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From Slate:
PGA Tour Moves Historic Tournament From Trump Course to Mexico
The “Blue Monster” course at the Doral Golf Resort in Miami’s suburbs is one of the signature locales on the PGA Tour, hosting a tournament each year since 1962. A staple of the tour’s early season Florida swing, the tournament—sponsored by various corporations over the years, but most recently Cadillac—was elevated in 2007 to a World Golf Championship event (the tier below the sport’s four annual majors). But the PGA Tour is set to announce on Wednesday that it will move the tournament in 2017, reportedly due to its inability to find a new corporate sponsor. Why might such a storied event have trouble finding a sponsor?
It may have something to do with one Donald Trump, who bought Doral in 2012 and is now a toxic entity from whose brand corporations have been fleeing for the better part of a year.
Oh, and the PGA Tour is moving the tournament to … Mexico. Yup. …
Trump himself was apparently tipped off to the news on Tuesday night. “I just heard that the PGA Tour is taking their tournament out of Miami and moving it to Mexico,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “They’re moving it to Mexico City which, by the way, I hope they have kidnapping insurance.”
The Trump campaign released a more formal statement on Wednesday:
It is a sad day for Miami, the United States and the game of golf, to have the PGA Tour consider moving the World Golf Championships, which has been hosted in Miami for the last 55 years, to Mexico. No different than Nabisco, Carrier, and so many other American companies, the PGA Tour has put profit ahead of thousands of American jobs, millions of dollars in revenue for local communities and charities and the enjoyment of hundreds of thousands of fans who make the tournament an annual tradition. This decision only further embodies the very reason I am running for President of the United States.
It was controversial enough in March when the PGA Tour went through with the WGC event at Doral after a healthy nine months of Trump’s presidential controversies. (NBC Sports, which airs the tournament and in recent years had played up the Trumpification of Doral as a cross-promotion for Celebrity Apprentice, barely seemed to mention Trump’s ownership of the property this time around.) As Paul Haney wrote in Slate before the tournament began this year, Trump had put a lot of money into refurbishing golf courses like Doral, and golf’s leading bodies had clasped hands with him.
Back in March, Haney predicted that “major tours will disavow Trump’s most outrageous statements while finding ways to justify playing on his courses.” That stance made sense when Trump’s fancy courses brought in a fat pile of sponsorship dollars. Without a corporate sponsor for Doral, Trump is no longer golf’s savior. He’s a friend the PGA Tour can’t afford to keep.
Like I said in my new Taki’s column, what made Trump into a legend last summer was that he didn’t fold under extreme corporate pressure to toe the line of political correctness (note that this is the golf tour that is punishing Trump for speaking out on immigration), the way everybody else does in recent decades.
James Brown liked to say, “I paid the cost to be the boss.”
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A lot of Hispanics work at golf country clubs as the help.
Steve, Completely off topic but did you read the Dalai Lama comments on refugees in Europe: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3619322/Dalai-Lama-says-Germany-Arab-country-warns-Europe-taken-migrants.html#comments. It’s quite ironic when you compare his position to Pope Francis.
The Pope is burnishing his Lib creds. The Dalai Lama feels no need to succumb to the Left's myopic virtue signalling. The Germans will suffer for Merkel's perfidy, and Catholicism will suffer for the Pope's.Replies: @grapesoda
The rotten bastards.
Right, but do Hispanics drive Cadillacs? I don’t think I’ve seen one in California. And you’d think that Cadillac’s actual customers, elderly whites and black public employees, would have no problem with Trump’s immigration stance. But then, maybe Obama runs Cadillac’s marketing department.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noc-dVFN1zA
I didn’t know it was possible for an article about such a dry subject to be this emotionally charged. We get it, Slate guy.
That’s because the Dalai Lama has had the experience of having his country invaded and his ethnos displaced by the invaders.
Exactly so. They consider it cultural genocide. But the Volvo driving hippies with Free Tibet stickers would never think to say that about what's going on here.
The #NeverTrump people complain about Trump’s bad character, but he does seem to be making real, wallet-rending sacrifices, putting his principles ahead of his personal financial interest. That’s usually thought to be an indication of good character.
Steve, repost your review of Sicario. The Juarez scenes were filmed in Mexico City.
And where do we sign up for the boycott of WGC sponsors.
Steve, I’ve been posting off-topic today about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes because I’m dying to hear your take on the feminist scam of the century. Feminism and its perpetual hoaxes once again leave due diligence in the dust. I’m also wondering (as a female) why Holmes has such an incredibly low voice (did you notice that, too?) Just watch five minutes of her talking on YouTube, with her tired feminist and corporate-consulting pablums, all recited in that masculine voice… WTF? And she claims to never read books, WTF again! The whole thing cried out for massive due diligence from the very beginning.
She's a man, baby! Maybe a robot? The first robot CEO?
It was the same with me; when Trump didn’t back down from Nbc and Univisor, that got my attention. NOBODY had done that in recent memory. SJW’s stir up a little shit and it’s off to the begging, apologizing, don’t hurt me, I didn’t mean it. Reminds me of Belushi and Carrie Fisher with the M-16 in Blues Brothers…
“Like I said in my new Taki’s column, what made Trump into a legend last summer was that he didn’t fold under extreme corporate pressure to toe the line of political correctness .”
There was anything legendary about it. He need not cater to corporate pressure because he has his own corporation that makes millions!
2. If his lack of catering to corporate pressure is so usual where are all the other examples?
P.S. I'm assuming "There was anything legendary" was a mistake and you meant nothing or not anything.Replies: @Corvinus
Trump should keep hammering on the fact that the PGA is costing the tourism industry , restaurants, hotels, car rental and service employees, a lot of money by moving to Mexico . Moving any business to Mexico should be a poison pill for US companies. And wouldn’t it be nice if a few golfers said they weren’t interested in playing Mexico, doubt that will happen.
The optics of this are terrible . . . for the PGA. Played right into Trump’s hands with the move to Mexico. I guess our elites really are that daft.
Gavin McInnes and Anthony Cumia showed a video of the anti-Donald Trump rally in San Diego. They showed 2 Hispanic thugs with bandanas covering the bottom half of their face who said they are members of the Piru Bloods and claim they came from as far away as Compton to protest Donald Trump.
Compton is a 2 and a half hour drive to San Diego. They must really hate Donald Trump to drive that far.
Is Piru Blood membership so down lately that they have to resort to letting Mexicans join. The Piru Bloods are a historically African American gang.
Punished for speaking out against immigration? Just wait till Trump sees that women pregnant with Zika babies are coming to the US for our excellent medical care for difficult births and problem babies.
Honduran Mother Delivers Zika Baby in US
According to the CDC, a baby with microcephaly could cost up to $10 million over a lifetime of care. Fortunately for this baby, the tab will be picked up by US taxpayers, because this baby is born a US citizen.
I’m not surprised by the Dalai Lama’s comment. In Tibetan Buddhism, there is a theme of an apocalyptic war between the forces of good and Semitic religions, but especially with Islam.
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Kalachakra_Tantra
http://www.trimondi.de/Kalachakra/dec.eng..htm
Trump gets a boost from this mistake by PGA.
It looks like the Trump-haters are not going to learn jujitsu and they will simply propel him into the Whitehouse.
The Problem:
Trump is master of quick decision leadership in the OODA mold.
There is a movie line delivered by Vegas casino boss Pacino in Ocean’s 11 (or 12): “I move fast and I slice.”
This kind of opponent is impossible for Hillary or Bernie to deal with.
Trump looks at vacant lots — where umpteen real estate sharks before him passed — and turns them into winning properties. He’s now doing it with political issues.
“I’m also wondering (as a female) why Holmes has such an incredibly low voice (did you notice that, too?) Just watch five minutes of her talking on YouTube, with her tired feminist and corporate-consulting pablums, all recited in that masculine voice… WTF?”
She’s a man, baby! Maybe a robot? The first robot CEO?
I know it’s usually wise, when given a choice of figuring out bizarre behavior as one between conspiracy, or stupidity, to choose stupidity, but god DAMN!
I just cannot believe people who apparently can organize a golf tournament can be this stupid. It’s like they’re working for Trump! He must be paying them to do this!!
Wait until you hear about Ubeam.
Founded by a kinda-pretty blonde 21-year-old undergraduate studying paleo-biology at Penn, who has thus far had $23 million invested in her product-less, revenue-less company. Their website features an astronaut and takes 45 seconds to load the page on my fast PC with a fast connection. She "served as a student ambassador for NASA." Is that like a spokes-model?
Great work if you can get it!"It is not the critic who counts..." says the Teddy Roosevelt-themed inspirational poster in her super-fab office in Santa Monica with a view of the Pacific.Yeah yeah but who leaves their mice unshaven these days? Within minutes? Why are the mice standing still in the path of a electricity beam for minutes? Why are they standing in the path of progress?That's all I needed to hear, the power cords in my house are just hideous and I also have an awful unshaved mouse infestation. Having my lights and appliances randomly cut out all the time whenever something gets between their receiver and the house's uBeams is a small price to pay.Replies: @Alec Leamas, @Mr. Anon, @Big Bill, @Dave Pinsen, @Marie
I was wondering what Steve’s opinion would be on Dural course and moving a major WGC tourney to Mexico. Glad to see I waited.
See also…
http://fortune.com/2015/12/14/trump-turnberry-loses-british-open/
But then Steve told us that Trump is expected to retire to Turnberry Lighthouse, after losing the election run to Wile E. Coyote:
(That’s humble Culzean Castle in the foreground)
See also…
http://fortune.com/2015/12/14/trump-turnberry-loses-british-open/
But then Steve told us that Trump is expected to retire to Turnberry Lighthouse, after losing the election run to Wile E. Coyote:
(That’s humble Culzean castle on the foreground)
Trump is an entertaining Berlusconi-style con man. The Kanye West of the political scene. Un-restrained narcissism and materialism. So many people, of different political stripes, think that his election is going to be some golden year zero for whatever cause they have – talk about coalition of the fringes!
“I’m also wondering (as a female) why Holmes has such an incredibly low voice (did you notice that, too?) Just watch five minutes of her talking on YouTube, with her tired feminist and corporate-consulting pablums, all recited in that masculine voice… WTF?”
Most of the time when women have deep voices they are either Skid Row junkies, smokers, alcoholics, or dykes.
“I just heard that the PGA Tour is taking their tournament out of Miami and moving it to Mexico,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “They’re moving it to Mexico City which, by the way, I hope they have kidnapping insurance.”
Kidnapping insurance! Love this guy. He’s funny and formidable.
The Pope is an idiot, and the Dalai Lama is not.
The Pope is burnishing his Lib creds. The Dalai Lama feels no need to succumb to the Left’s myopic virtue signalling. The Germans will suffer for Merkel’s perfidy, and Catholicism will suffer for the Pope’s.
The Dalai Lama has personal experience both with Chinese immigration being used to displace his people and years of interactions with self-hating Whites. He knew what they needed to be told in ethno-masocistic Germany.
Wouldn’t it have been better if he had ripped off rich people and not cared what poor, stupid people thought of him instead?
This move by the PGA is good news. It will help even the slowest thinker to realize big business loves open borders. Cadillac & the PGA aren’t doing this to avoid a boycott of their products by girls with blue hair and guys with pierced noses.
Looks like Ubeam is another miracle technology. No more electrical cords, they will be replaced by SOUND WAVES!!!!
Founded by a kinda-pretty blonde 21-year-old undergraduate studying paleo-biology at Penn, who has thus far had $23 million invested in her product-less, revenue-less company. Their website features an astronaut and takes 45 seconds to load the page on my fast PC with a fast connection. She “served as a student ambassador for NASA.” Is that like a spokes-model?
Great work if you can get it!
“It is not the critic who counts…” says the Teddy Roosevelt-themed inspirational poster in her super-fab office in Santa Monica with a view of the Pacific.
Yeah yeah but who leaves their mice unshaven these days? Within minutes? Why are the mice standing still in the path of a electricity beam for minutes? Why are they standing in the path of progress?
That’s all I needed to hear, the power cords in my house are just hideous and I also have an awful unshaved mouse infestation. Having my lights and appliances randomly cut out all the time whenever something gets between their receiver and the house’s uBeams is a small price to pay.
And why would one need expensive, inconsistent technology when I can just call Sparky to add some outlets where needed?
Ubeam should modify their technology for wireless data-transfer. They might be able to achieve speeds as high as 5 or even 10 kilobaud!
She claims her ultrasonic frequencies are so high they won't bother kids or dogs, BUT she is broadcasting at multiple ultrasonic frequencies that are, like, 5-20 kHz apart, and "self-adjusting/tuning". Mmmm. Can you say "beat frequencies", kids?
Her earliest priority date is five years ago. For someone who touts prototype turnarounds of 30 days on her website, that would make it 60 prototype cycles ago. By this point they should have hired an industrial designer and come up with some sexy transmitter enclosures that they could pimp to the press.
So will Corporate America leave the USA if he’s elected?
Also who does the PGA thinks watches their events and buys their stuff?
“That’s because the Dalai Lama has had the experience of having his country invaded and his ethnos displaced by the invaders.”
Exactly so. They consider it cultural genocide. But the Volvo driving hippies with Free Tibet stickers would never think to say that about what’s going on here.
Yes fundamentally this is what Cruz et al missed about Trump. Political courage. Specifically courageous leadership.
Of course Cruz himself bucked the leaders in the Senate. But bucking is not leading.
>>>>>>>what made Trump into a legend last summer was that he didn’t fold under extreme corporate pressure to toe the line of political correctness (note that this is the golf tour that is punishing Trump for speaking out on immigration), the way everybody else does in recent decades. James Brown liked to say, “I paid the cost to be the boss.”<<<<<<<
His views are undoubtedly informed by his observation of Chinese immigrants in his natal land.
related. last week murrayfield in scotland voted to remain all male, so they lost their place in the british open rotation.
Info on Bridgestone, the Japanese company that is one of the WGC lead sponsors:
$425 million is a lot of money, good job DoJ!
President Trump’s business career has been in the highly competitive real estate, marketing, and hospitality industries. I hope he redoubles DoJ’s efforts to stop these Asian oligopolies that routinely engage in price fixing, making money by cheating and collusion rather than providing a good product at a competitive price.
How often have we heard the complaint about corporations sending their companies out of the country? How many times have we groaned to learn how much money/jobs the disappearing manufacturing sector is sending overseas or down below the border? And now a presidential hopeful is doing the same thing! Go ahead, dumb bunnies, applaud this fool… vote for this idiot… and watch the US as we know/knew it vanish down the gurgler……..
When the article says that the PGA tournament presently held at Trump's Doral golf course is moving to Mexico, it does NOT mean that Trump is moving his golf course to Mexico where it will host the tournament.
Trump will keep the golf course in Florida where it will continue to support jobs, and would have loved to keep hosting the tournament.
What the article said is that the PGA is moving the tournament to Mexico against Trump's objections.
This will create two things. 1) jobs in Mexico for the tournament and 2) thousands of more votes for Trump.
You're welcome.
Steve’s golf obsession is finally paying off politically!
Yes there was a point in the primary where the establishment tried to swiftboat Trump on his business acumen. You can swiftboat a John Kerry guy on supposed deeds done in a war overseas decades ago. But you can’t do it to a guy whose deeds (buildings, TV shows etc) are standing up in places around the country today.
Trump’s a winner but like Obama he’s not running against any geniuses.
>>>On the other hand, in contrast to the rather abstract business life of Mitt Romney, Trump’s career of building giant buildings that rappers and pro athletes want to live in is the kind of tangible accomplishment that citizens can identify with.<<<<<
Founded by a kinda-pretty blonde 21-year-old undergraduate studying paleo-biology at Penn, who has thus far had $23 million invested in her product-less, revenue-less company. Their website features an astronaut and takes 45 seconds to load the page on my fast PC with a fast connection. She "served as a student ambassador for NASA." Is that like a spokes-model?
Great work if you can get it!"It is not the critic who counts..." says the Teddy Roosevelt-themed inspirational poster in her super-fab office in Santa Monica with a view of the Pacific.Yeah yeah but who leaves their mice unshaven these days? Within minutes? Why are the mice standing still in the path of a electricity beam for minutes? Why are they standing in the path of progress?That's all I needed to hear, the power cords in my house are just hideous and I also have an awful unshaved mouse infestation. Having my lights and appliances randomly cut out all the time whenever something gets between their receiver and the house's uBeams is a small price to pay.Replies: @Alec Leamas, @Mr. Anon, @Big Bill, @Dave Pinsen, @Marie
Made me chuckle.
And why would one need expensive, inconsistent technology when I can just call Sparky to add some outlets where needed?
Come to think of it, the Chinese are actively race-replacing Tibetans with forced migration. Opposing this is a favored cause of left types. I sense a window of opportunity here – if it’s wrong for the Chinese to replace the Tibetans (it is), then it’s wrong for the Africans to replace the Italians or whatever example you want to choose. Could be an effective meme.
Was Trump aware that he would lose his golf sponsorship due to his political advocacy?
I admit, that if Trump foresaw this move on the part of the PGA, he’d have a financial reason not to run, but I’m not sure if he knew it would happen. Certainly I didn’t see this one coming.
Theranos, that surprisingly well connected company that some of us have been looking at continues on its allotted path.
It seems nice tits and a pretty face just aren’t enough.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-01/forbes-slashes-theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-net-worth-45-billion-zero
Forbes Slashes Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes’ Net Worth From $4.5 Billion To Zero
Whoa, that's as bad as claiming that Trump is not qualified to be president because of his hair.
I guess this is what fuck you money is all about. I can’t wrap my mind around the lives of boring billionaires like Warren Buffet. When you have more money than your grandkids can spend, living in Omaha is what you want to do for your entire life? It’s always been my fantasy to be an eccentric billionaire. Something like the Montgomery Brewster’s challenge to burn through a large sum of money with no assets to show for it at the end in George Barr McCutcheon’s novel Brewster’s Millions. Richard Pryor played the title role in a 1980s film adaptation during the dumb screwball comedy turn his career took after his self-immolation. Not a particularly good movie but a guilty pleasure of mine. A subplot involves Pryor spending lots of money in the mayoral race to advocate “none of the above.”
There must be some interesting cognitive dissonance happening when you move Burger King to Canada to exploit lower taxes and then complain that your secretary pays higher tax rates.
Is Davos all that much better?
President Trump's business career has been in the highly competitive real estate, marketing, and hospitality industries. I hope he redoubles DoJ's efforts to stop these Asian oligopolies that routinely engage in price fixing, making money by cheating and collusion rather than providing a good product at a competitive price.Replies: @No_0ne
Typical corporate oligarch/ inside-the-Beltway reaction. We’ll show Trump! We’ll not only take the tournament away, we’ll move it to MEXICO. I don’t think that’s going to play really well with the average voter…
I admit, that if Trump foresaw this move on the part of the PGA, he'd have a financial reason not to run, but I'm not sure if he knew it would happen. Certainly I didn't see this one coming.Replies: @Steve Sailer
It mostly happened ten months ago.
Unless you consider this economic loss as a purchase price for something he wants and is willing to pay for.
Founded by a kinda-pretty blonde 21-year-old undergraduate studying paleo-biology at Penn, who has thus far had $23 million invested in her product-less, revenue-less company. Their website features an astronaut and takes 45 seconds to load the page on my fast PC with a fast connection. She "served as a student ambassador for NASA." Is that like a spokes-model?
Great work if you can get it!"It is not the critic who counts..." says the Teddy Roosevelt-themed inspirational poster in her super-fab office in Santa Monica with a view of the Pacific.Yeah yeah but who leaves their mice unshaven these days? Within minutes? Why are the mice standing still in the path of a electricity beam for minutes? Why are they standing in the path of progress?That's all I needed to hear, the power cords in my house are just hideous and I also have an awful unshaved mouse infestation. Having my lights and appliances randomly cut out all the time whenever something gets between their receiver and the house's uBeams is a small price to pay.Replies: @Alec Leamas, @Mr. Anon, @Big Bill, @Dave Pinsen, @Marie
Kill those household pests while you charge your phone!
Ubeam should modify their technology for wireless data-transfer. They might be able to achieve speeds as high as 5 or even 10 kilobaud!
Actually, the narcotraficantes love the Cadillac Escalade. A few years back I was at a law enforcement training about vehicles stolen in San Diego for the Mexican market. The Escalade was in the top five for the prior few years.
What about The Magic Christian?
The Chinese are the same race as the Tibetans.
The Han Chinese and the Tibetans are distinct ethnic groups. They have different languages, different cultures, and the Tibetans are better adapted to high altitude existence.
Now that I think about it, left concern with Tibet is similar to conservative fetishization of Israel - it's a way to express national anxieties and hopes by projecting them onto an Other.
Or trannies. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Are you saying Elizabeth Holmes has a Captain Winky?
https://youtu.be/ClAiUdThFgw
“Or trannies. Not that there is anything wrong with that.”
Are you saying Elizabeth Holmes has a Captain Winky?
Founded by a kinda-pretty blonde 21-year-old undergraduate studying paleo-biology at Penn, who has thus far had $23 million invested in her product-less, revenue-less company. Their website features an astronaut and takes 45 seconds to load the page on my fast PC with a fast connection. She "served as a student ambassador for NASA." Is that like a spokes-model?
Great work if you can get it!"It is not the critic who counts..." says the Teddy Roosevelt-themed inspirational poster in her super-fab office in Santa Monica with a view of the Pacific.Yeah yeah but who leaves their mice unshaven these days? Within minutes? Why are the mice standing still in the path of a electricity beam for minutes? Why are they standing in the path of progress?That's all I needed to hear, the power cords in my house are just hideous and I also have an awful unshaved mouse infestation. Having my lights and appliances randomly cut out all the time whenever something gets between their receiver and the house's uBeams is a small price to pay.Replies: @Alec Leamas, @Mr. Anon, @Big Bill, @Dave Pinsen, @Marie
Meredith’s patent applications have some … umm … very broad claims. Simple figures repeated in several patent apps that are pretty sketchy. More like PowerPoints.
She claims her ultrasonic frequencies are so high they won’t bother kids or dogs, BUT she is broadcasting at multiple ultrasonic frequencies that are, like, 5-20 kHz apart, and “self-adjusting/tuning”. Mmmm. Can you say “beat frequencies”, kids?
Her earliest priority date is five years ago. For someone who touts prototype turnarounds of 30 days on her website, that would make it 60 prototype cycles ago. By this point they should have hired an industrial designer and come up with some sexy transmitter enclosures that they could pimp to the press.
Yes. They drive Cadillac Escalades.
Founded by a kinda-pretty blonde 21-year-old undergraduate studying paleo-biology at Penn, who has thus far had $23 million invested in her product-less, revenue-less company. Their website features an astronaut and takes 45 seconds to load the page on my fast PC with a fast connection. She "served as a student ambassador for NASA." Is that like a spokes-model?
Great work if you can get it!"It is not the critic who counts..." says the Teddy Roosevelt-themed inspirational poster in her super-fab office in Santa Monica with a view of the Pacific.Yeah yeah but who leaves their mice unshaven these days? Within minutes? Why are the mice standing still in the path of a electricity beam for minutes? Why are they standing in the path of progress?That's all I needed to hear, the power cords in my house are just hideous and I also have an awful unshaved mouse infestation. Having my lights and appliances randomly cut out all the time whenever something gets between their receiver and the house's uBeams is a small price to pay.Replies: @Alec Leamas, @Mr. Anon, @Big Bill, @Dave Pinsen, @Marie
Great takedown by a physicist 2.5 years ago: http://lookatmeimdanny.tumblr.com/post/101432017159/how-putting-10m-into-ubeam-illustrates-everything
Trump has big brass balls.
That about sums it up.
Semi-OT, but speaking of Trump, ICYMI, this links to Steve:
It seems nice tits and a pretty face just aren't enough.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-01/forbes-slashes-theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-net-worth-45-billion-zero
Forbes Slashes Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes' Net Worth From $4.5 Billion To ZeroReplies: @Wanderer
It seems nice tits and a pretty face just aren’t enough.
Whoa, that’s as bad as claiming that Trump is not qualified to be president because of his hair.
Hey man, race doesn’t exist.
The Han Chinese and the Tibetans are distinct ethnic groups. They have different languages, different cultures, and the Tibetans are better adapted to high altitude existence.
Now that I think about it, left concern with Tibet is similar to conservative fetishization of Israel – it’s a way to express national anxieties and hopes by projecting them onto an Other.
Here; let me help you with your reading skills since you seem to have misunderstood what the article said.
When the article says that the PGA tournament presently held at Trump’s Doral golf course is moving to Mexico, it does NOT mean that Trump is moving his golf course to Mexico where it will host the tournament.
Trump will keep the golf course in Florida where it will continue to support jobs, and would have loved to keep hosting the tournament.
What the article said is that the PGA is moving the tournament to Mexico against Trump’s objections.
This will create two things. 1) jobs in Mexico for the tournament and 2) thousands of more votes for Trump.
You’re welcome.
Trump is not the sort of individual you would want to be the spokesman for honest, unfettered opinions. Writting a favorable column about Trump’s forthrightness while ignoring his huge shortcomings is a form of hackery. Trump cannot accept reciprocal honesty and devolves into childress tantrums and ad hominen attacks when individuals call out his bluffs. And he lies about well-known, publically-known matters. A lot. Is it too much to ask Steve to at least have standards for alt-right-ish candidates? You know, like having standards for who we let into this country.
After another four years of immigration laws in abeyance and ex-cons getting the right to vote, the White House may simply be out of reach of the GOP.Replies: @rod1963, @Anonymous Nephew
Trump understands that you have to take losses to make profits. I’ve seen reports that one the whole he’s made money in his hotels as a result of his candidacy.
The oddest thing about this campaign so far is people who agree with Trump on the main issues (e.g., David Frum) ginning up unconvincing reasons not to support him. Our choices aren’t Trump versus a more virtuous citizenist candidate; they’re Trump or bust.
After another four years of immigration laws in abeyance and ex-cons getting the right to vote, the White House may simply be out of reach of the GOP.
Unlike Socialist monsters like Chavez and Maduro, she's dumb enough to flex our military might against Russia to prove to the world she has a sack.
BTW did you see Obama losing it big time when he tried to criticize Trump?
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/06/wow-obama-tries-trash-donald-trump-turns-stuttering-mess/
Interesting times are ahead.Replies: @Ralph Raico
Good let the PGA move it’s tournament to Mexico. A bunch of old rich white dudes and their wives are the perfect prey for robberies, shakedowns and kidnapping.
I’m sure the corrupt Mexican police will do their best. But if the thugs see serious money to be made, well….
Muirfield. Murrayfield is where they play rugby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCub8r1T5Rs
"Leggy Blonde" - Murray from Flight of the Conchords
Caddy and the PGA are not stupid. This move plays well, very well, with upper class White women. Who hate hate hate Trump and his White male supporters. And love their illegal alien nannies and maids. Women influence or make 85% of purchases.
This is probably a win for Caddy and PGA, a split for Trump. More White male support and more White female opposition.
After another four years of immigration laws in abeyance and ex-cons getting the right to vote, the White House may simply be out of reach of the GOP.Replies: @rod1963, @Anonymous Nephew
Trump is very much the last hurrah so to speak of whites. If he loses against the establishment and that fat ankled, white hating psychopath in a pantsuit. We’re toast. We get no do-overs, just wave after wave of 3rd worlders, polar bear hunting, Fergusons, etc.
Unlike Socialist monsters like Chavez and Maduro, she’s dumb enough to flex our military might against Russia to prove to the world she has a sack.
BTW did you see Obama losing it big time when he tried to criticize Trump?
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/06/wow-obama-tries-trash-donald-trump-turns-stuttering-mess/
Interesting times are ahead.
…no. Try again. Maybe with a username instead of being cowardly anonymous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Tibetan_languages
Western libcucks are losing their minds over this.
Just a few preliminary Google searches of “Meredith Perry” + “uBeam” has all the red flags in the world waving in unison. Women should stay far away from tech and Silicon Valley.
Founded by a kinda-pretty blonde 21-year-old undergraduate studying paleo-biology at Penn, who has thus far had $23 million invested in her product-less, revenue-less company. Their website features an astronaut and takes 45 seconds to load the page on my fast PC with a fast connection. She "served as a student ambassador for NASA." Is that like a spokes-model?
Great work if you can get it!"It is not the critic who counts..." says the Teddy Roosevelt-themed inspirational poster in her super-fab office in Santa Monica with a view of the Pacific.Yeah yeah but who leaves their mice unshaven these days? Within minutes? Why are the mice standing still in the path of a electricity beam for minutes? Why are they standing in the path of progress?That's all I needed to hear, the power cords in my house are just hideous and I also have an awful unshaved mouse infestation. Having my lights and appliances randomly cut out all the time whenever something gets between their receiver and the house's uBeams is a small price to pay.Replies: @Alec Leamas, @Mr. Anon, @Big Bill, @Dave Pinsen, @Marie
For additional laughs: http://meredithperry.tumblr.com
When Macy’s dumped Trump, Donald Trump started a boycott of Macy’s that was extremely successful. Conservatives need to punch back just as forcefully as Trump.
Honestly, it’s hard to say how successful Trump’s Macy’s boycott has been. With few exceptions, bricks & mortar retailers have struggled since last summer.
I used to work at a winery in Napa Valley. One of the Hispanic vineyard workers drove a used Cadillac Cimarron.
http://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-american/curbside-classic-1984-cadillac-cimarron-poor-execution-meets-bad-timing/
It might not be anything against Trump specifically, just that the PGA does not want to be in the position of holding a high profile tournament at a course owned by the President. Of course Trump hasn’t been elected yet, but waiting until November to make a stay or move decision may not be feasible.
Murrayfield? Blonde techies?
“Leggy Blonde” – Murray from Flight of the Conchords
Spot on.
I am looking forward to reprisals if Trump is elected. I’ll be disappointed if he’s too pragmatic to have an Enemies List.
“Tanned, rested, and ready… Nixon in ’96”
“Spray-tanned, rested, and ready… Trump in ’16”
After another four years of immigration laws in abeyance and ex-cons getting the right to vote, the White House may simply be out of reach of the GOP.Replies: @rod1963, @Anonymous Nephew
“Ireland” is a drive-by concern troll with a comment count of two. He’s posted the same comment on the “Trump as liberator” thread.
Trolls at iSteve in days of old tended to be impassioned “I just can’t” liberal types genuinely shocked and angry at the heresy, Tiny Duck and his various incarnations seem more formulaic, almost as if it’s a low-paid bit of piecework.
Then there’s a couple of regulars (Nick D and Corvinus), who doubtless feel they’re doing the right thing.
A fair estimate of how much money’s lost shouldn’t be hard to arrive at. Juxtaposed with images of anti-Trump Chicano rioters and a reminder that’s who corporate America stands in solidarity with, and you’ve got a good ad.
The Pope is burnishing his Lib creds. The Dalai Lama feels no need to succumb to the Left's myopic virtue signalling. The Germans will suffer for Merkel's perfidy, and Catholicism will suffer for the Pope's.Replies: @grapesoda
He saw through the bull… like Mitch Hedberg when he took acid and realized that butter is better than margarine.
"I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too."
butter is better than margarine
Butter really is better than margarine. Butter is great. What were we thinking all those years when we ate margarine rather than butter?
Buffet and the “aw, shucks” veneer has always creeped me out a little.
There must be some interesting cognitive dissonance happening when you move Burger King to Canada to exploit lower taxes and then complain that your secretary pays higher tax rates.
I'm sure the corrupt Mexican police will do their best. But if the thugs see serious money to be made, well....Replies: @antipater_1
The corrupt Mexican police may be the ones doing the kidnapping.
There has to be a way to punish PGA, and even Caddy, for this. They’re basically throwing their customer/fan base under the bus in order to appease a bunch of people that have no interest in their product. I think if you anonymously polled golf fans, very very few of them would be bothered by anything Trump said. And even Cadillac buyers on the whole probably weren’t bothered, though that’s a closer call.
Trump, Hannity and others should use their platform to routinely associate the PGA and Cadillac with the masked violent protestors at Trump rallies. Point out that they care more about the opinion of the rioters than they do their own customer base.
Thanks for responding. Nothing personal, but that comment isn’t particularly pertinent – if some Napa Valley dowager donated a clunker to one of her hirelings, it’s got nothing to do with Cadillac’s marketing efforts. If you’ve spent much time in NorCal you know that mexers go for trucks, usually Dodge and Ford.
I was born and raised in NorCal, so I’m familiar with the purchasing habits of our Hispanic friends. I responded to your post because that was the only time I can recall seeing a Hispanic driving a Cadillac, thus reinforcing your point. The fact that it was a Cimarron is of particular amusement to those familiar with the history of the model, which is detailed in the blog I linked to. From the comments:
"The reason for the fascination with the Cimmaron is that it was the dramatic disaster that signaled a paradigm shift on the level of the Hindenburg disaster, or the sinking of the Titanic and I am serious when I say this.
Everyone knew what a Cadillac was. Yeah, it was an old man’s car, and people were complaining that their quality wasn’t what it had been, and that the cars were out of step with the times, but they sent a specific message of success, and of quality. When wanting to describe something as the best possible example of its kind, the phrase “It’s the Cadillac of X (watches, yachts, anything)” was used without irony.
The Cimmaron destroyed those decades of image overnight. Suddenly it was obvious that Cadillacs weren’t anything special, that the idea that they were of higher quality than other cars was and had been wrong- a whole nation discovering that there was no Wizard Of Oz and that the man behind the curtain was the Janitor.
This would have never been a good revelation but coming just at the time when the X car fiasco was suggesting that GM wasn’t sweating the details just made things worse. Previously you justified your first Caddy to your friends by saying “Yeah I spent too much, and it’s too big, but I always wanted one and now I can afford one, so….” Now that justification became defensive – “The quality really is better than a Chevy”.
I realize that today all this seems silly, but Cadillac really was the symbol of the American dream, and GM very cynically crushed that dream. America will never be rich enough again for real Cadillacs so we made you a toy one out of tin"
Finally, the winery where we worked was owned by a German corporation, not a local resident.
Have a nice day!Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Brutusale, @Old Palo Altan
I miss Mitch. Saw him in Ann Arbor opening for Stephen Lynch. Lynch was a huge disappointment following Hedberg.
“I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.”
butter is better than margarine
There was anything legendary about it. He need not cater to corporate pressure because he has his own corporation that makes millions!Replies: @res
1. His own corporation which has taken multiple financial hits because of his outspoken candidacy. Not typical business behavior.
2. If his lack of catering to corporate pressure is so usual where are all the other examples?
P.S. I’m assuming “There was anything legendary” was a mistake and you meant nothing or not anything.
Is he whining about it? Is he rethinking his strategies? No. He...doesn't...care. He's rich. And he still will be whether or not he is president.
Unlike Socialist monsters like Chavez and Maduro, she's dumb enough to flex our military might against Russia to prove to the world she has a sack.
BTW did you see Obama losing it big time when he tried to criticize Trump?
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/06/wow-obama-tries-trash-donald-trump-turns-stuttering-mess/
Interesting times are ahead.Replies: @Ralph Raico
Rod is 100% correct. Despite all his many faults Donald Trump is the last hurrah of White America. What a tragedy if this great nation–the nation, not its predatory government–were put an end to by the Queen of Chaos, the capo di tutti capi of the Clinton Crime Family, Ma Barker in a pant suit.
https://twitter.com/PortfolioArmor/status/737905404718501888Replies: @PV van der Byl
Very well done, Dave!
They’re the same race as the Chinese. This isn’t in dispute. And their languages are part of the same language family:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Tibetan_languages
That’s not why. The companies are scared of getting investigated by the government for in-kind, or even direct, presidential campaign contributions. These business contracts are so large that they go well beyond the limits for donations, so if the administration goes after them then that means massive fines and lots of perp walks (The Obama administration would do it if it sensed an opportunity, it’s in the nature of the beast.).
All in all not good for business and it explains PGA’s difficulty in finding a corporate sponsor.
NBC didn't seem too scared about their in-kind contribution to Clinton, Inc. by hiring Chelsea for a reporting job at a grossly inflated salary for someone with no broadcast experience.
All in all not good for business and it explains PGA's difficulty in finding a corporate sponsor.Replies: @TangoMan
The companies are scared of getting investigated by the government for in-kind, or even direct, presidential campaign contributions.
NBC didn’t seem too scared about their in-kind contribution to Clinton, Inc. by hiring Chelsea for a reporting job at a grossly inflated salary for someone with no broadcast experience.
2. If his lack of catering to corporate pressure is so usual where are all the other examples?
P.S. I'm assuming "There was anything legendary" was a mistake and you meant nothing or not anything.Replies: @Corvinus
“His own corporation which has taken multiple financial hits because of his outspoken candidacy. Not typical business behavior.”
Is he whining about it? Is he rethinking his strategies? No. He…doesn’t…care. He’s rich. And he still will be whether or not he is president.
Greetings.
I was born and raised in NorCal, so I’m familiar with the purchasing habits of our Hispanic friends. I responded to your post because that was the only time I can recall seeing a Hispanic driving a Cadillac, thus reinforcing your point. The fact that it was a Cimarron is of particular amusement to those familiar with the history of the model, which is detailed in the blog I linked to. From the comments:
“The reason for the fascination with the Cimmaron is that it was the dramatic disaster that signaled a paradigm shift on the level of the Hindenburg disaster, or the sinking of the Titanic and I am serious when I say this.
Everyone knew what a Cadillac was. Yeah, it was an old man’s car, and people were complaining that their quality wasn’t what it had been, and that the cars were out of step with the times, but they sent a specific message of success, and of quality. When wanting to describe something as the best possible example of its kind, the phrase “It’s the Cadillac of X (watches, yachts, anything)” was used without irony.
The Cimmaron destroyed those decades of image overnight. Suddenly it was obvious that Cadillacs weren’t anything special, that the idea that they were of higher quality than other cars was and had been wrong- a whole nation discovering that there was no Wizard Of Oz and that the man behind the curtain was the Janitor.
This would have never been a good revelation but coming just at the time when the X car fiasco was suggesting that GM wasn’t sweating the details just made things worse. Previously you justified your first Caddy to your friends by saying “Yeah I spent too much, and it’s too big, but I always wanted one and now I can afford one, so….” Now that justification became defensive – “The quality really is better than a Chevy”.
I realize that today all this seems silly, but Cadillac really was the symbol of the American dream, and GM very cynically crushed that dream. America will never be rich enough again for real Cadillacs so we made you a toy one out of tin”
Finally, the winery where we worked was owned by a German corporation, not a local resident.
Have a nice day!
The Cadillac (we didn't say "Caddy") was splendid in every detail; it even had electric windows, which of course fascinated us children. A great great uncle (perforce an even older man!) owned a Chrysler Imperial with the same child-pleasing novelty. But it had rather large fins, which pleased my discriminating eye less than the Fleetwood's modest and shapely bumps.
The quality of every detail, from the heavy clunk of the doors as they shut (you didn't need to slam them) to the smell and feel of the leather seats immunised me to any sort of appeal which the later models hoped to elicit with their meretricious pandering to a lower level of discernment altogether.
I was born and raised in NorCal, so I’m familiar with the purchasing habits of our Hispanic friends. I responded to your post because that was the only time I can recall seeing a Hispanic driving a Cadillac, thus reinforcing your point. The fact that it was a Cimarron is of particular amusement to those familiar with the history of the model, which is detailed in the blog I linked to. From the comments:
"The reason for the fascination with the Cimmaron is that it was the dramatic disaster that signaled a paradigm shift on the level of the Hindenburg disaster, or the sinking of the Titanic and I am serious when I say this.
Everyone knew what a Cadillac was. Yeah, it was an old man’s car, and people were complaining that their quality wasn’t what it had been, and that the cars were out of step with the times, but they sent a specific message of success, and of quality. When wanting to describe something as the best possible example of its kind, the phrase “It’s the Cadillac of X (watches, yachts, anything)” was used without irony.
The Cimmaron destroyed those decades of image overnight. Suddenly it was obvious that Cadillacs weren’t anything special, that the idea that they were of higher quality than other cars was and had been wrong- a whole nation discovering that there was no Wizard Of Oz and that the man behind the curtain was the Janitor.
This would have never been a good revelation but coming just at the time when the X car fiasco was suggesting that GM wasn’t sweating the details just made things worse. Previously you justified your first Caddy to your friends by saying “Yeah I spent too much, and it’s too big, but I always wanted one and now I can afford one, so….” Now that justification became defensive – “The quality really is better than a Chevy”.
I realize that today all this seems silly, but Cadillac really was the symbol of the American dream, and GM very cynically crushed that dream. America will never be rich enough again for real Cadillacs so we made you a toy one out of tin"
Finally, the winery where we worked was owned by a German corporation, not a local resident.
Have a nice day!Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Brutusale, @Old Palo Altan
When you have more money than your grandkids can spend, living in Omaha is what you want to do for your entire life?
Kindly old Uncle Warren has long spent most of his time in Manhattan. The Sage of Omaha stuff is a contrived public image.
Speak for yourself. 🙂
Omaha is a pretty decent mid-sized city, and you’re surrounded by cheerful, normal people. The kind you have to understand if you’re investing in mass-market corportations.
Is Davos all that much better?
I was born and raised in NorCal, so I’m familiar with the purchasing habits of our Hispanic friends. I responded to your post because that was the only time I can recall seeing a Hispanic driving a Cadillac, thus reinforcing your point. The fact that it was a Cimarron is of particular amusement to those familiar with the history of the model, which is detailed in the blog I linked to. From the comments:
"The reason for the fascination with the Cimmaron is that it was the dramatic disaster that signaled a paradigm shift on the level of the Hindenburg disaster, or the sinking of the Titanic and I am serious when I say this.
Everyone knew what a Cadillac was. Yeah, it was an old man’s car, and people were complaining that their quality wasn’t what it had been, and that the cars were out of step with the times, but they sent a specific message of success, and of quality. When wanting to describe something as the best possible example of its kind, the phrase “It’s the Cadillac of X (watches, yachts, anything)” was used without irony.
The Cimmaron destroyed those decades of image overnight. Suddenly it was obvious that Cadillacs weren’t anything special, that the idea that they were of higher quality than other cars was and had been wrong- a whole nation discovering that there was no Wizard Of Oz and that the man behind the curtain was the Janitor.
This would have never been a good revelation but coming just at the time when the X car fiasco was suggesting that GM wasn’t sweating the details just made things worse. Previously you justified your first Caddy to your friends by saying “Yeah I spent too much, and it’s too big, but I always wanted one and now I can afford one, so….” Now that justification became defensive – “The quality really is better than a Chevy”.
I realize that today all this seems silly, but Cadillac really was the symbol of the American dream, and GM very cynically crushed that dream. America will never be rich enough again for real Cadillacs so we made you a toy one out of tin"
Finally, the winery where we worked was owned by a German corporation, not a local resident.
Have a nice day!Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Brutusale, @Old Palo Altan
The hideous Cadillac Cimarron was just a more expensive Chevy Cavalier.
I was born and raised in NorCal, so I’m familiar with the purchasing habits of our Hispanic friends. I responded to your post because that was the only time I can recall seeing a Hispanic driving a Cadillac, thus reinforcing your point. The fact that it was a Cimarron is of particular amusement to those familiar with the history of the model, which is detailed in the blog I linked to. From the comments:
"The reason for the fascination with the Cimmaron is that it was the dramatic disaster that signaled a paradigm shift on the level of the Hindenburg disaster, or the sinking of the Titanic and I am serious when I say this.
Everyone knew what a Cadillac was. Yeah, it was an old man’s car, and people were complaining that their quality wasn’t what it had been, and that the cars were out of step with the times, but they sent a specific message of success, and of quality. When wanting to describe something as the best possible example of its kind, the phrase “It’s the Cadillac of X (watches, yachts, anything)” was used without irony.
The Cimmaron destroyed those decades of image overnight. Suddenly it was obvious that Cadillacs weren’t anything special, that the idea that they were of higher quality than other cars was and had been wrong- a whole nation discovering that there was no Wizard Of Oz and that the man behind the curtain was the Janitor.
This would have never been a good revelation but coming just at the time when the X car fiasco was suggesting that GM wasn’t sweating the details just made things worse. Previously you justified your first Caddy to your friends by saying “Yeah I spent too much, and it’s too big, but I always wanted one and now I can afford one, so….” Now that justification became defensive – “The quality really is better than a Chevy”.
I realize that today all this seems silly, but Cadillac really was the symbol of the American dream, and GM very cynically crushed that dream. America will never be rich enough again for real Cadillacs so we made you a toy one out of tin"
Finally, the winery where we worked was owned by a German corporation, not a local resident.
Have a nice day!Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Brutusale, @Old Palo Altan
My knowledge of Cadillacs ended with the 1954 four-door Fleetwood, the type with the spare tire at the back. My grandfather owned it, so it was indeed an old man’s car. When younger he had always driven Lincoln sedans, although I’ve a photo of him driving some immense pile which would have been his father’s first venture into cars – somewhere around 1908.
The Cadillac (we didn’t say “Caddy”) was splendid in every detail; it even had electric windows, which of course fascinated us children. A great great uncle (perforce an even older man!) owned a Chrysler Imperial with the same child-pleasing novelty. But it had rather large fins, which pleased my discriminating eye less than the Fleetwood’s modest and shapely bumps.
The quality of every detail, from the heavy clunk of the doors as they shut (you didn’t need to slam them) to the smell and feel of the leather seats immunised me to any sort of appeal which the later models hoped to elicit with their meretricious pandering to a lower level of discernment altogether.