rolling “Trump is gonna win” containment thread

That line of Bernstein's from Citizen Kane has served as a lodestar:

"There's no trick to making a lot of money if all you want is to make a lot of money."

i am just tired of people who have no particular knowledge or expertise on a subject making PREDICTIONS unsupported by any empirical evidence whatsoever and this is what passes for "political discussion"

there's also no evidence this will help Trump. there's plenty of evidence that fucking with the mail system is going to piss off a lot of people. this is bad because Trump has a very established ceiling. he can't afford to lose any of them.

to snort experimental healthy cocaine off perfect butts for the rest of his life?

i kind of want to start keeping a list of hypothetical heaven scenarios

to snort experimental healthy butts off perfect cocaine for the rest of his life

i mean hey, if jeff bezos wants to sell off amazon so he float in endless circles in a pool of expired pudding while nano-bots gently tug upward at his nipple hair, that's his right

Who would want more money when they’re already a billionnaire?

Why would a virus rage on until it's killed the host it needs to survive?

Because gimme, that's why.

Gimme.

he isn't good at anything else. he's arguably not good at making money, either. but he thinks he is, and that's what people think he's good at. what else is he doing to pursue? good conversation?? lol

he likes to cheat at golf

plebs dream about making a ton of money so they can finally not have to work and do whatever they want. trump has always been able to do whatever he wants. there's no extra fulfillment in quitting "work" so that he can go do whatever he wants. he's always been able to do that

He is what happens when you cross 'sucks shit at everything' with 'possesses a bottomless well of spite and the will to keep drawing up the bucket'.

Like imagine if he'd ever applied that willpower towards, like, improving a single aspect of his shitty self.

i mean if trump wants to quit so that he can, i don't know, have a team of nano-bots tugging upward at all of his nipple hair fly him around his golf courses while he gargles expired pudding for the rest of his life, that's his right. but he's always been able to do that

He can't even improve his hair, OL

the question "how does donald trump think?" contains one too many words. it's also a boring question and one we all know the answer to. i know that this is a shitpost thread but i continue to hope that we can eventually attain a higher level of shitposting than this

xp - having nano-bots pee on you just isn't the same as having real human women do it

xxpost The day and a half there when he stopped slathering it in Cheeto dust was a slight improvement, I have to say. He almost looked like a human. Almost.

Who would want more money when they’re already a billionnaire?

this is adorable

i'm not sure he even wants money so much as he wants to be endlessly praised. the money is just capitalism's means to that end, but it certainly hasn't seemed to buy him even a modicum of happiness so long as the NYT or WaPo or god forbid ANYONE is criticizing him at any time. his only basis for determining whether a person is good or bad is whether that person is willing to publicly praise him at all times.

making him president was an insanely awful idea because when you're president, millions of people are going to criticize you and hate you and shit on you regardless of whether you deserve it or not. pretty much every other president has been able to grasp this concept (eh, maybe not Nixon so much) but it entirely evades Trump.

i'm not sure he even wants money so much as he wants to be endlessly praised.

Daddy issues are America's number one killer in 2020.

yeah the morning after he was elected that was my main thought, "how is the most fragile man on earth going to deal with this?" the answer of course....very poorly

i just don't get it, why certain people put SO SO SO much time and effort into trying to _understand_ horrible human beings.

if you want to understand someone, you need to walk a mile in their shoes. don't understand donald trump? congratulations! you're probably not as terrible a person as he is. why are you trying to change that?

when one of them is President of the United States and is actively making decisions to make everyone's life work I think it's worth a little effort

I don't think anyone outside of some #resistance accounts and people who want to write a book on him are dedicating their lives to understanding his interior life (spoiler alert: he doesn't have one).

But I mean we're all just animals puzzling over something we don't understand, like a chimp handed a Rubik's Cube.

...for life

#heaven

I tried to understand what it's like inside the mind of Donald Trump but I could only seal myself up in that septic tank and whimper 'How was that, daddy? Am I good enough for you now, daddy?' for so long before enough was enough.

"The mind of Donald Trump"

i.e a burnt-out cigarette in sun-dried cottage cheese

seal myself up in that septic tank and whimper 'How was that, daddy? Am I good enough for you now, daddy?'

Brb, dry heaving

I was thinking earlier that there was a usage of the word trump or trumped that would probably gain a new origin story in years to come.
May be trumped up or similar, which i bet will be dated back to this incumbency in the public mind.
That it will be thought that it came from the most complete liar and fabulist in history instead of it being something much older.
oh well

Trump is obviously not and has never been a billionaire, and was probably in profound debt when he became President. Something I've wondered a lot in the last four years is whether he's actually paying off the German and Chinese banks with all the money he's openly grifting, extorting, and looting*, or continuing to shuffle it around shell companies to hide it. And, assuming the latter, what the imagined endgame is for the banks - what value they get from continuing to be ripped off, from someone making it plain they will never come good.

* For all that he's incredibly lazy, it's remarkable that he's used the presidency to do all three, distinctly.

he's hiding his tax returns cos he doesn't want people to know he's secretly the owner of the Mets

Aside from maybe athletes or performers/artists, anyone who could spend a million dollars a year for the rest of their life without going broke but continues to dedicate their life to the accumulation of wealth is a soulless monster who can never be trusted.

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, August 14, 2020 9:21 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

explain the exception here

anybody who dedicates their life to the accumulation of obscure musical recordings is a soulless monster who can never be trusted

anybody who dedicates their life to the accumulation of loosely bound social relationships is a soulless monster who can never be trusted

etc etc people unlike myself are all suspect blah blah

You really love these taste of bootstraps, don't you.

the billionaire defender has logged on

explain the exception here

I'm not entirely sure they should be exceptions - but a 28 year old baseball player could have a contract guaranteeing them a half billion in future earnings (ie Mike Trout). Their entire life has been dedicated to the physical performance and game and they're out playing that game, entertaining fans, etc.. Actors and artists - they're still doing something, making, creating.

It doesn't make any more sense to me to not be on that private island with research chemicals but Mike Trout's life for the next 10-15 years isn't just about creating more value for his hedge fund. Sheldon Adelson's rapacious maw has no art, no joy, no love, no humanity.

Tbh I don't think there should be exceptions. I think there should be cap on wealth.

word

Yeah definitely, and not a chance in hell of it ever happpening.

Doesn't mean a 35 year old who's never made more than his age in a year can't dream

I also favor a 90% estate tax over assets worth $500000, so...

obv I'm on board with the above but I'm just talking about my view on people in the world as it is - musicians and actors are doing things people do or would do for free but getting paid for it. No verifiably human being on death's door would be engineering a hostile takeover of a century-old retail chain, but someone on death's door might like to get in one last game of pickup basketball.

a wealth cap should change the billionaire mentality entirely from "continue" to "you completed and won the game"

if they really thought they contributed value to society through their business, they could just load their winnings into the public purse, start another business and prove they were twice as good as other "completers" by doing it again

80-year old politicians accumulating power for the sake of accumulating power fall somewhere in between those two, of course.

anybody who dedicates their life to the accumulation of obscure musical recordings is a soulless monster who can never be trusted

― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto)

i salute your dedication to making it clear that you hate me specifically, but i'd kind of figured it out already

I wouldn't take it personally. Pretty sure tombot is a board Calvinist, his Chosen Few are okay but he can only react with rage to anyone else who intrudes on his bubble.

I agree that it seems wild that rich people keep trying to accumulate more money, but it's really not that surprising. Humans like to keep hitting different thresholds and have a sense of progression, like trying to get better at art even after you've peaked or had success. It's clearly not about creature comforts, they're bored and it's their main hobby. Something to do. It's entertaining for them to see the numbers go up.

abolish inheritance