Rants and Raves

[RunFast]

Wrong! You missed my point!

I got your point, I was just trying to piss you off a little bit.

Translation: Its pointless arguing with clueless people!

I couldn't agree with you more.

[NuGuy36]

FYI, Bloomberg is investing $100 million in Florida to help Biden. This will force the cash strapped Trump campaign to divert valuable $$$ resources from other swing states. Trump is currently having a twitter meltdown over this news. It's amusing that you have a Trump, a fake billionaire", having a twitter meltdown over Bloomberg a "real billionaire", spending $$$ to help the Biden team.......lol

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/tru...to-defeat-him/

Actually, I'm surprised no one has publicly connected the dots regarding Donald Trump's obvious down playing of the COVID-19 risks over the last several months.

Trump's net worth (whatever it is) is comprised of a mix of annuity income from branding (allowing the Trump name to be used on a development) and outright ownership of hotels and resorts. The shift towards branding made great sense since virtually every property he owned and operated ended up in default and / or bankruptcy. But his actual holdings are still considerable (think Trump hotels like the one in DC, and his variety of golf courses) and likely form the vast majority of his assets. All of these occupancy- and tourism-dependent properties are entirely dependent on cash flow, with large operating costs and, like restaurants, are only financially viable when operating fairly close to capacity.

There is no question that all of these properties have been hemorrhaging money since March. Whether his cash flow from his branding business is sufficient to keep them afloat is unknown, but highly unlikely since numerous branded properties have ended the relationship during his disastrous tenure as president.

The entire downplaying of the COVID-19 risks is likely pure personal financial panic regarding the mounting losses at these properties and the need to restore tourism and resort traffic.

At some point he will have insufficient cash flow to keep paying his vendors. There is the possibility of some occasional cash advances to tide him over from a friendly oligarch or two, but the banking system is much tighter than it used to be and it would be difficult, if not impossible. To keep this secret.

I expect the shoe (more likely multiple shoes) to drop any day regarding vendor defaults at some of these resorts. It will be a close call whether he can keep this out of the news until Election Day. Whether or not he wins the election, this news will likely start tricking out shortly thereafter.

Like everything else about his presidency, the COVID-19 response is all about Donald. He is ambitious beyond his competence, he is overextended, he is losing money, and he is in trouble. Anyone who has paid attention to his career has seen this movie multiple times before. It's surprising that this it's not more widely recognized.

[Sgt Soros]

Anyone care to vote in a 2020 Presidential poll?

http://www.usasexguide.nl/forum/show...ng-Only-Please

FYI, Bloomberg is investing $100 million in Florida to help Biden. This will force the cash strapped Trump campaign to divert valuable $$$ resources from other swing states. Trump is currently having a twitter meltdown over this news. It's amusing that you have a Trump, a fake billionaire", having a twitter meltdown over Bloomberg a "real billionaire", spending $$$ to help the Biden team.......lol

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/tru...to-defeat-him/

[Roddee]

Keep drinking that Trump spiked Kool-aid. While, the economy did grow and produce jobs during Mr. Trump's first three years in office, its performance under Mr. Trump during that period was weaker than during the last three years of Barack Obama's presidency. Almost exactly 1. 5 million FEWER jobs were created on Mr. Trump's watch than during Mr. Obama's final three years.

Without facts, Mr. Trump resorts to lies. He has claimed more than 360 times that the economy on his watch was the "strongest ever. " Not even close!

Annualized growth under Mr. Trump ranked seventh among his 11 predecessors. And growth actually slowed during each of Mr. Trump's three years.

To accomplish only that much, Mr. Trump needed one of the largest tax cuts in history, a cut that grossly favored business and wealthy Americans while exploding our deficit. Almost 85 percent of the benefits of the bill went to businesses and to those with incomes above $75,000.

Americans in the top 20 percent of incomes received a 2. 9 percent increase in their after-tax incomes while middle-class Americans got just a 1. 6 percent increase. Businesses responded to the cuts by raising dividends and share buybacks to record highs while an initial increase in capital investment quickly faded.

The Trump administration claimed that the legislation would pay for itself through increased economic activity. That, not surprisingly, turned out to be another lie. The deficit jumped to more than $1 trillion last year from $681 billion in 2017, the calendar year before the tax cut.

The president's terrible handling of the crisis directly translated into the enormous problems we now face: an economy in its worst crisis since the Great Depression.

From the start, Mr. Trump has been talking about a quick bounce back and a "V" shaped recovery. In April, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said the economy would be "rocking" by July. Less than two months ago, Mr. Trump declared, "America's economy is now roaring back to life like nobody has ever seen before," and claimed, "All of this incredible news is the result of historic actions my administration has taken. ".

But that's not what we have. What we have is an economy in SHAMBLES.

Our economy has contracted by 10.6 percent during the first six months of 2020, by far the biggest, fastest decline since the Great Depression.

Unemployment soared to 14.7 percent. More than 22 million jobs were lost. And the pain was disproportionately felt by women, people of color, the young, lower-paid workers and those with less education. For example, nearly a quarter of jobs held by Americans with less than a high school education have disappeared, compared to only 2 percent of jobs held by those with college degrees.

So, you think Trump has the Black American vote squirreled away in his back pocket, think again. By almost every metric, Black Americans have fared far worse in this Trump led economic depression, including higher rates of closure of Black-owned businesses. And that's after struggling under the Trump administration since long before the virus hit Black median household incomes, which were 66.5 percent of those of white households in 2016, had dropped to 62.4 percent of the level of white households by 2018.

These statistics greatly understate the pain. True unemployment rose to nearly 32 percent in April after including all people working part time but seeking full-time jobs and those who were without jobs but wanted one. Even now, well into the promised recovery, 28 million Americans are receiving unemployment benefits.

Job growth in July was less than half the pace of the June increase, and August figures show a still smaller increase or amazingly no job growth at all. And that's with only 42 percent of the lost jobs having been recovered so far.

There is evidence that a second wave of layoffs and furloughs is already underway roughly three out of five workers who had reportedly returned to work have either been let go again or been told they are at risk of being sidelined again.

Much of the damage threatens to become irreversible. According to data collected, more than half of business closures that were temporary when the virus outbreak began are now considered permanent. More retailers have gone bankrupt in the first eight months of 2020 than in all of 2008, during the Great Recession. Across all industries, Chapter 11 filings in July surged 52 percent over the same month last year, with no end in sight.

And our economy is in even greater jeopardy because Donald Trump, who proclaims himself the greatest dealmaker in history, can't make a deal with the Democrats on a much-needed next rescue package.

While the proposals he has tried to bring about by executive action may well be illegal, they are indisputably ludicrous in their construct: A "payroll tax cut" that isn't a tax cut at all and even if it were, it would be the wrong way to provide help to the average American. Special unemployment benefits of $300 per week, half the amount lawmakers provided in the first round, the CARES Act. Nothing for schools, nothing for virus testing, nothing for state and local governments.

In the business world, when an employee doesn't perform, we FIRE his ass!

Utterly amazing.

[Sgt Soros]

Translation: I got nothing to prove you wrong so I'm just going to take my ball and go home.

Wrong! You missed my point!

Your misguided opinions are false but cute. I would explain it to you, but I don't have the time or the crayons! Goodbye!

Translation: Its pointless arguing with clueless people!

[RunFast]

Anyone care to vote in a 2020 Presidential poll?

http://www.usasexguide.nl/forum/show...ng-Only-Please

[RunFast]

Your misguided opinions are false but cute. I would explain it to you, but I don't have the time or the crayons! Goodbye!

Translation: I got nothing to prove you wrong so I'm just going to take my ball and go home.

[Old Chinese Guy]

Your misguided opinions are false but cute. I would explain it to you, but I don't have the time or the crayons! Goodbye!

And you'll never convince them that Trump is more stupid than 70% of the people who post here because they are the 30% who voted for someone smarter than they are. This is a guy who sells snake oil, tells you it doesn't work and the 30% still buy his snake oil by the gallon. For the life of me I do not know why anyone would want to vote for someone who is more stupid than they are and we need to reach out to everyone of those 70%, not the 30%.

[Sgt Soros]

Your misguided opinions are false but cute. I would explain it to you, but I don't have the time or the crayons! Goodbye!

In his latest long-winded tantrum, Sgt. George demands that we believe that this year's severe economic contraction is the complete responsibility of Donald Trump, conveniently omitting the fact that the shutdown was initiated by the Chinese virus and perpetuated by his liberal, left-wing anarchist heroes to devastate the economy and ruin the lives of millions in their desperate attempt to humiliate and defeat the President. You are an abject, pathetic liar, Soros. It does not matter whether you admit it or not or whether you really believe the lies that you spew on this site ad nauseum. You are still a liar of the most pathetic kind. You won't stop what you are doing but we know you for what you are and we will defeat you. Deep down, you know it too.

[HobbyMan51]

In his latest long-winded tantrum, Sgt. George demands that we believe that this year's severe economic contraction is the complete responsibility of Donald Trump, conveniently omitting the fact that the shutdown was initiated by the Chinese virus and perpetuated by his liberal, left-wing anarchist heroes to devastate the economy and ruin the lives of millions in their desperate attempt to humiliate and defeat the President. You are an abject, pathetic liar, Soros. It does not matter whether you admit it or not or whether you really believe the lies that you spew on this site ad nauseum. You are still a liar of the most pathetic kind. You won't stop what you are doing but we know you for what you are and we will defeat you. Deep down, you know it too.

[Sgt Soros]

Keep drinking that Trump spiked Kool-aid. While, the economy did grow and produce jobs during Mr. Trump's first three years in office, its performance under Mr. Trump during that period was weaker than during the last three years of Barack Obama's presidency. Almost exactly 1. 5 million FEWER jobs were created on Mr. Trump's watch than during Mr. Obama's final three years.

Without facts, Mr. Trump resorts to lies. He has claimed more than 360 times that the economy on his watch was the "strongest ever. " Not even close!

Annualized growth under Mr. Trump ranked seventh among his 11 predecessors. And growth actually slowed during each of Mr. Trump's three years.

To accomplish only that much, Mr. Trump needed one of the largest tax cuts in history, a cut that grossly favored business and wealthy Americans while exploding our deficit. Almost 85 percent of the benefits of the bill went to businesses and to those with incomes above $75,000.

Americans in the top 20 percent of incomes received a 2. 9 percent increase in their after-tax incomes while middle-class Americans got just a 1. 6 percent increase. Businesses responded to the cuts by raising dividends and share buybacks to record highs while an initial increase in capital investment quickly faded.

The Trump administration claimed that the legislation would pay for itself through increased economic activity. That, not surprisingly, turned out to be another lie. The deficit jumped to more than $1 trillion last year from $681 billion in 2017, the calendar year before the tax cut.

The president's terrible handling of the crisis directly translated into the enormous problems we now face: an economy in its worst crisis since the Great Depression.

From the start, Mr. Trump has been talking about a quick bounce back and a "V" shaped recovery. In April, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said the economy would be "rocking" by July. Less than two months ago, Mr. Trump declared, "America's economy is now roaring back to life like nobody has ever seen before," and claimed, "All of this incredible news is the result of historic actions my administration has taken. ".

But that's not what we have. What we have is an economy in SHAMBLES.

Our economy has contracted by 10.6 percent during the first six months of 2020, by far the biggest, fastest decline since the Great Depression.

Unemployment soared to 14.7 percent. More than 22 million jobs were lost. And the pain was disproportionately felt by women, people of color, the young, lower-paid workers and those with less education. For example, nearly a quarter of jobs held by Americans with less than a high school education have disappeared, compared to only 2 percent of jobs held by those with college degrees.

So, you think Trump has the Black American vote squirreled away in his back pocket, think again. By almost every metric, Black Americans have fared far worse in this Trump led economic depression, including higher rates of closure of Black-owned businesses. And that's after struggling under the Trump administration since long before the virus hit Black median household incomes, which were 66.5 percent of those of white households in 2016, had dropped to 62.4 percent of the level of white households by 2018.

These statistics greatly understate the pain. True unemployment rose to nearly 32 percent in April after including all people working part time but seeking full-time jobs and those who were without jobs but wanted one. Even now, well into the promised recovery, 28 million Americans are receiving unemployment benefits.

Job growth in July was less than half the pace of the June increase, and August figures show a still smaller increase or amazingly no job growth at all. And that's with only 42 percent of the lost jobs having been recovered so far.

There is evidence that a second wave of layoffs and furloughs is already underway roughly three out of five workers who had reportedly returned to work have either been let go again or been told they are at risk of being sidelined again.

Much of the damage threatens to become irreversible. According to data collected, more than half of business closures that were temporary when the virus outbreak began are now considered permanent. More retailers have gone bankrupt in the first eight months of 2020 than in all of 2008, during the Great Recession. Across all industries, Chapter 11 filings in July surged 52 percent over the same month last year, with no end in sight.

And our economy is in even greater jeopardy because Donald Trump, who proclaims himself the greatest dealmaker in history, can't make a deal with the Democrats on a much-needed next rescue package.

While the proposals he has tried to bring about by executive action may well be illegal, they are indisputably ludicrous in their construct: A "payroll tax cut" that isn't a tax cut at all and even if it were, it would be the wrong way to provide help to the average American. Special unemployment benefits of $300 per week, half the amount lawmakers provided in the first round, the CARES Act. Nothing for schools, nothing for virus testing, nothing for state and local governments.

In the business world, when an employee doesn't perform, we FIRE his ass!

Wide awake here sarge.

Nothing to run on but fear and hate, really are you that gullible?

Lets see.

As of January 2020.

1. 2 conservative SCOTUS appts.

1 a. Almost 6 million jobs created since election.

2. More Americans are now employed than ever in our history.

3. Created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since his election. (the ones President Obama said were NEVER coming back. "what's he going to do wave a magic wand" LOL yep looks like it Barack.

4. Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than three decades.

5. Economic growth last quarter hit 4. 2 percent.

6. New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.

7. Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.

8. African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.

9. Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.

10. Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.

11. Women's unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.

12. Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.

13. Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.

14. Under this administration, veterans' unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.

15. Almost 3. 9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.

16. The Pledge to America's Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.

17. Ninty-five percent of USA Manufacturers are optimistic about the future, the highest ever.

18. Retail sales surged last month, up another 6% over last year.

19. Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion poured back in to the USA In the first quarter alone.

20. As a result of his tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.

Our country has added over 6 million new jobs since President Trump's election. GDP growth has far exceeded expectations and wages continue to rise. Our nation's unemployment rate is at 3. 6 percent, the lowest since 1969 with unemployment for women, African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans all reaching record lows under this administration.

[RunFast]

Sure the World Wide Pandemic has shut down the entire world and put the brakes, temporarily, on this list of record breaking accomplishments.
But the American people overwhelmingly support what the president did Before the China virus came, and looking at the real internal polling leaked from the democrats, although Not reported anywhere, Biden is down 6-10 percentage points in all but one of the key battleground states.
With under 2 months till Election Day, trumps reelection seems to be on track, and we can only imagine that lead will continue to widen as the debates come and go, if Vice President Biden even shows up, and its looking like we'll have at least 2 vaccines for corona virus before the end of the year.
Only time will tell, but with reported internal democrat polling showing Blacks support of President Trump at an all time record of 42% for any republican president candidate, reelection is looking better all the time.

Well said Mike!

And lets face it, no matter who was president at the time (even if it was Jesus Christ himself) no one, NO ONE would of had all the answers when it came to dealing with the "China virus".

[RunFast]

Wow, you have to repeat "FOUR more years" so many times to really believe it? FOUR more years of what? Fear, fear and more fear? We've heard it before. Trump has no message, no course of action, nothing! Trump has nothing to run on, so what can he possibly say? Hes re-running his 2016 campaign of fear and hate. His act has been played and it's played out. What else is there? NOTHING!

"I love the poorly educated!" ~Donald John Trump.

Wake up SHEEP!

What's the matter SS, you don't like my chant?

How can you honestly say that? Trump has done more in 4 years (even though half the time he was dealing with fake BS made up by the lying left) then Biden has done in half a century with 8 of those years being VP. Trump isn't perfect and he can say some dumb shit now and again, but he's still doing a good job. Trump is a workaholic, he's at it 24/7. Do you really think Biden can keep the same pace that Trump does? No way in hell he can.

[RunFast]

That being said, He is prob the cleanest person to ever come thru Washington, after a 5-6 year anal exam by the do nothing dems, and all the corrupt intel and doj agencies, and they all have found exactly nothing.

Or he is the smartest MF since they can't pin anything on him. Either way, that would make him the man for the job.

[Mike454]

Wow, you have to repeat "FOUR more years" so many times to really believe it? FOUR more years of what? Fear, fear and more fear? We've heard it before. Trump has no message, no course of action, nothing! Trump has nothing to run on, so what can he possibly say? Hes re-running his 2016 campaign of fear and hate. His act has been played and it's played out. What else is there? NOTHING!

"I love the poorly educated!" ~Donald John Trump.

Wake up SHEEP!

Wide awake here sarge.

Nothing to run on but fear and hate, really are you that gullible?

Lets see.

As of January 2020.

1. 2 conservative SCOTUS appts.

1 a. Almost 6 million jobs created since election.

2. More Americans are now employed than ever in our history.

3. Created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since his election. (the ones President Obama said were NEVER coming back. "what's he going to do wave a magic wand" LOL yep looks like it Barack.

4. Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than three decades.

5. Economic growth last quarter hit 4. 2 percent.

6. New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.

7. Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.

8. African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.

9. Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.

10. Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.

11. Women's unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.

12. Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.

13. Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.

14. Under this administration, veterans' unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.

15. Almost 3. 9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.

16. The Pledge to America's Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.

17. Ninty-five percent of USA Manufacturers are optimistic about the future, the highest ever.

18. Retail sales surged last month, up another 6% over last year.

19. Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion poured back in to the USA In the first quarter alone.

20. As a result of his tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.

Our country has added over 6 million new jobs since President Trump's election. GDP growth has far exceeded expectations and wages continue to rise. Our nation's unemployment rate is at 3. 6 percent, the lowest since 1969 with unemployment for women, African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans all reaching record lows under this administration.

Using more than 400 executive actions, according to a recent analysis by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, Trump has effectively shut down the asylum system at the southwest border and slashed refugee admissions. At the same time, Trump has imposed a slew of new restrictions on legal immigration, with the pandemic spurring many more. With so few visas being processed and immigration fees collected, the USA Citizenship and Immigration Services has all but run out of money and is about to furlough large swaths of its workforce.

"They have used the tools that the executive branch has on immigration really to their ultimate extent. And they've been successful," said Doris Meissner, the director of the Migration Policy Institute's USA Immigration Policy Program and a former commissioner of the USA Immigration and Naturalization Service. "And you know, in many ways remarkably so because there's been very stiff resistance all the way. ".

President Trump kept more campaign promises in 1 year than Obama and Clinton did in 8 each.

And after 4 years has kept more campaign promises than any other president in US History.

Why it matters: In our travels around the country, when we push people on why they're sticking with Trump, this is the #1 reason they cite.

Love him or hate him, Trump fixates on turning campaign promises into reality or at least making the case that he tried:

Conservative Supreme Court justice? Check and double-check.

Over 200 conservative lower court judges appointed? Check and double-check. This is a modern day record for the trump admin.

Tax cuts? Check, they were heavily weighted toward the middle class.

Gut regulations, especially from the Obama era? Check.

Crack down on immigration? Even this is a check, despite democrats vociferous opposition to securing the border, he will have half of the wall built, 450 miles, by years end

Tariffs on China? Check.

Declaring China a currency manipulator? Check.

Withdrawing from Paris climate agreement? Check.

Withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal? Check.

Withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the giant Pacific Rim trade deal? Check.

Renegotiating NAFTA? Check. (Pending congressional approval.).


Sure the World Wide Pandemic has shut down the entire world and put the brakes, temporarily, on this list of record breaking accomplishments.
But the American people overwhelmingly support what the president did Before the China virus came, and looking at the real internal polling leaked from the democrats, although Not reported anywhere, Biden is down 6-10 percentage points in all but one of the key battleground states.
With under 2 months till Election Day, trumps reelection seems to be on track, and we can only imagine that lead will continue to widen as the debates come and go, if Vice President Biden even shows up, and its looking like we'll have at least 2 vaccines for corona virus before the end of the year.
Only time will tell, but with reported internal democrat polling showing Blacks support of President Trump at an all time record of 42% for any republican president candidate, reelection is looking better all the time.