May 12th, 2018. It's been 550 days since the Nov 8, 2016, election of some rich asshole, no. 45, and 477 days since the Jan 20th inauguration of some rich asshole.
the rich asshole fulfilling ‘Biblical prophecy’ by moving embassy to Jerusalem says Judge Jeanine Pirro in bonkers rant
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Judge Jeanine Pirro is on location in Jerusalem tonight, where the United States will open a new embassy tomorrow.
The move from Tel Aviv to the city Israel claims as its capital is seen as a provocation to Palestinians. Tel Aviv has long been the internationally agreed upon capital of the Jewish state, with Jerusalem being considered neutral territory between Jewish Israelis and the Palestinian people who also claim it.
Other presidents have announced that they planned to move the embassy but didn’t—the rich asshole shocked many by following through.
Pirro’s bonkers rant on the subject included many extreme statements, such as making broad declaration about Shiites and Sunnis.
The move, she said, “Sent a huge signal to Iran, and Shiite Muslims, that we stood with the more moderate Sunnis.” (ISIS and Al Qaida are both Sunni; there has never been a major terrorist attack on the United States led by a Shiite group.)
“the rich asshole has assured the world that his word is worth more than any former U.S. president,” she said. “His word is more than any treaty, and stronger than any UN resolution.”
And then she got Biblical.
“Jerusalem is the one and only capital of Israel,” she said. “By the rich asshole putting his impermada on what has been history for the last 3,000 years—and that’s it has been the people’s capital of one people’s country or one kingdom. That people is the Jews and that country is Israel.”
She said that Israel is the foundation of our Judeo-Christian nation.
“some rich asshole recognized history, he like King Cyrus before him, fulfilled the Biblical prophecy of the God worshipped by Jews, Christians and, yes, Muslims, that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish state and that the Jewish people finally deserve a righteous, free and sovereign Israel.”
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Fox News analyst explains Kim Jung-un doesn’t need to test more nukes: ‘He didn’t really give anything up’
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North Korea has given up its nuclear test site. They are dismantling their test site and will hold a ceremony and invite the media in to see that they are totally done testing nuclear weapons.
President rich asshole is declaring victory over this—and his allies are nominating him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
But on Fox News, Saagar Enjeti, a White House Correspondent for the Daily Caller, explained that Kim Jong-un is not really making any sacrifice here. Why would Kim need to test more nuclear weapons? He already has nukes and missiles capable of hitting the U.S.
“They’re not really giving up anything, because they already have their nuclear threat against us,” he said.
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Watch: Analyst explains why the rich asshole will still be shaping the law in 2050
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Why are Christian conservatives so loyal some rich asshole despite him having an affair with a porn star while his new wife was home with their infant son, paying her hush money through his shady lawyer and continuing to lie about it?
On Michael Smerconish’s CNN show Saturday evening, Ron Klain, who worked as a strategist for Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 campaign, explained that they’re getting what they want—especially when it comes to the courts.
“The judges, they are there forever,” Klain said. “He’s appointing very young judges—on average, they’re eight years younger than the judges Obama put on the appellate bench.”
Democrats can take the government back, and the Republican party can move back toward the center, but this legacy will remain, Klain said. Since most cases—he gave the figure 95%—end at the appellate court and not at the Supreme Court, this will haunt the country for two generations.
Klain pointed out that some of the rich asshole’s judges will still be on the bench in 2050.
the rich asshole will have 21 appellate judges confirmed this week—by contrast Obama only had seven by this time.
“These judges are very conservative, they are very young, and they are coming in record numbers,” Klain said.
Watch the full interview below.
White House staff rallying behind woman who joked about ‘dying’ McCain — Twitter sees bitter irony
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The White House communications staff is rallying behind Kelly Sadler, the embattled communications staffer who made a joke about how John McCain’s opinions on torture don’t matter because “he’s dying anyway.”
Not only has Sadler’s boss, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, refused to apologize for the insensitive joke and scolded her staff about leaks, a second staffer has reportedly said that she wants to go on the record supporting her colleague and the joke.
Mercedes Schlapp said that she supports Sadler and told the other staffers—five of whom appear to have leaked the troubling incident— that she wanted everyone to know it, in the private meeting.
.@POTUS: "Before I left today a couple of people came up to me, good political people. They said, 'ya know going to the NRA Convention and speaking today, that'll be very controversial. It might not be popular.' You know what I said? Bye-bye, gotta get on the plane." pic.twitter.com/sMDOhDmac2
I guess that's kind of like @mercedesschlapp backing the nasty remarks about a dying American Hero..but wait..there was a joke about eye make up..Christian..I think not..wrong god there mercedes..
During a W.H. Comms team meeting, strategic comms director Mercedes Schlapp said: “You can put this on the record... I stand with Kelly Sadler.”
Sources tell Axios leaders spent more time focused on the leak, than that it was said in the first place. axios.com/white-house-sa…
The fact that the White House’s communications shop refuses accountability and will not apologize for the incident after so many Washington insiders tripped over themselves running to rally around Huckabee Sanders after her eye makeup was lightly mocked by a comedian during a roast has registered as a bitter irony to some on Twitter.
Mercedes Schlapp was outraged at Michelle Wolf for standard comedy roast humor about Sarah Sanders, who lies to the American people every day, and MORE than deserved it.
Now this lowlife hypocrite Schlapp defends Kelly Sadler vile statement about John McCain.#SaturdayMorning
“You can put this on the record… I stand with Kelly Sadler,” Mercedes Schlapp said, two weeks after making a huge stink over Michelle Wolf's jokes about Sarah Sanders' "perfect smokey eye" twitter.com/TheContemptor/…
So, the GOP was infuriated when Michelle Wolf discussed Huckabee -Sanders's "perfect smokey eye," but Sadler's " joke" about a dying war hero is okay? Fuck those hypocrites! twitter.com/jilevin/status…
Here is how businessman some rich asshole created his own ‘fake news’ back in the 80’s
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some rich asshole needed a tax break. In 1981 he was in the process of building his second major New York City project, the rich asshole Tower on Fifth Avenue. As part of putting up the new skyscraper, he had applied to the city for an abatement of $20 million, which was intended to be a gift from the taxpayers given to developers for their willingness to build middle- or lower-class housing in areas defined as “underutilized.” But anyone who had ever strolled New York’s streets over the past five or six decades knew Fifth Avenue was hardly an underutilized area. It was as well-trafficked and upscale a slab of real estate as you could find anywhere in the country, let alone New York.
On that basis, Mayor Ed Koch had instructed his administration to turn down the rich asshole’s abatement application. Enraged, the rich asshole called Koch’s housing commissioner, Tony Gliedman, and told him, “I am a very rich and powerful person in this town and there is a reason I got that way. I will never forget what you did.” When the rich asshole called Koch to complain about Gliedman’s decision, Koch told him, “There is nothing I can do for you.”the rich asshole did what he best knew how to do: He sued. By his side was shark-lawyer Roy Cohn, who had made his reputation decades earlier as the top aide to Red-baiting Senator Joseph McCarthy but had since settled into a multitude of city roles: New York gadabout, manipulator of a wide swath of media sources, political kingmaker, and shoulder-rubber with the well known and well to do ranging from publisher Si Newhouse and conservative icon William F. Buckley to Barbara Walters and Norman Mailer. But he was still, mostly, a lawyer, and the rich asshole had grown to appreciate the value of having a guy who could grease city wheels like Cohn on his side.
This excerpt originally appeared in Salon.
While Cohn was the big name, his law partner at the firm of Saxe, Bacon and Bolan was Bronx Democratic leader Stanley Friedman, and Friedman had the connections—as a boss of a borough political machine, he was heavily involved in the naming of judges across the city—that facilitated Cohn’s manipulations. Friedman found out the rich asshole’s abatement case would start out in what was called Special Term 1 with Judge Frank Blangiardo, a twenty-two-year veteran of the bench who was an old hand at New York’s political gamesmanship. (Blangiardo would later be reprimanded for slapping the hand of a female attorney and saying, “I like to hit girls because they are soft.”) This was good news for Cohn, Friedman, and their client. Blangiardo was pliable. He knew Friedman’s power.“You didn’t have to bribe Blangiardo,” New York Post court reporter Hal Davis said. “He was a hack. He was more than happy to do the bidding of the political bosses. When Cohn and Friedman saw that Blangiardo was getting the case, it was tailor-made for them.”
That did not mean Friedman or Cohn would be sitting before Blangiardo. They were the pullers of strings in the city, but they were not big on actual courtroom litigation. Cohn was not known to proffer eloquent legal arguments—you hired him because he was a blunt object with which to bludgeon your opponent.
the rich asshole had a real estate lawyer who was to present the case, and during the opening session of the case, she handed Blangiardo two folders for consideration. One contained the usual legal documents. Inside the other was a statement from Friedman, at the bottom of which were two words and a signature that registered immediately with Blangiardo: “No adjournment. — Stanley Friedman.” When the lawyer for the city told Blangiardo she would need an adjournment to have time to put together a response to the filing, Blangiardo’s initial response was to parrot Friedman’s note: “No adjournment.”
He eventually acquiesced and granted a three-week adjournment, but only with the caveat that, in three weeks, he would be keeping the case for himself, a highly unusual step considering he was not scheduled to be in session at that time.
Despite the adjournment, the message from Friedman had been received—the rich asshole was to get his abatement—and Blangiardo obliged. On July 21, the judge ruled in the rich asshole’s favor. That was the power Friedman had, pulling strings with judges. Cohn’s power was a little different, but was evident the next day. the rich asshole filed an absurd, $138 million lawsuit against the city and Tony Gliedman. the rich asshole had no chance of winning, and the lawsuit was quickly tossed. But Cohn got the suit in all the papers, and in addition to Blangiardo’s abatement, he earned the rich asshole, the hero builder and victim of an unjust city bureaucracy by Cohn’s account, a day of free PR.
This was not the first time the trio of Cohn, Friedman, and the rich asshole had worked together to bilk New York taxpayers out of tens of millions of dollars for the rich asshole’s benefit. As detailed by Village Voice writer Wayne Barrett, Cohn had taken on Friedman as a partner in his firm after Friedman’s tenure as former mayor Abe Beame’s deputy was up in 1977, and as one of his final acts in Beame’s office, Friedman pushed through spools of bureaucratic red tape to secure another tax abatement for the rich asshole, this one for $160 million and covering his development of the Grand Hyatt at Grand Central Station. Once, at a lunch at 21 with a journalist, Friedman admitted, “Roy could fix anyone in the city. He’s a genius.” To which the rich asshole added, “He’s a lousy lawyer, but he’s a genius.”
* * *
Ira Berkow had a bag of grapes on his lap as he sat on the twenty-sixth floor of the newly opened the rich asshole Tower on Fifth Avenue in Midtown. When Berkow was growing up on the West Side of Chicago, his mother had taught him never to show up for a meal without offering a gift to the host. He was slated to meet with the building’s namesake, some rich asshole, in late 1983 to discuss the prospects for the rich asshole’s latest venture, his purchase of the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League, for an article in the New York Times. Before leaving for the interview, he had checked in with the rich asshole, and the rich asshole told Berkow he would order them some lunch—Berkow resisted at first, then said he would take a pastrami on rye and a Coke. But the lesson from his mother kicked in on the way to the interview, and Berkow stopped at a fruit stand. He paid $1 for the grapes. Dessert, he figured. That would be his offering to the rich asshole.
Before being ushered into the office, Berkow—then forty-three and a relative newcomer to his Times column—was shown an eight-minute slide show, extolling both the virtues of living in the Tower and of the rich asshole himself. “This is Manhattan through a golden eye,” according to the show’s narrator, “and only for a select few.” Condos in the building ranged from $600,000 to $12 million. Sports columnists are almost never considered among “the select few.” Berkow asked the rich asshole’s secretary if he could skip the slides and see the rich asshole. “some rich asshole would like you to see it,” Berkow was told, in a tone that brooked no further protestation.
When he was finally inside, Berkow and the rich asshole discussed his plans for the Generals. The USFL had gotten underway in 1982, with modest budgets and a chicken-wire-and-bubble-gum operating structure. The league derived its stability from its small-time aspirations. It played a spring schedule, offering ABC a safe run of television football programming away from the competition of the NFL and college football monoliths in the fall, and it was dedicated to bringing in low-dollar talent without sparking a salary war it could not win against the NFL. Its major attraction was running back Herschel Walker, signed to a three-year, $5 million contract by the Generals, before the rich asshole’s arrival, as a junior out of Georgia.
But in just two-and-a-half months, the rich asshole had blown away the USFL’s cautious model. Two days earlier, he held a press conference to announce the signing of former Browns quarterback Brian Sipe to a two-year, $1.9 million deal. He had, back in October, gone through a delicate dance with Dolphins coaching legend Don Shula, who was said to be unhappy in Miami and had engaged in discussions about the Generals job. Word of the talks leaked to the papers, with the rich asshole said to be offering $5 million for five years.
That leak—Shula was certain it had come from the rich asshole—was the first blow to Shula’s potential signing. The second blow was another leak, a story claiming that Shula would only take the Generals job if he would be given a condo in the rich asshole Tower.
Shula had made no such claim and, irate, he backed away from any further Generals negotiations. “I can assure you,” Shula said, “that my price is not a condominium.”
the rich asshole instead made a more modest, but still competent hire, signing former Jets coach Walt Michaels. Truth was, he was never going to hire Shula, but he was interested in the illusion that he might hire him and the attention it brought him.
After the botched Shula negotiation, a USFL executive contacted the rich asshole to tell him how upset Shula had been about the rich asshole Tower story, and that it caused Shula to walk away altogether. Expecting contrition or at least frustration, the official instead got the rich asshole smugness. “Hey,” the rich asshole said, “is that great publicity for the rich asshole Tower?”
the rich asshole had done much the same with Giants star linebacker Lawrence Taylor, who had not been particularly happy with his contract in New York but had little recourse to change it. Taylor had an option in his deal, but it was not slated to come until 1988. So the rich asshole did something unusual—he signed Taylor to a future deal, promising to pay him $2.7 million over four years once his NFL contract was up. But the rich asshole also left an option for Taylor to renegotiate with the Giants if he so chose, as long as the rich asshole’s end of the contract was bought out.
The move was all three-card monte, of course. The option year was still far off, and there was no doubt the Giants would renegotiate with Taylor rather than risk losing him. There was virtually no chance Taylor would play for the Generals. But the rich asshole got what he wanted: attention.
Berkow asked him about the rumors of him signing Taylor. “No one knows if we signed him,” the rich asshole said. “Actually, only three people know, that’s Lawrence, his agent and me.”
The Generals, at the very least, served that purpose for the rich asshole. They got him some headlines. For the rich asshole, fame and power were interchangeable, and the Generals brought him fame.
“I hire a general manager to help run a billion-dollar business and there’s a squib in the papers,” the rich asshole told Berkow. “I hire a coach for a football team and there are 60 or 70 reporters calling to interview me.”
When they finished their lunch, Berkow put his bag of grapes on the rich asshole’s desk. He told him what he had paid for the dessert, and knowing he might be mistaken for a cheapskate, Berkow said, “You know, Donald, this lunch has had a bigger relative impact on my bank account than yours.” Berkow thought his joke might draw a laugh or at least a chuckle from the rich asshole. It barely drew a smile. Later, Berkow said that in twenty-plus years of interactions with the rich asshole, “I don’t think he ever laughed once.”
Author reveals how some rich asshole chased after ‘Russian criminal money’ to build the rich asshole Tower
some rich asshole greets supporters and tourists at the the rich asshole Tower on July 22, 2015 in New York City
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Award-winning Associated Press reporter Seth Hettena, author of the new book the rich asshole/Russia: A Definitive History, explained President some rich asshole’s decades-long ties to the Russian Mob during a Saturday appearance on MSNBC
“A new book on the Russia investigation explores whether President the rich asshole is either hiding something when it comes to the Kremlin or was duped by Soviet state craft,” anchor Alex Witt noted.
"You have relationships with Russia — between the rich asshole and people around him — that go back decades,” Hettena noted. “When we look at that, what we see is this isn’t a new development here, that these are relationships that go back to the 1980s even.”
Witt wondered if the entire scandal came down to money.
“It’s about money, but it’s about Russian criminal money, specifically,” Hettena clarified. “What happened, is in the 80s there was a group of Russian criminals here in New York that were running a really lucrative gas tax scam, they had so much money they didn’t know what to do with it.”
“The interesting thing is some rich asshole found them, and got them to invest in the rich asshole Tower and they wound up buying a block of units for a little less than $6 million,” he continued.
“That was the rich asshole’s introduction into this world of Russian criminal money,” Hettena argued. “It continued in the rich asshole Tower, it continued in his casinos, it continued into development projects, right up until the present day.”
The author also suggested longtime the rich asshole fixer Michael Cohen had ties to the Russian mob.
“What we see with Cohen, as we see with the rich asshole, is there’s Russian criminal connections to his past,” Hettena reported. “What my sources tell me, that’s how he got into the rich asshole Organization, is through these connections.”
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the rich asshole picks bigot pastor who claims Jews are going to Hell to lead prayer at new Jerusalem embassy
Pastor Robert Jeffress (left) and President some rich asshole (right). Image via Jeffress' Twitter.
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Pastor Robert Jeffress, a Fox News contributor, megachurch Baptist preacher from Dallas, and close the rich asshole ally and surrogate, has been chosen by the the rich asshole administration to lead a prayer at Monday’s opening dedication celebration of the new – and highly controversial – U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. The choice of Jeffress makes this highly controversial move all the more problematic, given his views on literally every other religion, including other Christian religions, Judaism, and Islam.
“A HISTORIC MOMENT”: Pastor @robertjeffress will lead a prayer at the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem
Jeffress, who hosts both radio and TV shows that are broadcast in hundreds of cities in the U.S. and around the world, has a long history of delivering incendiary and bigoted remarks.
In short, Jeffress says that if you’re not a Christian – and a certain type of Christian – you’re going to hell, as Right Wing Watch has documented.
He has said Islam promotes pedophilia, and is “evil,” “violent,” and a “false” religion.
Pastor Jeffress, in a now infamous 2011 interview, also said that “every other religion in the world is wrong: Islam is wrong, it is a heresy from the pit of Hell; Mormonism is wrong, it is a heresy from the pit of Hell, and, “Judaism, you can’t be saved being a Jew.”
Unsurprisingly, Jeffress also preaches that “homosexuality is an abomination,” “is degrading, is a degenerative practice,” “detestable,” “unclean,” and “a perversion.” Same-sex marriages, according to Jeffress, are “counterfeit” and “cheapen the value” of different-sex marriages.
Jeffress has also called Mormonism a “cult,” and says Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam are also.
Attendees to the opening celebration of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem may also be disturbed to hear that Pastor Jeffress has said “Muhammad was nothing but a blood-thirsty warlord.”
the rich asshole is the first U.S. President to ignore decades of negotiations between Israel and Palestinians in the battle over recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The New York Times, in an explainer on the issue, says the rich asshole moving the embassy to Jerusalem “would almost certainly kill any viable peace deal.”
Jeffress serves on President some rich asshole’s Evangelical Advisory Board and is a member of his White House Faith Initiative.
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