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Disgusted with Trump administration - Part I

  • sleeper
    http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1582OH
    More than a month after Russia announced one of its biggest privatizations since the 1990s, selling a 19.5 percent stake in its giant oil company Rosneft, it still isn't possible to determine from public records the full identities of those who bought it.

    The stake was sold for 10.2 billion euros to a Singapore investment vehicle that Rosneft said was a 50/50 joint venture between Qatar and the Swiss oil trading firm Glencore.
    This is the deal linked to Trump's administration. It was finally completed with an unknown buyer.

    We have been duped. Impeachment and removal must follow if we are to save the Republic!
  • Con_Alma
    I don't have to boycott Starbucks because I've never been a patron of theirs. I don't, however, tend to appreciate corps that have to tell my in advance of what their views are on current events and how they are going to "xyz". I'd rather they just do it. If they are publicizing actives for potential "atta boys" by the consuming market....I don't want to hear it. If they are doing certain things because they genuinely believe it's the right thing.....just do it and shut up about it.

    I don't spend money with corps to purchase a good or service and a diatribe about their beliefs. I just want value in the good or service I purchase. I don't want to buy they extra advertisement/press conference on their view of the world. Same goes for entertainers. Be it a liberal or conservative position, it's not what I'm looking to buy.
  • like_that
    Commander of Awesome;1834953 wrote:Why anyone is still defending this sack of shit is beyond me and disgusting.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/the-trump-administrations-softcore-holocaust-denial/514974/
    Quite the dramatic response, but par for the course with liberals so far. Not a shocker.

    Glad to see SJWs haven't learned their lesson though. Keep doubling down and see how it goes.
  • like_that
    As for Starbucks, it's a classic pr 101 move. I am not sure why anyone would be upset about it. He is a private business owner and he can hire whoever the fuck he wants. We all should be happy a private business is running their business the way they want to run it, instead of the inept Government telling them how to run it.
  • sleeper
    Con_Alma;1834956 wrote:I don't have to boycott Starbucks because I've never been a patron of theirs. I don't, however, tend to appreciate corps that have to tell my in advance of what their views are on current events and how they are going to "xyz". I'd rather they just do it. If they are publicizing actives for potential "atta boys" by the consuming market....I don't want to hear it. If they are doing certain things because they genuinely believe it's the right thing.....just do it and shut up about it.

    I don't spend money with corps to purchase a good or service and a diatribe about their beliefs. I just want value in the good or service I purchase. I don't want to buy they extra advertisement/press conference on their view of the world. Same goes for entertainers. Be it a liberal or conservative position, it's not what I'm looking to buy.
    It's cheaper to just announce it rather than do it. If they end up actually doing it, they will double dip on the PR. If they don't end up doing it, no one will care.
  • QuakerOats
    The psychologists must be having a field day; I can only imagine the money they are making off of TDS diagnoses.
  • Heretic
    like_that;1834958 wrote:As for Starbucks, it's a classic pr 101 move. I am not sure why anyone would be upset about it. He is a private business owner and he can hire whoever the fuck he wants. We all should be happy a private business is running their business the way they want to run it, instead of the inept Government telling them how to run it.
    That's how I look at things. But it is fun to watch QQ, a pro-business, anti-government guy, getting all "HE'S JUST TELLING HIS CUSTOMERS WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR" when that is, you know, a really big key to being successful at business and stuff.
  • like_that
    Heretic;1834961 wrote:That's how I look at things. But it is fun to watch QQ, a pro-business, anti-government guy, getting all "HE'S JUST TELLING HIS CUSTOMERS WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR" when that is, you know, a really big key to being successful at business and stuff.
    Yeah, I didn't get that either. It's pretty standard for any successful business owner.
  • Con_Alma
    sleeper;1834959 wrote:It's cheaper to just announce it rather than do it. If they end up actually doing it, they will double dip on the PR. If they don't end up doing it, no one will care.
    ..which is one of the reasons I run from corps making such announcements and don't want to hear it. Just provide me a good product/service at a fair value.
  • Commander of Awesome
    like_that;1834957 wrote:Quite the dramatic response, but par for the course with liberals so far. Not a shocker.

    Glad to see SJWs haven't learned their lesson though. Keep doubling down and see how it goes.
    Yes, 10s of millions of people are being dramatic SJW. :rolleyes: :RpS_drool:
  • Commander of Awesome
    What a bunch of crybaby SJW's!!!

    https://twitter.com/tomjames206/status/825558762442280961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

    https://twitter.com/joshtrujillo/status/825617888711041025

    https://twitter.com/KarimyScreamy/status/825547523016257540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

    http://komonews.com/news/local/travelers-detained-at-seattle-airport-released-from-custody


  • QuakerOats
    Heretic;1834961 wrote:That's how I look at things. But it is fun to watch QQ, a pro-business, anti-government guy, getting all "HE'S JUST TELLING HIS CUSTOMERS WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR" when that is, you know, a really big key to being successful at business and stuff.
    I didn't bring it up, but I am not arguing with his right or ability to interchange with his customers and/or the public. I just tend to not support organizations that have a big liberal bent. This case is particularly funny because the majority of his base sitting in his stores are the "I-don't-think-CEO's-should-be-able-to-make-so-much-money, it's-not-fair" crowd. If they want to give him their coffee money for his mega salary and hundreds of millions in options, have at it. Just ironic.
  • sleeper
    Con_Alma;1834963 wrote:..which is one of the reasons I run from corps making such announcements and don't want to hear it. Just provide me a good product/service at a fair value.
    Reasonable. We vote with our dollars.

    I bought more Starbucks today as a result. I prefer to spend my dollars on companies that support human rights for all.
  • Con_Alma
    We do "vote" with our dollars. I'm thankful I get to and am glad others can choose to spend theirs based on whatever reasons they so desire even if it results in supporting or boycotting Starbucks.
  • like_that
    Reminds me of the same people who cried immediately after Trump won (not to mention before he won). All marching and crying in their liberal bubble cities without seeing the irony.

    The political landscape is polarizing enough (trump has a 89% approval rating from republicans.... in contrast the numbers were also thus polarizing with obama), so liberals should keep inventing terms such as soft core holocaust denial, mansplaining, White privilege, etc. That will sure persuade people to vote in another direction!!! There are actually quite a few times where I agree with liberals but their incessant dramatic cry baby hot takes and their intellectual hypocrisy is a huge turn off. I.e nobody cried about the Cuban refugees when obama reversed a 50 year law right before he left office. It's hard to take them seriously when they have been spewing the same rhetoric for 16 years about conservatives. After awhile people catch on and don't even pay attention. Trump is the culmination of all that bullshit, and if liberals keep doubling down on it I won't be shocked to see him win again. The states that won Trump the election (Michigan, PA, Ohio, Wisconsin) are loling at the liberals elitists on the east coast and wacko liberals on the west who think they know what's best for everyone else in the rest of the country.

    So like I said, keep doubling down. You will only keep getting the same shit. Two shitty candidates running for office and a gridlocked congress.
  • like_that
    Correction trumps approval rating within pubs is 81%
  • ppaw1999
    O-Trap;1834946 wrote:Why does it bother you enough to boycott it?

    Hell, why does it bother you at all?
    It bothers me because I can't pronounce half of their damn flavors. It is hard enough to get an American born person to figure out what I want let alone an immigrant!:RpS_drool:
  • sleeper
    like_that;1834972 wrote:Correction trumps approval rating within pubs is 81%
    And falling...

    Maybe there is a just to save the Republic after all. 2020 can't come soon enough.
  • like_that
    sleeper;1834974 wrote:And falling...

    Maybe there is a just to save the Republic after all. 2020 can't come soon enough.
    I wasn't pumping his numbers, I was making a point with how polarizing support is depending on where people lean. Only 4% disapproves so far.

    Carry on with your anti QO troll act.
  • CenterBHSFan
    Great read today!
  • sleeper
    like_that;1834975 wrote:I wasn't pumping his numbers, I was making a point with how polarizing support is depending on where people lean. Only 4% disapproves so far.

    Carry on with your anti QO troll act.
    I'm sure 81% of the German NAZI party supported Hitler as well. Not sure what your point is.

    Right now its Fascism vs. Democracy. I prefer the latter; Republicans? 81% approve of Fascism.
  • QuakerOats
    sleeper;1834978 wrote:I'm sure 81% of the German NAZI party supported Hitler as well. Not sure what your point is.

    Right now its Fascism vs. Democracy. I prefer the latter; Republicans? 81% approve of Fascism.

    Sign of the apocalypse --- better bunker down.
  • ptown_trojans_1
    QuakerOats;1834885 wrote:Mohamed Khadir from Morocco, one of two arrested in Quebec mosque shooting.
    Wrong as usual.
    He was the one who called 911.

    The guy arrested and charged is a white guy 27 year old Alexandre Bissonnette.
    Motive still TBD.
  • like_that
    sleeper;1834978 wrote:I'm sure 81% of the German NAZI party supported Hitler as well. Not sure what your point is.

    Right now its Fascism vs. Democracy. I prefer the latter; Republicans? 81% approve of Fascism.
    Read my entire post and maybe you will see the point. Reading comprehension is hard.
  • like_that
    ptown_trojans_1;1834982 wrote:Wrong as usual.
    He was the one who called 911.

    The guy arrested and charged is a white guy 27 year old Alexandre Bissonnette.
    Motive still TBD.
    Correct. The misleading media once again was wrong and rushed to deliver incorrect news. Earlier they were stating mohomad was one of two shooters.