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This is just stupid enough that I believe it 100%.
Galaxy brain moves afoot “In recent days, some company leaders and Democratic political operatives have called the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, according to someone with knowledge of the calls, to gauge his interest in replacing Mr. Biden”
Big Donors Turn on Biden. Quietly.www.nytimes.com Some of the president’s past supporters want a new candidate, but they are leery of going public.
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I cannot picture the logical sequence that would lead someone to believe Dimon has a better chance of beating Trump than Biden does. Can't fathom it.
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People that have a lot of money have a high regard for other people with a lot of money even though a lot of them are really dumb or off putting.
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Jamie Dimon lets you turn your 12% stake in an eleventy-billion company into a tax free mansion and a superyacht, is basically it. He is the conduit from their paper wealth to their personal wealth
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A thing that was only possible in a zero interest debt world. So he knows his marching orders. Same reason they want Trump back.
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Forget for a second that it's a bank. Dimon successfully leads a massive, heavily regulated global company with tens of thousands of employees. Policy aside, he has a far better grasp of what it would take to run the US gov't than someone who's run a family business for 50 years.
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Rebuttal: no he doesn’t. Source: me, who was a C-suite executive for global companies for 17 years.
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At some point, I don't know when, people will realize that the government and any business anywhere have literally diametrically opposed goals.
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How dare you use your ACTUAL experience to rebut someone else's claims!
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Dimon would be better than Trump, but I would pick literally anyone out of a phonebook in preference to either
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My point is if you believe that business experience is relevant to successful governance, Trump is the last guy you'd want. He's run a small family business for 50 years where doesn't have to answer to anyone and he's unfireable.
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Businesses are designed to make profits. Governments are designed to help their citizens. It's diametrically opposed agendas.
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The purpose of the org does't matter. It's the size and complexity. It's comprehension that an org that size is like a cruise ship, not a speed boat. That you can't just fire employees because they have opinions you don't like and that order and process matter for institutional continuity.
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"Run government like a business" is a scam and a snow job and it always has been.
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I read this in William F Buckley's voice
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Dimon has repeatedly shown far more loyalty to his class than to his country
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Isn't that what they said about SecState Tillerson?
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Yes better than Trump, but still NOT good. The presidency should not be an entry level job into politics.
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