#who is some kind of socialist dad who educates people about urban planning

[wandaluvstacos]

One great thing about leftist Youtube is the comments, which is something I thought I’d never say, but gone are the days of 2009 when people just yelled slurs in the comments and then argued about the existence of God. Leftist youtubers have a lot of funny, charming people in the comments. I don’t even wanna KNOW what kind of comments are left on right-wing Youtuber channels, but I guarantee you they’re 100 times more horrible and completely devoid of actual humor. This alone is proof that leftists are funnier, more caring, and cooler than right wingers.

[ramrodd]

Are there any intelligent and/or highly educated people who support Donald Trump?

In the final analysis, the question: Are there any intelligent and/or highly educated people who support Donald Trump?, is a contradiction in terms.

COMMENTARY:

From 1975 until July 1978, I was involved in a US-Soviet aerospace IPO made possible by Nixon-Brezhnev “Detente” and Nixon’s design for airline deregulation. It provided a replace for the DC-3 in service to small - medium, short-haul markets. and small communities associated with Earl Butz Agribusiness model based upon the family farm and farm communities like Rushville Indiana and light industrial communities like Columbus In, Mike Pence’s hometown. In 1975, I was not as aware of Nixon’s domestic program as I can now describe it, but I was working the system as hard as I could to become filthy rich in a Elon Musk kind of way.

One day, Fred Smith of FedEx walked into our offices at Dulles IAD and said he wanted to buy our aircraft to replace his Falcon 30 jets that were too small for his markets and our aircraft allowed him to double his capacity while remaing in a FAA/CAB operational status of general aviation. The DC-3 is the moment commercial avaition advanced from basically pony express to man on the moon. It is at the apex of the economies of scale for general aviation and at the entry level of what has become the sperm whales of the US Air Transport System, a strategic fushion of Free Enterprise and socialistic structures. One of the reasons Marxism failed is because it can’t do the economic magic Free Enterprise does, routinely.

Anyway, Fred put a letter of intent for 30 aircraft, the US YaK-40 based on the YaK-40 mission design and aeronautics and packing it with American labor and pa rts and get it out, cheap, to Commuter Airlines feeding people like US Air and Southwest Airlines. It was a little bit of smoke and mirrors, but the order sat on the threshold for a practical venture capital public offering in any equity market.

We were looking for $300 million $3 million dollars at a time. Part of the culture of the Army Command and General Staff College are professional commentary by previous graduates, such as George Patton, who told the Parable of Rock Soup to illustrate to staff officers trying to put a project together how to do it. It’s a very Will Rogers kind of tale, back when homeless veterans were called Hobos. A hobo goest to a farmer’s kitchen door and asks if he could draw some water so’s he could make some “Rock Soup”. “Rock Soup? what’s that” and the short version is that the hobo ends up with a can full of water, rock and some meat and vegetables, maybe some bacon grease, that the farmer’s wife added for flavoring.

My dad told me that story and we were putting this thing together from different boxes of jigsaw puzzles, erector sets and moonshine. FedEx needed to explain the novelty of FedEx to the FAA so they could build it into the regulations that they shared with the CAB as a federal mechanism for creating commerical air service from Kitty Hawk to the Boeing 787. And the Space Shuttle. SpaceX. All this neat stuff is a direct result of strategic planning beginning just about as long as it took Billy Mitchell to get court martialed for demonstrated the efficacy of aircraft like the DC-3 as an instrument of national security and the common defense and me and my Boss/Partner were the K Street who explained to the FAA Forecast Branch that FedEx’s systemic novelty was that it is organized around ZIP Codes instead of railroad right of ways, which were the original Air Mail Route System, coast to coast. As near as I can tell, FedEx, UPS and Southwest are the only American commercial air service based on ZIP Codes: all the rest are using the same performance technology Robert McNamara used to fight Vietnam. I gave the FAA the language it needed to accomdate FedEx’s transition from Falcon 30 jets to 747’s.

In the final analysis, Vietnam came down to a contest between Marxism and the Harvard Business model and Marxism won. So, when anyone from Harvard tells me how clever Trump is, such as Scott Adams, I turn aside, to put it politely. Quora Moderation has just scolded me for putting it on the record my opinion of bake and shake medical and JAG officers with Rambo pretensions who are wont to ‘mansplain how the grownups understand the world as revealed by Spanky.

At the time we were looking for $300 million, Trump was beginning to nose around the same markets to bankroll Trump Tower. There wasn’t much liquidity in equity markets for a number of reasons, the defining factor being the end of the spending for Vietnam and the inflation that LBJ’s methods of financing the war created. Some people will remember Ford’s WIN program (Whip Inflation Now) and the Stagflation Carter inherited from LBJ and Nixon’s semi-stalled Affirmative Action domestic program which set a process in motion to transform the Military Industrial Complex to an Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Matrix that DIDN’T anticipate the Internet or electronic trading (Ross Perot talked Donald T. Reagan to install electronic trading on the NYSE that began to come on line in 1979, but the pros on the floor didn’t have any idea what a revolution electronic trading was until it hit them in the face in 1982.

But in 1977, FedEx went public with an $80 million IPO and sucked all the liquidity out of the markets, everywhere and Trump and I were looking for the same spare change.

I left the project in 1978 over conceptual differences and did this and that, including hypnotizing Jim Kimsey one night in one of his saloons in an effort to recruit him as the venture capitalist for the X=Avia project (ICX Aviation-AviaExport) to do for us what he ended up doing for Steve Case and then I went to work for a minority-owned consulting firm providing resources to clients of the Community Services Administration, SBA, HUD and HHS, Carter’s domestic chief, Stuart Eizenstat, had adopted Nixon’s Affirmative Action design pretty much whole cloth and was really able to get it going because a difference between Republicans and Democrats in the 1960s was that the white male Republicans were like Rush Limbaugh and wanted to get on the corporate career track and join his daddy’s country club while whtie male Democrats were engaged in the civil rights movemetn and the anti-war movements were community organizers like Obama and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and social entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos.

And, in 1980, the Nixon-Moynihan-Carter Affirmative Action process transforming the Military Industrial Complex into the Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Matrix was getting real traction. And, as part of this, Eizenstat arranged for the federal, state and municiple guarantees the Equitable needed to finance Trump Tower as an element of the gentrification mandate of the Nixon-Moynihan design, that is, to get money into existing communities across the full continuum of housing to avoid the displacement of the Urban Renewal projects of the LBJ’s Great Society. Southwest DC is an example: they bulldozed everything east of the harbor, and displaced several generations of black culture. Nixon’s gentrification model was to make the capital available in communities like that to renew themselves in a preservation kind of way. Here, in DC, the Latino Economic Development Community is a legacy of the social entrepreneur side of that equation at the grass roots level.

I reviewed the entire CSA portfolio in 1980 and, when Reagan won, I took it to the head of his transition team, Charles Z. Wick, and made the pitch that I had a method for keeping the GOP in the majority in the Senate forever. I didn’t get into the details of how Eizenstat’s intent was to employ Trump Tower as the anchor for urban renewal in the community surrounding the building pretty much how it’s played out. I looked at a similar project in the Bronx a couple of blocks from where the Clinton Foundation and told them they needed to create a similar anchor (they wanted to create a mini-neighborhood Disneyland and I understood the aspiration but the needed a commercial property like Trump Tower to support that aspiration. People were really just feeling their way into the concept behind the Coalition for Non-Profit Houseing and Economic Development here, in DC, yet another legacy of the success of Nixon-Moynihan-Carter Affirmative Action.

An operating assumption of Nixon-Moynihan-Carter Affirmative Action is the process theology of the Democratic Socialism embedded in the US Constitution and the operational paradign of the Free Enterprise economics of American constitutional capitalism as it reflects the economics of Jesus and Adam Smith.

Anyway, I didn’t get into these details with Charles Z. Wick, but hwat I wanted was to be the job in the Schedule C political slots in Reagan’s administration of Administrator of the Community Services Administration. He liked the sound of the idea, so he asked me about my resume and, as I was running through it all, he broke out in a rant like Rush Limpdick riffing on Title IX and told me I was on a crypto-Nazi black list because I was a Vietnam loser and had done business with the Soviets. I had run right into the leading edge of what has become the GOP Deep State and here I am, explaining how highly educated and intelligent Trump supporters is a contradiction in terms, 37 years later.

The Trump Tower is a monument to Nixon-Moynihan-Carter Affirmative Action and it was extremely important to the morale of New York City at the time. America was as run down in 1968 as it is now and Nixon promised to renew the America of the Silent Majority in his campaign.

Trump Tower is that promise being fulfulled.

Reagan had everything he needed in 1981 to complete the transition to an Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Matrix without the internet or electronic trading and to establish a permanent moon colony by 2001, just like the movie, but the agenda of the Powell Manifesto became the dominant paradigm and the crypto-Nazi Deep State apparatchiks like Grover Norquist, John Kashich, David Stockman and Matt Whitaker that came to town with Reagan began to dismantle the Democratic Socialism of Eisenhower’s 1956 Presidential Platform and replacing it with the Tory Socialism of the 19th Century Oligarch capitalism and class warfare of Reaganomics and the Fascist sophistry of zero-sum, gold-based, laissez-faire Free Market supply-side economics of present Venezuela and the Soviet Union.

People who believe they are intelligent, especially Harvard MBA graduates who identify with Tucker Carlson, and are Trump backers need to understand that the political tactics of obstruction and subversion introduced by Newt Gingricn an implemented by McConnell and Ryan have a material cost.

If the Democrats had kept the majority in either or both chambers of Congress throughout Obama’s administration and/or Hillary had been elected and kept what she inherited from Obama, the GDP would have hit 8% sometime between 2015 and this midterm. This bull market is not a leading indicator. It’s based entirely on deficit spending but without any particular existential anchor. It’s just money making a brief transit of the markets from the treasury to the Koch brother’s trust funds, as a proxy for the GOP Deep State.

What you got in Trump voters who consider themselves intelligent because, like Brett Kavanaugh, they got an expensive education and work really hard like good little boys and girls, when the reality is they are just greedy and making too much money to really think things through.

Now, I always reluctantly admired Trump for his success with Trump Tower. I use him as an example of The entrepreneur in the American sense of the word as an element of the process theology of Organization Development: The Entrepreneur

Structures of Affirmative Action: The Community as a Capitalist Tool

If these people who believe they are really intelligent, especially because they have expensive educations made possible by hard work and the status of a third generation legacy divided their time between trying to sabotage progressive capitalism and actually employing capitalism to fix the problems they deny exist, someone like Trump would have been out of syndication ten years ago.

Instead, his ratings are better than Jim Acosta.

In the final analysis, the question: Are there any intelligent and/or highly educated people who support Donald Trump?, is a contradiction in terms.