Panama To Trump Organization: Pack Up

A Panamanian magistrate ordered managers and security to vacate the 70-story Trump-branded hotel in Panama City, following tense interactions between the building's owner and the employees of the "luxury" hotel. The typical business model followed by the Trump Organization is to find buildings under construction or completed and negotiate a branding contract with the owners/developers. In this case, the brand had become so toxic (especially in Latin America) that the hotel wasn't profitable. An investor representing the hotel's owners association, Orestes Fintiklis, moved to evict the Trump Organization employees, who resisted eviction. From the AP story:

"The intervention resolves the standoff between Trump’s family hotel business and Fintiklis, who sought to take physical control of the property on behalf of the hotel owners. Though the owners tried to fire Trump’s company last year, the Trump Organization had disputed the termination as legally invalid — and refused to hand over the property....The fight ended quietly when a Panamanian judicial official accompanied by police came to help enforce Fintiklis’ claim to the property. More than a half dozen of Trump’s security officials were seen leaving the hotel. The whereabouts of the Trump hotel management team could not be immediately determined, but Fintiklis declared the fight over.

Con man and bigot Donald "Rump" Trump is notorious for litigating, so expect this to unwind further, unless of course he accurately reads the handwriting on the wall and comes to the conclusion that his ugly behavior and tarnished reputation repulses potential customers at his tacky properties. Nah, he'll litigate.

BONUS: They're not wasting any time in ripping Rump's name off of the hotel. Bwahahaha.

BONUS II: We like Mr. Fintilkis' style:

Majority owner of Trump Hotel in Panama declares victory against the Trumps in struggle for the property’s control and plays a victory anthem on the hotel lobby’s piano: “Accordeon,” a popular Greek song about the fight against fascism pic.twitter.com/jS5Zp4cp3M

— Kirk Semple (@KirkSemple) March 5, 2018

(photo: Rump's known for picking fights.)

Trump's Biggest 100 Day Accomplishments

Credit where due:  deluded nitwit Donald "Rump" Trump has indeed accomplished something that no other president in the past 60 years has accomplished -- sad, abject failure from the get go.

Here's polling from NBC News/ Wall Street Journal:



He's sinking fast. But there's still about 35% of the population that's equally delusional:



A corroborating poll from the Washington Post/ABC News:

The president’s approval rating stands at 42 percent, the lowest recorded at this stage of a presidency dating to Dwight Eisenhower. Trump’s 53 percent disapproval rating is 14 percentage points higher than Bill Clinton’s 39 percent disapproval in April 1993, the worst before Trump. Eight years ago, then-president Barack Obama’s approval was 69 percent, his disapproval 26 percent. 

The Post-ABC poll finds 43 percent of Americans said they strongly disapprove of Trump’s performance. That’s also the worst by far of any president since George H.W. Bush by more than double. In the spring of 1993, 21 percent said they strongly disapproved of Clinton’s performance. 

Well done (like your ketchup covered steaks), shitgibbon!

The Trump Effect - Bringing The Hate

All via Raw Story (again):

Florida

At First Coast High School in Jacksonville, Florida, vandals posted two signs over the public water fountains in an act of racial intimidation. 

“Whites only,” said one sign, according to Action News Jacksonville, and the other said, “Colored.” 

The signs — which hearken back to the days of segregation — are a part of the wave of racist and nativist harassment, bullying and threats that have rocked the nation since the election of Donald Trump as president on Tuesday.

Trump's mentally challenged Nazi friends

The Daily Stormer, a Neo-Nazi website, published a list of dozens of Twitter users who expressed sadness over the election outcome on Wednesday, urging its readers to target and harass them to the point of suicide. 

The frontpage of the white supremacist website shows a large photo of President-elect Trump and his wife, Melania Trump, meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Vice President-elect Mike Pence. “You should probably go ahead and be afraid now,” writes Andrew Anglin, the website’s publisher. The post suggests it’s readers “can troll these people and definitely get some of them to kill themselves.”

Pennsylvania, via Oklahoma

Students at the University of Pennsylvania were subjected to a GroupMe group called “N*gger lynching.” But Penn officials have learned that the group was started by students in Oklahoma. 

Los Angeles

Los Angeles area substitute teacher has been fired after a student recorded him taunting Latino sixth graders about the election of Donald Trump, telling them their parents were going to be deported, reports NBC4. 

We can only imagine how many of these type of incidents are going unreported.

Raw Story is doing the hard work of compiling a list of all the "incidents of assault, overt racism and intimidation coming from neo- fascist white nationalist Trump supporters following the election."  It's currently up to 100 and growing.  We may post individual accounts of Stormtrumper actions, but will more likely just refer back to this valuable archive from time to time.

Those who voted for the racist shitgibbon, those who voted third party, or those who simply didn't bother to get off their ass to vote (especially in the "blue wall" states), this is what you were asking for, whether you think you were or not.  Congratulations for "Making America Great Again (circa 1859)."

BONUS:

Reid on Trump election: Watching white nationalists celebrate while innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like America.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) November 11, 2016

BONUS II:  Infidel has some sound advice for us that we would do well to heed, before the finger- pointing gets out of hand.

The Trump Effect - Teaching The Children

All via Raw Story:

-- Pennsylvania voc tech school students shout "White Power" while marching through school with Trump poster.

-- Michigan middle school students chant "build the wall" while Latino students cry.

-- Two Trump bros drove through the campus of Wellesley College waving a Trump flag and harassing black students.

The election was two days ago.  Wonder what the reaction would have been if Trump lost?

Post- Debate Lede: Trump's Disgraceful Attack On American Democracy

Here's the only thing people are talking about in the wake of last night's third and final presidential debate:

(Attribution: Internet news headlines, via Daily Kos)

That's right.  Once again, when asked directly if he would accept the results of the election November 8, neo- fascist authoritarian Donald "Rump" Trump answered,

“I’ll look at it at the time."

When pressed for a definitive answer, Rump continued,

“What I’m saying is that I will tell you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense. OK?”

Fellow Republicans, smelling the sulfurous fumes of their party's implosion and Rump's apparent decision to take as much of American democracy down with him, were quick to react:

Trump's answer on accepting the outcome of the vote is the most disgraceful statement by a presidential candidate in 160 years.

— Bret Stephens (@StephensWSJ) October 20, 2016

My thoughts on a 'rigged' presidential election. pic.twitter.com/075n83NXMH

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 20, 2016

.@realDonaldTrump saying that he might not accept election results is beyond the pale

— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) October 20, 2016

Sorry. He's yours. You deserve him. You built that.


(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Teach Your Children - Trump Edition (UPDATED)

So a kid just screamed "take the bitch down" again at the Trump rally. He can't be more than 10.

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) August 2, 2016

10! That reminds us of this "Role Models" ad put out by the Clinton campaign:



UPDATE:  Here's what the "mother" of that child had to say about his behavior:

The mother identified herself in a brief interview with a small group of reporters as Pam Kohler of Mount Vernon, Va., but she would not name her son or say how old he is. 

“He’s a minor so he can’t be interviewed,” Kohler said. 

“I think he has a right to speak what he wants to,” she said. 

Asked where he learned to speak that way, she answered, “Democratic schools.”

She seems nice.  And smart!

Today's Cartoon - Next Week's Viewing

America should be so lucky ...

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(Tom Toles, once great Washington Post Bezos Bugle)

The Republican National Convention, July 18-21:  days which will live in infamy.

Corporations Ducking Republican Convention (UPDATED)

Some fleas are fleeing the dog:

A growing number of prominent U.S. corporations are opting to drop or scale back their sponsorship of the Republican national convention next month in Cleveland, as the nomination of Donald Trump promises a level of controversy rarely seen in such gatherings. 

Among those to signal in recent days that they won't sponsor the convention this year are Wells Fargo & Co., United Parcel Service Inc., Motorola Solutions Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Ford Motor Co., and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. All of those companies sponsored the previous Republican conclave, in Tampa, Florida, in 2012.

Let's not give them too much credit for public decency. Rather than suddenly discovering their souls, some of these corporations are doubtless responding to pressure from groups such as Color of Change PAC.  To be perfectly fair, it's a scandal in itself that both political parties are taking these in-kind donations from corporations in order to put on their political infomercials.

But it's not a wholesale abandonment of the Republican/ New Confederate/ Stupid/ Shooter's Party by corporate America!  Rest assured, there are still some who are willing to lend their corporate names to sponsor neo- fascist clown Donald "Rump" Trump's coronation in Cleveland:

Plenty of big companies and industry groups remain committed to the convention. The American Petroleum Institute, the chief trade group for the oil and gas industry and a top donor to the 2012 convention, told Bloomberg it “will be participating” this year, without elaborating on the form that would take. AT&T Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Twitter Inc., and Facebook Inc. have previously disclosed plans to provide technical services to the convention at no cost.

"... at no cost."  If only there was a cost these soulless organizations would pay for their collusion with Rump's party.  Let's hope their corporate logos are splashed across t.v. screens as Rump and his enablers go on their bigoted tirades.

UPDATE:  You can now add Apple to the list of no- shows.