Trump 35: Still an Asshole to Everyone but Ivanka

[onekidanddone]

1 minute ago, 47of74 said:

Just got fuckhead’s emergency alert.

My phone will never forgive me

[church_of_dog]

Didn't get it.  Guess my little non-smart flip phone doesn't measure up.  I feel so left out... 

[Alisamer]

I got the Presidential Alert. I feel privileged, as that's the only thing "Presidential" this administration has ever done.

One of my co-workers just came in, and said what we were all thinking. "Imagine if he could just send those on his own, it'd be like Twitter!"

[Audrey2]

I was driving back from the grocery store with little guy in my car. It just sounded like the Old Testament the emergency broadcast system that used to go out ever television and radio when I was a kid. I hated that sound and would either turn off the TV or radio or run and hide when it came on! Boy did that noise bring back memories!

[47of74]

I got the Presidential Alert. I feel privileged, as that's the only thing "Presidential" this administration has ever done.
One of my co-workers just came in, and said what we were all thinking. "Imagine if he could just send those on his own, it'd be like Twitter!"

If that was the case I’d be sending daily nastygrams to Verizon demanding that they stop forcing me to take those alerts.

[fraurosena]

Don't worry, everyone. It wasn't the presidunce himself texting you.

 

 

[fraurosena]

Whoops! Is there trouble in paradise perhaps? Methinks Putin is a little put out by the presidunce professing his love for KIm the other day. 

[Audrey2]

Sorry, folks... Not sure what the Old Testament is that is in my post...

[WiseGirl]

Watching the news now. Wtf how do these women live with themselves? Fuckabee and blonde little twit excusing his mocking of Dr. Ford. How do they live with themselves? 

I'm a three-for-three tonight yelling fuck you to each of them as well as my usual yelling at 45.

While no fan if Putin, what I wouldn't give for him to pull the rug out under 45. 

Finally, well done NY Times keep it up.

[Drala]

Taibbi: Why Aren’t We Talking More About Trump’s Nihilism?

The White House now says we might as well pollute because global catastrophe is inevitable.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-white-house-climate-change-731440/

[GreyhoundFan]

From conservative columnist Max Boot: "The news this week confirms it: Donald Trump is the worst person ever to be president"

Spoiler

t is too early to conclude that Donald Trump is the worst president ever. But it’s not too early to conclude that he is the worst person ever to be president. Two stories that broke within hours of each other on Tuesday make that clear. One is about how far he will go to achieve business success, the other about how far he will go to achieve political success. In neither case will he let morality, ethics or even the law itself stand in his way.

First, the New York Times published a 14,000-word exposé that accused Trump of massive fraud against both the IRS and the American people. Trump’s business and political career has been built on his reputation as a self-made billionaire. It is the reason so many other developers paid him for the use of his name, why so many viewers tuned into his show “The Apprentice,” and why so many voters entrusted him with the presidency. It has long been known in general terms that Trump has vastly exaggerated his wealth and business acumen; in April, The Post ran an opinion article about how he inflated his net worth to land on the Forbes 400 list, and his six corporate bankruptcies testify that he is no business genius. But the Times provides hitherto unknown details that demolish whatever remains of his business reputation.

Trump has admitted to getting only a $1 million start-up loan from his father, Fred Trump — mere peanuts, he said. Turns out there were hundreds of millions of those peanuts. According to the Times, his father bankrolled him to the tune of more than $413 million and provided crucial loan guarantees to rescue him from his corporate bankruptcies. The Times article makes clear that there was only one business genius in the Trump family, and his name was Fred.

The article also implicates the president in a plot to defraud the U.S. government of hundreds of millions of dollars of inheritance taxes: “The president’s parents, Fred and Mary Trump, transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children, which could have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million under the 55 percent tax rate then imposed on gifts and inheritances. The Trumps paid a total of $52.2 million, or about 5 percent, tax records show.”

You can bet that the Times’s lawyers went over the article carefully before making such an explosive allegation against the president and felt confident enough to publish. Notwithstanding blustery denials from the White House, the weight of evidence suggests that there is good cause to think the president is a crook. This is, of course, far from the first credible allegation of illegality against the president. Just six weeks ago, Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight felonies and implicated Trump in the commission of two of them — arranging payoffs in violation of federal campaign finance laws to a porn star and a Playboy model.

Beyond Trump’s reported violations of the law, there are his regular violations of the norms of human decency. How low can he go? That’s the question in the second story, which also broke yesterday. The man who has previously mocked a disabled reporter, Gold Star parents and POWs has now mocked a woman for saying she was the victim of a sexual assault. Trump had previously said that he had found Christine Blasey Ford, Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, to be a “credible witness” who gave “compelling testimony.” But at a rally on Tuesday night in Mississippi, he abandoned this unaccustomed restraint and let his inner cave man out for a romp.

Trump attacked Ford for not remembering all the details of the trauma that she says she suffered: “I had one beer. Well, do you think it was — nope, it was one beer. How did you get home? I don’t remember. How’d 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.” His heartless japery was greeted with laughter from his cult followers — the same kind of contemptuous laughter that Ford remembers hearing after her alleged assault at the hands of a youthful Kavanaugh. It is impossible to disagree with the rejoinder of Ford’s lawyer, Michael Bromwich, who tweeted that this was “a vicious, vile and soulless attack.”

These Terrible Tuesday news items confirm what we already know about Trump: that he is a liar, a cheat and a bully without an ounce of dignity, empathy or decency. In place of his soul he has a black hole. The only way he can make himself feel better — to fill the emptiness inside — is to abuse those weaker than himself. He is a monster.

I am old enough to remember when Republicans would have been scandalized. Back in 1998, in “The Death of Outrage,” arch-scold Bill Bennett wrote about Bill Clinton that “a president whose character manifested itself in patterns of reckless personal conduct, deceit, abuse of power and contempt for the rule of law cannot be a good president. … The values-free standard ‘effectiveness in office’ cannot — it must not — trump everything else.”

Trump is far less effective a president than Bill Clinton, who banned assault weapons, reformed welfare and balanced the federal budget. Yet Republicans are willing to forgive him far more than Democrats ever forgave Clinton. For the GOP, loyalty to its odious leader trumps everything else, even the most basic dictates of humanity. Trump has forfeited our trust, and his Republican enablers have forfeited their right to rule.

 

[Cartmann99]

5 hours ago, WiseGirl said:

Watching the news now. Wtf how do these women live with themselves? Fuckabee and blonde little twit excusing his mocking of Dr. Ford. How do they live with themselves? 

I'm a three-for-three tonight yelling fuck you to each of them as well as my usual yelling at 45.

While no fan if Putin, what I wouldn't give for him to pull the rug out under 45. 

Finally, well done NY Times keep it up.

Do you know which one of the blondes it was? I know this clip of Ainsley from Fox & Friends was making the rounds earlier today:

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[Howl]

I'm going to say up front that during the Trump Times, we have zeitgeists that last for days or a few weeks.  

This brilliant twitter thread is a Trump/Tax code mashup shaming rape apologists, following Marco Rubio's tweet about how gosh darn complicated the tax code is and in line with the current Kavanaugh zeitgeist. 

 

[fraurosena]

Donald Trump tried to scam his own father Fred and was removed as executor of his will

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On Tuesday, the New York Times published a massive 14,000-word investigative report on the Trump family’s decades of tax evasion and fraud.

The piece centers on the ways Fred Trump, father to President Donald Trump, successfully transferred vast wealth to his children without paying taxes. Donald Trump was handed tens of millions of dollars by his father, who nonetheless helped the boy maintain his reputation as a “self-made man.”

But Donald was not always satisfied with his father’s largesse, according to the report. In one of the most remarkable scenes in the piece, Donald attempted to get his father to sign over complete control of his estate in an updated will, and was thwarted by Fred, who was suspicious and ended up hiring a new attorney and removing Donald as executor of his estate.

“Fred Trump had given careful thought to what would become of his empire after he died, and had hired one of the nation’s top estate lawyers to draft his will,” the report says. “But in December 1990, Donald Trump sent his father a document, drafted by one of his own lawyers, that sought to make significant changes to that will. Fred Trump, then 85, had never before set eyes on the document, 12 pages of dense legalese. Nor had he authorized its preparation. Nor had he met the lawyer who drafted it.”

Donald told his father to sign “immediately.”

The old man was apparently suspicious, and according to depositions later taken from the family during a financial squabble, declined to give Donald “total control over his affairs.”

“As close as they were—or perhaps because they were so close—Fred Trump did not immediately confront his son,” the report reads.

Fred instead went to his daughter, a federal judge, Maryanne Trump Barry.

“This doesn’t pass the smell test,” he told her.

“Donald was in precarious financial straits by his own admission,” she said, “and Dad was very concerned as a man who worked hard for his money and never wanted any of it to leave the family.”

So Fred Trump directed his daughter to find new estate lawyers, who stripped Donald Trump of control over his father’s estate.

“Clumsy as it was, Donald Trump’s failed attempt to change his father’s will brought a family reckoning,” the report reads.

And so, under Donald’s direction, the Trumps set up a scheme to transfer the money which experts told the Times constituted fraud.

 

[Cartmann99]

3 hours ago, Howl said:

This brilliant twitter thread is a Trump/Tax code mashup shaming rape apologists, following Marco Rubio's tweet about how gosh darn complicated the tax code is and in line with the current Kavanaugh zeitgeist

What Bible verse did Marco Rubio quote to support Orange Donnie's actions? 

[47of74]

What Bible verse did Marco Rubio quote to support Orange Donnie's actions? 

The Book of GOP 1:1. Namely it’s not wrong when the orange fuck does it.

[Cartmann99]

1 hour ago, 47of74 said:

 

The Book of GOP 1:1. Namely it’s not wrong when the orange fuck does it.

 

On that note...

 

[47of74]

On 10/3/2018 at 1:26 PM, church_of_dog said:

Didn't get it.  Guess my little non-smart flip phone doesn't measure up.  I feel so left out... 

My mom didn't get it either.  She's on an old iPhone 5.  I might see about getting her a newer phone since the last update was 10.3.  I don't think my dad got it either since he's just on an old flip phone. 

I wish I could've responded with a picture.  Namely this one...

 

[Howl]

 

[SassyPants]

I did NOT get it. I have an IPHONE 7. Now, my county did interrupt the news on TV and aired the text via the airwaves.

[AmazonGrace]

 

The tax fraud story died already?

[Cartmann99]

 

 

[CTRLZero]

2 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

The tax fraud story died already?

So many lawsuits, so little time.  I wonder if there is a spreadsheet somewhere of all the legal actions against Trump & henchchildren. 

On another note, I spotted Giuliani in the stands at the Yankees game last night.  I don't think they let the camera linger on him, as they have in years past.*  I wonder why...

*If they did, I must have blanked it out of my mind.  *shudder*

 

[MarblesMom]

Forgiveness if someone already posted this re the emergency alert: