- Joined
- Jul 22, 2019
I'm puzzled as to how they've seemingly pissed away all those grift bucks with nothing to show for it. Fencing, 5k, solar panels, 10k, and tractor, say 10k deposit, are the only big items I can think of. For lesser stuff, add in a grand each on the staircase, the stove, the fridge, and the tarp "barn". That left them enough to pay for three or so years of fodder and time to develop a business plan to make the Tranch viable.
But they're broke. Can't afford a few hundred for a pellet maker or to fix their truck. Where did it all go? They threw a big party at shearing time which probably cost them whatever they make from wool sales, but wasn't The Great Gatsby level. Kevin buys too many robots and dinosaurs, but not tens of thousands of dollars worth. The ruling troons go out to town every day for coffee, that's 20 bucks x 350 = $7k a year. Dumb but affordable. They buy crap processed food instead of cooking, but crap processed food is fairly cheap. They've been to a couple of furry conventions, but they got one for free. They aren't noticeably better dressed. Kevin rarely changes his clothes, Jarod looks like he never does. The earthship seems to have been abandoned completely.
I don't get it. Could they really have smoked their way through $80ks of weed in a year? Have I missed something out?
They were running shitty generators till they burnt out at one point, so add in the fuel and new genny costs ontop of the fuel costs for their big truck (which they were running the recycling grift with for a while)
Then there's the alpaca feed bills, mortgage, property taxes, feeding 8 or so fat men, paying for troon meds, and other monthly overheads which their profit doesn't come near to breaking even on
They aren't really being hit too hard by big ticket splurges as by the fact that the tranch runs at a net loss (I'd be interested if anyone has an estimate of average monthly incomings/outgoings). If you're going to run as a loss you need a backer with deep pockets and a commitment to cover the shortfall long term, and their Twitter buddies are starting to get cold feet. Don't forget they're in a small pond fighting for grift dollars with every other troon appeal for surgery/rent/phone bills/art commissions, the thing TLL did right was sell their sob story outside the troon echochamber and get celebrities and generally charitable people onside, for a while at least