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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is going to go bonkers, as any firm related to him or his family is going to be banned from
getting money from the 500 billion USD slush fund (per Morning Joe just now).
Expect MASSIVE rump-raging very soon.
FUCK TRUMP
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)I was busy reading the victim Sanders thread.
Thanks.
Celerity
(43,366 posts)At least Rattner didn't blame Obama for financial unrest coming from big business, like he did yesterday.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Mess he made still burns me.
But thanks for letting us know. One thing about DU, if you miss something another sees it!
malaise
(268,998 posts)Celerity
(43,366 posts)I also am not a Rattner fangirl AT ALL. He is such a corporate tool far too often, and his Obama smearing yesterday REALLY pissed me off.
Celerity
(43,366 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)By supporting Sanders! I feel for them but it is time to let go.
I am lucky that I always favored Joe but losing means giving up.
Celerity
(43,366 posts)the very first OP in his group long ago) directed from the Sanders official campaign operatives, surrogates, and social media trolls outside DU, but often brought into this board, were despicable.
so they get the
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)An admirer of Mayor Pete. I predict a big place in the Administration for him.
I like Amy, Elizabeth. Each one of the Democratic candidates earned my respect. A really brilliant group to choose from.
Celerity
(43,366 posts)RVN VET71
(2,690 posts)but not as president. He's a a damned good senator and would be excellent in any position in the Biden administration -- HHS, for example or HUD. Still, he's such a powerful voice in the Senate, I hope he stays put (unless there's another brilliant person available to take his place).
I'm still waiting to see where Stacey Abrams fits into all this. She's sharp, well-spoken, a fighter, and a very capable politician who, I believe, happened to be cheated out of the Governor's chair in Georgia by the white powers that be.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Booker was a great Mayor! He was right out in the streets helping people, shoveling snow, anything! He would be great for HUD!
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zackymilly
(2,375 posts)kentuck
(111,095 posts)We know what he thinks about "rules" and laws.
Celerity
(43,366 posts)with Trump would mean NOTHING.
Lonestarblue
(9,988 posts)His almost weekly trips to play golf have cost taxpayers millions with his inflated prices for food, rooms, and anything else the Secret Service needs to protect him. Then theres his family. They jet around the world at the drop of a hat, mostly staying in Trump properties or in the most expensive ones they can findat taxpayer expense because they all have Secret Service protection also.
Trump has probably found other ways we havent even thought about to steal from the US Treasury. He doesnt deserve any more money from us.
Celerity
(43,366 posts)Only way it ends well is with him in a supermax for life.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)pandr32
(11,583 posts)Has he forgotten?
Celerity
(43,366 posts)There is NO LIMIT to what he will try and pull if he is reelected. If the Rethugs retain the Senate and somehow, nightmarishly pull back the House (anything is possible now with COVID-19 injected as a monster externality), the results could be so dire that it leads to the dissolution of the union by 2040 at the latest, perhaps much sooner.
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)That's the job Putin gave him and so far he's doing a bang-up job.
pazzyanne
(6,555 posts)In his mind he is the greatest president ever. He rates his performance with the COVID-19 pandemic a 10. He is a clueless POS.
Kaiserguy
(740 posts)a negative -10 on a scale of 1 million.
pazzyanne
(6,555 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)lastlib
(23,233 posts)I find his intellect more comparable to root vegetables.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Why can't trump be isolated at home?
No room with bookshelves in the background to Skype from.
pandr32
(11,583 posts)Lots of rooms there he can use as props.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)pandr32
(11,583 posts)pandr32
(11,583 posts)pandr32
(11,583 posts)"He is a clueless POS."
wnylib
(21,465 posts)does not give him what he wants. If the bill that passes Congress excludes him from political and financial gains, there had better be enough support for it to override a veto or it will go nowhere
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Republicans are so desperate they might over ride him. No, I think he will sign thinking he can find a way around. He will not turn down a chance to look generous. It is not his money. Like his hotels it will just have his name on it.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)but I don't think that Trump can afford to appear to be in the way of legislation that "provides relief" to the American people - especially in light of McConnell's tirade accusing Democrats of doing just that.
Trump has to do any and everything if he has any hope at all of getting a second term. Granted, his hard core supporters will accept any reason he gives for not signing, but at some point Congressional Republicans facing their constituents can only provide so much cover.
They and he know they have to do something, and soon.
wnylib
(21,465 posts)see him going to the public with a spin about how it just needs a "little tweaking" to."protect the economy" to be perfect, then saying he will sign it IF certain changes are made.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)but only the hardest of his hardcore supporters would buy it which is why (in my very humble opinion), he'll just sign it in the hopes he looks like a hero.
Also, it's virtually guaranteed that Senate Republicans saw this coming and made sure to find a way to get at least a Billion into Trump Inc. using a myriad of shell companies or something.
oldsoftie
(12,536 posts)WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)Let his trumpanzees know that donnie doesn't give a damn about them at all, because he deserves 'their' money instead.
How does Dear Leader think that would look, especially when the corona virus comes crashing down on the country as everyone curses the fraud for putting his profits first?
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Trump and munchin will find a way to pressure any business getting money , and will have to give to trumps campaign , like he's done to the wall contractors I suspect, then he can funnel it into his pockets. Both trump and munching will corrupt this stimulus to personally benefit from it.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)to a post earlier, but you did it first (and better).
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)and it will be written, the law de damned.
panader0
(25,816 posts)but he will use the money he dispenses as bribes or in some way that it will
circle back to him.
aggiesal
(8,914 posts)if you donate 25% to my campaign.
Then all unused campaign funds will be turned over to me personally or I will use it as a personal slush fund.
Either way, Im getting mine.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)until I read it myself in the bill that is eventually signed into law.
Hekate
(90,686 posts)MissMillie
(38,557 posts)lay off hundreds of people and start all over again.
It's not as though we haven't seen it before.