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No you havent been satisfied... The only reason why you are happy is that the "left" is not in power... Like I said...its woefully apparent...

Because that is what we are doing...we are exchanging ideas... THIS is what humans have been doing since the dawn of time. It dont matter to me... I repeat. I dont judge you for your politics. I judge you on your responses...

Too bad that the response at the bottom, Surreal's response that I quoted...makes you look like an idiot... Your opinion is shyte...its wrong, its uninformed, its cutting your nose to spite your face...because I DO know you are not stupid. Its woefully apparent...

I know... Its apparent that you are, to put it lightly...NAIVE...

These are your answers to that idiotic post. Read them...

His taxes not only matter where his dealings, borrowings comes from...enemies of the USA... It matters because he may be a tax thief and fraud... Not paying taxes, enough taxes is an act of treason all on its own merit... Al Capone...the murderous, scandalous, bootlegging, corrupted organized crime figure...went to Alcatraz...because he did not pay taxes... WTF does that tell you? To take this lightly is incomprehensible to me... Here we are, trying to get rid of lying, cheats to be our elected leaders....we bitch and complain because we have no good choices around yet we enable them just the same... What message does this send to aspiring little future asshat politicians? That its OK to cheat, steal and lie as long as you deny deny deny? GTFO with that shyte...you guys defending Trump's very apparent corrupt ways... Because...we dont see his taxes...we dont know who he is dealing with... Are his friends both in the US and in China gonna benefit with these policies? To hell with the rest of America, as long as his swindling friends benefit? Well, this is why its important for a leader of state be open and transparent with ALL his aspects of life. Public and Private. A leader of state CHOOSES to REPRESENT ALL OF HIS CITIZENS... A leader of state is no longer in power for his own benefit. At least in theory. And well...releasing his taxes may prove to America that he truly is...clean...or dirty... And its a tool...a DEMOCRATIC tool to at least minimize the chances of corruption...

Yes it does matter to most people. As it should! Its funny to me that severe corrupt practices are being cloaked on you, yet you seem to dance lightly around this... All because you want to cut your nose to spite your face... Like I said to @dwightlooi I dont judge you on your politics. I DO judge you on how you respond...

Russian connections? Chinese connections? These accusations are always coming up. Speculation is all it is maybe to dirty his name by his detractors? But he seems to have lots and lots of detractors though... Id like to think of it as, where there is smoke, there is fire.

@ccap41 banks loaned him those monies in the freewilling 1980s...all the way to the loose standards of the mid 2000s... corrupt shyster lawyers and bankers with morally bankrupt businessmen go hand in hand...

Banks dont lend him anymore money Like I said...banks loaned him those monies in the freewilling 1980s...all the way to the loose standards of the mid 2000s... Nothing worth going googoo gaagaa over...

American laws and banks to front him money is easy as baking a pie....ESPECIALLY in the high rolling, anything goes, greed infested 1980s... Then there is this reality that he really does not own as much as he claims to own in his business endeavors... Monies lent...until paid back...is owed by the banks. There are partners, silent deals, that allow Trump to use his name on casinos and anything else he wants to slap his name on but does not have any real bearing on who really owns what and what percentage... Truth be told...NOBODY knows the shenanigans Trump does with his name and his wealth... He is a fantastic story telling magician. He hides the truth very well and he gives us a great illusion to believe in. I got to give him props for that.

1. That is because the world, also has an economy, not only the US, and does trade with China. The world, also produces trinkets, that makes Chinese cheap labour produce them. Remember, 'twas American greed that opened up that Pandora's box. China then, learned to build factories, and court the rest of the world to trade with her... That is pure fear mongering on your part. Albeit China is already a force to be reckoned with, you as an American, who lived a very protective, rather safe life from invaders, wealthy but rather most wasteful wealth because the US was virtually the ONLY country intact and not devasted by WW2, the rest of the world DID catch up to US high living standards in economy and in education. All this time between WW2 and Id say early 1990s, the US was virtually untouchable. But TRADE ROUTES with your allies like South Korea, West Germany allowed those countries to reach US high living standards, and with American Corporate greed allowed China to join those ranks. Because Germany united, South Korea started their own trade routes, and they too, started to trade with China...again, that Pandora's box was opened up by Reagan and Wallstreet NYC. 2. Could very well be...but the US does the same thing. The US over produces milk, Wisconsin. The US is miffed because Canada regulates its dairy production. The US wants to enter the Canadian market to sell over produced milk. The US wants to flood the Canadian market...that in turn will destroy the Canadian dairy farmers. So...the US reverts to strong tariffs for Canadian milk... Same scenario with Canadian lumber Same thing with the aviation industry. It seems to me that the US wants to corner all industries with Canada and not let any Canadian industry flourish. Well...that is what happened with the rest of the world. The US has had this monopoly going on, but at the same time, countries also found a way to bypass US economic strongholds... Canada...does NOT want to ditch the US as a partner. Canada and the US share a huuuuuge border together which would be stupid for both countries to walk out on each other....but what incentive does US strogholding leave countries like Greece, France, which dont share any borders with the US. I mentioned Greece. Greece and the US were very strong allies during the 1950s and 1960s. But them the US saw another strong partner in Turkey and let go some of that frienship with Greece. THAT is why Greece does NOT really listen to the US anymore, and they quasi listen to Russia, a and China lately. Going back to China. Greece used to produce her own souvenir trinkets. They were of high quality. Now...like everyone else. China produces those. And they are of very low quality. Greece was choked to death with Western economical realities...that caused Greece to go bankrupt. Well, if the US and other countries played nice and not wanting to choke Greece to death, Greece sold a percentage of her most biggest and prestigious ports, Piraeus to China. And China has big big big plans for this port. TRADE ROUTES my friend.... All to say...what is good for the goose....MUST be good for the gander. The US strongholds the world in the same way China does it...too damned bad for the US if China does... I know its your country...but China looks after China just like the US looks after the US... 3. So much wrong in that one. So...you advocate slave labour? All for your insatiable need for overconsumption of trinkets? The US is in this predicament today BECAUSE of how they have conducted business the way YOU just described it... And all these countries YOU described are not exactly 100% America's friend... Shyte dude...you will cut your nose to spite your face... Besides...I thought you said the US does NOT need these slave labour countries to produce America's need to overconsume...and on the cheap too... So...you want Americans to be paid slave labour instead? 4. Oh...but it is!!! Blame American Corporate greed on this point. THAT would be an American soul searching change for your people to get off this addiction of overconsumption... This has nothing to do America's trading partners. America's trading partner's are just supplying your addictions on the cheap. YOUR Corporations are the drug pushers pushing you to spend spend spend...A lot of your policies, voted in by YOUR levels of government have to do with policies regarding such a thing YOU described... 5. While bringing back American factories to the US...would be a good thing. The Pandora's box has already been opened up. Thanx to the American way of life through American TV and movies, that good life...people no longer need to immigrate to the US...only the really really shytehole country's people want to...the world over now wants that life, in their homelands...and because their countries have education to where they too could build stuff, have jobs that they too could buy stuff, they want to buy stuff on the cheap...JUST like the US... So...again...close YOUR doors to trade...the world WILL continue on trading with or without you... Ive already mentioned scenarios in my other posts... Your views are really short short sighted....

He probably couldnt get his chefs to put an equal amount of blueberries in the muffins in HIS casinos.... In all honesty...a big business like a casino, has many facets. Even a crackerjack like Frank Rosenthal had a hard time. And he was a control freak. As so I understood not only from the movie, but googling his history. It remains though, that because Trump was front and center in these businesses, his name and presence...it dont matter if he was the reason why they failed or the incompetent people he chose to run the casinos... After all, watching several seasons of his TV show..."Youre Fired" (Yes...I know "The Apprentice...he was such a damned arrogant fool that he wanted to trademark 'Youre Fired') many a times, HE would OFTEN blame the "project manager" and fire him/her BECAUSE the project manager couldnt manage the incompetent workers... Yes...he would allow the incompetant workers that defense as it made great television...but...as his TV ratings proved...he really was a better TV star than he was a businessman. The upside to that is...so Ive heard... Because there is another, even less favourable angle to Trump's business acumen, according to some folk who hate him...LOOOOOONG before he decided to try his hand in politics... Those bankruptcies...were more or less...a calculated affair... I dont recall the details...nor do I care enough to find links to post them as proof...but it is a common theme with his former business associates that he supposedly screwed over, that he would manipulate loss of revenue to screw them out of monies he owed... And there is speculation that he used that tactic for those bankruptcies... Which is worse? An incompetent businessman who boasts how good he is as a businessman yet he has several bankruptcies...(and yes...successful businessmen DO have businesses that fail...over and over again...but that is what makes them succesful, is that they never stop trying...)] Or a businessman that has no morals and uses unscrupulous business practices to get ahead. (Again, the free market system encourages this behaviour so Trump aint the only one) Bottom line is: Well...this thread is full of answers both for and against Trump. Pick a side... I for one...wouldnt trust this phoquer with declogging my toilets...but hey...Im just a guy that flips hamburgers for a living. But I do it HONESTLY!!!

I dont judge you by your political ideologies. But I do judge you by the way you respond.

I hear you. I wouldnt change tires myself if I was going to injure myself due to bad backs or any other ailments. I have been lucky because in the last 20 years, I havent needed to lift my cars to chang a flat tire. Ive had 2 or 3 instances with nails in my tires, but they were slow leaks and I was able to put air in the tires, when I saw them low, and drive to a garage to repair the tire. Those plug thingys worked great for those 2-3 times. Knock on wood because I dont want a flat tire anytime soon. There are some cars that dont come with a jack anymore. That much I know so its not a total shocker for me to hear this kind of news. I think the Corvette is one of these cars that dont come with a jack. I dont like the idea of not having a jack, though.

(on the fact that this new wheel thingy is heavier than run-flats...but a very minor difference) A vehicle on the road will always need a jack...eliminating a jack to save a very minor weight difference sounds stupid to me... There will always be a pot hole(s) (yeah...like in succession) somewhere in Detroit or Montreal that will be deep enough, or jagged enough, or both...to damage this uptis wheel thingy... So...if you damage your utpis...how do you lift your car to replace it? I aint the one to call for assistance as I could handle a jack well enough, thank-you very much!

I saw @dwightlooi 's response and I laughed at it... I wanted to mention since the dawn of time...humans from one area, figured out trade routes with humans from another area was the ONLY way to enrich their area...not only with products like wine or olive oil or spices or stuff like trinkets, vases and gold and bronze and the like...but with CULTURE and ART and...IDEAS and TECHNOLOGY... MOST IMPORTANTLY...with ART and CULTURE and IDEAS and TECHNOLOGY... @dwightlooi is forgetting that the Roman Empire is the reason why the GREEK WORLD survived...and why did the Greek world survive? BECAUSE of the ancient GREEK trade routes that went as far as India and China and Persia...and Egypt and beyond Egypt. China...yes...like you said Dwight....China KNOWS a thing or two about trade routes...they've been doing it for 12 000 years... And all of those Ancient Greek trade routes, there were trade routes where the Ancient Greeks DID NOT have AN INFLUENCE on... Meaning...there were Ancient peoples that traded with each other that had NOTHING to do with Ancient Greece. But...somehow...Ancient ideas from Greece and from those areas DID influence each other through the influence EVERYBODY had with each other... Sumerians, Hitties, Hebrews...ALL traded with each other DIRECTLY but NEVER or SELDOM with the Greek sdirectly, but the Persians had DIRECT trades with them and Greeks had DIRECT trades with the Persians... and...its funny...all in that area had SIMILAR ideologies, SIMILAR Dieties...SIMILAR languages....yes...including Greek... Yeah...the famous Greek alphabet...whose origins are influenced by that Middle Eastern world I just mentioned... Astronomy...a very Greek thing...but the thing is...astronomy was ALWAYS a subject that was discussed by the Ancients of EVERY region...and yes...TRADE ROUTES helped EXCHANGE ideas... The Roman Empire...whose trade routes were probably the most vast...kept the Greek world alive because THEY were the ones to keep the Greek philosophies on trade, language, money... And all that...because of TRADE ROUTES... The UNITED STATES of AMERICA... ITS COMPANIES... FORD GENERAL MOTORS COCA-COLA HOLLYWOOD MOVIES and I could go on and on KENTUCKY MOTHERPHOQUING CHICKEN???!!! Does NOT go WORLD WIDE if NOT for TRADE ROUTES... @dwightlooi and all others... YOU FOLK want AMERICAN CULTURE to DOMINATE the world...and YOU HAVE BEEN...but you dont want some of it back from other places??? You know why Ancient Greece was soooooo respected? Because Ancient Greece INFLUENCED other peoples...but ALLOWED to be IEQUALLY INFLUENCED... And THAT is why the Romans wanted THEIR Empire to resemble the Greek way... And THAT is why the Greek world survived... You guys talk about trade in-equality? Since WW2...America has had quite the trade imbalance going on with MANY countries...FAVOURING the USA... The US has no trade imbalance with Canada... The US may have a trade imbalance with China...only because THEY BUILD AMERICAN GOODS on the CHEAP... GTFO with YOUR crying... You mention the iPhone... Wallstreet in New York along with Reagan OPENED up the doors to China to BUILD AMERICAN goods in China... BLAME AMERICAN GREED for that...NOT CHINA!!! And on trade routes...YOU gots lots to learn...pick up a history book...and learn from the Ancients... Yeah..there was war...only because TRADE ROUTES ARE LUCRATIVE... And AMERICAN CORPORATIONS....KNOW HOW LUCRATIVE THEY CAN BE... Trade routes WILL ONLY BENEFIT YOUR CORPORATIONS... CUT TRADE ROUTES OUT...and THERE WILL NOT BE AMERICAN CORPORATIONS...THE OTHER COUNTRIES" CORPORATIONS WILL BECOME BIGGER, WEALTHIER, STRONGER AND MORE TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED...AND THEY WILL TAKE OVER THE AMERICAN ONES...

This is Québec level government spending. Im impressed...that we arent the only ones being hosed this way...

This is the other flip side of what Im saying. We could blame China all we want. But we should blame ourselves too. We let our politicians tell us that (over)consumption is a good thing. We got fooled into believing that living a good life is JUST about consumption. To consume, consume, consume products that will cost us less and less and less and we have created a throw-out society, voraciously consuming...and we let our corporate world tell us how and when we should consume and we let out corporations leave to go where labour is cheap....and in our own countries, we let politicians and corporate big wigs tell us that we shouldnt be getting high wages either...for the menial jobs because capitalism works best if CEOs get to buy helicopters to go to work but a minimum wage worker needs additional food stamps just to feed his family... Yes...THIS is what free trade done to us... But...for those that do have a decent wage job...there is still 2-3 cars outside his too big for what he needs house mostly fully furnished (some peeps have no furniture at all in their McMansions though) but all on credit... So...some of us actually done well with free trade...we got all the trinkets we want...and we get them on the cheap...and we use other people's money to get them, but we are 5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12 paychecks indebted to them... So...blame China all you want...but we must take a look in the mirror when we do blame China... Free trade is not a bad thing... Its how as a people, choose to use free trade... Tariffs... Maybe the North American people needs an overhaul in their thinking about how they consume consumer products...maybe they should start consuming...less...

You see... I agree with all that what you posted! But... THIS right there! Are us North American consumers PREPARED to let go of our avarice for always consuming? Are we prepared to cut our ties with buying on credit, to be patient in not getting what we want right now, but by saving for it and if takes takes several years to acquire what it is that we desire, are we ready for that? Are we ready for paying our workers, our minimum wage workers a salary that they could actually live by and raise a family with? And by that same token, are we ready to pay for our consumer products EXUBERANT prices and are we ready to learn how to cook again and STOP eating out because eating out will now be out of reach? Are we ready to do this? Because THIS is what it takes... Because THAT is how life really was back when America was truly great... Because free trade is what really opened up the doors for you and I to consume iPhones every 2nd year, to buy 55/65/75 inch TVs every other year and each year the price of TVs drop by 500 bucks. Are we ready to put plastic protective sheets on our 1 good couch, to keep it as a family heir loom forever to pass it down through the generations because carpenters and upholsterers will now command dear dear salaries (the way it used to be)? Are we ready to learn how to sew, to learn how to cobble our old shoes and not throw out clothes just because and our we ready to NOT buy into brand names like Michael Korrs and Louboutin shoes? Because THIS is what it will take... Are we ready to live life with humbleness instead of excess? Dwight... I bet you overconsume yourself... I really dont think you live life the way your parents or my parents lived life for you to be dissing free trade the way you do... If you tell me that you live life very conservatively, that you do NOT eat out every other day, if you accepted your parent's old furniture and have NOT bought everything brand new on credit. then and only then will I give you some slack for this point of view....but if you do like every other Canadian and American the last 20-30 years and live life on credit, no saving what so ever, get a scratch on whatever thing-a-ma-jig you got, toss it out and buy another one or just plainly get the new thing-a-ma-jig just because its the new shiny thing...then please, dont BS me...

No no no no... Winston Churchill said that we will shall FIGHT on the beaches... So...no walls on the beaches, please!

Nope....the Aventador is NOT a track car... But its a testament to Lambo engineers getting that car that quick around a track... And that is the thing... YOU wax poetic for your beloved Mercedes F1 car...but fail to realize what other companies' engineers can do...especially in response to...yet another supercar... The C8 Corvette Zora is said to have...a 1000 horsepower plus plowerplant with hybrid electric assist motor(s). 2 -3 electric motors? 1 electric motor? Those are details that are yet unknown... What is known though, is that Corvettes for the last 20 years, their top trim, all have been track monsters. All have been at the top of the 'Ring times. And of course all other competition just improves upon what they got to stay untop of the heap...including Corvettes... And the C8 Zora...which is believed to be the name of it, wont be any different. It will have 1000 plus HP. It WILL be engineered to be a track monster. Hell, the base C8 is engineered to be a track monster. Why do you think all this Corvette Racing is for? Why do you think Chevy engineers finally made the decision to go mid-engined for? And they made THAT decision for the C7...its the bankruptcy that delayed it... Oh...about Ferrari https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/a27626676/ferrari-sf90-stradale-hybrid-hypercar-power-specs-photos/ 986 HP. 3 electric motors and out performs LaFerrari... Do you think that Ferrari will leave the performance torch to their "baby" Ferrari? HA! When the next generation of the F40/F50/Enzo/LaFerrari lineage will come to be, do you think that your beloved Mercedes will still be a leader in peformance? And THIS is where Corvette comes...the C8 NOW, the C8 will have THE right chassis to actually BE a legit "exotic", "supercar", "hypercar" competitor to what you keep on harpering about... And damn the price tag of any foreign exotic POS car you wanna put the Corvette C8 up against... The C8 will have the right tools to actually not only nip at the heels, not only equal but SURPASS... 1000 plus horsepower today is just a mere number. Hell...MOPAR and Chevy Small Block V8s already come very close to that 1000 horsepower number with the help of superchargers, but they do that all day long, 24/7/365 with ease and reliability in DAILY DRIVEN duties on the week-days and track days on the week-ends...all for 100 000 dollars or less... THAT is without electric motor assist. THAT is with front heavy, (even though the Vette's engine is far far far back the engine bay and low low as can be to the ground...because pushrods...) RWD chassis WITHOUT AWD assist. Without gobs and gobs of carbon fiber... You think Corvette wont be able to do carbon fiber tubs for a super limited ZORA C8 with 1500 HP 4 electric motor assist for a smidgen of the price of what Mercedes will do? Corvette Racing is in the GT class...Not the other higher class. But Chevrolet....now Cadillac has joined that class... You think that a future C8 wont be able to pull that off? The way YOU wax poetic about that Mercedes supercar...I could do the same for Corvette... Corvette has 60 successful years in racing. Mercedes too...but YOU want to ignore what Corvette can do...

It will be... Not the base C8....the top of the line C8... The Aventador is an old car now...besides...Lambos are not track cars...especially that lineage of Lambo which is Countach, El Diablo, Murcielago and now Aventador... But yeah...keep drinking that Kool-Aid buddy!

You are right...Corvette should have become mid-engined right at the Disco Era...Id say 1978...the Silver Anniversary edition should have been the Aerovette instead. Without the Wankel of course. ?