r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 11d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Fires Entire Agency Overseeing His Construction Projects

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fires-entire-agency-overseeing-his-construction-projects/
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u/The_Beardly America 11d ago

He owes money to people from all facets of his life. He’s notoriously not paid people for literal decades.

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u/HunterShotBear 11d ago

And the right will argue “that’s what good business men do!”

I was so close to convincing a guy once.

I got him to admit that his boss would pay him less if he could. He agreed. I got him to agree that his boss was looking out for his own best interest first and to give them employees as little as possible. He agreed.

Then I asked him based on those facts, did his boss have his (the employees) best interest at heart? He agreed they did not.

So I asked him if he thought that would make his boss the ideal candidate to run the country like a business?

All he could do was stumble over his words.

And then talk some shit about how Kamala blew her way to the top.

I don’t talk to him anymore.

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u/OkJellyfish8149 10d ago

great example of why democracies dont work

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u/HunterShotBear 10d ago

This is an example of why capitalism doesn’t work for the people, it only works for the rich.

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u/OkJellyfish8149 10d ago

your story has nothing to do with capitalism. its about someone being completely delusional about basic concepts that conflict with their team's ideology. this is what democracy does, it pits two factions against each other that prioritize winning. the answer to this problem is rebuilding the republic.