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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 2 hours ago

also the 40bn is meant to bailout some bessenets former associates who invested poorly in ARGENTINA, not the argentinan people.

[–] melonhusk@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 hours ago

well, it only took them a few decades to learn his credit score isn't just... whatever number he says it is.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

LOL, that's a fucking shame!

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 22 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I don’t even understand how he hasn’t been arrested

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago

scotus and and both houses are afraid of him, so they give him full rubber stamps.

[–] minnow@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

SCOTUS said POTUS is immune for official acts.

I'm sure there's no conflict of interest involved with that or anything, though. And besides, what could go wrong?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Well, you see the first step is you just refuse to seat an appointment by the president so you can place the choice of your president after the fact, and claim, we should wait until the election is over.

Then, when your president is in power and the exact same fucking situation happens again with an appointment during an election, you do your best Nelson hahah, and appoint her anyway.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 10 hours ago

Trump trying to sale a bad deal to the banks? This has never happened before.

[–] EnderLaw@lemmy.world 114 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Rough math is every American, rich or poor, old or young, is giving Argentina $100.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 18 points 7 hours ago

Why would the rich be part of this discussion? Not paying taxes, not giving loan to foreign countries.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 66 points 12 hours ago

Or, alternatively, every taxpayer is giving them $200. For reference this is almost three times the amount of his aid cuts from back when.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 84 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn't lend Trump $40B either. Dude's already been convicted of 34 counts of loan fraud.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 34 points 12 hours ago

It's $20B from banks, $20B from the US government.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 106 points 13 hours ago

Wow, who knew so many bankers were closet Antifa Generals all along?

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

So does this mean that we were wrong?

It was never the Russians who had Trump by the balls, it has been the Nazis all along?

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 hours ago

Group effort.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 45 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If Trump starts insulting the banks and trying to impose control on them that would be a sight to see.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

If you can bully banks into giving Argentina $40 billion for nothing, then the whole world's financial system seems to come into question.

[–] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

Lol ehat? Banks have been giving loans to Trump although he was deadass broke. If you still believe into any kind of integrity or logic in the world's financial system, you're in for a rough awakening.

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 44 points 13 hours ago

Radical Leftist Bankers always worried about the dollar!

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 16 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (4 children)

First time seeing such a word

balk
/bɔk/
*verb*
refuse to comply
Synonyms: baulk, jib, resist
*noun*
the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
"a player with ball in hand must play from the balk"
Synonyms: baulk

Hope I can save a search to anybody else.

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

Wow, first time huh?

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Is it not used much anymore? Pretty common word to me, but I'm getting kind of old.

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 minutes ago* (last edited 2 minutes ago)

I am not natively English

[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Obligatory copypasta:

BALK RULES! IMPORTANT!

1. You can't just be up there and just doin' a balk like that.
1a. A balk is when you
1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can't do that.
1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can't be over here and say to the runner, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to pitch and then don't pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there's the balk you gotta think about.
1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn't been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn't typecast as that racist lady in American History X.
1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.
1c-b(2)-b(ii). "get in mah bellah" -- Adam Water, "The Waterboy." Haha, classic...
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of
2. Do not do a balk please.
[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

I dunno why, but I read this entire thing in Danny Devito's voice and that was pretty funny. XD

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It's also a baseball term for when a pitcher illegally stops their pitching motion.

BALK RULES! IMPORTANT!

  1. You can't just be up there and just doin' a balk like that.

1a. A balk is when you

1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the

1c. Let me start over

1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can't do that.

1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can't be over here and say to the runner, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.

1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to pitch and then don't pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?

1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.

1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there's the balk you gotta think about.

1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn't been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn't typecast as that racist lady in American History X.

1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.

1c-b(2)-b(ii). "get in mah bellah" -- Adam Water, "The Waterboy." Haha, classic...

1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of

  1. Do not do a balk please.
[–] FailBetter@crust.piefed.social 22 points 12 hours ago

the woke banks will pay double!
80B for the patriot Milei!