re: Are there really winners and losers in life?

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Um, he inherited over $200 million. Forbes and others have already run the numbers to show he would be worth a lot more now if he had just put it in the stock market. They have also compared him to his peers of similar worth in the 1980s and 90 something percent have more money than trump does now.

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Trump's father did not die until 1999, if he inherited 200 million and turned it into just one billion that was quite a accomplishment considering the level of his personal spending. By 1999 Trump had already been in business for 25 years, and was worth several hundred million. Forbes and the others that made the index fund comparison besides not having the correct timeframe, did not include any withdrawals. Trump was drawing out millions of dollars a year during that time period.

Part of a longer article but an excellent synopsis.

Anyway, I'm moving along. Zero interest in spending time and effort on trump supporters anymore. The consensus on what a shady conman trump is and his failed presidency will be evident to all but his most hardcore irrational zealots soon enough. It's already apparent to most people.

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However, I am unaware of anybody who has taken a serious look at Trump’s business who doesn’t believe that there is a high likelihood of rampant criminality. In Azerbaijan, he did business with a likely money laundererfor Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. In the Republic of Georgia, he partnered with a group that was being investigated for a possible role in the largest known bank-fraud and money-laundering case in history. In Indonesia, his development partner is “knee-deep indirty politics”; there are criminal investigations of his deals in Brazil; the F.B.I. is reportedly looking into his daughter Ivanka’s role in the Trump hotel in Vancouver, for which she worked with a Malaysian family that has admitted to financial fraud. Back home, Donald, Jr., and Ivanka were investigated for financial crimes associated with the Trump hotel in SoHo—an investigation that was halted suspiciously. His Taj Mahal casino received what was then the largest fine in history for money-laundering violations.
Listing all the financial misconduct can be overwhelming and tedious. I have limited myself to some of the deals over the past decade, thus ignoring Trump’s long history of links to New York Mafia figures and other financial irregularities. It has become commonplace to say that enough was known about Trump’s shady business before he was elected; his followers voted for him precisely because they liked that he was someone willing to do whatever it takes to succeed, and they also believe that all rich businesspeople have to do shady things from time to time. In this way of thinking, any new information about his corrupt past has no political salience. Those who hate Trump already think he’s a crook; those who love him don’t care.
I believe this assessment is wrong. Sure, many people have a vague sense of Trump’s shadiness, but once the full details are better known and digested, a fundamentally different narrative about Trump will become commonplace. 

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Eta for link.

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“And there's winners, and there's losers
But they ain't no big deal
'Cause the simple man baby pays the thrills,
The bills and the pills that kill”

I'd say so.

I know some people who have a fair bit of material wealth who I'd call a loser.

I have enough to get by on and enjoy life with a wonderful family. I'd call that winning

Really depends on what you value

You post a link to a story from the mother fricking New Yorker as proof of something?

Why don't you just get the talking points directly from the democrat party?

I love the way bitches just cannot stand it that he is president. I hated obama but I just turned out until it was time for the election to replace him. It is every fricking day with the bitches who can't get over the election.

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I have a semi-charmed kinda life but I am very charming, so it helps

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Whatever, Mrs exo-fallopian tubes

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To me winning is finding inner peace and happiness.

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Truth

A lot of "successful" people are losers. The only goal is death, it's 100% about the journey.

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See Theodore Roosevelt

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Probably the most badass dude to ever live

Yes, there is.