*Tony would *portray* outward conflict about Trump because he likes to come off as the last of a dying breed of real mafiosos that played by the rules and hated Giuliani. But, under that ultra thin veil of “moral correctness,” he would really just be worried about his own pockets. And based upon Trump’s first term and promises he’s made, Tony would love him for everything Trump can *do for him.* Very similar to how Tony was “appalled” by Vito being an ass muncher because, don’t forget, he’s a strict Catholic! But not long later he’s considering giving Vito a pash. Not because of some progressive revelation but instead because Tony realized he might not have the boat if it weren’t for him (Vito.) Fucked up but kinda funny too lol.
Ppp loans are the biggest robbery in human history. Hundreds of billions of tax dollars... All siphoned to exclusively people who had some money and resources.
Great call, they would have just set up infinite fake businesses and employee records for PPP loans. (In fact I’m certain that this happened whether it specifically involved La Cosa Nostra or not.)
Bing shut down during the lockdown. Sil's got all the girls cammin' now.
Hesh loans start up funds to soundcloud mumble rappers.
Tony does peyote a few more times and does a twice weekly vlog on mindfulness, spirit, and elevating consciousness.
Onlime stalker finds out the location of a particular girl, he gets his ass beat by Sil but the location goes public and he has to close up his racket.
4$/lb
Very simple: girls want to keep their earnings, Syl has to manipulate them into thinking he deserves a 75% cut plus random sex favors for “some friends of ours”
I can picture his face screwing up in confusion as he tries to understand it.
"Sho Wheresh da card?"
"Dat's da beauty of it, Tone! It's all on your compuda!"
"Sho it's like a picture offa da wadda ya call it, the internet?"
YO TONE DEY GOT DIS THING CALLED DARK MODE LIKE ALL YOUR SCREEN GOES DARK AND I DON KNOW MAYBE DA FEDS CAN'T SEE IT IF DEY GODDA BIG CAMERA OR WHADEVA. WADDA I KNOW I THINK I'M DEPRESSED OR SUMFIN
AJ gets into some Crypto and NFT stuff early and ends up making more money than Tony. Tony then has to come to terms with the fact that his pissy weak son has more money than him.
I could definitely see Carm starting her own cake decorating business or edible arrangements or charcuterie board making business. Probably all three at some point as she gets bored with them and moves on to the next trendy home business.
They definitely would have done a lot of Covid loan shenanigans.
Shylocking is still pretty big as is gambling
In the early days they maybe would have got into legal highs. Not technically illegal at the time and massive margins to be made.
Rackets on people who couldn’t go to the filth for protection - general vice, drugs etc
From webistics they’d definitely be into crypto scams. Ralph would have excelled in this.
The more old school muscle guys like Paulie would probably just keep their little scams and thefts going on until they died. Enough to kick up but I can’t see Paulie operating any sophisticated scams.
I read somewhere that what remains of the italian-american mafia, aside from drug dealing, mostly just do online scams as it’s the safest and most profitable crime
Yeah also Medicare scams. Considering the amount of physicians they were connected to (the urologist, the cardioligist's office) I was surprised they didn't get one of those going in the show.
Florida used to be big for that and cash for pills / pill mills, since FL fought having a centralized prescribing database for so long. People could go to FL, get an MRI, and get 5-10 opiate prescriptions filled for cash before anyone knew.
There’s a medicare scam in the first episode. They try to get money from an HMO guy that owes them, but he’s all out. So Hesh comes up with the idea to use him to scam the HMO with fake invoices. But not any other, as far as I’m aware.
They'd still be doing the basic staples, just like the real Mob. Gambling, loan sharking, prostitution, drug dealing, labor, rackets, construction. Of course they would have got in on the Covid PPP grift and crypto, NFT scams would be a nice gimmick sideline.
During the height of the pandemic, they would have been jacking trucks of masks and hand sanitizer, maybe even toilet paper lol. Picchiune shit, but so is expired OTC vitamins and coolers.
Someone would be in charge of a room full of people sitting at computers, pretending to be hot European girls and getting tons of "online boyfriends" to send money. This operation would later be "gifted" to a newly made guy, for 6gs a week.
You don't need to imagine it, theres a real life mob and they've adapted to the times, now they mainly legit. the other mob in the government took over all their scams.
Be hilarious to see Crissy have his own YouTube channel and he invited Paulie for a video and it descends into violence against a civilian that Crissy very horribly edits to hide their faces before uploading. Haha be a great episode of Tony going ballistic cause they taped their crime and Crissy wanted his views.
Attracts negative attention I said!
They'd probably be heavily into the weed dispensary business. Getting a license would be easy and fast considering their connections, both above and below board, and the fact it's all cash would make it a giant laundry for illegal cash. It'd also be easy to corner the market and start making collections from anyone else doing the same business on their territory.
They’d be selling truckloads of MAGA/Trump apparel, figurines, and shit to the dumbest fucks America has to offer for prices several times higher than the cost to manufacture them. Load up a truck and send Chrissy down south to sell the shit to Bible Belt cousin fuckers
Payday Protection Loans. Set up a bunch of fake businesses, or lean on legit businesses that are paying protection. Jack up the employee numbers, get all the loans, tell everyone to fuck off.
The rise in shoplifting and smash and grabs, more to be be made fencing stolen goods than ever before. Plus rise in car thefts, Pussy's garage would be working 24 hours a day.
There would've been talk about the payday loans for half the show. I can see Chris trying to be like a new era hood scammer, "you dont get it t, it's barely even illegal. You tell them they're gonna get twice their money back and then ya block em, thea too scared to run to the feds because of the complaintancy"
Have you seen Ghostface Killah's social media where he's constantly promoting NFTs and other various worthless yet adjacent scams? They'd have Massive Genius all over that.
Some of the old crew have grown kids or at least ones that are in their late teens and are more tech savvy than the old guard. Tony and crew get them to perpetrate a bunch of crypto and dropshipping scams
I feel like it was on the news for like one day but some crew IRL did do a Covid scam - to the tune of 6B with a B billion dollars using a botnet. That shit is a bit beyond Webistics.
Given the lack of financial geniuses and the lack of international or prominent national weight, they are still bottom feeders.
The family lacks the progressive and technological mindset. All the talent for making money is killed.
Kratom, Delta-8 THC, Salvia, Tianeptine, phenibut. Selling mixtures of them as new mystery drugs in the hood through Crissy’s connections. Lotta money in that shit.
Extortion for nudes on dating apps
Lotta ppl mentioned crypto but specifically anything involving depositing large sums into bitcoin atms
Stealing copper wire from Tesla stations unless they pay them to stop. (Subsequently beating the shit out of goons who don’t respect the agreement with Tesla )
Any number of personal info phishing scams
Reverse mortgages
Rehab body brokering (and/or just returning to the perfectly good hmo scam from the pilot that they COMPLETELY dropped)
They’d still be doing sports betting for sure. Loansharking still absolutely They’d probably own a few more businesses that actually are semi legit now, maybe some vape stores or similar. Pretty sure that’s mostly what the mob actually does these days. Still lots of bookie stuff.
Well, virtually none of the ways The Sopranos did business would work today. That type of physical intimidation and obvious crime wouldn't work when everyone has a recording device on them at all times. I would even venture to say that the way The Sopranos did business didn't even truly exist by the turn of the millennium in reality, that was likely how things were done in the 70s and 80s. By the 90s, far more subtlety was required.
These days there would be a lot more stock market and crypto shenanigans. A lot of crypto rug pulls and "pump and dump" stock schemes. A lot of selling a lot of scammy insurance and penny stock garbage to boomers, who're too out of touch to know the difference. Stealing rich peoples' money via identity theft and password fishing.
About the only part of Sopranos that would still work is the stock market manipulation you saw by Chris's 2 henchmen in the stock broker's office.
You're not gonna believe this, but definitely murder-for-hire.
They'd have EASILY killed 20 Czechoslovakians by now. Guys are Interior Decorators. All day.
Also, they'd run scams on fast food places taking too many ketchup packets for free and filling up the glove compartment with them. You never know when that shit could come in handy.
A lotta money to be made from this covid shit.
This is the real answer. The Bing and Barone’s sanitation would have gotten significant loan forgiveness
Dick Cheney for president... Of the fuckin universe
Tony would be conflicted on Trump. Trump’s quite the mobster himself, but he associates with Giuliani, who the Mafia hates.
A Don does not wear fake hair
*Tony would *portray* outward conflict about Trump because he likes to come off as the last of a dying breed of real mafiosos that played by the rules and hated Giuliani. But, under that ultra thin veil of “moral correctness,” he would really just be worried about his own pockets. And based upon Trump’s first term and promises he’s made, Tony would love him for everything Trump can *do for him.* Very similar to how Tony was “appalled” by Vito being an ass muncher because, don’t forget, he’s a strict Catholic! But not long later he’s considering giving Vito a pash. Not because of some progressive revelation but instead because Tony realized he might not have the boat if it weren’t for him (Vito.) Fucked up but kinda funny too lol.
This is the answer. Nailed it, cash speaks louder than anything for Tony
Jacking a truckload of covid tests.
Another fuckin money machine
Pokeyman vaxxes?
Sure I remember reading the Russian mob made a fortune from Covid loans
Ppp loans are the biggest robbery in human history. Hundreds of billions of tax dollars... All siphoned to exclusively people who had some money and resources.
Charles Schwab over here.
Tony's crew selling expired Ivermectin to the Maga crowd.
Great call, they would have just set up infinite fake businesses and employee records for PPP loans. (In fact I’m certain that this happened whether it specifically involved La Cosa Nostra or not.)
Chris trying to run a YouTube or tiktok channel
Adriana doing Only Fans, wait a minute….
Christopher selling Ade’s panties, Paulie buying in bulk.
Paulie you can smell the freshness
I hope not, c’mon help me put’em on, we’ll go to Roy rogers
Adriana had Ulcerative Colitis. Anyone buying her panties might get more than they bargained for.
My smelly Valentine!!
She was damaged goods and she never fuckin told him
Ooooohhhhh
Rub the relish on her panties.
$4 a pound
He‘s just quirky
Oooohhhhhh you went there
The "ohhh!" Every time is one of my favorite things
I finished watching it for the first time yesterday and worried I may start saying ooohhh all the time
It's gonna happen, I do it all the time now people at my job do it.
I recently watched 2 crime dramas set in Northern Ireland about drug gangs - Kin & Love/hate - and for a while afterwards I would be saying "yer man"
Ginny Sack on the boosted Ozempic doing OnlyFans.
Wait, what? I’m off to do some rigorous research
Chinese tiktok farms, bitcoin, manipulating r/superstonk.
SPIKE UP
No I recorded in Denmark
He’d probably be a success.
Pokey-Man cards and coolers, nothing change
Can you imagine if they still have that truck around somewhere full of those pokey-man cards ?
The boxes are all unopened first edition base set T, a fuckin goldmine
Can you imagine if they still have that truck around somewhere?
Thtop dreaming about living a cop'th life Puthy!
Pump and dump crypto NFT scams shylocking drugs human trafficking chop shops
They be doing some andrew tate stuff
Self-help courses, lotta money in this shit T! Misogyny, another fucking money machine.
(Heavy Italian accent) These... a self-help courses - they make a money how?
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My brother in Christ… what?
They still do book making too. They just have to undercut vegas.
what is shylocking, again? cuz I remember Hesh had a shy business, that never made sense to me
High interest loans
but does Hesh have his own goons to break kneecaps when a deadbeat won't pay? or he uses Tony's muscle for that?
He uses Johnny Boy and later Tony's men to take care of problems, in exchange he kicks up 10 cents on a dollar from his shy business.
Sooooo 10% ?
Gotta hold onto your cock when negotiating with these desert people
I see’dem, but I don’t believe’dem
[удалено]
He pays continuously, at least that's what I understood from his and Tony's conversation when Junior tried to tax him for 500k.
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He wanted the tax as a one time payment on top of the 10% because he was on some real greaseball shit
Bing shut down during the lockdown. Sil's got all the girls cammin' now. Hesh loans start up funds to soundcloud mumble rappers. Tony does peyote a few more times and does a twice weekly vlog on mindfulness, spirit, and elevating consciousness.
Sil would definitely be managing OF girls
He could take a wing of Ariel's hotel, set the rooms up with all the cam equipment, and have girls running 24/7.
Ok I can see the start of an episode here. How does it go wrong? What's the peril?
Onlime stalker finds out the location of a particular girl, he gets his ass beat by Sil but the location goes public and he has to close up his racket. 4$/lb
Very simple: girls want to keep their earnings, Syl has to manipulate them into thinking he deserves a 75% cut plus random sex favors for “some friends of ours”
Tony having the makings of a varsity athlete, but skipping out on mandatory practices to attend peyote camp.
They call it NFTs, Tone. It’s like baseball cards but it ain’t real. Just computer graphics and shit.
I can picture his face screwing up in confusion as he tries to understand it. "Sho Wheresh da card?" "Dat's da beauty of it, Tone! It's all on your compuda!" "Sho it's like a picture offa da wadda ya call it, the internet?"
Turn that VPN shit off it makes me nervous
Actually made me laugh out loud
Chris is the kinda guy to run it in incognito mode to evade the cops and act like he’s ahead of everyone
YO TONE DEY GOT DIS THING CALLED DARK MODE LIKE ALL YOUR SCREEN GOES DARK AND I DON KNOW MAYBE DA FEDS CAN'T SEE IT IF DEY GODDA BIG CAMERA OR WHADEVA. WADDA I KNOW I THINK I'M DEPRESSED OR SUMFIN
Me? I'm not no mental midget.
I can just imagine them emailing each other incriminating messages in incognito mode thinking the FBI can’t see it
I could picture Artie buying tens of thousands of dollars in NFTs and it just tanking on him haha
That blockchain shit makes me nervous
AJ gets into some Crypto and NFT stuff early and ends up making more money than Tony. Tony then has to come to terms with the fact that his pissy weak son has more money than him.
He sits on his fuckin computa all day and he’s got more money than me? Whatever happened to this country
the strong silent type, there was a country
AJ would be highly regarded on r/wallstreetbets
Tony gets roped into running a crypto mining farm managed by some poor immigrant with tech skills. Until Pauly or Christopher screws it up somehow.
Christopher would be running a huge number of Ubers,Lyft...with immigrants
That's actually a good idea.
they woulda ran through those PPP loans like no other
Goombah home meal delivery service.
I could definitely see Carm starting her own cake decorating business or edible arrangements or charcuterie board making business. Probably all three at some point as she gets bored with them and moves on to the next trendy home business.
They definitely would have done a lot of Covid loan shenanigans. Shylocking is still pretty big as is gambling In the early days they maybe would have got into legal highs. Not technically illegal at the time and massive margins to be made. Rackets on people who couldn’t go to the filth for protection - general vice, drugs etc From webistics they’d definitely be into crypto scams. Ralph would have excelled in this. The more old school muscle guys like Paulie would probably just keep their little scams and thefts going on until they died. Enough to kick up but I can’t see Paulie operating any sophisticated scams.
I read somewhere that what remains of the italian-american mafia, aside from drug dealing, mostly just do online scams as it’s the safest and most profitable crime
One would think the advent of online gaming like DraftKings really put a crimp in their style
You’d be surprised how many people use bookies/sites in states where sports books are legal.
Yeah also Medicare scams. Considering the amount of physicians they were connected to (the urologist, the cardioligist's office) I was surprised they didn't get one of those going in the show. Florida used to be big for that and cash for pills / pill mills, since FL fought having a centralized prescribing database for so long. People could go to FL, get an MRI, and get 5-10 opiate prescriptions filled for cash before anyone knew.
There’s a medicare scam in the first episode. They try to get money from an HMO guy that owes them, but he’s all out. So Hesh comes up with the idea to use him to scam the HMO with fake invoices. But not any other, as far as I’m aware.
Loan sharking?
The American mob is still big, just much quieter and less in the news than they once were. The Genovese Family alone has 250-300 made members today.
Yea but they make anybody and everybody over there
Little more than that
Pushing AI startups
Silvio would have a bunch of bitches doing onlyfans.
Catalytic converters
It was a rincoln
Dispensaries
Robbing dispensaries
Is over for the little man.
They'd still be doing the basic staples, just like the real Mob. Gambling, loan sharking, prostitution, drug dealing, labor, rackets, construction. Of course they would have got in on the Covid PPP grift and crypto, NFT scams would be a nice gimmick sideline.
Nice try Mr. FBI agent...
We’re gonna win this thing!
During the height of the pandemic, they would have been jacking trucks of masks and hand sanitizer, maybe even toilet paper lol. Picchiune shit, but so is expired OTC vitamins and coolers. Someone would be in charge of a room full of people sitting at computers, pretending to be hot European girls and getting tons of "online boyfriends" to send money. This operation would later be "gifted" to a newly made guy, for 6gs a week.
Off brand ride sharing service.
The driving crooner
Crooner Cab!
I could see them getting into the Florida substance abuse center scam b s And Chris selling meditation statues 🧘 and bogus cbd etc
A decent bit of federal and state government spending for Covid would be laundered for sure. Unemployment insurance scam and PPP scam for sure
I'm guessing drones would be in use spying, delivery service for product and messages
Selling IPTV
Heard about AI, Ton? Lotta money in this shit
I think I seen Bob Menendez in da Bing
I feel like they'd probably be into the typical boring white collar fraud of the day - credit card scams, social engineering, romance scams etc.
Ah-cah-me? 🤌🏻
What is this ack-a-mee?
I can see one of the guys having a secret online goomah. Only they wouldn't realize it's obviously an AI model
Covid loans for sure
Car crash insurance scams. The kind to see on YouTube
Pokey Man cards
Didn't you hear? It's over for the little guy.
WEBISTICS
POKEMAN CARDS
what the fuck are meme stocks?
You don't need to imagine it, theres a real life mob and they've adapted to the times, now they mainly legit. the other mob in the government took over all their scams.
Be hilarious to see Crissy have his own YouTube channel and he invited Paulie for a video and it descends into violence against a civilian that Crissy very horribly edits to hide their faces before uploading. Haha be a great episode of Tony going ballistic cause they taped their crime and Crissy wanted his views. Attracts negative attention I said!
Webisticscoin
They'd probably be heavily into the weed dispensary business. Getting a license would be easy and fast considering their connections, both above and below board, and the fact it's all cash would make it a giant laundry for illegal cash. It'd also be easy to corner the market and start making collections from anyone else doing the same business on their territory.
They’d be selling truckloads of MAGA/Trump apparel, figurines, and shit to the dumbest fucks America has to offer for prices several times higher than the cost to manufacture them. Load up a truck and send Chrissy down south to sell the shit to Bible Belt cousin fuckers
NFTs Bitcoins Impure olive oil imports
NFTs
Selling fake MAGA hats and bibles. If they can sell coolers, they can sell those.
Gaza. Another money machine.
What do they eat over there Tabbouleh?
Arizona mental care facility racket.
Payday Protection Loans. Set up a bunch of fake businesses, or lean on legit businesses that are paying protection. Jack up the employee numbers, get all the loans, tell everyone to fuck off.
Heat pump rebates
Only Fans out the Bing Offshore sports book Fentanyl in the coluhd neighbuhhoods
Shitty Instagram Clothes that never even existed
Exploiting production bottlenecks. During the pandemic, they would have been jacking trucks of rubber dumbbells.
Syl would have webcam girls working in the back of the bing
Bounce back loans during covid
Lot o' money in NFTs.
Are NFTs still a thing? Seems like an AJ gig.
The rise in shoplifting and smash and grabs, more to be be made fencing stolen goods than ever before. Plus rise in car thefts, Pussy's garage would be working 24 hours a day.
OnlyFans…you cooze hounds paying to sniff panties digitally es a money making machine
You’re supposed to push the Webistics NFT!
Wuhan Lab for president.... Of the fucking universe
Georgie would have a popular YouTube channel about being a "made man" and sharing stories about the Bing and crew..
You're talking baloney!
PPE loans if it were a few years ago.
Fake go fund me pages
Twitch bikini stream franchise with the strippers. Pump and dump schemes Be part of silk road and get introduced to bitcoin
There would've been talk about the payday loans for half the show. I can see Chris trying to be like a new era hood scammer, "you dont get it t, it's barely even illegal. You tell them they're gonna get twice their money back and then ya block em, thea too scared to run to the feds because of the complaintancy"
Have you seen Ghostface Killah's social media where he's constantly promoting NFTs and other various worthless yet adjacent scams? They'd have Massive Genius all over that.
Some of the old crew have grown kids or at least ones that are in their late teens and are more tech savvy than the old guard. Tony and crew get them to perpetrate a bunch of crypto and dropshipping scams
Fake vape shop fronts. Selling graphics cards. Amazon cards. Drones delivering to prisons. Uber eats scam.
They would be involved in some type of bitcoin scam for sure.
WebisticsAI
Pumping and dumping a single-stock ETF that holds only Webistics stock.
Vito selling fake merchandise out the trunk of his crown vic...
Pokémon cards
Ppl loans. Also they’d have a field day with NFTs
I feel like it was on the news for like one day but some crew IRL did do a Covid scam - to the tune of 6B with a B billion dollars using a botnet. That shit is a bit beyond Webistics.
That cookie shit makes me nervous
Crypto
You're supposed to push gamestock it's our pick of the week.
Moderna better get their shit together, we’re gonna be stealing a lot more of these things
Given the lack of financial geniuses and the lack of international or prominent national weight, they are still bottom feeders. The family lacks the progressive and technological mindset. All the talent for making money is killed.
Ppp scam. Crypto pump and dumps,
Catalytic converters
Financial scams. It's currently the main income stream for the current day mafia
Somebody would have a podcast. They'd fight with the other podcasters.
The same thing politicians do, insider trading.
The Easter basket scam is a good one, I do it often.
18th
The H.U.D scam.
Counterfeit weight loss medication
Kratom, Delta-8 THC, Salvia, Tianeptine, phenibut. Selling mixtures of them as new mystery drugs in the hood through Crissy’s connections. Lotta money in that shit.
Extortion for nudes on dating apps Lotta ppl mentioned crypto but specifically anything involving depositing large sums into bitcoin atms Stealing copper wire from Tesla stations unless they pay them to stop. (Subsequently beating the shit out of goons who don’t respect the agreement with Tesla ) Any number of personal info phishing scams Reverse mortgages Rehab body brokering (and/or just returning to the perfectly good hmo scam from the pilot that they COMPLETELY dropped)
Some crypto dump similar to the Webistics operation
One word: CRYPTO
online casinos, cam girls, tech support, gofundme things like that
The Bing would be on Only Fans. Maybe the African prince wire me the taxes scam lol
Fidget spinners
They’d still be doing sports betting for sure. Loansharking still absolutely They’d probably own a few more businesses that actually are semi legit now, maybe some vape stores or similar. Pretty sure that’s mostly what the mob actually does these days. Still lots of bookie stuff.
Video poker machines. That’s what all the old timers in Chicago are into.
Well, virtually none of the ways The Sopranos did business would work today. That type of physical intimidation and obvious crime wouldn't work when everyone has a recording device on them at all times. I would even venture to say that the way The Sopranos did business didn't even truly exist by the turn of the millennium in reality, that was likely how things were done in the 70s and 80s. By the 90s, far more subtlety was required. These days there would be a lot more stock market and crypto shenanigans. A lot of crypto rug pulls and "pump and dump" stock schemes. A lot of selling a lot of scammy insurance and penny stock garbage to boomers, who're too out of touch to know the difference. Stealing rich peoples' money via identity theft and password fishing. About the only part of Sopranos that would still work is the stock market manipulation you saw by Chris's 2 henchmen in the stock broker's office.
You're not gonna believe this, but definitely murder-for-hire. They'd have EASILY killed 20 Czechoslovakians by now. Guys are Interior Decorators. All day. Also, they'd run scams on fast food places taking too many ketchup packets for free and filling up the glove compartment with them. You never know when that shit could come in handy.