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Originally posted by SECOND: A guy like Trump couldn't hack I guy like me because I have known Trump-like characters. The real Trump @realDonaldTrump has a long history of saying whatever is necessary to close a deal. Once you have signed the contract, or voted for him, or joined his army, then you find out that you are trapped inside another of his swindles, which go back 40 years.
A bit similar here. I wanted to be a writer, was an English major in college. For some basic expense money I got a job in a photo store where the owner was a living breathing salesman - hardcore, studied all the sales techniques and endlessly applied them to the unsuspecting shoppers who would come into the store. I watched him closely as a character study for writing. He made me realize there is a giant world of selling most of us know nothing about. The psychology of selling, the tricks, the manipulations, the ability to make people buy something they didn't want when they walked in, but when they left minus hundreds of dollars they were grateful to you for making them do so!
I'd always been wary of sales people so this was on top of that. The people I meet that are Trump supporters are so naive about sales people. He makes them want to believe. They are the same schlups who didn't want to buy the cheap lens when they walked in but left with it and paid 200% more than normal mark-up and were grateful for the "deal." They loved the PoS lens they just bought. Some day it'll dawn on them if they're honest enough.
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Trump is a flim flam man. I called it on day one. 
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During his second speech ever before the U.N. assembly, Trump opened by making his oft-repeated proclamation about his tenure in office, though those in attendance did not appear to take him seriously.
"In less than two years my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country,” Trump said.
Laughs slowly rose up in the crowd, and Trump responded: “So true. Didn’t expect that reaction.”
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-laughed-united-nations-un-1137481
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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They are the same schlups who didn't want to buy thecheap lenshope and change when they walked in but left with it and paid 200% more than normal mark-up and were grateful for the "deal." -CC
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
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On Monday, good government groups released a heavily redacted and previously confidential Trump administration memo from April outlining and authorizing what would ultimately become the White House’s disastrous family separation border policy.
The memo, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by Open the Government and the Project On Government Oversight, mentions a series of options that were presented to Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen on April 23 for how to approach the Justice Department’s “zero tolerance” policy on prosecuting undocumented border crossers.
Contrary to Nielsen’s public statements, the memo made clear that this was a family separation policy. Nielsen seems to have misled Congress and the American people when she repeatedly claimed that there was no policy of separating families at the border.
The policy in question resulted in more than 2,500 children being taken unlawfully from their parents by the Trump administration before it was halted by a federal court in June as a violation of the due process clause of the Constitution. After the court ordered that separated families be reunified, it was revealed that hundreds of parents were deported without their children. The administration is still in the process of attempting to reunite those families — as of last week at least 182 potentially eligible children had not been reunified with their parents.
At the time that the policy was falling apart, though, Nielsen was publicly insisting that no such policy existed.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/memo-kirstjen-nielsen-lied
-congress-family-separation.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Illegal aliens don't have Constitutional rights. There were no violations.
This is what happens when you "report" bullshit as fact. The rest of the article can't be taken seriously.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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The problem Jack has is that stupid lasts throughout a persons lifetime.
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lol
You keep calling me stupid, but you offer up no evidence, and time and time again I've shut you down and you stop responding when I have you dead to rights.
But please, keep putting your ignorance and malevolence on display for everyone to enjoy.
You are the punchline.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:The punchline is that you have no rights at a job, 6ixStringJack, even if you are a citizen. That is not how it works in the rest of the world, except for the U.S. and Mexico, which probably explains why you are hostile to Mex-skins -- they are in competition for the kinds of crappy, low pay jobs you work. Is it great to be a worker in the U.S.? Not if you are in the lower 50% of jobs and not compared with the rest of the developed world.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol
You keep calling me stupid, but you offer up no evidence, and time and time again I've shut you down and you stop responding when I have you dead to rights.
But please, keep putting your ignorance and malevolence on display for everyone to enjoy.
You are the punchline.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/07/04/is-it-great-to-be-a-wor
ker-in-the-u-s-not-compared-to-the-rest-of-the-developed-world/?utm_term=.033a3ba1cb08
The U.S. labor market is hot. Unemployment is at 3.8 percent, a level it’s hit only once since the 1960s, and many industries report deep labor shortages. Old theories of what’s wrong with the labor market — such as a lack of people with necessary skills — are dying fast. Earnings are beginning to pick up, and the Federal Reserve envisions a steady regimen of rate hikes.
So why does a large subset of workers continue to feel left behind? We can find some clues in a new 296-page report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a club of advanced and advancing nations that has long been a top source for international economic data and research. Most of the figures are from 2016 or before, but they reflect underlying features of the economies analyzed that continue today.
In particular, the report shows the United States’s unemployed and at-risk workers are getting very little support from the government, and their employed peers are set back by a particularly weak collective-bargaining system.
Those factors have contributed to the United States having a higher level of income inequality and a larger share of low-income residents than almost any other advanced nation. Only Spain and Greece, whose economies have been ravaged by the euro-zone crisis, have more households earning less than half the nation’s median income — an indicator that unusually large numbers of people either are poor or close to being poor.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Poor Jack. He is upset and claims I keep calling him stupid without providing any evidence. That's so funny because it's what he posts that is the evidence. But alas, he is to stupid to figure that out without help.
Can someone here give the moron a hint?
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