The Plane, Ms. James! Take The $%*! Plane! Today, Monday, March 25, is the big day on which, if Donald Trump doesn't scrape up the $454 million dollar penalty he owes on his civil fraud conviction, New York Attorney General Letitia James will begin seizing his assets. Supposedly. I say "supposedly" because Donald Trump is constantly gifted with such uncanny good luck that one can't help but wonder if perhaps Mr. "Art of the Deal" made a deal somewhere along the way with a certain fellow entrepreneur, ...in which case by the end of the day he'll have slithered away as surely as he always slithers away from accountability for his plethora of earthly sins, and will likely continue to do so until the day he shuffles off his mortal coil. But let's say that this time by some stroke of heavenly fortune and justice Donald Trump ends up having to pay for his crime the same as the rest of us would have to. Let’s just say that today Attorney General James actually starts scooping up some of Trump’s cash or high-priced stuff. Word is she’s going first for one of his golf courses, but I say, forget the danged golf course. Why bother? He’s got well over a dozen of them. No, I say take something meaningful, something that, while serving justice, would also be a great public service. Ms. James, please, before you take anything else, take Donald Trump’s plane! Can you imagine if Donald Trump didn't have his plane to whisk him around to his monster rallies all the invective, venom, lies, disinformation, hateful, unhinged, racist, xenophobic rhetoric and other Trump-flavored garbage We the People would be spared? Because If the Donald didn't have his Trump plane he'd have to scrounge around for a jet to rent. And who do you think would rent him a jet now that it’s public knowledge that he doesn’t have half a billion dollars to rub together? Oh, I suppose maybe he could get some rich, super rich, or crazy rich toady to lend him their jet. But it surely wouldn't be as comfy for him as his own 100 million dollar flying Xanadu. And then, landing at a rally in something like this, ...just wouldn't have the same schwing as landing in this. The thing is, not having his own plane might put a serious damper on Donald Trump's campaign rally circuit. And wouldn't that be a blessing. Reference https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-legal-news-brief-trumps-media-merger-is-unlikely-to-stop-letitia-james-from-targeting-his-assets-on-monday-174625369.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
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There once were two billionaires, one of them rich, ...and the other one poor. The poor billionaire was a greedy man who gave little away and even refused to pay the wages that he owed his workers. He owned a luxurious mansion in the city, ...and another by the sea. Now it came to pass that the poor billionaire committed many crimes against his country and against his fellow human beings, for which the judges required of him a mighty penalty, while his lawyers likewise required of him great fees, so that he was in debt for almost 600 million dollars. But alas, the poor billionaire, who had foolishly run through his fortune, did not have the money to pay the debt, so that the judges called for the seizure of his luxurious possessions. And so the poor billionaire loudly wailed and gnashed his teeth. But the rich billionaire was a generous woman, ...who gave away her two mansions, ...so that they could be sold and the money given to those in need. The rich billionaire likewise gave away billions of dollars to help the needy, and she gave also of her billions to those who provide for the common good, such as the Girl Scouts and Habitat for Humanity. And at the same time that the poor billionaire was wailing and gnashing his teeth because he had not 600 million dollars to bail himself out and his worldly goods were to be seized by the law, the rich billionaire gave away to charity even more than that amount. And so I say to unto you, the lesson of this parable is not that one billionaire possessed more money than the other; the lesson is that true wealth lies in having enough money to be able give some away with a glad heart, while true poverty lies in not having enough money to be able to give some away. Or having enough money to give some away, but not enough heart to do so. Now it later came to pass that the poor billionaire fell into another great sum of money, for the poor billionaire, though poor, always enjoyed wondrous good fortune. And yet, I say unto you, even though he gain the whole world, the poor billionaire will always be poor. And, though she give the sum of all her riches away, the rich billionaire will always be rich. References https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/business/mackenzie-scott-donates-640-million-open-call/index.html https://people.com/home/mackenzie-scott-donation-beverly-hills-estate-california-charity/ https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/20/opinions/trump-bond-financial-problems-ghitis/index.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/10/23/vast-majority-of-trumps-charitable-giving-reportedly-came-from-land-deals/?sh=6db83913610d https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dozens-of-lawsuits-accuse-trump-of-not-paying-his-bills-reports-claim |
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