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Donald Trump makes someone pay $32,000 for making fun of him
Death and Taxes ^ | March 3, 2014 | Alex Moore

Posted on 01/21/2016 8:33:46 AM PST by justlittleoleme

J. Taikwok Yung has been doing a terrible, god-awful job of making fun on Donald Trump on the internet since 2007.

Yung has been sitting on multiple parody websites including the name "trump" in the title, such as trumpindia.com, trumpbeijing.com, and trumpmumbai.com. The sites have a banner at the top reading "Fan, Parody and News," and feature scintillating commentary ranking each season of "The Apprentice" on a scale from "All around sucks like hell" to "OK Season" to "Pretty good." They also feature some links to YouTube "Apprentice" parody videos that are so bad they don't even give you schadenfreude so much as a thick, soul-crushing depression.

In fact the quality of the parody is so bad it may have been instrumental in costing Yung a $32,000 settlement in a lawsuit with Mr. Trump.

Yung had cited the First Amendment in his right to operate the sites in an ongoing suit with Mr. Trump going back at least as far as 2010. But a judge sided with Trump Friday that Yung had violated the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. It probably didn't help that Yung described himself as a "domainer." But if he had done a better job at making fun The Donald (which, less face it, should be pretty easy) he probably would have had an easier time arguing that the sites served a legitimate purpose as parody and weren't just taking up space on the internet with the intent to sell the catchy domains to the highest bidder.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donald; skinned; thin; trump
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To: swampfox101

Be like Trump, have billions and buy the politicians to do your bidding...I’d rather he use his OWN money than mine.


21 posted on 01/21/2016 9:11:21 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Sasparilla

How much did that cost the taxpayers? Trump himself says he only donates to politicians if he can get influence from them.


22 posted on 01/21/2016 9:12:24 AM PST by swampfox101
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To: justlittleoleme

Is this satire?? Surely it is.


23 posted on 01/21/2016 9:14:33 AM PST by Hattie
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To: Safetgiver

What makes you think he has been using his own money? He has said he buys politicians, he owns them, and they do his bidding.

Can you be sure...?


24 posted on 01/21/2016 9:14:59 AM PST by swampfox101
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To: swampfox101

What makes you think he has been using his own money?...Where else could he get the money? From the government? The politicians already own ALL of that.


25 posted on 01/21/2016 9:21:20 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: swampfox101

..How much did that cost the taxpayers?...

Got any figures on that? Or, just innuendo?


26 posted on 01/21/2016 9:21:33 AM PST by Sasparilla
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To: justlittleoleme

Try doing the same thing with harleydavidsonindia.com, or disneyindia etc.
It’s infringement plain and simple, and the fool would have been sued into oblivion.


27 posted on 01/21/2016 9:25:22 AM PST by moehoward
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To: Sasparilla

I take Donald at his word don’t you? He said giving money to politicians is the same as owning them and getting them to do favors for you. I just wonder what Donald, by his own admission, may have gotten for all that economic activity he created

Aren’t you just a little curious what Donald may have gotten for all those millions he donated to Reid, Hillary, Nancy and Mitch?


28 posted on 01/21/2016 9:26:38 AM PST by swampfox101
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To: Hattie
Donald Trump Threatens to Sue T-Shirt Company for Mocking Him

Donald Trump’s lawyers sent a letter to a clothing company specializing in anti-Trump shirts, threatening legal action if they did not stop selling them.

29 posted on 01/21/2016 9:30:10 AM PST by justlittleoleme (Cruz or Lose. Trump is a progressive populist liberal.)
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To: going hot

OMG. That’s terrible. What were women doing there?


30 posted on 01/21/2016 9:30:17 AM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: ichabod1

Well, some say they were ancestors of Sarah Palin, out drinking with the boys. :-)


31 posted on 01/21/2016 9:41:53 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: justlittleoleme

They are no longer on the web.


32 posted on 01/21/2016 9:46:26 AM PST by pilgrim
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To: Safetgiver

You finally figured it out.....!


33 posted on 01/21/2016 9:49:04 AM PST by swampfox101
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To: Safetgiver

OPM


34 posted on 01/21/2016 9:51:32 AM PST by pilgrim
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To: Sasparilla

“34,000 jobs created directly with the Trump company. Multimillions annually in payroll.”

Using the standard ratio of one full-time job positively impacting the economic well-being of other jobs (1:3), means in total he contributed to building/creating/supporting roughly 135,000 jobs.


35 posted on 01/21/2016 9:53:42 AM PST by Hulka
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To: swampfox101

Standard practice is to contribute to both sides of the aisle, and the odd thing is, the party that is hostile to your business actually receives more bucks because you have to invest more with them to achieve access and influence.


36 posted on 01/21/2016 9:57:36 AM PST by Hulka
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To: swampfox101

Prove it. He has no audit sheets? He didn’t report his taxes? You really are digging deep here.


37 posted on 01/21/2016 9:58:10 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: swampfox101; Sasparilla

Post 36.


38 posted on 01/21/2016 9:59:10 AM PST by Hulka
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39 posted on 01/21/2016 10:06:36 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EDST)
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To: Safetgiver

Am I...? Post for me what Donald got for all the politicians he bought and paid for, by his own admission. Let’s see the spread sheet of what all that cash got the Donald...1


40 posted on 01/21/2016 10:11:55 AM PST by swampfox101
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