Yeah, but... THAT guy?!
figmentPez
Staff member
https://www.propublica.org/article/...rump-tax-documents-show-major-inconsistencies
This is journalism.
cheeto tells the bank he is rich and the tax man he is poor. Surprise surprise surprise.
This is journalism.
cheeto tells the bank he is rich and the tax man he is poor. Surprise surprise surprise.
It's not that he's doing it, it's that he's doing it so sloppily that he got caught doing it, which just implies incompetence yet again.
--Patrick
Dave
Staff member
And the only reason he got caught was because he appealed his property tax bills...which made them public record.
I guess...in the sense that a lot of Europeans immigrated to America, bringing that heritage with them
Didn't the Nazis view the holy Roman empire as the first Reich?
Dave
Staff member
Had to independently verify that it is real.
It is.
IS THERE ANYONE LEFT AT THE WHITE HOUSE WHO CAN WRITE AT A SIXTH GRADE LEVEL?
IT'S FUCKING EMBARRASSING!
Washington
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
AdamsHuman nature with all its infirmities and depravation is still capable of great things. It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to a excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. . . . But their bodies must be hardened, as well as their souls exalted. Without strength and activity and vigor of body, the brightest mental excellencies will be eclipsed and obscured.
JeffersonI know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
Teddy RooseveltNothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
LincolnBut in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
FDRThe first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.... Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.
KennedyLet every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
TrumpLet's work out a good deal! you don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and i don't want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy - and I will. I've already given you a little sample with respect to Pastor Brunson. I have worked hard to solve some of your problems. Don't let the world down. You can make a great deal. General Mazloum is willing to negotiate with you, and he is willing to make concessions that they would never have made in the past. I am confidentially enclosing a copy of his letter to me, just received. History will look upon you favorably if you get this done the right and humane way. It will look upon you forever as the devil if good things don't happen. Don't be a tough guy! Don't be a fool! I will call you later.
figmentPez
Staff member
Dave
Staff member
He might not actually make any money on the deal. In fact, he may lose some as he's got to beef up the help, etc. BUT...the resort needs a couple of million dollars worth of upgrades that will now HAVE to be done. So he might not make any money on it, but his place is going to get a facelift and renovated for free on your tax dollars.
figmentPez
Staff member
I think you mean "His books may show that he didn't make any money on the deal." There are going to be lot of people making money off of this, and favors that will be owed, and tax write-offs to be had, and generally it will a tremendous opportunity for Trump, and people in his favor, to pocket a lot of money from this. Renovations are just one aspect of how this will benefit him. Even if you're right, and Trump, personally, loses money on the deal, people around him will make bank, and that will further his political career.
Dave
Staff member
*I* know that and *YOU* know that. But he will still be able to say - TRUTHFULLY - that he personally made no money on the event. And his people will eat it up because they are dumb as posts. Kind of like how they all say, "He doesn't take a paycheck!" Yeah, but he's making money so many other ways now that the paycheck is small potatoes.
figmentPez
Staff member
"truthfully"
Nope. It's "Yeah I tried to blackmail Ukraine for political dirt on a rival. So what if it's illegal. It's not like anything is going to actually happen, right Mitch?" as he squints in the general direction of the Senate.
