a crazy epidemic or something. Meanwhile my previous neighbours are Syrian refugees who came here after their family got slaughtered home for being Christians, and their business burned down. They are both engineers and live with 2 kids in an appartment the same size I was living in alone as a student. One of the kid is starting university and the mother would randomly knock on my door to offer me food.

These people are so much better human beings than all the racist fucks claiming all refugees are only coming here to steal our jobs and profit from our system and that they risk nothing back home.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

I was okay with the fat piece of poo poo bragging about rawdogging pornstars but to hear that his budget isn't balanced? Well I may have to rethink everything I believed about pieces of poo poo

A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 11:01 on Sep 28, 2020

Doccykins
Feb 21, 2006

An insane mind posted:

What can I as a foreign white dude do to help? I don't have much but do some goons maybe have some causes I could donate to to help? This is just so infuriating.

in an extremely same way I watched a documentary last night about America's insanely insecure computer voting systems that have pretty much all been proven to be hackable (both in terms of changing vote counts then removing any trace of itself and disrupting the voting process by putting terminals out of action) and apart from one specific model are still being used for elections in 2020

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




there's probably still a very large numer of people who vote for trump because they saw him on the apprentice and think he's a successful businessman. so revealing he's in debt might lose him a couple of votes i hope :shrug:

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
It won't do poo poo lol

Regrettable
Jan 5, 2010



AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Chuds aspire to this.

Oh yeah, a lot of them do but this also raises other questions about him because you're essentially admitting that he'll lie about anything that benefits him. I'm sure a lot of them will also be pissed that they're having to pay out more than he does when they're barely scraping by.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
https://i.imgur.com/0tcDTnr.mp4

Sorry about the lovely video but imo worth a lol

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Doccykins posted:

in an extremely same way I watched a documentary last night about America's insanely insecure computer voting systems that have pretty much all been proven to be hackable (both in terms of changing vote counts then removing any trace of itself and disrupting the voting process by putting terminals out of action) and apart from one specific model are still being used for elections in 2020

Thinking a lot about the 2000 election as Trump handpicks 2/3 of the Supreme Court

Regrettable
Jan 5, 2010



For fucks sake guys, Brad Parscale tried to kill himself within hours of this poo poo coming out. And I can't see someone like that trying to kill themselves unless they know they are well and truly hosed. That's the type of poo poo you'd do if you thought your life was completely over. Like, life in prison over.

SpaceGoatFarts
Jan 5, 2010

sic transit gloria mundi


Nap Ghost

hemale in pain posted:

there's probably still a very large numer of people who vote for trump because they saw him on the apprentice and think he's a successful businessman. so revealing he's in debt might lose him a couple of votes i hope :shrug:

Uh, lol no.

Maybe that's what introduced them to Trump, but after 4 years of brainwashing they will never leave the cult.

It's like in Scientology, after spending huge amount of time, energy and money into that worldview, when you are finally revealed you live into a Hubbard Sci-fi novel, your critical sense just switches off so you don't have to face the harsh truth that you were a gullible idiot.

Cults (and being a chud is being in a cult) are 100% about sunk costs fallacy. They will double down saying it's all an attack from the deep state and lying media rather than having to re-examine their beliefs.

That's why conspiracy theories and disinformation are so dangerous, it's almost impossible to deprogram someone who invests themselves in it.

SpaceGoatFarts fucked around with this message at 11:14 on Sep 28, 2020

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Eh there's a nonzero number of non-Q Trump guys. Like my Kurdish buddy who loving loved the Republicans cause they whacked Saddam and liberated his people, lol owned buddy

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Regrettable posted:

For fucks sake guys, Brad Parscale tried to kill himself within hours of this poo poo coming out. And I can't see someone like that trying to kill themselves unless they know they are well and truly hosed. That's the type of poo poo you'd do if you thought your life was completely over. Like, life in prison over.
I imagine this is now Parscale at the hospital: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYJ97WcOde4

SpaceGoatFarts
Jan 5, 2010

sic transit gloria mundi


Nap Ghost

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

Eh there's a nonzero number of non-Q Trump guys. Like my Kurdish buddy who loving loved the Republicans cause they whacked Saddam and liberated his people, lol owned buddy

Do you think he'll like Trump less for not paying his taxes?

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An insane mind
Aug 11, 2018

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

Eh there's a nonzero number of non-Q Trump guys. Like my Kurdish buddy who loving loved the Republicans cause they whacked Saddam and liberated his people, lol owned buddy

Trump left the Kurds to die at the hands of loving Erdogan.

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