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And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

A fool as well as an oath-breaker.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Let me file that under fuck it.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

Republicans do not trust women.

Fear and negativity are contagious, but so is courage!

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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Schadenfreude Open Thread: Trump-Branded Properties LOSE BIGLY

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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post really knows how to get under somebody’s thin orange skin:

… Since the 2016 election, Trump’s company has found itself in an unfamiliar role: not selling the Trump brand, but trying to save it from condo owners and unhappy partners seeking to shed the president’s name. The Trump Organization has fired back — at times with legal threats.

The root of the disputes is a growing belief among investors in some locales that the Trump brand has turned from an asset to a liability.

“It’s a bloodbath, basically. It’s a financial bloodbath,” said Jeffrey Rabiea, a New York businessman who owns three hotel rooms in the Trump Panama hotel. Like other owners in the building, he blames the Trump company for mismanagement and attributes the low occupancy rates in part to the president’s polarizing brand. “Nobody wants to go there. If you’ve got a Marriott and a Hyatt and a Trump, you’re not going to Trump.”…

Since Election Day, the Trump name has already been removed from luxury hotels in New York, Rio de Janeiro and Toronto, along with three apartment buildings in New York.

Behind the scenes, the Trump Organization has also issued warnings to at least three more properties: the Panama hotel and two condo buildings in New York, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the efforts. The president’s company manages the three properties but does not own them.

Before the election, his company had expansive plans for his brand, which already adorned more than 50 properties worldwide. But then Trump won…

Just after the election, residents of three apartment buildings called “Trump Place” on Manhattan’s liberal Upper West Side petitioned the owners to remove the name. They did. (Trump had not owned the property for years.) The current owners said they wanted a “more neutral identity,” according to news reports.

Then the Trump Organization itself decided to pull out of the Trump hotel in Rio — a long-troubled property whose owner was wrapped up in a Brazilian corruption investigation.

Next to go was the “Trump Carousel” in New York’s Central Park.

The problem there: “It was never named Trump Carousel,” said Crystal Howard of the New York City parks department.

She said the Trump Organization — which had a contract to operate the attraction, named the Friedsam Memorial Carousel — had simply put up a sign that renamed it “Trump Carousel.” The sign seems to have been up for months, but the city only learned of it in April. Officials ordered the sign taken down that day…

I’m happy to think that this has to irk the everloving fvck out of Lord Smallgloves, whenever it’s drawn to his hummingbird attention span. Especially since he’s no doubt convinced that it’s all the fault of his idiot spawn, and that he could turn things around soonest, if it weren’t for a bunch of weenie lawyers yowling about “improprieties” and “emoluments”.

And, of course, his spawn are just as unhappy, because if Daddy hadn’t made the mistake of letting himself be baited by That Black Guy in the White House, he’d never have gotten around to actually running for President — between the drain on their inheritance and the money they’re having to spend on lawyers, the glamor just hasn’t been worth the price!

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  1. 1.

    hellslittlestangel

    I don’t want Trump to be unhappy — that does no good for anyone. I want him to be beyond the reach of unhappiness.

  3. 3.

    ThresherK

    Waiting for the next shoe to drop: Worlds largest, lyingest “Under New Management” signs unfurled.

    Trump thinks everyone else at the table is a sucker.

  5. 5.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Aaron Rodgers – the guy who does the ubiquitous State Farm ads is 6’2″ 225 lbs for BMI of 28.9

    Look at him (photo) – does anyone think he’s only 13 pounds lighter than Drumpf and his supposed BMI of 29.7

    President Obama is 6′ 1″ Here he is standing next to Drumpf who says he’s 6’3″ (photo) Who’s the one who looks 2 inches shorter?

  9. 9.

    jl

    @NotMax: I heard a news report that Mattis and Tillerson had to beg Trump to not eliminate all the funding, and advised him a cut this size was dangerous. Slapping on an idiotic comment that a 50% plus cut wasn’t intended to punish anyone will just make it worse. If the cut is an incentive to make changes, why didn’t they enter negotiations on what changes were desired? It’s just insulting nonsense. And maybe that is the point.

  12. 12.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    In the Deadspin article someone pointed out that Drumpf’s “numbers” is just a sliver short of being classified as obese.

    Obese is a BMI of 30. He supposedly has a BMI of 29.9. You can see why and how they faked the numbers. He didn’t want the media to call him obese so they lowered his weight and increased his height just to get under the obese limit.

    Fucking pathetic.

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    That’s slightly old news, because the same thing was discussed (I think) after the Dr. Feelgood exam just before the election in 2016.

    Not carping, just wanted to say that this is a continuation of some old bullshit (by the Trump camp).

  16. 16.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @Steeplejack: Someone posted a photo of Drumpf standing next to a 6’3″ ARod, who is slightly hunched over in the picture, and ARod is clearly 2 to 3 inches taller (photo).

    So if they’re clearly lying about the height, then you also have to reject the Admiral’s weight claims.

  17. 17.

    Steeplejack

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    I saw the A-Rod picture, as well as some others. Even did a little Google search to see Trump with other people. I like that group shot because the steps in the background provide almost “mug shot” quality comparison lines.

  18. 18.

    ZyklonBeaArthur

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    Trump’s draft card said he’s 6’2,” and old folks tend to shrink an inch or two; fucker did get amazing genes—he has the most psychopathy and the best best immunity from truth I’ve ever seen.

    Not to belabor this, but Rear Admiral Ronny is lying and Adam’s denial of these lies is important. To defeat your enemy you have to know your enemy: EVERYONE who isn’t explicitly anti-Trump is lying with every word about him they utter. To assume otherwise is to leave yourself vulnerable.

  21. 21.

    Betty Cracker

    Sign me up as a member of the Girther movement — there’s no way that fat fuck weighs 239 pounds, and he’s not 6′ 3″ either, as the photos and past medical stats show. But it’s not worth arguing over; Trump is an evil shit who must be thwarted at every turn until he’s kicked out of office as swiftly as possible.

  26. 26.

    SFAW

    Some months ago, even with giving That Fat Fuck the benefit of the doubt, I pegged him at a BMI of 35-plus. That was assuming he’s 6-2 (his “official” height, I believe) and weighed 275. Based on his fat-ass golfing photos, he’s at least 275.

    Of course, his tiny fingers — I needed to enlarge that picture of Asshole with Obama, Biden, and Dense even to be able to see them — might offset his obesity. Kind of the way his Littledick offsets the other parts of him which are actually ARE large. Like his fat ass.

  28. 28.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    I went on a photoshoot Sunday evening in Pasadena, I think I’ve produced some the the best pics I’ve ever taken; except for the timelapse of the sunset which I’ve spent the last 2 days trying to un-bork and is still borked.

  33. 33.

    trnc

    Best tweet response I’ve seen:

    If you’ve got a Motel 6 and a Trump…I’m not going to Trump.

  34. 34.

    trnc

    @hellslittlestangel: Downsize The Ring just a bit so that it can’t fit on even his tiny fingers and then make him wear it around his neck for eternity (which could be 6 months, given his “excellent” health).

  36. 36.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @evodevo: They are elevator shoes. (photo) Obama is on the left, Michelle is in the middle and Drumpf is on the right. Drumpf’s heels are atleast twice the size of OBama’s.

    Talk about insecurity. They probably have lifts inside the shoe to ad even more height.

    Sad!

  38. 38.

    SFAW

    @Shantanu Saha:

    In the picture with A-Rod, you can see Alex’s hands are MUCH larger than Donnie’s.

    Big deal. In the picture at the top of AL’s “Sliding Scale” OT thread, the baby’s hands are about the same size as manbaby’s

  39. 39.

    SFAW

    @Adria McDowell:

    Supposedly, New Yorkers have been calling him Shit Midas for awhile.

    Did they add the “Midas” part recently? Because he’s been Shit for a number of years. (Used to be “Piece of Shit,” but New Yorkers realized they could abbreviate it without confusing people.)

  42. 42.

    Amir Khalid

    @evodevo:
    I remember that when the suspicions about Trump’s height were most rampant, someone published an article saying his hands were the right size for a man 5’9″ tall. I didn’t buy it, for three reasons. One, the writer had no actual measurements of Trump’s hands, only an estimate based on photographs; two, hands do vary in size among people of the same height and build; and three, he does look shorter than his claimed 6’3″, but not by six inches. I’d believe 5’11”.

  44. 44.

    Feebog

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    Thank you for posting the group picture. Trumpov and President Obama appear to be almost exactly the same height. However, Trumpov has at least an inch of someone’s golden retriever on his head. If Obama is 6’1” then I would peg Trumpov at 6’. Which means a BMI of well over 30 even if he is 239.

  45. 45.

    chopper

    @Patricia Kayden:

    exactly. i don’t really give a shit that trump lies about his height and weight. he lies about everything and all the rest is more important. but the fact that he got the WH physician to stand there in front of the media and god and everyone and lie to our fucking faces is pretty crazy. there is literally nobody this shitshow won’t corrupt.

  46. 46.

    chopper

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    trump was 6’2″ or so back when he was younger, before he became a hunchback. now he’s about 6 even, a half inch higher than that in his elevator shoes (see him next to O who’s 6’1″). seems silly to focus on, but it’s sillier for the WH to just blatantly lie about it.

  47. 47.

    Rasputin's Evil Twin

    As John XXIII once said, “The Pope is always in excellent health until he is dead.”

    Something to think about.

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