How can this kid be reading about his father’s perverse past and not be affected? How can Melania keep him in this orbit? Get out now. At least protect one Trump child from becoming a Stepford-like clone. Give the kid a chance.
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pogo & x-r, sooo what’s the big deal of ex parte-ing the judge/arbitor or not notifying the other side to an arbitration when tampering with witnesses seems to be his normal m.o. ?
and how can a guy get his story (s) straight unless he knows which one (s) was told to the investigators? wouldn’t want him to lie, would you? 🙂
patD “judicial air guitar” That was great!
Maybe the spy & his daughter in the UK who were poisoned by Russkies were just a warning to Trumpsky & Comrades to keep quiet. No hush money needed.
Of course, you can never believe a Russkie, nor will they ever let anything go. They have long memories and hate loose ends as much as loose lips.
Carl Icahn is gonna wanna use Mark Cuban’s attorneys when the SEC comes a-knockin’, not Martha Stewart’s team.
Now, if Donny changes his mind, then Icahn dumped stock for no good reason…or would it still be a problem?
Dems crossing the aisle to side with Repugz’ bank bill. Way to bury the important story Stormy.
By the way, the tiniest Trump probably doesn’t know anything about this stuff unless other kids bring it up st school. Melania probably keeps him pretty sheltered from the sh/+.
Patd, my knowledge of arbitration is extremely limited. There are rules associated with arbitration that the American Arbitration Association has established as well as a number of other organizations that provide arbitration procedures but I don’t really know what the rules applicable to the SFB matters are.
The JAMS rules I linked require notice to the adverse party and the opportunity to be heard before an emergency order issues. Kinda like due process. I didn’t see in the agreement or the side letter in reference to the organization whose rules would be utilized in the event of an arbitration.
Margaret Truman may have been the most normal Presidential child probably because Bess wore the pants in that family.
Should the current First Lady take her son & leave this could illicit the only bipartisan support given in this administration. The President’s joke about “Who would leave first?” & mentioning his wife’s name may be less humor & more foreshadowing. However I can’t imagine the emotional abuse she has & would receive from this man if she did leave. Her love for her son seems genuine. I wish Mother & son well.
To any who would make the point she made the decision to marry this guy, it doesn’t excuse abuse in any form towards any woman, whether rich or poor. Adultery is abuse & disrespect of the highest quarter towards a spouse. Will say I would have fully supported Hillary Rodham if she had dumped her philandering a-hole of a spouse after the Lewinsky affair. Adultery & lying go hand in hand. If you lose trust in the one you love, that love has been compromised. Forgiveness is dandy but the cloud of suspicion will never disappear. Cheating is usually not a one time offense.
pogo, don’t overtax yourself with research. due process bit the dust at about the same time that truthiness did. … circa jan. 20 2017.
my questions were meant to be my attempt at sarcasm, cynicism and wtf-ism…… with a dollop of witticism thrown in for good measure.
“At least protect one Trump child from becoming a Stepford-like clone”
boss, I see the earlier spawn suffering more from Stockholm (as in syndrome) rather than from Stepford.
sjwny, who knows what price leaving the twit (or even speaking out) would be for her. losing her son most likely for starters. the pre-nupt must be a humdinger considering his past well-practiced use of the gagging non-disclosure agreements.
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Oh puleeze Melanoma posed for a magazine cover eating jewelry she is no better As for Barron the best thing that could happen to him is to change his last name
You never see him smiling or anywhere near SFB I hope he has a good relationship with his grandparents His parents are horrible people
https://youtu.be/sXCnHvQzoOU
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The addition of Barron’s grandparents add an interesting element to the equation. If genuine mutual fondness develops between them and the boy, everybody’s lives will be enriched. I have little doubt that SFB would be content in having the four of them vanish to the City under the (probably accurate) guise of furthering his son’s education.
Nobody deserves a life so stressful as Melania’s must be.
KGC,
Cover or no cover, what has she done to offend you lately–like in the last ten years.
Barron is 11-12yrs old…. maybe too late. He might already want a piece of the action. SFBs other kids are his half brothers and sisters… and who knows what their familial relations are like.
yay… We got snow! Rick went skiing yesterday and said the condition were much improved.
A fact carved in stone:
Flatus is a gentleman.
The cover was in the first month of his presidency.
The people around him are just as bad as he is. It’s delusional to think that any decent human being would get that close. We keep hoping someone will step up any save us. General Kelly – he’s joke waiting for the military takeover. Ivanka and Jared – just as corrupt as SFB. No one who has anything to do with him is any good and that goes for all three of his wives
Katherine Graham Cracker,
I’m willing to throw young Barron a lifeline if possible. This being said the only way he can escape is with his Mother. Is she perfect? No. Neither are you, nor am I. Just hoping the best for a child who had no say about his lot in life. This is what separates the Trumps from the rest of humanity. We know better.
So you are going to pretend she is a decent human being when she clearly is not
How is that going to help him?
One of her first images as first lady.
boy, am I behind times. just watched act 2 about the alt-right killers by samantha bee (follows the act 1 vid posted above) and learned about the “red pill” all taken by most of that murderous motley crew.
makes me wonder if it’s paid for just like that little blue pill for men is by medicare and Medicaid.
For example, prescription drugs used for cosmetic effects are not included underMedicare Part D. Erectile dysfunction drugs, which include Viagra, also belong to an excluded prescription drug class. This means that your Medicare plan that includes prescription drug coverage cannot pay for any of the costs of Viagra.Oct 6, 2016
who says Utah pols don’t have a sense of humor?
cnn: Utah Republicans want to name highway after Trump. Dems propose ‘Stormy Daniels rampway’
HB 481, “Donald J. Trump Utah National Parks Highway Designation” passed House Committee 9 to 2. If it gets to the Senate, I will present an amendment that the frontage road be designated as the Stormy Daniels rampway. #utpol pic.twitter.com/GvuVv0me98— Jim Dabakis (@JimDabakis) March 5, 2018
KGC
You are so manipulative. Turns out the photo was for a 2011 QVC photo shoot and was subsequently lifted by Vanity Fair for their Feb 2017 Mexican Cover. Why don’t you do a little research before you start throwing shit at some woman who is trying to earn honest money for her own getaway fund.
kgc, thanks for correcting me. I was just making a joke… but I did find this on the little blue pills: from edrugstore: The ‘little blue pill’ is the most popular drug for erection issues but it can be costly. Each pill runs about $10 each depending on where it’s purchased, so for many seniors it would nice if the medication was covered by Medicare or Medicaid. The kicker is the federal government made a rule in 2007 that keeps loss of erections sexual dysfunction drugs from being covered. While that rule is typically enforced, a new study shows some patients did get the government to chip in for their Viagra. In a government study more than $3 million dollars went towards the purchases of Viagra. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said the slip ups were not intentional and they will look into recovering their money through insurance companies. CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, said CMS will determine whether it’s “appropriate and cost effective” to reopen final payment decisions for 2007 and 2008 in order to “recover the costs of claims for drugs used for the treatment of sexual or erection problems paid in those years.” Medicare and Medicaid will cover drugs like Viagra or Cialis if it is prescribed by a doctor for another reason other than sexual problems. For example, Viagra would be covered if it were prescribed for pulmonary hypertension, a heart condition that can be improved with Viagra. The treatment is only covered if the FDA has approved the… Read more »
Flatus and Melanoma sitting in a tree…
got pictures of her around the house do you
None of the news stores I’ve seen say anything about itbeing a lifted photo
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/27/melania-trump-vanity-fair-mexico-cover-backlash
Also until it was deemed inappropriate she had her QVC line on her whitehouse resume and the five months before she moved to washington was less about Barron and more about her jewelry line
kgc, how do you feel about the “Nordic Model” – prosecuting johns, not prostitues?
The Nordic Model approach to prostitution (sometimes also known as the Sex Buyer Law, or the Swedish, Abolitionist, or Equality Model) decriminalises all those who are prostituted, provides support services to help them exit, and makes buying people for sex a criminal offence, in order to reduce the demand that drives sex trafficking. This approach has now been adopted in Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Canada, France, and most recently, Ireland.
IMHO, considering what may be the issue before us, I would happily see the john in the wh prosecuted.
They’ve been doing that in California for years In some places they put up the photos on billboards. In SF in the 1980’s the city manager (called chief Administrtive Officer) and a local rich guy got caught. The subject of much mirth
I think prostituion should be legal
Oakland, Ca is a big user of this tool
KGC
From the Cosmopolitan article I linked up above:
“…As a cover shot, it’s glaringly out of touch with the populist campaign that just put Melania in the White House — she’s twirling diamond jewelry with a fork and spoon like it’s spaghetti. Like sparkly, would-probably-chip-your-teeth-if-you-ate-it spaghetti. And as The Guardian notes, people are not happy about it.
But here’s the real deal — this photo, which in context seems pretty out-of-touch and inappropriate, wasn’t even taken for Vanity Fair. It wasn’t even taken for GQ, where it was published in 2016 accompanying an interview with Melania. According to Trunk Archive, the syndication photo agency where this shot is stored, the photo was part of a shoot Melania did for Philadelphia Style back in 2011 to promote her QVC jewelry collection….”
Led to the trough but you won’t feed; what a shame, your degree of entrenched hatred.
Regardless the photo was published with her permission
at LeastTwice
Amazing how many people play I know I am….and so gentlemanly `
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patD Ha! Do you take the Slauson Cut-Off and cut off your slauson to get to Stormy Daniels Rampway?
It will be a toll road, right?
Pat, I like your metaphor of a ref arbitrating when only one team shows up. And, I think the tale told by trump’s team is actually more strange : the ref in this case met with one team’s coach, in a night ‘game’ without lights.
C’mon crackers, it’s International Women’s Day. Have a heart.
I give Melania a pass, too. How many women have thought the guy really loves them & they will be the one who can make them change any bad behavior? Then, when there’s a child involved, you aren’t just making choices for yourself.
I recall Barron smiling only once. It was at the parade after the inauguration. He smiled and waived at someone. It was probably the only time he was acknowledged all day. I hope he turns out to be a kinder soul than his big, brothers. Run, Melania, run!
xrep – That scenario was KO-worthy. Excellent!
BID
No I think she is a lot like Trump and I have no respect for her and her alleged plight. She’s only pissed off because all the Stormy Daniels stuff is in the paper
I think johns should be castrated. Either that, or sentenced to daily proctos for 5 years.
However, I would be rough on pimps.
They should use the “Nordic model,” here. North TX has one of the highest rates of human trafficking in the country. It is disgusting. They caught one group of scumbag luring teens into their sex business. One mother found her daughter’s whereabouts by a cellphone ping and wondered why she would be in a motel in Ft. Worth. There was an article in the paper years ago about Asian barely-legal being lured by the promise of legit work, flown to Mexico, smuggled over the border, and then ending up forced into the sex trade. The more bad behavior is outed and punished, the better.
I would be pissed off, too.
if they want an armed presence in schools, send all the Trump kids to public schools – secret service protection
So, Jared is re-negotiating NAFTA with Mexico? No good can come from this.
BID
Human trafficking is the reason Oakland arrests Johns and pimps. I don’t know why they call it the Nordic model when they’ve been doing it in Oakland for at least 30 years
Young Barron will probably side with his father against the universe, and experience all this turmoil and nastiness vicariously as the victim of bullying.
Victims of bullying (actual or vicarious) are prone to become bullies themselves. sigh
Of course, this isn’t a prognosis. It’s not fate. Still, the odds aren’t happy.
Probably because entire countries are doing it, rather than just the sane places.
xrep – Who will be left when the great, white whale is done destroying everything? Is Barron Ishmael?
Or troll road
Cuz it sure won’t be the stock market. Jeez, what an arrogant moron. You know who could talk him down and let him save face? Hope-y.
That is what he needs. Someone to handle him with kid gloves and gently guide him away from his bad (and horrible) ideas.
Someone please hide all of the f-ing pens so he can’t sign any more EOs!
Ms Cracker,
If 30 years ago Oakland had had a queen promote the prosecution of johns/pimps and the rescue of prostituted women and children, then Scandinavia would now be using the famous Oakland Model. Royals can occasionally be good for something beside eliminating up surplus vintage champagne and beluga caviar and providing CO2 to the plants.
Well they did have a gay city attorney
Ed Koch had a radio show in the 1970’s and he read the names of customers.
Ya know…. IMO, no one should use any presidential kids as props for or against an administration. Just my 2 cents…
Rick and I are off to the hot tub. I wish you could all experience being in an outdoor hot tub while it’s snowing… invigorating!
I agree w/Ms Renee, no kid should be abused by politicos.
I remember when rush limbaug called young Chelsea Clinton a dog. If that vile creep had been in reach I would probably still be in prison today.
Ms Dallas,
We can hope and pray for Barron. Like the Pequod, this Admin is doomed to sink.
Every new office holder people say that about presidential kids – yet ….pretty mean to Lynda Byrd
No matter what happens to the grabber, sooner or later Melania and the little Baron will skate on down the road……they’ll be fine. I predict that Barron will not follow after his father because I have a feeling the little feller might just turn out to have some ntelligence.
He stares well.
Then again, like X-r noted, he could just turn out to be another Trump.
but at least he, Tiffany, and Melania won’t be going to prison.
And very mean to Amy Carter
Earn money for her escape. Good one Flatus.
I figure little SFB will stay with SFB if there’s a breakup – it’s where he probably thinks the money is, and he would be able to follow in the footsteps of his elder siblings – going and doing wherever without concern for expense. It strikes me as what he’s probably learned is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. All told a young man’s dream.
I think Barron will benefit from mostly absentee parents
He strikes me as a boy who will need unconditional, nonjudgmental love. Love of the kind that can’t be interrupted by phone calls, tweets or interviews. He needs his mom and grandfather. And his father if he will man up and treat Barron as the special individual that I think he is.
looking back at presidential children, Jefferson’s (with the exception of patsy and polly) were probably treated worse than any other president’s progeny.
well, maybe wm h Harrison’s daughter dislia and john tyler’s son john William, both whose mothers were slaves.
how young were caroline and john john when jfk’s philandering became public grist on national news? at what age does it not hurt or affect the psyche to hear of major misbehavior byone’s parent so publically exposed?
And for the record, my reference to little SFB was not meant to equate the 2 or disparage the young man – He may indeed be a good kid from a despicable father and a mother about whom there is a split of opinion. I hope he turns out well despite the disadvantages that growing up in wealth can impart.
If trump weren’t such a petty sociopath, the tale of his rise and fall might have been the stuff of grand tragedy.
The trumpery of the man, his family, his endless campaign, and his administration remind me somewhat of the film Hatter’s Castle, starring Robert Newton in a brilliantly restrained performance*. The hatter comes to believe that he is descended from heroic nobility.
* Seeing Hatter’s Castle, you wouldn’t believe that he was the same actor who ate up all the scenery & the very ocean as Long John Silver.
…not surprising that Russia is the 5th-greatest producer of steel and 2nd-greatest producer of aluminum, globally- must just be a coincidence.
nbc news:
Trump orders new tariffs, with exemptions for Mexico and Canada
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday approved new steel and aluminum tariffs, capping off a week’s worth of controversy over his plans to impose the trade penalties.
“Today, I’m defending America’s national security by placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel,” Trump said in the White House Roosevelt Room, flanked by steel and aluminum workers, shortly before he signed proclamations imposing the tariffs. “You don’t have steel, you don’t have a country.”
The tariffs — 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on imported aluminum — will take effect March 23, a senior administration official told reporters.
Mexico and Canada will receive immediate exemptions from the tariffs in the context of the ongoing NAFTA renegotiation talks, Trump said. There has been no specific timeline laid out by the administration for how long those exceptions might last.
“I have a feeling we’ll make a deal on NAFTA,” Trump said. If that happens, “there won’t be any tariffs” on Canada or Mexico.
As far as other countries that might seek exemptions, Trump said that in the coming weeks “we’ll see whose treating us fairly and whose not treating us fairly.”
Earlier, the senior administration official said that “all countries will be welcome to discuss” other possible ways to ease the tariffs.
On Thursday morning, Trump told reporters as he wrapped up a Cabinet meeting that the policy toward Australia would be “flexible.”
[…continues…]
also nbc news:
European Commission for Trade Cecilia Malmström said Wednesday that the group had prepared an initial list of U.S. goods that will see higher tariffs in Europe if the White House imposes Trump’s proposed penalty of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum.
“Certain types of bourbon are indeed on the list, as are other items such as peanut butter and cranberries, orange juice, etc.,” said Malmström. The full list will be published “very soon,” she said.
Some had hoped that free trade voices inside the White House would prevail. But with top economic adviser Gary Cohn out, so too are hopes of moderation.
“This is basically a stupid process, the fact that we have to do this. But we have to do it,” EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said last Friday. “We can also do stupid.” He also said there could be new taxes on Harley-Davidson, Levi’s, and bourbon.
. “We can also do stupid.”
yeah, but twit does stupid yuugely. his stupid is bigger than yours. just ask him.
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Levi’s – there are precious few US factories that produce them. 10 in fact. There are 51 factories in EU countries (18 of them are in Turkey – a candidate EU state – so count them or not at your option). China has far and away more factories producing Levis than any other country.
I don’t think SFB understands how a trade war works
Articles well worth your time as the New York Times admits it has overlooked the obituaries of women who deserved the honor plus you get to nominate others they overlooked.
15 Remarkable Women We Overlooked
Patd
I think Caroline and John John may have been a major component in Jackie’s decision to marry Onassis and an island to get them out of the states until they were older.
I was going to suggest Louisa May Alcott and then did the research. She was one of the women that the New York Times didn’t overlook.
Louisa M. Alcott Dead
SFB has been invited and will meet with Kim Jung Un by May. This should be interesting.
I wonder if he will bring his big button
Mayday! Mayday!
With the great, white whale & porky norky on the same chunk of land, will it sink?
where is the nearest most luxurious trump hotel/golf course to Pyongyang? don’t think the twit will have the guts to meet up in the dmz (also too Spartan for his taste – remember this is the guy who said the wh is a dump).
can’t imagine that kim will agree to a u.s. carrier meeting off shore or in air force one hovering somewhere over the pacific, but he does seem to like glitz and glamor so a fancy resort hotel in a neutral country or safe island might fit the bill (plus a promise of a few billion real bill$)
how ’bout the Burj Khalifa (the tallest structure in the world) in Dubai? understand it has a comfy enough hotel for the twit and enough glitz for the nork.
I’m sure Porky Norky will give Donny the royal treatment. Show him the best of the best that the Kim mafia keeps for themselves. He is gonna play Donny like a fiddle. Russia, Iran & NK will have a good laugh.
I think it’s time to take the car keys away from grandpa. If Congress can see him Thelma-and-Louise-ing us off a financial cliff with tariffs, tax cuts for the rich, weekly trips to Mar-a-Lago, etc., aw, they would wuss out even if they could do something.
It’s Mueller time!
Ooh baby. To Kill a Mockingbird is on TCM tonight. One of the ten best movies ever made IMHO.