Doublethink is a powerful force. It truly does permit those infected with it to swallow logical inconsistencies that would choke any human with a working brain.
bobot
February 5, 2018, 10:14pm
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And the “You Lie!” bastard should have been executed on the spot, right Donny?
No, no. :smack: When are you going to figure out that it’s okay when Republicans do it?
El_Kabong:
“l’Etat, c’est moi.”
Followed quickly by, “Après moi le déluge .”
silenus
February 6, 2018, 3:00am
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Followed even more quickly by the roll of tumbrels, if there’s a merciful deity out there somewhere.
And where’s that weird French lady with her knitting…?
bobot
February 6, 2018, 5:11pm
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And Tammy Duckworth has something to say about that:tweet , using a nickname she had given Trump, who had said in previous interviews that he was granted medical deferment during the Vietnam War after bone spurs in his feet were diagnosed.
Good on her.
“I’d love to see a shutdown” over immigration, says the freakin’ President of the United States: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/06/politics/government-shutdown-immigration-donald-trump/index.html
Because the Democrats don’t want to keep us safe and don’t want to fund the military.
jsc1953
February 6, 2018, 10:37pm
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Quoth the Donald: “Unrelated but still related…”
Sure, why not.
As long as he keeps picking fights with famous black people, he can say anything he wants.
‘What We Did Was a Scam’: The Apprentice Creators Give Behind the Scenes Reveal of Trump’s Show
In the recently released Netflix documentary The Confidence Man, two creators of The Apprentice discuss creating the “character” of Donald Trump as a billionaire business tycoon.
“What we did, that was a scam,” says producer Bill Pruitt. “That was an entertainment.”
Pruitt describes Trump’s real office within New York’s Trump Tower as dated, so the show built the boardroom where Trump uttered the now famous line “You’re Fired!” The famous boardroom was a set based on the classy, high-powered office portrayed in the movie Network.
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The Confidence Man, directed by Fisher Stevens (Bright Lights), is the final episode of the Alex Gibney-created docuseries Dirty Money. It contends that Trump the tycoon is really a myth created by the infamous self-promoter, his visibility spread wide with continued mentions in articles, TV commercials and network interviews.
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The New York gossip columnist AJ Benza recalls that Trump gave him dirt on the Manhattan nightlife scene in exchange for labeling him a billionaire.
“He wanted to be paid back in a particular way, regardless of what you mentioned,” says Benza in the film. “He never really cared as long as you said the word ‘billionaire.’ “
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The reality, the film contends, is that by the early 1990s, The Trump Organization was facing over $3 billion of debt and its three Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt; in the following years leading to The Apprentice, Trump “was a man in trouble.”
“We wanted to show people that Donald Trump is not a good businessman when it comes to building a company and managing a company,” Stevens tells PEOPLE, “and I wanted to say how how scary it is that he is running the country because he doesn’t do due diligence on any of his deals.”
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When banks were hesitant to loan Trump money due to multiple bank defaults and bankruptcies, The Confidence Man tells how Trump made licensing deals that put his name on a wide assortment of properties, giving the impression that he was king of a vast empire. On this premise he created the now-defunct Trump University, which in 2016 settled a $25 million fraud case.
Here’s the Netflix link to “The Confidence Man” episode of the series Dirty Money.
Here’s a link to the New York Times review of “The Confidence Man” segment. Well worth a look. A highlight:
…Maybe Mr. Trump wasn’t the biggest developer. But he was the most visible, and he banked on people taking one for the other. (A later ad for Trump University declared, “Donald Trump is, without question, the world’s most famous businessman” — trusting the audience to read that as “most successful.”)
Banks threw money at his celebrity, and he spent it on high-visibility purchases: an airline, the Plaza Hotel, a football team, casinos.
When it all went bad by the early ’90s, fame was his guarantor. His creditors, who needed the Trump brand to survive in order to get paid back, put him on an allowance to keep up a glitzy front.
Mr. Trump, the film argues, has thrived by finding partners — in finance, reality TV, politics — who were as invested as he was in propping up his image.
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But the film’s larger case is against the reasoning that helped elect him: He was the most famous businessman, therefore he was the best businessman, therefore — following the logic of Mitt Romney and H. Ross Perot before him — he would be the best president. “He’s managed businesses,” one voter quoted in the film says, “and I think he can manage this country.”
Not that any of this is a surprise. :dubious:
Nava
February 7, 2018, 6:02am
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Heh, this is actually related:
I was just watching the beginning of Eternal (Ben Kingsley, Ryan Reynolds, Victor Garber…); Kingsley’s character is a NYC construction tycoon. His house (which can be seen in the trailer ) is all gilded shinies; his lamps have lightbulbs only because nobody has thought of replacing the myriad crystals with LEDs; *the freakin’ cocktail shaker *is gilded, as if that would make your martinis better.
IOW, it looks like Trump’s idea of classy.
Kobal2
February 7, 2018, 12:49pm
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El_Kabong:
“l’Etat, c’est moi.”
<pointless nitpick>I know this is a very famous saying that’s now part of the collective culture reference soup ; but not only did Louis XIV not really feel that way (he saw himself as a slave to the country more than anything, from what I can tell - not the people in it mind you, the *concept *of the country, which is its own form of weird insanity), his actual deathbed quote was “I die, but the State remains” - literally the opposite of what he’s supposed to be famous for saying.
I mean, yeah, the dude self-aggrandized to an immense degree and reading the memoirs he wrote for his son is pretty hilarious in that regards from the preface onwards ; but this “quote” is becoming one of my pet peeves. So.
Kobal2:
<pointless nitpick>I know this is a very famous saying that’s now part of the collective culture reference soup ; but not only did Louis XIV not really feel that way (he saw himself as a slave to the country more than anything, from what I can tell - not the people in it mind you, the *concept *of the country, which is its own form of weird insanity), his actual deathbed quote was “I die, but the State remains” - literally the opposite of what he’s supposed to be famous for saying.
I mean, yeah, the dude self-aggrandized to an immense degree and reading the memoirs he wrote for his son is pretty hilarious in that regards from the preface onwards ; but this “quote” is becoming one of my pet peeves. So.
Who said I was quoting Louis XIV? That was my cousin Jeffrey.
d/r
Stocks go up, Heil Dear Leader. Stocks go down, thanks Obama!
Now yamface wants to have a military parade with tanks and missiles. Make America Soviet Again.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. It was unrelated, but still related.”
Charles Dickens, with Donald Trump
Can’t wait to see MRBMs rolling down Potomac Avenue.
Our baby-man president is still annoyed that France had a big military parade but he hasn’t got one yet.