US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Who has a successful real estate empire that's worth billions?
Started with his father's organization and yes, his companies did go bankrupt several times. That doesn't really sound like a "success."

Who smashed the Clinton machine to become president?
In 2016 Hilary was tremendously unpopular, the Kamala of her time as it were, except the American people had been subject to her for much longer. It's not really saying a lot when Hilary outright refused to campaign in the Rust Belt states.

Who had a successful television series?
Doesn't really say much here. See where I said he was mostly plumping out his brand; this was part of it.

Who has been a household name in America for four decades? Right, he's a retard
That's a lot of it, yes. He's called the Chris Chan of Presidents for good reasons. He made it clear to everyone that he was basically a brash retard and the American people ate it up.

obviously just put all his character points into luck when he rolled his character.
Certainly seems like it; orange nigger has fucking plot armor.
 
Amusingly, your dentist is more likely to be a sociopath than your lawyer or a random CEO. Enjoy that thought.
I mean this nicely, fuck you. I already have dental phobias from absolutely no one, me included, knowing how to handle my dental visits.

I also don't know what it means that the dentist told me I needed 100 pulls to get some of my teeth removed when it normally takes 10, but thank fuck I elected to be put under instead of getting local anaesthetics.
Low functioning sociopaths just end up in prison a lot.
Yeah. I remember when I was studying it that one tends to have an above average IQ, the other has one closer to 80, and stupid + non-functioning moral code = "I crime a lot." Of course, it was a while ago, so this might be something of a, "We're both right," situation just based on when we learned about it.
CNN’s Jake Tapper wants you to know that Minneapolis shooter Robert Westman wishes to be identified as “she” and that we should use the name the shooter prefers.
It can kiss my ass after we deal with the other it.
 
you are a poster on a gossip forum with a pink triangle denoting you as a bad faith poster
I'm pretty sure it's just the pedo take people have been screenshotting. As I've said people usually seem end up with the dorito when they have some topic they can't get off of and they go too far arguing with people about it. I was trying to work out Temu's, but even when they're going against the grain of a thread they don't tend to sperg out. So I think it's just that pedo post, it got mod attention and had the red box at the top, the triangle might even be permanent.
 
Started with his father's organization and yes, his companies did go bankrupt several times. That doesn't really sound like a "success."
If you don't have a 100% success rate, you're a failure? Is that correct?

I mean this nicely, fuck you. I already have dental phobias from absolutely no one, me included, knowing how to handle my dental visits.

I also don't know what it means that the dentist told me I needed 100 pulls to get some of my teeth removed when it normally takes 10, but thank fuck I elected to be put under instead of getting local anaesthetics.
Trust me, I get it. When I had my (6) wisdom teeth pulled, I started to come out from going under just soon enough to feel them digging around in my gums, didn't feel pain, but man. I sometimes think I remember seeing a bit of glee on the dentist's face. If you want unnerving, some estimate that 1/25 to 1/20 people are sociopaths to some extent, most aren't violent, but they do cluster in jobs that give them power over others, especially medicine. I'm not sure I entirely buy that, but way more common than people think.

Yeah. I remember when I was studying it that one tends to have an above average IQ, the other has one closer to 80, and stupid + non-functioning moral code = "I crime a lot." Of course, it was a while ago, so this might be something of a, "We're both right," situation just based on when we learned about it.
Yeah, I think they just went with the psychopath = violent, sociopath = non-violent because most people used it like that and it's useful for most people. Most sociopaths are relatively fine and if you don't make yourself an easy target, they'll leave you alone.
 
I wish people would just be honest and say a few dead children is worth having the right to bear arms.

It really is statisticaly insignificant. More kids have died in pool drownings in the past couple of years than have been killed in US school shootings ever. It just makes big scary news headlines. You dont see people clamoring to ban pools.

If I believed that more gun laws would stop evil people from mass murderering children in schools or making all Firearms illegal would bring the total number of dead children in Chicago every month to zero, I would admit that. I don’t believe your statement to be factual. Evil people who take pleasure from hurting and killing children, or hold no respect for life, rules or living in a civilized society, would instead make homemade bombs, or drive their cars into the playground or poison the students by putting fentanyl in the banana bread at their schools bake sale fundraiser.
 
He's a CEO-type and it's largely blowback from everyone seeing companies just go and do stupid shit left and right without considering things like knowledge problems. Here's a good one for you.

Lee Iaccoca, when making the Ford Pinto, did a cost-benefit analysis with a small baffle behind the rear bumper to stop that whole leaking gas tank thing they're famous for. People found out about this, and he was sued. It was so cheap to install! What do you mean he didn't put in this basic safety feature!!!

Iaccoca, no slouch in the brains department, had actually factored this in. Ford still made more money not putting the baffle in, even though it was something dirt cheap... $9 I think?

Like it or not, CEO-ship is not for stupid people. Stupid people generally don't become CEOs. That's not me defending CEOs as infallable, it's me defending them as cream of the crop who far more likely have a wormtongue in their ears, lose vital knowledge in the corporate bureaucracy, or got promoted to their point of incompetence as opposed to stupidity.
IQ does not account for taste or morals. In fact I would say the average high IQ person has dubious taste and morals. When it comes to money men they almost always have shit taste. Have you seen the hideous architecture the average billionaire lives in? It's always hideous. If I was a billionaire I'd live in a cool gothic clocktower like a gothic bad boy. But these sickos always live in gay modernist bullshit.
 
IQ does not account for taste or morals. In fact I would say the average high IQ person has dubious taste and morals. When it comes to money men they almost always have shit taste. Have you seen the hideous architecture the average billionaire lives in? It's always hideous. If I was a billionaire I'd live in a cool gothic clocktower like a gothic bad boy. But these sickos always live in gay modernist bullshit.
It tracks, your "average" high-IQ person is going to be more like a reddit midwit than John von Neumann after all.

Fail too many times but always blame other people, you're both a narcissist and a failure.
I'm not aware that Trump blamed other, do you have a quote you could throw me? What's too many times? His net worth is in the billions and he's a household name, that sounds pretty successful to me.
 
I wish people would just be honest and say a few dead children is worth having the right to bear arms.

It really is statisticaly insignificant. More kids have died in pool drownings in the past couple of years than have been killed in US school shootings ever. It just makes big scary news headlines. You dont see people clamoring to ban pools.
It reminds me of the meme.

"How many kids have to die before you agree that guns are the problem?"

"All of them."
 
but the ammo can't be used until they're called up.
What the fuck does this even mean? does the ammo not fire unless a secret code has been transmitted by the government authorizing its combustion? Is it issued in some safe lock box that they get the key for mailed to them when they're called up, finally allowing them access to it?

Because if it's just a rule and the honor system, that's no different than being an American and being told "You can't shoot people for sport" and yet folks do it anyways. Thus bringing us back to a society problem and not a gun problem.
 
Have you seen the hideous architecture the average billionaire lives in?
I actually live near a lake with Mansion people who come in summer. Yes I have. Did not like that one time a Lamborghini blew my doors off passing me on the highway.
When it comes to money men they almost always have shit taste.
Rat Utopia is a fun experiment.
If I was a billionaire I'd live in a cool gothic clocktower like a gothic bad boy. But these sickos always live in gay modernist bullshit.
At some point, money's just a means of keeping score. Anyone who just succeeds so hard there's nothing else to do generally ends up getting a taste for weird and unaesthetic stuff. If we're talking money w/o the whole, "No longer really competing anymore," angle... Menards comes to mind. Paul Menard races NASCAR, not that he needs the accolades with Menards being a pretty good hardware big-box, at least if we're comparing to Lowes or Home Depot.
 
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