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"Every one who normalizes Mr. Trump now, or has in the past, will have to answer to future generations for their acquiescence, silence or sophistry—if, indeed, not outright cowardice."

 

https://www.facebook.com/theDanRather/posts/10158306303030716

 

didn't discover 'til last night.  never thought we would see the day when dan rather and Gromnir were sympatico. 

 

HA! Good Fun!

The sad thing is this sentiment would have been equally true applied to Clinton had she won. Well, maybe not. Congress would have been against her but there would have been no shortage of demagoguery and bad government from a Clinton Administration.

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I thought he was worth 10 billion or something.

 

 

Also he is now trying to sling twitter crap at Snoop Dogg?

Tax is collected on income, not actual worth.

Which is a pity... there should be a progressive tax both on total wealth and income

 

Just how much of someone elses labor and investments do you think you're entitled to?

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If Ted Nugent made a video like that, he'd receive an avalanche of media criticism. He'd probably get some boycotts and lose some gigs. He would not be jailed, and President Obama would not tweet about it. That is reality.

Nugent might gain from such a thing as well.

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Posted (edited)

Just a number to put out there: Trump tells on average four lies a day, publicly that is (source German news network ZDF)

Edited by Ben No.3

Everybody knows the deal is rotten

Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton

For your ribbons and bows

And everybody knows

Posted

 

Nugent might gain from such a thing as well.

Nah. Obama hadn't even been elected yet when Nugent said that. Much lower impact.

 

 

Yeah but he was just playing to his crowd as well. You pretty much expect celebrities to say stupid stuff. Celebrity does not equal intelligence. Quite the opposite often times, the kind of person that seeks out celebrity is often egotistical and self-absorbed.

 

But when the President is getting in a huff over it, that is pretty embarrassing. 

Posted

Well seeing the handwringing over the theoretical lack of handwringing, I'd say Snoop knows how to get attention.

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Nugent might gain from such a thing as well.

Nah. Obama hadn't even been elected yet when Nugent said that. Much lower impact.

If he had done it during Obama's presidency, I can see it. Meshback trash have their uses.

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I thought he was worth 10 billion or something.

 

 

Also he is now trying to sling twitter crap at Snoop Dogg?

 

Tax is collected on income, not actual worth.

Yes, and he declared 100 million in investment income, which would be miniscule if it came from, say, a 4 billion investment portfolio. It's​ much more likely that he had a 1 or 2 billion portfolio at the time which would mean that he was never worth 10 billion. 5, maybe, if you're​ charitable.

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Posted

 

 

I thought he was worth 10 billion or something.

 

 

Also he is now trying to sling twitter crap at Snoop Dogg?

Tax is collected on income, not actual worth.

Yes, and he declared 100 million in investment income, which would be miniscule if it came from, say, a 4 billion investment portfolio. It's​ much more likely that he had a 1 or 2 billion portfolio at the time which would mean that he was never worth 10 billion. 5, maybe, if you're​ charitable.

 

 

Or perhaps the majority of his assets are value assets rather than income earning assets. It's hard to say. I didn't look at what they released at all. It would not surprise me is his holdings are distributed to all of his enterprises with only a minimal amount of "personal" holding the IRS collects from him directly on. I have no doubt he has an army of accountants making all that go round and round.

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not sure where to put it but hats down to /pol guys, I mean it really took some dedication:

 

I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene"

Posted

Blocking laws on a whim? What the hell do you mean?

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Posted

Excellent, dump everyone from those countries on Hawaii.

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Posted

Blocking laws on a whim? What the hell do you mean?

Doing anything he doesn't like.

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Posted

2 Federal Judges Rule Against Trump’s Latest Travel Ban

 

Aside, federal judges REALLY need to be stripped of this power. Wiki says as of 2012 there are 3294 federal judges in the US. Are all of them capable of blocking laws on a whim? That's entirely too many clowns in the big tent. :yes:

I think normally the government could emergency appeal to the Supreme Court. Right now the SC is in flux though.
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Doing anything he doesn't like.

Muahahaha, if only it were that easy. Give me absolute power and I will make America great again. :yes:

Gfted1 2020

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Perhaps Trump's staffers should consider getting him an Audible account.

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Perhaps Trump's staffers should consider getting him an Audible account.

Or an Adderall Rx.

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Posted (edited)

May be Obama can teach him how to work 3 hours a day.

So Obama managed to go against every second sentence in the constitution AND completely ruin America while only working three hours a day?

 

I give him the German seal of efficiency

Edited by Ben No.3
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Everybody knows the deal is rotten

Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton

For your ribbons and bows

And everybody knows

Posted

 

May be Obama can teach him how to work 3 hours a day.

So Obama managed to go against every second sentence in the constitution AND completely ruin America while only working three hours a day?

 

I give him the German seal of efficiency

 

Bennie you should be much more respectful towards Obama, he did a lot for social equality and Germany.

 

I am surprised you didnt mention this, is it because he is black?  :biggrin:

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Posted

170317-merkel-trump-oval-office-feature.

 

dat body language

 

sad

 

> that feel when an ugly woman makes advances on you and can't think of a polite way to tell her to sod off

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"Some men see things as they are and say why?"
"I dream things that never were and say why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

- Some guy 

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