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My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person -- always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!
spanone
(135,874 posts)2naSalit
(86,776 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)tanyev
(42,613 posts)Must be almost as hard for her as keeping his hands off her.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Donald Trump's scorecard:
Muslim ban = failed. Yemen raid = failed. Approval ratings = failed.
Mexican wall = failed. Economic utopia = failed. Grade point average = 0.[/center][/font][hr]
Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)So Ivanka is his moral compass (every time he pops a tictac he thinks about her) and Bannon is his brain.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)more like every fucking hour, starting with 3 am tweets.
Question: Does Nordstrom have legal recourse here? Isn't he trashing a company over a business decision they made?
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)niyad
(113,552 posts)pukes please. liberal businesses, or any business making a free market decision they don't like are evil.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)I seem to have a fuzzy recollection of the first Bush saying he did not like broccoli and a broccoli farm taking a truck load to the White House.
(does this sound familiar to anyone else? something along those lines?)
The whole thing is the President is the president of all the United States and they have to appear as such in public. To criticize a business, especially one that has roots in America is not okay. Unless perhaps they were wantonly poisoning people or something.
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)No one is buying your bullshit. Or shitty products.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)Yesterday Trump tipped his hand about going after, by name, persons or entities he wants to "destroy." I hope Nordstrom's sues his ass into oblivion.
Kber
(5,043 posts)Trump just didn't make the cut - maybe she'd have better luck at Kmart?
In any event, I thought you and Ivanka were stepping away from your businesses, so what's it to you, Donald?
wordpix
(18,652 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Isn't this abuse of power?
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/08/nordstrom-drops-after-trump-tweets-daughter-ivanka-was-treated-unfairly.html
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)I can't afford to shop there myself, but I hope those who can, will. And tell them why.
ProfessorPlum
(11,277 posts)or that Nordstrom isn't carrying her line?
And why would he need a "push" to do the right thing? Doesn't _he_ want to do the _right_ thing all the time?
Asshole.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)When has he ever done the right thing?
logosoco
(3,208 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Push, push, push, nag, nag, nag
He admits that he isn't inclined to do the right thing.
His lack of self awareness is really something to behold. He would be an opposition lawyer's nightmare in a deposition.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)Eat it maggot.
spanone
(135,874 posts)BSdetect
(8,999 posts)Imagine if Obama had made such an abusive misuse of his office?
Silence gives him your consent McConnel and Ryan.
I expect you to do nothing as you are turds in suits.
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)abused their power like this? zero.... he is breaking all kinds of glass ceilings.
anarch
(6,535 posts)I'll be very surprised if there isn't some kind of legislation to funnel public funds directly into the family bank account. I mean overtly, in addition to what's already going on.
Honestly, this whole situation is more or less the ascendency of organized crime...the last, desperate power/wealth grab by the mobsters, oil billionaires, and associated robber barons. I don't believe it will stand, in the long run--none of it is sustainable, and I think the oligarchs know that, which is why they've largely dropped their pretense of "democracy" and just gone as full-on fascist and authoritarian as possible. They're trying to consolidate as much wealth and power as possible because they know there's a sea change coming...maybe sooner than later, thanks to their nihilistic greed.
Will most of us live to see it all go down? Probably not. I'd think this will all play out over the next 300 to 500 years, and it's almost a coin-flip as to whether we're headed for a technology-driven socialist utopia, or a descent into endless strife and destruction. Humanity will either adapt, or perish.
jeez, sorry, that's an over-the-top comment as far as these crass capitalist shills promoting their own self-interest...but I think it's related.
bluescribbler
(2,122 posts)I'd think this will all play out over the next 300 to 500 years
Read The long Emergency, by James Howard Kunstler. He describes what likely will happen when we run out of oil and also hit the dreaded 2.5 degrees C temperature rise. Civilization as we know it will not survive, nor will the United States. It could be a hundred years or it could be less.
randome
(34,845 posts)Making public statements to increase his family's earnings? Sounds to me like a case could be made.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Donald Trump's scorecard:
Muslim ban = failed. Yemen raid = failed. Approval ratings = failed.
Mexican wall = failed. Economic utopia = failed. Grade point average = 0.[/center][/font][hr]
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)They are non existant in the tRump family. Ivanka steals designs from others, since she does not seem to have any original ideas herself. The thought of HER giving advice to working mothers is a joke. What the HELL would she know about normal women, working and raising families? Nannies, servants, housekeepers all take care of the daily chores. Her daddy told her she is "hot" and she believes it!
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)Have also decided against carrying Ivanka's crap. Consumer dollars at work.
Keep the pressure on!!!!
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)The 30's are long past.
jayschool2013
(2,313 posts)Will we never see the Melania (TM) line of butt-plugs and dental dams?
Oh, well.
Chiyo-chichi
(3,586 posts)has to push him to do the right thing?
Skittles
(153,193 posts)exactly when HAS he done the right thing?
Chiyo-chichi
(3,586 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Ellen Forradalom
(16,160 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)TygrBright
(20,763 posts)manicraven
(901 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,881 posts)I'm going to head out to the Summit store this weekend. . . and that's that. I'm fixing to buy me something.
Johonny
(20,888 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)It's liberals bullying businesses into dropping Trump...can't make that crap up!
blueseas
(11,575 posts)Really he will keep doing this to everyone he dislikes.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Old PO Bldg, Trump golf courses and hotels all over the world---not so much
Ellen Forradalom
(16,160 posts)When I can afford it.
Doitnow
(1,103 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)yet he called Hillary CROOKED
WHAT THE FUCK
AND SINCE WHEN HAS THAT ORANGE PIECE OF SHIT DONE THE RIGHT THING???
grantcart
(53,061 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)(Insert YouTube video of Iron Maiden's "The Evil That Men Do" here)
Note to the popular vote loser: successful companies do not do things that will piss off their customers. Only ones that go bankrupt over and over do.)
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)his horrifically clumsy and poor language skills, as well as his self imposed martyrdom and endless whining.
Disgrace to the office. Insult to the nation. He is a very poor excuse for an adult, much less a public official.
wcollar
(176 posts)No Nordstroms in my area, but will be shopping online this afternoon for a late valentine's day present for my wife.
Won't matter what I buy. She'll love the sentiment!
Stellar
(5,644 posts)klook
(12,165 posts)klook
(12,165 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)True Dough
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