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People knew he managed to bankrupt casinos in 2016 and still thought he could run a country.
The man is the only person on record to ever lose 1 billion dollars in a single year. How that translates to "good at business" is beyond me.
But they made a TV show about how smart he is!!
How that translates to “good at business” is beyond me.
TV. And the very stupid people that think reality shows are real.
Worse than it sounds....
They knew the only way to bankrupt a casino is thru a grift. So they thought he was smart for doing the grift.
They thought that he wouldn't view something as important as president the same way he viewed being the CEO of that casino.
They thought that he would grift the government for the people.
This is t the fault of people, the is is the fault of society not holding the rich accountable.
Decades of that is why enough people could be convinced that their leader being rich already is the only to ensure other rich people can't control them.
Because to a normal person, hearing someone has a billion dollars means they no longer care about money because they "have enough". For a normal person it's incomprehensible that a billionaires main motive is profit. But a billionaire's only motive will always be personal profit, if it wasn't they'd have stopped hundreds of millions of dollars short of a billion already.
The main problem is reigning in the oligarchs. We do that and it solves so much other shit. So it's stupid to waste time trying to solve them all individually.
And that's very easy to do if we get a real progressive president willing to do it.
Bill/Obama/Biden were never willing to go against the wealthy and no one with an R ever will, it's been too long and the wealthy are too confident they're untouchable, so they're gonna keep acting like they're untouchable till we touch them.
Lets touch them at 1500 feet per second.
For a country so much in dept as the US isn't he the right man for the job? /s
Art of the deal, ladies and gentlemen.
I mean he struggles to to open a bag of cheetos so he can powder his face eaxh day, he is putright failing at everything else
Isn't this what everyone wanted? The government is being Run Like A Business!
I still feel a bit queasy when I think back on how often we'd hear the term "CEO President" back in the W days.
One of the worst memes ever is the notion that running this place like a business is somehow right and natural.
And even that wasn't gross and awful enough for anti-American people like Vance and Thiel and Yarvin and Musk and the authors of The Sovereign Individual. They want to go full dystopian.
Trump is a pathetic clown.
"Struggles to" -> "fails to."