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desura

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Well sure. It's not like the clown in the White House ever had to use starting fluid, a screwdriver (to short the starter solenoid), and the last $2 bucks in his wallet for gas so he could make it to work that day and not get fired. But somehow he's the champion of the "School of Hard Knocks" crowd.

Eh, Trump in his way is the most blue-collar billionaire there is. Most billionaires are Davos people. Trump not so much. Also, Bannon does look pretty blue collar.

Populism is like a tiger. It always has to be fed...it's too much drama, which is one big problem with politics as I see it. Like, the Chinese approach to politics is to treat it like a utility, not a drama.
 

Vic

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Eh, Trump in his way is the most blue-collar billionaire there is. Most billionaires are Davos people. Trump not so much. Also, Bannon does look pretty blue collar.

Populism is like a tiger. It always has to be fed...it's too much drama, which is one big problem with politics as I see it. Like, the Chinese approach to politics is to treat it like a utility, not a drama.
You're talking about the guy who brags about shitting in solid gold toilet. So... lol
 

theeedude

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Looks like we have some future Brown shirts here.

From the Southern Poverty Law Center. A new fight-club “fraternity” of young white, pro-Trump men is being formed, its organizers claim, to defend free-speech rights by “Alt-Right” leaders and engage in street fighting.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/04/25/new-alt-right-“fight-club”-ready-street-violence

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desura

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You're talking about the guy who brags about shitting in solid gold toilet. So... lol

It is said that Donald Trump is like a caricature of how a poor person imagines himself if he were rich.

Like, when Trump first announced, he was a nobody to me. Michael Bloomberg is my image of a successful businessman.
 

Azuma Hazuki

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Drumpf is a stupid person's idea of a smart man, a financial illiterate's idea of a wealthy man, and a degenerate's idea of a successful man.
 
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Jhhnn

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Eh, Trump in his way is the most blue-collar billionaire there is. Most billionaires are Davos people. Trump not so much. Also, Bannon does look pretty blue collar.

Populism is like a tiger. It always has to be fed...it's too much drama, which is one big problem with politics as I see it. Like, the Chinese approach to politics is to treat it like a utility, not a drama.

Trump is blue collar only in being as utterly crass as the proud to be ignorant crowd. He's an ignoramus just like them, except he's rich.
 

highland145

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bukke about a dude that has 100 zeroes more than your net worth.

Really?


Bwahahahha.

Carry on.
 

zinfamous

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You're talking about the guy who brags about shitting in solid gold toilet. So... lol

desura has a point, though. Real billionaires don't act like that. Trump is what the poorest of the poor, illiterate types think billionaires are like: zero class, zero education, just hang out and spend their money on nonsense because, wgaf? They eat it up. The guy is a talentless, lazy, stupid piece of shit, but the "blue collar billionaire" kinda fits.

There's a reason that he has long been ostracized from the NY millionaire/billionaire clubs and events his entire life: no one likes him, because he is completely vacant upstairs.
 

Azuma Hazuki

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There is a word for people with Trump's attitude in Russian: "nekulturny." It means rather more than its literal gloss of "no culture" would suggest, and I think the closest English equivalent is "vulgarian."

This is someone who, despite being exposed to the highest of high society all his life, has only managed to pick up its vices, but none of its virtues, however small they may be (such as appreciation for art or grand ambition). It's pitiful; he hasn't the depth of spirit or humanity even to appreciate his paradisical surroundings and what he could have.

Edit: I am maybe not expressing the full depth of the word properly. It also has undertones of "philistine" or "vandal," someone who not only cannot appreciate anything above his base interests, but actively devalues and destroys them out of some sort of vague hatred of what is above him. Think for example of someone who would graffiti on the Sistene Chapel ceiling, partly of spite...
 
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Vic

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desura has a point, though. Real billionaires don't act like that. Trump is what the poorest of the poor, illiterate types think billionaires are like: zero class, zero education, just hang out and spend their money on nonsense because, wgaf? They eat it up. The guy is a talentless, lazy, stupid piece of shit, but the "blue collar billionaire" kinda fits.

There's a reason that he has long been ostracized from the NY millionaire/billionaire clubs and events his entire life: no one likes him, because he is completely vacant upstairs.
It's a valid point, I suppose, but not my opinion of a 'real' billionaire. I prefer rags-to-riches types like Carnegie or visionary risk-takers like Musk.
IMO Trump is only rich and powerful because he was born that way. And I suppose that opinion of him is what drove him to seek the Presidency. But even there, he bought it more than he earned it.
 
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BurnItDwn

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our lefties will never click a link hosted by Milo, even if it has nothing to do with him.

That link is hosted by facebook. And I will never click a link hosted by facebook because their video player is shitgarbage.