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Swifter
11/18/09

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You gotta be a real tool to go broke running a casino. It's a license to coin money.
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mimigoliath
11/18/09

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For real: Donald Trump Jr. recently agreed to be a "celebrity spokesperson" for my shitty company. I would reveal the name of the company, but that would cost me my unemployment if they fired me. All I'll say is that if you were to search for it, you'd see the word "scam" quite a bit. It's embarassing, but I can't afford to quit.
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TubOfTaft
11/18/09

@mimigoliath: Let me guess, one of those Acai Berry companies?
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mimigoliath
11/18/09

@TubOfTaft: Ha! No, much scammier. I really wish I could reveal it.

#tips
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Dave J.
11/18/09

@mimigoliath: Aspray?
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shostakobitch
11/18/09

@mimigoliath: Condos in Baja?
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Fuzzy Dunlop
11/18/09

In reply to The Trumps Lose Yooge
People who impugn Trump's business credentials are ridiculous. To put it simply, if a man owns 100 companies, 90 of which are doing well and 10 of which fail, he is doing pretty damn well for himself. Yet every time one of Trump's business ventures goes under, people like Rosie O'Donnell think it means that he is personally bankrupt. Um, no.
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Hamilton Nolan
11/18/09

@Fuzzy Dunlop: "People who impugn Trump's business credentials are ridiculous."

That is ridiculous.
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Fuzzy Dunlop
11/18/09

@Hamilton Nolan: OK, sentence one of my post may have been hyperbole. But what about sentences two and three? Do you disagree that, overall, Trump continues to do very well for himself? Your post made it sound like the casinos are the be-all and end-all of his business holdings.
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large orange
11/18/09

@Fuzzy Dunlop: the successes that Trump has had (chiefly the Apprentice and getting paid to put his name on buildings he didn't own or build) have always been from his celebrity, not his business success. Basically, his business plan from the start was:

1. Do the sort of thing business guys do: buy and sell things.
2. Promote myself as someone with amazing super business talents.
3. ???
4. Profit!!

It turns out (3) is "People are gullible and will believe (2), which means I can sell my name."
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Fuzzy Dunlop
11/18/09

@large orange: It's true that he didn't build/develop many of the properties with his name on them, but that's not the case for all of them. In any event, according to Wikipedia (which can never be wrong), Forbes valued his personal wealth at $3 billion. So there's something to his business plan, whatever it is. I don't think its fair to simply tar the guy as a high-class Spencer Pratt.
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large orange
11/18/09

@Fuzzy Dunlop: Everyone would agree that Daddy Trump is successful if "successful" means "making a lot of money." (Which it does!)

I think the reason he chaps so many people's asses is that his success is based on his self-marketing as a business genius. Which he is not, except in the very limited field of self-marketing.

People who like Trump say "hey, if that's what it takes to play the game and win." People who dislike him say "he's still a wildly deceptive guy who exaggerates his own accomplishments in order to take money from people who want to be rich like he is."

Both are correct!
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charliebabbles
11/18/09

@Fuzzy Dunlop: "Do you disagree that, overall, Trump continues to do very well for himself?"

No, I don't disagree with that. And it goes right to the heart of my problem with him. He does well, but everyone else gets screwed, especially his investors.
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BookishLookish
11/18/09

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Trump has always been smoke and mirrors and hair spray, and now with Ivanka joining, you can add a bit of silicone to the equation.
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smithhimself
11/18/09

@BookishLookish:

Correct as always, Bookish. The standard M.O. is that he packages a deal and adds his name. But this doesn't mean that he owns controlling interest. He ACTS like the does and many journalists accept this as fact because -- well, because he has a TV show.
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Juancho
11/18/09

@BookishLookish: me-ow, I was just going to say bronzer.
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BadUncle
11/18/09

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How much does he make from Apprentice? Maybe this is becoming the tide that floats his boat, like "ship builder" George Steinbrenner's acquisition of a ball club.
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jodru
11/18/09

@BadUncle: Haven't you heard? The Donald's selling vitamins now, Amway style!

Don't miss the opportunity to sign up 5 other people to sell Donald's vitamins underneath you so you can earn off their sales!

[www.trumpnetwork.com]
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BadUncle
11/18/09

@jodru: Coupled with a colonic-cleansing franchise, the Trump brand could really move some product.
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AliHajiSheik
11/18/09

@jodru: how do you swallow a vitamin embossed with the word Trump in 10 foot tall bronze letters?
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momof3wildkids
11/18/09

@AliHajiSheik: You choke it down, just like Melania does.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/18/09

@momof3wildkids: roflmaobagaflobj
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Better to Eat You With
03/13/09

In reply to Please Do Not Use an Obama Lookalike in Your Crappy Casino Ad
I saw this today while I was at lunch. They used Clinton and Bush sound-alikes in car dealership radio ads here (Indianapolis) for years, and have recently switched to generic-black-guy voices that, apparently, are supposed to remind us of Obama. Please tell me this happens in other states. Anyway, that's surely where the casino got the idea, as the dealership ads have been running since well before the election.
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BxgrlJeri
03/13/09

@Better to Eat You With: Indiana has In God We Trust on their license plates. But not everyone has it. Is that a choice? To trust in God or not? Or are these new and they will be making everyone do it eventually? Or is Indiana one of those wacky states where the license plates stay with the car? SOMEONE EXPLAIN INDIANA TO ME!
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lobstr
03/13/09

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....where you can win a trillion dollars!
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Aaron Altman
03/13/09

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Meanwhile, "Illinois Live!" is using an animatronic Rod Blagojevich in their ads.
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nellicat
03/13/09

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"Barack the bank at Indiana Live!"
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miss_msry
03/13/09

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Cuba, is that you??
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