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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449988/donald-trump-cant-close-deal-failing-salesman
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449988/donald-trump-cant-close-deal-failing-salesman
Death of a F***ing Salesman
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He has had a middling career in real estate and a poor one as a hotelier and casino operator but convinced people he is a titan of industry. He has never managed a large, complex corporate enterprise, but he did play an executive on a reality show. He presents himself as a confident ladies’ man but is so insecure that he invented an imaginary friend to lie to the New York press about his love life and is now married to a woman who is open and blasé about the fact that she married him for his money. He fixates on certain words (“negotiator”) and certain classes of words (mainly adjectives and adverbs, “bigly,” “major,” “world-class,” “top,” and superlatives), but he isn’t much of a negotiator, manager, or leader. He cannot negotiate a health-care deal among members of a party desperate for one, can’t manage his own factionalized and leak-ridden White House, and cannot lead a political movement that aspires to anything greater than the service of his own pathetic vanity.
He has had a middling career in real estate and a poor one as a hotelier and casino operator but convinced people he is a titan of industry. He has never managed a large, complex corporate enterprise, but he did play an executive on a reality show. He presents himself as a confident ladies’ man but is so insecure that he invented an imaginary friend to lie to the New York press about his love life and is now married to a woman who is open and blasé about the fact that she married him for his money. He fixates on certain words (“negotiator”) and certain classes of words (mainly adjectives and adverbs, “bigly,” “major,” “world-class,” “top,” and superlatives), but he isn’t much of a negotiator, manager, or leader. He cannot negotiate a health-care deal among members of a party desperate for one, can’t manage his own factionalized and leak-ridden White House, and cannot lead a political movement that aspires to anything greater than the service of his own pathetic vanity.
You have just made an ironclad, watertight case as to why he will never be elected President. Good job.
I can agree that his business ventures have been chaotic and hyped- unlike the Clinton Foundation which has been very low key and like having your own foreign government funded ATM in your basement. Yeh, that be the way to go.
he was elected because he was not the establishment.
people did not really care about his finances... no one cared about his tax records
for many of us he was not the first choice but the only choice
so far he is barely getting the job the done but he did the only thing we really needed..
Judge Gorsuch.
now that he is threatening to withhold Obamacare payments to insurance companies... if he has that power... Obamacare will be repealed.
people did not really care about his finances... no one cared about his tax records
for many of us he was not the first choice but the only choice
so far he is barely getting the job the done but he did the only thing we really needed..
Judge Gorsuch.
now that he is threatening to withhold Obamacare payments to insurance companies... if he has that power... Obamacare will be repealed.
Nope. It's the other way around. Everyone down at the DNC wants Obamacare to fail so that Trump will fail but out in the real world both dem and republican congressmen -and senators up for re-election- are getting the living bejesus beat out of them out in their home districts for doing nothing to fix it. They don't even dare to go home- ad rates are only going in one direction. And, as discussed, if the whole thing shiites the bed, well then Bernie benefits bigly which divides the dems even more and the progressives will be fielding congressional candidates moreso in 2018.
It's fine for John McCain to get uppity and gum up the work knowing that he will not face another election but the rest of them have to deal with the voters. Trump just watched everyone fold up their tent and declare game over but he knows that they are all a bunch of puzzies who will be back at the table after being back in their home districts for a bit. He is just pouring a little gasoline on that fire so that when the voters ask them what is happening now they will have to say "nothing and without the insurance subsidies expect things to get much worse." Yeh, expect them back at the table. Watching trump fail is not the smoothest way to get re-elected if you have millions of dollars being poured in to your district to convince the voters that they would have had a solution if their rep had not voted against it. Whether that is true or not true is neither here nor there. That's how the political ads will roll and they will have to deal with it.
That whole insurance subsidy thing is a scam anyway. It was supposed to be a way of holding rates down and guaranteeing some level of profit to the companies to keep them as providers and choices. However, 40 percent of counties now have only one provider, rates are at record highs. AND INSURANCE COMPANY PROFITS ARE THROUGH THE ROOF. It's a scam. They just bail out of unprofitable areas, still raise rates in the profitable areas, and then take the subsidies as gravy on top of the gravy. When - not if- they come back to the table there is plenty to talk about in regard to the subsidies even if they are kept. Frigging corporate welfare program that Obama agreed to in order to get insurance company support for CrockCare.
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If I were Trump I would tell congress the last payment is for December 2017. (if he has that power) I would tell them now. And I would tell them for him to sign the bill... tax cuts must arrive at this desk at the same time.
I would also tie all the other reforms he wants to funding bills.
Do what he says or he will veto an blame the dems and the establishment for shutting down congress.
take them all down and out for 3 years.
He would be the coolest president in history if he did that.
No reason not tie... since the establishment has failed him as predicted.
Reince must have been blowing a lot of smoke his way.
I would also tie all the other reforms he wants to funding bills.
Do what he says or he will veto an blame the dems and the establishment for shutting down congress.
take them all down and out for 3 years.
He would be the coolest president in history if he did that.
No reason not tie... since the establishment has failed him as predicted.
Reince must have been blowing a lot of smoke his way.
you believe the press too much.
When govt got shut we loved the savings.
he would be a hero to the vast majority of income taxpayers.
When govt got shut we loved the savings.
he would be a hero to the vast majority of income taxpayers.
The behavior is pretty transparent to anyone who's dealt with try-hards. I remember my buddies back in college recommending "the game" some book on pick up lines and whatnot. It's a good read not in how it teaches you about women (it's kind of useless at that) but it's good at dissecting men's behavior to "be alpha". It's helpful in detecting charlatans and pick apart their actions.