What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[jimmy olsen]

The pee tape looks more real than ever

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After the dinner, part of the group headed to an after-party at a raunchy nightclub in the Palazzo mall called The Act. Shortly after midnight, the entourage arrived at the club. The group included Trump, Emin, Goldstone, Culpo, and Nana Meriwether, the outgoing Miss USA. Trump and Culpo were photographed in the lobby by a local paparazzi. The club's management had heard that Trump might be there that night and had arranged to have plenty of Diet Coke on hand for the teetotaling Trump. (The owners had also discussed whether they should prepare a special performance for the developer, perhaps a dominatrix who would tie him up onstage or a little-person transvestite Trump impersonator—and nixed the idea.)

The group was ushered to the owner's box, where Emin had an unusual encounter. Alex Soros, the son of George Soros, the bil­lionaire philanthropist who funded opposition to Putin, was there as Meriwether's date. Emin started chatting with Soros and invited him to see him in Moscow. "You should know," Soros replied, "I'm no fan of Mr. Putin." And, he added, he was a big admirer of Mikhail Khodorkovsky—the oligarch turned Putin critic then serving time in a Siberian prison. Emin laughed it off.

The Act was no ordinary nightclub. Since March, it had been the target of undercover surveillance by the Nevada Gaming Con­trol Board and investigators for the club's landlord—the Palazzo, which was owned by GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson—after complaints about its obscene performances. The club featured seminude women performing simulated sex acts of bestiality and grotesque sadomasochism—skits that a few months later would prompt a Nevada state judge to issue an injunction barring any more of its "lewd" and "offensive" performances. Among the club's regular acts cited by the judge was one called "Hot for Teacher," in which naked college girls simulate urinating on a professor. In another act, two women disrobe and then "one female stands over the other female and simulates urinating while the other female catches the urine in two wine glasses." (The Act shut down after the judge's ruling. There is no public record of which skits were performed the night Trump was present.)

[Habbaku]

Tariffs are go. Maybe Congress will wake up and kill them, but I doubt it.

How much do we think the WTO fine will be this time?

[Valmy]

I don't recall if there was ever this much hoopla when the Obama administration imposed tariffs on steel dumpers in 2014.

Remember that one thing four years ago that did not actually resemble the current situation at all?

DO YOU REMEMBER HOW YOU RESPONDED DIFFERENTLY?! OMG WE ARE ALL GIANT HYPCRITS OMG!!!!!1111

Joking aside, I think the situation is a bit different. Not that I was for that nonsense, of course.

[Admiral Yi]

I recall Bush 2 imposing steel tariffs, not Obama.

This Korea news is pretty significant.

[Valmy]

I recall Bush 2 imposing steel tariffs, not Obama.

This Korea news is pretty significant.

He did but the Steel Dumpers was also a thing. I don't recall the details though.

[Oexmelin]

This Korea news is pretty significant.

Trump is going to be so easily played.

[Admiral Yi]

Trump is going to be so easily played.

Not if he uses Dennis Rodman as a backdoor channel!

[PDH]

Trump is going to be so easily played.

Not if he uses Dennis Rodman as a backdoor channel!

Hehe, you said backdoor channel.

[Jacob]

So I guess the North's nuclear weapons have forced Trump to come to the negotiation table.

[dps]

Tariffs are go. Maybe Congress will wake up and kill them, but I doubt it.

Flake introduced a bill to stop them, but I have no idea how much traction it might have.

Meanwhile, Joe Manchin is siding with the President on the tariffs.  Ugh, glad I'm not in WV anymore, though I do with I was somewhere other than NC as well.

[derspiess]

Manchin has not impressed me much as senator. I had high hopes for him, to the point of being a Democrat presidential candidate I could vote for.

[Razgovory]

The age of free market parties in the US is over.

[citizen k]

I recall Bush 2 imposing steel tariffs, not Obama.

In 2014?

[Admiral Yi]

I recall Bush 2 imposing steel tariffs, not Obama.

In 2014?

Earlier.

[citizen k]

So I guess the North's nuclear weapons have forced Trump to come to the negotiation table.

I get the feeling Kim was feeling more pressure from sanctions. Maybe the olympics mellowed him some.

Let's also remember Kim is not telling his people about this. Having nukes is part of their constitution. Could end up being just another shakedown of the U.S.