Donald Trump's charitable foundation has admitted to violating an IRS ban "self-dealing," the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The rules prohibit leaders of non-profit organizations from using funds to benefit a "disqualified" person, which can include the president-elect himself, members of his family, or their private business interests.
The news comes just days after Trump agreed to pay $25 million to settle several fraud lawsuits related to Trump University.
The new admission was uncovered in the foundation's newest IRS filings, which were posted online on Monday by a nonprofit tracking site, GuideStar.
Throughout his campaign, Trump was dogged by accusations that he used his philanthropic organization to pay off business obligations, settle lawsuits, and even purchase a 6-foot-tall painting of himself.
On Monday, Trump's lawyers promised that the Trump Foundation would not use its funds to help pay for the $25 million Trump University settlement.
Donald Trump has said a lot of bold words during his presidential campaign. That’s why agency Sid Lee Collective thought it would be a great idea to create Trump Against Humanity (an unofficial expansion to the popular game Cards Against Humanity).
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Trump Against Humanity was presented as “a party game about a horrible person.” As one could suspect, it uses only the words and phrases that the President-elect Donald Trump said publicly. They include “Moving to Canada”, “Make _ great again”, “Yuuuge”, and other precious lines. “We were looking for quotes that lent themselves to the most offensive, absurd, combinations that captured the same twisted sense of humor in Cards Against Humanity,” Sid Lee’s executive creative director, Jeffrey De Silva explained to Mashable. “But Trump did most of the legwork for us, since he can’t seem to go long without saying something ridiculous.”
However, if you are willing to purchase this party game we have some bad news for you. For legal reasons, Sid Lee Collective isn’t able to sell their product anymore.
police: you’ll notice that we have not murdered anyone yet. we think that’s very nice of us. we’re being very restrained. you guys should meet us halfway and go home without any of your complaints being addressed, that would be a great compromise.
Marsha “Pay it no mind” Johnson. August 24, 1945, Elizabeth, NJ
‘a mother of the trans and queer liberation movement. she dedicated her life to helping trans youth, sex workers, and poor and incarcerated queers’
rest in power.
These are the people we need to canonize
Fuck the people who get credit now. They weren’t the ones who made the world safer for us
If you’re queer and alive in the U.S. you OWE Marsha P. Johnson. You owe her. You should at the BARE FUCKING MINIMUM know her name. Honor her memory.
Queers who call themselves radical and forget what radical meant. What it was. Who deny even her memory. I will NEVER understand, I don’t want to understand, what makes someone so fucking hateful as to turn away from this kind of legacy: love and truth.
a guy in a salvos truck yelled at me and my gf while we were kissing today so I was thinking of this
Do you know, when I was in high-school I went to the mall near my house with my girlfriend to do some Christmas shopping.
We were there, sixteen year old me and seventeen year old her, holding hands and window-shopping, minding our own business.
This Salvation Army shitheel gets aggro about it in the middle of the mall and I’m there totally flabbergasted cause like, it’s christmas
Only, 16!Tabi had even less composure than 26!Tabi, so I lost my fucking mind on her.
Thing is: when I’m really angry, I don’t rage, I go all cold and apparently that freaks people out, because I could see my gf backing up and the lady getting tense and then I realized that anger doesn’t solve problems.
So instead, I started wailing.
Picture this: 5’4, tiny, blonde haired high school girl with her little violin on her back and pearls in her ears just as PTA-approved as could be, full on sobbing in the hallway.
Just, sobbing like my dog’s been shot.
Now my gf’s like, “oh fuck” and the lady’s like “oh fuuuuck!” and I’m here, head thrown back, tears down my cheeks and in that shrill, distressed, /loud/ voice, “WHY WOULD YOU B-b-be so MEAN?! It’s CHRISTMAS!”
And the lady’s like “please stop Oh fuck” because now we have a crowd, and this Molly Weasley of a woman putters over, “what’s the matter, dear?”
And mall security’s coming and this bell ringer is looking very uncomfortable so I just look at this matronly ellen-watching suburban housewife lady, eyes wide and wet and my lip wobbling.
“I was, she s-said, s-s-she said I was going to HELL!”
And I burst right back into tears.
Maaaaaaaan, they didn’t even stick around to ask why she’d said it. Soon as I said it, Mall po-po bounced her like a fucking pogo stick.
We get outside and my girlfriend’s like “that is the most Slytherin thing I have ever seen anyone do.”
It was four years before I saw the Army back in that mall.
that is beautiful
Holiday reminder: don’t let anyone get away with trying to make you feel bad about yourself.
So I tried to recreate this, because I knew the responses would be different, and consequently realized that it’s either extremely old or faked, as Cleverbot auto-capitalizes and auto-punctuates your sentences for you if you do not. Oh well.
In light of that fact, here’s my go at cybersexing Cleverbot.
So I decided to try it
alrighty, let’s go one more step
i’M ACTUALLY CRYING.
THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY
Story of my life
that’s a first.
I LAUGHED HARDER THEN I HOULD HAVE AND I WAS IN PUBLIC
I wasn’t gonna reblog this but I lost it at the last one
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Using your Presidential transition website to promote your own business properties is not normal.
Calling for millions of federal employees to sign nondisclosure agreements apart from standard government forms is not normal.
Blasting journalists with product placements for the labels your child, who is on your transition team, is wearing is not normal.
Having a wide range of senior figures in your own political party distance themselves from your transition team, citing the profound irregularity of it and worrying about future ugliness, is not normal.
Placing your children in charge of your business empire, then placing them on your transition team, then seeking top secret security clearances for them, is not normal. The conflicts of interest that this represents are almost too many to count, but at a basic level: you do not give someone with a financial interest to work against U.S. policy access to sensitive information — at all, ever.
Putting one’s children into senior positions of a government is the behavior of a banana republic, not a constitutional democracy with strong institutions. This is not normal.
For a president who ran on his business acumen to refuse to disclose his taxes to the public, which in turn denies anyone the ability to see if financial conflicts of interest are driving his policy decisions, is not normal.
Asking if he can decline the President’s salary, so as to avoid paying taxes, is not normal.
Owing hundreds of millions of dollars in business debt to a foreign bank and refusing to fully divest yourself from those finances is not normal.
Ascending to the White House while your eldest son, who is also on your transition team, and for whom you also seek a top-secret clearance, seeks out seven-digit business deals in Russia, is not normal. When Russia then names the President elect an “honorary Cossack,” it is not normal.
Asking a hostile foreign intelligence agency to hack into the emails of your opponent in the campaign is not normal. Refusing to comment while they expand those hacks into other institutions is not normal. Watching that same government’s propaganda network dramatically change its tone in order to benefit the incoming president is not normal. That this foreign government is also the subject of numerous investigations into the President elect’s improper business conduct is not normal.
Threatening to cut off Europe from NATO if payment is not received, like a gangster demanding protection money, in a way that benefits said foreign government, is not normal.
Chanting for the summary imprisonment of your political opponent despite repeated conclusions that she has committed no crime is not normal. Refusing to back down from that call to summarily imprison her is not normal. Essentially suggesting a show trial before you’ve even assumed office is not normal.
Hiring an avowed white supremacist and proud antisemite to be the chief of strategy at the White House is not normal. That the new White House chief strategist has bragged, openly, of his desire to destroy the United States is not normal. That the cofounder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center raised money for this is not normal.
Staff participating in authoritarian victim-blaming and antisemitic conspiracism is not normal. Collaborating with cable news channels in that antisemitic conspiracy about protests is not normal.
When one of the new administration’s most senior proxies and spokesmen calmly discusses committing war crimes in the Middle East, it is not normal. When he is shortlisted for the Department of State — despite lobbying for terrorists who killed Americans, despotic regimes in the Middle East, and the tyrannical government of Venezuela — it is not normal.
When that proxy is simply following in the footsteps of the new President-elect, who has called for reinstating torture and summarily executing the families of alleged terrorists, it is not normal.
The leading candidate for the department of education (who himself has no background as an educator or in education policy) openly suggesting to censor speech on universities is not normal. Nominating an oil executive as the Secretary of the Interior is not normal. Nominating a climate change denialist funded by the oil industry to run the EPA is not normal. When the leading candidate for Defense Secretary having a long history of openly racist comments toward his own staff it is not normal.
The FBI intervening decisively in the last week of the election to alter its outcome for one candidate is not normal. But the FBI refusing to address the president elect’s violation of sanctions against a communist country is also not normal.
When a woman accuses a presidential candidate of having raped her as a child, but then refuses to go forward with her allegations because of a barrage of death threats yet still receives almost no media coverage, it is not normal.
It is not normal for a president-elect to have 75 pending lawsuits against him, ranging from business fraud to illegal hiring practices. It is not normal for his lawyers to demand those lawsuits be delayed until after his inauguration for not discernable reason other than to retreat behind the immunity of the office.
Relentlessly attacking the legitimacy of the media (to be distinguished from criticizing media conduct) is not normal. Threatening to sue the media because you don’t like being criticized is not normal.
Being so steeped in the language of fascism that you and and your staff mirror Hitler (“make the trains run on time“), appeasing Hitler (“America First“), or Mussolini (“drain the swamp“) is not normal.
i have this month’s glamour. THEY REALLY THINK GEAR SHIFTS ARE A MENORAH
I’M SCREAMING
wat D:
part of me refused to believe that a mainstream magazine could really misidentify gear shifts cuff links as menorah cuff links and advertise them as an appropriate hanukkah gift, but no, the goyim have gone and done it.
Doesn’t everyone light their menorahs from neutral to overdrive? Traditionnnnnn….. TRADITION
There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example,” said Oats.
“And what do they think? Against it, are they?” said Granny Weatherwax.
“It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.”
“Nope.”
“Pardon?”
“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that …”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes …”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things …
The fact that on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Boyle went from being in love with and obsessing over Rosa to accepting the fact that she didn’t like him that way and remaining a genuine, trustworthy, and caring friend. There wasn’t a focus on being put in the “friend zone” or anything. He just accepted it and moved on appropriately. I love that.
"I’d never, ever hurt a lady but I’d be happy to punch a feminist." = "I actually am an active abuser, but I'm very good at telling myself that it's OK for me to hit women, because any woman I hit obviously deserved it, and you can tell because I hit her."
I’d never, ever hurt a lady but I’d be happy to punch a feminist.
It’d bring me great joy.
I’m 6’2 and weigh 180lbs
ready when you are
Or if you’d like to have some more options….
I’m 6’4” 228 pounds and have 9 years of combined martial arts training and 3 years of being a Line Backer in football. Just in case you are looking for variety.
what about a lady and a feminist. warning, combatives certified soldier.
im tiny, i’m like 5′4 and 130 lbs but u can fight me too
In the dog world, humans are elves that routinely live to be 500+ years old.
“They live so long…but the good ones still bond with us for our entire lives.”
“These immortals are so kind we must be good friends to them”
My heart wtf
Not gonna lie, this fucked me up a bit.
POV Fantasy slice of life book when?
“Now I am old. The fur around my muzzle is grey and my joints ache when we walk together. Yet she remains unchanged, her hair still glossy, her skin still fresh, her step still sprightly. Time doesn’t touch her and yet I love her still.”
“For generations, he has guarded over my family. Since the days of my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather he has kept us safe. For so long we thought him immortal. But now I see differently, for just as my fur grows gray and my joints grow stiff, so too do his. He did not take in my children, but gave them away to his. I will be the last that he cares for. My only hope is that I am able to last until his final moments. The death of one of his kind is so rare. The ending of a life so long is such a tragedy. He has seen so much, he knows so much. I know he takes comfort in my presence. I only wish that I will be able to give him this comfort until the end.”
Wyomingites are monstrous giants who decide the fate of normal-sized Californians with an iron fist
But seriously though this is why the electoral college system doesn’t make sense in modern America. It effectively reduces the validity of your vote as an individual if you happen to share your state with more people. It pretends every state is like a mini-country with its own unique and special interests rather than treating all Americans as a single population.
Because they are? That’s why each state has a Governor and a Congress? Because the needs of the people in Wyoming are not the same as the needs of the people in California? We’re a Union of separate States under a Federal representative government; aka UNITED STATES (note the plural?). That’s why there’s two houses in the national Congress, and why Presidents compete for States, not popular vote alone. Because each state IS significantly different from the others and have their own unique problems, cultures, habits, and needs.
And while each person in Wyoming has more ‘voting power’, it’s because their state is only worth 3 Electoral votes. Without the Electoral System, the greater Midwest would be absolutely worthless to Presidential candidates. They wouldn’t need to care about the problems in Wyoming, Montana, Arkansas, Kansas, etc, leaving these states effectively voiceless in elections, their concerns unaddressed.
The system ensures that the states with the largest populations have the highest values, but the states with smaller populations still carry significant weight, compelling Presidents to actually at least give a show of caring about their problems and perspectives.
Welcome to a representative republic; where you can’t just do whatever you want simply because you have more people. The power and rights of the smaller states are protected by the Electoral College and other systems so that no State is voiceless in government.
So please, go to Texas and tell them they have the same problems as people in Maine. Or tell a man from Chicago that he might as well be from Brooklyn. Yes, we’re all Americans, but to pretend the States don’t have their own unique needs and cultures is just turning a blind eye to reality.
The president ends up impacting things that DO affect our entire population the same. Health care laws. Environmental regulations. Whether or not we go to war. The individual states have their own governors to worry about their differing needs. The U.S. president is equally the problem of everyone regardless of where they live.
Our choice in president effects the entire country, where as individual state laws effect individual states, and are voted upon by said states.
The electoral college does not decide individual state laws, California can not weigh in on laws in Wyoming. At this point in our nation, electoral colleges do little but directly cause vote inequality.
The point is, getting rid of the electoral college would get rid of sectioning out votes by states, and make every US citizen’s vote equal.
No one state would be deciding anything, instead the populous of our country would make the decision, you know, like a democracy.
Yep, and no matter how anyone tries to rationalize it, one state is not one interest group. One state is home to many different demographics in many different circumstances and does not suddenly give way to a whole different set when you step over the state line.
Look how Arizona voted this year, for instance:
Trump won the popular vote in Arizona by less than 5%.
This is a state which is, incidentally, listed as “37% Hispanic,” and only about 51% white.
We know that 60-70% of white people voted red this election nationwide, while some 80-90% of minorities voted blue because Trump’s entire campaign treated them as enemies of this country.
If it’s not fair for California’s larger total population to have more say than Wyoming’s smaller total population, then why is it fair for Arizona’s only marginally larger white population to decide the entire state’s vote?
If we went by total popular vote rather than the electoral college system, then the voices of the minority populations in these states would have actually mattered and their interests heard fairly, instead of drowned out by a 5% margin.
People are arguing that the electoral college exists to give “smaller populations” BY STATE an equal say, and yes, that is technically what it’s doing - by erasing smaller populations within those states. It is doing the exact opposite of leveling the field.
Not to mention that the Electoral College doesn’t even do a good job of making sure that all states get representation, since it’s feasible to win the White House with only 11 states out of 50. Which is bullshit.
Not to mention no presidential candidate goes to campaign in Wyoming anyway because there are so few people in it, nor do they campaign much in any state where it’s already known which party it will vote for due to the electoral system. If every individual vote in the country was added together candidates would actually visit MORE states, and not just concentrate on the swing states.
1. white racists (like you “good” whites’ uncles, grandmas, neighbors, and friends) only change their behavior when they are confronted by other whites with more status.
2. when Black people confront the racists attacking us, they just pile on harder because they get a kick out of knowing they’ve gotten to us.
tl;dr - just like Black people have been telling you for decades, it’s up to whites to end racism and you can’t do it by remaining friends with your cousin and grandma who voted Trump because “fuck political correctness”.
persephone: whos a good boys??
cerberus: :0 ??? :O ???? :o ????
persephone: youre a good boys!! all of you!! such good boys!!
cerberus: :D!!!!!!! :O!!!!!!! :Dc !!!!!!!!!
Donald Trump is involved in over 500 companies. It’s an absurd number, one that is generated by Trump’s tendency to encapsulate every business deal behind a new entity. It makes Trump’s relationships—both within the United States and beyond—intentionally difficult to track. Though Trump puts himself forward as a developer, he hasn’t actually been behind a new building in the US in well over a decade. Instead Trump has been involved in what might seem a laughable number of licensing deals and off-the-wall promotional connections, from failed Trump Steaks to failed Trump Air to a string of failed Trump magazines. While these deals are written so that Trump gets some up front cash and rarely has any downside to failure, there is definitely an upside—streams of revenue in the case of the rare success. It’s a system that has left Donald Trump with tip jars scattered around the planet.
… the developers of Trump Towers Pune, an elegant pair of 23-story black-glass pillars, have an extraordinary new marketing tool they are moving quickly to exploit: the president-elect of the United States.
Those developers have already visited the United States since the election to meet with the President-elect and plan how they can best take advantage of Trump’s increased brand-visibility. And those towers are just a fraction of the deals Trump has in India—deals that give Trump a monetary incentive that may be in conflict with national policies.
In just under nine weeks, Mr. Trump will take control of a portfolio of public business between the United States and India, the world’s two largest democracies, supervising debates over issues including climate change, maritime shadowboxing with China and the nuclear standoff with Pakistan.
It’s just one example of how Trump’s web of business entanglements threatens to push, pull or twist American policy and international agreements. That includes the potential to support autocrats who are tearing down democracies.
Turkey is a nation in crisis, scarred by government crackdowns following a failed coup attempt and on a potential collision course with the West. It is also home to a valuable revenue stream for the president-elect’s business empire: Trump Towers Istanbul.
