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Republicans decimated the public school funding for decades so that they could have a population full of rubes who think this guy was a genius. That's not counting the smart ones who are just trying to buy there way into policy-making that favors whatever scheme they pull in their respective industry.
Otherwise I don't see how any person with half a brain could hear this guy speak and say yeah, this guy should run things.
Donald Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich man, a weak man's idea of a strong man, a stupid man's idea of a smart man, and a loser's idea of a playboy.
He is a caricatute and nothing more.
Fuck. That needs to be a bumper sticker.
Probably would end up with dumbasses putting rocks through your windows every other day, but it might just be worth it.
People reading that bumper sticker:
That’s probably the most apt description I’ve heard yet.
It’s been floating around since at least 2016. But that doesn’t make it any less apt.
Damn that’s good!
You know the world is doomed when trump is jealous of a dictator, because he’s a dictator and he can dictate. That’s the power trump wants.
Also one of the reasons a degree will cost you 100 grand.
Nobody in power is served by an informed and educated electorate, so you get loaded up with debt before you even start work. This makes sure you don’t get any funny ideas about changing the world for the better - because you gotta service the debt before you make any other plans.
The question is: how did all of this change? People reminisce about when it was like $700 and you could easily finance that with an average summer job. When and why did it take such an insane turn?
When government subsidies allowed greedy universities to jack up their tuition. If we wanted accessibility we would have been first to actually subsidize it through taxation instead of whatever the fuck is going on right now. Like idk who thought "I can borrow it all now and pay it back with interest later? Lets make this the norm".
Trump can't comprehend how owning a country is more valuable than owning some condo blocks and looked like an idiot in front of the ruler of North Korea.
Telling someone who lives in the lap of luxury that they could become rich as hell is a strange move.
Not just living in the lap of luxury, but surrounded by an entire population that see his entire family as almost some sort of Godhead.
It's what Trump envisions for himself here, but the MAGA idiots are only 30% instead of 98%.
Oh hey look another time where trump opens his mouth and spews out the dumbest shit imaginable. He actually brags about this? What a fucking moron. If he wasn't born into wealth, he would've been taking the short bus to school. To call his inane blabbering "advice" is putting it way too nicely.
I picture him selling used cars in a bad neighborhood with a cheap suit and threadbare comb-over.
You're a poet. I can see your description and it's spot on.
This isn’t The Onion? I want to undo the fact that I now know this happened.
The Onion found this too incredible.
The impression is that Trump has a vague sense nuclear weapons are important but he isn't sure why.
Gotta catch em all!
This is the cunt that the republican traitor filth want to install as dictator. Go on and marinate on that.
What do you think I've been doing for the last eight years? Slap me on the grill already, ain't getting any more marinated than this.
Not a loving this Arrested Development clone tbh, waiting for it to be canceled
Does he not know what dictator is?
Kim already owns every house in North Korea
His people see him as a god-king and this dude is telling him he'll be rich off some condos.
Only Trump would try to give wealth tips to a dictator which already owns everything in their country.
what the actual fuck is this?
Good question.
Just another day of the news paying far too much attention to the ravings of a demented orange clown.
I mean, the man was elected President and could be elected again. Even if we don't pay attention, for some dumb reason millions of other people are.
Whatever. Trump is real-life Biff Tannen from Back to the Future.
You know…. I kinda hope Kim took his advice, there. I think the world would be a lot better if he started collecting condos instead of nukes, for one, and for two, I can’t imagine trump giving good advice…
Kim had a thing for building massive tourism areas, actually. A bit before COVID, he had wild dreams of creating a booming tourism industry for North Korea.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masikryong_Ski_Resort
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/wonsan-kalma-beach-resort-north-korea/index.html
This summarizes everything in a more recent state: https://www.38north.org/2023/01/north-koreas-tourism-industry-a-grand-initiative-in-limbo/
NK doesn't talk about this anymore: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel
I’m not actually convinced that Kim is collecting nukes. I think that the North Koreans make just enough fissile material in order to “test” one as a threat. Each time they do, they blow up the only nuke they actually have, and the rest of the world seems to believe they have more, but it’s all just theater.
It's no secret that putler/trump were trying to convince Kim into converting N Korea into a money laundering organized crime haven for the rich and infamous.
I mean, I get it. He's trying to sell capitalism to a dictator from the perspective of and you still get to be a dictator!
He could just be the pissed little weapons hoarder he is, or maybe introduce some tourism and try to change the worldwide opinion of North Korea.
Now, I don't personally think he can do both and the international community just be cool with flying tourists to NK. I didn't say it was a good idea.
Is this just a click bait report of a 2018 thing?
He's regurgitating his same dictator crush at his ~~grift~~campaign rallies. This was from Friday.