Trump, the stable genius?

[Heracleum Persicum]

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my guess: Not really about building US capacity. More about the 30%.

Probably

Compensating tax cut for the 0.001% with 30% tariff on washing-machines

Who thought things will come to that, NH

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[Nonc Hilaire]

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my guess: Not really about building US capacity. More about the 30%.

Probably

Compensating tax cut for the 0.001% with 30% tariff on washing-machines

Who thought things will come to that, NH

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US Marine Corp is virtual POTUS and emenince gris. Trump is only in charge of public relations and distracting people from the silent military coup. A mere figurehead who takes his orders from the generals.

[Heracleum Persicum]

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my guess: Not really about building US capacity. More about the 30%.

Probably

Compensating tax cut for the 0.001% with 30% tariff on washing-machines

Who thought things will come to that, NH

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US Marine Corp is virtual POTUS and emenince gris. Trump is only in charge of public relations and distracting people from the silent military coup. A mere figurehead who takes his orders from the generals.

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Not sure true or not, but for sure feels that way

Still remember William Westmoreland .. poor guy wouldn't give up, arguing Jane Fonda kept him winning in Vietnam

Well, looks like we headed to "Colosseum" for battle of Gladiators, Jim Mattis against Qasem Soleimani

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[Nonc Hilaire]

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my guess: Not really about building US capacity. More about the 30%.

Probably

Compensating tax cut for the 0.001% with 30% tariff on washing-machines

Who thought things will come to that, NH

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US Marine Corp is virtual POTUS and emenince gris. Trump is only in charge of public relations and distracting people from the silent military coup. A mere figurehead who takes his orders from the generals.

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Not sure true or not, but for sure feels that way

Still remember William Westmoreland .. poor guy wouldn't give up, arguing Jane Fonda kept him winning in Vietnam

Well, looks like we headed to "Colosseum" for battle of Gladiators, Jim Mattis against Qasem Soleimani

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Not like cabal *itch Westmoreland. They have closed down almost 30 years of criminal US foreign conflict. Real patriots and good people; not showboats.

[noddy]

back on topic.


reading some lovely doomer porn on australias incompetence and the realities of trumps economic policy are hitting home -the falling US dollar means you need to spend it before it evaporates, means money starts moving again.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/0 ... obal-boom/

It’s become obvious in recent weeks that the US economy and markets have dragged their anchor. They are now moving into an outright boom in which quaint notions of valuation, multiples or risk are temporarily forgotten. All indications are that this blowoff phase could take everything higher, as Ray Dalio said yesterday at Davos:

We are in this Goldilocks period right now…inflation isn’t a problem, growth is good. Everything is pretty good, with a big jolt of stimulation coming from the changes in tax laws.

We’re at the latter part of the cycle… we’re going to have a jolt of stimulation into that. And there is a lot of cash on the sidelines, I don’t just mean investor cash, I think banks have a lot of cash, corporations have a lot of cash – so we’re going to be inundated with cash.
I think that’s going to produce a lot of stimulation and perhaps a market blow-off. We’re in a situation where if you’re holding cash, you’re going to feel pretty stupid.

This boom is going global via a falling US dollar that is channeling a capital flood into emerging market equities. This is being exacerbated by a suddenly strong EUR and JPY, as well as by US authorities talking it down. Both of those economies are firing up on domestic demand. The US is still a massive economy and will begin to suck in imports as well.

In short, the Trump boom is overtaking all of them.

[Simple Minded]

back on topic.


reading some lovely doomer porn on australias incompetence and the realities of trumps economic policy are hitting home -the falling US dollar means you need to spend it before it evaporates, means money starts moving again.

Have you guys ever considered unlimited immigration and bringing in a shitload of Pomegranates to run everything for you? Internet scuttlebutt says they're really, really smart! Greatest culture ever....

Baring that, I'll make you the same deal I offered YMix (You recall how he turned it down and now Romania is really f**ked? Don't make the same mistake!). We'll send you Hilary, Bill, Huma, Anthony, Harvey, Chuck, Nancy, and for good measure throw in Barbara Streisand and Cher.....

You send us an equal weight of Roo jerky and we'll call it even!

[noddy]

back on topic.


reading some lovely doomer porn on australias incompetence and the realities of trumps economic policy are hitting home -the falling US dollar means you need to spend it before it evaporates, means money starts moving again.

Have you guys ever considered unlimited immigration and bringing in a shitload of Pomegranates to run everything for you? Internet scuttlebutt says they're really, really smart! Greatest culture ever....

Baring that, I'll make you the same deal I offered YMix (You recall how he turned it down and now Romania is really f**ked? Don't make the same mistake!). We'll send you Hilary, Bill, Huma, Anthony, Harvey, Chuck, Nancy, and for good measure throw in Barbara Streisand and Cher.....

You send us an equal weight of Roo jerky and we'll call it even!

i too will have to sadly decline.

as a tip -i did an internet search on romanian chicks and female democrat politicians and think you might have overplayed your card somewhat - maybe be a bits sneekier about whats inside the mystery box next time.

[Simple Minded]

back on topic.


reading some lovely doomer porn on australias incompetence and the realities of trumps economic policy are hitting home -the falling US dollar means you need to spend it before it evaporates, means money starts moving again.

Have you guys ever considered unlimited immigration and bringing in a shitload of Pomegranates to run everything for you? Internet scuttlebutt says they're really, really smart! Greatest culture ever....

Baring that, I'll make you the same deal I offered YMix (You recall how he turned it down and now Romania is really f**ked? Don't make the same mistake!). We'll send you Hilary, Bill, Huma, Anthony, Harvey, Chuck, Nancy, and for good measure throw in Barbara Streisand and Cher.....

You send us an equal weight of Roo jerky and we'll call it even!

i too will have to sadly decline.

as a tip -i did an internet search on romanian chicks and female democrat politicians and think you might have overplayed your card somewhat - maybe be a bits sneekier about whats inside the mystery box next time.

good point. as a marketeer, I am too honest. shoulda went with celebrity movers and shakers.....

[Heracleum Persicum]

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A Glimpse of a
Canadian-Led International Order

President Donald Trump did not kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Although he withdrew the U.S. from the trade deal in the first week of his presidency, on Tuesday—exactly a year after the American withdrawal—the remaining 11 countries announced that they had completed renegotiating a new TPP without Washington. That sets up a perfect natural experiment about American influence in the world. And, at least as far as this one trade deal is concerned, the results are clear: Even in the absence of U.S. leadership, the world’s democracies will continue to trade and make rules for dealing with one another, but without some of the worst excesses of America’s corporate-influenced foreign policy.

For many of the leading lights of the American foreign-policy establishment, the greatest tragedy of the Trump administration’s posture abroad is that it undermines the liberal international order the United States has been instrumental in building since World War II. Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, warns that under the Trump administration, “the United States is no longer taking the lead in maintaining alliances, or in building regional and global institutions that set the rules for how international relations are conducted.” The decision to walk away from TPP—an Asian-focused trade deal originally meant to include countries representing 40 percent of the global economy—is central to that assessment, which is shared widely among foreign-policy experts in both parties.

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“America First” has been the rule in trade negotiations for decades; it’s the foundation of the international order that seemed to be threatened by Trump’s withdrawal from the TPP.

Now trade rules are being written without America, and the result seems likely to be smaller but more equitable economic gains for the participants.

The new TPP poses to a direct challenge to the defenders of America’s traditional role in the world: just what international order do you want?

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Well .. what can I say.


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[Nonc Hilaire]

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A Glimpse of a
Canadian-Led International Order

resident Donald Trump did not kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Although he withdrew the U.S. from the trade deal in the first week of his presidency, on Tuesday—exactly a year after the American withdrawal—the remaining 11 countries announced that they had completed renegotiating a new TPP without Washington. That sets up a perfect natural experiment about American influence in the world. And, at least as far as this one trade deal is concerned, the results are clear: Even in the absence of U.S. leadership, the world’s democracies will continue to trade and make rules for dealing with one another, but without some of the worst excesses of America’s corporate-influenced foreign policy.

For many of the leading lights of the American foreign-policy establishment, the greatest tragedy of the Trump administration’s posture abroad is that it undermines the liberal international order the United States has been instrumental in building since World War II. Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, warns that under the Trump administration, “the United States is no longer taking the lead in maintaining alliances, or in building regional and global institutions that set the rules for how international relations are conducted.” The decision to walk away from TPP—an Asian-focused trade deal originally meant to include countries representing 40 percent of the global economy—is central to that assessment, which is shared widely among foreign-policy experts in both parties.

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“America First” has been the rule in trade negotiations for decades; it’s the foundation of the international order that seemed to be threatened by Trump’s withdrawal from the TPP.

Now trade rules are being written without America, and the result seems likely to be smaller but more equitable economic gains for the participants.

The new TPP poses to a direct challenge to the defenders of America’s traditional role in the world: just what international order do you want?

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Well .. what can I say.


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Lumber for Mexico! Cement for Quebec!

[Parodite]

"Political opposition" In the US always reminds me of boxing or martial arts sparing between friends, or an even better example, the showmanship of WWF professional wrestling. US politics is stagecraft.

There seems to be a lot of premature ejaculation going on in WWF. Or maybe even everywhere on stage nowadays. #Metoo, the economy will tank when Trump becomes POTUS, MMGW and on and on. We are all guilty before proven innocent. Maybe a regress to the philosophy of innate sinfulness, salvation only possible through supernatural intervention. I think Scott Adams is our last hope.

[Simple Minded]

"Political opposition" In the US always reminds me of boxing or martial arts sparing between friends, or an even better example, the showmanship of WWF professional wrestling. US politics is stagecraft.

There seems to be a lot of premature ejaculation going on in WWF. Or maybe even everywhere on stage nowadays. #Metoo, the economy will tank when Trump becomes POTUS, MMGW and on and on. We are all guilty before proven innocent. Maybe a regress to the philosophy of innate sinfulness, salvation only possible through supernatural intervention. I think Scott Adams is our last hope.

It's all stagecraft, even the first three turtles. The remaining turtles are only perception....

In my experience, Scott Adams is pretty close to the norm in America. MSM, NYT, DC herd spokespeople/talking heads seem to be outliers.

Clue: Anytime anyone claims to be a spokesperson for the "________ community," their credibility is suspect.

I put my hope in the numerically superior Average Joes, not the self-styled elites.

If I am wrong, well, there's about 39,000 other zip codes I have not lived in yet.

[Heracleum Persicum]

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America’s Mirror on the Wall
The president as American as apple pie

Viewing the aggressive and socially divisive elements of President Trump’s conservative populism as a deviation from the enlightened path of the nation romanticizes the American political tradition as being purely about cherished values such as liberty, freedom, equality, opportunity, representation, free markets, and justice. This view of America whitewashes away huge swaths of U.S. history in order to perpetuate the myth that at its essence America is a shining city on the hill.

But several generations of historians since the 1960s have shattered this myth. The regressive side of the Trump presidency is just as inscribed in the American political tradition as Ronald Reagan’s optimism or Barack Obama’s call for racial healing.

That is what makes moments such as the “shithole” nations comment so disturbing to see. The problem is not just what they say about President Trump, but what they say about America itself.

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In 1921 and 1924, Congress passed legislation that imposed a national quota system that limited the number of immigration visas to be granted to specific nationalities, particularly those regarded as inferior to “Anglo-Saxon” stock (such as Italians or Eastern Europeans), in order to restrict immigration that would remain in place until 1965.


Racism has always been in the American bloodstream. Of course, the national economy and its government were founded on the institution of slavery. The subjugation and importation of Africans to the American South was at the heart of the cotton trade. Americans fought an entire Civil War before slavery came to an end, and the nation subsequently experimented with a bold plan for Reconstruction, only to see noxious Jim Crow laws put into place that denied African Americans their newly won political rights and created a racially segregated economy that left much of the freed population living in conditions that were decisively separate and unequal.

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Perhaps the real reason that it feels so hard to look at President Trump is that Americans see too much of themselves in him. He is the mirror that exposes the nation’s contradictions. The deal he keeps offering rural Americans who make up his “base,” namely that he can help them but only if they empower him to go after others, is one that Americans have heard many times before.

In the end, maybe that is what makes Trump so disturbing—the president as American as apple pie.

Excellent reading for you guys.


Amen


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[Simple Minded]

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America’s Mirror on the Wall
The president as American as apple pie

Excellent reading for you guys.


Amen


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I agree. When you, Azeri, look at "America," you are looking into a mirror, and seeing your own racism, bigotry, and prejudice.

Same for the author, and other individuals who voluntarily choose to be slaves to their own concepts of group identity. Or who choose to remain forever in the past.

The cosmic justice of free will.
Lying in the beds "we" have made. Sigh, the whole world is mirrors and inkblots........
I try so hard to fix them, but it ain't working! They just don't listen! What's wrong with all those people.........


POTUS as deity.... or the only inhabitant of the US.....,

Reality is, there's 320+ million people over here, not one person. The vast majority of whom, none of us will ever meet.

"Too many variables.... can't mentally process..... must resort to group identity...... ah, relief.... thankfully..... ignorance is bliss....."

[Heracleum Persicum]

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America’s Mirror on the Wall
The president as American as apple pie

Excellent reading for you guys.


Amen


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I agree. When you, Azeri, look at "America," you are looking into a mirror, and seeing your own racism, bigotry, and prejudice.


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SM, Azari has no dog in that race

And

The article is "self explanatory"

4get the 320 m, what about you guys posting here ?

You guys even seconded the rant that POS posted in Hell .. so, why beating around the bush ?

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[Typhoon]

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America’s Mirror on the Wall
The president as American as apple pie

Excellent reading for you guys.


Amen


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I agree. When you, Azeri, look at "America," you are looking into a mirror, and seeing your own racism, bigotry, and prejudice.


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SM, Azari has no dog in that race

And

The article is "self explanatory"

4get the 320 m, what about you guys posting here ?

You guys even seconded the rant that Ap posted in Hell .. so, why beating around the bush ?

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When in the village, do as the village.

~ Japanese proverb

Taking in legal immigrants along some refugees for compassionate reasons is fine. The West does so more by far than any other nations.

However, both groups of new arrivals should understand that

1/ They should leave behind what drove them to depart and not bring those issues to their host nation.

2/ Their loyalty should now be first to their new home not the old country.

3/ They should abide by the laws and cultural norms of their new host nation.

Despite historical episodic outbreaks of racism in the West, the West is still far far less racist than the rest of the world.
One does get the impression reading the Canadian, US, and Aussie papers that the chattering classes of each are self-hating first-rate idiots.

[Heracleum Persicum]

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Pat Buchanan
That thing hittin the fan

Turkish President Erdogan said Friday his forces will cleanse Manbij of Kurdish fighters, alongside whom U.S. troops are embedded.

Erdogan’s foreign minister demanded concrete steps by the United States to end its support of the Kurds, who control the Syrian border with Turkey east of the Euphrates all the way to Iraq.

If the Turks attack Manbij, America will face a choice: stand by our Kurdish allies and resist the Turks, or abandon the Kurds.

Should the U.S. let the Turks drive the Kurds out of Manbij and the entire Syrian border area, as Erdogan threatens, American credibility would suffer a blow from which it would not soon recover.

But to stand with the Kurds and oppose Erdogan’s forces could mean a crackup of NATO and a loss of U.S. bases inside Turkey, including the air base at Incirlik.

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Turkey also sits astride the Dardanelles entrance to the Black Sea. NATO’s loss would thus be a triumph for Vladimir Putin, who gave Ankara the green light to cleanse the Kurds from Afrin.

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Saturday, an ambulance exploded in Kabul, killing 103 people and wounding 235. Monday, Islamic State militants attacked Afghan soldiers guarding a military academy in Kabul. With the fighting season two months off, U.S. troops will not soon be departing.

If Pakistan is indeed providing sanctuary for the terrorists of the Haqqani network, how does this war end successfully for the United States?

Last week, in a friendly fire incident, the U.S.-led coalition killed 10 Iraqi soldiers. The Iraq war began 15 years ago.

That's what happens when foreign policy subcontracted to Generals

Ayatollahs and Putin, laughing

Now, it shows Obama policy was right .. Trump walking on "quicksand".

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[Heracleum Persicum]

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Korea
Ex-ambassador designate assails attack option half hour before State of Union speech

Cha himself followed up on the news by penning a scathing op-ed that appeared in the Washington Post’s online edition just prior to Trump’s speech.

In the op-ed, the Georgetown academic and Korea expert noted that any limited US strike would be unable to impact North Korea’s key strategic assets, which are “buried in deep, unknown places impenetrable to bunker-busting bombs,” and could prompt North Korea to proliferate weapons of mass destruction in a “vengeful effort intended to equip other bad actors against us.” Cha warned that “hundreds of thousands” of US civilians in Asia might be at risk as they would be unlikely to be evacuated before an attack, along with “millions” of Asian lives.

And he warned of an apocalyptic scenario: The US might not be able to “control the escalation ladder” following an American attack, Cha wrote.

China, Russia would enter the conflict, on NK side .. one by one, Philippine, Indonesia, probably Pakistan and India will join China and Russia against US .. Japan, wisely, will settle with China, Russia and NK

Notion, Vietnam or Laos etc will side with US, naive .. they China's neighbour for next 10 million yrs, not knowing what next US president will bring or even where US will be in 50 yrs.

That would brake America's back, US would leave South East Asia, for ever ..

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[Mr. Perfect]

Are they out of Prozac up in Canada? Seems like the healthcare system is failing up there.

[Heracleum Persicum]

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Are they out of Prozac up in Canada ? Seems like the healthcare system is failing up there.

“ The preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule,
near-zero, statistically non-significant
impact upon public policy ”

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It’s a suspicion stoked by the fact that, across a range of issues, public policy does not reflect the preferences of the majority of Americans. If it did, the country would look radically different : Marijuana would be legal and campaign contributions more tightly regulated; paid parental leave would be the law of the land and public colleges free; the minimum wage would be higher and gun control much stricter; abortions would be more accessible in the early stages of pregnancy and illegal in the third trimester.


The subversion of the people’s preferences in our supposedly democratic system was explored in a 2014 study by the political scientists Martin Gilens of Princeton and Benjamin I. Page of Northwestern. Four broad theories have long sought to answer a fundamental question about our government: Who rules? One theory, the one we teach our children in civics classes, holds that the views of average people are decisive. Another theory suggests that mass-based interest groups such as the AARP have the power. A third theory predicts that business groups such as the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America and the National Beer Wholesalers Association carry the day. A fourth theory holds that policy reflects the views of the economic elite.
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.. MP, you really funny

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[NapLajoieonSteroids]

Appear is the word where the writer crawls into his own little New England headspace and weasals out of making a real judgement about what "American's want".

And that's either because:

a) he doesn't have data or understanding of the data to confidently put it forward.

or, the likely

b) he's using anything he comes across as a bludgeon against people he doesn't like-- which includes the "American people."

Nobody cares- this isn't 1888, the Atlantic died a long time ago.

[Heracleum Persicum]

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Haaretz
" I’m More Optimistic About Iran’s Future Than About Israel’s "

A conversation with an Israeli activist who fled the Islamic Revolution as a child

I can past the full article if you guys wish

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[Simple Minded]

Appear is the word where the writer crawls into his own little New England headspace and weasals out of making a real judgement about what "American's want".

And that's either because:

a) he doesn't have data or understanding of the data to confidently put it forward.

or, the likely

b) he's using anything he comes across as a bludgeon against people he doesn't like-- which includes the "American people."

Nobody cares- this isn't 1888, the Atlantic died a long time ago.

yep!

In ORZ: "Opinions are like a**holes. Everybody's got one, and they all stink but mine!"

If they don't like the way things are done in New England, they can always move back to Old England!.

Introspection projection ejaculation. neo-post speak for blooging.

[Heracleum Persicum]

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The Epic Grift of Dirty Money
Cons and corporate malfeasance,
from money laundering for cartels to the Trump Organization.

Before the premiere of The Apprentice in 2004, the journalist Timothy O’Brien observes in the episode, Trump was mostly sitting around waiting for the phone to ring. That show, “The Confidence Man” argues, pulled off the greatest con of all when it persuaded large swathes of the American public that Trump was a titan of industry and a genius dealmaker rather than a simple forerunner to Kim Kardashian. Stevens interviews two Apprentice producers who reveal how much of the show was a false construction, including the Trump Organization set, which was built because the real office was too shabby, too small, and smelled funky. The series was a hit, though, and Trump’s brand was renewed.

Dirty Money makes a convincing case that without The Apprentice, President Trump would never have happened. But his presidency also seems to encapsulate a phenomenon the six documentaries are trying to unpack, where, given enough status and a requisite lack of shame, moral and financial bankruptcy can be shaken off in an instant. The quest for capital goes on, ad infinitum. Sporadic adjustments (the conviction of Scott Tucker, the tanking of Valeant) are momentary blips rather than paradigm shifts. When it comes to money, some companies—and some people—are just too much to contain.

What a disaster, what a disaster


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[Mr. Perfect]

Hillary Clinton is the dirtiest person to ever run for office. Did the Atlantic do a piece on that? She's made more money off of politics than anyone in US history.