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(10,494 posts)He is so right!
If a Democrat feels the need to perform a quid pro quo for a corporate donor they better rethink that idea at this point! All the corporate donor money in the world will not keep them in office next time if we do our jobs as citizens!
Snarkoleptic
(5,996 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,371 posts)Anthony Bourdain dined with President Obama last week on the season premiere of CNNs Parts Unknown, but dont expect him to break bread with the loathsome Donald Trump anytime soon.
Absolutely fing not, the globe-trotting foodie told TheWrap when asked if he would care for a private dining session with The Donald.
Ive been a New Yorker most of my life, [and] for better or worse Mr. Trump is a New Yorker, Bourdain said. We know him well here. Weve watched how he does business and weve watched him say things and then weve seen whether or not he did those things, we have seen how he treats the people he does business with. I would give the same answer that I would have given 10 years ago, when he was just as loathsome, he added.
http://www.thewrap.com/anthony-bourdain-dining-donald-trump-exclusive/
See, the thing is that New Yorkers know who Donald Trump is. He's been around a long time and he's been an a$$hole for all that time. It's been well documented.
LuckyLib
(6,817 posts)Trump's BS has been known to New Yorkers for decades -- businesses and many banks will have nothing to do with him. Now we all get to cringe at his behavior as POTUS.
mnhtnbb
(31,371 posts)"I'm a New Yorker and I know a con when I see one," he continued. "The richest thing about Donald Trump is his hypocrisy."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/michael-bloomberg-democrats-found-perfect-foil-donald-trump
madokie
(51,076 posts)Bigly, Bigly, Bigly
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)"I am not 'boycotting' anything," Bourdain wrote. "I choose to not patronize chefs who tacitly support deporting half the people they've ever worked with."
The tweet came as a follow up to comments Bourdain made in an interview with Eater, which was published Wednesday. When asked about sushi chef Alessandro Borgognone's recent decision to move his restaurant to Trump's Washington D.C. hotel, Bourdain said he would "never eat in his restaurant" and felt "utter and complete contempt" for the chef. He went on to add:
"Its not helpful, that sort of thing [opening in a contentious hotel]. Im not asking you to start putting up barricades now, but when they come and ask you, 'Are you with us?' You do have an option. You can say, 'No thanks, guys. I dont look good in a brown shirt. Makes me look a little, I dont know, not great. Its not slimming.'"
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
H2O Man
(73,506 posts)Absolutely no surprise; very good though.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)TonyPDX
(962 posts)UTUSN
(70,641 posts)On Mexicans, immigrants in general, labor.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I just hadn't known him to make explicitly political comments.
I was aware that he's a decent guy.
Have now edited the thread title.
UTUSN
(70,641 posts)Last edited Wed Dec 28, 2016, 12:19 AM - Edit history (1)
edhopper
(33,467 posts)Universal healthcare, a living wage, increase taxes on the Rich, regulating Wall Street, alternative energy sources...
All good ideas the American public is too stupid to understand.
progressoid
(49,933 posts)Ronald Reagan, RW media, etc. demonization of liberal progress have made too many of our leaders afraid or complacent to act.
edhopper
(33,467 posts)mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)TonyPDX
(962 posts)Democrats once cared about those folks.
edhopper
(33,467 posts)raising Medicare eligibility and raising minimum wage does?
Universal pre-K, reforming higher education costs...
Real infrastructure spending, not the tax break GOP bullshit, brings good jobs.
Dems are the only ones who help the poor.
TonyPDX
(962 posts)edhopper
(33,467 posts)came from Democrats.
And only Dems will expand those programs.
Why would they ever vote Republican?
Warpy
(111,124 posts)it's high damn time the 99% figure out how many of the cards we actually hold.
elmac
(4,642 posts)He's a little pissed that the last person he had lunch with in Russia turned up dead, as in murdered.