No doubt. He’d never rent a downtown stadium like those with his own money, or money he regards as his even if campaign finance laws think a little differently. And he gravitates to schlocky things anyway. Just how he rolls.
If the audit determined that Biden won by a greater margin, isn’t that evidence of Republican voter fraud?
and kidzeldeedivy too
wouldn’t you?
OMG. I just remembered, perhaps not entirely accurately but close enough, an episode of “Petticoat Junction” where they end up in a beatnik club somehow and people are reciting poetry, so the mom gets up on stage and sits on a stool, strums a guitar chord at random intervals, and declaims “Mairzy Doats” in this very serious, pretentious tone whereupon the place goes wild with applause and cheering.
We hope you don’t remember that hit piece on Sotomayor , but did you know the journalist who wrote it likes a soft boiled egg every morning and has a golden retriever named Skipper?
It gets worse. The campaign has a motto: “The Truth Takes a Journalist.”
Maybe you could even turn her into a newt, then.
…to twist it all up
Ah, thanks fer that, @occamscoin–it’s good to know I’ve still got a few woiking bwain sells left!
Yes.
It’s distressing to still hear pundits ask (themselves): “Why would Trump want an audit in Texas, where he won?”
Duh. Thanks so much for making the point : - )
No doubt he doesn’t. To the degree he’s rich, he’s a thief. I don’t think he’s a particularly good thief.
His fortune is to have a deep psychosis under circumstances where he starts life with a lot of money, and uses it to generate notoriety and “cooler-talk”. The Presidency is the ultimate platform for him. He can command presence on virtually every platform throughout a big chunk of the world pretty much whenever he says, “Boo.”
On top of that, add the support he wants or needs for his Talk-O-The-Hour, from a huge chunk of other platforms under his control, and a huge number of still other mediums provided by Russia.
He can’t generate the media power on his own.
He was always, always, always a fake. According to Rick Wilson, a hedge-fund guy once said of him, “He’s not a billionaire. I’m a billionaire. Trump’s a clown, living on credit.” The only thing he was ever really successful at was his TV show, because what he’s good at is pretending to be rich and powerful. Billionaires don’t sell steaks and bottled water. I would bet a considerable part of my own modest means that he doesn’t have anywhere near a positive net worth. It’s all a house of cards. That’s not a good place for a windbag to live.
He who dies with the biggest debt wins.
It’s a house of cards but he’s still sitting on something like 200 million in PAC money that AFAIK can’t be touched in personal civil lawsuits and he can spend on himself with very few limitations. From the look of his recent rallies at cheapskate venues like fairgrounds, he’s not spending much of it. Might even be breaking even or better by grifting off his cut of the merch sales.
We’ll know he’s in serious financial trouble when he starts selling off the major real estate assets like the golf resorts and hotels (the ones where he hasn’t just licensed the name). That hasn’t happened yet.
I didn’t hear “He has a positive net worth” in there.
He’s been trying. No takers. Perhaps you mean when we start seeing capitulation-type deals happening? But some properties are just turkeys, money-losing “alligators” in real estate wheeler-dealer speak. Those can’t be sold unless there’s something else in the deal, such as mending relations with an angry neighbor country threatening to dump their nuclear waste on your border.
Hey, I wouldn’t be surprised if his whole “empire” collapsed tomorrow. Thing is, I’ve been hearing about how he’s bankrupt and about to land in debtor’s prison for years now, and yet he’s still flying in his Citation bizjet to rallies, and keeping the lights on at Mar a Lago and his resorts.
That $200 million in his PAC is nothing to sneeze at either, and he has the entire RNC and Trump campaign mailing list for grifting donations to his PAC. That’s not going away tomorrow unless he spends it all.
I think it’s certainly fair to say he has plenty of experience at robbing Peter to pay Paul and just generally staying afloat. And I’m curious why he’s being so, uh, thrifty with all that PAC money. It must drive him nuts to be going to these cheesy fairgrounds out in the sticks instead of the big arenas he used to. Why does he do it, then? I’m not predicting his imminent collapse, certainly. I don’t have any idea how much money he has to spend. I’m just figuring he’s lived all his life by making bad decisions and borrowing to stay in the game.
Helps that every time he rolls over a loan someone gets a commission on the new loan. Works great as long as you’re lending other people’s money™.