Author: Mark Alexander

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News That Will Drive You To Drink

From MockPaperScissors:

All the finest people (@JohnRJohnson via Twitter)

This isn’t snarky, really, but Politico is giving us some background on what happens if once-elected (sorta?), twice impeached, quintuply-indicted, 91-ily charged LOSER ex-prznit Stupid doesn’t pay his judgements:

Even for a man who claims to be a billionaire, $440 million is a potentially crippling amount of cash to turn over. Can Trump afford the judgments? When does he have to pay them? And what happens if he says he can’t — or if he outright refuses?

[…]In the civil fraud case, which is in New York state court, if Trump can’t post the funds or get a bond, then the judgment would take effect immediately and a sheriff could begin seizing Trump’s assets. […]

Can Trump delay payment by appealing the verdicts?

No. In all three cases, he has to put money in an escrow account with the court or get a bond while he’s appealing the verdicts. […]

Does he personally have to pay the verdicts? Could he get his campaign or PAC or the RNC to pay?

The courts don’t have restrictions on the sources of funds used to pay judgments, and Trump would surely like to tap other funds than whatever money is in his own personal accounts.

[…]Using his political vehicles to pay would be far trickier. There is a general ban on using campaign donations for personal uses unrelated to a campaign or the official duties of an officeholder. And as for his political action committees, Richard Pildes, a professor of constitutional law at New York University law school, said they can’t pay Trump’s judgments.

“Campaign funds cannot be used for that purpose regardless of whether the PAC is the decision-maker,” he wrote in an email.

And this is my favorite answer to the question of the RNC paying his fines:

The Republican National Committee doesn’t have the same ban on the personal use of funds as Trump’s campaign committee, but paying Trump’s judgments could jeopardize its nonprofit status.

So he has the potential of financially destroying the RNC. ETTD, to Infinity and Beyond!

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Eat The Rich

Why don’t Democrats use this easy to understand story on the campaign trail?

Democratic politicians need to explain how capitalism is failing and many many hardships in life stem from the grinding capitalist agenda.

Biden has done a great job standing by unions.

Orgainized labor and worker solidarity are the path forward. #VoteBlue

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Enough Already With The Age Thing!

Has everyone forgotten Succession of Powers? Okay, Joe is old, but if something happens to him has everyone forgotten Kamilla Harris is a much younger 59 years old would be waiting in the wings to finish out his term? How will she do under pressure? I don’t think anyone knows for sure, but I’m still willing to bet she’d still be a hell of a lot better for this country than the batshit insane mango Mussolini!

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Don’t Ever Tell Me…

(L-R) The Three Degrees: New Dimensions (1978), Simon Orchestra: Mr. Big Shot (1979), The Ritchie Family: African Queens (1977)

“Oh, you’ll never find that on CD!”

Because I will take it as a challenge!

I actually got a reissued copy of New Dimensions about a month ago and was sorely disappointed when I set it to playing and instead of Giorgio’s awesome and seamless transition from Giving Up, Giving In to Looking For Love, Giving Up, Giving In came to an abrupt stop and the second track on the CD was actually the third cut on the original album, Falling In Love Again. This was followed by an awkward start to the previously mixed original second track.

WTF? I mean seriously, WTF?

I went on Discogs and found that the original recording had been issued on CD, but Discogs itself prevented it (and from what I could see, a slew of other original disco gems from the 70s) from being sold through the service.

That led me to eBay, where I found it for sale from a highly-rated seller in Mexico. I also found dozens more (also brand new, sealed) that I hope to eventually add to my collection, Discogs be damned.

Unlike the reissued version, this CD has all the original songs in their original order with the absolutely seamless transition between the first two tracks. It also includes a bonus of the original 12-inch extended remix of The Runner.

For those of us of a certain age, Heaven was—and remains—a disco.