The Trump Presidency Nein: Leistung, Korruption und Lugen

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  1. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

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    #1526 song219, Aug 13, 2019
    We have to destroy the economy in order to save it.
     
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  2. song219

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    #1527 song219, Aug 13, 2019
    They call me "racist"
    They call me "bigot"
    They call me "trumpster"
    They call me "cultist"
    That's not my name
     
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  3. xtomx

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    #1528 xtomx, Aug 13, 2019
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    The world needs fewer evangelicals and churches.
     
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  4. dapip

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    #1529 dapip, Aug 13, 2019
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  5. Cascarino's Pizzeria

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    #1530 Cascarino's Pizzeria, Aug 13, 2019
    Curious to know, how old do you have to be in America to still use "colored"? I'm thinking like Archie Bunker's age which is probably late 80s-early 90s
     
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  6. taosjohn

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    #1531 taosjohn, Aug 13, 2019
    I wonder if the raptureheads can grasp how much the rest of us are looking forward to their translation to heaven so that we left-behinds can actually set about fixing the damage they've been preserving...
     
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  7. Funkfoot

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    #1532 Funkfoot, Aug 13, 2019
    So he wants to cut the progressive income tax and replace it with tariffs that affect everyone equally. How republican of him.
     
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  8. Funkfoot

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    #1533 Funkfoot, Aug 13, 2019
    I'm old enough to wonder why "colored" is bad but "of color" is OK. And then there's the NAACP - bit of a mixed message.

    Also old enough to remember Fred Sanford telling the police that the burglar at his junkyard was colored - white! :D
     
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  9. usscouse

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    #1534 usscouse, Aug 13, 2019
    Donald Trump Reaches Yet Another Bleak Milestone With His Lies
    The Washington Post reported that the president has now told more than 12,000 untruths since taking office.

    That's only 13 per day. What's the problem?
     
  10. charlie15

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    #1535 charlie15, Aug 13, 2019
    Cognitive dissonance at its finest.....
     
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  11. usscouse

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    #1536 usscouse, Aug 13, 2019
    Who was it who said " you have blue eyes, yellow hair, pink cheeks and red lips. Then you call me colored."
     
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  12. Cascarino's Pizzeria

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    #1537 Cascarino's Pizzeria, Aug 13, 2019
    And think, if he cut down on the tweeting he'd only have like 8 or 9,000 :eek:
     
  13. InTheSun

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    #1538 InTheSun, Aug 13, 2019
    It's all your fault. If you didn't call him names he would do the right thing for the country.
     
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  14. Cascarino's Pizzeria

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    #1539 Cascarino's Pizzeria, Aug 13, 2019
    Im gonna say Flip Wilson or Dick Gregory
     
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  15. Dr. Wankler

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    #1540 Dr. Wankler, Aug 13, 2019
    In parts of Iowa, 27.
     
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  16. song219

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    #1541 song219, Aug 13, 2019
    What's Modi's endgame of stripping the state status of Kashmir?

    I only posted this here because Ocho was the only thread I post or lurk in that mentions Modi.
     
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  17. Deep Wilcox

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    #1542 Deep Wilcox, Aug 13, 2019
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  18. Dr. Wankler

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    #1543 Dr. Wankler, Aug 13, 2019
    Well, in general I agree with the theory that Trump has no plan, that, in I think JohnR's phrase, he just sniffs the cheese and runs to it.

    But in these cases... It's hard to rule out, given his, you know, entire life even before his presidency.
     
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  19. The Jitty Slitter

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    #1544 The Jitty Slitter, Aug 13, 2019
    Yep.

    grift.
     
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  20. Cascarino's Pizzeria

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    #1545 Cascarino's Pizzeria, Aug 13, 2019
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    Market manipulation is just a mid-level Trump crime that will go unprosecuted

    He was getting his Gordon Gekko on in the 80s:

    The central issue for many was whether Trump was engaged in the tactic known as "greenmailing." It was an entirely legal strategy repeatedly deployed by activist investors throughout the 1980s -- a practice that, for lack of a better description, amounts to a corporate ransom payment. It works like this: An investor quietly buys up a significant amount of a targeted company's stock and threatens a takeover attempt. The company, in an effort to make the investor just go away, makes a deal to buy that stock back at a premium. The investor nets the difference.

    It's a practice that has all but disappeared in the decades since, snuffed out by a series of state laws and a federal excise tax designed explicitly to rid companies of the threat many deemed as stock manipulation. But it was, at the time, legal -- something Trump himself made clear when he testified in April 1987 before the New Jersey Casino Control Commission.

    "The practice is a totally legal practice, however, it's something, the name, greenmailer, is not a very pretty word," Trump said, according to a transcript of the hearing that CNN obtained. "It's a practice that on Wall Street is very open and common and done quite a bit."

    It was an offhanded, unsolicited defense of a practice Trump, and his legal team, repeatedly and vigorously claimed he didn't engage in.

    https://www-m.cnn.com/2016/08/22/po...nd+controversial+time+as+an+activist+investor
     
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  21. JohnR

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    #1546 JohnR, Aug 13, 2019
    Yep. Something that receives little attention is his role in the 1989 airline-merger mania. Airline stocks were going bonkers because a couple of mergers had been announced, and there were rumors of more. Then Trump stepped up with a announcement of a $7.5 billion bid for American Airlines, and the stock jumped 20% on the day.

    Total Trump bullshit, he had neither the financing nor the intention, and the stock went kerplunk once the market realized he was faking it. The SEC never busted Trump for that, so presumably he didn't buy before the announcement and then sell. But the suspicion remains.
     
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  22. ChrisSSBB

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    #1547 ChrisSSBB, Aug 13, 2019
    People need to remember with Trump that there is no right or wrong. Just his perception of winning and losing in how it relates to him.
     
  23. Sounders78

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    #1548 Sounders78, Aug 13, 2019
    There is right and wrong in his world.

    Right = supporting or benefitting Trump
    Wrong = antagonizing or harming Trump

    It’s the narcissist’s moral code
     
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  24. Chicago76

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    #1549 Chicago76, Aug 13, 2019
    This line of reasoning reminds me of many Bernie followers in the never Hillary camp.

    "Yeah, I know they're not the same, but we need to blow the system up in order to save it."
     
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  25. song219

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    #1550 song219, Aug 13, 2019
    Many are pretend Bolsheviks who believe severely chastising someone on social media is a revolutionary act.
     
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