Official LRC President Donald J Trump Thread

Flagpole wrote:

HAMM wrote:

Congrats on making essentially the same as a 25 yo consultant at a big firm who is fresh out of b-school or someone with 2-3 years consulting experience.

I don’t think the ones who consider you a contract worker (which you are by your own admission) are minimizing what you do. But you are VERY defensive about it for some reason.

1) Regarding a 25-year-old consultant making what I make...ha ha ha!

2) Regarding being defensive about not being a contract worker...I knew someone would mention that, because you people are not like me; you people are filled with fragile egos, a need to have a title that means something, etc. I am interested in the TRUTH and ACCURACY only. If I WERE a contract worker and someone here said I was a business consultant, I would say that NO, I am a contract worker.

3) And, just to clarify, no, I am not a contract worker, not by my own admission or anyone else's label. I own a business that is neither operated nor legally set up, nor paid like a contractor would be.

Some of you people have an odd fascination with me and what I do for a living. It's not that exciting. Go work in the manufacturing world for about 10 years and then hang up a shingle if you think it's so interesting. I did it as a way to make money so I could retire early and debt free. It's mostly a boring job, and not one I would necessarily recommend.

Same as my other name wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

1) Regarding a 25-year-old consultant making what I make...ha ha ha!

2) Regarding being defensive about not being a contract worker...I knew someone would mention that, because you people are not like me; you people are filled with fragile egos, a need to have a title that means something, etc. I am interested in the TRUTH and ACCURACY only. If I WERE a contract worker and someone here said I was a business consultant, I would say that NO, I am a contract worker.

3) And, just to clarify, no, I am not a contract worker, not by my own admission or anyone else's label. I own a business that is neither operated nor legally set up, nor paid like a contractor would be.

Some of you people have an odd fascination with me and what I do for a living. It's not that exciting. Go work in the manufacturing world for about 10 years and then hang up a shingle if you think it's so interesting. I did it as a way to make money so I could retire early and debt free. It's mostly a boring job, and not one I would necessarily recommend.

Good Lord! Can you ever NOT take the bait and start making it all about you? Do you even realize that the way you reliably respond to folks who are clearly baiting you and then turn the conversation into one about you is absolutely Trumpian?

Try not to be like Trump.

Buyer of Businesses wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Well, that wouldn't be me. I have had all of my current clients for more than 10 years. For the one I am managing their 7-year Project (this is a Project as is used in the manufacturing world, not a 'project' as non-manufacturing people think of it), this is the second multi-year Project I have managed for them. The client I just shed was because the owner wanted to retire, and he sold his business. He gave me the contact name for the new owner, but I'm in client shedding mode these days, not client getting mode. Many more clients out there to get if I wanted to. Don't want to.

If the former owner thought you were valuable to his business, he would have introduced the new owner to you. And if the new owner found your services valuable, he/she would have retained or re-negotiated your contract to keep you on after the sale. Sounds like your existing consulting contract with the previous owner was not part of the negotiation and therefore voided by the sale.

You didn't shed this client, your former client and the new owner both shed YOU.

Um, ever heard of the inverted yield curve? wrote:

Question for you all: How long until Trump completely caves to the Chinese on trade (probably lifts sanctions of Huawei, allows them to operate in the US, gets nothing substantial on forced technology transfers, nothing on copyright enforcement, nothing on currency manipulation but gets some token like they’ll buy more agricultural goods from us) simply to try and declare “victory” in the trade war and try and salvage his slim chances in 2020?

It’s clear Trump’s economic, tax, and trade policies are a total disaster (not surprising) but he is trying to stave off total economic collapse prior to the election in a bid to avoid prison by outlasting the statue of limitations for his many crimes. So, how long until hjs full capitulation to China? I think he’ll make “the best deal” by late September. What’d you all think?

Um, ever heard of the inverted yield curve? wrote:

Question for you all: How long until Trump completely caves to the Chinese on trade (probably lifts sanctions of Huawei, allows them to operate in the US, gets nothing substantial on forced technology transfers, nothing on copyright enforcement, nothing on currency manipulation but gets some token like they’ll buy more agricultural goods from us) simply to try and declare “victory” in the trade war and try and salvage his slim chances in 2020?

It’s clear Trump’s economic, tax, and trade policies are a total disaster (not surprising) but he is trying to stave off total economic collapse prior to the election in a bid to avoid prison by outlasting the statue of limitations for his many crimes. So, how long until hjs full capitulation to China? I think he’ll make “the best deal” by late September. What’d you all think?