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Thank you Mr Trump

Phil, that sounds like we're groveling: Oh thank you sir for not taking away our unalienable rights which we always had.

It's like thanking a muderer for not murdering you.


Exactly! Push back, ACT-UP!

Thanks for not ignoring rights already settled by the Supreme Court?

Some rambling comments ...

what Mr Trump said during campaign may not mean much of anything ... consider anything to do with intangibles vis a vis "The (Great Trump) Wall".

Now consider VP Pence whose skin is crawling with his Christian hatred of anyone not straight.

I predict, should it come up, Mr Trump will acquiesce to VP Pence in matters of social conservatism.

I was thinking about the naive notion that what America needed was "to be run more like a business", a concept that I fundamentally disagree with. But supposing it was true, are we seeing the 45 administration running the country more like a business?

Let's say a really, really rich guy buys out a really, really, REALLY BIG company... would his first move be to fire all the upper and middle management folks and replace them with inexperienced ideologues and sycophants? And to radically change the product lines to untested new items while cutting the budgets to all of the departments? And to ignore looming market forces that are threatening to swap the whole enterprise?

No.

45 is an insane narcissist and almost 1/4 of U.S. voters can't see that. Nearly half of all voters chose to look the other way.

The founders did not anticipate this scenario.

Or....maybe. Take a look at what happened to Sears.

The idea is not to run government like a business but to run government in a way that is most profitable for businesses. Perhaps great for business but not so good for the rest of us.
And when the rest of us face financial hardships businesses are hit by lowered sales. Then government is beset by fewer taxes being collected and rising deficit spending.

Best to run government like a government.

The problem is, Trump doesn't know how to run a business. He is a real estate mogul, which, frankly, does not require high-level business expertise. You buy and sell a commodity, and it is more about marketing than administration. Whenever he has tried to run a non-real estate business, he has failed. Every time. Planes, booze, clothing. Name a Donald Trump business that has succeeded. I expect his shortcomings, which are legion, to become obvious to all but the willingly blind within a month.

Don't forget this is a "businessman" who led casinos into bankruptcy. Casinos practically print money. It takes spectacular talent to bankrupt them. Yuuuuge talent.

I have often wondered how a large corporation is like the federal government.

The president would be the CEO, but what role does Congress and the Courts play?

The other thing is corporate efficiency. Republicans/conservatives have long argued corporations are highly efficient etc compared to the federal government. But I suspect that is a gross simplification of their blind belief that anything government is bad. Reality paints a different picture.

If corporations were so efficient, they would not need efficiency experts or systems analysts to find the inherent inefficiencies in large systems.

Mr Trump is a perfect example. I do not expect any change in the efficiency of government.

[I am not wearing hip-waders ... the swamp is filling up]

A further reality is people are still highly successful despite the gross inefficiencies in business.