They call me "racist" They call me "bigot" They call me "trumpster" They call me "cultist" That's not my name
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
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...
So he wants to cut the progressive income tax and replace it with tariffs that affect everyone equally. How republican of him.
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!
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?
Who was it who said " you have blue eyes, yellow hair, pink cheeks and red lips. Then you call me colored."
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.
Well, well, well... the tariffs are postponed: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/13/trump-delay-china-duties-cellphones-laptops-1460478 and the market is up 400 points. So, I keep mentioning, that if somebody knew these tariff moves were coming, they could make a lot of money front running the market swings. Is it possible that People close to Trump know these announcements are coming? Because they could be making a lot of money.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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."
Many are pretend Bolsheviks who believe severely chastising someone on social media is a revolutionary act.