Still. so poignant to read about the monkish Mr Bonder living in his “drab townhouse.”
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What do you do if you didn’t know what you were getting into? It’s not like you can easily get back out again.
Not scare her, just role playing and sex games gone bad.
Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered
I’ve seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
The difference is that the ones with the fountain pens rarely suffer for their crimes.
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I used to think that the malice was tempered by incompetence but in this time of plague I now see that incompetence can be just as great a weapon against the common good.
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Absolutely fascinating. It reads like a criminal enterprise…oh wait…
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Grifters and sleezebags all the way down. You are known by the company (all puns are intentional) you keep.
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“Diving into Trump’s personal finances, as Zachary did in the late 1980s, proved bewildering. Warned that his work for Trump was sure to face an audit, Zachary said he took special care to trace every asset, expense and receipt. When he finally finished, he was mystified. Zachary couldn’t find evidence that Trump, in fact, possessed any cash beyond a recent payment in a casino deal.
“I went to Jack Mitnick, and I said, ‘Look, I must be missing something: There’s nothing here!’… I thought for sure I screwed up. I thought for sure I missed something big.”
Zachary recalled Mitnick’s reply. “He just laughed and went: ‘Well, you just figured it out!’””
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Just as I thought.
He’s a carnival barker
blowhard
bullshitter
liar
May 12th looks to be a large wad of schadenfreude coming our way. What a nice birthday present.
I’ve had this recurring dream that trump ends up living under a bridge in norther New Jersey with all his possessions in a stolen shopping cart.
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The accountants make him look richer than he is. Do they do hair and spray tans too?
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I was going with prison, but I think you have something here. This way he would have to face public ridicule personally.
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Lots of tax cheating is…
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Can someone tell me why Kushner with no experience in logistics got volunteers without experience to source essential PPE? There is a whole arm of the government that does logistics, and their in the funny five sided building off Washington Blvd.
And here’s the thing, what was our ROI for the country using inexperienced folks when we had plenty of experienced folks already trained and paid for by the taxpayers?
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Epstein had actually made some money on Wall Street (nowhere near his claimed wealth or what would be needed to support his lifestyle). The issue wasn’t that he made unsubstantiated claims about his wealth, but that a lot of it was obtained by blackmailing his wealthy clients. If you’ve got the goods on a large part of the Wall Street masters of the universe, you probably are a billionaire.
Trump has some income (I could live quite well on it, but I don’t exhibit his level of mental disorder) that he gets from branding deals and his share in things like the Trump Hotel and his various resorts. It doesn’t make him a billionaire. And it’s all offset by all of his dubious off the books loans.
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Because the wonks in that funny five sided building would almost certainly allocate PPE in a manner approximating the greatest positive effect for the country, whereas these consulting shop apparatchiks know the answer is whatever the boss has in mind.
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None of this involves legal tax avoidance. And it’s not Mitt Romney style (create 500 tax shelters, get reputable CPAs to sign off on them, expect the IRS will find a few, litigate the IRS a bit and then settle). Trump’s accountants just make up shit. Oh yes, getting a loan using bent financial statements is a serious no-no, and unless the creditor is named “Zek” and is hiding out in Siberia and/or Brighton Beach, they can be held responsible as well.
Is it me or do Trump’s accountants like something out of a second-tier gangster movie? Kind of bookish, with that vague middle-aged pervert ambiance, covering up some serious nastiness.
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Retirement worked out better for Uriah Heep:
“ Mitnick eventually fell on hard times. In 2007, after Citibank filed a foreclosure action on an unpaid $500,000 mortgage loan, Mitnick and his wife sold their $1.4 million Long Island home. Three years later the IRS slapped him with a lien for more than $155,000 in unpaid federal tax debts dating back to 2003. Mitnick and his wife relocated to a modest house in Palm Beach County, Florida.
In May 2017 Mitnick and his wife were evicted after failing to pay $11,331 in assessments and penalties to their homeowners association. Their possessions were placed out on the street.”
I regret to say that I’ve met accountants like this…
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Along with a lot of rotten fruit thrown at him from passing homeless folk. “Get outta here!! This it Our Bridge!!”
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Exactly!
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There is another dream I had:
Exiting the Holland Tunnel into NYC there was a stop light. And people would rush the cars to wash windshields for quarters (this was 1966-68 era). I had this dream that trump was in the crowd to wash windshields but he kept getting body slammed out of the way by younger fitter kids.
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Good to see you got a mask on!