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Trump: The boxes, you know? Mar-a-Lago, have you seen the last five or six presidents? What they did. They took it there in Chinese laundries. They're stored in storage houses where the windows and doors are broken. It's a disgrace.
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6:14 PM · Oct 22, 2022
purr-rat beauty
(543 posts)This guy is a fuckstick
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)74 million votes.
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)Honestly, I see no hope for the future of America.
LT Barclay
(2,605 posts)Only saying that because I think that group would gladly invite them to end Democratic "oppression".
A HERETIC I AM
(24,370 posts)Can you explain what you meant by that? What bills are going to come due and what does it have to do with the Chinese??
LT Barclay
(2,605 posts)I remember when Reagan was president and he started making remarks about the trade deficit. The Japanese threatened to dump a bunch of the T-bills and nothing else was heard about the trade deficit for a long time.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,370 posts)is what I'm trying to understand, or rather, understand what YOU think it means.
Not to tell you something you may already be aware of, but all of the Treasury Securities held by foreign banks have maturity dates. On the date a given series of bonds matures, the US Treasury redeems them at par, in full, without question to whomever the holder of those securities are, be it the Chinese or your Aunt Polly.
I've read on DU in the past, posts that give the impression that the holder of a bond, be they the Chinese or whoever, can demand they be redeemed at any time ( I was told once that they could "call in their markers", a notion utterly fabricated out of whole cloth), and that is absolutely not how it works. As you indicate, the Chinese can "dump" or offer for sale on the secondary market, any amount they hold for that matter, but flooding the market with too many at once would hurt them because the price of the bonds to fall and thus they would get less than they might have paid for them in the first place.
I'm just trying to ensure you aren't under the impression that the holder of a bond can waltz up to the Treasury Department and demand a bond be redeemed before its maturity date.
And FWIW, no representative from the US Government walked up to the Chinese Central Bank (or whatever entity in question), hat in hand and asked to borrow a trillion or two. That's also not how it works.
ProfessorGAC
(65,058 posts)In fact, on a GDP basis is nearly at par.
On a per capita GDP basis the US is a net creditor of shared debt holding.
The "China holds our debt" thing I'd a right wing scare tactic.
Please don't buy into it.
Besides, anything close to balance in codependent debt is a strong hedge against hot war. This isn't just trade, which is of course, important.
But a war assures that, absent total conquest, neither country ever gets their money back.
The debt they hold is a liability approaching zero.
aggiesal
(8,916 posts)Loved that line.
Submariner
(12,504 posts)even a little bit, he likely would have picked up another 8 million votes and been re-elected. So lets be glad he screwed up his own con, or he would have just made his 4th SCOTUS pick
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)RKP5637
(67,109 posts)paleotn
(17,928 posts)that they're going to pull the plug soon on the rallies since fewer and fewer trogs are bothering to show up. Guess he'll end up sitting in the lobby at mara-lardo spouting crazy shit.
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)And the media will give him plenty of coverage to spout crazy shit.
And a large % of the population will listen intently.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,291 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Or is the former guy performing in blackface now?
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)The orange motherfucker can't even keep his lies straight. That's not crazy. That's the panic of a cornered rat.
LudwigPastorius
(9,150 posts)...because, in his diseased brain, we all know he's thinking that.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)The spirochetes are probably chewing on that part of his brain, and it is slowing him down a bit.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)All too often, it's too inconvenient for his ego.
Anyway, here's the real story:
NARA found an old Chinese restaurant and bowling alley nearby Texas A&M University where the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is located that it leased from the General Services Administration, which is responsible for securing buildings for government operations. The building was completely renovated according to NARA standards and the documents never left the possession of NARA staff.
https://www.businessinsider.com/reagan-bush-national-archives-trump-chinese-restaurant-bowling-alley-2022-10
malaise
(269,026 posts)Last edited Sun Oct 23, 2022, 08:09 AM - Edit history (1)
Im the one who stole documents and took them to my private residence. I also shared them.
Fuck this king con of projection.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)he has admitted to taking them on multiple occasions. He justifies it with his toddler act: "Mine! Mine! Mine!" Which is why all of his court bullshit. Other than that, yeah. It's all projection.
malaise
(269,026 posts)That fucker lies better than a corpse
Leith
(7,809 posts)Reagan was 5 presidents ago. There doesn't seem to be any more ray-gun fans any more so rethugs won't mind.
czarjak
(11,278 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)If he were to say anything that was true they would not believe him at this point. He has them primed and ready to believe the most ridiculous BS and has been doing it for 6 years. A large population of the US should be in the loony bin at this point.
Diamond_Dog
(32,003 posts)Its like a mass psychosis.
OMGWTF
(3,957 posts)Tribetime
(4,697 posts)I'm 100% serious
Beachnutt
(7,324 posts)humor me please..
Tribetime
(4,697 posts)cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)From all my studies in the 80's the mention of the number was commonly associated to the bible, in particular revelations.
I could be wrong, but I have read several manuscripts over the years...but memories do fade over time.
Peace.
All of it?
Can't you just say?
cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)Some redditor, stated that supposedly the numeric for maga was 586 which is 80 off 666. Add in Q = 80 and viola 666...
More internet as garbage nonsense.
Sorry to intrude the thread...lol
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)Next it'll be 'the strawberries'.
He's most of the way there already.
Permanut
(5,610 posts)Bogart's best performance, I'd say.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,180 posts)A couple of scoops of strawberries, a couple of scoops of ice cream. Same difference, he said, clicking his balls together for effect.
Initech
(100,079 posts)The other presidents, even W, were smart enough to know not to do this!
IcyPeas
(21,884 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)He knows his base will believe anything so he just makes up outrageous lies that become reality for them as soon as he says it.
brush
(53,784 posts)an insurrectionist traitor...whatever ya wanna call it.
Way more than just crazy.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,123 posts)If all of his crimes, frauds, and lies as POTUS were added up, he should rot in prison. The Christian thing would be to treat his mental illness - he's a psycopath.
Wicked Blue
(5,834 posts)rubbersole
(6,694 posts)Some lawyer he listened to told him it's his only way to avoid prison.
tiredtoo
(2,949 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,834 posts)Blue Owl
(50,393 posts)Then have Nancy punch him in his big fat face, and then throw his leaky, rancid ass in the klink and toss away the key.
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)Vinca
(50,276 posts)Do the people in the rotten peanut gallery have lives or is this it?
Boomerproud
(7,954 posts)with the crazies, no, they have no lives.
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)I don't want to see him or hear him ever again.