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TBF, he did succeed in becoming President. He is successful.
That doesn't mean we should assume he's smart, it means we should reassess what successful means.
His elder sons are weird fuckers with smoothed-down faces as if they've just come out of the surgery process of a badly-run witness protection programme, he's so creepy with Ivanka that it makes your skin not just crawl but attempt to leap off your body and run away, and the two kids from his other marriages are completely ignored by him, which is probably for the best for them but doesn't say much about him. His two ex-wives loathe him, his current wife always looks like she's in a hostage situation, his family are writing books about how vile he is partly due to the verifiable fact that he cut off medical care to his young nephew, and he can't even pay people to stay around and pretend to be his friends for more than a few months. He tweets about how great he is, which is not something that happy people do.
SheilaNaGig
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That was my point.
He is genuinely successful, but only for certain measures of achievement.
The things he doesn’t give a shit about, the things he has no capacity for (family, connection, relationships, personal development) all fall by the wayside, that’s where he fails. But they have no meaning to him, so they simply don’t figure in the equation. They don’t matter, they don’t count. Those failures don’t diminish his sense of success, or the way he’s seen as successful by people who use the same measures.
Price trumps value.
Knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. That’s not smart, that’s a very profound kind of stupid.
He is genuinely successful, but only for certain measures of achievement.
The things he doesn’t give a shit about, the things he has no capacity for (family, connection, relationships, personal development) all fall by the wayside, that’s where he fails. But they have no meaning to him, so they simply don’t figure in the equation. They don’t matter, they don’t count. Those failures don’t diminish his sense of success, or the way he’s seen as successful by people who use the same measures.
Price trumps value.
Knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. That’s not smart, that’s a very profound kind of stupid.
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Merry Xmas!
Some light relief away from the liar in chief, from someone who's clearly not impressed with future PotUS West
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
I don’t but the level of tropes being spun as fact on here are depressing.
Reminds me of a comment I saw - somewhere on the internet once - that Trump was a ‘failed billionaire’.
I mean, what the actual fuck?
He's certainly not a self-made billionaire, propped up by inheritence money with several bankrupt businesses and rip off ventures.
"somewhere on the internet once"
You absolute turnip.
SpineyNorman
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I once saw something on the internet about marty1's questionable sexual preferences and tendency to wear dog skin as a mask. Its surprising what you can find out by looking on the internet somewhere
I don’t but the level of tropes being spun as fact on here are depressing.
Reminds me of a comment I saw - somewhere on the internet once - that Trump was a ‘failed billionaire’.
I mean, what the actual fuck?
What is it with the belief that success equates to money?
Trump is wealthy because he inherited money. But he's a failed human being in every sense of the word. All he does is talk about money. He's a fucked up manchild who was told by his paremts that he was fantastic. His mother probably framed his nappies as his biggest achievements...ever.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
I like to think of this as still true. Someone who can manage to bankrupt their own casino, shows a lack of business ability that's next level. A casino is afaik guaranteed to make money in any normal situation.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Did he do that? Blimey. My understanding as well is that it is pretty much impossible not to make money with a casino.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
I cant be bothered to look it up, he is such a dumpling brained tosser that my interest level only stretches to scan reading stuff on the web.
Yep. His place in Atlanta. Lost money, even whilst other cacinos there were doing oK
Here's one story.
How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions (Published 2016)
Mr. Trump boasts of his success at the Jersey Shore resort, but regulatory reviews, court records and security filings indicate otherwise. And others paid the price.
Not true. I'm not into his music, bt
100% correct.
The idea he is "bubblegum rap for people who dont really like hip hop" is pure boomer.
it's all just shouting over other people's music.
maomao
普費斯
Could I just clarify that while I know your comment is ironic my like isn't.
Not real hip hop like public enemy and the beastie boys.
Jurassic 5!
Oh damn this post says it much much better than I was trying to anyway, nice work.....
Ok.
All joking aside - I think I understand what you mean, especially when you just look at someone like Kenneth Copeland - the loon televangelist scam artist who is worth $850 million. Reading into him is unbelievable- private jet and tax exemption scams by designating his multi millionaire various luxury homes as ministries - I’m not sure how to categorise these types as yes they are intelligent/smart and successful, but the way they’ve made it is parasitic imo.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I know this is an odd concept for a Republican to wrap their mind around, but there are people in the world who aren't motivated by money and don't value themselves or others by how much money someone has.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Awww, bless, you still believe that nonsense.
He built his empire by using the bank of dad, and his name to borrow money, then asset stripped his failing empire. He sent small businesses to the wall to build his empire. He's a fraudster of the lowest order.
Of course but that’s not what was been discussed - it was regarding whether someone who has been very successful financially could be regarded as an ‘idiot’ (read upthread).
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
By "success" you mean "making a lot of money"?
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Yes.
Financially successful?
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Yes.
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