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Trump: Set to declare 2024 presidential bid tonight; will indictments follow soon?
Neil, Trump is a compulsive, serial liar. I do not believe for a second that he has raised anything close to this amount. Nothing this man says has credibility. Trump is shitting his pants, he knows he is finished, he knows he will be indicted for insurrection, theft of documents, meddling in Georgia, we are also hearing of sexual assault, rape... there is a good chance Trump will end up in jail, though I still say he will eventually take his own life.
Trump will face two sexual-assault related lawsuits in New York City later this month, stemming from an alleged incident there more than ten years ago. Also, looming are potential indictments for him in Georgia, for allegedly interfering in that state's election 2020 procedures; the Georgia Secretary of State at the time has Trump on audiotape on that one.
...the Georgia Secretary of State at the time has Trump on audiotape on that one.
Trump cannot keep his mouth shut, thus he convicts himself as a result. He is so narcissistic, so arrogant, so self-deluded into believing that he is invincible, and so bloody stupid, that he is incapable of staying quiet. He is a brainwashed moron on permanent autopilot that cannot think or calculate for himself and cannot evade his programing. It is amazing that he has sycophants left at this stage, at least sycophants that hold elected office. There will always be voters that want a dictator, democracy being a more advanced human condition that is beyond the mental capacities of some people, and it is clear that his remaining politician sycophants themselves are not interested in democracy, they want to ride the coattails of a strong-man and vie for his favour.
And isn't Clarence Thomas a beauty? And the legislature in Tennessee?
God Bless America, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Neil, Trump is a compulsive, serial liar. I do not believe for a second that he has raised anything close to this amount. Nothing this man says has credibility. Trump is shitting his pants, he knows he is finished, he knows he will be indicted for insurrection, theft of documents, meddling in Georgia, we are also hearing of sexual assault, rape... there is a good chance Trump will end up in jail, though I still say he will eventually take his own life.
3 billion dollar evaluation of Trump by Forbes ... of course Trump puts it nearer to 10 billion.
He's holding about 500 million in debt. No biggy.
Trump is far from being a stupid moron, etcetera!! I'm not going to list his major accomplishments because you already know them ... well. But you simply can't get there by being a dolt.
But I will say that he has had his fair share of failures, ha! Taj Mahal ... but what an effort!
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Last edited by Neil Frarey; Saturday, 8th April, 2023, 07:27 PM.
What an effort in screwing people, you must mean. But you would like that, wouldn't you, Neil? Crushing hundreds of contractors and trades people by not paying your bills? Just like when you went out of your way to crush a Quebec master with Canada-wide humiliation in a nationally distributed newspaper?
Last edited by Peter McKillop; Monday, 10th April, 2023, 03:56 PM.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
When the hell was the United States of America EVER great?
When they declared their Independence and wrote their Declaration of Independence.
Guarantying the sanctity of the ... Individual.
And that is what is soooo very troubling for all those Americans and some 'others' too, ha! The Individual that can stand up straight and tall ... not cower like a dependent.
They fear Trump. 9 years of political persecution thus far!
Crazy, but they don't need to. Every one of us is an Individual. Sometimes we can come together as Individuals ... sometimes not.
Declaration of Independence is one serious effin document !!!
When they declared their Independence and wrote their Declaration of Independence. It was an amazing document for the times in which it was written.
Guarantying the sanctity of the ... Individual. Oops! Now you've gone a bit too far, unless by "individual" you mean white males. What about slaves; what about women?
Ten characters.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
When they declared their Independence and wrote their Declaration of Independence.
A good response. Given this, do you agree that America CEASED to be great when they became war-mongers, and thinking that England had its hands tied up with Napoleon, under President James Madison, attempted to steal Canada from them (England), and in the process violated the then accepted rules of war by burning down homes in the civilian sections of York, now Toronto, for which the English returned the favour and burned down the White House?
Trump is without doubt a genius. But he has been an evil genius for the USA and the world. He has gamed the systems of business, finance, governance, and justice to a greater extent than any American has ever done. But I think the reckoning is on the way for him. I believe his assumption was that he would never be indicted, since no previous president had been, and that this provided a primary motivation for him to become president; in effect, he would gain an effective amnesty for all of his previous misdeeds. But Peter Baker, writing in the New York Times last week, explained that the U.S. Constitution's framers in the late 18th century envisaged that U.S. presidents COULD IN FACT be indicted and punished AFTER they had left office, for potential misconduct, in the same manner as any other citizen, even for malfeasance WHILE they had served as presidents. Mr. Baker, perhaps the world's foremost reporter on American government, also wrote that a felony conviction would NOT prevent Trump from running for president again.
As for the greatness of America, it depends primarily on one's perspective. Great achievements -- yes; great evils -- yes as well.
If having an exceptional ability to baffle brains with bullshit qualifies one, then I agree. But in no other way is Trump in any sense qualified for the title. I suspect that his IQ is lower than his age. There is something about this man that causes vast numbers of suckers to be duped by him, but this is in no way his own doing, it just happened that way. He is not at all in control of himself, he is a robot.
A good response. Given this, do you agree that America CEASED to be great when they became war-mongers, and thinking that England had its hands tied up with Napoleon, under President James Madison, attempted to steal Canada from them (England), and in the process violated the then accepted rules of war by burning down homes in the civilian sections of York, now Toronto, for which the English returned the favour and burned down the White House?
The colonists were war-mongers long before America declared its independence and further on into their ever evolving Constitution.
War-mongering has been a global pandemic ever since - ever since ... it's tribal thing motivated by a gain of some kind or another.
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