Some say Trump is the Transactional President but I submit that Trump is the Slumlord President. Lots of false promises, brutal cost cutting, plenty of unrepaired things, vindictive litigation, tenant abuse and an obsession with the bottom line....to him. money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/new…
Donald survived by sucking Daddies titties....hard. So with Daddy gone...he is sucking America's tit. We caught him once and impeached him but ,wait, oh wait until we discover what he has been doing with his Middle East dictator buddies. cityandstateny.com/articles/polic…
Donald learned to grift from Dad. Even his racism should not be viewed in terms of American history but based on his early years as a slumlord gopher for daddy. Nothing profound, just his way of doing business. nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/…
Even Donald's empty bombast, gilt furniture and surgically and chemically altered hair are all part of the "pitch". Attracting the suckers to grift their money requires the art of bullshit. And Donald is good at bullshit except he is not selling condos. politico.com/news/2020/05/2…
We can also apply this cruel analytical filter to Jared Kushner. What are the odds that the single most powerful person in the Slumlord White House assigned to Daddy's dirty work....is a.....slumlord? #DejaVupropublica.org/article/the-be…
So the future? Watch for the "Big Flip" where Pinkie Ring Donnie and Mortician Jared find a stupider, more desperate sucker to flip their problems to. Just like Boardwalk Casinos and 5th Ave Top of the Market Money Pits. They will skate.
What should we pay attention to? This The biggest real estate scam of Donald and Jared's life. And the payback? Wealth and Immunity for the Trump Crime Family. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
There are no details of annexation. Only a promise to "delay" the theft of Arab land and allow development. Palestine is mentioned in only 100 words and ignored. jpost.com/middle-east/th…
The state of Israel vs the annexation are not the same. But they are guaranteed to start an argument when discussed. The bottom line is that this is an extremely lucrative deal if Binny, Jared and Donald et al don't go to jail. But there is a catch...
Israeli officials estimate that annexation would not only cost billions a year to the state and plunge the region into turmoil and economic hardship. America pays Israel around ten million dollars a day or $3 billion in aid every year. jpost.com/israel-news/an…
So what is the benefit of the accord? Survival for landlords. The ability of at tiny family business to hold on to the UAE. For settlers to be given legitimacy For Israel to survive against Iran and other hostiles and the elevation of the Trump family into a sphere of influence.
The Russian Tail is a statistical anomaly that appears in vote distribution data. In manipulated elections, this curve develops an extended tail, indicating disproportionately high votes for a specific candidate in certain regions or polling stations" lynxotic.com/the-russian-ta…
My thoughts for today; Let Donny roll. Incompetence at speed and scale is historically a healthy thing in the long run. Successful managers respect reality, inertia, logistics, limitations etc. Stupid people think bluster and bullshit trump homeostasis. That leads to...
...an inflection or pivot point. Stability is an enemy to change. Good and bad. Instability is an ideal landscape for change. Pro or con. Let Trump paralyze, terrorize and metastasize the government because it will draw forth change agents to battle his chaos agents.
Trump's reliance on superficial theatrics, threats, insults, and unleashing incompetent subordinates with foolish ideas to disrupt the bureaucratic system we call government will lead to fractures. The much quieter "deep state" understands how the government operates.
Tip: Trump is embracing the Broligarch mantra of "disruption" as in, "move fast and break things." I call it "Smash, Grab and Run" because there are three endstates: 1) Payoffs for corrupt donors, 2) Legacy reshaping and 3) Protection of Trump familial wealth.
Trump operates on three levels: 1) rapidly spewing outrage jibberish to keep the media chasing his laser pointer, 2) Echoing donor jingoism to pay bills, and 3) discussing deeply corrupt deals while abusing his office of President.
This is tempered by a) his incompetence (Dunning-Kruger) b) his inability to think strategically and c) betraying his corrupt donors to take the short money instead of the long money. His backers also discard him when he has no beneficial purpose just as he discards his minions.
For those following the fires in California. Fire is a natural part of life here. Santana or devil winds are normal. Wood frame mansions on the edge of brush are common. November 6, 1961 was a similar event. Doesn't minimize the shock or sense of loss. lafire.com/famous_fires/1…
This time we had the jet stream pushed too high. 30 degree variance between day and night. No rain so far (starts in mid-December). Winds out of season. Usually 3 days of hot dry winds from the desert in Sept/Nov. We had a lot of brush grow after two years of great rainfall.
The Pacific Palisades is a unique place. Dating back to the 20's. A lot of entertainment people. A lot of Jewish community. The heart of liberal California. Beautiful views and weather. $5M and up. They are going to have a major voice and impact as they get together to rebuild.
Back when no one believed that the UK would divorce Europe. Dominic Cummings was not only correct but was behind much of the strategy. economist.com/britain/2016/0…
The faces of Leave UK were not your usual politicans.
'A former Vote Leave staffer said that Cummings had a first rate political brain but less developed interpersonal skills. “Some people found him really odd,”. opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
The premise of was false. But that didn't matter. African migrants weren't going to take over the UK. They were already there... from India and the colonies. "I think it’s perfectly reasonable to say ‘Brexit was a mistake and history will prove that’.”newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
Jamie Raskin takes 72 pages to explain exactly what political weaponization looks like. Few are going to read this, but the shitbags and Russian spies who falsely testified against the President and his family should enjoy some form of very cruel wrath. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subs…
There was also a sideshow where lawyers were dispatched to talk to Russian and FSB assets in Ukraine to invent evidence. This is part of an investigation related to contact with foreign agents. Perp walks, please. businessinsider.com/victoria-toens…
Much of this goes back to the Mueller investigation, where Russians and Russian assets were tasked to influence a pussy mad, broke-ass hick from Queens named Donald Trump. They won. We lost. justice.gov/archives/sco/f…