• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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    18 hours ago

    The fact that this useless tool was looking to hold up major infrastructure just so he could put his stupid name on something is today’s conservatives in a nutshell.

    Completely unserious and they don’t GAF about you or anyone in this country that isn’t already a centimillonaire+.

    For this alone, he should be arrested and thrown in prison. If there was any justice in the world.

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      18 hours ago

      I don’t get it. If trump is so rich, and so desperate to get his name on things, why doesn’t he just build stuff around the country that we need rather than grift onto existing things?

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        That’s the rub: that whole time everyone thought he was a business titan? He wasn’t really rich at all. Not only are real estate ventures heavily leverages to begin with, but he also ran his businesses into the ground by grifting money out of them. When the E. Jean Carroll verdict came in, there was a very real chance he would not have been able to meet it without significant pain.

        However, since then, he found his Crypto religion, and then once he won the Presidency the second time, he has been inviting right foreign interests to bribe him through Crypto. So he is actually rich now, based solely on selling influence via meme tokens.

        He literally faked it until he made it. And needed two tries to get it right. No wonder he also needs to grift his name into existing things.

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        18 hours ago

        Well, the response from that stupid conservative that was asked if he and other Republicans would be totally copacetic if Democrats come in and start putting the name of Obama and Clinton all over everything - he mumbles something he thinks is a real “get” that Obama putting his name on a statue not of him would be viewed as idiotic.

        Woman comes back with - well, that’s what Pedonald is doing - exactly - with putting his name on a building like the arts center. He had nothing to do with it and yeah, it’s idiotic. The conservative thought he had a real slam dunk by saying “but it’s a building”.

        But Republicans are for this shit. They support this pathetic thirsty shit from Pedonald because they want to “own the libs”, but they are just serving his narcissism.

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      16 hours ago

      Minor notation quibble: I suspect you were thinking of the hecto prefix. Centimillionaire would imply a net worth of $10k which isn’t going to get you the time of day from a republican.

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        16 hours ago

        Nope, both work, but centimillionaire is more common, so I use that.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire#Multimillionaire

        The rising prevalence of people possessing ever increasing quantities of wealth has given rise to additional terms to further differentiate millionaires. Individuals with net assets of 100 million or more of a currency are commonly termed centimillionaires,[22] or more rarely hectomillionaires.[23]