Wanna hear a heartwarming story about how bootstrappy those Trump kids were? (Link).
In a recent interview with Business Insider, when asked how she acquired her business acumen and savvy, Trump’s daughter and now-campaign surrogate Ivanka answered, “I had a whole lot of lemonade stands growing up, which were helpful in learning about business on the most fundamental level.”
“First of all, my mother wasn’t about to let us set up shop with a lemonade stand at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street,” she told the news source, “and to do so in the lobby of Trump Tower would have been just a little too precious, don’t you think?”
Instead, they set up shop in front of their home in Greenwich, Conn. — on a very wealthy street with almost no foot traffic and thus no potential customers.
“The only trouble with this arrangement was our location — not a typical Trump problem,” she wrote in the book. “We were at the end of a cul-de-sac in an affluent community of spacious homes on sprawling properties. In every other respect, this was a prime spot, but it was a dead zone for aspiring lemonade magnates.”
The trio of kids — Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric — were supposed to recoup and pay back the funds their parents had given them as seed money. How to possibly get those funds running a business that’s all supply and no demand? Why, just get The Help to pay for it! I’m sure they want to fork over their earnings to the rich kids they work for, and that they totally spent that money willingly, without fear that they had to buy it or they might be in trouble with the bosses.
Ivanka writes that Trump employees “took pity on us and dug deep for their spare change.” The trio of Trump mini-titans got the family’s driver, their bodyguard and members of the house staff to buy up their product until they were in the black.
“We made the best of a bad situation, I guess,” Ivanka says, obliviously handing the credit for the lemonade stand’s success to her and her siblings’ “wily charms and persuasive marketing skills,” instead of the hired help who chipped in to give money that ultimately went right back into their rich boss’s pocket, “a lesson we’d utilize again and again as we moved on in business.”
Talking about welfare abuse is exactly how R politicians get people, even those who collect welfare themselves to get behind the R policies to fuck over welfare. Because they go "Hey, look at those guys over there. Not you, you're a hard worker who needs just a bit of help. But those people over there are buying flat screen TVs with welfare money and just not working at all!
Without being able to play their voters against an other, I think republicans wouldn't have won an election in the last 20 years.
Divide and conquer is a tried and dependable technique, why would they ever switch?
Wanna hear a heartwarming story about how bootstrappy those Trump kids were? (Link).
In a recent interview with Business Insider, when asked how she acquired her business acumen and savvy, Trump’s daughter and now-campaign surrogate Ivanka answered, “I had a whole lot of lemonade stands growing up, which were helpful in learning about business on the most fundamental level.”
“First of all, my mother wasn’t about to let us set up shop with a lemonade stand at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street,” she told the news source, “and to do so in the lobby of Trump Tower would have been just a little too precious, don’t you think?”
Instead, they set up shop in front of their home in Greenwich, Conn. — on a very wealthy street with almost no foot traffic and thus no potential customers.
“The only trouble with this arrangement was our location — not a typical Trump problem,” she wrote in the book. “We were at the end of a cul-de-sac in an affluent community of spacious homes on sprawling properties. In every other respect, this was a prime spot, but it was a dead zone for aspiring lemonade magnates.”
The trio of kids — Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric — were supposed to recoup and pay back the funds their parents had given them as seed money. How to possibly get those funds running a business that’s all supply and no demand? Why, just get The Help to pay for it! I’m sure they want to fork over their earnings to the rich kids they work for, and that they totally spent that money willingly, without fear that they had to buy it or they might be in trouble with the bosses.
Ivanka writes that Trump employees “took pity on us and dug deep for their spare change.” The trio of Trump mini-titans got the family’s driver, their bodyguard and members of the house staff to buy up their product until they were in the black.
“We made the best of a bad situation, I guess,” Ivanka says, obliviously handing the credit for the lemonade stand’s success to her and her siblings’ “wily charms and persuasive marketing skills,” instead of the hired help who chipped in to give money that ultimately went right back into their rich boss’s pocket, “a lesson we’d utilize again and again as we moved on in business.”
Damn that's an achievement in cluelessness.
man that's right up there with the "our gardener missed his sisters wedding just so he could be with us" comment.
Wanna hear a heartwarming story about how bootstrappy those Trump kids were? (Link).
In a recent interview with Business Insider, when asked how she acquired her business acumen and savvy, Trump’s daughter and now-campaign surrogate Ivanka answered, “I had a whole lot of lemonade stands growing up, which were helpful in learning about business on the most fundamental level.”
“First of all, my mother wasn’t about to let us set up shop with a lemonade stand at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street,” she told the news source, “and to do so in the lobby of Trump Tower would have been just a little too precious, don’t you think?”
Instead, they set up shop in front of their home in Greenwich, Conn. — on a very wealthy street with almost no foot traffic and thus no potential customers.
“The only trouble with this arrangement was our location — not a typical Trump problem,” she wrote in the book. “We were at the end of a cul-de-sac in an affluent community of spacious homes on sprawling properties. In every other respect, this was a prime spot, but it was a dead zone for aspiring lemonade magnates.”
The trio of kids — Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric — were supposed to recoup and pay back the funds their parents had given them as seed money. How to possibly get those funds running a business that’s all supply and no demand? Why, just get The Help to pay for it! I’m sure they want to fork over their earnings to the rich kids they work for, and that they totally spent that money willingly, without fear that they had to buy it or they might be in trouble with the bosses.
Ivanka writes that Trump employees “took pity on us and dug deep for their spare change.” The trio of Trump mini-titans got the family’s driver, their bodyguard and members of the house staff to buy up their product until they were in the black.
“We made the best of a bad situation, I guess,” Ivanka says, obliviously handing the credit for the lemonade stand’s success to her and her siblings’ “wily charms and persuasive marketing skills,” instead of the hired help who chipped in to give money that ultimately went right back into their rich boss’s pocket, “a lesson we’d utilize again and again as we moved on in business.”
Damn that's an achievement in cluelessness.
man that's right up there with the "our gardener missed his sisters wedding just so he could be with us" comment.
I know that's a real quote, but my mind instantly rejects it from believability. It just sounds like something that the stereotypical evil boss in a bad movie would say.
How dare Hillary Clinton call half of Trump supporters "deplorables" who are bigots and racists. Now to buy a doormat saying I am a deplorable racist bigot?
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Wanna hear a heartwarming story about how bootstrappy those Trump kids were? (Link).
In a recent interview with Business Insider, when asked how she acquired her business acumen and savvy, Trump’s daughter and now-campaign surrogate Ivanka answered, “I had a whole lot of lemonade stands growing up, which were helpful in learning about business on the most fundamental level.”
“First of all, my mother wasn’t about to let us set up shop with a lemonade stand at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street,” she told the news source, “and to do so in the lobby of Trump Tower would have been just a little too precious, don’t you think?”
Instead, they set up shop in front of their home in Greenwich, Conn. — on a very wealthy street with almost no foot traffic and thus no potential customers.
“The only trouble with this arrangement was our location — not a typical Trump problem,” she wrote in the book. “We were at the end of a cul-de-sac in an affluent community of spacious homes on sprawling properties. In every other respect, this was a prime spot, but it was a dead zone for aspiring lemonade magnates.”
The trio of kids — Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric — were supposed to recoup and pay back the funds their parents had given them as seed money. How to possibly get those funds running a business that’s all supply and no demand? Why, just get The Help to pay for it! I’m sure they want to fork over their earnings to the rich kids they work for, and that they totally spent that money willingly, without fear that they had to buy it or they might be in trouble with the bosses.
Ivanka writes that Trump employees “took pity on us and dug deep for their spare change.” The trio of Trump mini-titans got the family’s driver, their bodyguard and members of the house staff to buy up their product until they were in the black.
“We made the best of a bad situation, I guess,” Ivanka says, obliviously handing the credit for the lemonade stand’s success to her and her siblings’ “wily charms and persuasive marketing skills,” instead of the hired help who chipped in to give money that ultimately went right back into their rich boss’s pocket, “a lesson we’d utilize again and again as we moved on in business.”
Damn that's an achievement in cluelessness.
omg this whole time i was wondering why i couldn't relate to Ivanka Trump and it was all because i was missing this charming tale in my life
I feel like the amount of time we spend talking about Johnson and Stein is grossly disproportionate to their actual impact on this election anything at all, ever
You say that, but when Trump wins by 1%...
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How dare Hillary Clinton call half of Trump supporters "deplorables" who are bigots and racists. Now to buy a doormat saying I am a deplorable racist bigot?
It's ironic, like if I bought a welcome mat that said "Home of a Secret Muslim Terrorist Immigrant Job Stealing Liberal Feminazi Welfare Queen"
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How dare Hillary Clinton call half of Trump supporters "deplorables" who are bigots and racists. Now to buy a doormat saying I am a deplorable racist bigot?
It's ironic, like if I bought a welcome mat that said "Home of a Secret Muslim Terrorist Immigrant Job Stealing Liberal Feminazi Welfare Queen"
That would be a big ass welcome mat.
are YOU on the beer list?
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How dare Hillary Clinton call half of Trump supporters "deplorables" who are bigots and racists. Now to buy a doormat saying I am a deplorable racist bigot?
It's ironic, like if I bought a welcome mat that said "Home of a Secret Muslim Terrorist Immigrant Job Stealing Liberal Feminazi Welfare Queen"
That would be a big ass welcome mat.
I have a lot of witch hunters with torches and pitchforks to greet at the door and I want them to feel at home
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Yes, please do buy that doormat. I am 100% behind racists self labeling for the convenience of the rest of us.
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Transcribing a series of tweets from Arielle Brousse (thewordunheard)
I've said it before: I grew up in Atlantic City. My parents, my friends' parents, my neighbors, they all worked in Atlantic City. Donald Trump's systematic monopolization of trade, mismanagement of funds, and destruction of community there is personal to me.
As a matter of course, he hired small local businesses as contractors, did not pay them, and then filed bankruptcy. Take a moment to consider how much money you'd be able to amass if you just didn't pay your bills and then got people to forgive you for it. But also consider what it's like to be the small business owner who takes on a huge, glittery contract and then NEVER! GETS! PAID!
You're promised prosperity. You're sucked in with catchphrases and dreams. You lay out your own capital and labor and you're left with empty hands.
Trump orchestrated his own mini version of the housing bubble in my hometown. He came in. He prospected. We're left dragging his failures. The people in my mother's labor union lost their retirement funds because he built a business based on gold leaf and marquee lighting.
He's an ego. He's a character. He's a joke. But that joke has a human cost. It's financially and culturally destroying the town I grew up in. And we get to hear him brag about how it means he's a great businessman. It's insulting. Its gaslighting. To watch a man destroy you, and to hear him tell other people how good and powerful it makes him.
To see them believing it.
Please don't believe it. Please stand on the side of the worker. Please help defeat him.
These stakes are personal to me. Trust me: I have seen firsthand the damage he can do in a home community. A nation would be a catastrophe.
So, I have a long ass comment from /r/politics about how Trump treated residents at 100 Central Park South, but I want to wait for @Elki to start a new thread. Because it's really good and is surprisingly well supported.
He's lowered the bar so much that there's an expectation of rewards for common courtesy
But I don't even buy that he was being courteous, the whole, "I want you to be happy" thing smacked of disingenuous snark
Yeah, that bullshit "I want you to be happy, it's important to me" line was clearly meant to try to make Clinton look like a frail old lady that needed him to make her happy instead of the stone cold prepared bad-ass warrior woman debater he was about to actually face.
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"It's pretty sad they have to go back 10, 20, 30 years to find something to hit Trump with. Now let me tell you about a little lady called Monica Lewinsky..."
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"It's pretty sad they have to go back 10, 20, 30 years to find something to hit Trump with. Now let me tell you about a little lady called Monica Lewinsky..."
well, self awareness has never been a strong point for the Trump campaign.
"It's pretty sad they have to go back 10, 20, 30 years to find something to hit Trump with. Now let me tell you about a little lady called Monica Lewinsky..."
well, self awareness has never been a strong point for the Trump campaign.
And its not like the media will call it out. Just like they'll gleefully report on the appearance of impropriety about the clinton foundation and directly ignore laws broken by the Trump Foundation.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
The Clinton campaign has been hitting them on things that happened this year, too
It's just that we are learning more and more that the way he has acted lately is not new and that there is a pattern of him lying, breaking the law, and holding bigoted views in his past
But he would look just as awful if we only took things that happened in the past year into account
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So, I have a long ass comment from /r/politics about how Trump treated residents at 100 Central Park South, but I want to wait for @Elki to start a new thread. Because it's really good and is surprisingly well supported.
I think I read that one, and yeah, it's pretty bad.
What kills me most though is the people rushing to defend his actions during it, you can almost see the mental gymnastics in full form.
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This past year, getting shit from Trump for her blood whatever, the pusillanimous lack of support from Fox in that incident, plus her being named in all the stories for complaints against Ailes leading to his downfall, and now this Hannity shade...I wonder if Kelly is on the cusp of some sort of awakening
This past year, getting shit from Trump for her blood whatever, the pusillanimous lack of support from Fox in that incident, plus her being named in all the stories for complaints against Ailes leading to his downfall, and now this Hannity shade...I wonder if Kelly is on the cusp of some sort of awakening
please let it be so
Doubtful, if anything I bet it was unintentional.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
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He doesn't have access to the constitution yet.
Damn that's an achievement in cluelessness.
But I don't even buy that he was being courteous, the whole, "I want you to be happy" thing smacked of disingenuous snark
Divide and conquer is a tried and dependable technique, why would they ever switch?
man that's right up there with the "our gardener missed his sisters wedding just so he could be with us" comment.
Seriously.
I officially am no longer shocked at the kind of dumb shit that the Trumps will say to pretend they're like us that totally misses the mark.
I know that's a real quote, but my mind instantly rejects it from believability. It just sounds like something that the stereotypical evil boss in a bad movie would say.
:hydra:
How dare Hillary Clinton call half of Trump supporters "deplorables" who are bigots and racists. Now to buy a doormat saying I am a deplorable racist bigot?
omg this whole time i was wondering why i couldn't relate to Ivanka Trump and it was all because i was missing this charming tale in my life
kids! So precocious. So precious.
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You say that, but when Trump wins by 1%...
It's ironic, like if I bought a welcome mat that said "Home of a Secret Muslim Terrorist Immigrant Job Stealing Liberal Feminazi Welfare Queen"
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That would be a big ass welcome mat.
I have a lot of witch hunters with torches and pitchforks to greet at the door and I want them to feel at home
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Down here they just use the confederate flag for that.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Nope.
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Well, dogs and fences (#1 and #2 canvasser injury sources) still exist. But significantly safer, probably.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Just add a check box to the sheet "Deplorables Doormat" to get them off the list.
Yeah, that bullshit "I want you to be happy, it's important to me" line was clearly meant to try to make Clinton look like a frail old lady that needed him to make her happy instead of the stone cold prepared bad-ass warrior woman debater he was about to actually face.
Hillary campaign input on Trump/Cuba
Pretty strong IMHO
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They aren't even really denying it in those talking points.
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It's weird how Trump will blatantly lie about anything except his business actions. Almost like he's proud of it.
I hope the other debates go as well as this one
omg the Megyn Kelly burn on Hannity
yaaas
well, self awareness has never been a strong point for the Trump campaign.
And its not like the media will call it out. Just like they'll gleefully report on the appearance of impropriety about the clinton foundation and directly ignore laws broken by the Trump Foundation.
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It's just that we are learning more and more that the way he has acted lately is not new and that there is a pattern of him lying, breaking the law, and holding bigoted views in his past
But he would look just as awful if we only took things that happened in the past year into account
He'll also stand by calling women fat.
I think I read that one, and yeah, it's pretty bad.
What kills me most though is the people rushing to defend his actions during it, you can almost see the mental gymnastics in full form.
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This past year, getting shit from Trump for her blood whatever, the pusillanimous lack of support from Fox in that incident, plus her being named in all the stories for complaints against Ailes leading to his downfall, and now this Hannity shade...I wonder if Kelly is on the cusp of some sort of awakening
please let it be so
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Doubtful, if anything I bet it was unintentional.
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