Everyone knows the Big Unit!
Especially the Avian Mafia.
People have been making that joke since Dubya. “When he said he was going to run this country like a business, I didn’t think he meant like one of his!” And “running the country like a business” has been around since at least Ross Perot. You’d think we (as a country) would have learned by now…
His supporters make bobble heads look smart.
I first heard of “running the country like a business” back when Lee Iacocca’s name was in the press about a possible run. From Wikipedia:
Here’s a “Saturday Night Live” cold open from the 90s which has Phil Hartman’s Donald Trump and Jan Hooks as Ivana discussing their divorce.
And in the 1980s, Spy Magazine made fun of Trump constantly, famously calling him a “short-fingered vulgarian.”
“Run the country like a business” is such a stupid phrase - equating two things that have nothing to do with each other. It’s like saying “We should fly this plane like a submarine!” No. No you shouldn’t.
Especially given that the people who say that often go on to describe the ways they want the government to not run like a business. Like, deficit spending: You give absolutely any business the opportunity to borrow money at a fraction of a percent annual interest, and I guarantee that every single business will borrow as much of that money as they can, and then worry about finding some way to spend it, because almost anything they can think of to spend it on will have better returns. If the government were run like a business, they’d be running even bigger deficits.
And in 2000 The Simpsons predicted that Trump would become President (and that Lisa would follow him as President, having to clean up the disasters he’d created during his term).
The Apprentice didn’t start until 2004–but in 2000 the creators of The Simpsons figured that most Americans would know who DT was.
He is said to be considering a run. (Personally I don’t think he retains the popularity he’d need to win over Donald’s 27%. And he certainly won’t be getting anyone else’s votes!)
Everyone seems to be forgetting about when Trump’s brain was transplanted into Bill the Cat back in the 80s (apparently they never put it back).
In more ways than one (I can’t believe I get to do the short joke, unless I missed it downstream (I looked!)).
…”You’re fired.”
Short jokes are easy to overlook.
so mad=man Kennedy wants Americans to eat healthy, but then this happens:
The U.S. House passed a fiscal year 2027 Agriculture funding bill that cuts $200 million from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), which includes over $141 million in specific fruit and vegetable benefit reductions for millions of pregnant women and young children
Who needs fruit and vegetables when you can have red meat and some ferments?
Missed it by that much.
RFK actually wants for the well-off to eat “healthy” per his wacko definition of healthy and for the poors to starve, self-deport, or both.
I think the FDA s conflicting actions–they want to ban “unhealthy” soda, candy et al from SNAP but then cut out “healthy” fruits and vegetables
Of course, expecting consistency from both the executive branch departments and congressional budgeting has always been a reach here in the good 'ol US of A.
And that’s before the current criminal clown show regime took over. Nowaday’s? Fuggeddaboudit!