You know, if he had met the requirements, it might have contributed the discussion by making the government look ineffectual by letting them through or by forcing the CBSA to deny entry for a more controversial reason.
Instead he probably just took some time off between rounds of golf to make a ‘statement’ and probably never intended to actually deliver the pillows.
In the link:
Trump said in another part of the five-page diatribe, law enforcement and the “fake news media” should look into former U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as well as “murderers, drug dealers and rapists.”
I read as a teen about a CHP officer getting a chuckle out of being crabbed at a traffic stop in the morning, “Why aren’t you out catching thieves?” and then in the afternoon after intercepting a bank robber, “Why aren’t you out after speeders?”
Aside from the clear projection, what is happening here and happens with most criminals criminal families and criminal organizations (Trump cornered the market there), is that they believe that everyone is a criminal. After all, lying, cheating, fraud, con jobs, extortion is all they have ever known. “That’s just business” It’s a way of life to these mooks.
So they get confused (witch hunt) as to why they are getting targeted with investigations because “everyone does it”.
I very much doubt that any of them have the intelligence or insight to have a conscience that keeps them up at night.
That was my first thought when I heard this. There is no possible way he didn’t know he wouldn’t be allowed in.
Barred from entering Canada, MyPillow guy says he’s going to parachute the pillows in by helicopter.
The DOJ is suing the state of Missouri after the state legislature passed, and the Governor signed, a new law declaring federal gun laws illegal in Missouri.
Reading between the lines, the excerpt which mentioned the America-hating fuckstick’s remarks seem to suggest that he asserts that the properties’ real value is enhanced by virtue* of the fact that he owns them.
*perhaps vice is a more appropriate word, given who we’re discussing.
(bolding mine – kd99)
Pics or it didn’t happen!
I’m sure they’ll do better than live turkeys.
Pillows in boxes, I hope?
Helicopters; Canada’s one weakness!
Why am I suddenly having a precognitive vision of an “I thought turkey’s could fly!” moment.
Regarding Trump, does anyone know whether the insanity defense can be applied to tax evasion?
ETA: Sorry Sunup I didn’t see that you beat me to the punch.
You mock him, but he’s already considered the safety issues!
Fun fact:
You know how conservatives are always wanking on about crime in New York City? In 2021, there were 479 murders. This is very high for New York, based on recent history. The population of New York City is 8.82 million.
St Louis, Missouri had 195 murders in 2021. This is very low for St. Louis, a 25% reduction over the previous year. The population of St. Louis is a little over 300,000.
New York City is much much safer than most mid-sized cities in red states, by several orders of magnitude.
Well, as a resident of the great state of Missouri, the people who make the state red are not in the least surprised by the number of murders in St Louis or Kansas City. I believe they consider all cities equally (and very) dangerous.
My mother is concerned because she has two grandchildren who live in (or are moving to) NYC when crime is ‘out of control’. I pointed out to her that her two daughters both lived in NYC when there were 2,000 murders a year.
Isn’t that just GOP-speak for “There are a lot of black people there”?
(Apologies if that doesn’t describe your mother.)
Large cities have more crime simply because they have more people, but when you look at the numbers on a per capita basis, they tell a very different story.
One sort of wonky thing that occurred to me as I was looking up the statistics for this post.
I had always thought of the population of New York as 8 million and was surprised to find that the city population had increased by over 800,000, or a number roughly 2.75 times the population of St Louis. And if you multiply the number of murders in St. Louis by 2.75, it’s considerably higher than the number of murders in NYC. The NYC murder rate is so low relative to St. Louis that it’s basically a rounding error.
Everybody knows that grandmas love their grandkids way more than the children who produced them.
What isn’t GOP-speak for “There are a lot of black people there”?