If WSB is a casino, you should probably build a strategy. Here is my perspective.
TL;DR it takes too much work and mental stress to become consistently profitable. Get a day job. Below are some of the guidelines I make for my own personal investments and I am sharing my investing perspective so it may help others improve their trading views through the perspective of an idiot. What I think every investor should know/learn about: •It usually takes years before traders become profitable, but it can be a great source of income if you can game the market. •It is important to remember that there is always a winner and a loser in a trade. The banks are usually the winners. •When you go to the casino always find a way to bet on the casino winning. •Only sell puts when they are covered and you intend to buy stocks from it to use as a potential swing trade or long hold. You don’t want to get caught trying to work the verticals after hours. •Indicators are great outliers for trading, but should really only be used as a basis to judge your trades at the end of the day. you want to avoid getting VWAP, MACD and IC fucked because when you’re trading at the bottom of the channels sometimes it just keeps going... •Sitting back and going cash heavy is never a bad move. Sure you miss out on some opportunities but you certainly don’t want to feel the bite of overbuying during an institutional sell off. •Consolidation can take weeks before it rockets or blows up. Place consolidation calls 1 month out and swings 2 weeks out. Theta usually burns during the last week more than any other time, so doing 2 week trades is usually best unless you expect the market to turn the next day(don’t buy calls for next Friday exp if tomorrow is the only up day you expect) because other people are probably thinking the same thing and selling their options at the same time as you. •Generally speaking, most people lose money by buying a call or put and holding it until expiration. If you’re lucky enough to ride a daily wave or gap consider selling out or pulling profits to gamble with house money. How many degenerates have been up 100+ only to be down 90% the next day? •Know the rules(really though, read the rules on exercising options as they vary from platform to platform). •make your own guidelines, and look for keys or tell tale signs of a head fake. •If you’re new to trading stocks you should probably stick to trading stocks until you learn what a bid/ask spread is, learn how markets move, and learn how all the small things can make industries move on a macro level. •Learn how to time the market and compare charts for consistent moves made during specific time periods. Break it down per 1,5,15,30,60 minute charts and daily charts mon-Friday for years. Try to find tendencies and consistencies in charts and graphs. If you think you can read charts and patterns choose a random day of that stock that you have not studied and day trade it using Webull on normal time playback(not on fast forward so you suffer the misery of watching it move slowly for minutes on end only to miss the timing of the jump or bottom). •There is nothing wrong with holding onto cash and just watching/studying the markets. Look for how different things like hurricanes, war, tsunamis, inflation, deflation, bond yields and exchange rates effect the market in the mean time as that is what has been driving this market on a macro level. •my personal holdings strategy is 80% cash, 10% stock, 9% options and 1% leverage. It can change to 90% cash and 10% options with a 5-5 or 8-2 split when I am not holding onto stock and run bearish. I do not want a normal market as that would kill my strategy(a market that lacks volatility). •If leverage is too expensive to buy on your positions, find a stock that has been outperforming based on that sector and short it(assuming you’re call heavy). They usually have the lowest IV but the largest amount of movement. Puts on triple leveraged is also a pretty decent money mAker when looking for leverage(costs more but has a tendency of having larger payout percentages). •Learn about psychological manipulation and the way institutional investors move the bid/ask spread to create artificial support and resistance lines before canceling their buy/sell orders and letting the stock run. Sometimes they will kill the price after a few minutes just to create a different bid/ask spread with backup orders(my theory is that this is what creates VWAP and MACD flops on a macro level). •create your own rules that will help you refine your investments. Having too many rules doesn’t limit your trades, rather it increases your ability to invest by increasing success and through this creating confidence required to make the right trade. •Look at daily bond yields and volumes of bonds bought/sold and at what prices. •Watch currency exchanges as currency rates will clearly make a difference in profits that rely on imports/exports(almost every company). •When trading wedges, sell out when one set of options covers the cost of the entire wedge(calls and puts) +10%, and hold the other side until the stock goes the other way. I view it as buying the consolidation, profiting off of movement, and banking off of a head fake. •sell options within the first 15-30 minutes of market open if the stock spiked to take advantage of volatility. •buy options around 2-3et as that will usually be the cheapest time , but the last half hour can also be a great time depending on which part of charts you like to work. •Close options as a day trade if I profit 100% or more in a day. Personal rules: 80% cash, 10% stock, 10% options with 90% cash-10% options if I am bearish. Don’t overpay for an option just because you think you can scalp a quick 50%. It’s not worth getting macd or vwap fucked. If you have to pay more than the price of 1 stock for a weekly option that is 50 cents or .2% otm it is not worth buying in my opinion(don’t hold options for more than 1-3 days at the most because you don’t want to ride the waves if you know a down day is coming). Be happy with 5-10% returns. Sure some people might be making more, but you just need to hit the right rotation to outperform them. Do your research. Don’t jump on hype/meme stock. Inverse Cramer except when he is giving advice to service members. Always buy leverage because breaking even on bad days is worth sacrificing 10-30% worth of gains to make sure you break even if the market turns. Know the who(who is the ceo and what have they done), the what(what does the company sell and who are they marketed towards), when(when do you plan on buying and selling), where(where are they based out of), why(why do you think this company will outperform the other companies in the same sector), and how(how did you hear about the stock? Sources matter as they will give you an idea of how accurate they have been in the past). Buy on bad news and sell on good news. Most of the time billionaires already got the news and sold out by the time you hear about it and panic(causing more panic and a great buying opportunity). This is not investment/financial advice and is for entertainment purposes only. Edit: food for thought: ever wanted to exercise an option afterhours and sell it in early premarket 4:30 et to buy and dump the position? How are you going to exercise those options without cash to exercise them?
All of Bolsonaro's Men - An Explanation on how Brazil's Current Politics and why a Cabinet Meeting is now on Youtube (Part 3)
This is the final part explaining Bolsonaro's April 22nd cabinet meeting. At the end there are some final remarks, and in the comments my sources. Braga Netto introduces Abraham Weintraub, Minister of Education Note: Weintraub currently is being sued for a racist tweet that implied China created Covid Weintraub: [...] I don't want to be a slave in this country. And end with this crap that is Brasília. This is a cancer of corruption, of privilege. [...] The people here lose perception, empathy, public relations. [...] We are losing the fight for liberty. This is what the people is calling for. They are not calling for more State, for more projects, to have more ... the people are calling for liberty, full stop. Note: This right now is one of the most controversial moments of the meeting, with the Supreme Court taking legal action on what he says right now Weintraub: In my opinion, I'd arrest all those lazy bums. Starting with the Supreme Court. [...] I notice there's many people with a personal agenda. [...] I have a bunch of lawsuits in the ethics committee of the presidency. I'm the only one here that took a lawsuit. [...] I'm really here with an open chest, as you know it, I get shot ... hate ... hate the Communist Party [Redacted] They are trying to turn us into a colony. [...] We need to end this thing of people and privileges. [...] Bolsonaro: Let me complement this. What Weintraub is saying - I'm 65 - we get close to people we shouldn't. I have to police myself in regards to that. It's people here in Brasília, of the three powers, that don't know what's the people. I talk to a few, don't know what's rice and beans, don't know what's a supermarket. Forgot. Think that money falls from the sky. "I have my guaranteed privileges, my 100k per month" on average, 100k per month they earn, right? Legally. And think this will never end. Like some think the liberty "What's the deal with that guy, is he crazy?" I see the oldest one here, General Heleno here. He knows what is six, what was sixty four. Many of the ones here don't know. The people that tried to get into power in sixty four, if they had arrived, we were all fucked here. Cutting ... super happy if we were cutting sugarcane earning twenty USD per month. Can't forget that Note: reference to how it is claimed that the military did the coup in 64 to prevent a socialist revolution Bolsonaro: We can't forget who this people is. I'll invite the ministers to go on Sunday visit Ceilândia and Taguatinga. (Two local neighbourhoods). It's an invitation, not a ... not a mission no. Invitation. To see how the guy in the corner is doing. So that some piece of shit comes up and says, right? Same pieces of shit as always "Ah but the guy broke isolation. You're giving a terrible example" Ok ... Bad example is my dick, fuck! Worst is to starve! You're in shit, fuck! Feel how the people smell, like I said, there. It's an experience for every politician to feel! Go there and see how it is. Or there's people that is, like it was, right, huh? A general in the rear letting the troops get fucked in front. No! The General is, is in the front, the colonel is in the front, the captain is in the front. Our heroes of WW2 had ahead of them a battlefield. If it was needed, I'm sure, our armed forces will do their job, but, right? We have to give an example and show what Brazil isn't - I'm less rude than Weintraub, improved a lot, right? In the language he used - but that's not what people say around. Meeting around midnight, here and there. Informations systems, mine works. Bolsonaro: My particular one works. The ofi ... which have officially, misinform. And back to the theme, I prefer not to have information than to be misinformed by the system of informations that I have. So, people, many will be able to leave Brazil, but I don't want to leave and see my sister form Eldorado, another from Cajati, my poor brother Army captain from ... from ... from ... from Miracatu getting fucked, fuck! It's being pursued all day long! And then the shit Folha de São Paulo, says my brother was kicked from a slaughterhouse, buying meat without a mask. Proved in writing, he was in São Paulo that day. The owner of ... of restaurant of ... of ... of ... of the slaughterhouse said he wasn't there. And that's it. I know it's his problem, right? But the bullshit is the whole time to hit me, messing with my family. I already tried to change the staff of our security in Rio, officially, and wasn't able to! And this ended. I'm not going to wait to fuck my entire family, of bullshit, or friends of mine, because I couldn't switch someone from our frontline security in our structure. It'll switch! If I can't switch, I'll switch his boss! Can't switch his boss? Switch the minister! Full stop! We're not joking here (note): the minister and one of the bosses mentioned here are Ramagem and Moro Bolsonaro: And then some kid shows up, with - all due respect - the one from BNDES, ok? I met him when he wore shorts, and ... Fuck, he came from the United States over here, could very well be there. Came here to try to change Brazil invited by Paulo Guedes, who is a friend of his parents. Coincidence, isn't it Paulo Guedes? Bolsonaro: I don't think so. .. I don't remember your parents, I remember you, fuck! All right? But it's someone I'm investing here. And all of those have to think about this. What these sons of bitches want, huh Weintraub, is our freedom. Look, how it is, how easy it is to impose a dictatorship in Brazil. How easy it is. Everybody is home. This is why I want, the Justice and Defense Ministries, let the people be armed! It's the guarantee that some son of a bitch won't show up to impose a dictatorship here! How easy it is to impose a dictatorship! Ridiculously easy! Some bullshit mayor makes some bullshit decree, handcuffs, keeps everybody home. If they were armed, they would go to the street. If I was dictator, right? I'd want to disarm the population, like they did in the past when they wanted, before imposed their respective dictatorship. Then, what's our demonstration, I ask Fernando (Minister of Defense) and Moro that please, sign in the Executive Order today and I want to give a bitch of a note to these pieces of shit! Because why am I arming the people? Because I don't want a dictatorship! There's no way to hold back! Right? No way to hold back. Yeah, who won't accept my flags Damares: "family, God, Brazil, guns, freedom of speech, free market". Who won't accept this is in the wrong government. Wait until twenty two, right? Your Álvaro Dias. Wait for Alckmin. Wait for Haddad. Or maybe Lula, right? Go be happy with them, fuck? In my government it's wrong! It's make the armament question obvious here. I want everybody armed! The armed people will never be enslaved. And that each one does, does your job. Expose yourself. Here I already said: you'll lose the ministry if you get spoken positively by Folha or by Globo! By Antagonista! Right? So there are some blogs there that only have good news from the ministers. No idea how! The president ... takes a beating, but the minister is congratulated. And then we see around. "Ah, the government is, the ... the ministry is doing well, although the president." Go fuck yourself, fuck! I picked the team, fuck! We switched five. Hope I won't have to switch anybody else! I hope! But we have to, in Weintraub's line, in a more gentle way, right? It's ... caring about this. What the guys want is our hemorrhoid! It's out liberty! This is a truth. What these guys did with the virus, this piece of shit governor of São Paulo (João Dória), this shit from Rio de Janeiro (Wilson Witzel), amongst others is exactly that. Made use of the virus, there's a piece of shit mayor in Manaus now, opening mass graves. A piece of shit. Who doesn't know his history, try to learn, which I met inside the House, with him next to me! Right? And we know the ... his ideology and what he preaches. And what he always was. It's what ... he's making use now, of a climate like this, to bring terror to Brazil. Right? So people, please, care about was important with everybody's life, what is your liberty. An arrested man is worth shit. (note: the mayor of Manaus, Artur Virgílio Neto is the son of Artur Virgílio, a Congressman who was exiled and stripped of his position after the military shutdown the Congress under accusations of being communist) Braga Netto introduces Paulo Guedes Guedes begins by presenting a more moderate stance. Saying that although they are breaking of from the establishment, they need to work together to pass the reforms. He then mentions a conversation that he had with the G20 Ministers of Economy and the BRICS. Also mentions the pension reform and how it passed in contrast to France. "Now, the same thing, I've been saying: we are deepening the reforms, we are continuing, we are following". Followed up by saying how he doesn't believe in dogmas, how Brazil was heading in a strong direction, but suddenly crashed. Brazil was one of the first countries to prepare to alleviate the crisis financially, and in his opinion, it's only worse than the United States because Powell and the Fed put out money to help keep markets afloat. Also of note is that part of the economic recovery plan involves unconventional methods, like allowing taxes to be paid later while moving forward government benefit payouts, as they were limited by the constitution. It's been planned to cost around three hundred and something billion, last deficit under Temer was around one hundred sixty. These plans reach seventy million Brazilians. "We made a banking committee, we are there with Montezano now doing exactly the restructuring. There won't be easy work for airlines, none of this. We are putting in money, and it's going to work using the best financial technology available. We are putting in money, and it's going to work and we are going to turn a profit. We are going to turn a profit using public resources to save large companies. Now, we are going to lose money saving small companies. Guedes insists the necessity to continue with the reforms mid pandemic, using the bailouts to reform the economy. "A Marshall Plan per year". Insists on lowering interest rates, and blocking government raises for two years. In his own words, you can't impeach if you're going by the book. "And the president is in the future, because the president said the following: ok, there's the first wave, which is health, but there's the second one that's the economy, and one follows the other. We are still trying to leave the first ... and the second is trying to arrive. I still think we are preserving the vitals of the Brazilian economy". He mentions how the economy will likely be held by the expected large soy production and new logistic projects. A mention of China is also present, as for every USD exported to the US, Brazil exports three to China. Mourão and Guedes talk about this, but it is redacted. In Guedes' words, "We are going to sell our soy to them This we can sell as much as we want. They have to eat, they have to eat. India also needs to eat, they'll need water. They'll say it's the best water trade. Strangely, it's also suggested to have a mobilization of the Young Apprentices Program working with the military, as they could be paid with government spending. He criticizes Damares for being against casinos, mentioning Macau. In his own words "the president speaks about liberty. Let everybody get fucked the way they wan't. Especially if he's overage, vaccinated, and a billionaire. Let him get fucked, fuck!" Also mentioned is a meeting with the US Ambassador, who says there is a few hundred billion dollars earmarked for investments in Brazil, but dependent on a good business environment. "Simplified taxation, juridical safety". He also recommends signing the General Purchase Agreement, and joining into the OECD to allow for more government transparency, allowing for improved trade. Bolsonaro then says he has Trump's support. Guedes disagrees "we can't lose the opportunity of having the president being this friendly with Trump". Tereza Cristina (Agriculture) speaks briefly about how countries are shifting to have government stocks of food post COVID. Currently Brazil is not self sufficient in wheat production, most of it is imported from neighbouring Argentina. Of course, funding is an issue, but there is two million acres set aside in the Matopiba region ready to invest in. 9% interest rates are an issue according to her. Bolsonaro asks if the Banco do Brasil (another one of Brazilian Government Banks) can help Guedes intervenes "Banco do Brasil is neither an armadillo or a snake. It's neither private or public. If you pressure Rubem (head of the bank), poor him. He's super liberal, but if you pressure him and he says "lower the rates", he goes "I can't or else the team, the private, my minoritaires, pressure me". Then if you say "put interest rates high", he goes "I can't or else the government pressures me". Banco do Brasil is a ready case to privatize. It's a ready case and we aren't doing this step. Have you sir noticed that the BNDE and the ... the ... the Caixa which are our, public, we do what we want. Banco de Brasil we can't do anything and we have a liberal there. So we need to sell this shit fast. Bolsonaro makes a quip about Rubem not being invited to the next meeting. Rubem explains how even in the changing situation Banco do Brasil has expanded loans, and the bank doesn't have liquidity issues. At the same time, the bank handles the payments for public companies and the military, which are more stable than private companies. Guedes makes a joke about him to "confess his dream". In Rubem's own words "In regard to privatizing, it's clear that with BNDES taking care of development and Caixa with the social needs, Banco do Brasil would be ready for a privatization program, right?" It is then highlighted that Banco do Brasil has some clear advantages, which would have to be sorted out by the public status. Judicial deposits and government payments would usually be handled by either Banco do Brasil or Caixa, now it's a public competition. The bank is no longer competitive in these sectors. "Then you only keep the bad sides of being a government company. We don't have the same ease in hiring, we don't have the same ease in firing bad employees and ... and ... and ... so forth". He follows with a few closing statements, about how he has to present all documents to the government comptrollers, and Covid perspectives. Braga Netto closes off the meeting. A few takeaways While the meeting was to debate the Pró-Brasil recovery plan, it ended up being more focused on Bolsonaro's gripes with his ministers. Bolsonaro has strengthened himself in this, as it shows he's still going strong in his position. This is both in the campaign promises and the way he has been underplaying Covid. What he says in the video is suspect, but is nothing that can be used as clearcut evidence in an impeachment trial. The Supreme Court has also subpoenaed his phone, but still has not reported on anything. Moro is likely the biggest loser in this. While there is evidence Bolsonaro changed command of the Federal Police for political reasons, there is still a degree of reasonable doubt. This meeting was not the silver bullet he expected. Within the Brazilian right wing, he's now seen as a traitor to a degree. Populism is a hell of a drug. Salles is one of the losers. Supporting the using the Covid news cycle to roll back environmental regulations is not a good look, especially when you're the first one to talk. There is now a movement to impeach him. Damares is another loser with this. Threatening to arrest governors due to human right violations was a bad move. Luckily, her ministry has little to no legal strength, and thus, is mostly an empty threat. Guedes on the other hand, has returned confidence to investors. While Brazil may have no clear plan to deal with Covid medically, it has a plan to deal with it economically. At the same time, there's the favorite word of a Brazilian investors - privatizing. The BOVESPA index has shot up from around 82000 points on Friday to 85400 by Tuesday's close. Weintraub now has a bad look. From having to deal with a racism case, he know is having to explain his threats against the Supreme Court. Outside of Bolsonaro's circle there is now pressure for him to resign or be sacked. Another loser, out from left field has been Bolsonaro's head of security, General Heleno. After reading the news of Bolsonaro's phone subpoena, he has stated there will be "severe implications for Brazil's democratic institutions" if Bolsonaro's phone is analyzed. Many have considered this to be an overt coup threat. He is now facing possible impeachment. Teich, which resigned after the meeting has gone through relatively unscathed. With a simple, stump speech on how Brazil can only leave the distancing after it has the virus under control and how testing must be expanded. Of note is mentioning how a plan to ease restrictions is being created. Given how there has been an expanded focus on creating medical capacity instead of waiting for the virus, it is likely that restrictions would be modified to a looser system, closer to that of Sweden.
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Trump’s war on the intelligence community: 10 days under an authoritarian administration
I wrote a stand-alone piece covering the biggest news from last week: Over the past 10 days, we've seen Trump fully indulge his authoritarian impulses in an attempt to stamp out any inkling of facts that he dislikes - whether that be for personal, egocentric reasons or to shore up political strength. This began with a briefing given to the House Intelligence Committee that Russia is seeking to re-elect Trump. In response, Trump purged the Office of the Director of National Intelligence of officials he perceived to be disloyal, installing loyalists in their place. Also covered: how Trump gets away with a cabinet full of acting officials, Richard Grenell’s numerous dis-qualifications, a pardon offered to Julian Assange, and the hunt for “Never Trumpers” in the administration.
Sunday night update
On Sunday, Trump made a veiled threat toward House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff while claiming without evidence that the Democrat had leaked information from the Russia briefing on Feb. 13: “Somebody please tell incompetent (thanks for my high poll numbers) & corrupt politician Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff to stop leaking Classified information or, even worse, made up information, to the Fake News Media. Someday he will be caught, & that will be a very unpleasant experience!” tweet Later, while speaking to reporters, Trump called for an investigation into the leak - more concerned about the public learning of the briefing than he is about Russia’s repeated interference in U.S. elections. “They leaked it, Adam Schiff and his group. They leaked it to the papers and - as usual - they ought to investigate Adam Schiff for leaking that information,” Trump said. Schiff responded: “Nice deflection, Mr. President. But your false claims fool no one. You welcomed Russian help in 2016, tried to coerce Ukraine’s help in 2019, and won’t protect our elections in 2020.”
Pardon-palooza
Authoritarians also dispense largesse, but they do it by their own whims, rather than pursuant to any system or legal rule. The point of authoritarianism is to concentrate power in the ruler, so the world knows that all actions, good and bad, harsh and generous, come from a single source. (The New Yorker)
Last week, Trump granted pardons and commutations to 11 people with one thing in common: connections. Trump bypassed the process of formal procedures typically used to determine who is given a pardon, instead relying on connections to his wealthy friends and political allies.
Former governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of soliciting bribes from candidates to replace Barack Obama in the Senate after Obama was elected president, knew Trump personally from his appearance on The Celebrity Apprentice. Trump falsely claimed that former FBI Director James Comey was involved in Blagojevich's prosecution; Comey did not take over at the FBI until years after the Blagojevich case.
Illinois' entire GOP congressional delegation—Darin LaHood, John Shimkus, Adam Kinzinger, Rodney Davis, and Mike Bost: "Blagojevich is the face of public corruption in Illinois, and not once has he shown any remorse for his clear and documented record of egregious crimes that undermined the trust placed in him by voters...Blagojevich is the face of public corruption in Illinois, and not once has he shown any remorse for his clear and documented record of egregious crimes that undermined the trust placed in him by voters." (source)
Former San Francisco 49ers team owner Eddie DeBartolo, who was convicted of “failing to report a felony” in 1998 after he paid a $400,000 bribe for a casino license, was pardoned as a result of the lobbying of New England Patriots owner and frequent Mar-a-Lago guest Robert Kraft.
Michael Milken, the so-called junk bond king who was convicted in 1990 of securities and tax fraud, knew Trump personally and frequently spent time with him at Mar-a-Lago. In his first memoir, Trump called Milken “a brilliant guy.” Many of Trump’s inner circle also lobbied for a pardon for Milken, including Rudy Giuliani, Jared Kushner, Steven Mnuchin, and developer friends Howard Lorber and Richard LeFrak. In fact, last year Mnuchin “flew on Mr. Milken’s private jet from Washington to Los Angeles and helped secure a real estate tax break that could benefit Mr. Milken.” A key backer of Milken’s pardon, hedge fund manager (and executive of Wendy’s) Nelson Peltz, held a record-breaking fundraiser for Trump’s re-election campaign at his home just 3 days before Milken was pardoned.
John K. Carroll: “As one of the lead prosecutors on the Milken case, I am outraged — not at the specific result here but at what the pardon process says about the way justice is served in our country...What outrages me, and what I think should outrage others, is the process that brought about the pardon. In as guileless an admission as I have ever seen of rich man’s justice, the White House bolstered its decision by listing a murderer’s row of Republican donors and billionaires who provided “widespread and long-standing” support for Milken’s pardon. Sheldon Adelson, Tom Barrack, my old boss Giuliani and others are listed as supporters of the pardon. If I had to prove that the scales of justice tilt toward the rich, I would offer that list and then sit down and wait for the jury to convict.”
Former New York City police commissioner Bernie Kerik, who was convicted in 2009 of lying to federal investigators and committing tax fraud, knew Trump personally and had Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera sign a letter on his behalf requesting a pardon from the president. In 2004, Trump called Kerik “a friend of mine” and “a great guy.” Rudy Giuliani also supported the request, as Kerik once served as a senior vice president at Giuliani Partners.
"The pardon cancels out $103,300 in restitution that Kerik still owed the Internal Revenue Service as part of his sentence, according to a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan." (source)
Paul Pogue, a construction company owner who pleaded guilty to underpaying his taxes by $473,000, did not know Trump and did not have any Fox News personalities lobby on his behalf. Instead, Pogue’s family appears to have purchased a presidential pardon. Pogue’s son and daughter-in-law made over $200,000 in contributions to the Trump Victory Committee last year. The couple also made several large donations to the Republican National Committee and each donated $5,600 to Donald Trump for President Inc.,” according to FEC filings.
Roger Stone going to prison
Perhaps not coincidentally, Trump’s pardoning of corrupt public officials like Blagojevich occurred just two days before Roger Stone’s sentencing for lying to investigators, obstructing a congressional investigation, and witness tampering. Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Stone to 40 months - or 3.3 years - in prison, much lighter than the original 7-9 year sentencing recommendation made by career prosecutors who withdrew from the case in protest of AG Barr’s intervention. Lawfare has a great line-by-line breakdown of the sentencing hearing, if you’d like the nitty-gritty details. But if you only have time to read one excerpt from the hearing, I suggest the following:
Judge Jackson: “The truth still exists. The truth still matters. Roger Stone's insistence that it doesn't, his belligerence, his pride in his own lies are a threat to our most fundamental institutions, to the very foundation of our democracy...The dismay and the disgust at the attempts by others to defend his actions as just business as usual in our polarized climate should transcend party. The dismay and the disgust with any attempts to interfere with the efforts of prosecutors and members of the judiciary to fulfill their duty should transcend party. "Sure, the defense is free to say: So what? Who cares? But, I'll say this: Congress cared. The United States Department of Justice and the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia that prosecuted the case and is still prosecuting the case cared. The jurors who served with integrity under difficult circumstances cared. The American people cared. And I care."
Judge Jackson pushes back During the hearing, Judge Jackson said that the jurors in the case "served with integrity." Stone’s lawyers took this statement and moved to disqualify the judge from the case, claiming that her remarks “rendered her unable to fairly rule on his bid for a new trial.”
"Stone’s Motion for New Trial is directly related to the integrity of a juror. It is alleged that a juror misled the Court regarding her ability to be unbiased and fair and the juror attempted to cover up evidence that would directly contradict her false claims of impartiality," his lawyers argued. "The premature statement blessing the “integrity of the jury” undermines the appearance of impartiality and presents a strong bias for recusal," they added.
As expected, Jackson denied the motion to have her disqualified... A pardon for Stone? But the goal may be to reach the ears of the president instead. According to Politico, a former senior administration official who remains in contact with Trump and his senior advisers says about a pardon for Roger Stone: “It’s not a question of if; it’s when.” Following the sentencing, Trump argued that Stone’s jury was “tainted” and said that “Roger has a very good chance of exoneration.” On Sunday, Trump was asked about the possibility of a pardon for Stone and instead took the opportunity to attack the jury forewoman, again:
"That juror is so biased and so tainted, that shouldn't happen in our criminal justice system… You have a juror that is obviously tainted. She was an activist against Trump. She said bad things about Trump and bad things about Stone," the President claimed without evidence. "She somehow weaseled her way onto the jury and if that's not a tainted jury then there is no such thing as a tainted jury."
More info on Stone’s lenient sentence
In the week since four prosecutors withdrew from Stone’s case in protest of AG Barr’s interference, we have gotten a slow drip-drip of new information. A piece by The New York Times Sunday summed it up nicely: Timothy Shea, appointed to replace Jessie Liu as head D.C. attorney, was sent to the office specifically to steer cases to the president’s benefit after previous efforts failed.
A new boss, Timothy Shea, had just arrived and had told them on his first day that he wanted a more lenient recommendation for Mr. Stone, and he pushed back hard when they objected, according to two people briefed on the dispute. They grew suspicious that Mr. Shea was helping his longtime friend and boss, Attorney General William P. Barr, soften the sentencing request to please the president. ...The tensions between the office, the Justice Department and the White House date back further than the tumult in the Stone case. They have been simmering since at least last summer, when the office’s investigation of Andrew G. McCabe, a former top F.B.I. official whom the president had long targeted, began to fall apart. Mr. Shea’s predecessor, Jessie K. Liu, a lawyer whom Mr. Trump had appointed to lead the office in 2017, pressed the McCabe case even after one team of prosecutors concluded that they could not win a conviction. After a second team was brought in and also failed to deliver a grand jury indictment, Ms. Liu’s relationship with Mr. Barr grew strained, people close to them said. She left the position this year, though she and Mr. Barr have both stressed to associates that her departure was amicable.
Undoing Mueller’s work
Trump’s efforts to derail the sentencing of Stone can be seen as part of a larger campaign to rewrite history, and specifically, erase the findings of the Mueller investigation. Roger Stone’s indictment shows that Stone was acting on Trump's personal order to find Hillary Clinton’s campaign emails stolen by Russia. In order to cover-up his role in the Russia-Wikileaks-Trump network, Stone lied to investigators and threatened a witness. By claiming that Stone did not commit a crime, Trump is attempting to reverse the findings of the Mueller report and make himself the victim. Last week, Trump embarked on a rambling Twitter thread calling for all cases stemming from Mueller’s probe to be “thrown out.” He continued, saying: “If I wasn’t President, I’d be suing everyone all over the place.......BUT MAYBE I STILL WILL. WITCH HUNT!” Hours later, while discussing the spate of pardons he had issued that day, Trump made the astounding assertion that he is “the chief law enforcement officer of the country” and thus has the “legal right” to interfere in criminal cases. “I’m allowed to be totally involved,” the president added. While technically he is incorrect - the Attorney General is the chief law enforcement officer - in practice Trump has been proven right. A lawless chief executive is in fact in charge of enforcing the law when the Attorney General acts as his personal fixer.
This is in the style of autocrats across the globe, who weaponize the law to help themselves and their friends and hurt their enemies. The nation’s legal system is now run by a man who has spent his life mocking it. (NYT Editorial Board)
Meanwhile, the president’s allies have reportedly been urging him to fire anyone who was involved in Mueller’s investigation:
The MAGA punditry’s outsized influence over the president means their campaign against the so-called Mueller “holdovers” is likely not falling on deaf ears, especially given Trump’s fixation with what his defenders and detractors are saying about his administration in their frequent appearances on his favorite TV programs. “It's totally unclear to me why any members of the Mueller team need to remain in the Trump DOJ,” the pro-Trump conservative blogger Will Chamberlain wrote after news broke of the Stone sentencing recommendation. ...GOP operative Arthur Schwartz, a close friend of Donald Trump Jr. who has been described as the eldest son’s “fixer,” said of the career officials in question: “I think they should all be investigated.” ...John Dowd, a former Trump lawyer who remains in touch with the White House, characterized the line attorneys in the Stone case as “insubordinate,” and “the same crowd of prosecutors wedded to the Mueller agenda” who need to be “cleaned out” from DOJ. “And Bill Barr is doing that,” Dowd said.
What can be done about the politicization of the DOJ? In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Cass Sunstein of Harvard Law School suggests that “Congress should transform the Justice Department into an independent agency, legally immunized from the president’s day-to-day control.”
Public charge rule takes effect
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to allow the government to implement new “wealth test” rules making it easier to deny immigrants residency or admission to the United States if they might depend on public-assistance programs. Legal challenges will continue in lower courts in the meantime. Doug Rand, co-founder of Boundless Immigration who formerly worked on immigration policy in the Obama White House, estimates that as many as 400,000 people every year could be denied green cards or visas because of the new rules. Justice Sonia Sotomayor filed a written dissent that was sharply critical of both the federal government and her conservative colleagues, warning that they are “putting a thumb on the scale in favor of” the Trump administration. Read her full seven-page dissent here.
The justice wrote that granting emergency applications often upends "the normal appellate process" while "putting a thumb on the scale in favor of the party that won." Targeting her conservative colleagues, she said "most troublingly, the Court's recent behavior" has benefited "one litigant over all others." "Claiming one emergency after another, the Government has recently sought stays in an unprecedented number of cases," Sotomayor said. "It is hard to say what is more troubling," she said, pointing to the case at hand, "that the Government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a matter of course, or that the Court would grant it." CNN
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Justice Department’s new rules benefit Giuliani
In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, the DOJ indicated that the agency has implemented another layer of approval that would make it difficult for prosecutors to widen their probe into Rudy Giuliani:
The Justice Department revealed Tuesday that law enforcement officials running Ukraine-related investigations must seek approval before expanding their inquiries — a move that could have implications for Rudolph W. Giuliani, as President Trump’s personal attorney pushes for scrutiny of the president’s political foes while facing a federal probe into his own conduct. Assistant Attorney General Stephen E. Boyd wrote to Nadler that the department had tapped two U.S. attorneys to assist in the process — Scott Brady in Pittsburgh to receive and assess new information, and Richard Donoghue in Brooklyn to help coordinate personnel throughout the Justice Department involved in Giuliani’s case and others with a focus on Ukraine. An accompanying internal memo, circulated by Rosen in January, says that he and Donoghue must approve expansions of any inquiries.
Related: The Hill admits John Solomon’s columns were misleading
The Hill’s review of Solomon’s work can be found here. I have found the review itself to be overly generous to the publication (no surprise), so I will quote from a WaPo summary of the review:
In effect, the Hill said Solomon amplified an inaccurate and one-sided narrative about the Bidens and Ukraine that was fed to him by Giuliani, “facilitated” by businessman Lev Parnas, who was working with Giuliani at the time, and reinforced by Solomon’s own attorneys, who also represented clients embroiled in U.S.-Ukraine politics. But the Hill stopped short of retracting or apologizing for Solomon’s articles, nor did it say it shouldn’t have published them. It also didn’t characterize Solomon’s motives in presenting what appears to be a largely debunked conspiracy theory about Ukraine. “In certain columns, Solomon failed to identify important details about key Ukrainian sources, including the fact that they had been indicted or were under investigation,” said the internal investigation, which was overseen by the newspaper’s editor, Bob Cusack. “In other cases, the sources were [Solomon’s] own attorneys” — Victoria Toensing and Joseph DiGenova, who have also represented President Trump and Giuliani, who was also a key source for Solomon’s columns. Solomon didn’t disclose this connection in his columns nor did he disclose to his editors that he shared drafts of his stories with Toensing, DiGenova and Parnas, the review noted.
Trump tries to block Bolton book
The Washington Post reports that Trump is attempting to block the release of former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s book, instructing aides that it should not be released until after the November election.
Trump has told his lawyers that Bolton should not be allowed to publish any of his interactions with him about national security because they are privileged and classified, these people said. He has also repeatedly brought up the book with his team, asking whether Bolton is going to be able to publish it, they said. Trump told national television anchors on Feb. 4 during an off-the-record lunch that material in the book was “highly classified,” according to notes from one participant in the luncheon. He then called him a “traitor.” “We’re going to try and block the publication of the book,” Trump said, according to the notes. “After I leave office, he can do this. But not in the White House...I give the guy a break. I give him a job. And then he turns on me,” Trump added during the West Wing lunch. “He’s just making things up.”
Susan Rice tells Bolton the truth
During a panel discussion at Vanderbilt University on Wednesday, Bolton shared the stage with Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice. Bolton made excuses for his failure to testify in Trump’s impeachment trial, blaming the House for committing “impeachment malpractice.” Rice challenged Bolton repeatedly, denigrating his decision to promote his book instead of testify:
"I thought a lot about if I had been in that position how would I have approached it, and I'll be honest: It's inconceivable to me that if I had firsthand knowledge of gross abuse of presidential power that I would withhold my testimony from a constitutional accountability process.” "I can't imagine withholding my testimony, with or without a subpoena," Rice said. "I also can't imagine, frankly, in the absence of being able to provide the information directly to Congress, not having exercised my First Amendment right to speak publicly at a time when my testimony or my experience would be relevant. And, frankly, when my subordinates ... were doing their duty and responding in a fashion consistent with their legal obligations to provide information." "I would feel like I was shamefully violating the oath that I took to support and defend the Constitution."
Trump corruption update
President Donald Trump’s choice to stay at his own Las Vegas hotel each night during the western states swing that wraps up Friday likely cost taxpayers a million extra dollars as well as diverted thousands of them into his own cash registers.
Breaking with precedent, Trump flew back to Vegas to stay every night at his Trump International Hotel, despite his day activities taking place in California, Arizona, and Colorado.
Had Trump held the same events but done so in a geographically logical order ― starting in Beverly Hills and finishing in Colorado Springs, but overnighting each day in the city where he would begin the following morning ― Trump would have spent four fewer hours aboard Air Force One, thereby saving taxpayers about $1.1 million. ...Indeed, the repeated overnight trips to Las Vegas may have forced the Secret Service and other support personnel to keep a motorcade there for a full four days, rather than move it to the site of an upcoming presidential trip
This week, Trump has a whole new country to focus on: India, home to the largest portfolio of Trump real estate projects outside North America, according to the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. According to The Washington Post, since the elder Trump’s last trip to India in 2014, two of his business partners have encountered massive legal and financial trouble. During Trump’s time as president, the Trump Organization has vigorously promoted their properties in India, earning millions of dollars in royalties:
In 2018, the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr. — who runs the Trump Organization with his brother, Eric Trump — spent several days in India promoting the family’s developments, attending a champagne dinner with condo buyers who plunked down $39,000 deposits and bringing in millions of dollars in new sales. While there, he also met with Modi behind closed doors. The next year, Trump’s Indian business partners flew 100 early buyers of his luxury condos near Delhi to visit Trump Tower and Trump Ferry Point golf course in New York City as a way to generate interest in the properties in India. One attendee gushed afterward about meeting the son of a U.S. president on the trip.
Trump 2020: Cambridge Analytica and Facebook
President Donald Trump’s campaign is bringing on an alum of the controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica...Matt Oczkowski, who served as head of product at Cambridge before it went bankrupt and shut down in 2018, is helping oversee the Trump campaign’s data program...Oczkowski, who also worked on Trump’s 2016 effort, joined the reelection campaign in January, and payments to his company, HuMn Behavior, are expected to show up on Trump’s next campaign finance disclosure later this month. (Politico)
An Axios report revealed where most of Trump’s re-election campaign is spending its advertising budget: on Facebook ads. “Last fall, the campaign urged Facebook to keep the same tools for political advertisers that they make available to companies...Facebook ultimately decided not to change its policies around microtargeting.” However, unlike in 2016, the campaign is also diversifying, “testing new strategies on several dozen platforms, including YouTube, Google, ad exchanges, publisher networks and conservative podcasts.”
Side note: The IRS is suing Facebook for $9 million in back taxes, alleging the social media company undervalued intellectual properties when selling them to an Irish subsidiary in 2010. Ireland has lower corporate tax rates than the United States, so the move reduced the company’s tax bill.
Erik Prince investigations
There is apparently another investigation into Blackwater Founder - and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos - Erik Prince. The FBI is reportedly investigating Prince “for his 2015 attempt to modify two American-made crop-dusting planes into attack aircraft — a violation of arms trafficking regulations...The planes became part of private military services Prince proposed to sell or use in mercenary operations in Africa and Azerbaijan.” This new investigation adds to Prince’s legal problems, though he insists that he is untouchable “under this guy,” referring to Trump. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department is “in the late stages of deciding whether to charge” Prince for allegedly lying to Congress in its Russia probe and violating U.S. export laws in his business dealings overseas.
Trump blocking prominent climate change warning
The United States is against mentioning climate change in the communique of the world’s financial leaders, G20 diplomats said, after a new draft of the joint statement showed the G20 are considering including it as a risk factor to growth...G20 sources said the United States was reluctant to accept language on climate change as a risk to the economy. Reuters
On Sunday, it was announced that the U.S. ultimately agreed to a less-prominent placement for the risks of climate change. It will now appear in language referencing the Financial Stability Board’s work examining the implications of climate change for financial stability.
One of the G20 sources said it was the first time a reference to climate change had been included in a G20 finance communique during Trump’s presidency, even though it was removed from the top of the joint statement. U.S. officials have resisted naming climate change as an economic risk since Trump took office in 2017. One of his first acts as president was to announce Washington’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord.
Rightwing threats
Last week, two men were arrested in separate incidents involving threats to President Trump’s perceived opponents. A Michigan man, Brittan J. Atkinson, was arrested on Thursday for sending death threats to Mark Zaid, an attorney for the Ukraine whistleblower. Atkinson sent the threats in November, on the day that Trump held up a photo of Zaid and read some of his tweets at a rally in Louisiana.
"All traitors must die miserable deaths," Atkinson's email read in part, the indictment says. "Those that represent traitors shall meet the same fate[.] We will hunt you down and bleed you out like the pigs you are. We have nothing but time, and you are running out of it, Keep looking over your shoulder[.] We know who you are, where you live, and who you associate with[.] We are all strangers in a crowd to you[.]"
On Wednesday, Salvatore Lippa of New York was arrested for threatening to assault and murder Rep. Adam Schiff and Sen. Chuck Schumer in voicemails last month.
Lippa started the threatening message by calling the congressman "Schiff, Shifty Schiff," invoking the nickname used by President Donald Trump for Schiff, the lead House manager during Trump's impeachment trial. ...When questioned by U.S Capitol Police, Lippa admitted to making the threatening calls to Schiff and Schumer because he said he was upset about the impeachment proceedings, prosecutors said.
State news
Washington Post: A second court has temporarily blocked North Carolina’s new voter identification law on the argument that it discriminates against African Americans. The ruling reduces the likelihood that the rule will be in effect in a key swing state during November’s elections. A three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that intent to discriminate was a “primary motivating factor” behind the voter ID law, which passed the Republican legislature in late 2018.
CBS News: Florida cannot bar felons who served their time from registering to vote simply because they have failed to pay all fines and fees stemming from their cases, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
CNN: Mississippi's law banning abortions at the detection of a fetal heartbeat -- as early as six weeks into pregnancy -- will remain blocked, a panel of circuit judges ruled on Thursday...The three-judge panel on the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's ruling that the Mississippi law unconstitutionally prohibited pre-viability abortions.
Tampa Bay Times: A curious request arrived in the inboxes of Florida tax collectors last week from an employee of the Republican National Committee. He asked for “all email addresses that have been collected and are in the possession of the Tax Collector’s Office.” He also wanted any names, property addresses and phone numbers connected to those emails in their records. If the tax collectors had complied, the Republican Party would soon have a valuable trove of personal information for millions of Floridians as it gears up for the 2020 election: A detailed database of many taxpayers’ emails plus the name, address and phone number tied to that email.
Associated Press: Most Republican lawmakers refused to attend a Tuesday night session of the Oregon House of Representatives amid a slowdown over anger at a sweeping bill on climate change. Earlier, Republican lawmakers, who are a minority in the House, insisted that bills coming to the floor be read in their entirety instead of being summarized, which slowed things down substantially. The 2020 session of the Legislature lasts only 35 days, being an even-year short session.
Q13 Fox News: Efforts to expel a controversial state representative from the Washington Legislature are likely over after no Republicans would sign a letter calling for state Rep. Matt Shea’s expulsion. The Spokesman-Review reports that all 98 members of the state House of Representatives were asked Thursday to sign a letter calling for the expulsion of Spokane Valley Republican. All 56 Democrats signed the letter, but no Republicans did.
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(2009) Bullet to the Head (2013) Bulletproof Monk (2003) Bulletproof (1997) Bullett Raja (2013) Bullhead (2012) Bully (2012) Bulworth (1999) Bumblebee (3D) (2018) Bumblebee (4DX) (2018) Bumblebee (2018) Bunny Chow: Know Thyself (2007) Bunty Aur Babli (2005) Burlesque (2011) Burn After Reading (2009) Burning Plain, The (2009) Burnt (2015) Bus 657 (2015) Business for Pleasure (1997) Bustin' Chops: The Movie (2013) Bustin' Down the Door (2008) Butler, The (2013) Butterfly Effect, The (2004) Butterfly's Tongue (2000) Butter (2013) Bye Bye Man, The (2017) Bypass (2017) C CHIPS (2017) Cabin Fever (2004) Cabin in the Woods, The (2012) Cadillac Records (2009) Café Society (2016) Café de los Maestros (2009) Cake (2007) Cake (2015) Cake (2018) Calcutta Mail (2003) Calendar Girls (2003) Call Me by Your Name (2018) Call of the Wild, The (2020) Callas Forever (2004) Call, The (2013) Calvary (2014) Camouflage (1999) Campaign, The (2012) Camp (2004) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2019) Can You Keep a Secret? 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The Whole Story (1999) Child 44 (2015) Child's Play (2019) Children Act, The (2018) Children of Heaven (1999) Children of Men (2006) Children of the Century, The (2000) Children of the Revolution (1998) Chill Factor (2000) Chill Out (2004) Chimpanzee (2013) China: The Panda Adventure (2001) Chinese Box (1998) Chloe (2010) Chocolat (2001) Chocolat (2016) Choice, The (2016) Choke (2008) Chokher Bali: A Passion Play (2004) Chopper (2001) Chori Chori (2003) Chorus, The (2005) Christmas Carol (3D), A (2009) Christmas Carol, A (2009) Christmas Cottage, The (2008) Christmas with the Kranks (2004) Christopher Robin (2018) Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The (2008) Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (2005) Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (3D), The (2010) Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The (2010) Chronicles of Riddick, The (2004) Chronicle (2012) Chuck & Buck (2001) Chumscrubber, The (2006) Chup Chup Ke (2006) Churchill (2017) Chutney Popcorn (2002) Cider House Rules, The (2000) Cinderella Man (2005) Cinderella Story, A (2004) Cinderella (2015) Circle, The (2017) Circus (2000) Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (3D) (2013) Citizen Ruth (1997) City by the Sea (2002) City of Angels (1998) City of Ember (2009) City of God (2003) City of Industry (1997) City of Lies (2019) City of Men (2008) City of Violence (2014) Civil Action, A (1999) Claim, The (2001) Claire Dolan (1999) Clash of the Titans (3D) (2010) Clash of the Titans (2010) Clay Pigeons (1999) Clearing, The (2004) Clerks II (2007) Click (2006) Climbers, The (2019) Clockstoppers (2002) Closed Circuit (2013) Closer You Get, The (2000) Closer (2005) Closet, The (2002) Closing the Ring (2008) Cloud Atlas (2012) Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (3D) (2009) Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (IMAX) (2009) Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (3D) (2014) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2014) Cloverfield (2008) Club Dread (2004) Coach Carter (2005) Cobbler, The (2015) Cock and Bull Story, A (2006) Cocktail (2012) Coco (3D) (2017) Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2010) Coco avant Chanel (2009) Coco (2017) Code Name: The Cleaner (2007) Code Unknown (2001) Cold Harbour (2014) Cold Light of Day, The (2012) Cold Mountain (2004) Cold Pursuit (2019) Colette (2018) Collateral Beauty (2017) Collateral Damage (2002) Collateral (2004) College Road Trip (2008) Collide (2017) Colombiana (2011) Colony, The (2014) Colossal (2018) Colour of Paradise, The (2000) Comebacks, The (2008) Comedian Harmonists (1999) Coming Home (2015) Commando 3 (2019) Committed (2000) Common Wealth (2001) Commuter (IMAX), The (2018) Commuter, The (2018) Company You Keep, The (2013) Company, The (2004) Con Air (1997) Conan the Barbarian (3D) (2011) Conan the Barbarian (2011) Concert, The (2011) Concussion (2015) Condemned, The (2008) Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2003) Confessions of a Gambler (2008) Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) Confession, The (1999) Confetti (2006) Confidence (2003) Conjuring 2, The (2016) Conjuring, The (2013) Connie and Carla (2005) Conspiracy Theory (1997) Conspirator, The (2011) Constant Gardener, The (2005) Constantine (2005) Contact (1997) Contagion (2011) Contender, The (2001) Contraband (2012) Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon (2006) Conversations with God (2007) Conviction (2011) Cookie's Fortune (1999) Cookout, The (2005) Cool It (2011) Cooler, The (2004) Copland (1998) Copposites (2012) Coral Reef Adventure (2003) Coraline 3D (2009) Coraline (2009) Core, The (2003) Coriolanus (2012) Corky Romano (2002) Corporate Ladder (1997) Corporate (2006) Corpse Bride (2005) Cosi (1997) Cosmic Africa (2003) Counselor, The (2013) Count of Monte Cristo, The (2002) Countdown (2019) Counterfeiters, The (2008) Country Bears, The (2002) Country Strong (2011) Couples Retreat (2009) Couples' Night (2019) Courageous (2012) Cousin Bette (1998) Covenant, The (2006) Cove, The (2010) Cowboys & Aliens (2011) Coyote Ugly (2000) Crónicas (2005) Cradle 2 the Grave (2003) Cradle Will Rock (2000) Crank: High Voltage (2009) Crank (2007) Crash (2005) Crawl (2019) Crazies, The (2010) Crazy Heart (2010) Crazy Monkey — Straight Outta Benoni (2005) Crazy Rich Asians (2018) Crazy in Alabama (2000) Crazy, Stupid, Love. 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Last Week This post lists everything Rooster Teeth has released from April 25, 2020 to May 1, 2020. The organization of this post follows the order of the links on the sidebar on the website. First exclusive content is surrounded in asterisks ( *EXAMPLE*) while content that is currently exclusive but will be available publicly later is followed by an asterisks and the date in which it will be free (EXAMPLE*Free May 9th.) This does not include content that will lose exclusivity on the day this post is made (May 2nd.) NEWS:
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Free Movies Digital Codes Giveaway Megathread #3 [VUDU, iTunes, Movies Anywhere 4K etc]
Generate codes at https://oppfiles.com/710511 B B Monkey (1999) B.A.P.S (1997) BFG: Big Friendly Giant (3D), The (2016) BFG: Big Friendly Giant, The (2016) Baabul (2006) Baadshaho (2017) Baaghi 2 (2018) Baaghi 3 (2020) Baaghi: A Rebel for Love (2016) Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (Hindi) (2017) Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (Tamil) (2017) Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (Telugu) (2017) Baar Baar Dekho (2016) Baarìa (2010) Baazaar (2018) Babalas (2013) Babe: Pig in the City (1998) Babel (2007) Baby Boy (2001) Baby Driver (4DX) (2017) Baby Driver (2017) Baby Geniuses (1999) Baby Mamas (2018) Babylon A.D. (2008) Bachelor, The (1999) Bachelor, The (2000) Bachke Rehna Re Baba (2005) Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008) Back in Business (1997) Back of the Moon (2019) Back to Burgundy (2018) Back to Gaya (2007) Back-up Plan, The (2010) Backtrace (2019) Bad Boys II (2003) Bad Boys for Life (4DX) (2020) Bad Boys for Life (IMAX) (2020) Bad Boys for Life (2020) Bad Company (2002) Bad Day on the Block (1998) Bad Education (2005) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans, The (2010) Bad Moms Christmas, A (2017) Bad Moms (2016) Bad Neighbours 2 (2016) Bad Neighbours (2014) Bad News Bears (2005) Bad Santa (2004) Bad Teacher (2011) Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) Badhaai Ho (2018) Badlapur (2015) Badla (2019) Badmaash Company (2010) Badrinath Ki Dulhania (2017) Baggage Claim (2013) Baghban (2003) Bairavaa (2017) Baise-Moi (2002) Bait (2001) Bajirao Mastani (2015) Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015) Bakgat 2 (2010) Bakgat! 3 (2013) Bakgat! (2008) Bala (2019) Ballad of Jack and Rose, The (2005) Ballade vir 'n Enkeling (2015) Ballerina (3D) (2017) Ballerina (2017) Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) Balls of Fury (2007) Balu — ABCDEFG (2005) Balu Mahi (2017) Bamboozled (2001) Band Baaja Baaraat (2010) Band's Visit, The (2008) Bandits (2002) Bandslam (2009) Bang Bang Club, The (2011) Bang Bang (2014) Banger Sisters, The (2002) Bangistan (2015) Bangkok Dangerous (2008) Banjo (2016) Bank Job, The (2008) Baran (2003) Barbarian Invasions, The (2004) Barber of Siberia, The (2004) Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004) Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016) Barbershop (2002) Barbie in Princess Power (2015) Barbie: Dolphin Magic (2017) Bareilly Ki Barfi (2017) Barely Lethal (2015) Barfi! 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Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/pokecomments/bfr2pf/inside_boston_underground_poker_part_1/ Someone in the original post asked me to point out that these are true stories. I'm recollecting everything to the best of my ability, the exact betting amounts will be off a bit, I obviously don't remember the exact dollars being bet on each street, but the overall hands and when the money went in are true. Some of the events might be slightly out of order too, I've tried to write stuff down over the years, but I don't have the best memory for when things happen in a timeline. I'm also skipping some other non-poker degeneracy that happened along the way that I'll probably post in a side-post outside of the normal story. Anyways, back to the main story. I forgot to mention one thing in part 1. One of the reasons I left Boston at the end of the school year in 2006 was that Chris and I had tried to rent a townhouse with a few non-poker friends, and we kept getting denied by the landlords. I got frustrated and left. Also, I barely played poker while in Israel, there isn't much of a live scene there and I was partying too much for a real online grind. When I arrived back in Boston in August of 2007, everything was different. I was ready for poker to be my life. I wasn't enrolled in school despite lying to my mom and saying I was. I was only there for the grind. Rich had gotten us a shitty basement apartment in Allston. He was working as a mailman during the day and still dealing poker at night, not playing very much anymore. His was from Southy Boston, and his dad was minorly connected according to him, but I'm not sure if that's true or not. Stevo was gone, graduated and moved away. Many of my friends from his game were gone as well, but I still saw Phil around town from time to time, and Chris was now a junior, so we hung out a bunch, and he'd occasionally come to some of the poker games. He was more serious about school at this point though, not a crazy degen like me, but we'd make trips out to Turning Stone in New York once in awhile and have some crazy times. Some stories from those trips will be included in the interlude post. I found myself a really gorgeous freshman girl to date who at first seemed cool with my crazy hours and lifestyle, but she eventually got sick of it and dumped me. I was a master of Jdate (Jewish dating site) at the time, and convincing Jewish college girls to come on a date with me in my BMW to a fancy restaurant was like shooting fish in a barrel. I set aside 2 nights a week where I'd go to poker late after going out with a girl. I'd play all night until 5 or 6am, get to bed around 7, wake up at 3 or 4pm and then fuck around until I went out for more poker. The old game at The Loft was gone, but the same guy Moon had set up a new game in Back Bay. The new game was usually $2/5, but sometimes $1/3. It featured a pretty consistent cast of characters. The dealer was a bald guy named Rubin who was super friendly. Some regulars included a couple where the husband was a prison guard and the wife a poker pro. He'd usually lose as much as she'd win, and they'd argue constantly. I think her named was Silvia, I don't remember his name. There was a guy who went by Tatonka who was obsessed with KJ and would never fold preflop with it no matter the action. There was a guy who went by John the Painter who was some low level wanna be mobster as a side gig, and a painter as his day job. There were a few good regulars, one was named Ron and in 2015 he made a deep run in the WSOP Main event. I forget the other good player's name. Best of all, there were these 2 guys Sayid and Sagar who were both part of the Saudi royal house, and thus got a nice allowance while they were in the US for school. They lived in the same apartment building that a bunch of the Red Sox players had places in right next to Fenway Park. Sagar was a good looking guy with dark skin, long hair to his shoulders, probably about 5'6, and always wearing nice button up shirts. Sayid on the other hand was about 6'2, extremely fat, had bad skin, wore nothing but Billionaire Boys Club sweatshirts, and tended to smell bad. Most importantly though, both were obsessed with poker. Sagar was one of the most aggressive players I've ever played with. If he missed, he'd try to bluff. He was always trying to bully the table, and he'd make you pay dearly if you wanted to come along in the pot with him. My biggest losing nights in my poker career in terms of bbs lost were when Sagar would catch a nice run. One night I got into 2 $2000 pots with him, once I had 2 pair once I had a set, both times he had a flush draw when we got all in, and both times he hit on the river. Overall though, having a guy like Sagar in the game was amazing. He'd put other players on tilt and make people start playing crazy as well. With Sagar in the game, I'd just wait to make a hand and eventually he'd pay me off. Sayid was a whole different beast. Sagar was way too aggressive to be profitable long term, but Sayid just straight up SUCKED at poker. He would only raise with big hands or big draws, otherwise he was just a massive calling station. He never would believe you had it, so there was no slow playing against him, you'd just bet and he'd pay if he had anything at all. My favorite hand I ever played against Sayid, he raised to $20 in early position in the $2/5 game, I reraised from the button to $60 with QQ, and he stands up from the table and yells "RERAISEEEEEE THREEEEE HUNDREDDDDDD!" I was laughing so hard and just to tilt him, I folded my QQ face up. He went nuts, showed his AA and was ranting for 20 minutes about how can I fold QQ preflop. He proceeded to lose 6 or 7 buy ins that night, several of them to me. The best part about Sayid was that if he lost everything, every couple of weeks he'd just have his bank account refilled, so it didn't matter. I'm not sure I ever saw him have a winning session. I'd constantly lend money to Sayid to keep him in the games, and he'd pay back and insist on paying me interest as well. I must have made $100k off of Sayid alone that year. Thanks Saudi government! One night I came back to the shithole apartment at about 6am after a night of poker and we had been robbed. Rich had been staying at his girlfriend's apartment, and someone had broken in through a side window. Rich was insanely pissed, our TV that we had split the cost of, his laptop, a bunch of random stuff for both of our rooms, and other stuff had been stolen. Rich had already been spending most nights over at his girlfriend's place, our place was gross and had roaches, silverfish and other bugs, but after the robbery Rich was hardly at our place at all. I didn't spend much time in the apartment either besides sleeping or occasionally bringing a girl back when we were drunk and she wouldn't notice what a shit hole the place was. Ron and I became friends as some of the only profitable players, and we'd try to stay out of each other's way generally. One day Ron invited me to come along with him to a bigger game, a $5/10 single table game that ran in a fancy guarded apartment building right outside of Chinatown by the Financial District. To get in, you had to go into the lobby, have the guard call up to the unit you wanted to go to, and then he'd walk you to the elevator, activate it, and let you up. This was the kind of game where you didn't have to worry about getting robbed. Thanks to the legitimacy and security of the game, this game attracted some serious whales. There were plenty of banker types in the game, but the star attractions were these 2 hedge fund owners who would play. I can't for the life of me remember their names, but they were worth about $50 mil each at the time according to Ron. I'm not sure how Ron had gotten himself into this game, because the guy running the game Andy was really big on not letting pros in. He let me in because I, like him, am Jewish, and he liked me right off the bat. There was another pro who would play every time too, so usually 3 good players (me, Ron and other pro), a couple of decent break even players, 2 random fish, and the 2 hedge fund guys. The game was dealt by this Brazilian guy who dealt really fast and efficiently, I was impressed. The setup was great, it was just in Andy's apartment and it was a really nice apartment at that. His TV was insanely big for that time, he always had amazing food and drinks for everyone, it was a really impressive setup overall. The first night I played at Andy's game, there was this extremely cocky 17 year old kid sitting in the game with $2k in front of him. Apparently he was crushing online poker and had a reputation for being a little punk, but a good player. He had the total poker uniform on, a Full Tilt Poker jersey, a backward ballcap, and sunglasses on his forehead to be flipped down for big pots. I'm not sure why Andy let him in the game, but I didn't know Andy well enough at the time to question it. I bought in for $1k and had run it up to $2500 at this point, the kid had about $2200 in front of him. From playing the past few hours with him, I knew the kid loved to try to run big bluffs and shove it in his opponent's face. I was still a pretty tight player overall, but I tended to be cocky as well as a way to tilt my opponents into giving me more action. So me and the kid get into a pot, I raise $15 with KK from early position, the kid 3bets in position (which he did really often) to like $50, I 4bet to something like $200 and the kid just rips in his $2200 stack. I'm looking at the kid trying to read him, and he looks confident as fuck. I'm totally convinced he has AA, but I wasn't ready to have this punk flip up 72o and laugh in my face, so eventually I called. He had the Aces, and is talking shit as the dealer dealt out the cards. River comes the K, and the kid goes from talking shit to literally toppling backwards out of his chair, his hat and sunglasses falling off of his head, and him moaning in a super pathetic voice "NOooOoOoOooooo". Everyone in the game bursts out laughing, it was hilarious after all the trash he had talked to see him get destroyed like that. Now I should say at this point that at some of the other games I mentioned, you bought in like at a casino, pay up front, get chips. If you knew Moon well like I did, he'd float you a couple of buyins just so you didn't need to run out to the ATM if you were having a rough night. Andy did things differently. The game was bigger, the hedge fund guys would often dump $5k+ into the game each in a night, and they sure as hell weren't going to carry that much cash around just asking to get mugged. The rule was that you had 2 days to settle up, but only if Andy trusted you, otherwise you had to pay right away. Andy would walk with you to the ATM and make sure you got the money out, or if you lost more than your ATM limit you'd stay the night and Andy would escort you to the bank in the morning. Andy was a goofy guy and stoned most of the time, but he was also on steroids and clearly a bit unstable. I wouldn't cross a guy like Andy. So the kid gets up and makes as if to leave, and Andy says "hey wait, I fronted you $1000 of your buy in, I don't know you well enough, you need to settle." After some back and forth, they are at an impasse, Andy insisting the kid stay until he can get the $ from the bank and the kid insisting at 17 he doesn't have a bunch of cash in the bank, he has it in paper currency hidden at his house. I feel bad for the kid after the $4k suck out, and say that I'll just let the $1k be a debt from the kid to me, and to take it off of my cash out. Andy actually takes the $1k in chips from in front of me right there in the middle of the game and says okay, but warns the kid that he'll still take it personally if the kid doesn't pay me. The kid leaves. I text back and forth with the kid, and there's always some excuse. I can search his name and see him sitting with over $1k total between tables on Full Tilt, but he always has some reason he can't pay me right then. Eventually I tell Andy the kid is ducking me, and Andy is PISSED. I mentioned John the painter before, a semi regular in Moon's game in Back Bay. Andy knew the guy as well, and paid John $200 to go teach this kid a lesson. Apparently $200 is worth going and committing a felony against a minor, because John went and punched the kid in the face right in front of the kid's mom, kicked the kid once while he was down, and said he better pay up. He made sure the mom knew that the kid was playing illegal underground games and welching on debts. The kid sent me the $1k to my Full Tilt account that very day. I started playing Andy's game pretty regularly, and was doing well. It ran twice a week, and I tried to always be there, except when it ran as a $25/50 game, that was too rich for my blood. The rake on the game was supposedly $10, although Andy was elusive if you tried to get him to say straight out that the max rake per pot was $10. The thing was, more than $10 was coming out per pot, and most people were aware of that. Andy would play in the game though, and he was a total fish. He'd lose back what the house took in a night most of the time, so it wasn't that big of a deal that the game was being over raked. One day, Andy asked me if I'd ever dealt cards before, and I mentioned that I'd dealt a little bit for Stevo's game when Erik couldn't make it for whatever reason, or needed to leave for the night. Andy asked me if I'd be willing to slyly take more than $10 from each pot if he'd make me his dealer and give me 20% of the house take per night. 20 year old me was willing to be a pretty big scumbag for money, so I agreed. I'd get high and deal that game for 10 hours straight with just short 5 minute bathroom/smoke breaks. I raked that game like crazy, constantly "making change" in the pot, tossing in a green and taking out 6 red, or taking out a green and tossing in 4 red. I rarely got tips, people could tell what was going on, but it was worth it for them to play in the game with the hedge fund guys. Once a regular called me out, saying I had raked $10 preflop and then again on the flop. One of the hedge fund guys told him that if he couldn't afford $20 rake, he should get the fuck out. That ended any complaining about the rake ever. The house take was around $5k/night with how I was raking the game, Andy would lose a few grand on average per night, the hedge fund guys were probably losing a combined $6-7k on average per night, and so the other players didn't complain. I was making $1k/night for usually 8-10 hours of dealing. It was amazing. Ron would pay me a small piece of his winnings every night after the game in exchange for me not raking pots heavily that it seemed like he was going to win. Ron was an excellent player and must have been averaging $5k/night in profit, and the hedge fund guys loved him and were offering to stake him to start his own business. One week there was a big tournament series going on at Turning Stone. Ron and his friend Ray wanted to go, and I got free rooms and comps at TStone, so we piled into the BMW and went out there. A couple of days into the trip, I got a call from my roommate Rich. Although he was barely ever home anymore, he said he had stopped by the apartment and it had been broken into again. He said a bunch of my stuff had been stolen, although very little of his stuff was gone since he barely kept anything in the place anymore. I asked him to file a police report as we had done the first time we had been robbed, and he said he would, but I never followed up with him about it and it sort of slipped my mind. About $500 in stuff had been stolen, but I won $2k on the trip and was making $1k/night twice a week dealing, oh well. I was too blind and careless at that point to see what was really happening... Interlude between parts 2 and 3 about my degenerate lifestyle outside of poker at the time (reposted since it wasn't viewable for people the first time): https://www.reddit.com/userobswins/comments/bfyehh/inside_boston_underground_poker_interlude/ Part 3: https://www.reddit.com/pokecomments/bfye0x/inside_boston_underground_poker_part_3/
Going through old issues of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and posting highlights in my own words. For anyone interested, I highly recommend signing up for the actual site at f4wonline and checking out the full archives. PREVIOUS YEARS ARCHIVE:1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997
The issue opens with the death of American MMA fighter Douglas Dedge who died from brain injuries suffered in a fight in Ukraine. It's a long story but TL;DR as you can imagine, this isn't good news for the fledgling sport, which is already struggling to stay alive in the face of government scrutiny over the perceived dangers. Political opponents of MMA have been waiting for something like this to happen and they wasted no time in jumping on it. Even though it wasn't a UFC event, that hasn't stopped UFC from taking the brunt of the bad publicity. Dedge was punched into tapping out and immediately stood up after the fight ended, but then collapsed again. He went into a coma and never woke up, dying 2 days later. Former UFC co-owner Art Davie (who now co-owns K-1 America after UFC fired him) sent a letter to UFC and, conveniently enough, also sent the letter to Arizona senator John McCain and several cable and PPV companies, saying that MMA wasn't a sport and that UFC should be banned and even plugging his own new kickboxing promotion. So obviously, his motives for sending this letter are questionable to say the least (here's the video of the fight. Fair warning: you'll basically be watching a guy die).
Scott Hall has checked himself into rehab again, almost exactly a year to the date that he did it last time. Hall is expected to be gone for at least 30 days. Last year, WCW caught a lot of flack for continuing to promote Hall when they knew he wasn't going to be appearing at shows. This time, they didn't mention his name once on Nitro and are no longer advertising him for house shows. This comes just a few weeks after the death of Louie Spicolli, who was a close friend of Hall's. Dave also mentions that 2 years ago, around this same time, Hall was suspended by WWF for testing positive for marijuana on the same day he gave notice that he was going to WCW.
The Academy Awards, usually one of the top 2 or 3 rated TV shows of the year, aired head-to-head against both Raw and Nitro this week and yet both shows still managed to do strong ratings, which is phenomenal considering most shows get eaten alive by the Oscars. Basically every week or two, both Nitro and Raw seem to be setting ratings records and not even the Oscars seem to be able to slow them down. Interestingly enough, Raw actually won a quarter-hour segment in the ratings for the first time in over a year, but WCW still owned the night. But WWF is undeniably beginning to close the gap. In related news, a recent Raw aired on Tuesday because it was preempted by another show. That Tuesday episode of Raw, without facing Nitro competition, did a pretty monster rating also and has USA considering possibly moving Raw to Tuesdays, but it's still premature to speculate on whether it will actually happen. Besides, Dave says that if Raw moves to Tuesdays, WCW would likely just move Nitro to Tuesday also. One final note: these big time Raw ratings were for taped shows, which once again proves that taped vs. live has no bearing at all on ratings. (not sure if you've heard, but turns out wrestling was pretty damn popular in the late 90s).
Les Thatcher will be promoting a Brian Pillman benefit show next month and he's managed to do the impossible: bring WWF, WCW, and ECW together under one roof. WWF has agreed to send Steve Austin and Sunny to co-host the show (but not wrestle). WCW will provide the main event, Chris Benoit vs. Chris Jericho. And ECW is sending Al Snow vs. Chris Candido. The rest of the show will be various indie wrestlers. All the money will go to Pillman's family.
Eric Bischoff appeared on TSN's Off The Record show, mostly to respond to Vince McMahon's comments on the show the week before. While Vince came off charming, confident, slightly out-of-touch, and somewhat dishonest, Bischoff came off as far more open and honest, but also defensive and somewhat arrogant. Dave says that a lot of the wrestlers who have worked for both Bischoff and McMahon say that Bischoff doesn't seem to care about the wrestlers, while Vince at least acts like he cares even though most feel like it's just a facade and that Vince doesn't care about them either. Bischoff is far more blunt with his opinions and is less liked by his employees than McMahon. But those same people also say they trust Bischoff to be honest with them far more than they do McMahon. During their interviews, both men refused to admit to their obvious mistakes (McMahon when talking about the Melanie Pillman interview, Bischoff when he refused to admit in hindsight that firing Steve Austin was a mistake).
Other notes from the interview: Bischoff claimed that much of McMahon's success was because of the talent, not because of McMahon's alleged promotional genius. Bischoff pointed out how both Hogan and Randy Savage already had the gimmicks that made them famous before coming to WWF and in Hogan's case, he was already a huge international star from his years in AWA and NJPW. Or in the cases of gimmicks that really hit, it was usually the talent that came up with it (Bischoff noted Scott Hall's Razor Ramon gimmick, which was Hall's idea and was basically just his old WCW Diamond Studd gimmick with a Scarface twist. Bischoff claimed Vince originally wanted Hall to do a G.I. Joe-style gimmick). As for Vince's claim that WWF was winning everything other than the ratings war, Bischoff disputed that too, saying WCW is leading in PPV buys (true) and that WCW is outdrawing WWF in house shows so far in 1998 (also true, although it's very close). As for TV ratings, Bischoff said Tuesday afternoons, when the ratings come in, used to be exciting but now they're so used to beating WWF that it's not even a big deal anymore (he's gonna be choking on those words in a few months).
And still more notes from the interview, because paragraph breaks are helpful: Bischoff points out that Austin's gimmick was his own creation and that Vince's idea (The Ringmaster) flopped, but admits WWF deserves credit for pushing Austin to the moon when he got over. As for firing Austin, Bischoff said Austin was injured a lot and they felt like Austin wasn't being honest with WCW about his injuries, which is why they fired him. Said Austin in WWF is "a big fish in a small pond" and he wouldn't be a top star in WCW. Talks about meeting Vince in 1990 for an announcer tryout and admits he wasn't a good announcer back then. Bischoff also admitted that he came up with the NWO concept after seeing the NJPW vs. UWFI feud in Japan in 1995. Says Lex Luger was originally supposed to be the 3rd man and then Sting but he figured both were too predictable, so they made the decision to go with Hogan 4 days before the show (Dave calls bullshit on that one, since he knew 10 days before the show that it would be Hogan). Said WCW plans to do a Hogan vs. Hart angle sooner or later and that it won't be a U.S. vs. Canada angle like WWF did. Regarding rumors that Bret was going to show up on Nitro with the WWF title the night after Survivor Series, Bischoff said "absolutely not" and explained how the circumstances were different from the Madusa WWF women's title incident. Given Hart's contract situation and WCW's ongoing lawsuits with WWF, he said there was no chance whatsoever that Hart would have shown up on Nitro that night. When questioned about all of WCW's top stars being over 40, Bischoff name dropped guys like Mysterio, Guerrero, Benoit and Jericho but the host pointed out that they're all mid-card guys and not presented as main eventers but Bischoff sorta dodged the question. And finally, he said McMahon tries to portray the wrestling war as himself vs. big bad billionaire Ted Turner, but Bischoff says Turner's involvement in WCW is minimal and that he actually only talks to Turner maybe twice a year. Eric Bischoff says he is the one kicking Vince's ass, not Ted Turner. (Weirdly enough, I can't find video of Bischoff's interview, but here's a more in-depth recap with a lot of exact quotes):
Promo Azteca has taped a few demo shows with higher production values in an attempt to sell them to a network to air in the U.S. WCW is reportedly interested in airing it as their own Lucha show and is willing to pay for the extra production costs. On the flip side, WWF is interested in doing their own Mexican show called WWF Latino and have been negotiating with Televisa in Mexico about airing a show, but it's all in the discussion phases for now.
Giant Baba has finalized the deal with WWF for Vader to appear at AJPW's upcoming Tokyo Dome show. There have been discussions for a relationship beyond that but the problem is basically....Baba is cheap. He's still stuck in the old mindset of paying a headliner around $10,000 per week. But when you're trying to sell out the Tokyo Dome and you need to bring in special attractions and gate money is potentially in the millions, it takes more than 10K to get a top WWF star. Baba won't put any serious money on the table for big time foreign names, so WWF ain't biting.
A 19-year-old named Takeshi Morishima debuted for AJPW this week. Word is they're really high on him and he has great potential since he's a tall guy with a lot of skill and a judo background (he's mostly known for being one of the top names for NOAH and also a former ROH world champion. He retired in 2015 due to health issues but still helps run NOAH behind the scenes).
NJPW rookie Shinya Makabe (better known these days as Togi Makabe) suffered a broken leg in a match last week and will be out for awhile.
Randy Hales' new promotion Memphis Power Pro Wrestling debuted sooner than anticipated, holding their first show at Lady Luck Casino in Tunica, MS. It was basically the same group of people who have been working Jerry Lawler's casino shows for months, including Lawler himself, Sid Vicious, Bill Dundee, Tracy Smothers, etc. Despite basically being the exact same promotion as USWA, on paper, the company is 100% owned by Randy Hales, since he has no part in the ongoing legal mess from USWA. Speaking of...
The legal situation over the demise of USWA got messier this week. Mark Selker filed a 200-page lawsuit against Lawler and Larry Burton, alleging conspiracy to defraud. Vince McMahon and several others are also named in the suit as co-conspirators, but not as defendants. The suit claims McMahon lied to Selker about the potential value of USWA in regard to advertising revenue that the promotion could bring in.
A&E will be airing a 2 hour special called The Unreal Story of Pro Wrestling featuring interviews from many of the biggest names in the business (this is actually a pretty good documentary. I could only find it broken down into 7 videos. Here's Part 1 and it should automatically play the next part).
Many in WCW are expecting that Syxx will be brought back. Hogan and Kevin Nash have been talking about doing a storyline to use the real-life heat between them, including the firing of Syxx, to work an angle where Nash would headline against Hogan, which pacifies Nash somewhat since he's been vocally unhappy about being held below Hogan's level.
There's also rumors of Ultimate Warrior heading to WCW and it was even referenced by Mark Madden on the WCW Hotline. Dave says that 95% of the time, when you hear rumors about Warrior returning, they're false but in this case, there might be some truth to it. There's been talk of him working a couple of WCW PPVs in late 1998. Dave doesn't know if it's going to pan out but he says it'll surely bump ratings up in the short-term. Of course, Warrior has a known track record so he probably won't last in WCW long term, which is okay because aside from a short-term curiosity boost in ratings or buyrate for his first match, Warrior isn't good for much in the long run anyway.
ECW has sold out 15 consecutive shows in a row. Meanwhile, WCW had sold out 20 in a row, but that streak came to an end last week in Cincinnati.
Notes from the latest Nitro: Lodi suffered a legit broken ankle when catching Psicosis outside the ring during a spot. DDP vs. Sting was possibly Sting's best match in years. Chris Jericho was fantastic and hilarious yet again and has just been killing it the last few weeks. The Giant has been legitimately gaining a bunch of weight and when the announcers said he's 493, it's not an exaggeration.
Kevin Wacholz, formerly Nailz in the WWF, is expected to join WCW and be part of the NWO and get a big push (nah never happened). Dave recaps the incident from 1991 where Nailz attacked Vince McMahon and choked him over his Summerslam payoff and then filed a police report claiming McMahon sexually assaulted him. Nailz then testified against McMahon in the steroid trial and was so obviously full of shit that it actually helped McMahon rather than hurt him. Dave seems befuddled that anyone would hire this guy and says, "Next thing you know, somebody can O.J. his girlfriend and get a job in this profession. Hell, they can do that and afterwards be considered for the Hall of Fame in this profession." Chris Benoit respectfully disagrees.
Latest update on the Jim Carrey "Man on the Moon" movie about the life of Andy Kaufman: Jimmy Hart will play himself but it's believed they may not actually call the wrestler in the movie Jerry Lawler because it's being produced by a Time Warner company. So they will tell the story of the wrestling angle, but it's believed it'll just be a fictional wrestler. WCW is actually pushing for Disco Inferno to get the part (Lawler later confirmed this in his autobiography but thankfully it didn't happen that way. Can you imagine?)
Notes from the latest Raw: indie wrestler Christopher Daniels, who wrestles as Fallen Angel, worked a dark match before the show. Rocky Maivia is great. Vince Russo appeared on TV as part of an angle with Sable and Luna Vachon.
John Tenta and Steven Regal are reportedly close to signing deals with WWF.
Shawn Michaels will work Wrestlemania but it's expected that he won't be wrestling again for a long time afterward (boy, I'll say).
Someone who attended the Eddie Gilbert memorial show put on by Dennis Coraluzzo writes in and talks about the show, specifically about Coraluzzo and Gilbert's mom cutting promos burying Paul Heyman and claiming he stole ECW from Gilbert. Dave responds and says he doesn't really think a memorial show is the classiest place to be burying people. He also says the story between Gilbert and Heyman over ECW is a lot more complicated than Heyman allegedly backstabbing Gilbert and stealing it and for Coraluzzo to simplify it to that extent is pure fiction.
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