okaydo said:
chazzed said:
Does Trump regret the avalanche of lies that he has told while in offoce?
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-asked-regrets-lies-told-american-people-001523560.html
He'd have to actually be in possession of a conscience to feel the emotions required for regret.chazzed said:
Does Trump regret the avalanche of lies that he has told while in offoce?
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-asked-regrets-lies-told-american-people-001523560.html
wall street magic..okaydo said:
OrangeMan Bad! Orange man Bad!
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/trump-files-how-donald-dumped-his-huge-casino-debts-other-people/
pps: diversified index funds rock, big time [copyright BB]Quote:
Then Trump sprung the trap. He used the company to buy the Taj Mahal and the Trump Castle, effectively purchasing the casinos from himself at a price that he set. "The company bought his Castle for $100 million more than analysts said it was worth," the Post reported in June. "Trump pocketed $880,000 in cash after arranging the deal." The two properties were also $1.7 billion in debt, and that debt suddenly belonged to Trump Hotels instead of Trump himself.
I am fairly certain that Brad Parscale will be charged in connection with the money he's grifting from the Trump campaign so you can add him to the list. Bill Stepien seems like more of a straight shooter with a good chance to break the street, but on the other hand Christie implicated him in Bridgegate a few years ago so he doesn't have a spotless record either. It's almost like decent people don't want anything to do with Trump, or, if I'm being charitable, he just prefers to work with criminals because he understands how they think.okaydo said:
Go Trump!
The "trigger the libs" purpose seems to be cropping up more and more in the OT threads here. You can see it in the argumentative styles of many of our resident conservatives (or those who sometimes style themselves as "independents" who support neither party): just point out some kind of liberal hypocrisy, and that's it. Doesn't matter if it's actually true, doesn't matter if it was just one random person and not a mainstream Democratic party position, doesn't matter if pointing out the hypocrisy doesn't actually address or help solve the core problem at hand (homelessness, climate change, COVID-19, etc.). Just painting the liberals as hypocrites is the end of the discussion.okaydo said:
I think Shapiro is smart enough to know that these things are not equivalent. But he needs some way to hold on to his audience, which means always giving them something to be angry with the liberals about.Unit2Sucks said:
The Ben Shapiro tweet is classic. He is more worried about "millions" from corporations going to Black Lives Matters than he is about Trump actively encouraging "conspiratorial garbage with no basis in reality."
He acknowledges that Qanon is insane BS and he knows the President is amplifying it but it doesn't raise even an eyebrow from him. The real problem is private businesses supporting things he doesn't agree with. Is this a bizarro world in which conservatives are more concerned about corporations engaging in the free speech that conservatives argue corporations should have rather than misconduct by the federal government?
And this guy is supposed to be a leading intellectual of the new conservative movement in this country?
Even if they were equivalent, he is clearly telling people they should ignore wrongdoing by the president and focus on unrelated wrongdoing by private businesses. I don't follow Shapiro but I hear people here saying he's smart.sycasey said:I think Shapiro is smart enough to know that these things are not equivalent. But he needs some way to hold on to his audience, which means always giving them something to be angry with the liberals about.Unit2Sucks said:
The Ben Shapiro tweet is classic. He is more worried about "millions" from corporations going to Black Lives Matters than he is about Trump actively encouraging "conspiratorial garbage with no basis in reality."
He acknowledges that Qanon is insane BS and he knows the President is amplifying it but it doesn't raise even an eyebrow from him. The real problem is private businesses supporting things he doesn't agree with. Is this a bizarro world in which conservatives are more concerned about corporations engaging in the free speech that conservatives argue corporations should have rather than misconduct by the federal government?
And this guy is supposed to be a leading intellectual of the new conservative movement in this country?