This morning, @realDonaldTrump tweeted about his Scottish golf course. It's a beautiful place that's brought him a lot of trouble: 5 yrs of losses, $70M in sunk cash.
Now a court has ordered that Trump pay the Scottish Govt.'s legal fees, after they beat him in court. https://t.co/756dt4SNQR— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 2, 2019
So, predictable as a dog getting into the garbage…
It was fashionable in 2016 for conservatives to pretend to believe it was scandalous that Bill Clinton leveraged his political connections to raise money for an AIDS charity. https://t.co/1BfqBbKZZu
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 2, 2019
Oh, AND suggested with minimum subtlety that if Brits want good relations with America they should put money directly in his pocket by spending cash at his overseas bribery mill.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) March 2, 2019
I wish we could be sure this was just a joke from a professional cartoon-scripter:
Is this like he knows he’s violating the emoluments clause every day anyway so why not lean into it? pic.twitter.com/GEsjZR8oYR
— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 2, 2019
I think in his patchy grasp of history he’s definitely banked away Bill Clinton came out of impeachment more popular, but I’m pretty sure he doesn’t understand why.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 2, 2019
WINTER REP. Waters IS COMING…
"They’re just now being cooperative; they had not been," she said. "But now that I have the chairmanship and we’re in the majority … yes, they have offered to cooperate and my staff have just started to work with them to get the documents.”https://t.co/YqiSrEZazD
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) March 1, 2019
This is really interesting. Deutsche Bank gave @realDonaldTrump huge loans to buy the Doral resort and to build the Chicago Trump Tower and the D.C. Trump Hotel. https://t.co/ck71bQTWho
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 2, 2019
TS (the original)
Good to see trump’s obstruction of justice has no country boundaries.
Van Buren
Re the witch hunt victim strategy, the few trumpkins I still associate with have rationalized his financial crimes as “just doing business” and his personal improprieties as “that’s what rich men do”
So, the strategy has a good chance of success. So depressing.
NotMax
Deutsche Bank, itself carrying a long chain of sketchy practices, was the only such institution which would do business with him. Enough metaphorical chickens heading home to roost to darken the sky.
A Ghost To Most
Tick tock, motherfuckers. You lose an hour next (?) weekend.
rikyrah
The #BernieSoBlack hashtag is giving me life???
JPL
Trump really doesn’t want to pay Scotland’s legal fees after his court loss. BTW IOKIYAR
NotMax
@Van Buren
Nothin’ says lovin’ like somethin’ from the coven.
;)
JPL
@Van Buren: Are they willing to pay more in taxes because the rich and famous don’t?
rikyrah
She?had?time?today?
Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) Tweeted:
I see the Bernie bros have come into my timeline. So if class is black people’s primary barrier and not race answer the following questions:
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1102268653486174209?s=17
Brachiator
Wait. Trump was trying to block a wind power development in Scotland?
Hmmm. No wonder he was bloviating about wind energy at CPAC.
A totally transparent loser.
NotMax
Let him not pay up and then have his property seized.
Frankensteinbeck
@rikyrah:
At first, I found it hilarious. Then it depressed me, because I got so few of the references, I know that if I ever wrote a black main character, they’d look offensively fake.
rikyrah
The essential ‘it’s not race, but class’ pushback from me always goes to this video of Mr. Black Bougie himself, Lawrence Otis Graham..
At the beginning, you feel like mocking him, but the end of the video always stabs me, for its brutal truth wrapped in a helplessness that EVERY Black parent has felt, at one time or another.
Mr. Graham and his wife have FOUR Harvard degrees between them.. Show me a White couple with Four Harvard degrees that has ever expressed Mr. Graham’s sentiment, then, I will begin to listen to your class over race bullshyt.
Until then…STFU?
https://youtu.be/EfeS-GYnuj0
Obvious Russian Troll
Off topic, but I got an ad on this post with the Moustache of Understanding staring at me. Apparently he’s the keynote speaker for a conference in Waterloo, Ontario, in June this year.
I feel confident in saying that there’s no way in hell I’m going to that.
Aleta
@rikyrah: Reading some of the replies to Ida Bae Wells gives me a headache all the way down through my chest.
Duane
In the Utah State basketball game last night, the goal stand had the phrase America First where an advertisement usually is.
Has Utah gone full white nationalist? People at Utah State must know what that phrase really means. Normalizing that crap is scary.
Van Buren
@JPL: They’re willing to believe that it’s fake news that taxes went up for lots of Long Islanders, but if they did, its Democrats’ fault for raising state and local taxes so high.
And most of their tax dollars just go to support illegals, also, too.
Baud
Only “for conservatives”?
How . . . tactful.
Brachiator
@Van Buren:
And throw in working with organized crime. Trump supporters see this as strengths and cannot believe that Trump would ever betray them.
Baud
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/03/politics/iowa-democrats-latinos-julian-castro/index.html
JPL
@Van Buren: lol If they are okay with hypocrisy and cheating more power to them.
Lyrebird
@rikyrah: Thanks for the reading tip.
The one that got me the most just now:
Baud
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/03/politics/hillary-clinton-selma-crisis-democracy/index.html
Ruckus
@Brachiator:
Why would he, he’s one of them.
That’s what they think, that he’s one of them. It’s not all that hard to say which is worse, as he’s in power Trump is far worse. That they helped put him there for all the bad reasons is an issue though.
Baud
@Lyrebird: Heh.
raven
Anybody ever been a dog walker?
Baud
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/03/politics/house-judiciary-trump-investigation-obstruction-of-justice/index.html
JPL
@Van Buren: Since I’m single the cap is $5,000. The house I live outside of Atlanta is not fancy but my property taxes alone are close to $4,000. There are many areas in the Atlanta area that are going to reach that cap. Owning the libs is not going to work out so great around here.
City and county property taxes are a little higher than $1,000 for every 100,000. There are many houses valued more than a million especially when you move closer in.
Suzanne
@Van Buren:
Yes, this. The Trumpy don’t have any principles. They’re just happy that it’s their avatar who is winning, and cheating is acceptable—as long as it’s their guy doing it.
mrmoshpotato
@Lyrebird:
Sacha Lola English
5h
Replying to
@PurpleReign14
Bernie so black that he invented rap, right after he created Africa #BernieSoBlack
Aleta
In the NE Journal of medicine a doctor recently published a short piece about racism. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1814269
She’s getting a lot of negative feedback from outraged white male MDs and Repubs in general. The vehemence reveals how much they think is at stake if they even consider that racism is present in medical treatment. You would think doctors would want to improve care for their patients, but apparently not if it means examining themselves.
Racist Like Me — A Call to Self-Reflection and Action for White Physicians by Deborah Cohan, M.D., M.P.H.
Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and the Dept. of Family and Community Medicine, U. of Calif. San Francisco, and S. F General Hospital — both in San Francisco.
(To read it, I had to sign up for a free sub that allows 3 articles per month. It’s not long. If anyone wants to read more of it w/o subscribing, I can put the rest into a slow late night thread. Or it could be FPed.)
SiubhanDuinne
@TS (the original):
I may be mistaken, but didn’t he put Eric* in charge of this place?
(Or that might have bee named Turnberry. Can’t remember.)
*Saw a photo the other day that had Eric with his back to the camera. He looks equally as stupid from behind.
Frankensteinbeck
@Ruckus:
In a very real sense, he has not betrayed them. He has done the things they would have done. The dissonance is that they’re such hate-filled assholes, they believed that if he shit on all minorities, destroyed everything Obama ever did, lowered taxes on the rich (because the liberals hate it), and beat his chest and yelled at other countries to respect America or else, their lives would suddenly become perfect. The corruption is only supposed to help, because it’s corruption to support their side.
gene108
Mary Trump had 9 siblings. None of their descendants wants to have a damn thing to do with Donnie
I have never seen a family so totally disown someone, like his Scottish relatives have disowned him.
Doesn’t say much on his favor, if your own kin despise you
Ksmiami
@Brachiator: you still associate with Trumpkins?
NotMax
@gene108
A sundae with bitterscotch topping.
;)
Lapassionara
@Baud: Good to hear.
zhena gogolia
OT, but if people missed the bodega toilet sketch on SNL, you have to see it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgBxxEL-3TI
It’s a reprise of the Les Misérables lobster sketch from last year, but even funnier
delk
I look forward to the very near future when I’m waiting at the Washington/Wabash L stop and seeing them tear down his name from the building. Not ever seeing that name again will improve my commute home.
Chyron HR
@Baud:
Gosh, it’s like she doesn’t understand that she;s the one who MADE true patriots have to burn America to the ground to save it from her. >:*(
cynthia ackerman
@rikyrah:
Great comment and link.
Thank you.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
LOL, nice. Here’s a fine Humperdinck for you.
Brachiator
@Ksmiami:
I “associate” with everybody. I ain’t proud.
None of my close friends or relatives voted for Trump, but people who work in the same building as me love Trump and will freely talk about him.
A coworker hates Trump. Her husband loves him. Every now and then she tells me about his crazy defenses of Trump. He really supports Trump on immigration because he thinks that undocumented people are jumping the line.
Bruuuuce
@rikyrah: I don’t tweet and the hashtag hasn’t hit FB yet. But in that vein, photos are going viral of a snowman at BS’ Brooklyn kickoff rally. It’s a perfect symbol for his campaign and followers: white, male, cold, and inflexible. Here’s an article with the photo
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
I have been a dog chaser. Does that count?
mrmoshpotato
@delk: Sorry you have to see that. I’d like them to go whole hog and tear down the entire building.
patrick II
@Frankensteinbeck:
I would add that many of them feel, with some reason, to be powerless and resent the rules and restrictions they feel are holding them back from being super successful billionaires. Breaking all of what they consider harmful government restrictions and laws is what they would do if they had the courage, so Trump is a stand-in, a rule breaker, an outlaw, someone who does not let societal conventions hold him back from what he (and they vicariously) can become. He is their dream of themselves, they love him so.
Faithful Lurker
@gene108: Donnie has a brother and a sister who never appear in public with him either. I don’t know if they have any contact with him but they don’t seem to be around for the usual occasions. Anyone have any information about them?
eemom
@Faithful Lurker:
HIs sister is a judge on the third circuit court of appeals. I understand she sits on the bench with a bag over her head.
satby
@rikyrah: my fav:
Wakandan War Dog
@Kennymack1971
5h
#BernieSoBlack He founded Wakanda.
Repatriated
@Duane:
It’s an Riverdale, UT based credit union, originally for military and Federal employees.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Credit_Union
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
I couldn’t get past the first minute. I’ve had to use restrooms in the NYC subway and a Lower East Side dive bar (think Trainspotting), and I still have flashbacks.
debbie
@eemom:
She’s the one who first realized Trump was trying to revise Fred’s will so it all went to him.
GxB
I’d love to think one James “Jimmie” Carter, forced to sell his peanut farm to avoid any impropriety, turns to his wife Rosalyn every morning this kind of story comes out and exclaims “Can you fucking believe this horseshit! – Fuck me running! Christ onna cracker this country is utterly fucked!”
But I know he’d just hem and haw like the polite man he is – so the above are my words only, though I think they are damn well warranted.
Gin & Tonic
@debbie: Ever been to the toilet at CBGB?
rikyrah
CBS News (@CBSNews) Tweeted:
Sen. Doug Jones says Republicans across the country are working to suppress African-American voters: “For whatever reason they do not want African-Americans and other minorities to vote”
https://t.co/w0JNe7lUFk https://t.co/MCKzheq6jM https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1102274931864289285?s=17
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
No, I learned to hold it in to infinity.
debbie
@rikyrah:
What is this “for whatever reason?”
Bruuuuce
@rikyrah: FSVO “For whatever reason”=”Because they’re racist assholes”. Too bad he can’t say it plainly, but Alabama.
rikyrah
Thread on Bernie??
https://twitter.com/ThomboyD/status/1102337729222737920
Ruckus
@Frankensteinbeck:
Yes.
I agree. Trump is the racist, classless ass that they aspire to be. I have no idea why they think this is the end game. But they do. That they may/probably never get there is not germane. That he has never actually gotten to that gold ring that he says he has is not relevant. To him or them. He’s gotten to be the head racist and that’s enough for him. And would be for any of them.
Heidi Mom
@patrick II: Years ago I came across a similar description of Dale Earnhardt’s fans.
zhena gogolia
@debbie:
I’ve used GCT in the 1970s, and McSorley’s — but you have to watch the video! I was having flashback laughter during dinner. (But my husband won’t be able to take it.) But it’s so GREAT!
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
CBGB’s john was the ne minus ultra.
Duane
@Repatriated: Hey thanks. Not the propaganda I suspected. CU should change names though. Shitmidas ruins words.
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
I manned up and watched. Loved the candle!
zhena gogolia
@debbie:
That’s where I started crying.
Lyrebird
@Aleta: That is a great thing for her to have written, and hey, it turns out this is also a doc who specifically works with HIV+ patients who need help to have healthy, HIV- babies. Wow.
sm*t cl*de
@Ruckus:
You do not fully grasp the nuances of authoritarian thought. They will tell themselves “It is an honour to be betrayed by such an Alpha Male”, and “If he is ripping us off – his own people – imagine how aggressively he must be ripping off our enemies!”
rikyrah
This is an interesting thread about the Birther Trophy Wife…lots of good points made and questions asked.
https://twitter.com/quinncy/status/1102230048344465408
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Clearly the good Representative Waters has some serious frowning to do here.
Tokyokie
@NotMax: With the back nine used as a wind farm.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@rikyrah: Well, I wasn’t ready for that, Melania looked my sister (when she was young) before all the cosmetic surgery. 0o
So basically, the First Lady of the Night with Melania is what the thred is implying.
Tokyokie
@Duane: America First is a big credit union in the Beehive Hairdoo State. I suppose corporate branding experts making the call is somewhat less heinous than academic bureaucrats doing so.
Sebastian
Is this thread still alive? I don’t want to post in the doggie thread or disturb the Cole Sr post but this is too good (via TPM):
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@sm*t cl*de: Yes, but that’s as long as the Great Man looks strong, the second he looks weak they will be in the front of the mob with knives.
rikyrah
@Sebastian:
Subpoena him!???
Sebastian
@rikyrah:
Werd!
I would pay hard cash money for this. Thank you CSPAN. I’ll be glued to the TV if that really happens, might take the day off even.