Andylusion
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"But for a largely white working class cast aside by austerity and neoliberalism, he at least taunts the elites who destroyed their communities and their lives.
The Great American Shakedown
"The shakedown that Trump clumsily attempted to orchestrate against the president of Ukraine in the hope of discrediting Joe Biden, a potential rival in the 2020 presidential election, pales beside the shakedown orchestrated by the elites who rule over America’s working men and women.
"This shakedown took from those workers their hope and, more ominously, their hope for their children.
"It took from them security and a sense of place and dignity.
"It took from them a voice in how they were governed.
"It took from them their country and handed it to a cabal of global corporatists who intend to turn them into serfs.
"This shakedown plunged millions into despair."
Imho, electing another "New Democrat" who told his working class base to vote Republican if they didn't like NAFTA will not end the shakedown.
You know what else Trump is? President of the US.So was Dick
Are you expecting a different outcome?
Nixion is still better than Hillary. So yeah, I'll take that.Neither Nixon nor Clinton can rival Trump is one regard:
Trump Admitted To Wharton With Help From A Family Friend | Poets&Quants
"One of Trump’s marketing professors at Wharton, the late William Kelley, apparently thought little of his student.
"A close friend of the professor, Frank DiPrima, said that Kelley told him 100 times over three decades that 'Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.' 'I remember his emphasis and inflection — it went like this — "'Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had,’” DiPrima wrote.
"'Dr. Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity but long before he was considered a political figure.
"Dr. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told of this — that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.'"
Not sure if that means much to me. Quite frankly, many professors are so ideologically, and socially brainless, that getting insulted by them is a compliment.
That said, while I don't know much about Dr.Kelley, one thing is for sure.... a student he thought was dumb, is president of the united states. What does that make Dr.Kelley? Dr. Kelley, as near as I can tell from his biography, never worked in the private market, and rather has been living in his Ivory tower his entire life.
Pretty easy to teach marketing and claim others are stupid, when you have never once in your entire life, had to make a living in the market place.
Pretty easy to talk about how dumb other people are, when you have never been required to live off your own efforts.
Again..... meanwhile back at the White House.... Trump.
Now to be fair, I don't know Kelley... he might have been a good guy. I don't know. But I'm always irritated when stupid people, refer to those who have never worked an honest days wage, where they had to feed themselves on the results of their labor, who complain about others who have.
Bob Lutz actually lived doing the job of marketing. If he's not successful, he loses his job. Kelley graded papers. If he was terrible at grading papers, he would have an intern do it. About the only way Kelley loses his job, is if he invites female students to his house, and gets a sexual harassment charge.
