Craig Fuller thought he was voting for business savvy, not economic shock therapy. But just 100…
  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    You can still take solice in knowing that you “owned some libs” though. That just makes the whole thing worth it, doesn’t it?

  • PorradaVFR@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Heartbreaking? Nah. More like utterly infuriating that they were duped despite the prior term and decades of demonstrated corruption and incompetence.

    I’ve no sympathy at all.

  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    16 days ago

    Craig Fuller thought he was voting for business savvy, not economic shock therapy.

    Does he know anything at all about the felon who has left a long trail of failed businesses and can bankrupt a casino three casinos? Trump is doing pretty much exactly what he said he’d do and any CEO that doesn’t know that deserves to be unemployed.

        • Bravo@eviltoast.org
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          16 days ago

          And he always proudly points out that he himself has never been personally bankrupt. Somehow, the fact that he always manages to bankrupt his investors instead of himself was seen as a good reason why America should become his next big investor.

      • D_C@lemm.ee
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        16 days ago

        I thought it was 5 casinos and a resort (with a casino on)…?

        Edit:
        Bankruptcies were…
        1991: Trump Taj Mahal
        1992: Trump Castle Hotel & Casino
        1992: Trump Plaza Casino
        1992: Trump Plaza Hotel (not a casino, just a hotel.)
        2004: Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts
        2009: Trump Entertainment Resorts (casino holding company. FFS, not only did he bankrupt casinos. Which is one of the most lucrative businesses out there, he also bankrupted a company that handles the casinos. How the fuck is that even -legally- possible to bankrupt a company that owns the most lucrative businesses!!!)

        There are numerous other businesses that also failed spectacularly. Plus there ‘businesses’ that were just scams, the university that never was.
        Promises of extensive redevelopment that got ‘put on hold’ after his golf courses got built etc.

  • Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    TL;DR:

    Craig Fuller, founder of FreightWaves and once a potential Trump transportation pick, says the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods have triggered a supply chain collapse, truck traffic from LA ports is down 23%, with 50% import drops predicted. Even major logistics firms like Knight-Swift blame “toxic tariffs” for plummeting volumes.

  • Vertelleus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I don’t understand, why doesn’t he just “pull himself up by by his bootstraps” and work harder. That’s what they tell everyone else, right?

    • lectricleopard@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      That is a real shame. All these people are choosing to be poor. The real trick of this whole thing is you need to be independently wealthy for it to work for you. If only these folks understood that, they might choose differently.

  • Burninator05@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    …voting for business savvy…

    Did this guy sleep through Trump’s first term? Things are worse now than it was then but he messed things up the first time too.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Fuller runs Freightwaves. He’s all over the place prognosticating the shipping and logistics community.

    I could find no source for the OP post other than the linked popup “news” site.

    Fuller is more recently quoted as saying the “recession” (the market downturn due to trump’s idiotic knee-jerk tariff implementation) is over and expecting a market change.

    Dude’s an idiot, just another CEO analyst always trying to put a positive spin on any negative event to do with his industry.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      16 days ago

      Freightwaves also does the majority of its business selling pay for play to T&L business owners to be talking heads on podcasts, interviews, the you tubes and similar.

      This is probably a play so that people don’t think they’re giving money to an org that’s killing their business

  • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I’m sick of calling my senators I’m gonna start calling these guys and dunking on them

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Zero fucking sympathy and this is just the beginning of the US collapse. There will be plenty of used trucks and trailers.

    • Decq@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Yes heartbreaking! I don’t care about all those people being detained and deported unlawfully. But think of poor old me, I got what I voted for and now I’m sad! How could I’ve ever expected him to do what he’s known for, running things into bankruptcy?!

      • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        remember until it affects them personally in a negative way they don’t care about what this administration does. This is what make it so difficult to change a large population of trump supporter’s minds, because they seem to not have much empathy for anyone but themselves.