The Economist: Donald Trump's Conflicts of Interest

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  1. LafayetteBis

    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Donald Trump’s conflicts of interest - excerpt:
    The guy is a born 'n bred businessman, and has been since birth - the son of German immigrants. (A hardy stock.)

    He will not be able to keep his hands off the business and his kids haven't the experience to run them alone. Managing America from the Oval Office and running Trump enterprises are equally challenging positions.

    Aside from his "Gotta Be Top-Gun" mentality, it is difficult to imagine why, with his business empire on shaky ground, he took on the presidency as well.

    Something has gotta give - and it will ...
     
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    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    RUBBISH SLOGANIZING

    The vote was counted and all that matters is those who voted, presuming the votes counted where honest and without external interference. If one doesn't like the supposed facts of the matter, that's too bad. Let's see what investigators find, and if there was no finagling or interference then so much the better for our voting-system. Which is ancient and creaky.

    America's "democracy" is typical of American business - it has been manhandled in such a way to influence political opinion by means of the BoobTube that eats most of the budget of an electoral campaign. The problem is, I suggest, that Americans are affected greatly by the publicity. And this time around, it is worse than ever.

    One estimate is here: Media Executives Are Salivating Over Big Money Flooding the 2016 Election Cycle - excerpt:
    What's important is a politician's "platform" - meaning, what they "stand for" in terms of political outlook or thinking on matters. And, as regards the matter of "platforms" - in the context of this last election - I gave Hillary an "A" and Trump a "D-". (And Bernie was A+ because he showed solidly how Income Disparity was deeply affecting America and the key reason for the present impoverishment of millions of fellow Americans.)

    Trump was all over the place and his "Make America Great Again" was just rubbish BoobTube sloganizing. The hard-part boyz-'n-girlz is in contending with intractable problems and finding solutions that do not suit everybody but solve nonetheless the most acute problems. (The biggest of which at the moment in America is both Income & Wealth Disparity!)

    Because, instead of thinking, people actually believe the soap-powder boobtube merchandizing of candidates - who all "wash whiter than white!"

    Stoopid is as stoopid does. (Forrest Gump) An' whatcha get is a Donald Trumpery ...
     
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    Kind of like "hope and change" no?
     

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