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The brand is apparently ‘Bronx’ something or other. I’m surprised no one has accused him of doing a reverse Michael Jackson.

I see the CPS has finally frozen Michelle Mone's assets months after giving her ample notice to move boatloads of them out of reach...

boatloads

🤔

Yeah, sorry. That was a bit obvious. Just the one boat/yacht as well, wasn't it?

Amazing. Thanks.

Trump has to pay 83 million dollars in damages.

Lovely

No he does not, cos there will be appeals etc.

But guilty is guilty....but for that lump of grissle it will be someone attacking him/family/people

Thread on why Trump won’t appeal:

https://twitter.com/BrianManookian/status/1751024486495699067

His father made loads of money with shit housing in the Bronx, no?

Sorry, I wasn't being clear. He will try and appeal the settlement amount. He will do his best to wriggle out of paying money.

Self made man then.

Oh the dad did not want black people living in his newly built blocks in Queens.

Famously, if Trump had simply invested the money his father left him and not tried to be a businessman he would have $2bn

^

What's the quickest way to become a billionaire? Start with 2 billion

I read somewhere that Trump has to pay the money to the court before he has leave to appeal. So like Father Ted the court can leave the money resting in their escrow account thingy. If he wins the appeal he gets it back.

Definitely self made. Question is if making yourself one of the worst people since Adolf Hitler is such an achievement.
@dubtap I know.

What amazes me, not just with orange moron but also with, for example, Benko, is how much time and respect we give such assholes.

Including interest is what I read.
Good luck with that. He really is under pressure to win this thing.

Plus the penalties in his New York civil fraud case. Maybe $370 million.

uh oh, looks like the conservatives have put forward a policy that isn't racist illegal or down right stupid, watch out labours 30% lead in the polls

Disposable vapes are set to be banned as part of plans to tackle the rising number of young people taking up vaping, the government says.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68123202

millions of illegal ones were confiscated at a uk port in the last couple of days. they are a bit of a menace and a source of litter, a nice expensive vape will stop kids from thinking they are just cool toys.

If you go litter picking past any corner shop you will see the distance of box/internal shrink wrap to sucking on a stick mentality .
Most are under the counter dodgy stuff anyway.

hopefully this will go some way to repair the shortfall of kids able to build a decent rollie

All is not well in UKIP:

https://x.com/ladydetectives1/status/1751722759627895030?s=46&t=m2v4bz0h_UKO-SiuMrPTew

Opening line: "Sadly, I was planted as the Deputy Leader of UKIP, because the chairman wanted to get me into bed. (Send sympathy to his fiancée)"

It's not even worthy of schadenfreude. Yeah, they're done, but they still won.

https://www.reuters.com/business/embattled-china-evergrande-back-court-liquidation-hearing-2024-01-28/

I propose a new concept akin to ‘too big to fail’: too big to hide. When a behemoth of this size falls, there’s little even the CCP can do to prevent wider damage.