This is the man who earned $60 Million in four years (2010-14) from his Ukraine work- yet grubbing for 125K?
âClown princeââŚhow perfectly appropriate!
I am starting to wonder if this tangled mess of payoffs and front companies will ever be completely sorted out. It does give you an idea of how much of this has occurred and it undoubtedly will continue unless the DOJ gets serious about stopping it, which means a lot of people will need to go to jail â mostly Republicans.
I think that Jaredâs plan is up something else but I could be wrong.
The grift that keeps on giving.
So is âpollingâ now a euphemism for something else?
Well if youâve earned $60 Million and spent $100 Million or more then yes I can see grubbing for 125K, especially if you took a loan from a shady guy.
He was hoping that the 125k would postpone the kneecapping until he could get the next scam going
OT, but today is Roger Stoneâs appearance before Judge Jackson to see if his gag order needs to be altered. Hope she socks it to him.
there is a lot more in the FT article (from todays paper), written by Edward Luce.
Iâm a subscriber, but here is a link, which may or may not work for you (pretty devastating, I think).
https://www.ft.com/content/90d98374-3528-11e9-bb0c-42459962a812
Indeed , Just like his hero
Quite the laundry that Paulie was running there.
Totally off topic, but HOLY SHIT what a read!
Suffer and Die Alone, Paul Manafort
Paul Manafort is one evil motherfucker. We knew that from his work for Putin-aligned Ukrainian political figures and in his work getting Donald Trump elected. Whether those two interests crossed over is something weâll hopefully learn for sure. But thereâs a good chance that Manafortâs efforts in support of Viktor Yanukovych, who was beloved by Russian oligarchs, led to a massacre in Kiev of anti-Yanukovych protesters on February 20, 2014. That makes today the 5th anniversary.
But people who know more about that shit are the ones who should write about it. What I want to talk about is the fucking, which is more firmly in this here blogâs wheelhouse. Because when it comes to conservatives, somewhere, fucking is involved. Fucking, or the denial of fucking, is a foundational belief of modern conservatism. And you can bet that fucking will rear its erect head in just about any scandal involving conservatives.
So here we go.
A pretty goddamn extraordinary article by Maya Gurantz in the Los Angeles Review of Books delves into the hacked and leaked texts of Paul Manafortâs daughter, Andrea, many to her sister, Jessica. This happened in 2017. Gurantz looked through the 285,000 texts, many of which deal with wedding plans and pregnancies, and she finds one giant thing that most every article or report youâve read or seen about Manafort has left out.
That would be âa decade of coercive and manipulative sexual behavior, in which Manafort allegedly forced his wife, vulnerable from having sustained brain damage after a near-death horseback riding accident years before, to engage in âgang bangsâ with black men while he watched.â
Did you just do a double take and read that again? Because I sure as shit did. Then I went to the actual texts, many of which Gurantz quotes. But hereâs how Andrea described it to her sister in 2014 (and, yeah, this is skeevy and slimy and personal and invasive and all those things, but Manafort helped dick over at least two nations, so fuck him and his privacy):
âthis is bad jess
she just admitted to me how she feels like she always does stuff he want[s]
but he doesnât do stuff she wants
and i asked what does he make you do
and she said group sex
for ten years
and it makes her sickâ
Then Jessica interjected, sarcastically, no doubt, âOh noâ and âyayy!!â
Andrea continued, rather unrelentingly to her sister.
âshe is saying we can never tell him we that
she is confiding in us
but if he finds out we know, there is no way he will forgive her
for telling us
he likes to watch her
She has to leave him if she doesnt want that and he doesâ
Jess then said:
âDad is a sex addict andrea. Ive known about this for a long timeâŚ
[A family friend] told me she saw forms dad filled out for them to do thisâ
Further on, things get a bit more specific:
âbut apparently he has a thing for black men
hard core.
one time it was 6 black men in a hotel room
i hate him jessica. i think i hate him.â
âshe says that when its a private activity its only men
when they go to sex clubs then there are women
sometimesâ
âAnd they put it on internet websites?â
âhe puts her dating profile on websites to arrange meet upsâ
âshe asked why so many black men and he said bc they are the ones willing to do itâ
âi hate him jessica, i am being really strong right now and telling mom its okay and i donât judge her and the only thing that really upsets me is how this all made her feel and he made her feel that way
but btwn you and me - i fucking hate him.â
At one point, they try to figure out how it would work with âan all black gang bang on one woman.â They figure out up to four: " Mouth - one person on each side of you. Switching back and forth." Also, Manafort would sometimes take part, but âhe like could never get offâ and mostly liked to watch.
They have great sympathy for their mother, saying that âIts basically rapeâ and âShe is a destroyed person.â This started when Manafortâs wife, Kathleen, was 52, eight years after the horseback-riding accident, which he helped nurse her back from, but she still suffered long-term damage. They also talk about how they fear their mother will kill herself and that sheâs very scared to lose her marriage. And Andrea says that after her upcoming wedding, she never wants to see him again. In the next year, Manafort would enter a clinic for mental illness and cry to Andrea on the phone that he was thinking of suicide. If youâre getting the feeling that that was more manipulation, itâs hard not to. Hell, he had a mistress that was 30 years younger and who he lavished with tons of gifts, all while telling Kathleen heâll divorce her if she doesnât get fucked in the face and ass at the same time, even if she doesnât want to.
What do we do with this information? Is it just another layer of fucked-up on top of the fucked-up? No, I think it tell us something about not only Manafort, but about Donald Trump and the people he surrounds himself with. And maybe it also tells us something about the seething sexual control that drives so much of conservative ideology and what a bunch of bullshit that is. Goddamn, the immorality of those who push punishing morality on the rest of us.
And Manafort was there for the building of the modern GOP, from his work with College Republicans to all the fuckery that he, Roger Stone, and the heinous Lee Atwater did in the 1980s to his firmâs eager work polishing the turds that were dictators around the world. They helped twist entire populations to believe things that were harmful to them. So, of course, Manafort did that to his wife. Of course, he promised her heâd take care of the family if she just gave in to the group sex. What has Manafort done but put nations through forced and coerced gangbangs while he watched and got off on it.
Of course, in each case, it all turned out to be a lie. Manafort canât take care of his family anymore. He probably canât even save his own life at this point.
Last week, Manafort appeared in court. Jeffrey Toobin on CNN commented, âThis is a man who looks like heâs dying. He is walking with a cane. He looks disoriented. He has declined so precipitously in prison that when you realize he has now lost his cooperation agreement and the chance for a lower sentence and heâs facing an entirely separate prison sentence in the Virginia case, a 70-year-old man is looking like he may die in prison, and it is just a profound thing to think about.â Toobin was offering some kind of generalized sympathy.
Whether or not Manafort was faking it, I donât give a fuck. He isnât just some skunk who lied to the FBI. Manafort is one of the reasons this country is on its current fucked path. And he tortured his wife. Suffer, you prick. Die alone, poor, confused, bereft of everything, not even a tragic figure because that would imply some goodness. No, die the way the evil are supposed to die, in a cell, hated, sick, and fading into dust.
Posted by Rude One at 9:24 PM
The story says that the company has âplaced ads for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Republican National Committee.â
Maybe start looking in a new direction. I still believe there are other rightwing allied groups besides the NRA behind some of this shit, greasing someoneâs palms to elect tRump and other Republicans. I do hope Mueller hasnât ignored the role McTurtleâs PAC played in all this in accepting Russian cash through straw donors. How do you investigate that while Republicans in Congress have always had the ability to subpoena that information?
Apparently you have not priced ostrich suits latelyâŚ
You should really provide links if you quote something this lengthy and explicit. It would help. (Personally, Iâm not very familiar with your comments here so I only suggest links so it can be corroborated.) Thatâs some incredibly salacious stuff.
Yes, itâs harsh, but it I will now go read their texts for myself. When you understand how Stonesâ proclivities abound, should not be too surprising to know his partner had unusual tastes too.
For the record, this appears to be the OPâs article:
+1 on properly citing sources.
And maybe not cut-and-pasting such large chunks from another source. The ability to link together related chunks of text online is exactly the kind of application that Tim Berners Lee had in mind when he inflicted this âwebâ thing on an unsuspecting worldâŚ
Yeah boy that swamp sure has been drained.
$20 million here, $125,000 there⌠nobody cares who pays who⌠pretty soon it turns into real money.
Swamp.