Just posted: Tens of thousands of pages of documents we used to write "Trump Revealed." Rummage around: https://t.co/slPzOj0DhA
— Marc Fisher (@mffisher) August 30, 2016
Because I am not a professional, I keep thinking this should’ve been headlined “You can’t make this stuff up, folks!” Good use of low-cost interactive media, just in case you’re stuck at a family reunion for someone else’s family or kept indoors during your vacation trip by a spate of nasty weather. When reporters say it’s impossible to keep up with the sheer volume of Trump research, they’re not kidding:
The Post is making public today a sizable portion of the raw reporting used in the development of “Trump Revealed,” a biography of the Republican presidential nominee published August 23 by Scribner. Drawn from the work of more than two dozen Post journalists, the archive contains 408 documents, comprising thousands of pages of interview transcripts, court filings, financial reports, immigration records and other material. Interviews conducted off the record were removed, as was other material The Post did not have the right to publish. The archive is searchable and navigable in a number of ways. It is meant as a resource for other journalists and a trove to explore for our many readers fascinated by original documents.
bluefish
Thank you! Trump Shrugs while some of us will be reading up.
scav
If I remember correctly, this is where and how things get interesting.
Betty Cracker
Well, good for them for releasing the documents so other journalists can pick it over. But as the belle of the Beltway ball, maybe it would have been better for WaPo to devote its considerable resources to a more concerted effort to “reveal” Trump in the form of newspaper articles from one of the nation’s most influential papers rather than a book almost no one will read. They do have diligent reporters — David Fahrenthold has done yeoman’s work exploding the myth that Trump is a philanthropist. But they sure as hell don’t vet Trump with the zeal they devote to Hillary Clinton’s goddamn emails, and if this book is supposed to do that, it’s way too little, way too late.
Frankensteinbeck
@scav:
Eeyup. A whole lot of monkeys just got the key to the banana plantation. How they try to get it out, and who tries to suppress it, will be informative.
MattF
Looks like the professionals are simply overwhelmed by the volume of Trump material. I can see why reporters would be reluctant to attempt to sift through it all– it’s all deliberately obscured by people who are paid big money to make it obscure, and in the event you succeed in figuring it out, you’ve become the world’s expert on some aspect of Donald Trump’s dishonesty, so… congratulations, I guess.
Cat48
Trump had to go for another Intel briefing today, Hillz must have asked more questions than him & they had to pull DT in for the same briefing she got.
Hillz made a speech to American Legion & raised money this week, but the press is whining that she needs to get out there bc numbers are tightening.
Remember what Obama did during the Pres campaign? The press traveled with him everywhere. Well Trump doesn’t want them on his plane, but the press nagged Hillz & she said she will put them on her plane after Labor Day & maybe talk to them too. Heh
Miss Bianca
o/t, but any cat people out there who have experience dealing with allergies, please advise! One of my friends adopted two of the bleg rescue kitties last week and she thinks she may be allergic to them! She’s had cats before with no problems, so we’re not sure what’s going on – can you be allergic to one sort of cat dander and not another?? Are there good meds or other solutions? She doesn’t want to give them back, but she also doesn’t want to go thru’ life sneezing and itching! Help!
Amir Khalid
Would The Washington Post have undertaken this considerable effort if it hadn’t already been at war with Donald Trump? Still, this looks like a very important archive. It would be nice if there were the resources to do do this with more people in the news — certainly with people running for office
Frankensteinbeck
@Miss Bianca:
Every cat’s level of allergens is different. Allergies are something that can happen over time. The only effective long-term treatment is allergy shots, and it is a slow and inconvenient process.
Cat48
@Betty Cracker:
Did your home & your chickens make it,thru Hermine ok? I hope I don’t lose power. It’s due here around 2:00pm :(
MattF
@Miss Bianca: Not an expert– but I became rather allergic to cats in my late 20’s… the result, I think, of romancing a woman who had four cats in her small apartment. Anti-histamines can help with immediate problems, but you mostly have to just stay away.
Peale
Someone posted this below (sorry I didn’t catch the commentator). But I might as well put it on an open thread. Yep. I, who never voted for Trump in a primary and will never vote for him in the general, am to blame for him because I thought John McCain was indeed a vindictive, erratic, temperamentally unsound for the job old coot. I feel a little ashamed now, since the past 8 years have proven that he actually would have been worse than I thought at the job.
Mike in NC
Meh. The Beltway stenographers will continue to give Drumpf and his ugly gang of thugs unlimited free airtime for the rest of this scampaign.
rikyrah
@MattF:
Give the financial stuff to David Cay Johnston. He can make sense of it and explain it in simple terms.
Betty Cracker
@Cat48: Yep — we came through fine! Chickens are disgruntled but healthy. We have lots of standing water in the yard, road, etc., and a few downed tree limbs, but overall, we were lucky. We only lost power intermittently and for brief periods, which was a huge relief since we’ve got fish tanks that would require manual aerating if the power stayed down. Hope you come through it unscathed — good luck!
Cat48
@Miss Bianca:
Long haired cats bother me, like John’s Steve. I just can’t keep it cleaned up between my sneezing & coughing. I always had short-haired cats & 24 Allegra took care of the symptoms. I had shots about 30 yrs ago, but never went back for them.
otto
Trump pursues Qaddafi’s oil money in 2009. Invites him to rent his estate in Westchester so that Qaddafi can erect his traditional tent. They don’t care.
Imagine the right wing outrage if Hillary had even a few documents like these.
Major Major Major Major
@Betty Cracker: “Disgruntled Chickens” would be a good name for, I don’t know, an all-female Atomic Rooster tribute band.
Cat48
@Betty Cracker:
Thanks Betty, you were lucky with intermittent power. I hope we have a similar experience. Chickens will be better when sun comes out. :)
CONGRATULATIONS!
@Miss Bianca: Absolutely. I am allergic but had them most of my life. Most cats are not a big deal. I hardly have any reaction to grey tabby cats, for example. Your typical orange tabby can have me hunting for an inhaler in five minutes.
Tried ’em all, never found one. Claritin seemed to work well but gives me vicious migraines, so no thanks. I’ll desensitize to any specific cat within a few weeks regardless, but not everyone is that lucky.
dslak
The New York Times would assign some journalists to pore over all these documents, but there are too many Clinton Foundation stories to be written yet.
gene108
@Betty Cracker:
I don’t think all the vetting in the world would’ve stopped Trump.
The outlines of his flaws have been in the public eye for 35 years. His divorces were messy public affairs, covered by New York and national tabloids.
His bankruptcies were all sort of reported on in the media, especially his first bankruptcy, in the early 1990’s, which I remember reading about in Time magazine.
At the first Fox News debate, last August, they tried to corner him on his bankruptcies and he just brushed it off with “hey, I didn’t break any laws, it’s these other guys on stage who make that stuff legal. Not my fault they let me do it” and that was that.
While the rest of the Republican field kept their racism and hate dialed to a 6 or 7, so they wouldn’t blow up the system, Trump came in and cranked his to 11 or 12, so everyone heard, without a doubt, what he was talking about.
And the Republican base loved him for it.
I think the bigger issue is the media allowing the rest of the Republican Party to distance themselves from Trump and his base of racist supporters.
They’ve basically allowed the Republicans to isolate Trump and even though they all agree with him on everything, policy wise, they are not called out on it. No one asks down ticket Republicans, “what policies of Donald Trump’s do you agree or disagree with?”.
They just pretend Trump’s somehow different from the rest of the Republicans, instead of being their Party’s nominee for President, pushing a platform their best and brightest drafted, with little input from the Trump campaign (except for some bit about Russian and Ukraine) and that is the most draconian conservative platform, by a major party, in decades.
Edit: How hard is it to ask a candidate for Senator that if Trump were President, would you vote to authorize him to deport 11 million people and build The Great Wall of America.
1,000 Flouncing Lurkers (was fidelioscabinet)
@Miss Bianca: Zyrtec or Claritin (and their generics) work for me, as do the nasal steroids, which are also now OTC. As our valued fellow commenter CONGRATULATIONS! has noted, it’s possible to adjust to the cat once you’ve been around it for a while.
Zippity
O/T I just had to share this. I’m in the Starbucks drive-thru behind an older white couple driving a Prius sporting a Trump over Hil-Liar sticker. Oh, the cognitive dissonance!
Face
Unless there’s emails involved, Chuck Toddler doesn’t hunt.
Peale
You know, I thought a few nights sleep and I’d get over being angry about Trump’s speech on Wednesday night. Seriously, if Hillary got up on stage and said that there was an education crisis and she’d hire 500,000 teachers to help solve it and then cited the low high school drop out rates and high teen pregnancy rates to inflame the crowd, the boys in the press would reach right to their pocket calculators and find out that the whole crisis was a load of horse pucky and complain about how much their taxes would go up to hire all those teachers and would talk about how she just wants to continue to throw money at the problem.
But they all seem to agree with Trump’s basic premise that there is an immigration crisis, one so acute that hiring 500,000 more border patrol agents seems to be a reasonable response. I mean, his proposal couldn’t be seen to be out of proportion to the situation and only made to seem proportional by lying about the number of criminal immigrants and inflating the types of crimes such criminals committing. A republican says its a crisis, so it must be. And since it involves “law enforcement”, it must be a hard line approach and not an expensive boondoggle he’s talking about.
The next reporter who writes immigration crisis without quotation marks gets a bloody nose in the coming revolution. Cause you know if it were, say, 2004 and John Kerry were talking about an “infrastructure crisis” or a “renewable energy catastrophe waiting to happen”, you know they would have laughed him off the stage.
Peale
I wonder if cats are ever allergic to dogs. Or for that matter other cats. Or humans. Cats have allergies, right? That’s not just a human problem
SFAW
@otto:
Well, what do you think the missing
Vince FosterBenghaziiii!!!!Sec StateJudge CraterAldrich Amese-mails are? They’re the smoking gnus!Steeplejack (phone)
@gene108:
I, too, am mad that Trump is not being hung around the necks of the Republicans like a boat anchor. The press is covering him like some kind of unprecedented weather event—”Tonight: Trumpnado-pocalypse Day 391!”—that came out of nowhere and after whose collapse McConnell, Ryan and the rest of the Republicans will emerge from their storm cellars and say, “Wow, nobody saw that coming! Okay, back to business as usual.”
Amir Khalid
@SFAW:
This would make a great band name.
SFAW
@Zippity:
And you pull up next to them, drop your window, and in as calm a voice as you can muster, say “I don’t know how to tell you this, but some psychopath — or just some dumb-as-a-stump asshole — vandalized your car’s bumper with some ridiculous bumper stickers. You two look semi-rational, so I know it couldn’t have been you.”
Anoniminous
Some “journalist” (sic) needs to compile a BenghaziFoundationEmailgate book that will expose the SheDevilfromHell for WHAT SHE IS!
Balance and the HORSE! RACE! demands it.
Betty Cracker
@gene108: Maybe one of the problems is that Beltway reporters think since all that stuff about Trump is out there if anyone cares to Google it, it doesn’t need to be reported on now. That’s not the case. There are people who will vote in this election who weren’t born when you were reading about Trump’s bankruptcies in Time magazine.
The Beltway press allows Trump to mostly skate on all sorts of shit, including his refusal to release tax returns, his blatantly racist birtherism and the alleged team he sent to Hawaii to investigate PBO’s birth certificate, the Trump U scam, the bogus Trump Steaks, etc., his racist, bloodthirsty fearmongering around the Central Park jogger case, etc., etc., etc. It’s just unprecedented.
I agree that the other Republicans aren’t held to account for Trump’s policies nearly to the degree they should be, but I’d argue it’s not so much that the press has allowed the GOP to distance itself from Trump but rather because too many political reporters are mainstreaming Trump’s outrageous lies and absurd positions.
SFAW
@Amir Khalid:
Yeah, but ‘Muricans would mispeel it probably, or think it’s an homage to Fox.
JPL
@SFAW: Now you are being mean to gnus.
Steeplejack (phone)
@SFAW:
“The Smoking Gnus.” Band name! Yeah, no.
SFAW
@Anoniminous:
I believe the proper speeling is “journamalist,” by the way.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
Utterly off-topic, but I know there is a ton of dog lovers here… Science Friday on NPR is doing a bit on the science of dogs today. Check your local listings on your FM dial.
Now, back to your regularly-scheduled programming (or de-programming).
SFAW
@JPL:
If they don’t like it, they can swim over and try to find me. I’ll be ready.
SFAW
@Steeplejack (phone):
Amir seems to disagree with you, and I try not to argue with Amir.
Frankensteinbeck
@gene108:
The last thing they want is to admit that the Republican Party is motivated by racism. It’s bad for business, they might have to admit they themselves are racist, their friends and personal heroes would be uncovered as villains, and many more motivations besides all come together here.
@Peale:
Well, yeah. They’re ‘polite’ racist Republicans. They were completely terrified of ISIS sending ebola infected immigrants to the US. They’re worried Muslims may be inherently terrorists, and the first thing they ask themselves when an unarmed black man is murdered by cops is ‘Was he a scary thug?’ For that matter, they worship ‘entitlement reform.’ This is an overwhelming trend in newscasters and major newspaper journalists.
Anoniminous
@SFAW:
Noted.
(Sorry for the delay. I was off smoking gnus.)
Miss Bianca
@CONGRATULATIONS!: She had a short-haired grey tabby before!
@1,000 Flouncing Lurkers (was fidelioscabinet): I’ll suggest the Claritin and the Zyrtec to her. Thanks all!
Aleta
@MattF:
Added to that, the work of publication could be slowed by extreme caution, due to ongoing corporate efforts to reduce protection for the press and informants + his known practice of litigious harassment.
Mai.naem.mobile
I am hoping all Trump gets during the intelligence briefing is about the constitutional crisis in Genovia where Princess Mia has refused to marry to assume the throne after the unfortunate death of her grandmother,the Queen. Also the famine and drought in Ydyiocruhsey from the extensive use of rondo and the problems President Camacho is having.
dmsilev
Turns out, Hillary was right. Trump can be baited with a Tweet:
Starfish
@Peale: My mom’s dog gets allergies in the summer.
Ruckus
@Miss Bianca:
I’d say yes cats vary.
I’ve been very allergic to a particular cat and not bothered by others at all.
Frankensteinbeck
@dmsilev:
Oh, wow. Yeah, the white power groups will eat that threatening, condescending phrasing UP.
Mike E
@SFAW: The Bewilderbeests!
SFAW
@dmsilev:
You say that as if there were ever any doubt.
SFAW
@Mike E:
Not bad, but “smoking bewilderbeests” doesn’t have the same flow as “gnus.” Besides, commenter “The bewilderness” might already have a copyright on the name.
Riley's Enabler
@Peale: Yep. My littlest demon shares the same seasonal allergies as me – I can tell they are coming because his eyes start watering a day or two before mine. I have meds for him but mostly we just suffer through a week or two of snot together.
As far as being allergic TO them, I have issues with my one semi-longhair (can’t pet him and touch my face or KAPOW). The other two are less so. I keep OTC allergy eyedrops on hand but mostly i just don’t touch my face.
Peale
@Mai.naem.mobile: Would he catch on if we added that Princess Toadstool has been rescued from Bowser which should end the crisis in the Mushroom Kingdom?
scav
@SFAW: He’d look good sporting a little blue-winged fishhook in his pursed lips.
Peale
@Riley’s Enabler: Ah, PopSci has an answer. Cats aren’t often allergic to humans but allergic to our soap residue.
Amir Khalid
@Steeplejack (phone):
“The Smoking Gnus” would make a great band name precisely because you wouldn’t think of it as a band name.
SFAW
@scav:
I was thinking more along the lines of a gaff. Although that may obviate the need for bait, I guess.
Mai.naem.mobile
@Zippity: Driving around Phoenix ive seen three Trumpy stickers, two also had Hillary 4 Prison 2016 stickers. Thats way fewer than Romney or McCain/Palin stickers I saw during 08 and 12 but I don’t think I drive in conservative areas as much as I used to. BTW, ive seen easily a dozen HRC
Bex
@Miss Bianca: I read about a similar situation at TinyKittens. The adopter had never had allergy problems with previous cats, but had them with the new one. Kitty was rehomed. Not sure, but I think another was adopted with no problems. Apparently you can be allergic to some kitties and not others.
Peale
For Davao City, I’m going with drug dealers not Islamic terrorists.
Archon
The truth is we have an economic and political system that rewards people who are sociopaths and narcissists. Fox News and the Republican Party are just a microcosm of our malignant system.
D58826
@Betty Cracker: AQlong the same liners from Dick Poleman reporting on the fair and balanced both sides do it media coverage of ‘scandals’
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/national-interest/item/96845-holiday-weekend-quartet-mccains-key-message-and-lots-more
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
The debate moderators have been announced:
I predict lots of email questions.
Feathers
@Miss Bianca: A friend had a child develop an allergy to their cat. The vet recommended seeing if the cat would put up with being bathed. Amazingly, it didn’t mind at all, and a weekly bath for the cat with some sort of cat shampoo meant an allergy free household.
@Peale: Another friend was just telling me the travails of how their old cat is allergic to the new cat. As she was telling me about the meds, and the vet trips for shots, and generally miserable life for old cat, I almost got angry. She was blithely that this wasn’t a problem at all, they were willing to do the work. She’s ranted before about “irresponsible” people who rehome pets. I would not subject a pet I already owned to an objectively shitty life, just because I had decided to adopt a second cat. (Would find great home for new cat, of course.)
Uncle Cosmo
@Mai.naem.mobile: I suspect the observed frequency of HRC bumperstickers underestimates her support drastically, out of a fear that Drumpf’s knuckldragging mouthbreathing minions would vandalize any car sporting one.
I live in a massively Democratic section of Baltimore City & am refraining from putting one on because some of the places I find myself at times are racist hothead hotbeds.
Juju
@MattF: And yet those very same reporters have combed over every last Clinton email out of 1000s.
Mnemosyne
@Miss Bianca:
Bathing the cat once a month can help, and if they’re kittens, she can get them used to it. Gentle cat shampoo, use the sprayer in the sink rather than immerse them, and put a screen or cooling rack in the bottom of the sink for them to hold onto. Also, she should vacuum every day, and may need to keep them out of the bedroom.
Was Lefty Kitty ever found? I was worried all night. ?
Zippity
@SFAW: I really wish I would have thought that fast!
redshirt
I had Obama stickers but I took them off after the 2014 election because 1. He’s not running for anything anymore and 2. I was tired of getting hassled by rednecks.
I won’t put a Clinton on for that reason as well.
Tokyokie
@Miss Bianca: Humans are not allergic to cat dander per se. Rather, humans are allergic to an enzyme found in cats’ saliva. Because cats are constantly grooming themselves, their fur becomes covered with saliva and the allergen enzyme, and because long-haired cats’ fur will soak up more saliva than that of short-haired kitties, the allergic reaction to long-haired cats tends to be more pronounced. However, different cats will produce different amounts of the offending enzyme, thus susceptible humans will have a greater reaction to some cats than others. And although it’s a long-haired breed, I’ve read that Balinese cats produce less of the enzyme and are a good choice for prospective pet owners with allergies.
Weaselone
@Juju:
That’s apparently not the case. It looks like it’s Judicial Watch that actually combs over the emails and then forwards them to the press along with misleading memos which the media then regurgitates without fact checking.
Major Major Major Major
@Tokyokie: interesting! Thanks.
MomSense
@Miss Bianca:
Wait a minute, did you find your office kitty???
sigaba
Bezos making a play.
Peale
@Weaselone: Yep. I was going to add that. The only other people who are probably combing through those e-mails outside of JW is the Clinton Campaign. I hope if Lester asks her a question about these controversies, she’ll just ask him which e-mail he’s referring to.
kindness
Doesn’t take Kreskin to know the beltway media will pick apart the documents and declare “It’s all Hillary’s fault!”.
Rinse, repeat.
Major Major Major Major
The Smoking Gnus would probably have great album covers.
Miss Bianca
@Mnemosyne: Lefty Kitty is still missing. : (
THanks for the bathing tip – I’ll pass it along!
kindness
@redshirt: I will put a Hillary sticker on my car but I put it on a magnet and slap the magnet on and peel it off and stash it as needed. It worked for Obama twice. It’ll work for Hillary.
Juju
@Weaselone: I heard newscasters talk about how they are going over the latest batch of teleased emails. I think Andrea Mitchell and Rachel Madow for certain. I’m not surprised to hear about judicial watch though.
Poopyman
@SFAW:
Are you sure that wasn’t just Joe Camel?
Major Major Major Major
@Miss Bianca: Nooooooooo
You checked all the cabinets and stuff like somebody was saying, right? One time Samwise got stuck in the coat closet and his meows weren’t really making it through the door.
Roger Moore
@gene108:
But he is. You just have to remember that the media is unwilling to judge anything by content, only by tone. You can advocate for the vilest policies, and as long as you do it while wearing nice clothes, speaking in an even tone, and avoiding expletives, the media will treat you as a serious person. Trump breaks the mold by shouting and using crude language. That makes him very different from most other Republicans. The fact that his policies are fairly bog standard Republican is beside the point.
Miss Bianca
@Major Major Major Major: We’ve been jumpy as fleas and checking everything we can…it’s even possible that she could have got into the walls from a hole in my office closet…or that she could have been nailed by a fox or other critter. I’m pretty heartsick right now.
Keith G
Some news items are just so delicious….
From today’s Guardian
Roger Moore
@Keith G:
Nobody votes for the Greens because they demand the most competent candidate.
MomSense
@Miss Bianca:
Noooooo!
Lefty Kitty you get home this instant!
scav
@Keith G: Geography. it’s not very green. Plus, the extra gas guzzled between wrong and correct destinations will win over the all-critical rolling-coal vote.
Peale
@Roger Moore: No Republican has run on “Build the Wall” before. I’ve never heard of that before just now. Where did this idea suddenly come from? Heck, there’s a video up on Raw Story where new strongman David Bossie is comparing illegal immigrants to rats. That seems so dehumanizing. There’s never been a Republican candidate campaign staff member who has done that before.
Keith G
@Roger Moore: I should cut her some slack. She only had a 1 in 3 blind chance.
Amir Khalid
@Keith G:
Jill Stein is simply not ready for a chief executive’s job. No matter how pure her progressive heart is, she cannot afford to have a staff that can’t catch such a basic mistake.
SFAW
@Keith G:
Good thing there’s no city named “Clueless” there, she’d probably never leave.
Gelfling 545
@Miss Bianca: If you haven’t had a cat in a while, you can react for a bit until you get used to it again. This has been my personal experience.
SFAW
@Peale:
That you know of.
Major Major Major Major
@Keith G: Oh my god that’s amazing. She’s such an idiot.
bystander
In contrast to Trump’s enabling Qaddafi, we have a real “pay for play” when Hitlery used the State Department to get a diplomatic passport so Bill could take his gal pal to a party in Dubai.
Or take his assistant with him to rescue two girls held captive by North Korea. Depending on how you squint while reading the b/s NYTimes hit piece.
Aleta
@Steeplejack (phone):
exactly put, S’jack
Gvg
If you raise them to put up with baths starting young cats will put up with them fine. I had a show cat purebred once who was trained. I liked the conveinence but never had the time to train the regular ones. The saliva causing the allergy is best removed by soaking in water per experts. The special soaps don’t actually help. Try bathing them at least once in case they came with something on them. It could also be a timing coincidence and time will tell. If friend is allergic she needs to not allow them on pillow and probably not on bed. Vacuume a lot.
SFAW
@Major Major Major Major:
Well, maybe she’ll tweet out some new picture of her doing the “tee-hee” thing from a few days ago, label it a “dank meme,” and then it’ll all be good, because that’s the kind of hep cat she is, daddy-o.
WaterGirl
@Peale: My dog has allergies, and when they got the test results back from the vet, they said “you’ll never guess what Tucker’s most reactive to”. When they told me, I actually snorted out loud (always so attractive!). Cats, they said. He is allergic to his two kitty siblings.
Roger Moore
@Peale:
The point, though, is that policy doesn’t matter to the media, only tone. They only reason they have any reservations about Trump at all is because he’s crude and shouty. If he dressed and spoke like George Will, he could talk about The Final Solution to the immigrant problem, and talking heads would nod sagely and say he had raised valid points.
Mnemosyne
@Miss Bianca:
Nnnnoooooo! You may need to wait for a quiet time (maybe late in the day) when there are no cars or people around and walk slowly around the perimeter of the building shaking a bag of food. Cats will sometimes hide nearby but be afraid to come out. They can get into very small spaces, so look even in holes and cracks you think she couldn’t fit into.
Lefty, come home right now!
Trollhattan
@Keith G:
I take a modest amount of relief in the fact that the good doctor is no longer practicing and thus, not directly threatening the lives and well-being of numerous patients. She’s got a hobby, instead!
Aleta
reposted
WaterGirl
@Keith G: That was good for a big laugh.
Bex
Could Lefty have cornered a mouse somewhere and it stalking it? Cats can be still for a long time waiting to pounce.
Aleta
Also in the Guardian today, Atlantic City after Trump:
“Bob McDevitt, president of the casino workers union Unite Here Local 54, said it was Icahn and Trump, not the workers, who plunged the Taj into crisis by sucking money out of the city during the good times and not investing in the future.
“Trump made a lot of money off of it [the Taj and its bankruptcies],” McDevitt said. “He rifled through the Taj Mahal at the last bankruptcy in 2009, he basically took all the money and left…. He basically sucked the life and the money and the fortune out of this property – it’s a dried-up husk and the workers are left to deal with it [as] he goes on his merry way and goes on to run for president.”
Trump hasn’t been shy about the money he has made in the city. “I made a lot of money in Atlantic City and left 7 years ago, great timing (as all know),” he said.
McDevitt said Trump’s “name has been on it for the entire 23 months that these workers have been put on the rack by Carl Icahn. If my name was on the casino after 23 months of torturing the workforce, I would demand it be taken off the property.”
McDevitt, who was born and bred in Atlantic City, said: “If you want to know what the country is going to look like two years into a Trump administration with Carl Icahn as treasury secretary, you don’t have to look any further than Atlantic City and the Taj Mahal. The future is workers working for a wage; no benefits, no healthcare, no future, no meaningful jobs.” …
More than 8,000 jobs have been lost and nearly 3,000 more will go when the Taj closes, a devastating loss in this already struggling city. Within the past five years the city’s tax revenues have fallen by 70%, and (Mayor) Guardian is having to make severe cuts to the city’s budgets and employees’ pay to avoid a state takeover…. “
Miss Bianca
@Bex: 24 hours would be a heck of a stalking time, I’m thinking…
daves09
@scav: The NYT’s lead is Clinton Foundation/SofS influence. Someone asked for something, didn’t get it, but this raises troubling questions. Sheeeeeesh.
I don’t want to believe that MSM wants a Trump victory but what other explanation is there.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: I used to have ferrets. Went missing for a couple days every now and then. You could find them because they would claw at things, and then we’d lure them out with cod-liver oil.
Cats are ferret-y, right?
catclub
@Roger Moore:
IOKIYAR excepted.
Even, friendly tone, but saying that Social Security should be expanded, or that we should spend as much on refugee relief as on war,
does not get that treatment. You are then uncivil and shrill.
catclub
@Peale:
1. that is the point.
2. calling certain people rats, or better yet, vermin, has a history of not ending well.
JR in WV
@CONGRATULATIONS!:
Yeah, when we get new cats or visit other folks with cats, I react a little to them. But after a few days/weeks that totally goes away. Our current cats have been with us for 10 or 11 years, and they can and do crawl all over us, which we, being cat people, enjoy.
Dogs do to. People react to dogs too, but you never hear about people dumping their dogs off because they sneeze, go figure.
Off topic, I looked up on Google maps some places I was in the Navy, completely different now 40 years later, what a surprise!
Whole ship yards gone!!
Villago Delenda Est
@Face: Chuckles DEMANDS that his tumbrel number get into the single digit range. We are happy to oblige.
Villago Delenda Est
@catclub: A certain political movement in Central Europe make the explicit connection between rats and a certain minority group in film in the 30’s and 40’s.
Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore: DING DING DING. It’s all about the tone. Our utterly worthless media would have dutifully reported the trains leaving Berlin for points east as “resettlement” without the slightest hesitation.
Calming Influence
@Betty Cracker: What’s the differential diagnosis for disgruntledness in a chicken?
frosty
@Uncle Cosmo:
Sounds you’ve been in my neck of the woods, just over the Mason Dixon line.