Shit. You must not read or are blinded by his pocket lining ways. He admitted he used his non-profit to scam $$$. Google Donald J Trump Foundation and you'll find enough about it. And how can you say he is a billionaire or I give a bottom line when the guy steadfastly refuses to produce figures? See the recent Supreme Court piece on that. If that guy is as rich as you say, it is on borrowed $$$ from shady bank deals.
Originally Posted by Precious_b
Citations and examples.
But that isn't going to come out unless they pull it out of him like extracting teeth.
No, what you're doing is patently dishonest. This way of thinking is "Guilty until proven innocent." Trump has no more obligation to reveal his financials as a private citizen to anyone than you do. But, of course, butthurt liberals like you can't stand it when the rich are rich, so you want to try and discredit them. I wonder when you're going to go after Steve Jobs for exploiting Chinese workers for cheap labor on iPhones?
What's even more hypocritical of you is "Trump scammed people and his silence on revealing his financials is proof he is complicit in his guilt" is your mantra but you disregard Tara Reade's accusation of Biden fingerfucking her because she didn't file a police report. So, you either deny that accusation of hers or you're choosing to give Biden the benefit of the doubt. All the while, claiming you're not Paritsan. Fuck outta here with that transparent bullshit, dude.
Not that I like quoting Mother Jones, but they point to procedures that he is suppose to follow about his money concerns but won't do. As follows,
"...Turns out, Trump is already kicking the can on another important bit of financial transparency: his annual personal financial disclosure. The disclosure is not nearly as revealing as bank and tax records, but details his assets, debts, and income. Trump has asked for unprecedented extensions twice this year.
The reports, which are required of all federal officials, would ordinarily have been due on May 15. But the Office of Government Ethics, which collects, reviews and approves the reports, granted a blanket 45-day extension to filers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That extension expired on June 29, and Vice President Mike Pence’s personal financial disclosure was promptly filed the next day—but no sign of Trump’s. A White House official confirmed that a second 45-day extension was granted, as first reported by the New York Times, and said Trump asked for the extension because he “has a complicated report and he’s been focused on addressing the coronavirus crisis and other matters. As a result he’s been given an additional 45 days, but the President intends to file as soon as possible.”
Yeah, no. The fact is, revealing financial records is NOT a pre-requisite for running for office. Liberals want to make it seem like it is, but Trump doesn't have to. He can keep stalling the process to reveal his financials as long as he wants, because he isn't required to reveal it in the first place.
Also, quoting Mother Jones is like someone quoting the Daily Stormer for a immigration policies.
Successful in an unethical way, yes.
Prove it.
Bet you like it when you do work for someone and they don't pay you. Underhanded way to build assets. I have no cares about "media superstars." Not the point here unless it is cashing in on it. Which he does. Again, successful business enter contracts and honour them.
They pay for services due. You can google foreign workers not being paid by trump to see where those literal buildings come from. Money he doesn't pay the help. The hack job moniker can be heard on a National Palestian Radio broadcast.
Those foreign workers didn't get paid because they didn't do what Trump wanted them to do. You can do a shitty job, but it isn't the same as you getting paid for the job you were required to do.
Prove it by pointing out his tax statements.
I mean, virtually every business publication, Google, wikipedia and such says so. Unless you're discrediting them, your pathetic attempts at seeing his tax statements to prove it is laughably sorry.
Oh, and by the way, Trump paid something like 160 million dollars in tax a decade ago and this was revealed by Rachel Maddow when she claimed she got the scoop on him... and only made him look better in the process.
And as I don't care about a persons social media presence, Define "success." We already have diffent definitions of mainstream media (yours is pretty narrow.)
I mean, being a billionaire is a pretty good indicator of someone being successful. Same as having a huge business. A great family. Becoming a media sensation. Becoming the POTUS on your first try. I mean, these are objectively huge accomplishments. If you're going to argue against it, you REALLY are grasping for straws, lib.
also, OAN isn't mainstream media. You're just stretching it. Saying OAN is like mainstream media is like saying Breitbart or the Young Turks is mainstream media because they're websites that are always open and updating. They're not mainstream media.
Because *I* strongly feel he is using the office of the People to line his pockets. I give more than 2 fucks if he is using my $$$ for his pockets illegally.
PROVE IT! You don't get to say "Well, he's not revealing his taxes BEFORE he became President, so he must be crooked!" That's like trying to prove a negative.
And if you care so much about how your money is spent, why have you not bitched about Nancy Pelosi holding up yet ANOTHER stimulus bill because she wants money to go into stupid fucking side programs that have nothing to do to help Americans?
I could ask what polytheism you back your claims on his riches other than he is on TV or in the WH.
Business publications.
We've had prior crooks there before him.
We sure did. His name was Obama. Piece of shit mother fucker.
Up your service contract.
I mean, I have a pretty substantial contract with all of the premium channels like HBO, Cinemax, Showtime and such.. if OAN isn't even a part of that package, it sure as shit ain't mainstream.
I'm not comparing. I'm saying it has a 24 hour channel on a service that is available across the whole USA. You have a narrow view of main stream.
If it is available on the same carrier as the ones you list and same place,...walks like a duck... I don't look at their bottomw line. Funny that you do but don't for the person we're talking about. Don't forget, the comedians on late night I watch quote their sources.
Breitbart is on the internet and the internet is available 24/7.
Young Turks is also internet-based and constantly updating 24/7.
Hell, there are independent content creators that practically never sleep to talk about the news (like Tim Pool).
Are they mainstream? No.
The reality is, OAN is not mainstream, no matter how long they run. You're reaching it.
Also, OF COURSE late night comedians quote them! They're going to try and attack any right wing outlet! Why wouldn't OAN be on there if it's easy pickings? Being attacked by late night comedians doesn't make you mainstream. Hell, they attack random congress people. Does that make that person mainstream? Nope.
As I said, everywhere you find the above, I find OAN there. You seem to be stuck in the days of the rabbit ears on the TV that only got the three channels, public access and maybe the old Fox station. There are alot more content providers out there and they also dedicate themselves only to news albeit their brand of it.
Since you don't recognize a nationally broadcast station that claims to be news as mainstream, you cripple your definition of such. NEVER did you claim equivalent bottom line or any other strings.
I have a pretty substantial package. And I don't even know if I have OAN. Also, if OAN is so mainstream, why do I never see them played at places like air ports? Banks? Any major public place?
Stop moving the goal post to my definition of "mainstream."
Seriously, is this the hill you want to die on? OAN being a mainstream network? Please.
This is America. Home of the statement "What have you done for me today?"
Says who?
Hell, Horishima (sp) was doing well before the Enola Gay showed up.
So was Pearl Harbor before Japan bombed it. What the FUCK are you babbling about, dude?
And if the rich were doing so well, why are they at the trough grabbing $$$? I know you'll ignore the ethical point of my question. Is that *earning* it?
Because it's the rich people who do all of the risk-taking. Who do you think creates your jobs? Invests money into building businesses? Working out LLC deals? Getting patents? Working with regulations? Sorting out your benefits? If a business goes under, the non-rich, "regular" worker might be out of a job, but the rich, business owner lost money and incur all of the debt.
And if you have the gold, you make the rules. And the current rule is you can pillage the pockets of the tax payer and grab a check now and odds are you don't have to pay it back. Let me guess, you took a hand out too. You call it fair. I'll call it on the grounds of ethics.
I mean, that's the government in general.
And since it was an Obama playbook, moved that out.
Except, it wasn't moved out. He redistributed the money around but the format is still there.
How is trumps plan on dealing with Covid coming along?
Too bad he didn't follow what other countries that are more population dense, greater average age and alot closer to the source of outbreak are doing.
I mean, back in January, he banned travel from China. He created a task force, specially to deal with Covid. His team came up with the social distancing thing. He shut down the country for a month and a half to build up PPE reserves. He sent federal help to that dickwad Cuomo in NY to assist there. He gave a step-by-step phased approach to restarting the economy. He's done quite a bit. Other issues, you're neglecting falls to state's rights.
Google it. I haven't checked how the economies of those countries are doing but i'll bet they are more active than ours since people are out and about there.
You don't understand how arguing works, do you? Saying "Google it" is NOT how you present your view. The onus is on YOU to present YOUR view. And the other way around.
Somebody wants it. Multiple efforts to repeal have failed. If it is an orphan, why is it still there with nobody helping it stay as you say?
Nah. It didn't get widespread Congressional approval, so yeah. not really wanted. And it's been failed to repeal because politicians are ass holes. Democrats want to keep taxing everyone, Republicans pretend to be mad but don't do the work.
Both sides are shit.
To me, they are mean spirited with implicit racist tendencies when it involved Obama. Repubs call the demos sheeple but it is them who blindly back a crooked person (no need to comment on that. I know your POV.)
Republicans didn't treat Obama harshly because he was black. He was a FUCKING SHITTY ASS PRESIDENT.
The fact that you think it was because of race makes YOU a racist because YOU fail to see Obama as a failure as a POTUS but are seeing it as a race issue. So you automatically think less of him because he's black. Stop being racist, guy.
Also, you do realize that Trump wasn't even supported by the GOP until the 11th hour, right? Like, they were seriously thinking of doing a brokered convention in the event he didn't get the required delegates. 2016 was supposed to be Bush or Rubio.
It was also a GOP majority Senate that failed to repeal Obamacare thanks to McCain. So, yeah. As I said, Republicans suck and are cowards.
I'm glad you're sympathetic with it.
There is something morally wrong with people when they refuse to implement something that helps there fellow human beings. Some people are deserving of help.
I have to say i'm biased in this extent. I grews up in what people would call a socialist country. And I see no problem with a health care system that works and isn't governed by the overhead to just pay people who look at the loopholes to get $$$.
The problem with socialism is, it is expensive. Like, really expensive. The simplest "fix" would be to simple make drugs cheaper. But that is also something that probably requires a lot of negotiation and I do not know enough about the healthcare industry to say a fix can be implemented so easily.
I think one of the tennants of our society is to education to its people, for free, till they go through the 12th grade. Can't have an illiterate society (but we're making great inroads of late to that ) OH! IMA LEFTY!
I think we should be teaching our students math, science and engineering instead of crap about trannies and revisionist history so Asia can stop kicking our asses so much.
You got your America First banner flying and a Lindberg pin on your lapel?
No, because then I'll probably get attacked by a crazy Karen. And when that happens, I'll have to defend myself with my fire arm. Then it'll just get expensive.