CPAC ends after giving @DevinNunes the ACU "defender of freedom" award, and the crowd erupts in applause.
Nunes thanks them for the "very kind" honor.
That's a wrap for #CPAC2018.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 24, 2018
Yes, as a matter of fact, this happened *just* as the Schiff memo was being released yesterday…
Michael Steele Confronts Matt Schlapp Over CPAC Official’s Racial Insult: ‘What the Hell?!’ https://t.co/LHVD5moGvd
— Doug Mataconis (@dmataconis) February 24, 2018
…Schlapp brought up how Walters called Steele and implored him not to “take the worst out of what he said” and “have some grace.”
He told Steele “you’ve not been very graceful” to elements of the party…
As they wrapped the segment, Schlapp again said, “Don’t always jump to the conclusion that just because people use inarticulate words that they have it in for you.”
“I didn’t say he had it in for me!” Steele cried. “It was just stupid!”
Superb Old CPAC/New CPAC moment:
A panelist criticizes The Wall on the grounds that it'll require extensive use of eminent domain to seize private property on the border.
People in the crowd: "BOOOO! BUILD THAT WALL! BUILD THAT WALL!"
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 23, 2018
Bloomberg, “Trump Battles Complacency in Victory Among Conservative Faithful”:
… “There’s a different energy here, as opposed to opposition and negativity — less anger,” Dale Bellis, a conservative activist, said in an interview after addressing the conference on Friday. “Anger and fear many times drives us more than does optimism and hope. And so, yeah, we do need to maintain that edge.”…
For many, the desire to protect Trump against his political enemies was top of mind.
“Hanging over everyone’s head is that Nancy Pelosi and everyone is going to try to impeach Donald Trump if Democrats win,” said Sharon Gripshover, a 76-year-old retired physicist from Virginia. “Nobody’s really saying that here, but it’s in the air.”
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel urged attendees on Friday not to let America “go back to the dark ages” of Democrats, including Californian Pelosi, being in control of Congress.
Lee Harvis, 74, a private educator from Maryland, said conservatives are “more comfortable” this year than they were during the Obama era. “There’s still a lot to be angry about, but we’re not fighting in the Warsaw ghetto anymore,” he said…
long security line to get into #CPAC2018 where, for the record, firearms are strictly prohibited pic.twitter.com/du5VDViTat
— J.D. Durkin (@jiveDurkey) February 22, 2018
I don't know how to untangle who should be denied a permit and who shouldn't, but I'm thinking that no one at CPAC should be anywhere near guns.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 23, 2018
James O’Keefe gets irritated when you ask him questions at CPAC https://t.co/kx5I0DiqYC
— Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) February 23, 2018
Democrats (or some liberal group) should team up with sex workers to run a James O’Keefe style sting operation at CPAC. Imagine the video.
— Hesiod Theogeny (@Hesiod2k11) February 21, 2018
"We're going to have – you heard it yesterday – seven years of Trump, okay, seven more years," Sebastian Gorka said. "And then eight years of President Pence, because we need a minimum of 16 years to get back our Republic." https://t.co/L7UlGC5NEm
— Yashar Ali ?? (@yashar) February 24, 2018
Gorka’s not wrong: Trump is who his voters would be if they had a lot of money. He just doesn’t admit what an awful failure of character that represents among so many Americans. https://t.co/ekybPWYTxc
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 24, 2018
— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) February 23, 2018
germy
Some alarmingly fresh young faces in the audience at this year’s CPAC.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Why didn’t Steele man up and punch Schlapp repeatedly in the face until he became a dying pile of gurgling moans?
“Grace”? Are they fucking kidding me?
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
Yes, I’m sure Edmund Burke would be proud of what conservatism has devolved into. So principled.
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: …because he didn’t want to go to prison?
Chyron HR
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Well, it’s patently obvious that Steele was only elected RNC chair because the GOP wanted their own “ni**er”. I don’t see how that reflects poorly on him.
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
And I could have sworn CPAC lasted longer in the past, didn’t it?
Frankensteinbeck
Amazing how much less scared and angry racists feel when a black man isn’t their boss. And Steele, you know damn well that’s why you were hired.
@germy:
Alas, while there may be big trends in generations, you will always be able to find a full compliment of assholes in all of them. We can hope to outnumber, even heavily outnumber, but never get rid of.
Roger Moore
They don’t need sex workers. They just need some willing volunteers from Grindr.
George
@germy: Fascism has no age restrictions.
Whenever someone comments that younger generations tend to be more liberal than older ones, pointing out the truth is essential: if youngers were more liberal than olders and carried those beliefs through life, we would be living in a progressive paradise.
efgoldman
@germy:
Fresh and snarling. Not a good look.
”Nah. But wait until Schiff runs the committee! Popcorn time
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
Some beatings are called for.
schrodingers_cat
At CPAC,a mention of naturalization ceremony gets boos at an immigration panel. So naturalized citizens are the new enemy. I could have told you that this was going to be the case, two years ago or even three years ago. And I did.
germy
He said as one of the speakers was escorted out protected by security guards.
GregB
Why does CPAC want their attendees fed into the killing fields of a gun free zone?
NotMax
And immediately after a phalanx of surgically masked janitors moves in with 55 gallon drums on dollies of Febreze Stupid Remover and spray the place down, floor to ceiling. Multiple times.
Major Major Major Major
Open thread? My Frontline episode generator finished training and is working pretty well! Some choice samples:
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geg6
The Warsaw fucking Ghetto?!?!?!? Seriously?!?!?!?
As Pierce often points out, these really are the mole people. No slur meant against moles.
Kay
This a good catch, from Emptywheel, in the Democratic memo release:
The bolding there is mine.
The Trump campaign wanted help from the Russian government, would have accepted help from the Russian government, and the Russian government wanted to help them. Means, motive, opportunity. The only thing missing was (is?) means.
Gin & Tonic
If those guys were in the ghetto they’d be kapos. This is such unadulterated, disrespectful bullshit, this guy should never be allowed out in public.
schrodingers_cat
@geg6: And yet Pierce is always slagging either President Obama or HRC all the fucking time.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
There would be some intense irony there, given that Schiff won his first Congressional election in part by taking advantage of anger at the incumbent, Jim Rogan, having been one of the House managers of Clinton’s impeachment.
Frankensteinbeck
@schrodingers_cat:
I think everyone believed you! I have long known that racism is a process of constantly moving goalposts, shifting who are allies and enemies towards a theoretical world of pure conformity. If they think they’re close enough to even raise the question, they will certainly propose deporting everyone who isn’t white. Or maybe slavery.
NotMax
Gotta be asked. On which side?
germy
Gorka’s meltdown with that reporter who tried asking him a question was priceless.
germy
So drumpf “lost his temper” during a phone conversation with the Mexican president.
Just what we need in a president. A short-fused ball of rage.
Who’ll be the next republican presidential nominee? John Bolton?
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
They don’t have the balls to be kapos. At heart, they’re all cowards hiding behind their big, bad guns.
Chet Murthy
@Frankensteinbeck:
AHAHAHAHAHA! I hope those felchers like dying of sepsis!
[I agree 100% with your assessment; just …. I just can’t. I mean, these donkey-fuckers actually think America can -function- without foreign-born doctors and nurses. Not to speak of everybody else, but just those two professions alone …. sheeeeite, these shitbirds are so goddam dumb.]
efgoldman
@Major Major Major Major: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: you have way, way, way too much time on your hands
germy
Off topic, but
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@Major Major Major Major:
What is this and can I have it?
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@germy:
No, John Kelly.
NotMax
Pulling no punches.
efgoldman
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
Tanguphule. Or Judge Moore
Major Major Major Major
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: how much programming do you know? I can send the torch file.
m.j.
@germy:
There are always going to be the kids who cry, “Mine!,Mine!, Mine!”
I’d also like to say that O’keefe should be worried about his job because the Russians are doing it better and cheaper.
FlipYrWhig
If the federal wall-builder forces come to seize the property of large landowners who live on the border, who shoots first, and who gets blamed for the ensuing bloodbath in the true-believer wingnut media? Wait, that’s too easy, it’d obviously end up being people who have nothing to do with anything. Probably feminists and the makers of violent video games.
PPCLI
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Burke was a grifter who would fit right in with the contemporary conservative wingnut welfare world.
Constantly in debt, constantly hitting up well-heeled patrons for more cash, and in return he exercised his rhetorical skills on things like convincing people that 1688 was a “Bloodless Revolution” aka a “Glorious Revolution”, rather than what it was: an invasion by a foreign army, launched from a foreign country, led by a foreigner without a legitimate claim to the throne, who overthrew a king with an unquestionably legitimate claim to the throne solely on the grounds that i) the king was Catholic, ii) had passed laws ensuring greater tolerance for Catholics, and ii) had just sired a son who would be his legitimate heir. Reading Burke’s caterwauling about how evil in principle it was to “cashier a king” in the French revolution and pretending that the Glorious Revolution was anything different makes it clear that he would have made an excellent Fox News mouthpiece.
Fitting that an overrated, unprincipled bullshit artist should be the patron saint of contemporary conservative pseudo-intellectuals of the Brooksian variety.
ETA: To be clear, Burke didn’t invent 1688 revisionism, he just used it effectively and should have known better
WaterGirl
@germy: So did he lose his temper over the discussion about the wall or AFTER mexico decided not to come because of the discussion about the wall? Or, I suppose there’s a good chance that it’s both.
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@Major Major Major Major:
None. I thought it was like an application or something was ready to use.
Are those quotes just text or are they audible?
germy
@WaterGirl:
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Frankensteinbeck:
When I was a kid in my teens, there was a “joke” that I remember hearing spewed by racist acquaintances and relatives. It was always uttered by men, and in the tone of a condescending sneer with an ugly laugh at the end, always with the same elements.
When reading these words, understand that there are at least two distinct and separate interpretations of this “joke”.
Joke as summarized:
First Interpretation cohort – These are the people who laugh at Blazing Saddles because the movie talks like they do and uses the N word with great frequency, which they find hilarious just for the saying of it. To this cohort, they laugh because they can never see an accomplished black man as anything other than a pejorative of his race.
Second Interpretation cohort – Sadly recognizes that too much of modern America sees the accomplished black man only through a negative lens.
Chet Murthy
@PPCLI: @? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: From Delong, this lovely little Burke passage. Fuck Burke and all who ride in him.
gene108
@schrodingers_cat:
Illegal immigration was just a starting point. They are shifting laws making it harder to renew visas for people here legally, thus creating de facto deportation. After going after people on visas, they will look for ways to interpret the laws to deport permanent residents. And then look for ways to undo or limit naturalization.
One of the driving arguments in Birther “logic” was to restrict birthright citizenship to only people with 2 narural born parents, so that is also on the right-wing chopping block.
Major Major Major Major
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: just text. Gonna make a website for it once I figure out the fiddly bits.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Kay:
Considering this is Trumps we are talking about that is a big hurdle. They aren’t exactly competent or even get off their ass and do something types.
Sm*t Cl*de
@geg6:
Yes, it takes balls for Neo-Nazis to compare themselves to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
* Spoiler Alert: Ghetto uprising did not end well.
Mary G
One of the reasons there are so many fresh young faces at CPAC is that they come for free, and another is that it is touted as a hook-up free-for-all. I bet not many of the faces are female; it would be a nightmare having these bozos constantly hitting on you, or outright molesting you.
gene108
@geg6:
What more proof do you need that Obama was Hitler?
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@PPCLI:
@Chet Murthy:
Didn’t know that Burke was that much of a scumbag.
Chet Murthy
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
ARGH I forgot the LINK (to Delong)
Have to give a shout-out to Brad Delong’s blog. Ye’s, he’s a modern economist. But he comes to his work like Adam Smith did — informed by the *fact* that economics is only useful insofar as it improves the human condition. And so, he’s become (in the last ten-ish years) a student of eocnomic history. And in this vein, he’s mined many, many rich veins of historic thought on economics, and hence on politics. I’ve read Delong for years, and he’s taught me a ton about economics, but also about history, and politics. And other things, too.
It was somewhat tough going at first, b/c I didn’t know or understand many things he wrote. But really worthwhile in the end.
geg6
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
Scratch a “conservative” and underneath they’re all scum.
Sm*t Cl*de
@schrodingers_cat:
Gorka? D’Souza? Andrew Sullivan?
JPL
Someone needs to let Gorka know that it’s not his republic.
Librarian
@geg6: Of course. These people see themselves always as victims, or as underdogs heroically fighting against the evil liberals who control everything. They’re batshit insane.
Jeffro
I don’t understand: why can’t they allow just every 4th or 5th CPAC attendee to come in armed? You know, just enough weapons-adept folks to protect the rest of the attendees?
NotMax
@Chet Murthy
Obliquely brings to mind Secretary of State Henry Stimson’s stated rationale for shuttering the Black Chamber in 1929: “Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.”
Kay
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
We don’t know anything about the Trumps, though, really. We know even less about the Trump associates.
The “Kelly is a straight-shooting manager who will exert a firm hand” stuff was bullshit. The administration is a mess and they leak all the time, again. Nothing changed with Kelly. Who knows about the rest of them?
The Russians wanted Trump to win. They wanted to work with the Trump campaign. The Trumps wanted to win and they wanted to work with the Russians. The Russians did, in fact, help Donald Trump. There was a meeting and everyone lied about the meeting.
The money Manafort and company were laundering CAME from somewhere. The indictment talks about how they hid it because they didn’t want to pay taxes on it but I have no earthly idea if that money was earned or exchanged for some legit goods or services. I don’t know that avoiding TAXES was the point. That’s really the BEST explanation for them, tax fraud. The other reasons for laundering money are much worse.
woodrowfan
It went just the way the ideological forerunners of CPAC wanted…
Uncle Omar
@gene108: But, what about Michelle Malkin?
Citizen_X
I will say that I am fully in favor of locking the CO2 Coalition in an airtight room, to test their “More CO2 is always good” hypothesis.
Jeffro
Meanwhile, on another topic, BLACK PANTHER has just “roared” past the $700M mark at the box office. Not to cross my comic companies…actually hey wait, I’m not, with Disney owning Marvel!…they must be like Scrooge McDuck swimming in their money bins.
Kay
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
What if some of the Trump debt is money laundering? They borrow using a property as collateral, get the big chunk of “clean” money and then pay it back with money they launder over time, long enough time so they can claim it as legit income?
trollhattan
@Citizen_X:
“Here’s a nice 1-foot dry ice cube to get the party started.”
japa21
@germy: Doesn’t surprise me. Goodkind is a really horrible writer. He is to writing (in terms of style and vocabulary) what Trump is to speaking.
I also have no doubt he is a Trump supporter.
Speaking of which, saw something interesting or vomit inducing or a combination of both today. Driving into Chicago on the Kennedy and passed a jazzed up Humvee. On the back was a sticker obviously meant to slam those stiuck families you see on vehicles. This one said “You have your family and I have mine” and then showed a row consisting of 2 AR-15s and 4 handguns. The capper was the personalized license plate “TRUMP”.
matt
@m.j.: O’keefe should be worried because he’s been failing over and over since his ACORN thing. They don’t keep paying you if you deliver nothing.
NotMax
@Jeffro
No idea what a first-run movie ticket costs these days. $15? More?
Jack the Second
@Roger Moore: You don’t actually need a sting, you just need rumors of a sting. Rumors that a better part of the prostitutes and half the posters/respondents on Craigslist, Grindr and Tinder are liberal plants seeking to ensnare and embarrass important conservatives. Hell, claim all the hotels are bugged and clerks are leaking PPV purchases.
Just let the assholes sit on their blue balls, terrified people are out to get them.
JGabriel
That is just so. fucking. offensive. Rot in hell, you Nazi jackass.
matt
@Chet Murthy: They’re all just a bunch of suck-ups, every last one of them.
Zach
Steele oversaw the biggest GOP gains in the Congress and in state houses since 1938. He was run out of office because the GOP stopped being sad sacks and realized there was profit to be made in opposing Obama by appealing to racism and Steele wouldn’t play ball. Of the black leaders of the GOP who actually wanna run for office (eg not Rice and Powell), he’s by far the most qualified, smartest, and best speaker, yet we’ve gotten Cain, Carson and Keyes as recent candidates. His politics are repellent to me but I’d love to read a memoir where he details the racist crap that he’s had to put up with that he hints at in this interview.
Ruckus
@geg6:
That Warsaw Ghetto bullshit jumped out at me as well.
Not only are they stupid racist fucks but they really, really have no idea about anything except when they got their last teething biscuit and why isn’t anyone giving them another do they?
JR
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Burke wasn’t even a conservative anyways
Kay
@JGabriel:
They all do this, though. Bannon presents himself as some kind of revolutionary sleeping on the floor of a “safe house” with a rifle at his side.
They’re ridiculous. Silly, overly-dramatic coddled people who need a “struggle” to make themselves feel good but they’re in fact really pampered and soft so they take someone else’s struggle. It’s the civilian version of pretending to be combat veteran.
Spaniel
After reading stories about the CPAC festivities over the weekend, I am still trying to figure out what Dinesh D’Souza (sp?) had done anything worse than what was said at the convention. Not saying what either Dinesh or others said was right, but rather there were lots of “Oh, Crap!” moments. Dinesh seems to have been singled out for criticisms.
Kay
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Some of these purchases by Manafort! The rugs. I want to see these rugs and then I want them appraised. This is bullshit. I don’t know what he bought with what are probably ill-gotten gains and no one else does either.
NotMax
@Zach
Of course the parties and what they represent are not totally identical then and now, but a turnover similar to what happened with the House in the election of 1890 would be sweet beyond compare. Blowout doesn’t begin to describe it.
Before the election –
Dem: 152
Rep: 179
Other: 0
After the election –
Dem: 238
Rep: 86
Other: 8
Ruckus
@geg6:
You can leave out the scratching and underneath part.
It’s 100% through and through scum.
Another Scott
@Kay: Yup. They were working to help Donnie win – publicly – since at least January 2014.
Barack told us. Hillary told us. But Mitch and Paul thought it was more important to keep it quiet because This is how we know we’re a real family here.
Grrr…
Cheers,
Scott.
Aleta
Open thread so:
Maybe it’s been taking in laundry?
eta The ‘hotel staff’ seem to be violent, Thugs for Trump.
Villago Delenda Est
CPAC: You will never find a more treasonous hive of scum and villainy.
karlb
@Chet Murthy: I wish Delong’s blog wasn’t such a mess. I can’t stand to even look at it. Five minutes with a graphic designer would help.
PPCLI
@geg6: The analogy makes more sense if you realize that he means “we aren’t fighting in the Warsaw Ghetto anymore because we’ve finally cleansed it of vermin.”
Chet Murthy
@karlb: Oh god I can’t even …. yeah, you’re absolutely right. And it’s not just the graphic design. The way he has a “should-read” and various other “pinned posts” at the top, that easily take more than a screenfull …. so it’s difficult-as-the-dickens to find what’s new on his blog. Thank goodness for RSS. And then, yeah, there’s the page layout, as you say …
But even with all that ,heck, I’d read it on the back of cardboard boxes, he’s that enlightening.
Zach
@NotMax: Funny enough Trump is threatening the same kinds of tariffs that got McKinley and the GOP run out of office in 1890. Of course, he doesn’t really intend to do what he’s threatening and the electorate looks a lot different than it did 130 years ago.
Sad that the reaction to protectionism in 2018 (mostly re: immigration) will probably way less to that in 1890… because the GOP and Fox News have been successful at getting folks to make “Republican” one of the top few adjectives that define them as a person.
Aleta
Mary G
@NotMax: $12.45 for standard Black Panther tickets here in So Orange County. I splurged and bought five IMAX tickets and you don’t want to know what that cost.
Another Scott
@Aleta: GlobalWitness has a long, detailed report on “Narco-a-lago”:
E.g.
There’s a reason why he keeps fighting to retain control…
Cheers,
Scott.
Gex
@George: Likewise, studies showing the younger generations are less racist only show that because the younger generations are less white. Young white people are just as racist as their elders.
Calouste
@gene108:
Well, that would get rid of Donnie Dipshit and four of his five children.
Jake the antisoshul soshulist
@Chet Murthy:
Eddie Burke definitely had a hardon for Her Majesty “let the eat cake”.
J R in WV
@germy:
Terry Goodkind attempted to set up a bloc vote in the Hugo Awards to pitch the awards to himself and fellow RWNJ authors, who indeed did mostly get nominations. Many categories were No Award, none (IIRC) of Goodkind’s nominated via conspiracy works received a Hugo award.
Obviously Goodkind is not a trustworthy person. I have attempted to read a couple of his novels, and I found then childish and unworthy of my time. So, not trustworthy, not a good writer. No surprise he disses an artist for the illustration used on his book cover. Could make it difficult to find a publisher for his next work of staggering geni, er, ah, decrepitude.
CarolDuhart2
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Wouldn
‘t be surprised. Not tarnished by Russian scandal or money, no legislative record to attack. Shares their values to a tee. Presumably healthy and has a functioning brain.
They actually wanted General Petreaus, but the scandal was probably too much and he didn’t strike fast enough for them.
Gex
@Aleta: Where is this from please?
Another Scott
@Gex: Seems to be from the Washington Post.
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jake the antisoshul soshulist:
Yeah, that passage read uncannily like Rich Lowry’s “little starbursts” review of Sarah Palin’s 2008 debate performance.
Kathleen
@Major Major Major Major: Based on your samples I think you could generate a Pulitzer Prize winning column for David Brooks. It would be much more coherent.
Fair Economist
@Chet Murthy:
Evidently conservatives have been seeing starbursts from hot-looking female airheads involved in politics for a long, long time.
Edit: bah, ninja’d again.
Luthe
@J R in WV: Terry Goodkind is well-known in sci-fi circles as a libertarian idiot. It is amazing his books continue to be published.
germy
@Luthe: He calls his own novel a “great book” so he’s apparently confident as hell.
Gex
@Another Scott: Thank you!
Jinchi
I’m pretty sure the Russians already have that covered.
evodevo
@Frankensteinbeck: It’s the same with RWRNJ and reproductive rights … start with late term abortion (“Partial Birth !!11!!!), proceed to penalize early term abortion procedures with every possible regulation, then promulgate the meme that Plan B is an abortifacient, then that IUDs are abortifacient, then the Pill, and then we’re back to condoms and the Catholic-regulated Fifties …slippery slope !
Aleta
@Gex: It’s from the AP. (I’m still pissed about an article they put out yesterday, but ….)
prufrock
@Chet Murthy: This sounds like Peggy Noonan’s ode to Ronny Reagan’s foot.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
A reason for hope… they interviewed 3 people. One whose name is not stated, the other two are 74 and 76. These people won’t be around much longer.
Aleta
@Another Scott: Unbelievable. (I was thinking about the AP news story and just wrote this. Thought I might sound like I was hyperimagining.)
What could you do if you had a mostly empty hotel or bunch of condos owned by other people, who pay you money to manage them and to use your brand. Maybe responsibility can be shifted onto the owners if criminal activity is discovered. It would be the owners’ buildings that could be seized. If you have a lot of unused hotel rooms, you can launder money. You could even subcontract rooms for dropoff for the pharmaceutical, illegal merch, or weapons trade. Or hold, threaten and traffic 3rd world women who answered ads for overseas hotel workers, models, hostesses.
Thanks for the link. The article looks horrible. I have a bad chill.
Bill Arnold
@Another Scott:
My script blockers gave me trouble on that sight, but managed to get to the pdf link finally so here for others:
https://www.globalwitness.org/documents/19294/Narco-A-Lago-Money_Laundering_at_the_Trump_Ocean_Club_Panama.pdf
The “Family With Many Scissors” picture on page 7 for the win.
Context:):
Actually, the document feels disquietingly real. I’m beginning to think that Trump and/or family may (as in 30%) serve some non-zero time in (actual) prison.
On a lighter note: A Brief History of Cunning – How cunning is Donald Trump? (BBC, audio, 58 minutes, only listed to 10 of them.)
And some interesting music in the Winter Olympics closing ceremony (the rhythms in particular).
catclub
@Zach: This.