Donald Trump

[Elbow beards]

It's called human nature, mate. Where you're stood can have a profound effect on your view of the drawbridge.

Divide and conquer, get ever minority hating each other then rule them all.

 

[SilverFox2]

He's an idiot, and I don't think he even wants to be president. He just wants to be famous. He's being controlled and it's fucking frightening.

Agreed.
He´s also a megalomaniac in the Murdoch mould feeling invincible and running the Country like he runs his businesses with hubris and ruthless quick decisions that favour the ones who subscribed to his election fund.

Perhaps he realises it is a temporary phase so is determined to get as much done overnight as possible so that when he eventually is stalled by the system one way or another some of it may stick.

However, I think that running a country like a business is no bad thing. Perhaps most public services in the UK never mind US would benefit by having to achieve their objectives not only within their budget but also having the same requirement re profit from that budget as private industry. Not a political statement simply good sense. to prevent waste and over staffing.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Agreed.
He´s also a megalomaniac in the Murdoch mould feeling invincible and running the Country like he runs his businesses with hubris and ruthless quick decisions that favour the ones who subscribed to his election fund.

Perhaps he realises it is a temporary phase so is determined to get as much done overnight as possible so that when he eventually is stalled by the system one way or another some of it may stick.

However, I think that running a country like a business is no bad thing. Perhaps most public services in the UK never mind US would benefit by having to achieve their objectives not only within their budget but also having the same requirement re profit from that budget as private industry. Not a political statement simply good sense. to prevent waste and over staffing.

You can't run a public service precisely like a business. There are different considerations, objectives and goals. Would you run the army like a business?

 

[geoff clipp]

Agreed.
He´s also a megalomaniac in the Murdoch mould feeling invincible and running the Country like he runs his businesses with hubris and ruthless quick decisions that favour the ones who subscribed to his election fund.

Perhaps he realises it is a temporary phase so is determined to get as much done overnight as possible so that when he eventually is stalled by the system one way or another some of it may stick.

However, I think that running a country like a business is no bad thing. Perhaps most public services in the UK never mind US would benefit by having to achieve their objectives not only within their budget but also having the same requirement re profit from that budget as private industry. Not a political statement simply good sense. to prevent waste and over staffing.

The problem with this is that a lot of the private companies we have running our public services simply aren't able to do it at a profit. We have train franchises being guaranteed certain levels of profit by the UK government, meaning companies running piss poor services like Southern Trains STILL get a top up off the government. Ive lost count of the number of times the public has had to step in a bail out G4S for providing a failing service. They wouldn't have lasted without the government stepping on to prop them up. These companies we outsource to seem to get the best of both worlds whilst they treat the public with utter contempt.

I was pretty disappointed to see the East coast mainline put back out to tender after a really successful and profitable spell under public ownership recently. Seemed like such a wasted opportunity.

As for healthcare, I don't see how it's possible run it profitably without cutting corners or throwing the most vulnerable to the wolves. I wouldn't trust the companies who are circling in anticipation of a sell off of the NHS one bit. We don't need the NHS to be profitable, we just need it to work for everyone. I just can't believe the likes of G4S or Serco would have the slightest interest in doing the best by everyone.

As for Trump, he's an abject failure as a businessman anyway. He'd be richer if he'd done fuck all since he inherited his money and just left it in a bank.

 

[west didsblue]

Agreed.
He´s also a megalomaniac in the Murdoch mould feeling invincible and running the Country like he runs his businesses with hubris and ruthless quick decisions that favour the ones who subscribed to his election fund.

Perhaps he realises it is a temporary phase so is determined to get as much done overnight as possible so that when he eventually is stalled by the system one way or another some of it may stick.

However, I think that running a country like a business is no bad thing. Perhaps most public services in the UK never mind US would benefit by having to achieve their objectives not only within their budget but also having the same requirement re profit from that budget as private industry. Not a political statement simply good sense. to prevent waste and over staffing.

Problem is he wasn't particularly good at running businesses as he ran four of them into bankruptcy mostly losing other people's money. His one talent is as a salesman to the gullible. His initial inherited wealth and his bravado gave him the platform to convince other people and banks to invest in his business ventures, however his track record in actually running the businesses is fairly poor.

 

[SWP's back]

Anyone else seen the videos of the "anti-fascists" attacking people wanting to watch Milo at Berkeley?

I can't help but feel they don't half look a little but fascist themselves.

The world is going mad.

 

[blueinsa]

Anyone else seen the videos of the "anti-fascists" attacking people wanting to watch Milo at Berkeley?

I can't help but feel they don't half look a little but fascist themselves.

The world is going mad.

To coin a poster on here the other day...."nowt less liberal than a liberal who doesn't like what he is hearing"

 

[SWP's back]

To coin a poster on here the other day...."nowt less liberal than a liberal who doesn't like what he is hearing"

Yeah it's all very weird.

And Milo must be the first openly gay Jewish Nazi on the planet.

(According to some of the media atleast)

 

[aguero93:20]

You can't run a public service precisely like a business. There are different considerations, objectives and goals. Would you run the army like a business?

No, I'd set up a private security company, let the army train all my staff before I poached them and then gradually use bribes and promises of lucrative positions to slowly take all the profitable areas the army operate in away from them to the point where they became nothing more than a glorified third level institution that existed only to serve my sector, funded by the public purse (as I'd be at this stage as a vital part of services required by the nation would cease to be available if my company ended up in any trouble, leaving me "too big to fail" and first in line for lucrative grants and bailouts on top of my increasingly tasty Government contracts.

:)

 

[@BluePhil8]

Anyone else seen the videos of the "anti-fascists" attacking people wanting to watch Milo at Berkeley?

I can't help but feel they don't half look a little but fascist themselves.

The world is going mad.

Yeah.

Milo was interviewed on Tucker Carlson tonight yesterday as well.

Completely unacceptable no matter what party/beliefs held. Even the Westboro Baptist Church aren't beaten (due to their reputation for suing mainly) but bikers usually just block them out with numbers. No violence required. The style of the assaults is just revolting as well, outnumbering people and sucker punching etc. And this is on a university campus where free speech should be celebrated and you should want to listen to opposing views. Glad Trump has threatened to remove federal funding as the administration has basically supported this vile, illegal and anticonstitutional behaviour.