Do you think Trump will shut the US government down or is it just bluster?

@SatyrService Unless you have known him since he was 8, I question the veracity of your statement.

@xixgun [big]happy to oblige![/big]
[b]he hit my radar first, in 1987[/b], when he made a trip to the [i]then[/i] [b]Soviet Union[/b]. this was a [i]very unusual [/i]thing at that time. SO i thought well who IS this guy?
did some starting research, opened a file, and have had many updates from many sources since.

saw his business failures, and methods. anecdotes from the world he inhabits, he associates and such.
most of his business has been about Name branding, the only thing he has shown promise in.
that and using his three tools to provoke responses.


He liquidated his father's [i]huge[/i] and well run, if shady real estate empire, a bad move.
He failed at sports , booze, pagents, airlines and meat.

i DID predict an April of '16, that he would get the nomination, AND beat Clinton

and those methods he uses?
[i]those are developed by children[/i], somewhere between 5 and 9. Most grow out of them unless they are successful, and that results in a freezing of emotional intelligence at that level.

so the figure of 8, is an approximation, could have been as early as three, or as late as early teens.


I am a diligent researcher, I double check most lines of inquiry

currently looking into the trump foundation, just shut down due to legal scrutiny.

@SatyrService Suggested reading ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mounting-legal-threats-surround-trump-as-nearly-every-organization-he-has-led-is-under-investigation/2018/12/15/4cfb4482-ffbb-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html

@hlpflwthat thanks,, i will look in at that
AND opposing views.

Perspective is important

oh damn! I've "used up all my free articles for the month"
[i]will get it another way[/i]

@SatyrService Lol - you & I both 😏

If you find anything objective from a varying viewpoint, please pass it along. Not even a peep at FOX or National Review about his foundation today. The Hill has covered it.

@hlpflwthat NPR has reported on it this am
the bbc as well

@SatyrService GOD, you took this back to a decade before my birth

@SW-User yeah. that how i roll when i think something needs to be understood.

most of my countrymen do not, resulting in his election

@SatyrService I am well aware XD
There's no mistaking that Trump screws up a lot of stuff

@SW-User wiat till you get a handle on the THING that has been going on since oh about 1972.
a 40 year plan, that backfired horrible

@SatyrService all I needed to witness for a reality check was his statements on Judge Gonzalo Curiel, his defense of his statement in an interview with Jake Tapper, and his subtle implications throughout EVERYTHING he's done XD

But that sounds juicier

@SatyrService If we were all held liable for the actions of our parents I doubt any of us would survive unscathed.

@xixgun yeah.. its just he was so much BETTER at it.
smart planner, had DJT on a half a milloin slaery when he was still just a kid.

he was a Very Clever Bahstid! got to admire his ability

@SatyrService And he's President and doing what the fuck he said he would.
You don't like him, vote against him, but bitching to the world on the internet does nothing.

@xixgun And defending a lying, cheating grifter does something of value?

Pot meet kettle 😏

@xixgun Thanks for your response.
i hope a long reply is all right.

I had to vote for a third party, I could not go for Hillary, and knew too much about DRT's long history of ill dealings.

bitching [b]IS[/b] a waste of time.

I'd like to think that what I am doing, is having informed conversations, with other Americans, about what is going on in our country. I think exchanging views is part of how our process is supposed to work free speech and all


I agreed with [b]some[/b] of his positions, ( NAFTA) [i]tho not all[/i]
It is his [i]actions[/i], that concern me. That and tho it is old fashioned to care, he seems [i]less than ethical[/i] in his businesses and now. I cannot comfortably support a person whose character i find disturbing, as i also feel about Mrs Clinton.
This [i]long[/i] association with Russia is disturbing, especially in light of their [b]Attack on our Nation,[/b] during the 2016 election. [i]Why did they want him to win?[/i] what is [b]THEIR[/b] agenda?


He has kept few of his campaign promises, his actions instead have hurt the US farmer and many other businesses with his 19th century tariffs. [u]Forbes[/u] and [u]Business Insider[/u], among others seem to have the same view. those are pro business, traditionally conservative outlets. companies as diverse as Tyson, Harley Davidson, Coke, whirlpool, Qualcom and Union Pacific Railroad, the entire steel industry and aluminum industry, all have been hurt by this.

i support [i]a tight legal boarder[/i], but the method of a stupendous wall will not give us that. Why not ask the Boarder patrol and system what THEY want. i bet they would be overjoyed at say, 500 million dollar bump to their budget.

there has never been a politician i liked so mush as to over look bad results, and Breaking the law. ( like BHO did)

The constitution is important to me.

I welcome your views, civil discourse is much more fun for me than the angry recriminations, that so many on left AND right seem addicted to.

what do you think we should be doing about the world of problems we all are facing?

@hlpflwthat lets try to be polite, especially with those we might oppose!