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Lucky Luciano

(11,252 posts)
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 03:04 PM Dec 2016

Robert Mercer is having a huge extravaganza on Saturday at his home.

149 Harbor Road
St James, NY 11780

Would be a pity if protesters showed up.


http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-12-01/trump-villains-and-heroes-to-mingle-at-mercers-costume-party


Each Christmas season since 2009, the Mercer family’s costume party on Long Island has been the subject of awed gossip in Republican circles. This Saturday’s ticket will be more coveted than ever.
Rebekah Mercer, a daughter of hedge fund manager Robert Mercer, has become one of the most influential players in Donald Trump’s administration-in-waiting after spending millions of dollars of her father’s money helping defeat Hillary Clinton.


The theme of this year’s party is “Villains and Heroes” -- appropriate, perhaps, for a year in which the Mercers described the presidential contest as offering an “apocalyptic choice” in which only a Trump victory could save the nation. An invitation seen by Bloomberg News features a sword-wielding centurion crouching in an ancient ruin, facing down a serpent-haired Medusa.

“It will be the hottest ticket in town,” said Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager and a longtime political adviser and friend of the Mercers. Although details of the preparations are kept secret from guests, Conway said, “I deign to guess that this year, it’s going to be a spectacular, super-sized, unprecedented celebration given what just happened in the election.”
Conway said she’s going as Stephen Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, whom she described as a villain to the media and hero to just about everyone else.
Secret Website

The party will be at Owl’s Nest, the estate of Robert Mercer and his wife, Diana, on Long Island’s North Shore, not far from where he works as co-chief executive officer at Renaissance Technologies. Past events have included hundreds of friends and associates of the extended family, drawn from their varied political, business and charitable endeavors. Attendees have ranged from celebrity zookeeper Jack Hanna to firebrand Texas Senator Ted Cruz to the man who trained the family’s million-dollar show horses.

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Robert Mercer is having a huge extravaganza on Saturday at his home. (Original Post) Lucky Luciano Dec 2016 OP
The Religious Types Say That The Age Of Miracles Is Over, But Still Vogon_Glory Dec 2016 #1
Oh, wouldn't I love it to see the following headline DFW Dec 2016 #2
They almost certainly violated PAC rules. nt Lucky Luciano Dec 2016 #4
Vultures Solly Mack Dec 2016 #3
Investigation Zo Zig Dec 2016 #5
Not Renaissance that stole it. Lucky Luciano Dec 2016 #6
The Nucleus is Mercer Zo Zig Dec 2016 #7
Simons is still the king. Lucky Luciano Dec 2016 #8
LOL Skittles Dec 2016 #9
I hope the owls at Owl's Nest shit in their drinks. nt Ilsa Dec 2016 #10
too bad bdamomma Dec 2016 #11

Vogon_Glory

(9,113 posts)
1. The Religious Types Say That The Age Of Miracles Is Over, But Still
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 03:57 PM
Dec 2016

It would be so cool if some invisible hand would write something like "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin..." on the wall while the Mercer bash was going on full-swing.

DFW

(54,325 posts)
2. Oh, wouldn't I love it to see the following headline
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 04:06 PM
Dec 2016

"Mercer Family Members Implicated in Funding Election Fraud in Swing States"

Lucky Luciano

(11,252 posts)
6. Not Renaissance that stole it.
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 08:29 PM
Dec 2016

Jim Simons is the king or Renaissance. He and Henry Laufer (another early Renaissance guy) donated $20+ million to Hillary.

On the other hand, Cambridge Analytics of which Mercer is the primary investor - yes - maybe look into them.

Zo Zig

(600 posts)
7. The Nucleus is Mercer
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 10:19 PM
Dec 2016

True it bleeds over into Cambridge, but I believe the brain trust for this is at Renaissance. Simons left several years ago and turned over the ruins to the two of them. I know, get the FBI to look into it.

Lucky Luciano

(11,252 posts)
8. Simons is still the king.
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 10:47 PM
Dec 2016

The co-CEO is Peter Brown. Brown's wife works for the FDA under Obama and is also democratic.

Simons is definitely still the king...chairman to be precise!

I'm also in quant trading, so I follow closely. Simons is the closest thing to a hero to me. Brilliant mathematician.

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