Personally, I think Trump is goading the judge to throw him in jail. Trump correctly thinks it will garner him even more support and cause a crisis in the country.

I quit second guessing Trump years ago. I think 95% of what he does is right. Whenever I thought he was wrong, he usually turned out to be right.

I have no problem with shooting ANY animal. If it acts a fool, it dies!!!

There only mistake was not beating them to death FIRST!

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on Today at 12:18:31 PMwhile I do not share your enthusiasm at the idea of civilian causalities I do agree they should not be the cause for Israel to halt their offensive. That is the exact playbook HAMAS is counting on and will only lead to more of the same. Death and unnecessary bloodshed on BOTH SIDES

I don't hold the average Gazan accountable for the existence of HAMAS in their current position of power because I believe, for the most part, the vast majority of them were disenfranchised much the way we were in 2020. It's not like HAMAS is known for fair and transparent elections.     

That makes me admire our founders all the more. The more the English persecuted them, the harder they fought. It also makes me sad that we've lost that fighting spirit.

Quote from: DKG on Today at 11:53:20 AMThey have not had another election since.

I guess that was a fatal error. Too bad.

Quote from: DKG on Today at 11:52:10 AMDisney will not likely get a crushing boycott of anything they produce like Anheuser-Busch did.

No, not even. However, this is an epic win for Universal! Disney fucking itself has allowed Universal to nearly double its capacity and they're actually adding rides unlike Disney. They need to work on their food options in the park tho. Food at Universal sucks.

Quote from: JOE on May 06, 2024, 10:58:40 PM...not sure if we'll go there, but if it does happen, probably not for a while. I think they still have room ta kick the can down the road some more Lokmeer. What you refer to are 3rd World conditions. Not impossible, but at least for the forseable future not likely in the United States.

I think that is highly possible @Lokmar okmeer!
You may make more than double that.
If gold goes up, so will Silver.

..I don't think so Lokmeer. Platinum is an extremely slow mover. Your silver stack will appreciate much faster than yer Platinum one.

It might even go below $900 an ounce again within the next couple of years. Maybe even $800 before shooting up.

However, that being said, it's time to shine is probably a long ways down the road. Maybe when your younger kids are grown up, middle aged adults. If you see Platinum soar, like myself by that time you will probably be a very old man.

One major thing Platinum has going for it - it is extremely rare. 30 times rarer than Gold apparently. While all the gold would fill a pool, all the Platinum in the world might only fill a bathtub or 2.

Now I'm kinda interested in Platinum too, Lokmeer.
However, I'm looking at the best way to invest in it.
Buy shares in a Platinum mine or refinery?

Hey dummy, platinum is in short supply and they're shuttering a platinum mine.

Quote from: Garraty_47 on Today at 09:58:23 AMIt <ahem> wasn't just young people (I have the tshirts to prove it) in 2016 and he actually put on a master class in being performative. Not taking corporate donations, staying on message with M4A etc., and even though he never went for the throat just the fact that he was willing to run against Hillary went a long way toward giving people a sense of hope that the duopoly could be beaten.

Then of course he abandoned the movement that had grown around his messaging, bent the knee to Hillary and the DNC, turned his "base" into a resource to be extracted by the democrats, and became as useless as the rest of 'em in D.C.

But at first the energy and the momentum were real and rallied around the issues themselves; Bernie was just the only guy in mainstream politics to be making those kinds of noises. Corporate media never stops pushing the idea that voters must choose between red shit or blue shit and here's a guy on team blue saying all the right things; of course he was going to get traction in a revolution-minded political cycle.

It's the people who still tried/try to put him on a pedestal after he utterly caved to the DNC who are deluded and cultish.

democRATs got played twice by bernie the loon. The phony with that asshole owning 3 houses while promoting his "eat the rich" bullshit was nauseating. He'd do it a third time if given the opportunity.

Quote from: Aylana on Today at 09:29:43 AM

That bitch aint fat like Pigzilla. Try again.

Please tell me this aint real......

Israel says "GO FUK YURSELF!"

Quote from: DKG on May 07, 2024, 11:08:09 PMDisney lost over $600 million from just 4 movies in 2023 after year of epic flops.]

Topping the list of flops was "The Marvels," a project that checked a lot of boxes for the film studio as a diverse, female-led and directed superhero movie. Unfortunately, the movie's $218 million in revenues was overshadowed by a $270 million production budget along with over $100 million in advertising. It crossed the finish line with an estimated $237 million loss.

"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" was yet another heartache for both the studio and fans of the franchise. With reports of rewrites and reshoots after leaked storylines angered fans, it was hard to imagine the film could turn around the negative hype.

Add on a reported $80 million in post-production costs to de-age Harrison Ford, and it's no surprise the film made the list.

The expenses totaled $300 million in production, $120 million in ads, and another $96 million in residuals, distribution, and overhead. The film lost about $143 million according to Deadline, meaning even showing Indiana Jones with his true face for the film's entirety couldn't have saved it.

Disney's "Wish" suffered terrible reviews and went relatively unnoticed even to Disney's most critical observers.

$300 million in production and advertising easily dwarfed its box office and streaming numbers, leaving the studio with -$131 million.

The animated film about the production company's own legacy wasn't the biggest hit with young girls who likely expected a better storyline for a Disney princess. The report described the movie as reeking of corporate product with nothing magical about it.

Keeping in line with strange movie ideas, Disney's "Haunted Mansion" is the studio's second foray into making a movie based around its theme-park attraction of the same name. While the Eddie Murphy-led 2003 iteration seemingly performed very poorly, it still outshined the 2023 film.

The 2003 flick saw a global box office of $182 million, but 20 years later, the new version could only make $117 million. Against a $150 million production budget, the totals were again not on Disney's side with $117 million in losses.

In total, that left Disney with an estimated $628 million in losses from just four movies.

LOL! I love it!

I always go to Universal Parks when I'm in Florida. They're growing much faster than Disney. Disneys main focus has been building hotels, ruining Splash Mountain when they should have just added a new ride for their black princess, failing with the Star Wars Hotel, shoving kweirdo catering in our faces, etc. What a fucking waste!

Seeing the movies fail is awesome but watching Universal get ready to overtake them in the theme park arena is fantastic!!!!

Yea, jack and shit will come of it.

Quote from: DKG on May 07, 2024, 11:47:14 PMWhat Senator Rubio said should be common sense, but in today's environment it is courageous.

I'm GLAD, GLAD, GLAD, the civilians are dying!!! I shit on their corpses in fact! THEY elected Hamas and they should all die for it!

Quote from: DKG on May 07, 2024, 11:04:16 PMTrump's legal team moves for mistrial over Stormy Daniels' testimony. Apparently her story today is way different than the story she was peddling in 2016.

She's a fucking skank ass porn whore who's as big a liar as Cohen. That piece of shit judge let her ramble on like she was dictating a new fuck movie. Its repulsive.