Topic: Typhoid Trump: the not-smart, corrupt, coward, loser, thread

[KillieRed]

I hope they have the perspex panels up too, just to further goad the oaf.

[BarryCrocker]

Minor in the scale of his lies so far.

During a bizarre off-script moment at a campaign rally in Prescott, Arizona, Mr Trump suggested he could be “the greatest fundraiser in history” – if only he was corrupt. It comes after campaign declarations showed his rival Joe Biden has raised considerably more in donations in recent weeks.

To illustrate his point, Mr Trump described a hypothetical call that he could make to the CEO of ExxonMobil, soliciting a bribe from the company. “So I call the head of Exxon — I don’t know, I’ll use a company,” he said. “‘Hi, how are you doing? How’s energy coming? When are you doing the exploration? Oh, you need a couple of permits, huh? Okay.”

“But I call the head of Exxon, I say, ‘You know, I’d love you to send me $25 million for the campaign.’ ‘Absolutely sir, why didn’t you ask? Would you like some more?'”

“Just so we’re all clear, it never happened,” the ExxonMobil statement read.

According to the campaign finance records published on opensecrets.org, individuals affiliated with ExxonMobil have contributed far more to Mr Biden and other Democrats this year’s presidential election than to Mr Trump and the Republicans. While Mr Trump raised a total $69,486, Mr Biden earned $111,866.

[newterp]

Minor in the scale of his lies so far.

“Just so we’re all clear, it never happened,” the ExxonMobil statement read.

According to the campaign finance records published on opensecrets.org, individuals affiliated with ExxonMobil have contributed far more to Mr Biden and other Democrats this year’s presidential election than to Mr Trump and the Republicans. While Mr Trump raised a total $69,486, Mr Biden earned $111,866.

that was pretty funny - the Exxon tweet back

[TSC]

Fauci responding to Trump attacks yesterday “like in the Godfather it’s nothing personal.  I’m just trying to do my job and look after the country”

[Red Beret]

Fauci responding to Trump attacks yesterday “like in the Godfather it’s nothing personal.  I’m just trying to do my job and look after the country”

Trump's going to need a senzu for that one.

[Qston]

Fauci responding to Trump attacks yesterday “like in the Godfather it’s nothing personal.  I’m just trying to do my job and look after the country”

Love that

[newterp]

Wish he had added - “someone’s got to do it, after all.”

[rafathegaffa83]

This piece on Wisconsin's Foxconn plant is batshit Kafka

State and local governments spent at least $400 million, largely on land and infrastructure Foxconn will likely never need. Residents were pushed from their homes under threat of eminent domain and dozens of houses bulldozed to clear property Foxconn doesn’t know what to do with. And a recurring cycle of new recruits joined the project, eager to help it succeed, only to become trapped in a mirage.

Months after the 2018 groundbreaking, the company was racing to hire the 260 people needed to receive the first tranche of payments from the lucrative subsidy package passed by then-Gov. Scott Walker. Recruiters were told to hit the number but given little in the way of job descriptions. Soon, the office began to fill with people who had nothing to do. Many just sat in their cubicles watching Netflix and playing games on their phones. The reality of their situation became impossible to ignore. Multiple employees recall seeing people cry in the office. “The best is when you’re in the elevator with somebody and then they just scream out of nowhere,” said an employee who experienced this several times. “They’ve had enough, because things don’t make sense here.”

“Imagine being in a job where you don’t really know if it’s real or not. Or you know it’s not real, but you don’t know it’s not real. It’s a constant thing you’re doing in your head day after day,” said one employee, who returned to the rented building Trump had spoken at, where workers had been assembling TVs, only to find the line shut down and the lights dimmed a couple of weeks after the photo op was over. “I think all of us were on the verge of a major breakdown.”

It was just the beginning. Foxconn would spend the next two years jumping from idea to idea — fish farms, exporting ice cream, storing boats — in an increasingly surreal search for some way to generate money from a doomed project

[...]

As Vos and other fierce defenders of the Foxconn deal often point out, the state’s contract is performance-based. The company only gets paid subsidies from the state if it employs a certain number of people each year. But this mechanism also creates a perverse incentive: because employees are only counted at the end of the year and their pay is annualized to see if it meets the minimum yearly salary, Foxconn could hire people in the final weeks of the year, get tens of millions in subsidies, and be free to lay them off once the quota filing deadline passed. 

More here: https://www.theverge.com/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-wisconsin-jobs-loophole-trump

[Currywurst]

Guardian reports that 110,000 people in California have bought a gun in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. No need to wear a mask to defeat the virus, just shoot the sucker.

[Red Beret]

Wonder how many of those new gun owners are Trump supporters anxious to "patrol" the polling stations come election day?

[Jiminy Cricket]

Wonder how many of those new gun owners are Trump supporters anxious to "patrol" the polling stations come election day?

It's spelled petrol. Besides, it's 'gas' over there.

[exiledintheUSA]

This piece on Wisconsin's Foxconn plant is batshit Kafka

Absolute North Korea.

[rafathegaffa83]

Guardian reports that 110,000 people in California have bought a gun in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. No need to wear a mask to defeat the virus, just shoot the sucker.

[Machae]

50 Cent, what a fucking selfish sellout

[rafathegaffa83]

50 Cent, what a fucking selfish sellout

Also likely further proof that people don't understand how tax rates work

[Mumm-Ra]

50 Cent, what a fucking selfish sellout

go on, enlighten us then

[Machae]

go on, enlighten us then

50 CENT ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP, SAYS HE DOESN’T CARE IF TRUMP DOESN’T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE!

50 Cent has had a change of mind and took to social media to endorse Donald Trump. In the past, Fif made it clear he wasn’t rocking with Trump, and called him out for how he responded to COVID-19 but now 50 is singing a different tune.

On 50’s Instagram, he posted Joe Biden’s alleged tax plan for some states. This caused Fif to do a 180 on supporting Biden. 50 said in the caption,

“WHAT THE F***! (VOTE ForTRUMP) IM OUT,” wrote 50 Cent, endorsing Trump as the President of the United States. “F*** NEW YORK The KNICKS never win anyway. I don’t care Trump doesn’t like black people 62% are you out of ya f****** mind.”


https://www.hot97.com/hip-hop-news/hot-news/50-cent-endorses-donald-trump-says-he-doesnt-care-if-trump-doesnt-like-black-people/

[Dr. Beaker]

Guardian reports that 110,000 people in California have bought a gun in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. No need to wear a mask to defeat the virus, just shoot the sucker.

They queued up for guns, we queued up for bog-rolls - funny ol' game.

[Alan_X]

This piece on Wisconsin's Foxconn plant is batshit Kafka

State and local governments spent at least $400 million, largely on land and infrastructure Foxconn will likely never need. Residents were pushed from their homes under threat of eminent domain and dozens of houses bulldozed to clear property Foxconn doesn’t know what to do with. And a recurring cycle of new recruits joined the project, eager to help it succeed, only to become trapped in a mirage.

Months after the 2018 groundbreaking, the company was racing to hire the 260 people needed to receive the first tranche of payments from the lucrative subsidy package passed by then-Gov. Scott Walker. Recruiters were told to hit the number but given little in the way of job descriptions. Soon, the office began to fill with people who had nothing to do. Many just sat in their cubicles watching Netflix and playing games on their phones. The reality of their situation became impossible to ignore. Multiple employees recall seeing people cry in the office. “The best is when you’re in the elevator with somebody and then they just scream out of nowhere,” said an employee who experienced this several times. “They’ve had enough, because things don’t make sense here.”

“Imagine being in a job where you don’t really know if it’s real or not. Or you know it’s not real, but you don’t know it’s not real. It’s a constant thing you’re doing in your head day after day,” said one employee, who returned to the rented building Trump had spoken at, where workers had been assembling TVs, only to find the line shut down and the lights dimmed a couple of weeks after the photo op was over. “I think all of us were on the verge of a major breakdown.”

It was just the beginning. Foxconn would spend the next two years jumping from idea to idea — fish farms, exporting ice cream, storing boats — in an increasingly surreal search for some way to generate money from a doomed project

[...]

As Vos and other fierce defenders of the Foxconn deal often point out, the state’s contract is performance-based. The company only gets paid subsidies from the state if it employs a certain number of people each year. But this mechanism also creates a perverse incentive: because employees are only counted at the end of the year and their pay is annualized to see if it meets the minimum yearly salary, Foxconn could hire people in the final weeks of the year, get tens of millions in subsidies, and be free to lay them off once the quota filing deadline passed.

More here: https://www.theverge.com/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-wisconsin-jobs-loophole-trump

What could possibly go wrong with a company whose name is made up of 'Fox' and Con'

[Alan_X]

50 CENT ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP, SAYS HE DOESN’T CARE IF TRUMP DOESN’T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE!

50 Cent has had a change of mind and took to social media to endorse Donald Trump. In the past, Fif made it clear he wasn’t rocking with Trump, and called him out for how he responded to COVID-19 but now 50 is singing a different tune.

On 50’s Instagram, he posted Joe Biden’s alleged tax plan for some states. This caused Fif to do a 180 on supporting Biden. 50 said in the caption,

“WHAT THE F***! (VOTE ForTRUMP) IM OUT,” wrote 50 Cent, endorsing Trump as the President of the United States. “F*** NEW YORK The KNICKS never win anyway. I don’t care Trump doesn’t like black people 62% are you out of ya f****** mind.”


https://www.hot97.com/hip-hop-news/hot-news/50-cent-endorses-donald-trump-says-he-doesnt-care-if-trump-doesnt-like-black-people/

He's going to struggle to pay those taxes...

[Jiminy Cricket]

He's going to struggle to pay those taxes...

I'm confused. Does 50 Cent live in care home?

[Red Beret]

Hope the IRS rip him a new one.

[ScouserAtHeart]

Minor in the scale of his lies so far.

“Just so we’re all clear, it never happened,” the ExxonMobil statement read.

According to the campaign finance records published on opensecrets.org, individuals affiliated with ExxonMobil have contributed far more to Mr Biden and other Democrats this year’s presidential election than to Mr Trump and the Republicans. While Mr Trump raised a total $69,486, Mr Biden earned $111,866.

How's energy coming?

[Max_powers]

How's energy coming?

Made me lol. Just goes to show that he knows nothing about business or the world?

[Macphisto80]

50 CENT ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP, SAYS HE DOESN’T CARE IF TRUMP DOESN’T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE!

50 Cent has had a change of mind and took to social media to endorse Donald Trump. In the past, Fif made it clear he wasn’t rocking with Trump, and called him out for how he responded to COVID-19 but now 50 is singing a different tune.

On 50’s Instagram, he posted Joe Biden’s alleged tax plan for some states. This caused Fif to do a 180 on supporting Biden. 50 said in the caption,

“WHAT THE F***! (VOTE ForTRUMP) IM OUT,” wrote 50 Cent, endorsing Trump as the President of the United States. “F*** NEW YORK The KNICKS never win anyway. I don’t care Trump doesn’t like black people 62% are you out of ya f****** mind.”


https://www.hot97.com/hip-hop-news/hot-news/50-cent-endorses-donald-trump-says-he-doesnt-care-if-trump-doesnt-like-black-people/

Well, there's your proof, if needed, that the rich only give a fuck about themselves and about how much money they have to pay in taxes. Just offer them tax breaks and they'll vote for any c*nt, no matter what. Just look at the Scottish referendum and Brexit. No thought process. Just "how much money is it going to cost me?"

And why the fuck anyone would need to, or want to, live in a house that size is beyond me. That mansion is a picture of capitalism summed up.

[ericthered10]

50 CENT ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP, SAYS HE DOESN’T CARE IF TRUMP DOESN’T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE!

50 Cent has had a change of mind and took to social media to endorse Donald Trump. In the past, Fif made it clear he wasn’t rocking with Trump, and called him out for how he responded to COVID-19 but now 50 is singing a different tune.

On 50’s Instagram, he posted Joe Biden’s alleged tax plan for some states. This caused Fif to do a 180 on supporting Biden. 50 said in the caption,

“WHAT THE F***! (VOTE ForTRUMP) IM OUT,” wrote 50 Cent, endorsing Trump as the President of the United States. “F*** NEW YORK The KNICKS never win anyway. I don’t care Trump doesn’t like black people 62% are you out of ya f****** mind.”


https://www.hot97.com/hip-hop-news/hot-news/50-cent-endorses-donald-trump-says-he-doesnt-care-if-trump-doesnt-like-black-people/

Who wants to volunteer to teach him what a marginal/progressive tax rate is and who will mainly be the beneficiaries?

[deFacto please, you bastards]

50 being selfish shocker.

[Garrus]

https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2020/9/14/biden-2020-analysis#tax

This new tax revenue in the Biden plan comes mainly from those with relatively high household incomes, with the top 1 percent by income shouldering 80 percent of tax increase. Under the Biden plan, households with adjusted gross income (AGI) of $400,000 per year or less would not see their taxes increase directly but would see lower investment returns and wages as a result of corporate tax increases. Those with AGI at or below $400,000 would see an average decrease in after-tax income of 0.9 percent under the Biden tax plan, compared to a decrease of 17.7 percent for those with AGI above $400,000 (the top 1.5 percent by income)

It's not really something that affects the vast majority of the population.

[BarryCrocker]

Eric's retweet.



The real deal.

Ice Cube
@icecube
·Jul 7
Happy birthday to the homie ⁦
@50cent

Cubes response.

Ice Cube
@icecube
16h
Nigga please... https://twitter.com/erictrump/status/1318537266868924416…
This Tweet is unavailable.

[Ravishing Rick Dude]

Eric's retweet.



The real deal.
Cubes response.

 

That's small-time even for the dumb Trumps.

[rafathegaffa83]

Scandalous. At this rate it wouldn't surprise me if there ends up being a number of children that it turns out in a few years time were  passed off/adopted by people with GOP connections or in favourable groups (Evangelicals, military) like what happened in places like Argentina with the children of the people who disappeared

Lawyers appointed by a federal judge to identify migrant families who were separated by the Trump administration say that they have yet to track down the parents of 545 children and that about two-thirds of those parents were deported to Central America without their children, according to a filing Tuesday from the American Civil Liberties Union.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1244066?

[Red Beret]

That's small-time even for the dumb Trumps.

"It's a retweet. I just retweeted it. I retweet a lot of stuff."

[newterp]

Can we talk about Trumps China bank account?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54625422

US President Donald Trump has a Chinese bank account and spent years pursuing business projects in the country, the New York Times has reported.

The account is controlled by Trump International Hotels Management and paid local taxes between 2013 and 2015.

It was set up "to explore the potential for hotel deals in Asia", according to a Trump spokesman.

Mr Trump has been critical of US firms doing business in China and sparked a trade war between the two countries.

The NY Times revealed the account after obtaining Mr Trump's tax records, which included both personal and company financial details.

The newspaper's previous reports show he paid $750 (£580) in US federal taxes in 2016 and 2017, when he became president.

The Chinese bank account has paid out $188,561 in local taxes.

[Red Beret]

Paid more in taxes to China than the US. Ouch!

[KillieRed]

I *think* that every foreign business set up in China must have Chinese partners, so he was literally in business with them. No doubt he’d explore loopholes though.

[newterp]

I *think* that every foreign business set up in China must have Chinese partners, so he was literally in business with them. No doubt he’d explore loopholes though.

I believe that is true as well - but his hypocrisy is on display as usual. Railing on Biden for what he “is going” to do with China - when Trump has actively already been doing business there.

I also find it hilarious that for every “story” that Trump tries to create about Biden - there’s one worse optically for him.

[John C]

The fucking corrupt baby Trump is gonna have a duck-egg after that wonderful Obama speech which highlighted the inadequacies of this moron. He'll be tweeting that his campaign was spied on illegally within moments.
Obama destroyed Trump and Trumpism and demonstrated how to galvanise a country with leadership. Haters gonna hate. Pricks.

[darragh85]

Eric's retweet.



The real deal.
Cubes response.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNy2AmjI4M

[GreatEx]

Scandalous. At this rate it wouldn't surprise me if there ends up being a number of children that it turns out in a few years time were  passed off/adopted by people with GOP connections or in favourable groups (Evangelicals, military) like what happened in places like Argentina with the children of the people who disappeared

Knowing the Trumpistas' penchant for projection, those poor kids have probably been sold to nonces in the basement of a pizza joint.

[RedSince86]

Rudy "I was just tucking my shirt in" Guiliani.

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1319031305120657410