I was sickened and completely disgusted at how trump sat there laying it all out for them about how he was going to have security performed by our army, paid for with billions of our tax dollars. I watched their faces and they were stone cold.

He repeated himself with “divvy it up three ways” because he got no reaction.

It boggles the mind that he actually hauled people in there on the premise of just bullying another country out of their resources.

but I'm sure they all knew it would be the sameTrump B.S. They were gracious because they are professional, something he knows nothing about.

I may not agree with the "corporate" world alot of the time, but I do believe in being fair and recognizing when they attempt to try and do the right thing.

Shit.

He sounds like the not-too-bright leader of a gang of dipshit wanna-be master thieves planning a pathetic, low-stakes caper.

Which tracks, I guess...

according to one former Exxon exec-turned-secretary of state, if memory serves me correctly.

Skip the first 90 seconds

He was trump's Secretary of State during the first term, for what seemed to be maybe 5 minutes---before he walked away in disgust, christening trump as "a fucking moron."

And they don’t give a fuck what he thinks.

Probably a bit of a shock to his ego.

and I noticed that when Darrin Woods was talking about getting a team to assess, he mentioned Venezuela as the country that needed help getting back on track, not how much they could profit. He made it clear they're not anxious to go back in a 3rd time, but they will help. I noticed that went right over Trump's head.

I understand where you are coming from. Working as a chauffeur for their company, I found myself conflicted at times, but it taught me patience and allowed me to see (and hear) that their presentation as a company is different than some of their personal thoughts. It was a lesson in learning how to be professional, whether I agreed or not.And sometimes it was hard not to spout off, especially to those who thought their shit didn't stink. But, as I got more familiar with the job and their protocol it got easier.
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in TrumpCoin

Bunch of ships running around, but no meaningful (any other than SpecOps?) ground presence.

State just told everyone to bug out, like boy-howdy quick, cause the shit has hit the fan that even Lawyers, Guns and Money can't fix.

Probably going to throw his backing to Machado, which will just accelerate the Civil War.

Without a Iraq level occupation, in a jungle country (cover out the wazoo), and a number of years of 'pacification', probably still won't be calm enough to build shit that blows up real good just on it's own.

Oil CEO's see another Iraq, only with less profitable petroleum, if it can ever be extracted.

to ask them to put 100 billion ( I think that's right?) into the pot that is suppose to just "fix" everything, is so audacious of Trump---but I'm not surprised.

...that he understands nothing about how business works.
His whole business model was based on conning gullible bankers into lending him mord money based on inflated values.
That's not how big business works.
He clearly doesn't know that.

If it threatens their business. They can easily pay some bribe but what Trump wants is for others to do all they can to get the profits and give him total access and control to that.

happen this time. And even if it was a "fleeting " moment, it was so refreshing to see.

I mean, it's obvious to anyone who looks that Trump has been crazy and capricious for decades, they had to know about his Epstein stuff (probably half of them are in those lists!). Trump never hid what he intended.

So now it's going to cost them so they don't like him? Boo frickin' hoo. Need to pull up those big boy pants and do what's right, but they won't. Too many promises of more tax breaks.