Trumps is in!

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Boreas

No, but it's what I heard. The bank or credit card company gets their cut and Act Blue gets their percentage but there are still administrative costs borne by the campaign to tally, process, tabulate and report their donations. I'm pretty sure that the average costs for all that is at least $1 per donation, aren't you?

It would seem so, however I heard that the Clinton campaign was asking for $1 donations a while back, so I don't know?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...eadline-nears/

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

It would seem so, however I heard that the Clinton campaign was asking for $1 donations a while back, so I don't know?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...eadline-nears/

They were trying to bring the average size of their donations down to $27.00.

[Coolidge23]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Trump's entire public life is an ongoing spectacle of authoritarianism, bullying, megalomania and not a little bit of criminality. And, even if you just arrived from another planet in time to see his campaign, that fact should be crystal clear.

And Bush and Obama may be just two men but they don't operate in a vacuum.

I think you have Trump mixed up with Clinton; you did say a Little bit of criminality and you didn't mention murder though so maybe you weren't thinking of the Clintons after all

[barbara]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

It would seem so, however I heard that the Clinton campaign was asking for $1 donations a while back, so I don't know?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...eadline-nears/

It depends on how the donate button on the website is set up.

There are administrative costs from the credit card people associated with each click/donation.

You can set it up so that a percentage of the administrative costs comes out of the donation. So, if you donate a dollar and the percentage of administrative cost is ten cents, only ninety cents would go to the campaign.

But, if you set it up so that the whole dollar goes to the campaign, then you will get a bill at some point asking for those administrative costs or, some credit cards pass the cost along to the person donating.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Boreas

They were trying to bring the average size of their donations down to $27.00.

Why? Everyone knows where her campaign funding is coming from and they spend more than $27 to get their car washed.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

Why? Everyone knows where her campaign funding is coming from and they spend more than $27 to get their car washed.

Yay! I'm finally an oligarch for only $8x6=$48 plus some Hillary swag!

Get back to work, peasants!

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Yay! I'm finally an oligarch for only $8x6=$48 plus some Hillary swag!

Get back to work, peasants!

Keep this up and you will gt kicked out of OC. Santa Cruz is nice this time of the year and the tie-die shirts are on me.

PS: We may get a lot of rain this weekend and do we need it.

[finnbow]

Here's a thoughtful take on the Trump phenomena.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/op...n-artists.html

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Coolidge23

Bush and Obama were just two men. There are so many others that have been complicit in the loss of our freedoms. While I agree that both Bush and Obama and their enablers have eroded our rights and freedoms I don't believe Trump is an authoritarian as you do. I believe he is a pragmatist, an extremely egocentrical one, but a pragmatist is still better than a rigid ideologue or an authoritarian.

Nationalism doesn't always warrant comparisons to the Nazis and Hitler you know. In the majority of cases it does not. So why don't you just lighten up Francis.

You may be right about Trump being a pragmatist. I "know" Mark Cuban much better than Trump and he thinks Trump's a pragmatist. Cuban actually knows Trump. I'm pretty sure Cuban is a pragmatist. I think Trump wants to be a great President and believes he can do the job better than any of his competition. He has to do it his way. Things will become a lot more interesting with Trump at the helm.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Here's a thoughtful take on the Trump phenomena.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/op...n-artists.html

Killer take.

The Dems are working their own con which threatens my rice bowl less.