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Jes Beard

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« Reply #570 on: March 28, 2016, 02:17:45 am »
Trump Threatens to Run TV Ads Slamming Ricketts' 'Rotten Job' of Running Cubs
It appears that Round Two of Donald Trump's battle against the Ricketts family is getting underway as the Republican frontrunner blasted the clan for doing a "rotten job" of running the Chicago Cubs
By James Neveau

Presidential candidate Donald Trump has made it a habit during this campaign to push back against critics and take on all comers, and on Monday he continued his battle with the Ricketts family.

Trump, who has been the target of ads paid for by family matriarch Marlene Ricketts, has called out the family on several occasions, and now he’s floating the idea of running ads about the “rotten job” the family has done in running the Chicago Cubs.

“I’ll start taking ads telling them all what a rotten job they’re doing with the Chicago Cubs," Trump Trump told the Washington Post. "I mean, they are spending on me. I mean, so am I allowed to say that? I’ll start doing ads about their baseball team. That it’s not properly run or that they haven’t done a good job in the brokerage business lately.”

Controversy between each side began in February after a Super-PAC run by Marlene Ricketts bought $3 million worth of ads criticizing Trump.

The candidate responded by saying that the family had “a lot to hide,” and Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts said that it was “surreal” to see Trump threaten his mother. He also said that the family’s spending in the political sphere was “an open book.”
Published at 7:11 AM CDT on Mar 22, 2016

Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Trump-Criticizes-Ricketts-Rotten-Job-of-Running-Cubs-373048071.html#ixzz44BByRPuS


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« Reply #571 on: June 09, 2016, 03:19:30 pm »
I was very surprised that Bernie didn't do better in "progressive" areas like San Francisco.  Santa Cruz was the only major city in the state to prefer Bernie.  That should have sent a pretty clear message to him that Dems are not ready to support change on the scale that he advocates.  Too bad, in my view.

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« Reply #572 on: June 09, 2016, 03:36:15 pm »
I was very surprised that Bernie didn't do better in "progressive" areas like San Francisco.  Santa Cruz was the only major city in the state to prefer Bernie.  That should have sent a pretty clear message to him that Dems are not ready to support change on the scale that he advocates.  Too bad, in my view.
Maybe they see Hillary as more of a sure thing against Trump than Bernie.  I can't say for sure until Jes and JeffH declare one of them "toast."

Jes Beard

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« Reply #573 on: June 09, 2016, 03:58:54 pm »
Maybe they see Hillary as more of a sure thing against Trump than Bernie.  I can't say for sure until Jes and JeffH declare one of them "toast."

I don't think I would ever declare Hillary toast, particularly if Trump actually runs as the Republican nominee, though I still have hope to possibly one day call her a convicted felon.

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« Reply #574 on: June 09, 2016, 05:37:03 pm »
I dont like either one of them but Hilary's gonna win and you all know it.

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« Reply #575 on: June 09, 2016, 06:30:00 pm »
I hope so! (Words I never expected to write re: Hillary and her election chances)

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« Reply #576 on: June 28, 2016, 04:55:42 pm »
Some of these pictures of the airport coming out of Istanbul remind me of the movie Bullitt

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« Reply #577 on: July 17, 2016, 05:39:19 pm »




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« Reply #578 on: July 30, 2016, 10:28:39 pm »
WTF?

Jes Beard

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« Reply #579 on: July 31, 2016, 08:39:47 am »
WTF?

What.... you can't get behind that ticket?

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« Reply #580 on: July 31, 2016, 12:32:02 pm »
It's mind boggling that Trump seems to have 45% of the vote or so.  The level of anger in the electorate is beyond anything that I have seen in my lifetime.

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« Reply #581 on: July 31, 2016, 02:02:16 pm »
Both of the options suck.

Ric Flair is defintely getting my vote.

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« Reply #582 on: July 31, 2016, 02:14:12 pm »
I can't believe either of the main candidates have any support.  One is a crooked egomaniac who has bribed, stolen and cheated their way to the top.  The other is, well, they're both like that.

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« Reply #583 on: July 31, 2016, 02:43:25 pm »
Both of the options suck.

Ric Flair is defintely getting my vote.

No one would expect anything else.

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« Reply #584 on: July 31, 2016, 04:48:11 pm »