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[Troy]

You tax dollars at work...

 

I don't know where I learned about this video but the title of this post is what I used to find it in about 2 seconds.

 

Initially I found the video was shocking; to see a room full of multi-billionaires supplicate themselves before the President.  That alone should give you an indication of how powerful the man is. Trump is perhaps the most powerful man in human history.

 

Reuters deliberately edited this video of billionaires bending the knee to the president in such a way to illicit the reaction I had.  In context of the dinner itself it probably was not as bad as it comes across with this edit... I guess I'll have to look for the video of the entire dinner.

 

Still If I had as much money as any of these dudes, I would not be kissing anyone's a-s -- how much more money do you need?!

 

 

Side bar for @Pioneer1   Melania is pretty attractive for a 55-year-old melanin challenged sister huh?  She hit the jackpot huh?

 

 

[Pioneer1]

7 minutes ago, Troy said:

 

Side bar for @Pioneer1   Melania is pretty attractive for a 55-year-old melanin challenged sister huh?  She hit the jackpot huh?

 

Lol...she's not bad looking for a 55 year old woman, however I don't find her particularly attractive.
Honestly.
 

 

[Troy]

Yeah, you like 'em thick huh?

[Pioneer1]

Troy

Mostly, but I'm more focused on them being CURVACEOUS.
Even if they're thin.

Erykah Badu is a good example of a thin woman with curves.

 

 

[Troy]

...yeah @Pioneer1, thick.  Badu is 54. How old is that photo?

 

Melania epitomizes that "Resting Bitch Face" phrase people have been using lately.  

 

It looks like Bill gates and Donald use the same hairdresser. 

 

What is up with Mark Z's hair? Why are these buys, like Elon Musk, so afraid of going bald? 

[Pioneer1]

On 10/14/2025 at 8:11 PM, Troy said:

 

What is up with Mark Z's hair? Why are these buys, like Elon Musk, so afraid of going bald? 

White men don't look at being bald the same as we do.

Since the late 80s (Unless you were on the West Coast) that predominant haircut among Black males has been the bald fade.
Since so many Black men got their hair cut to nearly bald anyway....actually GOING bald wasn't too big of a jump, lol.

I've also heard from a lot of women that Black men look much better with bald heads than White men.

But me...I gotta have hair, lol.

[ProfD]

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

White men don't look at being bald the same as we do.

 

But me...I gotta have hair, lol.

Most men across the board try to hold on to their hair.

 

Going bald actually takes confidence.

 

We see all types of comb overs, half-fros and other unsightly efforts to keep hair that clearly wants to leave.

 

On a personal note, I had nice hair and kept a fresh temple taper fade back in the day. As soon as my hair started social distancing on my scalp, I cut it all off.

 

I've been bald for 3 decades and counting. I have no idea of how i would look with hair on my head. I'll never know because I shave every day.

[Troy]

3 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Black men look much better with bald heads than White men.

You don’t need the with bald heads part.

 

50 minutes ago, ProfD said:

half-fros

lol!

 

The worst are those brothers rockin the dread locks with the George Jefferson hairline,

 

I was always on the lazy side when it came to my hair so cutting it off works for me. I can’t be bothered to shave every day though. Once or twice a week generally is enough and about all I can muster. 

[ProfD]

27 minutes ago, Troy said:

The worst are those brothers rockin the dread locks with the George Jefferson hairline,

The national treasure that is Stevie Wonder was guilty of that sh8t.

 

For a long time, Stevie was rocking those braids while his hairline was receding to the point that beach front property could have been built on his forehead.

 

I believe Stevie is now rocking a bald head underneath his skull caps and kufis. He needed to Teddy Pendergrass and Let It Go.

 

[Troy]

6 hours ago, ProfD said:

Stevie Wonder

 I gave him a pass because he’s blind and probably surrounded by yes, men.

 

 

 

 

[ProfD]

1 hour ago, Troy said:

 I gave him a pass because he’s blind and probably surrounded by yes, men.

When one sense is compromised others are heightened.

 

Surely, Stevie could feel the draft on his head as his hairline was receding.

 

Also, Stevie has a wife. She should have encouraged him to let it go and embrace the bald.

[Pioneer1]

ProfD

 

 

On a personal note, I had nice hair and kept a fresh temple taper fade back in the day. As soon as my hair started social distancing on my scalp, I cut it all off.

I've been bald for 3 decades and counting. I have no idea of how i would look with hair on my head. I'll never know because I shave every day.

 

That's dedication....lol.
You must have tough skin.
Shaving every single day can be rough on the skin.

 

3 decades?

You aren't 60 yet.
You started going bald in your 20s?

 

[ProfD]

20 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

That's dedication....lol.
You must have tough skin.
Shaving every single day can be rough on the skin.

I'm not a dermatologist by any stretch of the imagination.  i believe using the right products probably helps.

 

20 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

3 decades?

You aren't 60 yet.
You started going bald in your 20s?

Correct.  As soon as I saw my hair getting thin, I became my own barber permanently.

[Pioneer1]

41 minutes ago, ProfD said:

Correct.  As soon as I saw my hair getting thin, I became my own barber permanently.

You have no idea how much money you save being YOUR OWN barber.
Especially nowadays.

I remember when haircuts were only $10 INCLUDING the tip.
Some of these niggaz are charging you $25 and $30 a cut PLUS they expect a tip and don't even sanitize their products!

Go to some of these clowns and leave with a case of ringworms in the scalp.

[Troy]

52 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Some of these niggaz are charging you $25 and $30 a cut PLUS they expect a tip and don't even sanitize their products!

 

Man, when I was getting my hair cut 15 years ago in NYC that is what it cost then.  But they sanitized their products.  T

 

he last place I went they gave out drinks -- whisky.  Freddy Jackson sat in the chair next to me once that was back in 2007 around the time, I decided to go bald. I have no idea what my hair would look like today.  I assume I'm mostly gray.  I thought about letting it grow out, out of curiosity. 

[Pioneer1]

 

Unlike the 70s and 80s, many of the barbershops today are so unprofessional.
 

A lot of these younger cats aren't even going to barber school and don't have a license to cut.
They grow up "fading" in their basement and now they have a boy who's got a shop and come in to work for him.

They don't know about sanitizing their products.
They don't know how to use a razor (to shave people with).
They don't know how to give people facials or how to apply relaxer to the hair.
They don't know how to remove ingrown hairs.
All of this stuff was (and probably still is) learned in Barber school.

 

Back in the OLD old days, barbering itself was taught in some highschools in Detroit.

You go into some of these shops and they got pornography playing on television, the barbers are smoking weed and cussing, and they don't even have a barber chair.  Just any old type of chair and a stool behind it.

Not a place to bring your family to.

[ProfD]

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Unlike the 70s and 80s, many of the barbershops today are so unprofessional.

You go into some of these shops and they got pornography playing on television, the barbers are smoking weed and cussing, and they don't even have a barber chair.  Just any old type of chair and a stool behind it.

Not a place to bring your family to.

Rest assured that intelligent folks aren't getting haircuts in such a place.

[Troy]

17 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

You go into some of these shops and they got pornography playing on television, the barbers are smoking weed and cussing, and they don't even have a barber chair.  Just any old type of chair and a stool behind it.

 

I don't believe it -- seriously.  This can't be true. I've been in some hood spots, but I have never seen anything like this. 

 

I'd agree the barber professions has changed.  It would be nice to treat myself to a professional shave -- you know with the oils hot towel, warm lather, reclined in a proper chair, but those were the old days. Perhaps things have declined.

 

The barbershop I described also has a masseuse. It really was a men's salon. My barber was a sister -- the only woman to ever cut my hair she was cute with a mice personality.  This business did not survive it was in Harlem, but I guess the demographic could not support an upscale men's salon -- I guarantee it would have made it in the DMV or ATL.

 

Now the barbershop I went to was not nearly as bad as you described.  They had ghetto tendencies selling bootleg DVD's, Viagra, and God knows what else.  Cuts there were 20 bucks $20 with the tip this was for the early aughts.  Getting a shave was out of the questions unless you wanted a brother to run the clippers over your face. That business did not survive either. I think the younger cats started going to the "celebrity" barbers rather than the old-school neighborhood shops

[Pioneer1]

Troy

 

 

I don't believe it -- seriously.  This can't be true. I've been in some hood spots, but I have never seen anything like this. 

 

You don't believe it?
Go to Detroit and see it for yourself.

Go to a barbershop WITH IN the city limits but outside of downtown and you'll find MULTIPLE shops like what I just described.
Word bond.

 

 

Now the barbershop I went to was not nearly as bad as you described.  They had ghetto tendencies selling bootleg DVD's, Viagra, and God knows what else.  
 

Yep, most of them have that too.
Little tables set up either inside the shop or just outside of it where they're selling everything they can dream up.
Bootleg movies, music, clothes, vapes, incense, oils, fake jewelry, shea butter, ect...

That's just on ONE side of the entrance to the shop....lol.

 

On the OTHER side of the entrance you have a brother with a big barrel bar-b-que grill selling bar-b-que and hot dogs along with his "special sauce".

And besides the vendors you have "niggas who hang around"....just hanging around the joint talking trash and staring at the people and cars that go by like they're waiting on a drive-by...lol.

That's a good 20% of the barbershops within the city.

[Troy]

20 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

...you have a brother with a big barrel bar-b-que grill selling bar-b-que and hot dogs along with his "special sauce".

And besides the vendors you have "niggas who hang around"....just hanging around the joint talking trash and staring at the people and cars that go by like they're waiting on a drive-by...lol.

 

Yeah, we had that too! That guy selling food cleaned up too. I was too boogie to even think about buying anything to eat from that setup LOL!  This spot was just two blocks from the original location of Mosque #7 (where Malcolm X preached).  That area is changing. I do miss it sometimes, but what I miss is long gone.

[Pioneer1]

Troy

 

I was too boogie to even think about buying anything to eat from that setup

 

I didn't either when I still lived there.
I did when I was a kid, but when I got into my 20s and KNEW better and knew how foul a lot of people lived and how improperly so many people kept their food...I stopped.

 

I generally don't eat "street" food period.
If it ain't a home cooked meal from somebody's house it has to be a 4 walled establishment.

I have to know where I can find you and SUE you if something goes wrong...lol.

Some people are so silly and will eat anything from anybody anywhere.....
And if they fuck around and get food poisoning from some taco stand they ate at, they won't even be able to find the joker the next day.
He rolled his cart a half mile down the street...lol.