Opinion | On Ukraine, Trump Is a Con Man, but He’s Also a Mark
"After all the talk and threats, the possible impeachment of President Trump is finally on the table.
"No, not for the ten times he committed obstruction of justice, or for disclosing intelligence secrets of a US ally to the Russians, or for confiscating the notes of his interpreter after a private meeting with his boss, Vladimir J. Putin.
"Not for disclosing the location of nuclear submarines to Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte, or for lying about his financial dealings with Russia, or his firing of the FBI director, or trying to fire Robert Mueller, or for surrounding himself with people nearly as corrupt as he is, including five who have been convicted of felonies, or for lying over 12,000 times since being sworn in to office."
Donald Trump in: High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Can you explain how free trade exists without governments responding to developments around the world? Perhaps you can tell us how a gold-plated pathological liar whose arrogance and ignorance blind him to most expert advice can be expected to fashion appropriate responses to global developments?
Donald Trump appears to 'curtsey' to Saudi king
Yes or no: Do you think the US should be involved around the world, to respond to international situations?
Because before you rambled irrelevant babbling about free-trade, you made a post claiming that Trump was bad because he was LIMITING the ability of the US to respond to international situations.
So which is it? Do you think that the US is a force for good, and we need to wield our influence around the world? Or do you not, and your post about Trump being bad because he was limiting US responses, was a bunch of crap?
It's one or the other dude. Your constant shifting positions is hypocritical.I don't see any alternative, do you?
I'm also pretty sure Trump isn't intelligent or educated enough to know when, where, or how to get involved.
"As can be seen, China's growth has been more than twice as large as the growth in the United States since Donald Trump came into the White House.
"In other words, we should put Donald Trump's claim that his policies have somehow secured the United States' status as the world's leading economy alongside his copy of President Obama's Kenyan birth certificate."
China Has Hugely Outgrown the U.S. Under Trump | Beat the Press | CEPR
Can you explain how free trade exists without governments responding to developments around the world? Perhaps you can tell us how a gold-plated pathological liar whose arrogance and ignorance blind him to most expert advice can be expected to fashion appropriate responses to global developments?
Donald Trump appears to 'curtsey' to Saudi king
Yes or no: Do you think the US should be involved around the world, to respond to international situations?
Because before you rambled irrelevant babbling about free-trade, you made a post claiming that Trump was bad because he was LIMITING the ability of the US to respond to international situations.
So which is it? Do you think that the US is a force for good, and we need to wield our influence around the world? Or do you not, and your post about Trump being bad because he was limiting US responses, was a bunch of crap?
It's one or the other dude. Your constant shifting positions is hypocritical.The US is not a force for good, and Trump's own unique brand of racism, ignorance, and indifference make our $elf-$erving action$ around the globe even more criminal, imho.
Can you explain how free trade exists without governments responding to developments around the world? Perhaps you can tell us how a gold-plated pathological liar whose arrogance and ignorance blind him to most expert advice can be expected to fashion appropriate responses to global developments?
Donald Trump appears to 'curtsey' to Saudi king
Yes or no: Do you think the US should be involved around the world, to respond to international situations?
Because before you rambled irrelevant babbling about free-trade, you made a post claiming that Trump was bad because he was LIMITING the ability of the US to respond to international situations.
So which is it? Do you think that the US is a force for good, and we need to wield our influence around the world? Or do you not, and your post about Trump being bad because he was limiting US responses, was a bunch of crap?
It's one or the other dude. Your constant shifting positions is hypocritical.I don't see any alternative, do you?
I'm also pretty sure Trump isn't intelligent or educated enough to know when, where, or how to get involved.
"As can be seen, China's growth has been more than twice as large as the growth in the United States since Donald Trump came into the White House.
"In other words, we should put Donald Trump's claim that his policies have somehow secured the United States' status as the world's leading economy alongside his copy of President Obama's Kenyan birth certificate."
China Has Hugely Outgrown the U.S. Under Trump | Beat the Press | CEPR
President Trump is a conservative and works well with others who do not threaten him and try to eat him alive. And he conducts himself well within the norms of fiscal honesty and the truth."But for a largely white working class cast aside by austerity and neoliberalism, he at least taunts the elites who destroyed their communities and their lives.
The Great American Shakedown
"The shakedown that Trump clumsily attempted to orchestrate against the president of Ukraine in the hope of discrediting Joe Biden, a potential rival in the 2020 presidential election, pales beside the shakedown orchestrated by the elites who rule over America’s working men and women.
"This shakedown took from those workers their hope and, more ominously, their hope for their children.
"It took from them security and a sense of place and dignity.
"It took from them a voice in how they were governed.
"It took from them their country and handed it to a cabal of global corporatists who intend to turn them into serfs.
"This shakedown plunged millions into despair."
Imho, electing another "New Democrat" who told his working class base to vote Republican if they didn't like NAFTA will not end the shakedown.
Have you read Mueller's report?
"But for a largely white working class cast aside by austerity and neoliberalism, he at least taunts the elites who destroyed their communities and their lives.
The Great American Shakedown
"The shakedown that Trump clumsily attempted to orchestrate against the president of Ukraine in the hope of discrediting Joe Biden, a potential rival in the 2020 presidential election, pales beside the shakedown orchestrated by the elites who rule over America’s working men and women.
"This shakedown took from those workers their hope and, more ominously, their hope for their children.
"It took from them security and a sense of place and dignity.
"It took from them a voice in how they were governed.
"It took from them their country and handed it to a cabal of global corporatists who intend to turn them into serfs.
"This shakedown plunged millions into despair."
Imho, electing another "New Democrat" who told his working class base to vote Republican if they didn't like NAFTA will not end the shakedown.
Opinion | On Ukraine, Trump Is a Con Man, but He’s Also a Mark
"After all the talk and threats, the possible impeachment of President Trump is finally on the table.
"No, not for the ten times he committed obstruction of justice, or for disclosing intelligence secrets of a US ally to the Russians, or for confiscating the notes of his interpreter after a private meeting with his boss, Vladimir J. Putin.
"Not for disclosing the location of nuclear submarines to Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte, or for lying about his financial dealings with Russia, or his firing of the FBI director, or trying to fire Robert Mueller, or for surrounding himself with people nearly as corrupt as he is, including five who have been convicted of felonies, or for lying over 12,000 times since being sworn in to office."
Donald Trump in: High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Whoa... NYT with a biased opinion? No way....
Trump's not biased, is he?
Not Trump, who has offered polices designed to serve the interests of the Middle Class Americans.
Do you not understand that I am not engaged in Class Envy here? But discussing actual policies and real issues?
Trump did not run on some bullshit about being "one of us", but on a platform of policies to serve our interests.
All you are doing, is showcasing how utterly ignorant you are of what the fuck is going on.So why hasn't the middle class begun paying off record levels of consumer debt?
....e.
At a guess, probably has something to do with our consumer market driven culture.
I know plenty of people who make more money than me, but have far worse financial situations.
I was just talking to a friend of mine, who wanted to take off some time to have shoulder surgery. He could not afford to, despite having made good money for several decades.
HIs house is a lot nicer than mine. His two cars are much nicer than the two I own.
But he has payments on all three, while I have none.
My wife just wanted to get some elective cosmetic surgery. She will be off work for several weeks. It was not covered by insurance. We just did it.
I won't say it did not hurt. It did. It was physically painful. But we could do it.
A raise will not improve your finical situation if you increase your lifestyle right along with it.
My point about Trump stands.
Trump did not run on some bullshit about being "one of us", but on a platform of policies to serve our interests.
All you are doing, is showcasing how utterly ignorant you are of what the fuck is going on.Trump has never been confused about which side his interests lie on; you are simple minded enough to believe his lies, and I'm not.
What ever happened to Trump’s boast of 4%, 5% or even 6% growth?
"Time for a reality check on Mr. Trump’s economic accomplishments, using two key measuring sticks: how well the economy is doing, compared with its performance under President Barack Obama’s leadership, and whether it has performed up to Mr. Trump’s promises.
"The short answer is, the economy’s performance is not much different than it was under Mr. Obama and far short of what Mr. Trump pledged."
Opinion | Trump Can’t Beat Obama on the Economy
Did YOU just call someone an “imbecile?”
Did YOU vote for one
Sure YOU did...
Tell us again how he can't win. And that he is stupid.
Trump is way beyond stupid, and so are most of his Pussies.
Trump Admitted To Wharton With Help From A Family Friend | Poets&Quants
He did something that whole industries of experts said could not be done. He was right, and the world was wrong.
YOU were wrong.
And you can't learn from that.
That makes you the stupid one.
Do you believe Trump was..
"FIRST IN HIS CLASS’
"It was a 1973 article in the New York Times that said Trump graduated 'first in his class' at Wharton.
"However, it would later become clear that Trump’s name was not among top honorees at his commencement.
"Nor was he on the dean’s list his senior year, meaning he was not among the top 56 students in his graduating class of 366.
"Many of Trump’s peers in the Wharton Class of 1968 agree that he did not stand out academically, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper at Penn (see Trump Failed To Excel At Wharton).
"The newspaper quoted 1968 Wharton graduate Louis Calomaris who recalled that 'Don … was loath to really study much.'
"Calomaris said Trump would come to study groups unprepared and did not 'seem to care about being prepared.'
"He added that Trump’s academic passivity likely stemmed from his passion for engaging directly in the real estate business."
Trump Admitted To Wharton With Help From A Family Friend | Poets&Quants
Trump is way beyond stupid, and so are most of his Pussies.
Trump Admitted To Wharton With Help From A Family Friend | Poets&Quants
He did something that whole industries of experts said could not be done. He was right, and the world was wrong.
YOU were wrong.
And you can't learn from that.
That makes you the stupid one.
When you add in third party ballots, Trump lost the popular vote by more than 8 million votes. He "won" the election because about 77000 voters in three key swing states were desperate or ignorant enough to believe a gold-plated billionaire actually cared about their plight. He lied then and he is lying today, and you want to give him another four years?
Oh, you didn't know how the votes for the election were counted?
Well, Trump did. He did not spend much time in California, for example a state where he knew that even if he got some votes there, that he would never get credit for them.
So, your current position is that because Trump remembered the rules and your forgot them, that that makes him stupid and you smart.
Mmmm...please go on. Tell me more. About how smart you are.
Smart enough to recognize a gold-plated moron when I see one; what's your excuse?
Trump Admitted To Wharton With Help From A Family Friend | Poets&Quants
"Many of Trump’s peers in the Wharton Class of 1968 agree that he did not stand out academically, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper at Penn (see Trump Failed To Excel At Wharton).
"The newspaper quoted 1968 Wharton graduate Louis Calomaris who recalled that 'Don … was loath to really study much.'
"Calomaris said Trump would come to study groups unprepared and did not 'seem to care about being prepared...'"
"One of Trump’s marketing professors at Wharton, the late William Kelley, apparently thought little of his student.
"A close friend of the professor, Frank DiPrima, said that Kelley told him 100 times over three decades that 'Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.' 'I remember his emphasis and inflection — it went like this — "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had,’” DiPrima wrote. 'Dr. Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity but long before he was considered a political figure. Dr. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told of this — that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.'"
Can you explain how free trade exists without governments responding to developments around the world? Perhaps you can tell us how a gold-plated pathological liar whose arrogance and ignorance blind him to most expert advice can be expected to fashion appropriate responses to global developments?
Donald Trump appears to 'curtsey' to Saudi king
Yes or no: Do you think the US should be involved around the world, to respond to international situations?
Because before you rambled irrelevant babbling about free-trade, you made a post claiming that Trump was bad because he was LIMITING the ability of the US to respond to international situations.
So which is it? Do you think that the US is a force for good, and we need to wield our influence around the world? Or do you not, and your post about Trump being bad because he was limiting US responses, was a bunch of crap?
It's one or the other dude. Your constant shifting positions is hypocritical.I don't see any alternative, do you?
I'm also pretty sure Trump isn't intelligent or educated enough to know when, where, or how to get involved.
"As can be seen, China's growth has been more than twice as large as the growth in the United States since Donald Trump came into the White House.
"In other words, we should put Donald Trump's claim that his policies have somehow secured the United States' status as the world's leading economy alongside his copy of President Obama's Kenyan birth certificate."
China Has Hugely Outgrown the U.S. Under Trump | Beat the Press | CEPR
I don't believe any single president is intelligent enough to know when and where to get involved.
That said, still better than Obama's red line, which just allowed us to be walked over like a door met, and completely destroyed our reputation.
Even Republicans warned Obama of another "mission accomplished" mockery in Syria:
Can you explain how free trade exists without governments responding to developments around the world? Perhaps you can tell us how a gold-plated pathological liar whose arrogance and ignorance blind him to most expert advice can be expected to fashion appropriate responses to global developments?
Donald Trump appears to 'curtsey' to Saudi king
Yes or no: Do you think the US should be involved around the world, to respond to international situations?
Because before you rambled irrelevant babbling about free-trade, you made a post claiming that Trump was bad because he was LIMITING the ability of the US to respond to international situations.
So which is it? Do you think that the US is a force for good, and we need to wield our influence around the world? Or do you not, and your post about Trump being bad because he was limiting US responses, was a bunch of crap?
It's one or the other dude. Your constant shifting positions is hypocritical.I don't see any alternative, do you?
I'm also pretty sure Trump isn't intelligent or educated enough to know when, where, or how to get involved.
"As can be seen, China's growth has been more than twice as large as the growth in the United States since Donald Trump came into the White House.
"In other words, we should put Donald Trump's claim that his policies have somehow secured the United States' status as the world's leading economy alongside his copy of President Obama's Kenyan birth certificate."
China Has Hugely Outgrown the U.S. Under Trump | Beat the Press | CEPR
I don't believe any single president is intelligent enough to know when and where to get involved.
That said, still better than Obama's red line, which just allowed us to be walked over like a door met, and completely destroyed our reputation.
Even Republicans warned Obama of another "mission accomplished"
Trump is way beyond stupid, and so are most of his Pussies.
Trump Admitted To Wharton With Help From A Family Friend | Poets&Quants
He did something that whole industries of experts said could not be done. He was right, and the world was wrong.
YOU were wrong.
And you can't learn from that.
That makes you the stupid one.When you add in third party ballots, Trump lost the popular vote by more than 8 million votes. He "won" the election because about 77000 voters in three key swing states were desperate or ignorant enough to believe a gold-plated billionaire actually cared about their plight. He lied then and he is lying today, and you want to give him another four years?
Oh, you didn't know how the votes for the election were counted?
Well, Trump did. He did not spend much time in California, for example a state where he knew that even if he got some votes there, that he would never get credit for them.
So, your current position is that because Trump remembered the rules and your forgot them, that that makes him stupid and you smart.
Mmmm...please go on. Tell me more. About how smart you are.Smart enough to recognize a gold-plated moron when I see one; what's your excuse?
Trump Admitted To Wharton With Help From A Family Friend | Poets&Quants
"Many of Trump’s peers in the Wharton Class of 1968 agree that he did not stand out academically, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper at Penn (see Trump Failed To Excel At Wharton).
"The newspaper quoted 1968 Wharton graduate Louis Calomaris who recalled that 'Don … was loath to really study much.'
"Calomaris said Trump would come to study groups unprepared and did not 'seem to care about being prepared...'"
"One of Trump’s marketing professors at Wharton, the late William Kelley, apparently thought little of his student.
"A close friend of the professor, Frank DiPrima, said that Kelley told him 100 times over three decades that 'Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.' 'I remember his emphasis and inflection — it went like this — "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had,’” DiPrima wrote. 'Dr. Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity but long before he was considered a political figure. Dr. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told of this — that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.'"
I would say his remembering the actual rules for how the country runs and using that to win the most powerful office in the world, and you, AND YOURS, repeatedly forgetting the actual rules,
hugely trumps some comment from some asshole that barely knew the guy, decades ago.
My point stands, yours, dismissed.
Trump is way beyond stupid, and so are most of his Pussies.
Trump Admitted To Wharton With Help From A Family Friend | Poets&Quants
He did something that whole industries of experts said could not be done. He was right, and the world was wrong.
YOU were wrong.
And you can't learn from that.
That makes you the stupid one.When you add in third party ballots, Trump lost the popular vote by more than 8 million votes. He "won" the election because about 77000 voters in three key swing states were desperate or ignorant enough to believe a gold-plated billionaire actually cared about their plight. He lied then and he is lying today, and you want to give him another four years?
Oh, you didn't know how the votes for the election were counted?
Well, Trump did. He did not spend much time in California, for example a state where he knew that even if he got some votes there, that he would never get credit for them.
So, your current position is that because Trump remembered the rules and your forgot them, that that makes him stupid and you smart.
Mmmm...please go on. Tell me more. About how smart you are.Smart enough to recognize a gold-plated moron when I see one; what's your excuse?
Trump Admitted To Wharton With Help From A Family Friend | Poets&Quants
"Many of Trump’s peers in the Wharton Class of 1968 agree that he did not stand out academically, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper at Penn (see Trump Failed To Excel At Wharton).
"The newspaper quoted 1968 Wharton graduate Louis Calomaris who recalled that 'Don … was loath to really study much.'
"Calomaris said Trump would come to study groups unprepared and did not 'seem to care about being prepared...'"
"One of Trump’s marketing professors at Wharton, the late William Kelley, apparently thought little of his student.
"A close friend of the professor, Frank DiPrima, said that Kelley told him 100 times over three decades that 'Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.' 'I remember his emphasis and inflection — it went like this — "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had,’” DiPrima wrote. 'Dr. Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity but long before he was considered a political figure. Dr. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told of this — that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.'"
I would say his remembering the actual rules for how the country runs and using that to win the most powerful office in the world, and you, AND YOURS, repeatedly forgetting the actual rules,
hugely trumps some comment from some asshole that barely knew the guy, decades ago.
My point stands, yours, dismissed.
We will be building statues of Trump because of his greatness.
President Trump is a conservative and works well with others who do not threaten him and try to eat him alive. And he conducts himself well within the norms of fiscal honesty and the truth."But for a largely white working class cast aside by austerity and neoliberalism, he at least taunts the elites who destroyed their communities and their lives.
The Great American Shakedown
"The shakedown that Trump clumsily attempted to orchestrate against the president of Ukraine in the hope of discrediting Joe Biden, a potential rival in the 2020 presidential election, pales beside the shakedown orchestrated by the elites who rule over America’s working men and women.
"This shakedown took from those workers their hope and, more ominously, their hope for their children.
"It took from them security and a sense of place and dignity.
"It took from them a voice in how they were governed.
"It took from them their country and handed it to a cabal of global corporatists who intend to turn them into serfs.
"This shakedown plunged millions into despair."
Imho, electing another "New Democrat" who told his working class base to vote Republican if they didn't like NAFTA will not end the shakedown.
His track record of reducing the welfare rolls by increasing good-paying jobs has gotten kudos even from those who initially worried he would quickly abandon Republican Party planks. Instead, he has brought prosperity not only to America, but our partners in trade too, of whom he had to discipline to understand they had to benefit the nation they made such huge profits off of in years past but never bothered to buy American.
He has also brought home a lot of American jobs that were shipped overseas by previous administrations through error of judgment or simply ignoring the elephant in the living room of average American voters.
Can you explain how free trade exists without governments responding to developments around the world? Perhaps you can tell us how a gold-plated pathological liar whose arrogance and ignorance blind him to most expert advice can be expected to fashion appropriate responses to global developments?
Donald Trump appears to 'curtsey' to Saudi king
Yes or no: Do you think the US should be involved around the world, to respond to international situations?
Because before you rambled irrelevant babbling about free-trade, you made a post claiming that Trump was bad because he was LIMITING the ability of the US to respond to international situations.
So which is it? Do you think that the US is a force for good, and we need to wield our influence around the world? Or do you not, and your post about Trump being bad because he was limiting US responses, was a bunch of crap?
It's one or the other dude. Your constant shifting positions is hypocritical.I don't see any alternative, do you?
I'm also pretty sure Trump isn't intelligent or educated enough to know when, where, or how to get involved.
"As can be seen, China's growth has been more than twice as large as the growth in the United States since Donald Trump came into the White House.
"In other words, we should put Donald Trump's claim that his policies have somehow secured the United States' status as the world's leading economy alongside his copy of President Obama's Kenyan birth certificate."
China Has Hugely Outgrown the U.S. Under Trump | Beat the Press | CEPR
I don't believe any single president is intelligent enough to know when and where to get involved.
That said, still better than Obama's red line, which just allowed us to be walked over like a door met, and completely destroyed our reputation.Even Republicans warned Obama of another "mission accomplished"
Kelley taught Marketing at Penn for more than thirty years. He knew Trump better than 99% of those who voted for the King of Debt.
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