Trump lost millions on his DC hotel but will make money if the sale of the lease goes through. The Washington Post and WSJ had articles on it in November and December.

magiclight.Yes all that disillusionment of people that seemed so much like me at one time -- only difference was we didn't share political affiliations. We did all right on that level till the Reps. party at large went conspiratorial and nuts. Very sad indeed.

A bit of the bubbly would be a magnificent go-with.

Great thoughts magiclight, thanks for sharing.

Love the memes.

If you can accept the flow of life and give in to it, you will be accepting what is real. Only when you accept what is real can you live with it in peace and happiness. The alternative is a struggle that will never end because it is a struggle with the unreal, with a mirage of life instead of life itself.

Deepak Chopra

Pence never did very much the whole four yrs. as Vice P. He just worked to keep Trump propped up -- and in the end was used as much as any of the Loon's lackeys. That he came through on the side of America in the end had more to do with his realizing that it wasn't going to be possible to appease the Loon. Had there been a crack he could weasel through; I have to think he well might have gone that way. He was all set to lose his bid to remain Indiana's Governor when he was tapped to be the Loon's VP. The Loon didn't want him, any more than his native state. A lot of people went along with him as VP thinking there would be a sanity at work, but if there in Pence it was VERY weak and ineffectual. Pence started out his four yr. run with lies and would have finished that way if he could. Pence doesn't realize in some things there is no redemption. He, like many others will find spending time with someone like Trump always makes you way less than you were.

Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a former national security aide who offered key testimony in President Donald Trump's 2019 impeachment for dealings with Ukraine, has filed a lawsuit against the former president, Rudy Giuliani and two former aides, accusing them of witness intimidation and retaliation.

The 73-page federal suit, filed Wednesday, says Vindman became "the target of a dangerous campaign of witness intimidation by President Trump and a group of conspirators" after testifying about Trump's efforts to push Ukraine into investigating the family of his then-2020 election rival Joe Biden.

"The conspirators agreed on common, unlawful objectives — to deter Lt. Col. Vindman from testifying in the future and to retaliate against him after he did so," says the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

In addition to Trump and Giuliani, who was Trump's former personal attorney, the suit names as defendants former deputy White House communications director Julia Hahn and former deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino. It seeks unspecified damages and an order banning the defendants from further illegal actions against Vindman.

In an op-ed published Wednesday, Vindman said he has no regrets about testifying against Trump and speaking out, but wishes "it hadn't ended my career and upended my life."

"I especially wish that it hadn't taken such a toll on my family," he wrote. "Public servants who do their duty, tell the truth and uphold their oaths of office shouldn't be subjected to intimidation and retaliation. I've been disheartened to see so little accountability for what I experienced and other abuses of power that took place during that time. I worry about what that means for future whistleblowers, regardless of issue or party, who also want to do the right thing."

I hope Liz Cheney makes it because we at least know her and what to expect. She has shown great courage, but wouldn't think twice about being against us were it not for the Loon.

A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, and the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul. Jerry Fleishman

No problem at all.

So they don't really read it after all, just as suspected or known.

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. -Flora Edwards

There really are no surprises in the Reps. party anymore. Too bad people believed Abbott. A snake in the grass, stays in the grass. Should have looked for him there from the get-go.