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Post by alanr on Jul 19, 2016 4:08:52 GMT -4
Please, pinch me and tell me I'm having a nightmare. Listening to the speakers at the Republican Convention I feel like I'm watching a Germany 1935 Hitlerian gathering! The test for intelligence and integrity has been handed out to the people of the USA. We will see the results of this test in November. Fasten your seatbelts for a bumpy ride between now and then.
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Post by barnaclebill on Jul 19, 2016 6:02:22 GMT -4
The CEO of Fox News is supposed to be canned soon. Maybe they'll have something new to say.
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Post by by by by on Jul 19, 2016 14:11:07 GMT -4
Your hitler comparison is right on.....scary how many sheep we have.
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Post by Frank on Jul 19, 2016 14:29:55 GMT -4
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Post by by by by on Jul 19, 2016 14:52:02 GMT -4
Your response speaks for itself. Sheep.
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Post by Frank on Jul 19, 2016 15:03:56 GMT -4
They're both terrible choices! Both have bad things about them. Who do you choose? Since no third party candidate has a chance, we have two choices. It sucks, but this is what we got!
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Post by alanr on Jul 19, 2016 15:41:01 GMT -4
Agreed, both are terrible. Of the worst Hillary is the best only since she will have Bill behind her, literally. Yick, don't want to picture that. If Hillary was smart she should have Bernie as her VP. She would have it for sure.
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Post by frankf on Jul 19, 2016 18:00:00 GMT -4
If Hillary was smart she should have Bernie as her VP. She would have it for sure. Forecast for Hell. Cold. Ice. Frozen. Alan finally said something that I can agree with. Listening to the speakers at the RNC would be hysterically funny if it went so scary. And on the Clinton/Bernie ticket, agreed again, it would be the largest landslide victory ever. So I wonder. After the Afghani woman spoke, did they send her back to Gitmo?
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Post by alanr on Jul 19, 2016 18:09:02 GMT -4
I guess most American woman wont have him. Even though Bernie would be great for the Democrats I think he is to strong for Clinton. She would be afraid of him. It's a shame the two of them would be great. It wouldn't even be an elections.
Melania Trump Slovenian
Ivana Trump Czech
Marla Maples American.
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Post by frankf on Jul 19, 2016 19:49:34 GMT -4
But if Trump were to somehow win the election. What a WIN for the comedians. Could even make SNL great again! At least until he opened the concentration camps.
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Post by alanr on Jul 19, 2016 19:59:00 GMT -4
But if Trump were to somehow win the election. What a WIN for the comedians. Could even make SNL great again! At least until he opened the concentration camps. Just imagine if Clinton wins Saturday Night Live but have a great time trying to decide who is the first lady better yet who wears the pants I guess the ex president will be the first lady Bill Clinton. It should be a very scary few months. Hey you never know Trump might want to put a fence around Kent Island that wouldn't be so bad we can keep the western shore people out. Either way I'm voting for Bernie where Donald Duck
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Post by constructr on Jul 20, 2016 6:48:02 GMT -4
Good grief. The deranged Libtard bus must have crashed on Kent Island last night.
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Post by dano on Jul 20, 2016 7:28:15 GMT -4
Got that right, Constructr. Heard that a turnip truck overturned nearby on Rt.50.
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Post by constructr on Jul 20, 2016 12:37:59 GMT -4
Bunch of socialists..............
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Post by overboost44 on Jul 20, 2016 14:19:56 GMT -4
Good grief. The deranged Libtard bus must have crashed on Kent Island last night. Thank you. The libs are going to ruin the country and the Eastern Shore like they have Baltimore Co., the City, PG County, MoCo, HoCo and NoVA. Not saying Trump is the answer, but he is certainly the lesser of the two evils IMO.
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Post by by by by on Jul 20, 2016 16:58:05 GMT -4
How is a racist, mysogenist and narcissist better? Take your head out of your butt.
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Post by alanr on Jul 20, 2016 18:03:26 GMT -4
Great story. Hit the link - finance.yahoo.com/news/good-bad-donald-trump-businessman-000000016.html The good and bad of Donald Trump, the businessman Rick Newman July 20, 2016 By Rick Newman He’s a billionaire whose companies have gone bust an unusual number of times. What should we make of Donald Trump’s business record now that he’s the official Republican nominee for president? Trump’s mercurial, polarizing and contradictory temperament has obviously roiled this year’s presidential race. He equates himself with class and luxury, while slamming opponents with crude and bawdy putdowns. He orchestrates vast amounts of media coverage, while using it to alienate more people than he inspires. And the five-star reputation he cultivates for his real-estate empire is marred largely by Trump’s own failings and diversions into tawdry ventures he would have been better off avoiding. Yahoo Finance has been covering Trump’s business dealings in detail during the campaign, and we hereby offer this handy guide to his talents and foibles. Trump is a better businessman than critics like to acknowledge, with determination and promotional gifts just about any business owner would envy. But his failures have raised a lot of legitimate questions about his judgment and priorities. In the end, voters will be making a leap of faith if they think Trump can replicate his business success as a political leader. THE GOOD He knows how to make money. He does now, anyway. Trump was born rich, with his father, Fred Trump, starting a successful real-estate business that was already worth millions when Donald Trump went to work there in 1974. That business became the Trump Organization, which Donald Trump is chairman of today. At first, Trump continued the fairly conservative residential projects that made Fred Trump rich. In the 1980s, he branched out into commercial property, hotels and casinos, financing much of it with high-interest junk bonds. Excessive leverage led to his first two casino bankruptcies in the early 1990s, which cost Trump much of his personal fortune. Those failures taught Trump how to make better deals by selecting better projects and putting more of the financial risk on others. Today, Trump is out of the casino business, and the buildings he does own account for the majority of his wealth, according to a recent Bloomberg analysis. He also earns significant income from licensing his name to projects managed by others, a less risky and more reliable way to make money than bearing all the risk of constructing, financing and marketing a project. Shrewd use of debt. Trump has become a master at using other people’s money (usually banks’) to invest in projects and, if all goes well, enrich himself. Political critics think that’s exploitative, but in business deals, the burden is on the lenders to make sure they’re going to get their money back and make a profit. If lenders take bad risks and lose their money, they have only themselves to blame, provided no fraud is involved. There were times when Trump struggled to get financing and had to make major concessions. But he stayed in business and did whatever was necessary to raise money, a hurdle many business owners are unable to surmount. Drive. Trump’s four casino bankruptcies (the other two were in 2004 and 2009) have badly tarnished his business record, but many many people would give up after a couple major failures and go work for somebody else. Trump never did. And while some of his deals have been losers, Trump never stopped making deals either. It’s easy to overlook persistence, but compare Trump with an actual recent president — George W. Bush, who struggled as an oilman in Texas despite a Harvard Business School degree and a list of gold-plated connections. Bush bailed out of the oil business after more than a decade of running companies that didn’t make it — his firm finally bought out by a bigger competitor on favorable terms many critics attributed to Bush’s famous family (his father was vice president at the time). The proceeds from that deal allowed Bush to enter a completely different business, as one of the owners of the Texas Rangers baseball team, which also drew criticism for favorable terms Bush enjoyed. He’s a promotional genius. Trump is the P.T. Barnum of our time, something his detractors seem to think is a bad thing. But most businesses would kill for Trump’s ability to sell. He has consistently found ways to generate mammoth amounts of publicity — through his sponsorship of boxing matches and beauty pageants, his starring role on “The Apprentice,” thousands of media appearances commenting on practically anything and his use of social media to draw attention to himself. Narcissistic? Probably. But the Trump brand, love it or hate it, now commands multimillion-dollar fees from other companies that want to license it, a rarefied accomplishment in a world awash with brands. He tries new things. Another knock on Trump is the failure of certain products, such as Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, Trump Mortgage and Trump Magazine. But businesses also get dinged when they don’t try new things and stick with the same formula way too long, often becoming outdated or obsolete. The best companies—Google (GOOGL), Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Pepsi (PEP)— fail frequently because they’re willing to experiment. Some of those experiments become booming successes. THE BAD About those bankruptcies, Pt. 1. Trump claims to have made a lot of money in Atlantic City, where all his casino projects were based. But many of his partners, investors and contractors fared poorly. After the first two bankruptcies, Trump formed a public company called Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, later renamed Trump Entertainment Resorts. It was a dog, declaring an annual profit just three times during 18 years, according to data from S&P Capital IQ. Cumulative net income during those 18 years was a $652 million loss. Trump also failed to foresee Atlantic City’s demise as a gaming mecca, even as other states were legalizing gambling and cracking open the East Coast monopoly Atlantic City once had. Trump might have been a visionary during Atlantic City’s rise in the 1980s, but by the 2000s he was doubling down on a rapidly fading relic. About those bankruptcies, Pt. 2. Trump’s bankrupt casinos behaved as every company typically does in Chapter 11: They defaulted on debts and negotiated partial payments with contractors in court, based on what money was available. Trump is right that this is a standard tool of business, but doing it four times in the same place left a wide trail of contractors that went unpaid and suffered as Trump supposedly profited. Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, and many other critics are now feasting on the tales of family-owned businesses and ordinary working people stiffed by a tycoon cutting his losses and moving on to the next thing. Poor quality control. The Trump Organization is a successful real-estate firm partly because it has exacting standards for its condominiums and hotels, many of them able to boast five-star rankings. Any developer licensing the Trump name for a building must adhere to a long list of requirements governing the appearance of the lobby, the quality of the furniture and fixtures, available amenities and many other things. But the company seemingly applied no such standards when it licensed the name to an outside company that established Trump University, which turned out to be a lowbrow scheme targeting gullible consumers willing to put thousands of dollars in Trump charges on their credit cards. This was a sharp wrong turn for Trump that produced still-ongoing lawsuits liable to generate unflattering news for Trump through the rest of the campaign and perhaps into 2017. Hypersensitivity. Trump would be more effective if he were able to keep his mouth shut every now and then. Take his wealth, for example. Nobody disputes that Trump is a billionaire, but he famously asserts he’s worth around $10 billion, while analysts at Forbes and Bloomberg say he’s worth less than half that. Why argue the point? If Trump were “only” worth the $3 billion Bloomberg claims, he’d still be one of the richest presidential candidates ever. Other billionaires could almost certainly contest their spot in the rankings, yet they rarely do, since being rich is reward enough. Trump’s battles with wealth counters make him seem petulant and petty, while constantly highlighting his grandiosity. SO WHAT’S THE TAKEAWAY? We’ll offer two. First, Trump is more successful as a businessman than the disproportionate coverage of his failures might suggest. His career has been rocky, but he has recovered from virtually all of his failures and at the age of 70 he has a lot to show for his efforts. Forbes ranks Trump the third-richest developer in New York, with a net worth of $4.5 billion, a considerable improvement on the $100 million or so he started with from his father. But it’s far from clear that Trump’s success running a business would make him an effective president. In fact, many hallmarks of Trump’s style as a businessman might work against him in the White House. Politicians in the public eye don’t usually get nearly as many chances to recover from mistakes as Trump has gotten in the private sector. Trump’s business dealings demonstrate little concern for the public good, and while he’s made himself and his family rich, he hasn’t spread the wealth very widely. Trump has also shown bad business judgment by taking on debt too aggressively, extending his brand too far and chasing an opportunity long after it was gone. He always convinced bankers to loan him more money and give him another chance. Voters are not usually so forgiving.
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Post by ravens20 on Jul 21, 2016 0:24:31 GMT -4
Good grief. The deranged Libtard bus must have crashed on Kent Island last night. Thank you. The libs are going to ruin the country and the Eastern Shore like they have Baltimore Co., the City, PG County, MoCo, HoCo and NoVA. Not saying Trump is the answer, but he is certainly the lesser of the two evils IMO. You just listed some of the wealthiest counties in the entire country, lol.
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Post by frankf on Jul 21, 2016 6:19:54 GMT -4
Thank you. The libs are going to ruin the country and the Eastern Shore like they have Baltimore Co., the City, PG County, MoCo, HoCo and NoVA. Not saying Trump is the answer, but he is certainly the lesser of the two evils IMO. You just listed some of the wealthiest counties in the entire country, lol. Cognitive dissonance. Isn't it grand? LOL!
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Post by constructr on Jul 21, 2016 13:13:11 GMT -4
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Post by overboost44 on Jul 21, 2016 13:15:54 GMT -4
Sure and just look how much the government has contributed to the wealth of these counties. If it wasn't for the employment by the government and its contractors spending money that the country doesn't have, it would be like any other set of counties in the country. Besides, I was referring to the liberals in these counties. Not how well they are doing financially. The conversation was about liberals.
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Post by constructr on Jul 21, 2016 19:48:04 GMT -4
Sure and just look how much the government has contributed to the wealth of these counties. If it wasn't for the employment by the government and its contractors spending money that the country doesn't have, it would be like any other set of counties in the country. Besides, I was referring to the liberals in these counties. Not how well they are doing financially. The conversation was about liberals. Overboost, they HATE it when you speak about facts, or anything else that goes against their "whats yours is mine" agenda. They might even start having violent protests here on the island. It seems that violence is their only response to people who have a differing view than theirs. Such a shame, really.
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Post by constructr on Jul 22, 2016 6:51:01 GMT -4
One more thing, actually, many things, to consider...........I know you liberal moonbats can't stand to hear the truth, but here it is. Try to keep this in mind; Donald Trump did not steal your money. Donald Trump did not raise your taxes. Donald Trump did not quadruple the price of food. Trump is not stirring a race war. Trump did not leave any US soldiers in Benghazi to be slaughtered and desecrated by Muslims. Trump did not send the US Navy to fight for Syrian Al-Qaeda. Trump did not arm ISIS and systematically exterminate Christians throughout the Middle East. Trump did not betray Israel. Trump did not provide financing and technology to Iran's nuclear weapons program. Trump did not give our military secrets to China. Trump did not remove our nuclear missile shield in Poland at the behest of Russia. Trump did not shrivel our military, and betray our veterans. Trump did not cripple our economy. Trump did not increase our debt to 20 trillion dollars. Trump did not ruin our credit, twice. Trump did not double African American unemployment. Trump did not increase welfare to a record level for eight years. Trump did not sign a law making it legal to execute, and imprison Americans. Trump did not set free all of terrorists in Guantanamo bay. Trump did not steal your rights, violate US Constitutional law, or commit treason, hundreds of times.
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Post by frankf on Jul 22, 2016 7:45:44 GMT -4
Take your meds Rob.
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Post by constructr on Jul 22, 2016 9:03:33 GMT -4
Do you deny it?? Do you? You can't. Thats why it's soooooo painful for you people. If it's that uncomfortable for you, you can put these on.
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