THE ERA OF TRUMP

[Fife]

She's a good dancer, and has a great personality.

[Speaker to Animals]

Nuke is the Deborah Jeane Palfrey of the DCF/MHF.

DCF had only one Deborah. It wasn't Nuke.

Deborah, who?

Deborah Trech

[Smitty-48]

Nuke is the Deborah Jeane Palfrey of the DCF/MHF.

[TheReal_ND]

Kek

[Penner]

There are a lot of Republican megadonors in the team of billionaires and millionaires Trump is assembling.

Donald Trump's cabinet will be the richest in history—one estimate calculated that 16 of his picks for top posts have as much wealth as the poorest third of American households put together. These selections have something else in common: They have given a lot of money to the senators who will be charged with vetting and confirming them.

According to a new report from the Center for Responsive Politics and additional data from the center's website, cabinet-level appointees and their spouses have given nearly $1.7 million to confirming senators' campaigns, leadership PACs, and outside groups that poured money into their races. (This total does not include donations from prospective ambassadors, many of whom are often political donors and require Senate confirmation but are not considered part of the cabinet.)

"There have been donors in the cabinet before… but there hasn't been such a large number of them at one time before," Adam Smith, communications director of the campaign finance reform group Every Voice, told me. "Trump is literally putting big donors in charge of his administration, everything he accused Hillary Clinton of doing during the campaign."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/trum ... nfirm-them

[TheReal_ND]

A combined 1.7 million. Wow.

[Penner]

It took about an hour of standing outside of Trump Tower for me to see someone smile, which was odd considering how many people were having their photo taken. Japanese tourists posed stoically in front of its jagged facade, then were shuffled along by cops and replaced with similarly unhappy-looking Midwesterners thumbing their noses and solemnly, dutifully cataloging the memory.

Like me, these out-of-towners found themselves drawn to the gaudy, sky-scraping phallus that became a somewhat unlikely locus of world power on November 9. Trump Tower had been a destination ever since its namesake made the unlikely transition from reality TV star to full-blown political movement leader, but when he became the president-elect, a selfie in front of the tower became a can't-miss New York souvenir. The foot traffic on that stretch of New York City's Madison Avenue was already intense, but the ensuing fervor (and the security that came with it) led a small army's worth of beat cops, counter-terrorism units, and secret service agents being deployed at a daily cost to the city of about $1 million, according to a November CNN report.

But I didn't come to Trump Tower for a quick pic. I wanted to know what sort of person is drawn to it—the type of person who doesn't just stop by to check it off a list that includes the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, and 9/11 Memorial but instead spends hours hoping to catch a glimpse of Donald Trump or one of the generals and billionaires he's appointing to top cabinet positions. I wanted to rub elbows with the entrepreneurs, media folks, Trump fanboys, and protestors who had become tower regulars.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/i-sp ... ate-myself

You gotta see the main picture of this article-

[Smitty-48]

Here come Penner the liberal media spambot again.

[Speaker to Animals]

Vice has become a primary AIDS vector with this garbage.

[Okeefenokee]

but are you smiling?