Showing posts with label tRUMP family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tRUMP family. Show all posts

May 11, 2019

May 11, 2018: Art of the Deal, Art of the Steal, Art of the Squeal



That Fred Trump would send his son to a military academy was a personal tragedy; that he should have retrieved him is a national calamity”.

             ----from The Quotations of Chairman Joe

It is painfully obvious that our Caesar Disgustus cannot run a respectable lemonade stand. He has no management skills and, clearly, he has no negotiating skills. He has squandered hundreds of millions of his father's money, lost over a billion dollars in the late 80's and early 90's and would have been kicked into well deserved oblivion, if not the penitentiary had it not been for.....?

That, as we used to say, is the sixty-four thousand dollar question. We know that the billionaire Russian fertilizer king came to his rescue on a Florida real-estate investment. We know, as tRUMP's larvae has readily admitted, that after he bilked the New York Banks out of a billion or so dollars that these sources of income dried up and the family began to rely more and more from Russian money. Disgustus, stealing directly from contractors, bankers, and tax fraud moved into stealing indirectly through the medium of the Russian oligarchy and organized crime. Reports of money laundering and racketeering fill the pages of his chroniclers. An now we have the Art of the Squeal wherein our intrepid 'billionaire' protests his innocence, despite all the evidence to the contrary, while squealing like a stuck pig.

The great deal maker has always been a fraud. He knows nothing about the deal. He is drawn only to what flashes before his eyes at any given moment. Now we find him in a trade war with China, raising tariffs to 25 per cent on a huge range of goods and services thinking this will make the Chinese knuckle under and bend to his will.

Disgustus, totally ignorant of history, is innocent of the consequences. Tariff protections only work if the nation raising these barriers is fostering the very industries producing the products in question. Raising tariffs then forces the people to buy domestically produced goods creating employment and keeping the wealth in the country. We did this with the textile industry, steel-tool industries, machine industry, farm produces and a whole range of industrial and agricultural enterprises when the United States was building its industrial base.

But the 'suits' have been allowed to gut the industrial base so that almost nothing is being made in this country. As a consequence, tariffs serve only to raise the cost of living because Americans cannot turn to domestic suppliers who would otherwise be producing the same items at a now lower cost.

In addition, Disgustus who understands nothing—especially finance—fails to understand that China is America's banker. When we were young, the national debt did not have the significance that it has now for two principle reasons: It wasn't as high as it is now and we owed the money to ourselves. Now, increasingly, we owe the money to foreign nationals and governments—and the Chinese hold much of that debt. Disgustus could provoke a response wherein the Chinese simply stop buying treasury notes driving interest rates through the roof forcing draconian budget cuts or, worse, dumping the notes they now have.

In any case, the use of trade to force action by foreign governments has an uncertain record. One is reminded of the Confederacy employing a strategy of forcing Britain to recognize Richmond by burning nearly it's entire stock of cotton. The thinking was that it would create such havoc in the English textile mills that the imperative of kneeling before 'king cotton' would become immediately obvious. Instead, the English sought supply elsewhere and developed the Egyptian and Indian cotton markets.

Disgustus doesn't understand that it isn't the 1950's anymore. No, the conservatives and their capitalist overlords have succeeded in outsourcing the American economy and the palliative offered by this ignoramus and his team will succeed only in further destabilizing the national economy.

“An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh

Impeach and Imprison.




Mar 3, 2019

March 1, 2019: Hare Kushner, Abundance of Caution, Stinking Turd Beneath


“Hare Kushner, Hare Kushner,
Kushner, Kushner, Hare Hare”

In Sanskrit, Hare (pronounced Hari) in here used in “the vocative form of Hari, another name of Vishnu, meaning 'he who removes illusion'. Another interpretation is he “He who is all-attractive, ” (1) as in Kushner playing Ken to Ivanka's trailer trash Barbie.

The New York Times, in a front-page story, reported today that our Caesar Disgustus overruled his own government and granted security clearances to his daughter and son-in-law. Jared Kushner had been flagged by intelligence officials as well as Don McGahn, then serving as White House legal adviser. When the family complained, whining that they were being “targeted for petty reasons”, Disgustus went to his chief-of-staff and ordered that they be granted clearances. (2)

“It is not known precisely what factors led to the problems with Mr. Kushner's security clearance. Officials had raised questions about his own and his family's real estate business's ties to foreign governments and investors, and about initially unreported contacts he had with foreigners.”(3) The Times does not get specific here, but the article is alluding to reports that United States foreign policy has appeared, at times, to hinge upon favorable treatment of Kushner in his quest to secure funding to finance that huge debt on the property at 666 Fifth Avenue. Kushner, aping his father-in-law, bought the property in 2007 at about twice what it was worth, just as the real estate market was about to tank, leaving him “under water”--that is, owing much more than the property is worth—to the tune of well over a billion dollars. This alone would have flagged any application for access to top-secret information. Add to this his participation at the tRUMP Tower meeting with the Russians during the campaign, as well as initially unreported meetings with the Russian ambassador and with officials of a Russian bank under U.S. Sanctions, and it is no wonder that authorities balked.

Initially, reports The Times, “Mr. Kushner...operated with a provisional clearance as his background check proceeded. In an entry to Mr. Kushner's personnel file on Sept. 15, 2017, the head of the personnel security division, Carl Kline wrote, 'Per conversation with WH counsel the clearance was changed to interim Top Secret until we can confirm that the DOJ or someone else actually granted final clearance. This action is out of an abundance of caution because the background investigation has not been competed.” (4)

The question of the Kushner's clearances were raised when it was revealed that former presidential aide Rob Porter was working with a temporary clearance, as were several others, nearly a year into the administration.

“In May 2018, the White House Council's Office, which at the time was led by Mr. McGahn, recommended to Mr. Trump that Mr. Kushner not be given a clearance at that level. But the next day, Mr. Trump ordered Mr. Kelly to grant it to Mr. Kushner anyway...

“The question of Mr. Kushner's access to intelligence was a flash point almost from the beginning of the administration. The initial background check into Mr. Kushner dragged on for more than a year, creating a distraction for the White House, which struggled to explain why one of the people closest to the president had yet to be given the proper approval to be trusted with the country's most sensitive information” (5)

Indeed, it has.

So Jared takes his wife into the oval office and whine that the were being unfairly treated. Jared's clearance, following the Porter scandal, had been downgraded from Top Secret to merely 'Secret', which, as former security expert Malcomb Nance has observed, meant that he couldn't function as plenipotentiary charged with negotiating, among other things in his vast 'portfolio', peace in the Middle East.

When ordered to upgrade Jared's credentials, both Chief of Staff John Kelly and White House Legal Counsel McGahn balked, agreeing to issue the orders but then filing statements that they were ordered to do so.

There is only one reason that one puts such notations in the files and that is to cover your ass.

The question is “ what in Jared and Ivanka's files warrants this 'abundance of caution'?” Could it be the attempts to reach out to foreign governments and banks—some of which are sanctioned by the U.S. government—in order to find funding to keep the Kushner real estate 'empire' afloat? What about the patent licenses issued by the Chinese government to Ivanka and her brands? There are other questions, what was Jared's role in moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and what was the personal pay-off? What really lies behind the U.S. Cessation of aid to the Palestinian Authorities? What was the pay off? We need to know the answers to these and many more questions.

“A recent report by NBC revealed that Mr. Kline had overruled two career security specialists who had rejected Mr. Kushner's application based on the F.B.I.'s concerns...Mr. Kline was acting on the directive sent down by the president, one of the people familiar with the matter said.” (6)

Of course both Disgustus and his larvae have denied any involvement, and Jared remains transfixed as sphinx. Boldface lies. Why are they lying? What are they trying to hide?

The only defense appears to be a combination of demonstrable gross incompetence and the constitutional inability to tell truth. It was revealed that in yet another unprecedented discovery in which the White House had failed to do due diligence, Kline overruled others and granted security clearances to over 30 other White House aides.

The pungent odor wafting from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue exceeds anything in the American experience. Kushner and trailer trash Barbie are helping us brush back the flies swarming about, to reveal the stinking turd that lies beneath.

“An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”

Impeach and Imprison.

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  1. Haberman, Maggie., Schmidt, Michael S., Goldman, Adam., and Karni, Annie. “Trump Forced Top-Secret Clearance for Kushner” The New York Times. Friday, March 1, 2019. Pages 1 & A15
  2. Ibid. Page A15.
  3. Ibid
  4. Ibid
  5. Ibid












May 18, 2018

May 17, 2018: Family of Degenerates, Pimps and Parasites, Decades and Generations


"If all Roads to hell lead back to Richard Nixon, they end with Donald tRUMP".
----from "The Quotations of Chairman Joe"
Caesar Disgustus is no mere aberration and should not be seen nor treated as such. As I've commented in these columns the malignancy that is Donald J. tRUMP has many antecedents, many of which, now a half century in the making, date back to Richard Shithouse Nixon. The paranoia, the assaults on the press, the nascent racism, the dirty tricks, the borderline treason that transformed the Republican Party of our grandfathers into the cancer that is the Rescumlican Party today.
Likewise, the mendacious venality that is our modern Caligula has deep historical roots. tRUMP comes by his criminal proclivities quite honestly. His grandfather, emigrating as he did from what is now modern Germany in order to find his fortune came to America because he quite rightly ciphered that here he could best exploit his fellow man. Here was the land of opportunity where, catering the the basest of vices, one could reach that pot of gold. So, we find grandpa tRUMP within a few years of his arrival running grog shops and whore houses first in the American Northwest and, when run out of town by decent folk, moved north to Alaska in time to exploit the riches of the Gold Rush. He didn't pan for gold, for that would involve too much work. Instead he founded the family fortune off the backs of desperate women playing the pimp to the men who produced the wealth in the first place. It was a trait that he would pass on through the generations: making one's living by being a parasite on the larger community.
In due course the money would be handed down to Fred the father who would make millions building homes for returning G.I's after the war, overcharging and pocketing millions creating such a scandal that he would be the first tRUMP to go to Washington, dragged before a congressional committee investigating graft. Fred would involve the family in a series of seedy deals and seedier business associates as he increased the family fortune in the boroughs of New York.
By the time his son Donald would take over the business, tRUMP enterprises were reported to be well involved with the syndicate, exploiting contractors and tenants, not to mention discriminating against those they saw as 'inferior'.
Donald knows something about prostitution. The world's oldest profession is deeply embedded in his genes. His family has a long history of involvement with and profited enormously by involvement in it. Aping his grandfather, Donald tried feeding off the vices of his fellow man by operating gambling casinos. But his real talents at becoming an accomplished parasite involved feeding on the largesse of the greater community through tax breaks, subsidies and defaulting on nearly a billion dollars of loans--monies owed to the greater community but never paid back. This and money-laundering were the singular talents brought to the family by one Donald J. tRUMP, but the intent was the same: make a quick fortune off the backs of others.

While 'The Donald' would expand the envelope, he would not break the mold. He would lead his family and ultimately the nation back to his origins: prostitution. In this case, political prostitution. Pimping out the people's assets through various privatization schemes; shaking down foreign governments for loans, trademark rights, and business opportunity; turning the highest office and greatest honor in the land into a casino. Feeding off the vice of others in order to carve out a fortune at minimum effort. Caesar Disgustus is the quintessential Boomer, the penultimate parasite, the ultimate Rescumlican. No, he didn't get here by chance. It took decades and generations to produce this malignancy. "If all roads to hell lead back to Richard Nixon, they end with Donald tRUMP".

An' Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh

Impeach and Imprison.