Mine fields do a pretty good job.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Andrews
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 11:39 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT. BRING OUT THE KOOL AIDE VATS. The true, correct
story of what happened at Donald Trump’s inauguration - The Washington Post
Last successful wall to seriously keep people on one side or the
other... Berlin.... Do we really want machine gun nests with
overlapping fields of fire and land mines? ( yes I am a troll too,
sometimes )...
On 01/26/2017 10:21 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
I am just suggesting that is a pile of crap to manage, it must take
quite a few people. I think he is a successful manager of a large bunch
of organizations.
To do that you have to be able to make decisions and move to the next
item on the list.
As far as being in over your head as a president, there are a bazillion
little things that you would not know. For example, go build the wall.
OK are you going to obtain easements, are you going to do eminent
domain, are you going to put on in Mexico without permission?
Are you going to obey NEPA laws? Things like that. I know about NEPA,
am pretty much a NEPA expert when it comes to putting fiber lines in
public lands, but almost nobody knows this stuff. I am sure there are
parallels in every thing a president touches. Laws and regs that must
be obeyed.
Then, you have all the intel and secret stuff that probably dumps on you
first day in office. All kinds of selecting the best of two bad
situations. Homeland type of crap.
Then they pull out the UFO file.....
I don’t think anyone is prepared. Yeah, Ike was probably the best
prepared. Governors are probably better prepared than Senators.
You gotta pick good experts to advise you and hope for the best.
*From:* Ken Hohhof
*Sent:* Thursday, January 26, 2017 11:13 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG]OT. BRING OUT THE KOOL AIDE VATS. The true,
correct story of what happened at Donald Trump’s inauguration - The
Washington Post
Does he give one of his lieutenants free reign over that Central Park
merry-go-round?
I think a lot of those deals are either licensing his name, or providing
management services. Both essentially pure profit. I’m not saying he’s
stupid.
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Chuck McCown
*Sent:* Thursday, January 26, 2017 12:01 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT. BRING OUT THE KOOL AIDE VATS. The true,
correct story of what happened at Donald Trump’s inauguration - The
Washington Post
Whole pile of companies and properties:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trump_Organization
Looks like a large outfit to me.
*From:*Ken Hohhof
*Sent:*Thursday, January 26, 2017 10:57 AM
*To:*[email protected]
*Subject:*Re: [AFMUG]OT. BRING OUT THE KOOL AIDE VATS. The true, correct
story of what happened at Donald Trump’s inauguration - The Washington
Post
Well, I’m not sure Eisenhower was in over his head. More like a
vacation after his previous job.
As far as Trump being a brilliant businessman, he’s more like a brand
licenser and reality TV host now that (almost) nobody will loan him
money anymore. I remember him being more of a laughingstock in the 80’s
due to his serial bankruptcies. His modus operandi seems to be:
1) Create chaos
2) Send in the lawyers
…
PROFIT!
If you are willing to be ruthless and screw over your partners, vendors,
and fellow investors, there is always profit to be made. Until people
wise up and won’t deal with you. Then you only have one option
remaining – run for elected office.
I also have a hard time envisioning The Trump Organization as a very
large organization with hundreds of divisions. More like Russian
nesting dolls for tax purposes. Articles I have read about their
offices in Trump Tower say it is pretty spartan. And as far as turning
over day-to-day management to his sons, you don’t think that already
happened over the years? Well, at least Don Jr. Like SNL says, “and
I’m Eric”. Maybe I’m judging him harshly because he looks so strange,
wasn’t he Odo on Star Trek?
I’m sorry, I just don’t see DJT as a business magnate in the same class
with Jack Welch or Warren Buffett. If you pull any list of the top NYC
real estate developers, Trump won’t even be on the list. That’s why the
actual real estate magnates hold him in such low regard. Not that their
opinion is necessarily more important than your average swamp critter.
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Chuck McCown
*Sent:* Thursday, January 26, 2017 11:14 AM
*To:* Animal Farm <[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT. BRING OUT THE KOOL AIDE VATS. The true,
correct story of what happened at Donald Trump’s inauguration - The
Washington Post
I think all presidents quickly realize they are in over their head. No
way you can actually be prepared for the job.
But one thing that Trump has going for him is the proven ability to
organize and run very large organizations with hundreds of divisions.
No way he could have been successful in the business world without the
ability to give his lieutenants free reign.
He is an ass, an megalomaniac, probably a sociopath, narcissistic,
probably delusional – but I have liked everything he has done so far
with the exception of the way he is handling Mexico. I think they need
to build an electronic wall. Fiber optic cable 100% of the border with
cameras each half miles and drones on each camera pole. Crowdsource the
monitoring. Let the Minuteman organizations watch things. Make the
cameras IR so if they see something at night, launch the drone to check
it out.
*From:*Jaime Solorza
*Sent:*Thursday, January 26, 2017 10:04 AM
*To:*Animal Farm
*Subject:*Re: [AFMUG]OT. BRING OUT THE KOOL AIDE VATS. The true, correct
story of what happened at Donald Trump’s inauguration - The Washington
Post
Ha... You'd have better luck getting Trump to agree he is in over his
head than getting me to respect or like him... No sale
On Jan 26, 2017 10:02 AM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote:
Glad to see you are coming around Jaime....
*From:*Jaime Solorza
*Sent:*Wednesday, January 25, 2017 5:20 PM
*To:*Animal Farm
*Subject:*[AFMUG] OT. BRING OUT THE KOOL AIDE VATS. The true, correct
story of what happened at Donald Trump’s inauguration - The Washington
Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/01/24/the-true-correct-story-of-what-happened-at-donald-trumps-inauguration/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_3_na-amp&utm_term=.428e092e7fd8
