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DJT in his own words at a 2020 campaign rally: I would be the greatest fundraiser in history. All I have to do is call up the head of every Wall Street firm, head of every major company, head of every major energy company. Do me a favor, send me 10 million for my campaign, “Yes, sir.” They’d say, “The only thing is, why didn’t you ask for more, sir?” I would take in more money, but you know what? I don’t want to do that because if I do that, I’m totally compromised But when I started calling, I would be the greatest fundraiser in history. Don’t forget. I’m not bad at that stuff anyway, and I’m president. So I call some guy at the head of Exxon, I called ahead of Exxon, I don’t know, I’ll use a company. “Hi, how you doing? How’s the energy coming? When are you doing the exploration? Oh, you need a couple of permits. Huh? Okay.” But I call the head of Exxon, I say, “I’d love you to send me $25 million for the campaign.” “Absolutely sir. Why didn’t you ask? Would you like some more?” And if I make the call, now people make the call, it’s different. But if I made that call, I will hit a home run every single call. I would raise a billion dollars in one day, if I wanted to, I don’t want to do that. I don’t want to do it.

A presidential candidate promising favors to Big Oil in exchange for $1B in campaign contributions is the very definition of quid pro quo corruption. By allowing them to draft executive orders that he’s promised to sign on day one, DJT is quite literally selling the power and authority of the Oval Office for personal gain. Every time we think Trump has hit rock bottom with his shameless and amoral antics….he finds a way to push it even further beyond the pale. The whole “$1B from Big Oil” story might very well be the most shameless and blatant example of open corruption we’ve ever seen from a presidential candidate. But instead of shining a spotlight on the story and holding Trump’s feet to the fire to ensure every American hears about it…. I’m guessing the national media simply sweeps the story aside to die on the vine.

DJT could owe the IRS $100M after double-dipping on tax deductions for a Trump property in Chicago. https://apnews.com/article/trump-tax-losses-audit-election-chicago-skyscraper-47729a0758e6b54aa06c075fc49c5c53 In 2009 Trump declared a loss of $658M on the property. A year later (2010) Trump transferred ownership of the property to one of his holding companies…then deducted it as a $158M write-off over the next ten years. Not surprisingly, this massive double-dip deduction attracted attention from the IRS and is now being audited.

Judge orders Michael Cohen to STFU and stop trolling Trump on social media while Trump is bound by a gag order. https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-hush-money-stormy-daniels-cohen-ddef05884265e4d6217b55a89304b878 Who could have ever possibly guessed that one of DJT’s former lawyers would turn out to be a disrespectful and annoying loudmouth jerk?

The crazy part is, not only does DJT represent the antithesis of all of Christ's teachings.....he doesn't even try to hide it. Hell, he basically ADVERTISES it in big gold neon letters. For the past 40+ years, Trump's life as a pubic figure has personified six of the seven deadly sins (pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony....everything except sloth) ....while simultaneously rejecting six of the seven cardinal virtues: chastity, temperance, charity, patience, kindness, and humility. (Diligence is the only virtue that can be applied to DJT). Yet somehow evangelicals and the religious right have convinced themselves to ignore who DJT is as a person and his vast cornucopia of vices and glaring character defects; instead, they choose to embrace him as some sort of savior, destined to turn America into a bastion of white Christian nationalism. Totally mind-boggling.

This simply adds one more to a long list stories about DJT where the reader initially thinks, "Aw, c'mon......surely this has to be bullshit. This can't possibly be true." But of course, not only do these ridiculous stories usually end up being 100% true....in many cases, once the whole story comes out, it ends up being even more pathetic and appalling than what was initially reported. The guy is literally shameless.....absolutely no sense of decorum, propriety, or any sort of moral compass. His worldview and outlook on life are strictly transactional and are solely focused on his own personal best interests and demanding that everyone indulge his immense and insatiable ego.

Yep….My mistake. I stand corrected. It just seems like it was so long ago that AJB left and so long that we’ve been waiting for Burks to develop ….it feels more like three full years. But you’re right….it’s only been two years.

Oh, yeah…no doubt. When my wife was a kid, her parents divorced after her mom discovered he had been screwing around on her. Her dad later ended up marrying the girl he’d been screwing around with. A few years later, she was all torn up and ended divorcing him after discovering he’d been cheating on her, too. My wife was an adult by that time…she said, “Well, what the hell did she expect? Cheaters are gonna cheat. He was a married man when she met him and they started screwing around. Did she honestly think he wouldn’t screw around on her too?”

We’ve all heard the old saying: “Potential is a nice way of saying you haven’t accomplished anything yet.” Burks has always had the physical skills and plenty of potential…but after three years, he’s yet to show that he can be a dependable and productive contributor. At this point, it’s unlikely that he’ll ever become much more than what we’ve already seen. No doubt Ran and Callie love the kid’s potential…but if they can’t depend on him to be available and contribute, they have to bring in guys they CAN depend on. Which is exactly what they’ve done. No doubt Burks will be given ample opportunity to prove himself and earn a spot in the offense. But if he can’t stay healthy and contribute in training camp and preseason, then it’s just more of what we’ve already seen.

I imagine poor Melania had to be stunned and upset by allegations that her husband, a world-renowned womanizer and philanderer who burned through his first two marriages with his constant skirt-chasing and whoring around, had been unfaithful to her.

The not-so-subtle Republican message: Even if you're absolutely 100% one of us......you'll still never be one of us.

Which would be a very distinct possibility if Trump wins. “She’s only been on the bench for a couple years and doesn’t have much experience…..but she helped us out a lot by unnecessarily delaying that classified documents hoax trial until I had the power make it go away. She did me a solid….which immediately makes her the most qualified candidate for the highest court in the land.”

Our opinion of these delays is immaterial. Cannon is the only one whose appears to be deliberately delaying proceedings to appease the defense.....kicking the can down the road in hopes that Trump will win the election and kill the case, thereby taking her off the hook to make any decision at all.

Hopefully they upload it to Grindr or PornTube or I’ll never see it.

Considering the historic precedence and magnitude of these cases, it’s completely predictable that the judges would bend over backward and allow the defense absolutely every benefit of the doubt and let them utilize every cockamamie delay tactic in the book to avoid even the slightest hint of potential bias. Regardless how the appeal goes…there’s no question that Willis fucked up royally by opening the door and inviting such delays….and of course the defense is taking full advantage and exploiting the opportunity for all its worth.