Is Trump Nuts?
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Originally posted by second:
How you could get to adulthood and not know that tens of millions of Americans successfully cheat on trillions of dollars in taxes? They never will be forced to pay.
Are you daft?
Of course it happens all of the time.
There is a difference between 10's of Millions of Americans who cheat on their taxes and Donald Trump in this instance though.
He's the Fucking President! All eyes are on him. If anything, the IRS and FBI have EVEN MORE reason to investigate his tax returns because he won't release them to the public.
I will state again for the record that nowhere is it written at all that any President or candidate for the Presidency is in any way required to do so. He is not breaking any laws by not releasing his tax returns.
So investigate them. Punish him if there is a reason for him to be punished. And shut the fuck up.
Don't talk to me about adulthood. Trying to speak with you is like trying to speak with a child who thinks they're clever enough to get away with something stupid.
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All this Trumpian chit-chat may have real world effects, and I don't just mean on fireflyfans.net's "Real World Event Discussions". For example:
America’s national obsession with White House revelations tumbling out on a daily (sometimes hourly) basis appears to be sapping productivity.
https://qz.com/989296
Productivity figures bounce around, so it’s too early to draw a definitive line to political distractions, but management consultant Bill Catlette, former head of human resources at FedEx, isn’t surprised. He blames the political turmoil he sees at workplaces around the country. “The workforce is more disengaged and distracted than it ever has in my lifetime,” he said told Quartz.
Catlette is now advising executives dealing with political angst invading the workplace from both conservatives and liberals. While everything from inefficient managerial structures to legalized marijuana can affect productivity, politics has shot up the ladder of concerns. “It’s beyond distraction,” he said. “It’s dysfunctional.”
For HR departments, it feels like a siege. One consultant described it as having the March Madness basketball tournament on all the time.
. . . .
Labor productivity has averaged an annualized growth rate of 1.1% since the end of 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor. That’s a historic low. No one is quite sure what’s driving the steady erosion of American productivity and, consequently, living standards. A politicized workplace surely isn’t helping.
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Originally posted by 6stringJoker:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
How you could get to adulthood and not know that tens of millions of Americans successfully cheat on trillions of dollars in taxes? They never will be forced to pay.
Are you daft?
Of course it happens all of the time.
There is a difference between 10's of Millions of Americans who cheat on their taxes and Donald Trump in this instance though.
He's the Fucking President! All eyes are on him. If anything, the IRS and FBI have EVEN MORE reason to investigate his tax returns because he won't release them to the public.
I will state again for the record that nowhere is it written at all that any President or candidate for the Presidency is in any way required to do so. He is not breaking any laws by not releasing his tax returns.
So investigate them. Punish him if there is a reason for him to be punished. And shut the fuck up.
Don't talk to me about adulthood. Trying to speak with you is like trying to speak with a child who thinks they're clever enough to get away with something stupid.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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I rest my case.
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With Trump out of the country all this week, things have calmed down at my work. We could test the theory that there is a "Trump Effect" by having the White House schedule another long foreign trip later this year. A week, or a month vacation without Trump would be nice for the USA. Even Republicans have to notice that the country continues when Trump is not around to provide leadership.
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:
With Trump out of the country all this week, things have calmed down at my work. We could test the theory that there is a "Trump Effect" by having the White House schedule another long foreign trip later this year. A week, or a month vacation without Trump would be nice for the USA. Even Republicans have to notice that the country continues when Trump is not around to provide leadership.
So what are you saying here? CNN and MSNBC just got boring now that Trump is out of the country?
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Quote:Yes. Boring. The big story is "After forgoing headscarves in Saudi Arabia, Trumps wear veils at Vatican". I could not bring myself to read why the Trumps wore veils, but for you I will:
Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
So what are you saying here? CNN and MSNBC just got boring now that Trump is out of the country?
Quote:As always with Trump, there was -- what is the word? -- hypocrisy:
"Per Vatican protocol, women who have an audience with the Pope are required to wear long sleeves, formal black clothing, and a veil to cover the head," Stephanie Grisham, spokesperson for the first lady, said in a statement to CNN.
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Both Melania and Ivanka Trump eschewed headscarves during their recent visit to Saudi Arabia, a conservative Muslim country where women are expected to wear headscarves. The move contradicted President Donald Trump’s old criticism of former first lady Michelle Obama for making a similar decision.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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It might have something to do with... I dunno, The Pope. I didn't see anywhere that Trump was meeting with the Muslim equivalency of the Pope in the Muslim equivalency of the Vatican. That, and Christians haven't been known to mutilate women's genitalia or throw gays off of buildings for quite a while. Islam is a religion that deserves to be disrespected.
The ONLY reason that American or any other women should wear the expected garb when in Muslim nations is for fear of their life or getting raped. I'm sure there was no danger of that with Secret Service around.
I'm curious as to why Trump would go along with the Catholic stuff though. He doesn't strike me as a particularly religious guy. I think he was trolling again.
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Quote:CNN says what Trump is doing on this foreign trip is being, well, Trump. The dirty little secret of foreign trips is that the accomplishments and deals are all worked out in advance. What the President does in these settings is smile for the camera, shake a bunch of hands and give short speeches touting how important the relationship is between America and fill-in-the-blank country.
Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
I'm curious as to why Trump would go along with the Catholic stuff though. He doesn't strike me as a particularly religious guy. I think he was trolling again.
This is exactly the sort of thing Trump has spent the last few decades of his life doing. He excels as the public face, the salesman, the cheerleader for a brand. For years, the brand he was selling was Trump. Now the brand he is selling is America.
The duties of a president while in Washington are far more complicated. Rather than photo-ops and heavily-scheduled public appearances, Trump has to construct a policy agenda and work with Congress to pass it.
CNN gets a little snarky about the truth: Trump should figure out how to effectively govern in Washington. And you can't learn that in Rome.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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I just heard that recently while in Isreal Trump wore this:
Now I know he was trolling the religion of Islam and their barbaric ideologies.
Good.
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Quote:Trump also trolls the concept of "loyalty".
Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
Now I know he was trolling the religion of Islam and their barbaric ideologies.
Good.
In his first and best-known book, The Art of the Deal, Trump writes a passage that is one of the most remarkable ever set to paper by a future American president. It’s deeply telling about Trump’s views on the distinction between integrity and loyalty. Trump sings the praises of Roy Cohn — Joe McCarthy’s infamous legal attack dog later turned Trump mentor:
"Just compare that with all the hundreds of “respectable” guys who make careers out of boasting about their uncompromising integrity but have absolutely no loyalty. They only care about what’s best for them and don’t think twice about stabbing a friend in the back if the friend becomes a problem. What I liked most about Roy Cohn was that he would do just the opposite. Roy was the kind of guy who’d be there at your hospital bed long after everyone else had bailed out, literally standing by you to the death."
Trump, ironically, would not stand by Cohn’s deathbed as he perished of AIDS; instead, he disavowed his friend.
-- from the article The Bullshitter-in-Chief
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/30/15631710/trump-bullshit
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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