Octopus Overlords

Alefroth wrote:So laying your hands on a woman gets you banned from the White House?

Zarathud wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 4:52 pm

Alefroth wrote:So laying your hands on a woman gets you banned from the White House?

Only for Democrats.

For Republicans, that is called "winning."

GreenGoo wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 4:04 pm I just want to acknowledge that that has to be one of the shittiest jobs for an intern to have in the whitehouse. Aside from fluffer, I guess.

Skinypupy wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 3:41 pm
https://twitter.com/eppyad/status/1060568342749167616

When the FTC subpoenaed Whitaker for his records related to the company in October 2017, he failed to provide any information, telling investigators that he was busy at that time moving from Iowa to Washington for a new job, according to people with knowledge of the case.

At the time, Whitaker was preparing to assume a new post: chief of staff to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Another advisory board member who also did legal work for the company, New York-based attorney Eric Creizman, said he also received a subpoena from the FTC and turned over records regarding the company.

“I thought you kind of had to respond to subpoenas,” he said. “If you’re busy, that doesn’t give you the right to avoid a subpoena.”

In the end, FTC investigators did not obtain evidence or internal communications showing Whitaker knew about the company’s phony promises to help investors patent and market their ideas, according to people with knowledge of the case.

Chaz wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:14 am Aside from the obvious outrage fuel of ignoring the death and destruction this fire is causing, isn't California's forest fire mitigation program actually seen as incredibly effective, and used as a model for others? So you're saying that the best fire management practices available aren't good enough, so we should just stop funding it and give up? That's the deal?

Obviously, I know this is just usual Trump raging about things he has no idea about and demonizing blue areas like California.

Holman wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:21 am

Chaz wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:14 am Aside from the obvious outrage fuel of ignoring the death and destruction this fire is causing, isn't California's forest fire mitigation program actually seen as incredibly effective, and used as a model for others? So you're saying that the best fire management practices available aren't good enough, so we should just stop funding it and give up? That's the deal?

Obviously, I know this is just usual Trump raging about things he has no idea about and demonizing blue areas like California.

That's just his Twitter persona, though. I'm sure that inside the WH he is taking this emergency very seriously and ensuring that the best resources and responses are being made available. After all, Americans are suffering, and no president could ignore that.

tjg_marantz wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:42 am I believe the fires started on federal park land, not state park land.

Enough wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:44 am

Holman wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:21 am

Chaz wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:14 am Aside from the obvious outrage fuel of ignoring the death and destruction this fire is causing, isn't California's forest fire mitigation program actually seen as incredibly effective, and used as a model for others? So you're saying that the best fire management practices available aren't good enough, so we should just stop funding it and give up? That's the deal?

Obviously, I know this is just usual Trump raging about things he has no idea about and demonizing blue areas like California.

That's just his Twitter persona, though. I'm sure that inside the WH he is taking this emergency very seriously and ensuring that the best resources and responses are being made available. After all, Americans are suffering, and no president could ignore that.

I mean that's the thesis of why he is such a fetid pustule right now. The scope of this disaster is the worst in history for fire in CA and the whole situation deserves POTUS leadership much better than this.

Kraken wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 12:29 pm

Enough wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:44 am

Holman wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:21 am

Chaz wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:14 am Aside from the obvious outrage fuel of ignoring the death and destruction this fire is causing, isn't California's forest fire mitigation program actually seen as incredibly effective, and used as a model for others? So you're saying that the best fire management practices available aren't good enough, so we should just stop funding it and give up? That's the deal?

Obviously, I know this is just usual Trump raging about things he has no idea about and demonizing blue areas like California.

That's just his Twitter persona, though. I'm sure that inside the WH he is taking this emergency very seriously and ensuring that the best resources and responses are being made available. After all, Americans are suffering, and no president could ignore that.

I mean that's the thesis of why he is such a fetid pustule right now. The scope of this disaster is the worst in history for fire in CA and the whole situation deserves POTUS leadership much better than this.

Blue state. Let it burn.

Holman wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:21 am

Chaz wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:14 am Aside from the obvious outrage fuel of ignoring the death and destruction this fire is causing, isn't California's forest fire mitigation program actually seen as incredibly effective, and used as a model for others? So you're saying that the best fire management practices available aren't good enough, so we should just stop funding it and give up? That's the deal?

Obviously, I know this is just usual Trump raging about things he has no idea about and demonizing blue areas like California.

That's just his Twitter persona, though. I'm sure that inside the WH he is taking this emergency very seriously and ensuring that the best resources and responses are being made available. After all, Americans are suffering, and no president could ignore that.

Chaz wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 2:24 pm

Holman wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:21 am

Chaz wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:14 am Aside from the obvious outrage fuel of ignoring the death and destruction this fire is causing, isn't California's forest fire mitigation program actually seen as incredibly effective, and used as a model for others? So you're saying that the best fire management practices available aren't good enough, so we should just stop funding it and give up? That's the deal?

Obviously, I know this is just usual Trump raging about things he has no idea about and demonizing blue areas like California.

That's just his Twitter persona, though. I'm sure that inside the WH he is taking this emergency very seriously and ensuring that the best resources and responses are being made available. After all, Americans are suffering, and no president could ignore that.

No, he's sitting in a hotel in France, not going to the memorial event that he was supposed to go to because it's outside, it's raining, and apparently that means Marine One can't fly him there? Because the helicopter that flies the President around is apparently unsafe to fly in the rain? So he's doing what he always does when he's sitting around bored and not the center of attention: he tweets crazy stuff to make himself the center of attention.

Unagi wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 1:51 am He never once locker her up. Not once.

Kurth wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 1:57 am Also, last I checked, no wall. And Mexico hasn’t paid for it either.

U.S. President Donald Trump awarded the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour in the U.S., to seven individuals Saturday, both living and dead — one of whom has been the biggest donor to the Republican Party.

Miriam Adelson was awarded the Medal of Freedom. She is married to Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire Las Vegas casino magnate and another GOP megadonor.

The Adelsons recently contributed $113 million to GOP causes during the 2018 election cycle. Among those donations, the couple gave $25 million in July to the Senate Leadership Fund, $2 million in September to ESAFund, $3 million in July and September to the Republican Governors Association and roughly $40 million between May and September to the Congressional Leadership Fund, according to Politico.

They also gave $82 million during the 2016 election cycle to the Republican Party, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan research group, making them the largest donor to Republicans that year, too.

Max Peck wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 11:21 am You won't believe this one weird trick that will make you a certified American Hero

U.S. President Donald Trump awarded the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour in the U.S., to seven individuals Saturday, both living and dead — one of whom has been the biggest donor to the Republican Party.

Miriam Adelson was awarded the Medal of Freedom. She is married to Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire Las Vegas casino magnate and another GOP megadonor.

The Adelsons recently contributed $113 million to GOP causes during the 2018 election cycle. Among those donations, the couple gave $25 million in July to the Senate Leadership Fund, $2 million in September to ESAFund, $3 million in July and September to the Republican Governors Association and roughly $40 million between May and September to the Congressional Leadership Fund, according to Politico.

They also gave $82 million during the 2016 election cycle to the Republican Party, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan research group, making them the largest donor to Republicans that year, too.

Chaz wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:14 am Aside from the obvious outrage fuel of ignoring the death and destruction this fire is causing, isn't California's forest fire mitigation program actually seen as incredibly effective, and used as a model for others? So you're saying that the best fire management practices available aren't good enough, so we should just stop funding it and give up? That's the deal?

Obviously, I know this is just usual Trump raging about things he has no idea about and demonizing blue areas like California.

Chaz wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:14 am Aside from the obvious outrage fuel of ignoring the death and destruction this fire is causing, isn't California's forest fire mitigation program actually seen as incredibly effective, and used as a model for others? So you're saying that the best fire management practices available aren't good enough, so we should just stop funding it and give up? That's the deal?

Skinypupy wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 12:03 pmThis isn’t something I really follow. Curious if there’s an equivalent example on the left. Someone who gets the honor simply because they donated huge sums of money.

Chaz wrote: Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:26 am It may not have value, but it apparently has a price tag.

While at Rockefeller, she met Sheldon Adelson, whom she married in 1991. In 1993, she founded a substance abuse center and research clinic there, and in 2000, the couple opened the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Research Clinic in Las Vegas.[1]

LordMortis wrote: Mon Nov 12, 2018 10:32 am It's a an award for philanthropy, it's very nature is price tag associated.

That said I have no idea what she's done. I figured I'd give her looksee to see if I am just ignorant. Wiki's total biography on her philanthropy

While at Rockefeller, she met Sheldon Adelson, whom she married in 1991. In 1993, she founded a substance abuse center and research clinic there, and in 2000, the couple opened the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Research Clinic in Las Vegas.[1]

Not a promising start for devaluing the award....

So off to google which then points me to the wiki, where she is second to Sheldon,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelson_Foundation

It's respectable though not on par with the money she's given to the republican.

What's interesting is

1) That the foundation is primarily to promote Jewish interests which goes against the antisemitic memes of Trump, goes against a base who despises Soros for being some sort of Jewish purchaser of Democratic influence. It's weirdly backwards for those that literally call out his name in their WASPcentric hatred.
2) She's the second person named, not the first.
3) The sum of the donations for which she secondly named is less than she has reportedly given Republicans to pedal influence.
4) Also on her Wiki is that she was a financial vice-chair for Trump's presidential bid in 2007.

So the whole thing is pretty topsy turvey with regard to Trump perceptions but it does appear to me the medal was purchased and not for her philanthropy.

The prospect of Presidential Harassment by the Dems is causing the Stock Market big headaches!

Holman wrote: Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:55 am https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 6488142848

The prospect of Presidential Harassment by the Dems is causing the Stock Market big headaches!

Wreckers and Saboteurs interfering with the Five-Year Plan!!