IRS employee who voted for Trump doesn’t learn his lesson and is fired
“someone with his business acumen”
Ah, yes, you mean the sort of business acumen that makes a casino go bankrupt?
as using his casino to launder russian/soviet money around.
lol they still think this guy actually knows how to run businesses
How do you bankrupt a casino? 😂😂😂 Its literally free money 😂😂😂
Not just one. Four casinos
These people don’t read, they just see the flashy show on fox news, then go to work
I can totally believe that someone who’s never worked in the private sector has such a fanciful view of how layoffs work. My first job out of college was in the government. My views of what constituted “waste” were hilarious, like we got a flashlight (because we occasionally would go outside at night) and it was definitely a pricier flashlight, with some features we didn’t really need. I told my friends at home, “Gosh, the government is so wasteful, look at this overpriced flashlight I got”. Of course they made me turn it in when I left, but still.
Then when I got into the private sector I realized private sector waste is a whole different animal. Obviously there’s the insane CEO pay packages, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Definitely I’ve seen some multi-million-dollar projects that never should have happened and were just the result of our slick salespeople. When I left one job in a layoff I had no way of returning a $3000 laptop because the person I’d return it to was laid off too. It ended up being a nice gift for an amoral friend. Of course layoffs themselves are crazy wasteful, you have tons of hard-earned knowledge walking out the door. They’re almost always random and driven by a desire to temporarily boost the stock price as clueless shareholders are left holding the bag when the company collapses a few years later.
Point is government waste exists, but it’s like a leaky faucet that drips a little. In the private sector, it’s like a faucet that’s constantly running on full blast because everyone is incentivized to maximize the rate of flow.
definitely a pricier flashlight,
It’s because they can’t risk it not working and being blamed when someone trips in the dark
government is also not allowed to negotiate for discounts to minimize risk of corruption and has to pay sticker price
How could anyone trust the business acumen of someone who bankrupted his own casino? The business model of a casino is people walk in, give you all their money, then leave. That was too much for him.
How the fuck do you bankrupt a casino?
By opening a second casino on the same road, splitting the public between the two, which led to BOTH going bankrupt, despite a cash injection from his father. Yes, he bankrupted TWO casinos…
spent more in building it >cough< than ever received as income from ‘customers’.
at one point some rich fucker (might have been his own father) literally walked in ‘bought’ a shitload of chips (miilions of $) and never cashed them.
How could anyone trust the business acumen of someone who bankrupted his own casino?
Easy. They’re braindead stupid. You have met dogs more intelligent than Trump supporters.
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im pretty sure that entire endeavor was a money laundering scheme. it doesnt make any sense otherwise.
It’s so incredible that so many people can’t tell how clueless Trump is. The only reason he’s ever “effective” is because he’s a total wildcard since he has absolutely no fucking idea what is happening.
oh no! anyway…
“Someone with his business acumen…”
Holy shit. I imagine this person has an open fucking head wound and a keyboard covered in drool. Holy shit.
With time, you forget just how desperate, unequipped for life and dangerously myopic these people are.
So many Trump supporters just don’t pay attention to anything. For decades before 2016, it was super common knowledge that Trump was a terrible businessman. It was a common joke on late night TV any time Trump was in the news. It was essentially the main thing people knew about him since the 1990s, yet his supporters all think he must be some business genius. And how they still think this after his first term, I have no idea.
The TV show THE APPRENTICE was filmed and edited to portray Trump as a MASTER OF BUSINESS. People who worked behind the scenes of the show have commented on some of the stupid decisions he made, and how they were always covering it with edits to make it look like a wise decisions after the fact…
https://www.thewrap.com/donald-trump-bad-firing-the-apprentice/
It never occurred to them that he was so bad at his job that he had to take a job working for a Hollywood studio pretending to be a successful businessman hiring people for a job that never existed. There was never any situation in which anyone was fired from anything.
Hope he suffers as much as possible for the suffering he has caused others.
lol @ “fine-tooth comb”
Coming in with a wrecking ball is the “business acumen” i.e. sucking out as much money as possible, taking credit for any perceived successes, and passing out blame for any perceived failures. The entire point of business is to enrich the businessman. They’re idolized when they really should be recognized as the parasites they actually are.
Leopards are gonna have an obesity problem.
If that is a reason to vote for someone maybe Gabe Newell should run for president.
His “business acumen” is hostile takeover style from the 80s-90s. If the guy really studied up he would’ve known those types come in and slash and burn. No one is spared. They squeeze the juice out until a company is “lean and mean” and attractive to investors that want to liquidate or restart without old guard getting in the way. What a dummy.
Side note: I am banned from conservative subs, but my last comment there was responded with “conservatism is a necessary counterpoint to progressivism” and can somebody tell me ANY conservative policies that were for the good of humanity? Because all I see is a severely mentally ill bunch of fucking psychopaths that do nothing but destroy freedom and anything at all good for humanity.
Yes and no. Conservatism is supposed to be (ideally, in theory) a ratchet that keeps the wheel from freely spinning in either direction. Conservatives are to preserve the status quo, which is the position currently taken by Democrats and not Republicans. We don’t have a counterbalance to the Repubs, which is why the wheel is slowly clicking to the right.
I used to assume this was more ‘both sides are the same’ shit but looking at how fast Trump is moving while the democrats spent years getting very little done really puts it into perspective.
oh no, I know Trump and the republicans are much, much worse. I know that they are so terrible, that any vote to keep them out of office is better then to not vote “out of protest”.
I’ve just also been paying attention long enough to be cynical about the democrats. I remember when the democrats had majority during Obama, but a hand full of sellouts would play hot-potato voting against any progressive movement. Any one of them would vote for progress most of the time, but enough of them voted against that noting ever got done.
This is really good. Thanks for posting!
So if we had a truly progressive party in power conservatives job would be saying can we afford this, what would the impacts be, why do we need to do this thing, why is the status quo not good etc etc. Then they are suppose to listen to reason, trial out big changes, adapt, and let the future go forward making sure the small man and traditionalists aren’t left behind.
Instead conservatives are about changing the climate, culture, and environment to hurt others or hold back common sense things that make people equal.
it is inherently selfish behavior.
at best, they will tell you ‘i just want my tax dollars/government to be efficient’ but we see how that actually plays out with regards to the oligarchy taking control.
Business acumen? Neither the president nor trump have that
Yeah, they were both kinda born into it.
