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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#141076: Sep 30th 2016 at 12:57:10 PM

That 130 year old newspaper got hit with death threats to its staff because it supported Clinton.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
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#141077: Sep 30th 2016 at 1:13:43 PM

Not even the Old elements, of the GOP are endorsing Trump.

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ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#141078: Sep 30th 2016 at 1:22:29 PM

Something that the news should really put more focus on, though, is Trump's proven history fucking over various subcontractors that his company hired. The latter link is the Wall Street Journal for a reason.

Mr. Trump, in interviews with The Wall Street Journal in May, said “I love to hold back and negotiate when people don’t do good work.” He said of Mr. Walters that the developers “were unhappy with his work.”

“If they do a good job, I won’t cut them at all,” Mr. Trump said of businesses he contracts with, saying “it’s probably 1,000 to one where I pay.” He said he occasionally won’t pay fully when work is simply satisfactory or “an OK to bad job…If it’s OK, then I’ll sometimes cut them.” In dealing with public projects such as bridge-building, he said, “that should be the attitude of the country.”

“I pay thousands of bills on time,” he said, adding that suggesting otherwise is “disgusting.”

Mr. Trump pushed the approach beyond construction and into day-to-day casino operations, said Jack O’Donnell, president of Mr. Trump’s Plaza casino in Atlantic City in the late 1980s. “Part of how he did business as a philosophy was to negotiate the best price he could. And then when it came time to pay the bills,” he said, Mr. Trump would say that “ ‘I’m going to pay you but I’m going to pay you 75% of what we agreed to.’ ”

“In our business it’s very difficult to operate that way. You’re dealing with people on an ongoing basis. Every time you order with them you can’t screw them because they won’t be your suppliers anymore,” Mr. O’Donnell said. Executives at the casino paid vendors fully despite Mr. Trump’s directives, he said, and “it used to infuriate him.”

And I got put onto this by the latest allegation (though it has zero vetting at this point) that he'd told the caterer of his 1993 wedding that he wouldn't be paying for anything because "I know you are new at this, and when you tell people you catered MY wedding, you will get more business than you could ever dream of. So I am doing you a favor. And when I do favors, I don’t pay. End of discussion.” True or not, it sure as hell sounds like something that Trump would pull on someone at the last minute, especially given the previous, confirmed allegations.

edited 30th Sep '16 1:25:16 PM by ironballs16

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TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
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#141079: Sep 30th 2016 at 1:28:36 PM

That's a pretty good sign of Trump's ego, that he thinks his name is so big that anyone who ever works for him will make so much money - from future jobs gained as a result - that they can just write off that one gig as a loss leader.

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ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#141080: Sep 30th 2016 at 1:31:00 PM

[up]

The worst part is that it is arguably fair... but only if it's brought up ahead of time. Doing it at the last second is just a flat-out dick move regardless of how big your name is (in truth or opinion).

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#141081: Sep 30th 2016 at 1:33:55 PM

[up] It's an almost certain way for that manager/company to tell their colleagues within the industry not to do any work for Trump.

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#141082: Sep 30th 2016 at 1:36:12 PM

Why does anyone ever work for him if he does that?

edited 30th Sep '16 1:36:35 PM by Kostya

ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#141083: Sep 30th 2016 at 2:00:08 PM

[up]

Ignorance. Can't guard against what you don't know is a possibility, after all.

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Tangent128 from Virginia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
#141084: Sep 30th 2016 at 2:28:43 PM

In that vein, in the late 80s Trump ordered a run of 50 "Trump" limos before only paying for one, screwing Cadillac out of development costs for a custom vehicle.

edited 30th Sep '16 2:29:08 PM by Tangent128

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Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#141085: Sep 30th 2016 at 3:22:28 PM

In light of the Machado comments, I was reminded of this tweet/art I saw (I can try to google if anyone is interested). So, basically it was an illustration of a bunch of comic book supervillains that were framed as Donald Trump supporters and a lot of the comments where how this was unfair to those villains, as they'd probably be opposed to Trump. Like one comment was to the effect that at least the modern take on Loki is genderqueer and thus would not like Republican social positions.

And like similar to their objections in the comics to the Red Skull, people like Doctor Doom and Magneto would object to Trump as a Politically Incorrect Villain on the basis of their Noble Demon/ Equal-Opportunity Evil tendencies.

But Doom came to mind for me today again because he's sometimes written as being a Politically Incorrect Villain. Like in what I assume was the Reginald Hudlin run of Black Panther, he makes some Jimmy the Greek style comments on African athletic ability. And more to the point, in some infamous comic (not sure who wrote it) he calls Carol Danvers fat and tells her to "shut her cow mouth". And I could definitely see Trump saying that.

edited 30th Sep '16 3:23:34 PM by Hodor2

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#141086: Sep 30th 2016 at 3:25:31 PM

I think Doom would object to Trump because he's an incompetent buffoonish idiot.

Red Skull would probably see him as a useful idiot but not much more than that.

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#141087: Sep 30th 2016 at 3:27:48 PM

Like one comment was to the effect that at least the modern take on Loki is genderqueer and thus would not like Republican social positions.

Nothing modern about it. Who here remembers that time Loki turned into a woman and gave birth to a horse? Raise your hand!

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#141088: Sep 30th 2016 at 3:28:46 PM

Doom would blame any loss or bad publicity on a Doombot malfunctioning... That being said, I am pretty sure Dr. Doom would be supportive of Trump since if Trump destroys America, that is good for Latveria's interests and keeps RICHARDS!!! busy on cleanup.

As for Red Skull, he's all-in on the Alt-Right.

edited 30th Sep '16 3:30:56 PM by GameGuruGG

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NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#141089: Sep 30th 2016 at 3:33:32 PM

So the GOP is blaming Obama for their buyer's remorse of overriding his veto of a bill to allow 9/11 victims' families sue Saudi Arabia

Granted, the Democrats, sans Reid, are no better for voting for it as well. But at least they're not blaming the guy who vetoed it.

Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#141090: Sep 30th 2016 at 3:35:12 PM

[up][up] That's basically the long and short of his appearance in Nick Spencer's current Captain America run.

I'd also say that Norman Osborn (who I think was included in the picture) seems like he'd been a fan. Thinking of the arc where he had good publicity and got a government position.

It's kind of funny (and I guess telling about comics) that most of the villains features- Lex Luthor, Loki, Doctor Doom, Magneto- are currently good guys. I think Luthor is now, right? Don't read D.C. Think Sinestro was also pictured. Is he also a good guy now?

edited 30th Sep '16 3:37:37 PM by Hodor2

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#141091: Sep 30th 2016 at 3:37:03 PM

That's basically the long and short of his appearance in Nick Spencer's current Captain America run.

There might have been a few pages of that posted several months ago, with a pretty chilling comparison to what Trump was doing and saying at present.

It was very unsettling because Skull is actually much more eloquent and insidious than Trump.

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#141092: Sep 30th 2016 at 3:40:42 PM

Isn't this the writer who created a shitstorm by making it look like Cap had been an undercover Hydra agent all along, swore up and down it wasn't a fake out, and then the very next issue it turned into a fake-out?

Anyone not unshakable in their devotion to the series pretty much went "fuck this noise" at that point.

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#141093: Sep 30th 2016 at 3:40:43 PM

Sinestro was good for a bit, but is bad again.

Lex Luthor is a hero who wears Superman's symbol on his chest and lets little girls call him Superman, even though he just goes by his real name. He's kinda sweet, honestly. Really sympathetic, even if he may be hiding some shit.

Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#141094: Sep 30th 2016 at 3:42:41 PM

[up] I had seen some scans to that effect. I know this is OT, but how did that happen?

thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
#141095: Sep 30th 2016 at 3:44:05 PM

Pretty much the only person who is always 100% evil is red skull. Even the freaking joker hates that guy.

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smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#141096: Sep 30th 2016 at 3:47:22 PM

He had to save the world after it was taken over by the Justice League's evil universe counterparts, and in the process began to bond with Bizarro, who he kind of saw as a son. Bizarro died, Lex helped save the world, and he decided to become a hero afterwards, while growing a new Bizarro in secret.

Then New 52 Superman (who apparently isn't really the original Superman?) died fighting Darkseid, and Lex started wearing his symbol to honor him and his ideals, as they had become friends by that point.

Either way, even most supervillains would hate Trump. A lot of them are liberal, if evil.

edited 30th Sep '16 3:48:09 PM by smokeycut

Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#141097: Sep 30th 2016 at 3:55:15 PM

That's...not what happened. New 52 Superman died fighting some random guy with Kryptonian powers because he went into critical mass from using his Super Flare to beat him, leading to him exploding into a pile of ash. The Fortress of Solitude also lacks a regeneration matrix like the Post-Crisis version, so he's dead for good, but it's okay, because we have Post-Crisis Superman again because he, Lois, and their son got thrown into the Post-Flashpoint world. Luthor did try to become Superman after he died to honor him, but that kind of ended after the other Superman came back to Metropolis, and I have no idea what happened with Luthor after that.

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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#141098: Sep 30th 2016 at 4:03:45 PM

So....remember how Trump slut shamed Miss Universe for allegedly appearing in a sex tape?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/donald-trump-appeared-in-a-2000-playboy-softcore-porn?utm_term=.jcNb3RANA#.tgq4kvm2m

He appeared in a Playboy software movie in 2000

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#141099: Sep 30th 2016 at 4:07:13 PM

*laughs like that fat enemy from Streets of Rage 2*

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#141100: Sep 30th 2016 at 4:19:31 PM

He also fat-shamed her for being ~160 lbs despite being ~240 himself. Trump has never claimed to not be a hypocrite.

edited 30th Sep '16 4:19:48 PM by TobiasDrake

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