"Too often, the face of our economic superiority is a corporate imperialism - our technological dominance is shown by smart bombs and Predator drones. We could do something else."
Oct 3, 2016
Oct 2, 2016
We Must Remember This
Think Progress
@BarackObama who wants to raise all our taxes, only pays 20.5% on $790k salary. http://t.co/bqF26mQf Do as I say not as I do.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2012
HALF of Americans don't pay income tax despite crippling govt debt...http://t.co/gDAUj0Kt— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 23, 2012
Facebook billionaire gives up his U.S. citizenship in order to save taxes. I guess 3.8 billion isn't enough for (cont) http://t.co/xaPBfxlm— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 14, 2012
"@conservativeJT: @bluejoni @realDonaldTrump Trump is an American that will pay more taxes in one year than you pay in your entire life.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2013
"@DenZen: Successful people work their asses off to make it, only to be punished by heavy taxes which are then squandered recklessly."— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 5, 2014
If @amazon ever had to pay fair taxes, its stock would crash and it would crumble like a paper bag. The @washingtonpost scam is saving it!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2015
You know what is the worst part of @BarackObama's Tuesday speech playing class warfare--we paid for it with our tax dollars.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2011
Just Keep Talkin' Don
Trump says if he does a great job as president, his assets will increase in value, and so:
"...that's a conflict, but that's like a good kind of conflict, isn't it?"
"...that's a conflict, but that's like a good kind of conflict, isn't it?"
He starts his bad week with a poor showing at the debate, follows it with three days of Alicia Machado and "finishes" with this little meltdown in Ohio, which included more than some vague allusion to how maybe Hillary's not been "loyal" to Bill (?) Seriously, this is the guy they're talking about when they try to warn us about wrestling with pigs.
We can parse it out and try to draw conclusions about his fragile ego and the weird workings in Trump's little brain, but I think we have to consider that he's really just following his usual pattern, which is first and always counterpunch - never brush it off and never let any of it go - Tit-For-Tat come hell or high water.
But second - and I think more to the point - there's real purpose to it. This is a guy who throws shit. He's learned that the more shit he throws, the harder it is for anybody to sort thru it and make any sense of it. But while we're busy trying to get our heads around the shit storm, he stays more or less off the hook because we've all spent one more week not looking into the Rape Allegations and why they postponed the hearing; not looking at The Trump Foundation being uncertified which makes Trump's own actions potential felonies; not focusing on the leak of a few pages of his tax documents from 1996 that appear to confirm that he's been stiffing us all for the last 20 years - and that's what he wants. He wants to stall and deflect and postpone, constantly doubling down on his phony Populist routine which gives him more opportunity to go on playing the rubes for suckers, putting more millions in his pocket, as he moves towards whatever he thinks is his destiny while giving us that self-satisfied comfortable feeling that we've got him all figured out - and maybe we do, but prob'ly we don't.
Oct 1, 2016
No Small Thing
Hillary alone stands between America and the most unstable, unfit president in US history https://t.co/2HmqGre2AS writes Dorothy Rabinowitz— WSJ Editorial Page (@WSJopinion) September 30, 2016
It's not a ringing endorsement, but when the Rupert Street Journal Editorial Page puts up anything that isn't easily recognizable as slagging "The Libruls", it means something; it's important.
Sep 30, 2016
Another Tweet
Literally can't make this stuff up... (thanks for this @GuardianUS!) pic.twitter.com/oIE8HBtyrC— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) September 30, 2016
Today's Keith
It gets a little off into the weeds, but I'll take a Franz von Papen reference any day because it makes me go look it up and learn something new.
Before his Machado madness, @RealDonaldTrump had already lost 10 points where it counts: among gamblers. Vol.12 pic.twitter.com/1c5uSFtt7D— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) September 30, 2016
Today's Tweet
.@NewYorker out with early look of their next cover, "Miss Congeniality", by Barry Blitt: pic.twitter.com/OXxPwsPH4v— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 29, 2016
Sep 29, 2016
A Trump Story
A small business owner sold Donald Trump pianos for his Atlantic City casino.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 19, 2016
Trump stiffed him for the payment.https://t.co/9LMPenOZue
The anecdote is a powerful illustration for your narrative, although it can be a very misleading thing in direct debate (see Logical Fallacy - Anecdote). But when the stories are common to the point of being legion, there's more than some probability that we've got a real problem. And these stories are so common, even I know a guy who did some sub-contracting on The Taj Mahal, and got fucked over by Donald Trump.
Trump is the perfect example of a business ethic that says "I get to promise you whatever it takes to make the deal, but when it comes to paying the invoices that I contracted for, I intend to do only what my lawyers can't keep the law from forcing me to do at gunpoint."
When the guys at the top have their spats, and it gets expensive, and they need money to settle - guess who gets squeezed?
I worked with guys like Trump my whole career. I watched two of the best companies ever get swamped by the shit that follows these malignant slugs like plague follows rats.
This Trump guy is weak and cheap - he has no soul and no honor.
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