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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[Hairy Lime]

30 years ago Trump owned Mar a Lago in addition to his 4 casino properties and many interests in golf resorts/buildings across the US.

He may have been a playboy - you follow that closely, I guess, but was also a mogul.

The only man I know who could routinely and consistently lose money in a casino by owning it.

The venture went broke because the Time of Circus, Carnival, Atlantic City and Coney Island has passed. After Atlantic City went bust the first time, the idea of Casinos was born = Las Vegas on the East Coast. But then Connecticut and “Indian Casinos” caught on.


Trump entered Atlantic City in the early days — it looked like a cash cow with low maintenance. And it was, which is why the Indian Casino idea caught on. But that ran straight into population demographics and many of the problems and non-problem-problems we hear politicians rant about to their simpleton bases.

Think about the era of the Circus, Carnival, Atlantic City and Coney Island … entertainment before TV and videos or the internet and local beaches with amusement parks that are easy for mobs of people to get to for a one-day vacation (and you didn’t need a car, because Greyhound buses or subways went there). That does not exist anymore. And it ceased existing in the 1980’s — when it became clear their time was passed (including the Greyhound bus and, as of last week, “The Greatest Show On Earth” the Barnum & Bailey Circus).

Casinos are a cash business for taking money from gamblers — but now there is the state lottery, instant win tickets and all kinds of similar emotional gambling experiences. Even many of the new internet scams are basically triggering that easy-money-instant-win response.

But. being in real estate, Trump knew how to structure the venture and so went bankrupt and he laughed all the way to the bank. George W Bush pulled the same in an oil veture with the Bin Laden Family.



One answer of the many - and quite true

https://www.quora.com/Why-exactly-did-Donald-Trump%E2%80%99s-casinos-go-bankrupt

Casinos are thriving all over the country. It is not a form of entertainment whose time has past. Nor is it business markedly harmed by lotteries. The premise of the argument is stupid.

You know when casinos go under? When they are so larded with debt that they cannot make money under any circumstances.

[LarryBnDC]

30 years ago Trump owned Mar a Lago in addition to his 4 casino properties and many interests in golf resorts/buildings across the US.

He may have been a playboy - you follow that closely, I guess, but was also a mogul.

The only man I know who could routinely and consistently lose money in a casino by owning it.

That’s because he was washing money.

[kiidcarter8]

Tell me more, Kid, about how wonderfully well the administration is handling this disease.



I don't need to.  You have the same info I have - you just take your liberties with it.

[bodiddley]

The Trump Admin response has seemed mostly poor and chaotic.
The only thing they got right was early on stopping flights to and from China and not allowing Chinese into the US. 

The evacuation of US citizens from China wasn't handled well, and riled Trump.
They weren't prepared for another cruise ship incident after the botched incidents in Asia.  They didn't arrange for test kits even after China changed the way they counted potential cases three weeks ago, reportedly due to running out of test kits in Hubei Province (the disease epicenter). 

Also, Trump provides phony bromides and actual scientists with genuine information are pushed aside.   Politics have clearly invaded information related to the virus.  Even this idea that people shouldn't wear masks, because then there might not be enough for health care pros is daft.  First off, there has been over a month to ramp up production of face masks and to stockpile them and get them to health care providers.  And masks can make a difference in crowded areas.  Meanwhile cases keep popping up all over the US, and it's likely only a matter of time before nearly every state has a case.  Not sure how NJ doesn't have any yet.

Really point me to anything the Trumpeters have done right with the virus, besides the early travel ban I noted above.

[facilitatorn]

30 years ago Trump owned Mar a Lago in addition to his 4 casino properties and many interests in golf resorts/buildings across the US.

He may have been a playboy - you follow that closely, I guess, but was also a mogul.

The only man I know who could routinely and consistently lose money in a casino by owning it.

That’s because he was washing money.

Thank you for making the obvious point that our resident second order puppet regularly misses.

[josh]

Tell me more, Kid, about how wonderfully well the administration is handling this disease.



I don't need to.  You have the same info I have - you just take your liberties with it.

Bullshit.

You just ignore what is going on or lie.

[Hairy Lime]

Tell me more, Kid, about how wonderfully well the administration is handling this disease.



I don't need to.  You have the same info I have - you I just take your liberties withignore it.

fify

[facilitatorn]

The next iceberg for the titanic trump,

http://www.dcreport.org/2020/03/04/even-republicans-mock-trumps-legal-claims/

[kiidcarter8]

Dont need it, Fac.

Corona virus is Tump's Katrina

Keep up.

[barton]

The "president" believes he is above the law and not answerable for crimes committed before assuming office.   Keep up.  (which would require reading Fac's article)

[kiidcarter8]

If you are not sick, there is no need to wear a face mask


For Bo

[LarryBnDC]

Dont need it, Fac.

Corona virus is Tump's Katrina

Keep up.

[kiidcarter8]

100 dead Americans

https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/donald-trump-jr-slams-critics-of-the-trump-administrations-response-to-coronavirus

Your answer, Larry?

[bodiddley]

If you are not sick, there is no need to wear a face mask

For Bo

Tell that to the dead old folks in Kirkland, WA.

[LarryBnDC]

100 dead Americans

https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/donald-trump-jr-slams-critics-of-the-trump-administrations-response-to-coronavirus

Your answer, Larry?

It’s bullshit.

Now, this hit the U.S. in April of 2009. It wasn't until six months later, in October of 2009, after more than 20,000 Americans were hospitalized, more than 1,000 of our fellow citizens died, only then did President Obama and yes, quid pro quo Joe declared a national emergency -- after 20,000 of our fellow citizens hospitalized, more than 1,000 dead Americans.

This is a fucking lie.