Tears of joy from the Bo$ton Globe:
That's AP.
My printed copy was WaCompo and they are the ones who coined the phrase.
The Globe lets you look through the eyes of the Massachusetts delegation before the staged event at the US Capitol, despite receiving assurances from police that security would be tight.
People sheltered in the House gallery as rioters tried to break into the House Chamber at the US Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington (Andrew Harnik/Associated Press)
Evil comes in all forms. That one looks absolutely ridiculous, and the delegation acquitted itself rather well when compared to the ones from Rhode Island and New Hampshire.
The Globe provides some anal-ysis:
"Republicans meet violent insurrection with calls for unity instead of punishment for Trump" by Victoria McGrane Globe Staff, January 12, 2021
As House Democrats speed toward impeaching President Trump for a second time, numerous Republicans declared that holding the commander in chief accountable for inciting a violent assault on Congress would further divide the nation and urged their colleagues to turn the page for the sake of unity and healing.
“It is past time for all of us to try to heal our country and move forward,” lectured GOP Senator Lindsey Graham, one of Trump’s staunchest allies for the past four years and a supporter of the president’s false claims that the election was beset by widespread fraud.
“If Democrats say they want unity, this isn’t the way to show it,” scolded Representative Ted Budd, Republican of North Carolina, who voted to overturn the 2020 election results last week, despite results being certified in every state and courts knocking down dozens of challenges.
Their comments echoed Trump’s own take on the push to impeach him again.
Republicans’ eagerness to sprint past an event without precedent in American history — which left five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer killed by an angry mob — marks the culmination of more than four years of GOP officials taking cover under platitudes in place of principled action.
Once again, many Republican lawmakers appear ruled by fear that crossing Trump will upend their own political prospects — or perhaps, as some critics charge, a cynical desire to curry favor with the president’s most ardent supporters. Several polls conducted in recent days show that a large majority of Republican voters oppose Trump’s immediate removal.
Why?
He has allegedly been completely discredited so what is there to fear?
The "terrorists?"
Whatever their motivation, many GOP lawmakers continue to balk at holding Trump accountable for his lies about the the integrity of the 2020 election, even after the president’s furious commitment to those lies threatened their own lives.
Just remember that the Globe projects its own behavior on others.
Mere hours after insurrectionists ransacked the Capitol, nearly 150 Republican lawmakers went ahead and did just what Trump, and the mob he incited, wanted: Voted in favor of overturning Joe Biden’s electoral victory, citing the same lies about the election being tainted by widespread voter fraud that inspired the mob.
So none of them backed down, but it didn't matter.
A small group of Republicans who voted to accept Biden’s victory also sent Biden a letter urging the president-elect to prevent House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from pursuing impeachment “in the spirit of healing and fidelity to our Constitution.” They warned that a second impeachment of Trump is as “unnecessary as it is inflammatory.”
Biden has said he’s leaving the decision to pursue impeachment up to Congress.
Democrats remain undeterred, united in rage at last week’s violent assault on the Capitol. On Wednesday, House Democrats plan to impeach Trump for “inciting violence against the Government of the United States.” The move will make Trump the only president to be impeached twice, and many experts warn that turning the page too quickly risks dangerous consequences for national security and the resilience of American democracy.
They literally lit fire to their House they were so upset.
“It’s vital to our national security that the President’s effort to use a mob to disrupt the Constitutional process that was underway in the Capitol be condemned in the strongest possible way,” said Suzanne Spaulding, a national security expert and director of the Defending Democratic Institutions project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan think tank. “We can’t risk a repeat of this affront to the Republic and to our Constitution. Our adversaries are watching and they are gauging the strength of our democracy,” Spaulding added.
HA!
Radicalized Trump supporters are watching, too. The FBI has warned of forces planning armed protests in both Washington and state capitals across the country in coming days ahead of Biden’s inauguration, though the agency said it didn’t have any specific intelligence about plans for an armed protest at the Massachusetts State House.
Laurence Tribe, a constitutional legal scholar at Harvard, said it’s dangerous to move past last week’s violent siege without action. He supports the move to impeach.
“If he can’t be convicted on the basis of what we have now, and if the idea of appeasement and peace sort of prevails, then we have effectively removed the impeachment clause from the Constitution. It will be gone. It will be a dead letter,” said Tribe, who has advised Biden for decades.
A handful of Republicans have refrained from joining the Kumbaya chorus, but far louder are the voices from the Republican Party calling for everyone to just move on.
The compromised criminals that are now singing include Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, Representative Liz Cheney, Senators Lisa Murkowski, Pat Toomey, Ben Sasse, and Mitt Romney.
Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman of the New York Times say that after four years of backing the president at nearly every turn and refusing to condemn even his most extreme behavior, party leaders were racing to distance themselves from a president many of them now regard as a political and constitutional threat (or something else given the stolen laptops).
Many Republicans seemed more upset that Twitter, Facebook, and other online platforms had banned Trump and others than they were with Trump’s incitement of the riot.
Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, who helped lead the charge in the Senate to dispute the presidential election results, has spent more time on Twitter railing against “Big Tech” and critics calling for his resignation than condemning the violence that occurred.
For now, few if any Democrats appear swayed by the Republican calls for “unity.” House Democrats say they have the votes to impeach Trump when the resolution comes to the floor Wednesday, and they’re actively working to bring at least some of their Republican colleagues on board, and many of them are calling out their Republican peers forcefully.
“I’m glad that all it took for you to call for unity and healing was for our freedom and democracy to be attacked,” House Rules Chairman Jim McGovern, Democrat from Worcester, told GOP Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, who was among those who voted to overturn Biden’s victory last week, as the committee on Tuesday debated the resolution calling on Pence to use the 25th Amendment.
McGovern repeatedly pressed Jordan to acknowledge that Biden won the election fairly, but Jordan declined.
He's my puke, and I have never voted for him and never will.
Representative Katherine Clark of Melrose, the fourth-ranking leader of the House Democratic caucus, told the Globe she has trouble finding the words to describe the “hypocrisy” of Republicans who have enabled Trump in dividing this country over the course of his presidency.
“To call for unity now — it is so galling and so amoral of them to not take any accountability for what they have done, and the destruction they have caused,” she said.....
OMG, I can't believe she said that after what I read yesterday.
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FLASHBACK:
"In an announcement shared first with the Associated Press, the Presidential Inaugural Committee said that the theme “reflects the beginning of a new national journey that restores the soul of America, brings the country together, and creates a path to a brighter future.” In keeping with the theme of unity, the committee also announced that after Biden is officially inaugurated, he, Vice President Kamala Harris, and their spouses will lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery and will be joined there by former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton and their wives. It will be one of Biden’s first acts as president, and a show of bipartisanship at a time when the national divide is on stark display. Biden has focused on unity from the start, and he’s said repeatedly since winning the White House that he sees unifying the country as one of his top priorities as president, but the scope — and urgency — of the challenge Biden faces became even clearer after the Capitol siege. “This inauguration marks a new chapter for the American people — one of healing, of unifying, of coming together, of an America united,” said Tony Allen, CEO of the Presidential Inaugural Committee. “It is time to turn the page on this era of division. The inaugural activities will reflect our shared values and serve as a reminder that we are stronger together than we are apart, just as our motto ‘e pluribus unum’ reminds us — out of many, one.”
Democraps think their $hit don't stink, as we used to say, so you can forget Democrap calls for unity as they encourage you to rat out your family and friends and are all for the censorship.
Of course, that means that EXCLUSION and RACIAL SEGREGATION IS FINE, too!
HOW REPREHENSIBLE!!
Then there was this oddity in the bottom left corner:
WTF is REALLY GOING ON?
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Folks, many people say there are strange events going on behind the scenes and I will address that at the end of this post; however, I must tell you that the Globe read awfully strange today.
"Former Michigan governor Rick Snyder, his health director, and other ex-officials have been told they’re being charged after a new investigation of the Flint water scandal, which devastated the majority Black city with lead-contaminated water and was blamed for a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in 2014-15, according to two people with knowledge of the prosecution. The sources said on Tuesday that the attorney general’s office has informed defense lawyers about indictments in Flint and told them to expect initial court appearances soon. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The nature of the charges against Snyder, former health department director Nick Lyon, and others who were in his administration was unclear....."
They are looking to charge all Republicans with anything no matter how far back.
You know, managing water is the government’s “most important policy challenge,” and I know he ate lead as child, but:
‘‘I'm sure when I was 2 years old I was somewhere eating a paint chip,’’ he said with a chuckle, and he encouraged parents to get medical checkups for their children. ‘‘They will be fine . . . as long as we’re looking after them’’
Ummm, no they won't be, jerk. The damage from lead poisoning is irreversible!
Yeah, don't you miss him?
‘‘I'm sure when I was 2 years old I was somewhere eating a paint chip,’’ he said with a chuckle, and he encouraged parents to get medical checkups for their children. ‘‘They will be fine . . . as long as we’re looking after them’’
Ummm, no they won't be, jerk. The damage from lead poisoning is irreversible!
Yeah, don't you miss him?
"A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an internal document reviewed by The Washington Post that contradicts a senior official’s declaration the bureau had no intelligence indicating anyone at last week’s pro-Trump protest planned to do harm. A situational information report approved for release the day before the US Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and South Carolina and head in groups to Washington. "As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to 'unlawful lockdowns' to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.," the document says. "An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating 'Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal." BLM is likely a reference to the Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice. Pantifa is a derogatory term for antifa, a far-left antifascist movement whose adherents sometimes engage in violent clashes with right-wing extremists and police, Yet even with that information in hand, the report's unidentified author expressed concern that the FBI might be encroaching on free speech rights. The warning is the starkest evidence yet of the sizable intelligence failure that preceded the mayhem, which claimed the lives of five people, although one law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid disciplinary action, said the failure was not one of intelligence but of acting on the intelligence. At the FBI office in Norfolk, the report was written within 45 minutes of receiving the information, officials said, and shared with counterparts in Washington. The head of the FBI’s Washington field office, Steven D’Antuono, told reporters Friday that the agency did not have intelligence suggesting the pro-Trump rally would be anything more than a lawful protest. During a news conference Tuesday, held after the Post’s initial publication of this report, he said that the alarming Jan. 5 intelligence document was shared “with all our law enforcement partners” through the joint terrorism task force, which includes the Capitol Police, the US Park Police, Washington, D.C., police, and a variety of other federal and local agencies. He suggested there was not a great deal for law enforcement to do with the information because the FBI at that time did not know the identity of the people who made the comments. "That was a thread on a message board that was not attributable to an individual person," D'Antuono said Tuesday. D'Antuono did not say what, if anything, the FBI or other agencies did differently as a result of that information. Nor did he explain why he told reporters on Friday that there had been no such intelligence. Recently departed Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said in an interview Tuesday that he never received nor was he made aware of the FBI's field bulletin, insisting he and others would have taken the warning seriously had it been shared. After the riot, agents and prosecutors feel a great sense of urgency to track down and arrest the most violent participants in the mob, in part because there is already significant online discussion of new potential clashes Sunday and again on Jan. 20 when Biden will be inaugurated. The Jan. 5 FBI report notes that the information represents the view of the FBI's Norfolk office, is not to be shared outside law enforcement circles, that it is not "finally evaluated intelligence," and that agencies that receive it "are requested not to take action based on this raw reporting without prior coordination with the FBI (Washington Post).
The limited hangout takes attention of who was really there, and if what is suspected to be happening behind the scenes is true, these machinations make sense. It's CYOA time!
So situation was that the Capitol Police -- controlled by Nancy and Mitch -- were told to stand done, and now Mitch has climbed on board with impeachment. Hmmmm.
"A total of 15,000 National Guard members have been activated and will deploy to Washington, D.C., to help provide security in the run-up to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. The number of Guard members coming in from other states has been growing, amid escalating fears of more violent protests in the wake of the deadly riot at the Capitol last week. Army General Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, was given the authority to tap up to 15,000 Guard members, and he has said that requests for assistance from the Secret Service, the US Park Police, and the Capitol Police have been increasing this week. The Army also said Tuesday that officials are working with the Secret Service to determine which Guard members may need additional background screening. Representative Jason Crow, Democrat of Colorado, had asked Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to have the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command screen Guard members coming in to ensure they were not “sympathetic to domestic terrorists.” The Army also said it is working with the FBI to identify people who participated in Capitol attack, adding, “any type of activity that involves violence, civil disobedience, or a breach of peace may be punishable under the Uniform Code of Military Justice or under state or federal law.”
The purge is vast and leaves no corner untouched.
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They are all Democrats so you know it is BS.
Been arrested, have they?
Maybe something is going on because this next article is fucking weird:
"Grieving lawmaker Raskin leads the push to impeach Trump; Maryland congressman had to hide with his daughter from Capitol rioters, a day after burying his only son" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg New York Times, January 12, 2021
WASHINGTON — On the last awful day of the brutal year 2020, Tommy Raskin, a 25-year-old Harvard University law student, social justice activist, animal lover, and poet, concluded that the pain of the world was too deep for him to be in it anymore. He left his parents an apology, with instructions: “Please look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me.”
Tommy Raskin was buried last week in a simple Jewish graveside service. The next day, his father, Representative Jamie Raskin, found himself hiding with his House colleagues from a violent mob incited by President Trump, and fearing for the safety of a surviving daughter, who had accompanied him to the Capitol to witness the counting of electoral votes to seal Joe Biden’s victory.
Within hours, Raskin was at work drafting an article of impeachment with the mob braying in his ear and his son’s final plea on his mind.
Raskin, 58, is an instantly recognizable figure in the Capitol. He was once described as looking like a mad scientist, though he began slicking his hair down after that. He has an infectious enthusiasm for the Constitution and American history. He has been steeped in liberal activism since he was a toddler.
His father, Marcus Raskin, who died in 2017, was an aide to President Kennedy and a vehement opponent of the Vietnam War. In 1970, the elder Raskin received part of the Pentagon Papers, the classified study of US decision-making in Vietnam, from its author, Daniel Ellsberg, and helped get them to the reporter Neil Sheehan of The New York Times.
Sheehan just passed, and he was ashamed of what has become of his profession.
The younger Raskin keeps a 1964 clipping from The Washington Post with a photo of him as a 2-year-old toting a placard at a protest. When he was 6, his father took him to the first Freedom Seder, a Passover meal that brought Jewish and Black people together a year after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Thomas Bloom Raskin, named for the Revolutionary War figure Thomas Paine, was an heir to this legacy. He was the only son and second child of Jamie Raskin and his wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin, a deputy treasury secretary under President Obama and former member of the Federal Reserve Board. They also have two daughters, Tabitha, 23, and Hannah, 28.
Days after Tommy’s death, his parents released an extraordinary, wrenching statement and photos of their son. He began life as a “strikingly beautiful curly-haired madcap boy beaming with laughter and charm,” they wrote, who grew into “an antiwar activist, a badass autodidact moral philosopher, and progressive humanist libertarian.”
He “hated cliques and social snobbery,” and “never had a negative word for anyone but tyrants and despots,” they wrote, in an apparent allusion to Trump — a point that was not lost on those watching the congressman fight the president with so much zeal. Tommy persuaded his parents to become vegans to spare the lives of animals, majored in history at Amherst College, and went off to Harvard Law School, his father’s alma mater, in 2019, but he “began to be tortured later in his 20s,” they wrote, “by a blindingly painful and merciless ‘disease called depression,’” that became unbearable for him, despite “very fine doctors and a loving family.” In his brief note to his parents, the younger Raskin wrote, “My illness won today.”
I'm wondering if he was a victim of ritual sexual abuse.
On Wednesday, the day after Tommy’s funeral, Congress was to vote to certify the Electoral College results. Raskin’s daughter Tabitha begged him not to go. Instead, he invited her and Hank Kronick, husband of his other daughter, Hannah, to come along for what he expected would be “a crazy day outside the building” but a historic one inside.
Raskin arrived at the Capitol that day wearing a black mask to protect against the coronavirus and a slightly torn black ribbon on his lapel, the sign of a Jew in mourning. His House colleagues gave him a standing ovation as he rose to speak shortly before 2 p.m.; he patted his hand across his heart, and went on to quote Abraham Lincoln. Then, he said, he heard what sounded like “a battering ram” at the House door.
Twelve hours and a lifetime later, at shortly before 2:30 in the morning Thursday, Raskin rose to speak again, this time decrying “the baseless attack” on the Capitol, which, he said, brought to mind his son’s namesake.
“Paine said, ‘In the monarchies, the king is the law,’” Raskin told his colleagues, “but in the democracies, the law will be king.”
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I get the point of the article. If you complain about that piece of cowslip you are anti-semitic, blah, blah, blah, while burnishing Joo credentials and aiming they are under never-ending threat. Whatever.
With all due respect, this stuff is total crap and reads weird. Why would they put that out unless something is going on?
Related:
Adam Liptak of the New York Times reports that "in the Supreme Court’s first ruling on abortion since the arrival of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court Tuesday reinstated a federal requirement that women seeking to end their pregnancies using medications pick up a pill in person from a hospital or medical office, and that the only member of the majority to offer an explanation was Chief Justice John Roberts, who said the ruling was a limited one that deferred to the views of experts.
The Court has recused itself in favor of "experts?"
Also see:
"A federal appeals court has overturned the convictions of four former executives for the only financial institution to be criminally charged in connection with the federal bank bailout program. A three-judge panel on Tuesday reversed the convictions of the former Wilmington Trust executives for making false statements to federal regulators and ordered that acquittals be entered. Prosecutors alleged that in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the executives misled regulators and investors about Wilmington Trust’s massive amount of past-due commercial real estate loans before the bank was hastily sold in 2011 while bordering on collapse. Founded by members of the DuPont family in 1903, the bank imploded despite receiving $330 million from the Troubled Asset Relief Program....."
It's a blanket amne$ty for looters!
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What they need is firm di$cipline:
"Colleges are under pressure to hold accountable those who sought to overturn election, attended Capitol riot" by Deirdre Fernandes Globe Staff, January 11, 2021
Harvard University’s Kennedy School ousted US Representative Elise Stefanik from the school’s Institute of Politics advisory board Tuesday because of the New York Republican’s role in trying to overturn the election results even after a mob attacked the Capitol.
At New England Law, Scott Brown, the new dean and until recently President Trump’s ambassador to New Zealand, is facing pressure to discipline a student who attended last week’s riot and posted video on his Facebook page of an angry crowd confronting officers at a barricade in front of the Capitol.
Across the country, college administrators are being called upon to hold accountable students, faculty, and leaders who participated in last Wednesday’s violence and in efforts to undercut the election process.
Who will hold them accountable?
“What our country is facing is a group of politicians trying to justify, or sweep under the rug, what happened in our country last week,” said Ryan Enos, a government professor at Harvard, who along with 1,000 alumni, students, and staff signed a petition this past week calling for Stefanik’s removal. “We can’t just move on.”
Yeah, some other agenda being pushed then.
Last week’s attack on the Capitol has prompted colleges to also consider more broadly how welcoming they will be to Trump administration officials looking for academic jobs at the end of this presidency, said Enos, the Harvard professor.
At the end of any presidential term, political insiders usually find a landing spot teaching college courses of accepting prestigious fellowships at campuses, but colleges now have to grapple with whether hiring these insiders makes the institution complicit in the insurrection and anti-democratic actions, Enos said.
Also see:
"Amid an unprecedented financial crisis, the university has hired at least seven people with connections to state government and politics as administrators with salaries between $81,000 and $222,000 in the past year and a half, records show. The hires include the former head of the state Democratic Party, a former legislative aide, and a former state commissioner of environmental protection. Together, the seven people earn nearly $1 million. A UMass campus spokesman said in a statement that hiring is based on merit, and the hires underscore UMass’s reputation as a place where the politically connected of Beacon Hill can land a job with a single phone call. It’s an attractive place to work in part because the UMass system is part of the state retirement system, so state employees can continue to earn toward their pensions, which are based on their three highest years of pay and their number of years of service, and the campus’s location is for many more appealing than traveling to the other campuses in Lowell, Dartmouth, Worcester, or Amherst."
Those are the same people saying they have to cut the budgets.
Colleges must represent diverse political views and protect academic freedom, but if last week’s violence goes unanswered, it is likely to spur further threats to democracy, he said.
“Harvard has a duty to represent people from the political spectrum,” he said, “but there has to be bright line, violence falls on one side of that bright line.”
Is it in sand?
Harvard Kennedy dean Doug Elmendorf said the move came after several days of discussions and an initial request to Stefanik that she step down, but Elmendorf said Stefanik refused, and he was forced to remove her from the 13-member committee that includes former Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu, and David Axelrod, former senior adviser to President Barack Obama. Committee members advise the institute’s director and help guide the program’s agenda.
Stefanik, a Harvard graduate, undermined the election process by asserting that there was voter fraud without any evidence, Elmendorf said in his announcement.
“My request was not about political parties, political ideology, or her choice of candidate for president,” Elmendorf said. “These assertions and statements do not reflect policy disagreements but bear on the foundations of the electoral process through which this country’s leaders are chosen.”
On Twitter, Stefanik blasted Harvard for its decision to “cower and cave to the woke Left.”
“The Ivory Tower’s march toward a monoculture of like-minded, intolerant liberal views demonstrates the sneering disdain for everyday Americans and will instill a culture of fear for students who will understand that a conservative viewpoint will not be tolerated and will be silenced,” Stefanik said.
Should have quit first.
At some colleges, students or staff who took part in the storming of the Capitol could also face consequences.
Your first lesson in tyranny!
New England Law plans to hire an outside law firm to review the participation of anyone from its community in Wednesday’s mob unrest at the Capitol and determine whether they violated the school’s conduct code, said Jennifer Kelly, a spokeswoman at the Boston school.
“The events of last week were horrifying and unconscionable,” Kelly said in statement. “Five people lost their lives, and all who were responsible for contributing to the violence must be held to account.”
Meanwhile, BLM and Antifa were not only allowed to riot this summer, they were encouraged and applauded by the same people now decrying the false flag they ran a week ago.
The school has received complaints about student Samson Racioppi’s presence at the Capitol on Wednesday. Racioppi is an organizer with the group “Super Happy Fun America,” which organized the Straight Pride Parade in Boston in 2019 and sent a group of local pro-Trump supporters to the Capitol last week.
Racioppi did not respond to a request for comment. Photos and a video he posted showed him outside the Capitol with a crowd yelling at police in front of a barricade and what looks like an officer spraying an aerosol irritant into the crowd. The video was removed Monday afternoon.....
Like Trump's!
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The official reason given is he fears a plane crash that will make him disappear and he didn't;t want to end up like Shelly as Biden is poised to oust Trump.
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How do you hurt a rich man?
You Trade Places with him:
"More of Trump’s banks cut ties as backlash grows over violence" by Shahien Nasiripour Bloomberg, January 12, 2021
President Trump’s tumultuous relationship with the financial industry is once again under pressure after his top creditor, his hometown bank, and even his mortgage lender spurned him in the wake of riots at the US Capitol.
The question is whether his other banks and financial backers — including giants Capital One Financial Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. — plan to keep him as a client.
Fresh strains in Trump’s relationship with the industry began emerging late Monday. Deutsche Bank AG decided not to conduct more business with Trump or his family company while waiting for him to pay off roughly $300 million in loans in years ahead, a person with knowledge of the situation said. Manhattan-based Signature Bank, a mere 10-minute walk down Fifth Avenue from Trump Tower, announced it’s closing Trump accounts holding about $5.3 million.
On Tuesday, Professional Bank, which once gave him an $11 million mortgage, said it won’t do more deals with the Trump Organization and “will be winding down the relationship effective immediately.”
If the bankers have turned against him, he is totally finished.
They are the ones ultimately calling all the shots.
Eric Trump, one of the president’s sons running the family business while his father is in the White House, didn’t respond to a request for comment.
With New York City joining an onslaught of companies and entities looking to pull back from doing business with Trump after he encouraged a mob of supporters to storm the Capitol, here’s a look at the firms that provide him with credit or hold his money, and what they have said about those ties.....
According to Bloomberg, Capital One cut his credit line; JPMorgan Chase declined to comment; BankUnited Inc., a Florida-based bank, didn’t respond to a message seeking comment; First Republic Bank, a California-based lender, said the single account was inactive and is closed; Ladder Capital, a nonbank lender specializing in commercial real estate, went pop; Deutsche Bank declined to comment; Signature Bank, where daughter Ivanka once served on the board of directors, told Trump to resign in the best interests of the nation and the people; and despite Trump’s past conflicts with the financial industry — he’s defaulted on loans, his companies have filed for bankruptcy and he has a penchant for suing people and organizations who don’t bend to his will — there’s been no shortage of firms willing to provide him capital or hold his money until now.
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While that was going on, Wall Street capped a wobbly day of trading Tuesday with modest gains as investors are becoming more optimistic about an economic rebound.
Believe it or not, the New York Times is now saying COVID is NO WORSE than the COMMON COLD as the never-isolated virus becomes a permanent, albeit more benign, inhabitant in our environment as the vaccines will NOT prevent infection and transmission (then why do you need one?) and I am so sick of their gaseous spew.
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So why is the Globe reading so weird these days?
Well, there are rumors that all the Democrats and Republican traitors have been arrested and cut a deal.
Of that I am skeptical.
One source cited is this guy, a "former" CIA who is "curating" the truth, and I'm still waiting for the EBS to kick in.
I'm more prone to believe this guy, who says Trump may be ousted today and gives you some pointers going forward.
If you continue to resist, expect a no knock raid at 3 AM, be brought to a concentration camp, if not re-educated, tortured, starved, and then mass murdered for resisting the Great Reset.
There will be no escaping after the blackouts begin.
