NBC station in Philadelphia did an interview with a laid-off IRS employee who voted for Trump but not "a wrecking ball"

[highplainsdem]

Print story with a lot more in the video here:

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philadelphia-irs-layoffs-firings-union-president-trump/4114738/

“You know when he talks about government waste and all that, yes, I’m behind it,” McCabe said. “I believe there is a lot of stuff in the government that needs fixing. And that’s part of the reason why I actually wanted to work for the government, actually. To help change. Help change the things that are wrong in the world, you know? I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”

[JohnSJ]

1. This idiot deserves to get exactly what he voted for.

[phylny]

2. I'll be waiting at my local

diner if any news organizations want to interview me about the mental and physical stress I’m under because of this lunacy.

[Hassler]

3. Bwa ha ha ha

[dalton99a]

4. He thinks Trump wrote "The Art of the Deal"

[tanyev]

5. "his business acumen" ?

Buddy, destroying people's lives for no reason IS Trump's business acumen. Jeez.

[Metro135]

15. Not to mention the fact . . .

that with all his "business acumen" he managed to go bankrupt at least 4 times running casinos no less.

[groundloop]

17. 6 bankruptcies, from what I've read..... so many it's kind of hard to keep track of

And yes, how the fuck do you bankrupt a casino (unless there's shady stuff going on)? I mean hell, customers walk in the door and are pefectly happy handing you large amounts of money.

[AZJonnie]

24. It's not hard to bankrupt any business, if you lack business acumen and/or the whole thing is a scam

When you suck at deals, you do things like overpay to buy it in the first place, and then dump a ton of cash on renovations, thinking that because you're such a swell businessperson, these 'investments' are going to 'pay off'. Then they don't, because you actually suck at business. And/or the whole enterprise was a scam where you extracted the maximum amount of money from it for as long as you could, then ran out on the bill by declaring bankruptcy. The old 'privatizing the profits, socializing the costs' scheme.

[DFW]

46. Going bankrupt every time you get in a bind is "business acumen?"

I though that was called "business incompetence."

I need to get a revised and updated edition of the Dictionary of Republicanese.

The guy seems relatively sane and coherent, which begs the question of how he ended up voting for Trump?

[JI7]

6. You got what you voted for. This is what you deserve

I'm sad for those that didn't voted for this and are being hurt.

But not for people like this guy.

[tulipsandroses]

7. ""Business acumen?"", WTF is this moron talking about? The same business acumen that lead to numerous bankruptcies?

The one that admits that he does not pay taxes? So you thought that a wealthy man that thinks its smart to not pay taxes was going to be helpful how??

[Aristus]

8. What a stupid dickhead.

Trump IS a wrecking ball. He destroys everything he touches. Always has. One has to be a monumental dumbfuck not to know that.

[LonePirate]

9. Morons like this completely forgot everything about his first term. Ignorance runs very deep among his voters.

[videohead5]

10. Why do people think Trump is such a great business man?

He's gone bankrupt six times. His casinos failed. He is up to his eyeballs in debt. These people have been conned.

[Blue Owl]

12. The TV said so

[radical noodle]

13. Mostly because trump said so

He thinks he's the greatest everything that ever lived.

[ananda]

20. Because he's white, the anti Obama

...

[Ohioboy]

22. It's the old repeat a lie long enough con

It's worked on countless dupes throughout history.

[AZJonnie]

25. He's never gone bankrupt personally that I've ever read.

He's also probably not in debt *anymore* because of how many hundreds of million$ the rubes have sent him over the past 10 years. Shit, he pocketed like $230B on the 'Stop The Steal' fundraising scam in Nov 2020-Jan 2021 alone. Brought in like $250M and spent $17M on the legal cases trying (in vain of course) to show to any court any shred of fraud. That said, I'd be very surprised if only 6 of the businesses he's owned over the years have filed for bankruptcy, I'd wager there's been many more than that.

[ProfessorGAC]

32. $230B?

You sure about that?
I could maybe(!) believe $230 MILLION not billion.
The SPAC and his ridiculous crypto have pushed his net worth up a lot, but that doesn't necessarily lead to liquidity.
And, the debt still exists.
I'll grant that, on paper, his net worth is now strongly positive but that doesn't lead me to believe the debt load is not still a burden.

[SammyWinstonJack]

33. That and how many failed businesses? How long is that list?

[struggle4progress]

11. "I thought Putin could help eliminate the inefficiencies of our government"

[JT45242]

14. I'll decode...fine tooth comb means fuck with poor black and brown people

Business acumen = rich white dude

Better paraphrase...I voted for the rich old white guy because I thought he would put uppity black and brown people in their place.

Especially if they even thought about getting unemployment, medicare, or any other entitlement.

Cause only entitlement for rich white folks, like I will be one day, are OK

[ms liberty]

37. And women. Women are just as much of a target for these morans.

[JT45242]

47. This is most certainly true...

Women as as well. Thanks for adding that point...

Of course LGBTQ+ could be thrown in as well...

[Coventina]

16. "I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face!"

[Takket]

40. Exactly

[FHRRK]

18. Good thing Dwight still has his beet farm to fall back on. N/T

[Demovictory9]

19. I bet he couldnt articulate exactly what he thought was wrong with the govt that needed fixing

[Demovictory9]

21. He is getting bashed online. Here are comments

Comments following the YouTube are brutal. Lol

[Celerity]

23. Geo-blocked (I live in Stockholm) by the video's uploader

[orleans]

26. "I thought that someone with his business acumen"

MORON!!!!!

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[RandySF]

27. I call bullshit on this person.

They chose not to believe what everyone knew by Election Day and voted for Trump anyway.

[Bread and Circuses]

28. business acumen! Not buying it

Folks , these MAGA cult are going to twist themselves into pretzels to explain , or I mean
LIE about why they voted for the Felon.

Here’s the truth ( humor)

1 Wife told him that Trump was a jerk and not to vote for him
2 Wife is laughing at him every minute and tells the kids how stupid their dad is.
3 Relatives and neighbors are basically telling him to FAFO
4 He’s trying to sell his Trump crypto coins, Bible, watch, etc. Before his wife finds out. - wife already knows and had divorce attorney on retainer since the election

[GaYellowDawg]

29. Found out.

Who cares how this gibbering shitwit justifies his stupid vote? His only value now is as an example.

[orleans]

30. this jerk is a fucking idiot. we don't need idiots working at the irs anyway. but the good news is

he got what he voted for: trump

no boo fucking hoos for him

[Native]

31. Renember the Herman Cain Awards? It is still on Reddit. I wish

someone would make something similar for all the Trump lovers who have lost their jobs, had relatives deported, lost health care, etc....

[tanyev]

35. Great idea. Maybe the Fat Leopard Awards.

[Vinca]

34. Hand me a hankie. I think I'm going to cry.

[hatrack]

36. FAFO, MF . . .

Savor it.

[Paladin]

39. +1000. I have exactly zero sympathy for this douchebag. (nt)

[GoodRaisin]

38. "with his business acumen"

So you are stupid and uninformed and fell for his bullshit and got mad when he eliminated YOUR job, you self serving prick.

[travelingthrulife]

41. "his business acumen"???

In other words you are an uninformed fool.

[Johnny2X2X]

42. He was just wanting to see other people hurt and suffering

Fuck this asshole.

[travelingthrulife]

43. Didn't Biden add a bunch of jobs to IRS before the wrecking ball came through?

So his job was courtesy of Biden? Karma is a beautiful tapestry some times.

[harumph]

44. Unfortunately, this is the dumbassery that we are up against.

Some Americans appear too stupid to fix. I believe in education - but the 30 years of media propagandizing against
the administrative state has just produced countless dunbfucks like this guy. He's right that there's waste - but this "cure" is worse than
the disease. Who in their right mind knowing Trump's history would attribute business acumen to him? JFC. And it is not bona-fide cost cutting anyway - it's just setting aside money to give away as tax cuts to the rich.

[aocommunalpunch]

45. Fuck you.

You got what you voted for. Stop bitching, man-baby.