I’m going to tell a quick story about Tony Posnanski which he will probably not appreciate me telling.
A few years ago, I had a moment when I didn’t know how I was even going to fill my gas tank.
I didn’t know how I was going to get through the next weekend.
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It was the last and lowest moment of a long, horrible stretch that crescendoed when my father died on my son’s birthday.
If you’ve read my pinned thread, you know some of this already.
It was the very bottom after an endless string of terrible things.
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Without asking me, Tony found my PayPal and sent me enough money to breathe.
I hadn’t asked. I would not have said yes if he had asked.
He knew that. So he just did it.
It was oxygen at a time when life was asphyxiating.
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People on here see our snarky back and forths. They know we’re friends.
So, they sometimes reach out to me about him.
Some of the messages are complaints about him - just like he gets complaints about me.
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But more so, I get messages from people who Tony has quietly done things for.
I get DMs about how he reached out to someone who was struggling with depression or anxiety or personal issues.
I hear from people who are just having a hard time who Tony quietly helped.
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About a week ago, someone ostensibly on our side of the aisle on here catfished Tony by pretending to be interested in his art.
They then posted the screenshots of their conversation in an effort to embarrass or humiliate or hurt Tony.
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Then that person’s followers jumped in. Then a couple of big accounts piled on.
The original catfishing was the most vulgar and shitty thing I’ve seen someone allegedly on our side of the aisle do to someone else on our side in my five years on Twitter.
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On the very other end of the spectrum, in my five years on here, there has been no person who has been more reliably there for me personally or who I’ve heard has been there for others more than Tony.
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And those drawings some people like to shit on… they bring people happiness.
They make them feel loved and seen and understood.
They make them feel like there is someone who understands them and cares and wants them to be well and happy.
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There is nothing I do in my life that is of as much value to people who are struggling as his pieces are to the people who adore them.
Tony doesn’t talk about it - and he probably doesn’t want me to either - but I just did.
We’re friends for a reason. Now you know.
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Early in his criminal career, Trump got away with destroying documents he was ordered to produce in a lawsuit - and he has repeatedly gotten away with withholding documents.
All of that “success” lulled him into being unafraid of documenting his criminal tax evasion.
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After all, if you have always gotten away with shredding the evidence or simply not turning it over, you get a little overconfident about whether documents can hurt you.
From yesterday’s indictment, it appears the Trump Org. kept meticulous records of off-books tax evasions.
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And it appears those records have landed in prosecutors’ hands.
Trump’s businesses may be a labyrinthine tangle virtually impossible to pull apart…
but any jury can understand the very simple fraud of paying someone X but only reporting Y on their taxes.
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Someone “warned me” they would unfollow me if I killed the aggressive hornets that have stung me twice in my yard.
These aren’t honeybees. They are bald-faced hornets. They are very aggressive. They attack over almost nothing. Vibrations. Movement close to their hive.
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They actually remember faces.
When they sting, they leave a chemical summoning the hive to swarm.
They are dickheads.
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And they are nesting right next to where my neighbors’ boys have a soccer goal - and they are going to kick the ball into that bush at some point this summer.
The problem ain’t bees. I sit with bumble bees all around me on flowering bushes. I leave them alone; and vice versa.
Trump is leveraged to the hilt. His business is a house of cards built on debt he can’t afford to service.
One tiny push and he would suddenly have to hastily sell off assets in a fire sale… which would make all of his other loans suddenly even riskier to lenders.
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High-debt businesses reliant on constant access to credit can go down in flames surprisingly fast.
Happens with retail brands a lot. They eke by until it just implodes. Doesn’t matter how big the retail chain is. Once they are in a credit squeeze, it’s a steep spiral.
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