US Politics March 2019: “I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled”

it's a bit late when you can see it, tho

what a world

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-bezos-investigation-finds-the-saudis-obtained-his-private-information?ref=home

You got us again, Saudi Arabia. Now we're only going to give you 327 more chances. On the other hand, it's just so hard to stay mad at you, so carry on, I guess.

“We as Saudis will never accept to be attacked by the Washington Post in the morning, only to buy products from Amazon and Souq.com by night! Strange that all three companies are owned by the same Jew who attacks us by day, and sells us products by night!”
“Our weapon is to boycott… because the owner of the newspaper is the same as their owner.”
“We're after you - the Jew, worshipper of money, will go bankrupt by the will of God at the hands of Saudi Arabia... the owner of Amazon and Souq is the owner of the Washington Post is the spiteful Jew who insults us every day.”

Bezos is not Jewish, but you get the point.

I like this guy's brand of snark:

Though relatively benign at first (“Al Gore’s Diet Is Making Him Stupid”), the Trump/Pecker relationship has metastasized: In effect, the Enquirer became an enforcement arm of the Trump presidential campaign, and presidency, as the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York laid out in its case against Michael Cohen, who has pleaded guilty. The U.S. Attorney has done the country a service by levying extensive controls on AMI, David Pecker, and his deputy Dylan Howard, through a non-prosecution agreement that requires them to commit no other crimes for three years, and requires everyone at AMI to attend annual training on federal election laws. I’m guessing that’s not how they used to spend their time.

Time to get to work on April's thread title. On this subject I shall defer to my betters.

April: I, myself, have almost had like a form of psychosis

New NBC poll:

Only 29% say Trump has been cleared of wrongdoing:https://t.co/OdfGaSqqaG

New WaPo poll:

Only 32% say Trump has been exonerated on obstruction (but public is evenly split on whether Trump committed wrongdoing re Russian interference):https://t.co/gxvlFXeXgq

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 31, 2019

Maybe people have been noticing that he has consistently and relentlessly acted guilty as hell since the day he fired Comey and Mueller was named as special counsel and they decided this probably means what it looks like it means.

Looking at the most recent tweets, the phrase that sticks out is "weak and very stupid".

^^That's re: April thread title.

April: record deepness

But perhaps the most startling story concerned a round with the sportscaster Mike Tirico before Trump was elected.

Tirico, the Post wrote, “hit the shot of his life, a 230-yard 3-wood towards an elevated green he couldn’t see. But he knew it was close. When he got to the putting green, however, Tirico’s ball was nowhere to be seen. Instead, it was 50ft left of the hole in a bunker. It made no sense – until Trump’s caddy caught up with him after the round.

Tirico was quoted as saying: “Trump’s caddy came up to me and said, ‘You know that shot you hit on the par 5? It was about 10ft from the hole. Trump threw it in the bunker. I watched him do it.’”

he is a comically evil person, just absolutely without any redeeming features.

No man's land: How Trump Tower became Chicago retail's biggest failure

About a year before the 2005 groundbreaking for Trump International Hotel & Tower, Trump Organization executive Charles Reiss met the late Chicago real estate broker Bruce Kaplan and his colleague, Leslie Karr. The Trump family, Reiss said, wanted advice on how to market the retail space that would face the Chicago River at the tower’s base.

“The way it’s designed now, it’s never going to lease up,” Karr recalls telling Reiss. The roughly 70,000-square-foot deck’s 10-foot ceilings, undulating facade and sunken location would be too awkward to attract customers, she said.

...

“It’s a dreadful space,” said Karr, who is now senior vice president for retail at SVN Chicago Commercial. “You could have some kind of luxury call center there, or maybe a high-end med spa, but not at the prices they were asking.”

A decade after the tower opened in 2009, it has just one retail tenant, a salon that occupies an enclosed 3,400-square-foot suite above the hotel lobby. The entire deck-level space remains empty, its blank beige walls on full display for the millions of tourists who stroll along the river each year. No part of it has ever been leased, according to Trump Organization tax appeal documents filed in Cook County and analyzed by The Real Deal.

i try to take one of these pics every time i drive over there, but it depends on the traffic lights.

https://i.imgur.com/CmpqKSd.png

maybe if we just don't have an April thread nothing bad will happen and everyone can have a nice time

POLL

The funny thing, it's actually a nice looking building that works well in the skyline! For that one year or whatever before they farted his name on the front it fit right in. Now it just gives you something to scowl at as you float by on a water taxi. Even the fancy restaurant had to close and reboot with a new chef because everyone was shunning it.

"TRUMP" should have a negative brand value. Stick those letters on a building and vacancies rise, while rents and sales prices fall.

I haven't had the opportunity to decline to attend a conference or wedding reception held at a T. property, but it would have to be easier than estrangement from MAGA-hat family over the past couple years.

Our grandchildren should all know him as the amoral buffoon who made the heat waves, famines, and migration crises of their own times incrementally worse. One of the reasons given for inaction on climate is those most responsible won't be affected. We should consider "visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations" as one way of encouraging good leadership, and if that requires dragging Ivanka's surname through the mud for decades, I'm game.

So, what's the new thread gonna be?

miserable

morning!

xpost It's been mentioned before, but he's the rare person whose election to the White House will result in his name on fewer things, not more.

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BUt might just be that anything said by him today is going to be thought to fall under the same rubrik, maybe should be every other day too.

i think that might be photoshopped

i can tell by the pixels

those middle finger photos are so satisfying

US Politics April 2019: "We apologize for the error — lol, April Fools!"

xpost Yes. I have to avert my eyes to avoid seeing that shit on the walk to and from the train every weekday, who knew a flying bird would be the perfect complement.

US Politics April 2019 Thread: 'I find that pretty hard to believe'