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Kent Anderson's avatar

https://www.villagevoice.com/how-a-young-donald-trump-forced-his-way-from-avenue-z-to-manhattan/

"He had prided himself on never having met a public official, a banker, a lawyer, a reporter, or a prosecutor he couldn’t seduce. Some he owned, and others he merely manipulated. As he saw it, it was not just that everyone had a price, it was that he knew what the price was. He believed he could look across a table and compute the price, then move on to another table and borrow the money to pay it. “Everybody tries to get some money” was his assessment in one unpublished interview of what motivates the people he dealt with. It was his one-sentence summary of human nature."

From 1979.

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Monnina's avatar

For such men, if you are female, a person of colour, LGBTQ, a child or in any way unconventional, interested in culture, the environment, philosophies or other intellectual pursuits, you are considered Untermensch to be treated with violent contempt. This demographic constitutes over half the human population, such a belief is a blind spot that will serve to destroy them.

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Bob Lewis's avatar

Trump’s attorney, Roy Cohn.

This says a lot.

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