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Mitt Romney Only Republican Not Included on President Trump's Congressional Coronavirus Group

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Posted by Frank G 2020-04-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 Quarantined. Stay home.

Posted by Dr. Wheat Faartz007 2020-04-17 00:34|| 2020-04-17 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Go ahead Mittens, order some BBQ Horseshoe Bat carry-out and a liter of Pepsi and teach the Orange Man a lesson.

[applause] BBQ Horseshoe Bat - where can I get me some?

Posted by Bobby 2020-04-17 00:37|| 2020-04-17 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry but his skill is mainly in financial engineering - specifically, how to fame the tax code and pay himself and hhs partners dividends after saddling a struggling company with debt. IIRC He invested in s.t. 67 companies and 63 of them went belly up. His big hit was a brick and mortar retailer.

This man knows nothing about manufacturing or agriculture or tech or energy or biomedical industries. He's a money-fiddler who manipulates the tax code and leverage to juice up jus returns.

He is a relic of the over-financialized economy of the 1980s and 1990s, and he has nothing whatsoever to add to the debate about how we move forward in a post-financialized economy.

Different world now. We need people who actually know how to operate businesses. Not Bainies or arbs or traders or 2-and-20 carried-interest scammers.

Posted by Lex 2020-04-17 00:47|| 2020-04-17 00:47|| Front Page Top

#4 This is what should have been done to McCain: If you want to be a loose cannon then go over in a corner and play with by yourself -- nobody can trust you so buzz off!"

Posted by magpie 2020-04-17 00:52|| 2020-04-17 00:52|| Front Page Top

#5 McSchssssssstain wasssssssch a "revered" elder schssssssstateschsssssman. Romney is just a carpet bagging schmuck.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-17 04:05|| 2020-04-17 04:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Both McStain and Womney are pieces of shit and should never be allowed near the inner circles of the Republican party.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-17 09:05|| 2020-04-17 09:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Flake was another well-justified political exile.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-04-17 10:36|| 2020-04-17 10:36|| Front Page Top

#8 This man knows nothing about manufacturing or agriculture or tech or energy or biomedical industries. He's a money-fiddler who manipulates the tax code and leverage to juice up jus returns.

Largely correct, but there's one angle missing from that - the ability to find undervalued companies relative to their true worth. If you're looking at a company and perform your own financial analysis and determine a company's worth $50 a share but the stock's at $30, that's useful information.

Posted by Raj 2020-04-17 11:03|| 2020-04-17 11:03|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ Well, Raj, the whole point was covered by Larry the Liquidator (Danny DeVito) in Other People's Money(1991). So, yeah, they are necessary if unpopular folks.

Posted by magpie 2020-04-17 13:46|| 2020-04-17 13:46|| Front Page Top

#10 He wants to be a gadfly. This is how Trump deals with gadflies.

Posted by Iblis 2020-04-17 14:39|| 2020-04-17 14:39|| Front Page Top

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