• @[email protected]
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    I’m so upset at my Canadian family members who supported Trump.

    I got an uncle who was constantly saying he supports trump cause he’ll “run the country the country like a business” - i don’t think either trump or him actually understand business all that well.

    I hope Canadian-European relations get stronger, and hopefully Canadian-American relations will be rebuilt once this fucker is gone

    • @[email protected]
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      The “run government like a business” crowd gets to me. I’d like to see business run like a government. Owned and controlled by the workers.

      • @frog_brawler
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        It’s one of the dumbest perspectives I’ve heard that continues to irk me. Why the fuck would you want something that’s supposed to do X to do Y instead?

    • @[email protected]
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      267 days ago

      he supports trump cause he’ll “run the country the country like a business”

      THIS MOTHERFUCKER BANKRUPTED A CASINO.

      People say they want him to run the country like a business, but that man bankrupted a money printing machine, probably because he was doing all kinds of illegal shit and didn’t actually run his business like a business. Why would he run a money printing country any different than his money printing business.

      My dumbass uncle feels the same way as yours, and I have to bite my tongue so after to remind him that he and trump have something in common: they both embezzled from their company until it died.

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      My mum last night on text.

      “We’ll see what shithead Trump retaliates with tomorrow. The only way to stop the maniac is with a bullet!”

      “Have you noticed how shithead has not left the White House since he was sworn in?”

      “Trudeau is doing a great job!” (Referring to the presser)

      I’m glad I don’t have your family OP

      Edit - for the kids out there my mum is 74. She’s a baby boomer. Some of them are good people. They are not well off. I told my parents with the tariffs coming if they find themselves struggling to let me know because I will help in any way I can.

      • @lennybird
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        I appreciate your mom. My old man is a crass Appalachian boomer and speaks in a similar tone and diction with respect to Trump.

        • @Seleni
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          His ancestors are weeping

    • @[email protected]
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      207 days ago

      He will run the country like he does all of his businesses; into the ground.

      He even failed at running a casino. Except this time he will likely be burying thousands of Americans along with the country.

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      “Run the country like a business” is the dumbest thing ever. If the government was run like a business they’d raise taxes because what business doesn’t want to increase revenue? There would also be an open door immigration policy, because what business turns away potential customers?

      Personally I want the government run like a non-profit organization whose goal is to make my life better, but that’s just me.

    • @[email protected]
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      76 days ago

      i’m still waiting for an explanation on how running anything like a business is objectively a good thing.

    • billwashere
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      Does your uncle realize trump was able to bankrupt a casino? Where they can can almost literally print money. And not just one, but three of them. This man is literally one of the most inept businessmen I have ever seen.

        • @[email protected]
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          36 days ago

          But he looked smaaaat on the apprentice. That’s all the fucking morons who support him seem to remember about Trump.

      • @rayyy
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        He is incompetent, confused and weak. Just what Putin wanted.

        • billwashere
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          127 days ago

          Yep. Of course. And SO easily manipulated and too dumb to even realize it.

        • @[email protected]
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          26 days ago

          This is the most accurate statement. There’s a reason why Trump wants Greenland, Canada, and Panama. Russia also wants all these. Wants free reign to move their boats and military through these areas and to be able to use the Panama Canal again.

          The more I see all the stuff going on here, the more I am coming to realize that the orange taintstainy is just a Putin muppet puppet.

          Everything this man does seems to appease Russia.

    • Rhaedas
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      That’s the fallacy that I thought was learned back with Ross Perot. You don’t run a country like a business. It’s a government.

      • @[email protected]
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        457 days ago

        I’m pretty sure that people who say they want to “run the country like a business” just think it sounds good but haven’t put 2 braincells worth of thought into it. Businesses exist to make money. Government exists to serve citizens.

        Do you want firefighters showing up to your burning house and asking for a credit card before they put out the fire? Or maybe have the post office decide that it’s not profitable enough to service entire states? The whole idea is moronic.

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          And it’s dumb, because, in the end, where is all that profit supposed to go?

          The answer obviously is, to improve the country and the quality of life of its citizens, so we’re back to square one anyway

        • MrScottyTay
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          127 days ago

          I mean, America already charge their citizens for healthcare, so they’re not that far off from your hypothetical

        • @jaybone
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          Also the USPS is too busy delivering papers full of ads and junk mail, rather than investigating mail theft.

      • aname
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        How was it learned and when. Where I can lear more? Wikipedia didn’t have any clear answers

        • @Hugin
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          It wasn’t learned. He was a 3rd party presidential candidate that ran on being a business man not a politician. He came in third.

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            I think “businessman” is a little misleading. Snake oil grifter is a closer description of how he ran.

            We all know he’s a failed businessman. Who else can bankrupt a casino multiple times?

            America just played their Trump card and they got themselves good and fucked.

    • @[email protected]
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      Do you tell him that Trump has filed for bankruptcy six times with his companies? What does that say about his business acumen? How often has your uncle filed for bankruptcy?

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        That doesn’t work. The hardcore Trump supporters think bankruptcy is a genius life hack to get out from having to repay debts.

        They actually believe it’s smart to borrow money, hide them in other businesses and personal accounts, then declare bankruptcy to keep the money. To the rest of the world, that’s called “embezzlement.”

        • @PlantDadManGuy
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          Actually it’s called fraud, but tomato potato we need this dirtbags head on a pike STAT.

        • @NotMyOldRedditName
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          Don’t forget the inflate the value of your assets so you can borrow even more money, but declare them as a lesser value on your taxes.

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        57 days ago

        Those kind of people generally answer that he bankrupted « because of Biden ».

    • IninewCrow
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      367 days ago

      I’m up in the middle of nowhere Ontario in the north surrounded mostly by trees and lakes and not even remotely close to anything American … but yet I still have a few friends and family who love your dumb orange beanbag president.

      I don’t understand the pull that this idiot has on people or the millionaires and billionaires that pour their money into him for some god forsaken reason.

      • @[email protected]
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        267 days ago

        It is actually perfectly simple.

        Mr. Trump gives people easy answers to extremely complex problems, the fact that he is rich means that people just assume he is right about it.

        People want easy answers that don’t blame them, Trump has perfected the style of of talking where he is ambiguous enough that people fill in the blanks themselves.

        It is classic fascism speech.