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Quiet Em

(2,536 posts)
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 10:32 PM Mar 2025

Can people finally stop with the nonsense that the con and Leon are smart business guys?

They aren't, and they never have been.

They are just two very wealthy con artists, who were handed lots of money from their daddies, and who bullshit their way through things and behave like dumbass adolescents.

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Can people finally stop with the nonsense that the con and Leon are smart business guys? (Original Post) Quiet Em Mar 2025 OP
The people who voted for trump call conning people "good business." Bet salespeople went heavy trump. Silent Type Mar 2025 #1
anyone who behaved like them in any other job Skittles Mar 2025 #2
I never considered these two particularly intelligent. Dave Bowman Mar 2025 #3
No, people can't/won't stop with that, because repeating it serves their interests. RockRaven Mar 2025 #4
Smart business guys? SheltieLover Mar 2025 #5
In reality a LOT of casinos have gone out of business over the years, for lots of different reasons AZJonnie Mar 2025 #10
Ffs SheltieLover Mar 2025 #11
Ah so true! benfranklin1776 Mar 2025 #12
Makes sense! SheltieLover Mar 2025 #15
It's actually pretty common to loot your own business, especially with mobsters and wannabes JoseBalow Mar 2025 #16
Gawd what a shitbag SheltieLover Mar 2025 #17
Yes, he is a huge bag of shit JoseBalow Mar 2025 #18
Perfectly depicts his tactics!! benfranklin1776 Mar 2025 #20
That's what he's doing to this country JoseBalow Mar 2025 #21
That's the only thing he's ever excelled at! benfranklin1776 Mar 2025 #19
This message was self-deleted by its author benfranklin1776 Mar 2025 #13
I think it is important to point out the personality traits that make wealth Maraya1969 Mar 2025 #6
Tesla wouldn't exist without the $38b in government contracts and many more billions in subsidies and tax dodges. Doodley Mar 2025 #7
Trump has a very checkered business record. To be fair, Elon has been amazingly successful andym Mar 2025 #8
What do you have against dumbass adolescents? rubbersole Mar 2025 #9
I never started with it Meowmee Mar 2025 #14
Only if the Bible. . . er MSM, tells them so! n/t werdna Mar 2025 #22
 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
1. The people who voted for trump call conning people "good business." Bet salespeople went heavy trump.
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 10:37 PM
Mar 2025

Skittles

(169,539 posts)
2. anyone who behaved like them in any other job
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 10:42 PM
Mar 2025

WOULD BE FIRED

hell, NEITHER ONE OF THEM WOULD PASS A BASIC BACKGROUND CHECK

RockRaven

(18,719 posts)
4. No, people can't/won't stop with that, because repeating it serves their interests.
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 10:54 PM
Mar 2025

Everyone parroting that shit -- whether evil or dumbass -- is doing so because saying so serves a purpose of some kind.

SheltieLover

(76,763 posts)
5. Smart business guys?
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 11:06 PM
Mar 2025


How the hell do you bankrupt a casino? It's not as if they're in the business of giving money away.

AZJonnie

(2,797 posts)
10. In reality a LOT of casinos have gone out of business over the years, for lots of different reasons
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 12:56 AM
Mar 2025

But I'm pretty sure in Trump's case it was mostly hubris. IIRC, they were rundown mob joints that he bought pretty cheaply, with the genius plan that he'd take on a ton of debt to 'spruce them up' and make them 'worthy of his famous name' believing that doing so would bring the customers flocking. Then they didn't flock, and he was stuck with a fuckton of debt and not enough income, so of course he ran away from them using bankruptcy and stiffing his creditors. If ownership overextends itself with risky investments that don't pan out, the business doesn't pan out, and that's true of just about any type of business.

benfranklin1776

(6,987 posts)
12. Ah so true!
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 01:23 AM
Mar 2025

But you can bankrupt them if you’re looting them to line your pockets, same MO he’s always used: con the suckers to invest and then bleed them dry. Same basic formula he used to con his way into his current position: Brazenly lie to voters (his marks) about how great he will make it with the same rancid sales pitch “it’ll be great like no one has ever seen” and completely plunder and loot them once he takes over. 😡🤬

JoseBalow

(9,163 posts)
16. It's actually pretty common to loot your own business, especially with mobsters and wannabes
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 02:11 AM
Mar 2025

drumpf has bankrupted his businesses over half a dozen times, and profited nicely each time doing so.

(1:10)

benfranklin1776

(6,987 posts)
20. Perfectly depicts his tactics!!
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 02:52 AM
Mar 2025

That’s exactly what he is a lowlife criminal who cons or strong arms his way in and then burns the place to the ground. 🤬

JoseBalow

(9,163 posts)
21. That's what he's doing to this country
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:01 AM
Mar 2025

If he can get his hands on it, sell it out the back, and squeeze it for all it's worth.

Response to SheltieLover (Reply #5)

Maraya1969

(23,418 posts)
6. I think it is important to point out the personality traits that make wealth
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 11:11 PM
Mar 2025

For example, CEO's have higher rates of sociopathy in their ranks. Many times, people think money is the answer to all their problems, and they are never satisfied because once they get that particular thing, they want the next thing and then the next thing.

I think it is important to point out how very wealthy people are like people who hoard cats. We recognize the disease in the cat hoarder, but the billionaire who constantly needs more billions is labeled as having a superior brain. Stop it right there. Explain to people that greed is not a character asset but a character defect. There is something wrong with a person who can never be content with things as they are

Doodley

(11,629 posts)
7. Tesla wouldn't exist without the $38b in government contracts and many more billions in subsidies and tax dodges.
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 11:47 PM
Mar 2025

Using a chainsaw on Twitter didn't make it more efficient. It enabled it to become a cesspit of hate.

As for Trump, every failed business, bankruptcy, braggadocious interview, and TV appearance, and every business or individual he has screwed over has just been a job creation scheme, because if he had simply invested the money his daddy gave him and put it in the S&P, he would be wealthier than he is.

andym

(6,052 posts)
8. Trump has a very checkered business record. To be fair, Elon has been amazingly successful
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 11:50 PM
Mar 2025

with Paypal, Tesla, Starlink, and SpaceX. Neuralink looks promising as well, and the jury is out on XAI/Grok. But Elon's success has surely gone to his head, and his poor record at Twitter and now disastrous record with the government exposes his arrogance and hubris.

Meowmee

(9,212 posts)
14. I never started with it
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 01:24 AM
Mar 2025

We knew they were rich con artists many years ago for orange psycho and elunatic was another obvious one. On average they are far worse than the average con artist since they are psychopathic and op is a murderer already. Elunatic will murder people with his actions.

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