Nick Anderson for August 21, 2020

And that’s exactly what he’s doing.

As far as I can tell from this distance, he’s NEVER “run” a business. He steals an idea, borrows money, hires a patsy to be in charge, mulcts the marks for all he can, then declares bankruptcy and scoots.

Isn’t that the same guy who asked Trump why he lies all the time? Did he finally get at least one questioned answered that Trump could spin . . . just a little?

I heard from many Drump voters in 2016 that they cast their vote because he was a “big businessman” that would run the country like a business. They weren’t happy with me when I politely pointed out his foolhardy bankruptcies, gross employee fraud, and how Daddy’s massive tax cheating got him his start. Then they told me they would still have voted for him because they would have done the same thing in his shoes… I need to move away from my neighborhood.

So he’ll declare bankruptcy, use it a a tax dodge, and leave others to clean up the mess much like he’s done the last six times he did so.

Let’s see. All these thing about the post office has been true way before Trump, and yet it’s his fault?

Trump and his minion’s slowing down the mail has resulted in thousand of chicken peeps being delivered DOA. For one hundred years they were delivered within the three day window that Nature allows. Not anymore.

Trump is like a gigantic boil. He is a symptom of a greater problem and until some effort is made to resolve the wealth disparity, the US economy will not strengthen. It is becoming more and more like Russia, where a handful have their $200m yachts, football teams and personal jets while the majority almost starve.

Let us remember it is DeJoy, not the postal service, that is sabotaging a Constitutional service to the American citizenry. Not the employees. DeJoy. Trump’s toady. After Trump’s out, there are many Trump bootlickers who cannot just go back to their regular corrupt lives. They must pay for their actions.

Actually, #45 is not and never has been a “big businessman.” The entire Trump Organization is no more than about 20 people, mostly lawyers and family members. Its main business is to license the name to other people’s projects (and, as we are now seeing, money laundering for the Mob and the Russian Mob).

That, God help us, is the main reason he has been running for president since the 1980s and being in every talk show, radio show, TV show, and movie he can weasel his way into. He is propagating a pure illusion: that he is a successful billionaire playboy, whose name is gold.

None of this is true.

- He is not and never has been a billionaire.

- He has no successful businesses at all; he took his father’s real estate business and destroyed it. No bank in the world will loan him the money to build anymore except the Russian-controlled Deutsche Bank, for some strange reason…

- His “business” is licensing his name in such a way that he has no responsibility and gets paid up front, so that when the business or building fails (as they typically do), he still has his cash. That’s not a business: that’s a confidence game.

- Oh, and he called newspapers under a false name (John Barron, after whom he apparently named his youngest son – think on that a moment) to spread rumors about himself sleeping with famous women (several of whom have indignantly denied it), whereas in fact he pays women to sleep with him and makes them sign non-disclosure agreements so only he gets to claim how wonderful he was. As we have learned from Stormy Daniels: also an illusion.

And the government is failing, just like one of your businesses. But I realize, of course, that like any of your failures, you “take no responsibility.” That will be the new baseball cap for this year’s campaign; instead of MAGA, it will be ITNR.

The situation in rural America has been deliberately designed by 1%ers to produce MAGAts. They own the news outlets that broadcast the conservative propaganda, and use them specifically for that purpose. Watch a few minutes of Faux news. It’s a real eye opener. In some states, you can’t get much else, and the talk radio is even more insane. A lot of the people who are in the Faux bubble would really have to put out some serious effort to get some contact with reality, while they are constantly bombarded with conservative propaganda. And, the people they have coffee with, go to church (or the bar) with etc are dealing with the same situation. That means that real people that you know and trust are backing up what you are getting from the propaganda machine. Unless you are a really intelligent, involved person, you are going to accept the world you see, unaware that it has been paid for and organized by people who are working against your best interests.

Remember, don’t feed the trump fluffing troll/s

And that’s the first honest thing he’s said since abjuring his oath of office.

I pray (using that term literally and sincerely) that enough of us will exercise out patriotic duty and remove this racist, misogynistic fraud from our body politic, and consign him to the justice system.

Cheating, lying republicans are trying to rig the election! Vote them all out.

From what you say, the sooner the better! Seems like you’re beating a dead whale with a tooth pick!

Election rigging crooked liar Trump the racist is doing more to stop you from voting than he is doing to stop covid.

Ridiculously high price to ship a small package and nasty treatment from their people who gouge you…. that’s YOUR US Postal Service in a nutshell.

But he bankrupted several of his own CASINOS…

If anyone besides magats believe Trump appointed DeJoy to fix problems at the USPS I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.

“Promises made… promises kept”. His words, not mine~

My post office gets a letter in the wrong mail box about once a year. Fedex, on the other hand, seems to think I am their local distributor. I live in the first house at the end of a long street, and I get the neighbor’s stuff at least twice a month. I have a nasty letter that I send them each time that says if they want me to do their work, they can at least pay me. And, the package sits where they left it and eventually disappears. I don’t care where.

Oddly enough, Trump’s replay actually makes sense.

Very popular meme, trope, narrative whatever. The default mode of business is to make profits period. Their lobbyist’s have even gotten it written into law that profits come before anything and everything, i.e. “but who will care for the poor stockholders?” – The Incredibles The real role of government? Depends if you’re a “Me” person or an “Us” person, I think I know where the current “leadership” falls on that scale. We are currently on a path that leads to Beirut.

June 2, 2016: Mike Luckovich tried to warn us, Sadly, we didn’t listen.

https://www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovich/2016/06/02