Path: ...!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mad Hamish Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:48:00 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <96f3bb30-2134-0d32-a3ec-48f29580be82@example.net> <0e09c941-57a4-36e4-e04e-cf34eb1811b5@example.net> <0p74cj9ci0fi7gdq0n6ff0focttrmpg50b@4ax.com> Reply-To: newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 08:48:06 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e489367860db2319845c383b98576b5c"; logging-data="879696"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18kyN5t/1jXMHOYYaW2OcpB" User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.20.32.1218 Cancel-Lock: sha1:K510JFHbCc0pUNipaA9K0BHM/ZE= Bytes: 3224 On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 13:30:39 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: >On 8/20/24 08:51, Paul S Person wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:08:09 -0700, Bobbie Sellers >> wrote: >> >>> On 8/19/24 01:06, D wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024, quadibloc wrote: >> >> >> >>>>> necessary public health measures against COVID-19, and he spewed lies >>> >>> Trump's mode of converse is to lie and lie again. He knew just >>> how bad the crisis of Covid 19 would be and he lied to the American >>> Public. >> >> He did much much worse -- he failed to use the opportunity to rally >> the nation behind him and be swept into office in 2020 by a landslide. > > He won the Electoral College and Hillary Clinton won the >popular vote. > Who landed on the moon first in your timeline? Because in this one he won the 2016 election against Hilary Clinton but lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. >> >> Instead, he chose to alienate pretty much every group in the country >> except his base and those traditional Republicans whose party loyalty >> got the better of their judgement. >> >> Trump just isn't that good a politician. The pandemic was a golden >> opportunity and he didn't know it. > > He was only a successful businessman on a TV show. He was fairly successful in NY real estate (a pretty well protected business if you have enough capital) and he's had some success running country clubs and hotels. Of course in both those cases there's strong stenches of fraud He pretty much failed outside of those areas > Apparently the only law he fully understood was the Tax law and >the way he could use Bankruptcy to escape from paying his debts.