Beiträge von mmsteidl

  • Der Corona Fred

    Es hat auch niemand die Absicht eine Mauer zu errichten, und seit 5:45 wird zurückgeschossen. Ach ja, die Rente ist auch sicher, und es wird niemandem schlechter gehen als zuvor, dafür vielen besser. Schaun mer mal.

  • Kamela und das Trumpeltier

    Zitat von peksim

    ein interessanter text auf newyorker.com

    https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-colum…ost-cynical-yet

    wer es nicht lesen kann, hier:

    If you want to see how Donald Trump’s world works, register on his campaign Web site—it’s still active. To help keep tabs on the Trump campaign’s activities, I took this step many months ago, and, since then, I’ve been receiving text messages and e-mails every day, purportedly from Trump and his sons, asking for money. After the election, I thought these fund-raising alerts might stop arriving, but they didn’t. They just changed topic. Instead of requesting donations to help reëlect the President, they asked for money to finance his flailing challenge to the results. In the past few weeks, there seem to be more texts than ever.
    “Eric Trump: Almost out of time!” said one that arrived on Monday morning. “Our End-of-Month fundraising Deadline is almost here. Pres Trump activated a 1000% IMPACT for 1 HOUR. Donate.” After I failed to click the accompanying link to the WinRed online fund-raising platform, and become one of the campaign’s “IMPACT” donors, the Trumps kindly gave me another chance. “This is Don Jr.,” said a message that hit my inbox on Monday afternoon. “I spoke with my father & he’s REACTIVATED your 1000% offer for 1 more HOUR!... Donate NOW.” Again, I failed to click the link, but that didn’t get me off the hook. “Pres Trump: I UPPED the stakes & EXTENDED our End-of-Month Election Defense Deadline!” said a text that arrived the following afternoon. “All gifts in the NEXT HR will make a 1000% IMPACT! ACT!”
    Alas, I never did make it onto this exclusive donor list. It’s safe to assume, however, that some of Trump’s supporters did. Since the election, according to the Times, the President has raised about a hundred and seventy million dollars by continuing to “aggressively solicit donations.” Trump is no stranger to high-pressure sales tactics, of course. Years before he became President, employees of his Trump University, which wasn’t a university at all, allegedly encouraged people, including the elderly, to max out their credit cards to take courses that many said were worthless. In soliciting donations, his campaign is similarly relentless. On Tuesday morning, I got another message, which said, “FINAL NOTICE! Pres Trump EXTENDED your 1000% Offer. We need YOU to help us stop this CHAOS…Donate NOW.
    After deciding to write this column, on Wednesday, I clicked on one of the fund-raising links. It took me to a WinRed Web page that featured a picture of Trump holding two thumbs up. “President Trump is counting on YOU to DEFEND the Election, so he asked us to EXTEND your 1000% offer,” said an accompanying piece of text. A bit farther down the page, there were a number of boxes with suggested donations, ranging from forty-five to twenty-eight hundred dollars. If I contributed the higher amount, the page said, I could join the “Election Defense Team,” the “Trump 100 Club,” and the “First Family Circle.”

    und wenn es tatsächlich stimmt dass er so fast 200 millionen gesammelt hat ..... boah :huebscher:


    Ja, das ist korrekt so, er ist bei fast 200 Mio. Es geht übrigens nur ein kleiner Teil davon tatsächlich in die "Election defense" (vielleicht bekommt Rudy ja seine 20.000 pro Tag). Der Rest wird wohl benutzt, um ein sogenanntes Super Pac zu finanzieren, mit dem Trump dann alles mögliche finanzieren kann: weitere politische Einflussnahme, aber auch Events z.B. in seinen Anlagen in Mar el Lago oder DC.

    Hier mehr:

    Spoiler anzeigen

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…89f8_story.html


    According to the fine print in the latest fundraising appeals, 75 percent of each contribution to the joint fundraising committee would first go toward the Save America leadership PAC and the rest would be shared with the party committee to help with the party’s operating expenses. This effectively means that the vast majority of low-dollar donations under the agreement would go toward financing the president’s new leadership PAC, instead of buttressing efforts to support the party or to finance voting lawsuits.

    “Small donors who give to Trump thinking they are financing an ‘official election defense fund’ are in fact helping pay down the Trump campaign’s debt or funding his post-presidential political operation,” said Brendan Fischer, who directs federal regulatory work at the Campaign Legal Center, which supports greater restrictions on money in politics. “The average donor who gives in response to Trump’s appeal for funds to ‘stop the fraud’ likely doesn’t realize that their money is actually retiring Trump’s debt or funding his leadership PAC.”


    (...)

    The money collected by the leadership PAC cannot be used directly for Trump’s own campaign purposes, but there are few other restrictions on how the money can be spent. For example, donations could be used to pay for events at Trump’s properties or to finance his travel or personal expenses.
    Leadership PACs were established to allow members of Congress to raise money for their allies on Capitol Hill through fundraising vehicles separate from their campaign committees. The money is often used for what is called donor cultivation — feting wealthy supporters in the hope that they will write big checks back to the leadership PAC and other committees.

    Over the years, leadership PACs have become must-have accessories on Capitol Hill, as well as among former elected officials who want to retain their political influence by helping other candidates raise money or by raising money on their behalf.

    (...)

    On Nov. 18, the Trump Make America Great Again Committee struck a formal agreement with Save America, the Trump campaign and the RNC to raise money together through the joint fundraising committee and share the funds, according to federal records. By Nov. 19, the contribution share to Save America PAC had changed to 75 percent from the 60 percent it had been for more than a week, according to a review of the fundraising appeals.
    This agreement allows Trump to raise money for multiple accounts at once, including the leadership PAC.

    Leadership PAC funds can’t be used to finance the campaign activity of the officeholder or former official who leads the PAC. Any contributing from the PAC to support other candidates for office must be done within federal contribution limits, and that money must come from legal sources.
    But beyond that, there are no restrictions on how the official can spend leadership PAC money, said Kate Belinski, a campaign finance legal expert who formerly served as a lawyer at the FEC’s Enforcement Division.
    “There’s not really a legal mechanism that would prevent somebody from enriching themselves with the contributions that they receive into their leadership PAC in the same way that personal-use restrictions would prohibit that for a campaign committee,” she said.

    One person with knowledge of the contributions said that many came from repeat donors and that emails with dire language about the president’s potentially losing tended to ratchet up the contributions. The person said the campaign had a plan before Election Day to dial up requests for money if the result of the election was not immediately clear.

    “Trump is making hay while the sun is shining. He’s taking advantage of all the free media coverage to pay off his campaign debt and fill his coffers for whatever comes next,” said Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor. He added: “I would rather give to Romney 2012 than Trump 2020 at this point.”
    In November, the Trump operation sent 498 emails asking for donations — setting a record for monthly fundraising requests from the campaign, according to a tally by @TrumpEmail, a Twitter account that has tracked the president’s fundraising requests since January 2018. By far the most common theme in the emails was an appeal for contributions to the “Election Defense Fund,” according to the account.

    The campaign had struggled some with finances earlier this fall, officials said, with campaign manager Bill Stepien deciding to cut TV spending because he feared the campaign could run out of money. Officials said some money was wasted on unnecessary expenditures, such as a pricey Super Bowl commercial and blimps flying in some states.

    But some Trump advisers said the money that has come in after the election is a reason the campaign should have never made the spending cuts.

  • Der Jogi Löw Fred

    Oh doch, gerade im Fussball gibt es "glücklich". Mehr als bei anderen Mannschaftssportarten. Aufgrund der Tatsache, dass so wenig Tore fallen.

    Was man als Mannschaft kontrollieren kann, wo sich Qualität zeigt, ist in der Fähigkeit, Torchancen zu generieren. Die Mannschaft, die es schafft, 10 Torchancen zu generieren, hat wahrscheinlich höherer Qualität und auch ein besseres Spiel gemacht als die Mannschaft, die es gerade mal schafft, eine klare Chance zu generieren.

    Wie viele dieser Chancen dann in Tore verwandelt werden, dazu gehört einerseits auch ein gewissen Können, andererseits aber auch immer etwas Glück. In über 90% der Fälle wird die Mannschaft mit 10 Chancen das Spiel auch gewinnen. Aber es gibt Fälle, in der die Mannschaft mit 1 Chance gewinnt. Das war dann ein klarer Fall von "glücklich gewonnen".

    (Ob verdient oder unverdient vermag ich nicht zu beantworten, denn das ist wieder eine ganz andere Beurteilung.)

  • Der Corona Fred

    Ebendie. Gehörst Du nicht auch zu dieser liberalen kinderentführendenundbluttrinkenden Elite? Zumindest Dein leidenschaftlich geführter Feldzug gegen den Retter der Zivilisation liesse das vermuten.