For 3.5 years, this has lingered around, and it probably deserves some pondering, and reasoning. So I'll offer the seven observations:
1. If New York state tax revenue people, and the IRS ever felt his submissions.....for over fifty years, were screwed-up, they would go and take an audit. If they have finished up an audit.....he would have been given the 'paperwork' to pay his bill, and been dragged into court. Apparently.....neither has done that.
Wonder why? He hires top-notch people to do his tax submissions.....not H and R Block.
2. If you think this is a wise idea.....why not the VP, the cabinet posts, the Senators, and the House members as well?
I'm waiting....but all I hear is silence.
Frankly, I'd like to clear the deck and put all of them to the task. If they bought stock and got wealthy.....what stock, and how did they get the insider info?
3. If we go and make this a policy.....if you were a businessman, wouldn't it scare the crap out of you, and convince you to never run for office?
4. Even if all of this were correct, and nothing wrong with the tax submission.....wouldn't your chief aim be to find out about his loans, what the cost or interest deal was about?
Is that really any of your business?
5. If the review was approved.....who is the reviewer? Who appoints the guy?
6. If the loan deal was in his wife's name.....is there anything wrong with that?
7. Does this really fix or resolve democracy in America? Or would have a brand-new problem in two weeks?
Friday, 24 April 2020
The Ten Paths of the TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome)
I'm not a clinical physiological expert or graduate. However, I sit and read a great deal, and analyze people and situations. I'll offer the following observations:
1. You'd really like to correct people that you feel are wrong.
2. Intellectually, you feel superior to the people who voted for Trump. In fact, you may have attended college, and even wrapped up a PhD, thus giving you more insight than the mere mortals walking around.
3. You tend to socialize and develop friendships only with people of your mindset.
4. You view one single news medium, and rarely see any alternate news.
5. You believe in a high rate of propaganda being used for the 'other' people, yet vouch that no propaganda ever influences you.
6. Friendships don't matter.....you can easily cast a friend aside if they have the wrong prospective in life. Even associates with your church or your next-door neighbor.....can easily be cast aside.The friends that you do have....all have the same tendency and support each other in the same fashion.
7. You generally laugh over the previous syndromes suggested (Bush Derangement Syndrome, Clinton Derangement Syndrome, and Obama Derangement Syndrome).
8. You generally believe your status in the world (as a journalist, Hollywood character, rock-star or fictional writer) is enough to sway people and reclaim them from their mental defect.
9. You generally believe that a Jesus-political figure can only save you, while a Satan-political figure can only hurt you.
10. You probably consume more than two hours of news per day.
1. You'd really like to correct people that you feel are wrong.
2. Intellectually, you feel superior to the people who voted for Trump. In fact, you may have attended college, and even wrapped up a PhD, thus giving you more insight than the mere mortals walking around.
3. You tend to socialize and develop friendships only with people of your mindset.
4. You view one single news medium, and rarely see any alternate news.
5. You believe in a high rate of propaganda being used for the 'other' people, yet vouch that no propaganda ever influences you.
6. Friendships don't matter.....you can easily cast a friend aside if they have the wrong prospective in life. Even associates with your church or your next-door neighbor.....can easily be cast aside.The friends that you do have....all have the same tendency and support each other in the same fashion.
7. You generally laugh over the previous syndromes suggested (Bush Derangement Syndrome, Clinton Derangement Syndrome, and Obama Derangement Syndrome).
8. You generally believe your status in the world (as a journalist, Hollywood character, rock-star or fictional writer) is enough to sway people and reclaim them from their mental defect.
9. You generally believe that a Jesus-political figure can only save you, while a Satan-political figure can only hurt you.
10. You probably consume more than two hours of news per day.
Something To Ponder Upon
A study was completed by the New York state health department. Basically, their statistical review says this.....from the sum total of the entire state (19.5 million)....roughly 13-percent of the folks have had the Coronavirus.
Prior to the study? Folks kinda thought that the sum total was ONE-percent.
What this all mean? Basically....a whole bunch of folks were infected and showed few if any symptoms.
Yeah, it's the kind of thing that would make you pause and ponder. Today, you might bump into 200 total people, by the time you wrap up things and head back home. Co-workers, the gas station people, the coffee lady, the burger kid and his crew, the bartender who served you a beer, and the sixteen people within ten feet of you at the pub. Out of that.....26 of them have had the virus, or have it currently.
Prior to the study? Folks kinda thought that the sum total was ONE-percent.
What this all mean? Basically....a whole bunch of folks were infected and showed few if any symptoms.
Yeah, it's the kind of thing that would make you pause and ponder. Today, you might bump into 200 total people, by the time you wrap up things and head back home. Co-workers, the gas station people, the coffee lady, the burger kid and his crew, the bartender who served you a beer, and the sixteen people within ten feet of you at the pub. Out of that.....26 of them have had the virus, or have it currently.
Why Resumes Matter
Around the early 1990s, I took to viewing people by their resume. I would move into an office (those being my military years), and assess new people by what I saw them doing or achieving. In simple terms.....they were 'writing' a verbal resume, and I was 'reading' it.
Around twenty years ago, I branched out and looked at individuals beyond who I worked for. This meant looking at Senators, Governors, and journalists. At this point, I began to note one-star wonders.....people who felt they were qualified for 'something' but the truth was that they couldn't really achieve much of anything.
John McCain was one of those people. Once you went down his resume....he just wasn't that qualified or capable. He did make speeches, and blast people, but beyond that.....he wasn't an achiever-type.
Bill Clinton was at the positive end. He'd done various jobs, and accomplished enough at each level.....to prove his value on the resume.
Hillary Clinton? Even into 2016, she had a basic 7-line resume, without much to show except she was the wife of Bill Clinton. The Secretary of State job and the Senator routine for eight years? She was showing up for work but not achieving much of anything.
The resume for Mitt Romney? He was a die-hard road-kill artist....swooping down upon burned-out companies without much value.....casting off what was dead-weight, and then finding one or two gems in the whole mess....to repackage and resell. Beyond that, he did nothing to fix or resolve the mess....he was there to dissolve it.
I came to work for an officer one day, who'd had one single run-in with a junior officer who was sexual-assault player. At some point, he'd seen enough of the behavior, and dragged the guy into a bloom-closet and blackened the guy's eye. That single event set up a reputation....mostly as a guy who didn't take BS. His resume, I tended to stamp as a four-star situation.
Lately, I've taken to viewing journalists, and assigning values to their resumes. Most....I would suggest.....are not talented to stay in the field long-term. Yes, I'm suggesting that a fair number of people in the field of news are simple pretenders....who drifted through college and impressed a couple of people enough to gain a doorway situation. Beyond that.....they don't measure up to folks who were there in the 1960s or 1970s.
I would suggest that people sit and view people and their 'resume'.....asking themselves, what exactly has the guy or gal accomplished in the past ten to twenty years. If this 'resume' is fewer than seven lines, maybe they aren't that impressive, and you should just pass on their significance.
Around twenty years ago, I branched out and looked at individuals beyond who I worked for. This meant looking at Senators, Governors, and journalists. At this point, I began to note one-star wonders.....people who felt they were qualified for 'something' but the truth was that they couldn't really achieve much of anything.
John McCain was one of those people. Once you went down his resume....he just wasn't that qualified or capable. He did make speeches, and blast people, but beyond that.....he wasn't an achiever-type.
Bill Clinton was at the positive end. He'd done various jobs, and accomplished enough at each level.....to prove his value on the resume.
Hillary Clinton? Even into 2016, she had a basic 7-line resume, without much to show except she was the wife of Bill Clinton. The Secretary of State job and the Senator routine for eight years? She was showing up for work but not achieving much of anything.
The resume for Mitt Romney? He was a die-hard road-kill artist....swooping down upon burned-out companies without much value.....casting off what was dead-weight, and then finding one or two gems in the whole mess....to repackage and resell. Beyond that, he did nothing to fix or resolve the mess....he was there to dissolve it.
I came to work for an officer one day, who'd had one single run-in with a junior officer who was sexual-assault player. At some point, he'd seen enough of the behavior, and dragged the guy into a bloom-closet and blackened the guy's eye. That single event set up a reputation....mostly as a guy who didn't take BS. His resume, I tended to stamp as a four-star situation.
Lately, I've taken to viewing journalists, and assigning values to their resumes. Most....I would suggest.....are not talented to stay in the field long-term. Yes, I'm suggesting that a fair number of people in the field of news are simple pretenders....who drifted through college and impressed a couple of people enough to gain a doorway situation. Beyond that.....they don't measure up to folks who were there in the 1960s or 1970s.
I would suggest that people sit and view people and their 'resume'.....asking themselves, what exactly has the guy or gal accomplished in the past ten to twenty years. If this 'resume' is fewer than seven lines, maybe they aren't that impressive, and you should just pass on their significance.