Gawd, the stench from this pre-administration is really getting bad.
They aren’t even trying to be clean.
Oh well, nine more days #narrativematters
I hope disgruntled employees start leaking copies of bills for the room charges for diplomats and function room rental fees for sycophants. They aren’t paying list price.
A Democrat would be stoned to death for doing this.
After his speech, Pence will set up a table outside the ballroom to accept contributions for the inaugural (coronation) celebrations and the Trump Foundation.
I fail to see the issue here. At $1.5 million the rental on that ballroom for one night is a bargain.
I hope those 800 employees at Indiana’s Carrier plant read this interview with UT CEO
The result of keeping the plant in Indiana open is a $16 million investment to drive down the cost of production, so as to reduce the cost gap with operating in Mexico.
What does that mean? Automation. What does that mean? Fewer jobs, Hayes acknowledged.
From the transcript (emphasis added):
GREG HAYES: Right. Well, and again, if you think about what we talked about last week, we’re going to make a $16 million investment in that factory in Indianapolis to automate to drive the cost down so that we can continue to be competitive. Now is it as cheap as moving to Mexico with lower cost of labor? No. But we will make that plant competitive just because we’ll make the capital investments there.
JIM CRAMER: Right.
GREG HAYES: But what that ultimately means is there will be fewer jobs.
Well, as long as Pence isn’t paid, what’s the problem? Because I have been reliably informed for eighteen months now that accepting the going rate speaking fee is the only real corruption that matters.
That hits it on he head. Read about the new Amazon brick and mortar grocery store?
(here for example)
There’s a new age coming and there’s no going back. Time to stop trying to roll back the clock and get creative.
It seems to me that instead of marching on state capitals people should make their “million (whatever) march” to the closest building with a Trump sign on it.
Don’t forget, as pointed out a week ago in TPM:
“The 2013 lease the Trump Organization signed with the federal government to house the hotel in Washington, D.C.’s Old Post Office Pavilion . . . explicitly states that elected officials can play no role in or have no benefit from the arrangement.”
I wonder if Pence gets a cut of the take ?
Every day a new story that makes me want to throw up. Do the voters of this country REALLY not see what’s coming?
They call this kind of governing a kleptocracy. Scary to think it might be the new normal.
Is there a way to directly petition either the GSA or the government ethics office?
Because nothing else quite tells the Media and the opposition that we were only pretending to be really outraged about the Clintons’ ethics for the past 20 years, like beginning to hold and attend events at the Trump hotel in Washington DC while still awaiting his Press Conference on separating himself from his business interests.
These guys are really flaunting it at this point. Every day they’re spiking the football.
Pride cometh before the fall.
‘Ball of Confusion’ for today’s politics:
And the grift goes on
Eve of destruction, tax deduction
City inspectors, bill collectors
Warm clothes in demand,
Population out of hand
Suicide, too many bills, patriots movin’
To the hills
People all over the world, are shoutin’
End the war
And the grift goes on.