“Of all sad words…

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…of tongue and pen/ The saddest are, ’It might have been’.”

i dk who wrote that little epigram, but i thought of it when i watched Trump being interviewed by Mark Levin last Sunday. Shee-uh, WHY didnt he present himself like that during the first presidential debate? i really believe that if he had, he’d be president today. 😢😢

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  1. My thoughts? He lost patience, and moguls such as the Don do that. (I was only in the corporate, not the political world but I completely empathize.)

    What aggravates me beyond belief is the eagerness of the American electorate to hear soothing, inaccurate bull**** because they’re frightened to 1) admit their ignorance, 2) are socially pressured to vote the party line as if they were voting for Homecoming Queen. They can’t recognize why Trump’s policies were so positive for this country because they’d lose social status.

    Even under a Biden administration, you are able to live under the largesse of the govt for only so long. And this is my third point:

    All free things come to an end when you’re trillions of dollars in debt. Statistically speaking, we don’t have enough billionaires to bail us out even if they were taxed at 100%. We don’t have a revenue problem; we have a spending problem and this is why I gravitate toward business candidates.

    They get it.

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  2. P.S. This post affected me greatly- thanks HYP- so I want to add one other thought:

    I missed his interview with Levin but it didn’t make a damn bit of difference to me. I suppose I’m terribly obsolete because I pay attention to records/results, not words. Period.

    This is a holdover from my corporate days where I missed useless meetings, threw out unproductive vendors in a NY minute, wreaked havoc in the market but delivered above and beyond my financial goals. It’s tough to clean up messes (at any level) and you will never be thanked.

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  3. All very inspiring, Liz, but…looking back to that first debate I think I knew then he was gonna lose. He had behaved like a Leftist caricature of himself. And it was so unnecessary: he was the incumbent, he had a great record, he just shoulda kept detailing his accomplishments. I’ll never understand it.
    I wish you could see the Levin interview. That was our Don at his best. Well, you know: he IS also an actor, after all, cuz of all those TV shows. Let’s hope he chooses this persona to portray if he does run in ‘24.

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    1. “And it was so unnecessary: he was the incumbent, he had a great record, he just shoulda kept detailing his accomplishments.”

      Can’t argue with this comment but I still don’t understand why the electorate didn’t get it. Also, too, it’s always easier to climb to the top than defend your position once you get there! One of Trump’s greatest strengths in 2016 was the element of surprise; in 2024 it may be the element of fear.

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