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Originally posted by old_gregg View Postwhat kind of shithead would accrue a bunch of debt they have no intention of paying
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Originally posted by frank ryan View PostNow I realize that not only has the amazing businessman Trump had multiple bankruptcies, earned a reputation for flat out stiffing employees and service providers, but his campaign and associated committees also have some unpaid bills. But we need to be mindful of Crockett and pro-Trump folks who've complained about this forum being an echo chamber. Let's make it a safe space for them.
Frank, speaking of echo chamber, any collusion, yet?
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Interesting take on Trump's relationship with the government he's at the head of. In short, it's mostly his own aides and others around him in the government he doesn't want to know what he's talking with Putin about.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog...-us-government
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Originally posted by frank ryan View PostNow I realize that not only has the amazing businessman Trump had multiple bankruptcies, earned a reputation for flat out stiffing employees and service providers, but his campaign and associated committees also have some unpaid bills.Last edited by PaloAltoCougar; 07-07-2018, 07:14 AM.
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Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View PostAn aside... I recently finished a biography of Joshua Chamberlain and two weeks ago visited his home in Maine (the 20th Maine regiment that he commanded essentially saved the Union at Gettysburg's Little Round Top, and his troops accepted the Confederate surrender at Appomattox by saluting the vanquished army, a move that did much to reduce hatred on both sides). He was wounded six times during the war, and suffered terribly from one wound throughout the rest of his life--he is regarded as the last soldier to have died from his Civil War injuries. In his later years, he was involved in numerous business ventures, and some failed, unsurprisingly. Chamberlain was very deeply troubled that people who had worked on or invested in the failed ventures had done so because of his reputation, and he did whatever he could to reduce their losses at his personal expense. A truly great man and the opposite of Trump and, in fairness, many others today."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostWhich book? I am interested.
I went--it is is not long ago--to stand again upon that crest whose one day's crown of fire has passed into the blazend coronet of fame; to look again upon the rocks whereon were laid as on the altar the lives of Vincent and O'Rourke. [He writes eloquently about other fallen comrades, and then concludes] I sat there alone on the storied crest, till the sun went down as it did before over the misty hills, and the darkness crept up the slopes, till from all earthly sight I was buried as with those before. But oh, what radiant companionship rose around, what steadfast ranks of power, what bearing of heroic souls. Oh, the glory that beamed through those nights and days. Nobody will ever know it here!--I am sorry most of all for that.... The proud young valor that rose above the mortal, and then at last was mortal after all...
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Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View PostWhere are today's Chamberlains?
amputees.jpgYou're actually pretty funny when you aren't being a complete a-hole....so basically like 5% of the time. --Art Vandelay
Almost everything you post is snarky, smug, condescending, or just downright mean-spirited. --Jeffrey Lebowski
Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace. --President Donald J. Trump
You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war. --William Randolph Hearst
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Originally posted by Crockett View PostThis is the sound of the goalposts moving.
Thank you for your diagnosis, Dr."The mind is not a boomerang. If you throw it too far it will not come back." ~ Tom McGuane
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Originally posted by Non Sequitur View PostAnd yet, you never address the questions. Yes or no, do you think Trump is a man governed by scruples? It's a simple question."Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."
Upon rejecting the Beatles, Dick Rowe told Brian Epstein of the January 1, 1962 audition for Decca, which signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
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Originally posted by Non Sequitur View PostAnd yet, you never address the questions. Yes or no, do you think Trump is a man governed by scruples? It's a simple question.
Originally posted by Non Sequitur View PostIs there any doubt in your mind that if Trump wins another term he will seek to eliminate presidential term limits? If he were able, is there any point at which Trump would cease to elevate the authority of the Executive branch over the judicial and legislative branches? If he were able, at what point would Trump stop trying to control the press? If he were able, are there any measures he wouldn't take to silence political opponents? If Trump could rig elections with impunity, is there any doubt in your mind that he would do so? Trump may never become a dictator, but he is definitely angling to establish an authoritarian government, and the thing that makes Trump so dangerous is that he is not handicapped by scruples or ideology as he seeks to establish that government. Left to his own devices, are there any lines that Trump would not be willing to cross?
Asking about scruples is a pretty vague question. Pretty much everyone has scruples it's just those lines are in different places for different people. I don't think he will cross the lines you think he will or that he would even desire, too. I don't think he would rig elections, I don't think he will eliminate term limits, I don't think he will silence his political opponents (do you hear silence out there? quite the opposite -- there is so much criticism out there and he mostly ignores it and then tweets disses in other cases) (btw, what has he DONE to control the press other than SAY harsh things? What Obama DID was way worse than what Trump has DONE). So, I do think Trump has some scruples, but he's not the most moral person out there, for sure. I think he has more scruples than the Clintons, which is admittedly a low bar.
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Originally posted by Commando View PostWHATABOUT"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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“Scruples” sounds like an std, so I’m pretty sure Trump has plenty of it"Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf
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