#JAILTOTHECHIEF- Shit Just Got Real

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In many ways, despite the publicity, the US lags behind the modern world. A lot of people want us to stay in the 1950s.
More like the 1850s. The 1950s had a strong labor movement and high marginal tax rates.
Well, they want the bad stuff of the '50s, while bringing up the nostalgia of the good parts. Anyone notice how prevelent 1950s architecture is in new construction, especially fast food?

[Well, yeah, a large set wants to go back to the 1850s, without realizing that everyone but the 1% would be well off.... which is already true, but...]
 
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More like the 1850s. The 1950s had a strong labor movement and high marginal tax rates.
My current theory is that T-rump is a wanna-be robber baron from the turn of the 18th century. His fascination with coal, wanting to institute poorhouses, and mistrust of "foreign devils" all seem to fit together.

It's amazing that he can operate technology enough to Tweet with it, but it probably holds some child-like fascination for him.
 

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Basically a medical quackery gold rusher, but for real estate and politics and whatnot.
In other words, what he always was.
Us New Yorkers tried to tell everyone. Yeah, there are supporters of his in NY, but they're almost all far enough north that they didn't have to hear about his crap on an almost-daily basis.
 

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In other words, what he always was.
Us New Yorkers tried to tell everyone. Yeah, there are supporters of his in NY, but they're almost all far enough north that they didn't have to hear about his crap on an almost-daily basis.
Here in DC we gave him 4.09%, even less than what the two R opponents to Obama got. Which is why I was saying people should not worry about how DC would go. If the D candidate for any office in some cycle died right before the election they would still probably get a majority in DC.
 

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One more brick in the wall (he should have paid for his damn wall with all his golfing costs!).

President Donald Trump has pushed his taxpayer-funded golf tab past $118 million on his 26th visit to Mar-a-Lago, his for-profit resort in Palm Beach, Florida, with a Saturday visit to his course in neighboring West Palm Beach.

The new total is the equivalent of 296 years of the $400,000 presidential salary that his supporters often boast that he is not taking.

And of that $118.3 million, at least several million has gone into Trump’s own cash registers, as Secret Service agents, White House staff and other administration officials stay and eat at his hotels and golf courses.
And for good measure:
At this exact point in former President Barack Obama’s first term, he had spent 88 days on a golf course. Saturday was Trump’s 227th day as president on a course that he owns. If Trump continues golfing at the pace he has set in his first three years, he will surpass in just one term the total number of days Obama spent golfing over two full terms — despite having repeatedly criticized Obama for playing too much golf and having promised, as a candidate, that he would be too busy to play any golf at all.
I guess we should be thankful he backpedaled on that promise, eh?
 

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One more brick in the wall (he should have paid for his damn wall with all his golfing costs!).



And for good measure:


I guess we should be thankful he backpedaled on that promise, eh?
The annoying thing is when presidents before donnie went on a 'vacation' or played golf they were not really on vacation. Sure, their family was on vacation, but even if the president tried to do the same they could be expected to do their job at a second's notice. I have no problem with a president getting some sun on the weekend if they are basically still on duty, everyone needs to recharge rather than be 'on' 24/7/365

Meanwhile donnie seems to treat his vacations as, well, vacations. Fortunately we have not had any really serious 3 am phone calls on the weekends .... yet.
 

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There is hope:


He is about to start a silly war. Maybe the GOP will remove him from office now before he goes out of control.
It depends if they can make money from it.
I'm reluctant to credit them with any decency, common sense, or guts.
 

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There is hope:


He is about to start a silly war. Maybe the GOP will remove him from office now before he goes out of control.
He is still ranting about it? I thought he would have gotten bored with that bone by now since he was not in the story.
 
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