Dave Barry and Donald Trump and other things.
 

Dave Barry's 2016 Year in Review | Miami Herald

Quite funny. I did have a hard time voting for Hillary Clinton but she was and is still a much better choice than the man-child Donald Trump.

NEITHER was a "good choice". You'll get more of the same...borrowing, spending, and war.

More than likely, you are right. Kind of two peas in a pod were the two main choices.

Don't be fooled...they were BOTH hand picked. The whole "Trump is a rogue" was political theater, reality TV that Trump played masterfully. He moved his apprentice character into the presidential candidate character. He's playing a role. ALL politicians play a role.

Besides social issues that are meaningless and only serve to keep us divided...the two parties are basically the same. The rich and the big corporations support them both and benefit from either getting elected.

"They" hold one pre-selected "candidate"...their lackey, in one hand and their other, pre-selected lackey in their other hand...and call it a choice for us.

It's NOT a choice. It's them getting who they want. If I tell you I have Coke or Pepsi, pick one, is that really a choice for you? What about orange? mountain dew? Dr Pepper? 7up? Those are the 3rd parties and independents...you SHOULD have voted for whom you WANTED...not who they told you to vote for...or the "other guy" would win.

Meet the new boss...same as the old boss. You had the choice of ANYTHING you wanted...you took their Pepsi.

Yes, Hillary was the better choice of corruption. A serial criminal and pathological liar, Hillary does kind of fit right in the gov. nicely. Just what we needed. Hopefully, she has locked herself into her bunker and has lost the key. It would be karma if she starved to death in a dark hole. Of course, burning to death like Amb Stevens would be preferable justice.

What a surprise Tal started this thread.

Here a bigger surprise, the *itch lost bigly, get over it.

Try and act like a real American and give Trump a chance if in 1-2 years he doesn't come thru fine.

Right. How is he going to come through for a liberal progressive who believes in protecting the environment, women's right to choose, human rights and a certain degree of compassion when dealing with other people.

Clinton was the only viable choice. And I still do not get how someone could vote for someone who lied about 80% of the time and still continues to do so. A little less but this man just twitters whatever comes into his adolescent head.

the environmental issues he is softening on including global warming.
Abortion stance will not change
He has more compassion then I expected, he does care about people


Not according the voters and electoral collage

I think he won something like 30+ states.

So she was NOT viable.

I don't know how you could vote for someone that lied to congress committing perjury, killed 4 in Bengazi, her skimming her foundation to the tune of 225 million in her pocket.

here careless private server......do I really need to list all of it.

I know you can list Trumps negatives too

No candidate will check off every box on your list, one selects the one with the checks in most boxes


I think that unfair he has 40 million followers, so people like it that he speaks his mind.

But why does he do it, that's a bigger question.

Simple answer MSM main stream media screwed him over bigly.

So in using Twitter he circumvents the clueless MSM, brilliant!

So far he appears to on his way to make positive changes, doing a good job picking his cabinet and reaching out to promote biz.

Tell me who ever complained about the costs of Airforce one, the fighter jet contract etc.

Man child...Is Trump STILL living with his parents?

I am getting the impression you voted for Hillary for wackadoodle disability.

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Good cabinet picks? We will see what they do but it looks like the swamp just flooded in via a tidal wave of potential corruption. How do you expect someone who has been out for himself for 70 years to suddenly start thinking of other people?

So if your a businessman you have: no ethics, can't be trusted, and only do things that benefit yourself...

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Dude, you need to be medicated. FYI Hillary lost the election (thanks to Comey and Putin) so get over it, your team won (the country lost). Now the question is; who will you turn your hate towards now that she's not in the picture?

Crooked Hillary lost because she focused on the states she could not lose in. Stupid error, along with lies that were just too much to be forgotten. Plus she is UGLY...

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Hipo(unt...hahaha

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Not right. I respect a lot of businessmen. All of the other Republican opponents Trump faced played rather fair in their campaigns. Trump lied, bullied and conned his way to the nomination. Mainly because people are fed up with politics as usual. But, so far, all I see from Trump is a whole lot of smoke and mirrors while he fills his cabinet with people who are as bad as he is for the most part of doing things for themselves.

Many philanthropic businessmen have repudiated Donald Trump in the strongest of terms as have many historians of stellar reputations.

Hillary Clinton was a bad choice for running against Donald Trump but she still won the popular election by around 2.8 million votes and lost the Electoral College by not all that many people there. She lost some key rust belt states and Wisconsin and a few others.

You respect a lot of businessmen...

You were not "fed up with politics as usual" and you felt things were going well, no change was needed...

"Bad as he is" and "doing things for themselves"...you have low expectations, your a liberal and would have voted for any idiot the DNC nominated. You are a 52%!

"Many philanthropist businessmen" and "historians"...Piece of **** Buffet didn't think Trump could win, he threw a bunch of money at loser Crooked Hillary and who would you expect him to speak negatively about. Who cares what the historian thinks the future brings?

The Wikileaks showed Crooked Hillary screwed Crazy Bernie... and you still voted for her...you don't even respect yourself, how could you respect businessmen?


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What do you mean I do not respect myself? Bernie Saunders was not the candidate of the convention. In hindsight he might have won. Or if the Attorney General would have followed the usual protocol of not butting into the Election with that junk about Antony Wiener's e-mails. He threw the Election to Donald Trump. Clinton had a wide lead before that egregious act by the Attorney General.

I would vote for a man like Bill Gates in a heartbeat over most politicians. But Donald Trump is no Bill Gates. He is a reality star host/a real estate developer and a con man. Also probably a serial sexual harasser and assaulter; defrauder of many; and cheat of many everyday people who worked for him in some way or another.

so let me get this straight Comey and Putin's fault Hillary lost and not her failed campaign nor the allegations of malfeasance and misjudgments. This coupled with Obama's failed legacy

Posters don't trust Trump the businessman but trust corrupt politicians such as Clinton who have essentially established themselves as demigods ignoring the little people after each election.

Trump is a man child. Yet this nation was led by a girlie boy for 8 years with a contrarian agenda wherein the friends became our foes and vice a versa, who continual worked under the cover of darkness, who spend more in 8 years than all presidents combined, who lied into a camera repeatedly for 8 years, who was never properly vetted
ignored the constitution, divided the races.................

all this Democratic skulduggery hidden by the lame street media

so is it an wonder that Trump has ignored the media declaring he will go directly to the people with his message

Dave Barry another progressive pundit who believes his own press. He should couple with Joy Behar and do a point counter point. Wait they can;t it has to be point to point political talk show where they can congratulate each other on who has the best hate description for Trump and family

A progressive scorned........................

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She lost terribly! You all just can't accept it. She was annihilated. She had the worst showing of any candidate in a century. She only beat Trump in 13 states. You people are in some sort of PTSD and cannot accept the fact that she was a scumbag loser, that was outed in public and should have been in jail rather than in the White House. And the latter will catch up to her eventually. You must feel pretty stupid to fall for voting for her based ONLY on the fact that she is a liberal FEMALE. And some would question the second part of that.

So, you feel that a felon should be excused if that felon says they are "sorry" for committing that crime? How gracious of you. Then again, not hard to believe since the left is a contradiction of morals and ethics anyway. They believe it is OK to kill babies but we must forgive the murderer and rapist and please do not execute them. You libtards are unbelievable.

Perfect!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/op...ions.html?_r=0

I happen to respect President Obama quite a bit. There are many problems with ObamaCare which I hope they fix but he has done a great job as President of the United States.

Now Donald Trump seems to be creating basically a government by thieves. They are going to take as much as they can while can and make themselves and their friends even richer.

The world sees Trump for what he is especially Putin.

Are you giving us a preview of your latest fiction novel or are you a prophet and predicting the future. If none of the above, perhaps you will give us some idea where you came up with such a ludicrous imaginary plot. I understand how someone as naive as you can support loser Obama, but to predict what crimes you believe Trump is about to perpetrate, is fantastic. OR, are you just another poor and pathetic loser? I think we all know the answer.

If Tal could predict the future he would not have been so disappointed that Trump won...

Notice he did not dispute that he is a 52%...instead he commented on Obammacare needs some improvements...as I said he would have voted for any person the DNC put on the ballot to protect his wackadoodle check.

Trump is going to stop supporting the lazy and that is what his problem with Trump is all about. Ha, his claim "the businessmen in the cabinet are going to steal all the money" there won't be enough to support the lazy.

Shhhhh, you can hear the brakes on the "Obamma land of the Free Ride" being applied...




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This is what O did...they borrowed a $trillion a year and they looted it. That's WHY someone runs for president or other high office.

Trump and his people will steal as much or more than O and his people stole. Thay ALL steal.

If you were talking about Jeb Bush as the winner then I might agree. Having said that if both the Democrats and some establishment Republicans stage ideological fights at every turn then it will be more difficult for Trump to move forward his agenda.

I responded to the criticism concerning Trump and a number of picks being CEO's. Contrary to what some people think being a businessman is what we need more of in government and less politicians and lawyers. And contrary to such thoughts that business people cannot thrive in politics take a closer look at what they do. Plan, budget, compromise on policy, set 5 year plans, and most importantly are prepared to secure buy-in from owners of their companies, Board of Directors, employees and most importantly their customers

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Just hang on folks. Help is on the way. Jan 20th is right around the corner, so let's hope that petulant Obie will be too busy playing golf or something to cause too much damage on his way out. He is such a poor loser. He must be scared that his puppet master, George Soros will take out his anger on him for Hillary losing. This is going to set back Soros' agenda for a few years.

You are so screwed up, have your priorities so wrong and are so ignorant...it's painful to watch. :oops:

The primary job of business leaders is to increase their sales and stocks...by any means necessary.

If that means laying hordes of people off, sending the manufacturing to other countries or anything else that is detrimental to their employees but increases business...they will do it to increase the share price and thus their bonuses/stock options.

In other words...they look after themselves first.

The leader of a nation (ANY nation) should have as their number one goal...looking out for the majority of its citizens.

Completely opposite agenda...of a CEO, BOD or upper management.

But hey, I wouldn't expect a Trump cultist to understand something so basic...so carry on with your delusions. :popcorn:

Most politicians are lawyers, sister. What is your opinion on what their "number one goal" is? If you are going to use your homemade formula/theory on a businessman, I can't wait to hear what you say about lawyers. Or, in Obie's case Wannabe lawyer. We have seen his "teaching" experience whenever he lectures the country on TV. Proof that he was not really a REAL Professor, just a part-time assistant. Basically, a teacher's aide.

Add yourself to the ignorant list...

The job of the president is to expand the EMPIRE as far as possible.

If that means killing off hordes of people through war, they will use it to expand the empire.

Yes...they look out for themselves first.

The citizens are cannon fodder, the citizens are to do as they're told. There is no "looking out for us", it's the opposite...how can they take MORE advantage of us? How can they get MORE out of us?

It's the SAME as any CEO. The corporation (empire) comes first.

BOTH sides are deluded beyond belief. Your side actually BELIEVES in the joke of "equality" and the greatness of "diversity". Now THAT would be funny if not so sad. After 150 years, they need a quota... Equality...THAT is delusional. Give me an example of this equality.

Wow I am impressed with your understanding of what it takes to be a successful CEO. I am surprised Wharton hasn't recruited you to run their MBA/PHd programs. And your prose so clear, crisp, fluid, masterful and diplomatic. Tis such an honor to learn from such an astute person, such as yourself. Thank you so very much
And

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And thank you, for your lack of a cogent rebuttal to a single one of my points for grudgingly and obliquely admitting I am absolutely correct...and that you are clueless. :thumbup:

I did...and as usual...you ignored it like you ignore all the posts that you can't defend.

The CEO looks out for the shareholders and doesn't give a damn about the workers?

The president looks out for the shareholders (rich, corporations) and doesn't give a damn about the workers (citizens).

Understand it better now?

You ARE absolutely clueless...and absolutely not correct.