"Once a government commits to the principle of silencing opposition,...

Looks like Harry Truman will now get cancelled as a racist, sexist homophobe for saying this.

Show me a man who loses money owning a casino and I'll show you a complete idiot

Wow, way to veer into the orange TDS ditch, Octavia!

So, you consider owning a casino to be something anyone could do successfully? It's really just that simple???

Whereas the geniuses running the democrat party, most of whom have *never* owned a business, could do much better, right?

People go to casinos and almost literally throw money at you. In every single game the house has the advantage. If you own a casino and it goes bankrupt, there's something wrong with you

You know you won the debate when they whip out the tired TDS bullshit......

Wow, you're naiveté seems off the charts when it comes to business.

Okay, so you've covered the revenue side of your business model with people lining up to throw money, but what about expenses? How would you handle those?

I'd love to go to a casino (any business, actually) that you'd run and see just how great of a job you'd do. I'm serious. You'd be great.

"Okay, so you've covered the revenue side of your business model with people lining up to throw money, but what about expenses? How would you handle those?"

I'm certainly no expert when it comes to business, but I'm pretty sure revenue goes into two things: profit and expenses. You're obviously in business to make a profit, but first you put money toward expenses to keep the business going. Things like taxes, upkeep for the building, stuff like that. It's a pretty basic concept.

The high cost of people throwing their money away at your machines and gambling tables and food,,,

"I'm certainly no expert when it comes to business,"

If you had managed to keep that in mind, then perhaps you wouldn't have said "Show me a man who loses money owning a casino and I'll show you a complete idiot"

Everything you wrote after that is just filler.

Clearly, business is not your strong suit, would you agree?

A casino is a business that virtually always takes in way more money than it puts out in expenses. So what part of what I said was untrue?

All of it. You have no real idea what you're talking about. Even this post is just your opinion, right? Unless you can document any/all of what you said as being true. And without doing any research myself, I doubt that you can... but if I'm wrong, and you can prove any/all of it is true, then I'll be happy to admit it.

The same way all the other SUCCESSFUL casinos would handle those....

Which is? Don't just chime in on a conversation between two other people unless you have something of value to add. So far, you're not impressing anyone.

"Oh, I'm sorry, are you the thread monitor?"

Nope, no thread monitor here. I believe in FREE speech.

I'm not trying to tell you what you can and can't do. That's the realm of the libtards. It's just my personal opinion that if someone is going to jump into a conversation that's been going back and forth between two people, they should offer something of substance, which is clearly not what you did.

you: I'm not 'trying' to tell you what you can and can't do. [no, you're succeeding to do it]

you too: Don't just chime in on a conversation between two other people unless you have something of value to add.

also you: I believe in FREE speech. [which is clearly not what you did]

LOL you make this too easy! 'Substance' is subjective so maybe keep your personal opinions to yourself? Your best bet is to try facts for a change. THAT'S the realm of the 'libtards'

BTW aren't you gonna get pissy with Abby too? 2 days ago she did what you say is a party foul here, and I see you haven't treated her the same as me. hmmmmmm....

yes... you love your corrupt career politicians...

The failed, one term, twice impeached, scandal riddled president is the corrupt, career criminal that you love. He sure is inna bunch of trouble right now! While our current president is in no trouble at all. Sad.

LOL... another alt account...

?! LOL what are you going on about? Is this how you get away from discussing the subject at hand?

I've thought that very same thing.

Bernie Sanders is a prime example. Sanders was so devoted to socialism that he refused to work because that, in his mind, supported capitalism. So he lived off of welfare and/or freeloaded off his friends. At some point he entered politics. Now he owns 3 mansions. He claims it's from book sales (which is capitalism). That's a lot of books to afford 3 mansions.

AOC got elected and couldn't even afford rent in Washington DC. I don't know what here net worth is currently but I'll bet she's not living in a cheap apartment anymore.

The great thing about Truman is that when he left office, he packed up his belongings in his car and drove from Washington DC to Independence, Missouri (right next to Kansas City, Mo). I don't know a lot about him and he may not have been an outstanding president, but at least he remained humble and I believe he was honest.

What does that have to do with what I was talking about? What does that have to do with reality? Sorry, but it's not a crime for a president to take home classified documents, as long as he is still the president. No one else in government has that right. And no one has found anything that would have compromised our national security because those weren't the kind of documents he took home.

In my opinion, I think he took home documents that would indict members of the Democrat Party and that's why the Dems are frantic. But that's just an opinion.

, but it's not a crime for a president to take home classified documents,"""" Yes, it is. Especially when they are no longer the president.... smh

He was still president when he asked for those documents to be sent to his home. I don't know where you got the idea that he wasn't. And when he saw more documents than he asked for he arranged to have the extra sent back. Maybe if you smh your head hard enough it will knock some sense into your head.

Yes its ok to keep top secret documents at your house, and a storage facility risking the lives and security of the nation.....wtf is wrong with you?

I don't make the rules, I'm just trying to inform you of the rules. Personally I don't thing anyone in government has the right to remove classified documents from the secure locations in the government. The only one who can is the president of the United States of America.

That means if a president is 1 minute away from the next president being sworn in he or she can remove any document from a secure location to their home.

That's why it is vitally important to keep America hating Democrats (like Biden) out of the White House.

What you have become a victim of is the media's misinformation campaign. You have been made to think that if Trump breathes air it is a criminal action.

Trump did a lot of things I vehemently disagreed with but rather than the Dems picking up on those things, they invented stuff that never happened and stuff he didn't do. One such event is when he ordered documents to be moved to his home.

I don't think any president should be able to do that because their home, most likely, doesn't have the security that the government does.

What I don't understand is how the Dems are all bent out of shape over Trump but give Hillary a complete pass. She was never in a position to remove classified documents from the government. Her home server was known to have been hacked once. And hacked is just what we were told. Hillary had no problem undermining this nation. She is the most corrupt politician I have ever heard of. Dems have been trying to down play that from the moment it was found out.

What Hillary did was a huge problem, what Trump did was not. Trump has bent over backwards to be forthright and compliant with all of the FBI's requests. Hillary was not the least bit compliant and destroyed the hard drives and denied and tried to mitigate the severity of it all.

Maybe Trump should tell the Dems, "At this point, what does it matter".

ffs... official records of the President and his staff are owned by the United States, not by the President.""||

https://www.archives.gov/news/topics/presidential-records-act

That's true.

The PRA was a response to President Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal and his plans to have Oval Office recordings destroyed after they were transferred to the General Services Administration.

All they could prove is the people who were in the know could not recall anything and those who were not in the know said there was no stand down order. And those in the know don't know why it took so long to send a response.

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/114th-congress/house-report/848/1

This does mean there wasn't a stand down order. What it means is there was a cover up.

That means if a president is 1 minute away from the next president being sworn in he or she can remove any document from a secure location to their home.

OK, That means 1 second after the next president is sworn in, he or she can remove any document from trump's home....back to a secure location! I don't make the rules, I'm just trying to inform you of the rules. Personally I don't thing ANYONE in government has the right to remove classified documents from the secure locations in the government. The only one who can is the president of the United States of America.
...Even though the president of the USA Government, somehow IS in Government, yet ISN'T in Government....? LOL...

Maybe if you smack your head hard enough, it will knock some sense into your head? At this point, what does it matter?

You dont make the rules, and obviously do not know them either.

-Two years, $7 million, 800 pages later, GOP Benghazi report lands with a thud

After years of investigations, interviews, and hearings, the House special committee looking into the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, released 800 pages of findings today.

The assault, which resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, slams the Obama administration for lax security and a sluggish response, but it doesn't lay blame at then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's doorstep.

Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy, the panel's chairman, said Clinton, now the Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee, was never the focus of the inquiry.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/two-years-7-million-800-pages-later-gop-benghazi-report-lands-with-a-thud

-Kevin McCarthy: Benghazi Committee Tanked Hillary's Poll Numbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Wff2-IKkA

"This does[n't] mean there wasn't a stand down order. What it means is there was a cover up."

LOL NOPE, it means EXACTLY what it says! Your opinions and fantasies mean nothing. It's what scumpublicans do. They find some little thing, a little crack and they stick a crowbar in there and they make that little thing bigger with fake outrage, hyperbole, disinformation, speculation and lies. Then they double down and stick some C-4 in that crack and blow the nothing burger up even more. They waste time and tax dollars with this bullshit, just like they did with trying to cancel OBAMACARE a gazillion times but they failed there too. When Dems have a committee (like the Watergate and Jan 6 Committees), it's not about politics and red meat for the base....it's about getting to the truth.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chinese-woman-arrested-mar-lago-had-device-detect-hidden-cameras-n992301

Don't forget that redhead russian spy that was charming all the old idiots at mar-a-lardo. She is now a russian state TV talking head....yeah, the place has laughable security...

• Maria Valeryevna Butina (Russian: Мари́я Вале́рьевна Бу́тина, sometimes transliterated as Mariya Butina; born November 10, 1988) is a Russian politician, political activist and former entrepreneur who was convicted in 2018 of acting as an unregistered foreign agent of Russia within the United States.

It's crazy how they defend the indefensible and to show how hypocritical it all is, just imagine that Hillary or Obama or Biden did ALL of this! Some of this! One of this!! The MAGAts would be apoplectic!! Look at Benghazi. The House is gonna go nuts, so get ready for "Benghazi! Part Deux....Impeachment Day!" More Kabuki theater, more fake outrage, more white grievance and hyperbole and flat out lies. They never learn....

Anna, remind you of any one?

Indeed...
made a bunch with
that template so
many years ago!

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/08/doj-asks-judge-to-hold-trump-in-contempt-over-classified-docs.html

When I'm home from work, I'll read those articles but I can tell you for a fact that nothing NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC reports is factual when it comes to politics. They lie to protect the Dems and lie to destroy the Republicans.

whatever you say skippy, ignorance is bliss

No need to get snippy. I just read both articles that you posted. I'm not sure what you point was with the Chinese woman found in Mar-A-Lago with spy technology.

The other one was nothing by a beef with Trump's attorney because they haven't named anyone as custodian of the records to verify that all of the classified documents had been returned. I guess Trump's attorneys are shuffling papers fast enough.

The DOJ and the FBI, both, have gotten so horribly corrupt. They are the Democrat Party's Gestapo and SS. Their job is to harass Donald Trump to death.

The left is on number 394,753,843,972,347,398,345 to try to trump up something, anything, against Trump (and yes, I used the words "trump up" on purpose because it was funny). If Trump was guilty of a crime he would have been already arrested, tried and convicted. Why do I say that? Because unlike every other politician that has ever served in any office, you guys are all up in his butt, nonstop. Looking for anything.

Your Jan 6th committee was a great big nothing burger. Well.... Every single attempt you guys could think up or fabricate has all been a big nothing burger. Here's the thing.

If Trump was actually guilty of some crime then I would stand 100% with you on convicting him. You guys can't even invent anything that will stick. The best you could do is to get a Democratic controlled House to fabricate 2 impeachments and, no surprises here, you guys impeached him. And it was on the flimsiest charges ever brought before the House.

I love it when and article on NBC's website has links to CNN and the Washington Post. One unreliable source is referring to two other sources who are even less reliable.

How about this. IF (and that is a huge if) your crack team of crime fabricators ever do make something stick, then you can let us know. But until then, I really just do not care about all of the minutia you guys rummage through 24/7.

It's like they all went into a backwards machine. LOL, everything they say about Dems, applies to them and they don't even see it!

LOL, yeah, didnt you know that the same exact facts are true on FOX but lies on NBC?! Every true patriot knows this!

Not sure I follow why this matters. Were his businesses supposed to only break even, or lose money while he was POTUS?

Officially at least, his kids were in charge while he was in office. I can't imagine he didn't still have a big say in what went on though, right?

yes "his kids" and he knew nothing about the tax fraud either..... jfc why do you hypocrites keep defending the indefensible? but her emails...... reeeeee

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/19/958472500/how-trumps-businesses-benefited-during-his-presidency

I don't know why you feel the need to baselessly attack me for asking a simple question, which you refused to answer.

Read what I wrote again. I said "officially at least" in regards to his kids running the businesses, which should lead anyone with an 8th grade reading comprehension level to easily infer that I was saying he was still running things. I also clearly said that I can't imagine he didn't still have a big say in what went on, which really doesn't take any ability to infer.

So you read all of that, and then attack me, call me a hypocrite and accuse me of defending him, which I did not do.

Now that you've taken your gloves off, I will say that I don't care who it is that's president president, if they have businesses they were running before they took office, those businesses are not supposed to only break even or lose money. They might, but they're not required to.

Just because a person becomes POTUS, any person, does not mean their prior businesses need to go down the drain, which is pretty clearly the message of the meme. So on any rational meme rating scale, that meme rates as an utter, total FAIL.

Hey if you are not defending him, then its all good. For years we have put up with his sleeze and lies and flat out murder via Covid denial and Jan 6. If you are truly interested in how a business and potus should not mix, do a little reading on Jimmy Carter and how he handled it.

My interest in Carter is pretty low. The bottom line is, that I asked you if his businesses were supposed to only break even or go broke while he was POTUS, and you've avoided answering that question multiple times now.

You really should just admit it, you want to see him fail because... why? You just hate him. You've lost your objectivity. I can be objective and recognize both the bad and the good about him. I doubt you find any good in him. That's pretty much the definition of lack of objectivity.

Tell us how Joe Biden is good.

I will if you can tell me how Trump is good.

See, this is the game you play. You are the one who made the claim, I called you on it and now what we have here is a failure for you to communicate. I will if you can tell me how Biden is good.......

Yeah, it's our fault he's a monster.....what was the objective good that hitler did? was he nice to dogs? FFS.

The point is grifter trump gamed the system unlike any other president. He ignored rules and did what he wanted. He PROFITED off the office in a criminal way but you pretend he didn't. You pretend he's just another president and then you demonize Joe Biden the same way and worse, that you say we do to trump...MAGA tears.

I can see why you ended up deleted... it's too bad, you're fun to talk to.

His businesses should not have been his business. Jimmy sold his so as not to have any conflicts of interest. It was a freaking peanut farm. How many spies, russians, foreign diplomats, how many anyones stayed at his hotel to gain favor with him instead of somewhere else? How much did trump charge the Secret Service in rent while they were protecting him in his 'businesses'? He is a straight up conman, crook and enemy of this and all free nations.

You are correct, he does not have one redeeming quailty. Its like saying there were good things about Hitler.

But Ok.. lets hear it, what do you think is 'good' about the scumbag?

Right now, today, this moment, former Traitor-In-Chief Trump is STILL charging Secret Service SIX times the normal rate charged to others visiting Mar-a-Lago to protect his treasonous fascist ass.

How do we know this, modda? Just like the media, people can say anything they want here on imgflip. Sure, the lemmings are very likely to believe the media since they don't want to think for themselves. So unless you can prove it (unlike the media) I will reserve judgment. In other words, it may be true, but you really should provide some objective source(s) as proof. I know, the left doesn't care about objectivity and the truth, especially when it comes to the orange man being bad. I'm wasting my time attempting to deal in the truth with libs.

Did Jimmy really have enough of a business to make it matter? I haven't checked, but I'll speculate his business was 'peanuts' compared to Trump's.

I never said Trump doesn't have one redeeming quality. He did a lot of good for the country while he was POTUS. Of course he was far from perfect, so there's also a lot of bad.

Regarding what he charges the Secret Service, it would be too easy for me to deflect and point out the similarities with the excesses it costs to protect Hunter Biden (according to reports and sources!) so I won't really do that. The bottom line when it comes to anything the media tells us about Trump is that I don't believe it until I check it out. This is because I know for a fact that they've lied to us dozens of times (more, probably). I haven't checked that out, so you could be right, and you could be wrong. But doing so seems like small change, so at a minimum I'm skeptical.

Regarding what he did that was good, and I'm not talking his personality, because that's rough. He's his own worst enemy with the crap that comes flying out of his mouth. Those who love him unconditionally seem to think he's a great speaker, but I don't. He's good at getting a rally all riled up, but that's low hanging fruit.

If you don't remember the high employment rate when he was president, it's because you don't want to. And that includes record high employment for all the so-called minorities that the libs love to count up in their little identity boxes. The economy was booming until it was shut down due to covid, in part because he created nearly 9,000 Opportunity Zones which benefit those in the identity boxes. I think it's pretty safe to say that without covid, he would have easily won re-election.

We were net energy independent under Trump. The border was a mess, but WAY better than under Biden. And I'm sure libs will disagree, but I loved his foreign policy. ISIS was crushed. Allies started to pay their fair share for defense. HE brokered the Abraham Accords, the only real progress in middle east peace since when? The Clinton administration? And yes, he pulled us out of the Iran deal, which was good. Look at what Biden is doing to reinstate that. He's kissing Putin's ass. And yes, Putin did not invade any of his neighbors on Trump's watch, which can't be said for presidents Obama and Biden.

So yeah, Trump did some bad, but he did some good. It's usually that way for presidents, regardless of party. You should try to be more objective.

Did a lot of good? I am sure Hitler 'did a lot of good' for Germany too. Please enlighten us as to what 'good' he did.

‘This is deadly stuff’: Tapes show Trump acknowledging virus threat in February
In a series of on-the-record interviews with Bob Woodward, the president struck a very different tone about the disease.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/09/trump-coronavirus-deadly-downplayed-risk-410796

House panel: Trump’s bills to Secret Service ‘exorbitant’

https://apnews.com/article/travel-business-donald-trump-carolyn-maloney-137ff64160fa894ac8c0821bb5f0e7f8

How? There's a thing called "facts"
"Facts," despite what il Douche Dondolf Drumpf has convinced, in his words, "the poorly educated" (which form his Cult45 base) still exist.

Hope this helps!

GOPs albatross

Between the fact that there are actually still some Republicans (the older connected ones with money) who aren't all that enamored with Fascism and the growing fatigue over the constant dramarama for someone whose name is helping to torpedo the electability of of an increasing number his bandwagon dimwits, looks like they might be seeking a new strategy to take over.

LOL!!!!! The whole Orange Fart Stain reply has to be the best yet. Inspired a meme! BTW trump is both a con and a genital.....

... rhymes with "wart"?

I'm not sure if I came up with "Orange Fart Stain," so I Googled it just in case, nothing came up. I know someone had said "orange stain" recently, so I may have derived it from that....

Wow modda, you're on a roll when it comes to getting the last post in a thread. I gotta say though, your obsession with Hunter's D has no waned one bit. I'm officially concerned about you.

A week later and you're still obsessing over Hunter's?

Sorry modda, I have to reply here because the thread maxed out.

"No, I'm not "better than that." Whatever that means."

It's too bad you think that, because it means you normally come at people with more fact-based replies instead of just ranting against the orange man. It means you're smart enough that you don't have to rant, because you can present facts instead. Sorry to see you're not better than that.

You seem to be in a bit of a ranting mode today, so I'll just drop off after this. I will say that you guys on the left love to think that you've got Trump by the balls, but it's been how long now and he's still around? You guys are always talking about proof when those on the right said that there were things like shadow banning going on at Twitter, but now that we have the proof, you're either silent, or doubling down on suppressing free speech. If you're so certain that there are so many facts about Trump, why is he not in jail? Take if from one who watched the Comey press conference about HRC and her server, it ain't that easy to put somebody like that in the slammer. Good luck with that though.

Lemme guess, another wall of repitition totally irrelevant to the subject (whatever that was) featuring pass/aggr ad hominems about as lethal as a single use balsa wood spoon?

"A week later and you're still obsessing over Hunter's?"

Sorry modda, but you're the one who keeps bringing up his D. I could absolutely not care any less about it, but apparently not you. That's why I'm worried about you, friend.

My gosh, he's still at it!
And that memer wasn't you, unless...

I'm not your friend.

Come on modda, you're better than that. Or at least I thought you were. You can call Trump whatever names you want, and it proves nothing. Other than the probability that you have no objectivity when it comes to the tangerine tornado.

Yeah, facts, I believe in them as they are a critical component of freedom of speech, which the left has decided to take a piss all over. The left are the new fascists.

Can you name one fascist govt that didn't get its start by suppressing the ability of their opposition to speak freely? You can't do it, because it doesn't exist.

No, I'm not "better than that." Whatever that means.
Oh, and you and 4 or 5 others tried that last year one half week, didn't work then, it ain't working now. Only the genuine affect me. Fakers never have.

Speaking of.... that aint a fake Truth Social Tweeter, them are Derp Fuhrer Drumpf's actual words. Although you are correct. Fascist? pfffffft, unless that title is a consolation prize for yet another thing this loser failed at. This orange fart stain couldn't lick Mussolini's scro if he was still around.

What kind of severe brain damage must a congenital imbecile have sustained to go post seditious shit like that when the aspect of sedition charges were already flapping around his neck like an drunken albatross with jagged lead plated wings?

Also, that $4.2 billion averages out to $600 million per year. For a multi-billionaire, that's not all that great. So what's the beef with his businesses still making money?

Bwahahaa!
I was watching Herbie Hancock and The Headhunters performing Watermelon Man. They better watch out for the PC police! 👍🏿

He's the president who desegregated the military. Doesn't sound racist to me

But, but, but... Octavia, according to recent leftist dogma, it's not what you do that matters, it's what you say. So if you say something that would make you 'cancel-worthy' by whatever criterion the dems made up to use today, then that's it. You're out!

Bye bye Harry!!!

LOL! What is he out of? RIP Harry....

Please read my post again, heck, start over on the whole thread if you have to, but this time focus on the subject of what I wrote, and see if you can catch on to the obvious. Thanks.

LOL!!!! No need to do all that. You can't answer the question. The guy is DEAD and gone. He's not out of anything 'cept life!! Maybe you mean his ghost?! Like the ghost of Hugo Chavez?

Bye bye Elvis!!! hahahahahahaha Thanks.

I can answer the question, I just chose not to. I honestly thought you shouldn't have even asked it. You didn't need to, IF you had put the slightest bit of effort into actually comprehending what I wrote.

You are a bit non-fast, I see, and since you're not energetic enough to read it again and use your own brain power to figure it out, I'll explain it to you.

"So if you say something that would make you 'cancel-worthy' by whatever criterion the dems made up to use today, then that's it. You're out!"

Are you naïve enough to believe you have to be alive to be cancelled? That question alone should explain to you what I was talking about. Hell, the left doesn't care if you're dead or alive once they decide to violate your right to free speech and cancel you. Harry Truman is just as much at risk as any living person. Granted, the left prefers fresh raw meat, so they spend more time trying to cancel the living. But if they see a chance to cancel the dead, they're all over it.