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(Almost) Everything Wrong with the Ruling Class in One Picture
- Masks for the workers, but not for the Party elite. (Of course.)
- The man who once said, “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money” overseeing the construction of his fourth palatial home. (Chicago, Washington DC, Martha’s Vineyard, and this one in Hawaii).
- This is the second beachfront mansion for a man who wanted energy prices to “necessarily skyrocket” because Climate Change was going to make the oceans rise.
- Local residents and “environmental experts” are concerned that construction of the beachfront palace will accelerate beach erosion, but those kinds of environmental concerns don’t apply to the Party elite.
- The property was paid for by a party apparatchik and Chicago oligarch with deep (ahem) ties to the Illinois political machine.
- Building the Party elite’s new dacha required the destruction of the previous structure, which was the mansion from the original Magnum PI series. The Party elite have a strong inclination to destroy historical artifacts.
Wow! Are you kidding? Should we accidentally put the memoirs back, but in the bottom of the bargain bin? That’s nuts.
Yes and I found it completely weird when they bought the huge place on Martha’s Vineyard.
That’s because he still thinks he DESERVED even so much MORE.
Wafted ever upward on the wings of affirmative action.
Remember that the number of books sold does not equal the number of books actually read.
Same as the Clinton book grift, where charities in her orbit bought storerooms of books.
Millennia from now, as mankind’s nearly unrecognizable successors pick over our ruins, trying to understand what happened, they will come across one of the storerooms full of Hillary Clinton’s books, and they will understand.
Yeah and those aren’t construction “workers” lol
Of course, the Magnum mansion was on a fictional huge estate. Having seen the drone footage of the seafront Obama lot, my “live on a gorgeous tropical beach in Hawaii like Magnum” fantasy has been somewhat undermined. Luckily, I have lived on or near much more appealing beaches, the kind that can be used to enjoy swimming, surfing, fishing, long walks, and romantic moonlit evenings without security details. In summary: It’s a long flight to Honolulu from his other three mansions, and then a long drive to this mansion on a mediocre beach. It’s no Mar-a-Lago and will turn out to be a Ball-n-Chain.
I didn’t mean that all people on a construction site are “construction workers” in the sense of using a hammer and drill etc. There are security people and clerical people and stuff, who might also be wearing masks for dust but since it’s not blowing right in their face off the jackhammer bit, they don’t need fancy ones.
Nobody ever wore a mask on a construction site who wasn’t actually doing the thing. If they did, it wasn’t these laughable surgical masks which are literally only spit shields to protect patients with great holes cut in them from inadvartent drool or flecks of spittle from surgeons who may be concentrating so hard that they literally become mildly incontinent.
These ridiculous masks are a new phenomenon in this country, outside of an OR. Nobody who needed a mask to guard against particulates would use one — they don’t work.
For some reason I hope you are right.
Maybe in the not-too-distant-future he’ll have to sell them, for much less than he’s paid to buy them, and that money will be worth even less thanks to the idiot he picked as VP.
That’s still not ENOUGH justice for BO, but it’s a start.
Book advances with no payback clause for poor sales are nothing more than money laundering . . .
Of course, they could include a payback clause and just ignore it.
More likely, it’s another money laundering effort. Buy the dilapidated Magnum house on a mediocre beach which fronts the no longer used Royal Turtle Pond reportedly on the National Register of Historic Places (Is this some kind of tax scheme?) for $8.7 million (a fraction of the asking price). Replace the old house with a new one. Use it as a DNC Donation B&B for few years. Sell it for 3-4 times cost. Obama knows real estate like Hillary knows cattle futures.
23 to 32 trillions of dollars were leaked by Geithner to the top financial entities 2009 to 2012. (Catherine Austin Fitts has talked about this at length over the years.)
The 700 billion dollar Bailout the public was told about was a diversion.
One example: Goldman Sachs had AIG as a pass through entity.
Another example, when Wells Fargo purchased Wachovia, they paid mere pennies on the dollar for that purchase. Between government incentives and tax forgiveness policies, they did very well for themselves.
Of course in many ways, a Biden-style politician would say that since the Fed simply printed up monies that were spent, it didn’t cost anyone any thing.
But in any event, I am sure there was enough monies to create enough slush funds that Obama and his family will not have to worry about any rainy days.