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Susan Niemann's avatar

The media wears my ass out. πŸ™„ I've learned to ignore most of it. I know someone who insists that Trumps New York fraud case is dumb because "everybody does it" as in, inflates their properties...and the banks got their money back. Why is this such a big deal?" I tried to explain it's a law...and he continues to hammer the idea that everybody does it. WTF???

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Kay-El's avatar

Everybody doesn’t do it because not everybody is a cheating asshole. Try hammering him with that. πŸ˜‚

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Susan Niemann's avatar

EXACTLY! He's like...well no one got hurt. The banks got their money. πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ

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Judy Luchsinger's avatar

Maybe you need to explain how his fraudulent loans hurt others by depriving them of the ability to borrow and how it hurt shareholders because he got lower rates than his risk required, thus dampening profits for them.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Judy! Thanks! Exactly what I needed to hear! ✌️

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Charlie Austin's avatar

Theft is theft.

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Kay-El's avatar

Lol. That’s just the right wing memo to their rabid fans. There are numerous articles which explain why this is a no-no, not that any of those numptys will read them and understand.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I'm going to find those articles because I was so surprised when my friend said this as he is usually reasonable.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

All the small contractors he stiffed, because he really wasn't as rich as said, would not agree. And the banks often got pennies on the dollar return on his loans, writing off thousands, if not millions over the decades.

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Lisa K. Obrien's avatar

Yes, and not all of us have numerous inflatable properties. The people who say β€œeveryone does it” are precisely the greedy shits who do just that. Lie, steal, and cheat. Their massive gains are predicated on the behavior of decent people who don’t lie, steal and cheat.

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Charlie Austin's avatar

Then "everybody" is breaking the law.

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Openly Fae's avatar

Tell him everyone licks skunk anuses to see if he'll try that.

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Lisa K. Obrien's avatar

You are so freaking weird, as in awesome. Damn. Respect.

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Openly Fae's avatar

Along those lines, let me tell a quick story; I recently heard a friend's teenager complain that their school was stingy with washroom breaks. I told them I only ever had a problem with that once.

"Once?" she gasped, wide-eyed, looking at me like a dog who's just been shown a card trick.

"Yeah. And I said "Look, teacher - you can let me go there, or you can let me go on your desk. That's all I got time for. Your pick."

I seemed to have a permanent hall pass after that.

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Charlie Austin's avatar

Oh shit!!πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Charlie Austin's avatar

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Openly Fae's avatar

I think I was ten or eleven. Audacity has always been with me.

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Charlotte Thompson's avatar

Sounds like you are quite a rascal.

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Openly Fae's avatar

Such accusations have been levied at me before, at least.

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Charlie Austin's avatar

Bold play for a 5th grader.πŸ˜†πŸ˜†

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Openly Fae's avatar

"Play" suggests I wouldn't have followed through on the implied threat.

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Charlie Austin's avatar

I think your teacher knew that you would. Result: Five-star hall pass!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I'd say it is your superpower, kudos!

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Openly Fae's avatar

I do enjoy the small times in which I can be useful.

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Charlotte Thompson's avatar

Gross but funny. Looks like you are a cat person. We have a porch cat like the one in your picture. I call him Slim Shady.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚β˜ οΈ

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Openly Fae's avatar

I don't lose many arguments.

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

I’ll bet! πŸ€£πŸ˜‚

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Openly Fae's avatar

Even my own mum eventually learned to stop trying. And she had been the one to teach me, if more by example than on purpose.

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

I have a daughter like that. She always has the perfect answer to anything anyone says. Especially if it is a put down.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Sharon, I wanna meet her....bring her to our next lunch! :)

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

She works in auto parts and usually is only available for lunch every other Saturday. On Sunday we always go to lunch after church, so we could arrange to meet you some Sunday at Pandora.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Love Pandora....we'll figure it out! :)

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Janine's avatar

🀣🀣🀣

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Charlie Austin's avatar

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Don'tBlameTheDog's avatar

Tell him good luck doing it himself.

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Steve B's avatar

"Everybody does it?"

Jesus wept.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Right. I just cant.....

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Janine's avatar

Omg I just went through this w one w someone who is such a good person.

He actually said to me

He deserves to win for everything they put him through

That he is stronger then Reagan ever was and no one could survive this like trump can

E jean carroll is crazy and it never happened

We don't Need NATO

The fraud is a lie they are out to get him

Biden is a criminal

I felt like i was in the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers!@

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Susan Niemann's avatar

WHOA. It's surreal, isnt it? Plain, obvious evidence is out there and they STILL wont believe it. I am seriously looking at moving from the United States if the fascists win. I just can't....

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Janine's avatar

I know !!! I just can't even believe thud is what it's coming to!

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Janine's avatar

*this

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Including trumpolini's accountant.

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