It’s absurd that people think trump has any sort of “business acumen.”

He played a successful businessman on a reality TV show. That's it, that's why people think he knows what he's doing, because they evidently can't tell the difference between fiction and reality.

Filed for bankruptcy multiple times.

Some of these were even for his casinos. He couldn’t even get casinos right.

TV needed a star for a show and created a story that he was a great businessman. All the real successful businessman were busy, true story.

This is after borrowing millions from The Bank of Daddy. Without his parents wealth, he'd be nothing.

His contemporaries call him the dumbest person they’ve ever met.

Apparently they've never met his supporters.

I would argue Trump has great business acumen for exactly the reasons you describe.

He’s a mobster who got rich off strong arming, manipulation, and fraud.

Stop assuming his incompetence at being an evil capitalist billionaire and maybe people will finally accept that he is a highly capable amoral danger to the world.

I findt it highly disturbing someone this stupid worked for the IRS in the first place.

Before anyone says their "strategy" is working, a broken clock still tells the right time twice a day.

We have an electoral college. The entire reason they exist was to prevent an uneducated electorate from electing a tyanical demagogue. And yet here we are. Because the electoral college is made out of THE SAME UNEDUCATED MASSES. How was that supposed to work?

The problem is, these people think they're informed because they binge watch Fox News, which is actively lying to them. To follow your analogy, the demolition company was running commercials 24/7 saying they're the best roof fixers in town.

Don't get the impression that I'm defending these dumb fucks for voting the way they did. I just wanted to say we're never getting rid of this problem when people live in their media bubbles that blatantly hide the truth from them.

I would genuinely suggest they stay out of the democratic process for their own good and peace of mind.

But then what would happen with the immigrants eating people's pets in Springfield?

Whatever happened with that anyway? Hmmm.

And he kind of has trouble putting coherent sentences together.

they arent just uninformed... they are brainwashed. you dont just snap out of it. you cant logic yourself out of a position you did not logic yourself into

its like trying to convince someone that their religion is garbage. no matter what evidence you provide, their brain will work around it.

I think a huge problem is that a significant part of the population has poor long term memory. I saw interviews before the election where they asked voters and the ones who were pro Trump always talked about how he was a good businessman. They had completely forgotten that 4 years earlier they had to fight for toilet paper under Trump. A friend said before the election, "Biden was the worst President ever." "Did you forget that you had no toilet paper?" "Oh, yeah."

No memory.

How can you observe Trump’s behaviour and think he’ll do anything except be insane?

It's all about hate. His supporters are full of hate and that overrides any semblance of common sense.

”Government should be run as a business” means people are getting fired just so the top can buy more yachts for themselves.

Lots of conservatives living in the sprawling public sector bureaucracy see all sorts of dysfunction and waste, then conclude "this is because government" rather than "this is because efficient management is delicate and difficult".

Lots of leftists living in the sprawling private sector feel the same way (myself among them) and - self-confessed naively - will insist profit motive is the reason bad policy exists, rather than simple human fallibility at industrial scale.

Also, public bureaucracy is something of a patronage system, with people getting their jobs relative to their social networks. In a big red state like Texas or Florida or Ohio, you can guarantee the local IRS office is going to be full of failsons and faildaughters of the Republican elected bureaucracy.

So many Trump supporters just don't pay attention to anything. For decades before 2016, it was super common knowledge that Trump was a terrible businessman. It was a common joke on late night TV any time Trump was in the news. It was essentially the main thing people knew about him since the 1990s, yet his supporters all think he must be some business genius. And how they still think this after his first term, I have no idea.

Though, I have realized that if you're still a Trump supporter, you're either ill informed or are a terrible person

A solid dude? He voted for the guy who incited a coup attempt, mismanaged the COVID response, and spews verbal diarrhea daily. I hate to say it, but they called it right for this guy, we don't need people who are that stupid in government.

Lol, this is the best comment I've read all week. Thank you for giving me a good laugh, I needed it!

How could anyone trust the business acumen of someone who bankrupted his own casino?

Easy. They're braindead stupid. You have met dogs more intelligent than Trump supporters.

im pretty sure that entire endeavor was a money laundering scheme. it doesnt make any sense otherwise.

How the fuck do you bankrupt a casino?

Yeah, they were both kinda born into it.

How do you bankrupt a casino? 😂😂😂 Its literally free money 😂😂😂

definitely a pricier flashlight,

It’s because they can’t risk it not working and being blamed when someone trips in the dark

I only downvoted because of the "fuck anybody who looks like him" (and am only saying this because you asked people to tell you). Otherwise, I totally agree with the sentiment! People who never learn their lesson are the most frustrating

Your blame is misplaced. You appear think this is the fault of random people who wear different color hats instead of the result of decades of effort by some of the richest people in our society to fundamentally weaken democracy and to create uneducated people that can be manipulated.

You're blaming the other members of your class that are the victims of decades of educational failure and indoctrination instead of the people who knowingly implemented those policies looking for this specific result.

It's a narrow minded and short-sighted way of looking at things; and, in addition, your tribalistic rhetoric only serves to increase the division among the working class further aiding the people who seek to profit from this division.

It's one thing to be frustrated, but ignorance is how we got here and we downvote you because we don't need more ignorance even if it's coming from someone wearing a blue hat instead of a red one.

It's time for him to sleep in the bed he made.

I lost faith in the standards of our government employees after that one clerk was found to be repeatedly refusing to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples.

Well, we might have a very different opinion of "perfectly well" but otherwise I agree.

Because of The Apprentice.

as using his casino to launder russian/soviet money around.

It's hardly willful. The media machine that got Trump through the door has been a hundred billion dollar multi-generational campaign dating back to the Nixon Administration.

Roger Ailes, Paul Weyrich, and James Dobson dedicated their collective careers to guaranteeing a large section of the US population would be deluged with fascist propaganda. And Sheldon Adelson, Robert Mercer, the Koch Family, the Ford Family, the hiers to the Hoover Institute, and a few dozen other riechwing billionaires financed their efforts.

This isn't just dumb people all stupidly flipping the Trump switch by coincidence. It's the product of sustained industrial tier media manipulation by people whose personal fortunes are predicated on misinformation.

Right?! My dude, bringing in a wrecking ball and ruining people's lives is the reason. Trump isn't a stable genius, he's a geriatric lunatic who's been given the keys to the asylum.

That's a good one!

This being jpeged as fuck adds so much to this, and I fear it is not intentional.

Yes and no. Conservatism is supposed to be (ideally, in theory) a ratchet that keeps the wheel from freely spinning in either direction. Conservatives are to preserve the status quo, which is the position currently taken by Democrats and not Republicans. We don't have a counterbalance to the Repubs, which is why the wheel is slowly clicking to the right.

So if we had a truly progressive party in power conservatives job would be saying can we afford this, what would the impacts be, why do we need to do this thing, why is the status quo not good etc etc. Then they are suppose to listen to reason, trial out big changes, adapt, and let the future go forward making sure the small man and traditionalists aren't left behind.

Instead conservatives are about changing the climate, culture, and environment to hurt others or hold back common sense things that make people equal.

it is inherently selfish behavior.

at best, they will tell you 'i just want my tax dollars/government to be efficient' but we see how that actually plays out with regards to the oligarchy taking control.

If we ever have a vote again. Yeah. 100% because he'll once again think the GOP is just so great on the economy. DOW is down 750 points at the moment if anyone is wondering how absolute chaos effects the stock market.

Never dealt with any business type person who did anything "with a fine tooth comb". It's always "just tear it out and replace it with my thing, it'll be fine". It's never fine but they're so far above the mess that it doesn't affect them so who gives a shit.

What is this? Second grade?

In companies like these it's better to call IT (or HR) and wait for instructions.

If you go around annoying all your superiors then you're just wasting everybody's time instead of only your own. Plus they would just tell you to wait for IT (or HR) instead.

What else are you gonna do? Everything's online. Clean up your desk and wait.