I thought you were going to say pendejo.
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I must confess Iâm relatively uninterested how far short The Rumpâs true net worth falls of the grandiose, exaggerated sum he boasts to the electorate. Iâm much more interested how far short his four separate cries of poverty to the bankruptcy courts fell from the truthful figures.
Trump the liar and braggart, who grossly exaggerates his personal fortune to impress people, is one thing. Deceiving the bankruptcy court is something else entirely, and I suspect itâs the real reason he wonât release tax returns.
The concept of strategic bankruptcy is worth examining in more detail. Strategic means you do it on purpose. Get a new roof put on the house, have the propane tank filled and the septic, emptied. Get that overdue dental work done. Max out all the credit cards. Open new cards, max those out too, and file 6 months later when the debt collectors start calling.
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âNow, he is Hispanic, I believe. He is a very hostile judge to me," Trump said.
This racist comment is just as wrong as the homophobic jerks who were defending Prop 8, a few years back, when they accused the presiding judge (Judge Vaughn Walker who is gay) of being unfit to oversee that case. These Republicans donât trust others because they, themselves, are so untrustworthy.
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Contempt of Court n. there are essentially two types of contempt: a) being rude, disrespectful to the judge or other attorneys or causing a disturbance in the courtroom, particularly after being warned by the judge; b) willful failure to obey an order of the court.
Read more: http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=325#ixzz4AQHdicKr
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That too.
OMG â thatâs a word salad worthy of Sister Sarah. Whatâs really disgusting is that (presumably) this person has the right to vote.
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Donald Trumps theory of life. If you donât kiss his ring you are a hater, mean, loser, etc. And his stupid Trumpies say Yeah right Me Trump
If you are discussing the Judge âŚshow his picture âŚSick of the prissy pond scums mugâŚ
Donnie is a liarâŚGet him out of our faceâŚnothing more to add!
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Not a good example, at all. Nothing about that case supports your statement.
This is really sad and unfortunate for the members whoâs pension benefits have gone away forever. But the outcome was 8:0 for sound LEGAL reasons.
I wonât tax you with any long step-by-step example of how this sort of tragedy happens. Besides, you already have the means to inform yourself on the internet. But hereâs a couple of broad hints.
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Remember how Mitt Romney was attacked as a âvulture capitalistâ? This is an example of THAT - of what âthe systemâ allowed done to union pension trust funds.
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Recall the movie Wall Street, with Michael Douglas as the fictional Gordon Gekko, a Carl Icahn-esque arbitraged levered acquisitions, mergers & take-over pirate of the high finance seas, where âGreed is goodâ.
What Gekko did, and presumably the real life Gekkos Icahn and Romney as well, is put the unions into a box, faced with a choice between only two outcomes: the company employing all the workers lets everyone go and sells off the carcass of the business, or, they agree to give the arbitrager control over all or part of the statute-government-court regulated unionâs pension trust fund to ârestructureâ the business, providing packages to a lot of older high earning workers to get them off the employee roll, leaving the relatively younger workers still in their jobs, tho usually not at the same pay rate, until the companyâs owner, the ownershipâs consultants, the third party corporate and finance restructuring expert. and some union reps, are able to find a new owner or owners to sell the broken up pieces of company.
The Reagan and Bush the Elder admins installed onside dudes at the federal agency that regulated CBA-related pension funds. These onside regulators in turn with ownership to by significantly softening, to the ownersâ and consultantsâ benefit, the terms under which those owners and consultants could get their hands on the workersâ pension funds, on the excuse or pretext or both that the unions had voted to abandon their prior claims on pensionsâ funds in order to replace future pension security with current job security.
So, thatâs more or less what happened here. Trump was at the front end of the ownership groups, so itâs tougher to pin this on him.
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Say what you will, but The Donald is going to draw on his vast marketing experience and sell himself to the minority communitiesâŚand at the end, he will get 100% of the Hispanic, African American, Asian, Native AmericanâŚetc. vote. I read it on the interwebsâ!
Just imagine how many Hispanics flocked to his side after his Cinco de Mayo stroke of genius move of scarfing down a taco bowl while chortling, âI love the Hispanics.â Winning âŚDuh!
Next Trump riff: âHeâs Mexican, you know? I think thatâs great because I love Mexicans and they love me. Except this one. Heâs crooked. And Mexican, I thinkâŚItâs been said. Hillary got to him. Mexicans are great people, except for the ones who are not the best, like this judge. I donât know why he hates white successful American people. But itâs great. Iâve heard heâs Mexican. I love the Mexicans.â
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Until itâ s not good for CBS
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So, concludes Trump, attack.
Itâs right there in Two Corinthians.
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True that. Mexican drug cartels are basically businessmen (although they are in a hellish business) who donât comprise nearly half of the country. That is not the same thing as Trump⌠someone with
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The backing of millions of armed men
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The backing of a dirty-tricks GOP cult âpartyâ
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A polling which even has him competitive with white WOMEN
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The mantle of being the most effective Nativist since the 1850s Know Nothings
Does this mean that we should place GOP women (or white women with no college) in the same category of Mexican Drug Cartels? Can we âbustâ these people, like drug criminals? Maybe the HorseRace people should look into that.
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Thanks for that.
Though I will admit, I am even more depressed at the state of journalism after reading that.
/smh
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The only scenario more perfect would be if the judge were also a woman. Trump could get his whole set of ugly and vile going in one fell swoop.
Maybe there is a way to work Sonia Sotomayor into the case?
Seriously though, this is huge. Trumpâs Bain Capital and the foundation for the building blocks of tearing him apart one nasty deal at a time.
This is the one, his taxes would do it too but heâs not about to show those for all sorts of reasons. Of course by not showing them he gets hurt but whatâs there to be mined is much worse.
Trump is in the crusher now and the pressure is increasing everyday!
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Keep hoping for the:
âHave you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?â - moment for TrumpâŚ
Iâm still fantasizing it will come ⌠and ideally it comes in brutally irreparable devastating fashion ⌠so hideous that the very image of Trump elicits a gasp of revulsion from 98% of the population âŚand happens in say, late September / early October far too late to change candidates and absolutely not enough time to implement any coherent damage control - in fact, any âdamage controlâ would likely be permeated with denial - so it would just make things worse.
My worst fear is that it happens too late - like shortly after a Trump inauguration - and the the country collectively emerges from the stupor like a bad hangover and says âOh God what has happenedâ
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Trumpâs losing so much moneyâand thatâs only just begunâheâs probably squealing at his tax accountants to look for ways to write off the losses and make them âlook legal.â
âI didnât sign up for this â it was supposed to be a way to polish my turd ⌠I mean my brand!â
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In the beginning, IIRC, he was saying that it didnât matter. He was bullshitting then as he does always about everything.
He is a slick salesman but sadly for him, most people detest slick salesmen. Itâs almost surprising that he didnât get some kind of used car gig going with legal services in the lobby.
The genius behind this must be so super-genius that us mere mortals just canât comprehend it.
To me, he is foolishly wrecking the tower of cards that he has spent a lifetime stacking just to prove that he is untouchable and can do whatever he sets his mind out to do.
Heâs wrong, and apparently it never occurred to him that he could lose. At least the crash will be one of the yuuuuugest in historyâŚso heâs got that going for him.
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âThese tactics are sort of typical for Trump,â said Forge, the plaintiffâs lawyer in the Trump University case. âBut I am really disappointed that OâMelveny-Myers, the law firm representing him, is tolerating this sort of thing.â
Nice shot. I would have added, will OâMelveny-Meyers also tolerate not getting paid?
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The man who is an essential part of the crew which may have wrecked the country (if we donât wake up as a nation to Trump).
Just listening to Democrats wonât do it. There is a lot of Distracted potential out there. People who are Nativist. People whose understanding of economic policy certainly would not rule out falling for the words of the Biggest Con Man in U.S. History. People whose definition of âAmericanâ=âwhiteâ.
If that were not the case, there would not be liason between American Nativists and foreign-born racists.
This has nothing to do with someone making sense. This has to do with emotions which are evoked.