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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17040 on: April 29, 2016, 11:50:49 pm »

Yeah, but why would he want to be the President? Why would any of these people want to be President? It's a terrible job!
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17041 on: April 29, 2016, 11:54:59 pm »

It's about winning.  He's gained and lost more money than most people can dream about, he's been in almost every business, he's done civic projects, private projects, government projects, and on and on.  All he really cares about is victory, this is not to say that he has no politics, and if you go over his record (statements and support, he obviously has no political history to speak of) carefully, you'll find a center-right man with some very reactionary quirks.  Whatever his actual policies are, they won't have much to do with the bile he regurgitates for the cameras.
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17042 on: April 30, 2016, 12:20:58 am »

As a college student wanting to get into robotics and AI work, I see absolutely nothing wrong with this plan.
As an unemployed welfare leech, I see everything wrong with this plan.
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17043 on: April 30, 2016, 12:47:57 am »

I honestly think that you're underestimating the strength of his ego, especially as it was demonstrably at this level of inflation well before this electoral cycle. I don't disagree that it's all about winning for him, but there's more to be won than just the presidency.
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17044 on: April 30, 2016, 01:37:46 am »

As a college student wanting to get into robotics and AI work, I see absolutely nothing wrong with this plan.
As an unemployed welfare leech, I see everything wrong with this plan.
Well clearly you should invest in some bootstraps.
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17045 on: April 30, 2016, 01:47:06 am »

"Free trade" is a misleading way to describe it, since that sounds like just the free and fair exchange of goods.

What we're talking about is people profiting off the flow of currencies, and the fact that international finance creates vast tax loopholes.

I think we all know how this sort of thing works. The classic set-up is that a company in the USA creates a shell corporation on some island somewhere, where the cost to run a corporation is a yearly flat fee. They then incorporate their US operations as a subsidiary of their post-office-box corporation on the island, pay out all their profits as cash payments to that shell corporation, then cry foul about how they're making a loss on their USA operations.

Ahh, but you see, that's the genius of it all: They have their shell corporation loan their US-company the money it needs to keep running, and then pay all their profits out as tax-free interest repayments, along with, of course, taking a huge tax deduction on their terrible, terrible financial losses, so that they've got the IRS effectively paying them to send untaxable money out of the country.
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17048 on: April 30, 2016, 06:09:33 am »

Thousands of "Bikers for Trump" will appear in Cleveland to 'encourage' the RNC not to deny the Donald the nomination.
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17049 on: April 30, 2016, 08:28:55 am »

But does he do art on chainsaws, or do art with chainsaws? VERY IMPORTANT DISTINCTION!
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17050 on: April 30, 2016, 09:33:02 am »

He carves chainsaws with chainsaws.

But Donny is built upon overreaction, upon the fights the his followers and countless Bernie followers have committed: it's an honest case of that us vs. them mentality, where everyone else is a communist terrorist Mexican NAFTA rapist.
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17051 on: April 30, 2016, 09:49:48 am »

You know, you could google chainsaw art. It is a normal and not-rare thing. They use chainsaws to create rough-hewn statues, often of bears. These statues are about the only full-sized statuary that an ordinary person can afford, as well as cultivating a woodsy aesthetic, and as such enjoy a pretty nice market niche.
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17052 on: April 30, 2016, 09:52:47 am »

The real question here is: If they had existed, would Michelangelo have used chainsaws?
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17053 on: April 30, 2016, 10:01:39 am »

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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17054 on: April 30, 2016, 03:28:40 pm »

I still honestly wonder how people fall for that whole routine.
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