IRS employee who voted for Trump doesn’t learn his lesson and is fired

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    It’s absurd that people think trump has any sort of “business acumen.” His businesses fail more often than they succeed. He’s been busted for fraud multiple times. Filed for bankruptcy multiple times. Sued for failing to pay contractors hundreds of times. Banks refused to lend him money. His contemporaries call him the dumbest person they’ve ever met.

    • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
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      17 days ago

      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.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

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

      Apparently they’ve never met his supporters.

    • vividspecter@lemm.ee
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      18 days ago

      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.

      • TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        That’s the thing he’s actually good at. Acting. Getting people to believe in fiction. It’s a good trait for an actor, a despicable power of conmen, and horrifying in a leader.

        • The_Caretaker@lemm.ee
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          11 days ago

          Religious people are a goldmine for scammers like Trump. A person who can be convinced that there is an invisible man who lives in the sky and grants wishes or that there was a zombie 2000 years ago who walked on water can be convinced of anything. Born to be rubes.

    • merdaverse@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

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

    • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      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.

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    17 days ago

    Aside from being brainwashed into MAGA he sounds like a solid dude. He saw a problem in his country and took it upon himself to try to fix it. Too bad he wanted leopards to eat his face

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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      17 days ago

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

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        17 days ago

        I agree 100%. I kinda have to believe people like this can get better because I have good people in my family whose actions and political beliefs are entirely at odds with each other.

  • archonet@lemy.lol
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    17 days ago

    “someone with his business acumen”

    Ah, yes, you mean the sort of business acumen that makes a casino go bankrupt?

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      17 days ago

      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.

      • tamal3@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        Heard. I also feel somewhat comforted that this was a person who voted for Trump. Just a guy who wanted to make the world better, and yet made a shitty decision… not a Nazi.

        Edit: …Er, probably not a Nazi.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    “Someone with his business acumen…”

    Holy shit. I imagine this person has an open fucking head wound and a keyboard covered in drool. Holy shit.

    With time, you forget just how desperate, unequipped for life and dangerously myopic these people are.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    It‘s so weird man. They say the government needs fixing but then vote for unhinged deregulation from the guy with the catch phrase „you‘re fired“.

    That‘s like saying your roof needs fixing so you call a demolition company to tear your house down. What the hell did you expect would happen?

    Honestly I think so many people are too misinformed or distracted to vote. I would genuinely suggest they stay out of the democratic process for their own good and peace of mind. They will only regret it anyway.

    • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
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      18 days ago

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

  • rational_lib@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    I can totally believe that someone who’s never worked in the private sector has such a fanciful view of how layoffs work. My first job out of college was in the government. My views of what constituted “waste” were hilarious, like we got a flashlight (because we occasionally would go outside at night) and it was definitely a pricier flashlight, with some features we didn’t really need. I told my friends at home, “Gosh, the government is so wasteful, look at this overpriced flashlight I got”. Of course they made me turn it in when I left, but still.

    Then when I got into the private sector I realized private sector waste is a whole different animal. Obviously there’s the insane CEO pay packages, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Definitely I’ve seen some multi-million-dollar projects that never should have happened and were just the result of our slick salespeople. When I left one job in a layoff I had no way of returning a $3000 laptop because the person I’d return it to was laid off too. It ended up being a nice gift for an amoral friend. Of course layoffs themselves are crazy wasteful, you have tons of hard-earned knowledge walking out the door. They’re almost always random and driven by a desire to temporarily boost the stock price as clueless shareholders are left holding the bag when the company collapses a few years later.

    Point is government waste exists, but it’s like a leaky faucet that drips a little. In the private sector, it’s like a faucet that’s constantly running on full blast because everyone is incentivized to maximize the rate of flow.

  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    How could anyone trust the business acumen of someone who bankrupted his own casino? The business model of a casino is people walk in, give you all their money, then leave. That was too much for him.

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      17 days ago

      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.

      • Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        17 days ago

        By opening a second casino on the same road, splitting the public between the two, which led to BOTH going bankrupt, despite a cash injection from his father. Yes, he bankrupted TWO casinos…

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Works for IRS, thinks Trump has an iota of business acumen. Dude deserved to be fired whether he voted for Agent Orange or not.

    If you look at Trump business history and think he’s a good businessman you have no place at the IRS. Hopefully this dude didn’t work for Criminal Investigation.

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    17 days ago

    It’s so incredible that so many people can’t tell how clueless Trump is. The only reason he’s ever “effective” is because he’s a total wildcard since he has absolutely no fucking idea what is happening.

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    17 days ago

    Haven’t seen a more apt example of a face eaten by a leopard in quite a while. This is about as cut-and-dry as it gets.