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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Sun Jan 14, 2018, 07:37 PM Jan 2018

Donald Trump owes each and every American money (CNN)

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/14/opinions/trump-reality-show-cost-opinion-obeidallah/index.html

(CNN) Donald Trump owes each and every American money. And I don't mean the trickle-down economics kind that supposedly accompanies tax cuts to the one percent. I'm talking a check to every man, women and child for $3,239 per week until his presidency ends.

Why? Well, because Trump has cast us all in his dysfunctional reality show, and we deserve to be paid the SAG-AFTRA union minimum for being on a network reality show, which is currently $3,239 per week. True, we aren't cast members on an actual reality show. But Trump still owes us something for everything he is putting us through. The Trump presidency has been like the reality show "Hell's Kitchen" but with no kitchen and an extra helping of hell.

And Trump is indeed running his administration like a B-level reality show. Trump reportedly told his top aides "to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show." And Trump has done just that with public brawls, curse-laden name calling, public firings (akin to what he did on "The Apprentice&quot and the pitting of people against each other in his own administration.
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Donald Trump owes each and every American money (CNN) (Original Post) Stonepounder Jan 2018 OP
I hope Mueller finds that BILLION $$$$ he claimed as a loss to evade taxes for 20 years, L. Coyote Jan 2018 #1
I'll tell you what. I'm ready to sue the bastard Control-Z Jan 2018 #2
I've always wanted to be a SAG-AFTRA member DBoon Jan 2018 #3

L. Coyote

(51,134 posts)
1. I hope Mueller finds that BILLION $$$$ he claimed as a loss to evade taxes for 20 years,
Sun Jan 14, 2018, 07:40 PM
Jan 2018
Won't that day be glorious!

Control-Z

(15,684 posts)
2. I'll tell you what. I'm ready to sue the bastard
Sun Jan 14, 2018, 08:20 PM
Jan 2018

for triggering horrifying memories and the PTSD that went with it. Every single day it is like reliving the worst time in my life. The psychological torture that the narcissist in my life put me and my children through damaged us in ways we can never fully recover. And now the maggot is bringing back that which I had managed to put behind me or, at least, had blocked from my memory for the most part. I can't speak for my children. I'm not sure they ever really knew what happened to us. But it changed the course of their lives and it hurt them.

I can not express how much I loathe and detest the WH squater. (And of course, I'm sure there is no way to actually sue him.) But by the time this is over our entire nation will be damaged. The only advise I was ever given on how to deal with the narcissist was to turn and run and to never look back. I'm afraid our country can't really do that. So we need to rid ourselves of him totally and completely.

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