Preston
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Quick question.. And remember: this is a safe thread for those who speak their mind. No judgment given. Are you a Trump fan?Did Sleepy Joe put together that top five list consisting of six items?
Quick question.. And remember: this is a safe thread for those who speak their mind. No judgment given. Are you a Trump fan?Did Sleepy Joe put together that top five list consisting of six items?
Quick question.. And remember: this is a safe thread for those who speak their mind. No judgment given. Are you a Trump fan?
As Chris Rock once said, white people have no problem telling each other about their sex life and their fetishes and all sorts of wacky shit. But as soon as you mention politics it's all "Oh no no no that's private man." I've always found that weird. It's one of the things that stuck with me from one of his old specials.Isn't this like asking how much you make on your daily trades in general?
I thought Trump was going to win (and predicted it here back then) and was looking forward to it frankly because I wanted a business guy to step in, bring in top advisors, and clean the shit out of the corrupt, broken, redundant government machine. Unfortunately things did not go as hoped. I wanted the same thing when Romney was running, so it would've been much better if he'd have won and would now be finishing off his eight years, but he lost his credibility with his antics relating to Trump, so I think he's a clown now too.
As Chris Rock once said, white people have no problem telling each other about their sex life and their fetishes and all sorts of wacky shit. But as soon as you mention politics it's all "Oh no no no that's private man." I've always found that weird. It's one of the things that stuck with me from one of his old specials.
Anyway you have the right to your opinion but the only thing I laughed at was when you called Trump a business man. Although in fairness you didn't say "successful" business man so technically calling him a business man is accurate.
Took some SPY profits -- now need to see ES crack 3000 to about 2990 for some sweet weekend money
Problem is, he's bad at the one thing he is supposed to be good for; his business acumen. He has no other talents/skills or abilities to qualify him to run a country successfully. On top of that, he's a hall of fame level narcissist whose only goal his entire life was to promote himself and make himself look good. This was never going to end well.I honestly almost put it in quotes - "businessman". But the point was, not a politician. Maybe a guy who was going to bring in top guys and let them do the work with the mandate that they had to clean shit up. But it didn't exactly go that way.
Follow up question for LOF; when did you first sour on Dotard?
Problem is, he's bad at the one thing he is supposed to be good for; his business acumen. He has no other talents/skills or abilities to qualify him to run a country successfully. On top of that, he's a hall of fame level narcissist whose only goal his entire life was to promote himself and make himself look good. This was never going to end well.
I wanted a business guy to step in, bring in top advisors, and clean the shit out of the corrupt, broken, redundant government machine.
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The problem here (and it's a pervasive thought, so I'm not exactly singling you out) is that this is bad logic, or at minimum a bad analogy. Government and a business can't operate similarly because the goals simply can't align if you're doing either of them properly.
The goal of any business is to maximize short term profit. The goal of a government should be to maximize the well being of it's citizens. Those aren't goals that can co exist peacefully because in a whole fuckton of cases, maximizing the dollars in a citizens pocket at the expense of quality services, decreases their standard of living significantly. Attached to that, measuring the well being of a business is easy...balance sheet. Measuring the well being of a society is far more difficult and nebulous. Is a relatively rich populace with poor healthcare outcomes and poor reported happiness a better society than one with less disposable income but better health care outcomes and high reported "happiness"?
Wanting government to run efficiently while delivering services that provide higher quality of life for it's citizens is a worthy goal, expecting someone who is a good "businessman" to be able to achieve that by emulating high end business practices is asking for a bad time.
The problem here (and it's a pervasive thought, so I'm not exactly singling you out) is that this is bad logic, or at minimum a bad analogy. Government and a business can't operate similarly because the goals simply can't align if you're doing either of them properly.
The goal of any business is to maximize short term profit. The goal of a government should be to maximize the well being of it's citizens. Those aren't goals that can co exist peacefully because in a whole fuckton of cases, maximizing the dollars in a citizens pocket at the expense of quality services, decreases their standard of living significantly. Attached to that, measuring the well being of a business is easy...balance sheet. Measuring the well being of a society is far more difficult and nebulous. Is a relatively rich populace with poor healthcare outcomes and poor reported happiness a better society than one with less disposable income but better health care outcomes and high reported "happiness"?
Wanting government to run efficiently while delivering services that provide higher quality of life for it's citizens is a worthy goal, expecting someone who is a good "businessman" to be able to achieve that by emulating high end business practices is asking for a bad time.