Comment by dzonga

Comment by dzonga 15 hours ago

12 replies

you don't make improvements to a house, adorn it with gold all over, make 200m improvements if you have the intention of leaving.

behaviour says more than words

ptaffs 15 hours ago

i think the person you are talking about doesn't treat houses like most people, i mean he (and his kind) lives for short term gratification and will move on to another house and decorate that with gold.

  • potato3732842 15 hours ago

    >he (and his kind) lives for short term gratification and will move on to another house and decorate that with gold.

    Exactly. It's a social norm among that class of society

    When a Koch, or a Scwab, or the CEO of some mega-corp buys a property on Martha's Vineyard, or the Hamptons, or Vail or overlooking Tahoe or whatever, with intent to actually spend even the scantest amount of time there themselves they engage in absurd unnecessary renovations. That's just how they do things. There is an occasional exception for those in that group who have "found meaning" in some other avenue for lighting money on fire.

    Edit: You can thank me later for implicitly telling you where the best construction dumpsters are.

hamdingers 13 hours ago

Every president remodels and redecorates the White House, often to a much greater degree. The consternation over it is an intentional distraction.

  • dboreham 13 hours ago

    It's done as an intentional distraction. The guy is a top class troll after all.

ta1243 12 hours ago

You don't adorn it with gold if you have taste.

Trump is not going to live much longer than 2028 anyway.

moi2388 15 hours ago

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  • LightBug1 15 hours ago

    Just !

    • moi2388 13 hours ago

      Want to bet 10k? You’re literally making claims without any basis. He left last time, he will leave again, if he even makes it to the end of his term

      • lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 10 hours ago

        > without any basis

        This is his second, ostensibly last, term, meaning he will have an uphill battle at best to convince the public that he should get another term for some bullshit reason. His last term ended with him obviously trying to prevent the next guy from taking over. He obviously wants to be in power. It's disingenuous to say there is no basis. Whether it's likely is another matter but this is intellectually dishonest.