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In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump announced that he was revising a lawsuit against The New York Times to include the organization’s polling research, which currently shows him tanking on everything from the economy and immigration to his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 123 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

polling research, which currently shows him tanking on everything from the economy and immigration to his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

It is so infinitely moronic that some people thought he would be good for the economy. Trump is an idiot that just happened to be born rich, and he is absolutely evil and ruthless, and is lucky he is not in jail.
If Trump wasn't rich, he would have been in jail by the age of 20. His malignant narcissist personality makes him a habitual criminal. He has no regard for others, social grace, tradition or the law.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 month ago (9 children)

The first time around, in 2016, there were a lot of "Trump will be great for the economy" takes. There were many unknowns at the time, so I can forgive people who believed that then. By the time 2024 came around, anyone with a pulse - or anyone who hadn't attached their entire ego to him - knew better.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago (20 children)

Oh, so you don’t remember when BIDEN CHEATED and immediately shut down the country and tried to inject us all with tracking devices, and we all lost our jobs and everyone died?

It’s ALWAYS the DEMONRATS

/s

[–] tmyakal@infosec.pub 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My in-laws voted for Trump because they were certain Biden was going to outlaw Catholicism.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Lol. Did you tell them Biden is catholic.

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Guy in front of me in line to vote told his kid PEDOnald was going to make groceries more affordable. Morons.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Plus when he was campaigning he laid out exactly how he was going to wreck the economy and raise most people's taxes.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A lot of people were 12 in 2016 and didn’t vote until 2024 and a lot of them voted for trump. Iirc a lot of or maybe even most youth (18–25) voted trump

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They just thought it would be really funny to have that idiot in charge of the country. Too bad education is an afterthought?!

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[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Trump bankrupted a Casino, a business that by its very nature should be virtually impossible to sink.

Casinos have an initial cost to open, they have some costs to run, but their chief interest is People who have a problem where they give away too much of their money to try to win big, give you all their money, occasionally you have to give a fraction back so it feels less as if the house always wins.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He did it by building another one just down the road from the first one. He didn't pay the people who built it driving many of them into bankruptcy. You only have to look at what he has done to know he is the worst possible person to make a legal buck.

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Crazy that he gets away with the number of people he's just, straight up declined to pay.

You'd think after some point either

  1. People stop working with him
  2. The people he ripped off track him down to murder his ass

But that never happened, somehow.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Refusing to pay is actually a pretty common trait amongst the extreme narcissistic billionaires.

I just watch that 4 part documentary on Pdiddy and he also refused to pay anyone. He didn't even pay when he had 2Pac killed!

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know a guy who sold a car and the check bounced. The next morning he was up and on the road. He walked in the guys business and beat the guy down. Then he told him if he didn't have his money he was going to kill him. The guy talked him out of killing him and called his wife. He had her bring the money. Somehow he never heard a word about it from the cops. I really think he had the guy convinced he was going to kill him. I don't think he would but I wouldn't call his bluff if he came at me. Kinda crazy eyes when he gets excited.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I did collections a couple of times for friends. My method was to walk right into their house at dinner time, sit down at their table and tell them that payment was due in 24 hours, or there would be consequences. I'd then give them instructions on how to make the drop. "Go to X place at Y time, await further instructions." Nothing complex.

You need to know your mark. There are people I knew who'd have shot me dead if I'd tried that on them. But the people I did this to were nice middle-class folks who were seeing what they could get away with. In both cases, they paid up. At that time, I wasn't much of a physical specimen, but had an intense, manic vibe and could deal with most forms of physical aggression. Due to the nature of the transaction, they wouldn't have thought of involving the police.

It was also a good education for me, since I learned about the kind of things you had to do for so-called easy money, and I realised that I really didn't want to do them.

One of the people I was collecting for didn't draw the same conclusion. About a year later he was pistol-whipped badly because he thought he could cheat his suppliers. He got some front teeth knocked out, a cracked eye socket and a broken cheekbone as a souvenir. I was slightly surprised they didn't just kill him, or at least curbstomp him. He left the state soon after getting out of the hospital.

Anyone nostalgic for late-1970s Los Angeles probably wasn't there.

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Trump also bankrupted the USFL a football league that was big enough to make the Number 1 draft pick choose between the NFL and USFL....he's going to crash the US like all his bullshit businesses

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait wait wait, are you suggesting - actually suggesting - that trump supporters are . . Ha! . . What? Stupid as fuck?

C’mon now. Get real.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes I am, Stupid as fuck is the correct technical term, but more than that, they are also delusional and most of them are without empathy towards the people they knew would be hurt.
To vote for Trump is so bad, it has to be described as close to mental illness to vote for him, because it's an act of self harm for most people that did it.
But I have no compassion for those people despite their mental illness, they were warned over and over and again and again. That a 2nd term with Trump would be far worse than the first.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

some people thought

Some people don't think.

If Trump wasn’t rich, he would have been in jail by the age of 20.

Where I grew up, his body would have turned up in a shallow grave in the desert, long before he'd make it to jail. And if he did make it to jail, it'd end there.

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Trump wasn’t really rich. He was just good at getting loans. He might actually have some real cash now, considering all the grifts he’s been running while in office.

[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He always meant that he was good for the economy of the rich, and not the rest of us. That messaging was directly sent to the billionaire class, with a beneficial side effect of his moron supporters thinking he was sending that message to them, too.

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[–] Akh@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The one thing I can say is glad the NYT is having to deal with his bullshit since they sanewashed him

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

And yet Fox, who has done much much worse, is not.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

This isn't the onion?

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 58 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How is this not an Onion headline?

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Here ya go. This is worth posting so people don't have to click.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Because it's Trump. Trump is worse than the onion even when he isn't trying.

[–] Redditsux@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

As you wish.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

He would sue gravity for making him fall down if he could figure out a way. It's always someone else to blame, never a single ounce of responsibility. So tough, not being g able to admit you are wrong or don't know. So manly. So... Pathetic. Blathering blazerskite!

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Preemie babies have thicker skin.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fresh pudding has thicker skin. 

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What a pathetic toddler.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Weak, pathetic, traitor

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago

From now on all polling questions must be asked in a way that benefits the administration.

Obligatory Yes Prime Minister clip.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

This butthurt baby keeps doing things you would have assumed were only The Onion headlines a few years ago...

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Go scarf down a few hundred cheeseburgers then, crybaby.

Weak, ugly, pathetic, loser!!!

[–] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Grumpy Trumpy. How is that not a meme/his nickname? With shit like sleepy Joe I'm sure it would sting his fragile ego.

Sometimes my occasional dyslexia has its advantages.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That nickname is too cute, he deserves something like "pissy pants orange sack of shit"

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[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Any particular reason the daily beast is bad. It did always seem a bit like a sloppy repost station but didn't seem offensively bad?

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a skill issue

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Grumpy Trumpy took a 'lil dumpy, right in his pants, and then did a little dance.

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