Groups hire lobbyists, lobbyists talk to and influence congress critters. Kinda how it works, right?
So your argument is, as long as you string together enough false comparisons, somewhere along those lines, Trump is just like a lobbyist? I'm not sure what your point is so far. That Trump is going to work out deals with lobbyists? Or that Trump is going to work out political deals while
explicitly showing he has no problem throwing away the very constitution that Libertarians, Conservatives and conservatives in hiding bray about when it suits them? Or that working out deals in a contained atmosphere is the same as those conducted in the public sphere? Either way, the entire thing falls apart when we list the number of ways that being president is
nothing like being a lobbyist or for that matter a private investor making deals with other private investors - which let's face it, that's what Trump is.
No, I'm responding to your parallel, where you say that a board is all falling into lock step, and it's not true, any more so than the lobbyists representing their groups, leaning on their congress critters.
Lol... wha? I
NEVER said anything even remotely related to that. I said that the
dealmaking Trump talks about is done by a
very small number of people, looking out for
their own interest. If nothing else, the fact that they're looking out for
their (this is a possessive noun, it's key) own interests would mean that they
aren't always
falling into lockstep.
That said, what Trump talks about is considerably smaller scale (not to mention, entirely
inapplicable) to the dealmaking you and Trump think people in congress engage in. Not to mention, slightly more complex as it involves all of the divisions I just pointed out in the previous post. That's
kind of the entire point. That it went way over your head, and you decided to make a straw man out of it does not surprise me.
No, the fundamental process of arriving at a deal is pretty much the same between business and government. Competing interests, finding common ground, and a deal where both get something, but not everything they wanted. So tell me, how's this different than governing and congress?
Lmao, yes, I made a deal last night for 3 pieces of artwork and got paid 6 months of a McDonald's employees full time salary. I feel like I have the capability of being a lawmaker because we have the same supposed fundamentals and some guy on the internet says so. Do you honestly know how silly your premise sounds? It sounds as idiotic as the guy who said that all you needed to be president is US citizenship and being
over 35.
That's why college dropouts are running wild in congress and they run government. I am being extremely facetious because your arguments deserve it. So let's be serious:
No, making somewhat mediocre business deals in the age where 25 year olds become billionaires does not mean you are qualified to be president anymore than they are.
The fundamental differences are this:
1. 300 million people divided along dozens of interests, and political concerns, geographic lines, represented by 100s of people with lobbyists influencing them. Slightly different than 15-20 guys in a boardroom unless of course, you can show how it's the same.
2. The president has no role in assessing any of those group concerns. The most he can do is block the process until he gets whatever he wants out of a bill, and that's hardly "dealmaking". It's especially inapplicable to well... Slightly different than being a CEO in some company, and simply firing whomever stands in your way and is somewhat bellow your pay grade.
3. The president, has no role in dealing with the personal working relationships formed between lobbyists and congressmen... which is you know, slightly different than 15-20 guys getting together in a boardroom and deciding what to do as a group.
So again, how is Trump's job like the presidents or for that matter a lobbyist?
:lol:
