trump Does it Again

[katzgar]

It's down 51 at the moment

So what did Trump do too make it go back up since your post

you meant to say down 165

[Superfreak]

Probably not within $20%.

You?

You haven't said so OT, but for those unable to read between your lines, Trump is by far the most self-serving U.S. president of my lifetime. I was born in '54.

yeah, that is why the Clintons ended up with a couple billion dollar 'foundation' and magically made a couple hundred million on the side for themselves.

[Truth Detector]

Old article is old.

Grow a brain dumbass.

[katzgar]

you meant to say down 165

Oops, now he's got down to 245

[evince]

yeah, that is why the Clintons ended up with a couple billion dollar 'foundation' and magically made a couple hundred million on the side for themselves.

link

[evince]

It's down 51 at the moment

So what did Trump do too make it go back up since your post

look like he was about to die


but then he took a big shit and the market realized he was going to live

[katzgar]

Now your boy has it down 345. You should be so proud.

[sear]

"yeah, that is why the Clintons ended up with a couple billion dollar 'foundation' and magically made a couple hundred million on the side for themselves." Sf #32

- ah -
"The other guy's a bum too!" brilliant



iirc President Clinton was inaugurated in 1993.
Republicans have had well over a quarter century to hold Clinton's feet to the fire.
So one of two things is true.

- Either there isn't enough to indict Clinton for again (please don't forget, the Republicans already impeached Clinton once). OR !!

- Clinton is guilty, but Republicans are so surpassingly incompetent that even though guilty, they just can't get it together enough to take Clinton to justice.

Candidly, neither of the two flatters Republicans.

"yeah, that is why the Clintons ended up with a couple billion dollar 'foundation' and magically made a couple hundred million on the side for themselves." Sf #32

So please tell us Sf #32.
Are you simply anti-philanthropy? Or are you merely so liberal that you think philanthropic efforts should be handled by the public sector?

[Lightbringer]

Now your boy has it down 345. You should be so proud.

You think the DOW is the economy...you shouldn't be judging others.

[katzgar]

You think the DOW is the economy...you shouldn't be judging others.

You're trying to defend trump crashing the economy. All you do is embarrass yourself.

[Lightbringer]

You're trying to defend trump crashing the economy. All you do is embarrass yourself.

Yeah, the economy is in the shitter shitstain.

[katzgar]

Yeah, the economy is in the shitter shitstain.

now your boy has it down 400

[floridafan]

The market has increased by 4,242 points since Trumps election. That amounts to an average of 2,121 points per year. Is 8.8% growth really that bad? Do you actually think that the thread author has the slightest clue of what they are erupting about?

Why would Trump, a man who is most likely heavily invested in stocks, welcome instability snowflake?

Come on honey pot, you are getting so very desperate. Why do you use a guideline of rumps election when it was an Obama stock market at that time. You did exactly the same thing with GWB, and cherry picked your stats. Let Trump stand on his own as of the date he took office.

[kudzu]

yeah, that is why the Clintons ended up with a couple billion dollar 'foundation' and magically made a couple hundred million on the side for themselves.

My God , are you so damned stupid that you still don't know what a public operational charity is?

[Fentoine Lum]

Trump, the Quintessential American

Donald Trump is part of the peculiar breed Herman Melville described in his novel “The Confidence-Man,” in which the main character uses protean personas, flattery and lies to gain the confidence of his fellow passengers to fleece them on a Mississippi River steamboat. “Confidence men,” as Melville understood, are an inevitable product of the amorality of capitalism and the insatiable lust for wealth, power and empire that infects American society. Trump’s narcissism, his celebration of ignorance—which he like all confidence men confuses with innocence—his megalomania and his lack of empathy are pathologies nurtured by the American landscape. They embody the American belief, one that Mark Twain parodied in “Pudd’nhead Wilson,” F. Scott Fitzgerald excoriated in “The Great Gatsby” and William Faulkner portrayed in the depraved Snopes clan, that it does not matter in the crass commercialism of American society how you obtain wealth and power. They are their own justifications.

American culture is built on a willful duplicity, a vision we hold of ourselves that bears little resemblance to reality. Malcolm Bradbury wrote “that in America imposture is identity; that values are not beliefs but the product of occasions; and that social identity is virtually an arbitrary matter, depending not on character nor an appearance but on the chance definition of one’s nature or colour.” We founded the nation on genocide and slavery, ravage the globe with endless wars and the theft of its resources, enrich an oligarchic elite at the expense of the citizenry, empower police to gun down unarmed citizens in the streets, and lock up a quarter of the world’s prison population while wallowing in the supposed moral superiority of American white supremacy. The more debased the nation becomes, the more it seeks the reassurance of oily con artists to mask truth with lies.

Trump, like most con artists, is skilled at manufacturing self-serving news and a fictional persona that feed the magical aura of his celebrity. The showman P.T. Barnum is the prototype of this strain of Americanism. In the 1830s, he exhibited Joice Heth, an elderly African-American slave who he claimed was the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington. When Heth lost her novelty, Barnum announced that what he had been displaying was a robot. “The fact is, Joice Heth is not a human being,” he wrote to a Boston newspaper, “… simply a curiously constructed automation, made up of whalebone, india-rubber, and numerous springs ingeniously put together and made to move at the slightest touch, according to the will of the operator. The operator is a ventriloquist.” The crowds, which at their height had collectively paid $1,500 a week (then a huge sum) to see Heth, returned in droves to see the supposed machine. After Heth died in 1836 at age 79 or 80, Barnum sold tickets to her autopsy, which was viewed by 1,500 paying customers.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/tr...tial-american/