• Kirp123@lemmy.world
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    Yeah, it was the politics that prevented the Trumps from getting loans. I wonder if they believe their own lies.

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      Don’t Jr. 100% believes his own lies. He also thinks those are his real teeth and he’s never even seen cocain in person.

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      Nothing will get through to them. Nothing.

      • Global warming is fake.
      • The insurance industry and the United States military are planning around it.

      Call capitalist industries and the military woke. Dare.

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        They literally are calling them woke. That’s what they’re doing when they discharge black officers and threaten corporations “for DEI” and pull Harvey Milk and Harriet Tubman’s names off of Navy ships.

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    I mean yeah, no one with a brain inside their skull trusts the Trump family.

    Now we have to live the rest of our lives knowing half of Americans are dumber than the closest inanimate object to you right now.

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      That comparison is still very offensive to my Throbulator 3000. If it wanted to fuck the economy, it would do a much better job.

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    Good catch, dude!

    Also having banks refuse to lend to you while having significant assets is known as having a F credit rating

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    Sort of like how the ‘08 banking crisis was caused because banks couldn’t make enough money? So they had to overextend themselves? It’s almost like regulation stunts billionaires’ future profits!

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    Why is no one punching these pussies? O I can not wait for the where is waldo game that is coming. There is no other way out of this…Elon better hide some babies.

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      It’s really hard. Last guy to try only missed by an inch or so, fingers crossed for the next one.

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      Elect me President and I will declare them all a national security threat, round them up, cut off both arms and one leg, and throw them into a muddy pit together to live out the rest of their lives as worms.

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    I get y’all wanna just slam on the Trumps, but the Dems have absolutely been abusing the financial system for well over a decade to go after political rivals.

    Weaponization of our institutions like that should be firmly rejected by everyone, whether we like the targets or not.

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      That’s what this sub is about. Progressive politics now means pretending that your local right wing party is fundamentally different from your local left wing party. Both are funded by the same corporate interests and both are chock full of corrupt sell-outs. But one of them talks about helping people while actively screwing them over, so they are O-K!

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      Your premise is not false, but the Trump family is not ‘the common man getting cut off from the system’.

      Their speech suggestes they got debanked. But what actually happened is that banks refused to loan them money.

      I do not think anyone has a sacred right to lend money in order to invest in real estate.

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        If they were refused the loans because of political liability, it’s no different.

        I’m so fucking sick of short-sighted rubes cheering for corruption used against their enemies, and acting shocked when it inevitably gets turned on everyone else after the precedent is set.

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      It isn’t a weaponized against Trump system. The banking system doesn’t lend to anyone who revels in not paying their bills and purposely puts their companies in to bankruptcy after bilking the investors. Any money lent to Trumps is money lost. Banks figured it out after a couple decades of bankrolling them. Then international banks found out the same. Now only mafia types and corrupt countries will lend to them. The same would happen to you, much sooner, if you tried the Trump business method.