Another TDS sufferer kills...

[surfgun]

TDS sufferers purchase, threaten with home delivery of body bags.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop...on-front-porch

[TopHatter]

TDS sufferers purchase, threaten with home delivery of body bags.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop...on-front-porch

Hm, or you could've read your own link:

Over 270,000 are dead and Mitch McConnell is still blocking a vote on COVID relief.
Blood is on his hands, and this morning, we joined @ShutDown_DC to bring the bodies to his doorstep.

But, given your Trump-level of empathy for anyone who isn't you, I can understand how you took those body bags as a threat and not as a representation of the blood on McConnell (and Trump's) hands due to their inaction on COVID. 270,000 of your fellow Americans are dead and you don't give a flying fuck about it. Do you.

[surfgun]

Tops, I have been watching ambulances arriving at nursing homes for decades to take away the dead. The aged continue to die consistently. It is hardly the Black Death. There are no new catacombs being built.

This China virus has given the Chinese a competitive edge that they are bragging on that will let them surpass the US Economy during the 2020-30 decade.

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Tops, I have been watching ambulances arriving at nursing homes for decades to take away the dead. The aged continue to die consistently. It is hardly the Black Death. There are no new catacombs being built.

Yeah, that's what I figured you'd say. Can always count on you for consistency.

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Tops, I have been watching ambulances arriving at nursing homes for decades to take away the dead. The aged continue to die consistently. It is hardly the Black Death. There are no new catacombs being built.

Everybody dies. Most seem to want to delay that eventuality. COVID infection can be an accelerant, like pouring gasoline on a smoldering fire, resulting in "ashes to ashes..."

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Trump Takes His Donors to Graduate School at Trump University

Just days before his 2017 inauguration, Donald Trump coughed up $25 million to settle allegations that he’d defrauded students at his defunct Trump University. Four years later, as he scratches and claws to avoid leaving office, Trump is teaching a final master class in separating fools from their money.

Log on to the DonaldJTrump.com campaign website these days, and you’ll be hit with a popup ad reading “1000% OFFER: EXTENDED. CONTRIBUTE NOW>>”



The offer is curious. 1,000 percent of what? If you click, you’re taken to a WinRed donation page and encouraged to give under time pressure:

“DEADLINE EXTENDED!” reads the enticement. “President Trump is counting on YOU to DEFEND the Election, so he asked us to EXTEND your 1000% offer for your next contribution. This offer is available FOR 1 HOUR, so you need to act fast. Please contribute ANY AMOUNT in the NEXT HOUR and you can increase your impact by 1000%!”

The default donation is $250. And the “Total Impact” promised is $2,750. But who is going to “increase your impact” by $2,500?

My friends, you are!

The donation site features two check boxes: One that will turn your $250 donation into a recurring monthly contribution, and another that will trigger an additional donation of $250 on December 5th. But the disclosure of what you’re agreeing to is in fine print, following bold-faced screeds about the need to “DEFEND the integrity of our Election!” or to “SAVE AMERICA from the Democrats!”

My friends, the boxes are pre-checked for your convenience.



Some back-of-the-envelope math reveals that the promised $2,750 impact would, in fact, be created by your donating $250 twice in December, plus another ten times in recurring monthly donations — unless you manage to uncheck the boxes and opt out.

The election is over. Recounts in Georgia and Wisconsin have done nothing to change the Trump losses there. Despite a president-led pressure campaign to have GOP officials throw out vote counts favoring Biden, every critical swing state from Georgia to Arizona to Michigan has now certified its election results. The president’s legal team has lost more than 40 lawsuits, with wild claims of fraud and irregularities that have gotten laughed out of court. So what is this money even for?

My friends, there’s more fine print! The cash collected through Trump’s campaign site is split 75 percent/25 percent between a new Trump leadership PAC called “Save America” and the the Republican National Committee. For its part, Save America isn’t obligated to spend any money on contesting the 2020 election outcome — and is in fact poised to fund Trump’s activities and influence once he has left office. According to the Washington Post, monies raised by leadership PACs like Save America are lightly regulated and “could be used to pay for events at Trump’s own properties or to finance his travel or personal expenses.“

What about continuing to contest Trump’s election defeat? Is the whole fundraising pitch a scam? Not entirely. If (and only if) your donation were large enough to first allocate $5,000 to Save America would any extra money then spill over into the Trump campaign’s “Recount Account,” which says it would be “used in connection with any post-election recounts and election contests.” A call to Save America’s treasurer seeking comment about this bait-and-switch fundraising practice was not returned. The press office at the RNC did not answer phone calls, and the finance department’s voice mailbox was full.

According to the New York Times, Trump’s post-election fundraising haul has been enormous — $170 million — though the precise breakdown of that figure among Save America, the RNC, and the Recount Account is unclear. A Twitter account that tracks Trump fundraising emails counts that the campaign sent out nearly 500 in the month of November, an average of more than 16 a day. Rob Flaherty, Joe Biden’s digital director, lashed out on Twitter. He called Trump’s final fundraising push: “Plain and simple grift.”

Stripped of any campaign-finance complexity, the money blitz looks like a last, cruel con by the president — leveraging the blind allegiance of his base not for any good faith effort to remain in office, but in a scam to continue living the high life with other people’s money. It’s a fitting coda to a presidency defined by putting his most loyal followers through the wringer.
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Und nun, mein Herren, an die Kasse!

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‘When the Bombs Go Off, the Blood Is on Mike Flynn’s Hands’: Retired Officers Blast His Calls for Martial Law

Less than a week after receiving a presidential pardon for lying to the FBI, Mike Flynn is pushing a call for martial law—and drawing sharp denunciation from other retired senior military officers.

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Flynn, who was Trump’s first national security adviser and before that his most important military validator, circulated a petition for martial law in a Tuesday tweet. “Freedom never kneels except for God,” Flynn commented.

The petition, from a Tea Party affiliate named Tom Zawistowski, implored Trump to proclaim “limited martial law” and order the military to conduct a do-over of the presidential election so as to reflect what it claims is “the true will of the people.” It explicitly envisioned “temporarily suspend[ing] the Constitution and civilian control of these federal elections.” And it also reflects a recent rise in desperation from MAGA now that Trump’s efforts at overturning the election have fallen apart in multiple courtrooms.

The petition even compared America’s bloodiest conflict to the current Trumpist inability to cope with an election loss. “Today, the current threat to our United States by the international and domestic socialist/communist left is much more serious than anything Lincoln or our nation has faced in its history—including the civil war,” it reads.

But the petition suggested that unless Trump is installed for another term, his supporters would engage in violence. “Without a fair vote, we fear, with good reason, the threat of a shooting civil war is imminent,” it asserted.

One of Flynn’s colleagues in Army special-operations, retired Brig. Gen. Donald Bolduc, who recently ran for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire as a Republican, said he hadn’t seen the petition. But as a matter of principle, Bolduc called it irresponsible.

“I respect Mike Flynn, and a lot of people respect Mike Flynn, and with that respect comes a tremendous responsibility to be extremely careful with what you say,” Bolduc, who until recently commanded U.S. special operations forces in Africa, told The Daily Beast. “We are nowhere near suspending the Constitution and using the military to redo the election. That would be a colossal mistake. Grant and Lincoln are rolling over in their graves at what the hell is going on.”

Paul Yingling, a retired Army colonel, put it more bluntly. “Flynn's anti-election propaganda is an essential precursor to violent terrorist attacks on legitimate electoral outcomes,” Yingling told The Daily Beast. “When the bombs go off, the blood is on Mike Flynn's hands.”

There was no significant election fraud in the 2020 election. That was established by the Department of Homeland Security election-protection chief Christopher Krebs, who lost his job for saying it publicly. Even Attorney General William Barr, who has promoted suggestions of voting “irregularities,” said on Tuesday that the Justice Department has found no evidence of fraud that could impact the outcome of the election.

That’s left Trump and his most feverish and shellshocked supporters scrambling for increasingly untenable conspiracies to explain his loss. Thomas McInerney, a retired Air Force three-star general and Trump loyalist, has spun a complicated fiction about an Army Special Forces raid to capture a CIA server in Germany supposedly implicated in changing vote tallies. When Military Times asked McInerney to explain the Army saying the raid never happened, the general answered, “President Trump won in a landslide and the Dems left so many footprints that this TREASON must be stopped!!!”

Flynn, appearing before McInerney on a fringe internet show this weekend, rambled off an evidence-free claim that China might have executed a cyberattack to change the vote totals.

Lin Wood, an attorney attempting to overturn Trump’s election loss, shared the same petition as Flynn on Twitter. “Our country is headed to civil war,” Wood wrote, falsely claiming that China was behind the looming conflict. “@realDonaldTrump should declare martial law.”

Trumpworld attorney Sidney Powell, who represented Flynn in his criminal prosecution, also joined the calls for a putsch, retweeting various Twitter users who called on Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and to suspend the election and establish “military tribunals.” Powell, who is currently attempting to overturn the presidential election in court, represented Trump until recently, when his campaign disavowed her following a disastrous press conference.

During a Wednesday afternoon press conference in Georgia, Wood and Powell promoted multiple conspiracy theories about voter fraud, with Wood implying that Trump followers should participate in a pro-Trump insurrection. Specifically, he called on followers to “encircle” the Georgia governor’s mansion until Republican Governor Brian Kemp agreed to hold a special session on the state’s election results and then resign. “It’s 1776 in America again,” Wood told the crowd, some 24 hours after calling for martial law. “You’re not going to take our freedom again.”

The martial law calls rippled out to a broader network of right-wing media personalities. Joey Saladino, a YouTuber-turned-failed congressional candidate most famous for dressing in a Nazi costume as a “prank” and peeing in his own mouth (separate incidents), took to the social media site Parler to spread word of the coup.

In replies to the post, Trump supporters called for “military tribunals, public executions,” and more. “I SAY DO WHATEVER IS NEEDED TO STOP THIS ELECTION FRAUD BY SATAN AND HIS MINNONS!!!” another replied.

The far-right conspiracy site Infowars republished the petition in full. The approving article came one week after Infowars published a panicked headline that claimed: “Democrats Declare Martial Law.”

Some Republicans have openly repudiated those calls. “This ad, though protected by the First Amendment, is utterly irresponsible, ahistorical and without precedent or legal rationale,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost tweeted of the petition. (The document’s author, Zawistowski, is a fixture of Ohio politics.)

Several retired officers who served with Flynn have opted to keep silent over the past five years about his erratic, inflammatory, and provocative behavior. That’s continued through Flynn’s prosecution by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team for lying to the FBI, an act for which Flynn pleaded guilty before reversing himself. And it’s continued as Flynn has embraced the QAnon cult, which the FBI considers a potential feeder for terrorism, that portrays him as a martyr.

But Paul Yingling, who was the deputy commander of future Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster’s cavalry regiment in Iraq, said Flynn was now issuing an incitement to violence.

“Calling for unlawful new elections is an explicit call for violence to overturn lawful elections. Worse still, Flynn knows that he is calling for violence,” Yingling said.

“Flynn has fought enough terrorist networks to understand this pattern: before terrorists detonate, or emplace, or build bombs, a propagandist radicalizes that bomb-making network,” he continued. “Flynn is that propagandist.”

Flynn did not respond to a request for comment.
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[Bigfella]

Yet another Trumper calling for a military coup. Every day the GOP gets just that little bit less committed to democracy. Watch that accelerate over the next few years. What happens to a democracy when one of the major parties ceases to belive in or defend it?

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Less than a week after receiving a presidential pardon for lying to the FBI, Mike Flynn is pushing a call for martial law and drawing sharp denunciation from other retired senior military officers.

...Paul Yingling, who was the deputy commander of future Trump national security adviser's cavalry regiment in Iraq, said Flynn was now issuing an incitement to violence.

"Calling for unlawful new elections is an explicit call for violence to overturn lawful elections. Worse still, Flynn knows that he is calling for violence," Yingling said.

I doubt that Flynn is protected from prosecucution for actions taken after Flynn's pardon from POTUS 45.

If there have been any actual calls for violent overthrow of lawful government in this, so as might be considered acts of sedition by Flynn and others, then I would hope that federal prosecutors will wait until after the Inauguration of the new POTUS on 20 January 2021, post-Trump, to begin subpoenas to Federal Grand Jury proceedings, leading to indictments, trials, convictions, fines and incarcerations.

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Trump supporters home attacked with explosives.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-...ith-explosives

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As Trump Rails Against Loss, His Supporters Become More Threatening

With a key deadline passing Tuesday that all but ends his legal challenges to the election, President Donald Trump’s frenzied campaign to overturn the results has reached an inflection point: Certified slates of electors to the Electoral College are now protected by law, and any chance that a state might appoint a different slate that is favorable to Trump is essentially gone.

Despite his clear loss, Trump has shown no intention of stopping his sustained assault on the American electoral process. But his baseless conspiracy theories about voting fraud have devolved into an exercise in delegitimizing the election results, and the rhetoric is accelerating among his most fervent allies. This has prompted outrage among Trump loyalists and led to behavior that Democrats and even some Republicans say has become dangerous.

Supporters of the president, some of them armed, gathered outside the home of the Michigan secretary of state Saturday night. Racist death threats filled the voicemail of Cynthia A. Johnson, a Michigan state representative. Georgia election officials, mostly Republicans, say they have received threats of violence. The Republican Party of Arizona, on Twitter, twice called for supporters to be willing to “die for something” or “give my life for this fight.”

“People on Twitter have posted photographs of my house,” said Ann Jacobs, the chair of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, who alerted her neighbors and the police about the constant threats. She said another message mentioned her children and said, “I’ve heard you’ll have quite a crowd of patriots showing up at your door.”

Trump himself has contacted numerous Republican state officials, pressing them to help him overturn the election he clearly lost. He has subjected others to repeated public shamings, lambasting governors to take action they are not legally allowed to take to keep Trump in power.

But absent a single significant victory in his dozens of lawsuits — and with a key defeat delivered by the Supreme Court on Tuesday — the president’s crusade is now as much a battle against the electoral process itself, as he seeks to cast doubt on free and fair elections and undermine Joe Biden before he takes the oath of office.

“There is long-term damage when this kind of behavior is normalized,” Jeff Flake, a former Republican senator from Arizona, said on Twitter. “It is not normal, and elected Republicans need to speak out against it.”

Last week, a top Republican election official in Georgia, Gabriel Sterling, implored the president to stop attacking the voting process in the state, saying it had prompted threats against officials and poll workers.

Tuesday’s procedural deadline, known as safe harbor, serves as something of a guarantee that Congress must count the slate of electors certified by the deadline, and acts as an accelerant to resolve any outstanding election disputes. It also likely limits further legal challenges to halt or disrupt the official certification of electoral votes that Biden needs to claim the presidency.

The president, however, dismissed the date as insignificant, saying on Tuesday that the true deadline arrives on Jan. 6 when Congress meets to approve certification.

Many Republican leaders in critical swing states are standing behind the president’s false narrative, unwilling to contradict his claims. Along with the president, their stance is further convincing tens of millions of Americans that the electoral process is too corroded to legitimately deliver the presidency to anyone whose name is not Trump.

Those supporters have started to flood the voicemails, cellphones and inboxes of dozens of elected officials across the country with angry messages and threats, as well as countless officials who handle local elections. The tenor has seemed to grow more menacing as Trump’s efforts appear even more unlikely to succeed, some officials said.

“They’re getting more angry, and we’ve been getting emails all the time, all hours of the day and night,” said Jennifer O’Mara, a Democratic state representative in Pennsylvania. She said her staff had been subjected to threats, as had her Republican colleagues. “A lot of calls are saying we won’t be forgetting.”

Jocelyn Benson, the secretary of state in Michigan, said she had just finished putting up Christmas decorations with her 4-year-old son when she heard dozens of Trump supporters shouting outside her home. Some chanted “Stop the Steal” and demanded an audit of Michigan’s election results, which showed Biden winning by roughly 154,000 votes.

“Ever since the president first tweeted at me and every time there is an additional attempt to spread false information, you see an uptick in the threats,” Benson said in an interview Tuesday. “And now apparently, they’re in front of my house, in the dark of night, in this very private, quiet residential neighborhood. We are concerned not only for the safety of my family, but my neighbors as well.

“This challenging, divisive moment that we find ourselves in, the only way to get out of it is for elected officials on both sides of the aisle to condemn what’s happening.”

Malcolm Kenyatta, a Democratic state representative from Pennsylvania, said he received dozens of emails every day. “It’s a bit more pronounced when you’re Black and queer like I am, that they go down the rabbit hole of parroting all the nastiness and vitriol that we see from the president all the time,” he said.

He said one person created a fake email address under his own name and then sent him profane threats.

Darrin Camilleri, a Democratic state representative in Michigan, said he had received one email that said, “Be prepared to take your last meal,” and another that read, “We’re looking forward to bring back firing squads.”

Camilleri said his parents were also receiving harassing and threatening calls. “We’ve sent more than 20 death threats to the House sergeants to look into,” he said.
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Trump Derangement Syndrome is at feverish pitch.

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Man arrested for carrying alleged pipe bomb into Spokane County Democrats building

SPOKANE — A man authorities say entered the Spokane Teamsters labor union building on Wednesday morning and repeatedly threatened to blow the building up has been arrested by police.

KREM-TV reported the man briefly held at least one person hostage during the incident, which ended around noon.

Police Sgt. Terry Preuninger said the man carried what appeared to be an explosive device into the building, located along a busy commercial street. Traffic was routed away from the building during the incident.

Officers were able to get everyone out of the building safely, according to Preuninger.

The Spokane Police Department’s Bomb Squad is working to determine if the device carried into the building was an explosive.

KHQ-TV reported the man carried what he called a “manifesto” that was filled with political remarks.
The Spokane County Democrats have an office in the building and issued a press release condemning the incident.

”We urge every elected official and community leader to join us in condemning this apparently politically motivated act of violence,” said the statement by Spokane County Democrats chair Nicole Bishop and Washington State Democrats chair Tina Podlodowski. ”No one should have to fear for their life simply because they participate in our political process.”
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Fake electors try to deliver Arizona's 11 votes for Trump

In another sign of the lingering unrest over President Donald Trump's election loss, an Arizona group sent the National Archives in Washington, D.C., notarized documents last week intended to deliver, wrongly, the state's 11 electoral votes for him.

Copies of the documents obtained by The Arizona Republic show a group that claimed to represent the "sovereign citizens of the Great State of Arizona" submitted signed papers casting votes for what they want: a second term for Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

Mesa resident Lori Osiecki, 62, helped created a facsimile of the "certificate of ascertainment" that is submitted to formally cast each state's electoral votes as part of an effort to prevent what she views as the fraudulent theft of the election.

"We seated before the legislators here. We already turned it in. We beat them to the game," she said.

Osiecki said she and others associated with a group called "AZ Protect the Vote" have attended the postelection rallies protesting the results, including the daylong meeting in Phoenix that included Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani. She left that gathering upset that Gov. Doug Ducey wasn't supporting the president's efforts and she wanted to take further action. She and the others chose electors as a result.

"One thing I will say about conservatives, is if something is wrong, and we have lost — a true loss — then we accept," she said. "We're not going to drag people through the mud and fight it. But this clearly has got issues. I saw it with my own eyes and my own research. After that hearing, I was shocked we didn't have any other marching orders."

The 11 electors actually chosen by Arizona voters last month — meeting in an unpublicized location because of security concerns over their task — cast their votes Monday for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, formalizing the Democrats' victory nationally and in the state.

While Osiecki's elector documents do not appear to have been taken as genuine, they are part of a weekslong effort, led by Trump, his advisers, and involving Arizona Republican Party officials and three members of Arizona's GOP congressional delegation casting doubt on the legitimacy of Biden's victory in Arizona and nationally.

Reps. Andy Biggs and Debbie Lesko were among more than 100 Republican members of Congress to formally support a lawsuit brought by the attorney general of Texas seeking to overturn the results in four states where Biden won. The U.S. Supreme Court quickly dismissed the effort.

Rep. Paul Gosar has been a vocal supporter of the "Stop the Steal" effort seeking to similarly overturn the results based on baseless claims of widespread fraud. He also has encouraged people to sign on to an effort to recall Gov. Doug Ducey, who certified the election results showing Biden winning Arizona.

On Monday, White House adviser Stephen Miller said on Fox News that alternate electors for selected states would be casting votes for Trump. Arizona was not named as among them, and there was no indication the fake electors were connected to that effort.

"As we speak today, an alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote, and we're going to send those results up to Congress," Miller said. "This will ensure that all of our legal remedies remain open."

Arizona's ersatz electors sent their choices using documents notarized by Melanie Hunsaker, who works in real estate. Her husband, Jamie Hunsaker, is a Trump enthusiast and one of the purported electors.

Donald Paul Schween, another would-be elector, has been active in Republican Party politics.

Federico Buck, another real estate veteran, is among the signatories. Others include Cynthia Franco, Sarai Franco, Stewart A. Hogue, Carrie Lundell, Christeen Taryn Moser, Danjee J. Moser, Jessica Panell and Peter Wang. Osiecki attested to the group's eligibility as electors.

It was not immediately clear if the group's effort broke any state or federal laws.

Arizona sketches out a series of criminal charges relating to voting and election fraud, but those mostly appear to mostly deal with casting regular ballots or tallying the ballots.

It also has a provision for making, possessing or presenting what are known as forged instruments with an intent to defraud. That is a felony offense.

The federal government has broad authority to prosecute what it deems mail fraud, although it is more often used to target financial crimes. There is a provision in the mail fraud statutes for depriving people of what are known as "honest services."

Osiecki said she wants the archivist in Washington to count her group's electoral choices. She thinks the nation's election integrity is riding on it.

"I've never been in politics before," she said. "I'm not crazy. I'm just a person who feels like there's a problem here. We're at that (1776) moment here. It's the little people who are going to matter. You can't sit on the sidelines anymore."
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Talk about Trump Derangement Syndrome....

"I'm not crazy"....says the "sovereign citizen"

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City to auction spot to push demolish button on Trump casino

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — One of President Donald Trump’s former Atlantic City casinos will be blown up next month, and for the right amount of money, you could be the one to press the button that brings it down.

The demolition of the former Trump Plaza casino will become a fundraiser to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City that the mayor hopes will raise in excess of $1 million

Opened in 1984, Trump's former casino was closed in 2014 and has fallen into such a state of disrepair that demolition work began earlier this year. The remainder of the structure will be dynamited on Jan. 29.

“Some of Atlantic City's iconic moments happened there, but on his way out, Donald Trump openly mocked Atlantic City, saying he made a lot of money and then got out,” said Mayor Marty Small. “I wanted to use the demolition of this place to raise money for charity.”

The Boys & Girls Club has hired a professional auction company to solicit bids from Thursday through Jan. 19, when the top bids will be revealed and a live auction will determine a winner. The organization provides after-school and summer recreation, education and career-training programs for Atlantic City children and teens.

Trump, then a real-estate developer, opened the casino in a prime spot at the center of Atlantic City’s Boardwalk where the Atlantic City Expressway deposited cars entering the resort. It was the site of many high-profile boxing matches, which Trump would regularly attend.

It closed in 2014, one of four Atlantic City casinos to shut down that year, followed by another former Trump casino, the Taj Mahal, in 2016. That property has since reopened as the Hard Rock casino.

The third casino Trump used to own here, Trump Marina, was sold to Texas billionaire Tilman Fertitta in 2011 and is now the Golden Nugget.

Trump cut most ties with Atlantic City in 2009 aside from a 10% fee for the use of his name on what were then three casinos in the city. That stake was extinguished when billionaire Carl Icahn took ownership of the company out of bankruptcy court in February 2016.

Trump Plaza has sat empty for six years, and has been deteriorating. Earlier this year, large pieces of the facade broke loose from one of the hotel towers and came crashing to the ground. In one storm, additional debris fell from the structure onto the Boardwalk.

Icahn owns the former Trump Plaza building, and has agreed to the demolition. Small said he is eager to discuss potential uses for the land with Icahn once the casino is gone, including some sort of family attraction.

“Not often does inner-city oceanfront land open up,” the mayor said. “We have one chance to get this right.”

The last casino implosion in Atlantic City was in Oct. 2007 when the former Sands casino was dynamited to make way for a new casino-hotel project that ultimately was never built.

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Can't think of a better place than this trash thread to post about the perfect metaphor for Donald Trump, his supposed "business acumen", and especially his presidency.

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An outraged Kemp blasts pro-Trump conspiracy theorists harassing his family

Gov. Brian Kemp is fed up with the unrelenting attacks from conspiracy theorists calling on him to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia. But he’s even more enraged that some of those peddlers of false claims are targeting his wife and three daughters.

“It has gotten ridiculous — from death threats, (claims of) bribes from China, the social media posts that my children are getting,” he said. “We have the ‘no crying in politics rule’ in the Kemp house. But this is stuff that, if I said it, I would be taken to the woodshed and would never see the light of day.”

The Republican singled out the invective targeting his daughter Lucy, who has received hate-filled messages about inane false conspiracies about the death of her longtime boyfriend, Harrison Deal, who was killed in a traffic accident this month in Savannah.

“I can assure you I can handle myself. And if they’re brave enough to come out from underneath that keyboard or behind it, we can have a little conversation if they would like to.”

Kemp, speaking to reporters shortly after a vaccine-related event at Grady Memorial, did not blame President Donald Trump for the wrath he’s facing from Republicans, even though the president has stoked the fury by blasting Kemp for refusing to illegally reverse his defeat in Georgia.

“As far as I know, my relationship with the president is fine. I know he’s frustrated, and I’ve disagreed on things with him before,” he said, adding: “Look, at the end of the day, I’ve got to follow the laws and the Constitution and the Constitution of this state.”

Trump has repeatedly vented his outrage at Kemp, and has called him a “clown,” predicted he would lose the 2022 Republican primary and said he was “ashamed” for endorsing him in 2018. At his rally in Valdosta, Trump encouraged U.S. Rep. Doug Collins to run against Kemp in two years.

State elections officials say there is no evidence of systemic irregularities, and courts at every level have tossed out every complaint.

Asked broadly about a potential primary challenge, Kemp said: “I’m ready for any kind of fight that anybody wants to have — Republican primary general election, whatever it is.”

“I’m going to continue to run on my record but I’m also going to look Georgians straight in the eye and say: Look, this is what I told you I was going to do when you elected me. This is what I’ve been doing. And one of those things is placing my hand on the Bible and giving an oath before God to follow the law.”

He urged fellow Trump supporters to lower the temperature.

“If anybody has an issue with something I’ve done, they need to come see me and I’ll talk to them about it. They don’t need to bother my wife or my children or anybody,” Kemp said.

“It’s fine to disagree on policy,” the governor said, adding: “We’re just not going to go down the road of enticing violence — at least here in this state, as long as I’m governor.”
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“As far as I know, my relationship with the president is fine."
He urged fellow Trump supporters to lower the temperature.

Ehhh....Brian, you're nearly as deranged as Trump's followers if you think either of those statements resembles reality.