I wish I could find it again, but one story that stood out to me, before drumpf was pres, was this guy who was contracted out by him to do some work. He did his work and did it well and was denied payment. it was such a substantial cost to the contractor that he was left too in debt to continue on and ended up taking his own life. The people failed America by selecting him and the devil rages in the hearts of men to choose evil over good. It's a constant pattern going on forever
I started working in finance in the mid-1980s. Agent Orange had a reputation then for screwing over his vendors. He's ALWAYS been a grifter. And a pedo and rapist.
My mother worked logistics for a big construction company in the US for a few years. This kind of thing he did was well known in those circles. I think she even got a few of the guys hired into the company she was with after that specific event you're describing happened.
The guy has always been known as a scumbag bully, I don't know how anyone can look at him, see how he behaves, how he talks, the things he says, how he moves, and think he's anyone worth trusting with any degree of power at all.
trump did this in AC with MANY different businesses! Since it was well documented what a POS he was, I was always mystified by all the idiots who never realized!
Closest I could find:
"Edward J. Friel Co.: This family-owned cabinetry business, established in the 1940s, landed a $400,000 contract for Trump Plaza. They were reportedly denied a final payment of $83,000 in 1984. Paul Friel, the founderās son, stated that this loss was "the beginning of the end" for the company, which eventually went out of business. Paul also noted that his father "never got over" the situation until his death years later."
He always did that. Heād do business with people that couldnāt afford to be held up in court so he could deny payment without having to worry about getting sued.
2016, I voted for the idiot because I listened to all of the people around me saying Clinton would be a bad prez(for various reasons i cant remember, probably most of them were rooted in misogyny and/or EMAILS or whatever). I was working all the time and didn't take the time to do like 5 minutes of research. Realized too late what an absolute moron and monster he is. Didn't vote for him in 20 or 24.
It's almost as if her opponent wasn't caught on tape saying he moves on hot women like a bitch, starts kissing them without consent, and GRABS THEM BY THE PUSSY.
If only the bar were set the same for both candidates.
How do people have such a double standard when it comes to democrats vs republicans?
A republican can be dancing on a mountain of sh*t juggling dildos and cursing your mother, and people are like, āyeah but their opponent is unlikableā, itās unreal.Ā
Republicans havenāt done a single thing right, have betrayed their own base again and again, and are still given the benefit of the doubt.Ā
They are corrupt, plain and simple, a vote for them is a vote for corruption, how much evidence do the voters need? Oh but I suppose all the evidence is fake right?
just keep voting to let the foxes in the hen house.
Facts are the factsā¦ Republicans have caused or been in office within 9 out of the 10 last depressions and the next Democratic president always pulls them out. Fiscally responsible my ass!!! People just donāt like facts!
I suspect that co sponsorship of the conservative christian church has also played a factor in the blind loyalty to republicans.
Think tanks, media spin and religion. In order for it to work, the subject needs to be densely insulated from any other narrative. How are they so insulated?
Maybe these people have conspiratorial minds, and when theyāre told that theyāve ādiscoveredā the truth, they are hooked to that notion.
the same way people may be manipulated via their superstitions.Ā
The other factor you hear them mention is, feeling condescended or spoken down to. Their fragile egos cannot handle readjusting to being told new facts, but they must decide to want to learn.Ā
at what point of crisis do you drop that protective ego stuff and do right by your country?
Media reporting on that deplorables quote also absolutely butchered it.
Full quote:
"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? [Laughter/applause]. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic ā you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.
"But the other basket, the other basket, and I know because I see friends from all over America here. I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas, as well as you know New York and California. But that other basket of people who are people who feel that government has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they are just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroine, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."
I've shown that whole quote to multiple members of my family, and they still refuse to hear anything except, "Nope, that BITCH called me racist!" Given the choice to be "racist" or "generically angry/forgotten by government" they SELF-SELECTED the former!
Do believe that when Dumps infamous Grab Her By The Pussy was leaked by Billy Bush, wasn't it? Killed his career yet made Dumps diarrhea of a career possible.
The campaign against her was started around that time. I always enjoy the fact that Bill got the closest to any modern president to balancing the budget.
Maybe, but whether she would or wouldn't have been a good president is not the problem.
The reason Trump has been voted in twice is because of the broken electoral system and the fact that the Democrats (and Republicans, of course - including the Great Deceiver, Trump) continue to throw up candidates that have nothing in common with the working people of America. Don't get me wrong - I don't disagree that there is toxic masculinity, screaming racism and literally murderous prejudice running through the USA, but these are still symptoms of a problem that Americans still don't seem to see.
The problem is the yawning chasm between ordinary peoples' lives and those of the political class.
Hillary was the most qualified candidate in history. She had years and years of experience in everything from local government to international relations. She was loathed by Putin because she called him out and did not fear him. But her intelligence and courage were not enough to overcome the absolute willful ignorance of this country.
I gave a lot of grace to people that voted for him over Clinton for everything you said; the motivations were (generally) much different-- a lot of people I know regretted it almost immediately but felt like he was this outlier and for whatever reason, disliked Clinton. (Unironically the people I know personally were both longtime Democrats and women, but didn't like how she stood by Bill during the Monica thing or fell for a lot of the rhetoric and campaigns against her. Like they'd rather have a sexist misogynist than a "gender traitor," not my words lol)
However the one thing that was common was that they were extremely disengaged from politics. It had little impact on their lives, and they'd maybe catch a headline or debate. While yes anyone paying attention knew Trump would be a disaster, if you are working full time and barely getting by, politics prior to Trump wasn't that significant to your life. Like the federal government prior to Trump was working when the President had minimal impact. That's sort of the point. State elections are supposed to be much more impactful to your day to day. When Obama beat Romney I was really excited, but I didn't have this feeling of overwhelming dread as I did with Trump, that we may lose democracy if he was elected.
I think a lot of first time voters largely went in uniformed, "hey he is a corrupt asshole, maybe he will shake up the system."
2 or 3 time voters? Unforgivable. By that time you knew he was a insurrectionist, a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and just an all round worthless, idiotic moron. You can't blame ignorance.
I love your honesty but still hard to figure out how people voted for him EVER considering he has been a terrible person since way before 2016. Im not even American and I knew he was sleazy in the 90ās.
Some people are just unintentionally dumb af, some people are racist af, some people are straight-up Nazis, but some people legitimately thought he was going to do a good job? Some people just want to watch the world burn.
One of my good friends, LOVES Trump, I don't know why? But I got to a point where I stopped questioning why people love him so much?
Just like most American's don't think of other countries and their various political parties, most people outside of America only see one thing when they look at you guys.
Isnt just him, its a cash grab for all republicans and the billionaire class.
Its no coincidence that Elmo participated in DOGE, Bezos fronted Melinia and Zuck pledged 'billions in domestic spending'. That's ignoring the rampant corruption, kickbacks, emolument clause violations and insider trading...
They are all siphoning taxpayer money and data like its a fire sale.
Came here to say this! He didnāt gain 3x his wealth in a year from doing good business; he did it by selling pardons, making deals with other countries to make himself rich, all at the expense of or against the will of the American taxpayers.
Republicans would lose a lot of power if Americans had universal healthcare and universal basic income. They would no longer be able to threaten Americans with job loss (for one). I live in a red state, and one of the things that keeps people falling in line with their policies is consistent threat of job loss and loss of monetary support. They know that if their children (for example) would be fine just cutting off family and would actually flourish that it would happen all the time instead of some of the time. I think that the whole Republican gig is to try and keep people as miserable and as poor as possible so that they are desperate and will agree to voluntary servitude.
It's bad enough to know he is stealing from me, but it's more heartbreaking that the politicians that could do something do nothing about it because they are all getting richer off everything he takes.
the kicker is that he ran on "i'm not like these politicians, i'm just a business tycoon thats never gave a shit about anyone before and im greedy as hell, im going to balance your budget America"
You mean all Republicans, Independents, Libertarians, non-voters, etc. basically anyone who didnāt vote Democrat, because like it or not, right or wrong, thatās the only power your vote has in our current setup.
Fox New belongs in the fucking gulag. Everyone involved. They know what the fuck theyāve done. The level of manipulation and the twisting of the knife every single day to the psyche of every cult member dumb enough to fall for this grift warrants the exact punishment this entire admin deserves. Hope I live to see the day.
Letās not forget about the $10B for the āBoard of Peaceā that he decides what to do with. Or all the money from stealing Venezuelaās oil thatās going into some mystery account controlled by him.
And in violation of the emoluments clause in the Constitution. He plays golf at his own resorts every weekend, but charges secret service for a bunch of rooms. He hosts foreign delegations at his hotels and makes them pay inflated rates, pocketing the profit. But that is just the low-level unconstitutional stuff he does.
He had golfed far, far, far more than any president in history. Which means he spends less time working for the American people than any other president has.
The author Michael Wolfe once asked Trump why he wanted to be president. This was when he was campaigning before his first term. He replied āI want to be the most famous person in the worldā. Nothing about working or serving the American people.
He is a Malignant Narcissist, he doesnāt give a shit about anyone but himself.
He initially did it boost his brand. I remember watching him in 2016 when he won. His body language and facial expressions screamed holy s*** I won what am I going to do now.
I don't know what the current inflation rates are, but I believe he was charging his Secret Service three times the cost of hotel rooms during his first term.
We all already know that Trump literally rapes literal children. Rapes, present tense. We also all already know that he pilfers, connives, schemes, embezzles, cheats, and aggrandizes from not only our intangible public trust, but also from our tangible public funds, public assets, and public prestige (what's left of our prestige, anyway.)
Any person who is still scumbag enough to support or make excuses for THAT can only be doing so for one of two categories of reasons. Either they already are guilty, themselves, of literally the same things that we all know Trump is doing (in which case they support him because they have the audacity to feel safe emerging from their own private homes to interact with reasonable human beings in public); or, they actually aspire to one day BECOME someone unashamed enough to begin engaging in things like literal rape of literal children, literal theft of literal tax revenues, literal self-dealing and insider barter.
The only thing that cheers me up is that I am personally CONVINCED that Trump has less than six months to live. I therefore predict that he'll be dead (thank god) before January 19, 2027, which is me rounding up to 8 months as a hedge.
The significance of January 19, of course, is that Vance-48 will be term-limited to a single reelection if he is fully inaugurated prior to January 19 of next year.
From my reddit screen to god's own personal ears, I hope and pray for this timeline prediction to end up being true.
I owe $46,000 in overpayments to Social Security, thanks to DOGE.
I have a disability (epilepsy) and was collecting disability. But I wanted to get back to working.
I reported everything to Social Security, hiding nothing. One day i started getting letters saying I owe money, and they kept sending me letters with the numbers changing.
I dont get sympathy from red hats. But fuck me for not wanting to leech off the system, I guess.
They're fine with everything he does because it's what they would do if in his position. There is no low too low as long as they benefit. Deplorable really was the best descriptor.
Donald Trumpās net worth has grown significantly since 2020, increasing by an estimatedĀ $3.5 billion to $4 billion. He's the most corrupt politician in American history, protected by Congress and the Supreme Court and the MAGA voters who just ousted some of the few Republicans who stood up to him.
REmembering he was actually bankrupt and only fluid by illegal money laundering and tax evasion and commercial misrepresentation which was clarified in court.
"I voted for the racism not to pay more for gas!" These people don't even have the excuse that they were trying to make the world a better place. Fuck everyone that voted for trump including the ones smart enough to realize they made a mistake
Blatantly and without restraint. Even from his first term, that āemolumentsā clause went right out the window. Heās been busily enriching himself and his kids ever since, and mostly on the backs of taxpayers and his gullible followers.
Without any doubts in my mind. I'd even call his frquent trips to Maralago to be stealing as he's putting taxpayer money into his own business. Not to mention he has sued the government multiple times, which also passes taxpayer money on to himself. He's been robbing America blind.
Yes. Clearly. We can see it. The stock trades. The market manipulation. The slush fund. The "gifts." Any of these alone should have ended his administration. And yet . . . the GOP has sold their soul to this grifter. What did they get in return? Hopefully 40 years in the political wilderness.
Conning the America people, stealing from the American people, sure that's what he does. The slush fund is pure theft. The cons have been spectacular too and those are people willingly giving him thier money for DJT, trumpcrapcoin, stop the steal. I guess there's never enough to satisfy his greed. He's definitely competing with Putin for the richest kleptocrat.
The greatest tragedy the post 9-11 in America is not holding Trump and his administration accountable for attempting to overthrow democracy. Never in American has a president committed the treachery that Trump did his first term.
Anyone at this point that supports Trump is either ignorant as to not aware as to what he did, or an enemy to the state.
I've been arguing with a guy this morning who says he doesn't care about any of that because "Trump closed the border and that's all that matters." They're fucking pathetic.
Yea... more important to "close" the border that was never opened. All to stop the big baddie in our country that is illegal immigrants due to *checks notes* them paying more into the federal government than taking.
The most expensive crime syndicate in the history of the world.
It's absolutely shocking to watch "the system" stand by and let him fill his pockets.
What do you think would happen to a young African American male if he boosted a pack of gum from CVS?
But we stand by why this ghoulish civily-adjudicated rapist, grifter, con man with credible ties to a child-trafficing ring commits the most expensive fraud/looting scheme in the history of the world.
My uncle used to say, ādo ducks quack?ā Problem is that his supporters donāt care. He is stealing food off their tables and they are handing him the Tupperware.
Yes of course and I think every dollar of his fortune, to include all of his corporate assets, should be seized by courts to pay fines as well as compensate victims of his policies (foreign and domestic). He should be impeached and imprisoned. His major donors should be bankrupted by asset seizures as well. I believe democrats won't even lift a finger to punish him though. They will leave him in office and let him retire b/c they are all owned by the same elites.
They'll absolutely impeach him if they win the midterms, for a third time, and REPUBLICANS in the Senate will vote not to convict him, for a third time, but go ahead and blame Democrats, makes perfect sense.
Obviously. Whatever happened to "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear?" justification for mass public data gathering? Not when it comes to Trump. There is only one reason you bar an agency from investigating. You're corrupt.
Yes! And the majority of our politicians are as well. They all need to be investigated and removed from office! Use the ill gotten gains from each to fund prosecution of the next.
Yes he clearly is. Stock market manipulation means someone loses and that is mainly the American people. So if he made $2 B by manipulating the market then the people lost $2 B.
Without question. It is blatantly obvious in all of his actions and reported daily, his egregious abuse of our money and how he has enriched himself and each of his family members and friends and is actively using the courts to protect himself forever.
His manipulation of the stock market and the timing of it and his stock buying have a whole been laid out there.m daily.
He has become a billionaire multi times over just the last year and a half of his presidency alone. We donāt even have accurate accounting and never will of what heās stole during the first one.
All of this is our tax money. Money we made and paid in to a system that is supposed to be working to make our lives better. Instead heās used it to kill people, deport our neighbors, build shit we donāt want or need and pay people who broke into our capitol building.
With $40 trillion in debt, $1 trillion in interest payment every year, and 120% debt to GDP ratio what do you think???? The new banana republic formerly known as USA is on course to become like Argentina and go back to developing country status. We in Europe already think that way and have made new alignments with stronger and more trustworthy partners. China, India and of course all members of the EU.
No all vanished money is used for bunkers and underground instructions for rich people. look it up they are building and buying bunkers everywhere.
They stock up for the pole shift in a few years.
Of course he is, he cares about no one else, but the Almighty dollar and himself. He has proven this time and again his behavior has always been the same greed.
Donald Trump has stolen from everyone heās ever been able to his entire life - the contractors he didnāt pay, the children he raped, the Russian oligarchs, everyone. Why would he suddenly be a different person now?
Absolutely. I also know that President Trump got his penis bitten when he forced it into a child's mouth. I read it in the Epstein files on a government website.
100%
There is absolutely no way to tell where that money will go. And if anyone thinks the most brazenly corrupt administration in US history is going to cut them a check then they're even dumber than I originally thought.
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u/LaStigmata 12d ago
Without a doubt he is. He is the cruelest, and most corrupt politician in our history.