Cause My Newest President An Asshole

Cause My Newest President An Asshole
From the New York Times : In the northern town of Paradise, the ruins of houses and businesses smoldered throughout the day, while in Southern California, tens of thousands of residents fled their homes and jammed onto highways. Exotic lemurs and parrots were packed up and carried away to safety as fires ringed the Los Angeles Zoo in Griffith Park. Officials estimated that the blaze in the north, called the Camp Fire, had destroyed a staggering 6,700 structures — most of them residential. Such vast devastation would make it the most destructive fire in modern state history.
From the Washington Post : Butte County Sheriff Kory L. Honea told reporters at a news conference Friday evening that officials had found nine people who had been killed by the fire: Four were found dead in their cars in Paradise, down from the five officials had spoken about earlier; three outside of houses; and two others, one inside a home, and another near a car.
A picture taken on Thursday from the front door of Professor Marc’s house. This was a controlled burn to prevent the fire from spreading to Chico.
From the LA Times : Homes and businesses had been reduced to piles of twisted metal. Tall pine trees and utility poles smoldered. According to the California Teachers Assn., at least five of the nine schools in Paradise were destroyed, including Paradise Elementary School. Cars abandoned by fleeing motorists who found themselves unable to escape lay crumpled in the roadways, their tires melted. The bodies of five people were discovered on Edgewood Lane in vehicles overtaken by the fire. Others were found outside their cars and homes. Butte County Sheriff Kory L. Honea said they could not immediately be identified because they were burned so badly.
From the president of the United States, whose political party lost a bunch of seats in California’s midterm elections just a few days ago:
There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 10, 2018
And for the record, this has nothing to do with poor fire management. It’s entirely due to drought, warm weather, easterly winds, and climate change.
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Since riding down a golden escalator to announce his candidacy for office, Donald Trump has angrily blathered ad nauseam about America getting ripped off. Whether it’s NATO allies supposedly failing to pay their bills , evil German carmakers , or a friendly neighbor with whom we actually have a trade surplus , Trump has painted America (and himself ) as the victim of unfair trade practices, inequitable deals, and general assholery. What he’s spoken less about is his own habit of ripping people off, which, to hear his alleged victims tell it, is Trump’s thing the way other people collect stamps or play squash on weekends. In addition to charges that the president used charitable donations to pay off golf debts and acquire portraits of himself, hundreds of liens, lawsuits, and judgements have accused the former real-estate developer of failing to pay people for their work, including dishwashers, plumbers, waiters, bartenders, real-estate brokers, and law firms. (He also reportedly took his time paying Michael Cohen back
the $130,000 his personal lawyer spent to silence porn star Stormy Daniels. ) Since 2005, Trump’s companies have been cited 24 times for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act for failing to pay overtime or minimum wage. During a presidential debate in 2016, he basically admitted to failing to fairly compensating workers, saying “I take advantage of the laws of the nation because I’m running a company. My obligation right now is to do well for myself, my family, my employees, for my companies. And that’s what I do.” In other words, I find loopholes to screw people over because I was born a colossal prick and I’ll die a colossal prick. So it probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to learn that Trump allegedly cheated his personal driver out of hundreds of thousands in overtime. But given the guy probably has some interesting stories to tell, it sure is a fun new development!
Bloomberg reports that Noel Cintron, the president’s personal driver for more than 25 years, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump Organization accusing his former boss of failing to compensate him for about 3,300 hours of overtime pay he’s worked over the past six years. (The number would likely be higher, but Citron can’t sue for prior overtime due to the statute of limitations.) Cintron, who is a registered Republican, said in the complaint that he worked an average of 50 to 55 hours a week for Big Orange, but was never paid overtime for hours worked above 40 per week, as is legally required . According to the filing, Cintron was paid $62,700 in 2003; $68,000 in 2006; and $75,000 in 2010. Though if you thought Trump just got extra generous in 2010, you thought wrong!
The wage bump in 2010 came with a catch, Cintron said. He was induced to surrender his health insurance, saving Trump approximately $17,866 per year in premiums, according to the lawsuit.
Cintron, who is seeking about $200,000 in damages, described Trump’s alleged stiffing as “an utterly callous display of unwarranted privilege and entitlement and without even a minimal sense of noblesse oblige.” In a statement, the Trump Organization insisted “Mr. Cintron was at all times paid generously and in accordance with the law,” and that “once the facts come out we expect to be fully vindicated in court.” Last April, Trump National Doral Miami was ordered to pay a local supply company nearly $300,000 after failing to reimburse it in full for paint used to refresh its lodges in 2014. Also on Monday, Trump tweeted that he has full confidence Kim Jong Un will honor their “contract . . . & even more importantly, our handshake,” which would make a murderous dictator of a hermit kingdom less likely to stiff his associates than the 45th president of the United States.
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Stiffing workers isn’t the only way to make a buck
Doling out tours of Air Force One to paying customers like it’s a new addition to the Trump Hotels portfolio works, too:
Some members of President Donald Trump’s exclusive Florida clubs appear to have been invited to an Air Force One tour last year, according to an invitation obtained by BuzzFeed News, which was cross-checked with records received through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Members would not confirm or deny that they actually attended, but the invitations would raise more questions about the blurry line between Trump’s administration and his family’s private businesses. Although past administrations have given Air Force One tours to friends, family, and even donors, in this case, those attending would have paid Trump’s exclusive clubs thousands of dollars annually.
Shortly before Trump took office in 2017, the initiation fee to join Mar-a-Lago doubled to $200,000, though presumably many members see it as money well spent. While you can’t be sure the food won’t kill you , you never known when you’ll get a front-row seat to discussions about whether the U.S. should respond to ballistic missile testing by hostile foreign governments, or selfies with the nuclear launch codes .
Corporations are squandering their tax savings on buybacks for nothing
After Donald Trump and the G.O.P. gave corporate America a big, beautiful Christmas present in the form of a 21 percent tax rate, virtually everyone spent it on buying back stock instead of pouring it into workers and capital improvements, just like they said they would . And here’s the kicker: it’s not even working out as the corporations had hoped :
S&P 500 companies are on track to repurchase as much as $800 billion in stock this year, a record that would eclipse 2007’s buyback bonanza. Among the biggest buyers are companies like Oracle Corp., Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
But 57 percent of the more than 350 companies in the S&P 500 that bought back shares so far this year are trailing the index’s 3.2 percent increase. That is the highest percentage of companies to fall short of the benchmark’s gain since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008 . . . And the historic spending spree on share buybacks has some analysts worried companies are buying their shares at excessive valuations during the peak of the economic cycle and at a time when the market rally is nine years old. Others warn the billions of dollars spent to buy back shares could have gone toward capital improvements like new factories or technology that could lead to stronger long-term growth.
Oh well—they tried! It’s not like that $1.5 trillion could have been better spent literally anywhere else.
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In case there was anyone left on the planet for whom that was unclear:
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