Mother Jones reports that Li "Cindy" Yang, the massage parlor owner and Trump donor, has acknowledged in a lawsuit that she ran a firm that sold Chinese execs "access" to US political and biz circles and that this included offering entry to Mar-a-Lago. https://t.co/gEatmD2CHZ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 20, 2019
Your Honor, my client is but a humble immigrant aspiring to achieve some portion of the wealth and fame accruing to more favored agents selling ‘Presidential’ access to foreign nationals. Such as, for instance, the Oval Office Occupant’s daughter, son-in-law, and business partners…
Last week, Li “Cindy” Yang, the Florida massage parlor entrepreneur and Trump donor who has been part of the recent controversy involving Donald Trump’s private resort, Mar-a-Lago, filed a defamation lawsuit against the parent company of the Miami Herald… The suit claims the newspaper published false statements about Yang and her business that suggested illegal conduct had occurred in her spas. But the suit also contained a surprising passage that acknowledged that Yang had also run a business that provided Chinese executives “access to American business and political culture”—and this included entry to events at Mar-a-Lago.
After the Herald story appeared in March, Mother Jones reported that Yang owned a firm that had offered to sell Chinese clients access to Trump and his family via visits to Mar-a-Lago. The company, GY US Investments, noted on its website—which has since been taken down—that its business consulting services addressed clients looking to make high-level connections in the United States. On a page displaying a photo of Mar-a-Lago, the firm said its “activities for clients” included offering them “the opportunity to interact with the president, the [American] Minister of Commerce and other political figures.” The company boasted it had “arranged taking photos with the President” and suggested it can provide clients with access to a “White House and Capitol Hill Dinner.”Weeks after that story was posted, Yang’s attorney, Evan Turk, contacted Mother Jones and threatened a lawsuit, claiming the article defamed Yang. In a letter, Turk wrote that the Mother Jones article inaccurately reported that “Cindy Yang runs an investment business that has offerred [sic] to sell Chinese clients access to Trump and his family. This is nothing but false conjecture based on her company’s website that offerred [sic] business assistance in America to potential Chinese clientele; a travel package.” (No lawsuit has yet been filed.)…
… Yang’s legal missive does not take issue with additional reporting from the Herald (which mirrored Mother Jones’) regarding Yang’s other line of work: offering access to Mar-a-Lago. The disclosure of this activity led to reports of others selling Chinese execs entry to Trump’s private club—and a controversy that has prompted counterintelligence concerns about security at Mar-a-Lago. And Turk’s filing does not address a more recent Herald article reporting that the FBI has been investigating Yang for possibly funneling money illegally from China into Trump’s reelection campaign…
As above, so below — way, way below:
The plastic space nazi outfit is necessary for a young conservative as it completely prevents any chance of visible diaper lines.
Anyway the internet thanks you for the fill-in-the-blank meme template. https://t.co/eCYlk6X7pX
— Zeddediah Springfield (@Zeddary) May 20, 2019
Charlie Kirk started a new organization called "Turning Point Action" yesterday
It looks he already broke IRS rules governing 501(c)3s/4shttps://t.co/sadVLE3v6u
— jordan (@JordanUhl) May 21, 2019
Tee! Pee! U-S-A! And yet, despite the obvious convergence, there are no branded versions of what our transatlantic cousins call ‘lavatory roll’ on their sales page…
dmsilev
Dressing up as a character type famous for poor marksmanship? Sounds about right.
Anne Laurie
@dmsilev: “We’re not actually Nazis — ours are ironic stormtroopers!”
Kay
That really is he how spells it. It’s in Sharpie.
Kay
Gross. His client probably comps his meals. They should rename the Trump Hotel the Corruption Club. Members only!
Luthe
Misbehaving site/ad alert! My phone browser has been auto-redirected from this post twice by the following link: Don’t click me!
I didn’t click anything and I don’t know where the ad came from, but y’all might want to kill it with fire.
Adam L Silverman
@Kay:
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Kay: remember when the likes of Andrea Mitchell allowed themselves to be stampeded into thinking that it was Big News that Bubba had ambled over to Loretta Lynch’s plane
Suzanne
@Luthe: Yeah me too. Blog is borked.
Luthe
@Suzanne: That’s why we’re getting a shiny new one!
Mnemosyne
@Luthe:
If you use the bad ads email link, you’ll hear back from the Blogfather hisownself.
I had to switch to Duck Duck Go as my iPhone browser to prevent the takeover ads.
Adam L Silverman
Gbbalto
@Luthe: I get frequent takeovers on my phone from goodluckday.com offering me a PRIZE if I click! There have been other ones but this is today’s flavor.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’m sure Ol Betty is thrilled the Malevolent Clampetts from Queens are coming to the Fancy Eatin’ Room
Think they’re bringing Tiff?
dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman: Behold her bizarre comeback:
Memo to Kellyanne: Pelosi snubbing you has nothing to do with your gender, and everything to do with the fact that Madame Speaker indeed has no reason to talk to one of the many Grima Wormtongues in the White House.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Adam L Silverman:
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev: @Jim, Foolish Literalist: You’re either a principal, a deputy, or staff – senior, intermediate, junior. Sometimes you can be both senior staff and a deputy, but the principals deal with other principals, the deputies deal with the other deputies and sometimes the principals when they’re filling in, staff deals with staff. Kellyanne is staff. Speaker Pelosi is the only other principal in the US who is equal to the President.
dmsilev
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Here’s the plan. While they’re gone, we all sneak into DC and change the locks on the White House. We tell Trump that he fell behind on his payments and the bank had to foreclose and so sorry, but you’re not President anymore.
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev: @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
O. Felix Culpa
@Luthe: Yes. It’s happened to me twice tonight.
Omnes Omnibus
@Luthe: Allegedly.
John Cole
And no one will do anything about it.
John Cole
@Luthe: On it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
bigly well-adjusted
Repatriated
@John Cole: Thanks from another victim of that hijacking ad.
(Chrome on Android)
Jay
“There Will Never Be Anything Better Than a Brexit Fascist Cowering From Milkshakes on a Bus”
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/splinternews.com/there-will-never-be-anything-better-than-a-brexit-fasci-1834953382/amp
Full history of Code Vanella covered,…..
Aleta
I’d like to surround the Tr family and the Mnuchins, and blanket the US, with quotes and murals, posters, billboards and songs and statues, plaques and spaces in parks honoring the courage and strength of Harriet Tubman. What a bloodthirsty bedbug running back into his airless nest inside the wall, is that Steve.
debbie
It looks like a nice day where he is, so I’d bet that nazi is sweating like a bitch.
Jay
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Lily Roberts
@LilyRoberts12
Every time this article says “working class,” it means “white.” Every time it says “blue collar,” it means “white.” Every time it says “Youngstown,” it means “a rural township 15 miles away from Youngstown, a city that’s half black.” https://nyti.ms/2YJQIep
5,319
2:24 PM – May 20, 2019”
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
“I don’t give a damn what the rules are. Anyone traveling with ME drives on the American Side of the road!!” //
Cheryl Rofer
The Tweeter-in-Chief is now tweeting his grievances on the White House Twitter account.
SFAW
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Yet again: Every accusation is a confession.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jay: Where are the cites to Mark Lilla?
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Every fucking body around this guy is so fucking sleazy, and somehow, they can’t compete with the shitstain himself. And somehow, the people who voted for him still think he’s some kind of genius. I don’t get it.
thruppence
@Luthe: Getting that ad too on my iPhone with Safari. Switched to Chrome and it didn’t happen again.
SFAW
@Jay:
“Freedom-Wielding High Schooler Freedoms Down 16 Classmates In Latest Mass Freedoming”
ETA: Fuck Wayne LaPierre
West of the Rockies
Lots of super aggressive pop up ads taking me from this site (Amazon and Verizon)… Anyone else getting that? Anyway to stop it on this end, Alain?
RandomMonster
@Luthe: I got a free ad blocker from the App Store that seems to have dealt with the irritating popups. A small hassle but worth it.
Jay
“Virginia Uber driver was Somali war criminal
By Holly Honderich
BBC News, Washington
21 May 2019”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48359092
Duane
@Cheryl Rofer: He’s so erratic I think he’s headed for the epic breakdown. Pence will declare he’s in charge and hilarity will ensue. Among other things.
Aleta
Tonight the Internet Association* gave Ivanka “The Internet Freedom Award.” And for balance, to Pelosi goes “The Lifetime Achievement Award.”
Meaningless cowardice is still a political action.
*wiki: “a US industry trade group founded in 2012 by companies, including Google, Amazon, eBay, and Facebook, and is headed by the president and CEO [lobbyist] Michael Beckerman”
“Group members have included companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, Etsy, Expedia, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix and PayPal”
danielx
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
They want to believe, and they do. They could see and hear him fucking a dead pig or live child (or vice versa) on the White House lawn with their own eyes and they would deny what they saw or make excuses for him. Kind of like Bushbots, but cranked to an exponential level.
Amir Khalid
@Kay:
I suggest a thread where jackals invent amusing definitions of achomlishment.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
See the book To Serve Noam Chomsky.
:)
Jay
@Amir Khalid:
Eating 3 hamberders and washing it down with a hot cofeve,… in under 1 Scaramucci.
Martin
@Adam L Silverman: What’s more, it’s pretty clear that the WH doesn’t believe that Congress is a coequal branch. Pelosi needs to defend that concept.
Amir Khalid
@Jay:
Only you could spell covfefe wrong.
Martin
@Duane: Declare? Doesn’t he need permission from mother first?
Amir Khalid
@Martin:
This White House — or more precisely this POTUS — apparently believes the President is the capo di tutti i capi of America.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: So Steve in the Where-the-fuck has has handed over pedanting duties?
James E Powell
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
My recollection is that Mrs. Alan Greenspan wasn’t so much stampeded as she was leading the stampede.
Jay
@Amir Khalid:
It’s hard to keep up with all of Ozymandeus’s achomlishment’s in butchering the English language with out doing constant research,…..
Off the top of my head, I spelled 2 right,……
I’m taking it as a win.
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
My pedanting is completely independent from his.
Duane
@Martin: Okay, so Mrs. Pence declares he’s in charge.
See, funny already.
Amir Khalid
@Jay:
Just because I can, so there:
1) Ozymandias.
2) No apostrophe before a plural s.
3) No space in without.
DaddyJ
@John Cole: Me too! Or me 42! Bad ad redirects to goodluckday[dot]site. iOS Safari on a crusty old iPhone 4s. Not seeing this behavior on 2010 iMac running Mac OS Sierra (10.12.6)
Ruckus
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
They probably consider themselves pretty smart. But they like and voted for Trump. What they like about him is they think they see a more successful version of themselves. And for once they are right they are alike.
Ruckus
@SFAW:
I’m thinking something like a 5 in naval gun. It will do the trick just right.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: You’d like us all to think that, now wouldn’t you?
Jay
@Amir Khalid:
https://archives.cjr.org/language_corner/one_word_or_two.php
Literally,……
Victorian,…..
Uncle Cosmo
@Amir Khalid: The sad thing is that the content of the Knucklehead’s posts is every bit as suspect as his demonstrably shitty grasp of spelling & syntax. Yet some FPers consider the Knucklehead Of The Frozen North a worthy commenter rather than a boil on B-J’s bum that begs to be lanced. ‘Tis a wonder. (Cf. ##33, 41. 56 supra for the analogous blindspot among the Trumpanzees.)
Gvg
I am getting the take over ad too. Clearing cache and turning off java script gets rid of it. However I always have to turn java back on after awhile because the lack of it messes so many things up. Eventually the pop up comes back.
Karen
@danielx: Except if it’s a live boy.