Submitted 1 day ago by MTZ@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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This is one thing I never understood… how does he keep getting away with it? Repeatedly screwing people over and over and over and over again and somehow no one doing shit about it?
He doesn’t just screw over workers, he does it for his business partners, too. Wealthy anf powerful people… people who can hire hitmen and also pay to make the evidence disappear. If they can kill Epstein why wouldn’t they have gotten rid of him in the 80s and 90s when he didn’t have as much power as he does now?
My understanding is the not paying people is “legit” in that the remedy is the courts but his lawyers are good at making it too costly to pursue. If they believe they weren’t paid, they should sue: notice there are few judgements against him like that.
It’s just like all his shell companies. During the first reign of terror, there were articles that they found over 500 companies with payments going back and forth so the web was impossible to decipher and there were always Trump owned companies with huge losses/writeoffs. I don’t remember them actually finding anything illegal but it sure smells like it. He even bragged it was so complex that the irs didn’t have enough auditors to dig through that for tax fraud. It was almost a dare. What happened to that?
The american legal system is catered to one principal:
if you owe your bank $10 that’s your problem, if you owe your bank $10 billion dollars, that is your banks’ problem.
This is why salespeople and scammers flourish in america: get enough loans and debt and you can uno reverse any monetary problem here but often rich people and bullshit artists are the only ones who have enough collateral to get that kind of debt.
The courts are designed to take a lifetime to figure that kind of stuff out - it keeps going as long as you have money. This is why republicans are obsessed with the estate tax: if you pass it on to your kids before the scam gets sorted out, all the ill gotten gains are laundered.
Have to agree there.
Same way I stuck with my wife for 20 years despite her being a rotten person - I kept hoping it would get better, and she’d string me along with promises… Then she cheated on me with our son’s best friend’s dad, that finally made it easy to leave, and once I left, hindsight made all the previous mistreatment so much more obvious…
Yo dawg pardon my french but fuck that bitch. Stay strong and sorry someone played with your heart like that. Your example speaks volumes for your son.
Good god. Makes me thankful that I leave people behind easily. You’re overdue for treating yourself to some unrestrained enjoyment of life.
He doesn’t screw over the Epstein class, and that’s all that really matters
I don’t get it either. My cousins lived in Southern New Jersey, near Atlantic City, where all of his casinos went bankrupt. He was notorious for not paying local contractors and some went into horrible debt due to his refusal to pay. Yet that whole region is crazy about him. I suppose they just don’t have very good memories around there.
Those lead pipes are really paying off.
What if in our world of infinite universal timeline probabilities, this is the timeline where Trump always gets what he wants?
Unscrupulous people use other unscrupulous people as patsies… They’re all so up their own ass that they don’t think they’ll be the one that has one over on them. They are all narcissistic.
The Russian agents keeping tabs on their useful idiot must have protected him.
How exactly are you imagining that? Did they stand in the way every time someone tried to wipe Trump out?
This is one thing I never understood… how does he keep getting away with it? Repeatedly screwing people over and over and over and over again and somehow no one doing shit about it?
All his fans and supporters believe that he only screws over their common enemies. In fact, they love that he does that. They falsely believe that he would never screw over them. He will never eat their faces. They think they’re the in group with Trump.
Parents are probably more connected than we know, or he got in by providing their proclivities.
An authoritarian typically keeps the military and police well-fed, or alternatively allows them to rob the plebs as they see fit. Otherwise bad things may happen to the emperor.
Unfortunately, Trump is likely to kick the bucket before he sees any blowback of that.
yea he did trash all those science fundings for a reason and part of it is to pay his own policing force aka ICE
Also because science is woke and/ or gay. I believe it says so in the executive order.
Is that from true lies?
I’m sure it’s Arnold’s face
I think it is. Can’t recall the exact scene though.
When he uses a squad to break into Bill Paxton’s sleazy getaway spot where he tries to seduce Jamie Lee Curtis. It’s followed by this scene:
The beginning at the fancy party that has snow outside?
The opening scene
It’s where he attacked the fake car salesman when the salesman was trying to convince Jamie Lee Curtis to leave the country. They cut the trailer in half, salesman fell on Jamie and time flipped his shit, made this face.
Yeah it is. I saw that movie for my 12th birthday and it still holds a special place in my heart.
It’s one of the most hilarious things to me, just a masked face with Arnold’s lips making Arnold groans. That scene was gold, fuck that whole movie was gold
Except for that weird strip scene with Jamie Lee Curtis. That did not age well.
I watched True Lies again a few years back, and that scene made me cringe hard.
Boris and his wife, Doris.
It’s even better because when they do get paid if they leave before their 5 years they have to pay back their bonuses INCLUDING tax.
So they’re kinda paying for the privilege of hunting minorities. Really sick to think about.
Ok, what did I miss?
ICE had a signup bonus (dunno how much, $4000, I think?), and nobody received it yet.
The guy who is ‘famous for not paying’ is Trump, who has a history of being in debt/not paying his debts off.
Specifically not paying contractors. He would regularly hire contractors for jobs at Trump buildings/companies where it was x% up front and x% on completion. Then when they came for the completion percent he would just not pay and make them take him to court. Sometimes he paid, but other times they just couldn’t afford to litigate as long as he could so they’d get stiffed.
Afaik the bonus promised is 50k, which is a bit more significant. Leads to people joking that they’d like to join, get the bonus and then just not do the job.
It was way more than that- like 50-70k…
Gosh, who would’ve thought it.
Its the old bait and switch. Did you know that Federal Deposit Insurance can be paid out in a period of decades? They can make you ‘‘whole’’ over a period of time that can stretch over years. Technically you will not lose any money but practically you can die before you get your money.
A trump never pays his debts
“TNPD” doesn’t roll off the tongue as well as “TACO”, but I’ll take it.
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doug@lemmy.today 1 day ago
sadly I would not put it past a lot of those psychopaths to do it for free.
MTZ@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No doubt that some of them are doing it for the love of the game. 🫤
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Maybe some of them just show up in masks with their mallninjashit, and they’re not on the payroll and no one asks if they did the two week training.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I was recently thinking, this recruitment drive must be heaven for the common proud boys brownshirt.
Who of them wouldn’t sign up, they get to harm immigrants, they get cover from the very top if they catch public attention, they get gear, and they might even get paid for it.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Those are probably the ones ending up in viral clips either threatening to kill someone or actually doing it (or in one case failing because they didn’t know their safety was on).
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They’ll just take a page out of Imperial Japan’s warbook and resort to living off the land post-invasion.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The sooner they start living off the land, the better. And by that, I mean “swimming”. Lash a bunch of them together to form an ICEberg.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Assuming we manage to get a much more reasonable government in place in the coming years, hopefully they’ll be the ones paying for what they’re doing.