January 17, 2019

trump's chief of staff Mulvaney owes 2.5M - says loan "will go unpaid"

https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/mulvaney-borrowed-1-4m-to-build-a-mall-it-wasn-t-built-nor-the-loan-repaid-Y9nU-aQRFUaREms8Rvcptw/?utm_source=Amplify&utm_medium=Intellectualist&utm_campaign=Twitter&utm_term=Derek%20Cressman

Mick Mulvaney said the loan—now $2.5 million with interest—"will go unpaid".

Eleven years ago, Mick Mulvaney was the co-owner of a company that wanted to build a strip mall in an upscale Charlotte community.

To finance the project, they borrowed $1.4 million from a family firm owned by Charles Fonville Sr.
The project fell apart, the mall was never built, and Mulvaney adopted a political career, which has recently resulted in his becoming President Trump’s acting chief of staff.

And Fonville never got his money back.

A sum that has now reached $2.5 million with interest was brushed off by Mulvaney as a bad real estate deal. He said that the sum “will go unpaid.”

The political battle that now rages between Mulvaney and Fonville threatens to tarnish Mulvaney’s reputation as a fiscally responsible political actor.

Fonville is accusing Mulvaney’s two companies of “intent to deceive,” “fraudulent acts,” and “breach of contract” to avoid payment of the loan.

Mulvaney’s lawyer, John R. Buric says Mulvaney has done nothing wrong. Fonville & Co. may not be repaid because it was a secondary lender in a project that was worth less than originally anticipated. The primary lender has the first right of repayment if the property is foreclosed on.

January 17, 2019

Tucker Carlson Gets Hilariously Owned By His Own On-Screen Graphics

https://twitter.com/mattwilstein/status/1085710361850896385/photo/1

January 17, 2019

Paul Krugman Has A Scathing New Nickname For Donald Trump's Administration

Paul Krugman Has A Scathing New Nickname For Donald Trump’s Administration
The Nobel Prize-winning economist also said Trump surrounds himself with people of “extraordinarily low quality.”

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman pulled no punches with his analysis of the people working under President Donald Trump.

In his latest column for The New York Times, Krugman described the people that Trump surrounds himself with as being of “extraordinarily low quality.”

“Lincoln had a team of rivals; Trump has a team of morons,” he wrote.

Krugman noted how working for the president used to be “a career booster, something that looks good on your résumé.” But Trump’s presidency was “so chaotic, corrupt and potentially compromised by his foreign entanglements that anyone associated with him gets tainted.”

“Only those with no reputation to lose, generally because they’re pretty bad at what they do” were now willing to serve Trump, he continued, adding “things have gotten even worse and even dumber” and “we haven’t hit bottom yet.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-krugman-donald-trump-administration-nickname_us_5c3ef340e4b0922a21da2801

January 17, 2019

If Karen Pence loves "moral purity"....

If Karen Pence loves "moral purity," she would have denounced Melania Trump for — for example -- posing naked and in handcuffs for a men's magazine when she worked as a model.

If she and her husband want to sign a pledge of moral purity, they should first hand it to the President of the United States for his own signature.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/16/opinions/karen-pence-evangelical-hypocrisy-clay-cane/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F%3Fadsqa%3Dappname%253Dsqa%26cid%3Dsamsung-quick-access

January 17, 2019

Michigan State's president to resign after he said sexual abuse victims enjoyed the spotlight

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/01/16/pressure-mounts-michigan-states-president-after-he-said-sexual-abuse-victims-enjoyed-spotlight/?utm_term=.e2c2ab19aa28

The interim president of Michigan State University is resigning, according to the chairwoman of the university’s trustees, and becomes the school’s second leader to step down under pressure because of the scandal involving a university physician accused of sexual abusing dozens of girls and women.


John Engler, a former Michigan governor, is quitting amid outrage over comments he made about women who were sexually abused by the disgraced former doctor.

Trustee Brian Mosallam said in an interview Wednesday that trustees would vote Thursday to terminate Engler if he did not resign.

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Engler said the next president will have many challenges but work has been done so that person can come in and look ahead.

But he acknowledged it's been a tough time, "very emotional."

"You’ve got people, they are hanging on and this has been … there are a lot of people who are touched by this, survivors who haven’t been in the spotlight," Engler said. "In some ways they have been able to deal with this better than the ones who’ve been in the spotlight who are still enjoying that moment at times, you know, the awards and recognition. And it’s ending. It’s almost done.”

January 16, 2019

Bogus Washingtonpost distributed saying Trump has left office "Celebrations breakout worldwide"

https://twitter.com/IanKullgren/status/1085542903903121408/photo/1

Washington Post warns bogus paper being distributed claiming Trump left office

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/washington-post-warns-fake-copies-being-distributed-as-bogus-headline-claims-trump-is-out-as-potus

January 16, 2019

Donald Trump's 'slenderizing' fashion trick? Long ties

The president encouraged Chris Christie to wear a long tie to appear thinner, the former governor wrote in his book

Donald Trump’s ‘slenderizing’ long ties – in pictures

Donald Trump at a rally at Mohegan Sun arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on 10 October 2016. Trump purportedly told Christie in 2005: ‘You gotta look better to be able to win.’ Photograph: Christopher Dolan/AP
Wear black, stay away from loud patterns, stick with vertical stripes. There are dozens of tips and tricks to wearing clothes that will make you appear slimmer. Turns out, Donald Trump has his own: wear your tie long. Very long.

Trump recommends the fashion hint as “slenderizing”. Or so he told New Jersey’s former governor and White House wannabe Chris Christie, according to the latter’s forthcoming book.

In the new memoir Let Me Finish, Christie wrote of how Trump encouraged him to wear a long tie to make him look thinner during the 2016 presidential campaign.

For anyone who’s met or seen a picture of Trump, it’s clear the president consistently heeds his own advice. The end of Trump’s tie usually falls well below his waistline. Trump then adjusts them to make the front much longer than the back, and infamously resorts to criss-crossed sticky tape to affix the stub of the back end to back of the front end …

Donald Trump’s tie flaps in the wind, revealing sticky tape attached to the back, as he arrives at Orlando international airport on 3 March 2017.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/15/donald-trump-long-ties-slenderizing-chris-christie-book

January 15, 2019

secure those car seats

https://nypost.com/video/driver-shocked-to-find-toddler-in-car-seat-in-middle-of-road/

Driver shocked to find toddler in car seat in middle of road
January 15, 2019
Harrowing dashcam footage has surfaced of a 2-year-old girl strapped in a car seat flying out of a moving vehicle in Mankato, Minnesota. Chad Cheddar Mock captured the video of the young girl falling out of a car and landing in the middle of the street. Mock came to the aid of the child, who was confirmed by police to be uninjured. The toddler’s mother could be charged with child endangerment and failure to fasten a child restraint system.

January 15, 2019

fancy WH silver gravy boats used for the mcnugget sauce

White House Staffer, choking through tears - "I... guess... we could... use the... Lincoln gravy boats... for the... Mc... the McNug... the McNugget sauces."

https://twitter.com/wkamaubell/status/1084970001226821633

January 15, 2019

Texas woman gets visit from secret service hours after posting about Trump. Slams door in his face

She posted "can someone shoot the fool between the eyes already and call it a day?"

Woman who posted about Trump slams door on Secret Service agent
January 14, 2019
After reportedly posting online about hoping someone would shoot President Trump between the eyes, a woman in Texas was shocked to see a Secret Service agent at her door only a few hours later. According to her, he attempted to intimidate her and enter her home but stopped when her nephew started recording. After stating that she wanted a lawyer, the woman got the agent’s phone number and then slammed the door shut without waiting for him to leave.

https://nypost.com/video/woman-who-posted-about-trump-slams-door-on-secret-service-agent/