Too Big to Fail: 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.

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.

jesus christ

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.

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.

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

A thing that was only possible in a zero interest debt world. So he knows his marching orders. Same reason they want Trump back.

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.

Rebuttal: no he doesn’t. Source: me, who was a C-suite executive for global companies for 17 years.

At some point, I don't know when, people will realize that the government and any business anywhere have literally diametrically opposed goals.

How dare you use your ACTUAL experience to rebut someone else's claims!

Interesting. What industry?

Entertainment.

Dimon would be better than Trump, but I would pick literally anyone out of a phonebook in preference to either

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.

Businesses are designed to make profits. Governments are designed to help their citizens. It's diametrically opposed agendas.

"Run government like a business" is a scam and a snow job and it always has been.

I read this in William F Buckley's voice

Dimon has repeatedly shown far more loyalty to his class than to his country

Isn't that what they said about SecState Tillerson?

Yes better than Trump, but still NOT good. The presidency should not be an entry level job into politics.

@jove.bsky.social is this anything

Too specific

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"You know who could win an election in four months? A guy 95% of the American people have never fuckin' heard of and has never done anything like this before."

And of the 5% who have heard of him, what percentage react to his name with: "That fucking guy? That just reminds me that nobody went to jail for the 2008 Financial Crisis, GODDAMMIT!"

Right? If there’s anything we should know from Trump, it’s that we don’t “need a businessman”. I think anyone saying this likes him because he can write checks, ie hire them.

lots of business folks really like him, but that's bluntly because he's (a) one of them and (b) helps them do big brain business things like M&As, IPOs, and personal loans

business types think 'a business man' leader will be like them in that he won't give a sh*t about any thing other than making the fastest bucks possible and clearing any hurdles to getting it easier & cheaper schlubs think 'business man' is some big balls company owner character from a TV show

hey, I've got an idea! let's replace the guy who won every primary and the last election with someone who has literally never received a vote from anyone except maybe his board of directors.

If anyone were to get "drafted" I would love to see current IL governor JB Pritzker go up against Trump. He's been really good here and has a lot of policy wins to talk about.

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