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Posted on: Jul. 23 2016,5:32 pm
Being President would be pretty sweet in some ways.
Pros: While Congress limits your ability to do most of what you promised you'd do, you still have enormous influence in the appointments you make to the Cabinet and the Courts. For a few years you get to use a a pretty nice house, plane, limo, etc. (Past President's have had to get accustomed to walking into a room without a band playing "Hail to the Chief", and having someone tell them their flight might be delayed or car sitting in traffic.
Drawbacks: Intervening in tragedies, and when you try to help you'll be blamed by half of the population no matter what. Your whole family is now in the limelight as well, if your brother gets a DWI or your daughter goes on a date, it's in the news. Even your pet has reporters following it. From a superficial standpoint, no matter how black your hair is when you start, it'll be grey in just a few years. Before the inauguration, you should either start dying your hair, or shave it off.
Either way, I suppose it's good to be king, if just for a while...
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Being President would be pretty sweet in some ways.
Pros: While Congress limits your ability to do most of what you promised you'd do, you still have enormous influence in the appointments you make to the Cabinet and the Courts. For a few years you get to use a a pretty nice house, plane, limo, etc. (Past President's have had to get accustomed to walking into a room without a band playing "Hail to the Chief", and having someone tell them their flight might be delayed or car sitting in traffic.
Drawbacks: Intervening in tragedies, and when you try to help you'll be blamed by half of the population no matter what. Your whole family is now in the limelight as well, if your brother gets a DWI or your daughter goes on a date, it's in the news. Even your pet has reporters following it. From a superficial standpoint, no matter how black your hair is when you start, it'll be grey in just a few years. Before the inauguration, you should either start dying your hair, or shave it off.
Either way, I suppose it's good to be king, if just for a while...
Yes, pretty sweet for someone that's never held a real job in his life
Trump reminds me of all the coffee shop pundits I've heard all my life. Always complaining about everything. And talking about how much better things 'used' to be.
Yet look at how he benefits from the world of today. He can use the internet and things like Twitter to promote himself. Just to name one thing.
The future involves lots of robots and tech issues, better alternative energy sources and things that nobody has even considered or dreamed could happen or exist.
It seems like non of the candidates on either side really discuss anything of that nature.