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This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen.
It’s actually quite small.
I see what you did there
I had to use a microscope to see it, but I also saw what was done there
The greatness/size ratio is off the charts!
It’s bigger than my dick.
That looks to be a cello or bass… Violins would have a chin rest.
Unfortunately, tardigrades love the bass and cello and hate violins so the only way to get a photo of one playing the violin would be to fake it somehow
The bow is also on the wrong side of the bridge. Though now that I think of it, that might produce an even higher sound like you would expect of a microscopic violin?
He’s not even holding the bow at the frog. I’m beginning to question if he even knows how to play the violin.
Look, he’s trying, ok? He only started learning last week and it’s an instrument made for a completely different physiology!
With all the legs and fingery things, I feel like tardigrades would probably be better at playing the world’s smallest clarinet.
I think he’d do a superb job with @FlyingSquid’s trombone, too.
I mean, just look at him.
If you’re such a critic, you try teaching a tardigrade how to play a stringed instrument then.
I’d like to subscribe to your tardigrade facts newsletter, please.
That’s for a human grade violin. This is tardi grade.
I tried zooming in on the headstock to see which direction the tuners point, but the image is all fucky.
On the shoulders alone, I’d say it’s probably a cello although there are basses with round shoulders.
does he not look well rested to you
Unless of course it’s made for a tardigrade which, like Donald Trump Jr, doesn’t have a chin to make a chin rest at all useful.
Wow, that must be a really, really tiny violin. Where can you even get that?!
Minuscule Music and More. It’s on the miracle mile right next to Kohls.
I got mine at Instruments by the Nanometer in Copenhagen!
The one in Nørrebro or Valby?
The new one by Ørstedsparken
Well there’s clearly a tardigrade conspiracy here that you’re trying to cover up.
A real Grade T conspiracy
Micronesia
“Yoink!”
Now THIS is a meme pic!
Trump and his company need to post a bond for the full amount by next week in order to stop New York Attorney General Letitia James from being able to collect while he appeals.
He doesn’t have the cash to pay, so when NY collects, they can start forcing sales on his property.
If he gets the bond, then it just sits there till after appeals. Which would prevent him from selling property he put up for bond, but he’d still own them.
If he misses that bond, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate
Thanks for the summary, Zap!
Maybe we should start an organization to buy his buildings as a Cooperative?
Back in the late '80s, Spy magazine had a plan to collect donations to purchase a condo in one of Trump’s buildings - which they were then going to donate to the outgoing president of the Industrial Workers of the World to retire in.
The fact that no bond companies would accept real property as a collateral for the bond and only liquid or easily liquified assets points to the properties being leveraged to the hilt. If he ends up having to pay even a portion of this and has to start selling properties we should see a true picture of his financial status.
Imagine if he wins the election and is flat broke. He’ll auction off everything the US owns in exchange for a cut or finder’s fee. And let’s not pretend that the emoluments clause actually applies to any of elected leaders.
We don’t have to imagine too hard here. The fact that he’s even able to run for president again is a travesty of justice.
What makes it worst is that he’ll get millions of people to vote for him
Tens of millions, even.
I think the reason it was such an issue with Trump is I can’t think of another president that had the infrastructure (i.e. his hotels) to make revenue via emoluments.
Carter was a peanut farmer and those peanuts were sold internationally. He sold the farm before being elected so as not to be in violation of the emoluments clause.
Just setting the record straight. Carter put his farm in a blind trust. And I agree that Trump isn’t fit to clean Carter’s outhouse
Didn’t W divest a bunch of stuff and setup a blind trust for the same reason. And if I’m remembering correctly didn’t the peanut farm had been Carter’s family for a while so he gave up something that meant something more than money.
Every president save Trump in modern times has had various assets and investments, and they have all put them in blind trusts during their terms.
Additionally, this judgment is for his civil fraud trial. Where he was found liable for inflating the value of his properties in order to obtain loans against them.
Given that, I can understand a general reluctance to loan against the value of his properties.
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So if he falls to make bond and the state starts seizing assets, how does that work, exactly? They auction it to pay the lawsuit? What if Trump gets a bite on selling a property intending to make bond but it’s a big real estate transaction and that takes time? Will he be allowed to finish the sale before the state seizes assets?
They’d be best to sieze and sell the assets independent of Trump. Chances are he will sell stuff to certain people with Slavic accents, and then we’ll have a potential president even further beholden to enemies of the state, which is generally considered sub-optimal.
The government people who are in charge of collecting the dough from this judgment will be wise to the possibility that he may not have a bonafide buyer and that he’s just fluffing if he says a deal is about to go through.
Any buyer will know that he’s a motivated seller so the offers aren’t going to be all that great.
When the government seizes banks that are about to fail, usually they seem to find qualified buyers privately and the deal is over within days.
I have a feeling that because Trump has allowed things to get to this point, the government is less interested in selling at the highest price possible and instead will take any offer that settles the debt.
