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Old 02-20-2019, 12:25 AM   #721
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Trump the businessman, who was the dictator of his own companies
Whose dictatorial gut instinct to get into the casino business, where he had no experience, resulted in multiple bankruptcies, lost capital for stock and bondholders, unpaid contractors, unpaid and unemployed employees, and lost employee retirement funds.
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Old 02-20-2019, 12:28 AM   #722
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What is the basis for calling the article biased? The Business Insider is a large and respected international provider of business news and analysis. From the article:

Do you have evidence to doubt that?
This, IMO, with the emphasis on "as reported by..." and being the last paragraph of the article. A veiled bias?
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As reported by the Washington Post, Trump once upon a time was considering Fed Chair during the Obama administration Janet Yellen to keep the post that Powell now holds. However, he ultimately decided against her due to her stature: at five foot three, he thought, Yellen was just too short to run the central bank.
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Old 02-20-2019, 01:16 AM   #723
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You don't see the correlation between trusting one's gut instincts and winging it...but you see the correlation between Trump the businessman, who was the dictator of his own companies...and Trump the POTUS...whose gut-instinct decisions may well affect the well-being of the entire WORLD? Your "gut instinct" to vote for Trump, even if you live to regret it, will have consequences which will pale by comparison to those of president Trump...should he eventually live to regret the gut-instinct decisions that he is being asked to make in his current job position.

And, on an unrelated note: If your gut instincts truly have a 90% success record...I hope, for your sake, that you are a horseplayer.
I am, and I'm also the winner of five handicapping contests/challenges plus one TVG Super Five ($5,000 prize shared w/5)...Indiana Grand Race Course, the track where the running green Run Happy first caught my eye.

A member here by the name of Taxicab can attest to all of the above.

And believe it or not, in my notes for the 2015 Kentucky Derby I jotted down the straight High Five (American Pharoah, Firing Line, Dortmund, Frosted, Danzig Moon-RIP), but, for some dumb reason, I didn't trust my gut and didn't play the ticket. A $1 bet paid $6,000+.

BTW, I do not believe for one second that Trump dictates, nor does he base all of his decisions totally on gut instinct...both are ludicrous to even imagine.
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Old 02-20-2019, 03:23 PM   #725
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Whose dictatorial gut instinct to get into the casino business, where he had no experience, resulted in multiple bankruptcies, lost capital for stock and bondholders, unpaid contractors, unpaid and unemployed employees, and lost employee retirement funds.
Oh, like GM.
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Old 02-20-2019, 05:35 PM   #726
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Oh, like GM.
But GM is run by a bunch of dummies. Trump's got guts that are smarter than all the top guys at GM put together.
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Old 02-20-2019, 06:12 PM   #727
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But GM is run by a bunch of dummies. Trump's got guts that are smarter than all the top guys at GM put together.
Witty comebacks minus substance, US car makers need to get taxed like Amazon. Like wht did Amazon pay in taxes like zero. The President's heart is in the right place, but has to hold steady against critics like yourself.
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Publicity and ego. There was plenty of evidence during the election process that Trump never thought he had a chance to even get nominated, let alone elected. Any political junky paying attention back then at least suspected that. Not an important enough issue for me to go back that far for documentation.
You misread the landscape pre election as did many, and continue to to this day, you are not alone.
You know what is completely collapsing right now? The Mueller Investigation and all things Russian, how can I tell you may ask
because fake news is not reporting it, at all. And it will continue to be ignored until charges are laid and then the freakout show begins. I will laugh hardily.
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US car makers need to get taxed like Amazon.
US car makers shouldn't pay any federal taxes either? Do you have any rationale for that, or do your ideas spring forth from the gut also?
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US car makers shouldn't pay any federal taxes either? Do you have any rationale for that, or do your ideas spring forth from the gut also?
Yes, if they make huge investment in equipment and facility so they can depreciate a loss.
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US car makers shouldn't pay any federal taxes either? Do you have any rationale for that, or do your ideas spring forth from the gut also?
Not suggesting no tax, but saying it is in the United States best interest the US car industry should have more leverage than Amazon who sells a bunch of stuff from commie China.
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Not suggesting no tax, but saying it is in the United States best interest the US car industry should have more leverage than Amazon who sells a bunch of stuff from commie China.
Good point.
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You misread the landscape pre election as did many
What's your point? So did a lot of other people, including The Donald. He admitted later that he thought he was going to lose.
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Not suggesting no tax, but saying it is in the United States best interest the US car industry should have more leverage than Amazon who sells a bunch of stuff from commie China.
Oh...you mean like over HALF their AUTO parts aren't coming from there as welll....lmfao....
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Oh...you mean like over HALF their AUTO parts aren't coming from there as welll....lmfao....
And most of the tooling and molds used by their suppliers coming from China as well.
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