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'Trump was basically the buyer and the seller' in almost $1 million of gov. transactions (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 OP
'Trump was basically the buyer and the seller' in almost $1 million of gov. transactions waseemazhar10 May 2020 #1
Milo Minderbinder would be proud... Wounded Bear May 2020 #5
As a general rule I admire any person or persons who "stand by their man" but not in the case abqtommy May 2020 #2
Tweets are okay for chatting about stuff... FarPoint May 2020 #3
The tweet is there to inform interested people of an article at MSNBC. NT mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 #4
Okay.... FarPoint May 2020 #6
The fiend Trumpsky, by tweeting Harker May 2020 #13
1 mil is nothing donkeypoofed May 2020 #7
My 1st thought too. Duppers May 2020 #11
I believe that's illegal, amirite? n/t monmouth4 May 2020 #8
For a home based bond trader, that is peanuts. Often, the NCjack May 2020 #9
A provable abuse of power. nt ancianita May 2020 #10
Real billionaires couldn't be bothered with squeezing $1 million over many months bucolic_frolic May 2020 #12
 

waseemazhar10

(14 posts)
1. 'Trump was basically the buyer and the seller' in almost $1 million of gov. transactions
Mon May 18, 2020, 09:12 AM
May 2020

He is a true businessman

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
2. As a general rule I admire any person or persons who "stand by their man" but not in the case
Mon May 18, 2020, 09:17 AM
May 2020

of reTHUGS and cultists who have stood united in their defense and admiration of all things tRUMP.
They've all got to go. Let's make it so...

FarPoint

(12,209 posts)
3. Tweets are okay for chatting about stuff...
Mon May 18, 2020, 10:03 AM
May 2020

Yet, overall...it is not an effective mode of evoking change...We definitely need to confront tRump and Company for their abuses...but just Tweeting about it ...it well, falls flat...no motivation to change....Maybe I am just too old school.

FarPoint

(12,209 posts)
6. Okay....
Mon May 18, 2020, 10:22 AM
May 2020

Tweets have excellent points...articles have teeth...so, as long as thoughts, finds don't drop like a rock...I'm good...I just don't do the tweet stuff.

Harker

(13,880 posts)
13. The fiend Trumpsky, by tweeting
Mon May 18, 2020, 12:12 PM
May 2020

has opened up a massive backchannel for rousing his rabble, so it is clearly being used as a mechanism for effecting massive societal changes.

I don't like it, either.

bucolic_frolic

(42,676 posts)
12. Real billionaires couldn't be bothered with squeezing $1 million over many months
Mon May 18, 2020, 12:04 PM
May 2020

Carl Icahn, I seem to remember reading, has about $600k in assets for every day he's been alive. I don't know his daily/yearly take, but it probably beats $1 million a day.

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