There’s no such thing as a quiet Sunday night, is there?
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So anyway!
I kinda like some trash TV…so I watch The Apprentice. Frankly the UK version is better than the US version, and the NZ version might be the best I’ve seen.
What I’ve seen of Trump is that he hires well and is outspoken and brash and his people put up with that or depart. And his executive decisions frequently undermine his intelligent hires.
It’s just a stupid TV show. But if the producers of a TV show don’t even manage to hide that, then guess what?
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Well at least he’ll be prepared for failure to run the government like a business?
Time to start prepping the bunker, step one: buy a bunker.
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Introducing the Trump Bunker! Visually and morally unappealing, it promises to keep the bad guys out but has the potential to collapse without warning.
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Christ. Imagine living in a bunker with his name painted in 10 foot letters on the wall. I bet the relief of being crushed to death one would feel once the walls finally caved in would be pretty amazing though.
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Eeeeh, you know how it is. Just cos there’s not many new articles posted doesn’t mean the peanut gallery is gonna pack up and go home. We need arguments to read, dammit!
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There was no argument. An astroturfer came in on a flaming chariot to abuse regulars. When I called them out on their non-contributions they started abusing everyone here so I asked our resident don’t-push-your-luck dragon to take out the garbage.
Thanks @Falcor.
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In his second term, Ronald Reagan was down to a simple mind. After his staff had to keep “explaining” what he had said in press conferences, he stopped having them altogether.
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Ah yes, the jellybean trick from 30 Rock
Jack Donaghy: Back in the day when Reagan’s brain was… “Resting”… They used to put jellybeans in his cheeks and dub over his slurping what they wanted him to say.
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Hooray everyone! Falcor’s back!
silver lining spotted 
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It’s okay for people to disagree. Tolerating and considering different opinions helps nurture better trust with others over the long term.
The deficit does not worry me. I do worry there’s too much economic unfairness and violence. In general, we should regulate corporations more and regulate people less.
We could also respond better to people’s health and economic emergencies … try to prevent more harm before it happens.
Do you agree with me? What do you think might improve some aspect of the situation?
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If anyone thinks Trump is vulnerable to a reality check they haven’t been paying attention. The idea that reality will swoop in and save us from the crazy ideas in people’s heads is a fantasy of intelligent people who already like reality. Sorry, but reality is a arch-nerd - completely unpopular.
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I think that article strikes me the most when Paris comments about it. Sounds more of a business minded person then Donald. Though I wonder if she’d make the same amount if she was a Buffet grandchild.
“My grandfather and great grandfather created such a huge empire. As a little girl, I really looked up to them and wanted to do something of my own. I could never have become a trust-fund kid and lived off a monthly allowance. As a teenager, I always said I wanted to make my own money so I never had to ask for anything,” Hilton said in an interview with Forbes.
“Even if I’m tired after a month of travel, I‘m going to get up and go because it’s not just about me. There are other people whose jobs depend on my getting to work. I think about the team in our Beverly Hills office, I think about the people we employ around the world. I love that I get to create employment opportunities for people all over the globe – that really motivates me,” she added.
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A line of thought I had last night after the troll - maybe Trump could spin his lousy businesses in a different way (the idea of one person actually running 500 companies being utter bullshit anyway) - he could argue that his businesses were a way of him creating work for other people at the selfless sacrifice of his own personal wealth, which would obviously have been much greater with just sensible investments.
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Lesson to take away from this situation: You don’t have to be a good business person to stay rich, just slightly smarter than the rubes you plan to sell to / take from . Somehow Trump has managed to gain this air of a successful rags to riches every-man that resonates with blue collar people. Even my father (who is not a Trump supporter by any means) talked about how Trump was the first to introduced bonuses for finishing construction jobs early. Which may seem like a great idea, but I’m extremely curious if Trump intentionally went bankrupt to pay cents on the dollar of those bonuses for the hustle and sweat off the back of poor/middle class families. And if that situation happened to be true Trump is running one of the largest cons in history, and people are praising him for shitting all over them while begging for another heaping helping.
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Actually, that sounds like an open invitation to OH&S and building code violations.
Construction is already amongst the most dangerous work available. Hurried building = dead construction workers.
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Right, but you are assuming that Trump would care about bodily harm to poor people. And he might have been if the government leveled any charges against him, but it more than likely that ax would have fallen on the construction company.
Exploitation of vulnerability or weakness or other circumstances does not require intelligence.
Calling wealthy people “smart” is the preferred rationalizing nomenclature for what amounts to avoiding responsibility. Smart sounds a lot better than greedy or untrustworthy or irresponsible.
Making profit from, say, canceling your employees’ health insurance … or borrowing from their pension fund doesn’t require intelligence so much as heartlessness.
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