A very unconventional situation
Kellyanne Conway talked to Anderson Cooper last night, and one thing she said was quite clarifying to me, even though it’s not anything I didn’t know.
As we know, it’s a very unconventional situation, normally we have politicians moving from political job to political job – in this case we have a very successful businessman, who’s brilliant and a billionaire, who has assets and holdings all over the globe, and that needs to have a transfer of power through the proper channels to his adult children…
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…normally we have politicians moving from political job to political job – in this case we have a very successful businessman…
This is their story, and in this story it totally makes sense that they’re putting corporate CEOs in jobs like State and Labor (Labor!) and the Treasury. It’s all part of Doing Everything Differently; of draining the swamp; of tearing it all up and starting over; of I alone can fix it. In this story, “politicians” are warped creatures drinking the blood of the people, going from bloodsucking political job to bloodsucking political job, getting nothing useful done and getting in the way of brilliant genius billionaires.
In this story politicians don’t know anything and can’t do anything; they’re just empty parasites. In this story it’s businessmen who build everything and create all the jobs and know how to fix all problems. In this story foxes are the only ones who know how to guard the chicken-coop.
The other part of their narrative – very successful businessman. If you go by the fact that he is at this time obscenely wealthy, sure, but this is a businessman who has had multiple bankruptcies. Have we totally redefined successful? I think we have.
“Brilliant”? He wouldn’t be brilliant if he was heated to incandescence.
I’m stuck on
that needs to have a transfer of power through the proper channels to his adult children
er, no – they need to have a transfer of control of his businesses to a blind trust, and there is no proper channel through which any power can or should be transferred to his adult children.
Oh yes. That too of course. I’ve lost count of how many posts I’ve done on that subject.
#2, brilliant :-)
No, iknklast, ‘success’ hasn’t been redefined. The measure of success that members of the plutocracy use is the personal accumulation of capital. The number of so-called “bankruptcies”, the tax avoidance and tax evasion schemes they use and the trail of genuinely bankrupt sub-contractors they leave behind are all irrelevant.