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Perfect Analysis of Trump - MUST READ!!!

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Came across this after a recommendation from MORNING JOE and I found it to be perfect and one of the best analysis of Trump that has yet been produced. It is by Kevin Williamson writing in the conservative NATIONAL REVIEW magazine.

Donald Trump Can?t Close Deal, Failing Salesman | National Review

It helps if you have seen the excellent film or play GLENGARY GLEN ROSS and its slimy world of dealing in fake real estate. But even if you have not, it still rings loudly and clearly like the bells of Notre Dame being called to life by an angry Quasimodo trying to repel the assault on the cathedral.

Rarely do you read a piece that is just so spot on.

Enjoy. Here is a small sample but please do read the entire essay.

Trump is the political version of a pickup artist, and Republicans — and America — went to bed with him convinced that he was something other than what he is. Trump inherited his fortune but describes himself as though he were a self-made man. We did not elect Donald Trump; we elected the character he plays on television. 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 wants to be John Wayne, but what he is is “Woody Allen without the humor.” Peggy Noonan, to whom we owe that observation, has his number: He is soft, weak, whimpering, and petulant. He isn’t smart enough to do the job and isn’t man enough to own up to the fact. For all his gold-plated toilets, he is at heart that middling junior salesman watching Glengarry Glen Ross and thinking to himself: “That’s the man I want to be.” How many times do you imagine he has stood in front of a mirror trying to project like Alec Baldwin? Unfortunately for the president, it’s Baldwin who does the good imitation of Trump, not the other way around.
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haymarket said:
Came across this after a recommendation from MORNING JOE and I found it to be perfect and one of the best analysis of Trump that has yet been produced. It is by Kevin Williamson writing in the conservative NATIONAL REVIEW magazine.

Donald Trump Can?t Close Deal, Failing Salesman | National Review

It helps if you have seen the excellent film or play GLENGARY GLEN ROSS and its slimy world of dealing in fake real estate. But even if you have not, it still rings loudly and clearly like the bells of Notre Dame being called to life by an angry Quasimodo trying to repel the assault on the cathedral.

Rarely do you read a piece that is just so spot on.

Enjoy. Here is a small sample but please do read the entire essay.
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That people fell for this guy is truly the most disappointing thing I have ever seen my countrymen do in all the years I have been paying attention. It has completely shot my faith in the decision making skills of anyone to the Right of Center.

IMO, they need to own it, apologize profusely and push for this clown's impeachment.
 
haymarket said:
Came across this after a recommendation from MORNING JOE and I found it to be perfect and one of the best analysis of Trump that has yet been produced. It is by Kevin Williamson writing in the conservative NATIONAL REVIEW magazine.

Donald Trump Can?t Close Deal, Failing Salesman | National Review

It helps if you have seen the excellent film or play GLENGARY GLEN ROSS and its slimy world of dealing in fake real estate. But even if you have not, it still rings loudly and clearly like the bells of Notre Dame being called to life by an angry Quasimodo trying to repel the assault on the cathedral.

Rarely do you read a piece that is just so spot on.

Enjoy. Here is a small sample but please do read the entire essay.
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Not much different than what I felt all along. But you are asking for it citing Morning Joe :thumbs:
 
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WCH said:
Establishment pukes. Exactly the people who need to go.

BTW: you and Hay are up for DP drama queen of the year nomination.
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lol....the bold says it all about your post.:failpail:
 
calamity said:
That people fell for this guy is truly the most disappointing thing I have ever seen my countrymen do in all the years I have been paying attention. It has completely shot my faith in the decision making skills of anyone to the Right of Center.

IMO, they need to own it, apologize profusely and push for this clown's impeachment.
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I think a lot less people fell for him than felt they had no choice. I'm betting many democrats felt the same about Hillary.


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WCH said:
Establishment pukes. Exactly the people who need to go.

BTW: you and Hay are up for DP drama queen of the year nomination.
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That is great news!!! Those type of awards are a badge of honor given out by right wingers for a job well done.
 
blackjack50 said:
I think a lot less people fell for him than felt they had no choice. I'm betting many democrats felt the same about Hillary.


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Democrats had Hillary or the wild eyed socialist to choose from. R's had 18 candidates, some of whom were very good.

No sale.
 
WCH said:
Establishment pukes. Exactly the people who need to go.

BTW: you and Hay are up for DP drama queen of the year nomination.
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Trump has gotten rid of more people he himself brought in than "the establishment" he promised to kick out.
 
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This, to me, says all we need to know about Trump.


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blackjack50 said:
I think a lot less people fell for him than felt they had no choice. I'm betting many democrats felt the same about Hillary.


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I personally know several people who now believe they made a mistake in thinking that. ;)
 
katzgar said:
I have trouble distinguishing between jokes sarcasm and stupidity on these forums
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I'm with you on that. Hard with only written word and no facial expression of voice inflection. Even with emoticons.

:doh
 
I can forgive "Falling" for Trump. It's not 100% foolish to have been swayed by his persona, considering so much of political campaigns is a "show", he does OK on the stage as it were.
I cannot forgive the supporting of Trump after he became POTUS, based on his own words and deeds.
 
katzgar said:
I have trouble distinguishing between jokes sarcasm and stupidity on these forums
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Rexedgar said:
I'm with you on that. Hard with only written word and no facial expression of voice inflection. Even with emoticons.

:doh
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After a certain point, though, you should at least know whose opinions are whose. If I saw TurtleDude say we need to pass tighter restrictions on gun ownership, I would be able to tell he's bull****ting, even though he didn't use any fancy emojis or anything. If I see Kobie or Disneydude calling something "fake news," I can practically SMELL the sarcasm.

Katzgar has had at least two run-ins with me over the jokes that only ever seem to go over his head, and his head alone.
 
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Jesse Booth said:
After a certain point, though, you should at least know whose opinions are whose. If I saw TurtleDude say we need to pass tighter restrictions on gun ownership, I would be able to tell he's bull****ting, even though he didn't use any fancy emojis or anything. If I see Kobie or Disneydude calling something like "fake news," I can practically SMELL the sarcasm.

Katzgar has had at least two run-ins with me over the jokes that only ever seem to go over his head, and his head alone.
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I tend to care less about when dicks post
 
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