Trump 35: Still an Asshole to Everyone but Ivanka

[Howl]

Stormy's book drops tomorrow (Tuesday)........

[GreyhoundFan]

4 minutes ago, Howl said:

Stormy's book drops tomorrow (Tuesday)........

He'll probably try to bomb Europe to distract.

[fraurosena]

52 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

He'll probably try to bomb Europe to distract.

*hastily digs bomb shelter*

[47of74]

Over lunch with the parental units CBS news came on, complete with fuckhead whining about how mean and unfair the Senate Democrats were to block his anointed Supreme Court pick.  I had to clamp by jaws closed to keep from making commentary about how the fucking Republicans behaved towards Merrick Garland, along with a remark about rapists of a feather when fuckhead reiterated his support for that fucking idiot Kavanaugh. 

The station my parents listen to loves the sound of fuck head's voice, along with that useless SOB Grassley's voice. 

Now if you'll excuse me I gotta shove a $50 in the swear jar before going back to work.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Bill Maher's New Rules this weekend was good. I love the Jim and Tammy Faye reference.

 

[fraurosena]

Do not think just because the Kavanaugh controversy is dominating the news, that the presiduncial administration is standing still and watching that trainwreck too. Behind your backs they are continuing to implement their awful policies. 

 

[AmazonGrace]

-Hi, least favorite son.

-Who dis? 

-I am your father.

-Or so they say.

-I have a job for you. The best job of all time.

-Secretary of diapers?

-Close but no. You know that time I did a porn star? I told you kids all about it because why not. You need to shut her up. 

 

[fraurosena]

  

He fell 138 spots on the Forbes 400 list.

How Trump Is Trying—And Failing—To Get Rich Off His Presidency

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When Donald Trump opened Trump Tower in 1983, it marked a seminal moment in American retail, as six stories of glitzy shops like Harry Winston and Cartier beckoned luxury buyers who strode past a live pianist and a 60-foot indoor waterfall. “We got the highest rents ever, anywhere,” says former Trump Organization executive Barbara Res, standing in the pink atrium four decades after she helped build it.

Times have changed. Gazing around, almost all the tenants are now gone. The hollowing-out began years ago, but it has only gotten worse since Trump entered politics. Nike abandoned its attached flagship store earlier this year, and Ivanka Trump’s accessories business closed up shop as well. What’s left is basically nothing but Gucci, Starbucks and The Donald, wall-to-wall. Trump Bar sits atop Trump Grille, next to Trump Café, the Trump Store and Trump’s Ice Cream. It is unlikely Trump pays himself rent for any of them. “Things are all different now,” Res says.

That difference includes profits. Net operating income dropped 27% between 2014, the year before Trump announced his run for president, and 2017, his first year in the White House. When the real estate mogul descended the escalator to launch his campaign, in this very building, no one could have predicted the chain of events that would lead to this point. Even among those who gave his moon-shot presidential bid a chance of success, the assumption was that Trump would dump his assets before taking office. 

By refusing to divest, Trump raised an unprecedented question: How would the most divisive presidency in modern American history affect a company built on the president’s persona? Forbes has been working to answer that question since the moment Trump got elected, interviewing nearly 200 colleagues, partners and industry observers. While the experiment continues to unfold, in real time, the early results are in. Much as he’s trying—and he’s definitely trying—Donald Trump is not getting richer off the presidency. Just the opposite. His net worth, by our calculation, has dropped from $4.5 billion in 2015 to $3.1 billion the last two years, knocking the president 138 spots lower on the latest The Forbes 400 (which will be published in full tomorrow).

Three factors are at play. Much of that decline is due to deeper reporting, which revealed, for example, that the president had been lying about the size of his penthouse. Some of it is due to larger market forces. Trump owns commercial space at a time when e-commerce is decimating brick-and-mortar retail, shaving more than $100 million off his fortune—and no amount of bully-pulpit Amazon-bashing will change that. 

But the third factor comes from how Trump the president affects Trump the brand. Those familiar with him saw his 2016 run as a surreal marketing strategy, and Trump has said as much, telling Fortune way back in 2000, “It’s very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.” Since his unexpected ascent to the White House, Trump has tried to leverage the trappings of the presidency to benefit his commercial projects, from visits to his golf courses to hosting summits at Mar-a-Lago to launching a new hotel-licensing business aimed at his voters. (The Trump Organization denies the licensing business has to do with politics.)

“My father made a tremendous sacrifice when he left a company that he spent his entire life building to go into politics,” counters Eric Trump, who now comanages the Trump Organization on behalf of the president, in a statement to Forbes. “Everything he does is for the good of the American people—he has zero involvement in the Trump Organization and quite frankly to suggest otherwise is outrageous.” (Eric Trump himself, however, told Forbes shortly after the inauguration that he would provide the president bottom-line updates “probably quarterly.”)

Either way, Trump’s mixture of politics and business has proved to be a net loser for him so far. In further polarizing the country, he has also further polarized his business—to the tune of an estimated $200 million hit against his net worth. Understanding how that has happened offers a fresh window into the state of Trump Inc.—and Trump’s America.

In May 2016, a dozen or so golf course appraisers settled in at Trump National Doral, the president’s 643-room Miami mega-resort, for a few days of seminars and golf. At the time, Trump was steamrolling through the Republican primaries while bashing Mexicans, Muslims and even the pope. So it was no surprise when, inside his resort, the conversation turned to how the tumult was affecting Trump’s golf businesses.

A top Doral executive, of all people, was willing to provide an answer. According to three witnesses, he told the room of appraisers that business at the resort—whose revenues were as big as Trump’s ten other U.S. golf courses combined—was suffering because of the campaign. Historically, Doral had drawn much of its clientele from the Northeast, where Trump was and is especially unpopular. “At the time there was a lot of talk about comments that Trump had made,” says Jeff Dugas, who attended the event. “Nobody was extremely surprised.”

Big names like Nascar and the PGA Tour also pulled business from the club. After Trump won the election, Doral lost 100,000 booked room nights, according to someone who knows the resort’s business. While revenues for the Miami luxury hotel market jumped 4% overall in 2017 according to the data analytics firm STR, Doral’s revenues fell by an estimated 16%. And that was before a deranged gunman wandered into the lobby earlier this year, draped an American flag over the front desk and began shooting at the chandeliers before he was apprehended by ­police.

Overall, revenue at the president’s U.S. golf properties fell by an estimated 9% in 2017. It goes beyond politics—guests now endure metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs. “It’s not a country club experience,” a source familiar with Trump’s golf business says. “It was captivating at first, but it has become tiresome.” Not even the chance to rub shoulders with a sitting president can overcome this problem: Revenues appear to be down at the three courses Trump visits most often.

A similar scenario has played out in Trump’s traditional wheelhouse: luxury residential real estate. The president still holds roughly 500 condos, co-ops and mansions, all with their own complications, in terms of both hassles and branding. He has 37 units worth an estimated $215 million in midtown Manhattan. Prices for condos in Trump Tower have fallen every year since 2015, when Trump declared his candidacy, and are an estimated 33% below their highs. Similar trends are playing out a few blocks away at Trump Parc East, where prices are down 23%, and at Trump Park Avenue, where they have dropped 19%.

In Chicago, values of Trump condos have crept downward, the opposite direction of the overall market. “People bought into the building based on the brand being synonymous with luxury,” says Cyndy Salgado, a real estate broker who once worked for the Trump Organization, selling condos in the Chicago tower. “Now many people feel that the brand represents divisiveness, embarrassment and questionable morals.” All told, the shift in perception has erased an estimated $50 million from the value of his residential units in Chicago and New York.

On the Caribbean island of St. Martin, Mario Molinari, a real estate agent, recalls trying to show a Chinese billionaire a villa a few months ago. The seller, he says, was Donald Trump, who was offering 11 bedrooms, an outdoor bar and a private tennis court for $16.9 million. But when they got to the gate, the president’s property manager told them they needed background checks to go inside, which typically take a couple of days to process. “It’s too small for me,” the billionaire responded, miffed. More than a year after the place went on the market, Trump still hasn’t sold it.

Such weakness seems to have infected the Trump brand across the board. After multiple bankruptcies, Trump adroitly turned his business toward real estate management and licensing, slapping his name on other people’s buildings, ties, steaks and even a urine test—allowing him to make money while others take all the financial risk. But partners at three Trump-branded hotels (Toronto, Panama, New York City’s SoHo) have taken the president’s name off their projects, which helps explain why politics has dragged that segment of the Trump hotel empire down about $30 million, by Forbes’ estimates. Meanwhile, many of his licensing customers, including Macy’s and the mattress-maker Serta, fled in the early days of his abrasive campaign—and the president’s company doesn’t seem to have landed a single new deal since. In 2015, Forbes valued Trump’s product-licensing operation at $23 million. It’s now down to a mere $3 million. “He’s so polarizing that people are afraid to do business with him,” says Jeff Lotman, who runs the licensing company Global Icons. “He has significantly tarnished the brand.”

Headaches in the luxury market could, in theory, be offset by Trump’s newfound popularity with the larger, less affluent MAGA set. Four months after their father took office, Eric and Donald Trump Jr. announced a new business venture to bring lower-priced Trump brands to hotels in Middle America. Filings released months later indicate that the majority owner of this venture is none other than the president himself, with a 77% stake, positioning Trump to profit from his political stardom. 

But not much has come of it. The Trumps signed deals to brand four hotels in Mississippi, but those agreements generated only $27,000 last year. They told reporters there were as many as 35 other deals in the works—none of them have panned out so far. 

Trump’s business has some bright spots. A few blocks from the White House, at the Trump International Hotel, Trump fans hobnob with cable news stars and Cabinet secretaries. The place turned a $2 million profit in the first four months of 2017, far exceeding the Trump Organization’s expectations. A chunk of that money comes from various GOP organizations, which have pumped more than $1.3 million into the hotel since it opened in fall 2016, according to Federal Election Commission data. Despite what seems a violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause, designed to keep presidents free from foreign financial interest, the governments of other nations are welcome too. Everyone from Kuwaiti officials to the prime minister of Malaysia has reportedly spent money there. And lobbyists working for Saudi Arabia disclosed that they ran up a $270,000 tab in just six months.

In terms of condo sales, Trump sold one in New York to a woman named Angela Chen, just a month after he took office. Chen paid $15.9 million, $1.8 million more than her downstairs neighbor shelled out for a similar apartment a year earlier. The deal sparked conflict-of-interest concerns because Chen is apparently the head of a business called Global Alliance Associates, which claims to use its network with the “highest levels of government officials” to help companies expand into China.

Presidential provenance is also proving lucrative. After Trump made Mar-a-Lago world famous, the club is said to have doubled its initiation fee to $200,000. Fallout from the president’s response to the deadly white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville reportedly prompted roughly 20 organizations to yank events from the club, likely costing Trump over $1 million in revenue. Nevertheless, Forbes estimates, Mar-a-Lago is now worth $160 million—$10 million more than it was before it became the winter White House.

The same goes for the president’s penthouse in Trump Tower. Although declining prices in the building have likely hurt its value, the 11,000-square-foot apartment became a historic landmark the moment Trump won the presidency. Forbes figures the election could have added $10 million to any potential deal.

This phenomenon also extends to the value of Trump’s Boeing 757, which became a backdrop for his campaign rallies. Some plane brokers think it could be worth double the roughly $20 million it would fetch if anyone else owned it (Forbes estimates a more conservative $6 million presidential premium). Eric Roth, who customized the interior of the plane for Trump, says, “What’s a baseball worth? About $3. What about if Babe Ruth signed it? It’s not $3 anymore.”

Some of the presidential profiteering appears more direct: On the day he assumed office, Trump took the unusual step of immediately launching his reelection campaign. Donor money kept flowing, and Trump’s companies have kept charging rent to the campaign. The result: America’s first billionaire president has turned more than $900,000 of donations into revenue for himself, without putting up a dime.

As long as he’s president—and refuses to divest his business holdings—Donald Trump will be able to boost his fortune in ways no other businessman can. Three days before Christmas last year, Trump sat in the Oval Office to sign the most significant tax reform legislation in decades. “This is something I’m very proud of,” he said, clutching a black marker. “Great for our country, great for the American people.”

Great as well for Donald Trump. The president famously refused to release his tax returns, but the new bill clearly benefits him. A Forbes analysis shows that Trump could save about 10% on business income. Based on Trump’s 2005 tax return, which leaked shortly after the real estate mogul took office, that could mean as much as $11 million annually. 

Other policies, which went into effect with far less fanfare, may also bolster his fortune. Take tariffs. Higher steel and aluminum prices make it more expensive for developers to build. For someone like Trump, who owns buildings but hasn’t done much construction recently, that ­raises the barrier to entry for competitors. His immigration policies, which appear to be raising the cost of construction labor, could have a similar effect. Those two factors are “very favorable to a guy who owns hard assets,” says Dave Rodgers, a real estate analyst at financial firm Baird. 

And while Trump promised not to do any new foreign deals while in office, cutting off a source of growth, opportunities will be waiting once his presidency ends. In the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Kazakhstan, Trump’s ex-business partners felt empowered to move ahead with potential projects, making it clear they are prepared to pay him down the road. “The tower will be ready for the Trump mark,” the president’s former partner in Georgia told Forbes last year, “if the Trump mark is ready to come back to the tower.” And Trump has not forgotten about his business: He asked about the Georgia project in a meeting with the country’s prime minister last year, according to the partners. 

For now, though, Trump’s presidency remains a net loser for him, which seems ironic. In not divesting, he set himself up so that his actions, and those of people who engage with his businesses, present perpetual conflicts of interest—or the appearance of them. Meanwhile, if he’d liquidated, paid capital gains tax on his entire fortune and created a blind trust to invest it all in the booming stock market, Trump would be $500 million richer than he is today—without the headaches.

 

[Drala]

Judge Denies Trump’s Request to Dismiss Emoluments Lawsuit

“This gives Congress an opportunity to invoke our congressional right to make sure that the president is loyal to the U.S. and not to his own pocketbook,”

Spoiler

The New York Times

By Katie Benner

Sept. 28, 2018

WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats cleared a key hurdle on Friday in their effort to sue President Trump over whether he is illegally profiting from business dealings with foreign governments, in a case that could give the lawmakers access to the Trump Organization’s finances.

Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the United States District Court in Washington ruled that the lawmakers have standing to sue Mr. Trump for accepting payments and other benefits from foreign governments without obtaining permission from Congress, which would violate the Constitution’s clause that bars federal officials from accepting gifts, or emoluments, from foreign powers without congressional approval.

Judge Sullivan dismissed the Justice Department’s claim that the legislators did not have standing to sue and denied its request to dismiss the lawsuit.

“The court finds that the plaintiffs have standing to sue the president for allegedly violating the Foreign Emoluments Clause,” Judge Sullivan wrote in his opinion. Mr. Trump “has neither asked for their consent nor provided them with any information about the prohibited foreign emoluments he has already allegedly accepted.”

The case brought by the Democrats is broader than a second lawsuit that accuses Mr. Trump of illegally benefiting from foreign powers and has the potential to reach deeper into the Trump Organization’s finances.

Judge Sullivan said that he would decide later whether Mr. Trump violated the Constitution’s clause.

“As we argued, we believe this case should be dismissed, and we will continue to defend the President in court,” said a Justice Department spokeswoman, Kelly Laco.

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“This gives Congress an opportunity to invoke our congressional right to make sure that the president is loyal to the U.S. and not to his own pocketbook,” said Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York.CreditErin Schaff for The New York Times

The ruling was a step toward empowering Congress “to hold the president accountable,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who originally filed the lawsuit along with Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York. Nearly 200 Democrats joined them.

Mr. Blumenthal said that the president has violated the clause by collecting trademarks from China, rent paid by foreign governments at his real estate properties worldwide and government approvals for his business dealings. He also suggested that Mr. Trump’s businesses may have collected payments and benefits that are unknown to Congress.

If Judge Sullivan finds that Mr. Trump has violated the emoluments clause, congressional Democrats can ask for information in the discovery phase of the lawsuit about any foreign benefit related to his global business dealings, including payments, trademarks, intellectual property and regulatory advantages.

“We can look at his books and tax returns in order to determine what emoluments he’s accepted,” Mr. Nadler said. If evidence of financial fraud is found in the course of discovery, Mr. Nadler said that information would be made public and turned over to law enforcement officials.

“This gives Congress an opportunity to invoke our congressional right to make sure that the president is loyal to the U.S. and not to his own pocketbook,” Mr. Nadler said.

Judge Sullivan also said that the courts had to step in because Mr. Trump would not voluntarily allow Congress to exercise its constitutional right to oversee the payments he takes from foreign governments.

In the other emoluments lawsuit, a federal judge in Maryland has ruled that the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia can sue the president.

In the first judicial opinion to define how the Constitution’s anticorruption clauses should apply to a president, Judge Peter J. Messitte of the United States District Court in Greenbelt, Md., said that the Constitution’s language should be broadly construed. The Trump administration has said it will appeal the ruling.

 

[fraurosena]

 

 

I suppose he's right. It must be pretty scary for young men (and all men actually) right now, because they can't molest women without consequences anymore.

Sweet Rufus on the Roof with a Velvet Hoof.

 

[fraurosena]

I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you! 

 

[fraurosena]

Now this is what I call delicious news. You just know how outraged and frustrated the presidunce will be when he gets wind of this. The toddler tantrum in the Oval will be epic.

 

[fraurosena]

 

[SassyPants]

LOCK HIM UP!

Release the flipping tax returns.

This is what happens when you elect an unvetted candidate to the highest position in the land- corruption abounds.

[GreyhoundFan]

Sigh:

[SassyPants]

10 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

-Hi, least favorite son.

-Who dis? 

-I am your father.

-Or so they say.

-I have a job for you. The best job of all time.

-Secretary of diapers?

-Close but no. You know that time I did a porn star? I told you kids all about it because why not. You need to shut her up. 

 

Stormy and Whitney Bates look alike.

[47of74]

I have three words for that orange piece of shit.  Fuck you asshole.

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President Donald Trump for the first time directly mocked Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judicary Committee at a rally in Mississippi, casting doubt on her testimony about her alleged sexual assault.

Trump imitated Ford during her testimony before the crowd, mocking her for not knowing the answer to questions such as how she got to the party.  

“'I had one beer.' Well do you think it was… 'Nope. It was one beer.' Oh good. How did you get home? 'I don’t remember.' How did you get there? 'I don’t remember.' Where is the place? 'I don’t remember.' How many years ago was it? 'I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.' What neighborhood was it in? 'I don’t know.' Where’s the house? 'I don’t know. Upstairs. Downstairs. I don’t know. But I had one beer that’s the only thing I remember.'

 

[Cartmann99]

2 hours ago, 47of74 said:

I have three words for that orange piece of shit.  Fuck you asshole.

 

How long until his fans start doing disgusting chants about  Dr. Ford? 

 

[Howl]

Hubs, retired CPA, has been saying forever that Trump is a crook, a liar, a thief and a cheat who has been dirty from Day One.  He's come across more than a few dirty business men in his career and helped put one in prison; he knows what it looks like. 

This is epic work by the NYT and hopefully has ripped the band aid off the suppurating sore that is Trump's financial history and will expose Trump as the con artist he is; nothing but bluff and bluster.  The financial world has known for a long time that Trump is a crook and mobbed up to the gills -- but now the real world knows The Emperor has no  Clothes. 

I think this will send Trump over the edge unlike anything else; it's his very identity, leaves him exposed to the world and damages his business like nothing else. 

Although this has gotten almost zero attention, the Trump chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, was been granted immunity about issues relative to Cohen and hush money payoffs.  It's not known if he's cooperating in other ways, but this guy knows where every single body is buried (financially), because he was doing the books for Fred Trump and has continued nonstop in the Trump organization since then.  From the Seattle Times and not behind a paywall: August 24, 2018: Prosecutors grant immunity to longtime Trump finance chief   

In some of my reading, I came across a tasty item about Trump's Taj Mahal Casino being fined on the order of a half million dollars for money laundering awhile back.  It's not like this knowledge of Trump as a dirty is any secret -- it's been there all along.  Remember back when, nobody in the MSM would use the word "lie" re: Trump's untrue statements?  Well, I'm eagerly awaiting for the MSM to begin using the word "corrupt" to describe Trump and the entire Trump organization. 

Going forward watch as these issues unfold:  the emoluments law suit, Deutsche Bank/son of retired SC Justice Anthony Kennedy  (Citizens United), Wilbur Ross/Cyprus bank, Russians Russians Russians, Putin!, Trump's tax returns, money laundering on an epic scale.   Please read this as a refresher, because it directly relates to Brett Kavanaugh's nomination.  From way back in June, 2018, Business Insider had this great article: Trump's business career is more connected to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy than we ever knew   and even further back in March 2017, the Guardian was on top of it:  Trump's commerce secretary oversaw Russia deal while at Bank of Cyprus: Questions raised over Trump appointee Wilbur Ross and his ties to politically connected Russian oligarchs

And remember less than one Scaramucci ago we were all transfixed by whether Rod Rosenstein was going to be fired?  There's been so much shit under the bridge we've totally forgotten about THAT! 

And Rufus H. Reindeer prancing along on little cloven hooves:  All citizens with a cell phone are due to get a text from this ass hat this afternoon.  Think about how that works. 

 

[onekidanddone]

32 minutes ago, Howl said:

Hubs, retired CPA, has been saying forever that Trump is a crook, a liar, a thief and a cheat who has been dirty from Day One.  He's come across more than a few dirty business men in his career and helped put one in prison; he knows what it looks like. 

This is epic work by the NYT and hopefully has ripped the band aid off the suppurating sore that is Trump's financial history and will expose Trump as the con artist he is; nothing but bluff and bluster.  The financial world has known for a long time that Trump is a crook and mobbed up to the gills -- but now the real world knows The Emperor has no  Clothes. 

I think this will send Trump over the edge unlike anything else; it's his very identity, leaves him exposed to the world and damages his business like nothing else. 

Although this has gotten almost zero attention, the Trump chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, was been granted immunity about issues relative to Cohen and hush money payoffs.  It's not known if he's cooperating in other ways, but this guy knows where every single body is buried (financially), because he was doing the books for Fred Trump and has continued nonstop in the Trump organization since then.  From the Seattle Times and not behind a paywall: August 24, 2018: Prosecutors grant immunity to longtime Trump finance chief   

In some of my reading, I came across a tasty item about Trump's Taj Mahal Casino being fined on the order of a half million dollars for money laundering awhile back.  It's not like this knowledge of Trump as a dirty is any secret -- it's been there all along.  Remember back when, nobody in the MSM would use the word "lie" re: Trump's untrue statements?  Well, I'm eagerly awaiting for the MSM to begin using the word "corrupt" to describe Trump and the entire Trump organization. 

Going forward watch as these issues unfold:  the emoluments law suit, Deutsche Bank/son of retired SC Justice Anthony Kennedy  (Citizens United), Wilbur Ross/Cyprus bank, Russians Russians Russians, Putin!, Trump's tax returns, money laundering on an epic scale.   Please read this as a refresher, because it directly relates to Brett Kavanaugh's nomination.  From way back in June, 2018, Business Insider had this great article: Trump's business career is more connected to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy than we ever knew   and even further back in March 2017, the Guardian was on top of it:  Trump's commerce secretary oversaw Russia deal while at Bank of Cyprus: Questions raised over Trump appointee Wilbur Ross and his ties to politically connected Russian oligarchs

And remember less than one Scaramucci ago we were all transfixed by whether Rod Rosenstein was going to be fired?  There's been so much shit under the bridge we've totally forgotten about THAT! 

And Rufus H. Reindeer prancing along on little cloven hooves:  All citizens with a cell phone are due to get a text from this ass hat this afternoon.  Think about how that works. 

 

When is this supposed to happen? I need to know so I can plan to drop my phone in the stinky cat box

 

[thoughtful]

1 hour ago, Howl said:

All citizens with a cell phone are due to get a text from this ass hat this afternoon. 

Will we be able to answer it? Because I would like to say something that ends with "and the horse you rode in on."

[AmazonGrace]

If you missed the NYT tax story

 

 

[Howl]

3 hours ago, onekidanddone said:

When is this supposed to happen? I need to know so I can plan to drop my phone in the stinky cat box

 

2 hours ago, thoughtful said:

Will we be able to answer it? Because I would like to say something that ends with "and the horse you rode in on."

2:18 Eastern time; it will come as a presidential FEMA alert. It did cross my mind that people trying to return text "fuck you" will crash the text messaging system for the entire country.  And no, it can't be blocked.

My other concern, and I'm sure I share this with most people, is that once Trump knows he can reach everyone with a cell phone, the definition of a FEMA "emergency" will be forever altered. 

But then, I do consider Trump an ongoing emergency, so there's that....

[47of74]

Just got fuckhead’s emergency alert.

[Howl]

Got my alert!  Anticlimactic.  Couldn't respond.