Is Trump Nuts?
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UPDATED: Tuesday, September 1, 2026 23:49
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Another story about Trump using the White House to increase his family's wealth:
The Trump Organization announced on Monday that it is moving into the budget hotel business — capitalizing on Donald Trump’s popularity in Middle America.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/6/15745442/trump-american-idea-
hotel
The organization plans to launch the chain of hotels in small towns around the country, the kinds of places Trump visited during his campaign stops, according to the New York Times. This new venture takes its cues from the president’s “America First” theme — and the hotels will be decorated with patriotic flair and feature American-made products. The organization plans to launch this experiment in Mississippi, a state that turned out heavily for Trump during the election, with a Trump campaign donor.
The new venture is a reflection of how the Trump family has approached the presidency: as a way to profit from Trump’s politics. The organization has already come under scrutiny after foreign diplomats booked rooms in the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, around inauguration (Trump said he would donate the profits, but as of mid-March, there was no evidence he had done so) — and Trump tends to spend his time golfing at clubs he owns, meaning the Secret Service needs to funnel money directly into the president’s pocket in order to protect him.
Trump isn’t failing. He and his family appear to be making money hand over fist. It's a spectacle the likes of which we've never seen in the United States, and while it may end in disaster for the Trumps someday, for now it shows no real sign of failure.
Now it seems the Trump Organization is trying to make money from the last places in the country where the president remains overwhelmingly popular: rural, working-class America. It’s an unusual project for the Trump Organization, which until now has focused exclusively on luxury properties and hotels, many of them abroad. But right now that brand is taking a hit due to controversies over the president’s policies and conduct.
The project raises yet more ethical issues for a president whose young administration has shown general disregard for potential conflicts of interest. Trump refused to divest from his business interests when elected (his sons are now in charge of running the Trump Organization), and will profit from any new business opportunities involving the Trump Organization.
Because Trump still earns money from his business — and hasn’t released his tax returns — it’s impossible to guarantee that the president is not motivated in his policy decisions by a desire to enrich himself and his family.
Capitalizing on his campaign and presidency to launch a new hotel chain does not mean that Trump is doing anything illegal. But ethics experts have been pushing Trump to completely separate himself from his businesses to eliminate the appearance of impropriety. The director of the US Office of Government Ethics, Walter Shaub, has repeatedly urged Trump to sell his assets and put them in a blind trust:
"We can’t risk creating the perception that government leaders would use their official positions for profit. That’s why I was glad in November when the president-elect tweeted that he wanted to, as he put it, “in no way have a conflict of interest” with his businesses. Unfortunately, his current plan cannot achieve that goal."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:
There was no question that Obama was running the government, for better or worse.
For worse.
Not even 6 months into Trump's candidacy and we've got a list of 120 signatures of high ranking Muslim officials coming out and condemning the 3 recent Terrorist attacks in the UK.
That didn't happen once in 8 years when Obama and the Globalists had free rein of the US and the EU. Obama wouldn't even use the words Terrorism and Islam in the same sentence and preferred to use terms like "workplace violence". Hillary called anybody who had a problem with Islamic Terror attacks an Islamophobe.
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Quote:Trump has admired Duterte, President of the Philippines, whose vigilantes are killing drug users. Trump could do more than talk about Islamic Terror by following Duterte’s example and encourage American vigilantes to go on the attack. MAGA.
Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
Obama wouldn't even use the words Terrorism and Islam in the same sentence and preferred to use terms like "workplace violence". Hillary called anybody who had a problem with Islamic Terror attacks an Islamophobe.
www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-trump-sees-in-philippine-preside
nt-rodrigo-duterte
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump has admired Duterte, President of the Philippines, whose vigilantes are killing drug users. Trump could do more than talk about Islamic Terror by following Duterte’s example and encourage American vigilantes to go on the attack. MAGA.
Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
Obama wouldn't even use the words Terrorism and Islam in the same sentence and preferred to use terms like "workplace violence". Hillary called anybody who had a problem with Islamic Terror attacks an Islamophobe.
You're missing the point entirely. When Muslim leaders come out and condemn these attacks and these people start being shamed for the monsters they are instead of being regarded as heroes then the attacks will stop and you won't see idiots picking up guns and randomly killing brown people. It's about damn time we're calling them out, and it's sure as hell time that the Muslim community is speaking out against these random acts of violence.
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Quote:Seems to me the point is I am learning a lot about you, but not so much about how to wisely govern in a crisis.
Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
You're missing the point entirely. When Muslim leaders come out and condemn these attacks and these people start being shamed for the monsters they are instead of being regarded as heroes then the attacks will stop and you won't see idiots picking up guns and randomly killing brown people. It's about damn time we're calling them out, and it's sure as hell time that the Muslim community is speaking out against these random acts of violence.
I can see how this article would help, after the fact of a terror attack:
http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/23/muslims-unite-to-condemn-ariana-grande-m
anchester-terror-attack-6655366/
It is about sympathy for the victims and offers of help from Muslims.
But when Trump opens his mouth, he puts his foot in it. Video starts at 44 seconds:
Trump Wants To Kill Muslims With Pig Blood
Donald Trump recently regaled a crowd of supporters with a fake story of General John J. Pershing. Trump said he coated 50 bullets in pig blood and killed 49 muslim terrorists. A comment from yesterday: “absolutely correct,sane ,rational way to eliminate Islamic terrorism ." How you see that comment all depends on how sane you are. Trump would have approved.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Nope... Not going to watch TYT.
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Quote:Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s signature tax reform closely mirrors the tax plan that President Donald Trump is trying to get through Congress. In fact, they were designed by the same supply-side economists.
Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
Nope... Not going to watch TYT.
Republican lawmakers in Kansas put an end to the state’s failed tax-reform experiment on Tuesday, overriding the governor’s veto after three attempts to pass a tax-hiking bill this year.
The new law raises income and business taxes closer to pre-reform levels — a move Republicans had been resisting for years. But pressure had been mounting to do something. The drastic tax cuts enacted five years ago left the state in a fiscal mess, unable to balance its budget and properly fund its public schools.
Kansas’s five year long tax experiment provides many clues about what could happen if Congress goes along with Trump’s vision for tax reform.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/7/15753510/kansas-brownback-tax
-reform
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Second posts a video by The Young Turks entitled "Trump Wants To Kill Muslims With Pig Blood"
I respond with "Nope... not going to watch TYT".
Second quotes this, and then posts an article about something completely different and sources VOX.
It must be Wednesday.
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Originally posted by G:Quote:
Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
Second posts a video by The Young Turks entitled "Trump Wants To Kill Muslims With Pig Blood"
I respond with "Nope... not going to watch TYT".
Second quotes this, and then posts an article about something completely different and sources VOX.
It must be Wednesday.
6 refuses to watch a video that may contradict his pov - it must be a day that ends in "day."
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Read the letter Democratic lawmakers sent to Trump
“We believe it is crucial for you — as the President of the United States — to raise this matter with President Putin and to ensure that he hears you loud and clear — interfering in our elections was wrong in 2016 and it will not be permitted to happen again,” wrote the group, which also included Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Ben Cardin, D-Md., Jack Reed, D-R.I. and Mark Warner, D-Va.
“President Putin must understand this can never happen again,” they said. "Not raising this matter with President Putin would be a severe dereliction of the duty of the office to which you were elected."
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/democrats-demand-trump-co
nfront-putin-election-interference-n780121
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