Telling landlords to not accept black applications, to the extent of being sued by the DoJ which identified a superintendent put the letter 'C' on applications of people of color so the office would know to reject them. source 2
Central Park 5 - repeat accusing boys of being criminals 12-17 years after DNA led to exoneration, all as justification for the death penalty and police becoming more violent
Tried to buy out the Ground Zero Mosque "not because I think the location is a spectacular one [because it is not] but because it will end a very serious, inflammatory, and highly divisive situation that is destined, in my opinion, to only get worse."
Falsely claimed thousands of NYC Arabs were "cheering" over 9/11
Repeatedly accusing Obama of not being born in this country
Calling Obama Kenyan/Muslim not just at first in 2011, but again in 2016 after claiming he himself deserved credit for getting Obama's birth certificate released
Trump says Abraham Lincoln 'did good' for the Black community but that 'the end result' is "questionable"
Stated that Minneapolis has "suffered enough" for having Somalian refugees
Will not allow Hurricane Dorian refugees from the Bahamas because because they are full of “very bad gang members.”
Muslim ban (yes it was, it treated travelers differently based on religion)
Pardoning Joe Arpaio who was convicted of racial discrimination, who expressly broke the law to target hispanics, arrested people for being hispanic without an actual criminal charge, and kept them in brutal prison conditions
Charlottesville apologetics of the neo-nazis - first said the problem was the left then "both sides" etc
Tweeted calling for the death penalty for Sayfullo Saipov, the Muslim who killed 8 with a truck along a Manhattan bike path. Yet he never said it for Dylann Roof, who killed 9 in a Charleston church even when Nikki Haley linked the rhetoric to him.
Specifically removing TPS and blocking visas from nations Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras
Tweeting that he ordered Pompeo to look into the "large scale killing of farmers" conspiracy of black people genociding white farmers in South Africa that never happened
Delayed Harriet Tubman $20 bill face from 2020 to 2028, even though the engraving plate had been complete since 2018 and Treasury Department said it was "far along in the process." In 2016, Trump said it should instead be put on the $2 bill which isn't printed
“I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money,” Trump said, according to the 1991 biography. “I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” ... “I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”
“You’re not gonna support me even though you know I’m the best thing that could ever happen to Israel”...“And I know why you’re not going to support me. You’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money”...“You want to control your own politician.” and “Is there anyone in this room who doesn’t negotiate deals? Probably more than any room I’ve ever spoken.” source
Repeating conspiracies about George Soros being behind various movements and attacks
Tells Jewish voters at IAC they are "brutal killers" and "not nice people"
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Congress passes stimulus
Last week started out with a Republican-crafted stimulus bill that was twice-blocked by Senate Democrats, who objected to the lax conditions of aid to corporations, too little funding for hospitals, and a $500 billion “slush fund” for big companies to be doled out by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin with no oversight. Conservative-Democrat Joe Manchin (WV) even criticized the GOP bill:
“It fails our first responders, nurses, private physicians and all healthcare professionals. ... It fails our workers. It fails our small businesses… Instead, it is focused on providing billions of dollars to Wall Street and misses the mark on helping the West Virginians that have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.”
Through negotiations, Democrats shifted the bill in a more-worker friendly direction. The version that passed includes the following Democrat-added provisions: expanded unemployment benefits, $100 billion for hospitals, $150 billion for state and local governments, direct payments to Americans without a phase-in (ensuring low-income workers get the full amount), a ban on Trump and his children from receiving aid, and oversight on the “slush fund” (see next section for more info). Senate Democrats also managed to remove a provision that would have excluded nonprofits that receive Medicaid funding from the small-business grants.
Further reading: After Senate Democrats blocked the Republican-crafted bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led the House Democrats in releasing their own version, a best-case scenario of their dream coronavirus stimulus bill. It is interesting to contrast what the Democrats prioritized to what the Republicans focused on: “How the House Democrats' stimulus plan compares to the Senate's”
Echoing sentiments expressed during debate on the previous coronavirus bill (the second, for those keeping track), Republican senators derided the $600 a week increase in unemployment payments as “incentivizing” workers to quit their jobs. Sens. Ben Sasse (Neb.), Rick Scott (Fla.), Tim Scott (S.C.) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.) delayed passage of the bill in order to force a vote on an amendment removing the extra unemployment funding. "This bill pays you more not to work than if you were working," Graham said. Fortunately for American workers, the amendment failed and the improved bill passed the Senate and the House.
Note: In 2009 only three Republicans helped Obama pass his stimulus bill in his first month in office.
The giveaways in the bill
While Senate Democrats were able to add worker-friendly provisions, the bill still required bipartisan support to pass the chamber and some corporate giveaways remained in the final version.
NYT: “Senate Republicans inserted an easy-to-overlook provision on page 203 of the 880-page bill that would permit wealthy investors to use losses generated by real estate to minimize their taxes on profits from things like investments in the stock market. The estimated cost of the change over 10 years is $170 billion.”
NYT: “...if a company owns multiple hotels, even if the overall hotel or restaurant chain has more than 500 employees — the limit to qualify for treatment as a small business — it will still be able to take advantage of the small-business benefits offered in the rescue package. ...The provision could benefit the Trump Organization, which operates a relatively small chain, with six hotels in the United States in cities including New York, Washington and Chicago.”
“A provision for the FDA to approve ‘innovative’ sunscreens—which would benefit L’Oreal, which has operations in Kentucky—appeared in the bill, which was steered in the Senate by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.”
“The $25 billion allocated in loans and loan guarantees for the airlines will also benefit eligible businesses "approved to perform inspection, repair, replace, or overhaul services, and ticket agents.” The last two words — ‘ticket agents’ — mean that travel agents who book flights will also be able to apply for a piece of the $25 billion.”
“The credit reporting industry got a win by defeating a total ban on negative credit reports during the crisis. Instead, a watered down version made it into the final bill: Consumers wouldn't get a negative credit report if they have an agreement with a lender to delay payments or make partial payments.”
Trump’s signing statement
While signing the latest coronavirus relief bill, the president also issued a signing statement undercutting the congressional oversight provision creating an inspector general to track how the administration distributes the $500 billion “slush fund” money. The newly-created inspector general is legally required to audit loans and investments made through the fund and report to Congress his/her findings, including any refusal by the executive office to cooperate. In his signing statement, Trump wrote that his understanding of constitutional powers allows him to gag the special IG:
"I do not understand, and my Administration will not treat, this provision as permitting the [inspector general] to issue reports to the Congress without the presidential supervision required" by Article II of the Constitution.
The signing statement further suggests that Trump does not have to comply with a provision requiring that agencies consult with Congress before it spends or reallocates certain funds: "These provisions are impermissible forms of congressional aggrandizement with respect to the execution of the laws," the statement reads. While some have said that Congress fell short in this instance, one Democratic Senate aide told Politico that Congress built in multiple layers of oversight, including “a review of other inspectors general and a congressional review committee charged with overseeing Treasury and the Federal Reserve's efforts to implement the law.” Legal experts have pointed out that a signing statement is “without legal effect.” But that ignores the fact that oversight is not equal to enforcement. The problem, in my opinion, isn’t that Congress won’t be notified of any abuses of power by Trump. The problem is that congressional Republicans and the judiciary have largely failed to hold him accountable and enforce our laws even after learning of his abuses.
Concerns about the IG
Another potential weakness in the oversight structure is the inspector general position itself. The special inspector general for pandemic recovery, known by the acronym S.I.G.P.R., is nominated by the president and confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate. As we’ve seen from Trump’s previous nominees, particularly judicial, many unqualified individuals have been confirmed. The Democrats will not have the power to stop the president and Mitch McConnell from jamming through a loyalist to fill the SIGPR role.
Former inspector general at the Justice Department Michael Bromwich: “The signing statement threatens to undermine the authority and independence of this new IG. The Senate should extract a commitment from the nominee that Congress will be promptly notified of any Presidential/Administration interference or obstruction.”
You may recall that Trump has already proven that he’s willing to interfere with the legally-mandated work of an inspector general. When the Ukraine whistleblower filed a complaint last year, the IG of the Intelligence Community, Michael Atkinson, investigated and determined the complaint to be “urgent” and “credible.” Atkinson wrote a report and gave it to Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire to hand over to Congress. However, the White House and DOJ interfered and instructed Maguire not to transmit the report to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees. Chairman Adam Schiff had to subpoena Maguire to turn over the report and testify before his committee. Further, there are already five IG vacancies in agencies that have a critical role in responding to the pandemic. The Treasury itself has not had a permanent, Senate-confirmed IG for over eight months now, and Trump hasn’t nominated a replacement. The Treasury Dept. has taken a lead role in the coronavirus response, with Secretary Mnuchin handling most of the negotiating with Congress on Trump’s behalf. The fact that the lead agency doesn’t have IG oversight should be troublesome in itself; replicating the situation with a special IG doesn’t seem to be a promising solution.
The other four coronavirus-related agencies without a permanent IG: Department of Health and Human Services’ IG has been vacant for nine months, Department of Defense’s IG has been vacant for four years, Department of Education’s IG has been vacant for one year, and Office of Personnel Management’s IG has been vacant for four years. Overall, there are twelve IG vacancies in the 37) presidentially-appointed offices.
UPDATE: The nation's inspectors general have appointed Glenn Fine, the Pentagon's acting IG, to lead the committee of IGs overseeing the coronavirus relief effort.
This is one of several oversight mechanisms built into the new law. They include: A committee of IGs (now led by Fine), a new special IG (to be nominated by Trump), a congressional review panel (to be appointed by House/Senate leaders)
Direct payments
Included in the stimulus bill is a $1200 one-time direct payment for all Americans who made less than $75,000 in 2019 (less than $150,000 if couples filed jointly). More details can be found here. I have read that the Treasury will use 2018 information for those who have not filed yet this year, but I am not 100% sure that’ll happen. Mnuchin has said that Americans can expect to receive the money within three weeks, but many experts expect that timetable to be pushed into late April. Additionally, that only applies to Americans who included direct deposit information on their 2019 tax returns. Those who did not include their bank’s information will have to be sent a physical check in the mail… which could take anywhere from two to four months. Other options are being discussed, including partnering the Treasury Dept. with MasterCard and Visa to deliver prepaid debit cards. Venmo and Paypal are reportedly lobbying the government to be considered as a disbursement option. Future payments? House Speaker Pelosi is already planning another wave of direct payments to Americans, saying that the $1,200 is not enough to mitigate the economic effects of the pandemic: “I don’t think we’ve seen the end of direct payments.” Republicans, meanwhile, are taking a ‘wait and see’ approach, using the next couple of weeks to measure the impact of the $2 trillion bill passed last week.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy: “What concerns me is when I listen to Nancy Pelosi talk about a fourth package now, it’s because she did not get out of things that she really wanted...I’m not sure you need a fourth package...Let’s let this work ... We have now given the resources to make and solve this problem. We don’t need to be crafting another bill right now.” For the fourth legislative package, Democrats have said they would like to see increased food stamp benefits; increased coverage for coronavirus testing, visits to the doctor and treatment; more money for state and local governments, including Washington, D.C.; expanded family and medical leave; pension fixes; and stronger workplace protections.
Trump’s signature Normally, a civil servant signs federal checks, like the direct payments Americans are set to receive. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Trump has told people that he wants his signature to appear on the stimulus checks.
THE SIDES
War on the poor continues
Amid the coronavirus crisis, Trump has defended his continued support of a Republican-led lawsuit to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which would result in 20 million Americans losing health insurance if successful. The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in the case this fall. Contrasting with his position that the ACA is illegal, Trump is considering reopening enrollment on HealthCare.gov, allowing millions of uninsured individuals to get coverage before potentially incurring charges and fees related to COVID-19. Joe Biden called on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is leading the charge against the ACA, and President Trump to drop the lawsuit:
“At a time of national emergency, which is laying bare the existing vulnerabilities in our public health infrastructure, it is unconscionable that you are continuing to pursue a lawsuit designed to strip millions of Americans of their health insurance and protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the ban on insurers denying coverage or raising premiums due to pre-existing conditions.”
The Trump administration is also pushing forward with its plan to kick 700,000 people off federal food stamp assistance, known as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The USDA announced two weeks ago that the department will appeal Judge Beryl Howell’s recent decision that the USDA’s work mandate rule is “arbitrary and capricious." Additionally: The Social Security Administration has no plans to slow down a rule change set for June that will limit disability benefits, the Department of Health and Human Services still intends to reduce automatic enrollment in health coverage, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development will continue the process to enact a rule that would make it harder for renters to sue landlords for racial discrimination.
Lawmakers’ stock transactions
The Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission are beginning to investigate stock transactions made ahead of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. CNN reports that the inquiry has already reached out to Senator Richard Burr for information. “Under insider trading laws, prosecutors would need to prove the lawmakers traded based on material non-public information they received in violation of a duty to keep it confidential,” a task that won’t be easy. Sen. Burr is facing another consequence of his trades: Alan Jacobson, a shareholder in Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, sued Burr for allegedly using private information to instruct a mass liquidation of his assets. Among the shares he sold were an up to $150,000 stake in Wyndham, whose stock suffered a market-value cut of more than two-thirds since mid-February.
Environmental rollbacks
Using the pandemic as cover, the Trump administration has begun to more aggressively roll back regulations meant to protect the environment. These are examples of what Naomi Klein dubbed “the shock doctrine”: the phenomenon wherein polluters and their government allies push through unpopular policy changes under the smokescreen of a public emergency. On Thursday, the EPA announced (non-paywalled) an expansive relaxation of environmental laws and fines, exempting companies from consequences for pollution. Under the new rules, there are basically no rules. Companies are asked to “act responsibly” but are not required to report when their facilities discharge pollution into the air or water. Just five days before abandoning any pollution oversight, the oil industry’s largest trade group implored the administration for assistance, stating that social distancing measures caused a steep drop in demand for gasoline.
Monday morning update: In an interview with Fox News this morning, Trump said he was going to call Putin after the interview to discuss the Saudi-Russia oil fight. A consequence of this "battle" has been plummeting prices in the U.S. making it difficult for domestic companies (like shale extraction) to turn a profit. It's striking that the day after Dr. Fauci told Americans we can expect 100,000 to 200,000 deaths from COVID-19 (if we keep social distancing measures in place), Trump's first action is to talk to Fox News and his second action is to intervene in an international tiff on behalf of the oil and gas industry.
Gina McCarthy, who led the E.P.A. under the Obama administration, called the rollback “an open license to pollute.” Cynthia Giles, who headed the EPA enforcement division during the Obama administration, said “it is so far beyond any reasonable response I am just stunned.” The EPA is also moving forward with a widely-opposed rule to limit the types of scientific studies used when crafting new regulations or revising current ones. Hidden behind claims of increased transparency, the rule would require disclosure of all raw data used in scientific studies. This would disqualify many fields of research that rely on personal health information from individuals that must be kept confidential. For example, studies that show air pollution causes premature deaths or a certain pesticide is linked to birth defects would be rejected under the proposed rule change. Officials and scientists are calling upon the EPA to extend the time for comment on the regulatory changes, arguing that the public is unable to express their opinion while dealing with the pandemic.
“These rollbacks need and deserve the input of our public health community, but right now, they are rightfully focused on responding to the coronavirus,” said Representative Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Other controversial decisions being made:
A former EPA official who worked on controversial policies returned as Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s chief of staff. Mandy Gunasekara helped write regulations to ease pollution controls for coal-fired power plants and vehicle emissions in her previous role as chief of the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. In a recent interview, Gunasekara, who played a role in the decision to exit the Paris Climate Accord, pushed back on the more dire predictions of climate change, saying, “I don't think it is catastrophic.”
NYT: The plastic bag industry, battered by a wave of bans nationwide, is using the coronavirus crisis to try to block laws prohibiting single-use plastic. “We simply don’t want millions of Americans bringing germ-filled reusable bags into retail establishments putting the public and workers at risk,” an industry campaign that goes by the name Bag the Ban warned on Tuesday. (Also see The Guardian)
Kentucky, South Dakota, and West Virginia passed laws putting new criminal penalties on protests against fossil fuel infrastructure in just the past two weeks.
The Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Friday that it will extend the amount of time that winter gasoline can be sold this year as producers have been facing lower demand due to the coronavirus. It will allow companies to sell the winter-grade gasoline through May 20, whereas companies would have previously been required to stop selling it by May 1 to protect air quality. “In responding to an international health crisis, the last thing the EPA should do is take steps that will worsen air quality and undermine the public’s health,” biofuels expert David DeGennaro said.
NYT: At the Interior Department, employees at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have been under strict orders to complete the rule eliminating some protections for migratory birds within 30 days, according to two people with direct knowledge of the orders. The 45-day comment period on that rule ended on March 19.
WaPo: The Interior Department has received over 230 nominations for oil and gas leases covering more than 150,000 acres across southern Utah, a push that would bring drilling as close as a half-mile from some of the nation’s most famous protected sites, including Arches and Canyonlands National Parks… if all the fossil fuels buried in those sites was extracted and burned, it would translate into between 1 billion and 5.95 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide being released into the air. That upward measure is equal to half the annual carbon output of China
Court updates
Press freedom case Southern District of New York District Judge Lorna Schofield ruled that a literary advocacy group’s lawsuit against Trump for allegedly violating the First Amendment can move forward. The group, PEN America, is pursuing claims that Trump “has used government power to retaliate against media coverage and reporters he dislikes.” Schofield determined that PEN’s allegation that Trump made threats to chill free speech was valid, providing as an example the White House’s revocation of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta’s press press corps credentials:
”The threats are lent credence by the fact that Defendant has acted on them before, by revoking Mr. Acosta’s credentials and barring reporters from particular press conferences. The Press Secretary indeed e-mailed the entire press corps to inform them of new rules of conduct and to warn of further consequences, citing the incident involving Mr. Acosta… These facts plausibly allege that a motivation for defendant’s actions is controlling and punishing speech he dislikes.”
Twitter case The president suffered another First Amendment defeat last week when the full 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals declined to review a previous ruling that prevents Trump from blocking users on the Twitter account he uses to communicate with the public. Judge Barrington D. Parker, a Nixon-appointee, wrote: “Excluding people from an otherwise public forum such as this by blocking those who express views critical of a public official is, we concluded, unconstitutional.” Trump-appointees Michael Parker and Richard Sullivan authored a dissent, arguing the free speech “does not include a right to post on other people’s personal social media accounts, even if those other people happen to be public officials.” Park warned that the ruling will allow the social media pages of public officials to be “overrun with harassment, trolling, and hate speech, which officials will be powerless to filter.” Florida’s felon voting U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle ripped into Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s administration for failing to come up with a process to determine which felons are genuinely unable to pay court-ordered fees and fines, which are otherwise required to be paid before having their voting rights restored. “If the state is not going to fix it, I will,” Hinkle warned. He had given the state five months to come up with an administrative process for felons to prove they’re unable to pay financial obligations, but Florida officials did not do so. The case is set to be heard on April 28 (notwithstanding any coronavirus-related delays).
ICE, Jails, and COVID-19
ICE One of the most overlooked populations with an increased risk of death from coronavirus are those in detention facilities, which keep people in close quarters with little sanitation or protective measures (including for staff). Last week, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ordered the federal government to “make continuous efforts” to release migrant children from detention centers across the country. Numerous advocacy groups asked for the release after reports that four children being held in New York had tested positive for the virus:
“The threat of irreparable injury to their health and safety is palpable,” the plaintiffs’ lawyers said in their petition… both of the agencies operating migrant children detention facilities must by April 6 provide an accounting of their efforts to release those in custody… “Her order will undoubtedly speed up releases,” said Peter Schey, co-counsel for the plaintiffs in the court case.
On Tuesday, 13 immigrants held at ICE facilities in California filed a lawsuit demanding to be released because their health conditions make them particularly vulnerable to dying if infected by the coronavirus. An ACLU statement says the detainees are “confined in crowded and unsanitary conditions where social distancing is not possible.” The 13 individuals are all over the age of 50 and/or suffering from serious underlying medical issues like high blood pressure.
“From all the evidence we have seen, ICE is failing to fulfill its constitutional obligation to protect the health and safety of individuals in its custody. ICE should exercise its existing discretion to release people with serious medical conditions from detention for humanitarian reasons,” said William Freeman, senior counsel at the ACLU of Northern California.
Meanwhile, ICE is under fire for continuing to shuttle detainees across the country, with one even being forced to take nine different flights bouncing from Louisiana to Texas to New Jersey less than two weeks ago. That man is Dr. Sirous Asgari, a materials science and engineering professor from Iran, who was acquitted last year on federal charges of stealing trade secrets. The government lost its case against him, yet ICE has had him in indefinite detention since November.
Asgari, 59, told the Guardian that his Ice holding facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, had no basic cleaning practices in place and continued to bring in new detainees from across the country with no strategy to minimize the threat of Covid-19...Detainees have no hand sanitizer, and the facility is not regularly cleaning bathrooms or sleeping areas…Detainees lack access to masks… Detainees struggle to stay clean, and the facility has an awful stench.
Jails State jails are making a better effort to release detained individuals, as both New York and New Jersey ordered a thousand people in each state be let out of jail. The order applied only to low-level offenders sentenced to less than a year in jail and those held on technical probation violations. In Los Angeles County, officials released over 1,700 people from its jails. A judge in Alabama took similar steps last week, ordering roughly 500 people jailed for minor offenses to be released to lessen crowding in facilities. Unlike in New York and New Jersey, however, local officials reacted in an uproar, led in part by the state executive committee for the Alabama Republican Party and Assistant District Attorney C.J. Robinson. Using angry Facebook messages as the barometer of the community’s feelings, Robinson worked “frantically” to block inmates from being released.
Reuters: As of Saturday, at least 132 inmates and 104 staff at jails across New York City had tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus… Since March 22, jails have reported 226 inmates and 131 staff with confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to a Reuters survey of cities and counties that run America’s 20 largest jails. The numbers are almost certainly an undercount given the fast spread of the virus.
Tribe opposed by Trump loses land
On Wednesday, The Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs announced the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s reservation would be "disestablished" and its land trust status removed. Tribal Chairman Cedric Cromwell called the move "cruel" and "unnecessary,” particularly coming in the midst of a pandemic crisis. Rep. Bill Keating (D-Mass.), who last year introduced legislation to protect the tribe's reservation as trust land in Massachusetts, said the order “is one of the most cruel and nonsensical acts I have seen since coming to Congress.” The administration’s decision is especially suspicious as just last year Trump attacked the tribe’s plan to build a casino on its land, tweeting that allowing the construction would be “unfair” and treat Native Americans unequally. As a former casino owner, Trump has spent decades attacking Native American casinos as unfair competition. At a 1993 congressional hearing Trump said that tribal owners “don’t look like Indians to me” and claimed: “I might have more Indian blood than a lot of the so-called Indians that are trying to open up the reservations” to gambling. More than his past history, however, Trump has current interests at play in the Mashpee Wampanoag’s planned casino: it would have competed for business with nearby Rhode Island casinos owned by Twin River Worldwide Holdings, whose president, George Papanier, was a finance executive at the Trump Plaza casino hotel in Atlantic City.
In the Mashpee case, Twin River, the operator of the two Rhode Island casinos, has hired Matthew Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union and a vocal Trump supporter, to lobby for it on the land issue. Schlapp’s wife, Mercedes, is director of strategic communications at the White House.
I am torn and need your advice, great Reddit people. My boyfriend and I have been together almost 2 years. (27F and 35M) We each have a child (both 7) that revolves around them 99% of the time. We've lived together a year and a half and are planning to marry soon and have yet to take a really great vacation together just the two of us. No kids, no responsibilities, no worries. It's long overdue. We'll be going mid September (which is why I originally chose a northern east coast because of hurricane season.) I was originally looking into Atlantic City, NJ. Coastal, only a 2.5 hour drive to NYC that neither of us have experienced (which we've planned on visiting). My boyfriend is a big poker player. So casinos are a must. Planned on driving the 9 hours from our hometown, no problem. But then I thought of Vegas. Flight, hotel, car in Vegas isn't much more than a hotel in Atlantic City. So I'm a little torn between the two now. Has anyone been to both and have a recommendation? I'd love to experience both. I love the beach idea, with a day trip to NYC, but a 4 night trip to Vegas has also piqued my interest and they both fit in our budget. Which would you suggest? (I'll also add we'll be going to Florida coast with our kids in July this year, so a beach resort isn't a must have, as we'll be getting our "beach fill" in July. Not that I wouldn't love a romantic beach with my boyfriend, just open to different ideas).
COVID-19 Transit Impacts in US/Canada for 2020-05-18
😷 Wear a mask as you're coming back. I'm posting these with a historical intent. Links where possible, and let me know if your local is missing. NOTE: MOST AGENCIES ARE ASKING FOR ESSENTIAL TRAVEL ONLY -- MEDICAL AND SUPPLY RUNS, JOB TRANSIT FOR THOSE WHO PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES. STAY HOME! EXPECT DELAYS AS THEY RUN CRITICALLY LOW ON STAFF. Many agencies are requiring you wear a mask. Most ask you board from the back, and are putting limits on passenger boarding. Mask requirements are marked with "⚠️" and are because of state orders. If the agency has a pass app, please pay for the ride through it -- it helps the agency! (I have also taken the time to clean up and organize the list a bit)
Country-wide
AMTRAK:Covid-19 info 05-13 Note: All overnight trains (except Auto Train) will switch to Flexible Dining menus. Some Cafe service is suspended. Reduced: NEC, Hartford Line, Thruway Buses, Capitol Corridor, Empire Service, Ethan Allen Express, Illini/Saluki, Illinos ZephyCarl Sanburg, Lincoln Service, Missouri River Runner, Pacific Surfliner, Piedmont, San Joaquins, Valley Flyer, Vermonter (no service north of New Haven M-Sat, no service Sun), Wolverine Split Service: California Zephyr (no service Reno to Denver), Palmetto (NY to DC only April 3-5) Terminated before Canada, Reduced service: Maple Leaf (terminates Niagra Falls), Adirondack (terminates Albany, NY), Cascades (terminates Seattle). Canceled: Keystone, Pennsylvanian, Winter Park Express, Pere Marquette, Carolinian, Downeaster Replaced w/bus (Thruway): Hiawatha (4/24-5/25) Returning: Limited Acela starting June 1st VIA RAIL (CANADA):Covid-19 advisory 05-06 Meal service is reduced to snacks and drinks. IA Rail will refuse passengers who are sick w/o doctors note. Canceled until further notice: Toronto-Niagara Falls Canceled until June 1st: JaspePrince George/Prince Rupert Suspended until Nov 1st: The Canadian (Toronto to Vancouver), The Ocean (Montreal to Halifax) Limited schedule service: Montreal-Jonquiere/Senneterre (Friday/Sunday departures), Sudbury-White River (Weekend only), Quebec City/Winsor corridor (All-stop service, round trips on each line only) No sleeper: Winnipeg-Churchill route (until Nov 1)
Montreal Transport Society: Bus -- Summer schedule resumed, some lines to closed schools, parks, casinos closed. Rail -- All lines regular service.
Translink Vancouver: All routes Sat schedule M-F, Sun schedule weekends, with exceptions. Most routes start later.
Reduced Service - Canada
Toronto Metrolinx GO Transit: Trains -- very limited service. West Harbor, St. Catharines, Niagra Falls stations closed. Buses -- Futher reduced. UP service -- 30 minutes
Toronto TTC: 1 Bus and almost all Express buses canceled. Streetcars -- 503 truncated, 508 canceled.
Calgary Transit: CTrain 7-16 minute headways depending on time of day; buses adjusted for limited service. May 25th reduction: 25 buses to be suspended,
Saskatoon Transit No University/High School runs. M-F 15 High-freq/30 min rest frequencies before 7pm, 30/60 after. Sat 30/60 (regular 30min 11a-7p). Sun 30/60.
Quebec RTC: (In French, no English available) Reduced service. No school, late night service. Handicap service only via paratransit.
Edmonton Transit: Saturday-plus-rush-extras, Light Rail ends at 10pm, OWL service midnight. Late-nite on-demand medic-only service started. 40' buses being used, some routes detoured to accomidate. 747 bus line for job travel only (no travelers/shoppers). No seasonal bus service.
Columbus Ohio COTA: ⚠️ 17 lines, plus AirConnect, CBUS, and Night Owl, canceled. Early morning service on 6 lines resuming. Modded service on other lines.
Cincinnati Go*Metro: Streetcar service canceled where bus service exists. Express buses canceled. Saturday service everywhere else. 4 routes increased service.
New Orleans RTA: ⚠️ Saturday schedule Mon-Fri. All suspensions (inc overnight service) lifted.
West Coast
San Jose VTA: ⚠️ Light Rail back operational 6a-6p M-F. No school trip service. Reduced bus service, some suspended, ends 9pm.
San Francisco Muni MTA: ⚠️ 20 buses running (some altered), additional 4 rail lines replaced by buses (L/M/N/T). Owl service starts 10p, 2 owl lines discontinued.
Michigan
CATA (Lansing): ⚠️ Saturday service M-F. No Shopping Bus.
The Rapid (Grand Rapids): ⚠️ Service hours 7a-7p. No DASH/May Mobility service. 5 routes 30 min headways M-F, hourly Sa/Su. 8 routes hourly everyday. Silver Line 30 min headways everyday. Route 50 on 50 min headways, 85 on 25 min headways. (New Schedule May 26th)
BATA (Traverse City): ⚠️ City Loop 4/5 weekend service resumes 23rd. Village Loop 10/12/13/14 limited service (4 runs daily). Village Link demand ride service still open. Reduced schedules other buses.
Reduced Service - USA
East Coast
Boston MBTA: ⚠️ Commuter Rail reduced schedule. No ferry service. Saturday schedule everywhere else with some bus exceptions. Saturday-plus-extra on Blue and Green E lines.
New York City MTA/Metro-North/LIRR: ⚠️ Reduced service. Subway closed 1a-5a. No B, C, W, Z, 42nd street shuttle, or express 4/5/6/7. J is Local. No extra L service. Some lines run local in areas. 5 is cut down. Buses down to 75% service. Staten Island Railway hourly service. LIRR 30/60 min-plus-rush schedule. Metro North East-of-Hudson on hourly-with-rush-extras, Waterbury branch bus substituted (Wassaic branch suspended on weekends), West-of-Hudson see NJ Transit.
NJ Transit: ⚠️ Commuter rail - President's Day schedules until further notice. Gladstone branch on weekday service only. 7600 series trains canceled. Atlantic City Rail Line regular service. Bus -- Saturday service w/exceptions (and cancelations). Light Rail -- HBLR, Newark lines Saturday schedule. River Line Sunday schedule.
PATCO Philadelpha, PA & New Jersey: 4 stations closed. Limited service. Headways M-F: 12a-4a hourly, 4a-5a 30 min, 6am-midnight 20 minute. Sa: 12a-5a hourly, 5a-12a 30 minute. Su: Hourly all day.
Maryland MTA: ⚠️ MARC Commuter rail -- Reduced-from-"R" service. Light Rail, Metro subway -- M-F runs Saturday schedule. 1 station limited access. Commuter Bus -- 1 route suspended, 13 S-service, remaining limited service. Bus -- No Express service. 2 Local buses canceled. Saturday-plus-rush-extra service.
Washington DC WMATA: Bus -- Sunday-plus-extras schedule, 27 line "lifeline" weekend service w/30 min headways. No service after 11pm. Subway -- 19 stations closed. 9 limited access. 15-20 minute headways, 5a-9p M-F, 20-30 min headways 8a-9p Sa/Su.
Altanta, GA MARTA: Rail -- 20 min headways on Sunday service. Red/Gold to airport, Green terminates at King Memorial. No service at Arena station. Streetcar -- Sunday schedule. Bus -- 41 bus lines operating, remaining suspended.
Mid-country
Chicago RTA (Metra/CTA/Pace): Metra Rail -- Reduced service except Heritage corridor. Adjusted PACE schedules to accommodate.
Minneapolis/St. Paul Metro Transit: Overnight service suspended 11pm-4:30am except airport shuttle. Reduced bus service, based on Saturday. Light rail suspended 9p-6a.
St. Louis Metro: ⚠️ Weekend-with-extras service on weekdays. 9 buses, Missouri Express routes suspended.
Dallas DART: Light Rail -- 20 min headways. Bus -- 2 routes canceled.
Kansas City RideKC: KCMO/KCK service on Saturday schedule ending 9pm. Johnson County service 60 min, reduced express. Some buses canceled.
Albuquerque ABQ Ride Transit: Saturday service. ART service suspended entirely. ABQ Ride letting students ride free for Grab & Go meals. ABQ Ride to Rail Runner routes suspended.
Phoenix, AZ Valley Metro: Service hours 5a-11p M-F, Sa/Su 6a-11p. Some bus trips canceled early/late/weekend. Orbit, Express Bus, RAPID bus routes reduced. No POGO service. Scottsdale trolley service suspended. Light rail limited.
Salt Lake City/UTA: Commuter rail "FrontRunner" smaller trains, hourly service. TRAX service every 30 minutes. Bus service curtailed, some commuter bus routes canceled.
Seattle Sound Transit: Link Light Rail -- 30 min headways. Sounder service reduced. Most buses reduced. 10 buses suspended.
Portland TriMet: ⚠️ MAX trains 15 minute service, weekends Sunday service. WES 45 min service. Reduced bus service.
San Francisco BART: ⚠️ System closes early at 9pm. 30 min service. Limited access at many stations. Early Bird Express -- limited trips, 2 lines suspended (more April 27).
CalTrain (California): ⚠️ Local service between San Francisco and San Jose 30-60 minute frequency, 4 trains to Gilroy peak commute. Limited/Baby Bullet service suspended.
Los Angeles MTA: ⚠️ Rail service ends at Midnight. M-F 12 min headways 6a-6p, 20 min remaining times on A,B,D,E,L lines. C line 12 min 4a-9a, 15 min 9a-3p, 12min 3p-6p, 20 min 6p-midnight. G/J bus subsituted. B/D stations limited access. Bus service: Most lines Sunday schedule. 23 lines hourly service. 15 Rapid lines on modified weekday schedule. 14 lines suspended.
Michigan
SMART (Detroit suburbs) ⚠️ is running with vastly reduced schedules and 13 suspended commuter lines. Nightime service vastly reduced.
Virgin/Trop online NJ Blackjack Money Maker circa 2017?
okay so I just want to know if anyone else was aware of this. Before you get too excited, unless they are total idiots, this doesn't work anymore. And if it does and the casino is actually open (Tropicana Atlantic City), have at it. Just make sure you let me know. So, there was a promotion when you would originally download either the Virgin and/or Tropicana casino apps. These apps were really only for people in the NYC/NJ/PA area because to collect winnings you had to go to the window at the Trop. So, you create a new account, one on each app. You have to put in your SSN and show yr ID at the window so no fake names. But you do get to tell people who sent you and although the account that sent you would probably get closed down after awhile, they still got tons of free online gambling money for every person who wrote their name down. Now, you would go to 7-11 and get a Money Gram for $200 because these two apps were simultaneously running promos where your first $100 spent playing black jack was returned to you. This is the glitch: When you play one $100 hand of black jack, whether you lose, win, or get 21, the $100 goes into your account. So you could make, between the 2 sites, $600. The worst case is you would break even. You could collect the $200 (one from trop, one from Virgin), $400 (winna winna chicken dinna) or $600 (21.21.) at a specific window in the Tropicana casino. My friend and I did this with over 400 people: turning them on to it, keeping half their winnings because without us they wouldnt win anything at all, often fronting them the money. Does it still work? I'm scared to look. Is this frowned upon or brilliant? Me, I say brilliant because all the casinos not only have the advantage but it's been proven that they take advantage of glambling addicts by using slot machine algorythms that help put addicts in "the zone" where the dopamine is flowing and OH! So close! Almost Won! and have found, when it comes to slots at least, that when someone gets an "almost" (really, no such thing but that's kind of obvious) that their brain reacts in the exact same way it would if they had gotten a "win" that time: same lighted pathways, same release of same amount of chemicals, same addictive stuff. So, no, I don't feel bad. And if you think I should, walk through the AC bus station one day and then tell me how you feel about it.
N.J. restaurants NOT reopening for indoor dining this week after ‘knucklehead’ crowds at bars ruin it for everyone
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 68%. (I'm a bot)
New Jersey will not reopen indoor dining this week as planned in the first major reversal of the state's Phase 2 coronavirus reopening plan, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday. Indoor dining was scheduled to resume Thursday along with several other big reopening steps including Atlantic City casinos, amusement parks, boardwalk rides and arcades ahead of the busy July 4th weekend. Murphy cited recent scenes from expanded outdoor bar and restaurants showing packed crowds not wearing masks and ignoring social distancing as a reason from pausing indoor dining indefinitely. Murphy had provided the detailed restrictions for indoor dining at restaurants on Saturday, but changed his mind just two days later. "So the national situation, compounded by instances of knucklehead behavior here at home, are requiring us to hit pause on the restart of indoor dining for the foreseeable future." Murphy warned people last week the administration would crack down on those violating safety guidelines after the first round of viral videos surfaced from the Jersey Shore and other bar-heavy locations showing large unmasked crowds jammed into newly opened outdoor dining areas.
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GF's [22F] mom's crazy behavior is straining our relationship and I'm [28M] becoming increasingly concerned after she took a knife to her own throat (cross-post from R/relationships)
I never thought I would fall victim to the whole "girlfriend's crazy mom" thing but I think my experiences might be some of the worst. My girlfriend and I have been in a long distance relationship for about seven months, I'm from the Midwest and she's from the East Coast. Our relationship is nearly perfect apart from the discord caused by her mother, who is becoming increasingly unstable and threatening not just our relationship but the mental well-being of her daughter. As a very brief backstory: we met on tinder in March, hit it off, facetimed every day for a month and half and by the time I visited her for the first time in May, we were officially together (things just clicked...she is amazing otherwise I would never put up with her deranged mother). She goes to school in the city but commutes and lives in the suburbs with her mom and dad; and in May I stayed with her family for over a week. Most of the disturbing anecdotes happened with my second visit there and onward, but even within five minutes of meeting her mom for the first time, I got a "this woman is gonna be a piece of work" vibe. From that first visit she would call her daughter at least ten times a day; and if she doesn't answer? She'll literally keep calling a dozen times in a row on repeat. I would later find out she most likely has bipolar disorder as well as potentially more mental illness (at her most recent visit just weeks ago her personal doctor she's known for years called her "crazy"- verbatim - and said she needed professional help; she dismissed it as his overreacting). Her brother is also a hospitalized schizophrenic with a long, sad mental health history. It runs in her family. It's also important to note by my GF's own admission "her parents know I'm the best guy she's ever brought home" and I say it not with hubris but candor that I'm great with parents and always exceptionally cordial, so it's not like I did anything to outright irk the mom. I'm a few years older than my GF, but her mom and dad not only have the identical age gap but married young at 21 and it's not an issue. Anyway, my second visit to my GF's house is when it really became apparent her mom was truly...crazy; and each day seemed to progressively get worse. My GF and I had to rush home from the city to meet her mom and dad for a movie- which her mom promptly made us leave 30 min in because it was too violent (ironic given her behavior). We go up to a cabin in the Poconos for most of the week to spend time with my GF's dad's family including her elderly grandma (it should be noted my GF's dad is a meek man and a total push over for the mom); but her mom just complains the entire time and is visibly annoyed having to be with these people. She ends up spending each night off at a casino feeding her gambling addiction (more on that later) and ends up leaving the Poconos early to spend the rest of the week gambling in Atlantic City; but not before complaining the whole time about things as trivial as being inexplicably jealous over my GF's grandma's sleeping arrangements or offer her continuously critique of my GF's diet (my GF is a fit girl and was on vacation so dieting wasn't priority; not to mention how hypocritical it was as her mother is extremely obese). My GF and I get back from the Poconos on Friday and her parents return next morning from Atlantic City. That Sunday we planned (weeks in advance I might add) on going to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Festival and Hershey PA...well, her mom informs us last minute she's having her grandma's (mom's mom, different from the Poconos grandma) birthday party that day (party is an overstatement- it's the mom, the dad, my GF, and her grandma. That's it). My GF was surprised as her grandma's birthday isn't for days, but her mom decided to make it early and also mandatory for me and my GF; when my GF informed her we had plans her mom said it's ok- we don't have to be back til 2 or 3..now the festival is a big outdoor event and would take a few hours to drive to let alone explore, not to mention check out Hershey PA after; so our plans were effectively quashed- and my GF and I planned this all a while in advance. We hurriedly moved everything up a day and rushed to do it that Saturday to clear Sunday for the birthday, but it didn't matter because the mom had a TOTAL MELTDOWN anyway. By late morning Sunday I am hearing screaming coming from downstairs- her mom is flipping out about planning for the party. I stayed hidden upstairs in my gf's bed (they live in a small house and it's a weird set up- it's like the whole upstairs is her mini apartment and the parents live downstairs) while I heard the mom wailinggg for hours before she finally stormed out in exasperation. They were either fighting over inane things like her mom micromanaging her or her mom making sweeping and false generalizations about my GF insinuating malfeasance or disobedience. Her dad came up to me after and apologized like a dog with its tail in between its legs. As a brief aside, it's important to establish my GF is a living Saint and the example of a perfect daughter. She dotes on her parents continuously (cooks practically every meal for them, does everything for them- if you can think of it she does it) and works so much she has two jobs. Any accusations by her mom of anything less than diligence and hard work are utter lunacy. Two days after the birthday "party", I'm waiting for my GF to come home from her morning shift but I knew something was awry when she texted how her mom came into work; long story short her mom ends up losing her mind again, this time over risqué photos of my GF she found on my GF's computer. Her mom will sometimes ask to use my GF's computer as it's the only one in their family, and her mom claims there was a "link" to the photos that she easily clicked on (I find this highly suspect as my GF showed me where she hid the photos and I remember being surprised how well hidden they were). As I'm sure it's no surprise, her mom has another meltdown. Now if I were a parent, my reaction personally would have been to close the computer, red faced and mentally scarred, and then maybe write a TIFU "I accidentally saw naked pictures of my daughter" etc; or if you felt compelled to say something, do it with tact...but no, her her mom makes it a point to embarrass my GF into a drawn out prolonged ordeal, calling her reprehensible names and telling us to leave, even telling her grandma. We're halfway to my friend's apartment in the city when her mom orders her back threatening to throw her out if she doesn't. So we go back and my GF leaves me in the car while she goes in. FIFTY minutes she talks to them while I waited anxiously in the car (later she told me how heated it got; when her mom asked why she took the photos she said sobbing in front of her mom and dad that she's "in a long distance relationship and would rather masturbate to her having sex with her BF" by watching videos of us). Then my GF comes out, ushering me back in. And this is what's weird- in about two minutes her mom moved on from the dirty photos subject that she was formerly foaming at the mouth over. I never even had a chance to excuse or explain myself. Instead her mom tries to say she didn't realize how serious we were as a couple and it was a surprise...and then she starts asking me really weird, personal information about my student loans (I have a BA and a JD). I start to wonder what's going on and why she's asking questions like that and the minute I said I wasn't comfortable discussing something with my GF's parents that I haven't even discussed with my own GF yet, it was like something snapped instantly. She seemed incensed and got super offended and seemed almost enraged I said the word "uncomfortable". Her own husband agreed with me and actually said anyone would feel that way in that situation to which she just goes "no, no, no, no" shaking her head, getting up from her chair and walking into the kitchen yelling nonsensical stuff berating my GF once again and forcing me to leave. I stay the night in the city with my friend planning on returning the next night...but her mom was still pissy and wanted to be alone. My friend had to leave that night, so I was forced to buy a hotel to sleep at alone while my GF endured another nightly barrage of verbal torment from her mom. Apparently, I was able to come home the next day because my GF struck a "bargain" that she would do whatever her mom needed so I could stay (since she already did everything but wipe them, idk how this was a deal). So she gets me from the hotel after her shift and we plan on going to this historic tower with stunning views, it's open til 4 each day and it's our last day to be able to go because the next couple days we were going to Atlantic City before I left (her mom's gambling addiction gives her free rooms). When her mom finds out, she goes ballistic. Apparently my GF told her mom that she would vacuum the living room and Lysol the counters, and her mom was flipping out because it couldn't wait. My GF told her she would do it after 4 pm when the tower closed, just to wait literally an hour so we could make the tower before close, but her mom was immune to reason, wailing that it was a "promise" etc; so because of her mom's inability to compromise or recognize a contingency we missed seeing the tower so she could vacuum a floor. I had her drop me off at the local library to avoid any contact with the mom for that night (24 hours and we would be in Atlantic city). The mom went to Atlantic City to ostensibly check us in to the hotel but in reality was a thinly veiled excuse to tag along to fuel her gambling addiction. Unlike her bipolar disorder her addiction is well documented with counseling and everything - she's actually banned from her local casinos hence her eagerness to cross state lines to Atlantic City, NJ. She tried crashing our dinner plans- two nights in a row - but quick thinking saying we had already made reservations shook her off...but the entire weekend in Atlantic city she was there gambling in the underbelly of the casino, and of course calling/texting her daughter an insane amount of times. After I came home, things were not great between my GF and her mom but they came to a head when her mom came into her work and said "your dealer came to our house" and how she wanted my GF out...my GF came to find out her mom read her diary and happened upon an old entry where she talked about finding a new guy to buy weed from (she would never in a million years have someone come to her house). As if the invasive diary reading wasn't enough, she further tormented my GF screaming that whole night culminating in the mom holding a knife to her own (the mom's) throat threatening to kill herself. My GF said that was the worst it's ever been because in the past she "would just grab knives, never hold them to her throat". I was aghast - this behavior wasn't the first time?! Her mom said more cruel stuff since, including chastising her dad for his infertility (my GF broke down crying mentioning this and that how her mom has never went that far...they used a donor years ago to conceive her). She also shows wild inconsistency: for example while I was there she complained about not getting to see me and my GF and that my GF and I were doing too much stuff on our own; then in the next breath of the same conversation complained she had no space with me there (she's clearly conjuring that in her head as I stay out of sight out of mind hidden in GF's room or out with her whenever possible)...this echoes a larger flip/flop sentiment she's had with my GF, complaining that my GF spends too much time with her friends and not enough at home then saying the opposite that my GF needs to get her own place. Right now her mom is flipping out because I bought her a ticket to come for Halloween weekend (Thursday-Monday) but she "already visited once this month" during the first weekend of October (although I feel the real reason is that her mom just wants to object and is looking for any excuse). She got so angry she started breaking things all over and even got in a physical brawl with my GF's dad. She even took the day off she's so worked up about it. My GF and I are in a long distance relationship already and she's going to study abroad next semester so until I visit I her abroad in 4 or 5 months I'm only going to maybe see her Christmas break and a few days around thanksgiving, so it's not like Halloween weekend is the end of the world. My GF is very responsible when she sees me- it's just a long weekend after all, she makes up missed classes and gets shifts covered. She's quite literally hurting no one seeing me, not to mention at no cost as I payed for the ticket...but because my GF "promised" she would only see me that one weekend this month (an empty promise to supplicate when her mom was being crazy about visiting), she is refusing to listen to reason and see how a long weekend isn't a big deal. My GF spends every Halloween weekend away anyway- there's no difference between spending it with me and spending it with other friends. A final note- I can't stress what a kind, loving person my GF is. I've never seen someone more gifted with children or with a bigger heart. She shows nothing of her mom's repugnant traits. Her mom also had breast cancer about 8 years ago, so there is certainly a vestigial fear of losing her from that. The question is twofold: - in the short term, is there anyway to convince her mom how absurd she is being regarding Halloween weekend? I have already not only bought the plane ticket but made plans including arranging her meeting my grandma (who was hospitalized twice in the last couple weeks, she doesn't have long I want her to meet my GF). - And secondly, what can I or more likely my GF do to convince her mother that her behavior is irrational, dangerous, and that she needs to seek help? She said because her mom works at a hospital her mom would never wanna admit she needs help- although she said her mom could be convinced for group/family therapy. TL;DR: My GF's mom is mentally unstable, tormenting our relationship and my GF, and culminating in physical violence; episodes like reading my GF's diary or finding risqué photos just set her off more and more until she does things like take a knife to her own throat; what solutions exist in the short and long term?
CreateYoureReality NFL Analysis and Picks Week 6 (Monday Night Football and Sunday Recap)
https://preview.redd.it/ltdmkj0o6ls31.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fdd4c263654179ab0123da1f678b7af2db573ba Hello everyone! Tonight we have a wonderful divisional match up to look at. But first, lets recap yesterdays plays. Singles: 9-6 (+5.2u)Ayyyye, as the data grows, the algo gets better. Singles should stabilize and grow, and by diversifying an abundance our plays we should reduce variance Parlay: 1-0 (+53u)Whooooo! Our first parlay to pay. This is a great start moving forward. Being able to maximize the free plays and bonus dollars that sites give up adds fantastic, low risk, growth opportunities for the bankroll. BBDLS: 0-2 (-1.65u)Soooo close here! The (0.3u) wager that included the New England play (+18000) in it missed by a few yards on a toss over the secondary to Edleman. That would have been the highest odds of a play, so far, to cash by this model. SBBDLS: 0-1(-0.5u)This is an experiment I would like to track this year. I call it my Super Big Boy Daddy Long Shot because it is a parlay card at the Ocean Casino in Atlantic City, NJ. (I am sure they have them all over) It is $5 to win $100,000. They usually give between 17-19 selections and you have to go a perfect 15-15 ATS. The spreads are locked when the cards print and occasionally they cancel a games eligibility because a line has moved too much. Last year in the last 8 weeks of the season I went 11, 11, 14, 13, 12, 14, 14, 14 out of 15. In the last 3 weeks of the season when i went 14-15 I was putting in 32 combinations of cards :P \**This is most likely a losing play long term, but who doesn't love a good underdog story! :D* Teasers: 0-3 (-4.5u)You may notice that I only had one teaser play in my post. The other two losses I commented on early in the day. They were teasers I filled out for bets in the casino. I never posted them, but they still need to count towards totals!! Monday Night Football (8:15pm) Detroit @ Green Bay(-3.5/4): We have a tough divisional match up between two probable playoff teams. This game should have some major implications in that playoff seeding. This line opened up at 5.5 (As high as 6.5 at the Coast in Vegas) but has seemed to settle around 3.5, with one 4 available to me. The Lions are coming off a bye after a close loss to KC in a shootout. The Pack are coming off an unexpected win in Dallas that seemed a little bit too easy. First we look at GB offense. Davante Adams is out. Aaron Jones is coming off a HUGE game with 100 yards rushing and 7 receptions for 75 yards. How will he and Rodgers match up against a rested (off a loss and a bye) defense from the Lions that currently has held QBs to an 80.3 (5th) passer rating and 58% (3rd) completion percentage with 7 interceptions! (Tied for 2nd before yesterdays games) Another thing going for the Detroit defense is the probable returns of cornerback Darius Slay and safety Quandre Diggs. These could be very impactful, especially since top WR thread Adams is already off the field and with him, Green Bay has only been completing 30% on third down,. On the flip side, the GB D allows 138 yards rushing per game. As we saw in the Philly/GB game, if a team can utilize rushing, they can have success against Green Bay. Lastly we are going to look at the betting numbers. If we look at the sites for public betting percentages, we see most places have the tickets: GB points around 65% and GB moneyline around 70-75%. Yet the spread and moneylines have decreased. This is usually an indication of professional money on one side, while the public is on the other side. Easy to see in the context of this match up: The majority of the public hasn't seen the lions since they were defeated in a shootout two weeks ago. While the most recent memory for Green Bay is a high scoring smashing on the road in Dallas. As Monday night games are one of the absolute best to fade the public ( the average bettor is either trying to recoup their loses or free roll grow their winnings), I will be rolling with the road dogs tonight. Game script wise, I like them to look to get a lead, utilize the run game, and control the time of possession in what I hope is a low scoring affair. 22-24 Lions would be nice :D Here is the graph showing the RLM against the public betting percentage. https://preview.redd.it/jikpr8e49ls31.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=e988bc8338743f4b01bd4bac49110654583a453e Singles 34-37 (-3.25u)
Already have Det ML in my parlay and the under in a teaser. The only other single I looked at was Kerryon Johnson props
Parlays: 1-1 (+50u)
Pittsburgh ML, Detriot ML, NY Giants ML, Jacksonville ML, 49ers ML (4.58u to win 126.6u)
GF's [22F] mom's crazy behavior is straining our relationship and I'm [28M] becoming increasingly concerned after she took a knife to her own throat
I never thought I would fall victim to the whole "girlfriend's crazy mom" thing but I think my experiences might be some of the worst. My girlfriend and I have been in a long distance relationship for about seven months, I'm from the Midwest and she's from the East Coast. Our relationship is nearly perfect apart from the discord caused by her mother, who is becoming increasingly unstable and threatening not just our relationship but the mental well-being of her daughter. As a very brief backstory: we met on tinder in March, hit it off, facetimed every day for a month and half and by the time I visited her for the first time in May, we were officially together (things just clicked...she is amazing otherwise I would never put up with her deranged mother). She goes to school in the city but commutes and lives in the suburbs with her mom and dad; and in May I stayed with her family for over a week. Most of the disturbing anecdotes happened with my second visit there and onward, but even within five minutes of meeting her mom for the first time, I got a "this woman is gonna be a piece of work" vibe. From that first visit she would call her daughter at least ten times a day; and if she doesn't answer? She'll literally keep calling a dozen times in a row on repeat. I would later find out she most likely has bipolar disorder as well as potentially more mental illness (at her most recent visit just weeks ago her personal doctor she's known for years called her "crazy"- verbatim - and said she needed professional help; she dismissed it as his overreacting). Her brother is also a hospitalized schizophrenic with a long, sad mental health history. It runs in her family. It's also important to note by my GF's own admission "her parents know I'm the best guy she's ever brought home" and I say it not with hubris but candor that I'm great with parents and always exceptionally cordial, so it's not like I did anything to outright irk the mom. I'm a few years older than my GF, but her mom and dad not only have the identical age gap but married young at 21 and it's not an issue. Anyway, my second visit to my GF's house is when it really became apparent her mom was truly...crazy; and each day seemed to progressively get worse. My GF and I had to rush home from the city to meet her mom and dad for a movie- which her mom promptly made us leave 30 min in because it was too violent (ironic given her behavior). We go up to a cabin in the Poconos for most of the week to spend time with my GF's dad's family including her elderly grandma (it should be noted my GF's dad is a meek man and a total push over for the mom); but her mom just complains the entire time and is visibly annoyed having to be with these people. She ends up spending each night off at a casino feeding her gambling addiction (more on that later) and ends up leaving the Poconos early to spend the rest of the week gambling in Atlantic City; but not before complaining the whole time about things as trivial as being inexplicably jealous over my GF's grandma's sleeping arrangements or offer her continuously critique of my GF's diet (my GF is a fit girl and was on vacation so dieting wasn't priority; not to mention how hypocritical it was as her mother is extremely obese). My GF and I get back from the Poconos on Friday and her parents return next morning from Atlantic City. That Sunday we planned (weeks in advance I might add) on going to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Festival and Hershey PA...well, her mom informs us last minute she's having her grandma's (mom's mom, different from the Poconos grandma) birthday party that day (party is an overstatement- it's the mom, the dad, my GF, and her grandma. That's it). My GF was surprised as her grandma's birthday isn't for days, but her mom decided to make it early and also mandatory for me and my GF; when my GF informed her we had plans her mom said it's ok- we don't have to be back til 2 or 3..now the festival is a big outdoor event and would take a few hours to drive to let alone explore, not to mention check out Hershey PA after; so our plans were effectively quashed- and my GF and I planned this all a while in advance. We hurriedly moved everything up a day and rushed to do it that Saturday to clear Sunday for the birthday, but it didn't matter because the mom had a TOTAL MELTDOWN anyway. By late morning Sunday I am hearing screaming coming from downstairs- her mom is flipping out about planning for the party. I stayed hidden upstairs in my gf's bed (they live in a small house and it's a weird set up- it's like the whole upstairs is her mini apartment and the parents live downstairs) while I heard the mom wailinggg for hours before she finally stormed out in exasperation. They were either fighting over inane things like her mom micromanaging her or her mom making sweeping and false generalizations about my GF insinuating malfeasance or disobedience. Her dad came up to me after and apologized like a dog with its tail in between its legs. As a brief aside, it's important to establish my GF is a living Saint and the example of a perfect daughter. She dotes on her parents continuously (cooks practically every meal for them, does everything for them- if you can think of it she does it) and works so much she has two jobs. Any accusations by her mom of anything less than diligence and hard work are utter lunacy. Two days after the birthday "party", I'm waiting for my GF to come home from her morning shift but I knew something was awry when she texted how her mom came into work; long story short her mom ends up losing her mind again, this time over risqué photos of my GF she found on my GF's computer. Her mom will sometimes ask to use my GF's computer as it's the only one in their family, and her mom claims there was a "link" to the photos that she easily clicked on (I find this highly suspect as my GF showed me where she hid the photos and I remember being surprised how well hidden they were). As I'm sure it's no surprise, her mom has another meltdown. Now if I were a parent, my reaction personally would have been to close the computer, red faced and mentally scarred, and then maybe write a TIFU "I accidentally saw naked pictures of my daughter" etc; or if you felt compelled to say something, do it with tact...but no, her her mom makes it a point to embarrass my GF into a drawn out prolonged ordeal, calling her reprehensible names and telling us to leave, even telling her grandma. We're halfway to my friend's apartment in the city when her mom orders her back threatening to throw her out if she doesn't. So we go back and my GF leaves me in the car while she goes in. FIFTY minutes she talks to them while I waited anxiously in the car (later she told me how heated it got; when her mom asked why she took the photos she said sobbing in front of her mom and dad that she's "in a long distance relationship and would rather masturbate to her having sex with her BF" by watching videos of us). Then my GF comes out, ushering me back in. And this is what's weird- in about two minutes her mom moved on from the dirty photos subject that she was formerly foaming at the mouth over. I never even had a chance to excuse or explain myself. Instead her mom tries to say she didn't realize how serious we were as a couple and it was a surprise...and then she starts asking me really weird, personal information about my student loans (I have a BA and a JD). I start to wonder what's going on and why she's asking questions like that and the minute I said I wasn't comfortable discussing something with my GF's parents that I haven't even discussed with my own GF yet, it was like something snapped instantly. She seemed incensed and got super offended and seemed almost enraged I said the word "uncomfortable". Her own husband agreed with me and actually said anyone would feel that way in that situation to which she just goes "no, no, no, no" shaking her head, getting up from her chair and walking into the kitchen yelling nonsensical stuff berating my GF once again and forcing me to leave. I stay the night in the city with my friend planning on returning the next night...but her mom was still pissy and wanted to be alone. My friend had to leave that night, so I was forced to buy a hotel to sleep at alone while my GF endured another nightly barrage of verbal torment from her mom. Apparently, I was able to come home the next day because my GF struck a "bargain" that she would do whatever her mom needed so I could stay (since she already did everything but wipe them, idk how this was a deal). So she gets me from the hotel after her shift and we plan on going to this historic tower with stunning views, it's open til 4 each day and it's our last day to be able to go because the next couple days we were going to Atlantic City before I left (her mom's gambling addiction gives her free rooms). When her mom finds out, she goes ballistic. Apparently my GF told her mom that she would vacuum the living room and Lysol the counters, and her mom was flipping out because it couldn't wait. My GF told her she would do it after 4 pm when the tower closed, just to wait literally an hour so we could make the tower before close, but her mom was immune to reason, wailing that it was a "promise" etc; so because of her mom's inability to compromise or recognize a contingency we missed seeing the tower so she could vacuum a floor. I had her drop me off at the local library to avoid any contact with the mom for that night (24 hours and we would be in Atlantic city). The mom went to Atlantic City to ostensibly check us in to the hotel but in reality was a thinly veiled excuse to tag along to fuel her gambling addiction. Unlike her bipolar disorder her addiction is well documented with counseling and everything - she's actually banned from her local casinos hence her eagerness to cross state lines to Atlantic City, NJ. She tried crashing our dinner plans- two nights in a row - but quick thinking saying we had already made reservations shook her off...but the entire weekend in Atlantic city she was there gambling in the underbelly of the casino, and of course calling/texting her daughter an insane amount of times. After I came home, things were not great between my GF and her mom but they came to a head when her mom came into her work and said "your dealer came to our house" and how she wanted my GF out...my GF came to find out her mom read her diary and happened upon an old entry where she talked about finding a new guy to buy weed from (she would never in a million years have someone come to her house). As if the invasive diary reading wasn't enough, she further tormented my GF screaming that whole night culminating in the mom holding a knife to her own (the mom's) throat threatening to kill herself. My GF said that was the worst it's ever been because in the past she "would just grab knives, never hold them to her throat". I was aghast - this behavior wasn't the first time?! Her mom said more cruel stuff since, including chastising her dad for his infertility (my GF broke down crying mentioning this and that how her mom has never went that far...they used a donor years ago to conceive her). She also shows wild inconsistency: for example while I was there she complained about not getting to see me and my GF and that my GF and I were doing too much stuff on our own; then in the next breath of the same conversation complained she had no space with me there (she's clearly conjuring that in her head as I stay out of sight out of mind hidden in GF's room or out with her whenever possible)...this echoes a larger flip/flop sentiment she's had with my GF, complaining that my GF spends too much time with her friends and not enough at home then saying the opposite that my GF needs to get her own place. Right now her mom is flipping out because I bought her a ticket to come for Halloween weekend (Thursday-Monday) but she "already visited once this month" during the first weekend of October (although I feel the real reason is that her mom just wants to object and is looking for any excuse). She got so angry she started breaking things all over and even got in a physical brawl with my GF's dad. She even took the day off she's so worked up about it. My GF and I are in a long distance relationship already and she's going to study abroad next semester so until I visit I her abroad in 4 or 5 months I'm only going to maybe see her Christmas break and a few days around thanksgiving, so it's not like Halloween weekend is the end of the world. My GF is very responsible when she sees me- it's just a long weekend after all, she makes up missed classes and gets shifts covered. She's quite literally hurting no one seeing me, not to mention at no cost as I payed for the ticket...but because my GF "promised" she would only see me that one weekend this month (an empty promise to supplicate when her mom was being crazy about visiting), she is refusing to listen to reason and see how a long weekend isn't a big deal. My GF spends every Halloween weekend away anyway- there's no difference between spending it with me and spending it with other friends. A final note- I can't stress what a kind, loving person my GF is. I've never seen someone more gifted with children or with a bigger heart. She shows nothing of her mom's repugnant traits. Her mom also had breast cancer about 8 years ago, so there is certainly a vestigial fear of losing her from that. The question is twofold: - in the short term, is there anyway to convince her mom how absurd she is being regarding Halloween weekend? I have already not only bought the plane ticket but made plans including arranging her meeting my grandma (who was hospitalized twice in the last couple weeks, she doesn't have long I want her to meet my GF). - And secondly, what can I or more likely my GF do to convince her mother that her behavior is irrational, dangerous, and that she needs to seek help? She said because her mom works at a hospital her mom would never wanna admit she needs help- although she said her mom could be convinced for group/family therapy. TL;DR: My GF's mom is mentally unstable, tormenting our relationship and my GF, and culminating in physical violence; episodes like reading my GF's diary or finding risqué photos just set her off more and more until she does things like take a knife to her own throat; what solutions exist in the short and long term?
Chris Cornell Spotify Playlist I made a few months ago
Track list
Source
1 Revelations - Audioslave 2 Original Fire - Audioslave 3 Shape Of Things To Come - Audioslave 4 Wide Awake - Audioslave 5 Nothing Left To Say But Goodbye - Audioslave 6 Moth - Audioslave 7 Your Time Has Come - Audioslave 8 Out Of Exile - Audioslave 9 Be Yourself - Audioslave 10 Doesn't Remind Me - Audioslave 11 Heaven's Dead - Audioslave 12 The Worm - Audioslave 13 Yesterday To Tomorrow - Audioslave 14 Dandelion - Audioslave 15 #1 Zero - Audioslave 16 The Curse - Audioslave 17 Show Me How to Live - Audioslave 18 Gasoline - Audioslave 19 What You Are - Audioslave 20 Like a Stone - Audioslave 21 Set It Off - Audioslave 22 Shadow on the Sun - Audioslave 23 I Am the Highway - Audioslave 24 Hypnotize - Audioslave 25 Bring Em Back Alive - Audioslave 26 Light My Way - Audioslave 27 Getaway Car - Audioslave 28 The Last Remaining Light - Audioslave 29 My Wave - Soundgarden 30 Fell On Black Days - Soundgarden 31 Mailman - Soundgarden 32 Superunknown - Soundgarden 33 Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden 34 Spoonman - Soundgarden 35 Limo Wreck - Soundgarden 36 The Day I Tried To Live - Soundgarden 37 Fresh Tendrils - Soundgarden 38 4th Of July - Soundgarden 39 Like Suicide - Soundgarden 40 Been Away Too Long - Soundgarden 41 By Crooked Steps - Soundgarden 42 Pretty Noose - Soundgarden 43 Blow Up The Outside World - Soundgarden 44 Burden In My Hand - Soundgarden 45 Rusty Cage - Soundgarden 46 Outshined - Soundgarden 47 Jesus Christ Pose - Soundgarden 48 Call Me A Dog - Recorded Live At Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Toronto, ON on April 20, 2011 - Chris Cornell 49 Can't Change Me - Explicit / Recorded Live At Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa - Music Box, Atlantic City, NJ on April 15, 2011 - Chris Cornell 50 I Am The Highway - Recorded Live At Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Toronto, ON on April 20, 2011 - Chris Cornell 51 Thank You - Recorded Live At Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada on April 27, 2011 - Chris Cornell 52 All Night Thing - Recorded Live At Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, Washington, DC on April 17, 2011 - Chris Cornell 53 Doesn't Remind Me - Recorded Live At Fitzgerald Theatre, St. Paul, MN on April 24, 2011 - Chris Cornell 54 Imagine - Recorded Live At Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee, WI on April 23, 2011 - Chris Cornell 55 The Keeper - Chris Cornell 56 Scream - Chris Cornell 57 No Such Thing - Chris Cornell 58 Billie Jean - Chris Cornell 59 You Know My Name - From "Casino Royale" Soundtrack - Chris Cornell 60 Can't Change Me - Chris Cornell 61 Flutter Girl - Chris Cornell 62 Preaching The End Of The World - Chris Cornell 63 Wave Goodbye - Chris Cornell 64 Moonchild - Chris Cornell 65 Sweet Euphoria - Chris Cornell 66 Steel Rain - Chris Cornell 67 Sunshower - Great Expectations Soundtrack - Chris Cornell 68 Say Hello 2 Heaven - Temple Of The Dog 69 Reach Down - Temple Of The Dog 70 Hunger Strike - Temple Of The Dog 71 Call Me A Dog - Temple Of The Dog 72 Times Of Trouble - Temple Of The Dog 73 All Night Thing - Temple Of The Dog 74 Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart - Chris Cornell 75 Higher Truth - Chris Cornell 76 Wrong Side - Chris Cornell 77 Only These Words - Chris Cornell URL For playlist
Hi all, first thread in this forum. I was doing some research about the Russian "illegals" program in the US (which the TV show The Americans is based on) and I found the exact case that the aforementioned show was specifically based on: https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/accused_russian_spies_lived_un.html Here are some key excerpts, with my bolding:
The "Murphys" were arrested Sunday at their home in Montclair and charged along with nine others from three states in what authorities have described as a sweeping strike against a "deep cover" espionage network. It is unclear how much information the suspects successfully gathered, but authorities said they went to elaborate lengths to remain undercover for years. The charging documents read like the pages of a Tom Clancy thriller, telling of agents spending years developing the story lines of their fake identities — or legends — to blend into American society. They often operated in pairs, passing themselves off as husband and wife at their posts in New Jersey, Boston, New York and Virginia. Some, authorities say, were assigned by Moscow to have children to complete the facade. Their ultimate goal was to recruit sources who could infiltrate U.S. policy-making and financial circles. And their orders came directly from Russia, authorities said.
Then I remembered that Trump was heavily involved in a bunch of (mostly failed) ventures in New Jersey throughout the 1980s and 290s, most notoriously, the Atlantic City casinos. This would have been the period where he was goingdeepinto debt, right? From the same article:
The Murphys came to the United States in the mid-1990s, living first in a Hoboken apartment. In fall of 2008, they moved to a beige two-story colonial with red shutters on Marquette Road in Montclair.
But here's where some context on Trump's side will be helpful. From a different article:
Everybody in New Jersey politics has a Trump story. That's because for more than a quarter-century, Trump, self-proclaimed political outsider, played the ultimate insider's game in New Jersey, where political deals require relationships and cash. Trump golfed and broke bread with every major political power broker in the state. He used sweet talk, like with Kean, but he also deployed attack ads, like with former Gov. Christie Todd Whitman. He spent millions on New Jersey lobbyists, lawyers, spokespeople and political operatives, many of whom then contributed money to important politicians. This is how he survived his many failures, and how he caught a lot of breaks. Trump built his name-brand off his New Jersey casinos, all of which went bankrupt. He bought a professional football team, the New Jersey Generals, which lasted just two years. And he opened three golf courses, which pay little in taxes. All along the way, Trump took a hands-on approach to politics.
"You couldn’t be in public office in New Jersey in the 80s and 90s and not have frequent encounters with Donald Trump," said Bob Torricelli, a former New Jersey congressman and U.S. Senator who was, until recently, a member of Trump's Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago. "He was as much a fixture in the state as the Turnpike or the Shore."
Trump operated in New Jersey with no partisan leanings. "Donald did not content himself with simply speaking with governors or senators," Torricelli said. "He actually built relationships in political organizations and through the political hierarchy."
https://www.wnyc.org/story/trump-self-proclaimed-outsider-began-new-jersey-political-inside Now, we're all aware that Trump was on the Russian radar as early as the late 70s, and certainly by 1987, which I think is the critical initial year for the Trump-Russia relationship. MY question, then: Would those Russian intelligence officers, operating deep undercover "illegals" ie. living in suburban New Jersey for over a decade and pretending to be Americans, and who had orders "directly from Russia" to "recruit sources who could infiltrate U.S. policy-making and financial circles," have been aware of the (notoriously corrupt, by the way) political and business dynamics of the state in which they were residing? Did they have any contact with people in Trump's orbit? Did they collect intelligence on him and his associates in New Jersey? Just how far down does the rabbit hole go?
4-01 Opening For The Neville Brothers (Early Show-2_11_95) 4-02 Opening For The Neville Brothers (Late Show-2_11_95)
Not sure if these are the same or something else:
D1 Opening For The Neville Brothers D2 February 11th, 1995 (early Show) D3 TropWorld Casino, Atlantic City, NJ 04 Opening For The Neville Brothers
I don't recall ever hearing these, but I'd love to, as I'm sure the rest of the sub would. Point us in their direction, or hell, upload 'em if you got the fancy boxset! That'd be much appreciated. Cheers. EDIT: It'd be shameful for me not to mention that SiriusXM did a Mitch tribute back in October, consisting of an audio documentary, an interview with his widow Lynn, and
an exclusive world premiere of a Hedberg performance that has never been played publicly. The recording was meant for Hedberg’s internal use only- the kind of recording comedians make when they’re working on material. (http://theinterrobang.com/mitch-hedberg-documentary-air-siriusxm-monday/)
Trump / Russian Timeline - The Most Prominent Players and Places
Trump / Russian Timeline - The Most Prominent Players and Places This is a WIP. As such here is the currently published google doc as you can keep up with any changes and additions, to which there will be many. Also the aforementioned google doc contains foot notes for each individual link as well, something i have not been able to figure out how to copy from its current formatting over to here, I apologize. This isn't about swaying anyone from right to left or vice versa. This is simply to lay out the facts as they are known in a concise manner and allow for individuals to form their own opinions on such. I have attempted to avoid conjecture or opinion whenever, and wherever, possible as to avoid in impartiality or bias in this manner. That being said, I will say this - I do not believe that this is a left or right issue. I do believe that, even if treated as a hypothetical, the questions that arise from this information and the possible answer that is generally arrived at due to such are damning, and in no small extent terrifying in their implication. Bellow is an outline of the most prominent people and places involving, or surrounding, Donald Trump and suspected ties to both the Russian government as well as the Russian mafia. This is not in alphabetical order, but rather in an attempt to be both a timeline of events as well as a collection of stated relevant information. This is a work in progress and as such will be updated regularly and the information is prone to change at any time. Any changes will be noted.
Suspected base for money laundering. Believed to have been built with mob money. Possibly used to shelter Russianmoney. Meeting place for suspected Trump / Russian conspiracy regarding the 2016 United States election. Supplemental reading regarding Trump Tower - 1, 2, 3
Soviet Ambassador from 1986 to 1990. Met with Donald Trump at a New York luncheon in 1986. Possibly responsible for Trump wishing to travel to The Soviet Union, for the first time, with the interest of both meeting then sitting president Mikhail Gorbachev and look into the possibility of Russian real estate deals. Supplemental reading - 1
Former soviet lawyer and First Chief Directorate...of the KGB. Believed to be responsible for Donald Trump’s first trip to Moscow. Believed to be possibly responsible for the first attempt at turning Trump to a Russian asset. Supplemental reading - 1
Donald Trump has declared 6 of his businesses bankrupt since 1991. Taj Mahal, bankruptcy declaredin 1991. Trump Castle declares bankruptcy in 1992. Trump Plaza Casinos declares bankruptcy in 1992. Trump Plaza Hotel declares bankruptcy in 1994. Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts declares bankruptcy in 2004. Trump Entertainment Resorts declares bankruptcy in 2009. Supplemental reading - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
“The Donald Risk” (Mid 1990s)
Due to a series of questionable business decisions Donald Trump found himself largely unable to obtain loans from banks located in the United States. Concerns arise regarding Donald Trump’s $916 million lossfrom his 1995 tax returns. Supplemental reading - none at this time.
Trump / Russian Timeline - The Most Prominent Players and Places
Trump / Russian Timeline - The Most Prominent Players and Places This is a WIP. As such here is the currently published google doc as you can keep up with any changes and additions, to which there will be many. Also the aforementioned google doc contains foot notes for each individual link as well, something i have not been able to figure out how to copy from its current formatting over to here, I apologize. This isn't about swaying anyone from right to left or vice versa. This is simply to lay out the facts as they are known in a concise manner and allow for individuals to form their own opinions on such. I have attempted to avoid conjecture or opinion whenever, and wherever, possible as to avoid in impartiality or bias in this manner. That being said, I will say this - I do not believe that this is a left or right issue. I do believe that, even if treated as a hypothetical, the questions that arise from this information and the possible answer that is generally arrived at due to such are damning, and in no small extent terrifying in their implication. Bellow is an outline of the most prominent people and places involving, or surrounding, Donald Trump and suspected ties to both the Russian government as well as the Russian mafia. This is not in alphabetical order, but rather in an attempt to be both a timeline of events as well as a collection of stated relevant information. This is a work in progress and as such will be updated regularly and the information is prone to change at any time. Any changes will be noted.
Suspected base for money laundering. Believed to have been built with mob money. Possibly used to shelter Russian money. Meeting place for suspected Trump / Russian conspiracy regarding the 2016 United States election. Supplemental reading regarding Trump Tower - 1, 2, 3
Soviet Ambassador from 1986 to 1990. Met with Donald Trump at a New York luncheon in 1986. Possibly responsible for Trump wishing to travel to The Soviet Union, for the first time, with the interest of both meeting then sitting president Mikhail Gorbachev and look into the possibility of Russian real estate deals. Supplemental reading - 1
Former soviet lawyer and First Chief Directorate...of the KGB. Believed to be responsible for Donald Trump’s first trip to Moscow. Believed to be possibly responsible for the first attempt at turning Trump to a Russian asset. Supplemental reading - 1
Donald Trump has declared 6 of his businesses bankrupt since 1991. Taj Mahal, bankruptcy declaredin 1991. Trump Castle declares bankruptcy in 1992. Trump Plaza Casinos declares bankruptcy in 1992. Trump Plaza Hotel declares bankruptcy in 1994. Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts declares bankruptcy in 2004. Trump Entertainment Resorts declares bankruptcy in 2009. Supplemental reading - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
“The Donald Risk” (Mid 1990s)
Due to a series of questionable business decisions Donald Trump found himself largely unable to obtain loans from banks located in the United States. Concerns arise regarding Donald Trump’s $916 million lossfrom his 1995 tax returns. Supplemental reading - none at this time.
I work in Nightlife for a couple Casinos in Atlantic City, NJ. While there are a million an a half stories involving celebrities, millionaires, and just a million stupid people, my favorites are all the people who come before we are open. For one of our nightclubs the entire wall is glass, so you can clearly see the entire club from the outside. Yet we still get people that when it is clearly empty and not open yet, try to enter in through any doorway they can. When I inform them we are not open yet, since I'm usually outside just before we open, they always give the same response: "oh we just wanted to look around" I understand your curiosity, but we aren't open, when have you ever been allowed to enter a place to look around if they werent open? Another is when I catch people hopping over the Bottle service lines. When I catch them they always say the same thing: "oh, I didn't know I couldn't do that" What the fuck do you think the rope is there for?!
So my boyfriend (32) and I (27) have taken the big steps to live with each other and honestly, he is my soul mate. I would do anything for him. I don't ever want to see him in pain. Lately, I've been noticing that he hasn't been brushing his teeth regularly. I've always noticed that his gums would bleed when we would stand next to each other brushing our teeth in the morning, but it wasn't a lot of blood. I sat him down the other day and asked him, as politely as I could, why he's not been brushing his teeth. He broke down and told me because it hurts too much so he'll Listerine but it pains him. He says his teeth hurt 24/7 and he doesn't know what to do. He said that when he was growing up, his family was very very verrry poor. He didn't get dental insurance until 13 years old and when he did go, it wasn't a dentist that had his best interest at heart. The dentist did all kinds of work on him that kind of messed his teeth up in his adult years. He's got some broken molars in the back and one tooth in the front that he says kills him daily. His job entails him to speak to people face to face every day. Meetings, marketing deals... So on and he said that he is mortified to open his mouth because he knows people are judging him. This broke my heart. He does every thing for this city (Atlantic City) to keep it running and to keep the local music scene alive and it hurts my heart that he's becoming more and more ashamed of talking to people face to face because of his teeth. We don't have much money. I'm on Medicaid and NJ Family Care while I'm in transition of jobs and it doesn't cover him, obviously. He had insurance when he worked at one of the casinos 3 years ago but when they let him go, he lost his insurance. So he's been going on now with no health insurance. "Technically" on paper, he makes too much to qualify for NJ Family Care and Medicaid... He makes only like 5-7k over what they require. I've asked the office and he wouldn't qualify even if we pushed for it. I don't know what to do. I want to get him the help he needs so that he can succeed and feel comfortable with himself. I'm reaching out here, being 110% vulnerable bringing this up in hopes that someone out there knows a dentist that can take a look at his teeth and maybe work out a reasonable payment plan or what not. I don't know how any of this works without insurance but he can't go on like this anymore... Not brushing his teeth, his mouth bleeding and teeth causing so much pain everyday. If anyone has any recommendations or knows what I can do... Please let me know. My heart is hurting for him and I just want him to feel wonderful. EDIT: I am not picky on where the dentist is located. I would drive to freakin Canada if I had to for him.
Over the past week or so, a few of the casinos that make Atlantic City, New Jersey such a hot destination have said they will be closing. This may not sound like an MLS related subject, but it brings me to my point: Why doesn't New Jersey get a franchise of there own? I know many will say that the Redbulls are NJ's team, but when you call yourself "New York", you're not cutting it. And NYRB plays further North in NJ, which really only attracts the community near them. Besides, New Jersey is a soccer rich state. Many great players have come from the Garden State, including Tim Howard, Mike Bradley, Giuseppe Rossi, and many other national teamers and MLS players. Atlantic City would be perfect. It's in more southern Jersey, already is a key city, and will have open land when these casinos are closed.
I have no title for my fucked up life, so I'm just going to write it all down. (Super long)
Well, let's start it off back when I was 6 years old. I really don't have any memories before then anyway. On December 12th, 1988, I was on my mom's lap while she was sitting on the stairs. Across from us, my dad was sitting on the loveseat watching TV. My brother-in-law was sitting on the couch relaxing before he went to work. It was your typical morning, everything was going just fine until my mom had a heart attack. I remember her leaning back on the stairs and basically going limp. I remember my dad rushing over to pick me up and hand me to my brother-in-law. I didn't know what was going on but the way they were panicking and checking on my mom I knew something was wrong. My brother-in-law then drove me to my grandma's house which was only 3 blocks away. I remember as we were pulling away from the house seeing the ambulance pull up outside with the sirens and lights going off. So now I'm at my grandmother's house, and she puts on The Wizard of Oz for me. I remember her crying majority of the time, but she wouldn't tell me what was going on whenever I asked her why everybody was acting weird. I ended up watching The Wizard of Oz three fucking times. To this day, I hate that movie, and haven't watched it since. Then my dad showed up to pick me up later that night. He was crying pretty bad. I remember him hugging me and telling me mom was dead. Seeing both him and my grandmother crying led me to start crying. Believe it or not, that was the last time I cried up until very recently, but I'll tell you about that when I get there. I didn't even cry at her funeral. This is the only memory I have of my mom and the earliest memory of my life that I remember. Kind of fucked up, right? To this day, this scene plays over and over in my head. I'll never forget it. So after my mom died, two of my sisters moved back into the house with my dad to help him move on from the loss. To help babysit me and take care of me while my dad worked. My dad was a workaholic, he would work 12 hours a day basically 3/4ths of the month, so I never really saw him. So here we are, my dad, my 3 older sisters (18, 21, and 23 years old), their kids, and their husbands and boyfriend, and me all living in a 3 bedroom, 2 story house. 8 months go by after my mom's death, and my dad is lonely, I mean he did just lose the love of his life. They were together for 30 years. My dad was not someone who could function without a relationship, so he went out looking to find someone. He ended up with the worst choice I could have ever imagined. This evil lady has ruined our family and separated us from him. He was in love, though. So he basically shut all of us out of his life and let her rule his life for him. So now it's my dad, my stepbrother, stepsister, and I living in the house. All of my sisters left because of this women. She hated me from the start, I didn't do anything to this women at all to deserve the treatment she gave me. She would lie to my dad and tell him that I would call her names, throw stuff at her, and not listen to her. Tell him that I was a menace and needed to get punished. She wouldn't tell him this when he got home from work, though. She would wait until he was drunk. My dad was a heavy drinker and would drink after coming home from work. When he was drunk she would tell him these lies, and my dad would beat the living shit out of me. Throwing full beer cans at me, hitting me with anything he could find, and basically verbally abusing me because I was an "asshole" to my new "mother". At 12 years old I going through a rough time in life. With all the abuse my dad was giving me because of my stepmother, and having no friends besides my mentally retarded stepsister and stepbrother. I was a weird kid. I was picked on at school constantly because I was the fat smelly kid. Nobody showed me the basics of life, I basically had to learn by myself how to wash myself, how to brush my teeth, and how to get dressed. Nobody told me anything about that, and apparently I failed at the hygiene department because kids are fucking assholes and let me know about it. So many times I got sent home from school because I smelled, and my dad or stepmother didn't do anything to help me out and show me how to properly bathe. I really wish my dad would have been so strict with me about overeating. I'm not going to blame him for that, because it's my fault that I ate all the time. But I feel he could have helped me out and not allowed me to eat whatever I wanted. That basically was the beginning stages of what my life would become, and I'll tell you about that when I get to it as well, because obesity plays a big role in my fucked up life. I started hearing voices when I was 12 years old as well. It freaked me out because nobody was there. I didn't know what was going on. I was really scared. I tried telling my dad about what I was hearing but he wasn't having any of it. He claimed I was just seeking attention. I tried telling my sisters what was going on and got the same thing. It was so bad I even had a heart to heart with my stepmother and tried to convince her that something was going on with me, and that I was hearing voices that wanted me to hurt animals and people. I thought I got through to her and she would help me out, but I was wrong. She told my dad and yet again, I was beat for making up stories. At 13 my stepmother and I got into a really huge fight that couldn't be fixed. So my stepmother made my dad give me away to one of my sisters or she would leave him. So he chose her over me. My dad unannounced, showed up to my oldest sister's house and told her this exact quote that I'll never forget, "Helen said it's either him or her, and I choose her because I can't get pussy from him, so you take him". And then he got back in his car and left. A couple years later my dad and stepmother was moving to Florida, and they wanted to take me with them. They promised me that shit would get better between us. They promised that it would be a fresh start for all of us. I decided to go with them and give it a shot. Nothing got any better, in fact shit got worse. I'm now 15 years old and the voices are getting louder. It's not all of the voices that want me to do bad things. It's only one male voice in particular. He would only come around once a month and start demanding me to kick the neighbor, or squirt someone with a hose, or push, punch, kick someone at school. The only way he would leave me alone is if I did what he wanted. He would get so loud that I couldn't take it anymore and give in. The other voices weren't bad, though. They were actually kind of cool. I like to call them my radio station voices because they just basically added commentary to what was going on around me. They never demanded me to do things, they were just there. They were there 24/7 and never went away, I even hear them to this day. Yes, I'm aware that they are probably just my thoughts, but they seem very real to me. They are not inside my head, they are outside my head and sound like they are next to me having a conversation with me, but I can't see them. Occasionally I'll talk to them, but that can be really awkward when someone catches you talking to your voices. It's happened plenty of times lol. I have done some horrible things in my life that I regret when it came to listening to my voices. I have harmed people, pets, and even started cutting myself. I got so tired of it I swallowed every single pill in my house and went into the garage to die. My plan backfired when my dad came into the garage to look for a tool and found me passed out. He called the ambulance and I got my stomach pumped. I didn't get committed, though. Which was fucked up, because I told the nurses I wanted to die and I would try to commit suicide again if they released me. Even they didn't believe I was hearing voices. I told them everything I did too. Even about harming neighbor's pets and even harming younger neighborhood kids. Nothing, I was set free. I'm in 10th grade now and 16 years old. I've had enough of my dad's bullshit abuse. I want nothing more to do with his alcoholic, pussy-whipped ass anymore. I get home from school one day and we get into an argument because of my stepmother. I've never ever defended myself from him, hell, I was always scared of my dad. I believe that's normal for all young boys. You look at your dad as some kind of superhero who has all the strength in the world. Nothing felt better than the day I defended myself and punched him in his drunk fucking face. Unfortunately for me, the neighbors saw me punch him, so they called the cops and the cops arrested me. I went to juvenile for 3 weeks because of that. When I got out I ran away from home and never looked back. I hitchhiked from Naples, FL to Pitman, NJ and it was the best time of my life. It took me 3 weeks to get there, but it was worth it. I gave my guitar to this kid at school for him to take me to the nearest truck stop on I75. Then from there I found a trucker that was going to Jacksonville. He was a cool old man who took me with him, we chatted about a bunch of stuff. When I told that I was running away he got kind of nervous and wanted to take me back. I assured him I wasn't going to tell anybody that he drove me there. I wasn't going to be a dick if I got caught, but from that point on I told everybody that I was 18 and trying to get back to NJ because a family member died. I ended up sleeping at the Greyhound station in Jacksonville for 3 days before finally finding a ride to Atlanta, Georgia. Jacksonville was a nice city, there was a lot of drugs at the Greyhound station, though. I had so many people come up to me and try to sell me hash, weed, coke, and even meth. It was crazy, and at 16 I couldn't believe that shit was happening out in the public like that during the day. It was quite an eye opening experience for me. So I ended up getting a ride from a young couple to a truck stop outside of Atlanta. At this truck stop I found a trucker who was going to Maine, he said he would give me a ride to NJ, which was awesome because that was where I needed to go anyway. So as we pull out from the truck, he says to me, "Hey man, have you ever tried Acid?". I told him no, and he proceeded to give me a paper hit. I took it and tripped balls for a long ass time. I lost track of time, so I have no clue how long it took us to get to NC, but somewhere in NC he started to ask me really perverted questions. We stopped at a truck stop and he proceeded to put his hand on my knee and started rubbing it. I asked him to stop, but he wouldn't. I then proceeded to punch him in the face and got out of the truck stop and ran inside to the truck stop, I figured that would be the safest bet for me because he wouldn't even try to come inside and grab me. There was no way he would do that. So I waited 3 hours until the fucker left and then found someone to take me to the Fayetteville, NC greyhound bus station. Let me tell you something about the greyhound bus station in Fayetteville. It was one of the worst places I have ever been in my life. It's a real bad area down there. I also got robbed for the first time in my life while inside the bus station. This black dude pulled a knife on me inside the bathroom and stole my backpack full of clothes and other little shit I had with me like my cds and cd player. This one guy walked into the bathroom and basically broke it up before anything else could happen. He then proceeded to take me to a truck stop outside of Fayetteville. I stayed there for 5 days until I found a ride with a group of teenagers going back to Baltimore from Disney World. They were really cool too, we smoked weed all the way up I94 too. That was probably the best time I've ever had. In Baltimore I found an older couple in a RV that took me to Philly. Then once I got to Philly I took the NJ Transit bus to my sisters house. She was surprised when I showed up. Apparently my dad never told them that I ran away from home, so it was all a shocker to them. From 16 to 18 I basically bounced sister to sister. I went from NJ to Detroit, MI, back to NJ, back to Detroit, and then back to NJ again. I basically watched my nephews and nieces for my sisters in order to live there so they didn't have to pay a babysitter. It worked out for all parties. I made sure I didn't stay at one place too long to wear out my welcome. Once I turned 18 I went to a young adult homeless shelter for young kids in Atlantic City called The Covenant House. I have really bad paranoia and anxiety from my voices, which leads to panic attacks at random times. I had a bad episode with my voices and they sent me to the mental health unit in Atlantic City. Who then committed me into Ancora State Mental Health Hospital. I was diagnosed with Schizoaffective disorder, which is basically someone who suffers from Schizophrenia and a mood disorder, most like bipolar or depression. IN my case it was severe depression. I was stuck there for 6 months. I don't recommend going to a state hospital, they don't care about your health. Their goal was just to keep you there as long as possible to milk the insurance money. In Ancora I applied and got approved for SSI, so something good came out of it in the end I guess. Once I got out of there I ended up going to a homeless shelter in Camden, NJ. This place is the worst place I've ever been in my life. I got robbed, beat up, pushed around, and fucked with just about every day I was there because I was the fat white kid. It was horrible, I had to leave, I couldn't survive there, I knew I would end up dead if I stayed. So I went to a homeless shelter in Philly, which was a little better. Still was the ghetto, but at least I didn't get robbed every other day. During this time I would go spend my days at a library in Philly and just read books and use the internet. I started talking to this girl on AIM one night from a chatroom. She was my age and from West Virginia. We hit it off very well, this was the first girl that was ever interested in me. So I thought I was in love. Fast forward 3 years, I was staying in my band's practice shed behind the lead guitarist/vocalist's house. We were a punk band who played fast, loud, and crazy music. We booked a show in Virginia and I told that girl I was talking to, to meet up with me at the show since she was only 45 minutes away. So we meet up at the show, and afterwards I went back to her place. The band went back to NJ the next morning. I told the band I would take a greyhound in a few days to get back. The girl and I fucked all night long, and really hit it off. I never left. This girl and I ended up getting married 6 months later. I know, we moved way too fast, this was the first time I've ever gotten any poontang and I thought I was in love. My life was finally changing for the better and I was finally stabilized in life with a roof over my head. I was happy! During this time I got extremely fat. I mean, I was always the fat kid, but when I met this girl I was around 350 pounds. Fast forward 6 years and I'm now over 800+ pounds. I ended up getting hospitalized because I couldn't walk. I was so swollen with fluid at the time my legs were huuuuuge. I couldn't even wobble along because they were so fat. When I got to the hospital I got on a bed scale, and I error'd the scale. The bed scale only went up to 800 pounds. It was at the moment I realized that I'm really throwing my life away, and I needed to lose weight. I just didn't have the motivation to do it, so I struggled with it for a few. Anywho, I suspected something was up with the wife. She wasn't the same anymore. Something about her has changed, she started distancing herself from me. I decided to check the bank account one day to see what was up since she was using the "I'm going to my dad's house for a few hours" excuse like 4 times a week. Which was weird because her dad and her never really got along that well. So when I checked the bank account I was seeing charges on the debit card to a Chinese buffet place in town, the charges were usually $25, which is the equivalent of two buffet dinner meals. I know for sure that I wasn't eating at the Chinese buffet several times a week. So instead of questioning her I decided to snoop around on her computer (I know, it's fucked up and I shouldn't have done that, I still feel guilty for breaking someone's trust). I saw a forums that she frequently visited all the time. It was then that I found out my wife was a secret feeder. I don't know if you what a feeder is, but it's basically someone who gets off on feeding someone so they get fatter. Once I read her posts that she was posting I felt sick because it all made sense. At the time I thought maybe she was just a freak and liked food play. Maybe she really got off on baking brownies and giving them to me before we would get it on. Maybe she just really liked baking sweets and giving them to her man. I was so oblivious to this it hurts whenever I think about it. I had no clue what a feeder was, and if I would have known in advanced I would have never agreed to it before. I confronted her about everything and she confessed she was having an affair with her best friend's husband. At first, I just wanted to leave, but I couldn't I was so fat I couldn't go anywhere. So I moved out onto the couch and slept there for the next 6 months saving up every penny I had. I ended up having this dream about my mom. She came to me in my dream and told me that I needed to change my life because she couldn't protect me anymore. I woke up the next day terrified as hell. She never came out and said she was protecting me from death, but I can only assume that was the case. So I started to diet and lose weight. Right when I was getting ready to leave back to NJ the wife begged for me to stay. Telling me she was sorry and we could work it out. Stupidly, I stayed and gave her another chance. This was the first girlfriend I've ever had. The first poontang I touched. I didn't want to lose her, I loved this girl even with the fucked up shit I found out about her. Even with the fucked up cheating she did to me. Two weeks go by and she is getting distant with me again. So this time, I confront her again and ask her what's up. She confessed that she started having another affair with a client from her job. I was livid, and mainly heartbroken, again. This time I was leaving, there was no 3rd chance to fuck me over. Not only for cheating on me again, but with a client of hers! she works at a fucking HIV/AIDS clinic for fucks sake. Not only is she putting herself at risk, but she put me at risk for it. I lost my cool and broke just about everything in the house. I went into the mental hospital for 3 weeks because I was losing my cool and my voices were fucking me hardcore about hurting her. I didn't want to hurt her. When I got out of the mental hospital I left. Every 6 months for the next 2 years I got tested and thankfully came up negative every time. So now I'm 28 years old, living with my youngest sister in NJ again. My main focus is losing weight. Which I did with a vengeance. I wanted my weight gone and I wanted my life back. For two years I went hardcore on my diet and got down to 440 pounds. I was feeling better than I have ever felt in my life. I was almost happy again. Then I met this chick over Facebook from Boston. We started chatting every day over messenger. She drove 6 hours to come see me one weekend. We went to Atlantic City and stayed at a casino hotel since she has never seen Atlantic City before. She loved it! I really thought I ruined any chance I had with her though. She drove 6 hours to see me and I was too damn shy to make a move that night. I honestly didn't think she would ever talk to me again, but she did. We kept on seeing each other once a month for a year. She would drive down to see me, and then I would rent a car and drive up to see her. Eventually it got brought up about me moving up there with her. I went for it, and never looked back. so it's January 1st, 2013, I'm 30 years old and I'm moving up to the Boston area to start over again in a new relationship. One that wasn't a feeder! I made sure of it this time. I flat out told her about my past and that if she was I couldn't be with her since my new life was focused on losing weight. That dream about my mom really scared the shit out of me. It's not February, 2013 and something is seeming off with the girlfriend. she's getting distance from me like my ex wife. This time I don't snoop and I flat out ask her what's up. Told her I wasn't liking the distance between us. She told me that she was having mixed feelings and that she is craving girls again. She told me before she was bi, but I didn't mind. So I suggested that maybe we open up the relationship, which would allow her to explore her girl side some and get some poontang of her own. So we agreed to do that, but we had some rules. I told her she couldn't do anything with any exes because that's just going to bring back lovey dovey feelings. She assured she wouldn't do anything with any ex girlfriends and anybody that she does explore with will be new and only a fling. She wouldn't go back for seconds with anybody. It's now September, 2013 and she tells me that she's still in love with her ex girlfriend who she has been seeing these past few months. My heart sank because I knew this would happen, but tried to salvage the relationship. For some reason this one hurt more than the ex wife. I don't know why. I wanted to run away, and that's exactly what I did. I asked her if I could stay until November to save up some money and move out and she agreed. So when November came I wanted to get away as far I could from the east coast. My buddy in Seattle offered me a room to rent from him out there. So I sold everything I had worth any value and bought an Amtrak ticket to Seattle. I went from Boston to Toledo, OH. Stayed with a friend there that I met on Facebook a long time ago for a few days, got a wham bam thank you mam from her while I was there as a pity fuck, basically. The best head I ever had. Seriously. She was 15 years older than me, no fucks given. Then went from Toledo, OH to Seattle. All in all it took me 79 hours on the train in travelling time. It was the best season to travel the train too. The foliage was beautiful! For the first 5 months, Seattle life was awesome. I was on a main road with a bus route on it. So I could take the bus into downtown and check out the iconic places like Pike Place Market, The Space Needle, etc etc. I wasn't trapped, but then the landlord sold the house on us, and decided to move us into another one of his apartments. Which was cool, at least he switched us over without having to get another security deposit or changing rent or anything. This new place sucks so much ass for a fat person. We are seriously up on this huge ass hill, and I can't walk up the hill without feeling like my heart if going to jump out of my chest. I made it up one time and passed out up top of the hill, that was the last time I attempted the hill. So I'm stuck up on this damn hill. The bus routes are at the bottom of the hill. So if I want to go anywhere I have to use Uber, which I can't afford. The last 9 months of my life I have been an emotional wreck. I'm crying all the time, it's bullshit. I haven't cried since my mom died, why am I crying so much now? I don't understand it. I'm going through a major bout of depression and have been doing nothing but eating my life away at the top of a hill. These last 9 months I have gained back 135 pounds. I'm now 575 again, and I feel like shit. It's sad, because food is my drug, and I can't escape it like a drug addict can. You need food to survive, and I can't control my eating anymore. It's a vicious cycle, you eat because you're depressed, and you're depressed because you're eating. At the end of my lease in March I'm moving to Nebraska because it's so cheap there. I can get a 1 bedroom for 400 a month. Hell, there is an apartment I'm looking at that will go by my income that only old people and SSI people can get into. They charge you 30% of your income, which is awesome because that will help me be able to live more freely and breath. Right now I'm barely surviving off of $700 a month. You know how hard it is to survive off of $700 a month in Seattle? Extremely hard! By the time my rent is paid and my cellphone is paid, I'm left with $25, and that is used to take Uber to the grocery store twice a month. I survive off of $175 of food stamps, if I didn't get them I would be fucked. I also had another dream the other day about my mom. She came to me again and told me that she warned me to change my life. I'm not scared this time. If death is what is coming to me, then so be it. I'm ready to move on to the other side. Don't get me wrong, I'm not suicidal or anything, as my stance on suicide has changed since my teenage suicide attempt, but I'm not afraid of death. I'm not going to let the fear of death make me worry. It's not worth it. If it's my time, then it's my time. Take me! Feel free to AMA if you wish, I'm an open book. Pick my brain!
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