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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby Cobra-D » Mon Nov 14, 2016 10:56 pm

iMURDAu wrote:Idk if its strictly a PR move because he doesn't actually need it, one would suppose. If he didn't make any announcement on his salary it would be fodder for his opponent in the next election.

If I were him I'd reconsider for superstitious reasons because look at the other two Presidents that refused the salary. Hoover and JFK. One sank conservatism for decades and the other got assassinated. Just take the payments then write a check to the Treasury for the same amount, show a credit and a debit on the ledger and you're still technically not taking the money.


Or like donate it.
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby iMURDAu » Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:58 am

The last guy that did that got half his brains put in his wife's lap in Dallas.

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Yeah he should probably just donate it. I was trying to make a joke Cobra and now you've got me half suggesting he should go and get killed. NSA persons watching this site I swear this was in jest and Mr. Trump should do as he pleases with his salary.
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby Krashlia » Tue Nov 15, 2016 3:02 am

Guys, guys! You know what would be funny? Imagine he actually turned out to be a good President!
Dear goodness, I would be near hospitalized because my sides would be near splitting...
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby EstebanColberto » Tue Nov 15, 2016 1:37 pm

blehblah wrote:I think this belongs here:

Here's a WaPo article about Trump's evolving stance on healthcare:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... obamacare/

I don't profess to understand the ins-and-outs of the American system. It sounds as though he's indicating he wants to keep a bit that guarantees people under a certain age get insurance, even if there is a pre-existing condition. Because companies would want to charge premiums based on the condition, the government would need to force them to charge based on community standards, and for poor people, subsidize said premiums, which the author argues gets the government back to Obamacare.


Yeah it's almost like the guy that said in a 1998 People magazine interview that he's "a liberal on healthcare, everybody has to be covered, then said the same thing in Larry King interview a couple of years later, then ran for the Reform Party nomination on a platform of providing everyone with healthcare, wrote a book called "The America We Deserve" around the same time saying it's time for America to move to a single payer system, appeared several times on David Letterman in the last 4 years talking and talked about how great the healthcare system in Scotland was, said in an interview with CNN interview 2 weeks before the first GOP debate that "this is an un-Republican thing for me to say, but everybody has to be covered," and "the government's going to pay for it," probably supports some kind of single payer system and was trying to sound more like a Republican just to get elected. And now he's been crowned King Republican.

Meanwhile, Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan wants to phase out Medicare.

Take a look at this man:

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That's Paul Ryan. I hate that man. I think somewhere around the 890th time Obama had to veto a bill to repeal Obamacare and kick my mother and her diabetic boyfriend off their insurance, I was wishing for simpler times when you could challenge a man to a duel. And now a man who, judging by his history, has a very very different attitude about healthcare has just become his boss and that man happens to be one of the biggest assholes in history and he's very used to getting what he wants. You've seen what he does to people who stand in his way? I think the Republican Party is about to become my favorite reality show of all time.
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby cmsellers » Tue Nov 15, 2016 4:03 pm

EstebanColberto wrote:Yeah it's almost like the guy that said in a 1998 People magazine interview that he's "a liberal on healthcare, everybody has to be covered, then said the same thing in Larry King interview a couple of years later, then ran for the Reform Party nomination on a platform of providing everyone with healthcare, wrote a book called "The America We Deserve" around the same time saying it's time for America to move to a single payer system, appeared several times on David Letterman in the last 4 years talking and talked about how great the healthcare system in Scotland was, said in an interview with CNN interview 2 weeks before the first GOP debate that "this is an un-Republican thing for me to say, but everybody has to be covered," and "the government's going to pay for it," probably supports some kind of single payer system and was trying to sound more like a Republican just to get elected. And now he's been crowned King Republican.

I'd be more reassured if I thought Donald Trump had any principles whatsoever. From what I've seen he's just an id in an orange clown suit. On the other hand, he clearly wants people to like him, and not doing what Paul Ryan wants with respect to Obamacare will help in that respect.
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby Tesseracts » Tue Nov 15, 2016 4:25 pm

Paul Ryan is one of the Republicans who has been consistently speaking out against Trump's racism, so I don't really want him to die.
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby iMURDAu » Thu Nov 17, 2016 2:03 am

*lowers rifle*
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby ghijkmnop » Thu Nov 17, 2016 2:27 am

When it comes to healthcare, Congress (full healthcare for life) should NOT be allowed to decide. It needs to be a Constitutional Amendment somehow. 38 states would probably ratify.
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby Krashlia » Fri Nov 18, 2016 8:24 am

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Jeez, who let a brother down, amirite?...
guys...?
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby EstebanColberto » Fri Nov 18, 2016 9:18 am

cmsellers wrote:
EstebanColberto wrote:I'd be more reassured if I thought Donald Trump had any principles whatsoever. From what I've seen he's just an id in an orange clown suit. On the other hand, he clearly wants people to like him, and not doing what Paul Ryan wants with respect to Obamacare will help in that respect.


Principles? He doesn't have any of those. He only has goals and is willing to do anything to reach them. He's also a self-serving narcissist that only cares about his business and his money. Why should he care that 47% of Americans pay no federal income tax because they're too poor to pay it. Why should he care that an entire generation of young people are saddled with student debt they can never hope to pay off. Why should he care that medical costs are so high that people have to sell their homes to pay for their treatment. Why should he care that millions of people don't have a steady permanent job and have to work two part-time jobs just to eke out a meager living. Take a vacation? Forget it. There's just no money for it. We just stay at home and watch Netflix on our days off. We've all given up the American dream at this point. We live with our parents longer cause we can't afford the rent and we're definitely not going to buy a new house. Not when we could lose our job at the drop of a hat. Meanwhile, Donald Trump just sits up there on his golden tower without a care in the world. He's just raking in the money from his business, while we don't have a dime of disposable income.

What was his business again? Oh right. Real estate, housing, apartment complexes, hotels, casinos, luxury resorts, golf courses, entertainment venues, tourist attractions. How are those doing by the way? They're not going bankrupt or anything are they?
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby blehblah » Sun Nov 20, 2016 3:57 pm

Trump is giving every indication that he will not be avoiding conflicts of interest with his businesses.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/us/po ... tners.html

Washington ethics lawyers said that a meeting with Indian real estate partners, regardless of what was discussed, raised conflict of interest questions for Mr. Trump, who could be perceived as using the presidency to advance his business interests.


Yeah, because that is what'll sink his presidency.

The same week, Mr. Trump’s daughter Ivanka — an executive at the Trump Organization hotel chain — attended a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. The move drew criticism from former State Department officials, given that Ms. Trump does not have security clearance and is helping run the family business enterprises.


Look, the Trump blind trust can see! It's a miracle! Praise jebus and hallelujah!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/po ... .html?_r=0

This week, Ms. Trump’s jewelry company sent out a notice to reporters with a photograph of her wearing a $10,800 gold bangle bracelet that she had worn during an interview her family did with “60 Minutes,” trying to use the appearance as an opportunity to sell more items.

“Please find attached a style alert of Ivanka wearing her favorite bangle from the Metropolis Collection over the weekend on 60 Minutes,” Monica Marder, the vice president for sales at Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry, said in the email.


Flogging the $10800 bracelet she wore during a 60 Minutes interview? Sounds about right. Let's consider the criticism, "Hey, Trump family, that's really not classy!"

Or how about, "You ran as the champion of the forgotten, blue collar workers of America, and you do this?"

The Trump family is going to make a fortune off of this gig.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016 ... omats.html

WASHINGTON—About 100 foreign diplomats, from Brazil to Turkey, gathered at the Trump International Hotel this week to sip Trump-branded champagne, dine on sliders and hear a sales pitch about the U.S. president-elect’s newest hotel.

The event for the diplomatic community, held one week after the election, was in the Lincoln Library, a junior ballroom with 16-foot ceilings and velvet drapes that is also available for rent.

Some attendees won raffle prizes — among them overnight stays at other Trump properties around the world — allowing them to become better acquainted with the business holdings of the new commander-in-chief.


Let's pause so you can scrape your brain off your surroundings and smoosh it back into your skull.

“Believe me, all the delegations will go there,” said one Middle Eastern diplomat who recently toured the hotel and booked an overseas visitor. The diplomat said many stayed away from the hotel before the election for fear of a “Clinton backlash,” but now it’s the place to be seen.

In interviews with a dozen diplomats, many of whom declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak about anything related to the new U.S. president, some said spending money at Trump’s hotel is an easy, friendly gesture to the new president.

“Why wouldn’t I stay at his hotel blocks from the White House, so I can tell the new president, ‘I love your new hotel!’ Isn’t it rude to come to his city and say, ‘I am staying at your competitor?’” said one Asian diplomat.


Eh, you may as well just leave your gray matter on the wall... it'll keep ending-up there over the next four years anyway, so just go with it.

And, not every diplomat (in this case, former) is down with this whole pile of turds.

“The temptation and the inclination will certainly be there,” said Arturo Sarukhan, a former Mexican ambassador to the United States. “Some might think it’s the right way to engage, to be able to tell the next president, ‘Oh, I stayed at your hotel.’ If I were still in government I would discourage it, among other reasons, because it can be questioned and looked at in a very poor light, as though you are trying to buy influence via a hotel bill.”


The former Mexican ambassador, no less.

Surely, everyone is thinking, "This can't be legal, I demand justice! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock.... wait, what?"

The Trumps opened the hotel in the Old Post Office Pavilion, a 117-year-old property the company leases from the federal government. Officials at the General Services Administration, the landlord, have consulted the Office of Government Ethics about how to handle such conflicts, but the measures preventing other federal employees from profiting from their positions do not apply to the president.

“Consequently, there is no current legal requirement that would compel the President to relinquish financial interests because of a conflict of interest,” an analysis produced last month by the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress said.


Rest assured, the hotel's general manager thinks you're stupid (probably because you left your brain oozing down the wall, dummy):

The hotel’s general manager, Mickael Damelincourt, said in an interview that business had been picking up before the election and that interest has surged for the inauguration. Hotels throughout the city, as well as Airbnb users, are charging higher rates because of increased demand.

“I got 50 calls in the last day, from some very important people, and we have no space,” Damelincourt said.

He said he didn’t think inauguration guests were coming to his hotel in order to curry favour with the president-elect. “I don’t think that has an effect on the hotel,” he said.


Folks, the last thing we should do is get all worked-up into a righteous fury, because nobody gives a fuck, and the reality is the masses have been thoroughly conditioned to shrug this sort of thing off, not to mention...

http://www.vox.com/2016/11/19/13685762/ ... istraction

Hamilton!

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/19/do ... lton-tweet

UPDATE: After deleting a tweet about Hamilton on Saturday night, Donald Trump renewed his attacks against the Tony Award-winning musical, calling the show “highly overrated.”

“The cast and producers of Hamilton, which I hear is highly overrated, should immediately apologize to Mike Pence for their terrible behavior,” Trump wrote on Twitter. According to producer Jeffrey Seller, Trump has never asked for tickets to see Hamilton himself.


HAAAAAAMMMMMMIIIIIILLLLLLLTTTTTTTTOOOOOONNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby FieldMarshalFry » Mon Nov 21, 2016 1:23 am

EstebanColberto wrote:What was his business again? Oh right. Real estate, housing, apartment complexes, hotels, casinos, luxury resorts, golf courses, entertainment venues, tourist attractions. How are those doing by the way? They're not going bankrupt or anything are they?

yes.... they are, every casino he owned failed, so did his housing and apartment complexes, his "luxury" stuff is a joke, a joke that has destroyed huge swaths of the natural habitat in Scotland, he went bankrupt FOUR TIMES, he would be richer today if he left all the money his racist daddy gave him in a savings account and just didn't touch it, that is how bad he is at his job...


and he can't even sell meat! even when it's made look bigger than it is due to comparison to his tiny, baby like hands! all he's good for is being followed round with a tuba!
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby Krashlia » Tue Nov 22, 2016 5:07 am

Guys, Pray to God that we never experience a major terror attack under his watch or else we'll have to deal with him and his administration for four extra years.
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