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Perplexing. We have a prez and cabinet and other appointees in our gubment who are all INEXPERIENCED. Isn't that working swell as he**?

Inexperience rocks and rolls and rules. Betcha y'all want more of the same because well we have no problems at all with these tyros neophytes novices currently running our country.

Posted - December 17, 2018

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  • 6098
    Perhaps you have not noticed but the country runs itself as long as people do not interfere with it.  Only the arrogant and the power-hungry and the malcontents  want to "run the country". 
      December 17, 2018 5:32 AM MST
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  • 19942
    That description suits Trump well - arrogant and power-hungry.  He interferes in branches of government over which he is not given control.  He tries to tell the judiciary what to do.  He needs to be schooled in how our government is set up.  It's not a dictatorship - even if he would like it to be.
      December 17, 2018 7:29 AM MST
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  • 6098
    Seems he rather had enough power before he decided to get involved in politics. Why put himself so at risk?  And the answer for many of us is that he was willing to step down to try and make things better for the country.  In the terms that he , as well as many of us, see it.  And a "dictator" dictates to people how they are to think and act and what they are to believe.  While Pres. Trump, thank God, leaves us alone.  Or this is how I view it. 
      December 17, 2018 7:41 AM MST
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  • 19942
    I don't think Trump gives two farthings for the country as a whole - but he does see it as a leg up for his business dealings.  You don't think it's outrageous that diplomatic guests are entertained at Mar-A-Lago?  You don't think it's outrageous that the Secret Service that are with him at Mar-A-Lago are paying for their accommodation?  He violates the emoluments clause every time that happens.  Do you really think he no longer controls the Trump Organization - they don't make a move without him which is also a violation.  Methinks you see it through rose-colored glasses.  
      December 17, 2018 7:46 AM MST
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  • 6098
    So then are you saying he ran to improve his business dealings?  In his 70s?  Now when did I even suggest he does not control his own business?  So businessmen are so bad they must be excluded from running for office?  Or they should divest themselves completely of everything or give away everything they have?  And live out the rest of his days after leaving office restricted only to high-profile speaking engagements?   When President John Adams served he kept his farm. As far as entertaining diplomatic guests (which I know nothing about) he is not allowed to do it where he wants?  Is that a country or a resort of his?  I know that in corporate life there are company-backed and chosen venues and it you deviate from those you are legally obliged to pay your own way.  Which of course your salary is going to cover anyway.  I don't know but I would guess he feels they are better entertained at those places than at government venues. 
      December 17, 2018 8:05 AM MST
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  • 19942
    I don't know why he ran, but he has not put his businesses in a blind trust which is the ethical way to things when you become president.  A blind trust is when you have someone else run your business and you have no say or input in business decisions.  He has not done that because he is not ethical.  No, you don't have to sell your business, you just have to be hands-off in running it.  Amazing that every president before Trump has managed to entertain diplomatic guests at the White House or Camp David.  I guess neither of those places is covered in enough gold leaf for Trump to entertain guests and by doing that, he makes no money on it.  You're trying to compare apples and oranges with what private businesses do and what the president is supposed to do.  At any point, do you run out of excuses for the failure of this president to act ethically?
      December 17, 2018 8:45 AM MST
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  • 6098
    OK enough for me.  Just don't like to see anyone trying to do good so maligned which is the only reason I even speak out on these things at all.  Had there not been so much negativity I would not have needed to but I just feel called upon to restore some balance. 
      December 17, 2018 8:55 AM MST
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  • 19942
    We can certainly agree to disagree.  Just as a thought - if you compare your husband to Trump, you do him a great disservice which I'm sure he does not deserve.
      December 17, 2018 8:59 AM MST
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  • 46117
    Denial and ignorance is what got this jerk into office. You are doing no one any good yourself.  Truth will out whether it is convenient for you or not.  

    If you don't want to debate, then DON'T.  You have no facts and we do.  Simple TRUTH wins out.  There are at least 50 count 'em 50 books out on what an ignoramous crook this guy is.  Not from Sean Hannity or idiots like that who have no background in anything but FOX NEWS talking head gigs.

    These books were written by those who know.  People who worked for Nixon.  The second biggest crook ever to gain office.  People who worked for TRUMP.  Now they are not under that oppressive yoke, they are free to come forth with examples and proof positive that he is a liar.

    20 indictments prove he lied about Russia.

    Coehn and Pecker his two best conspirators turned evidence on him.

    WHAT MAKES YOU KEEP GOING WITH THIS NONSENSE?
      December 17, 2018 9:01 AM MST
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  • 2706
     You aren't born a President, Congressman, Senator, etc,  knowing exactly what to do as soon as you step into the office. Like every other job, a government job has a period of on the job training to gain the experience needed. Some are quick studies while others take a bit longer but they still have to learn. :)
      December 17, 2018 6:33 AM MST
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  • 46117
    I have read some outlandish responses--  but this one takes the cake.

    To compare someone who has a political background stepping into office, like most candidates who were elected and need to get the feel of the Oval Office,  to some maniac who has an agenda to rip apart everything that stands in his way and say he is new at the job, is so far out of left field as to make zero sense.

      A maniac who has a history of destroying every company he headed and ran it into the ground, a moron who couldn't rub two nickels together without DADDY'S help.  Daddy who had to hide the fact that Trump was funneling money from him without his consent or knowledge, to save face.  That GUY?  We let him in the door and now we have people who cannot face facts and DEFEND HIM?  

    Yes.  That's the ticket. This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at December 17, 2018 7:30 AM MST
      December 17, 2018 6:36 AM MST
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  • 6098
    But weren't you ever told that we live in a country where every little boy (or little girl) might grow up to become president?  Part of the romance of freedom and equality. 

    Why the resentment vs. those of us who perhaps grew up more well off?  I left home at 17 and never took a penny from my family the rest of my parent's lives.  After their demise my father's company was sold and my mother's share was divided equally between the three children. Should I have refused that out of some sense of honor or denial?   So we need to grow up in a "log cabin" with nothing to become president?  If you do not trust anyone who does perhaps better than you then so be it.  But that is your prejudice. 
      December 17, 2018 6:57 AM MST
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  • 19942
    The money you received after the death of your parents was what remained of their estate.  The money that Trump's father was giving to him was so that he didn't have to pay taxes on it - he was still alive.  It is unclear whether the money his father amassed was done strictly legally - I don't imagine your parents' money was done in any fashion other than hard work.  It isn't that Trump HAS money, it was the way in which it was gotten.  
      December 17, 2018 7:37 AM MST
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  • 6098
    So now his father is being scrutinized?  Just like JFK's?  Gotta get those people who make money after all.  Crooks all of them! 

    Neither I nor my brothers ever looked into our parents' finances or those of the company my father co-founded.  Which still exists.  We have been too busy with our own lives and our own finances to scrutinize those of anyone else. But I have no doubt had any one of us decided to run for public office that those affairs not only would have been by people who opposed us but there would have been a continuing tribunal seeking to prosecute us as well. 

    I had not realized the objections were to his father rather than to him. 
      December 17, 2018 7:51 AM MST
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  • 46117
    Yeah.  NOW HIS FATHER IS BEING SCRUTINIZED.  Not like JFK.  Trump could not shine JFK's shoes and do it right.

    However, JOE KENNEDY was in so deep with the mob that he was A CRIMINAL.  JUST LIKE TRUMP AND HIS DADDY.  

    You do the crime, you do the time.  Unless you are richer than God by graft and corruption.
      December 17, 2018 7:53 AM MST
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  • 6098
    I can't find that Kennedy was ever incarcerated.  The conventional wisdom seems to be that most of his fortune came through clever manipulation of stock market and then setting up  family trusts. 
      December 17, 2018 8:42 AM MST
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  • 19942
    Trump's constant boasting about how he is a self-made billionaire left him wide open for scrutiny of his father.  I really don't care what his father did decades ago, but I suspect that if his father had not given him all that money, he would not have been in the financial position he's in today.  After a half dozen bankruptcies, the hot water he found himself in with Trump University and all the lawsuits against him for non-payment for work that was done for him, his "business acumen" leaves me with the thought that he's not as astute a businessman as he thinks.  He couldn't even manage to successfully run a casino in Las Vegas!
      December 17, 2018 8:01 AM MST
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  • 6098
    You are getting over my head here.  I looked it up and he has never been bankrupt. All the bankruptcies you refer to are of companies or projects etc.  Which if you are in business playing such a large game financially of course there are going to be some. One of my brothers started a business which went bankrupt before he was able to become successful. I am not a business person but rather a wage-earner because no way could I play such a big game like those people.  But I think I understand something about it.  He has been involved in something like 238 lawsuits which I guess he must have good lawyers or something.  I could not live like that myself because I just don't have those abilities in me. But even my husband, who owns his own company, has had lawsuits even though he tried to avoid them as much as possible.  Most lawsuits are for show and are settled out of court. 
      December 17, 2018 8:28 AM MST
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  • 46117
    You looked WHAT UP?

    What are you reading from?  Sean Hannity?  Rudy Guiliani?

    COME ON.  It is a known fact.  You want me to give you some sites?  WHY?  You won't read them.  You will just argue over and over again.

    But, here goes....


    https://www.thoughtco.com/donald-trump-business-bankruptcies-4152019

    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at December 17, 2018 8:40 AM MST
      December 17, 2018 8:38 AM MST
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  • 19942
    I didn't say he filed personal bankruptcy.  It is commonly known that it was his companies.  Did your brother have six companies go bankrupt?  Did your husband?  Are there 238 lawsuits against your husband?  In either event, neither your brother nor your husband is the president of the United States.  
      December 17, 2018 8:40 AM MST
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  • 6098
    Right.  No my husband's company was never bankrupt.  Not sure where you got that.  He tries to avoid lawsuits as much as possible.  And when he was hurt on a client's work site a few years ago he never even threatened legal action but took personal responsibility and they worked it out between them.
      December 17, 2018 8:47 AM MST
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  • 19942
    I was not suggesting that your husband went bankrupt - since you are comparing him to Trump, I was pointing out that there is NO comparison.  I agree that lawsuits are frivolous in many cases, but do you really think that 238 people are wrong?  He is notorious for having work done and then not paying them.  He then complains that the work was not up to snuff.  How can that be when he says virtually every day that he only hires the best people?
      December 17, 2018 8:56 AM MST
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  • 113301
     :):):) couldn't possibly have said it better meself for which I thank ye kindly! :)
      December 17, 2018 7:13 AM MST
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  • 46117
    Rosie, thank you so much for the Christmas card. It is beautiful and I have it displayed.  
      December 17, 2018 7:54 AM MST
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