aquascoot wrote on Aug 7
th, 2025 at 7:33am:
Trump understands one of my favourite marketing teachers , the legendary John Carlton s maxim
Make your mess your message.
It makes you seem congruent and in control of the frame.
Like when Kerry packer was asked why he paid a low tax rate and replied
Only a total f wit pays one cent more then he has to.
People respect strong men who feature their flaws and own their actions.
Everyone basically wants pussy and cash.
But rich people are often embarrassed and pretend they just want to be like George clooney and go dig wells for the pygmies or Bill gates and go vaccinate Ethiopians ( whilst stealing their blood for a gene databank).
The public don't buy it.
What you can't fake, you feature.
Own it
Be unapologetic.
It builds trust that you aren't a 2 faced phoney.
Trump loves cash and pussy.
He doesn't lose a single vote by being attacked over his love of cash and pussy, because he does nothing but talk about how he loves cash and pussy.
Smart marketing.
Ah yes, the gospel according to Facebook marketers, where moral bankruptcy is rebranded as "authenticity" and sociopathy is just "smart branding."
The idea that "owning your flaws" makes you a better leader might hold some weight if we were talking about human flaws, like doubt, grief, or mistakes.
But what you're celebrating Scoot is unrepentant greed and misogyny.
Trump's "flaws" aren't flaws in the human sense, they're warning signs.
If a bloke walked into a job interview and said "I love money and rooting, and I don't pay tax," he wouldn't be seen as strong, he'd be shown the door. But slap a flag pin on him and suddenly he's a prophet of the working class?
And this Kerry Packer quote, every halfwit tax cheat uses it like it's holy writ. Packer said that while sitting atop a mountain of inherited wealth, running monopolies or businesses propped up by tax payer funds, while dodging taxes the average punter has no choice but to pay. It's not wisdom, it's a smirk from the top of the food chain while the rest of us fund hospitals and roads.
It's no surprise that triggers your admiration.
Then comes the real caveman insight: "Everyone wants pussy and cash." Right, so the entire human condition is just a byproduct of unresolved incel fantasies?
What a bleak, adolescent worldview.
Apparently, altruism doesn't exist, unless it's Bill Gates secretly harvesting African DNA like it's a Bond villain subplot. If you think that's clever marketing, you've already drunk the Kool-Aid and asked for seconds.
Here's the truth: Trump isn't "owning his flaws", he's weaponising them. There's a difference.
Owning your flaws means changing, growing, taking responsibility.
Trump does none of that.
Ever.
He just floods the zone with shamelessness until the outrage fatigue sets in and the bar drops through the floor. And the fact that people are mistaking that for strength says more about their standards than his strategy.
I'm looking at you Scoot. You and Frank have dropped the bar so low for Trump that you now find yourselves defending paedophiles.
How did that happen!?
But sure, keep calling it "marketing" if it helps you sleep at night. Just don't pretend it's noble, smart, or honest. It's not. It's just the tired old grift of a man who figured out he could fail upward if he lied loud enough and often enough. And some of you still clap.
Egad, just realised how long that post turned out, almost guaranteed to send Frank and Scoot scurrying for the hills again, pretending they haven't seen it so they don't have to respond.
Standard playbook: ignore anything that forces them to think, especially if it's longer than a meme or doesn't end in "lol."
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