Well, this is awkward. YA THINK? Three days after the inauguration, you guys ink a deal to pay Trump's idiot lawyer $50,000/month for "insights" into the president's thought process (LOL!) and the inner working of the White House? Michael Cohen can't even keep a porn star quiet, but his deep thoughts on a multi-billion dollar telecoms merger are
Thankfully my fur kids enjoy my Wonkette time, the wife is also a Wonker and I managed to get Wonkette unblocked from my work wifi. (Some conservative ass had said Wonkette was the equivalent of hate speech, HO has since been properly educated)
It probably is because the money was paid to Cohen. Cohen has no power himself, so he cannot be induced to do something illegal in exchange. If it went directly to Trump himself it could be construed as nothing but a bribe. The insertion of the middle man makes it something else until it is proven that the money was then given to Trump.
It's a great work around for a bribe, Cohen just has to tell slug boy and hold on to the cash till later. Everybody is being sucked in to the idea this is access, no it's just a slow release bribe.These crooks aren't incompetent crooks.The great thing about the later part being that past presidents don't get investigated, so water tight, lol.
Your thoughts agree with mine that Cohen is just the bagman in the grift. I do disagree with you assessment that they are competent crooks. Trump has squeaked through all these years hiding behind lawyers and developed a sense of immunity from that as opposed to developing tangible criminal skills. If he was a competent criminal, he would not have 500+ lies and deceptions running at the same time in the public eye.
The irony is that it's Trumps lamented "lame stream" media that is too lame to use the b word. Maybe they are all scared of his litigious history and now his pro-torture stance.
He does play the media like a master. My guess that it is instinctive rather than a consciously developed skill. That is because he is to effin' lazy to put in the effort to develop a skill.
I agree it's instinctive, the instinct of the bully. My sister is in the media and to my surprise last Christmas she took a condescending tone to bully me from my position as a Physicist, which was hilarious. My point being that bullies can play well together as they get off on the same thing, that sense of superiority, as long as somebody else is paying of course.
Absolutely, empires always fall.I would like to see bullying as byproduct of a narcissistic psyche, for how can one see oneself as great if not validated and reinforced by the diminution of others and perhaps seeing oneself as being the image of the creator of a universe. Such traits are commonly seen in Homo sapiens.
410. Woot! wasn't that long ago it was 400. Looks like I will have to keep working on my Bucky ball habitat dome concept
In a third world country it would be called a bribe.
I must be living in a 3rd world country because it looks like and smalls like a bribe to me.
Thankfully my fur kids enjoy my Wonkette time, the wife is also a Wonker and I managed to get Wonkette unblocked from my work wifi. (Some conservative ass had said Wonkette was the equivalent of hate speech, HO has since been properly educated)
I'm thinking of the media response to this, nobody has used the word bribe, from what I've seen
It probably is because the money was paid to Cohen. Cohen has no power himself, so he cannot be induced to do something illegal in exchange. If it went directly to Trump himself it could be construed as nothing but a bribe. The insertion of the middle man makes it something else until it is proven that the money was then given to Trump.
It's a great work around for a bribe, Cohen just has to tell slug boy and hold on to the cash till later. Everybody is being sucked in to the idea this is access, no it's just a slow release bribe.These crooks aren't incompetent crooks.The great thing about the later part being that past presidents don't get investigated, so water tight, lol.
As Cohen has no power these payments can be nothing but bribes for Trump.
These idiots are the worst wise guys I have ever seen. They should have hired real mobsters to run the scam.
For sure. There appears to be more than $2 million unaccounted for and Trump's pocket is my first and final guess.
Your thoughts agree with mine that Cohen is just the bagman in the grift. I do disagree with you assessment that they are competent crooks. Trump has squeaked through all these years hiding behind lawyers and developed a sense of immunity from that as opposed to developing tangible criminal skills. If he was a competent criminal, he would not have 500+ lies and deceptions running at the same time in the public eye.
The irony is that it's Trumps lamented "lame stream" media that is too lame to use the b word. Maybe they are all scared of his litigious history and now his pro-torture stance.
He does play the media like a master. My guess that it is instinctive rather than a consciously developed skill. That is because he is to effin' lazy to put in the effort to develop a skill.
I agree it's instinctive, the instinct of the bully. My sister is in the media and to my surprise last Christmas she took a condescending tone to bully me from my position as a Physicist, which was hilarious. My point being that bullies can play well together as they get off on the same thing, that sense of superiority, as long as somebody else is paying of course.
Good point. Bullies are almost always the dominant player in the room.
It seems to me that their alliances are usually short lived because they are too selfish to enable extended relationships.
Absolutely, empires always fall.I would like to see bullying as byproduct of a narcissistic psyche, for how can one see oneself as great if not validated and reinforced by the diminution of others and perhaps seeing oneself as being the image of the creator of a universe. Such traits are commonly seen in Homo sapiens.