The Refried Presidency: Trump V 2.0 Pretty Hateful Machine/Fossil Fuel Boogaloo

I'm confused, are you saying if Reagan made a comment like that he wouldn't survive or that he wouldn't survive Trump?

If it's the former, possibly. He had a tendency to go on bizarre right wing talking points that his handlers had to make sure he'd stay on script. He also defended Watergate, but he also doesn't have the tone. It's possible he doesn't survive it. If it's the latter, I think he could. Much as I despise Reagan, he always struck me as having a way of just making people look silly. A guy like Trump thrives on negativity, Reagan was the opposite.

 

With a side of suzerainty. The New York trash-hauling background is still going to make an appearance.

Nah, just cut out the middle-man, make them out to Cash

 

Years of media coverage and The Apprentice portraying him as some sort of genius businessman will do to that a lot of people.

The thing I think is, The Apprentice especially gave him this air of wealth and how wealthy people act, when a wealth manager who was on the show said Trump wasn't even as wealthy as some of the clients he had. And given my interactions with some wealthy people, they're nothing like Trump.

 

Or in Rubles.

 

Da, tovarisch

 

I mean really, who needs national parks and protected areas anyway?

 

Exactly... who wants all that tedious and unnecessary paperwork. Who needs the ag,

 

I can't wait for Elon to completely pollute wherever he is going to build his next mega battery factory or launch pad. It would be too bad if children born to MAGAs in those locations came down with horrific birth defects.

 

What Would Hayduke Do?

 

While I don’t disagree with the point you’re making…they’re not going to even need to do this. It won’t even go to court.

The parents will be deported. The parents will be forced to decide to take their minor children with them or 1)turn over legal guardianship to someone they know or 2)turn over guardianship to the state. It won’t be the us government “tearing up families”…it will be the families themselves.

Why go through the difficult and time consuming legal process of EO’s and injunctions and appeals in order to be cruel and awful to people when you can be just as cruel and awful and guarantee you will win in any court…anywhere in America.

 

I volunteer to have Elon come to my office and "fire" me first. Let's find out how "hardcore" that little bitch is.

Going to GAO for that list is exactly what he'd do. And they'd go --"Uh, we don't keep lists like that. Didn't anyone tell you how government works?"

 

He sold himself as a New York real estate mogul, but he wasn't. The Trump Organization was mostly a property management company. Trump burned his bridges in the '90's with legitimate lenders, so he couldn't get the types of loans needed to be a player in the NYC real estate market.

 

Then The Apprentice comes along and he has respectability again. I think if that show doesn't air, he'd have been a nobody, a cautionary tale, and a brief segment in some 80s nostalgia show.

 

I wonder how much the Apprentice had to do with his subsequent deals where shady overseas interests used him to launder money.

Trump "owns" a bunch of golf courses, but he's almost certainly a minority owner fronting for silent partners with complicated ownership structures running through Malta or wherever. Golf courses are notoriously bad investments, unless you don't care about actually making money off them because you're using them as a way to get around Know Your Customer laws.