ProfessorPlum
ProfessorPlum's JournalFor any member of the media: How to Destroy Trump
It would be insanely easy to destroy Trump if you had an interview with him. Remember the stir that was caused by Gary Johnson not having "Aleppo" on the tip of his tongue?
Trump is a bullshit artist. He doesn't know what he doesn't know, and he doesn't know anything. His answers are always truthy, in that he feels them to be true in his gut at that moment. And he never admits he doesn't know something.
So, just ask him a question about something that is fake. Ask him what he thinks about the snipe hunts, or the submarine races, or the troubles in Brigadoon. Ask him what he would do about the ongoing problem of Xanadu, and the threat of Kubla Khan.
Ask him how he would handle the menace of the Frumious Bandersnatch differently from how that poltroon Barack Obama has handled it so far.
Trump would never admit he doesn't have the first clue what the interviewer is talking about. Hell, he never does and that doesn't stop him from making up some bullshit answer.
Come on, media. It would be so easy to trip this lying idiot up.
Corporations are Vicious Sociopaths, made out of paper. "Regulations" are what protect us.
Corporations are paper machines designed to maximize profit. That's all they do. They don't care about your rights, or your health, or your quality of life. If corporations could make a buck by picking you up off the street and throwing you into a meat grinder, they would have a fiduciary duty to do so.
Currently, our corporate sociopathic citizenry (corporations are people, my friends) make money by poisoning us (polluting, not creating safe working environments), enslaving us (making people work for peanuts, using slave labor in prisons and places like Saipan), imprisoning us (for-profit jails and schools), cheating us (the tricks and traps of the banking industry, as one small example), and generally making our lives miserable. Sometimes, they also provide a product or service that we enjoy as well.
Regulations are the only reason corporations don't do even more evil to us. They aren't allowed to sell crack, for example, in Michael Moore's famous question (why don't corporations sell crack?), because as a society we've decided that THEY CAN'T DO THAT. And in cases of them poisoning us, cheating us, killing us, imprisoning us, and enslaving us, they must be regulated.
That's why whenever you hear a politician talking about the evils of regulation - you must remember that what they are talking about is taking the leashes off these horrible, inhuman, corporate beasts, and letting them run absolutely ragged over us.
Deregulation = death and horror, poison, enslavement
Not surprisingly, the GOP is all for deregulation. Can we get some Democratic politicians to talk, just once, about how great regulation is for making our lives less crappy?
Insurance company rant
There are millions of people who have things worse than I do, who are facing real hardships in their lives, and who are trapped by the system in horrendously unfair ways.
I have no real right to complain. I've been very lucky in many ways, but if you have a minute, I just want to vent about how f*ing evil insurance companies are.
We were having some routine house work done in February of this year. The long story short of it is that the contractor we hired caught our house on fire. We were able to get the fire department there quickly, but between the chemical smoke and the water pipes bursting and flooding the place we basically lost everything inside.
We have insurance. The contractors have insurance to cover things like this happening. We got three quotes for the cost to rebuild our house all very similar, but our insurance is only giving us 60% of that. No explanation. That's what they are offering.
While we are going through hiring a lawyer to try to figure out how we get the rest of the money for that, we decided to move on to a new house. One of our children has a physical disability and the temporary living quarters we are in isn't working well for them, so we wanted to be in a better place for the start of school. We found a new place, were able to buy it, and are moving in. We got new home insurance from another company.
The new insurance company insists they have to up our rate by $500 per year because of the claim we made for the house fire. Even though they have the fire report and a letter from our first insurance company that we were not the cause of the fire, because we had a claim, they are jacking our rate way up.
What a f*ing joke. Nothing like being victimized three times by three different companies (did I mention that the first insurance company is also jacking our rates up on the first policy while they drag their feet settling the claim?)
Anyway, rant over. In the great batter of injustice in the world, I realize this is just a little raisin. But it burns my toast in any case. Thanks for listening.
What our somnambulant Media misses about Trump
The scene: Trump is speaking before a crowd. He says something typically evil, like
*The US should kill innocent families and children of people who perform terrorist acts*
or
*We should torture people whether or not they are innocent*
The Crowd: "Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump!"
The Media: "Gee, isn't that amazing that no matter what he says, people still support him."
think about it, Media. People don't support him despite what he says. These misguided souls support him because of what he says.
All of Trump's Fascism and his followers' Fascist Antics , together in one horrifying, handy list
This was posted a few days ago
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512275530
but didn't get nearly as much attention as it deserved. Please read this list and join the fight to stop this vicious idiot.
https://m.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4teoxl/a_final_response_to_the_tell_me_why_trump_is_a/?st=iqunrok6&sh=ef9534c3&utm_source=mweb_redirect&compact=true
Trump openly calls for the U.S to commit war crimes and advocates for the murder of innocent women and children.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/12/15/3732671/trump-isis-kill-family-members/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-reiterates-desire-to-murder-terrorists-families-a6912496.html
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/donald-trump-terrorists-families/
http://www.dailywire.com/news/3891/trumps-horrifying-anti-military-slur-last-nights-ben-shapiro/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/3/donald-trump-says-hed-force-us-military-commit-war/
Trump doubles down after veterans speak out claiming U.S soldiers would not commit war crimes or torture children even if ordered to. Trump responds with, “They’re not going to refuse me. If I say do it, they’re going to do it.“
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/3/donald-trump-says-hed-force-us-military-commit-war/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/17/rand-paul/rand-pauls-right-geneva-conventions-bar-donald-tru/
http://theweek.com/speedreads/610361/donald-trump-doubles-down-torture-war-crimes
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-US-Military-Will-Commit-Donald-Trumps-War-Crimes-20160307-0011.html
http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/03/donald-trump-says-military-wont-refuse-h
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/a-retired-major-general-sets-trump-straight-after-he-advocates-war-crimes/
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/1/donald_trump_wants_to_commit_war
Trump on torture: “Even if it doesn’t work they probably deserved it anyway.”
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/11/opinions/trump-wrong-on-american-torture/
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/trump-waterboarding-it-works-if-it-doesnt-work-they-deserve-it
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/24/donald-trump-on-waterboarding-even-if-it-doesnt-work-they-deserve-it
Trump renews calls for torture citing public executions and mass rape committed by ISIS promising for the U.S to do the same, “fighting fire with fire.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-responds-istanbul-waterboarding-torture
Trump says Geneva Conventions a problem and needs to be changed since, US soldiers are to afraid to do their job due to laws which outline the definition of war crimes.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/donald-trump-geneva-conventions-221394?cmpid=sf
Trump threatens to shoot down Russian planes starting war with Russia.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-us-should-shoot-russian-planes-if-putin-calls-fail-454902
Trump says he, "won’t rule out” using nuclear weapons in Europe.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-refuses-to-rule-out-using-nuclear-weapons-in-attack-on-europe-a6961101.html
Trump calls for a global nuclear rearmament.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/04/06/should-more-countries-have-nuclear-weapons-donald-trump-thinks-so/
http://time.com/4276960/trump-wants-to-free-the-nuclear-genie/
Trump says he would declare a World War as President.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/donald-trump-bill-o-reilly-declare-world-war-scenario-article-1.2712682
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/07/14/3798566/trump-muslim-blame-nice-france/
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/07/trump-oreilly-declare-world-war-iii
Trump's solution for high gas prices is to violate The Geneva Convention by invading several of America's allies in the Middle East and Africa unprovoked to forcibly seize the oil fields for himself.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2011/04/donald-trumps-solution-on-gas-prices-get-tough-with-saudi-arabia-seize-oil-fields-in-libya-and-iraq.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2011/04/23/dumbest-guy-in-the-room-donald-trumps-energy-policy/#700458db29b9
When asked for clarification about the above mentioned plan to steal land from multiple nations on two different continents Trump responded with, “We’re not stealing anything. We’re taking.“
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2068227_2068229_2068345,00.html
Trump says during debate he wants to invade Syria with 30,000 soldiers.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/11/politics/donald-trump-30000-troops-isis/
Trump runs TV add promising to seize foreign oil fields.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/01/04/donald_trumps_first_tv_ad_of_the_2016_campaign.html
Trump promises mandatory Death Penalty for anyone accused of murdering a police officer despite no legal grounds to impose that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/10/donald-trump-wants-the-death-penalty-for-those-who-kill-police-officers/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/10/politics/donald-trump-police-officers-death-penalty/
Trump thinks lethal injection is “too comfortable” Wants to devise a more painful way to execute people.
et cetera, et cetera, ad infinitum, ad naseum. all with sources.
USE THIS LIST! This is important.
TYT: Obama: Increase Social Security Benefits
Cenk explains Obama's announcement about favoring increasing SS benefits.
Sanders and the PCCC get credit for moving this conversation into the mainstream.
Trump is a sponger, a deadbeat, a swindler. His career is based on theft and non-payment
The mind truly boggles that the media just lets this human garbage can run around and say things, never checks him, and never reports on his long and well-documented history of just screwing over people he owes debts to.
Could I dislike this asshat more? I could not.
let's start with his famous bankruptcies. When his opponents point out that going bankrupt multiple times makes him look like a failed businessman, Trump turns it around by saying it was shrewd of him to go bankrupt - just using the system to his advantage. And everyone nods and agrees . . .the rules allow him to do it, and it was to his advantage, so why not? Well, the people he was screwing over in these bankruptcies - his investors, the contractors who had agreed to build something for him and had already invested the time, labor, and materials, the other businesses that had provided him with services or goods, but would never be repaid - were the ones he stiffed. How many other businesses had to go out of business or declare bankruptcy because Hurricane Donald just decided not to pay his debts? How many lives were ruined because they trusted him to do a business transaction?
An old cliche is that good businesses are built on trust. For Trump's partners in business, I'm sure that is a painful reminder of the way he reneges on his contracts
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-bills-specialrepor-idUSKCN0T214Q20151113#JAvZbu4FPKrEOi4C.99
the above article shows that Trump signs contracts, has work done, and then "feels like he was overcharged" and refuses to pay the amounts he agreed on.
There is article after article about how he doesn't pay his bills:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430628/donald-trump-business-record-bully
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/not-comprehensive-history-trump-business-deals-gone-wrong
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/nyregion/after-15-years-in-court-workers-lawsuit-against-trump-faces-yet-another-delay.html?pagewanted=all
Trump DOESN'T PAY HIS BILLS. How nice would that be for the ordinary citizen? Despite all of that, it is becoming clear that he isn't nearly as rich as he claims to be. Even with screwing over all the people he promises to pay, he's been slowly losing his daddy's inheritance (which he screwed his brother out of).
What a piece of garbage. This is why reputation and gossip was so important to the original tribes of homo sapiens - to find out who kept their deals and who cheated. And Trump is a monumental cheater.
The MEN of America are poised to hand the reins of the country to an orange-coiffed, piggish man-boy
Ok, my original thread was about the general election
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027872174#post54
but it got locked and I was told to re-post it in GDP, because apparently everyone on this board has terrible reading comprehension.
So, here it is again:
And everyone knows they are stupid enough to do it.
This election is going to split the country along gender lines. And the majority of men in this country are going to vote for this idiot, this thief who doesn't pay his bills, who doesn't know anything, and who thinks he can just coast along by seat-of-his-pants answers, like a kid trying to bluff his way through a book report on a book he hasn't glanced at.
The only question is will enough women vote for Clinton, and will few enough men vote for Trump to create a big enough gap for a Democratic victory.
My gender should be ashamed of this - and if you know men in your lives who might be voting for this asshole, please do what you can to change their minds.
I was referring to this poll: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/poll-majority-americans-dislike-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-n578926
which shows that if the election were held today, a majority of men would vote for Trump.
Investigative journalism is not dead!
Gawker on Trump's mysterious hair:
http://gawker.com/is-donald-trump-s-hair-a-60-000-weave-a-gawker-invest-1777581357
....
Ivari International sat squarely in the direct vicinity of Donald Trump’s office.
Considering the lack of advertising and refusal to share its actual location, new clients would have surely been rare, if not nonexistent. This would mean, then, that Ivari would need some steady source of income from some sort of mega-client. Some mega-client that, perhaps, has built an identity around his objectively terrible hair choices but refuses to concede that his hair is anything but his own. In which case, this bombastic, mega-client would of course demand the utmost privacy.
Wouldn’t it be convenient, then, if Ivari’s New York office was right next door to its number one—and perhaps only—client’s own office? And wouldn’t having other clients become unnecessary if this one hyper-wealthy regular required constant attention?
Might this secret mega-client singlehandedly sustaining Ivari International’s New York office with constant treatments be none other than presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump himself?
Now _that's_ real news!
Trump trying to answer questions
Trump doesn't know anything. He's dumb. His answers to questions remind me of this old comedy routine by David Steinberg:
(As if reading the test question) "Refute the allegation that the literature of the middle ages was moribund."
(As if writing) "Some believe that the literature of the middle ages was moribund. Some believe that the literature of the middle ages was not moribund. I believe that the literature of the middle ages was not moribund. In order to refute the allegation that the literature of the middle ages was moribund, one would need to have a detailed knowledge of the literature and history of that period."
(Whispering to self) "which I wish to God I had."
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