Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

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Sunday January 06, 2019 · 3:35 PM PST

2019/01/06 · 15:35

Ã¢ÂÂThe number of employed Americans has now set a 14th record under President Trump. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by 84 cents, or 3.2%. Participation Rate hits Trump-Era High.Ã¢ÂÂ CNS NEWS. And we will do even better with new trade deals and all else!
Ã¢ÂÂ Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2019

How to lie with statistics

A year ago there were 9 regulars sitting around doing Stoli shots at the bar at Trump’s Old Post Office hotel in DC. And, Trump was in the back of the bar (in the booth that’s reserved for mob bosses) sipping diet cokes and collecting tribute envelopes from his foreign hotel guests.

A year ago, the 9 regulars sitting at the bar made an average of $100 per day. And Trump’s total take averaged $100,000 per day (taking into consideration his White House paycheck, his TV show royalties, his cut from money laundering, and all his bribes, kickbacks, and other graft).

It’s now a year later and the same 9 regulars are back today, sitting at the bar at Trump’s DC gang-headquarters. But this year, instead of doing Stoli shots, they’re drowning their sorrows in a mug of beer they’re sharing 9 ways because none of them got an annual pay raise. All 9 of them are still making the exact same thing they were making a year ago, an average of $100 per day.

But Trump is also at the bar today, at his usual mob boss booth in the back. He’s in a good mood. He’s celebrating (chugging diet cokes, two at a time, one in each of tiny hands) the $250,000 performance bonuses he’s just collected from each of his Russian, Saudi, Turkish, and coal industry handlers.

Adding that million bucks to the rest of his total take increased his daily average for 2018 from $100,000 per day to $103,229 per day.

Trump stands up, applauds himself to get everyone’s attention, and shouts out to the other 9 bar customers, “We’re winning bigly. I’m the best President there’s ever been because our average annual pay just increased by 3.2%”.

Summary of Bart Kavanaugh's Testimony

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Thursday September 27, 2018 · 12:37 PM PDT

2018/09/27 · 12:37

About as believable as “I didn’t inhale”

Trump And Kavanaugh: It's Not The Crime, It's The Coverup

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Monday September 10, 2018 · 7:47 PM PDT

2018/09/10 · 19:47

If Trump and his GOP minions on the Judiciary Committee are withholding memos or emails which prove that Kavanaugh knowingly received files stolen by Miranda, then every person who is helping withhold that information is involved in an illegal conspiracy to conceal a crime.

Given what we know already (and the lame explanations Kavanaugh has offered up) there’s probable cause for the FBI to begin an investigation of this suspected conspiracy.

The Two Report Gap...

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Wednesday May 16, 2018 · 8:54 PM PDT

2018/05/16 · 20:54

President Donald Trump points skyward before donning protective glasses to view the solar eclipse, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, at the White House in Washington . (AP Andrew Harnik)

Nixon’s downfall was the “18-Minute Gap”. I predict Trump’s downfall will be the “Two Report Gap” from FinCEn’s SARS database (and I also predict that there are more than just two missing reports).

No doubt you’ve already read the New Yorker story that reveals that someone purged at least two of Michael Cohen’s SARS reports from the Treasury FinCen database.

That story revealed there’s a “Two Report Gap” , but (because we can’t bing watch this comedy of errors, and can’t jump ahead to the season finale) there’s no way to know for certain who Cohen was dealing with on the other end of the suspicious transactions. Yet, I find it surprising and curious that no one has yet publically stated who the obvious other party was and the likely reason the SARS reports were removed, purged, or concealed. Are reporters being coy, or they are still too naive to point the finger at the most obvious protagonist?

Applying Trump’s Razor (which says, “ascertain the stupidest possible scenario that can be reconciled with the available facts and that answer is likely correct”), the obvious reason the SARS reports were deleted is that they show payments from one of Cohen’s pay-to-play accounts directly to Trump (or one of Trump’s businesses).

And the most likely method those records disappeared, I’m guessing is that on Jan 21, 2017, one of Trump’s minions at the Department of Treasury (perhaps Sec. Munchkin himself), got up early and went to his new office at the Treasury Building, and went through the FinCen database and removed or concealed every SARS report with Trump’s name.

Donald Trump Is A Lying Sack Of S#!T

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Sunday February 18, 2018 · 5:45 AM PST

2018/02/18 · 05:45

On Friday, Trump tweeted this defense:

Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong - no collusion!
Ã¢ÂÂ Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 16, 2018

It really doesn’t matter which came first, the Russian election meddling or Trump’s candidacy announcement. But since he’s drawn attention to the 2014 date of his campaign start, it’s important to note that that date is totally bogus. Trump decided to run long before he publicly announced. How long before? Probably on the day after President Obama’s re-election on Nov 6, 2012. How do I know this? Because I looked up the date he registered his campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” with the US Patent and Trademark Office.

He asserts that he can’t be guilty of collusion because the events happened in the wrong order. He’s unintentionally admitting that he’s guilty of collusion if the Russian meddling happened after his decision to run. But he’s lied about the order of events, so by his own faulty logic, he’s admitted that he’s guilty of collusion.

Trump registered his MAGA slogan on Nov 19, 2012. Less than two weeks after the 2012 election, more than a year before the start of the Russian meddling, and more than two and a half years before Trump slithered down the escalator in NY on June 16, 2015.

Here’s a copy of the official record of his trademark registration (note the Nov 19, 2012 filing date):

Did Trump Commit Tax Fraud When He Bought Porn Star's Silence? (updated)

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Tuesday January 16, 2018 · 6:09 PM PST

2018/01/16 · 18:09

The recently published article by Jacob Weisberg on Slate goes into detail about Trump’s affair with — and hush-money payments to — Stormy Daniels. Weisberg’s article on Slate includes this revelation:

Daniels told me that agreement involved a complicated arrangement to shield the real names of the parties. She texted me an unsigned two-page document spelling out this arrangement, the title of which was “Exhibit ‘A’ to the Confidential Settlement Agreement and Release: Assignment of Copyright and Non-Disparagement Agreement.”

I believe Weisberg may have completely missed the primary point of the complicated contract. Trump’s underlying philosophy is to never give away any of his own money. And if he’s ever forced to pay someone a substaintial amount, he either claims it as a charitable deduction (and pays with OPM), or claims it as a business deduction (and gets a tax write-off to reduce his out of pocket expense).

The copyright assignment contract appears to be an attempt to turn a non-deductible personal expense (hush-money to Stormy Daniels) into a deductible business expense (purchase of copyright intellectual property). And if he did that, then in subsequent tax years, he’s also going to claim depreciation deductions on the asset (the copyright) to recoup his initial out of pocket expenses.

Someone should tip off the IRS that they might have missed something in their (never-ending) audit of Trump’s tax returns.

Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail

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Friday October 27, 2017 · 10:53 PM PDT

2017/10/27 · 22:53

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve no doubt heard the rumour that Mueller has a sealed indictment against one or more Trump associates. The questions is, who’s going down first? Mueller will probably start with one of the secondary characters with a minor role who he can flip to get evidence against some of the bigger fish. I’m betting someone like Page, or Sater, or Cohen, or Mannafort is going to be his first announced indictment. And it will probably be for some sort of financial crime because tracing the money is the easiest route to getting at the facts.

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What's Next? Break-ins By White House Plumbers?

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Tuesday May 16, 2017 · 10:16 PM PDT

2017/05/16 · 22:16

Today’s rant from Trump:

I have been asking Director Comey & others, from the beginning of my administration, to find the LEAKERS in the intelligence community.....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 16, 2017

When did leaking office gossip become a federal crime?

Flynn began taking (illegal) foreign payments after he was fired by Pres. Obama, and therefore was no longer a member of the intelligence community; he was on Trump’s campaign staff. Nearly all the leaks about Flynn’s (suspected) crimes are based on information from Russia Today, not from the intelligence community. That’s what happens when you pose for pictures while committing a crime.

BREAKING NEWS: President Trump Has Change Of Heart and Releases 2016 Tax Returns

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Saturday April 01, 2017 · 3:00 AM PDT

2017/04/01 · 03:00

The big Tax Day, the 15th, is circled on a white calendar with a red marker

This morning at 5:55 AM, President Trump announced via twitter that he’s posted his 2016 tax returns on www.whitehouse.gov for all to see. And, later this afternoon he’ll be posting all his returns for the last 10 years.

Stay tuned for more news.

FAKE NEWS: Trump says healthcare reform done. Declares, "It's a gimme"

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Saturday March 11, 2017 · 11:29 AM PST

2017/03/11 · 11:29

We are making great progress with healthcare. ObamaCare is imploding and will only get worse. Republicans coming together to get job done!
Ã¢ÂÂ President Trump (@POTUS) March 11, 2017

List of Domestic Terror Incidents Since 9/11 Which The Media Really Did Cover

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Monday February 06, 2017 · 5:14 PM PST

2017/02/06 · 17:14

This is all the terror incidents since 9/11 which have all been thoroughly covered. Either the White House is conflating domestic attacks with international attacks, or they’re about to float a bunch of other Bowling Green Massacre lies.

You Can't Know Your Radical-Islamic-Terrorists Without A Program

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Friday February 03, 2017 · 8:38 PM PST

2017/02/03 · 20:38

Here’s a breakdown of the nationality of the perpetrators of attacks (plotted, attempted, failed and succesful) on the US since 9/11. The attacks from Trumps banned countries are highlighted in the leftmost columns.

PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH A REPUBLICAN MEMBER OF CONGRESS. They are all willfully ignorant of the real facts.

The real terrorists are the home-grown domestic terrorists that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned about in 2009.

NB: attacks on US nationals that occurred outside the US are not included in this table. So the two Bowling Green Terrorists are not include. The targets of their attempted attacks were American soldiers in Iraq.

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