Oh cool, is back. So, the president of United Steelworkers 1999, pretty much said that Trump was full of shit, since he's only keeping 800 Carrier jobs in the US, from 1350 jobs total.
“But he got up there,” Jones said Tuesday, “and, for whatever reason, lied his a-- off.”
In front of a crowd of about 150 supervisors, production workers and reporters, Trump praised Carrier. “Now they’re keeping — actually the number’s over 1,100 people,” he said, “which is so great.”
Jones wondered why the president-elect appeared to be inflating the victory. Trump and Pence, he said, could take credit for rescuing 800 of the Carrier jobs, including nonunion positions.
The President-elect answers (and you know what is coming):
He doesn't care. They criticised him, so he is lashing out. Same with Boeing, same with SNL. He just can't help it. He doesn't even realize that most of the time its best to just say nothing.
"I think Boeing is doing a little bit of a number. We want Boeing to make a lot of money, but not that much money," he said.
The effects of Trump's comments were immediately apparent Tuesday morning, as Boeing's stock took an immediate sharp turn downward when the market opened.
The company's stock was down more than 1 percent in the first minutes of trading, making it one of the biggest losers on the Dow Jones Industrial Average to open the day.
Trump tweeted in 2013 that he bought stock in Boeing, calling it a “great company.”
Trump spokesman Jason Miller confirmed in a call with reporters on Tuesday that the billionaire owned stock in Boeing, but sold all of it in June.
And Al Gore went to the Golden Throne to, you know, beg for any action against climate change:
So we're in for 4 years of Trump taking out personal vendettas agaisnt any company that questions him huh
I don't even think this is a personal vendetta. He is just saying what's on his mind like he always does without consideration for the fact that now people take his words seriously.
like he acts like he is just haggling at the market, and I think he actually believes that's all there is to it.
So we're in for 4 years of Trump taking out personal vendettas agaisnt any company that questions him huh
I don't even think this is a personal vendetta. He is just saying what's on his mind like he always does without consideration for the fact that now people take his words seriously.
like he acts like he is just haggling at the market, and I think he actually believes that's all there is to it.
Its exactly what it is. BoeingCEO says negative things about Trump - Trump spews bullshit about them instantly. there's no negotiation here just him being a thin skinned asshole
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I just realized that this general crap is the reason why Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. He convinced the American people to elect him and four-eight years of stable-ish sort-of-sanity internationally from the US instead of cowboy lunacy. Convincing the American public not to be stupid is a massive task which fails over half the time because nobody remembers. And now this country will die and it's a crapshoot how much of the rest of the world we'll take down with us.
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It's gonna be a hell of a 4 years. Hope we make it through.
So we're in for 4 years of Trump taking out personal vendettas agaisnt any company one that questions him huh
FTFY. Doesn't matter if its a company or not. Whoever dares to critisise him in public, he'll lash out at.
Which I think will eventually be what trips him up. Right now he's attacking the president of a union chapter in a right to work state with 1300 voluntary members. What happens when he attacks the leader of a group of 30 girl guides or something. There has to be some level of attacks where the punching down phenomena gets to be too much. Not liking punching down beyond a certain level is literally part of human nature.
So we're in for 4 years of Trump taking out personal vendettas agaisnt any company one that questions him huh
FTFY. Doesn't matter if its a company or not. Whoever dares to critisise him in public, he'll lash out at.
Which I think will eventually be what trips him up. Right now he's attacking the president of a union chapter in a right to work state with 1300 voluntary members. What happens when he attacks the leader of a group of 30 girl guides or something. There has to be some level of attacks where the punching down phenomena gets to be too much. Not liking punching down beyond a certain level is literally part of human nature.
The girl scouts will just become more of a hated liberal group according to Republicans?
The news this morning announced the McMahon pick and used the video of Trump jumping Vince McMahon ringside to go with it.
I've run out of even.
Vince has wanted an in to politics for a long time and Linda is how he planned to get his foot in the door because he has to much baggage.Trump was always,a plan b but I doubt he expected it at such a high level
It's less the cabinet choice and more the video to go with it to hammer home the "holy shit, all that missing to make this a news brief from Idiocracy is the stripper news reader" feeling.
I don't think there's any line that Trump could cross with his bullying that will hurt him in any meaningful way. Republicans knew he was a bully and that's what they wanted. They don't have a problem with bullies, just as long as they are the bullies
Like, Trump could go on a Twitter rant calling Jesus weak and low energy and it wouldn't make a lick of difference to his base.
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This is why I'm getting a gun. Anyone and everyone could become a target for any or no reason whatsoever and the brownTrumpshirts will go after them if they can get away with it (and if they're targeting someone the president happens to hate this minute, they will). Even if the police were sympathetic they would become targets for going against the president's will-at-the-moment. Rule of law is ending and there will be no recourse to fight back legally, but I can at least make the Trumpshirts think once about harassing me if they have to worry about bullets flying back at them.
There is a limit. Canada's right wing government lost popularity over just this sort of thing. So do say, dictatorial strongmen. Trumps lead is vanishingly small. Every direct insult costs him the votes of these he insults.
Hell, maybe he doesn't care about those votes, maybe he only got 500 of those union voters to vote for him and he loses 300 of those votes this way. Do that 10 times in this area and suddenly you just lost a house seat.
This is why I'm getting a gun. Anyone and everyone could become a target for any or no reason whatsoever and the brownTrumpshirts will go after them if they can get away with it (and if they're targeting someone the president happens to hate this minute, they will). Even if the police were sympathetic they would become targets for going against the president's will-at-the-moment. Rule of law is ending and there will be no recourse to fight back legally, but I can at least make the Trumpshirts think once about harassing me if they have to worry about bullets flying back at them.
If you want to get a gun, by all means do so. I've seen this a lot posted in the last few weeks and I'm pro 2A so you do you.
Please take the time to make sure that you not only study the local laws regarding firearms transportation in your area but also make sure that you spend a lot of time at a shooting range and can pass the base law enforcement marksmanship standards before you decide (if you do) to carry a firearm on your person.
There is a limit. Canada's right wing government lost popularity over just this sort of thing. So do say, dictatorial strongmen. Trumps lead is vanishingly small. Every direct insult costs him the votes of these he insults.
Hell, maybe he doesn't care about those votes, maybe he only got 500 of those union voters to vote for him and he loses 300 of those votes this way. Do that 10 times in this area and suddenly you just lost a house seat.
Only if the Republicans are tied to Trump.
If things really start going south over the next four years, in my opinion the Democrats must push the Republican Congress to impeach him, and if they don't it needs to be something that they tie around the neck of every Republican congresscritter.
Civics is not a consumer product that you can ignore because you don’t like the options presented.
We mustnt allow ourselves to fall for a defeatist line of thinking. Without discussing the election, we know that trumps rhetoric does not cost him or gain him votes. Rs gonna R.
However we do know that people dont vote for those who individually attack them. Boeing for example is i'm sure furious with trump.
These personal attacks cost him support at the micro scale. Over 4 years, this barrage of lunacy will cost him significant support in total.
So I heard on NPR that Bob Dole may have been behind the Trump Taiwan phone call as he was an early supporter of Trump and is also a paid lobbyist for Taiwan.
If Salon is to be believed (and it's not like they're claiming an elite group of anonymous government badasses on twitter has given them a list of every Russian propaganda outlet in the country), Sen. Dole is a lobbyist for Alston & Bird, a law firm that was paid $140,000 over 7 months by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office of the US, the defacto Taiwanese embassy organization.
"I think Boeing is doing a little bit of a number. We want Boeing to make a lot of money, but not that much money," he said.
The effects of Trump's comments were immediately apparent Tuesday morning, as Boeing's stock took an immediate sharp turn downward when the market opened.
The company's stock was down more than 1 percent in the first minutes of trading, making it one of the biggest losers on the Dow Jones Industrial Average to open the day.
Trump tweeted in 2013 that he bought stock in Boeing, calling it a “great company.”
Trump spokesman Jason Miller confirmed in a call with reporters on Tuesday that the billionaire owned stock in Boeing, but sold all of it in June.
Isn't that market manipulation? Or at least worthy of investigation? Not like it matters. Apparently he can do whatever the fuck with no consequences.
I'm not saying we're going to have an autocratic dystopia, but things keep happening that look like they come from an autocratic dystopia.
I wonder how long before Trump finds himself trying to go to war with Silicon Valley companies. His need to attack pretty much everyone who criticizes him doesn't really seem sustainable in the face. But his lack of support for net neutrality is essentially the one issue which can galvanize all of the into uniformly opposing him.
The great thing about Trump's conflicts of interests is that his finances are so opaque it is impossible to even tell how much he would benefit from his tax proposals.
President-elect Donald Trump owns a helicopter in Scotland.
To be more precise, he has a revocable trust that owns 99% of a Delaware limited liability company that owns 99% of another Delaware LLC that owns a Scottish limited company that owns another Scottish company that owns the 26-year-old Sikorsky S-76B helicopter, emblazoned with a red “TRUMP” on the side of its fuselage.
None of the 96 LLCs examined by the Journal appear to regularly release audited financial statements. That opacity—compounded by Mr. Trump’s decision to break with decades of precedent by declining to release his tax returns—makes it impossible to gauge the full extent of potential conflicts between his business interests and presidential role.
And what are the chances of Trump insisting the people under him care about their own conflicts of interests?
There is a limit. Canada's right wing government lost popularity over just this sort of thing. So do say, dictatorial strongmen. Trumps lead is vanishingly small. Every direct insult costs him the votes of these he insults.
Hell, maybe he doesn't care about those votes, maybe he only got 500 of those union voters to vote for him and he loses 300 of those votes this way. Do that 10 times in this area and suddenly you just lost a house seat.
There is a limit. Canada's right wing government lost popularity over just this sort of thing. So do say, dictatorial strongmen. Trumps lead is vanishingly small. Every direct insult costs him the votes of these he insults.
Hell, maybe he doesn't care about those votes, maybe he only got 500 of those union voters to vote for him and he loses 300 of those votes this way. Do that 10 times in this area and suddenly you just lost a house seat.
If things really start going south over the next four years, in my opinion the Democrats must push the Republican Congress to impeach him, and if they don't it needs to be something that they tie around the neck of every Republican congresscritter.
The Republicans aren't going to impeach him unless he provably commits a serious crime. Hopeless mismanagement of the country does not count. Mild corruption like using his hotels for government events doesn't count. It has to be an actual crime that would send him to prison if he were not President, and the evidence has to be undeniable. Think Nixon, not Clinton.
Oh cool, is back. So, the president of United Steelworkers 1999, pretty much said that Trump was full of shit, since he's only keeping 800 Carrier jobs in the US, from 1350 jobs total.
“But he got up there,” Jones said Tuesday, “and, for whatever reason, lied his a-- off.”
In front of a crowd of about 150 supervisors, production workers and reporters, Trump praised Carrier. “Now they’re keeping — actually the number’s over 1,100 people,” he said, “which is so great.”
Jones wondered why the president-elect appeared to be inflating the victory. Trump and Pence, he said, could take credit for rescuing 800 of the Carrier jobs, including nonunion positions.
The President-elect answers (and you know what is coming):
He doesn't care. They criticised him, so he is lashing out. Same with Boeing, same with SNL. He just can't help it. He doesn't even realize that most of the time its best to just say nothing.
Man, I know people often protest outside the white house, and I've seen videos of just the craziest stuff people have put on, like little dramas and plays, against Obama. I can't wait until Trump can't stand the people mocking him only a few hundred feet from him and literally just spends like 2 hours a day yelling at people from the Oval Office window.
There is a limit. Canada's right wing government lost popularity over just this sort of thing. So do say, dictatorial strongmen. Trumps lead is vanishingly small. Every direct insult costs him the votes of these he insults.
Hell, maybe he doesn't care about those votes, maybe he only got 500 of those union voters to vote for him and he loses 300 of those votes this way. Do that 10 times in this area and suddenly you just lost a house seat.
If things really start going south over the next four years, in my opinion the Democrats must push the Republican Congress to impeach him, and if they don't it needs to be something that they tie around the neck of every Republican congresscritter.
The Republicans aren't going to impeach him unless he provably commits a serious crime. Hopeless mismanagement of the country does not count. Mild corruption like using his hotels for government events doesn't count. It has to be an actual crime that would send him to prison if he were not President, and the evidence has to be undeniable. Think Nixon, not Clinton.
Only thing that would turn them on him is a live camera feed of some dead girl/living boy-scenario or a hypothetical Warren Buffet-style change of mind. I.e. nothing in the realm of reality.
They'll let him swim in the sea of attention he craves, while he rubberstamps their "policies"; the disassembly and sellout of America.
There is a limit. Canada's right wing government lost popularity over just this sort of thing. So do say, dictatorial strongmen. Trumps lead is vanishingly small. Every direct insult costs him the votes of these he insults.
Hell, maybe he doesn't care about those votes, maybe he only got 500 of those union voters to vote for him and he loses 300 of those votes this way. Do that 10 times in this area and suddenly you just lost a house seat.
If things really start going south over the next four years, in my opinion the Democrats must push the Republican Congress to impeach him, and if they don't it needs to be something that they tie around the neck of every Republican congresscritter.
The Republicans aren't going to impeach him unless he provably commits a serious crime. Hopeless mismanagement of the country does not count. Mild corruption like using his hotels for government events doesn't count. It has to be an actual crime that would send him to prison if he were not President, and the evidence has to be undeniable. Think Nixon, not Clinton.
Only thing that would turn them on him is a live camera feed of some dead girl/living boy-scenario or a hypothetical Warren Buffet-style change of mind. I.e. nothing in the realm of reality.
They'll let him swim in the sea of attention he craves, while he rubberstamps their "policies"; the deconstruction and sellout of America.
Not only rubberstamping their policies, but providing media chaff to cover the things the Serious Republicans are doing. While Paul Ryan is dismantling the shaky US healthcare system, Trump will be calling Oprah Winfrey a whore on Twitter, which will suck up all the media attention.
We mustnt allow ourselves to fall for a defeatist line of thinking. Without discussing the election, we know that trumps rhetoric does not cost him or gain him votes. Rs gonna R.
However we do know that people dont vote for those who individually attack them. Boeing for example is i'm sure furious with trump.
These personal attacks cost him support at the micro scale. Over 4 years, this barrage of lunacy will cost him significant support in total.
Or it will energize the worst people even more.
Giving up is not an option, but this is one of the worst case scenarios for the US, and the people involved are mostly limited by time, knowledge, and technology. They don't have ethical qualms. Their own morals are for sale.
This is why I'm getting a gun. Anyone and everyone could become a target for any or no reason whatsoever and the brownTrumpshirts will go after them if they can get away with it (and if they're targeting someone the president happens to hate this minute, they will). Even if the police were sympathetic they would become targets for going against the president's will-at-the-moment. Rule of law is ending and there will be no recourse to fight back legally, but I can at least make the Trumpshirts think once about harassing me if they have to worry about bullets flying back at them.
Hi, no, this is not the place for saying you're going to buy a gun so you can shoot the president if he comes after you.
I submitted an entry to Lego Ideas, and if 10,000 people support me, it'll be turned into an actual Lego set!If you'd like to see and support my submission, follow this link.
There is a limit. Canada's right wing government lost popularity over just this sort of thing. So do say, dictatorial strongmen. Trumps lead is vanishingly small. Every direct insult costs him the votes of these he insults.
Hell, maybe he doesn't care about those votes, maybe he only got 500 of those union voters to vote for him and he loses 300 of those votes this way. Do that 10 times in this area and suddenly you just lost a house seat.
If things really start going south over the next four years, in my opinion the Democrats must push the Republican Congress to impeach him, and if they don't it needs to be something that they tie around the neck of every Republican congresscritter.
The Republicans aren't going to impeach him unless he provably commits a serious crime. Hopeless mismanagement of the country does not count. Mild corruption like using his hotels for government events doesn't count. It has to be an actual crime that would send him to prison if he were not President, and the evidence has to be undeniable. Think Nixon, not Clinton.
Only thing that would turn them on him is a live camera feed of some dead girl/living boy-scenario or a hypothetical Warren Buffet-style change of mind. I.e. nothing in the realm of reality.
They'll let him swim in the sea of attention he craves, while he rubberstamps their "policies"; the deconstruction and sellout of America.
Not only rubberstamping their policies, but providing media chaff to cover the things the Serious Republicans are doing. While Paul Ryan is dismantling the shaky US healthcare system, Trump will be calling Oprah Winfrey a whore on Twitter, which will suck up all the media attention.
Trump doesn't really go for language like "whore." Instead, he'd say "Some people are saying Oprah Winfrey is a lesbian, and she is very racist against white people. Sad!"
Civics is not a consumer product that you can ignore because you don’t like the options presented.
This is why I'm getting a gun. Anyone and everyone could become a target for any or no reason whatsoever and the brownTrumpshirts will go after them if they can get away with it (and if they're targeting someone the president happens to hate this minute, they will). Even if the police were sympathetic they would become targets for going against the president's will-at-the-moment. Rule of law is ending and there will be no recourse to fight back legally, but I can at least make the Trumpshirts think once about harassing me if they have to worry about bullets flying back at them.
Hi, no, this is not the place for saying you're going to buy a gun so you can shoot the president if he comes after you.
An actual smart thing to plan to do here is that you should document all interactions you have with the federal government after trump takes power. If you fall victim to the early stages of some overarching horrible plot you need to tell journalists and your representatives. If your local representative and senator are republican, call them anyway. If you dont trust them, call the democratic representative who works nearest to you.
Speak out, stand up, and document everything. Planning to fight is useless.
There is a limit. Canada's right wing government lost popularity over just this sort of thing. So do say, dictatorial strongmen. Trumps lead is vanishingly small. Every direct insult costs him the votes of these he insults.
Hell, maybe he doesn't care about those votes, maybe he only got 500 of those union voters to vote for him and he loses 300 of those votes this way. Do that 10 times in this area and suddenly you just lost a house seat.
If things really start going south over the next four years, in my opinion the Democrats must push the Republican Congress to impeach him, and if they don't it needs to be something that they tie around the neck of every Republican congresscritter.
The Republicans aren't going to impeach him unless he provably commits a serious crime. Hopeless mismanagement of the country does not count. Mild corruption like using his hotels for government events doesn't count. It has to be an actual crime that would send him to prison if he were not President, and the evidence has to be undeniable. Think Nixon, not Clinton.
Only thing that would turn them on him is a live camera feed of some dead girl/living boy-scenario or a hypothetical Warren Buffet-style change of mind. I.e. nothing in the realm of reality.
They'll let him swim in the sea of attention he craves, while he rubberstamps their "policies"; the deconstruction and sellout of America.
Not only rubberstamping their policies, but providing media chaff to cover the things the Serious Republicans are doing. While Paul Ryan is dismantling the shaky US healthcare system, Trump will be calling Oprah Winfrey a whore on Twitter, which will suck up all the media attention.
Trump doesn't really go for language like "whore." Instead, he'd say "Some people are saying Oprah Winfrey is a lesbian, and she is very racist against white people. Sad!"
He does in leaked private conversations. And the one good thing about corrupt regimes filled with the greedy? The greedy cant keep secrets.
We mustnt allow ourselves to fall for a defeatist line of thinking. Without discussing the election, we know that trumps rhetoric does not cost him or gain him votes. Rs gonna R.
However we do know that people dont vote for those who individually attack them. Boeing for example is i'm sure furious with trump.
These personal attacks cost him support at the micro scale. Over 4 years, this barrage of lunacy will cost him significant support in total.
Or it will energize the worst people even more.
Giving up is not an option, but this is one of the worst case scenarios for the US, and the people involved are mostly limited by time, knowledge, and technology. They don't have ethical qualms. Their own morals are for sale.
There are no uninvolved 'worst people'. The worst people are highly engaged, and vote at high levels. They are old, white and have little elese to do. The kkk voted for trump. There is no super secret double kkk which thinks hes not tough on black people enough.
This is why I'm getting a gun. Anyone and everyone could become a target for any or no reason whatsoever and the brownTrumpshirts will go after them if they can get away with it (and if they're targeting someone the president happens to hate this minute, they will). Even if the police were sympathetic they would become targets for going against the president's will-at-the-moment. Rule of law is ending and there will be no recourse to fight back legally, but I can at least make the Trumpshirts think once about harassing me if they have to worry about bullets flying back at them.
Hi, no, this is not the place for saying you're going to buy a gun so you can shoot the president if he comes after you.
I can't even imagine where you're getting this from? The truth is that right-wing extremists are energized, emboldened and more or less endorsed by the powers-soon-to-be. If you're not a white male, or if you're going to make any sort of waves or statment against the current "movement", you're probably going to need a gun in the next 4 years.
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He doesn't care. They criticised him, so he is lashing out. Same with Boeing, same with SNL. He just can't help it. He doesn't even realize that most of the time its best to just say nothing.
Vince is toxic. His hand are soaked with the blood of young athletes who would be more than willing to speak against him. Its why Linda always ran.
Hey, might as well post her intro song.
(EDIT: Isn't that Giullani on her intro video?)
On actual news, Boeing's stock goes nosedive since Trump attacked them for the cost of the new Air Force One: And Al Gore went to the Golden Throne to, you know, beg for any action against climate change:
The man's conception of "pick your battles" rests entirely on "did they criticize me if y deploy missiles if n on notice watch your back"
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FTFY. Doesn't matter if its a company or not. Whoever dares to critisise him in public, he'll lash out at.
I don't even think this is a personal vendetta. He is just saying what's on his mind like he always does without consideration for the fact that now people take his words seriously.
like he acts like he is just haggling at the market, and I think he actually believes that's all there is to it.
Its exactly what it is. BoeingCEO says negative things about Trump - Trump spews bullshit about them instantly. there's no negotiation here just him being a thin skinned asshole
It's gonna be a hell of a 4 years. Hope we make it through.
Which I think will eventually be what trips him up. Right now he's attacking the president of a union chapter in a right to work state with 1300 voluntary members. What happens when he attacks the leader of a group of 30 girl guides or something. There has to be some level of attacks where the punching down phenomena gets to be too much. Not liking punching down beyond a certain level is literally part of human nature.
The girl scouts will just become more of a hated liberal group according to Republicans?
Don't ever think that there is a limit.
It's less the cabinet choice and more the video to go with it to hammer home the "holy shit, all that missing to make this a news brief from Idiocracy is the stripper news reader" feeling.
I don't know. With how poorly he sold it, you could argue, we had to suffer through that Stunner.
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Like, Trump could go on a Twitter rant calling Jesus weak and low energy and it wouldn't make a lick of difference to his base.
There is a limit. Canada's right wing government lost popularity over just this sort of thing. So do say, dictatorial strongmen. Trumps lead is vanishingly small. Every direct insult costs him the votes of these he insults.
Hell, maybe he doesn't care about those votes, maybe he only got 500 of those union voters to vote for him and he loses 300 of those votes this way. Do that 10 times in this area and suddenly you just lost a house seat.
Do not underestimate how hate-driven we can be.
The small guy provoking him is probably the best way to sink him short of people suddenly caring about policy.
If you want to get a gun, by all means do so. I've seen this a lot posted in the last few weeks and I'm pro 2A so you do you.
Please take the time to make sure that you not only study the local laws regarding firearms transportation in your area but also make sure that you spend a lot of time at a shooting range and can pass the base law enforcement marksmanship standards before you decide (if you do) to carry a firearm on your person.
Only if the Republicans are tied to Trump.
If things really start going south over the next four years, in my opinion the Democrats must push the Republican Congress to impeach him, and if they don't it needs to be something that they tie around the neck of every Republican congresscritter.
We mustnt allow ourselves to fall for a defeatist line of thinking. Without discussing the election, we know that trumps rhetoric does not cost him or gain him votes. Rs gonna R.
However we do know that people dont vote for those who individually attack them. Boeing for example is i'm sure furious with trump.
These personal attacks cost him support at the micro scale. Over 4 years, this barrage of lunacy will cost him significant support in total.
If Salon is to be believed (and it's not like they're claiming an elite group of anonymous government badasses on twitter has given them a list of every Russian propaganda outlet in the country), Sen. Dole is a lobbyist for Alston & Bird, a law firm that was paid $140,000 over 7 months by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office of the US, the defacto Taiwanese embassy organization.
So you're welcome, America. :evil:
Isn't that market manipulation? Or at least worthy of investigation? Not like it matters. Apparently he can do whatever the fuck with no consequences.
I'm not saying we're going to have an autocratic dystopia, but things keep happening that look like they come from an autocratic dystopia.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-donald-trumps-web-of-llcs-obscures-his-business-interests-1481193002
And what are the chances of Trump insisting the people under him care about their own conflicts of interests?
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The Republicans aren't going to impeach him unless he provably commits a serious crime. Hopeless mismanagement of the country does not count. Mild corruption like using his hotels for government events doesn't count. It has to be an actual crime that would send him to prison if he were not President, and the evidence has to be undeniable. Think Nixon, not Clinton.
Man, I know people often protest outside the white house, and I've seen videos of just the craziest stuff people have put on, like little dramas and plays, against Obama. I can't wait until Trump can't stand the people mocking him only a few hundred feet from him and literally just spends like 2 hours a day yelling at people from the Oval Office window.
They'll let him swim in the sea of attention he craves, while he rubberstamps their "policies"; the disassembly and sellout of America.
Not only rubberstamping their policies, but providing media chaff to cover the things the Serious Republicans are doing. While Paul Ryan is dismantling the shaky US healthcare system, Trump will be calling Oprah Winfrey a whore on Twitter, which will suck up all the media attention.
Or it will energize the worst people even more.
Giving up is not an option, but this is one of the worst case scenarios for the US, and the people involved are mostly limited by time, knowledge, and technology. They don't have ethical qualms. Their own morals are for sale.
Hi, no, this is not the place for saying you're going to buy a gun so you can shoot the president if he comes after you.
Trump doesn't really go for language like "whore." Instead, he'd say "Some people are saying Oprah Winfrey is a lesbian, and she is very racist against white people. Sad!"
Yeah, pretty much. Not that it matters much compared with the Pruitt pick.
An actual smart thing to plan to do here is that you should document all interactions you have with the federal government after trump takes power. If you fall victim to the early stages of some overarching horrible plot you need to tell journalists and your representatives. If your local representative and senator are republican, call them anyway. If you dont trust them, call the democratic representative who works nearest to you.
Speak out, stand up, and document everything. Planning to fight is useless.
He does in leaked private conversations. And the one good thing about corrupt regimes filled with the greedy? The greedy cant keep secrets.
There are no uninvolved 'worst people'. The worst people are highly engaged, and vote at high levels. They are old, white and have little elese to do. The kkk voted for trump. There is no super secret double kkk which thinks hes not tough on black people enough.