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This was in a thread asking what the next Hollywood flop would be. I'm not admitting to being wrong yet. We just won't know how big a flop Avatar will be until we know how short of the 2 Billion it needs to break even it falls. AOC's movie "To The End" was released the same weekend Avatar 2 was released and only got $80 per theater for a total of $15,801.

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Originally posted by THG:
Either Kiki’s sudden disappearance is due to her death, or she just ran for the hills when the Ukrainian war started and Russia began getting its ass kick.

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I've wondered if Putin's flagrant aggression in Ukraine was too much for her. I always sensed she didn't sit 100% comfortably in the Trump-Putin-neo-fascist axis.

Or was she an anti-vaxxer...?

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So, let me get this straight. Alex Jones insured himself for a billion dollars. Hey, I've got some bit coin I'd like to sell ya, cheap. Only twenty-five thousand each.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
How come you never put any of my good predictions in here?

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Articles and a wiki entry says $400 million. With Disney having spent over $1 billion over the four Avatar sequels

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Trump will be fine.

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TODAY: Trump's tax returns from 2015-2020 have been released for 5 days.

Headlines...

THE HILL: Trump tax returns raise alarms about fairness of US tax code

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3793693-trump-tax-returns-raise-ala
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A preliminary review of the thousands of pages of Donald Trump’s tax returns released by a key congressional committee on Friday confirms that the former president was using business losses in the tens of millions of dollars to reduce his annual tax liability, in some cases all the way down to zero. 

While one of Trump’s main businesses was found guilty of criminal tax fraud earlier this month, Trump himself has so far not been accused of doing anything illegal with his taxes and personal accounting.

But that’s raising more urgent questions about the fairness of the U.S. tax code and tax regulations, which number in the millions of words and in the case of Trump proved effectively unenforceable.

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POLITICO: The House Should Not Have Released Trump’s Personal Tax Returns

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/01/trump-tax-returns-sh
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The committee report recommends ways to fix the structural failures at the IRS, going forward. That seems valuable. And that strikes me as a sufficient reason to obtain and examine Trump’s returns. For instance, the committee could not know how difficult it might be for the IRS to audit Trump’s returns if it did not know how complex they were, in the first place.

But publication of his returns is different. How does publication advance the otherwise valuable findings of the committee? Couldn’t the committee highlight the IRS’ failures in a report and keep Trump’s returns private? I believe so. Stated another way, what is the connection between the valid concerns raised by the committee — the deficiencies in the mandatory audit program they identified at the IRS — and the committee’s decision to make public Trump’s returns? None, that I see.

I am not, to put it mildly, a Trump fan so my next words may seem odd, but here goes: The committee’s decision to publish the returns was unfair to Trump. So why do I worry about being unfair to Trump? Because principles of fairness should matter to all of us, all the time, and apply to all of us, all the time, even if they do not matter to Trump.

Trump strikes me as a bad person. In many ways, he is not very different than many of the people I encountered as a federal prosecutor. He is greedy, dishonest, self-centered, narcissistic and reckless. But all the people we prosecuted deserved to be treated fairly for legal, ethical and moral reasons, and they deserved to be treated fairly all the time, whether or not we liked them. We cannot reserve fair treatment for people we like and unfair treatment for people we dislike. That would be a death spiral for our judicial system and for our democracy.

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WALL STREET JOURNAL: Trump’s taxes are Exhibit A in the case for why the IRS needs a big upgrade

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/03/trump-taxes-irs-upg
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At the start of my career, I helped draft tax rules for Congress. For 20 years, I advised wealthy business owners and big corporations on how to apply tax rules and defend challenges from the IRS. The tax rules are not black and white; they are gray, with lots of room for argument. And plenty of opportunity to stretch the rules beyond their intent. That’s where Trump plays.

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So there's the pivot.

They know that Trump just played by the rules of the game that rich people play. It's the same thing that every one of our politicians play. Some do it right out of the gates because they were already corrupt, and others like AOC get a taste and do it themselves while wearing $10,000 "Tax the Rich" dresses at $50,000 a plate events for the photo ops.

They can't possibly make this about Trump, so they've already decided to take this missed opportunity and use it to further the Progressive Agenda of bolstering the IRS to micromanage every American's lives instead.

Kudos to the Legacy Media at least, for realizing that they're all too fucking stupid to even attempt to figure out Trump's taxes and make any claims about them that could land them in a lawsuit for defamation either by slander or libel.

I don't think I could even imagine the torturous level of restraint that remaining silent about Trump requires for them. I'm sure their empty little heads are exploding right now.

"WORST WEEK EVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!"

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TRUMP'S TAX RETURNS WERE RELEASED!

THIS TIME WE GOT HI......

Oh... Never mind.



Get fucked, Ted.

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P.S. OF COURSE the tax code is unfair. How is this only a revelation now that you jagoffs get to look at Trump's returns.

DEMAND TO SEE ALL POLITICIAN'S RETURNS. EVERY SINGLE YEAR, ON EVERY LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT. FROM THE PRESIDENT, ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE LOWLY ALDERMAN.

Then you'll start to see just how deep this rabbit hole goes and piece it together like an actual journalist used to do before the internet was a thing.


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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

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I may not have predicted it, but I believe that kiki died of COVID. She was here one day and gone the next.

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I fuckin' love Trump.

I can't wait until he's President again.

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maybe a prediction

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I fuckin' love Trump.

I can't wait until he's President again.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK (Monday, January 23rd):
Not only has Trump allowed the Democrats and the Media to hang themselves with their own nooses left and right, but he's also working on getting access that was illegally stripped from him on Facebook and YouTube before he gets back on Twitter and his campaign actually begins.

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So the police were there BEFORE the attack started, according to M$M?

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The guy was living in a bus next to his ex-wives house, he may have done for a bottle of Jack and a box of donuts.

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I helped run the ‘Fire Pelosi’ effort. Our toxic politics goes too far

Doug Heye

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All I really want to know at this point is how was DePape able to pull the hammer out of Paul's ass and hit him on the head with it before he got a tazer to his bare balls?

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Either David De Pape or Paul Pelosi are going to die soon. Maybe both of them.

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The only way this one is stopping in a "timely" manner is if Trump wins 2024. And it's still a maybe then.

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How is AI different than a Trumptard? One isn't conscious and the other doesn't know itself to be stupid.

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How is the fight going over control of Obidenbot?
Is Fuckerberg top dog? Dorsey? Bozo?

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Was the Steele Dossier Used to Obtain a FISA Warrant Against Trump’s Campaign?

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of course it was.

Will GOP-dominated House investigate this?
Prolly not.

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my own


A.I. making vids, sound clips, text posts...kids on u tube and twitter are doing art, pranks

it would seem Artificial Intelligence will F-around with the US 2024 election Big Time

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S2 made $397,133 on Day 18.

It took Maverick 104 days to go that low and Avatar 2 74 days to go that low.


It will not make its production budget back after a full 3 weeks in theaters and will only crack that on Friday for the beginning of week 4.

There's zero chance this flick is making $200 Million worldwide before it's out of theaters.

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Shazam, will Marvel and DC Warner Bros make flops?

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S2 made $397,133 on Day 18.

It took Maverick 104 days to go that low and Avatar 2 74 days to go that low.


It will not make its production budget back after a full 3 weeks in theaters and will only crack that on Friday for the beginning of week 4.

There's zero chance this flick is making $200 Million worldwide before it's out of theaters.

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Finland just fucked itself.

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Congrats, Finland on becoming the thirty-first member of NATO. Imagine their shock when they realize being a member of NATO means fighting NATO’s wars of choice.

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Disney is being threatened with losing their copyright of Mickey Mouse to the Public Domain because of all of this child grooming creepiness.

That's good.

The bad news is that if they weren't being creeps, nobody would be talking about stripping them of the Mickey Mouse copyright that they should have lost decades ago already.

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Peaches & Green: ‘Super Mario Bros Movie’ Tops $1B Worldwide; Smashes Studio Records In Japan – International Box Office


It's now the 4th highest Animated Film in the Domestic Box office only behind:

Incredibles 2 (Disney): $608,581,744
The Lion King (Disney): $543,638,043
Beauty and the Beast (Disney): $504,014,165
Super Mario: (Universal): $490,016,000

I doubt very much it would ever cross the $600 Million mark in the US and be the highest grossing animated film ever, but it will beat Beauty and the Beast on Friday night, and my prediction from back on April 21st that it will overtake The Lion King before the end of it's run and make 14th place all time Domestic is all but set in stone at this point.

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but he got Avatar wrong

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The only way this one is stopping in a "timely" manner is if Trump wins 2024. And it's still a maybe then.

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I predict that Russia will take Bakhmut by April and before the end of this year Russia will take Ukraine at least up to the Dnieper, but it will be a slow grind. No "big arrow" offenses.

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- The war won't end this year.
- Russia peaked last summer in terms of its strength in this war relative to Ukraine. Despite their mobilisations they will fight more defensively than offensively this year. They will lose more territory than they gain, but Ukrainian victories won't be as stunning as last year as Russia has more manpower and a shorter front line to defend. Bakhmut will hold. More mobilisations and replacements of top Russian generals wouldn't surprise me - this year, or next.

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Why, why Jack do you continue to post shit that shows you to be an idiot. Let’s examine my countdown threads that you say go back 6 years, and were all wrong, Ok?

My countdown until Trump is impeached thread. Well, he was not only impeached, he was impeached twice. All the while you said it would not happen. A hundred times Jack you said it wouldn’t happen. That makes me right, you wrong.

My countdown until Trump goes to jail thread. Well, he has been indicted twice now. He has with both indictments maybe 67 felony charges? Now because I know there are more indictments coming, I created a new thread explaining he has been indicted and what's to come. When he loses in court both threads will be updated to show he is going to jail. You said he will not even be indicted. You said over that same six-year period, about a hundred times he would not be indicted. Well, he was. Twice so far. That makes me right, you wrong.

I’ve stated he has at least two more indictments coming. I’ve decided to do a countdown to those indictments within the existing thread. How, by reminding readers they are still coming. I’ll remind you again, you’ve been wrong about it all. About it all Jack.

Now, some of what should have happened in the last six years that I didn’t foresee, was due to my not being able to anticipate the Republican Party completely imploding. Not only voting to ignore Trumps guilt as obvious as it was, but supporting him while selling out America. The reason, they are shitting themselves worrying about Trump having them primaried. Not to worry though, historians are already showing, by what they are saying about all this currently, I am right Jack, you are wrong.

During those six years Jack, while I was making accurate predictions, you were posting conspiracy theories. None of which came to fruition. All the false charges against Biden and his family for corruption to name one, another, the Durham report. 5 years and 6 million dollars later, nothing, he got destroyed, picked apart in the hearing as he desperately tried to imply, with no evidence, somebody, who, he doesn’t know, did something wrong. When asked what they did, he was forced to say he doesn’t know that either. Very fucked up.

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Another woke bomb from Disney/Lucasfilm incoming!

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I mentioned that US Women's Soccer Team will not win the World Cup.

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Movies seem to be making a comeback, Barbie and Oppenheimer then some more successful hits might come.

However next you will have delays from the writers strike and any movie delayed will cost extra money. Some Beyond more spider-Man the Spider-Verse thing, the Penguin, Thunderbolts, Fantastic Four, Blade, nu Superman, new Transformers, nu Avatar, Daredevil Born Again but I think this is 'tv', Deadpool 3, The new Avengers Kang Dynasty, new Captain America beyond Brave New World perhaps could face delays.

Expect Box Office Money

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Americans have bet $245bn on sporting events since restrictions were loosened in 2018. But many fear a surge in gambling addiction is coming

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This summer, Dylan, a 22-year-old trainee lawyer from the Jersey Shore, decided to come clean to his family and friends about a shameful secret: he had borrowed and gambled $50,000 in just over a year.

His first bet was a promo deal on the betting app DraftKings on last year’s Super Bowl: bet $5 on the eventual champion, win $300. Thanks to a last-gasp touchdown by the Los Angeles Rams, Dylan won. He then quadrupled his winnings playing online blackjack. He was hooked.

Dylan’s bets quickly became riskier. He maxed out four credit cards to place bets of up to $5,000 on everything from obscure tennis fixtures in China to Venezuelan women’s volleyball matches, using apps including FanDuel and Barstool Sportsbook.

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Despite the harm they could be unleashing, state authorities are often conflicted because of the tax revenues generated from sports betting, which have contributed more than $3.4bn cumulatively to often-stretched budgets since 2018.

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