Re TDS…yep I have chronic TDS, for sure. And I make no apology for that.
A squeaky clean politician would be hard to find. They pretty much all lie a lot and get shit wrong.
But THIS guy…oh jeez, this guy takes lying, divisiveness, destructive incompetence, and corruption to stratospheric extremes. Even when I worked on transfer in New York back in the late-80’s everyone I talked politics with universally despised him.
-- Edited by Vam on Monday 7th of April 2025 05:43:05 PM
I have a bit of TDS myself. I cannot stand the man. The vibes are off, you know.
That said it's better than Trump Devotion Syndrome. You know the type of person who was crying before the election for lower prices but now thinks it is heinous to want nice stuff and it is patriotic to suffer until El Jefe's plan comes to some glorious utopia. They are special brand of idiot. Benny Johnson for example.
That! Totally that, Avon.
The divisive impasse of the blinkered, cultish devotion will never break until this parasite is 6-feet under. And even then, it could take years to clean up the unholy mess he’ll leave behind. Not to mention restoring the trust in America the rest of world had, until he crapped all over it.
(a very hard pass on Benny Johnson, btw…!)
Maddog said
Apr 7 9:53 PM, 2025
Vam wrote:
’Stop. That’s just bullshit. He wasn’t despised until he started running.’
Huh? Read my post again, Dawg. I didn‘t socialise with the likes of the Clintons, Oprah, or Giuliani (ew!🤮). I referred to conversations I used to have with New Yorkers. And, yes, they despised him.
Or better yet, check out the countless stories of the contractors he used to stiff by refusing to pay their bills in full - or not at all. When they’d chase him up for payment, his attitude was ‘So sue me, sucker!’, knowing full well their small businesses didn’t have the cash flow to finance litigation in civil suits that could drag on for years.
If they were lucky, they’d be offered pennies on the dollar as settlement. He was notorious for forcing businesses into bankruptcy. It’s even been widely reported that a couple of contractors were driven to suicide.
New Yorkers don't like anyone. And while I won't defend his non payment history, I'm also aware of people that generally despise anyone wealthy unless they are a celebrity.
My point is, the public figures that can't stand him now, had quite a different opinion back in the day..
Vam said
Apr 8 11:16 AM, 2025
‘New Yorkers don’t like anyone.’
… Wait! Are my eyes deceiving me, or is this MD indulging in some…”hyperbole and stereotyping”?
Say it ain’t so! 😜
Maddog said
Apr 8 1:43 PM, 2025
Vam wrote:
‘New Yorkers don’t like anyone.’
… Wait! Are my eyes deceiving me, or is this MD indulging in some…”hyperbole and stereotyping”?
Say it ain’t so! 😜
No hyperbole at all. Stereotypes, sure. But New Yorkers are rude and class envy is real and has been the driving force behind many upheavals for centuries.
Marx tapped into pretty well with his asinine theory..
Vam said
Apr 8 3:13 PM, 2025
Maddog wrote:
Vam wrote:
‘New Yorkers don’t like anyone.’
… Wait! Are my eyes deceiving me, or is this MD indulging in some…”hyperbole and stereotyping”?
Say it ain’t so! 😜
No hyperbole at all. Stereotypes, sure. But New Yorkers are rude and class envy is real and has been the driving force behind many upheavals for centuries.
Marx tapped into pretty well with his asinine theory..
Yeah, ok. The sky is green, up is down…yada yada…
Completely off-topic for a moment - on a scale of 1 to 10, how argumentative would that nice GF of yours rate you?
Maddog said
Apr 8 3:20 PM, 2025
Vam wrote:
Maddog wrote:
Vam wrote:
‘New Yorkers don’t like anyone.’
… Wait! Are my eyes deceiving me, or is this MD indulging in some…”hyperbole and stereotyping”?
Say it ain’t so! 😜
No hyperbole at all. Stereotypes, sure. But New Yorkers are rude and class envy is real and has been the driving force behind many upheavals for centuries.
Marx tapped into pretty well with his asinine theory..
Yeah, ok. The sky is green, up is down…yada yada…
Completely off-topic for a moment - on a scale of 1 to 10, how argumentative would that nice GF of yours rate you?
How do you know she's nice? 😉
I don't think she would call me argumentive at all. Just informed. So a 1. 😉
Now my mother used to say I could make a preacher cuss..
Barksdale said
Apr 8 7:37 PM, 2025
The one thing I don't understand (ok, the one of many things I don't understand) about the US at the moment is how Trump's rhetoric about trade deficits showing that Americans have been ripped off for years goes seemingly without challenge.
Trump seems to think in binary terms of if I win you must lose but trade doesn't really work that way. American consumers like to buy things at competitive prices which is akin to a tax cut as their money goes further. Exporters like to supply these things to the US market as they can do so more cheaply which benefits their countries. American companies who have offshored see their profits rise which they can either reinvest or pay out in dividends which can benefit the US. If you get trade right then everyone can benefit rather than win-lose.
If Trump wants to talk about who sold out ordinary Americans he can look a bit closer to home and say it was successive governments and big US business. He could just be honest. Oh wait...
Barksdale said
Apr 8 7:43 PM, 2025
I see Trump's tariff advisor, Peter Navarro and Elon Musk are having a bun fight after Navarro called him a car assembler rather than manufacturer.
Elon reponded by calling Navarro a moron, who is dumber than a sack of bricks and nicknamed him Peter Retardo
This nuclear trade war is entertaining,
Maddog said
Apr 8 11:02 PM, 2025
Barksdale wrote:
The one thing I don't understand (ok, the one of many things I don't understand) about the US at the moment is how Trump's rhetoric about trade deficits showing that Americans have been ripped off for years goes seemingly without challenge.
Trump seems to think in binary terms of if I win you must lose but trade doesn't really work that way. American consumers like to buy things at competitive prices which is akin to a tax cut as their money goes further. Exporters like to supply these things to the US market as they can do so more cheaply which benefits their countries. American companies who have offshored see their profits rise which they can either reinvest or pay out in dividends which can benefit the US. If you get trade right then everyone can benefit rather than win-lose.
If Trump wants to talk about who sold out ordinary Americans he can look a bit closer to home and say it was successive governments and big US business. He could just be honest. Oh wait...
In his real estate world it is binary.
He's going in with a crazy low or high number depending on which side of the deal he is on, and then daring them to challenge him. He's the type of negotiator that will tear up a contract and scream at the other side and tell them their offer is insulting..
Problem is, this isn't his company. It belongs to us. But he doesn't see it thar way..
Vam said
Apr 9 12:00 AM, 2025
Barksdale wrote:
I see Trump's tariff advisor, Peter Navarro and Elon Musk are having a bun fight after Navarro called him a car assembler rather than manufacturer.
Elon reponded by calling Navarro a moron, who is dumber than a sack of bricks and nicknamed him Peter Retardo
This nuclear trade war is entertaining,
Musk’s not wrong about that, tbf.
(that ‘Ron Varo’ thing, ffs…! )
-- Edited by Vam on Wednesday 9th of April 2025 11:41:51 AM
Magica said
Apr 9 12:17 AM, 2025
Handbags at dawn 😂
Vam said
Apr 9 11:07 AM, 2025
Magica wrote:
Handbags at dawn 😂
I love to see it, Mags
Magica said
Apr 9 2:59 PM, 2025
Vam wrote:
Magica wrote:
Handbags at dawn 😂
I love to see it, Mags
Love your avi
Maddog said
Apr 9 3:17 PM, 2025
A guy I ride with went to the rally/protest in Dallas last weekend and posted pics. I noticed something about the demographics in his pics.
Look at all of these pics from a different event. What do you notice about the participants?
Go to 56:15 and listen to Maher talk about Trump for about 10 minutes. He and I see him much the same.
There is a third option between Trump derangement and Trump devotion syndrome..
Barksdale said
Apr 9 4:25 PM, 2025
Maddog wrote:
Problem is, this isn't his company. It belongs to us. But he doesn't see it thar way..
Well, you're all trapped in the clown car with him, so good luck. Let's hope hope he doesn't drive you off the edge of a cliff.
Was reading that Deutsche has indicated if the issue with UST disruption continues it is their opinion that the Fed will have to start emergency QE. We all know what that means to the national debt.
Barksdale said
Apr 9 4:27 PM, 2025
Maddog wrote:
A guy I ride with went to the rally/protest in Dallas last weekend and posted pics. I noticed something about the demographics in his pics.
Look at all of these pics from a different event. What do you notice about the participants?
If you mean you don't spot any POC that's not surprising. If I was in the US I would be sitting this one out as well for fear of getting nicked and deported to some hellhole prison in El Salvador even if I was a citizen.
Vam said
Apr 9 4:52 PM, 2025
Maddog wrote:
This is a long, but interesting podcast.
Go to 56:15 and listen to Maher talk about Trump for about 10 minutes. He and I see him much the same.
There is a third option between Trump derangement and Trump devotion syndrome..
imo, the Democrats do have a ‘Daddy’ who pulls no punches - Pennsylvania’s Governor, Josh Shapiro
I somewhat agree with BM on some of 47’s policies - reducing government waste? Sure! But…check out how they went about it. Indiscriminately ripping through essential services, like healthcare, medical/scientific research facilities, nuclear facilities, social security advice call centres, even national park services etc etc. The list is endless.
All while that freak of nature was maniacally leaping around on a stage, waving a chainsaw around, knowing that he succeeded in decimating the government agencies that were investigating him. Elon doesn’t do accountability, and neither does The Donald.
Cracking down on illegal immigrants and booting out known gang members? Absolutely! I’ve always known Biden’s laid back approach on immigration would probably be his undoing.
But…mask-wearing, cosplaying thugs, having carte blanche to leap out of vans to suddenly scoop up whoever TF they want off the streets, and then ‘disappearing’ them without any due process? Really?
I guess what I’m trying to say is that it’s not some of his policies I have a problem with. It’s the chaotically inept, Keystone Cops way they’re implementing those policies.
Vam said
Apr 9 4:59 PM, 2025
Barksdale wrote:
Maddog wrote:
A guy I ride with went to the rally/protest in Dallas last weekend and posted pics. I noticed something about the demographics in his pics.
Look at all of these pics from a different event. What do you notice about the participants?
If you mean you don't spot any POC that's not surprising. If I was in the US I would be sitting this one out as well for fear of getting nicked and deported to some hellhole prison in El Salvador even if I was a citizen.
I used to regularly travel to the States on vacation. Loved the people all across the land.
Sadly, I wouldn’t set foot over there any time soon for fear of some gakked-out MAGA rando imagining I gave them a side eye, and pulling a gun on me at a stop light.
That!
Totally that, Avon.
The divisive impasse of the blinkered, cultish devotion will never break until this parasite is 6-feet under. And even then, it could take years to clean up the unholy mess he’ll leave behind. Not to mention restoring the trust in America the rest of world had, until he crapped all over it.
(a very hard pass on Benny Johnson, btw…!)
New Yorkers don't like anyone. And while I won't defend his non payment history, I'm also aware of people that generally despise anyone wealthy unless they are a celebrity.
My point is, the public figures that can't stand him now, had quite a different opinion back in the day..
‘New Yorkers don’t like anyone.’
Say it ain’t so! 😜
No hyperbole at all. Stereotypes, sure. But New Yorkers are rude and class envy is real and has been the driving force behind many upheavals for centuries.
Marx tapped into pretty well with his asinine theory..
Completely off-topic for a moment - on a scale of 1 to 10, how argumentative would that nice GF of yours rate you?
How do you know she's nice? 😉
I don't think she would call me argumentive at all. Just informed. So a 1. 😉
Now my mother used to say I could make a preacher cuss..
The one thing I don't understand (ok, the one of many things I don't understand) about the US at the moment is how Trump's rhetoric about trade deficits showing that Americans have been ripped off for years goes seemingly without challenge.
Trump seems to think in binary terms of if I win you must lose but trade doesn't really work that way. American consumers like to buy things at competitive prices which is akin to a tax cut as their money goes further. Exporters like to supply these things to the US market as they can do so more cheaply which benefits their countries. American companies who have offshored see their profits rise which they can either reinvest or pay out in dividends which can benefit the US. If you get trade right then everyone can benefit rather than win-lose.
If Trump wants to talk about who sold out ordinary Americans he can look a bit closer to home and say it was successive governments and big US business. He could just be honest. Oh wait...
I see Trump's tariff advisor, Peter Navarro and Elon Musk are having a bun fight after Navarro called him a car assembler rather than manufacturer.
Elon reponded by calling Navarro a moron, who is dumber than a sack of bricks and nicknamed him Peter Retardo
This nuclear trade war is entertaining,
In his real estate world it is binary.
He's going in with a crazy low or high number depending on which side of the deal he is on, and then daring them to challenge him. He's the type of negotiator that will tear up a contract and scream at the other side and tell them their offer is insulting..
Problem is, this isn't his company. It belongs to us. But he doesn't see it thar way..
Musk’s not wrong about that, tbf.
(that ‘Ron Varo’ thing, ffs…!
)
-- Edited by Vam on Wednesday 9th of April 2025 11:41:51 AM
Love your avi
Look at all of these pics from a different event. What do you notice about the participants?
www.desmoinesregister.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2025/04/05/see-iowans-join-hands-off-anti-trump-protests-in-des-moines/82952822007/
None of them wearing a stetson?
This is a long, but interesting podcast.
Go to 56:15 and listen to Maher talk about Trump for about 10 minutes. He and I see him much the same.
There is a third option between Trump derangement and Trump devotion syndrome..
Well, you're all trapped in the clown car with him, so good luck. Let's hope hope he doesn't drive you off the edge of a cliff.
Was reading that Deutsche has indicated if the issue with UST disruption continues it is their opinion that the Fed will have to start emergency QE. We all know what that means to the national debt.
They're all goddam communists?
If you mean you don't spot any POC that's not surprising. If I was in the US I would be sitting this one out as well for fear of getting nicked and deported to some hellhole prison in El Salvador even if I was a citizen.
imo, the Democrats do have a ‘Daddy’ who pulls no punches - Pennsylvania’s Governor, Josh Shapiro
I somewhat agree with BM on some of 47’s policies - reducing government waste? Sure! But…check out how they went about it. Indiscriminately ripping through essential services, like healthcare, medical/scientific research facilities, nuclear facilities, social security advice call centres, even national park services etc etc. The list is endless.
All while that freak of nature was maniacally leaping around on a stage, waving a chainsaw around, knowing that he succeeded in decimating the government agencies that were investigating him. Elon doesn’t do accountability, and neither does The Donald.
Cracking down on illegal immigrants and booting out known gang members? Absolutely! I’ve always known Biden’s laid back approach on immigration would probably be his undoing.
But…mask-wearing, cosplaying thugs, having carte blanche to leap out of vans to suddenly scoop up whoever TF they want off the streets, and then ‘disappearing’ them without any due process? Really?
I guess what I’m trying to say is that it’s not some of his policies I have a problem with. It’s the chaotically inept, Keystone Cops way they’re implementing those policies.
I used to regularly travel to the States on vacation. Loved the people all across the land.
Sadly, I wouldn’t set foot over there any time soon for fear of some gakked-out MAGA rando imagining I gave them a side eye, and pulling a gun on me at a stop light.