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| Topic | Have you played that 2014 Strider remake? |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 4:24:19 PM #2 | i liked it. solid metroidvania with decent action. --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Is it wrong that I sometimes stare at my straight friend's ass? |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 4:15:19 PM #10 | as long as you're respectful about it i dont see a problem. --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Support for Bernie Sanders among young people is Plummeting |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 3:57:32 PM #36 | Antifar posted... Giant_Aspirin posted...Hilary lost because she overestimated the urban vote (by thinking she would match Obama's numbers it only suggests that a lot of people who voted for Obama didn't vote for Hilary. whether or not those folks identify as "liberal" or "democrat", I don't know. edit: here's a decent breakdown from WaPo https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/03/12/ 4-4-million-2012-obama-voters-stayed-home-in- 2016-more-than-a-third-of-them-black/ edit 2: that article seems to focus exclusively on race and ignores party affiliation. shrug. i still suspect that a strong majority of registered Democrat voters vote Democrat regardless of who the candidate is. --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Support for Bernie Sanders among young people is Plummeting |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 3:30:46 PM #29 | Antifar posted... Giant_Aspirin posted...liberals/democrats are most likely going to vote D no matter who it is. i dont remember the details behind Gore's loss very well, but Hilary lost because she overestimated the urban vote (by thinking she would match Obama's numbers) and underestimated the rural vote (because people voted in record turnout) in three states. PA, MI and WI decided the election. edit: i am simplifying this and omitting a lot of factors, but IMO those are the two most significant reasons why she lost --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | You hated all of the Star Wars prequels, prolly 1 of the originals... |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 3:20:17 PM #2 | Veggeta X posted... Don't like it? Don't watch it. It's that simple --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Support for Bernie Sanders among young people is Plummeting |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 3:18:53 PM #27 | foreverzero212 posted... Giant_Aspirin posted...as someone who has been a registered Democrat since 2000, good. he stands no chance in a nationwide election he's way too far to the left. he'll scare away moderates, who are the folks who actually decide elections. liberals/democrats are most likely going to vote D no matter who it is. Balrog0 posted... Giant_Aspirin posted...as someone who has been a registered Democrat since 2000, good. he stands no chance in a nationwide election agreed. --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | I dont understand Danys motivation in this episode (spoilers) |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 2:57:15 PM #64 | I4NRulez posted... Listen, im aware of all these things but the show has always shown her as coherent, loving, compassionate, rational, etc wasn't that always after she spoke to one of her trusted advisors, though? she's always had people close to her that she trusted keep her in check. every single one of those checks were eliminated at this point, she had nobody to keep her in line. and many of those examples i provided show her as NOT being compassionate and rationale. like executing innocent people to prove a point, or showing no remorse when it was revealed some of the people she killed were innocent. --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | I dont understand Danys motivation in this episode (spoilers) |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 2:56:09 PM #63 | AngelsNAirwav3s posted... HBOSS posted...Kings Landing and her journey to the place took everything from her. she was gonna lose what brought her there the 1st place. remember when she executed nobles she knew were innocent just to prove a point? every single act of "benevolence" she's demonstrated was simply a means to an end for her. power has been her only goal and everything else was just a means to that end --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | billboard's top 10 songs of the 2010's. what's your favourite? |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 2:44:08 PM #7 | sheesh, i only recognize one of those songs, "Rolling in the Deep". edit: recognize "Get Lucky" too. haven't heard of the other eight --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Farting at the urinal in a public restroom |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 2:21:07 PM #9 | bathrooms are fair game for farts. --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Support for Bernie Sanders among young people is Plummeting |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 2:16:39 PM #19 | as someone who has been a registered Democrat since 2000, good. he stands no chance in a nationwide election --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Do you think those carnival rides are mostly safe? |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 2:06:36 PM #11 | not at all. just last summer at our state fair one of them malfunctioned because it wasn't setup properly and someone died. https://www.10tv.com/article/teen-injured-ohio-state-fair-ride-accident-dies --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Is the film Django Unchained a satisfactory product for viewing experience? |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 1:43:24 PM #3 | the last act (last ~20 minutes) was completely unnecessary but otherwise its a real solid flick --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Is Bran the most pointless character on GoT? (Spoilers) |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 1:39:02 PM #18 | BlueBoy675 posted... but she has a big heart which is what keeps her in check. she had trusted advisors that kept her in check. those went away. --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Is Bran the most pointless character on GoT? (Spoilers) |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 1:38:29 PM #17 | Swagnificent119 posted... Your guys justification is literally "she didn't cry when her abusive brother was killed and she crucified slavers. Thus, it's completely in her character to commit genocide on innocent people." the post i referred you to listed like 30 reasons why this was foreshadowed but it was too much for you to bother reading. lol --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | 120,000 US troops being considered for deployment to middle east |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 1:37:17 PM #16 | hockeybub89 posted... So happy we have a peaceful President that will not get us involved in pointless foreign conflict yeah good thing we didn't elect that war monger Hilary --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Is Bran the most pointless character on GoT? (Spoilers) |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 1:17:08 PM #7 | Swagnificent119 posted... Bran is the second most important character in the show, next to the Night King. you haven't been paying much attention to her character if you think her actions were out of character. rushed? sure, but not out of character. i dont feel like pasting it all again, but here's a long post that details foreshadowing all of it https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/77711723?jumpto=26#26 --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Is Bran the most pointless character on GoT? (Spoilers) |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 1:12:29 PM #3 | BlueBoy675 posted... Was his entire arc literally just so he could say Jon is a Targaryen? Samwell discovered this on his own and he's the one who told Jon. Bran literally did nothing except act as a decoy so Arya could assassinate the NK --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | How snowflakes are born |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 1:06:01 PM #25 | voldothegr8 posted... spudger posted...voldothegr8 posted...dolomedes posted...spudger posted...but mah feelings! you don't think everyone is special? --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Some very noob and basic questions about SQL. Please educate me. |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 12:58:27 PM #29 | Veggeta X posted... So you guys manage and work in an SQL environment all day? Is it rewarding and fun? I'm sure it is always challenging. i'm a software engineer. part of designing and implementing software often entails persistence of data and we often use RDBMS to implement that, which means part of developing the application is designing tables and writing queries. i like being a SE, yes. --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | How snowflakes are born |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 12:56:52 PM #21 | spudger posted... voldothegr8 posted...dolomedes posted...spudger posted...but mah feelings! because he's not a dirty commie leftist --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Sandor! *stops mid walk* |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 11:00:54 AM #2 | their relationship has been one of the most fulfilling on the series --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | one of the more genuinely shocking things when you become an adult... |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 10:55:30 AM #2 | see sig --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | I dont understand Danys motivation in this episode (spoilers) |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 10:10:13 AM #28 | - 805 Tyrion "The people who live there, theyre not your enemies. Theyre innocents." Daenerys "Your sister knows how to use their enemies weaknesses against them. Thats what she thinks our mercy is. Our mercy is our strength. Our mercy toward future generations who will not be held hostage by a tyrant." (Shes all but saying shes not going to show mercy and will butcher everyone in the city) - 805 Daenerys to Tyrion. "Next time your fail me will be the last time you fail me." And thats just what I can remember off the top of my head. Heres the point. Daenerys threatened multiple times to burn cities to the ground, she executed/murdered innocent people numerous times to consolidate power, she realized without love all she has left to rule with was fear, and she grew to distrust the only advisor trying to prevent her from burning down Kings landing. She wasnt "acting out of character" at any point in 805. She literally did the thing shes threatened to do for multiple seasons. https://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/bo7l4u/spoilers_all_of_the_foreshadowing_that_lead_up_to/ --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | I dont understand Danys motivation in this episode (spoilers) |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 10:09:35 AM #27 | - 702 Yara Greyjoy, Olenna Tyrell, and Ellaria Sand all try to convince Daenerys to use her dragons on Kings Landing. Tyrion convinces her to do otherwise. (This is important as Tyrions plans fail, and his repeated failures show Daenerys theres no other option) - 702 - Olenna Tyrell "Commoners and nobles are all children really. They wont obey you unless they fear you." And later. "Youre a dragon. Be a dragon." - 704 After news of her armys defeat at Casterly Rock, Daenerys questions Tyrions plans and his loyalty. - 704 Daenerys "Enough with the clever plans. I have 3 large dragons. Im going to fly them to the red keep." - 705 Daenerys executes Randal and Dickon Tarly when imprisonment was a perfectly viable option. - 705 Tyrion "Daenerys is not her father." Varys "And she never will be with the right counsel. You need to find a way to make her listen." - 705 Tyrion devises a convoluted plan to capture a wight to convince Cersi to help fight the night King. Over the rest of seasons 7 and 8 this plan goes horribly wrong and results in the death of a dragon. The failure of this plan further degrades Daenerys trust of Tyrion. - 801 Lyanna Mormon publically confronts Jon Snow about giving up his crown and swearing allegiance to Daenerys. This is the beginning of Daenerys realization that she has no love in Westeros. - 802 Daenerys is angry that Tyrions advice about Cersei turned out to be wrong. Saying "Either you are a traitor or a fool." And "Cersei still sits on the throne. If you cant help me take it back I will find another Hand who can." - 803 Jorah is killed in battle. He has proven to be one of the few advisors Daenerys had that tried to temper her impulses. - 804 Daenerys sees people praising Jon Snow and becomes jealous. - 804 Tormund "What kind of person climbs on a fucking dragon? A madman, or a king!" (Id like to point out when Tormund says "madman" it cuts to a shot of Dany, and when he says "or a king!" it cuts to Jon) - 804 Speaking about Jorah to Jon, Daenerys "He loved me and I couldnt love him back. Not the way he wanted. Not the way I love you." (Her love for Jon is not returned in 805) - 804 Daenerys "I saw them gathered around you. I saw the way they looked at you. I know that look. So many people have looked at me that way but never here." - 804 Varys "These are the people you came here to protect. Do not destroy the city you came to save" Daenerys "Im here to save the world fromy tyrants and I will serve it, no matter the cost." - 804 - Daenerys "Speaking to Cersei will not prevent a slaughter. But perhaps its good the people see Daenerys Stormborn made every effort to avoid bloodshed and Cersei Lannister refused. They should know whom to blame when the sky falls down on them." (We should note she is directly talking about "The People" here) - 804 Missandeis final words before her execution. "Dracarys". - 805 Varys "They say every time a Targaryen is born, the Gods toss a coin and the world holds its breath." - 805 Daenerys speaking to Jon "Far more people in Westeros love you than love me. I dont have love here. I only have fear." - 805 After a half hearted kiss with Jon, Daenerys says "Alright then. Let it be fear." (Echoing what Viserys said in 106) (cont in next post) --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | I dont understand Danys motivation in this episode (spoilers) |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 10:09:11 AM #26 | I4NRulez posted... I know shes supposed to be mad but the show didnt really establish this a pretty good post on the got subreddit explains it: - 106 - Viserys, after seeing how much the Dothraki love Daenerys, becomes jealous and tries to run away saying "Who can rule without wealth or fear of love." (Daenerys well echo this sentiment in 804 and 805) - 204 Daenerys "When my dragons are grown we will lay waste to armies and burn cities to the ground." - 206 Daenerys "I will take what is mine with fire and blood." - 207 - Cersei Lannister "Half the Targaryens went mad, didn't they? What's the saying? "Every time a Targaryen is born, the gods flip a coin." - 210 Daenerys has a vision of a destroyed throne room. She reaches out to the throne but never touches it. - 303 Daenerys when speaking about her brother Rhaegar "he was not the last dragon." - 404 - Daenerys executes 163 Meereenese noblemen. In 406 we learn some of these men were innocent. Daenerys shows absolutely no regret. - 405 Daenerys speaking with Jorah. "You counseled me against rashness once in Qarth. I didnt listen. It all worked out well." - 407 Jorah tells Daenerys "The masters treated men like beasts, as you said. Herding the masters into pens and slaughtering them by the thousands is also treating men like beasts." Reminding her "I wouldn't be here to help you if Ned Stark had done to me what you want to do to the masters of Yunkai." - 407 Daenerys "They can live in my new world or they can die in their old one." - 505 Daenerys executes an innocent Meereenese nobleman for the sole purpose of intimidating the other nobles. - 505 Daenerys reopens the fighting pits allowing for innocent men to kill one another for entertainment. - 508 Daenerys "Im not going to stop the wheel. Im going to break the wheel." - 604 Daenerys murders the leaders of the Dothraki for the sole purpose of consolidating power. - 606 Dario to Daenerys "You werent made to sit on a chair in a palace. Youre a conquer, Daenerys Stormborn." - 606 Daenerys to the Dothraki "Will you kill my enemies in their iron suits and tear down their stone houses?" - 609 Speaking about the masters Daenerys swears to "Kill every one of their soldiers and return their cities to the dirt." Tyrion responds "You once told me you knew what your father was. Did you know his plans for Kings Landing?" Daenerys "This is entirely different!" Tyrion "Youre talking about destroying cities. Its not entirely different." (cont in next post) --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | @ what age is consider LOSERVILLE if you don't have a girlfriend |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 9:58:13 AM #2 | the real question is @ what age is considered LOSERVILLE if you troll a video game message board --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | How snowflakes are born |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 9:44:45 AM #3 | what's the problem with this? --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | man, had five gays for the first time last night |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 9:41:49 AM #2 | i don't get it --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Some very noob and basic questions about SQL. Please educate me. |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/14/19 9:38:58 AM #20 | Veggeta X posted... SQL is just a database for running services for a computer or a organization SQL is a query language. it literally means "Structured Query Language". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL Veggeta X posted... That implies you can use SQL to fix data as well? yes, SQL can perform CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations against data. --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Boutta walk 6 miles to see Detective Pikachu, AMA |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/13/19 5:01:01 PM #13 | how long did it take you to walk that far? --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Make sure to contribute to your 401k or Roth |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/13/19 4:37:40 PM #31 | Hexenherz posted... I feel like it's too late it's never too late to start saving for retirement. the general guidelines are: - pay off high interest debt - take full advantage of employer match - max out Roth IRA - pay off low interest debt - max out 401k/retirement plan - add any additional savings to other LTS account --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Compulsive reloading in FPSes |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/13/19 10:01:13 AM #8 | i kinda like it when games throw away the unused rounds when you discard a magazine (ala Metro) --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Donors wondering what happened to $20 million raised to build the wall |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/13/19 9:58:41 AM #42 | well, they got exactly what they paid for: a gigantic waste of money that accomplishes literally nothing --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Episode 5 of GoT was great, don't get all the hate. |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/13/19 9:32:23 AM #18 | Knowledge_King posted... It was amazing. Also I wouldn't call her 'mad'. Most people would do the same thing. most people would kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians after the city surrendered? i dont think so tim --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Episode 5 of GoT was great, don't get all the hate. |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/13/19 9:30:02 AM #16 | my biggest gripe with E5 is the pacing WRT the series ending. it's like one of those RPGs that's like 80 hours long but you don't even know who the final boss is until the last 30 minutes of the game. it's unsatisfying. --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Welp. Trump's taxes for the last 6 years has been subpoenaed by Congress |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/10/19 5:17:20 PM #32 | friendbuddypal posted... Giant_Aspirin posted...Blade-wolf posted...Mueller looked at all that though. There's nothing there. it'd be really swell of you to point out what i got wrong instead of just saying im wrong. Blade-wolf posted... *sighs* you and me both --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Welp. Trump's taxes for the last 6 years has been subpoenaed by Congress |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/10/19 5:13:26 PM #25 | Blade-wolf posted... Mueller looked at all that though. There's nothing there. only if you trust the severely censored/redacted version of the report Barr let us read. why do you think Trump is so against Mueller testifying before Congress? and why do you think Mueller wrote and published a letter to Barr saying Barr's version of the report was total bullshit? --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Welp. Trump's taxes for the last 6 years has been subpoenaed by Congress |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/10/19 5:10:25 PM #23 | Outcomes that show Trump is taking orders from Putin: At the end of 2018, Putin and his allies started making a strong push for a resolution that would justify their countrys 1979 invasion of Afghanistan and reverse an 1989 vote backed by Mikhail Gorbachev that condemned it. The Putinists goal was to pass the resolution by Feb. There is no one on this side of the Atlantic who thinks the USSR was justified in invading Afghanistan. And out of nowhere, on January 2nd, Trump came out strongly supporting Russia's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. Trump went against American intelligence on North Korean missiles. He told the FBI he didn't believe their intelligence because Putin told him otherwise. "I don't care, I believe Putin" Trump met in secret with Putin the G20 summit in November 2018, without note takers. 19 days later, he announced a withdrawal from Syria. As a note, Trump conducted FIVE completely private meetings and conferences with Putin, and has gone to great lengths to prevent literally anyone, even people in his administration, from learning what was discussed. Trump refused to enforce sanctions legally codified into law - and in some cases reversed standing sanctions on Russian companies. He has denounced his own intelligence agencies in a press conference with Putin on election meddling - and publicly endorsed Putin's version of events. . Trump pulled out of the INF treaty with no explanation, which allows Putin to create long-range hypersonic missiles that threaten Europe with impunity. The US already has all the weaponry that the INF would ban the development of, so this offers us literally nothing, while allowing Russia to develop powerful new weapons to challenge our allies. And of course, Trump continues to threaten to pull out of NATO, a move so catastrophically stupid, so inconceivably cosmically myopic, I truly can't express the profundity of the idiocy. Suffice to say, pulling out of NATO would be like the only guy in a prison yard with a shotgun just throwing it over the fence for absolutely no reason, suddenly giving the people with crude homemade shivs complete power. In summation: Trump was $4 billion in debt and the Russians bailed him out. --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Welp. Trump's taxes for the last 6 years has been subpoenaed by Congress |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/10/19 5:09:39 PM #22 | One of the most important things that is often overlooked is that the Russia Mafia is part and parcel of Russian intelligence. Russia is a mafia state. that is not a metaphor. Putin is head of the Mafia. So the fact that they have been operating out of the home of the president of the United States is deeply disturbing. From Craig Unger's AMA: "Early on, a source told me that all this was tied to Semion Mogilevich, the powerful Russian mobster. I had never even heard of him, but I immediately went to a database that listed the owners of all properties in NY state and looked up all the Trump properties. Every time I found a Russian sounding name, I would Google, and add Mogilevich. When you do investigative reporting, you anticipate drilling a number of dry holes, but almost everyone I googled turned out to be a Russian mobster. Again and again. If you know New York you don't expect Trump Tower to be a high crime neighborhood, but there were far too many Russian mobsters in Trump properties for it to be a coincidence." So many Russians bought Trump apartments at his developments in Florida that the area became known as Little Moscow. The developers of two of his hotels were Russians with significant links to the Russian mob. The late leader of that mob in the United States, Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov, was living at Trump Tower. According to a Bloomberg investigation (March 16, 2017) into Trump World Tower, a third of units sold on floors 76 through 83 by 2004 involved people or limited liability companies connected to Russia and neighboring states. In July 2008, the height of the recession, Donald Trump sold a mansion in Palm Beach for $95 million to Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian oligarch. Trump had purchased it four years earlier for $41.35 million. The sale price was nearly $54 million more than Trump had paid for the property. Again, this was the height of the recession when all other property had plummeted in value. In 2013, Federal agents busted an ultraexclusive, high-stakes, illegal poker ring run by Russian gangsters out of Trump Tower. In addition to card games, they operated illegal gambling websites, ran a global sports book and laundered more than $100 million. A condo directly below one owned by Trump reportedly served as HQ for a sophisticated money-laundering scheme connected to Semion Mogilevich. Rudy Giuliani famously prosecuted the Italian mob while he was a federal prosecutor, yet the Russian mob was allowed to thrive under his tenure in the Southern District and Mayor. And now he's deeply entwined in the business of Trump and Russian oligarchs. Giuiani appointed Semyon Kislin to the NYC Economic Development Council in 1990, and the FBI described Kislin as having ties tot he Russian mob. Of course, it made good political sense for Giuliani to get headlines for smashing the Italian mob. A lot of Republicans in Washington are implicated. Boatloads of Russian money went to the GOP--often in legal ways. The NRA got as much as $70M from Russia, then funneled it to the GOP. The Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee lead by McConnel got millions from Leonard Blavatnik. In the 90s, the Russians began sending money to top GOP leaders, like Speaker of the House Tom Delay. Unger's book alleges that most of the GOP leadership has been compromised by RU money. At the Cityscape USAs Bridging US and the Emerging Real Estate Markets Conference held in Manhattan, on September 9, 10, and 11, 2008, Trump Jr. was frank about the tide of Russian money supporting the family business, saying "...And in terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets." Eric Trump told James Dodson, a golf reporter, in 2014 that the Trump Organization was able to expand during the financial crisis because We dont rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia. (cont) --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Welp. Trump's taxes for the last 6 years has been subpoenaed by Congress |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/10/19 5:09:23 PM #21 | Blade-wolf posted... Still on the Russia stuff are we Trump was over a billion in debt and the Russians bailed him out. This is how he made a come back Trump was first compromised by the Russians back in the 80s. In 1984, the Russian Mafia began to use Trump real estate to launder money and it continued for decades. In 1987, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, arranged for Trump and his then-wife, Ivana, to enjoy an all-expense-paid trip to Moscow to consider possible business prospects. Only seven weeks after his trip, Trump ran full-page ads in the Boston Globe, the NYT and WaPO calling for, in effect, the dismantling of the postwar Western foreign policy alliance. The whole Trump/Russian connection started out as laundering money for the Russian mob through Trump's real estate, but evolved into something far bigger. In 1984, David Bogatin a Russian mobster, convicted gasoline bootlegger, and close ally of Semion Mogilevich, a major Russian mob boss met with Trump in Trump Tower right after it opened. Bogatin bought five condos from Trump at that meeting. Those condos were later seized by the government, which claimed they were used to launder money for the Russian mob. (NY Times, Apr 30, 1992) Felix Sater is a Russian-born former mobster, and former managing director of NY real estate conglomerate Bayrock Group LLC located on the 24th floor of Trump Tower. He is a convict who became a govt cooperator for the FBI and other agencies. He grew up with Michael Cohen--Trump's former "fixer" attorney. Cohen's family owned El Caribe, which was a mob hangout for the Russian Mafia in Brooklyn. Cohen had ties to Ukrainian oligarchs through his in-laws and his brother's in-laws. Felix Sater's father had ties to the Russian mob. This goes back more than 30 years. Trump was $4 billion in debt after his Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt. No U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in through Bayrock (mentioned above). Bayrock was run by two investors: Tevfik Arif, a Kazakhstan-born former Soviet official who drew on bottomless sources of money from the former Soviet republic; and Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman who had pleaded guilty in the 1990s to a huge stock-fraud scheme involving the Russian mafia. Bayrock partnered with Trump in 2005 and poured money into the Trump organization under the legal guise of licensing his name and property management. Semion Mogilevich was the brains behind the Russian Mafia. Mogilevich operatives have been using Trump real estate for decades to launder money. That means Russian Mafia operatives have been part of his fortune for years, that many of them have owned condos in Trump Towers and other properties, that they were running operations out of Trump's crown jewel. (Mogilevich's role today is unclear). (cont) --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Welp. Trump's taxes for the last 6 years has been subpoenaed by Congress |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/10/19 5:06:36 PM #17 | Blade-wolf posted... For what purpose to prove that the leader of the free world is not indebted to any foreign powers, for one. kinda like how Trump got a loan from Russia for a billion dollars in the mid 90s because he literally bankrupted a casino with his utter lack of business sense. --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Welp. Trump's taxes for the last 6 years has been subpoenaed by Congress |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/10/19 5:05:43 PM #13 | Mark_DeRosa posted... What exactly does that gain and help America in if you care so much about it? exposing the PotUS for the liar and fraud he really is would be wonderful for this country --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | US raises tariffs on China to 25% on $200 billion of goods |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/10/19 5:03:59 PM #26 | 0AbsoluteZero0 posted... GasMonkey posted...time for some more socialism to bail out red states for a third time since this started. i call it 'deeply hypocritical' --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | North Korean Defectors Assaulted for wearing MAGA Hats |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/10/19 5:01:11 PM #37 | the inconsistent capitalization in the topic title is triggering af --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | $500 down the sewer |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/10/19 4:54:10 PM #2 | why did you ask them to replace the starter if that wasn't the problem? --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | Muslim girls |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/10/19 4:51:45 PM #11 | there is a specific subreddit for those who like to see those who are "repressed" but have "gone wild" --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
| Topic | I'm watching Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon on Netflix. |
| Giant_Aspirin 05/10/19 4:48:24 PM #3 | KILBOTz posted... I dont remember there be any good fight scenes. there are definitely some sweet fight scenes in CTHD, but not quite as cool as the ones in Hero. the showdown between KILBOTz posted... I dont remember it being a very good movie, either. i love that move. maybe you're thinking of the Netflix original sequel? --- Playing: Dragon Quest XI, Vermintide 2 I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up |
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