Woodward has over 300 hours of interviews on tape for this book. The guy is no fly-by-night reporter, and I am pretty sure he knew that these folks would deny the comments. I would strongly doubt he would put anything in a book or article that he could not back up with evidence

Yet, Dear Leader feeds on the hate, PROMOTES hate, uses hate to fight his long-held grudges (Turning this against the NFL because he was denied a franchise ownership), whips his sycophant sheep "base" into a frenzy, and of course, encourages his base to shout down contrary opinion, rather than listening with an open mind.

So let me get this straight, Project Mockingbird was running in 1963, and it proves Hillary was a Satanist in '63 and was wearing a rabbit coat? Going by the name Alice?

That explains EVERYTHING now why Trump was meeting with the Russians in 2016 , to encourage collusion in the US 2016 presidential election. Is it too late to change my vote for president? The Bone Spur is GOD!

[Every day I get more and more scared for this country with Trump behind the wheel]

Can you cite your sources saying people on the dole are less apt to vote?

Also, can you tell me why, according to your logic and the evidence I cited, that people in red states are not looking for work? The blue states are sick of paying for their welfare.

Maybe they are wall builders, waiting for that big government contract. Oh wait, that will move them from one portion of the dole to another portion of the dole.

Thanks Tom, but you missed the point.

If you had a company and you hired an empty suit like Trump, How would you feel with him destroying YOUR business?

He IS the CEO, and answers to the stockholders (taxpayers) and the Board (Congress)

But i never said he was CEO of MY company, I said i hired him as an employee who "looked good on paper" and "came well recommended"

I was told in the threads here by a Trump supporter that "If I hire a person , it's not because he speaks well or seems so nice but does a so-so job. I want to hire some one the expands my business so I can hire more people so they can make the company more money so I can hire more people to expand my business" This was their standard for Trump. Their argument, not mine.

Well, we tried to ignore him, but his blunders just won't stop making news.

But speaking of fixations, Trump has an odd fixation on Obama, don't you think? Been 18 months and the guy is still comparing himself to the former POTUS.

Never thought I would miss Nixon in the White House

In another thread, we tried to assess the president's job so far, based on if he was hired as an employee for my firm, or your business, or as anyone's employee. Picture this: I am told that a person I am interviewing is someone "who gets things done". I am told by the person he is being referred by that "If I hire a person , it's not because he speaks well or seems so nice but does a so-so job. I want to hire some one the expands my business so I can hire more people so they can make the company more money so I can hire more people to expand my business"

I thought this concept needed to be in it's own topic. "If Trump was YOUR direct employee in YOUR own business, would you keep him on?"

I am now into my 18th month of this guy on the job in my firm, and I am asking myself "was he a good hire, or not?"

What has this guy accomplished for my company? He came aboard with a lot of ideas (A reference to his "first 100 days promises" can be found here, as a reference just to the promises themselves, we can leave the editorial comments aside: https://www.npr.org/2017/04/24/520159167/trumps-100-day-action-plan-annotated) I see him taking credit for stuff that the last employee in his slot did during his tenure (jobs growth, recovering economy). Also, I see that the stuff he promised to take action on not being worked, yet my new employee tells me that the meters I was previously using are all "fake", and that I should believe HIM, not all of them, because he is doing a GREAT job. I worry about the new employee being unstable, saying the meters are all "out to get him". It is almost like that old Groucho Marx line "Who are you going to believe, ME, or your lying eyes?" My employee is blaming things like his tardiness and absenteeism on "the clocks are wrong" and "that calendar is incorrect".

Whenever I try to critique the employee, as a way of fostering constant improvement, he uses excuses for not getting a task done like "the last guy who had the job sucked", or "the other person who you were interviewing for this job is crooked". When I reply "yes, and the last person is gone, and we did not hire that other person, so blaming them is not important, and I need you to do YOUR job and stop talking about them", the employee can't drop the useless excuses, and takes to social media to ridicule me in front of whoever sees it, embarrassing me and degrading the image of my company.

My company has paid for extensive marketing research that business decisions are being based on, and this information is "sensitive business intelligence" that I don't want my competitors to see. I now have proof that this new employee is sharing it with my competitors, without my or my board of directors approval.

My new employee is ticking off some of my best customers, loyal buyers who have kept my company in business all these years, people who always pay on time and can be counted on in time of disaster. Good customers are tough to get, and if my new employee caused them to not trust my product anymore, is that helping or hurting my business?

My new employee then stirs up all this competition with a little mom-and-pop store down the street, one that is due to go out of business on its own soon. He then goes down, makes a big deal about meeting with them and says they have agreed to no longer compete with my company. The little company now tells everyone that in the meeting they made my company make consessions, and that the they told my lawyers and so forth to go blow smoke. The attention my employee gave the old mom-and-pop has breathed new life into their firm. Did my employee screw up? His actions had just the opposite effect he claimed he would, but he denies it.

Inside my company, my new employee promises he is going to greatly reduce the price for lunch in the cafeteria, and he is going to build a huge fitness center in the parking lot. My company can't afford to subsidize the cafeteria any more than we already are, and I have no money to build a health club. To do these things, I would have to borrow more money from the bank, and I have already enough outstanding loans as it is. He says I should get the other business on the block to pay for our health club, and he will tell that CEO to do so. The other CEO LAUGHS at him. But, my new employee has duped a small portion (@30%) of my other employees into thinking he is some kind of magician, and that he can get the health center built without my company having to do layoffs to pay for it. They are good employees, but clueless, and every company meeting devolves into shouting matches regarding the health center. The banks who hold my loans are seeing this non-attention to business, and I am wondering if they might call in the notes, taking possession of my company, effectively shuttering my business.

I had to warn my new employee that we are due to replace some members of the Board of Directors in November, and that they might not appreciate his lack of productive activity, and his rule-breaking. Instead of taking this advice as a warning, he warned ME that if I try anything to fire him, he will whip his friends up to riot.

Like I say, this is YOUR company, and you have to ask yourself: "Is this a good employee for MY company?"

If he cuts welfare, he is going to tick off his own base.... red states lead the states on the dole, while blue states foot the bill for that welfare with a heavier tax burden:

https://www.apnews.com/2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c

Let me guess, "fake news"?

Definitely class. He didn't demand respect, he earned it.

The Japanese in World War II were also convinced their Emperor was a living god, and were committed to support him to the very end, even if it meant sacrificing themselves on the steps of the royal palace as the last ring of defense.

Think, if that happens in America, and the Trump supporters kill themselves on the steps of the Capitol, it might raise the collective IQ of the country by 10 points. Wow, the audience for shows like "Keeping up with the bimbos", "Honey Boo Boo" and all those other 'reality' TV shows will disappear! No more WWE or NASCAR either! It truly MIGHT make America great again!

Wow, "Promises made, promises kept", but you can't name any.

And if he was YOUR employee, you probably would have canned him already. Even if he was telling you what a good job he was doing for your company?


And I asked you to change my mind about him, and you simply imply I am unable to understand his greatness. Well, I can turn that around and say that you and the other brainwashed folks who support him are either too naive or stubborn to admit that he has done nothing but dupe you.

Meanwhile, we are not risking a plumbing business or a McDonald's franchise, but a COUNTRY on this do-nothing employee.

I seriously would have developed more respect for you if you had just answered "I have no response". Instead, you couldn't give me any evidence to change my mind, so I must have a strong point.

Wow, interesting. Are you now going to bring up the Jimmy the Greek argument that DNA makes Colin more suited to running than being a QB, because of his "kinesiology"? Are you implying that black DNA is inferior? You DID make a point that he was raised by white parent.

He is out of work for the same reason that Tim Tebow is out of football; they draw too much negative attention to themselves, and then, to the team.... and oddly enough, both for taking a knee. Dez Bryant is seeing the same thing this season (albeit, without the knee), but someone might take a chance on him.

That as an intelligent statement as "I blame the Three Stooges, because as crazy as those guys are with saws and eye-poking, they never draw blood"

Even a decent marksman goes to the range occasionally, just as a golfer goes to the range. If they don't, they tend to hit around their target, not hit their target.

But the essence of your comment is that you are wishing their kill counts were higher? A subconscious wish that these black men would kill MORE of each other? Hmmmm, are your true colors showing? Not a fan of rap music for a similar reason? Careful, your "Southern" is showing, Georgia.

That is good to hear then.

I just can't see the survivability of a street foll of barbers. I mean, I tip generously, but no one is feeding a family on just my tips. And my hair is on a once-a-month cut schedule, so...

But yet, in another post today somewhere on this board, you identified as "Native American"

interesting.

Hey, if this survey is true, it IS great news.

I am continuing to look at it with cautious optimism though. Worried that the survey cites a lot of barber shops, and not a more diverse base of businesses.

Last week I drove through one of the more ethnic cities in my area, and saw a whole two-block stretch of their main street with side-by-side barber shops and beauty parlors, on each side of the street, with the infrequent pre-paid phone store in the middle. I commented to myself then that it seems that the area would need a TON of customers to keep that many barber chairs full.

Barber shops are big cash businesses, which are also good for money laundering of dope sales (also a big cash business)

Pre-paid phones are also another favorite of the dope industry.

I am hoping I am wrong

He will indeed be at the half. But no one can tell me the "more positive things done for this Country" that he has accomplished in the first half... the first half looks like he has not put anything on the scoreboard, and the folks in the arena are asking for a change of QB.

Of course, all the championship fans who don't understand the game are still wearing their pink MAGA shirts and hats.

Surfer Girl, Thanks for posting. I'll play. Let's break down your "misconceptions"

"You defame our executive with a boat full of, unsubstantiated lies and hear say. You offer ZERO proof of your jealous, hateful and WRONGFUL Accusation" On the contrary, Charles is one of the folks here who offers the MOST proof, continually citing his sources as evidence

"Trump should sue you for defamation of character." Trump can't, and for a few reasons:
- He is a public figure, and by being such, can't sue for that.
- Charles is offering his opinion, which is protected by the 1st ammendment
- Trump currently doesn't HAVE A LAWYER, because one is turning States Evidence against him (Cohen), and the other is a muddled old fool (Gulliani)

"Out of 42 other executives that have FAILED our Veterans entirely.
TRUMP; GAVE OUR MILITARY BACK THEIR FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN MEDICAL PROVIDERS" I would ask you to cite your sources. I was under the impression the medical providers for our active military were MILITARY DOCTORS. By saying "the other 42 presidents" is misleading, because there was no HMOs or healthcare networks for at least 35 of those presidents' terms

"TRUMP; GAVE EVERYONE A HUGE TAX CUT. INCLUDING INDIGENT PERSONS" Please define "huge". My estimates show that, with the loss of my home deduction, my taxes will be going UP this year. So much for the American dream of owning a house.

"TRUMP; ALL TIME HISTORICAL RECORD BREAKING HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES. ESPECIALLY AMONG PEOPLE OF COLOR." Been talked about here many times already. Obama's recovery actions havemeant unemployment numbers have been improving in a straight line for the past 8 years. Trump is just riding Obama's wave, he did not do a thing to cause the unemployment numbers to continue.

"TRUMP; ALL TIME HISTORICAL RECORD BREAKING HIGH STOCK MARKET RESULTS." Ditto Obama's recovery actions. The markets did spike in November, but have settled back down to stable growth in a straight line that Obama set in motion.

"TRUMP; IS MAKING PEACE WITH NORTH KOREA, RUSSIA AND OTHERS" Trump STIRRED UP N Korea so that he could go in there and look like he calmed them down, trying to get himself a Peace Prize because Obama has one. News this week is that Pompeo is staying home because Kim has not complied with the 'peace agreement' Trump supposedly got out of him. Let's not talk about Trump giving US intelligence to Russia without the OK of Congress.

"TRUMP; IS DEFENDING OUR 2ND AMENDMENT AS ALL OTHERS NEED TO DO." Trump indeed has done nothing to stop the violence that has seemed to have gotten worse since his young presidency has been going. Seems that the divide he is forstering in America is encouraging folks to take disagreements to violence.

"TRUMP; DELETED CLINTON/OBAMA'S HARMFUL ACTS OF PUTTING KIDS IN CAGES" Kids in cages? The border crossing kids? That is all Trump.

"TRUMP; DELETED THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL PARTS OF OBAMACARE. WIT WAS WRITTEN BY AWFUL, MIT ROMNEY!" Part of Trump's promises in his first 100 days was to "reverse every unconstitutional executive order written by Obama". This is actually one of the promises he kept, because since all of Obama's XOs were constitutional, there were none to reverse. (look it up)

"TRUMP; IS NOT AFRAID TOO DEFEND OUR BORDERS AGAINST FOREIGN INVASIONS AS THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS AFRAID OF DOING." This is a reach. What 'foreign invasion' (invasion by another country) has ever happened here in the US, beside the Russian Hackers helping him influence the election?

"TRUMP; DONATED HIS LIFETIME PRESIDENTIAL SALARY TO DISABLED VETERANS" Interesting. We obviously do not KNOW he did that, because we have not seen the tax returns he promised to release after the IRS audit. Also, can you tell me how much a sitting president gets paid? He is making more than that each month by requiring that anyone with business with him stay at the Trump Hotel in Washington. My firm has a team staying there right now because of merger talks.

"Stop! Selling out MY LIBERTY for your free phone!" I don't know exactly what this means, but I would rather Trump stop selling out my country to the Russians so he can get more property considerations in their country.

Wow, that DOES explain a lot.... if you spell "once" as "1nce", it probably screws up your Google search. Must be pretty frustrating to try to do RESEARCH for FACTS when you can't spell a four-letter word correctly.

Actually, as we have seen in the recent news piece from the AP, since the taxes levied on the predominantly Blue states are supporting the biggest welfare states, which happen to be RED states, one could correct that line to say

"Democrats work for hypocrites"