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Don’t worry, he won’t get nominated or elected. Ooops!

Stay tuned, it will be amazing. TRULY amazing.

Trump is going to be the real deal.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

Repealing the landmark legislation of Obama (obamacare and dodd-Frank) also is going to be tough. Republicans don’t necessarily want to blanket repeal them and leave a void-although they should.

If watching Obama build the albatross was both maddening and interesting, watching how Trump executes at dismantling-or even utilizing it to his own advantage might be the same.

Trump will continue to lob grenades at Corp America (see Boeing, Carrier), perhaps more for symbolism than anything else.

The Carrier effort apparently did save ballpark 1000 jobs. For those worker bees, say, this Xmas, that’s a lot better than just a grenade.

Since the Carrier plant was in Indiana and since Pence is and has been Governor there, he had been involved going back months.

Sure, partly Trump got some headlines, spin, and PR as a can-do, will-do guy who cares about people and their jobs.

Also notice some of the pictures of Trump, sometimes with Pence, in the carrier plant: The Carrier and other suits are in the background, and Trump is surrounded by worker bees, talking to them one on one, and having some of them show how they do their work. So, right, the workers bees have a lot of votes, and the suits, only a few. So, Trump was implying that he cares about the workers and continuing to build the support he needs to lead and get things done.

Also, while POTUS Obama was just accepting that the US will be losing jobs, Trump, still just POTUS-elect, was showing that he already can help save jobs. How? Pick up a phone.

So, right, it was ~1000 jobs, more than zero but less than 95 million. And we are not expecting that in all job saving/building efforts in the future Trump will be in the plants with the worker bees.

For Trump and worker bees: (1) Notice that he has a reputation going way back of visiting construction sites and talking one on one with the workers welding steel, hanging drywall, etc. (2) Notice the video of Trump arriving at the NYT building for his NYT meeting: Trump went right to an NYT employee, not a suit, and shook his hand. (3) Notice in one of the more popular video clips of Trump arriving at the Army-Navy game yesterday Trump walks between two guys, apparently guards of some kind, stops, and one at a time, greets them. (4) Apparently the Army-Navy game is a PR biggie for the US DoD. So, at the coin toss on the field, there watching were the Navy’s CNO, the Army’s Chief of Staff, the Chair of the Joint Chiefs, and the Secretary of Defense. How ’bout that! Then notice: Apparently Trump had no public meeting with any of them! (5) In likely the best known photograph of Trump at the Army-Navy game, he is with some of the cadets, not with any of the brass.

This stuff about the guy at the top caring about the guy at the bottom is a biggie: E.g., notice the story of a US Army Lieutenant in Akrapistan one night checking on his men, assigned two at a time to perimeter foxholes. In one foxhole, he was surprised to see three men. Closer, the third man was General Mattis, also checking on what the bottom level guys were doing in the foxholes that night.

Point: Trump wants to show that he cares about the worker bees. Yes, the Carrier deal was partly symbolic.

Sure, Trump might be just putting on an act. His opponent in the general election was an excellent actress, IMHO much better at acting than Trump. But my reading is that Trump is sincere.

Yes, the “grenade” Trump lobbed at Boeing was likely also symbolic: IIRC, so far Boeing has had only a $150 million contract to study and plan the next Air Force One. It is not clear from the usual news what the $4 billion figure would cover — R&D of special systems just for Air Force One, planning, design, test, evaluation, construction, operation, maintenance, etc.?

So, Boeing has a right to feel that populist Trump was a bit unfair to them.

On the other hand, Boeing is a big company with a lot of US DoD business, and Trump is the POTUS-elect and as POTUS soon will have to be negotiating more high-end equipment for the US DoD. So, likely Trump wants to make a public show that he will spend tax payer’s money carefully. It is likely good to accept that broadly a sense of spending money carefully should come from the top.

Indeed, during the campaign he gave good examples of spending money carefully in both the Republican primaries and the general election: In the primaries, IIRC !Jeb spent $200 million and got 4 votes. In the general, Hillary spent, as I saw yesterday, $1.2 billion and lost. IIRC in the general, Trump spent ballpark $200 million and less in the primaries.

Point: Trump can claim he spends money carefully, and US taxpayers want to know that.

Trump will be known as a master of microeconomics cause the big pix stuff is beyond his reach, and dare I say, comprehension.

Trump has been successful putting up 100 story buildings. Maybe some of the math in some of the wind loading design and engineering calculations are “beyond his reach and … comprehension” but, still, the buildings are not falling over in the winds.

I’m concerned about the macro economic modeling details of Trump’s plans for the economy, but lack of public evidence of good work is not evidence of lack of good work.

Recently in a TV interview a Trump staffer started to blurt out some of the details of some of the current Trump economic planning work but was cut off by the interviewer apparently sensing losing some of the audience.

If all the macro economic planners were laid end to end, it would be a good thing.

But, the economy is one of the very most important jobs of the POTUS, and it is tough to claim that our past jump shot expert in chief was doing much.

For any Trump proposal no doubt the Congressional Budget Office and maybe also the staff of the Department of Treasury will get involved. And Trump is bringing in some of the most successful finance guys on Wall Street where can see evidence of their expertise on the economy in their net worth figures.

In a recent Paul Ryan interview, he emphasized that the planning for tax changes are already in progress. BTW, in that interview, Ryan mentioned that, with the Democrats, the details of the exception for the General Mattis appointment as SECDEF are already in the works and will be ready for Trump to sign on 1/20/2017 — i.e., Ryan and Congress are getting busy with the Trump plans.

Which POTUS — Obama, W, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, … — would you propose as having done a much better job on economic planning than Trump will be able to do in 2017?

I’m concerned about what Trump may do with the economy, but we have GOT to get growing again, really SHOULD, soon, now, y’hear, to make a lot of progress on our balance of trade, basically MUST get a lot of the 94 million back to work, etc. There will be a LOT of experts eager to comment on Trump’s economic plans; those plans will not nearly be all from just between Trump’s ears.

But, talking high winds, how good was W’s planning for the US real estate market? How ’bout the worst since 1929? Our economic planning during WWII was much better, e.g., with no biggie inflation during the war, no big crash after the war, and, instead, an economic boom.

Since a lot that Trump wants to do for the economy will have to come on-line gradually anyway, there will be time to see biggie problems developing if any do and make corrections.

Then an issue would be, will Trump monitor the work and progress carefully enough to make needed corrections? My guess is, yes. Why? As we have seen in his business, his primary campaign, and his general campaign, Trump is good at getting big, complicated things done. In his 100 story buildings, I’d guess that often, maybe usually and frequently, there were some unexpected problems somewhere between the first steps and the final, completed building that he had to handle. Apparently he did.

Point: I am reasonably confident that Trump’s economic constructions will withstand high winds much like his 100 story buildings do.

The media continues to cover all of Trump’s whims and Tweets as if our country functions like a dictatorship.

Yes, it appears that the media likes to try to make Trump’s use of Twitter, etc. look trivial, irresponsible, inappropriate for a POTUS-elect, etc.

Well, look at the track record of the media on Trump and his chances since he announced for POTUS: Really sick-o. The mainstream media (MSM) has lost a lot of credibility.

IIRC, Trump’s standard response to the MSM caterwauling about his use of social media is simply that “they are modern forms of communications”.

E.g., a few weeks ago, for both my project and Trump, I wanted to understand Twitter better so became a Twitter user for the first time. And, on Twitter, I follow Trump. So far, what I’ve seen is fine, just fine. Similarly for what appear to be his two main Web sites — fine with me. And when he has an interview or makes a speech, usually I watch on YouTube and keep a link and maybe a transcript. To me, getting the words directly from Trump makes a lot more sense than getting the deliberately distorted, fabricated, lying versions from the MSM.

Even a Repub controlled Congress will reel this guy in.

Apparently part of a political campaign is to paint, frame, or describe an opponent in unfavorable terms. Well, it appears that at least in the general election the MSM-Hillary propaganda machine worked hard to describe Trump as irresponsible, a loose cannon the deck, etc.

E.g., such an accusation was that Trump rallies incited violence. Well, now we know better: The Hillary campaign and the Democrat party paid some third party people to incite violence at Trump rallies. Then the MSM-Hillary propaganda machine blamed Trump.

That looks a lot like Der Stürmer blaming the German Jews for the violence of Kristallnacht.

It looks like a lot of people bought into this propaganda.

But I could find no good evidence that Trump did anything irresponsible.

One of the more serious and frequent accusations the MSM-Hillary propaganda machine threw at Trump was that he is racist.

As far as I could tell, the accusations never came with anything like meaningful evidence. Moreover, some good debunking of such a claim has long been available from what Trump did, at considerable effort and expense, to break down the racism of the private clubs in Palm Beach. Details have long been at

http://spectator.org/64643_when-trump-fought-racists/

Much more generally, for all nasty accusations the MSM-Hillary propaganda machine threw at Trump, I could never find any serious evidence that Trump had ever done anything significantly wrong on anything at all significant for being POTUS. Nothing. Nil. Nada. Zip, zilch, and zero.

So, it looked like the MSM-Hillary campaign did a gang up and pile on, all repeated the same accusations over and over, and, thus, used one of the old techniques of propaganda — have enough newspapers repeat the a distortion, fabrication, or lie often enough and can get a significant fraction of the public to believe the falsehood, even if it is as absurd as little green men from Mars.

Apparently a lot of people believed the propaganda — no evidence but just lots of repetition. Bummer.

For “Congress will reel this guy in.”, I see no need or prospect.

Even before assuming office Trump’s in steroid retrenchment mode w/ respect to Obamacare, climate control, waterboarding, The Wall, etc.

I don’t believe those claims. Instead, the claims look like more MSM propaganda.

The credibility of the MSM on Trump is junk. Moreover, no one should believe much of anything they get from newspapers. This situation is old — it’s easy to see such contempt for newspapers even in movies from the 1930s.

Generally I don’t go where I’m not wanted.

Maybe I’m saving more posts at AVC for when I announce my public beta test.

That will be darned soon after I stop the unexpected, exogenous interruptions from slowing the last of the alpha test. The interruptions have been something like the plagues from the Old Testament or some such. All the work uniquely mine is fine and always has been.

No one believed for even half a second either the Little Red Hen or Trump before the actual results were obtained.

For AVC, I don’t have more keystrokes I much care to allocate discussing my project before public beta or for adding to the issues raised at AVC.

Look, as Trump has just taught a lot of people, a lot of people don’t want to entertain anything about a possible victory before the final score. And after winning, a lot of people are very resentful that their desires were not met and their predictions were proven false. Ah, a lot of Hollywood snowflakes melted!

While failure is an orphan with many excuses and victory has many parents, still for any victory there are a lot resentful people.

Nearly any deliberately planned and executed major victory is quite exceptional and, thus, difficult to reconcile with the ordinary and a challenge to the sense of security and self-esteem of nearly everyone who did not see the possibility.

Hey stop back to AVC otherwise as the saying goes “they win”.

> People don’t realize that money for Trump is a means to the end to gain power and recognition.

Nice observation.

> Even I am amazed at how dumb they all were.

Yup. But: They formed a herd, a mob. For a lot of people who didn’t go along, the mob attacked with a pile on. In such a group, mutually reinforcing and protecting, it’s easy for an individual totally to fit in and to be just totally dumb.

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A keeper. Kept. Thanks.

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I’ll be up there eating a few in a few weeks. Filets are a good economy meal.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!

BRC/JLM
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

Change in attitude. I see it and feel it big time. More optimism for sure. They tell me they can’t keep the filets in stock at the E3 Chophouse!!!!!