Owning a golf course is a high expense, low margin business. Lots of maintenance and upkeep not including the huge water bills. Factor in the “luxury” or high end courses that are trying to cater to exclusive clientele makes it even tougher.
Golf, in general, has been trending downwards for years.
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I feel like I’m saying this way too often nowadays, but I just don’t get it. He paid more to the community chests in India, Indonesia, etc. than in the US. That community chest that supports defense spending, supports returning vets, roads, schools, our clean water, your grandmother’s Medicare…
I wish all these tax-hating people would stay off my dang roads! (That actually would be really nice. Traffic has become unbearable around here on Fridays.)
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Don’t be disrespecting the sole casse-croûte of university students throughout Quebec.
Next thing you know, it’ll be spruce biere that you’re after.
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Pence would be replaced. He’s not charismatic enough for the cult. They need a real personality to follow - the louder and more uncouth the better, as far as they perceive.
Best line from that whole TV show:
“We don’t need a criminal lawyer, we need a CRIMINAL lawyer!”
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Among other things, over-spending on the resort aspect (food and beverage, shows, decor) of a casino-resort that caters to degenerate gamblers who’d gladly sleep in an alley and eat garbage to have more money to wager. But the Taj Mahal had to be the most elegant, really the classiest and most luxurious, believe me, hotel in Atlantic City.
Also, he didn’t do his homework about the Native American casinos opening up in the tri-state area.
And he let all of his key casino management team fly on the same small aircraft, which crashed.
And, as @navarro notes, he put himself into unsustainable debt to accomplish his dream of buying the casino from Merv Griffin.
All behold the genius businessman!
Yes, it’s a dying sport in the U.S. – increasingly so as it becomes the province of the wealthy in an increasingly unequal society. Leave it to Biff jump on that bandwagon.
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I think Pelosi was right about the debates, they’re just an opportunity for Trump to prove he’s above the rules again. All anybody remembered about the last round was Trump physically intimidating Clinton, and since he got away with it, he won. That’s how it works now.
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I seriously wonder if he will try that with Biden or if they will keep them at podiums. If they let a free range debate, I could see a chest bump, a push, even an eventual pop in the nose.
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It just seems like a bad idea. It’s not what the debates are for. We are seriously gaming out how America should resolve its internal conflicts by staging a televised fistfight between political candidates.
The consequence for not acting properly last time should be people won’t debate him anymore.
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That only works if your cabinet isn’t full of lickspittles, toadies, and whatever Betsy DeVos is.
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If Biden takes a swing at Trump do Biden’s poll numbers go up or down?
If Trump is goaded into poking Biden first, and then Biden takes a swing at Trump do Biden’s poll numbers go up or down?
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I am not saying it SHOULD devolve further - I can just seeing it do so. They should be more structured to prevent issues of the past.
The debates should happen - good or bad for Biden.
Not debating just makes him look weak.
I wonder how long before the clan will wait before resorting to GoFundMe? I’m almost positive his base would contribute, even after the Build the Wall scam.
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I agree. I posted somewhere else that since all he does is lie, it seems reckless to even hold the debates this cycle and give him the venue.
I guess what I was getting at was, since they did decide to hold the debates, I hope Biden can get in some good zingers and fluster him a bit.
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Not when he’s massively ahead and Trump shoots a new own goal every other day
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Why, though? I’ve been confused about this for a long time. Even without the fact that one party this cycle is a proven pathological liar, to me it seems like public debating isn’t really a skill that one needs once they’ve won the position, so why do we use it as a kind of job interview metric?
Candidates have plenty of other ways to let us know their positions.
And effectively running a government has a lot more to do with surrounding yourself with smart people and running a good team than debating on stage.
I’ve thought for a while now we should replace the debates with a choreographed number, managed by the prospective President. Wouldn’t that be more fun?
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For fuck’s sake, don’t put that in your mouth! You don’t want to imagine where it’s been.
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This is what I predicted when Biden became the nominee: a schoolyard war of zingers that comes nowhere near addressing fundamental issues. Oh well, that’s where we are.
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So they get rid of Trump with the 25th Amendment, let Pence nominate a replacement Vice President, get him confirmed, then Pence steps down and the new President nominates another replacement VP? Could happen. Hopefully it doesn’t, but it could.
