Yes. No contract with Trump is worth the spittle that flew out of his mouth while bragging about it.
He’s well known for considering a written contract as only the starting point from which you have to negotiate for him to keep it.
That reminds me of when I lived in Dale City, Virginia. So many of the roads there had names ending in ~dale.
As the sprightly Ms Maddow pointed out this evening, Nixon tried to something similar, his notorious “enemies list” started out as a list of his political enemies that he wanted the IRS to screw. They didn’t, but he* tried*, and that was another article of impeachment, along with “obstruction of justice”. An entirely valid article of impeachment, abuse of power. And the tapes proved he did try, so that was that, and they sent Goldwater along to give him the wonderful news.
We don’t have any Goldwaters any more. The screenplay would be McCain delivering the news to the White House, wheeled in under intensive care, living on sheer will power, just long enough to look Il Douche in the eye and say:
“You’re fired!”.
Wouldn’t it be great if the review commission issued the following statement:
Going back to the press coverage of trump thing, I think there’s something about the culture of the press in the US, and the way that the public perceives them, that enables a lot of the obfuscation we’ve seen.
The press are falling over themselves to try to look civil, and fair, because they know much of the public disapproves of more “hostile” behaviour. The press know (or maybe just believe) that many people will see sarah sanders as some kind of hero for fighting off all the “vicious” attacks that come her way.
And when Conway goes on CNN say, there’s this politeness thing that annoys the hell out of me. Where she’ll spend the whole time lying, contradicting herself, insulting the interviewer, and trying to stoke divisions in the country, but just get pass after pass. And then at the end "So good talking to you, you’re welcome any time“. Fuck that shit.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - Loser Donald’s understanding of the office essentially boils down to “The president is in charge of the whole country and everyone has to do what he says”.
On one hand it’s good news that he’s not Spanish, because that means we can point and laugh at your president before looking at our own politicians and crying.
On the other it’s a pity he would never understand contrafuero, se obedece pero no se cumple. Against the law: it is obeyed but it is not done. But then, he doesn’t understand that third word in English, either.
Sometimes people with a lot of money can be pretty stupid about it, that or get caught up in the moment.
Back in 2005 a two-year old colt was sold at auction for $16-million, a record that still stands. It is hard to tell from the auction but I suspect it was two bidders who just couldn’t stop. In any event, the record lifetime earnings for any thoroughbred at the time was $10-million for Cigar.
Now, anybody with more than a modicum of knowledge knows that the real money in thoroughbreds is in the stud fees. Tapit, the top-earning stud in North America goes for $300,000 a pop and at that rate, it wouldn’t be many ‘pops’ at all to get your $16-million nut back.
Thing is, before a stud fee can rise that high, the stud has to prove himself on the race track then prove those good genes do get passed down. The Green Monkey did neither. He was raced three times for a 0-0-1 record, earning a total of $10,440 and his progeny were equally lackluster. His last posted stud fee in 2016 was $5,000. At that rate it would take some 3,200 covers to get that $16,000,000 back, not counting on-going expenses. Sort of like a building that at full occupancy cannot cover its mortgage payment.
Trump being put out to stud to lower the national debt? Jack Kennedy would be rolling in his grave.
Except that nobody wants Trump’s DNA to pass down in their family. The existing results are generally pretty lackluster.
Well, it could be a net positive, though. Since stud fees are based on bloodlines, the CSFG would have to pay clients in order to provide stud service, which would rapidly deplete his assets and put the whole family into crippling debt.
And the clients should demand cash up front.
And no clothing comes off* until all bills have been proven to be genuine.
*The closet with the brain bleach is down the hall, third door on the right. Remember, on the right: Mariah’s been a tad fratchety of late, and it’s best not to bother her.
Has this been mentioned here? Apparently, the Fuckwit-in-Chief claims the dastardly FBI planted a spy in his campaign, in order to pass information to the Democrats for an October surprise that would undermine his bid for the presidency.
Which, as we now know, totally worked.
It’s clearly an abuse of power. Clear to anyone but Congressional Republicans, anyway.
That would be epic.
It happens in a petri dish or not at all.
Nothing new here, but a good summary:
IOW he’s as deep as a plate and as predictable as a wind-up toy.
For all the Trump supporters, you’ll be pleased to know that Trump is in fact a uniter. Bringing the world together. I’m just got back yesterday from Paris (conference). While there, I was in a shop to buy a Diet Coke. It was run by an elderly man and his son (mainly the son). The man was singing “La jour est long” (the day is long). At the register I said (I’ll type it in English but everything was in French), “The day is long?” and he said “I’m tired”. I said “Me too, I had a very long trip here.” He said, probably noting my mediocre French, “Are you American?” to which I replied “No, Canadian”. He said “Ok, then I don’t hate you.” I looked at him and said “Let me guess, Trump? He sure is an idiot.” And we all laughed together. Good ol’ Donald Trump, uniting the world in laughter… at him.
Note to self: practice Canadian accent before I get to Paris.
I understand the Canadian alphabet starts with “eh”.