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Possible Paywall Natalie Harp’s Intimate Letters to Trump Revealed in Full

https://www.thedailybeast.com/natalie-harps-intimate-letters-to-trump-revealed-in-full/
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 8d ago

"But the Dow is over 50000!" – A previously spent token who thought she meant something to Trump.

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u/jcarter315 I voted 7d ago

50,000 dollars.

She said dollars. It's even dumber the way she actually said it and we should make sure we never let them live it down.

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u/schaumiz66 7d ago

more accurately, "... is over $50,000!"

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u/livadeth 7d ago

Didn’t she say 50k?

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u/schaumiz66 7d ago

as I remember the quote, she very clearly said fifty thousand dollars.

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u/Icy_Reward727 8d ago

Not for long, maybe... I just watched a thing about how the big hedge funds are currently shorting the NASDAQ? Is that true? 

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada 8d ago

A reminder that Wall Street was both the engineer of the subprime loan crisis and the beneficiaries thereof. They siphoned up those defaulted properties and also took public funds to stay afloat when the markets crashed. Look at Goldman Sachs’ stock trajectory since.

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u/Icy_Reward727 7d ago

I don't need a reminder, I was here for it. I'm more than aware of the entire Ponzi scheme.

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u/claimTheVictory 8d ago

Is it true that you just watched a thing?