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babylonsister

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Thu Aug 22, 2019, 02:12 PM Aug 2019

If Trump Were In Any Other Job

https://politicalwire.com/2019/08/22/if-trump-were-in-any-other-job/

If Trump Were In Any Other Job
August 22, 2019 at 2:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard


James Fallows: “If Donald Trump were in virtually any other position of responsibility, action would already be under way to remove him from that role. The board at a public company would have replaced him outright or arranged a discreet shift out of power. (Of course, he would never have gotten this far in a large public corporation.) The chain-of-command in the Navy or at an airline or in the hospital would at least call a time-out, and check his fitness, before putting him back on the bridge, or in the cockpit, or in the operating room. (Of course, he would never have gotten this far as a military officer, or a pilot, or a doctor.)”

“There are two exceptions. One is a purely family-run business, like the firm in which Trump spent his entire previous career. And the other is the U.S. presidency, where he will remain, despite more and more-manifest Queeg-like unfitness, as long as the GOP Senate stands with him.”
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If Trump Were In Any Other Job (Original Post) babylonsister Aug 2019 OP
It's ironic, Florida Bull Aug 2019 #1
Trump is unfit to work at 7-Eleven dalton99a Aug 2019 #2
Trump couldn't hold any job, even for one day. Meadowoak Aug 2019 #3
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