On 02/13/2016 07:33 AM, olliesed...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
I don't understand why everyone is so confounded by Trump. I sat in a
lot of corporate meetings and men (and women) like him are everywhere.
We called them "frat rats" back in the day. They're are the pedigreed
who have the connections and are groomed to run companies. They have
the mindset of a salesman. I had a CEO once ask me before a company
meeting "is Compuserve the Internet"? Mind you this was the mid 1990s
and he had been in software for almost 10 years and didn't know the
difference.
What I observed is how "brute force" these people operate and forge
ahead blindly. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. Many
bought into the business school rage of "acquisitions" which cost many
people their jobs because when you acquire a company you lay off
divisions that duplicate what you already have.
Good example of blindly forging ahead and blundering would be telecom
execs like Randall Stephenson probably talking up the profits that ATT
would make off their IPTV when trends changed and people started cable
cutting. First reaction was to punish cutters by throttling them which
is technically illegal because you've paid for a service that is
supposed to provide you with a certain bitrate. So then ATT buys
DirecTV and is try to wean IPTV customers off so they can use those IPTV
pipes for cord cutters. :-D
I guess it is surprising to a lot of people how ugly corporate
business has become, with a winner take all/loser gets nothing
attitude, and a flood of overly macho, war and sports oriented
rhetoric. Guys like Trump are a dime a dozen. People make him out to
be some sort of anomaly, perhaps not wanting to believe the country is
full of such individuals. Ooops.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote :
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <emily.mae50@...> wrote :
Yep, this nails it pretty well. He's in it for the *win* and
increasingly seems to believe his own narrative. He's completely insane.
Yes he is and those who find him to be their 'answer' are blind and
committed to repeating history within 70 years of WWII with all its
atrocities and brutalities brought on by Hitler and his henchmen. I
don't get it, not at all. What a stink, what hate lies within the
crevices of American society and Trump is someone so full of the same
that he has appealed to those who want an excuse to let all of this
pus, this rottenness come to the surface. But, this is no purification
process, this is becoming a mob scene where the worst of what makes up
human's baser characteristics is taking over. I am becoming more
horrified by the day.
---In FairfieldLi! f...@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote :
http://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-the-most-dangerous-face-in-the-republican-crowd/
