I think you are too emotionally involved in this. Example: Kushner did not walk away with $2 billion "in his pocket." He got $2 billion for his fund. He will have to hire highly paid investor professional, buy expensive equipment and Bloomberg subscriptions for all, etc. He'll collect about 1% of that per year to cover his expenses, and if -- and only if -- he produces profits, he'll likely get 17.5% of that -- again, to share with the team and cover costs.
As for Trump, of course he is a deeply emotionally disturbed creature, and reflexively dishonest. It is agonizing for me that he would be the likely choice to take on Biden in '24, when Biden has always been as dumb as Trump from more sophisticated in his dishonesty. The problem is that these hearing don't matter. "Barry Carroll"'s comment below reflects the views of a very large number of Americans. And if Trump goes against an increasingly enfeebled Biden, the extremist Harris or a messed up divided Dem. party after a post-Biden primary, we may be in for an agjng Trump presidency.
You are correct about the $2 billion to invest and not in pocket...we did change that very quickly, but thank you for pointing it out. Good points that are welcome. Please write more.
Thanks for fixing that. One other point on this: I think the obsession with Jan. 6 is misplaced and just politics. It was not an insurrection. It was a riot by a bunch of reckless fools. It also was not a threat to democracy, a popular thought by people who don't like some things. But our "democracy" is a system with three branches. Even if somehow the Electoral vote were altered in favor of Trump, it would have gone to the courts and be reversed. Would that be good? No, of course not. It would have been a mess. But one way or another, the Trump family was moving out on the 20th because of democracy, either by court order enforced by the military, or because, as it turned out, the famed "insurrection" clowns failed.
The biggest threat to our democracy, in my view as well as in the view of a much more learned man, Socrates, is. the stupidity of our population. Just read comments in the Wash. Post or NY Times, presumably read by the more educated among us. They are largely pure ill-informed trash.
The rebellion of the mistreated who made Trump president once and could well do it again, is a rebellion of voters, no dumber as those who support Democrats, who rightly feel that the Democrats are stuffing the country with illegal immigrants (5% hispanic population in the 70s, 23% now -- a radical transformation without lawful basis (for better or worse), are imposing racial discrimination through the universities and the government, etc. Hating half the population is not a recipe for successful governance or democracy. Yet that is the underlying motive for the Jan. 6 obsession.
One other thing. Courts are part of our democracy. Police are part of our democracy's delegation of law enforcement. Property rights are part of our democracy. Yet when BLM -- since shown to be a corrupt organization -- leads riots that threw fire bombs at courthouses and police stations and destroyed $ billions of property, there were no hearings. To the contrary, Pelosi and Harris supported it. So the "moral" is that threats to my side of the democracy are bad, threats to your side are good.
Of course everyone in Washington said the election was safe. All of us folks in the American land - like Trump - know it was not. There is so much evidence and you can start with 2000 Mules. Or do you think that is inaccurate like that bleach blond wack-a-doodle Cheney? I read all your writings, but you have gone too far with this and I will be a short term paid subscriber.
Interview 1,000 former Trump people and yes they think he was wrong about the election.
Interview 200 million of us in the land and we think those people are protecting their power, ego and turf and we think Washington, the lamestream media is part of the cabal as are big tech.
I think you are too emotionally involved in this. Example: Kushner did not walk away with $2 billion "in his pocket." He got $2 billion for his fund. He will have to hire highly paid investor professional, buy expensive equipment and Bloomberg subscriptions for all, etc. He'll collect about 1% of that per year to cover his expenses, and if -- and only if -- he produces profits, he'll likely get 17.5% of that -- again, to share with the team and cover costs.
As for Trump, of course he is a deeply emotionally disturbed creature, and reflexively dishonest. It is agonizing for me that he would be the likely choice to take on Biden in '24, when Biden has always been as dumb as Trump from more sophisticated in his dishonesty. The problem is that these hearing don't matter. "Barry Carroll"'s comment below reflects the views of a very large number of Americans. And if Trump goes against an increasingly enfeebled Biden, the extremist Harris or a messed up divided Dem. party after a post-Biden primary, we may be in for an agjng Trump presidency.
You are correct about the $2 billion to invest and not in pocket...we did change that very quickly, but thank you for pointing it out. Good points that are welcome. Please write more.
Thanks for fixing that. One other point on this: I think the obsession with Jan. 6 is misplaced and just politics. It was not an insurrection. It was a riot by a bunch of reckless fools. It also was not a threat to democracy, a popular thought by people who don't like some things. But our "democracy" is a system with three branches. Even if somehow the Electoral vote were altered in favor of Trump, it would have gone to the courts and be reversed. Would that be good? No, of course not. It would have been a mess. But one way or another, the Trump family was moving out on the 20th because of democracy, either by court order enforced by the military, or because, as it turned out, the famed "insurrection" clowns failed.
The biggest threat to our democracy, in my view as well as in the view of a much more learned man, Socrates, is. the stupidity of our population. Just read comments in the Wash. Post or NY Times, presumably read by the more educated among us. They are largely pure ill-informed trash.
The rebellion of the mistreated who made Trump president once and could well do it again, is a rebellion of voters, no dumber as those who support Democrats, who rightly feel that the Democrats are stuffing the country with illegal immigrants (5% hispanic population in the 70s, 23% now -- a radical transformation without lawful basis (for better or worse), are imposing racial discrimination through the universities and the government, etc. Hating half the population is not a recipe for successful governance or democracy. Yet that is the underlying motive for the Jan. 6 obsession.
One other thing. Courts are part of our democracy. Police are part of our democracy's delegation of law enforcement. Property rights are part of our democracy. Yet when BLM -- since shown to be a corrupt organization -- leads riots that threw fire bombs at courthouses and police stations and destroyed $ billions of property, there were no hearings. To the contrary, Pelosi and Harris supported it. So the "moral" is that threats to my side of the democracy are bad, threats to your side are good.
Ugh.
Vicky, have you been drinking the Kool-Aid?
Of course everyone in Washington said the election was safe. All of us folks in the American land - like Trump - know it was not. There is so much evidence and you can start with 2000 Mules. Or do you think that is inaccurate like that bleach blond wack-a-doodle Cheney? I read all your writings, but you have gone too far with this and I will be a short term paid subscriber.
Interview 1,000 former Trump people and yes they think he was wrong about the election.
Interview 200 million of us in the land and we think those people are protecting their power, ego and turf and we think Washington, the lamestream media is part of the cabal as are big tech.
How stupid do you think we are?