Once you realize he’s stupid, it all makes sense.
When he built Trump Tower back in the 1980s, Jackie Kennedy was New York City’s most beloved resident. She was famous for her efforts to save Grand Central Station and her love of great old buildings.
Trump personally promised the head of the biggest museum in New York that he’d preserve the façade of the building he was demolishing to put up his Tower. He lied and razed the place to the ground.
The most desperate ass kisser on the planet threw away a chance to get in good with America’s living Queen because he was greedy and stupid.
That was a pretty stupid maneuver, agreed.
It’s also worth noting that one of Trump’s 6 bankruptcies was from a Casino in Atlantic City. You have to be especially stupid to go bankrupt running a casino (on borrowed money of course). They’re literally rigged for profiting the owners.
Bankrupting a casino just screams “hey we’re laundering money over here.” I think you’d have to actively sabotage a casino to make it fail.
Yeah, money laundering has clearly been a staple of Trump’s career. What started with selling condos in trump tower to Russian oligarchs after he couldn’t borrow money from banks anymore due to his tendency to default on loans, has now turned into something much worse unfortunately.
His latest scams with crypto just hurt to watch…hundreds of millions just stolen from his trusting followers.
Perhaps the biggest failing of the Dems during Biden’s term (when there was still time for justice) was refusing to investigate Trump’s financial crimes and ties to Russian monied interests. They could have nailed him to the wall so easily there, but the investigation likely would have uncovered many more elites who are profiting the same way, so of course we can’t have that.
I bet he got a change order from the contractor, and upon seeing that saving the facade would coat more than zero dollars, said fuck that noise. Being greedy in petty ways is surprisingly common for people who already live a hyper-privileged post-scarcity existence.
Here’s the entire story. Spoiler = John Barron makes a cameo
yup. this is one of the conspiracy theories I whole hardheartedly believe. There is no specific, smoking gun, proof that I know of for this but although he sometimes talk tough in his back and forth things, his actions are always super favorable for putin specifically. defund ukraine, stop russian sanctions, the general fucking up of us systems.
He doesn’t work for America or Russia, he works for himself and the billionaire class.
He’s serving the American bourgeoisie moreso than Russia.
Which, to be clear, is worse than if he was serving Russia. The American bourgeoisie are the most direct enemy to the American people, they suppress our wages (Putin doesn’t), they shift the tax burden onto us (Putin doesn’t), they bust our unions (Putin doesn’t), etc. Anything that makes them stronger makes us weaker, and if we could burn their wealth and power we would be better off even if we didn’t get a penny of it, just because their boot would be removed from our neck. That’s not to suggest that Putin is in any way a friend to everyday Americans, but he is a more distant and removed enemy compared to our direct, primary enemy, the rich of our own country. I don’t know why there’s this need to treat Trump as secretly in league with an external entity, as if being what he actually is wasn’t the worst thing he could possibly be.
The Soviet Union collapsed in the early 90s. If Trump was anything, he was an American fence for the looting, the gang warfare, and the human trafficking that followed. The dogged insistence that Donald is a double-super secret KGB inside man intent on serving a government that hasn’t existed in 30 years is a Tom Clancy inspired fantasy.
He sees America gaining from Israel’s expansion in the middle east, but the dems are no different. They’re just more cautious about how they look in front of the world/their voters, as they don’t have a cult to back them no matter what.
Once you realize America was always sliding toward Fascism, it makes even more sense
See Hitler’s American Model (2017) which talks about how Nazi lawyers were attracted to how the US built itself on the tradition of common law as opposed to the more European and relatively inflexible tradition of civil law. Government under common law may change rapidly as judges overturn precedent, opening a window for demagogues such as Trump a way to quickly reform government in their favor before a majority of the populace, with their often passive consequence-centered de facto method of understanding political decisions, can oppose the changes.
Yes.
Remember, Mussolini described fascism as the union of corporate and state power.
In the U.S., corporatism is undeniable:
Regulatory Capture: Agencies like the FDA, FCC and the FED are often staffed by former industry execs who later return to high-paying corporate jobs.
Bailouts & Subsidies: Wall Street, Big Oil, and defense contractors get billions in government aid.
Lobbying & Dark Money: Corporations spend billions influencing elections and policy, ensuring laws serve their interests, not the people’s.
Surveillance & Control: Tech giants work hand-in-hand with intelligence agencies to monitor citizens.
What absolutely. Fascism is in many ways the natural trend of the state under capitalism, and the US is the State of capitalism. It’s inherently reactionary and opposed to socialism on a fundamental basis.
Basic class consciousness, people
This seems terribly misguided.
What’s happening in the US comes from broken institutions, extreme polarization, and uniquely American political problems - not capitalism itself. Look around: plenty of countries more capitalist than US (Nordic nations, Switzerland, Singapore) have solid democracies without sliding into fascism.
You’re confusing economic systems with political structures. The issue isn’t free markets; it’s the specific American mess of corporate money corrupting politics and the eroding checks and balances.
I’m so tired of people blaming capitalism, it’s like blaming hydration for drowning. Makes as little sense.
Billionaires do not work for anyone but themselves. Billionaires, the parasites that they are, will attach themselves to whoever they can suck off, and then abandon the host to die off when they’ve taken all they can. He is looting what he can from the US and selling out the rest to Russia and anyone else who is willing to pay him. There is no such thing as enough for billionaires, this is their mental illness.
“Trump is unAmerican! He’s sold us out to the evil foreigners!” is the lie we need to keep telling ourselves in order to ignore the extremely All-American Thiels and Adelsons and Mercers who really are pulling his strings.
The end result of this Putin-fixation is a modern opposition Democrat party that clings to neocons in the Bush/Cheney cartel and plutocrats like Bloomberg, Gates, and Buffet in defiance of popular politics. Mass media keeps trying to make Communist Russia the boogeyman behind a very Capitalist, very American brand of corporate fascism.