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darkknight109 posted...

Zeus posted...

Maybe if you had experience dealing with grocers, you could recognize apples and oranges.

It's not, though. Trump's world, and all of his experience, is in real estate. Just because that involved him occasionally meeting with politicians does not mean he has any meaningful experience in politics. Political process and negotiations are nothing like their real estate equivalents. This is exactly why Trump keeps making so many easily avoidable mistakes and fucking up his own agenda - because he literally has no idea what he's doing, thanks to the fact he doesn't know politics and doesn't care to listen to the people around him who do.

I perpetually see this in the pattern of Trump's conduct. He keeps acting like a real estate tycoon, then is shocked when it doesn't work in the political arena. Tactics and strategies that would work fine in the business world simply do not work at all in the political realm because the goals are different, as is the nature of the contest.

Which is still a silly argument and a false equivocation. If we're going with medical analogies, electing a senator to the presidency is like asking a podiatrist do brain surgery based on the logic that it's a doctor performing a medical procedure. The fact of the matter is that *nobody* -- excluding maybe a VP -- is ever truly prepared for the presidency. And most governmental roles impart no better advantage than being a real estate mogul when it comes to building connections. And, at best, most political posts convey nothing more than minor procedural knowledge specific to the role itself.

As for Trump not taking counsel, it's probably as much -- if not more -- a matter of counsel not taking Trump. The Republican establishment didn't want Trump to win. Otherwise, many of the issues he's had are problems *many* candidates have had. For instance, after winning the election, some of his representatives got in trouble for allegedly representing the US government... despite the fact that was literally what previous administrations had done. There's a pretty substantial political and media bias against Trump, as well as numerous interests who *want* him to fail at all costs because Trump broke the system -- he was a total outsider who managed to get into the highest office in the land. The powers-that-be have a vested interest in doing everything they can to ensure that doens't happen again.
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