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Author | Retired Managing Editor, Stars & Stripes and other daily newspapers | Opinion in Raw Story | Dad | Husband | Navy Vet | Animal-lover | Activist | VOTE

Sep 22, 2020, 20 tweets

✒️Please join Klondike while I tell you all a story about the appalling notion that Trump, not Joe Biden, is a better steward of America’s economy:

✒️Once upon a time, there was a spoiled baby-man who inherited hundreds of millions of dollars from his rich, racist daddy.

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✒️Over the next 30 years, the baby-man steadily lost hundreds of millions of dollars in laughably bad investments.

✒️He was rotten at business but spent his days rearranging his hair and using another guy’s name, John Miller, to call newspapers to heap praise upon himself.

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✒️Nobody could lie like he could. But if dishonesty defined wealth, well, he was a very, very rich baby-man indeed.

✒️Anyway, one day, the baby-man decided to buy a casino, because even HE couldn’t fuck up that kind of easy return on investment.

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✒️The baby-man shopped around and picked out a casino that had been doing good business for the past eight years and provided a steady annual profit of about 7%.

✒️He hung his name on the place and proceeded to see about upping the profit margins by another 5% or so ...

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✒️... because enough was never enough for the insecure baby man. Besides, he had a helluva financial hole to dig out of after years of rotten investments.

✒️Mostly, though … he absolutely hated the previous owner of the casino, and wanted to show him up.

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✒️The previous owner was a smart, steady, decent family man, who had taken over the place only eight years earlier and rescued it from the financial collapse. Along with his sidekick, Joe, they had returned the place to respectability.

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✒️By the time they were done, all of the casino’s employees we are able to keep their jobs, AND they were able to add an additional 10% more!

✒️It was an incredible story of perseverance and leadership.

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✒️All was well, until they were unexpectedly forced to sell to the dishonest baby-man.

✒️For a couple of years, the baby-man was able to continue to return a profit on the place, but it was less than the profit the decent man and his sidekick Joe had returned before him.

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✒️This, of course, made the baby-man furious, but still he bragged to whoever would listen (Twitter), that the casino had never done better.

✒️One day, the manager of the casino walked into the baby-man’s opulent, garish golden office ...

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✒️He told the baby-man boss that one of the employees had gotten very sick and was dying.

✒️The baby-man asked what it had to with him, and the manager said, “Nothing, sir, I just thought you should know as the owner of the casino.”

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✒️A week later, the manager came back and told the baby-man that several employees had gotten very sick and that he was now worried a killer virus was infecting the casino. He said other casinos were having the same issue and they had exercised caution and shut down.

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✒️He suggested to the baby-man they shut the place down, too, until they could ascertain just what in the hell was going on.

✒️The baby-man screamed at him, “If you suggest that to me again, I will fire you and wreck your entire life, got it?!?!?!

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✒️He went on: "I intend to make millions, no matter how many rotten people die, you stupid SOB!!!”

✒️The manager put his head down and slumped away.

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✒️By now, word had gotten out that people were dying in the casino and something was very, very wrong. People stopped showing up at the casino.

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✒️Profits were dropping like a rock and the baby-man was furious. So he called everybody to together on the casino floor one day and told them that everything was actually fine and terrific and that very, very soon like a tremendous miracle the virus would just go away …

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✒️He said that even though people were dying and others were sick and/or unemployed he was actually doing a “great, terrific job” and not to believe what was going on right in front of their eyes.

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✒️By now the other casinos that had shut their doors out of caution had started opening again, because they had taken the killer disease seriously.

✒️Still, the baby-man lied and more people died ...

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✒️The casino was now in financial ruins with no end in sight, like every other thing the baby-man had managed in his life.

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✒️Then one day, @JoeBiden came knocking on the door of the casino he used to help manage. He was with his wife, Jill, and wearing a mask. He promised he could save lives and the casino if they would just let him in. He had done it before, after all …

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