Today is the deadline where Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford has said he will intervene if Biden is still not getting top-level presidential daily briefings. Other Republican senators have urged Trump to get the transition office going due to the national interests at stake, which would require him to get up off the floor where he’s been pounding his fists and holding his breath, causing him to turn an interesting shade of orange-blue, a color hitherto not seen in nature.
Just saw this and struck me as funny:
“Joke all you want, but Rudy is prepared to fight this all the way up to the Supreme Courtyard by Marriott”.
You’re not the only one:
Big firms can put up with a lot of bullshit, but they do expect to get paid on time.
Maybe it was a combination of things.
So why are they still doing bidness with Der Trumpnik who is known to stiff everyone (you know what I mean)?
Paid up front/ retainer?
I’d be surprised if these firms weren’t asking for money up-front.
This just in!!!
Given the obvious and egregious fraud perpetrated in this election,
we therefore grant Petitioner's request to vacate all alleged results of said
election, and declare Petitioner, Donald J.Trump, the winner and undisputed
champion of the Presidential Election of 2020.
It is so ordered.
This decision of the Supreme Court by Marriot is unanimous.
Careful…Trumpsters will run with that. (I love it though)
They may have. But that’s usually just a down payment. When the retainer is spent, they expect it to be replenished.
For “good” clients, they might waive the retainer requirement, as an effort to to insult them. These firms were probably brought on quickly and had to start work right away. They may have been promised money in “two weeks.” If it didn’t arrive, they would pull the plug.
Agreed.
Unfortunately for me (a big MJ fan since I lived in Chicago in the late 80s and early 90s), the first parallel that occurred to me was Jordan’s stint as a Washington Wizard. 
Colbert said Trump is about as deep as a puddle and I agree. Hoped there was a little more there, but it turns out there is less. Just kind of a non-person, almost, it seems. A shell of a person.
Frankie Boyle, of all people, tweeted the other day that while we have little sorrow for Trump, he did begin as a little boy 70 years ago and obviously has many reasons he turned out to be such a pathetic loser of a person. We still feel somewhat bad for that little boy if we roll back time.
I don’t know, but I bet Fred Trump was a loser Father.
Empathy to the leader of anti-empathy — that’s impressive. I’m serious — no snark intended. Healthy to reflect on that.
I’ve often felt sorry for Trump, but it passes quickly.
I think it’s just that his feelings are hurt and he likes the power (but not the work). It’s like Daddy rejecting him again. He feels insulted and he has to do something to ease the cognitive dissonance between his certainty that he is the most perfect president ever and the reality in front of him that he’s been voted out.
Plus being president gives him a bully pulpit, free 24/7 publicity, and free travel to rallies and golf clubs.
My wife read Mary Trump’s book, and she said that, even though Donald comes across as exactly the terrible person you’d expect, it’s Fred who is the real villain of the piece.
That’s pretty much the conclusion put forth by Mary Trump in her book. Whether at some level of life experience it’s somehow “not his fault” is immaterial. He is evil, unbalanced, and totally self-serving with not a shred of interest in the well-being of the people he’s supposed to serve, and all of the appointees in his malignant, nepotistic administration are much the same. He’s changed politics much for the worse, done untold damage at home and abroad, and greatly demeaned the stature of the office of the president and America’s standing in the world. I have absolutely zero sympathy.
Exactly this.
I think he pushed Fred, Jr. so hard, Jr. drank himself to death.
Evidently I’m a terrible person. I have never felt any sympathy or empathy for Donald Trump. I’ve felt annoyance, indignation, displeasure, and anger towards him, but I’ve never felt sorry for him.
I felt sorry for Trump once. I learn from my mistakes.