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Knight: Dec 23, 2000; SPACE-A-HOLIC; Taco Defender

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

Trump is not making profit. He's barely staying afloat.

I wouldn't call it successful.

One of my old bosses, who is really enthusiastic about Trump, says he would kill for that kind of success. I mean, he's a guy who owns his own business that was handed down from his father, and blows all his money as quickly as he earns it then considers declaring bankruptcy to escape his crippling debt in the slow seasons, but I dunno, I've known him for decades and am willing to respect his viewpoint. Sure wouldn't vote for him, though. :shrug:

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Toadvine: Mar 16, 2009; Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

Trump is not making profit. He's barely staying afloat.

I wouldn't call it successful.

The whole being president of the United States, however...

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EugeneJ: Feb 5, 2012; by FactsAreUseless

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

Hillary Clinton was literally skimming money off a bribe machine / fake charity to become a billionaire, Trump is an angel compared to that

Rich people are generally all terrible and you would have never heard of Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump if their rich parents hadn't propped them up in life.

"Wealth planners" are literally around to teach rich people how to avoid taxes. And now the rich have infiltrated the government so it will stay this way forever.

Just be born rich and you'll be ok in life. :911:

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Blue Train: Jun 17, 2012

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

Don't hate the player hate the game.

All these kids are snowflakes who don't want to try, can't handle failure, and think they're better than everyone. So they sit back and try to make fun of someone's hair or suit or call them racist, because they know they're inferior to Trump in every metric of actual success.

Lol

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SpaceGoatFarts: Jan 5, 2010; sic transit gloria mundi; Nap Ghost

Toadvine posted:

The whole being president of the United States, however...

He's a good bullshitter and winning the US election against all odds is quite an achievement, I can easily admit it.

I'll wait to see how he manages to capitalize on it in the coming years though.

My criticism in this thread wasn't that he was a bad salesman, it's that he's a bad manager. I don't know what the US need the most right now, I'm not familiar enough with the situation.

# ? Mar 9, 2017 15:50

Toadvine: Mar 16, 2009; Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.

rezatahs posted:

like there is a billion legit criticisms of president donald j. trump but trying to sell people on him being a giant failure is pretty lol

he games the system. he gamed it right into the white house with basically everything stacked against him

seems like a winner to me

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Blue Train: Jun 17, 2012

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

I don't know what the US need the most right now, I'm not familiar enough with the situation.

A purge of the house and Senate and term limits on congressmen

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SpaceGoatFarts: Jan 5, 2010; sic transit gloria mundi; Nap Ghost

Blue Train posted:

A purge of the house and Senate and term limits on congressmen

I will wholeheartedly support my American friends in all their attempts to overthrow the plutocratic and oligarchic US government.

I hope that if Trump doesn't deliver on that point, they start taking matters into their own hands

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crime weed: Nov 9, 2009

the last couple pages are a good demonstration on how a cult of personality can blind fans to documented facts and reality.

i mean, you can just read about all of trumps business failures and his debt. all that information is out there. they are things that actually happened.

whatever position he holds now does not change the past & his consistent failures.

how these failures reflect on him as an individual, however, is obviously far more subjective.

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Spunky Psycho Ho: Jan 26, 2007; by zen death robot

Kjoery posted:

the last couple pages are a good demonstration on how a cult of personality can blind fans to documented facts and reality.

i mean, you can just read about all of trumps business failures and his debt. all that information is out there. they are things that actually happened.

whatever position he holds now does not change the past & his consistent failures.

how these failures reflect on him as an individual, however, is obviously far more subjective.

It's actually more a commentary on how detractors have never attempted to do anything with their lives. They don't understand that for every 8 businesses only 1 succeeds. It's hard to do things in life. But you keep trying, no matter how much you fail.

And then one day, after much failure, you can become the president by just working hard day in day out.

But you're a little Canadian commie, so you don't get that.

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Careful Drums: Oct 30, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

It's actually more a commentary on how detractors have never attempted to do anything with their lives. They don't understand that for every 8 businesses only 1 succeeds. It's hard to do things in life. But you keep trying, no matter how much you fail.

And then one day, after much failure, you can become the president by just working hard day in day out.

But you're a little Canadian commie, so you don't get that.

Its not the fact that he's failed its the fact that he's lied about so much of it and done so many ethically questionable things along the way.

e: unethical

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Knight: Dec 23, 2000; SPACE-A-HOLIC; Taco Defender

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

It's actually more a commentary on how detractors have never attempted to do anything with their lives. They don't understand that for every 8 businesses only 1 succeeds. It's hard to do things in life. But you keep trying, no matter how much you fail.

And then one day, after much failure, you can become the president by just working hard day in day out.

But you're a little Canadian commie, so you don't get that.

Wait, are you the Fedex Manager?

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Careful Drums: Oct 30, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

EugeneJ posted:

Rich people are generally all terrible and you would have never heard of Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump if their rich parents hadn't propped them up in life.

"Wealth planners" are literally around to teach rich people how to avoid taxes. And now the rich have infiltrated the government so it will stay this way forever.

Just be born rich and you'll be ok in life.

Uh, Hillary's mom was poor as hell

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Spunky Psycho Ho: Jan 26, 2007; by zen death robot

Knight posted:

Wait, are you the Fedex Manager?

Hopefully one day but that rear end in a top hat Dominic doesn't trust me with the lock box keys yet

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Fog Tripper: Mar 3, 2008; by Smythe

Status of hosed?

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Bholder: Feb 26, 2013

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

Hopefully one day but that rear end in a top hat Dominic doesn't trust me with the lock box keys yet

Clearly you are not trying enough

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crime weed: Nov 9, 2009

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

But you're a little Canadian commie, so you don't get that.

#solidarity

Knight posted:

Wait, are you the Fedex Manager?

considering how much spunky posts in this thread, im honestly not sure if he has a real job (though he did take that week-long break recently (i missed ya spnky bud, the thread wasnt the same without you))

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Gasbraai: Oct 25, 2010; Lictor my Dictor

Fog Tripper posted:

Status of hosed?

Utterly unfucked, the ACME rocket skates did not work as advertised.

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SpaceGoatFarts: Jan 5, 2010; sic transit gloria mundi; Nap Ghost

It's about the fact that everything about Trump is a huge facade masking the most fragile ego and the greatest need for validation. And that makes him particularly unfit at leading and managing because one day he's going to collapse and cry like a lil bitch because his approval ratings are bad

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Toadvine: Mar 16, 2009; Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.

Kjoery posted:

the last couple pages are a good demonstration on how a cult of personality can blind fans to documented facts and reality.

Do you really think a lot of the posters butting heads with you are Trump supporters? Can you conceive of a different explanation for why people push back on some of the poo poo you post

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Spunky Psycho Ho: Jan 26, 2007; by zen death robot

Kjoery posted:

#solidarity

considering how much spunky posts in this thread, im honestly not sure if he has a real job (though he did take that week-long break recently (i missed ya spnky bud, the thread wasnt the same without you))

I'm back from the south where I've never been before and it feels racist down there tbh

# ? Mar 9, 2017 16:39

crime weed: Nov 9, 2009

Toadvine posted:

Do you really think a lot of the posters butting heads with you are Trump supporters? Can you conceive of a different explanation for why people push back on some of the poo poo you post

being affected by a cult of personality doesnt necessarily make a person a supporter of said cult's political positions, it just skews their perception of reality surrounding said cult of personality.

that being said, yeah, the cult of personality explanation is certainly not the rule, but it seems like an extremely likely explanation for the dissonance demonstrated in this thread

another reason could be, for example, the proliferation of propaganda media (fake news) on the internet (though from the perspective of some it is the global free press that have become propaganda mills (occams razor comes in handy here))

# ? Mar 9, 2017 16:51

T.S. Smelliot: Apr 23, 2010; by FactsAreUseless

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

Trump is not making profit. He's barely staying afloat.

I wouldn't call it successful.

Yeah he's a loser lol anyways cya later shitlords *flies away in personal Boeing 757 *

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crime weed: Nov 9, 2009

or just a complete lack of understanding of how economics works, and how one can make money despite all of one's businesses failing, i guess

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USSAr: Sep 16, 2007; Your a Commie

Kjoery posted:

being affected by a cult of personality doesnt necessarily make a person a supporter of said cult's political positions, it just skews their perception of reality surrounding said cult of personality.

that being said, yeah, the cult of personality explanation is certainly not the rule, but it seems like an extremely likely explanation for the dissonance demonstrated in this thread

another reason could be, for example, the proliferation of propaganda media (fake news) on the internet (though from the perspective of some it is the global free press that have become propaganda mills (occams razor comes in handy here))

Nice word salad there buddy

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Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

i cud do what trump did

*rots away at an it job*

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Toadvine: Mar 16, 2009; Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.

Kjoery posted:

being affected by a cult of personality doesnt necessarily make a person a supporter of said cult's political positions, it just skews their perception of reality surrounding said cult of personality.

that being said, yeah, the cult of personality explanation is certainly not the rule, but it seems like an extremely likely explanation for the dissonance demonstrated in this thread

another reason could be, for example, the proliferation of propaganda media (fake news) on the internet (though from the perspective of some it is the global free press that have become propaganda mills (occams razor comes in handy here))

Are you ok? My question was pretty straightforward.

# ? Mar 9, 2017 16:55

Blue Train: Jun 17, 2012

Trump is a bad businessman and person and lol if you think he worked hard to get where he is, he IS however a good con man who can get idiots to believe that he is good at anything else other than playing them

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Krustic: Mar 28, 2010; Everything I say draws controversy. It's kinda like the abortion issue.

My measure of a persons success is how many retro video game systems and games they own and how good they are at them. I'm way more successful than Trump. You think that chump could beat me at street fighter 2 or Tecmo Bowl? Keep dreaming.

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Toadvine: Mar 16, 2009; Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.

We're arguing over like six different metrics of success right now

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SpaceGoatFarts: Jan 5, 2010; sic transit gloria mundi; Nap Ghost

Toadvine posted:

We're arguing over like six different metrics of success right now

Sure Trump is wealthy. But how many friends does he have?

checkmate trumptards

:smuggo:

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Spunky Psycho Ho: Jan 26, 2007; by zen death robot

Apparently Trump's failures are 100x more awesome than anyone's successes here so he's got that going for him

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EVIL Gibson: Mar 23, 2001; Internet of Things is just someone else's computer that people can't help attaching cameras and door locks to!; Switchblade Switcharoo

One secret of being a business man is to never pay for something if someone else can foot the bill.

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crime weed: Nov 9, 2009

USSAr posted:

Nice word salad there buddy

thanks

Toadvine posted:

Are you ok? My question was pretty straightforward.

yeah, and i answered it? should i use smaller words?

i stated that the people i outlined were not necessarily trump supporters, and stated other possibilities for the source of their dissonant perception of reality

# ? Mar 9, 2017 17:09

Jukebox Hero: Dec 27, 2007; stars in his eyes

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

It's actually more a commentary on how detractors have never attempted to do anything with their lives. They don't understand that for every 8 businesses only 1 succeeds. It's hard to do things in life. But you keep trying, no matter how much you fail.

And then one day, after much failure, you can become the president by just working hard day in day out.

But you're a little Canadian commie, so you don't get that.

You seem upset

# ? Mar 9, 2017 17:25

Krustic: Mar 28, 2010; Everything I say draws controversy. It's kinda like the abortion issue.

Jukebox Hero posted:

You seem upset

When's the last time you made a post that didn't boil down to Trump's bad, republicans bad, or conservative tears lol?

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T.S. Smelliot: Apr 23, 2010; by FactsAreUseless

Kjoery posted:

dissonant perception of reality

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Tax Inductions: Jul 9, 2007; I carry refreshments to the good guys
I made the good guys some home fries

Thanks to Hellthread� I now know that trump is a bigly successful and smart and hardworking businessman and not a barely literate conman who is in way over his head

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Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

He actually did something with the money he was given, he built an empire, how many rich kids would've squandered it and done nothing

lol he literally could have put his money in an SP500 index and made way more than he actually did, not even adjusting for risk

it's not hard to buy a ton of property and accumulate rent when you already have a bunch of money and dad's real estate empire + brand. dude's basically been treading water for decades and talking a big game and people buy it hook line and sinker it is amazing

he's a reality TV show star except instead of prada bags and hollywood hills it is business and jet planes

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Bulgogi Hoagie: Jun 1, 2012; We

trump might be a loving clown and an idiot, but what he isn't is a loser lol

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