Trollminator wrote:
Nice. Btw why aren’t republicans screaming at their leader for taxing them with this new steel tariff. It’s exactly what it is, a tax on US citizens. It is about to get that much more expensive for his supporters to purchase their pick up trucks.
It’s socialism, because it redistributes wealth from consumers who pay more for their products to the steel and aluminum workers who normally wouldn’t have jobs,
We know how much Republicans love socialism....
Good morning! How are all you LRC stable geniuses doing this fine AM?
Such a hypocrite. Nearly 25% of his days in office spent at one of his golf clubs. Even if during some of these trips he did have meetings, why does he have to travel at the expense of the taxpayers? Even if he isn't profiting directly (doubtful), his family is at least profiting from this. He is just plain slimy.
Defend your president Trumpsters!
Robert the Eleventh wrote:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-presidential-milestone-trump-has-spent-100-days-in-office-at-one-of-his-golf-clubs/ar-BBJOXHy?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntpSuch a hypocrite. Nearly 25% of his days in office spent at one of his golf clubs. Even if during some of these trips he did have meetings, why does he have to travel at the expense of the taxpayers? Even if he isn't profiting directly (doubtful), his family is at least profiting from this. He is just plain slimy.
Defend your president Trumpsters!
“I’m going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf," Trump said in August 2016 on the campaign trail.
foo wrote:
Robert the Eleventh wrote:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-presidential-milestone-trump-has-spent-100-days-in-office-at-one-of-his-golf-clubs/ar-BBJOXHy?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntpSuch a hypocrite. Nearly 25% of his days in office spent at one of his golf clubs. Even if during some of these trips he did have meetings, why does he have to travel at the expense of the taxpayers? Even if he isn't profiting directly (doubtful), his family is at least profiting from this. He is just plain slimy.
Defend your president Trumpsters!
“I’m going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf," Trump said in August 2016 on the campaign trail.
As with all things tRump, flip what he says around and you will have the correct answer.
What tRump really meant, “I’m NOT going to be working for you. I'LL SPEND TOO MUCH time PLAYING golf,"
Today's encore selection - from "Great Pretenders: People Who Feel Their Success Is Undeserved" by Birgit Spinath. The impostor phenomenon:
"[A] significant number of individuals who achieve at a high level nevertheless] see themselves as frauds. Psychologists call this the impostor phenomenon. Those who are afflicted believe that their successes cannot be attributed to their own abilities. Instead they are convinced that other people's praise and recognition of their accomplishments are the result of charm, deception or simple good luck. Interestingly, such thoughts tend to surface in people whose lives have been an apparently uninterrupted string of successes.
"Many people have a tendency to blame external circumstances for their own accomplishments or failures. But those plagued with impostor thinking go well beyond this. They actually view themselves as swindlers who cheat their way into success without in any way having earned it. They live in constant terror of being exposed.
"Recently researchers have been taking a closer look at the emotional characteristics of people plagued by such ideas. By better understanding how the impostor phenomenon differs from related mental states such as social anxiety, depression and low self-esteem, psychologists are learning how to help people recognize and dispel the troubling thought that they are nothing but phonies.
"The term 'impostor phenomenon' was coined in the 1970s by psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes, both then at Georgia State University. Clance and Imes noticed that many of their students with excellent test scores and good grades admitted during counseling that they felt they did not belong at the school. Although these students were successful and accomplished, they expressed the idea that they had somehow conned their way into their current positions. They were astutely aware of their weaknesses and tended to overestimate the strengths and abilities of others. In their minds, they always failed to measure up -- and they dreaded the day they would make a mistake and reveal to the world the grand illusion.
"Clance and Imes described this impostor phenomenon in a 1978 paper, taking care not to call it a 'syndrome' or a 'disorder,' because it is not a debilitating medical condition. Still, such thinking can be persistently troubling for those who suffer from it, and it may even keep some people from fulfilling their potential or finding contentment.
"In 1985, after further studying the associated feelings and ideas, Clance developed a questionnaire to help individuals determine if they show an impostorlike pattern of thinking. The test, widely used today by counselors and psychotherapists, covers the three main components of such thinking: feeling like a fake, discounting praise and achievements, and attributing successes to luck. The first component, feeling fake, is the core of impostordom. People feel that they have pulled the wool over everyone's eyes -- that they are not really as smart, talented or hardworking as they have convinced everyone they are. The second facet is the inability to acknowledge praise or good performance, which means that even after working hard and achieving a goal, these so-called impostors will ignore the fact of their success and continue to focus on their perceived weaknesses. And finally, when faced with their own conspicuous achievements, sufferers will attribute their good fortune to chance or some other external factor rather than taking credit for it. ...
"[T]o ensure that their 'failure' is not uncovered in a performance situation, such people may avail themselves of two seemingly opposite strategies: overdoing and underdoing. Overdoing involves disproportionate efforts such as studying and restudying material they have already mastered or obsessively preparing and practicing every detail of a short, routine presentation [or task]."
"Great Pretenders: People Who Feel Their Success Is Undeserved" by Birgit Spinath, Scientific American Mind, March/April 2011, pp. 33-37
Suing his accusers has bankrupted Roy Moore. Oh, the agony.
comeuppance wrote:
Suing his accusers has bankrupted Roy Moore. Oh, the agony.
Thanks for the link, which provides some detail and nuance.
This guy is just delusional now. I think the voters of Alabama dodged a bullet.
kibitzer wrote:
comeuppance wrote:
Suing his accusers has bankrupted Roy Moore. Oh, the agony.
Thanks for the link, which provides some detail and nuance.
This guy is just delusional now. I think the voters of Alabama dodged a bullet.
Um, didn’t the great state of Alabama help elect D.J. Trump? If Moore is a bullet in regards to delusional thinking, Trump is an ICBM...or some super secret Russian nuclear super torpedo. Plus, D.J. Trump actively and aggressively campaigned for Moore...what does that say about Trump’s grip on reality?
foo wrote:
A week of lies...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/ap-fact-check-trump-misrepresents-orlando-attack-gdp-53484682
Just crazy. Even when we had Little Richard Nixon in the White House, news organizations didn't have to establish departments that tallied up the administration's lies on a weekly basis.
As the man said, you can tell when Trump is lying: His lips are moving.
Flagpole wrote:
Reasonable Republican wrote:
You do realize that there were 100,000's of people that voted for obama twice that voted for Trump right are they fools as well?
You keep bringing up his tax returns if people were that concerned about his tax returns they wouldn't have elected him into office. Sorry but the need to release his tax returns ended the day he entered the White House your just gonna have to let it go.
1) Yes, those people were fools when they voted for Trump. You can BECOME a fool. Those people did.
2) We don't really care about the tax returns that much at this point...it's just a pile on, but it is indicative of Trump wanting to hide his financial details, and there are only two reasons for that - A) conflict of interest shown in his taxes, B) he isn't worth as much as he says he is or hasn't made as much as he says he has. Trump is a phony, a fraud, and the myth of his wealth is part of that. He has always claimed to be 3 to 5 times more wealthy than most estimates, and I bet it's even more than that.
3) You gave yourself the "Reasonable Republican" moniker. I'll be the judge of that. Did you vote for Trump? If so, why? If you did, do you still support him today? Tip - You can't answer the last question in the affirmative and be reasonable. Also, you COULD be reasonable depending on how you answer the second question, but you have still been proven a fool to have voted for him if you did. A fool Trump voter can shed that label if they oppose him now.
1) So Obama played no role in those people voting for Trump?
2) I could care less if he's worth 1 billion or 10 billion either way he is a successful businessman far more successful than you or I.
3) I didn't vote for Trump in the Primary I voted for Kasich that shows that I am reasonable. Lets put it this way if Kasich primaries Tump in 2020 I will vote for him. I do oppose him on things that I don't like (Like the tariffs, his divisiveness and some of his stupid tweets) at the same time he's also done some things that I like (Tax cuts, reducing regulations). I wouldn't necessarily say I support him but I will celebrate when he does good things and criticize him when he does bad its called holding him accountable.
Reasonable Republican wrote:
2) I could care less if he's worth 1 billion or 10 billion either way he is a successful businessman far more successful than you or I.
The most successful people never go bankrupt. Let alone 5 times. And those truly successful people don't have hundreds of lawsuits against them do shady business practices (stiffing people).
You do not care because you are brainwashed. You are the least reasonable poster on this thread. You are some unreasonable that you are exactly like HardLoper or Disco Gary. The former is more likely because the posting MO is very similar.
tRump is bankrupt x5 wrote:
Reasonable Republican wrote:
2) I could care less if he's worth 1 billion or 10 billion either way he is a successful businessman far more successful than you or I.
The most successful people never go bankrupt. Let alone 5 times. And those truly successful people don't have hundreds of lawsuits against them do shady business practices (stiffing people).
You do not care because you are brainwashed. You are the least reasonable poster on this thread. You are some unreasonable that you are exactly like HardLoper or Disco Gary. The former is more likely because the posting MO is very similar.
Successful businessmen do not surround themselves with criminals like Trump does.
http://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-backed-qatar-blockade-after-qataris-wouldnt-finance-his-property-828847Erfworm wrote:
tRump is bankrupt x5 wrote:
The most successful people never go bankrupt. Let alone 5 times. And those truly successful people don't have hundreds of lawsuits against them do shady business practices (stiffing people).
You do not care because you are brainwashed. You are the least reasonable poster on this thread. You are some unreasonable that you are exactly like HardLoper or Disco Gary. The former is more likely because the posting MO is very similar.
Successful businessmen do not surround themselves with criminals like Trump does.
http://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-backed-qatar-blockade-after-qataris-wouldnt-finance-his-property-828847
He's family. Not much of a choice amiright? =)
tRump is bankrupt x5 wrote:
Reasonable Republican wrote:
2) I could care less if he's worth 1 billion or 10 billion either way he is a successful businessman far more successful than you or I.
The most successful people never go bankrupt. Let alone 5 times. And those truly successful people don't have hundreds of lawsuits against them do shady business practices (stiffing people).
You do not care because you are brainwashed. You are the least reasonable poster on this thread. You are some unreasonable that you are exactly like HardLoper or Disco Gary. The former is more likely because the posting MO is very similar.
When you start as many businesses as Mr Trump has your bound to have some failures. So he went bankrupt 5 times, ok lol he's still one of 540 billionaires in the US. Is he the most successful out of them definitely not but he is I would say conservatively in the top 1% of the US population as far as success goes. Pretty good I would say.
Do you think Obama or Hilary are more successful than Trump? Put it this way Hilary relied on donations from wealthy people like Trump to be successful.
Maybe I do seem brainwashed and unreasonable from your point of view and thats understandable given the state of our politics. Im just trying to have a discussion so we can see things from each others point of view better and maybe find some common ground.
I don't know who this Hardloper guy is your referring to but he sure seems to be in your head.
Eh, he's family wrote:
Erfworm wrote:
Successful businessmen do not surround themselves with criminals like Trump does.
http://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-backed-qatar-blockade-after-qataris-wouldnt-finance-his-property-828847He's family. Not much of a choice amiright? =)
Ever heard of Sonny Corelone? How did that family thing turn out for him?
Reasonable Republican wrote:
I am a troll.
So true.
Sonny wrote:
Eh, he's family wrote:
He's family. Not much of a choice amiright? =)
Ever heard of Sonny Corelone? How did that family thing turn out for him?
You're thinking of the wrong Corleone. Barzini's men killed Sonny. You're thinking of Fredo.
FredoCorleone wrote:
Sonny wrote:
Ever heard of Sonny Corelone? How did that family thing turn out for him?
You're thinking of the wrong Corleone. Barzini's men killed Sonny. You're thinking of Fredo.
He was set up by his brother in-law (Carlo Rizzi married to his sister Connie).