Journal damn_registrars's Journal: Trumps' Ghostwriter Predicts The President Will Resign Soon 14
This from the man who ghostwrote "The Art of the Deal" for Trump.
Personally I still expect that Trump will find a way to take down Pence before he himself leaves, just to be vindictive. He'll justify it to himself under the guise of the idea that Pence is vastly more experienced in politics and could have offered advice that could have helped him avoid this shitstorm. Ultimately though it was pretty clear Trump never wanted Pence as VP, so I expect he'll do what he can to keep him from becoming POTUS - even if he has to blow up the place to do it. Whether that leads to President Paul Ryan (terrifying thought) or something else we'll have to see.
Schwartz makes another interesting claim in a tweet that I would say missed the mark though:
The circle is closing at blinding speed. Trump is going to resign and declare victory before Mueller and Congress leave him no choice
Trump already won. Not the presidency (which of course he lost by several million votes) but he won in a different way. His security budget - and the budget for security for his family and beyond - just plummeted to exactly zero dollars for the rest of all their lives. His grandkids will get secret service protection, 24x7, around the world, until they die. That is a huge win for the Trump family and they'll be entitled to it regardless of when the administration blows up. We'll have secret service guarding Trump Tower, Mar-a-lago, and prominent Trump properties around the country for the rest of time as well. You can't put a price on that.
I did post this article as a submission to the front page (without my editorializations) but of course there is pretty well zero chance it will make it.
Doubt it. (Score:2)
It's not like he's actually doing any real work - it's a perma-vacation, on your nickel. He's getting what he wants - oodles of attention, and the best bully-pulpit in the world.
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it's a perma-vacation
He's been on perma-vacation since - at the very least - the start of The Apprentice. He hasn't done anything for his companies in a long time.
He's getting what he wants - oodles of attention
Eventually it will start to impact the value of his brand. At that point he will start to care. The other thing that will drive him to leave will be when he realizes that he has screwed up so badly as to leave congress and/or his own cabinet with no choice but to forcibly remove him for the sake of the country. When those mechanisms start into motion will be whe
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It's already impacted his brand. People are paying penalties to get his name off stuff. He doesn't care, because he is a narcissist. This distorts his perception of reality - he literally cannot see a situation where he is wrong. He will deny saying things that he said, and believe he didn't say them, because to do otherwise would distort his own picture of himself. No cognitive dissonance, because reality is flexible to his mind.
If he ever gets removed forcibly, he will take pride in it as showing once ag
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After all he is in his 70s and quite obese. He doesn't have enough time left on the clock to make another go at business now. He's taught his
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His brand already has a negative worth. That's why companies are paying a fee to break contracts that licensed his name on projects [financialpost.com].
Donald Trump’s business will be paid millions of dollars to release the owner of a Toronto hotel complex from using his name.
JCF Capital ULC, the closely held U.S. firm that owns the Trump International Hotel & Tower in the city’s downtown business district, reached a buyout deal to exit the contracts with the Trump Organization’s hotel unit, the companies said Tuesday in a statement. While no breakup fee was disclosed, the amount was at least US$6 million, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
So one business has given the Trump name a negative worth of $6 million. And that was well before the recent screw-ups.
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6 mil paid to Trump sounds like a win. I'm afraid this JE is engaging in wishful thinking. If Trump resigns, it will be during sweeps week. The residuals from this whole affair will bring in millions more. If he dies, the estate will double/triple its fortune. The man is the best example ever of *there is no such thing as bad press*. He has complete control over mass media (and even "alternative" media) all over the world right now. Jesus himself never got this much attention. Pure genius.
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6 million paid to Trump isn't a win. Consider the stock market. Companies are valued at what a stock trades at x the number of stocks issued. The "stock" of Trump's brand is now trading at negative numbers, and it's an accurate reflection of his brand's worth because something is only worth what someone else will pay for it.
So much for future revenue off his "brand." It's seriously impaired.
As for the
The man is the best example ever of *there is no such thing as bad press*.
Hitler, Mussolini, Goebbels, they all got lots of attention, but in the end they would have been better of
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Thalidomide?
Got it made in the shade [grunenthal.com]
The "it's da bomb" Ford Pinto?
Livin' large [wikipedia.org]
Hitler, Mussolini, Goebbels, and Stalin [thehindu.com] are on the comeback trail...
The attention this man has is unparalleled. The exciting cliff hanger is whether he stays out of jail...
The next season starts with him walking out the prison gates (or the courthouse), with what's her name waiting for him, standing by the Rolls, and they ride off back to Manhattan to start a new life with the setting sun lighting up the skyline.
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That happening for the next season would require the wheels of justice to move exceptionally fast, which is hard enough in regular cases - this one will take years longer than normal. Besides, he hasn't finished what I predicted he would do - completely destroy the hard right and tea party factions of the republican party. Baby steps ... baby steps ... but all required before either party even starts to act as if their primary duty is to the voters and not to the elite. Trump is just one step along the road
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Besides, he hasn't finished what I predicted he would do - completely destroy the hard right and tea party factions of the republican party.
The GOP will not allow him to destroy those factions; in many parts of the country their party doesn't have enough votes to keep power without them. If the tea partiers actually leave and start their own party with the paullowers and such, then the GOP won't be able to gerrymander their way into power as easily - and they certainly are no fans of power sharing.
Most major corporations should be behind the idea - it saves them the cost of private health care plans, thus putting them on an even footing with other countries that already have universal health care. I'd blame interlocking directorships and cronyism, as well as corruption of elected officials.
The reason why we don't have single payer health care in this country is easier to figure out than that. Just look at who owns congress. No, not
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corruption of [re]elected officials... Until people look in the mirror, nothing's going to change there.
And, on the contrary, Trump, along with this phony "opposition", is fortifying the hard right as plain old tribalism becomes the dominant trait on *both sides*.
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The GOP will lose if they keep the tea partiers, because that particular brand is now seen as a gang of fuck-ups. The GOP has to (1) drop them, (2) disavow Trump, (3) appeal to the middle swing voter, and (3) do it ASAP. Even that may not be enough to keep them from spending time wandering around in the wilderness. Dont forget - Trump's push to bring the GOP into disrepute has only begun - there's 41 more months to go. And now that he's said he wants to shut the government down if he doesn't get money for
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The GOP will lose if they keep the tea partiers, because that particular brand is now seen as a gang of fuck-ups.
I have to say I believe you're wrong on that one. The GOP can't survive without the Tea Party. The GOP uses the Tea Party to claim that they are reaching out to "Joe Six Pack" (in spite of the fact that Tea Party policy proposals almost entirely send all their benefits to the bourgeoisie side), they have no good way to market the rest of their brand to that segment any more. If they throw out the Tea Party, they will likely lose the libertarians at the same time which leaves them with only mainline GOP