Tuesday, December 27, 2016

"She felt she was being forced to perform for this monster." A Rockette breaks her silence about feeling forced to perform at Trump's inauguration.

Courtesy of Marie Claire:  

The dancer next to Mary was crying. Tears streamed down her face through all 90 minutes of their world-famous Christmas Spectacular as they kicked and pirouetted and hit mark after mark on the glittering Radio City Music Hall stage. This was Thursday, three days before Christmas, the day the Rockettes discovered they'd been booked to perform at the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. 

"She felt she was being forced to perform for this monster," Mary told MarieClaire.com in an exclusive interview. "I wouldn't feel comfortable standing near a man like that in our costumes," said another dancer in an email to her colleagues.

"Mary" is obviously a pseudonym to protect this dancer from losing her job for speaking out, and she has quite a lot to share.

For one, despite what we have heard, the performance was NOT at first considered optional for the full time dancers:

"So it wasn't optional at first. The email from their union said they had to do this job," Mary says of the full-timers. By Friday, after backlash from the dancers and on social media, producers agreed to make participation elective. 

However that does not mean that many of the performers feel they have a choice:  

But dancers are worried that their choice to sit out now means they'll be sitting out for good; it's not as if dancing makes for a stable career, even without hurdles like this one to jump. Mary knows of three full-time dancers who have chosen to decline to perform, and at least one of them is fearful of losing her standing as a result. "It will be interesting to see who doesn't get their job back," Mary says. "But do you really want to work for a company that supports this? I just don't know. It's become a moral issue at this point." 

 "Mary" also says that the performance has caused a split within the usually tight knit group: 

While the performance is now theoretically voluntary, that hasn't dissolved the tension within the usually supportive group of women. "There is a divide in the company now, which saddens me most," Mary says. "The majority of us said no immediately. Then there's the percentage that said yes, for whatever reason—whether it's because they're young and uninformed, or because they want the money, or because they think it's an opportunity to move up in the company when other people turn it down."

Mary says that to her knowledge, no women of color have signed up to perform that day. "It's almost worse to have 18 pretty white girls behind this man who supports so many hate groups," she says. The lack of diversity in the kick line is "embarrassing" on a normal day, she says, and will only be more pointed in January. "They're going to be branded in history as one of those women," Mary says. "How's it going to look?"

So to be clear the man who rode to the presidency on the waves of racism, and with the help of a foreign government, will have performing at his inauguration a group of lily white dancers who secretly despise him but feel pressured to do as they are told for fear of losing their jobs.

Well I guess it could be worse.

At least nobody is rounding them up and taking them away.

At least not yet.

86 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:26 PM

    Trump better not do a dirty deed to the women that don't show up to dance for HIM (and his leering eyes being on their private parts) - most especially the minority women! You could not pay me a dime to dance for the asshole!

    If we learn later that he has done something horrid to them - (by him or members of his 'group') he, or the specific person, should be shot at sunrise and it would be warranted!

    I'm sick to death of this jerk! He's in no way is qualified to be potus. He's spreading evil, hate, racism, is anti women and minorities and only likes women that are sexually attractive to him!

    I so wish President Obama could have run for a third term. He'd would have beaten Trump in a landslide! It would have been even better having Hillary Clinton run w/President Obama for a third term - setting her up to be the next POTUS!

    The country would have been so much better off as to what we are going to face with this bloviated asshole showing us what and who he truly is and isn't! He will NEVER represent the majority of Americans and we'll be watching him closely to bring his fat ass down!

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    1. Anonymous5:11 PM

      If he grabbed each one by the pussy after they performed, his voters would be hootin' and hollerin' and saying "Yeaaaah, that's how it's done!" If it came out that he raped one, they'd be fine with that too and call her lucky. Or they'd deny it and call her a whore and find out where she lived and rape her again, beat her, and tie her to a car and drag her down the road or tie her to a fence and flog her and leave her for dead.

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    2. Anonymous5:40 PM

      We are a sick country if the above comments are correct. We'll just have to wait and see! Be prepared Americans as that is going to be our only defense!

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    3. Anonymous5:52 PM

      Donald Trump is a sick sexual fucker and most Americans know it!

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    4. Anonymous6:26 PM

      It was done to James Byrd and Matthew Shepard by the types of people we saw at Trump rallies for being black and for being gay. We've seen what Trump does to women and how his fans go into a frenzy and only like him all the more. It's not hard to imagine what they'd do to someone accusing him if they got their hands on her.

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    5. Anonymous6:41 AM

      Hillary actually did beat him even with all the complaints and such, she still beat him, but the electoral rigging worked and here we are.

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    6. Anonymous9:06 AM

      Look back to the Salem witch trials to see how they will treat women:
      Another influential work which deals with the major role of women in the Salem witchcraft
      trials is previously mentioned Professor Reis's work Damned Women: Sinners and
      Witches in Puritan New England (1999). She focuses on the question why mostly women
      were accused and executed for witchcraft and echoes Karlsen's view that the trials were
      mostly means of keeping the non-conformist New England women subservient to male-ordained
      authority, while also providing an answer rooted in Puritan theology. Namely, she
      draws on the writings of Puritan clergy which testify that women in New England were
      considered to be more closely connected to evil than men, and therefore, in need of constant
      oversight in order not to succumb to the devil impulses embedded in their nature(s). Similarly
      to Karlsen, she holds that the Salem episode, despite its many innocent victims, greatly
      contributed to the redefinition of the public opinion of women, devil and sin in general.

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    7. Anonymous10:13 AM

      uh... okaaaay 9:06.

      And back to the program.

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  2. Anonymous4:33 PM

    Donald Trump's myths about himself - Chicago Tribune
    Chicago Tribune › news › nationworld
    Jan 27, 2016 -

    But Trump did not get an MBA from Wharton; he has a much less prestigious undergraduate degree.

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    1. Anonymous5:13 PM

      Here's a great article, too, on that transfer student education of his. And it includes a long passage showing how he speaks and sounds absolutely uneducated.

      http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/what_does_donald_trump_mean_when_he_says_i_went_to_wharton.html

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    2. Anonymous5:36 PM

      Trump is a horrid speaker and that is why we are not seeing many impromptu events (press conferences) from him. His group knows he's poor spoken, not bright and doesn't have a good retention of varied subjects.....God but he sounds exactly like Sarah Palin!

      OMG is the USA ever in fucking trouble! Putin, et al, are going to have a hay day playing w/him and feeding his inflated ego!

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    3. Anonymous6:47 PM

      I know a woman, an electrical engineer with a college degree, who is nearly illiterate. But she got into college (not sure how) and managed to squeak by with a wink and a toss of her long blonde hair. At some institutions students really are just pushed along (just like social promotions in elementary school) to keep enrollment (and dollars) high. It doesn't happen often in engineering, but she was very skilled in the pretense of being smart (when most likely she has a learning disability). Too bad it finally caught up with her on the job.

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    4. Anonymous7:13 PM

      5:36, "retention" is absolutely the key word. He can't retain anything. And he can't sustain a conversation on something that he should be able to at this point. He is going to need a cheat sheet anytime he meets with a foreign leader. They will probably show him a slideshow often to get faces and their names drilled into his head.

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    5. Anonymous9:09 AM

      @6:47. May schools (especially state schools) are dropping their liberal arts requirements which allows STEM side students to pass. This is making the university degree little more than a trade school certification. Look at their program requirements.

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  3. Anonymous4:33 PM

    Trump and Wharton: A complicated relationship - Associated Press
    Associated Press › bigstory › article › tru...
    Apr 18, 2016 -

    And if you assumed his degree was an MBA, you'd be wrong. Trump holds a bachelor ... Trump's campaign did not make him available for an interview for this story. Junior Corey Stern ...

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  4. Anonymous4:34 PM

    What about Melania Trump's architectural degree? Was that a hoax too?

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    1. Anonymous5:16 PM

      She did one year of college, and I read that at least one prof said she failed his exam (I saw his quote), so who knows if she even got credit for one year. Some have said that a degree in Slovenia only takes two years. I really doubt the education is so good that it takes half the time--it's easy to see someone getting a bachelor's in two years and being uneducated and utterly unqualified and needing to take courses over for credit if they transferred into a US college.

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    2. Anonymous5:32 PM

      Don't worry about Melania's education (she appears to have none!) - we need to be concerned about her representing us a 'first' lady!

      She's nothing more than a porn star and nude photos of her are accessible throughout the internet.

      She is hardly a 'first' lady! Trump got her for his sexual fantasies, making her pregnant and that's it.

      She will never represent the majority of Americans as to what quality truly means - when compared to First Lady Michelle Obama!

      The Trumps have zero class!

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    3. Anonymous6:09 PM

      She's not going to be the first lady, Ivanka will perform as first lady, not that she is any better.

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  5. Anonymous4:40 PM

    Oh my the vapors, the vapors!!

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    1. Anonymous5:33 PM

      Then let them out. Too late though, they have made you an idiot.

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    2. Anonymous5:43 PM

      4:40 is that silly nitwit who posts here occasionally. It comes across as childish and ignorant as a Palin.

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    3. Anonymous8:37 PM

      You wanted it well you idiot's got it.Just wait until your taxes go up to pay for that wall you will be whining then. Just wait until your Social Security is taken away from you. Just wait while we become a third WORLD COUNTRY with no minaman wage because we have a President who kisses corporate's ass for his own gain.

      Vapors? You will be the assholes who get vapors when the jobs don't appear and you are taxed to death paying for more nukes we don't need and Trumps family.

      Lets see you bitch about the cost of Melania Trump staying in New York and while your at it lets see the First Lady's White House nude portrait.

      I am sick of you so called religeous right wingers throwing away your principles. You admire sluts [ Bristol} as long as they spit out a kid every year and take no responsibility for their actions but yet you don't want to pay for it.

      You piss on single women who need food stamps to feed their kids and bitch about abortions . You cant have it both ways either you are you are willing to support single Moms or you are not.

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    4. Anonymous10:11 PM

      8:37 cuckoo, cuckoo. lol.

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    5. Anonymous4:30 AM

      Ya say you're being vapored? Bad gas???Sounds like a personal problem. ;o)

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    6. Anonymous4:39 AM

      Gees,palins must of been turned down at Walmart for employment. Venting on Gryphs blog and still waiting for a call from not yet Pres.Punkinhead. Ate the barstool and her 5-6 dependents living in the hockey house garage now? How's school,PIG? Have you been practicing on your flash cards over xmas break??

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  6. Anonymous4:43 PM

    Oh my Christ, he isn't a monster.

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    1. Anonymous4:49 PM

      Shut up whichever Palin you are.

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    2. Anonymous5:13 PM

      Ask your "Christ" and get back to us, m'kay?

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    3. Anonymous5:34 PM

      He is definitely a piece of shit.

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    4. Anonymous6:11 PM

      The countless women whom he sexually assaulted and/or raped consider him a monster. I'll take their word for it and share their opinion thank you very much.

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    5. Anonymous6:22 PM

      1. He discriminated against people of color in his rental properties.
      2. He repeatedly refused to pay contractors who provided products and services for his businesses and threatened to ruin them with legal fees if they took him to court.
      3. He cheated on at least two of his wives.
      4. He repeatedly sexually assaulted women and then bragged about it.
      5. He used money donated to his foundation to pay his own legal fees and purchase portraits of himself and sports memorabilia.
      6. He defrauded people out of their savings with a fake university.
      7. He encouraged hatred and violence during his campaign.
      8. He threatened to close our country's borders to refugees and people based on religion and/or nationality.
      9. He threatened to establish a mandatory database of American citizens who are Muslim.
      10. He lied during his campaign. About nearly everything.
      11. He chose some of the most racist, misogynist, radical, and unqualified cabinet members in history.
      12. He threatened to re-establish the nuclear arms race and asked why we can't use weapons that could destroy all living things on this planet.

      And that's only a few examples. Yes, he's a monster.

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    6. Anonymous7:14 PM

      Of course he's a monster. Every one of his victims would tell you. And it really only takes one victim for someone to be a monster.

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    7. Anonymous5:52 AM

      He raped a 13 year old girl. I guess that's OK with you but to the rest of the thinking world, he's a fucking monster!

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    8. Yes, actually he is a monster.

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    9. Anonymous7:04 AM

      Co much lefty anger. And no 5:52, he did not.

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    10. No. He's worse.

      Monsters are fictional.

      He's real. And in a position to do irreparable harm.

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    11. Anonymous3:54 PM

      No he isn't a monster, he is a sociopath and when he shoots someone on fifth ave he will be a psychopath.

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  7. Anonymous4:49 PM

    If a job component was mandatory, was protested, then became voluntary, how voluntary can it be? All eyes will be on who does and who doesn't. Who is a "team player." There a million ways to make life harder for those who did not "volunteer." With no real way to document it or fight back.

    I bet some of those who would rather not, but who will volunteer, will do it to put food on the table. Dancers don't get paid much, and not that much job security or future. Talk about the stark differences between the 1% and the rest of us.

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    1. Anonymous6:14 PM

      That's true, I just read that they only make $1500-1700/week and then only for 26 weeks per year, so I guess most of them probably will have to shut up and put up consider they can't afford not to! That's just sad that people with their amount of talent are paid such a pittance!

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    2. Anonymous6:51 PM

      My nephew is a graduate degreed high school math teacher and he makes $600/week. He'd be happy to have that pittance of a salary. We do reward what's important in the USA.

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    3. Anonymous9:14 AM

      Having made it public like this will indeed make it more difficult to fire the dancers based on participation or not. The minute a pattern emerges, it's very public class action lawsuit time.

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    4. Anonymous7:42 PM

      6:51 ~ Your nephew might live in an area where a studio apartment is only $500-600/month.

      A studio 'closet' in NYC up 3 and a half flights of stairs is $1500 (or more) a month.

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  8. DrLager4:50 PM

    O/T but I thought you might find it funny
    just went to the peepond to fuck with them...
    clicked on the c4p page, is blank except for the top left
    it has one word
    HACKED
    hahahahaaaaaaaa

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    1. Anonymous5:10 PM

      Hilarious!

      I hope I had something to with that, I often put their worst comments on the internet for normal people to see. It appears that the bitter little bunch of Haters has had their 'safe space' exposed.

      Is it wrong that I'm smiling?

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    2. DrLager5:40 PM

      well, ya never know, the kids are off school, and you know what those darn kids will get up to...

      it's not like anyone would offer free netflx for a year...

      I bet it was the Russians...
      or maybe some 400lb guy named Russ...

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    3. Anonymous6:03 PM

      DrLager :)

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    4. Anonymous6:15 PM

      OMG that's funny! I haven't thought about that bunch for quite a number of years and I can't believe they still gather to bitch and moan about their queen.

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    5. Anonymous4:14 AM

      @ 4:50 - It now reads..."Down for Maintenance".

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    6. Someone is economizing and didn't pay the bill?

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  9. Anonymous4:56 PM

    OMG 4:43 PM You are nuts! Check out what he has had to say for the past year and a half. He IS truly a monster and Hitler II!!! Just watch!

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  10. Anonymous5:00 PM

    As with Tom Arnold, throw your truth to the wind and be done with it. She'll land safe.

    "You'll never work in this town again" can be a blessing, especially when you can say that you stood up for what's right.

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    1. Anonymous6:18 PM

      Nothing that Tom Arnold can reveal is going to take the shine off of Trump for his die-hard supporters, hell, the evangelicals still worship him even though he's committed all 7 deadly sins, some multiple times!

      These people are going to have to come to detest him in their own way and in their own time, just like the white supremacists and nazis are becoming disenchanted with him so will many others but only once he personally insults them and their beliefs.

      Him calling people "niggers" won't mean a hill of beans to his supporters, in fact, many will just give him a thumbs up.

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  11. Anonymous6:20 PM

    After learning about how nasty #NOTMYPRESIDENT is, and looking at how nasty #NOTMYFIRSTLADY dresses to go to church to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, I don't want to imagine what she has to do to please him in bed.

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    1. Anonymous6:32 PM

      WTF are you talking about?

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    2. Anonymous7:01 PM

      WTF don't you understand? He's a nasty person. He thinks because he's rich, women can't help throw their pussy at him. Avoiding STDs was Trump's Vietnam.


      Donald Trump Calls Sleeping Around, Avoiding STDs His ‘Personal Vietnam’ in Resurfaced 1997 Interview

      Donald Trump’s controversial comments about military service can be traced all the way back to 1997. In an interview with Howard Stern that resurfaced on BuzzFeed and The Daily Beast on Monday, August 1, the Republican presidential nominee, now 70, linked sleeping around with women to serving in the Vietnam War.

      “I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world,” Trump told Stern of avoiding STDs. “It is a dangerous world out there. It’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam era. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.” (Trump reportedly avoided serving during the Vietnam War by getting student deferments and a medical deferment.)

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  12. Anonymous6:41 PM

    $2.5 MILLION GIFT CAN GET ANYBODY INTO HARVARD

    Since everybody is talking about Melania's questionable architecture degree and Donald's questionable education, how about Ivanka's husband?

    Vanity Fair:
    THE STRANGE, COMPLEX EDUCATION OF JARED KUSHNER

    Can the political neophyte, who has stumbled in publishing and real estate, recognize his own limits—in the White House?

    ....“But he thought he was so much smarter than he was. That makes for really dangerous and decisive decisions. He is really confident that he’s doing the right thing, but he has no idea what he’s doing.”

    “IT’S DANGEROUS TO HAVE SOMEONE WHO THINKS HE’S SO MUCH SMARTER THAN HE IS PUT IN A LARGE POSITION OF POWER.”

    Kushner, of course, has not had to endure a long and grinding ascent throughout his career. He matriculated to Harvard shortly after his father, real-estate magnate Charles Kushner, made a $2.5 million gift. Shortly after graduation from a joint law and business degree at N.Y.U., he rose to the the family real-estate throne as a principal at Kushner Companies during his father's well-documented stint in federal prison...

    http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/jared-kushner-education-donald-trump

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  13. Anonymous7:15 PM

    Trump: Obama Not Harvard Material

    Manhattan real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested in an interview Monday that President Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended.

    Trump, who is mulling a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, offered no proof for his claim but said he would continue to press the matter as he has the legitimacy of the president's birth certificate.

    Obama graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1983 with a degree in political science after transferring from Occidental College in California. He went on to Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude 1991 and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.

    "I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can't get into Harvard," Trump said. "We don't know a thing about this guy. There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president."

    (Donald what about Ivanka's husband who got into Harvard after his father gave $2.5 million as a gift to Harvard. So stop pointing your finger at other people and questioning their education since there's a lot of questions about your spouse's architecture degree and your degree)

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    1. Anonymous5:01 AM

      Barack Obama is so much smarter than Donald Trump that it drives him fucking nuts.

      Trump will NEVER measure up to President Obama in hundreds of ways and it's going to be proven time and time again after 1/20/17!

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  14. Anonymous7:30 PM

    IS TRUMP MAKING AMERICA GREAT?
    What does America have to give up for Trump to get 20 to 30 Trump hotels in China?

    WP:
    Trump Hotels has had its eye on China — but the door hasn’t opened

    BEIJING — Donald Trump calls China an “enemy” of the United States, a threat and an international pariah whose modus operandi is to lie, cheat and steal — but for at least eight years his hotel chain has been trying to do business here.

    Although negotiations have yet to bear fruit, Trump Hotels has made confident predictions this year about opening 20 or 30 luxury hotels in China. It is an ambition that would involve the company in direct negotiations with a Communist Party that the president-elect professes to fundamentally distrust.

    If Trump Hotels goes ahead with its efforts to expand to China, or even if it only lays plans to do so after his term in office, it could hugely complicate one of the most important foreign policy relationships Trump will have to negotiate during his presidency. And the suspicion that Trump as president might be trying to badger China or butter it up to promote his business there risks coloring perceptions of his every move in regard to Beijing — even those that are completely aboveboard.

    “It’s very hard for foreign politicians to do business in China,” said Liu Xuemei, vice president of New World Development’s Huamei Real Estate Development. “If you want to do politics, don’t try doing business in China.”...

    In 2008, Trump Hotels was reported by the South China Morning Post to have joined forces­ with one of China’s largest property developers, Evergrande Real Estate, and the Hong Kong-based Orient Property Group to bid on the development of a landmark office tower in the southern city of Guangzhou. The deal fell apart a month later when Evergrande pulled out, according to NPR....

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/trump-hotels-has-had-its-eye-on-china--but-the-door-hasnt-opened/2016/12/26/d237d926-c6e7-11e6-85b5-76616a33048d_story.html

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    1. Anonymous8:29 PM

      "confident predictions this year about opening 20 or 30 luxury hotels in China."


      I'm lucky if I can buy Chinese food on minimum wage

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  15. Kennedy Center Honors tonight.

    Love watching Obama silently sing along with the James Taylor tribute.

    Again the stars came out. Ringo in the audience. Garth Brooks is singing "Shower the people you love with love."

    No, Trump. Brooks will NOT perform at your inauguration.

    Is anyone besides has beens and wannabes from, what is the lowest list? D-List, F-list, the Z-list? going to perform at Trump's inauguration?

    Oh, man. Standing ovation for How Sweet it is to be loved by you. Everyone joining in to dance and sing along.

    What they hell are we going to do for the next four years?

    Will Trump be nominating artists? I hope not. I hope the Kennedy Center decides but I suspect the President decides. Imagine the Deplorable line-up he'll nominate. I wonder if they'll decline because they don't even want an award from him. Will the Kennedy Center have to invite him to attend? I have to wonder how many celebrities will skip attending because they don't want to be in the same room as him. What will they fill the audience with? Can't have an empty audience.

    Maybe the Kennedy Center will just skip the next four years. That might be best.

    Colbert is hosting. He's great.

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    1. Anonymous5:16 AM

      I was thinking about all of that while I was watching last night. How different it's going to be during the next four years.

      The 'arts', as defined by Donald Trump, MUST be gilded in lavish quantities of gold or dressed in micro-bikinis.

      It's a sad and scary time for our country for so, sooo many reasons.

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    2. Anonymous1:43 PM

      I watched the show too and found it wonderful as usual. Trump will not bring the same flavor to it - nor his porn wife and/or daughter w/whom incest is very probable!

      Damn - we are in for big trouble every way you look w/Trump supposedly our potus!

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  16. Anonymous9:10 PM

    Live by the gun, die by the gun. Remember that, Alaskan ammosexuals.

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    1. Anonymous7:25 AM

      Yup. 14 yr old shoots teen thru seat while riding in back seat of truck with loaded pistol....accidently. Teen is now a paraplegic. Hey!!What a fucked up Merry Christmas to those families!!!!

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  17. More Fascism from the BananaRepublicans.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-punish-filming-photography-house-floor_us_5862ebe5e4b0de3a08f67e33?section=us_politics

    "When caught on camera doing something bad, most people stop doing the bad thing.

    House Republicans try to get rid of the cameras.

    On Monday, leadership in the GOP-controlled House proposed a rule that would punish representatives who film, take photos, record or broadcast anything from the House floor. Bloomberg, which first reported the rule change, says first-time offenders would face a $500 fine; repeat offenders would see $2,500 docked from their paychecks.

    The rule is a clear response to Democratic lawmakers who, in a protest this June after the deadliest shooting in U.S. history, staged a sit-in on the House floor in an attempt to compel Republican leadership to vote on gun control legislation.

    Republicans responded instead by gaveling the House into recess, thereby cutting off C-SPAN cameras that broadcast the protest. In the absence of cameras, Democrats began tweeting photos and live-streaming the event on their phones, which C-SPAN broadcast instead."

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  18. Anonymous10:54 PM

    Wow, none of those dancers look like this:

    http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Briston+Palin/Bristol+Palin+Goes+Rehearsal/PtMN4quhEWJ

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  19. Anonymous2:32 AM

    In Congress, Democrats are already taking aim at Trump’s perceived conflicts of interest in his business dealing with China.

    Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), speaking at a Dec. 14 forum at the Capitol on ethical issues raised by the incoming administration, said that it didn’t matter to him if Trump wanted to keep his name on businesses such as “The Celebrity Apprentice” but that dealings with foreign countries were another matter.

    “I care about government officials in Bahrain, China, Turkey, Argentina, Singapore and elsewhere who may buy up entire floors of hotel rooms, pay higher rents at Trump Tower, lower interest rates on loans, speed up permits for development projects or take all kinds of other inappropriate actions to ingratiate themselves with the new administration,” Cummings said.

    Yet there is one potential silver lining, some business leaders privately say. Perhaps Trump’s interest in doing business in China will prevent him starting a trade war with Beijing that could wreak havoc on both nations’ economies.

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    1. Trump has appointed his lawyer from the Trump family business to a new made up position in the White House to negotiate foreign deals. The guy knows nothing about politics but has spent 20 years becoming intimately acquainted with what will benefit Trump.

      Conflict? Ya think?

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  20. Randall2:39 AM

    I wonder if Trump wants access to the names of the Rockettes who turned him down?

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    1. Anonymous11:47 AM

      I wonder if Trump wants access to the Rockettes dressing room before the show?

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    2. Anonymous1:39 PM

      I'll bet most of the Rockettes would love being able to cut off his tiny dick!

      The guy is a fucking joke thinking the gals would enjoy dancing for him! Damn, but he is physically repulsive! How his many wives have had sex with the fat jerk is beyond me!

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  21. Anonymous2:40 AM

    Turning over Trump's businesses to his son's means what?

    Trump says his son's are taking over his businesses. That is only by paper.

    Does anybody really think Trump will distance himself from his businesses?

    His son's will still involve his father on everything going on with his businesses behind closed doors in the East Wings (president's home)

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  22. Anonymous4:57 AM

    Republicans in Congress need to be hung from the highest rafters in D.C.! The truly are a deplorable and horrid bunch of white fucking jerks...beginning w/Donald Trump!

    Vote every one of them out of office when they come up for reelection. We, Americans, have every right to know what they are doing and not doing in Congress. They fact they want to blatantly hide things from us is ridiculous! The Democrats will get messages out to us though....just watch!!!

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    1. Right after Kentucky votes Mitch McConnell out of office.

      As it, not going to happen.

      Those dumb fucks vote Republican despite the GOP taking away their health care. It was the DEMOCRATS that defended them and tried to get their health care renewed (coal miner's). They didn't succeed. But at least they tried.

      What will Kentucky do? Probably vote the Democrats out of office for failing to save them and reward the BananaRepublicans for taking away their health care in the first place.

      Deplorables are simply fucked up morons.

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  23. Anonymous5:11 AM

    10:11 appears to be losing their grip. Maybe they need a trip on the short bus back to the nut house. Yes,my dear,even dumpster's bad calls will effect your household too and also.

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  24. Anonymous6:06 AM

    $ara Paylin has offered to play the peenywhistle and flagpole dance for a position in the cabinet. Cowboy in the closet?
    Also signed up is a b-list of silicone enhanced also-ran beauty contestees, the Rackettes, performing "The Woodie Soldier"on their knees.

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    1. Anonymous1:35 PM

      How many Republican dicks is she going to have to suck to get a 'big' government job? Doubt any of them would really want her near them even for that!

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  25. Anonymous6:14 AM

    http://www.bluedotdaily.com/sworn-testimony-from-trump-rape-case-finally-released/

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  26. Anonymous6:31 AM

    Chaney has offered his expertise too!

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    1. Anonymous7:19 AM

      Yeah,Chaney has his two cents to offer. Talked with sister who's husband did nuclear arms reagon thru bush jr. He's all enthused that we're now beefing up our nukes. I asked whatever happened to his big campaign for Non proliferation? ??? I guess $$$$$ talks when it comes to lining the pockets of the warhawks.

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    2. Anonymous1:33 PM

      Hasn't Cheney died yet? Taxpayers paid for his second, third or fourth mechanical heart....time the next one isn't put in the jerk's chest.

      He's done zero for our country except lie and lead us into war!

      Hell awaits him and his death cannot come soon enough! Another horrible fat, white guy that is Republican!

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  27. Chenagrrl9:42 AM

    The Rockettes work for Jim Dolan, known to force his employees to attend his rock band concerts. Odd that he is not playing the inauguration. However, his viciousness is not to be underestimated. No one knows this better than the Rockettes' union.

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  28. Anonymous3:50 PM

    I think it would be tacky to have the Rockettes at the Inauguration to begin with, but if they must dance for His Pervertness, they should kick it high, kick it low, kick it where is counts,
    even if his flabby stomach rolls act as a jock strap.

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  29. Anonymous9:02 PM

    Imagine that, the Rockettes, a group of women that are paid essentially for having pretty faces and nice bodies, selected especially for the correct shapely and sexy leg, along with the talent to kick it high in unison with the other sexy high kicking dancers, all of a sudden finding a moral high ground.

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