"A fool and his money are soon parted" is once again proven true.
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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My dad used to smuggly say this all the time. Look who is laughing now that he is maga cuck
no it's completely ridiculous how many things they will misuse in exactly this way.. there is strange magic afoot, friends.. keep your wits about you..
I hate saying it but this fool is still winning. Everyone else is losing.
Or maybe everything in life has nuance and can't be simply boiled down to "winning" and "losing".
Trump is not only mega rich, but he's also the head of an actual cult of personality. Those are feathers in his cap no doubt. On the other hand, not only has he lost multiple elections, he's a twice impeached criminal with 91 very serious charges (and counting) against him and a pile of hard evidence to back it all up. The odds of him spending what few remaining years he has left behind bars are non-zero, and no matter what happens he will incur massive financial costs one way or another.
In an alternate reality he could have sat out 2016 and spent the last decade of his life golfing and stuffing his fat fucking face, and he would have still been rich enough to live however he wanted. But instead he has put the world's biggest magnifying glass up his own corrupt asshole, and it's all not looking so great.
Trump is actually very bad with money, historically. His father was the clever businessman, and Trump apparently squandered his inheritance. His partially public tax returns reveal as much. He’s lost absolute fortunes. He couldn’t even get a casino in Atlantic City to stay afloat. I’m pretty sure that everything about his public image is a lie.
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Well said.
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"...according to figures provided first to POLITICO by his campaign."
The same group that said 6'3" 215, right?
STOP taking headlines on face value and check/challenge actual sources of information (I.e. trump campaign)
Ummm isn't trump the "group" that said he was 6'3" 215. How the fuck is politico suppose to take the heat for trump being vain as fuck?
Politico is part of Axel Springer now, the German wannabe murdoch clone. Take everything with a grain of salt.
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Good. Every dime he gets takes a dime from GOP candidates.
He bankrupted two casinos, let's hope he destroys the GOP
He definitely helped destroy the GOP currently. They split their voter base between typical conservatives and Trump (tm) voters. And with with desaints falling flat in Florida recently i doubt there will be enough support for him as a mainline conservative
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The dude can’t fail at failing.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. How the fuck do people still think this guy is what we need. Such a cult
Because they've compromised their morals so much to get to where they are that they feel like there's no turning back.
Yep. The biggest con of all is making the marks think they're in on the con.
Because until recently, we didn't teach kids that making a mistake or changing one's mind is ok and a sign of learning and growth. You know, that same social-emotional learning that became a conservative boogeyman.
So a bunch of people grew up to be assholes who feel less masculine or powerful if they admit they were wrong or consider new information. Sprinkle in the narcissists, and behold, the cognitive dissonance olympics.
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He says he'll hurt the people they don't like.
He talks like they do on Facebook (just like me fr fr) and was first white guy elected after Obama.
He is the Avatar of their impotent rage that we elevated a half black guy to highest office. It could have been Jeb or any other white Republican if they were just a tad more racist.
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Or somehow succeeding while failing... HOw you can get people to give you 7 million after pulling that shit is exactly why people still stake him. They somehow belive that he will pulle throught whatever. The worst thing is that he actually might, thats why they sonehow love him, because they all want that power.
This is the definition of "failing up"
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villagers throwing money down a well, because they believe something down there likes them
Grifters gonna grift.
I just do not understand how this Zoolander mugshot can motivate people for anything but laughter. But apparently they even give money after seeing it.
Oh for sure. This is the most iconic image in us political history and all sides are fundraising off of it.
The biggest thing I've got from the mugshot is that Crybaby Trump must never again have any nuclear launch codes.
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IDK about most iconic. Raising flag over Iwo Jima photo? 9/11 photos? JFK portrait photo? Just off the top of my head.
Trump doing a mini fundraiser over the whole "look how mad I am for the true Americans" B.S. expression he put on. Dems basically just saying "look at this dumbass" and ready to forget it within a week.
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How much of that is just laundering Russian money?
Russia has any money left?
If he's convicted, does this count as proceeds gained via criminal activity, which he would then forfeit?
Nah, it's specifically not a crime to be arrested, that'd be an infinite jail glitch.
He'll waste it all on lawyers whose job will be to disprove hard evidence though, since he's very guilty, so it'll be fine.
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That'll buy a lot of soap and toothpaste from the prison commissary!
He is going to buy ramen and use the flavor packets as spray tan.
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To be fair, that mug shot was going to be printed on Tshirts and sold for millions to both sides of the spectrum regardless of who was selling it. It somehow really is an awesome mugshot.
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Sure pal
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