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Post by schlich on Jul 30, 2016 19:29:47 GMT
Does the one with more families value family values more?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2016 21:59:10 GMT
Does the one with more families value family values more? Indeed. Trump is a families' man.
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on Jul 31, 2016 15:44:40 GMT
In ^this^ midboggling statement you let everyone on here know your horrible knowledge of success in business. You are a sucker for propaganda. Alright you got me. I misread. Only three of four are related to casinos. This is too easy... "Yet time and again over the years, the Trump brand has been featured in many embarrassing high-profile flops in the business world. Here are some of the misfires attached to the “Trump” name. Trump Shuttle In 1989 the Eastern Air Shuttle was reborn as the Trump Shuttle, complete with a large “T” on the tails of the planes and—no joke—”gold lavatory fixtures.” The goal was to create a top-notch luxury flight service—they even paired with a company that rented laptops, which was cutting edge at the time—but the operation was hemorrhaging cash within weeks and was completely out of business by 1992. Trump: The Game The original catchphrase for the Monopoly-like Trump board game introduced in 1989 was the Trumpism “It’s not whether you win or lose, but whether you win!” Sales were underwhelming, to put it mildly. But after Trump became a cultural phenomenon in the reality TV show “The Apprentice,” the game was back on the market featuring a new expression: “You’re fired!” Trump Magazine “The Trump Brand evokes elegance and TRUMP Magazine will reflect the passions of its affluent readership by tapping into a rich cultural tapestry,” explained a 2007 press release introducing Trump Magazine. A year and a half later, the quarterly periodical, billed as a “highly anticipated ‘must read’ among VIPs and influencers,” had ceased publication. GoTrump.com Billed as his “biggest venture to date in the $80 billion online travel industry,” Donald Trump introduced this travel search engine powered by Travelocity in 2006. The site was supposed to host “Trump Picks” and “Trump Deals,” and it was accompanied by the introduction of The Donald’s “first-ever email address” (MrTrump@GoTrump.com) which he would be using to “offer travel tips and advice.” The site was shut down a year later. Trump Casinos The Atlantic City casino Trump Plaza, which was built in the 1980s at a cost of $210 million, was sold off at the “fire sale price” of $20 million in 2013, not long before several casinos shut down in the fading gambling destination. Trump insists that he cashed out the vast majority of his interests in the Trump Plaza and nearby Trump Taj Mahal long before Atlantic City property values tanked, but earlier this year he reached an agreement to keep his name on them. Trump Mortgage “Donald Trump is putting the suit and tie back in the mortgage business,” a 2006 press release explained of his brand new venture, Trump Mortgage. Whatever that means. Less than two years later, the suit and tie were back in the closet, or perhaps up for sale at the consignment store, so to speak, as Trump Mortgage closed up shop. Trump speedily downplayed the venture as well, saying, “The mortgage business is not a business I particularly liked or wanted to be part of in a very big way.” Trump Steaks AdAge described Trump Steaks, featured on the June 2007 cover of the Sharper Image catalogue, as like “a ‘Saturday Night Live’ spoof, but it’s not.” Trump Vodka Donald Trump made no secret of the fact that he doesn’t drink. Nonetheless, a decade ago he rolled out Trump Vodka and promised it would be “a major player in the vodka arena” because “it’s a superb product and it’s beautifully packaged,” and “there’s nobody who markets better in the luxury category than Donald Trump.” This is one “major player” that disappeared from the marketplace several years ago." You are as stupid as they come.
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on Jul 31, 2016 16:00:57 GMT
In ^this^ midboggling statement you let everyone on here know your horrible knowledge of success in business. You are a sucker for propaganda. You post reports from clcikbait sites that are retrated hours later. Dictionary definition of a low information voter. That's ok. All the memes in your Twitter feed agree with you. Young and dumb. This has just been too easy... "At least 60 lawsuits, along with hundreds of liens, judgments, and other government filings reviewed by the USA TODAY NETWORK, document people who have accused Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them for their work. Among them: a dishwasher in Florida. A glass company in New Jersey. A carpet company. A plumber. Painters. Forty-eight waiters. Dozens of bartenders and other hourly workers at his resorts and clubs, coast to coast. Real estate brokers who sold his properties. And, ironically, several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others. However, the consistent circumstances laid out in those lawsuits and other non-payment claims raise questions about Trump’s judgment as a businessman, and as a potential commander in chief. The number of companies and others alleging he hasn’t paid suggests that either his companies have a poor track record hiring workers and assessing contractors, or that Trump businesses renege on contracts, refuse to pay, or consistently attempt to change payment terms after work is complete as is alleged in dozens of court cases. In the interview, Trump repeatedly said the cases were “a long time ago.” However, even as he campaigns for the presidency, new cases are continuing. Just last month, Trump Miami Resort Management LLC settled with 48 servers at his Miami golf resort over failing to pay overtime for a special event. The settlements averaged about $800 for each worker and as high as $3,000 for one, according to court records. Some workers put in 20-hour days over the 10-day Passover event at Trump National Doral Miami, the lawsuit contends. Trump’s team initially argued a contractor hired the workers, and he wasn’t responsible, and counter-sued the contractor demanding payment. Trump’s companies have also been cited for 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act since 2005 for failing to pay overtime or minimum wage, according to U.S. Department of Labor data. That includes 21 citations against the defunct Trump Plaza in Atlantic City and three against the also out-of-business Trump Mortgage LLC in New York. Both cases were resolved by the companies agreeing to pay back wages. Trump's Doral golf resort also has been embroiled in recent non-payment claims by two different paint firms, with one case settled and the other pending. Last month, his company’s refusal to pay one Florida painter more than $30,000 for work at Doral led the judge in the case to order foreclosure of the resort if the contractor isn’t paid. Unpaid hourly workers Trump frequently boasts that he will bring jobs back to America, including Tuesday in a primary-election night victory speech at his golf club in suburban New York City. “No matter who you are, we're going to protect your job,” Trump said Tuesday. “Because let me tell you, our jobs are being stripped from our country like we're babies.” But the lawsuits show Trump’s organization wages Goliath vs David legal battles over small amounts of money that are negligible to the billionaire and his executives — but devastating to his much-smaller foes." Still trying to paw your way out of a wet paper bag. You just suck at politics!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2016 18:00:40 GMT
Yeah, those aren't the bankruptcies you staked your argument upon. Come back in twelve hours (per usual) after a few bong rips and a Daily Show rerun. Can't wait to see what you turn the argument into then.
Moving on!
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on Jul 31, 2016 18:04:13 GMT
An old tactic from your master. If someone disagrees with you, they are drunk or high.
You are taking a repeated beatdown.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2016 18:48:40 GMT
An old tactic from your master. If someone disagrees with you, they are drunk or high. You are taking a repeated beatdown. Exposed! You always come back when proven wrong and change the argument just so. It's pathetic and it's also fucking boring. Now it's not about Trump's bankruptcies, it's about the products he's used his branding to license. When I explain how branding is often used with inconsistent results, tomorrow the argument will shift again. No thanks.
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on Jul 31, 2016 19:02:39 GMT
You haven't explained anything well just tried to defend Trump. And you have looked bad doing it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2016 19:44:49 GMT
Do either of you plan to alter your lives in any meaningful way if your candidate does't get elected?
Personally, I don't really give a fawk who is in the Whitehouse. I'll just keep living like I have for the last 50 plus years. I'll survive.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2016 19:49:39 GMT
Do either of you plan to alter your lives in any meaningful way if your candidate does't get elected? Personally, I don't really give a fawk who is in the Whitehouse. I'll just keep living like I have for the last 50 plus years. I'll survive. No, but this argument did cost Utah my vote in the Bruinsboard survivor competition. He fought the good fight here though. The Bhab got more votes than his crush Hillary. Tough sell!
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on Aug 1, 2016 0:42:18 GMT
Do either of you plan to alter your lives in any meaningful way if your candidate does't get elected? Personally, I don't really give a fawk who is in the Whitehouse. I'll just keep living like I have for the last 50 plus years. I'll survive. I am not voting for either.
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Post by neelycam on Aug 2, 2016 19:30:30 GMT
See trumps Down 8 pts already ,soon to be in double digits
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Post by bookboy007 on Aug 2, 2016 20:07:52 GMT
Do either of you plan to alter your lives in any meaningful way if your candidate does't get elected? Personally, I don't really give a fawk who is in the Whitehouse. I'll just keep living like I have for the last 50 plus years. I'll survive. I am not voting for either. In a way, that's a vote for whoever wins.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2016 23:24:45 GMT
See trumps Down 8 pts already ,soon to be in double digits No, it's 8 to 3. I knew you were an illiterate.
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on Aug 3, 2016 0:10:12 GMT
I am not voting for either. In a way, that's a vote for whoever wins. In a referendum and initiative state I can have an impact locally. Local elections, state, city and county, I can have an impact. I can "write in" the presidential candidate that I would like to see win, and I will, but it will have no impact nationally in a solid blue state. I don't live in a battleground or purple state, I can't have an impact on a national level for a President. People who live in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Iowa, Wisconsin, Virginia and North Carolina etc. can and will have an impact on this years race.
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Post by 50belowzero on Aug 3, 2016 0:34:24 GMT
In a referendum and initiative state I can have an impact locally. Local elections, state, city and county, I can have an impact. I can "write in" the presidential candidate that I would like to see win, and I will, but it will have no impact nationally in a solid blue state. I don't live in a battleground or purple state, I can't have an impact on a national level for a President. People who live in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Iowa, Wisconsin, Virginia and North Carolina etc. can and will have an impact on this years race. You can have an impact on the "Survivor series" though!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2016 1:20:39 GMT
In a referendum and initiative state I can have an impact locally. Local elections, state, city and county, I can have an impact. I can "write in" the presidential candidate that I would like to see win, and I will, but it will have no impact nationally in a solid blue state. I don't live in a battleground or purple state, I can't have an impact on a national level for a President. People who live in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Iowa, Wisconsin, Virginia and North Carolina etc. can and will have an impact on this years race. You can have an impact on the "Survivor series" though!! NAS has that fawkin thing so rigged for himself he makes Hillary look like Mother Theresa.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2016 1:26:53 GMT
In a referendum and initiative state I can have an impact locally. Local elections, state, city and county, I can have an impact. I can "write in" the presidential candidate that I would like to see win, and I will, but it will have no impact nationally in a solid blue state. I don't live in a battleground or purple state, I can't have an impact on a national level for a President. People who live in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Iowa, Wisconsin, Virginia and North Carolina etc. can and will have an impact on this years race. You can have an impact on the "Survivor series" though!! He did...he insulted my nascent political views to the extent that I changed my vote for him to someone else!
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Post by badhabitude on Aug 3, 2016 2:51:38 GMT
Election is over here on the ProBoards. And thank God for that because we will hear enough about the elections for the next 97 days. As Trump tries to be more outrageous than yesterday.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2016 3:18:18 GMT
Election is over here on the ProBoards. And thank God for that because we will hear enough about the elections for the next 97 days. As Trump tries to be more outrageous than yesterday. Icarus Syndrome. He thinks nothing can touch him after he won the primary. The Republicans are spineless, if one of the top dogs came out and defended him, even just to say it was overblown, that would have helped.
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Post by bookboy007 on Aug 3, 2016 3:56:23 GMT
Election is over here on the ProBoards. And thank God for that because we will hear enough about the elections for the next 97 days. As Trump tries to be more outrageous than yesterday. Icarus Syndrome. He thinks nothing can touch him after he won the primary. The Republicans are spineless, if one of the top dogs came out and defended him, even just to say it was overblown, that would have helped. Most of the so called big dogs don't want him to win. He could set that party back 16 years if he gets 4, and they know it. Not endorsing Ryan or McCain looks petty and vindictive. Hands schmands, his insecurity is what makes you think he wears a kid's size jock. Calling the election rigged at this stage is like those "fans" who start calling their teams bitches and gutless at the first sign of adversity so they don't feel disappointed when they lose.
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Post by neelycam on Aug 3, 2016 3:58:48 GMT
See trumps Down 8 pts already ,soon to be in double digits No, it's 8 to 3. I knew you were an illiterate. He's down by 8 pts it's going to be a landslide you stupid fuck wad
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Post by NAS on Aug 3, 2016 4:03:08 GMT
You can have an impact on the "Survivor series" though!! NAS has that fawkin thing so rigged for himself he makes Hillary look like Mother Theresa. OMG. Dez has like 12 accounts and he's using them to vote for himself.
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on Aug 3, 2016 5:26:07 GMT
Icarus Syndrome. He thinks nothing can touch him after he won the primary. The Republicans are spineless, if one of the top dogs came out and defended him, even just to say it was overblown, that would have helped. Most of the so called big dogs don't want him to win. He could set that party back 16 years if he gets 4, and they know it. Not endorsing Ryan or McCain looks petty and vindictive. Hands schmands, his insecurity is what makes you think he wears a kid's size jock. Calling the election rigged at this stage is like those "fans" who start calling their teams bitches and gutless at the first sign of adversity so they don't feel disappointed when they lose. Classic Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Dumpster is the poster child!
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Post by walktheline on Aug 3, 2016 9:51:58 GMT
If there was a Trump 2.0 - the one who was going to be more presidential and civil after he secured the nomination - he'd have a real shot at beating the crooked hag. But he just can't seem to help himself.
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