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Trump’s secret weapon may tip the election
The Hill ^ | 10/26/24 12:00 PM ET | Douglas MacKinnon *

Posted on 10/27/2024 12:57:02 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

Of late, many people — especially politicians, pundits and celebrities on the left — have been engaged in agonizing introspection, trying to ascertain why the election has seemed to tip towards former President Donald Trump.

In my estimation, much of the reasoning comes down to an example of “life imitating art.” In this case, such “art” being the 1986 movie “Back to School,” starring Rodney Dangerfield.

Now, while some of the entitled, entrenched elites on the left might ignorantly and snobbishly scoff at such a theory — part of the reason they may soon be on the outside looking in — it has real validity.

Why? There is a scene in the film where Dangerfield — who plays a tough New York City-based CEO enrolling in an elite college to keep an eye on his son — takes issue with a liberal, never-worked-in-the-real-world economics professor, and explains to him the actual process of starting a business. Almost instantly, every student in the class turns their back on the know-nothing professor, faces Dangerfield’s character and begins taking copious notes.

Trump is the real-life version of that fictional CEO. Back in 2016, tens of millions of Americans turned away from the elites and toward him to jot down notes. The “academic,” the “theoretical,” the “hoped for” and the forcefully “mandated” stood no chance against such experience.

Real-world business experience mattered in 2016 and it matters even more now. For almost four years, the American people have tried to evaluate President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump. And while many of the distinctions between the three may have seemed muddled — or purposely slanted by the media — one was, and remains, crystal clear: Trump worked and succeeded in the real business world for most of his life, while Biden and Harris existed in the political and government world, living off the taxpayers’ hard-earned money.

While Trump established one of the most iconic business empires in the world — employing tens of thousands of Americans over the years, while supporting hundreds of small businesses — Biden became a career politician who has been on the government dole for over a half century.

Americans are very bright, and they can understand why that vast disparity in real-world experience matters. Most especially when the last few years of their lives have gotten worse under the guy who has lived off the tax-payer dime since 1972. These Americans are aware that Biden created no companies, hired no employees and met no payrolls.

Next, we come to Harris. Since 1990, she has either lived off the money of California taxpayers or of federal taxpayers. Like Biden, she has created no companies, hired no employees and met no payrolls.

Businesses — most especially small businesses — are the backbone of our nation. They do not exist atop some far-left, academic plane. They are real, and the welfare of every single American rises or falls with their successes and failures. So does our nation.

Trump knows that, because he worked in that world for decades. In the eyes of tens of millions of Americans, he is the Rodney Dangerfield character vs. the Biden-Harris know-nothing tenured liberal professor living off other people’s money.

Trump’s experience has also made him realize that he was ill-served by some in his first administration, people who may have been working against him behind the scenes, because he was not part of the entrenched establishment and could not be controlled. To ensure that doesn’t happen again, Trump has upped his game by bringing in some extraordinary talent. One such person is Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of the financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald.

If you don’t know Lutnick’s remarkable backstory, you should research it. On Sept. 11, 2001, Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 employees in the World Trade Center terrorist attack — including Lutnick’s beloved brother, Gary.

When I first learned that, I immediately researched Lutnick and Cantor Fitzgerald. I did so because on that day, while driving to D.C., I witnessed the American Airlines jet heading for the Pentagon — a building I had worked in for three years.

Hours after the attack, I learned that a former colleague had been on that jet, along with the fact that my cousin was one of the first heroic firefighters to enter the burning and crumbling section of the Pentagon. At that time, I felt a need to learn as much as possible about those most affected by the horrific attack — Howard Lutnick being one.

Flash ahead 23 years and Lutnick not only rebuilt Cantor Fitzgerald, but is now the co-chair of Trump’s transition team. Real-world experience in spades.

To close with another movie reference, Lutnick has always reminded me of my favorite fictional investment CEO: Lawrence Garfield, as brilliantly played by Danny DeVito in the 1991 film “Other People’s Money.”

What set the Garfield character apart was that he was experienced, tough, intelligent, moral, deeply believed in the capitalist system and wanted to keep the “communists” out of business and the country. Lutnick in a nutshell.

Life imitating art. The American people are choosing the DeVito and Dangerfield characters as personified by the real-life Lutnick and Trump.

Real world experience is a thing. It’s not a secret. It is just devalued and purposely ignored by many on the left. Come Nov. 5, real world experience will help to carry the election.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: backtoschool; cantorfitzgerald; douglasmackinnon; howardlutnick; kurtvonnegut; longfellow; otherpeoplesmoney; rodneydangerfield; thehill; trump
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* Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official.
1 posted on 10/27/2024 12:57:02 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

That is a great movie.


2 posted on 10/27/2024 12:59:52 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: AdmSmith; adorno; Alter Kaker; AmericanInTokyo; Apparatchik; AZJeep; babble-on; BeauBo; ...

Vance: Problems ‘caused by broken leadership’ bigger than ‘any foreign threat’

The Hill
Ashleigh Fields
10/26/24 9:33 PM EDT
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4955557-vance-problems-broken-leadership-bigger-foreign-threat/


3 posted on 10/27/2024 1:00:12 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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ELECTION DAY

We find out on Nov. 5. if we can all have steak or ramen noodles for dinner.


4 posted on 10/27/2024 1:18:35 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: Luke21

5 posted on 10/27/2024 1:24:35 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

I always believe the main reason billionaire Trump can relate with working class people is he is in construction business all his life. Unlike venture capitalists or other money moving occupations, Trump has to deal with the technical issues of building something (e.g., must have strong foundation before anything else) as well as the people who work in the project: not just the architects, management and engineers, but also the foremen, and other blue-collar workers. So, he is used to interact with various kinds of people on daily basis.


6 posted on 10/27/2024 1:31:27 AM PDT by paudio (Liberals teach Whites about guilt and shame much better than Christian churches do...)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

USDA Prime ribeyes all around... let’s do this.


7 posted on 10/27/2024 1:31:31 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Love the movie. Love the comparison.


8 posted on 10/27/2024 1:41:21 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just adopt ideologies.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Meanwhile, the Democrats are choosing Peter Sellers in the character Chauncy Gardener as personified by the real-life Kamala Harris.

(Hmm - and Oliver Hardy as Tim Walz?)


9 posted on 10/27/2024 1:45:04 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

It’s like comparing a Border Collie herding sheep to a tick on the neck of that working dog.


10 posted on 10/27/2024 1:52:37 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Larry Lucido

Such a great scene in the movie.


11 posted on 10/27/2024 1:54:36 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
These Americans are aware that Biden created no companies, hired no employees and met no payrolls.

I'm afraid I disagree. The Biden Crime family most certainly had many employees on the payroll. Perhaps it wasn't a corporation or LLC, but it was a business entity.

12 posted on 10/27/2024 1:55:19 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Let’s go to the video;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSLscJ2cY04


13 posted on 10/27/2024 2:02:27 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Lutnick’s a Deep Stater.

Unfortunate choice: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/23/howard-lutnick-trump-transition-scrutiny-00184985


14 posted on 10/27/2024 2:03:38 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: End Times Sentinel; UMCRevMom@aol.com
Probably not a surprise to find, that both:

- Joe Biden
- Nancy Pelosi

are each, a leader of "a family office business." The legal structures of which, are something very familiar to Washington, DC law firms.

My guess is, that the arrangments limit both the Biden and Pelosi "family office" operations from the following kind of federal intrusion:

Small Business Owners are branded “terrorists” by Federal Government
Gateway Pundit, ^ | Oct. 25, 2024 | Peter McIlvenna

Excerpts:

In just over 2 months every small business owner in America is required to be registered with the Federal Government’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The Biden/Harris administration rolled out this unconstitutional law, known as the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), on January 1st, 2024.

The CTA requires all small business owners in the United States, with revenue under 5 million and less than 20 full time employees to self-report to FinCEN, housed under the Department of Treasury.

According FinCEN’s website:

"FinCEN is a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Director of FinCEN is appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury and reports to the Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence."

Your failure to report into this terrorism and intelligence database by January 1st, 2025 means that you will be subjected to fines of $591 per day and you could face a penalty of up to 2 years in federal prison. Small business owners in the United States could be jailed for up to 2 years for committing no crime, other than failing to turn over their personal, protected data to Big Brother.

Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Senator Warren Davidson (R-OH) seem to be the only two elected officials moving seriously against this unconstitutionality. Both offices have introduced the aptly named “Big Brother Overreach” Bill, but it has fallen on deaf ears.


15 posted on 10/27/2024 2:08:09 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: End Times Sentinel; UMCRevMom@aol.com
Again, IF Biden and Pelosi have such "family offices" with such "arrangements."

16 posted on 10/27/2024 2:11:07 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: irishjuggler

Sounds good to me, but I’d have to add some lobster to that. Ribeye & tails. Doesn’t get better than that imho. Not too late for grilling either. If the sh1t hits the fan, then I just won’t be hungry at all.


17 posted on 10/27/2024 2:12:39 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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ARTICLE

Trump transition team co-chair warns prospective appointees must prove ‘loyalty’
The Hill
Sarah Fortinsky
10/07/24 12:45 PM ET

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4919663-howard-lutnick-trump-appointees/

“Howard Lutnick, former President Trump’s transition team co-chair, said prospective appointees will only be tapped for future roles in a hypothetical Trump administration if they prove “loyalty” to the former president and his policies.

Lutnick, who also heads the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald, indicated in a Financial Times interview published Monday that he would try to avoid the high turnover rate that plagued Trump’s first term in office.

Lutnick said Trump intends to execute his agenda at a “speed no one’s ever done before,” the outlet reported, and selecting loyal appointees who share Trump’s vision would help him do so.

“Those people were not pure to his vision,” Lutnick told the Financial Times of the advisers who quit or became hostile during Trump’s first term.

In a hypothetical second term, Lutnick said, “They’re all going to be on the same side, and they’re all going to understand the policies, and we’re going to give people the role based on their capacity — and their fidelity and loyalty to the policy, as well as to the man.”


18 posted on 10/27/2024 2:12:45 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

“ELECTION DAY

We find out on Nov. 5. if we can all have steak or ramen noodles for dinner.”

Ramen noodles? No, you will eat ze bugs!


19 posted on 10/27/2024 2:13:28 AM PDT by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

I am a bit more interested in devotion and dedication to duty, than loyalty to a figure.

“Here is the task at hand,” says the leader. The group of gathered chiefs then study the matter and get to work on prodeeding with their duties.

That group of sub-ordinates, must always know, that the top is always aware and interested in the proceedings, and may “just barge in” at any moment - *anywhere.*

In order to choose the division chiefs - the subordinates and so on - requires FIRST choosing people who know how to identify people who are strongly inclined to perform their duties.

So Trump’s chiefs of staff, must be wise leaders with strong talents for choosing, in turn . . . truthful leaders.


20 posted on 10/27/2024 2:23:19 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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