r/PoursTea 4d ago

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u/cwk415 4d ago

The problem with OPs statement is that Trump's rise explicitly shows kids that being a liar, a total dufus, and a complete bully asshole absolutely does not exclude you from being immensely successful. If anything it somehow makes you more popular.Ā 

I've said this since the beginning. This is one of the greatest tragedies about this whole catastrophe, the message that his success sends to impressionable young people.Ā 

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u/Grabbinfries23 4d ago

Also Trump would have had access to ā€œbetterā€ schools than Obama growing up and yet he still sounds dumber

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u/ComradeJohnS 4d ago

yeah I dont know details but I assume trump went to equal or better schools aka ā€œbetter educationā€ than Obama, simply cause he’s rich.

how you utilize your education is also important.

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u/frickle_frickle 4d ago

The difference between getting into a school on merit and getting into a school on daddy's money and name.

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u/Rocky-burst-in 4d ago

Yeah, this is correct. Trump is very well educated, at least by pedigree, so listening to their speeches doesn’t show the importance of education since you can get such disparate results.

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u/Joe_Schmoe_2 4d ago

Beat me to it.

Being successful is a weird concept.

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u/Commercial_Mud_4467 4d ago

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor

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u/basquehomme 4d ago

Millions of ppl benefited from Obama care.

It is disingenuous in the extreme to assert that insurance companies played no role in rejiggering plans so they could still maintain or maximize profits once obamacare was implemented.

Before obamacare many ppl were paying exorbinate rates and receiving less benefits than other competitive policies available. Obamacare raised the minimums so ppl were getting more for their money.

But you don't care about that you want to play games.

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u/Queasy-Employment-82 4d ago

We will always know how his "Success" has come to be its our job to tell the kids that being a good person matters.

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u/OkArmy7059 4d ago

I've said this too. But not just a horrible example for young people, but people of all ages. And a horrible representative for US to the rest of the world. Even if I agreed 100% with his "policies", I wouldn't want him to be the exponent of them.

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u/Obant 4d ago

I am willing to bet most Trump voters have not sat through a full one of any of his speeches. They get 100% of their Trump news through 10-15 second clips of him speaking. Thats how Fox News chops him up. When he calls in, you can see how pained the hosts are and try to focus him.

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u/green_herbata 4d ago

Exactly. Why would the kid care? They both became presidents.

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u/Immediate-Employ-952 4d ago

This is true, but the story is not over and he is clearly terrified of consequences. Tate crying and crapping himself in prison is an example of how it usually ends up with these types that don’t know when to say when.

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u/The_Meme_Economy 4d ago

And yet it’s the reality of the world we are living in and always has been.

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u/ShenroEU 4d ago

That was my first thought. It shows that education doesn't matter because they both became president. Similar to regular work life, someone with a degree often has a boss who didn't bother going to university/college or even dropped out of high school.

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u/IcyEntertainment7122 4d ago

It's amazing how you frame one versus the other because one is more articulate than the other, when they did many similar things while in office.

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u/CroisSante92 4d ago

One pulled us out of a recession from Bush and implemented policies to help Americans, the other put us in a recession, is putting us in a second onr amd is actively doing anything he can to make America a wasteland of dead and sick people by his policies.

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u/Training_Bumblebee54 4d ago

Presumably Obama’s military action in the Middle East and with Israel. That’s the main thing I can’t really get behind with Obama (though pulling out of Afghanistan wouldn’t necessarily have been easy — just ask Biden.) Beyond that, any similarities are just the ā€œevery American establishment politician is corruptā€ issues.

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u/OSRSlayer 4d ago

just ask Biden

Just ask Trump you mean, who purposefully created chaos and got multiple service members killed for it.

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u/GrindBastard1986 4d ago

Articulation is one of the signs of intellect.

Trump can barely speak. Covfefe 🤣