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Paraphrasing Mary: "Every lie he told, all the energy he spends lying, is in order to hide who he really is." "The more people confront him with the truth, the more he will get out of control and fight back"
I hate when people talk about Donny's father as if he was some sort of saint. That fucker was a segregationist real estate mogul that funded the KKK.
Is it talking about him like he's a saint to acknowledge that he actually did build a real estate empire from middle-class origins?
Maybe that is something of a sainthood to some Americans.
Fred made a lot of money, especially compared to his son or his father, but he nonetheless inherited a business and sizeable amount of money from Friedrich Trump. I wouldn't call it Middle Class for the time period.
Wealth is certainly a religion to many Americans.
Yeah, it's Worthington's Law in action. I cannot reference this enough, because this is actually how many people think. I cannot believe how many conversations about Elon/Donnie/Bezos/Gates, etc all ended with the equivalent of "yeah, but he makes more money than YOU!" (which I nearly always sound not very distant from "My dad can beat up YOUR dad!". It's pathetic.
Also, millions of people make more money than me. The real question is are they happier or more content than me?
Stating the truth that anyone with a brain in their head already knows.
It's always worth repeating, especially so for those people without a brain in their heads. Those people rely on others to do the thinking for them, so if reasonable people were to stop confronting them with facts and completely abandon them to their delusions, then shit would get a whole lot worse very fast.
Wasnt there someone who did the math that said that Trumps such an investment genius that he would have gotten a better rate of return just from the interest of the money, instead of using it on all his "investments"?
He currently has less money than he inherited. The math isn't that hard.
I actually really like Mary Trump from what I've seen. Her father was ostracized from the family essentially in part because of spoiled Donnie. I love that she can strike blow after blow with family knowledge combined with her PhD in Psychology.
Woody Guthrie - Ain't got no home / Old Man Trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbbNH3KTB_I
"This machine kills fascists" Good 'ol Woody...
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