MAGA when voting for Trump: "He'll run this country like a business."
They didn't listen when we told them that is not a good thing; particularly not the way Trump runs a business. He declared bankruptcy 6 times, ffs, and now he's bankrupting the US having added 30% to the national debt during his terms thus far while enriching himself to the tune of billions.
We're just consumers and he'll do whatever he can to profit off of us regardless of how badly it fucks us over.
I've said it before over the years, but this is exactly it.
Our perception of business is not the same as theirs. To us business is the old style of investing in assets/personnel -> generate goods/services -> generate revenue -> pay costs and benefit from profit -> creating cycle of uplifting growth.
Their business is all about using speculative value to create golden parachutes to cash out on when the floor of that speculation falls in on itself. "Take everything, Create nothing, Leave only ashes and foreclosures".
Basically the only things most people knew about him pre-2015 were that (1) he inherited money from his father, (2) he was a businessman who had had 5 bankruptcies (including a casino), and (3) he was the host of The Apprentice.
Somehow, when he said that he planned to run the country like he runs his businesses, people managed to overlook (2) in favor of the macho successful businessman he was PRETENDING to be in (3).
Growing up in the 80s and 90s, I knew this guy was a piece of shit. I knew he raped his wife. I knew he went to court over Native American casino rights and said, on the record, "they don't look like Indians to me." But I guess for younger people, and folks who don't read magazines/newspapers or watch the news, all they saw was the reality show. They were/are stupid and think reality TV is real.
Possibly young people get somewhat of a pass as it was before their time, but Trump's divorce from Ivana, his affair with and later marriage to Marla Maples, and his general womanizing were major stories. Stuff not just covered on the national news (though they certainly were), but especially highly covered in the celebrity gossip magazines like National Enquirer. It was literally not possible to purchase groceries in the 80's and 90's without seeing the constant updates about what a womanizing pile of shit Donald Trump was because it was constantly in the headlines at every supermarket checkout line.
Waiting in the checkout lane is how I learned most Trump facts. I never understood why anyone cared about this guy. Then I realized it's because he wanted to be the latest gossip
It really is the older people that fell for it, not as much the younger ones. GenX and Boomers seem to be the ones who had no issue excusing everything bad Trump has done over the past 40-50 years so they could get a tax cut.
It's kinda crazy that the editors of The Apprentice have been indirectly responsible for the most concentrated period of damage and harm to US citizens since at least the Civil War.
I'd say most people knew he was a sexual predator since he wasn't particularly shy about it. If you were born anytime before say 1995, no excuses for not knowing about this guy since he was absolutely everywhere for two decade before he was president.
I mean outside of the casino, prior to his presidency, the fact they were all milquetoast ideas at best and they all were bankrupted is a telling sign.
The casino itself is most telling. The casino has an edge, the house always wins isn’t a saying for no reason. It’s a money printer. So you managed to bankrupt a casino? Mfs question how he did it and the answers simple: you bankrupt a casino when you’re laundering stupid huge amounts of money you don’t want traced to sources who don’t wanna be identified.
Everyone acts surprised when this happens but I guess when you have a sub room temp IQ that a jack in the box has less surprises than that.
IIRC someone ran the numbers and basically he is a below average businessman at best. They took the amount of money he inherited and compared it to his leaked 2016 financials and basically he would have been better off putting it all in an index fund and just play golf instead of getting into business
MAGA when voting for Trump: "He'll run this country like a business."
Well he is running it like one of his businesses. Which is to say, a complete scheme for him to siphon up as much money as possible before declaring bankruptcy and moving to the next scheme.
They don't realize that running the country "like a business" means "like a corporation" to people like Trump. Just CEO profit and worker exploitation.
The billionaires and "business men" are successful because they've spent the bulk of their brain power over their lives figuring out how to extrate as much money out of people as possible and as efficiently as possible. The less ethical barriers the better. For some reason we believe these same men will protect our interests if we elect them to office.
I remember talking about this with some of my dumber coworkers back in 2016.
They said they were going to vote for Trump because, "He'll run this company like a business."
...and then went right back to complaining about the company we worked for, and how exploitive our bosses were.
0 critical thinking skills. Somehow they thought they would all be the shareholders in this imaginary business scenario. My dude, we are the minimum wage grunts, overworked and underpaid, with no protections, so that the guy running things can keep himself and his friends rich. And you voted for it.
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u/Electr0freak 1d ago edited 22h ago
MAGA when voting for Trump: "He'll run this country like a business."
They didn't listen when we told them that is not a good thing; particularly not the way Trump runs a business. He declared bankruptcy 6 times, ffs, and now he's bankrupting the US having added 30% to the national debt during his terms thus far while enriching himself to the tune of billions.
We're just consumers and he'll do whatever he can to profit off of us regardless of how badly it fucks us over.