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      Don’t expect internal consistency from the guy who says media can’t be trusted and is fake news, but immigrants are eating people’s dogs and cats because someone said it on TV.

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    Trump is a psychopath that should not be allowed to drive a car let alone a country.

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      His presidency, and presence in politics at all beyond the local kook level, is a strong indication that the US is a failed state circling the toilet.

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        US is not a failed state, that’s just factually untrue and is just emotional storytelling.

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          The DNC has rigged three primaries in a row, yet has continued to struggle against the same crook that can’t form a sentence. It doesn’t fit the exact definition of “failed state”, but do we need to split that hair?

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              I did not say the DNC is the state. I am suggesting that the way the two-party system has developed is an indication of a failed state.

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                The two-party system developed practically immediately after the formation of the country. Even the parties in Congress under Washington were beginning to form into two parties before the second President was elected.

                There’s a reason for this, and it’s primarily because the constitution, while certainly a step forward in many respects from shitty ass monarchy, was written by fallible, flawed people who could not anticipate the consequences of some of the decisions they were making with regards to governmental structure. Other countries, using founding documents written after the late 1700s and governments formulated afterwards, were likely able to put the US’s example to good use and able to analyze what should have been done differently.

                We could hypothetically pull the country out of the “two-party system” rut, but it requires a large degree of change to how we conduct elections, and may even require constitutional amendments. A more pragmatic approach is likely to build a movement in local politics with a third party, and then slowly use the accumulated power upwards to change things via state governments, and then finally change the federal system.

                EDIT: Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States (1st US Congress was in 1789, first two major political parties began to form in…wait for it…1789).

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      Guessing he isn’t allowed to drive a car - I remember Al Gore complaining about how they never got to drive any more [after the VP era], as the secret service wouldn’t let them.

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      Trump is a psychopath that should not be allowed to drive a car let alone a country.

      Good news then, presidents and former presidents aren’t allowed to drive themselves. So at least we won’t have to deal with Trump claiming that deep state operatives switched the gas and brake peddles.

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      Yeah, but he has millions of shares he paid nothing for.

      He’s going to be the only one who doesn’t lose money, because he paid nothing for his stock.

      Even if it’s $0.01 the day he can sell, it’s all profit.

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        Someone has to buy the stock that he sells. It doesn’t magically turn into money cause it has a listed value that day.

        Sure, there can be some money laundering and foreign “investments” but the SEC really doesn’t like stock manipulation.

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        If he can sell all his 115M shares for $0.72 (doubtful) he’ll have just enough to pay off E. Jean Carroll.

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          What?

          It’s at 15.49, I think he can sell a week or two after the election. It’ll keep falling, but he has a financial incentive to push it more and more in the run up to the election.

          He went back to Twitter for the views, but immediately after the election he’ll pivot back to pumping it full time.

          Id be surprised if it’s under $5. Someone that wants a favor could buy millions of it, hoping that if more do it or the rubes buy in, it would be a bribe that actually made money.

          Classic pyramid scheme shit. The more that do it, the more others will because the price goes up.

          I’d be surprised if it’s less than this by the time trump can sell, and if he loses I think it’ll really jump up immediately after the election

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    Trump’s base never catches on to the endless excuses this man has. 9 years no healthcare plan. Attacking and lasing out and then expect anyone who isn’t them to be nice to them and treat them with respect lol.

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      They have a victimhood complex and their chosen propagandists back up their feelings with lie after lie about how they’re all poor victims of the big bad liberal. They don’t see these things as excuses, they’re “perfectly legitimate complaints” to them :(

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      They all kind of know it. It’s just that probably they think that all politicians are dirty and so they are happy with their extra dirty guy. They also like the bigotry.

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    Last night, to my wife: “He’s going to claim ABC was rigged against him and that the debate moderators were slanted against him”

    This morning:

    So predictable.

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    The second the moderators fact checked him I told my wife, he’s going to say it’s rigged and it was a conspiracy between ABC and the Democrats. It was really awesome to him flounder when they did that. Just a flat, “There is no state in which it’s legal to kill a baby. And now to Harris”

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    “Rigged” is a consistent word he uses when he doesn’t get his way. Let’s not forget that what he says is also a projection, so he’s totally going to try and “rig” the election where he can to give himself any advantages. And then on a loss will throw anything he can at the system to claim once again that he was cheated.

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    dude was fired and now he’s crawling back to the same job like worm. Just find a new job dude

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    The minute Trump sells even a single one of his stocks, it’s over. The price will be $0 in minutes. The only ones that are left are the ones that are betting that he’ll win in November and send the stocks soaring. If Trump even signals that he’s looking to cash out, the investors will trample over his fat ass to make sure they get out before he does.

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      Unfortunately apparently a bunch of people holding vanguard ETFs will also be holding the bag since that stock got so high at one point vanguard picked it up…

      Sad vanguard user noises… :(

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          I don’t unfortunately. I hope I’m not blindly spreading misinformation but it was a comment from another user who was pushing back on the idea that vanguard supports Trump in any way. They were saying it was essentially what I said, just picked up by vanguard as it hit some high mark.

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            No worries. Personally based on my experiences, Vanguard funds are pretty well managed and even the riskiest funds wouldn’t be over indexed on a given stock.

            For instance, with $VOOG, only three out of the over two hundred holdings are over 10% by weight. Companies like Amazon, Meta, and Google didn’t even make the cut for 10%. Even if $DJT was included in a Vanguard fund, I would be surprised if the shares of that fund moved significantly in response to $DJT losing value.

            Obligatory: I am not a licensed financial adviser, this comment is my opinion and should not be considered financial advice.

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    I love that his campaign kept complaining about Harris not getting fact checked as hard.

    Harris definitely spun a few things, but she wasn’t throwing out crazy ass lies like eating pets and throwing out newborn babies.