JD
2852
Man, it’s really on now. isn’t it? Pretty much a bad place for everyone to be in the party. Those who never endorsed or un-endorsed are getting hammered and heckled by Trump’s corebase; those who are supporting him will have to keep doing so and will have to live with whatever sticks to them for a foreseeable future. It’s too late to un-endorse Trump now in any way that isn’t being considered as sleazy opportunism at this point. That train left the station last weekend.
If Trump loses, I wonder how well that will hold up. I mean, Trump’s “winner” bit will at least be challenged by an actual loss, no matter how much he may wail that it’s “fixed.”
Timex
2855
Ryan defeated his trump supporter competition in the primary 84-16%. Trump is popular among loud imbeciles.
Odd the loss of $916m didn’t nick that mojo
Can someone correct me if I’m wrong, but the $916m that he lost wasn’t really his money (or most of it). He used some crazy real estate loop holes. Anyone help me here? I’m not a tax genius like Trump is unfortunately.
Timex
2859
I had previously planned on voting a straight D ticket, as a protest against the GOP being so terrible… what’s amusing, is that the current “plan” for Trump supporters is to not vote for any downballot Republicans.
It’s like they literally don’t know how the government works.
Hell, it’s not like that. It IS that. Trump supporters literally do not understand how Congress and the President are related.
Canuck
2860
I was thinking about this today. Does this give Donald Trump the “out” he needs when he ultimately loses to Hillary? Rather than admitting that he lost to a superior opponent, he can put forth the “stabbed in the back” theory of why he lost and manages to save face.[quote=“Ginger_Yellow, post:2854, topic:78530, full:true”]
It’s popcorn time!
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Timex
2861
Basically, the way it works is this. Trump takes out a loan for like, $100 million, to build some building or something, maybe using $5 million of his own money.
If the plan falls through, and the bank forgives the debt (which can happen for a number of reasons, including contractual clauses), Trump can then write off $100 million as a loss, despite the fact that he never actually lost that money at all, since it wasn’t his.
I have no idea why this is legal, or what economic purpose this supposedly serves. I suspect it’s just another case of really rich people being able to avoid paying taxes.
When I’m feeling sad, I like to imagine all the Republican donors staring in shocked disbelief while Trump burns their party to the ground on Twitter. It’s like when the crooks watched Joker burn their giant pile of money. Then Joker sicced their pitbulls on them. Just like Trump is now sending his deplorables after the party leaders.
I think the public looks at his finances the same way they do Monopoly money; it’s just not real to them, so losing that much doesn’t carry the weight it should.
JD
2864
Given his ego and temperament, I don’t see him go out with any kind of grace. If there’s earth to be scorched, Trump will likely scorch it. I don’t think there’s a scenario in which he will not partially blame the GOP leadership. He’s already doing it right now, so there’s no reason for him not to do so later on.
Thanks Timex, I thought it was something like that. Was in regards to it as a loss, but it was’t. All he does is Win!*
*Exept for elections, hopefully.
Timex
2867
The Joker is a much more likeable personality than Trump.
rowe33
2869
Wait a sec, unless corporations have special rules (and it’s very possible they do, not sure) then forgiven debt IS taxable as income and must be included. The 95M would be added to the corporation’s gross income in the year that it was forgiven.
Timex
2870
Nah, it’s different for corporations… has something to do with net operating losses or something.
ShivaX
2871
Not Donald but… uh…
[quote]“We need a Donald Trump to show some authoritarian power in our country and bring back the rule of law,” he added.
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