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[–] 221 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Trump’s lawyers also showed a slide claiming the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas is 64 stories. But an architectural drawing shows it likely has fewer levels because the floor numbers jump from eight to 16.

We can do that? Okay. My house is actually five stories. I've labeled the ground floor 1 and the upper story 5.

For tax purposes, though, the ground floor is -1 and the upper floor is 0 so it's a zero story house.

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    If you look closely, floor 13 is actually skipped in a LOT of buildings. It's unlucky

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Also in East Asian cultures, the number 4 is unlucky either because its pronounced the same or similar to “death”. So, they often don’t have floors with the digit 4.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia

    I lived in a condo building in a high Chinese population city in British Columbia, Canada and there was no 4th, 13th or 14th floor.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    “My hotel doesn't have a 13th Floor because of superstition, but c'mon man... People on the 14th floor, you know what floor you're really on" "What room are you in?" "1401". "No, you're not. Jump out of window, you'll die earlier!"”

    — Mitch Hedberg

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    This doesn't make it ok. Children are adept at pointing out the stupidity of adult discrimination, reminding them that people are dumb enough to discriminate against a fucking number is a good way to hopefully help them hold onto their memories of how idiotic some of our learned choices are.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    When I bought my house it was listed at 5 bedrooms. There are 3 bedrooms upstairs. I think the Master Bedroom (first floor) is actually supposed to be the living room, and the living room was a dining room.

    The fifth bedroom is a room in the back of the house just off the driveway. It's uninsulated, the window is single pane, and none of the outlets are grounded. It's unheated. They had a scrap of carpet out there, but it was just covering the cement floor. I installed an insulated exterior door and threw away the solid wood one. I keep the lawn mower and snowblower out there.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    “I just bought a 2-bedroom house, but I think I get to decide how many bedrooms there are, don't you? 

    "Fuck you, real estate lady! This bedroom has an oven in it! This bedroom's got a lot of people sitting around watching TV. This bedroom's over in that guy's house! Sir, you have one of my bedrooms, are you aware? Don't decorate it!"”

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  • [–] 117 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    To be fair, it must be pretty hard being Trump's lawyer. I imagine there's a lot of, "Is there anything else you should be telling us?" and "Are you certain of that or would you like to try remember more or double-check first?" conversations. Then you get in court and shit still goes terribly because your client's like a kid with chocolate on their mouth and told you he didn't eat the cupcakes.

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  • [–] 109 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    If this ever gets made into like a docuseries or movie, future generations aren’t going to believe that the legal team of a former President in a civil case was this incompetent.

    Like there’s no way to make said movie and not have it be a comedy of errors.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's the Trump candidacy, presidency, and aftermath were a TV series, we'd be yelling at the writers to make it more realistic.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Now hear me out: Arrested Development, Trump version. Think about it. A family of horrible, dumb people dragging each other down. The family father getting caught doing illegal stuff and running the dumbest defense ever. The idiot lawyer holding a press conference on a shitty parking lot next to a porn shop because noone bothered to check if it was the right Four Seasons (still the funniest thing to happen in the last 2,000 years). I can totally see Eric Trump saying "Illusion, Ivanka. Magic is something a whore does for money."

    The only thing missing is someone decent enough to play Michael (which is saying something, because even Michael was a horrible person).

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It’s fairly easy to understand, though - his cases are hopeless because he’s plainly guilty. He expects his lawyers to lie for him, endangering themselves, make frivolous arguments, and try anything to delay cases. It raises their profile, but makes them look bad to normal people, and then on top of it, he will simply ignore bills to avoid paying anything. Therefore he’s only left with desperate, incompetent or dumb lawyers. Because nobody reputable would want a client like that.

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    [–] 60 points 2 years ago

    Trump's lawyers: Banks should have done their own due diligence for his properties themselves. We even put a disclaimer to not trust us!

    Also Trump's lawyers: Failed doing due diligence on Trump's properties in court.

    I wonder if their slides had a disclaimer to not trust their evidence.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    Lord have consequences for their souls.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The Trump Organization’s chief legal officer, Alan Garten, explained to Forbes a month ago that 40 Wall Street has 63 floors of commercial space, but “when you add the space from 63 to the cupola, the building totals 72 floors.”

    I'd be interested in seeing what that space actually is. Are they going to start arguing over the definition of a floor? Is this going to turn into Bill Clinton's famous "define is" situation?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As far as I can tell, idiot lawyers is all he hires.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    What is a cupola in the context of a modern city tower and how does it add 8 stories? Is this usable space or is this literally just a nine story spike on the tower?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I’ll bet their plan is to be so incompetent he can get a mistrial.

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