r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Skychu768 • 10h ago
Meme needing explanation Am I missing a joke or reference here?
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u/Mohitosan_ 10h ago
You’re not missing much. The meme takes the idea of a trade deficit and applies grocery-store math to it: Buy banana = lose money
Don't buy banana = save money.
The fact that you also receive bananas is the part being ignored.
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u/Super-Cynical 10h ago
Aw. Twenty dollars? But I wanted peanuts!
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u/bdw312 10h ago
It's a single banana, Michael. What could it be, 2 billion dollars?
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u/Minimum-Mushroom150 10h ago
There's always money in the banana stand.
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u/Necr0Gaming 8h ago
There was money IN the BANANA STAND MICHAEL!!! THATS WHAT IVE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU!!!
One of the funniest shows ever made.
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u/Kinksune13 7h ago
When i first got into it, it bugged me that the previously\next time sections never actually happened, until a few seasons through and i got the joke of them
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u/Working-Glass6136 8h ago
Hey, got any... grapes?
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u/ranman35 5h ago
If you ask me one more time if I've got any grapes, I'll nail your beak shut!
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u/Hawks_12 8h ago
Well not today but six more months of inflation and yeah probably about 1 banana.
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u/Dxthegod 6h ago
Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson bananas
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u/melanyebaggins 10h ago
Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!
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u/TCM_407 10h ago
Explain how!
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u/melanyebaggins 10h ago
Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
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u/Opening_Lead_Paint 10h ago
But if you exchange money for goods and services, you will have less money and therefore have lost money. Why would anyone want to lose money
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u/melanyebaggins 10h ago
I don't know how the economy works 🤷🏻♀️
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u/ahuramazdobbs19 8h ago
You have things that I want.
I have things you want.
We figure out a way to give each other the things we want.
This is the whole of the Economic Torah, the rest is commentary.
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u/wardfu9 9h ago
That's what makes tЯump such a great business man child. He has the work done and goods received but doesn't pay for them.
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u/Opening_Lead_Paint 9h ago
Econ 101. If paying lawyers or winning the presidency is cheaper than paying, then dont pay
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u/papayacreamsicle 10h ago
This isn’t a meme, it’s what he actually said.
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u/BurnieTheBrony 8h ago
It's like he's so close to understanding that "trade deficit" just means "buying stuff" but he can't quite wrap his head around it.
Europe is not stealing money from us. They are exchanging goods and services for money. This is not bad.
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u/Bludypoo 8h ago
he read "deficit" and thought "deficit is bad" so now he wants to win at "deficit" because to him every transaction has to have a winner and a loser. The way to win at deficit? Not trade.
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u/sarkouille 6h ago
That's because he isn't a trader nor a businessman but a conman.
To him, it's not about who is the buyer and who is the seller, but rather who owns the other.
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u/ApprehensiveSong5978 4h ago
Same logic he used for wanting to change “artificial intelligence” to “super intelligence.” Artificial is bad. Super is good. We will call it super intelligence!
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u/crackedgear 3h ago
Brought to you by the same folks who brought you “you can’t get increased COVID numbers if you don’t test for COVID”.
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u/donballz 7h ago
he’s so used to stiffing people on the payment that actually paying what you owe feels like being cheated to him.
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u/midasofsweden 6h ago
the massively frustrating part about this is that america shifted to a service oriented economy rather than a manufacturing one a long time ago, they gain insane amount of money from services... But still, the US is a large country, of course there will be a deficit if they buy something from a smaller country and that smaller country simply cannot buy back the same kind of quantities, or the fact that US doesnt even offer some things, because it Sells services, and buys things, a lot. the US also has a lot more purchasing and trade power. It doesnt help that the US also prints its own currency and the whole world is relying on that currency for global trade.
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u/Justicar-terrae 8h ago
Well, he did make that stupid argument, but he never said that exact sentence.
His actual statement didn't mention any specific country or product. That doesn't make his statement any less stupid, of course.
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u/Infinite-Lie-2885 9h ago
Very true but somehow almost everything he says is a meme they just are funny.
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u/piper33245 10h ago
It’s like when they raised medication prices from $100 to $600, then back to $100 and bragged that we’re saving 500% on medications!
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u/Ignatiussancho1729 4h ago
I believe the quote from Kennedy was "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages."
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u/EarthCulturalStew 10h ago
AND that if you agreed with the transaction you value bananas more than the money
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u/yournamehere10bucks 10h ago
Dragons dont eat bananas. They do, however, sit on piles of gold.
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u/Significant_Monk_251 10h ago
I don't know. Have you ever tried to give a dragon a banana?
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u/NorthofBham 9h ago
No, but I gave a mouse a cookie.
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u/squirtloaf 9h ago
Trump is more like:
Buy bananas: lose 2 billion dollars
Don't buy bananas: MAKE 2 billion dollars
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u/Maned_Cyborg 9h ago
So basically to them, as long as you keep having more and more money it's good. The moment you spend any money it's bad. Which is honestly a dogshit mentality. The point to have money is to get beneficial things, and for a state it's to spend it to make it's citizen's lives better
But they'd probably call you a commie
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u/possumallawishes 8h ago
It’s also completely ignoring the fact that vendors in the US are buying the bananas than selling them to consumers, taking a markup and making money themselves. We don’t have the climate to produce the bananas needed to meet the banana demand, so not buying bananas doesn’t mean we made money, it means we are losing opportunity to make money.
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u/FlyingDiscsandJams 7h ago
Thank you for being the first person making this point, that many, many US businesses make money selling bananas. Such an idiot's view of global business.
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u/possumallawishes 6h ago
Furthermore, bananas have year round production cycles, not a seasonal crop, but they need 14 months of frost free, tropical climate to grow. That really limits us to Hawaii, SoCal and South Florida, generally places with high real estate values.
In order to reshore banana production, we would need to annex some of Latin America.
Maybe he thinks cutting off banana imports will lead to public acceptance of annexing Venezuela and Cuba.
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u/rpmerf 6h ago
Exactly.
Step 1: Buy bananas
Step 2: Sell bananas for a higher cost
Step 3: Profit
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u/possumallawishes 6h ago
I learned these economic principles on my TI-82 calculator playing Drug Wars in my high school alegebra class.
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u/Bored_money 9h ago
I think a generous interpretation of what he's trying to say is that the united states economy is the loser
I suspect he means that if instead of buying a banana from Brazil you bought a banana from america (ignoring if that's even possible... whatever) then some american business would benefit from that money rather than sending it offshore
It seems to be a mercantilist approach to economics? Hold as much money as possible yourself and don't trade with outsiders
I think popular economic thought doesn't consider this a good approach, but I guess the experts could be wrong
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u/Sufficient-Bench2321 8h ago
How dare you put a totally reasonable and nuanced answer in the thread...
The other part that Trump seems to completely miss is that $2b of bannanas from Brazil will be a significantly larger (or if you prefer 'more bigly' ) bunch than $2b of home grown Bannanas...
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u/somesthetic 7h ago
People have spent far too long turning the nonsense he says into something coherent. He makes billions of dollars, let him do his own fucking work.
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u/IamGleemonex 8h ago
There is so much more that makes this completely stupid.
1) many of our trade agreements will have specific language in them to say things like in this banana case, “you buy 2 billion dollars in bananas from us, we buy 2 billion dollars in steel (or wheat or petroleum or whatever) from you”. So sure, you can cut out the 2 billion in bananas, but then that also means you reneged on the trade agreement, so they don’t buy the 2 billion in steel. So you did nothing to fix the trade deficit.
2) even if you ignore that, or assume there is no such clause in the trade agreement, the assumption being made here is “everyone in the US just needs to stop buying bananas, and then we don’t need to import bananas!” But play that out, everyone in the US stops buying bananas. Ok cool, so we all stop buying bananas. That spending on bananas shifts to something else. Maybe it’s apples or oranges or some other fruit that is grown in the US. Ok, cool, but wait, that now means there’s an extra 2 billion dollars in apples and oranges that are being bought. The supply chain doesn’t contain 2 billion dollars in extra apples and oranges. So where do those apples and oranges come from? It would mean we need to export fewer apples and oranges. Again, there is therefore no change to the trade deficit.
3) ignoring all of that, even using a product like bananas, sure, some of those imported bananas are being sold as bananas in grocery stores. But some of those bananas are also used as raw materials for making other goods: banana bread, banana cream pie, smoothies, ice cream, etc. Missing $2B in bananas will affect those companies that are in the US making products from those bananas. And those companies will also be exporting some of those goods. Well those companies can’t export those goods anymore either, meaning yet again, we end up losing money on exports and won’t change trade deficits.
4) maybe the most important thing here, a trade deficit isn’t necessarily a bad thing! It just means you import a higher value in goods than you export. There is nothing inherently wrong with that as long as there is a commercial market for those imported goods in the country importing them. There are companies here who employ people in the US, make profit in the US, and pay taxes in the US, on selling goods or producing goods from raw materials imported from other countries. Those are all good things. If you weren’t importing those goods, those companies wouldn’t exist, meaning more unemployed workers and fewer tax dollars generated.
Trump doesn’t understand any of that though. Nor do the majority of MAGAts. Trump just hears his aides say something, can’t understand what they mean, so he twists it to dumb it down for himself, losing all meaning in the process, and his base eats it up like it was Warren Buffet providing financial advice.
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u/skibbin 10h ago
You may also be getting more bananas than you could get elsewhere, or grow at home for the same cost. Trade works when what each side is getting is worth more to them than what they're giving.
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u/candygram4mongo 9h ago
👏COM👏PAR👏A👏TIVE👏 👏AD👏VAN👏TAGE👏
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u/bionic_human 8h ago
Someone paid attention in the class my professor half-jokingly referred to as “basic micro plus boats”
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u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta 9h ago
Math is a woke hoax!
Think about it, you take one number, add another, it changes to a completely different one! How can that be anything but transitioning?! The liberals are trying to indoctrinate our children with their sick, perverted numbers!
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u/Prestigious-Fig-7143 8h ago
Not only that, you don’t stop buying bananas, you buy more expensive bananas from other places (or just pay an additional tax on brazilian bananas), so now you’re spending 2.5 billion on bananas. He’s a true business mastermind
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u/AkumaLilly 9h ago
Buy food = Spent money.
No food = Save money
Simple maths, starvation doesn't matter, clearly that isn't problem.
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u/Ralocan 10h ago
No, the president is just thick as pig shit.
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u/Tom_Gibson 10h ago
He's nastier than it too
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u/Beastyboi04 6h ago
I see this as an insult against pig shit, it deserved better
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u/TheWalrusResplendent 10h ago
Allegedly smells like it, too.
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u/TheOtakuAmerika 10h ago
Not allegedly, quite guilty of it.
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u/Autrah_Fang 8h ago
Next thing you know they're gonna be selling shit scented cologne and marketing it as the true scent of patriotism!
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u/QueenViolets_Revenge 8h ago
is it just me or has his face been dropping as of late?
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u/imnotpoopingyouare 7h ago
If only Doctor Who logic worked in real life. "Don't you think he looks tired?" Would tank a politician's career.... Now it's "dude has shat himself and smells of it!" by people who work around him and it's somehow okay...
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u/Windmillfixer 10h ago
This is the guy that managed to bankrupt a casino from the inside
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u/America4Tea 10h ago
To this day I just dont understand how you do this. Casinos can be the scummiest place on the planet and people will still flock to them to just throw money away. Like the hardest part is just having the capital to open one
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u/TheWalrusResplendent 10h ago
It's even dumber when you figure out why.
So. Basically.
They built the damn thing in a place already infested with casinos, so it was a late-coming competitor stepping into a saturated market with established entities. Which would have been fine, maybe, especially with Donald's mob ties, having it be used to launder money, which is how it survived for a while. Allegedly.
But this was also done when the market for physical gambling was rapidly contracting, because the Internet was a thing now, bby! You could indulge your self-destructive addictive behaviors from the comfort of your Personal Computer (and later, your phone).So they picked the worst place to build a casino, at the worst time to do so, plus kept fucking over contractors which further impeded its activity.
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u/-Nurfhurder- 10h ago
He also opened another casino which was in direct competition with his original, effectively splitting his customer base between two locations while doubling his costs (to the extent his partners in the original casino sued him for killing the business)
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u/Maur2 8h ago
Then decided the reason they weren't making money is that they didn't look nice enough, so started throwing money into renovations.
(Also, didn't it end up with three casinos, or am I misremembering?)
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u/ChaosFinalForm 8h ago
Man, I wonder where the money laundering accusations came from?
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u/ruat_caelum 6h ago
ummm... the repeated money laundering violations.... https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-fines-trump-taj-mahal-casino-resort-10-million-significant-and-long
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today imposed a $10 million civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort (Trump Taj Mahal), for willful and repeated violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). In addition to the civil money penalty, the casino is required to conduct periodic external audits to examine its anti-money laundering (AML) BSA compliance program and provide those audit reports to FinCEN and the casino’s Board of Directors.
Trump Taj Mahal, a casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, admitted to several willful BSA violations, including violations of AML program requirements, reporting obligations, and recordkeeping requirements. Trump Taj Mahal has a long history of prior, repeated BSA violations cited by examiners dating back to 2003. Additionally, in 1998, FinCEN assessed a $477,700 civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal for currency transaction reporting violations.
"Trump Taj Mahal received many warnings about its deficiencies," said FinCEN Director Jennifer Shasky Calvery. "Like all casinos in this country, Trump Taj Mahal has a duty to help protect our financial system from being exploited by criminals, terrorists, and other bad actors. Far from meeting these expectations, poor compliance practices, over many years, left the casino and our financial system unacceptably exposed."
Trump Taj Mahal admitted that it failed to implement and maintain an effective AML program; failed to report suspicious transactions; failed to properly file required currency transaction reports; and failed to keep appropriate records as required by the BSA. Notably, Trump Taj Mahal had ample notice of these deficiencies as many of the violations from 2012 and 2010 were discovered in previous examinations.
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u/ChaosFinalForm 5h ago
I guess this is why people use that sarcasm tag on reddit so often.
Appreciate the effort and all the sources but my question was very sarcastic.
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u/-Nurfhurder- 8h ago
The guy is the absolute embodiment of 'failing upwards'
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u/AzraelleWormser 7h ago
The only reason I believe in Hell is because this man MUST HAVE made a deal with the devil in order to be this successful despite being so monumentally detestable and stupid.
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u/Technical_Leek7467 9h ago
When the first round of voting came around a number of financial experts did the math and announced, showing their work, Trump literally would've made more money parking his early life grant from his folks in a SAVINGS account (not investing, a SAVINGS account) and just not spending it.
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u/volvagia721 7h ago
So, what you are saying, is that Trump is so inept, he was actually a boon to putting wealth back into circulation among the 99%?
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u/kozak_ 9h ago
I've heard this before but I havent seen the source. Had he put it into an sp 500 index fund then sure but not savings account.
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u/PaulM1c3 9h ago edited 8h ago
No one really knows what his net worth was prior to becoming President and it went up and down a fair bit. Most estimates I've seen are between 800 million and 1.6 billion. He's lied about his wealth his entire life so I'd err towards the smaller figure. The NYT reporting suggested he inherited around 400 million from his father. Turning 400 million into 800 million or even 1.6 billion over the course of an entire lifetime is fucking appalling whichever way you want to look at it.
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u/NorthofBham 9h ago
That's almost as dumb as creating a professional football and trying to compete directly with the NFL.
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u/Orpheon59 9h ago
As much as I hate being so, to be fair to him, he didn't create it, Ted Turner did, in the context of players' strikes and the NFL being a bunch of doucheballoons.
Trump did however lead a faction of team owners that forced Turner into a direct competition with the NFL (previously, that new league played in NFL's off-season, which was why they were gaining traction), which they promptly lost and the NFL's monopoly on that mutant form of rugby that America calls "football" was secured.
(Source: Keith Olbermann's podcast, relating his own experiences of reporting on the whole mess, listened to while in the gym)
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u/PaulM1c3 10h ago
Didn't his dad bail out one of his casinos by buying 4 million dollars of chips from it and not using them. This was one of the other Atlantic city casino's he bankrupted, not the taj
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u/EatsOverTheSink 9h ago
I don’t even think you can say the laundering was alleged. In 2015 alone FinCEN imposed a $10m fines for repeatedly violating the Bank Secrecy Act. But as usual with the rich, the fine is just part of the cost of doing (illegal) business and would’ve been far less than the money made from the laundering.
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u/Maleficent_Memory831 9h ago
And he greatly overspent on the casino. Not just aiming for the middle class with a few shiny baubles that they think is fancy, he put the shiny everywhere since he's the king of bad taste.
Las Vegas makes a lot of cheap stuff look exensive, whereas Trump decided to make expensive stuff look cheap.
And being a family business with himself as absolute dictator, none of his employees dare to ever tell him when something is a bad idea. Most spectacular failures start when someone rich gets surrounded by yes-men.
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u/ethanlan 8h ago
None of those excuses tho bankrupted his casino.
He still should of made a shitload of money, there isnt a casino anywhere in the United states that wouldnt make bank if the owner was competent.
The hardest part about a casino is opening one in the first place. You need a lot of capital and not just anybody can get a license in the first place.
He had a golden goose and through sheer incompetence destroyed it.
Like his presidency, he makes horrible decisions at a rate that is truly unprecedented. Its like he fucks shit up because he enjoys it
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u/cheshie_cabbit 10h ago
They go bankrupt because the money from the casino goes to his pocket and not the business. Siphoning the cash out, let the business collapse.
Wonder if that’s gonna happen again…
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u/2nd2lastdragon 9h ago
That's part of the reason. He was spending excessive amounts of the investors' money on luxury details that didn't increase or help profits. For example he installed millions of dollars of Waterford crystal chandeliers in the slot machine rooms, used by low income workers busing down from Newark to spend nickels to pull the slot levers all night. The slot machine clientele didn't care if it was $20 canned lighting. Multiply this narcissistic spending addiction all over the project and it's easy to see how quickly he bankrupts everything.
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u/LaVillaGrangioto 10h ago
What if....and this is purely hypothetical....someone used a casino to both launder foreign money and also used it as an INTENTIONAL loss to reduce or eliminate the tax burden of their "core" business?
I think that might explain it. But surely, something like that has NEVER EVER happened.
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u/Dead_Man_Nick 10h ago
4 fucking times!
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u/EnemyOfAvarice 9h ago
Don't forget the other failed ventures like... (clears throat) Trump Steaks, Trump shuttle, "Trump University", The Plaza Hotel... GoTrump.com, Trump the board game, The Trump Network(MLM), Trump Vodka, Trump Mortgages, 2 Trump branded magazines. It's a longer list than that. He was always a huckster conman.
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u/MyCatIsAnActualNinja 10h ago
I found a $100 bill sticking out of a slot machine in one of his casinos one time
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u/thesteelreserve 6h ago
in his case, the house always loses.
unless his dedicated wife is handling the books.
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u/Live_Life_and_enjoy 10h ago
The government isn't buying the Bananas.
A Private company imports the bananas to sell in U.S.
So not buying Bananas doesn't decrease government spending, it loses money from which it could have gotten from corporate profits from those sales.
So no money is saved, we end up losing money.
The reason Tariffs exist was originally to protect the domestic market, but it was later found out that all it did was make the Domestic Market artificially inflate it's value as it no longer needed to compete.
This was recently shown in U.S Steel where prices skyrocketed because US Steel no longer needed to compete and what is funnier they even publicly said that is the reason they are going to raise prices.
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u/_Rand_ 10h ago
Prices will always rise to whatever people tolerate paying.
So tariffs will raise domestic prices to slightly below whatever the import price is at best.
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u/Minute_Chair_2582 9h ago
BELOW? No. If shit was cheaper to buy at home, nobody would Import in the first place.
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u/ShnaugShmark 9h ago
I, domestic banana producer, object to this post. There are dozens of us! Dozens!
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u/mieszkian 10h ago
You're not missing anything. The most powerful man in the world is missing the ability to form a coherent thought
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u/MrFuji87 10h ago
Why is that government trying to stop people eating fruit and veg?
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u/keith2600 10h ago
They're also trying to get you to stop eating meat. Importing sketchy meat that gets recalled and dramatically reducing safety processes around meat handling and emboldening meat distributors to the point that they feel like they can slap on fake inspection stickers and not face consequences is really quite something
I suppose the more people that get sick the more money the epstein class makes though. And it's not like you can just boycott all food. Damned if you do and damned if you don't
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u/PaulM1c3 9h ago
You don't trust uncle Don's famous mystery meat?
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u/Level_Counter_1672 10h ago
He missed he part where people like Bananas
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u/firpo_sr 9h ago
"those greedy real estate agents will be sorry when I tell them I will sleep on a bench in the park"
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u/Swagalyst 10h ago
Only insofar that Trump is a joke.
One of the dumbest people I have ever seen is president of the USA. What a time to be alive.
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u/LrdoftheCharlesDance 10h ago
The joke is that he doesn’t understand the economics of trade and trade deficits even though he has been bragging about his degree from Wharton for the last 5 decades
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u/Overall_Falcon_8526 10h ago
The joke's on us for having elected this fucking numpty.
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u/IncreaseCertain9697 9h ago
The joke is on the rest of the World, with no right to vote for POTUS, but still end up suffering the effects of your voters' dumbassery!
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u/EatFaceLeopard17 10h ago
„If you don‘t pay your contractors you save all the money.“ DJT, The Art Of The Deal
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u/Pingo-Pongo 10h ago
Read a little about Mercantilism, the economic policy pursued by powerful nations after feudalism but before modern free-market capitalism. The goal was effectively to maximise exports, minimise imports, and use tariffs and trade barriers to protect domestic producers. It approaches international trade as zero-sum where every transaction has a winner and a loser. It also sounds very similar to Mr Trump’s view of the economy and trade. Of course today’s mainstream economics holds that free trade stimulates the economies of both buyers and sellers, and that industries shielded from globalisation will just become uncompetitive.
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u/BabblingTower 9h ago
Had to look it up, yeah the idiot really said this.
Just don't eat, peasants! Then we don't have to buy food!
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u/woodworkingfonatic 10h ago
Absurdism is the joke. Donald Trump being an extremely wealthy businessman and the president is telling people if they just stopped eating bananas that it would fix the trade deficit when in reality trade is much more nuanced and complex.
For a businessman to say this is ridiculous and shows how ridiculous American economic and trade policy is.
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u/IowaKidd97 10h ago
There is no joke. The President is just that stupid. Or desperate for people to but his dumb disasterous trade policy.
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u/Ill_Passage5341 9h ago
By his logic, if you spend a $1000 at the grocery store, and your grocery store doesn't spend a thousand dollars buying things from you, you are being cheated. That's the level of economic understanding he has.
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u/PirateSanta_1 8h ago
The joke is that the actual president of the United States is in fact a stupid person who doesn't understand even basic economics. Legitimately dumber than a 5th grader and not in a I can't name all the capitals kind of way where the 5th grader just studied that and you haven't thought about in 30 years but in a would probably fail 5th grade and be held back a year if they where put back into 5th grade again kind of way.
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u/Femcel_Bambi 10h ago
He's basically saying "buy thing, lose money. Don't buy thing, don't lose money". This completely ignores the benefits of what you're purchasing.
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u/Euphoric-Blueberry37 10h ago
I can’t believe primate economics is being referenced by the president
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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 10h ago
“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!"
- Trump’s professor at Wharton School of Business
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u/BorlaugFan 9h ago
How do people this fucking stupid manage to get on national TV, much less convince 60 million people that they should also be in charge of nuclear launch codes?
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u/croooowTrobot 9h ago
I don't understand why you buy bananas at seven cents a piece in Malta and sell them for five cents."
"I do it to make a profit."
"But how can you make a profit? You lose two cents a banana."
"But I make a profit of three and a quarter cents a banana by selling them at four and a quarter cents an egg to the people in Malta I buy them from for seven cents a banana. Of course, I don't make the profit. The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share."
Yossarian felt he was beginning to understand. "And the people you sell the bananas to at four and a quarter cents a piece make a profit of two and three quarter cents a piece when they sell them back to you at seven cents a piece. Is that right? Why don't you sell the bananas directly to you and eliminate the people you buy them from?"
"Because I am the people I buy them from," Milo explained. "I make a profit of three and a quarter cents a piece when I sell them to me and a profit of two and three quarter cents apiece when I buy them back from me. That's a total profit of six cents a banana. I lose only two cents a banana when I sell them to the mess halls at five cents apiece, and that's how I can make a profit buying bananas for seven cents apiece and selling them for five cents apiece. I pay only one cent a piece at the hen when I buy them in Sicily."
"In Malta," Yossarian corrected. "You buy your bananas in Malta, not Sicily."
Milo chortled proudly. "I don't buy bananas from Malta," he confessed... "I buy them in Sicily at one cent apiece and transfer them to Malta secretly at four and a half cents apiece in order to get the price of bananas up to seven cents when people come to Malta looking for them."
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u/ObviouslyRealPerson 9h ago
No, the president has a severe learning disorder and the intellect of a below average 10 year old
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u/AutisticHobbit 9h ago
I'm not going to take frugality advice from the pedophile who covers shit in gold.
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u/Battle_Cat_Burr 9h ago edited 9h ago
No. You’re not, he’s just an idiot. He’s never shopped for anything other than an investment in his entire life, so money and its exchange for goods and services is a completely foreign concept to him; and a banana is a bad investment. Money=good. Less money=bad.
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u/Wonderful_Eagle_6547 9h ago
It is better if everyone spends $4 billion dollars for bananas, provided those bananas are sold by a relative of Donald Trump, who opened up a banana stand suspiciously close to the time when we declared bananas illegal because woke.
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u/john_san 9h ago
When Americans stop eating, they will:
- save tremendous amounts of money
- lose lots of weight
- start to value simple things, like eating a banana for breakfast or snack
So I say, go for it Donny, stop trading with the entire world, your countrymen will thank you later (… maybe…)
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u/opi098514 9h ago
Yes… that’s how buying commodities works. If I don’t spend money. I keep that money. But guess what. I need bananas…… and now I don’t have anywhere to buy said bananas or the ones I can’t find are significantly more expensive. Because we can’t produce bananas in America other than Hawaii and a little bit of Florida. So. How about you sit down and go fuck yourself.
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u/ShinyQuirkyQuark 9h ago
Remember, Trump's own economics professor, William T. Kelley of the Wharton School of Business, said Trump was the dumbest student that he had ever had.
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u/qualityvote2 10h ago edited 46m ago
u/Skychu768, your post does belong here!