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Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, has Died at age 89:
Billionaire, philanthropist and former presidential candidate Ross Perot has died, CBS News has confirmed. He was 89.
Perot died in Texas, the state where he was born, surrounded by family.
[...] In 1992, Perot made a name for himself when he became the most successful non-major party presidential candidate in 80 years, amassing 19 percent of the popular vote, running against President George H.W. Bush and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton.
As a boy in Texarkana, Texas, Perot delivered newspapers from the back of a pony. He earned his billions in a more modern way, however — by building Electronic Data Systems Corp., which helped other companies manage their computer networks.
Yet the most famous event in his career didn't involve sales and earnings; he financed a private commando raid in 1979 to free two EDS employees who were being held in a prison in Iran. The tale was turned into a book and a movie.
Perot first became known to Americans outside of business circles by claiming that the U.S. government left behind hundreds of American soldiers who were missing or imprisoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Perot fanned the issue at home and discussed it privately with Vietnamese officials in the 1980s, angering the Reagan administration, which was formally negotiating with Vietnam's government.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @02:58PM (9 children)
How many of those horrible alt right people walked off the job rather than provide beds to those poor border hoppers sleeping on floors? (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wayfair-workers-walk-job-protest-furniture-sales-migrant-detention-centers-n1021726) Every time one of you nut jobs screech about the crimes against humanity, some virtue signalling idiot, who apparently cannot comprehend the concept of irony, starts a protest that shows exactly how important the left thinks humaneness really is. It is always followed up by a progressive circle jerk of head nodding, back slapping and self congratulation.
I watched Rashida Tlaib absolutely furious and frothing at the mouth over ICE on Face the Nation last Sunday when called out on her duplicitous deceitfulness by the host. It was pretty funny how worked up she got when even CBS could see she was lying. I thought her cognitive dissonance was going to give her a stroke before the interview was over.
If you want to change the way illegals are treated, change the law. Don't expect those charged with upholding the law to look the other way so you can feel oh so superior about yourself. If Always Ocrazio Cortex is right and the US is running concentration camps, it's the first time in history that people are climbing fences to get in one.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday July 10 2019, @03:45PM (8 children)
You don't get it. This isn't some argument you can win through pedantry.
You've proven you're okay with crimes against humanity, so you're trash. There's no room for polite disagreement with you. What you believe and do is unforgivable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @03:59PM (4 children)
Ad hominem. Typical. There is no polite disagreement because you offer no reasoning except anyone who disagrees with your preconceived opinion is "trash." This is the heart of TDS.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday July 10 2019, @04:10PM (3 children)
"Your honor this whole trial is an ad hominem you refuse to refute my arguments about my very correct gun cleaning ettiequette and insist on focusing on my personal character"
Again, it doesn't matter what hypotheticals you pose, while you're defending concentration camps. There's no negotiation with that on details. Either you change or you have to literally die for their to be justice. The only options.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @05:13PM (2 children)
They are concentration camps in the same way the Ryker's Island or San Quentin are concentration camps. Only idiots compare Nazi extermination camps to Federal detention facilities. If you break the law, you can expect to be detained.
Are you threatening me? You are beyond crazy. You want death on those who would disagree with you. Do you believe that people who come to this country, uninvited, and cross the border illegally have greater rights than someone who was born here, has done nothing illegal and wants our laws to be upheld? You would wish death on me but not ask foreigners to obey our laws. You are the poster child for TDS.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @05:34PM (1 child)
Idiots like people who went through such camps? Historians pointing out the similarities?
News flash you evil fuck, concentration camps do not require gas chambers to be concentration camps. Mass genocide is not required. Inhumane concentration camps are still inhumane.
You accept the excuses given with zero critical thought. I think the only solution is to put you trumptards into these camps and treat your families accordingly. That seems to be the only way you'll get a clue, first hand experience of being ripped from your families, imprisoned and brutalized.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @06:43PM
Citation?
I accept your terms. Next time I get caught sneaking across a sovereign country's border, feel free to put me in one of those US Federal detention centers until my economic asylum request can be heard.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 10 2019, @04:20PM (2 children)
You've got every byte down pat - and it all bites ass because it's all false.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @05:48PM (1 child)
Clueless Runaway at it again!
I get the feeling that even if they started gassing immigrants you idiots still would find some rationale to hand-wave it away. Yes they are "concentration camps" and yes it is inhumane. There is no need to separate families, that is just the extra ICEing on the cake of hatred you assholes have baked.
Keep preaching that hatred jerkoff, hell is gonna be rough for you.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 10 2019, @06:28PM
*yawn*
WTF is going to gas the immigrants? Is that what you progressives have in mind if/when you win the White House again? I know you people don't like facts, but Obama deported more immigrants than Trump. Obama separated more families than Trump. Obama told us there was a crisis at the border, long before Trump got close to the White House. And, O'Crazio Cortez led the resistance to giving more money to the border crisis. The crisis fits your agenda. Rather than send ten, a hundred, or a thousand dollars to feed the children, you would rather make political capital off of those children.
Did someone say "evil" in a recent discussion?