Yes, but I'm tired of babysitting.

Noooo not my screen time :( Gonna miss pig-family!

Or, maybe Kristi Noem had a point...

These old dogs are too hard to train and need to be put down.

Hey now, Boomers didn't invent anti-intellectualism, they just think they did. Because they're stupid. Then social media put those views out there for other idiots with baby brains to see and identify with.

Of all the bad things that social media has brought us, the worst is making stupid people feel intelligent because other stupid people agree with them.

-Abraham Lincoln

Behold, the smartest person on the internet.

That's not "good business" that's theft.

Implying capitalism is anything other than a bunch of fancy legalese to make mass theft sound legitimate

This is all really the fault of The Apprentice, who made him seem as if he were some kind of business genius.

Trump was decent at making himself seem like he was a good businessman. But, all his self-promotion had to compete with all his failures. Eventually he would have run out of money to self-promote.

Then the people behind The Apprentice came along and did everything in their power to make him seem like he was the best businessman in the world, and idiots bought it. People watched a fictional reality TV show where contestants had to do silly "businessey" things, and somehow they concluded that the guy at the boardroom table set was actually good at business, rather than competent at acting.

This barely competent idiot who had inherited / stolen half a billion from his father and was slowly burning through it with his various failures had worked his entire life to try to create a myth that he was a genius businessman. That attempt had almost failed as he ran out of money. Then the guy who made Survivor came along and made his dreams come true. Finally, he was on TV all the time playing the character of a shrewd businessman, and somehow getting paid for it. This show lasted a decade, and by the end of it, idiots were convinced that Trump was a business genius, and the rest is history.

Oh, and incidentally, Mark Burnett, the guy who created The Apprentice, is now "United States Special Envoy for the United Kingdom", appointed on Trump's inauguration day in 2025.

There's two major types of businessmen: Those that are good at business, and those that are good at scamming. MAGA cannot discern between the two. That's why a lot of his influencers peddle in obvious scam bait. And ever since meme stocks became a thing through social network engagement cults-on-demand, it doesn't matter how much they get scammed out and lose as long as they can do so communally on a communal circlejerk while claiming someone else is the real loser. Trump is the materialization of all the efforts to manipulate and profit from society that led up to him

Long before Trump was in politics, the thing most people knew him for was not his business acumen, but that he was essentially the physical avatar of avarice and greed and everything wrong with capitalism. He was not an aspirational role model, he was a caricature of the negative stereotypes embodied by the average American businessmen, everything dialed up to 11, including his contempt for the common laborer.

He was well hated before getting into politics, and it had nothing to do with his political opinions at the time.

His casinos were just a money laundering operation for the Russians.

Sounds quite deplorable

"he's not hurting the right people"

And the Hillbots and Khive Kritters who keep insisting that "not as bad as the fascist criminal but to the right of Reagan" is a good enough campaign strategy in a country with extreme voter suppression and right wing media gaslighting being many times more common than truthful political reporting 🙄

Something you need to understand is that a high paying job and a degree do not inherently mean intelligence, especially not in the US and Canada where education is largely for the generationally wealthy and school is designed for memorization and brute-force solutions over learning how to be clever.

Anyone who’s truly intelligent understands that “line goes up” is a ideology what’s dead on arrival. Every single layer of it is a new layer of stupidity, it’s a staggering lack of intelligence.

If you think anything they’re doing is clever and not the incredibly obvious bullshit that it is, I have news for you. We can see everything they’re doing, they only get away with it because we do next to nothing to stop them and because there are a lot of stupid people in the world willing to back them up.

I agree with you, but you must know that a high paying job and a degree aren't reliable indicators of intelligence.

Not just USA, it's everywhere. I blame social media and the lack of literacy.

But that's when they will release the beautiful health plan!

You should. Even if everything about the elections was exactly as advertised, it's still an unfair election. Citizens United, lobbyists, gerrymandering, voter suppression tactics, party controlled primaries, and FPTP voting are inherently and deliberately unfair.

Then there are the (currently unproven) allegations that Musk may have done something sneaky with voting machines, not to mention the fact that the Dems ran with an unpopular, no-primary "take it or leave it" non-progressive uninspiring candidate at the last minute, seemingly losing on purpose.

Biden promised to be a single term president, and if he hasn't lied about that, we wouldn't be in Iran right now.