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That’s how much of a failure he is.

Weird thing to say about someone who became president of the USA, twice. He’s a liar, cruel, sociopath, conman… the list goes on. But failure isn’t one of that.

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mossberg590@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The Peter Principle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

He will go down in history as the greatest embarrassment and corrupt president ever. Failing spectacularly is still failing.

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- StillAlive@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Didn’t know Peter Principle applied to elected politicians.
  
  Anyway, it says, ‘people in a hierarchy tend to rise to “a level of respective incompetence"’.
  
  Would you say Donald Trump was competent before becoming a president?
  
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  - mossberg590@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Competent at duping easy marks. The marks are begining to see the con, I hope.
    
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  - aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    No, I think he’s saying the entire US political system is ridiculously incompetent.
    
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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
you can succeed in achieving your goals and still fail. that’s not success, that’s life.

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xzinik@feddit.cl ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
getting elected only means you ar good at winning elections, not necessarily being good at the job that the election lands you

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- StillAlive@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  He’s doing pretty well by the standards of Heritage Foundation.
  
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Janx@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I guess it depends on the definition? If he set out to scam a bunch of money from his supporters, become King Of the Racists, and rape children with Epstein, then yeah; he succeeded.

But he’s nearing the end of his natural life and he clearly failed to find joy. He failed to be loyal to his country. He failed to show empathy, and experience the happiness that goes along with it. He failed to be human, and now he’s almost gone…

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TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m just glad that people can only be described in binary terms. Wouldn’t it be awful if they could be described in two different ways at the same time?!?! I’m so glad the world is so simple.

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