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(66,530 posts)So...bonus!
bdamomma
(63,974 posts)slim minority of people who would vote for him. There are more of us than them. Just sharing that.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,968 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,513 posts)because I'm worred about it, and worried they might be closing. We could drive banks crazy trying to find out.
SilasSouleII
(364 posts)Banks can close(debank) accounts that they asess are a risk to the bank. Drug money accounts, criminal organizations(like trump org.), proud boys(already debanked by paypal).
oldsoftie
(12,675 posts)Its happened to me with Wells Fargo. Totally legal business but they'll tell me I have to close the account. Eventually I quit them, but I made them spend a lot; I'd simply open a new acct every time they did ti. Opening a new account costs them a few 100 bucks so I got a little satisfaction. Plus the local bankers weren't to blame but they got credit for "opening new accounts".
Its discrimination and it shouldn't be allowed.
dpibel
(2,896 posts)oldsoftie
(12,675 posts)Its an ATM servicing (cash loading) small business. Private ATMs like you see in stores & bars. They'll see the daily deposits from an ATM processor & somehow it'll fall something somewhere. Even though its totally LEGAL.
niyad
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GP6971
(31,275 posts)niyad
(113,966 posts)marble falls
(57,542 posts)marble falls
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OAITW r.2.0
(24,786 posts)he is fucked 6 ways to Sunday. He's losing his fortune, the house of Trump cards are falling down. Then you have stolen docs, 1/6, Defamation suits......and. while he needs to keep pumping for MAGA dollars, he can hardly string a coherent sentence together, at his rallies.
Rooting for him to be the nominee and then watch the polls and his decline.
Question. Trumps flames out, in spectacular fashion around July/August. What's the Republican back-up plan?
Lovie777
(12,408 posts)"No Labels" (the new and improved GQP).
OAITW r.2.0
(24,786 posts)GOP is melting down if Trump flames out. A mass exit of Republican voters to "No Labels"?
Pretty weird, but maybe this is the end of the GOP, reconstituted as "No Labels"....no idea's or policies, either.
DBoon
(22,430 posts)Captain Zero
(6,868 posts)imho
COL Mustard
(5,975 posts)Until I realized I was pissing away my vote by doing that.
oldsoftie
(12,675 posts)Trump is a threat to the US and the free world. Nobody else the GOP would put out there is even close to the threat he is
mcar
(42,474 posts)their set in stone theme of "Biden is old and incapable" (despite reality), vs "Trump is popular and inevitable despite his issues" is journalist malpractice and dangerous.
erronis
(15,470 posts)than journalistic integrity.
PatrickforB
(14,605 posts)on its online articles, and one time I disagreed with their reporting because it seemed untrue.
So I posted that the NYT's editors have no real fiduciary responsibility to truth in news because of the doctrine of Shareholder Primacy, which began in 1919.
The NYT did not approve that post and so it never showed. This is one of only a handful of times when one of my comments was not published. The Times allows me to rail against Shareholder Primacy when I am commenting on some other corporation, but not their own shop.
For your reference, the NYT is listed on the NYSE and is currently trading at $48 per share.
Just saying. This is why you need to go to other sources for the real truth. The largest institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc, BlackRock Inc., Farallon Capital Management Llc, Stockbridge Partners LLC, ValueAct Holdings, L.P.
Meredith Kopit Levien is the NYT CEO. She has a net worth of $13.5 million, and 'earned' $7.5 million in 2022.
To repeat, her ONLY fiduciary responsibility as CEO of NYT is to generate profits for shareholders. That is it. She is not responsible for truth in news, for worker welfare, for consumer welfare or the environment. Only PROFITS.
And you know, I have been thinking long and hard about this, and the fulcrum whereby we could force publicly traded media organizations to publish truth in news would be to overturn the Shareholder Primacy doctrine and replace it with a stakeholder approach to governance whereby truth in news, worker and consumer interests and the environment are held equal in importance with shareholder profits. If we made this seemingly minor change in the rules, and then enforced it, the public would be in for a real awakening.
erronis
(15,470 posts)I've wondered about having for-profit corporations being treated as publication outlets for the US (or state/etc.) governments. As you state, the NYT is the paper-of-record - not only for official notices but also because it has assumed that position and much of the business world is in deference. Seems way too easy for this outlet to subtly change messaging (not always subtle, I know) and lead the readers astray.
Same for the new tech outlets, especially Xitter (dead blue bird) where many government agencies publish articles and the owner is a crazy/evil zealot. So easy for him to modify messages and create havoc.
I cancelled my NYT a few months ago and am still receiving the WaPo but probably not for much longer. The Guardian is my most trusted news source as well as many RSS feeds from many smaller outlets.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,968 posts)dalton99a
(81,708 posts)bluestarone
(17,128 posts)Mentally EVIL! He, 100% knows exactly what he's doing, just like ALL his cultist followers!!
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Ford_Prefect
(7,935 posts)In his fear that legal retribution is at hand, along with relative poverty.
His neice has diagnosed his pathology and has called his bizarre and dangerous behavior out at every turn.
Someone needs to make the case that he is not competent. Sadly too many people have their political and financial futures invested in propping him up.
MadameButterfly
(1,118 posts)to save us. Once he's president he can be Caligula and no once can stop him.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,968 posts)The rate of TFG's decline seems to be accelerating
Link to tweet
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-confuses-nikki-haley-pelosi-talking-jan-6-rcna134863
The mixup came during Trump's remarks to a crowd of supporters in Concord, N.H., where he spoke for more than 90 minutes and repeatedly bashed Haley, who served in his administration as an ambassador to the United Nations and has never been a member of Congress.
Nikki Haley, you know they, do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it. All of it because of lots of things like Nikki Haley is in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guard, whatever they want. They turned it down. They dont want to talk about that. These are very dishonest people, Trump said......
Trump's gaffe comes as he frequently portrays President Joe Biden, 81, as confused and mentally unfit for office. The former president, 77, has previously confused politicians during his speeches. In September, Trump confused Biden with former President Barack Obama, saying "with Obama, we won an election that everyone said couldn't be won."
During the same September speech, Trump also said that "we would be in World War II very quickly if we're going to be relying on" Biden.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,574 posts)MadameButterfly
(1,118 posts)that he'll fall apart fast enough. The undecided low-information voters will need a slew of these, but perhpas they are coming. He's under a lot of stress and probably taking drugs.
Blue Owl
(50,596 posts)Do the universe a favor...
UTUSN
(70,793 posts)Orrex
(63,295 posts)That would be just about the best thing ever.
The actual best thing ever would be if he'd been born with some horrifically painful congenital malady that tortured him every second of his shitty, miserable, decades-overlong existence.
But if we can't have that, then I'll settle for watching him suffer a stroke so powerful that it pops both eyes from his skull.
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Dulcinea
(6,692 posts)It sucks, but Dolt 45 will be the GOP nominee. He'll most likely lose. As of 11/6, he needs to go away forever.
Orrex
(63,295 posts)Anything to enhance his suffering and humiliation.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,968 posts)Dave Bowman
(1,898 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,968 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,674 posts)Ask his niece, Mary.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,968 posts)stage left
(2,967 posts)He is still above ground.
niyad
(113,966 posts)Kennah
(14,369 posts)Tribetime
(4,732 posts)BootinUp
(47,222 posts)I don't feel like they are going to listen to us liberals/progressives.
Warpy
(111,470 posts)He has already demonstrated that.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,968 posts)capable of even understanding the job.
Tornado
(3 posts)I will not have competed peace until he is not reelected. The vision of him being president again after every thing he's done and what I've heard and seen is horrifying to me. It's almost like there is some invisible ray beem controlling the minds of his followers because it is so profoundly clear to me what he is and what he is not.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,968 posts)Paladin
(28,287 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,956 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,956 posts)live love laugh
(13,222 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,968 posts)et tu
(965 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,389 posts)republianmushroom
(13,900 posts)progressoid
(50,021 posts)Hope22
(1,909 posts)If he is on the ballot in November he will wage an even bigger insurrection. He will never ever stand down. It is the fight for his life. Screw the rest of us!
bif
(22,831 posts)Hassler
(3,402 posts)Colludy Rudy's hair dye.
Dave Bowman
(1,898 posts)Lol, that's a good one. From now on I think that I'll just call him The Stinking Madman.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,968 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,968 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,968 posts)TFG's senility is becoming too obvious to ignore
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mental-decline-2667026074/
As the MSNBC host noted, the Trump campaign is hoping to make President Joe Biden's age a central theme of their attacks, but the GOP has a serious Trump problem.
"You know, I spent a lot of time with Joe Biden. I can tell you, Joe Biden knows where he is. He knows what decade he's in, he sure as hell knows who he is running against there's just really no comparison here," he exclaimed. "Yeah, you want to talk about who is addled? This is an easy one. Let's talk about who is addled. Who is addled is a guy who can't even remember that Barack Obama hasn't been president of the United States in eight years.".....
"Except for the fact he is in 2016 most of the time; even in 2016, he forgets who he ran against. He talks about the landslide victory against Barack Obama," Scarborough insisted. "Jonathan Lemire, let me bring you in here because I know you've been seeing this. He talks about the landslide against Obama. He talks about Obama so much as president of the United States, that on the radio show, [Fox host] Brian Kilmeade has to interrupt him and correct him.... his mind is scrambled eggs when he gets up there and gets tired. He really thinks that he is running against Barack Obama. just like he thought Nikki Haley was speaker of the House on January 6th."