Today it occurred to me that Little Donnie Fail-Fail ruined Nellie The Elephant for me. 
He was occupied by choosing fabrics and colors for his hotels and casinos. From the ghostwriter of Art of the Deal.
"Trump, a consummate salesman and self-promoter, doesn’t actually like running a business, Leerhson writes. What he enjoys doing – at least during the period when the then-ghostwriter worked with him – is “looking at fabric swatches. Indeed, flipping through fabric swatches seemed at times to be his main occupation.”
"Trump was obsessed with this unusual pastime, Leerhson surmises, because he understood what he was looking at. “[T]he main thing about fabric swatches,” the author writes, “was that they were within [Trump’s] comfort zone – whereas, for example, the management of hotels and airlines clearly wasn’t.”
And he failed at that.
The film the Devils Advocate was looking for a garish NY apartment to be the home of the devil. Something so ostentatious it would work for the movie. They figured they would have to stage it of course.
Trump offered up his apartment. They didn’t change a thing.
Trump’s apartment as a movie set
We needed the ugliest, most garish, horrifying real-estate developer apartment we could possibly find, and Trump threw his apartment at us. We didn’t have to [do anything]. If you look at the movie, that’s his f**ing sh*t-bag apartment with all Versailles gilt and the high-rise windows. It’s just so perfect.
I never saw it, either. All I knew about Trump pre-2015 was that he was generally despised by intelligent people–that was his reputation. (I was never much of a ‘reality tv’ fan anyway.)
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Many thanks. Coming from the position that ‘it’s the white supremacy,’ the lack of enthusiasm for overt white-supremacists like David Duke and Richard Spencer has to be explained–and the fact that there is no “cover” for liking either of them (or similar figures) has to play a role. Most voters who DO want a white supremacist to have power, don’t want to admit that’s what they’re voting for. They have to have a plausible excuse. And Trump supposedly being a ‘great businessman’ is and was the ideal pretext to offer in explanation of their vote.
His being one of history’s lousiest businessmen doesn’t change that, due to the complete abandonment of “factualness” as a cultural value–an abandonment that was largely accomplished through the efforts of Rupert Murdoch.
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Sadly for the planet: yes. (There could well be a serious project: Find Something, ANYthing Positive for Human Beings, or Really Any Form of Life, that A MAGA Adherent has Done. I suspect the pickings would be slim. Most of the entries would likely be along Darwin Award lines.)
Former Trump Aides warn that Trump’s election would mean the end of democracy as we know it. These are people that worked with him closely. These are people that know him best. These are people who are literally risking their lives to bring you this message. These are not partisan hacks. These are people who should be taken seriously.
No offense meant to you, but Sarah Matthews and Alyssa Farah Griffin are 100% partisan hacks. They took jobs working for Trump knowing damn well exactly who he was and they worked for him until they decided that it was politically expedient (and, in Farah Griffin’s case, seeing as how she is now on The View, financially remunerative) to do so.
Farah Griffin is a particularly egregious example; she is the daughter of Joseph Farah, the owner and operator of WorldNetDaily, one of the looniest right wing conspiracy websites online. Joseph Farah was one of the leading proponents of the Swiftboating of John Kerry and birtherist racism directed at Barack Obama. Alyssa was actively working for his website when he was doing the latter day in and day out.
I actually learned earlier today that Sarah Matthews is the first person to ever block me on Twitter. Back in October, she tweeted about an article she wrote heaping praise on Glenn Youngkin for his masterful co-opting of the message on abortion restrictions (by proposing a 15-week ban instead of 6 weeks) and how it would surely provide gains for Republicans in the state legislative elections. When the Republicans wound up losing control of both chambers of the Virginia legislature, I sarcastically asked her how this could be, given how masterfully Youngkin had messaged his abortion stance. She apparently didn’t care for that.
I should note that I cannot claim to know enough about Cassidy Hutchinson to make any sort of judgment toward her. I will say that I did not buy her book, but that is part of a promise I made to myself to not give a single penny to any individual who willingly chose to work for the Trump administration.
No problem. I should have specified that they are not Lefty, secret Democrat partisan hacks. Which makes their specific critique of Trump all the more powerful IMO.
The Atlantic has a special issue along the same lines with David Frum, Anne Applebaum, and McKay Coppins. I would love to have free access to it, but even being limited to reading the previews alone, is terrfying.
I’m hoping to be able to find a copy of the physical magazine, which surely will be cheaper than purchasing online access to The Atlantic. I went into a Barnes & Noble about three weeks ago, when news of this special issue was already all over MSNBC (and maybe CNN too; I can’t recall). The clerk told me that it wouldn’t be out for a few weeks but that he’d already had a dozen customers ask for it.
Not only powerful, but undoubtedly sincere: Trump has plans to harm every single person who has ever criticized or crossed him. The number of people he’s excited about harming must surely number in the tens of thousands, if not more.
Former members of his Administration will merit special treatment. I’d guess that turning the entire space of the National Mall, from the Capitol to the Washington Monument, into a staging ground for hundreds of permanent gallows, has been lovingly discussed by Trump and his current enablers.
To be fair, that description covers virtually everyone who worked for the Trump administration in any notable role. It was not a “working for the betterment of the country” kind of culture.
The Germans favored the guillotine for their traitors, so heads on spikes could be a thing. Invest in the spike industry early!
I’m likely to regret this but, has Cheeto Benito issued a New Years bombastic screed yet?
According to Newsweek, he sent this out on the 31st:
Does he post ANYthing other than whining crybaby screeds? Anything of substance at all?
Lies! Damn lies! He posts a lot of those.
Yes to the first (he’s got posts talking about how great he considers himself and/or talking up people who suck up to him)
No to the latter
But no statistics, so Twain was wrong.