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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRobert Mercer is having a huge extravaganza on Saturday at his home.
149 Harbor Road
St James, NY 11780
Would be a pity if protesters showed up.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-12-01/trump-villains-and-heroes-to-mingle-at-mercers-costume-party
Each Christmas season since 2009, the Mercer familys costume party on Long Island has been the subject of awed gossip in Republican circles. This Saturdays ticket will be more coveted than ever.
Rebekah Mercer, a daughter of hedge fund manager Robert Mercer, has become one of the most influential players in Donald Trumps administration-in-waiting after spending millions of dollars of her fathers money helping defeat Hillary Clinton.
The theme of this years party is Villains and Heroes -- appropriate, perhaps, for a year in which the Mercers described the presidential contest as offering an apocalyptic choice in which only a Trump victory could save the nation. An invitation seen by Bloomberg News features a sword-wielding centurion crouching in an ancient ruin, facing down a serpent-haired Medusa.
It will be the hottest ticket in town, said Kellyanne Conway, Trumps campaign manager and a longtime political adviser and friend of the Mercers. Although details of the preparations are kept secret from guests, Conway said, I deign to guess that this year, its going to be a spectacular, super-sized, unprecedented celebration given what just happened in the election.
Conway said shes going as Stephen Bannon, Trumps chief strategist, whom she described as a villain to the media and hero to just about everyone else.
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The party will be at Owls Nest, the estate of Robert Mercer and his wife, Diana, on Long Islands North Shore, not far from where he works as co-chief executive officer at Renaissance Technologies. Past events have included hundreds of friends and associates of the extended family, drawn from their varied political, business and charitable endeavors. Attendees have ranged from celebrity zookeeper Jack Hanna to firebrand Texas Senator Ted Cruz to the man who trained the familys million-dollar show horses.
Vogon_Glory
(9,132 posts)It would be so cool if some invisible hand would write something like "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin..." on the wall while the Mercer bash was going on full-swing.
DFW
(54,445 posts)"Mercer Family Members Implicated in Funding Election Fraud in Swing States"
Lucky Luciano
(11,260 posts)Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)Zo Zig
(600 posts)Of Renaissance Technologis. Black box that stole the election.
Lucky Luciano
(11,260 posts)Jim Simons is the king or Renaissance. He and Henry Laufer (another early Renaissance guy) donated $20+ million to Hillary.
On the other hand, Cambridge Analytics of which Mercer is the primary investor - yes - maybe look into them.
Zo Zig
(600 posts)True it bleeds over into Cambridge, but I believe the brain trust for this is at Renaissance. Simons left several years ago and turned over the ruins to the two of them. I know, get the FBI to look into it.
Lucky Luciano
(11,260 posts)The co-CEO is Peter Brown. Brown's wife works for the FDA under Obama and is also democratic.
Simons is definitely still the king...chairman to be precise!
I'm also in quant trading, so I follow closely. Simons is the closest thing to a hero to me. Brilliant mathematician.
Skittles
(153,199 posts)the deplorables voted in the ELITES
fucking IDIOTS
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)bdamomma
(63,923 posts)the police could round them up wishful thinking