Kansas Crimson

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 3:04 pm

twocoach wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 3:01 pm

japhy wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 10:16 am What are trumpty dumpty's opinions on a topic? What direction is the wind of money blowing today?

trumpty loves electric cars and high speed trains, today.



One thing is for sure, I could use a tax cut. Cutting corporate taxes again would be a great sendoff to retirement for me. Or maybe we could start considering dividends as "tips" and eliminate taxes entirely on them. After all the corporation already paid taxes on the profits, why am I taxed a second time on the dividends that I get? NOT FAIR!

Maybe I can sell my car for $1 and ask that they include a $9,999 tip for how well I clean the car.

And think of the tax savings to the buyer of the car, $1 purchase price!

twocoach wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 3:08 pm

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 3:04 pm

twocoach wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 3:01 pm

Maybe I can sell my car for $1 and ask that they include a $9,999 tip for how well I clean the car.

And think of the tax savings to the buyer of the car, $1 purchase price!

Cheaper registration, cheaper licensing, so much winning!

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 3:13 pm

twocoach wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 3:08 pm

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 3:04 pm

And think of the tax savings to the buyer of the car, $1 purchase price!

Cheaper registration, cheaper licensing, so much winning!

And if there’s no money left to fund the Departments of Education, Health & Human Services and Interior, well then that’s just the consequence of austerity. I’m sure the private sector will fill the gap.

KUTradition wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2024 9:23 am https://fortune.com/2024/08/05/donald-t ... dorsement/

Former president and self-described stable genius Donald Trump let a small crowd in a small venue in North Carolina know what was in store for them Wednesday: “We’re talking about a thing called the economy.”

Ah, yes. That thing is called the economy. I’ve heard of it.

He continued: “We’re doing this as an intellectual speech.”

Good. Many Republicans have encouraged Trump to stop babbling and hurling insults and steer his campaign onto some kind of coherent message.

“You’re all intellectuals today,” Trump said at the 2,400-seat Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville.

“Today we’re doing it and we’re doing it right now and it’s very important, they say it’s the most important subject. I think crime is right there, I think the border is right there, personally. We have a lot of important subjects because our country has become a third-world nation, we literally are a third-world nation. We’re a banana republic in so many ways, and we’re not going to let that happen because we’re starting a free fall.”

Hoo boy. Trump spends less time on track than a decommissioned train car. And so it was that his highly intellectual speech on a thing called the economy became, predictably, a dumb speech on a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with the economy.

Like making fun of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s laugh.

“For nearly four years Kamala has crackled as the American economy has burned,” Trump said, presumably mispronouncing “cackled,” because he struggles with words. “What happened to her laugh? I haven’t heard that laugh in about a week. That’s why they keep her off the stage, that’s why she has disappeared.”

Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have been barnstorming states lately, doing far more events than Trump and drawing crowds significantly larger than the one that showed up Wednesday to hear him occasionally reference the economy.

“That’s the laugh of a crazy person, I will tell you,” Trump droned on. “She’s crazy.”

Labeling Harris crazy and mocking the way she laughs is the kind of thing Republicans keep advising Trump not to do. But he couldn’t help himself, later calling Harris an “incompetent socialist lunatic.”

When he did deign to talk about the economy, Trump said things like this, referencing the brief stock market drop of last week, something he had labeled the “KAMALA CRASH!!!”:

“Many people say the only reason the stock market is up is because people think I’m going to win, did you ever hear that? But there was one day a couple weeks ago when they weren’t thinking that.”

OK, first off, nobody thinks Trump has anything to do with the stock market being up. And then to think last week’s drop – from which the market quickly recovered – happened due to a brief belief that Harris might win the election? That makes me wonder if Trump can even spell “economy.”

Of course, no intellectual presidential campaign speech on the economy is complete without an extended riff on immigrants and rape, so Trump said: “Rape and murder, rape and beatings, rape and something else, and sometimes just immediate killing. These people are brutal. These are people that came out to the toughest jails anywhere in the world all over the world, and we can’t take them.”

Migrants commit crimes at far lower rates than U.S. citizens, but, you know … THE ECONOMY!

And that gets to the heart of one of Trump’s biggest problems. The economy is doing reasonably well. Unemployment is low, the stock market has been breaking records and inflation continues to drop. Back in April, Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi told CNBC: “The U.S. economy is leading the way for the global economy. It’s driving the global economic train.”

So, calling America a third-world country while taking childish swipes at the vice president’s laugh and fear-mongering about an immigrant crime wave that doesn’t exist? That’s not going to do much to swing voters who have been swinging in Harris’s direction since she took over the top of the Democratic ticket.

Republicans have been frustrated with the Trump campaign, and they know he needs to show voters something that will help him regain footing. His intellectual speech on that thing called the economy didn’t show anyone anything.

It was just another stumble from an aging candidate who can’t see that his schtick has gotten old.

japhy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 10:38 am Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! The Great Orange has spoken!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY_chqyaRHo

Project 2025? Never heard of it.

japhy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 10:38 am Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! The Great Orange has spoken!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY_chqyaRHo

Project 2025? Never heard of it.

Sparko wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 1:22 pm The training films are unintentionally funny until they get to the death camps

Eric Trump is going to the moon.

The second son of the former president has recast himself as a crypto bro, teasing in a tweet last week that he and older sibling, Don Jr., had “a big announcement” coming down the blockchain.

“I have truly fallen in love with Crypto / DeFi,” he wrote, using an investor term for decentralized finance. He tagged Don Jr. and his father, as well as the family’s organization.

“We’re about to shake up the crypto world with something HUGE,” Don Jr. agreed the next day.

While the pair have yet to unveil their super huge, super awesome project, Eric graced the pages of the New York Post on Wednesday to continue whipping up excitement for what promises to be—depending on what side of the crypto fanatic/skeptic divide you fall on—either the kick in the pants the market needs or MAGA World’s next big scam.

“It’s digital real estate,” Eric gushed to the Post.

“It’s equitable. It’s collateral anyone can get access to and do so instantly. I don’t know if people realize what a shake-up that is for the world of banking and finance. I hope we can help change that.”

After playing into the golden rule (always trust a man who promises you instant access to wealth), Eric changed tack, railing against the “financial discrimination” his family has experienced; an interesting way of scooting around the subject of the Trumps’ various monetary woes. He capped things off on a lighter note, however, expressing his desire to help build “a world where we don’t have to play by the big bank’s playbook.”

Given that cryptocurrency and its cornerstone, Bitcoin, has enjoyed general mainstream awareness since at least 2017, it seems strange that Eric, 40, would choose now to start shilling for the coin.

But in a strange coincidence of timing that likely has no greater significance, Eric’s original tweet dropped the same day that the Donald J. Trump meme token saw its liquidity pulled, an exit scam known in the crypto world as a “rug pull” that will see a coin’s creators hype it up, then abruptly disappear with investor funds, leaving it worthless.

Because of the way the blockchain functions, it’s impossible to know for sure who created the DJT coin earlier this year. Credit has been claimed by Martin ‘Pharma Bro’ Shkreli, who said in June that he had worked with Donald Trump’s 18-year-old son, Barron, to create the token.

“I have over 1000 pieces of evidence I created it with Barron,” he told crypto sleuth ZachXBT.

When the coin lost 95 percent of its market value on Tuesday, Shkreli pointed to Barron, tweeting in response to a user asking him to comment on its plunge to “ask barron, i dont have the keys or any tokens.”

Shkreli did not immediately return a request for comment on Wednesday night. Nor did the Trump campaign, which has never formally acknowledged the DJT token or Shkreli’s claims about Barron’s involvement.

Donald Trump opened his latest press conference by delivering an opening statement that went on … and on.

After 30 minutes, CNN cut away.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer told viewers, “We’re continuing to monitor the former president of the United States. He’s still with his so called opening statement that’s been going on well more than a half an hour, close to 40 minutes already…This has been going on and on.”

As it typically does, CNN went to a fact check with Daniel Dale, who said that many of Trump’s claims have been “debunked before.” He focused on two: One that California allows people to rob stores as long as the thieves take under $950, and the other that mortgage rates are at 10%, when the standard 30-year fixed is at 6.9%. Trump also claimed that “substantially more” than 100% of new jobs went to migrants.

japhy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 7:01 pm By any measure the Bedminster speech was a bold reset for trumpty plumpty. He showed real discipline today and the press lapped it up.

Donald Trump opened his latest press conference by delivering an opening statement that went on … and on.

After 30 minutes, CNN cut away.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer told viewers, “We’re continuing to monitor the former president of the United States. He’s still with his so called opening statement that’s been going on well more than a half an hour, close to 40 minutes already…This has been going on and on.”

As it typically does, CNN went to a fact check with Daniel Dale, who said that many of Trump’s claims have been “debunked before.” He focused on two: One that California allows people to rob stores as long as the thieves take under $950, and the other that mortgage rates are at 10%, when the standard 30-year fixed is at 6.9%. Trump also claimed that “substantially more” than 100% of new jobs went to migrants.

I know what you are thinking (with the obvious exception of Mich, who is just nodding his head in the affirmative), how can it be substantially more than 100%? This was obviously another of trumpty's intellectual discussions, he went to Wharton doncha know, he just knows stuff.