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politicaljunkie41910

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14. Thank your friend for me for having such good common sense. He and I would get along fine.
Sun Nov 27, 2016, 10:59 PM
Nov 2016

Your friend has been saying what I've been screaming at the TV set about for the past year and a half. Trump seems to have no intellectual curiosity about what he doesn't know about the government and running it and what he needs to know prior to taking its reigns. He has done nothing in the time since he announced to prepare himself or to attempt to learn what he doesn't know. Instead he spent the past 18 months name calling and bragging about himself. Trump likes to brag about how much money and buildings he has but what he is in short supply of and needs the most is to buy a CLUE. He has no humility and neither do his children; otherwise they wouldn't be so self absorbed as to believe they are qualified to be their father's presidential advisers while running the Trump family empire. Either there is no family business empire to run or they are as clueless as their father to think that being the leader of the free world is Drumpf change.

I realize that President Obama made the Presidency look easy and that now every white man in America thinks he can do it, because, you know, if a black man can do it, it must be easy because after all, I'm white, and gifted with great powers and intellect simply by having been born 'white'. Trump has had about as many failures if not more, as he has had successes. Others who make a living at following and being knowledgeable about his net worth have said that if he just took the money he inherited from his father and invested in CDs, at a marginal rate of return that he would have as much wealth, if not more, as he has now. Running Trump enterprises, whatever that is, is not the equivalent of running the entire US Government and being the leader of the free world.

I recall when the reporters visited Trump Towers several months after Trump announced, they all said the same thing. "there is no evidence of a presidential campaign there, only a handful of Trump employees, literally just a handful, and a lot of empty rooms." There was not even any evidence of an active Trump enterprises workforce. Trump and his kids all have large offices, but Trump hasn't really been building anything of his own lately. Instead choosing to license his "Brand" to other actual builders. His two most recent projects being converting the old post office in Wash D.C. into a hotel, and building a golf course in Scotland. Being President is much harder than building a golf course.

And most people would not make such a claim. Unfortunately a minority has voted for guillaumeb Nov 2016 #1
"Fasten your seatbelts" longship Nov 2016 #10
That clip never fails to make me smile. narnian60 Nov 2016 #21
AND you can enjoy an abbreviated version as a GIF ... 66 dmhlt Nov 2016 #25
K&R shraby Nov 2016 #2
This is great! madaboutharry Nov 2016 #3
Thanks for sharing this...the analogy is so apropos... iluvtennis Nov 2016 #4
"You may be the growing majority, but you ain't there yet" Bohunk68 Nov 2016 #22
sure you can call it that...I second ur monicker - Cowardly Lying Orange Cokehead Caligula iluvtennis Nov 2016 #40
At least he would have been a live person in a suit, some voted for an empty suit. lonestarnot Nov 2016 #5
Spot-On! Martin Eden Nov 2016 #6
K&R! DemonGoddess Nov 2016 #7
K&R for sure! montana_hazeleyes Nov 2016 #8
It is strictly, absolutely, totally, completely, undeniably, 100% the fault of every last person world wide wally Nov 2016 #9
I have mixed feelings about wishing ill on the people who voted for him renate Nov 2016 #41
They only need to be smart enough to switch off Fox News... world wide wally Nov 2016 #42
Excellent metaphor triron Nov 2016 #11
An excellent post from the pilot. They only way they would have EVER voted YES... Red Oak Nov 2016 #12
So... hippywife Nov 2016 #26
Yes, or they would not have voted for Trump Red Oak Nov 2016 #27
Interesting... hippywife Nov 2016 #28
Excellent! However, obviously many of your neighbors held their nose and voted for Trump. Red Oak Nov 2016 #32
I'm not saying that at all. hippywife Nov 2016 #34
I think it is more ths chart... Red Oak Nov 2016 #39
Captain Drumpf! keepapart Nov 2016 #13
Thank your friend for me for having such good common sense. He and I would get along fine. politicaljunkie41910 Nov 2016 #14
Or maybe "running the Trump empire" isn't really much. raging moderate Nov 2016 #24
... Spitfire of ATJ Nov 2016 #15
Winner Coyotl Nov 2016 #19
... 2naSalit Nov 2016 #30
And Keep in Mind... kebob Nov 2016 #16
I can fly the plane... Oldtimeralso Nov 2016 #17
More amazing still, if you'd come in second place and then they made you Captain. Coyotl Nov 2016 #18
K&R! gademocrat7 Nov 2016 #20
but but but Hillary had a private server!!!! Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #23
This guy is now being attacked on Facebook by the Alt-right mainer Nov 2016 #29
No surprise there.....nt 2naSalit Nov 2016 #31
This is essentially what Plato said about democracy, though he used a ship instead of an airplane tclambert Nov 2016 #33
1 Angry Dragon Nov 2016 #38
Make Southwest great again! Initech Nov 2016 #35
K&R. Paladin Nov 2016 #36
I showed this to my now-retired... 3catwoman3 Nov 2016 #37
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