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On 8/22/2024 11:48 PM, Mad Hamish wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 13:30:39 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
> <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/20/24 08:51, Paul S Person wrote:
>>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:08:09 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
>>> <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 8/19/24 01:06, D wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024, quadibloc wrote:
>>>
>>> <snippo>
>>>
>>>>>> 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.
> 
As he said, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote while Trump won the 
electoral college vote in the 2016 election.

>>>
>>> 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
> 
The recent public documents Trump had to release show that basically 
only his golf courses make money.  Everything else essentially breaks 
even or loses money.

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.