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19th January 2022, 03:56 PM | #361 |
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Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal (Molière) A pedant is a man who studies a vacuum through instruments that allow him to draw cross-sections of the details (John Ciardi) |
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20th January 2022, 12:37 AM | #362 |
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I saw Michael Cohen interviewed today and he said Trump would just come up with the value of his buildings by basically making it up without appraisals or any documentation. He'd pull numbers of his net worth out of his ass and then tell Cohen and his CFO, Weisselberg, to go make the documents reflect that imaginary number. Because the Trump Org. is a private business, he didn't have to prove anything like non-privately held businesses do.
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20th January 2022, 09:20 AM | #363 |
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No link as I didn't read the article but I saw a related headline today that he/they vastly overinflated the value of one of the UK golf properties... again, for tax or loan/investment purposes (up or down, depended on who's asking).
I presumed it was reportage on confirmation for one of the similarly mis-valued properties on that bar chart from two or three years ago. Anyone got that handy? |
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20th January 2022, 05:21 PM | #364 |
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20th January 2022, 07:53 PM | #365 |
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Yup... that's the one.
Looking at it, I see it's only a few of his domestic properties. But it's that same behavior. |
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21st January 2022, 02:10 AM | #366 |
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From trump's website, his last few 'statements'. Surprisingly nothing about the SC decision to release WH docs to the congressional committee investigating the Jan 6 events.
I include arbitrary nonsense like his statement from the 17th as a reminder that this is trump, and this is what plays on his mind. Also, when accessing his page, the first thing I was greeted with was an offer to buy "Let's go Brandon" doormats. |
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21st January 2022, 08:42 AM | #375 |
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I think there is a pretty good chance that they might defend themselves by saying”you have let us do this stuff for decades so it is unfair that you are trying to prosecute us now.”
From what I see, it is far more intense, I would say that 35% of the country believe he is the only man who can save America. |
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21st January 2022, 09:08 AM | #376 |
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22nd January 2022, 07:16 AM | #380 |
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Was surprised it was an actual title in the US, it seems her gaining it is the norm, from Wikipedia:
...Members of the White House staff at the rank of special assistant, deputy assistant, assistant to the president, and Counselor to the President are accorded the title. Officials nominated to high office but not yet confirmed (e.g., commissioner-designate) and interim or acting officials are generally not accorded the title "the Honorable", except for Cabinet-level officials.[14]... |
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22nd January 2022, 01:07 PM | #384 |
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22nd January 2022, 01:51 PM | #386 |
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The 8th last word Hannity said was one of the 'key words' in Dump's skull cave: "Wall." And, like the inevitable hammer strike after the trigger is pulled, the canned response about "wall" was duly vomited forth from that vile face anus.
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22nd January 2022, 01:57 PM | #387 |
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22nd January 2022, 03:43 PM | #388 |
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I understand what you're saying as mocking Trump, but Trump still wasn't addressing what Hannity said.
Speaking of Hannity, some of the new email releases are showing just how much Hannity influenced what Trump and his crew were doing.
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23rd January 2022, 07:23 AM | #390 |
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The overarching matter to me is the degree of influence over POTUS and staff exerted by a lying propagandist. How many times did Hannity put diaper Donnie to bed over their nighttime phone calls?
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23rd January 2022, 09:21 PM | #394 |
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I am still amazed, not at the continually emerging stories of just how stupid and crazy and delusional T**** was, but how unreflective and unrepentant the myriad of now-ex aides and assistants and whatnot are, happily monetizing their memories of his demonstrable incapacity while seemingly forgetting that they were the instruments it wielded against the world. They're his mini-me's, echoing "who knew, who knew" as they try desperately to disentangle themselves from the wreckage.
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I'm not seeing that many turning away just yet, far too few in fact.
This is what the GOP has been building toward for 40 years, not as a coherent plan but in drips and drabs. A bit here, a bit there... opportunistically. Building a head of steam. And now they're there. Tribal politics at it's unhealthiest. Most aren't anywhere near backing down. |
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And what the subject of the tell-all book should be.
Nobody wants to read about Donny's "successes". Everyone lived through that and knows what really happened. Especially, nobody wants to write that book - it would be single-sided pamphlet at best that nobody would pay money for. So as a "best-seller", it would be a fairly solid flop for a publishing house. However the dirt-dishing tell-all is a hot field right now. And there's so much source material to work with. Already we are seeing close associates trying to out-dish on each other for the hot publishing dollars. Even if Don Jr buys the lot to stop it being circulated, them's sales! |
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In the midst of this massive **** storm, we have a new book by Trump:
THE GREATEST SPEECHES OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
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The best news? It is hardcover, so you can cherish the memories for years to come. I'm not quite sure how they came up with 288 pages of material, though... |
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Most likely it was supposed to be 'spawn' or 'spew', but as is typical with any trump statements, there are errors. I don't believe that all of the errors are really errors. I think some of them are deliberately mistyped in order to lure people into pointing-and-laughing and feeding the "they're elitist" and "we're persecuted" narratives.
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