I think this was the woman who was interviewed by This American Life in their last episode. Don’t dismiss her, she had a lot of very smart things to say and everything she said about how congress works is absolutely correct.

Okay, people seem to not know what playing the system means. It’s not the same as cheating. It’s what you said in that last sentence, “Using the rules of a system in a clever way to gain an advantage.” It’s using the system against itself to achieve a desired outcome. By using it this way, a person could use the…

How about this, then? He succeeding at becoming president despite himself.

Actually the founders anticipated our situation. The Constitution via the Electoral College is designed to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.” If only that wisdom could be applied now.

Your statement doesn’t make sense. Operating within the system is literally required to play the system.

“Playing the System - Using the rules and procedures meant to protect a system in order, instead, to manipulate the system for a desired outcome.”

Compared to 99% of Americans

Check out his budget plan, because it’s a shining example of just how massively inept a businessman he is... Even with the most optimistic numbers and outcomes, it’s going to slightly enrich the middle class (by a few hundred dollars a year) and attract some jobs, but it’s also going to massively increase…

Well he failed at winning the popular vote.


But I guess he played the system just like he did with the millions of taxes he avoided paying.

Actually he did fail at winning the most votes, which is what an election is. Hillary won the vote count. Through an arcane system, actually meant to protect us from people like Trump being elected, he will likely accumulate a majority Electoral College tally. But it’s an important distinction that the majority of…

Thank you. He inherited a pile of money, invested in NYC real estate (aka the family business) at a time when a blind, developmentally delayed possum could make money if he had a trust fund to fall back on and by most accounts, he made a series of strategic decisions of mixed wisdom (Trump Air, Trump Water), and left…

But he began with an advantage that 99% of Americans would never enjoy.

Did he turn millions into billions? How do you know? Because he says so? He personally estimates the value of his BRAND in the billions. Not sure that is the same thing as having assets worth billions.

He did fail, though. I mean, like always he got what he wanted, but he lost the popular vote.

He didn’t win. He won the Electoral College. BIG diff, buddy.

As a gay man, I’m just going to stand here and give you a really shitty look for a second about how it “doesn’t seem that bad.” Yeah. Empowering religious types and dissolving my legal marriage probably won’t sting too hard.

There is such a thing as a “successfully bad” business person. These are the ones who understand that as long as you don’t stiff your lawyers or accountants you can stiff everyone else.

“Well, he didn’t fail at winning the election.”

but he’s not a successful businessman. If fact, everything he’s done on his own has been an abject failure. His focus is going to be figuring out ways to funnel public money into his pockets.

We didn’t vote on them but the registration/sign-in part was totally electronic. But I can’t believe you have individual voter cards! That’s super old-school! Even in my old neighborhood there was a printed alphabetical list of registered voters and you just signed in the spot next to your name.

They ran out of stickers so I’m pretty sure my vote didn’t count.