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THG
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 11:24 PM

Donors to the Trump Inaugural Committee Got Ambassador Nominations. But Are They Qualified?

At least 14 people without diplomatic experience who made major donations to President Donald Trump's inaugural fund were later nominated to become ambassadors to foreign countries,

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/Trump-Inaugural-Committee-
Donors-Ambassador-Nominations-508048051.html


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Wednesday, April 3, 2019 11:52 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:


I bought my house with cash when I was 32.

I'm not a millennial.

Care to try again.


Anecdotal.

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THG
Thursday, April 4, 2019 10:45 PM

Can you say Trump is a moron? He threatens to close the border last week. He says over and over again he really means it. Today he says he'll give Mexico one year and if they don't change he'll close it. What a fucking dipstick.

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Friday, April 5, 2019 1:21 AM

Does a seven-page memo by a far-right Steve Bannon protégé explain everything about Trump’s dangerous and erratic policies?
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/seven-page-memo-far-right-steve-banno
n-protege-explain-everything-trumps-dangerous-erratic-policies
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Trump has claimed that there was an attempted coup against his presidency and by extension the United States. His critics in the news media and Congress are to be silenced, blacklisted and sued for libel and slander. Trump has drawn up enemies’ lists. Trump and the right-wing media continue to engage in stochastic terrorism and scripted violence. The Democrats, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama are enemies of the people. Clinton and Obama are in fact “traitors” who lead a “deep state” conspiracy against Donald Trump.

This is bad for America, but in many ways good politics for Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Public opinion polls and other research show that Trump’s proverbial white working-class supporters and other Republican voters actually believe that they are “oppressed” by liberals, black people and other nonwhites, gays and lesbians, immigrants and Muslims.

For Trump’s political cultists the calculus is simple: They are Trump. Ergo, when Trump is attacked they are also attacked. The personal is political in this most crude and literal example of white identity politics, where Trumpism is not merely a set of political positions but a lifestyle and way of being in the world.

In some ways, Trump and the right-wing movement’s pugilistic attacks are a decades-old strategy.

The “paranoid style” and its belief in victimization and in enemies around every corner and under every bed has been a fixture of American conservatism since the 1950s.

Wrecking the machinery of democratic governance through show trial hearings and a blatant disregard for standing rules and procedure and precedent have been used by conservatives since the era of Joseph McCarthy, and then against the Clinton administration.

White racial resentment and overt racism allowed and encouraged Republicans to amplify their obstruction against Barack Obama.

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THG
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 5:35 AM

Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

Trump’s official Internal Revenue Service tax transcripts, with the figures from his federal tax form, the 1040, for the years 1985 to 1994 — represents the fullest and most detailed look to date at the president’s taxes, information he has kept from public view. Though the information does not cover the tax years at the center of an escalating battle between the Trump administration and Congress, it traces the most tumultuous chapter in a long business career — an era of fevered acquisition and spectacular collapse.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/07/us/politics/donald-trum
p-taxes.html


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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 5:08 PM

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Originally posted by THG:
Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

Trump is 17% worse than that:

1985-1994 tax data: Trump lost $1.17 Billion

By the time his master-of-the-universe memoir “Trump: The Art of the Deal” hit bookstores in 1987, Donald Trump was in deep financial distress, losing tens of millions of dollars on troubled business deals.

Trump was propelled to the presidency, in part, by a self-spun narrative of business success and of setbacks triumphantly overcome. But 10 years of tax information obtained by the New York Times paints a bleak picture of his deal-making abilities.

www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-info-show-money-lost-over-a-decade-2
019-5


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 6:25 PM

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Originally posted by reaverfan:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:


I bought my house with cash when I was 32.

I'm not a millennial.

Care to try again.


Anecdotal.




LOL. That's a hoot, coming from you Marcos.

Don't you have some dumpsters to set on fire?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 7:35 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by second:
Stupid people are stupid about more than their politics or their tax refunds. They are stupid in all areas, which tends to make them more poorly paid than average:


That's kind of an unfair comparison.

You could probably count on your fingers and toes how many households in the country are run by somebody who is between 25 and 37 in 2019.


Not really getting your point here though. Are you saying that Millennials as a whole are more stupid than Gen X'ers?

Or are you confusing "higher" education with intelligence again?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Nothing new in this thread since 20 February.

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 7:58 PM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

Nothing new in this thread since 20 February.

JSF, it is not news you are stupid, but we didn't know that Trump lost $1.17 Billion. Yet, he is smarter than you.
www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-info-show-money-lost-over-a-decade-2
019-5


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 8:03 PM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

Nothing new in this thread since 20 February.

JSF, it is not news you are stupid, but we didn't know that Trump lost $1.17 Billion. Yet, he is smarter than you.
www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-info-show-money-lost-over-a-decade-2
019-5


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly




Are you sure that is the story you want to go with, Second?

Maybe he didn't lose $1.17 Billion and he just made it look that way so he could massively cheat on his taxes?

Think hard before you decide which way you want to spin this story.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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