Jason Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/trump-allegedly-suggested-selling-puerto-rico-as-hurricane-maria-approached/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted July 11, 2020 Author Share Posted July 11, 2020 I wonder if based GEOTUS ever considered killing two birds with one stone and just detonating the anti-hurricane nuke over Puerto Rico. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chadatog Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 This checks out that a "real-estate developer" would want to sell Puerto Rico and buy Greenland. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 "We need a business man to run the country like a business" needs to join "taxes pay for themselves" and "We'll be greeted a liberators" on the conservative Mt. Rushmore of bad ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarSolo Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 54 minutes ago, Chairslinger said: "We need a business man to run the country like a business" needs to join "taxes pay for themselves" and "We'll be greeted a liberators" on the conservative Mt. Rushmore of bad ideas. Also, “Hitler isn’t our problem” completes the four heads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted July 12, 2020 Author Share Posted July 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Chairslinger said: "We need a business man to run the country like a business" needs to join "taxes pay for themselves" and "We'll be greeted a liberators" on the conservative Mt. Rushmore of bad ideas. It might have kinda-sorta made sense for someone like Romney, since the skills you need to be successful at being the CEO of a publicly owned company do loosely translate to what it takes to be president, but not really for a dude whose business strategy boils down to money laundering and serial abuse of bankruptcy protections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Jason said: the skills you need to be successful at being the CEO of a publicly owned company do loosely translate to what it takes to be president This myth needs to die. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted July 12, 2020 Author Share Posted July 12, 2020 8 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: This myth needs to die. Operative word was loosely. I'm not advocating it, but it does make a tiny bit more sense than if you're talking about a con artist like Trump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 I mean not even loosely. If a business fails, shareholders and employees go down. If the government fails, we all feel the effects. The incentives and goals are wholly different too. They're nothing alike. Interpersonal relationships only matter in a company for a CEO depends on the board and a few other execs and customers and suppliers. not a 500+ member democratically elected chamber, and a cabinet and a judiciary. It's not the same! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 The only way I'd say that any skills translate is in the sense of being able to hire/delegate for certain role. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marioandsonic Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 26 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: The only way I'd say that any skills translate is in the sense of being able to hire/delegate for certain role. And as we've seen with Trump, he is fucking awful at that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 53 minutes ago, marioandsonic said: And as we've seen with Trump, he is fucking awful at that. In all fairness, he's also a terrible businessman. His most successful businesses have been money laundering and lending his name to foreign nationals to give themselves a greater sense of legitimacy. So yeah, he's been running the country exactly like any of his other businesses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anathema- Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 It worked for specifically Romney because he was also a governor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputator Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 I'm sure multiple, actually intelligent politicians floated the same idea for my state Florida. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 5 minutes ago, Reputator said: I'm sure multiple, actually intelligent politicians floated the same idea for my state Florida. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 We should use Europa Universalis and Victoria 2 as a test for public office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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