#joe meyer

- so the horse’s name was Royal. she was some kinda sporthorse thing, about 7 years old, running training level eventing, super kind and easygoing. Joe had apparently only had her for a couple of days but he’d known her for a long time. she definitely had some forward in her but was very sensitive and very obedient when you got it right. very enjoyable mare, i’d definitely ride her again if i got the chance!!

- spent most of the lesson on the flat - Joe was really harping on my pace and position, exactly what i needed. lots of commentary on keeping my seat quiet, my hands soft, and my lower leg still, and how to do so.

- the jump work we did was really focused on keeping me from gunning the horse to the bottom of the fence, especially focusing on my turns and all. admittedly i got anxious once or twice thinking the mare was going to run with me when i lost my balance, but she was very forgiving.

- he definitely prioritized pace over headcarriage, which i think i needed a little reality check in regards to. duly noted.

- i think i really needed to just feel what it’s supposed to feel like?? like i haven’t ever gotten it right with Jazz because i can’t quite recall what’s supposed to happen. really enlightening.

- i think i really needed to ride a more forward, larger horse like that and realize i wasn’t going to die lol. i think that’s been a subconscious fear for a little too long now.

- Joe and his grooms were all so sweet and encouraging - not an ounce of snobbishness in any of them. they’re really great people, i felt so good about everything when i left.

- at least mentally. physically, i died. i’ve never ridden that hard in my life. Joe was like “let Royal be done” and i was internally like “man let me be done lmao.” time 2 start working out for real. i was so torn between wanting to soak up every second of saddle time and realizing how horrifically out of shape i am

- i felt like my elbows were a lot more bent than they were. yikes. gonna have to really work on that.

Factphobic Joe Meyer, mayor of Covington Kentucky, condemned the people of his city without knowing the facts regarding the harassment they received a group of adult black men and a drumming Indian.  When will Joe Meyer apologize to the children of Covington?

Alex Sherman and Anousha Sakoui at Bloomberg: 

The National Enquirer’s ties to President Donald Trump and his family are so close that his son-in-law Jared Kushner almost bought it three years ago.

What began as talk show criticisms of the president and erupted into a Twitter war between Trump and two TV hosts escalated Friday to include a claim that White House officials offered to help spike a negative story about them in the tabloid. All MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski would have to do is apologize to the president.

Kushner, according to New York Magazine and other publications citing unidentified sources, was one of those White House messengers. Kushner’s relationship with the Enquirer dates back to his pre-election career as a real estate developer and publisher of the New York Observer, then a weekly newspaper.

Three years ago, Kushner and his brother-in-law, Joe Meyer, tried with Enquirer publisher David Pecker to buy the tabloid’s owner, American Media Inc., people familiar with that bid said. The deal ultimately fell through because of weak advertising revenue at the time, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter was private.

During last year’s campaign, the Enquirer, more typically associated with stories on badly behaving celebrities and reports of extraterrestrials, endorsed Trump and headlined alleged scandals in attacks on his opponents. Trump’s praise for the Enquirer -- saying at one point that it deserved journalism’s Pulitzer Prize -- was frequent and he welcomed Pecker’s support.

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Trump has a history with the Enquirer. He’s written first-person essays for the outlet, which held its 90th birthday party at his SoHo hotel in New York.

During the 2016 campaign, Trump trumpeted the Enquirer’s claim that the father of one of his political rivals, Senator Ted Cruz, had been photographed with John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald -- a claim Cruz denied and the nonpartisan fact-checker PolitiFact rated a “pants on fire” inaccuracy.

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