about the Con

http://fortune.com/2016/07/27/michael-bloomberg-donald-trump-con-man/
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"Most of us who have created a business know that we're only as good as the way our employees, clients and partners view us," Bloomberg explained. "Most of us don't pretend we're smart enough to make every big decision by ourselves. And most of us who have our names on the door know that we are only as good as our word, but not Donald Trump."

Bloomberg ripped Trump's business history, including his multiple bankruptcies and approximately 3,500 lawsuits. The current Bloomberg LP CEO also added that he didn't need a million dollar check from his father to start his company.

"Trump says he wants to run the nation like he's run his business. God help us. I'm a New Yorker, and I know a con when I see one."

But I appreciate this.

After NYers voted for term limits, his having the City Council overturn our vote so he could have a 3rd term was so disrespectful and, I still maintain, illegal.

He really understood who and what Donald Trump is.

scumbag in the 'big apple'.

He could see beyond the flashy television persona.

and that can be to our advantage though it's a bit hard to trust him..

A man who will put his money where his mouth is. This should be celebrated.

Trump calls himself the "King of Debt" because if his true net worth is revealed (as in "THAT's why I won't show you my tax returns!&quot he's probably in the hole--which is probably where "his" money is, because a certain hole is certainly where his mouth is.

Bloomberg is an actual self made man who is indebted to nobody....unlike degenerate donnie who has his testicles hanging in the kremlin.

Bloomberg has never exhibited a dire need for people to bow down and kiss his feet. Trump doesn't seem to be able to survive a day without it.

to know how many people in NYC had zero idea just how wealthy he was when he was mayor - they knew he was a successful businessman but those are a dime a dozen in NYC - Mike is worth real billions. He could have easily gotten a 4th term. NYers detest donnie and his pathetic need to put his name on every property.

Don't insult the testicles

Love it. Old school attitude

Especially since the donation is being made by a real billionaire. That'll rub Trump the wrong way.

But more importantly, I hope this will keep the other members who signed the accord from hating America TOO much.

Too bad

Maybe other billionaires will follow suit.

Let's hope so. Let's see them put their money where their mouths are, the way Bloomberg just did.

What I wish they all would understand - this is THEIR planet, too. THEY TOO have to breathe the air, drink the water, eat the food grown in the dirt - that may or may not be overwhelmed by toxins and chemicals and reckless short-sighted short-term-gain/hit 'n' run agribusiness strategies.

And okay - so they may be able to buy their way around it with all their money. Okay, go drink the carefully-bottled water and expensive specially-designed water filtration systems that some can afford to install in their homes. Okay, breathe carefully filtered and conditioned air (or buy special breathing devices or oxygen rooms or whatever-the-hell will be needed in the future), or buy yourself an island to hide on, but you'll still wind up paying more and more and more for those artificial supports, and your "safe" little island will be surrounded by a poisoned ocean full of plastic shit and chemical contamination. You think your money will buy you safety and immunity. And it may.

For awhile.

But time is not on your side any more than it's on our side. And time is running out. And it doesn't matter how fervently you deny reality or do the ostrich thing - keeping your head stuck in the sand so you don't have to see what the reality is all around you. That reality won't go away either.

And as wealthy as some of 'em are, they CANNOT just go out and buy themselves a nice clean new habitable planet.

Is it better to be prince of paradise
or king of a cesspool.

I get your screen name! Especially these days!

As to your premise, the further question would be - is he a king OR a cesspool? Or both?

I don't know how, but I am sure we could raise a bunch of cash quickly, and send a big message to the world.

But why don't you start it?
It should take minimal research to come up with a dollar figure and where the funds go to. It's a great idea and could maybe, possibly, if successful, lead to an appearance on TRMS.

Id do it myself but I'm not American

Sorry!!

But then again maybe someone else will see this.............

Take a look who is head of the EPA. That should discourage that notion in a second.

It should go, if at all, to an international organization, and one whose cost/efficiency ratio has been vetted. Ten years ago, Bill Clinton lamented that while he was in office, about 25% of the money allocated for various government aid organizations went for costs. By the time he had founded the CGI, costs were down to about 4%. Asked how come there was such a discrepancy. Clinton said immediately, "because we were stupid, that's why!" We all wanted to laugh, but he was being dead serious.

From this day forward, the effort should be focused on getting around the EPA.

Defying the EPA.

Subverting the EPA.

Rendering the EPA irrelevant.

Replacing the EPA (and not with another government entity - especially with THESE assholes in charge, but OUTSIDE "government" structures).

If the EPA won't be helpful, if the EPA won't be part of this, then the EPA must be declared irrelevant, and left behind.

My dog may want to linger and smell that other poo pile or the wadded up lunch-truck trash that somebody just left lying around. But I know we need to move on, so I tell her to "Leave it!" and we move on to the better things I have that I can give her to sniff at, and eat.

We need to say "Leave it!" to this EPA, and White House.

At this writing, I see Scott Pruitt at the lectern at today's White House press briefing. What I've noticed about him is - he's another one of those fast-talkers. He's nothing but yet another fast-talking slicky-boy CON-jobber salesman.

somehow earmarked for this purpose.

Although, we could just ask Bloomberg who he made his cheque out to.

For our reputation under DT. He truly only cares about his base, most of whom don't even believe in evolution, like Mike Pence.

US Supporters. US Alternative, no, sounds like KellyAnne. US Minority, but he is actually the minority, though elected. Americans in Support of Paris Accord. Anyway, we can think of a Good Name.

That ould get DT more than anything, the rest of the US just ignored him, funded it, and went on, while the stooge pretented he was the one in charge.

The one who has had dealings with trump said Trump has exactly one business model. Count 'em: one. He lies. No matter what he agrees to, no matter whether on paper or not, he lies. No agreement is so ironclad to Trump that it is worth honoring.

The other one either has had nothing to do with Trump, or else is too ashamed to admit it (I suspect the former, as he made his money being a Silicon Valley-type whiz kid).

Privatize everything.

I'm glad good (rich) people are stepping up. But we need good government so that we can act as a united nation on something other than war. We need to destroy the Con meme that government is bad and only private entities can accomplish anything good.

the wealthiest of cons supported the agreement (because they had invested in it as a means to establish diversity in their portfolios and generate some innovative products and services - i.e., making money off of "green&quot .

Drumpf doing this is due to his own personal ODS, Pence trying to bring on the end-times, and Bannon sowing chaos to soothe his chaotic mind.

I wish they were gone already.

I think. Drumpf fell into a visceral rage (my interpretation) after the EU's reaction to his visit and wanted to punish them.Seems to me his emotions outweighed anything Ivanka and Jared or anyone else advised. Tantrums…no wonder so many with a psych degree say he's got serious mental health problems.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/paris-was-driven-by-the-president-rage-and-fear

He can only operate with an autonomic emotional response. He is incapable of reasoning.

In fact, there was a NYT article back in 1990 that described this very behavior as his casinos were steadily losing money and his debt had mounted.

[*** An Empire at Risk - Trump's Atlantic City; Debt Forcing Trump to Play for Higher Stakes

By DIANA B. HENRIQUES with M. A. FARBER
Published: June 7, 1990

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A Risk-Filled Business

In the seven months since a freak helicopter accident robbed him of his top casino executives, Mr. Trump has for the first time become directly involved in running these complex operations with thousands of employees, where management risk is as ever-present as chance at the gaming tables.

Since then, his casinos have been undermined by an exodus of senior managers, some of whom were dismissed and others who left complaining of Mr. Trump's overbearing and idiosyncratic style. Surviving staff members complain of low morale. Bills are not being paid on time, vendors say. And state regulators, growing more concerned, have stepped up a broad inquiry into all his holdings.

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''Let me tell you my biggest strength that nobody knows,'' Mr. Trump said. ''My biggest strength is that I get the best people for the job. People want to work for me. Trump does well with management.'' Others are not so sure. Mr. Trump is praised by some as an imaginative but conservative real estate developer and a wily negotiator who, as one longtime associate said, ''never lets you know the facts.'' But his skill as the chief executive of a day-to-day business, now employing about 15,000 people, is a question mark.

Since he took a more direct hand in his casino operations late last year, he has fired a number of senior managers. Others have walked out in disgust. ''I simply didn't want to work for Donald Trump any longer,'' said Jack O'Donnell, the former president of the Trump Plaza and a well-regarded gaming industry executive who quit last month. Mr. Trump has lashed out publicly at his own top aides in press interviews and on television, balked at complying with severance agreements and appointed executives to positions for which they seem to have little relevant experience. The result has been a level of friction that has become the talk of the industry - and that has made it increasingly hard for him to recruit managers. ''People who work there are terrified,'' one regulator said. ''People are hiding under their desks.''

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/07/business/empire-risk-trump-s-atlantic-city-debt-forcing-trump-play-for-higher-stakes.html ***]

It's almost 30 years later and we are at the same place as what happened in 1990. That leopard hasn't changed his spots.

Thank you Mr. Bloomberg...THANK YOU! What a good example to set. A big thumb in Both Dumps eyes.
Now let's see more really, really rich people donate too. What a good way to show their patriotism and help keep America and the world GREEN.

Wow!!!!!

More billionaires standing up, doing the right thing. This is really Good. I don't care about any of the negatives anyone tries to attach, in this moment they do not matter.

What matters is this action. A clear gesture for the sake of .... everyone and everything on the planet. 💚🌍💙

Bloomberg's speech as ads. People have a tendency to listen to real billionaires.

Why don't the billionaires like Cuban, Gates, Soros, Buffet start a gofundme.....Such a great optic for them as well. Lots of almost billionaires out there as well.

I'm proud of Americans who refuse to let important causes fall by the wayside, from Bloomberg to the local soup kitchen. But I'm ambivalent because this has been the Republican agenda all along. At least the agenda of good people who happen to be Republicans. Yes, I know some. They want the private sector to take on the burden of sharing the wealth, and are willing to pitch in at their churches and homeless shelters to do it. I want government to be organized so that no one is left unprotected. I don't want to devolve to a place where we show government "isn't needed."

But, for the short term, GO MR. BLOOMBERG. I don't want to be Susan Sarandon and choose suicide to make a point.

Great news, take that Trumpster!

Kudos to Bloomberg

This is every civilized government's duty.

I mean, thanks to Bloomberg for doing this but dammit it seems like Trump just gets what he wants anyway. US doesn't have to pay and private citizens do. It's like he's being rewarded for shirking his duty.

maybe I've become too cynical.

“California, New York and Washington Have United to Back the Paris Climate Accord”

“(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Three Democratic governors said Thursday they won't let the U.S. back away from a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, despite President Donald Trump decision to withdraw from an international pact.

"This is an insane move by this president," California Gov. Jerry Brown said, blasting the decision as "deviant behavior from the highest office in the land."
Brown joined Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington state and Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York to form the U.S. Climate Alliance to uphold the Paris climate agreement, a pact involving nearly 200 nations aimed at slowing the warming of the planet.

The three states already belong to an emissions reduction pact of states and cities worldwide, but Thursday's action marked a direct stand against the Trump administration and a formal commitment to upholding the targets of the Paris agreement.

Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe also expressed interest in joining the new pact.”
http://time.com/4802590/climate-alliance-paris-accord-new-york-california/

And California Attorney General Xavier Beccera, who intends to vigorously defend California emissions rules.

worked so hard on this Lives On! In spite of the idiot who got rigged into the wh.

Mahalo, Me

a concept that is totally lost on the Trumps.

Bloomberg may not be perfect but he is putting up 15 million dollars to save this planet!

WTG Mr Bloomberg!!

Plus he know Twitler is a damn con man and wasn't afraid to say so!

45 and the GOP are unfamiliar with both.

It's sort of a double gift, $15 million in support of the Paris Climate Accord, and a big fuck you to Donald Trump!

i'm hoping other corporations and philanthropists will step up and do the same to keep us afloat till Agent Orange is kicked out of the WH.

A gift to us, the people of the United States, showing the world on our behalf that no, we are NOT all that insane, and that no, Trump does NOT speak for us all, not by a long shot.

I hope the public outpouring of support for Bloomberg's initiative is massive!

Thank you for sharing!!!

help them rebuild from damaging climate disasters.

His decision to pull out is going to be debated as one of his worst decisions by historians.

for your donation to a very worthy cause.

Bloomberg's still a dirt bag.

you go after trump and the rethugs, instead of someone who is doing something positive

Did you have a problem when he supported Hillary too?

what positives did he do while Mayor of NYC?

Should I start saying nice things about George W. Bush. Now that he's not as loathsome as Trump?

try not look this gift horse, etc.

Bloomberg funded that group when they were at their end --rolled them into Everytown for Gun Safety the group he founded.

But not voting for him as prez, too many issues with him

K

So, in a round about way...Dump will still pay for it!!!!

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Did you forget that sarcasm thingy?

Paying for Trump's fuck ups is like paying ransom to terrorists

The little orange terrorist will just strap a suicide vest to Sean Spicer and send him out to hide in the bushes

Every town Gun action, Moms or sensible gun laws, and Police Chiefs (for gun regulation)--I don't know names of groups exactly but Everytown for Gun Action is the parent Group. ----- so he is paying to counter government's failure to deal with NRA lobby

Somebody with money putting it up for the good of all.

So where are all these clamoring coal miners, anyway?