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Word.Jeff V wrote: Pelosi and the rest of the party leadership should have been ousted after the election failure.
He's a completely different Governor now. Fixed CA's budget issues (including getting a rainy day fund established out of the Dem Legislature, which loves to spend money for pet projects). Is investing in infrastructure wisely, has done a great job being a forceful force for the environment while still being mindful of Farming interests, etc.Isgrimnur wrote:NYTimesImLawBoy wrote:Gov. Moonbeam
Also, he's 79.For the uninitiated, ‘Governor Moonbeam’ became Mr. Brown’s intractable sobriquet, dating back to his days as governor between 1975 and 1983, when his state led the nation in pretty much everything — its economy, environmental awareness and, yes, class-A eccentrics.
The nickname was coined by Mike Royko, the famed Chicago columnist, who in 1976 said that Mr. Brown appeared to be attracting “the moonbeam vote,” which in Chicago political parlance meant young, idealistic and nontraditional.
Despite Claims To Contrary, Trump Has Signed No Major Laws 5 Months In
Hillary Clinton colluded with the Democratic Party in order to beat Crazy Bernie Sanders. Is she allowed to so collude? Unfair to Bernie!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2017
It's weird that he didn't use "Crooked Hillary" but did go with "Crazy Bernie" but aside from that this is pretty much par for the course for Demented Donnie.Smoove_B wrote:He's either a master troll or there's something seriously medically wrong with him.
Hillary Clinton colluded with the Democratic Party in order to beat Crazy Bernie Sanders. Is she allowed to so collude? Unfair to Bernie!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2017
I didn't realize the President was in the position to endorse and/or promote products. Maybe this is the true solution to our budget crisis.President Trump on Tuesday promoted Fox News host Eric Bolling's new book "The Swamp" by retweeting Bolling's tweet that says Trump has a copy.
"Good morning friends! "The Swamp" out today. President Trump has a copy... get yours here," Bolling's tweet said.
Of course, the follow up video to that is a supercut of Trump's "funniest comeback lines", which are basically all insults.LordMortis wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWxfv8Moins
What do you think will happen as these people (who have likely received ethics waivers, like the rest of the administration) are spending taxpayer dollars?Documents obtained by the Guardian show Sekulow that month approved plans to push poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60m to Sekulow, his family and their businesses...
...In addition to using tens of millions of dollars in donations to pay Sekulow, his wife, his sons, his brother, his sister-in-law, his niece and nephew and their firms, Case has also been used to provide a series of unusual loans and property deals to the Sekulow family...
...For years, the nonprofits have made a notable amount of payments to Sekulow and his family, which were first reported by Law.com. Since 2000, a law firm co-owned by Sekulow, the Constitutional Litigation and Advocacy Group, has been paid more than $25m by the nonprofits for legal services. During the same period, Sekulow’s company Regency Productions, which produces his talk radio show, was paid $11.3m for production services.
Sekulow also personally received other compensation totalling $3.3m. Pam Sekulow, his wife, has been paid more than $1.2m in compensation for serving as treasurer and secretary of Case.
Sekulow’s brother, Gary, the chief operating officer of the nonprofits, has been paid $9.2m in salary and benefits by them since 2000. Gary Sekulow has stated in Internal Revenue Service (IRS) filings that he works 40 hours per week – the equivalent of a full-time job – for each of the nonprofits. Filers are told to specify if any of the hours were spent on work for “related organizations”. He does not.
Meanwhile, a company run by Gary’s wife, Kim Sekulow, has received $6.2m since 2000 in fees for media production services and for the lease of a private jet, which it owned jointly with Jay Sekulow’s company Regency Productions. The jet was made available for the use of Jay and Pam Sekulow, according to corporate filings...
...In another deal, Sekulow’s wife Pam, Case’s treasurer and secretary, bought a “retreat property” in North Carolina from Case in 1998 with help from a $245,000 loan out of the nonprofit’s funds. The Case board, controlled by her family, then decided to forgive $217,742 of what Pam owed and count this as compensation, the previously unreported accounts say.
Having taken control of the property, the Sekulows then remortgaged it at market value, and continue to own it today. Case said in the accounts that the house sale to Pam Sekulow “represented estimated fair market value”.
Case separately loaned Jay Sekulow $209,968 in 1999. Over the following years, the Case board voted to forgive $211,305 of the loan and interest payments – more than the original amount Sekulow had borrowed – and classify all this as compensation...
This is truly shocking.Pyperkub wrote:What Trump's closest advisors do with Charitable donations:
What do you think will happen as these people (who have likely received ethics waivers, like the rest of the administration) are spending taxpayer dollars?Documents obtained by the Guardian show Sekulow that month approved plans to push poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60m to Sekulow, his family and their businesses...
...In addition to using tens of millions of dollars in donations to pay Sekulow, his wife, his sons, his brother, his sister-in-law, his niece and nephew and their firms, Case has also been used to provide a series of unusual loans and property deals to the Sekulow family...
...For years, the nonprofits have made a notable amount of payments to Sekulow and his family, which were first reported by Law.com. Since 2000, a law firm co-owned by Sekulow, the Constitutional Litigation and Advocacy Group, has been paid more than $25m by the nonprofits for legal services. During the same period, Sekulow’s company Regency Productions, which produces his talk radio show, was paid $11.3m for production services.
Sekulow also personally received other compensation totalling $3.3m. Pam Sekulow, his wife, has been paid more than $1.2m in compensation for serving as treasurer and secretary of Case.
Sekulow’s brother, Gary, the chief operating officer of the nonprofits, has been paid $9.2m in salary and benefits by them since 2000. Gary Sekulow has stated in Internal Revenue Service (IRS) filings that he works 40 hours per week – the equivalent of a full-time job – for each of the nonprofits. Filers are told to specify if any of the hours were spent on work for “related organizations”. He does not.
Meanwhile, a company run by Gary’s wife, Kim Sekulow, has received $6.2m since 2000 in fees for media production services and for the lease of a private jet, which it owned jointly with Jay Sekulow’s company Regency Productions. The jet was made available for the use of Jay and Pam Sekulow, according to corporate filings...
...In another deal, Sekulow’s wife Pam, Case’s treasurer and secretary, bought a “retreat property” in North Carolina from Case in 1998 with help from a $245,000 loan out of the nonprofit’s funds. The Case board, controlled by her family, then decided to forgive $217,742 of what Pam owed and count this as compensation, the previously unreported accounts say.
Having taken control of the property, the Sekulows then remortgaged it at market value, and continue to own it today. Case said in the accounts that the house sale to Pam Sekulow “represented estimated fair market value”.
Case separately loaned Jay Sekulow $209,968 in 1999. Over the following years, the Case board voted to forgive $211,305 of the loan and interest payments – more than the original amount Sekulow had borrowed – and classify all this as compensation...
Well, he did make his reputation working for Jews for Jesus (per the article). Side note, I remember getting those handouts for decades on campus and at 49er games (and seeing them end up littered all over the place).tgb wrote:This is truly shocking.
A lawyer named Jay Sekulow and he's not a Jew? What is this world coming to?
I think it's a mixture of both. I can't believe he has gotten this far in life without someone beating the crap out of him.Smoove_B wrote:He's either a master troll or there's something seriously medically wrong with him.
Hillary Clinton colluded with the Democratic Party in order to beat Crazy Bernie Sanders. Is she allowed to so collude? Unfair to Bernie!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2017
The Time cover is a fake.
There was no March 1, 2009, issue of Time magazine. And there was no issue at all in 2009 that had Trump on the cover.
In fact, the cover on display at Trump’s clubs, observed recently by a reporter visiting one of the properties, contains several small but telling mistakes. Its red border is skinnier than that of a genuine Time cover, and, unlike the real thing, there is no thin white border next to the red. The Trump cover’s secondary headlines are stacked on the right side — on a real Time cover, they would go across the top.
And it has two exclamation points. Time headlines don’t yell.
“I can confirm that this is not a real TIME cover,” Kerri Chyka, a spokeswoman for Time Inc., wrote in an email to The Washington Post.
Growing up in New York with it's heavy Latin American population, we called them "Hews por Hay-seus".Pyperkub wrote:Well, he did make his reputation working for Jews for Jesus (per the article). Side note, I remember getting those handouts for decades on campus and at 49er games (and seeing them end up littered all over the place).tgb wrote:This is truly shocking.
A lawyer named Jay Sekulow and he's not a Jew? What is this world coming to?
Sounds like TIME could sue and settle for someone's tax returns.Holman wrote:Some of Trump's golf courses display a framed TIME magazine cover featuring Trump.
It's fake.
Holman wrote:Some of Trump's golf courses display a framed TIME magazine cover featuring Trump.
It's fake.
The Time cover is a fake.
There was no March 1, 2009, issue of Time magazine. And there was no issue at all in 2009 that had Trump on the cover.
In fact, the cover on display at Trump’s clubs, observed recently by a reporter visiting one of the properties, contains several small but telling mistakes. Its red border is skinnier than that of a genuine Time cover, and, unlike the real thing, there is no thin white border next to the red. The Trump cover’s secondary headlines are stacked on the right side — on a real Time cover, they would go across the top.
And it has two exclamation points. Time headlines don’t yell.
“I can confirm that this is not a real TIME cover,” Kerri Chyka, a spokeswoman for Time Inc., wrote in an email to The Washington Post.
Alexa, who is president of the United States?El Guapo wrote:Translation: Amazon, if you don't start pressuring the Washington Post (your subsidiary) to be more friendly to me, I will impose unspecified additional taxes on you.
The Time Magazine thing really is amazing. I wonder whether he ordered it himself, or whether it was done by some underling who (presumably correctly) anticipated that Trump would want him to do that.Holman wrote:I know the fake TIME cover thing is of no great importance, but it's funny that it's something Trump cared enough about to make real. So far it's been spotted framed on the wall at at least seven Trump properties.
Someone cared enough about this to get it mocked up, framed, and distributed as part of the official decor.
Wonder if Hitler was proud when he made the cover as Man of the Year?Smoove_B wrote:I'm betting he'll eventually be on the cover of Time magazine, but likely not for the reason's he's hoping. And I also doubt it will be framed and distributed to his various real estate holdings.
Fixed.hepcat wrote:
Alexa, who is president of the United States?
<20 minutes of Alexa sobbing>
Do we know that for sure?hepcat wrote:We're just lucky the WH isn't currently adorned with photos of Trump's CGI enhanced penis...
Fake news! Disapproving isn't necessarily not not approving.El Guapo wrote:Under a new Reuters poll, more people "strongly disapprove" of Trump (43%) than approve of him at all (35%).
Well, there's the Time magazine cover he had his people put it on, alongside the headline World's Biggest Dick.Alefroth wrote:Do we know that for sure?hepcat wrote:We're just lucky the WH isn't currently adorned with photos of Trump's CGI enhanced penis...
Haven't heard much about that stupid wall lately.Holman wrote:Fake news! Disapproving isn't necessarily not not approving.El Guapo wrote:Under a new Reuters poll, more people "strongly disapprove" of Trump (43%) than approve of him at all (35%).
Those 43% could "strongly disapprove" of Trump not not not being Trump ENOUGH.
I so didn't see the "L" in the last word when I skimmed this at first. It made sense, sort of, in a very 'hepcat' way.tgb wrote:Ann Coulter is a stopped clock.
