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DebbieinDallas 87 points ago +87 / -0

He earned his money the old-fashioned way. He didnt inherit it like the Kennedys or make it on Wall Street. He identifies with Main Street

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WishdoctorsSong 49 points ago +49 / -0

I can't even read Hacker News anymore because of that. Random assholes on their can't go two minutes without interjecting "Trump is an idiot" off topic. The guy who made a fuckton of cash, lost it all, then made it all back should be worshipped by the startup community, instead their too fucking dumb to see it.

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nozonozo 22 points ago +22 / -0

Trump ought to start his Patriot Party under the wing of the Republican Party and grow it that way.

He could bring in more working class voters and inner city working stiffs to the party.

Help the Repubs win and when necessary primary RINOs out of existence.

Within 4 years the Patriot Party could then take over the Repubs from within or go it’s own way but by then it would be a force to be reckoned with.

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D0NNIE_DARK0 16 points ago +17 / -1

Hijack the GOP and then rename it the Patriotic Republican Party.

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MegoThor 16 points ago +16 / -0

Then cross out “Republican.”

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this_mortal_coil 10 points ago +10 / -0

I like the idea of a third party though because it completely decimates the establishment. The cucks in the GOP will still have access to all of the cash flowing in from constituents. It may take them a long time to uncloak, so the enemy at the gates can do the dirty work in the shadows, unseen, sometimes for years before they are ferreted out. A third party also bleeds many from the Dems too because we could peel off maybe a good 25% of the party. These Dems are not going to join the GOP; it just ain't gonna happen.

Any based GOP members should join a third party if one arises. Starve these bastards like a bad fever.

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JeremiahKassin 8 points ago +8 / -0

The problem is that we'd have to get at least 80% of the GOP, and 25% of Democrats while both are cheating. They'd probably treat a Patriot Party like a vote piggy bank, shuffling 80% of the votes back to Democrat candidates, because who would be surprised that a third party candidate isn't winning? They did it so blatantly already, nothing will keep them from doing it again.

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RobertSparks777 4 points ago +4 / -0

Have nothing to do with the GOP. They are poison.

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NataliesFeet 13 points ago +14 / -1

He didn't file personal bankruptcy, he filed business bankruptcy. Trump points this out whever it comes up. He still had plenty of money when he filed.

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Seruna_Kanus 3 points ago +3 / -0

He never tied his own assets to the businesses, which is fairly smart, could also mean he had a set salary within the company just the same(a figure that can be easily tracked by financial scrutinizes like the IRS.)

A business can fail for many reasons outside the control of the business.
Anyone that thinks otherwise should ask everyone that lost their business due to Covid, BLM, or changes in government regulation. Could also be internal issues, some moron in the middle screws things up and the top doesn't become aware of it until the business is already falling into a pit it can't get out of.

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slaphappy2 16 points ago +16 / -0

To be strictly accurate - Trump did inherit a business from his dad.

But there is absolutely nothing wrong with that - and he did quite well with the business, that is a fact.

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DebbieinDallas 12 points ago +12 / -0

He inherited seeds but built his business himself IMO. Unlike the Kennedys or any other rich cat Dem

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DebbieinDallas 5 points ago +6 / -1

💋

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RobertSparks777 4 points ago +4 / -0

He didn't inherit his father's business. He ran it for 10 years and then his father loaned him a million bucks and Trump took over Manhatten real estate. A lousy million bucks competing against billionaires. Genious.

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congruent 3 points ago +3 / -0

A SMALL loan of $1 million.

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TP4bunghole 4 points ago +4 / -0

Woke scum: "bUT hE GoT a MiLLioN DolLarS!!" REEEE.

Which he turned into billions.

If I give you degenerates $1000, how long would it take you to turn it into $10,000,000?

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rightwing_duck 2 points ago +3 / -1

By inheritance?

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MrJethro 1 point ago +1 / -0

and didn't the kennedy fortune come mainly from selling alcohol during prohibition?

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DebbieinDallas 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yes. They were bootleggers, not builders like Trump. And I think they still get a tarriff//tax on all imported liquor in MA

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T-Bear 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yep

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c0mpl3x 1 point ago +1 / -0

He got a small loan of a million dollars from his father, totally sounds like Main Street to me. Still better than career politicians though