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[quote=scaredyclassic]Hilarious. The level of hypocrisy is just, well, very high.[/quote]

The sad part is that even with this obvious level of hypocrisy, and despite all the data and real world example that Trump does exactly the opposite of what he says others should do, and what he attacks others about….. His low information/unintelligent followers just completely ignore these facts and continue to make excuses for him.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some of his followers say this story was fabricated by a “liberal media like CNN/money”…Gee, is the way that Trump followers cope with a real fact about Trump to contradicts what he’s preaching? With self-explanations “well, it’s obviously a lie put on by liberal/progressives?” Are people really that dumb that when something so obvious is right in front of them, they’ll still deny deny deny, and think obviously the reporter must be liberal and have an axe to grind?

Never mind, apparently they are. Nothing surprises me anymore about the level of stupidity exhibited by some people in the U.S..
And apparently, there’s a lot of them, which I find in itself pretty scary.

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[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=flu]Speaking of Trump and foreign workers….
Lol. I am sure this is just the beginning of the dirt. I can’t wait to see his tax returns.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/18/news/economy/trump-maralago/index.html
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To be quite frank, the woman in the video doesn’t fit Trump’s standards for “high class”, something he’s very particular about.

I hear that when Trump ran his casinos in Atlantic City, he would instruct his floor bosses to only schedule goodlooking White people when he had investor walk throughs. He wanted a “high class” feel like in James Bond movies. No short, stumpy, fat, dark people, or White for that matter.

If you go to Vegas a lot, like me, you’d know that casinos in general have lots of minority workers.[/quote]

Well, that’s the thing. I don’t think the woman in the interview was seeking a job that required her to be up in front of customers. If you read the interview with that woman, she said she didn’t care about the job she got. She said she would have taken a job as a janitor or something similar.

So, again, why would Trump *need* to hire foreign workers for that? We’re not even talking about engineering, writing software, designing hardware which some of us actually argue in some cases there is a skills gap in some specialization.

This job at the Trump mansion is simply a job really that anyone can do…Something that Trump apparently has made it as an issue for his platform and an issue for all his followers. All his followers are all blaming “the immigrants” (legal or not) for why they can’t find a job….Well, who’s making the employment decisions? Why not blame Trump?

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Speaking of Trump and foreign workers….
Lol. I am sure this is just the beginning of the dirt. I can’t wait to see his tax returns.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/18/news/economy/trump-maralago/index.html

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[quote=spdrun]If Trump wins the popular, I hope to see him run, fair and square. If the public elects the son of a whore, the US deserves him.

Only glad I’m a dual citizen. Watching the US fuck up while sipping a beer abroad will be fun.[/quote]

Germany is pretty fvcked up too. You get to pay for greece

But be careful about having another citizenship. Some of the Trump loyalists will be screaming to deport you,and once you leave, they might not let you back in. Lol

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As we talked about, I hope we see a brokered convention from the GOP.

I think that would be entertaining, more so than any other reality tv show. The networks would love that. Ratings through the roof..

We’d see the crazies out in full force, lol.

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[quote=milkspot]I have purchased from Bay Precious Metals two times. They were small purchases … fractional bullions coins. That’s how I usually do it, start small, build some trust before making bigger purchases. So far so good with them.[/quote]

Thanks for the feedback. Good to know.

I’m currently putting apmex to the ringer. All my purchases have been fine up to this point, except the last coin I got was an american eagle. It showed up with a big tarnish spot in the center. I didn’t think gold would tarnish that quickly, it probably has to do with the other metal content in the eagle (since eagle’s arent 99.99% pure, but alloyed)

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[quote=The-Shoveler]You don’t seem like a money metal person flu LOL.

Anyway I have been buying a little silver below $15.

I don’t think I would put more than a few percentage into it myself but that is just me, (maybe if it gets below $10 I would be willing to add more aggressively).[/quote]

Lol. I did buy silver at around $0.86/ounce above spot prices but the problem is most of the silver isn’t legal tender, so I’m thinking it’s value is completely dependent on how the metal does (which frankly I think it’s going to go up from here on out). Most of which would be around melt value.

What was appealing to me about the coins from the Canadian mint is that they are legal tender so they are at least worth the face value of what is printed on the coin. Andthey can be bought at face value, unlike say a 1 ounce gold coin with a $50 face value but costs $1300!!! Whatever appreciation happens in silver would be a nice to have. Not to mention the coins look pretty cool. The actual silver content is about 1/4 of an ounce (7.96 grams of 99.99% pure silver.) So… purely from a cost per ounce perspective, it’s way over spot….

So for example , if silver prices crashes and burns, I could still spend the $20CAN that I bought with $20CAN say at Whistler when I go there to ski 🙂

And yeah, I had to talk to the banks and get some safe boxes. Storing silver is a pain sort of.

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[quote=paramount]

Your a loser flu – you think way too highly of yourself.

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“Your”?

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Just because you live in San Diego – believe me – I could live in San Diego if I wanted to, but most of San Diego is a dump compared to Temecula. Sorry – that’s just the way it is.

Ok, just kidding – you just got Trumped!!

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Did you suddenly come out of the closet or something now that you feel “empowered” to be from partially entertaining to full on asshole? The only reason why I still even bothered to respond to you was personally I didn’t think you were as a full on dick as other people already mentioned you were.

I’m actually really disappointed here to be honest. Sad actually Paramount. Because you’ve been on this board and I’ve been on this board for a long time. And unlike others, I actually kind of liked you in your own weird/quirky way. Reading half of your shit now, it kind of makes me sad because tonight, I sort of feel like I lost a friend, that you changed. And I sort of knew that was going to happen to someone that I talked to or even knew with this sort of caustic environment we are in.

People like you scare the shit out of me. Because, last year if you were my neighbor, we probably would have gotten along just fine, maybe even friends (at least from my side). Today, with this environment, you’d probably one of the people that would call me in and have be deported if you could. And your kid probably would me one in the school that goes to my kid and would start taunting “when Trump is president, you’re going to get deported” because they’ll probably overhear you saying it., despite the fact that I was born here, educated here, and pay the same taxes (probably even more so than you).

At least that’s what it feels like and the message you apparently seem to enjoy leaving. This isn’t about just politics, or betwen left versus right. And It’s not that I’m afraid of being deported juat because people like you are mad. People like you scare me because it makes me think who really can you trust and who else really is two faced that’s only conveniently civilized because the institutions and rules requires them to be, not because you do so because it’s the right thing to do. Were you always a hater, or were you recently institutionalized hater? And it makes me sad to wonder who else is out there that I know that is going to emerge from their closet over the next few months, years. That’s the part that I find disappointing, on a personal note, politics aside, because it changes the entire dynamics of how I view people and interact with people and want to get alone with other people. In the long run, no one really wins. I don’t, you don’t, my kids don’t, neither does yours. Everyone ends up putting walls up, excluding each other, everything ends up fvcked up.

So, yeah, I hope you are happy. And with your new found empowerment, I sure you will be able to find people that you can relate a whole lot better to, I’m sure there will many of them that come out of the closet too. mission accomplished! You’ve won. Congrats. We’re done here.

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[quote=njtosd][quote=AN][quote=njtosd]Flu – Asians are projected to become the wealthiest group in the US in coming years. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/15/mericans-are-transforming-the-face-of-us-wealth.html

When they do, will that mean that discrimination against Asians has stopped?[/quote]
Success of a race on average and discrimination against a race are two separate thing. Just because Asian found ways to work around the discrimination, persevere through the discrimination, and achieve financial success does not mean they’re not being discriminated against. It just mean as a group, Asian don’t spend as much energy bitching about it as working with the landscape that’s in front of them, even when there’s discrimination.[/quote]

Flu contended that white men weren’t being discriminated against because they are doing so well in corporate America. I think groups can be both discriminated against and successful – which was the point I was making.[/quote]

I didn’t say that it doesn’t happen. It doesn’t happen to the scale that people bitch about. Take Paramount for example. He (use to?) works for an aerospace company in RB, same one that some of my colleagues use to work there too.

Why on earth would he feel like he’s discriminated against when
1) There’s no H1-B in his company, since most of the work requires a security clearance
2) There’s barely any asians at his company too, and virtually none in management (I’ve checked)
3) Barely any other minorities over there (I’ve checked in the past)

Granted it went through tough times because of other reasons (consolidation of operations that led to a few folks I know moving to Maryland and Virginia) and it’s dysfunctional in the past for many reasons, but specifically what is this sort of “discrimination” he personally experience?

He’s working in the industry that has the greatest barrier to entry because due to the need for a security clearance, so that eliminates all “illegals” and all “immigrants” from a direct threat to so called job security, and since getting a security clearances takes a long time these days, it’s even a pretty big “wall” for people with U.S. citizenship. So what job threat from illegals/H1-B’s/immigrants has he or is he specifically experiencing, which is the #1 complaint among Trump worshippers. And yet, I still hear him claim he was discriminated against? So I’m curious, what specific incidence(s) of discrimination?

I suspect none specifically, it’s just he’s been listening too much to what others spew, what Trump spews, and adopted the same rhetoric as if he personally has experienced it himself.

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What amazes is Ben Carson got behind him. Talk about one confused idiot.

I have to thank Trump for showing me just how crazy most of the GOP candidates are at the national level.

Seems like many of them need obamacare to cover some of their mental health issues.

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[quote=AN][quote=outtamojo]A little anecdote, close to home for me, coming soon to some of us here:

So my sister-in-law on the East coast goes in to the local doc in a box urgent care. New patient so no medical history so you get interviewed. She disclosed she was a stay at home mom, took care of kids and elderly parents- taking them places and translating for them. (they are Korean). During her exam, male doctor starts talking about Trump and then ranting about immigrants out of the blue and then tells sil her parents should go back to Korea if they can’t speak English.
Did he always speak to his patients like that, or did he become emboldened by the prospect of institutionalized covert racism coming back in favor?
If he had just taken the time to learn about her parents, he would discover how they legally came to the country with nothing and built a mini empire of laundromats and liquor stores. They do speak some English, heavily accented, but they do the best they can. Are they not the embodiment of what was the American dream? And yet the emboldened racist can only see them as foreigners who don’t belong.
Yah, sure, Trump had nothing to do with this and was nowhere near the building so how why was this his fault..[/quote]
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This is exactly the $hit I’m afraid of that BG and the many Trump supporter fail to see. Just look at what happened to the Japanese not too long ago.[/quote]

Lol, I’ve gotten shit like that here just trying to rent out my places. I remember there was one guy that had a shitty credit score that I wasn’t planning to rent to anyway. He came after my first candidate decided to sigb s lease. I told him that someone else before him wanted to rent the place and that hebhad everything already signed. This second guy ended up getting pissed and told me to go back to China, lol.

I guess he would have been even more pissed if I told him the first guy that signed the lease was an H1B. Lol

To be fair, I don’t this sort of racism was any more or less than before Trump. Its probably always existed. Its just now people probably think it is acceptable behavior.

It also usually happens more with older people I think. Hopefully our kids know better.

My kid actually came home and asked if Trump gets elected if we are getting deported, lol. I asked why? And she said everyone school is talking about how Trump hates girls and colored people. Lol. Her friends are pretty mixed, so I am sure that means their parents are talking about it.

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[quote=njtosd]Flu – Asians are projected to become the wealthiest group in the US in coming years. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/15/mericans-are-transforming-the-face-of-us-wealth.html

When they do, will that mean that discrimination against Asians has stopped?[/quote]

No, it just means Asians will have a bigger target on their backs. In fact, giving in to people like trump means that discrimination against Asians will probably get worse.

I don’t buy it one bit for all the Trump voters that say want to end things like affirmative action really mean they want opportunities to be completely based on merit. With UCLA sporting 60%+ admissions for STEMS to Asians and Indians, somehow I think those Trump voters would want to apply quotas.

For some fvckd up reason, a lot of people on his country now can’t stand seeing other people doing well. A lot of people want to feel they are a victim or some social circumstance. Some minorities have often accused white people “holding them back”. I see some Trump loyalists now saying the same thing about how all the Asians and Indians are holding them back. WTF?

People just suck. It’s pretty effed up

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[quote=AN]Also, the article said:

[quote]The wealth gap between older and younger Asians is an anomaly, said Haskin. Wealth normally functions the other way around—the older population have higher levels of wealth, for various reasons. Among Asians, however, it is the younger population who are wealthier.[/quote]

It’s only an anomaly if you compare it to other culture. It’s not an anomaly if you understand the Asian culture. It would be an anomaly the other way around. I know many first gen immigrants who came here w/ nothing, worked hard, save as much as they could, and pay for their kids college tuition. So, today, their kids are wealthier than they are, because instead of thinking about “me” and save for “me” first, they plow every dollar they have to ensure their kids will be successful. That’s the Asian culture. Part of the Asian culture is also, once the kids are successful, they will repay their parents and help take care of them when they’re old because they know that they wouldn’t be where they are today if their parents didn’t sacrifice everything for them.[/quote]

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