Comments by Diez Pesos (page 2)

Unfortunately for Trump, if he loses the 2020 election, he’ll no longer be able to use the staff of the Justice Department as his personal lawyers. That’s a worrisome thing for a guy who’s potentially committed numerous crimes, and we know this because Trump is reportedly soiling himself in fear over what he might be prosecuted for, and maybe go to jail over, after he leaves office. Per the New York Times: Seldom far from Mr. Trump’s thoughts, however, is the possibility of defeat—and the potential consequences of being ejected from the White House. In unguarded moments, Mr. Trump has for weeks told advisers that he expects to face intensifying scrutiny from prosecutors if he loses. He is concerned not only about existing investigations in New York, but the potential for new federal probes as well, according to people who have spoken with him. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/11/donald-trump-post-white-house-prosecutions

Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose By Jane Mayer November 1, 2020 Trump Few people have evaded consequences more cunningly than Trump. His luck may run out if Joe Biden defeats him. The President was despondent. Sensing that time was running out, he had asked his aides to draw up a list of his political options. He wasn’t especially religious, but, as daylight faded outside the rapidly emptying White House, he fell to his knees and prayed out loud, sobbing as he smashed his fist into the carpet. “What have I done?” he said. “What has happened?” When the President noted that the military could make it easy for him by leaving a pistol in a desk drawer, the chief of staff called the President’s doctors and ordered that all sleeping pills and tranquillizers be taken away from him, to insure that he wouldn’t have the means to kill himself. The downfall of Richard Nixon, in the summer of 1974, was, as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein relate in “The Final Days,” one of the most dramatic in American history. That August, the Watergate scandal forced Nixon—who had been cornered by self-incriminating White House tape recordings, and faced impeachment and removal from office—to resign. Twenty-nine individuals closely tied to his Administration were subsequently indicted, and several of his top aides and advisers, including his Attorney General, John Mitchell, went to prison. Nixon himself, however, escaped prosecution because his successor, Gerald Ford, granted him a pardon, in September, 1974. No American President has ever been charged with a criminal offense. But, as Donald Trump fights to hold on to the White House, he and those around him surely know that if he loses—an outcome that nobody should count on—the presumption of immunity that attends the Presidency will vanish. Given that more than a dozen investigations and civil suits involving Trump are currently under way, he could be looking at an endgame even more perilous than the one confronted by Nixon. The Presidential historian Michael Beschloss said of Trump, “If he loses, you have a situation that’s not dissimilar to that of Nixon when he resigned. Nixon spoke of the cell door clanging shut.” Trump has famously survived one impeachment, two divorces, six bankruptcies, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. Few people have evaded consequences more cunningly. That run of good luck may well end, perhaps brutally, if he loses to Joe Biden. Even if Trump wins, grave legal and financial threats will loom over his second term. Two of the investigations into Trump are being led by powerful state and city law-enforcement officials in New York. Cyrus Vance, Jr., the Manhattan District Attorney, and Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, are independently pursuing potential criminal charges related to Trump’s business practices before he became President. Because their jurisdictions lie outside the federal realm, any indictments or convictions resulting from their actions would be beyond the reach of a Presidential pardon. Trump’s legal expenses alone are likely to be daunting. (By the time Bill Clinton left the White House, he’d racked up more than ten million dollars in legal fees.) And Trump’s finances are already under growing strain. During the next four years, according to a stunning recent Times report, Trump—whether reëlected or not—must meet payment deadlines for more than three hundred million dollars in loans that he has personally guaranteed; much of this debt is owed to such foreign creditors as Deutsche Bank. Unless he can refinance with the lenders, he will be on the hook. The Financial Times, meanwhile, estimates that, in all, about nine hundred million dollars’ worth of Trump’s real-estate debt will come due within the next four years. At the same time, he is locked in a dispute with the Internal Revenue Service over a deduction that he has claimed on his income-tax forms; an adverse ruling could cost him an additional hundred million dollars. To pay off such debts, the President, whose net worth is estimated by Forbes to be two and a half billion dollars, could sell some of his most valuable real-estate assets—or, as he has in the past, find ways to stiff his creditors. But, according to an analysis by the Washington Post, Trump’s properties—especially his hotels and resorts—have been hit hard by the pandemic and the fallout from his divisive political career. “It’s the office of the Presidency that’s keeping him from prison and the poorhouse,” Timothy Snyder, a history professor at Yale who studies authoritarianism, told me. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/why-trump-cant-afford-to-lose

I wonder how many indictments Trump and the Trump Organization will be facing in 2021?

Gotcha. In that case, yes I did misunderstand it. I took it as you gloating. Anyway, yes good advice for Juice and glad it hasn't effected your lifestyle. I'm hoping for a rebound and for this to pass as well.

If you really had been the ghost of Christmas future, you would have known to sell your stocks at historic highs, before the markets collapsed. I know people say you shouldn't time the markets, but after the longest bull market ever in all of history, I'll never understand how people can't cash in. It could take years for you to recover that money. It's like watching a player go on a long winning streak in blackjack and him refusing to cash in his chips, only to watch them his chips dwindle back to where he started. Anyway, best of luck to you.

"mark94 Jan 2, 2020 Consider me the ghost of future Christmas. I saved a high percent of my income all my career. I retired young and live ( comfortably and modestly) off my investments, mainly index funds. Since January, my investments are up 31%. Nice. Very nice." How are they doing since January now? Still very nice?

More mainstream businesses would be a better way of saying it. Besides several brothel type bars and hotels, I believe they own a large water supply company along with other vanilla type businesses. As for the Asian mob being involved, I believe the Mexican cartels muscled them out long ago. A lot of street girls may have been trafficked to TJ, but I would say that nearly 100% of the HK chicas are there by their own choosing, even if it's out of necessity. The closest an HK girl comes to being trafficked is when a PLM sends her a plane ticket and $500 to $1,000 to come back from vacation because misses her.

I recently spent some time with an HK chica both in the club and OTC on multiple days. She showed me her real ID's. She was born in the U.S. and has dual citizenship. She was not deported. She was working in the U.S. making $15 an hour in a full time job, but quit to work in HK because she said she can make $2k per week instead of $600 per week and she has a baby and parents to support.

The girls do not pay a house fee. They just have to sell fichas, so the bar makes enough money off of them. A ficha quota may or may not exist. Lots of guys argue about whether one really exists on other Tijuana boards.

That article is from 2013. That guy no longer owns HK. The Brizuela brothers do. They are loaded and own many businesses in Tijuana, both bars and also legitimate businesses.

The panhandlers are everywhere it seems. They may not be blocking the entrance to the bars, but they are always nearby. I've had a couple follow me halfway up the Cascadas stairs while going arriba. There's also an old woman who walks into Azul and goes around table to table panhandling.