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[–] 117 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You have to be a really special kind of stupid to ever have believed that a billionaire conman is “for” anyone but himself.

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    He's a carpetbagger. Always was. I hope people are finally waking up to that.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Not to be pedantic, but he really isn't a carpetbagger. I mean, he's absolutely the type, but "carpetbagger" specifically refers to a politician who moves into a geographical area to run for office. The carpetbag was a type of cheap suitcase, meant to conjure the image of a hurried relocation for personal gain. In that sense, a carpetbagger is an opportunist and egocentric, which definitely describes Trump. And he did move from New York to Florida, but he never ran for local office as a Floridian. He was elected President, and is running for that office again. He's always been from the United States. He could just as easily run for president out of New York or New Jersey or New Mexico. His political identity isn't related to where he lives.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    his presidency already showed this

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    People remember gas prices when there was covid and no one was driving. The cost per oil barrel was at one point negative.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    To be fair, the did get pretty high when everyone started driving and the oil industry has to spin back up after that pandemic lull. Demand outpaced supply.

    And then there was OPEC fucking around, and Russia invading a nation. Even though the US produces more than it needs, the oil market prices were high as fuck.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Tankers were literally paying people to buy oil because you can't just stop the pipelines and people forget that lol

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Soooo.... His base is like 10 billionaires now? That's a winning ticket.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And a whole lot of serfs that just love their master, while saying they do it for freedom.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    He doesn't pretend to have anyone's best interest in mind but his own. Why people don't see that, or worse support those aims, is beyond me.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Great story of how Trump tried to get in good with the Manhattan elites. He'd been given a golden opportunity to impress them, and threw it away through stupidity, greed, and arrogance.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellisicky/2020/10/03/how-donald-trump-took-down-bonwit-teller-a-fifth-avenue-landmark/

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Counter argument.

    Trump did a press conference next to some breakfast sausages yesterday, and he promised to give me cheaper sausages.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    He should give us cheap sausages now if he wants any credibility.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Watch for what he does and ask why? Notice he's also trying to make a case for stealing the election. Connect the dots...

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