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Well that puts a kink in my plan to live forever...

Another OLer that doesn't post here anymore was a trained psychologist and said Trump was a narcissist... so I'm not sure how much that had to do with a "different comprehensive world-view".

Prove that it was "fake news" and not something else

Time to play... Talk... Like... TRUMP!

David Pakman breaks down the Trump GDP/UE lie tweet, and asks the questions: #1 is it true? and #2 if it were true, does it mean anything?

Trump will campaign to need 4 more years to build the wall, and during his second term he won't get it built then, either. Hope is a powerful tool, keep hope alive! But hey after 8 years of Trump and no wall, just blame it on the Dems

Trump said during the campaign that he'd begin building the big, beautiful wall in his first day in office.... how many days ago was that?!? No wall is getting built, Trumpists might as well start the cognitive dissonance process right now.

Well my point is that Trump is fine producing fake news of his own... But just for kicks, here was a fake news story about Trump that I saw the other day: North Korea vows to KEEP nuclear weapons in huge blow to Trump as WW3 tensions soar https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1015441/world-war-3-north-korea-kim-jong-un-nuclear-weapons-donald-trump-russia NORTH Korea has no plans to scrap its nuclear arsenal in a huge blow to Donald Trump as tensions soar on the Korean peninsular. [...] (blah blah blah, fake news, fake news, blah blah) [...] ___________ This story is fake news and pretty easy to spot, it showed up in Google News.

Trump reality check on the economy: Fact check: Is Trump right on a 100-year record for GDP and unemployment? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-gdp-growth-unemployment-rate-tweet-fact-check-2018-09-10/ [...] THE FACTS: The economy, though healthy, has been in better shape at many times in the past. GDP growth has surpassed the unemployment rate multiple times since the 1940s. Economic growth reached 4.2 percent at an annualized rate in the second quarter, while the unemployment rate stands at 3.9 percent. Yet GDP growth has exceeded the unemployment rate more than a dozen times since the late 1940s, such as during the economic expansions of the 1950s and the late 1990s. So far, the economy is growing at a modest rate compared with previous economic expansions. In the late 1990s, growth topped 4 percent for four straight years, from 1997 through 2000. In the 1980s expansion, growth even reached 7.2 percent in 1984. [...] ________________________________________________________ So why can't Trump just state the facts? The economy is better than it has been in a while, why isn't that fact enough for Trump? Instead, he creates some fake news... SAD!

Bernie Sanders Would Defeat Donald Trump in 2020, New Poll Shows https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/bernie-sanders-would-defeat-donald-trump-in-2020-new-poll-shows-1.6409421 Aug 22, 2018 5:38 PM [...] The poll, conducted by Politico/Morning Consult showed that as of Wednesday, Trump was lagging behind Joe Biden, the former vice president, and Vermont Senator, Bernie Sanders. He lagged behind them by 12 points each. Trump also lagged four points behind Massachusetts Senator, Elizabeth Warren. The poll contacted 1,974 registered voters between the 16th and 18th of August. There poll claims a margin of error of two points. [...]

Bernie Sanders introduces ‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/5/17819450/bernie-sanders-stop-bezos-amazon-worker-pay-corporate-welfare-tax-bill Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) have introduced a bill that would tax companies like Amazon and Walmart for the cost of employees’ food stamps and other public assistance. Sanders’ Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act (abbreviated “Stop BEZOS”) — along with Khanna’s House of Representatives counterpart, the Corporate Responsibility and Taxpayer Protection Act — would institute a 100 percent tax on government benefits that are granted to workers at large companies. The bill’s text characterizes this as a “corporate welfare tax,” and it would apply to corporations with 500 or more employees. If workers are receiving government aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps), national school lunch and breakfast programs, Section 8 housing subsidies, or Medicaid, employers will be taxed for the total cost of those benefits. The bill applies to full-time and part-time employees, as well as independent contractors that are de facto company employees. [...] Amazon likely isn’t the company that would be hit hardest by this rule. McDonald’s and Walmart, for instance, had the most SNAP-reliant employees in every state New Food Economy analyzed. [...] ______________________________________________ Bernie 2020!!!

Omarosa has a theory on who wrote the op-ed... so whodunnit?! Recognizing the Pence link here, the thing about Pence is I have thought he would be lining up for the Presidency after Trump runs his terms. Pence was strong in the vice-presidential debates, the Republican party would likely want to re-emerge with more of its principles, and Pence will be ready to run for office. I don't think Pence had anything to do with the op-ed, but it does make sense someone around him might have...

Is Amazon Bad for the Postal Service? Or Its Savior? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/amazon-postal-service-trump.html April 4, 2018 SEATTLE — Five times in the last week, President Trump has pointed his Twitter arrows at Amazon over what he insists is a bad deal for the United States Postal Service. Mr. Trump wrote on Tuesday that the agreement, which sets what Amazon pays the Postal Service for many orders, costs American taxpayers billions of dollars. “I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy,” he wrote. [...] But the Postal Service says all such deals it makes are profitable — and must be by law. An independent body, the Postal Regulatory Commission, oversees the rates that the Postal Service charges for its products. By law, the agreements it cuts with corporate customers like Amazon must cover their “attributable costs” that directly result from their use of the postal network. Amazon helps lower those costs by organizing the packages it takes to the Post Office by destination ZIP code in over 35 sorting centers around the country, leaving less work that must be done by postal workers. The company relies on the Postal Service strictly for last-mile delivery to customers, short trips that further limit the cost of delivering each package. [...]

A Trump Empire Built on Inside Connections and $885 Million in Tax Breaks https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/nyregion/donald-trump-tax-breaks-real-estate.html The way Donald J. Trump tells it, his first solo project as a real estate developer, the conversion of a faded railroad hotel on 42nd Street into the sleek, 30-story Grand Hyatt, was a triumph from the very beginning. The hotel, Mr. Trump bragged in “Trump: The Art of the Deal,” his 1987 best seller, “was a hit from the first day. Gross operating profits now exceed $30 million a year.” But that book, and numerous interviews over the years, make little mention of a crucial factor in getting the hotel built: an extraordinary 40-year tax break that has cost New York City $360 million to date in forgiven, or uncollected, taxes, with four years still to run, on a property that cost only $120 million to build in 1980. [...] Since then, Mr. Trump has reaped at least $885 million in tax breaks, grants and other subsidies for luxury apartments, hotels and office buildings in New York, according to city tax, housing and finance records. The subsidies helped him lower his own costs and sell apartments at higher prices because of their reduced taxes. [...] Mr. Trump successfully sued the administration of Mayor Edward I. Koch after being denied a tax break for Trump Tower, his signature building on Fifth Avenue. Two decades later, in a lawsuit that spanned the administrations of Mayors Rudolph W. Giuliani and Michael R. Bloomberg, he won a similar tax break for Trump World Tower, a building on First Avenue with some of the city’s highest-priced condominiums in 2001. The tax breaks for those two projects alone totaled $157 million. The tax break at the 44-story Trump International Hotel and Tower at Columbus Circle came to $15.9 million. [...] After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Mr. Trump lined up a $150,000 grant for one of his buildings near ground zero, taking advantage of a program to help small businesses in the area recover, even though he had acknowledged on the day of the attacks that his building was undamaged. [...] In the hours after the attacks, Mr. Trump told German television that his property “wasn’t, fortunately, affected by what happened at the World Trade Center.” [...]

Well, having worked in the Gov't this "news" aboot Amazon's 'Secret' cloud service doesn't ring any conspiracy bells for me. Contracts like this happen all the time. But tracking the argument something doesn't compute here for me. The original objection was Bezos using contracts, tax schemes, or what-have-you to do something nefarious or unethical. Providing a legitimate example of Amazon having a cloud service contract with the CIA is not in the same category, and can't be used as an example for "Bezos using <sic> government money"... why? Because this is a standard, legitimate contract that when I put my Objectivist hat on, violates nothing of the trader principle and ethics. Why? because this happens all the time, the gov't needs confidential channels for services provided by public companies. Believe me, it's just standard practice in the IT/networking world and having a contract with the gov't. So, I'd say this one has debunked for any wrong-doing.

So.... whodunnit?! Well that's what I want to know, and apparently this guy on CNN sez he has figured out who wrote the op-ed: Phew that's one hell of a conspiracy theory: the person who wrote the op-ed has strong ties to Congress, and by writing the op-ed it would deter Trumpists from voting so that the democrats could gain the house, and by gaining the house they could move forward with impeaching Trump, and also have enough influence for conviction as well. This, folks, is conspiracy making 101. Is it true? All of it? Nope. Just look at all that alignment, a perfect array of factors leading up to impeach Trump... So maybe he has a theory who wrote the op-ed, maybe he's right. I don't think Trump is getting impeached soon, even if the democrats win the house. Move along.. nothing to see here... And one more rambling thought, I don't want Trump to get impeached. How'z that for my supposed anti-Trumpism?!!!?

Amy Peikoff appears again on Foxnews with Tucker, this time in a tangle about Jeff Bezos and his worth. Amy starts out strong, forcing Tucker into a religious trap with a "moral" obligation to pay workers, causing Tucker to use his upper register nasal cavity in some high-pitched objections to Amy's Objectivist principles. Amy sensed she had him dazed, but she didn't remain in-focus and instead tried a kung-fu analogy that failed to deliver her fatality, instead the analogy caused her to slip and Tucker was there to make a final-seconds comeback to win the match. I like seeing Tucker have her on his show, even if it is for the purpose of winning argument and proving that his principles are superior to hers.

Enenemas... anemynmous... oh hell, who cares how you say it...

Trump inauguration crowd size was the biggest EVAR! From The Guardian: Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/donald-trump-inauguration-crowd-size-photos-edited A government photographer edited official pictures of Donald Trump’s inauguration to make the crowd appear bigger following a personal intervention from the president, according to newly released documents. The photographer cropped out empty space “where the crowd ended” for a new set of pictures requested by Trump on the first morning of his presidency, after he was angered by images showing his audience was smaller than Barack Obama’s in 2009. The detail was revealed in investigative reports released to the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act by the inspector general of the US interior department. [...] “[The NPS photographer] said he edited the inauguration photographs to make them look more symmetrical by cropping out the sky and cropping out the bottom where the crowd ended,” the investigators reported, adding: “He said he did so to show that there had been more of a crowd.” [...] The newly released files said Spicer was closely involved in the effort to obtain more favourable photographs. He called Reynolds immediately after the acting director spoke with Trump and then again at 3pm shortly before the new set of photographs was sent to the White House, investigators heard. [...]

I'm seeing now that I misread the article title. Looks like some good news for Nike...

The article you posted claimed, "Nike’s online sales jumped 31% after company unveiled Kaepernick campaign, data show." It didn't. The image I posted clearly shows the stock fell after the announcement---the announcement was on Sept 3rd, the next day the market was open was Sept 4th and there is a clear drop in price. Can you see it? (Also see here: Nike Shares Fall Following Announcement of Kaepernick Ad Campaign) The article you posted might be talking about the rebound the stock took in days following, which is also on the chart. The article you posted, however, made the claim, "Nike’s online sales jumped 31% after company unveiled Kaepernick campaign, data show," which clearly it did not. Maybe the days following the initial drop, but it fell after the initial announcement.

They have some creative stats in that article. Nike was down first day on opening bell after the news, this is the stock chart from NASDAQ:

Pictures of Trump and Melania hugging and... kissing?! What? And also, funny Giuliani!

More bullying being done by Alex