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A few videos for anyone who still thinks that Trump is a good businessman and will revive the economy... Trump is unfit to be President
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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there is currently a piece of a Giuliani speech which compelled an apology from Commercial Finance Association for "racist" remarks .... who would have thought it
ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions
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No context for this, I just found it an interesting take on Republicans by a Republican.
“Republicans are a bunch of frightened rabbits,” Giuliani said. “Unfortunately, we have a party made up of a bunch of people who get frightened very easily, and their hands start to shake whenever something happens that they don’t like.”
Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...
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The FatBasturd Pays No TaxesI recall in the debate that Donald "NoTax" Trump says he makes over $600 million per year. The fella does some hella lying - I expect to see more mid-night meltdowns as he proceeds to panic on multiple fronts. It must be for him like living in a house of mirror, mirror on the walls and they all start shattering around him. Kinda feel sorry for the sick old narcissist... maybe I'll vote for him to make him feel better about himself?
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Good to note that the NY Times' editors risk jail time, once again giving strength to the idea that good journalism requires risk. Trump Tax Records Obtained by The Times Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Nearly Two Decades Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, records obtained by The New York Times show.
The 1995 tax records, never before disclosed, reveal the extraordinary tax benefits that Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, derived from the financial wreckage he left behind in the early 1990s through mismanagement of three Atlantic City casinos, his ill-fated foray into the airline business and his ill-timed purchase of the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan.
Tax experts hired by The Times to analyze Mr. Trump’s 1995 records said that tax rules especially advantageous to wealthy filers would have allowed Mr. Trump to use his $916 million loss to cancel out an equivalent amount of taxable income over an 18-year period.
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
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So many facts about il Douche that contradict other facts:
He's super smart and successful, yet he pays no taxes because of massive business losses?
He has attacked everyone (and their dog and cat) for not supporting America financially, yet he takes advantage of every loophole (and then some, given his continual state of tax audit) and pays no taxes himself?
He fat shames any woman who crosses him yet thinks his own obesity is admirable?
He castigates companies for off-shore production of goods yet has clothing lines made in Mexico and China?
He can be excused for such astoundingly deplorable incongruences because of his mental illness, but what excuses can his supporters claim? Making him POTUS will help neither him nor us. But it would make good copy for the history books!
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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Trump's surrogates are spinning his billion dollar loss in 1995 as some kind of "financial genius". Apparently, scamming the tax code is more important than actually running successful businesses?
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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Ok, let me see.
Trump reports a $916 million loss on his taxes, so he doesn't have to pay any taxes until he earns back that amount. I heard 18 years somewhere.
So, by funneling the profits of his book and other large payments into his charity foundation, they weren't income, so he didn't owe taxes on them, and they weren't counted toward that $916 million. Then he used that foundation as a piggy bank.
I still can't think of Trump as smart. After all, he lost the $916 million in one year in the first place ... by riding high. I do think the Trump employees who always get paid are the best/worst financial experts money can buy.
Talk about hubris! Nobody looked into his shady deals until he begged for the spotlight by running for president. Like all cockroaches, he should have known to avoid the light.
Just a Missouri school teacher ... stubborn as a mule and addicted to logic.
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