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Alina Habba probably worried about what she's going to use to pay her mortgage after working for nearly a year for free.  Probably wishes she were smarter and asked for her retainer up front.

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she's not wrong.   I can only hope down-ballot Republicans suffer a lot of pain because of this and somehow this results in breaking the illusion that this guy cares about anyone but himself.  Hopefully that happens in time to save democracy.

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1 hour ago, romad1 said:

she's not wrong.   I can only hope down-ballot Republicans suffer a lot of pain because of this and somehow this results in breaking the illusion that this guy cares about anyone but himself.  Hopefully that happens in time to save democracy.

Not quite the same but I keep having flashbacks to this

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/11/29/trump-went-broke-but-stayed-on-top/e1685555-1de7-400c-99a8-9cd9c0bca9fe/

After a decade of profligate borrowing, Trump lacked the cash to make his loan payments. Although he owned hotels, skyscrapers, casinos and an airline, his debts exceeded the value of his properties by hundreds of millions of dollars.

 

Trump's lenders could have forced him into personal bankruptcy and stripped him of almost everything. But that didn't happen.

Instead, the bankers and investors to whom Trump owed money made a series of deals that left him wealthy. They let him keep some properties and took control of others, and they reduced Trump's personal debt by about $750 million, more than four-fifths of the total.
 

Then there was the time daddy bailed him out of his casino disaster.

Between short memories and hero warship 40% of the voting public will probably bail him out again

 

 

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Oh, poor Alina

If you induce someone to settle as a supposed friend and then turn around and work as lead attorney for the person who stands to lose if the person sues... is that wrong?  

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Bianco feels betrayed by Habba, who was one of her Bedminster regulars until, her lawsuit says, Habba posed as a concerned friend giving legal advice about how to address alleged sexual harassment by a supervisor—only to abuse that relationship and “fraudulently inducing” her to “quickly agree to unconscionable and illegal terms.”

 

The alleged ploy, rapidly paced over just two weeks, gave Habba leverage to arrange a hush money deal that would curry favor with the former president and earn her way into his inner circle.

Within a month of working on the August 2021 hush money deal, Habba quickly became Trump’s leading lawyer defending him from a sexual assault defamation case by former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos—replacing Trump’s nationally renowned attorney on the case. That case was later dropped.

 

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That tweet came from this article in Salon about how the evangalicals handle the sexual roles between men and women.

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/20/evangelicals-embrace-raunchy-photos--yet-they-hate-as-much-as-ever/

Key paragraph about this tweet:

 

This is a perfect distillation of Gibson's point. Keisling isn't celebrating sex, much less sexual pleasure. On the contrary, he's signaling to these girls that sex is a weapon to be used by men to degrade them. He is telling these girls that their accomplishments are a joke to him and that the only value he sees in them is as sex objects. His behavior is in direct opposition to sex-positivity. Instead, girls and women are made to feel bad and grossed out by sex. 

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1 hour ago, oblong said:

He's a "christian" though

I remember I once filled in at some big meeting of Bureau of Substance Abuse Researchers and directors because the big guns from Massachusetts couldn't show up.  They were so worried that I would say something stupid because I was just a programmer.  They told me to wear a suit and tie, don't say anything and take notes.  I didn't wear a tie, but other than that I followed instructions.  Some loud mouth director from Texas made a joke about beating his wife.   His joke was received with no admonishment, just some nervous laughter and some oohs.  I just sat there and shook my head.     

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They're still eating their own. There is absolutely no desire to actually govern from this party despite all the emails and ads my back bench Trump backing Congress critter sends me.

But in this district as long as he keeps money flowing to Newport News Shipyard he's golden despite the fact a Democrat would do the same

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Guy who cries about things being rigged thinks people allowing him to win his own club's championship isn't suspect and unironically proclaims it as evidence of his own greatness.   Its not just dumb, its weird.

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