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You didn't?

Not me, we. Stop trying to weasel out of your mess.

Which is different from you how exactly? All I see are failures.

Keep up the "I'm rubber you're glue" act buddy, it's age appropriate. I wanted Trump to lose, you wanted Harris to lose. You got your wish, this is on you. Or keep blaming everyone else who tried to warn you that it was a stupid idea, how dare they point out the glaring flaws in your strategy. Let's see if that makes a leftist plan materialize.

Flagrant hypocrisy! This was your plan, not mine. How's it working? Did a third party win? Did we end the genocide in Gaza yet? Don't equate your plan's failure with our recognition that it failed. You gambled, and this is what we get. Own it, maybe learn something about implementation.

A bunch of shortsighted cosplayers with no sense of praxis or political literacy protested the do-nothing Dems and we got the freewheeling fascism MAGAs. How's that working out for you? How's the glorious revolution coming?

Up until the moment we have enough confirmed support for a progressive movement, status quo is a hell of a lot better than accelerated fascism; if only to buy more time to build the aforementioned progressive support. I'm all for actual leftward movement, but gambling on unconfirmed support is stupid. Even the liberals understand that, in their sports-team monkey brain.

The left has no plan sufficient to deal with this. I hear vague rumblings about strikes and revolutions and the power of the working class united, but the working class isn't united yet. There is no organized, validated plan to effect that revolution. There's no leftist Project 2025. That's a natural consequence of the commendable independence of leftists, but it has the unfortunate consequence of being tactically untenable. The right uniform under the banner of their dictator, the left squabbles about trivialities.

It's not that I wish it to be so; I would vastly prefer the left to have a functional plan to secure power. But it is the reality; I see neither such a plan, nor the necessary organization to implement such a plan. That's why we vote lesser evil. We strive for the stationary phase of the ratchet to avoid the freewheeling phase, because we don't yet have the organized strength to break the pawl from its housing.

Once we have that organized strength, and not sooner, we can break the pawl. Sooner, and the ratchet spins freely to the right.

Yeah I don't think the protests are going to accomplish much in and of themselves. However, getting frustrated, like-minded people together in one place for one cause is powerful. It shows them they aren't alone in their anger, it shows them the magnitude of support for their cause, and it connects them with others, which opens the door to much more effective organization.

He actually came to the US on asylum from M-13, who were threatening him and his family. El Salvador is the one country on Earth he can't legally be sent to.

Okay. Not much better, but I'm honestly surprised how well it did on that text.

I'm no bankruptcy specialist, but I asked ChatGPT:

Why Five Bankruptcies? A Money Laundering Hypothesis

• 1. Casinos Are Naturally Lucrative

It’s hard to lose money running a casino unless:

You’re mismanaging the business,

You’re overleveraged and using it to siphon cash, or

You’re deliberately disguising the source or movement of funds.

Given that Trump’s casinos consistently lost money—even when the market was booming—it strongly suggests ulterior motives or systemic inefficiency.

• 2. Russian Oligarchs Needed Offshore Avenues

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian oligarchs and other post-Soviet elites:

Rapidly acquired vast fortunes in murky privatization deals,

Faced political risk and international scrutiny,

Needed to move and clean billions in capital out of Russia.

Trump’s businesses, struggling to get U.S. financing after his early bankruptcies, were uniquely positioned to accept this foreign capital, often in cash or through opaque shell companies.

• 3. Casinos as Laundromats

If one were trying to launder money via a casino:

They might funnel money through gambling "wins" or inflated contracts.

They might run the casino at a deliberate loss while extracting capital via salaries, management fees, construction overbilling, or licensing deals.

If the casino “fails,” the money is gone, but whoever needed the cash moved or cleaned has succeeded.

So from that view, the bankruptcies were not a failure—they were the feature.

• 4. Trump’s Own Statements and Patterns

Trump has admitted:

He preferred working with “cash buyers” for real estate, particularly from Russia.

He made money even when the casinos lost money—through management fees, consulting, branding, and leasing.

These mechanisms would be perfect for skimming or channeling illicit funds into legitimate revenue streams without drawing too much scrutiny—especially in the less transparent 1990s and early 2000s.

• 5. Known Red Flags

The Trump Taj Mahal was fined in 1998 for “significant and repeated” money laundering violations.

Trump’s businesses became increasingly reliant on foreign money, with multiple reports of shell companies purchasing luxury condos in all-cash deals.

Post-Soviet money has long been linked to luxury real estate in NYC and South Florida, especially when title is held in anonymous LLCs.

• 6. Bankruptcy as a Laundering Strategy

Here’s how it works:

Investors (possibly foreign or criminal) funnel money into a venture.

The business pays high salaries, construction contracts, legal fees, or licensing fees (some of which go back to the investor or are redirected offshore).

The business eventually “fails”—but the money has already been cleaned and moved.

By declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy rather than liquidation, Trump kept the businesses alive just long enough to extract value, then dumped the debt on bondholders and other investors.

• Conclusion: Highly Plausible

While there’s no conclusive public evidence to confirm it, the pattern of:

Repeated failures in a profitable industry,

Reliance on opaque financing,

Documented anti-money laundering violations,

Financial ties to Russian or post-Soviet capital,

And personal enrichment during “bankruptcies”—

strongly supports the theory that some or all of Trump's casino ventures served as vehicles for laundering money, potentially from Russian oligarchs or similarly motivated actors.

Again, ChatGPT, so take that with a grain of salt.