Too bad more Republicans didn't read MAD magazine in 1992

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26. Debt has always terrified me and fascinated me

I always marveled at how Mio Cid scammed Raquel y Vidas when reading el Canto in my Medieval Spanish class (requirement for my degree). If you have debts of $7 million and assets of $5 billion, that always meant, to my primitive way of thinking, that you were broke. In Trumpworld, if you have $5 billion in assets and $7 billion in debts, but plan to stiff your creditors for $3 billion of your debt, you‘re a billionaire.

It must take a special kind of mentality to get away with theft on that scale—owing so much that your creditors are more scared of you than you are of them.