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question everything

(47,432 posts)
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 12:33 AM Sep 2018

Watched about 15 min of Colbert with Woodward

He raised the same examples and the end add something that I have not heard:

We have an anti missile system called THAAD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_Defense

We have it stationed in S. Korea, Woodward said. Then Whiny Donny wanted to know how much it cost - $1 billion - and then found out that we are leasing the land.

We are paying for the land, he complained. Move it to Portland..



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Watched about 15 min of Colbert with Woodward (Original Post) question everything Sep 2018 OP
Move it to portland my butt /////// NOT IN MY CITY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! trueblue2007 Sep 2018 #1
Or to one of his golf course question everything Sep 2018 #2
EXCELLENT idea !!! trueblue2007 Sep 2018 #3
This is what comes of the "run government like a business" mindset gratuitous Sep 2018 #4
Except He Was Bad At That, Too ProfessorGAC Sep 2018 #5
Precisely. I raised these points when Perot ran in 1992 question everything Sep 2018 #7
Fucking moron nt Flaleftist Sep 2018 #6

trueblue2007

(17,193 posts)
1. Move it to portland my butt /////// NOT IN MY CITY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 02:05 AM
Sep 2018

PORTLAND , OREGON ..... City of Roses ....NOT City of missile system

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. This is what comes of the "run government like a business" mindset
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 02:26 PM
Sep 2018

For Trump, everything is a business decision. Which means everything has to be a profit center or get rid of it. Education? Not gonna pay off for years, if ever. Cut it to the bone if it can't be eliminated entirely. Leasing land in South Korea for an anti-missile system? Where's the profit in that? The South Koreans won't sell us the land? Move it to Portland!

The man is an utter nincompoop.

ProfessorGAC

(64,852 posts)
5. Except He Was Bad At That, Too
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 02:50 PM
Sep 2018

This is a guy that could have done nothing but invest the inheritance and ended up with more than 2x what is claimed.

No BKO. No stiffing creditors. No branding. No silly reality show. No russian mob. Nothing.

And then be worth 2 or 3x more money at the end, and that's if we believe the advertised net worth. Might be more like 10x.

He was a crappy business man, and a crappier POTUS.

question everything

(47,432 posts)
7. Precisely. I raised these points when Perot ran in 1992
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 05:04 PM
Sep 2018

and since then when voters were yearning for someone to run a government like business.

The sick, the elderly do not produce revenue, losing assets, so get rid of it.

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