I'm convinced that the best preparation for being President is to be a successful CEO of a conglomerate with its hands in all kinds of different businesses. The President (and even members of Congress) deal with so many different policy issues that they cannot possibly be well-informed on all of them.

Thus, you need to be able to put people in place who are experts in these things and rely on them to build a team of competent individuals that will convey to you the facts and risks of different decisions in a manner that allows you to sign off on big picture ideas without understanding all the nuance. Being humble enough to take advice from people you outrank is also important.

shocking that once again you are completely wrong about democratic and human rights.

Cool theory, but CEOs of large corporations are at best completely amoral, and have been poisoned by a lifetime of your kind of thinking that whatever is best for the company's profits (with your allowance for factoring in backlash) is not only the right to do but practically mandatory.

Also see Rex Tillerson decimating the State Department.

Yes. Wagon hasnt even left the station yet. Let us whisper of a dream.

Jack Welch for president. We'll use some creative accounting to get rid of the national debt, who's with me?

Yeah maybe. I listened to a scotus podcast on it dunno how informed I am supposed to be on every random matter.

So what's the skinny on the law and case?

Best prep is obviously someone who has been a governor and a bonus of he/she has had some level of federal foreign policy/intelligence exposure be it in congress or as a federal appointee.

Trump and Oprah being friends kinda makes me think there is a chance Oprah orchestrated Trump 2016 as a way of becoming a viable candidate herself.

Chaos is a laddah.

Oprah is immoral? What about Buffett? Gates?

Amoral, not immoral. Difference is lacking good morals versus being actively bad. Definitely yes to Gates and Buffett despite seeking redemption through charity.

AFAIK, Oprah just ran a production company that printed money selling her personality but yes, possible she is amoral as well.

What reasonable argument can even support purging the rolls the way that Ohio does?

Assuming that "everyone who doesn't vote in a midterm election has moved" is laughable.

Hillary had a 10+ point lead weeks before the election. Emails, Donna Brazile, #PizzaGate, Wikileaks and whatever else played a pretty huge role in Hillary losing. Trump and Fox News will lie and make a bunch of noise about made-up scandals some democrat politician candidate was involved in and people will believe it.

Oprah would be impervious to that type of thing because she was never involved in politics and is also beloved by every mom in america for totally irrational reasons. Oprah would decimate Trump in any reasonably fair election, whereas xyz democrat would be a small favorite come election day for the reasons stated and we're replaying 2016.

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public

Yeah it's not even close. Senator in second and everything else is kind of a problem waiting to happen.

something something voter fraud

no not really voter fraud.

the argument that is cited much more vociferously is that if you dont vote often then you dont value voting and therefore you dont deserve to vote.

#conservativeLogic

Yeah the secretary of state for Alabama has said, "If you're going to want to vote here, you're going to have to show a little ambition." Like, not even hiding.

Why not just get rid of districts and go with party-list proportional representation?

It would require repealing the First Amendment.

One reason that I advocate expanding the size of Congress is so that members can have more specialization in areas of interest. Given that the presidents who have come from the business world are Herbert Hoover and Donald Trump, I am not convinced that CEOs are who we want to tap for president.

One of my ideas is to re-organize the executive branch to get rid of the potential for a unitary executive by breaking up the executive into multiple elected positions. Since many states have separate elected offices for treasurer and attorney general, I think that Secretary of the Treasury and AG could be elected offices. Maybe Homeland Security. I don't think Defense or State should be separate, given the president's role as commander-in-chief and in foreign policy.

Really wish the devil had won that fiddle fight

When Trump started his run he had about 2 million Twitter followers.

Oprah has 41 million.

Perry 2020

Some nerds did an analysis last year and determined that over half his followers are bots

so basically if you want to know anything about where the GOP is in 2018, check this space

Oprah is a huge peddler of junk science per vox

Everything you need to know about modern Republican party is embodied in the CHIP fiasco.

You can be the most anarchotarian conservative whatever, but how can you not think of the kids. Poor kids that have no choice and no opportunity.