The political workings of Washington are not like the work of running a business. You and I might very much would like it that way BUT the Civil Service laws and regulations which were put into place for employee safety prevents a lot of business acumen from taking place. While some may say these Civil Service laws are outdated, they are still law and repealing them would be next to impossible.

Donald Trump 2016: Macy's dumps merchandise over immigration comments - POLITICO


Very amusing that whenever Trump gets dumped by NBC or Telemundo and now Macy's for his racist remarks, he comes out quickly and says he dumped them first.

Please, please, please stick around until the election Mr Trump.

Adding on to this post is that the Civil Service laws were enacted in the late 1800's to prevent political cronyism and then revised in 1949 and again in the mid 1980's.

The President has some political appointees and these employees do not have the same safety net as employees in the competitive civil service. At the end of a President's term, those political appointees are let go - without retirement benefits - and the new President will bring in his or her new appointees. These appointees are in the Excepted Service and there is always a push at the end of a Presidential term to have them get competitive positions. This is called "burrowing in". It always gave HR a headache to have to do this.

So, as much as we may not like political people vs business leaders, the business leader would not be able to work as though he were in a boardroom vs an Oval Office. Federal rules and regulations prevent that and they would be nigh impossible to get rid of by a President.

Judging the sitting President is not included in this.

How many times has Trump gone bankrupt? Great person the run the economy!

The bankruptcies were pre-pacaged deals with a known financial outcome. All legal and allowed by those smart enough to take advantage. The laws allow such "financial maneuvering ".......
And no one said he or any other competent CEO/executive would try to run Washington from a corporate conference table.

They will have more smarts to either use or change the existing broken and ineffective, cost prohibitive crony system. They will make decisions VS political eye wash and party BS.

I am sure that Hamster Hair will stick around for a while. He is totally unelectable, of course, but his massive ego will have him stay at least until Fox Network advises him that he WILL NOT be in the debate. At that point, Hamster Hair will call it unfair, threaten to sue, and drop out.

What a maroon!

What's a maroon?

I meant it as the British term "maroon". It is a firework that makes a loud bang, used mainly as a signal or warning. No politician or television personality makes a louder bang than Trump and he is signalling a warning to other politicians to get on the stick and to take him serously.

Trump is the perfect Mouthpiece for the right wing wackos. He has ridiculous ideas, runs his mouth without engaging his brain, lacks ethics, has no loyalty for anyone including spouses, employees, business partners, and "friends". He inherited a small fortune and used it to drive into bankruptcy, leaving creditors who trusted him and his word holding the bag for his debts. Finally he succeeded in an overheated real estate market and acted like he built everything on his own back. Sleazy is not an adequate descriptive word to describe this leech on society. In other words he is an excellent example of a republican candidate.

C'mon, tell us how you really feel.:a20:

Trump is a bully (for sure), I like that about him. I'd rather be perceived as a country of bullies than a country of schmucks.

How ironic that to say he has no sense of loyalty, I've never heard a disloyal word from employees, friends or a wife. I wasn't aware he had any business partners.

I'm a big fan of capitalism, always worked for me in the past. Socialism, not so much.

OMG, what a racist thing to say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroon_%28people%29

Not my choice for President but neither is this lady....

"One email from the State Department's dump of Hillary Clinton files Tuesday night caught the eye of Twitter.

"I heard on the radio that there is a Cabinet mtg this am. Is there? Can I go? If not, who are we sending?" Clinton, the former of secretary of state, emailed aides Lona Valmoro and Huma Abedin on Monday, June 8, 2009.

Yes, Hillary Clinton found out about a Cabinet meeting on the radio, and appeared to freak out and worry she wasn't invited. "

Read more: Why Hillary Clinton missed Cabinet meeting - Business Insider

And our White House who now it appears was lying about no knowing...

"Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama's top aides, including David Axelrod, communicated with Hillary Clinton at her private email address while she was secretary of state, new records show.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel had also asked for Clinton's email address, and Clinton instructed her staff to give it to him.

Her use of private email was out of step with the State Department's rules against employees regularly using personal email for work purposes. Obama officials -- including Axelrod -- had said they were unaware Clinton was using a personal email address. He told MSNBC this month that he would have asked questions about it if he'd been aware of her email habits.

Clinton emails: Obama aides knew of private address - CNNPolitics.com

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As with every person, successful Or not, he has many business partners. Trump has used borrowed money to fund his ventures - are those creditors not business partners? He benefited from Mark Burnett's brainchild to become the face of "The Apprentice", which was funded and promoted by NBC - are they not business partners. Of course to hear him tell it he did it all himself, trampling those in his way. Then in his numerous bankruptcies he left people who had trusted him with their money holding the bag so he could go on to tap other people to fund his risky ventures, some of whom have benefited while many more were left as "collateral damage". I am a fan of honest, ethical capitalism, and celebrate those who build success on principled effort. Trump, alas, does not qualify.

By the way, I know Ms. Clinton and the WH are really smart, but what is this EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE being claimed on PERSONAL emails ?

Read Post 49 and then get back down your curmudgeon troll hole. You have shown once again that you are not relevant.

Nasty, inconsiderate, hiding behind the keyboard.

My Dear Guest: Au contrairie It didn't stop Obama who ignored the constitution and congress for 8 years. So I guess being that Trump is a better businessman and a patriot who speaks directly and carries a big stick we might just get things back in order after he is elected both domestically and foreign. Quite frankly its going to take a president with an ego like Trump's to clean up the mess Obama/Democrats made of this country.

Honestl the last thing we need is to elect another left to moderate president. Trump in my mind is looking really good and with Carly Fiorina even better
I mean "can we all get along"mentality just seems not to be working.
Trumps loves this country. Trump has succeeded well in this country and understands every aspect of capitalism and knows who are friends and who are foe.

The responses from people and organizations publicly shunning Trump are political because they are trying to shut down this driving force that is not intimidated by political correctness or threats, etc because he is self sufficient intelligent creative and a class one fighter who knows how to negotiate and is beholding to no one and that latter point is critical because it makes him less likely to be bought and paid for like Obama and Clinton.


Personal Best Regards:

Definition of MAROON
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capitalized : a fugitive black slave of the West Indies and Guiana in the 17th and 18th centuries; also : a descendant of such a slave

I am pretty sure this is inaccurate. The original poster may want to check their facts before posting in the future.

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Please go re-read post 49. A maroon (not capitalized) is a British term for a firework that is a signal for danger or warning. I believe Americans used to call them railway torpedoes.

Now, this is not to be confused with a macaroon which is a delicious biscuit made from sweetened coconut.

Lots of confusing American terms. One I had a time getting used to was the "trunk" of the car. A trunk, in my thinking, was in front like on a beast and that "boot" just made more sense.

Sorry for the mix-up.

Asking people to READ ????

You are a racist, bigoted person. How dare you. This is up for the white sheet award and any others.

READ? Will you Tea Party people ever stop with this racist talk.

Actually, I thought it was a play on the word moron.

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The reason I and many other conservatives like Trump is because he's Not a politician, not afraid to tell the truth (ref borders) makes a good negotiator, knows the financial disaster this country is in, is willing to sit and listen to experts on major decisions etc. Trumps ego doesn't bother me in the least. I would rather have a president with a good healthy ego than the arrogant one in office now. After all Trumps message is good. He's rich, he is successful because yes he built it, he did it himself without handouts. That alone is something to brag about and a good role model for the younger generation Trump doing great in polls. No 2 in Iowa, no 2 in new Hampshire a threat to the dems so they of course try to destroy him. Go Donald tell it like it is

Donald may be fun to watch as a TV personality but he IS NOT electable as President.

All indications show the final showdown will be Jeb Bush vs Hillary Clinton with Clinton winning the Presidency. :beer3:

It never gets old hearing about the financial disaster this country is in from the party that was losing 800,000 jobs per month, with unemployment hovering above 10%, when they left office. Add to that the Dow Jones Industrials was under 7000 in 2009.

Are you sure you really want to go down that path with the unemployment rate now heading into the 4% range?

A rich guy who fires people while bashing immigrants sounds just like Mitt Romney, and look how well that worked out for him.

Serta has just announced that they are severing all ties with Donald Trump, and New York City is reviewing all of its contracts with him.

Trump seems willing to see a lot of his business interests disappear. The question is, is he willing to take the republican party along for the ride.

Great post!!!

Even the Republican National Committee is not dumb enough to run Trump as their candidate. Dumb - but not THAT dumb!

OK, I see what you mean - thanks.

What in God's name is wrong with you? Take your meds.

Do you have ANY idea how many times that almost exact post is used on here by some of our liberal children ?

I have no idea but it seems appropriate whenever someone makes a lunatic rant about some nonsense.

Maybe Trump is scratching a nerve...

From 2014 and the number is growing this year....

"DALLAS — The four Texas field offices within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) have deported more than 860 sex offenders so far this fiscal year.

Of the 862 alien sex offenders deported by the Texas-based offices, about 27 percent were convicted of sex offenses against children."

ICE Texas field offices remove more than 800 sex offenders so far this year | ICE

"The surge of cheap heroin spreading in $4 hits across rural America can be traced back to the remote valleys of the northern Sierra Madre.

"With the wholesale price of marijuana falling — driven in part by decriminalization in sections of the United States — Mexican drug farmers are turning away from cannabis and filling their fields with opium poppies.

Mexican heroin is flooding north as U.S. authorities trying to contain an epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse have tightened controls on synthetic opiates such as hydrocodone and OxyContin. As the pills become more costly and difficult to obtain, Mexican trafficking organizations have found new markets for heroin in places such as Winchester, Va., and Brattleboro, Vt., where, until recently, needle use for narcotics was rare or unknown."

Tracing the U.S. heroin surge back south of the border as Mexican cannabis output falls - The Washington Post


"When Donald Trump said something not exuberantly enthusiastic about Mexican immigrants, the media’s response was to boycott him. One thing they didn’t do was produce any facts showing he was wrong.

Trump said, “When Mexico sends its When Donald Trump said something not exuberantly enthusiastic about Mexican immigrants, the media’s response was to boycott him. One thing they didn’t do was produce any facts showing he was wrong., they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”


The first thing a news fact-checker would have noticed is this: The government won’t tell us how many immigrants are committing crimes in America.

Wouldn’t that make any person of average intelligence suspicious? Not our media. They’re in on the cover-

Coulter: Media hide facts, call everyone else a liar

Sounds as though some have not heard of SARCASM, does it?

I got a good laugh out of your reply.

Semper Fi.

Glad someone understood the point.

Semper Fi

When will Trump produce his OFFICIAL birth certificate? How about all of his personal and business income tax records being made public before any primaries?

Ah, yes......and then there's the truth. Wouldn't it be equally nice if the Dems could come up with a candidate that could speak the truth so boldly like Trump? How great would it be to get back to being a country where truth telling is valued versus what we see today where one is treated as a villain? Thanks for the links. The one regarding the heroin surge is particularly interesting to me as a medical person who is well aware of the government controls on synthetic opiates over the past couple of years. Great post - appreciate your effort to bring forth some truth in this discussion.

Glad to hear this......I was wondering about that post. :laugh:

I think his camp is negotiating with the Clinton camp asking for. All her emails, and ESPECIALLY finding out how the WH can extend executive privilege to PERSONAL emails ??

Wow! I am really glad that we had the opportunity to read all the unbiased and totally accurate truth from Ann Coulter on the link from the above poster.

That lady should get a Cabinet position under President Trump. Maybe Secretary of the Tea Bags or Keeper of the Hamster Hair wigs.

Did you even notice the first two links with US GOVT STATS ?

I am also researching a comment but will not post until I can validate concerning the rate of family rape in Hispanic families, and the birth rate of girls under 14 giving birth in Hispanic families.

This is not racist....this is dealing with facts that need to be discussed and not swept under the rug.

I personally experienced this culture difference in working with Hispanic youth years ago. It is real, and someday, somebody has to come off the clouds and face reality. It can be faced, but not by dismissing any uncomfortable truths.

Ann Coulter cites facts...if they make you uncomfortable, good. Now get informed and join the real world.