| date: | 8 May 2016 at 21:46 | ||
| subject: | Fw: Food for Thought |
"Understanding Donald Trump"
Donald Trump is a genuine phenomenon. He may or may not become the Republican nominee for president. He may or may not win the presidency even if he becomes the nominee. Yet it is clear that he is a phenomenon and that any history of the 2016 presidential race will have to spend a good bit of time analyzing Trump and his impact.
From the time he announced on June 16, Trump has dominated social and mainstream media. He dominates the conversation despite the lack of paid advertising. Trump says outrageous things and his supporters shrug it off. At every turn, his poll numbers continue to rise.
As a step toward understanding this amazing performance, I spent part of the Christmas break reading his first bestseller, ‘The Art of the Deal’. Written in 1987, this book is a classic among American business books and has influenced a generation of entrepreneurs. Trump wrote ‘The Art of the Deal’ when he was 41 years old and having a successful run. The book’s popularity contributed to Time Magazine’s decision to feature Donald Trump on its cover in January 1989.
The portrait that emerges from this easy-to-read and remarkably interesting book is of an aggressive, ambitious person who is constantly pushing, constantly learning, and always seeking the next challenge. Reporters and analysts who are trying to understand Trump would be well served by slowing down and reading this nearly three-decade-old bestseller.
They would discover that Donald Trump has developed a remarkable set of rules and principles that allow him to make decisions with incredible speed. Trump knows a lot, but what is amazing is how rapidly he figures out what he doesn’t know.
My favorite story is of the Wollman Skating Rink in New York’s Central Park.
The Wollman Rink was a heavily used public skating rink which had fallen into disrepair in 1980. New York City tried for six years to fix it, spent $13 million, and the rink still was not ready to open. In June of 1986 Trump, who could see the rink from his apartment, finally got tired of the embarrassment and offered to fix the rink at his own expense. At first the city turned him down because its bureaucracy did not want to be embarrassed by someone fixing something they couldn’t fix. Trump kept pushing and finally out of embarrassment the city gave in.
The key part of the story is Trump’s reaction to being put in charge. He promptly recognized that he didn’t know anything about fixing a skating rink. He asked himself who built a lot of skating rinks. “Canadians!” he concluded. He found the best Canadian ice skating rink construction company. When the Canadians flew in to assess the situation, they were amazed at how bad the city had been at solving the problem. They assured Trump that this was an easy job. Trump fixed the six year embarrassment two months ahead of schedule and nearly $800,000 under-budget. (The city did end up paying for the work, and Trump donated the profits to charity.)
After reading this chapter you begin to think that maybe Donald Trump really could build a wall along our southern border for a lot less than our current government estimates.
‘The Art of the Deal’ is filled with stories like this — stories of common sense stories of calculated risk taking, and stories of innovation and marketing. Anyone who would like to better understand Donald Trump would be helped by reading this remarkable book.
Another is his pledges and I have no way of knowing if he will make good on all of them but I do agree with all of them. Trump is the only candidate that is serious about building The Wall"! Two other important pledges Trump has made that no other candidate of either party has matched! First, deportation of millions of illegals that are demanding and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars and second, closing 34 Muslim training camps throughout our country! I WOULD LIKE TRUMP OR ANY OTHER CANDIDATES PLEDGE TO REINSTATE ANY AND ALL MILITARY OFFICERS DISCHARGED BECAUSE THEY DISAGREED WITH OBAMA OR HIS POLICIES!!
Here is another that kind of wraps up my feelings about Trump.
Raccoon's in your basement! An interesting analogy.
You've been on vacation for two weeks, you come home, and your basement is infested with raccoon's. Hundreds of rabid, messy, mean raccoon's have overtaken your basement. You want them gone immediately so you hire a guy. A pro. You don't care if the guy smells, you need those raccoon's gone pronto and he's the guy to do it! You don't care if the guy swears, you don't care if he's an alcoholic, you don't care how many times he's been married, you don't care if he voted for Obama, you don't care if he has plumber's crack...you simply want those raccoon's gone!
You want your problem fixed! He's the guy. He's the best. Period. That's why we need Trump. Yes, he's a bit of an ass. Yes, he's an egomaniac, but you don't care.
The country is a mess because politicians suck, the Republican Party is two-faced & gutless, illegal's are everywhere. You want it all fixed! You don't care that Trump is crude, you don't care that he insults people, you don't care that he had been friendly with Hillary, you don't care that he has changed positions, you don't care that he's been married 3 times, you don't care that he fights with Megyn Kelly and Rosie O'Donnell, you don't care that he doesn't know the name of some Muslin terrorist,...this country is weak, bankrupt, our enemies are making fun of us, we are being invaded by illegal's, we are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Ricardo and Hamad is a special interest group with special rights to a point where we don't even recognize the country we were born and raised in.
“AND WE JUST WANT IT FIXED” and Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want.
You're sick of politicians, sick of the Democratic Party, Republican Party, and sick of illegal's. You just want this thing fixed. Trump may not be a saint, but doesn't have any lobbyist money influencing him, he doesn't have political correctness restraining him, all you know is that he has been very successful, a good negotiator, he has built a lot of things, and he's also not a politician, so he's not a cowardly politician. And he says he'll fix it. You don't care if the guy has bad hair. You just want those raccoon's gone. Out of your house!
This one is more about why we don’t want Hillary.
I think this sums it up well!
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a bar. Donald leans over, and with a smile on his face, says,
"The media are really tearing you apart for That Scandal."
Hillary: "You mean my lying about Benghazi?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean the massive voter fraud?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean the military not getting their votes counted?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Using my secret private server with classified material to Hide my Activities?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything Else?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Using the Clinton Foundation as a cover for tax evasion, hiring cronies, and taking bribes from foreign countries?
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean the drones being operated in our own country without The Benefit of the law?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million, and right afterward it Declared Bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean arming the Muslim Brotherhood and hiring them in the White House?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Whitewater, Watergate committee, Vince Foster, commodity Deals?"
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "The IRS targeting conservatives?"
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "Turning Libya into chaos?"
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "Trashing Mubarak, one of our few Muslim friends?"
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "Turning our backs on Israel?"
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "The joke Iran Nuke deal? "
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "Leaving Iraq in chaos? "
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The DOJ spying on the press?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean HHS Secretary Sibelius shaking down health insurance Executives?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Giving our cronies in SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 Months Later they declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The NSA monitoring citizens'?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The State Department interfering with an Inspector General Investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Me, The IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Threats to all of Bill's former mistresses to keep them quiet"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: “You means taking the $145,000,000.00 from Putin for the Uranium Bribe ? “
Trump : “ No the other one .”
Hillary: "I give up! ... Oh wait, I think I've got it! When I stole the White House furniture, silverware and China when Bill left Office?"
Trump: "THAT'S IT! I almost forgot about that one".
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Everything above is true. Yet she still gets the Democratic votes. Could there be that many stupid people in this country?
Does anyone understand this? If not, I think we're doomed!
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7 comments:
This one's a twofer.
The first half is a column by Newt Gingrich, who is desperate to somehow become relevant in Trump's world.
The second half (beginning with "Another is his pledges and I have no way of knowing...", is the usual RW boilerplate maundering.
What a decrepit ideology.
Is this some dumb experiment to see how many RWD forwards can be fused together into the ultimate Voltron of RWD idiocy?
Everything above is true.
No, it isn't.
Also, the plural of "raccoon" is "raccoons."
Well this one's from the Bent Knee to Trump faction of the Gee Oh Pee v. the Never Trump faction.
I didn't bother to read it in depth, but this kind of jumped out at me:
"You don't care if the guy smells, you need those raccoon's gone pronto and he's the guy to do it! You don't care if the guy swears, you don't care if he's an alcoholic, you don't care how many times he's been married, you don't care if he voted for Obama, you don't care if he has plumber's crack...you simply want those raccoon's gone!"
Besides the dumbass mis-spelling of raccoons, it's interesting that the Bent Knees to Trump faction is NOW propagandizing the "Christiany" base to ignore ALL of the "Values Voters moral-y" crap that they whine about constantly... including "don't be upset about Trump donating money to Clinton and Obama."
Like: POOF! All the bullshit propaganda on Hate Radio/TV/"Churches" for the past 40+ years should be wiped from your pea brains - maybe they can employ those "forgetter" pens from Men in Black - and just start anew and forget about all that "moral-y" junk that you've been dictated to "believe" forever... doesn't matter now! Herr Trump's the greatest! Bow before Lord High Mammon and vote for him!
No wonder RWD is so frickin confused.
Psst: RWD! Here's a clue: try thinking for yourself!!
I know: completely LOST CAUSE. doi!
Anon, funny stuff. You also would have gotten points for using 'Frankenstein's Monster' in place of Voltron.
You want them gone immediately so you hire a guy. A pro. You don't care if the guy smells, you need those raccoon's gone pronto and he's the guy to do it! You don't care if the guy swears, you don't care if he's an alcoholic, you don't care how many times he's been married, you don't care if he voted for Obama, you don't care if he has plumber's crack...you simply want those raccoon's gone!
The GOP's new definition of a professional: a smelly, swearing drunk that can't keep a wedding ring on.
This is Idiocracy.
This is the GOP.
Yes, he's a bit of an ass. Yes, he's an egomaniac, but you don't care.
Actually, I do. Shit like this matters, RWD.
The country is a mess because politicians suck
The ones you deify daily did the most damage.
Republican Party is two-faced & gutless
Right on that one!
illegal's are everywhere
Despite Obama deporting them in record numbers?
You don't care
No, YOU don't care. The fact that your party is coming apart at the seams is proof of that. The fact that your talking-point maker, Rush Limbaugh, hates Trump to the bone, is proof of that. Michael Savage is desperately trying to change Trump, knowing that if Trump doesn't change, the General Election will look like an epic slaughter.
Some are even predicting a 25% chance of flipping the HOUSE.
Keep "not caring", RWD, it works wonders for Democrats.
"...this country is weak, bankrupt..."
Exactly HOW is the USA "weak"?
Bankrupt? No, the country isn't bankrupt, but Donald Trump is, has been quite a few times, and probably will be again. So why do you want to vote for someone serially bankrupt, if you bothered when you believe that the nation is bankrupt? Cognitive dissonance, much?
our enemies are making fun of us
Links? Who is making fun? How? Oh right, now that Trump has sewed up the R nomination, our allies are both mocking & deriding us, while also begging US citizens not to vote him in. Our so-called "enemies"? I dunno. They are probably making fun of YOU, RWD, for being so easily duped by someone like Trump.
we are being invaded by illegal's
An "invasion" implies people bearing arms attempting to overthrow a nation and take over. Don't think this is what's happening. Stop with the over the top language for a change. As others have pointed out, Obama has deported more undocumented people than anyone before him. Oh right: facts don't matter here! My mistake.
we are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Ricardo and Hamad is a special interest group with special rights to a point where we don't even recognize the country we were born and raised in. Needs moar exclamation points & 1s!!!!1111!!!!!
Well we know that you, RWD, have been duly trained to feel constantly victimized by everything, everyone, and absolutely anything that Rush and these rightwing think tanks bellow at you. And once again, it's all a tissue of lies, but somehow it makes you feel important or something.
Yeah, keep voting for Trump, RWD, cuz that'll show 'em!!!111!!!
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