Mr. Waternoose was an excellent villain, his villainous intentions weren't clear from the star but the reveal and his rationale behind what he did was justifiable, and was in line with his established character. There is also a sense of genuine regret that he has to get rid of some of his best employees. He's no Syndrome but he's easily in my personal Top 5 Pixar villains.
Randall by a big margin. Waternoose does what he does for the benefit of his company but Randall does it because he's envious of Sully and his success. Randall's evil comes from more self centred originals. Whereas Waternoose's is for the benefit of the collective.
I know not quite the point, but Trump isn’t worried about companies dying. He’s crashed several companies, destroying opportunity and subcontractors because he’s generally bad at creating value. That’s why he’d set them up to get paid before it’s over.
It’s unfortunate he’s the temporary hired head of a ‘company’ with limited room to counterbalance poor decisions or dial back on waste. But it’s obvious that his poor management style came with him.
His border policies especially show an utter lack of acknowledging obvious outcomes (or planning for them) and consistently get to wasteful and expensive crisis fixes, which a more capable administrator wouldn’t have let occur. However, his concern isn’t the health of the company, the value of the project, or any useful ROI really.
I expected he would be expensive; I knew he generated crises to fix as a way of feeling useful and competent. Essentially everything he has done in the regard is an expected outcome - boring and painful.
I’d say yes and no. He is EXTREMELY invested in ensuring the success of the company. Not- any of the ones he’s failed at or literally ran down the drain- but you can’t see those as failures. For him. See? The “company” that he is 100% about is that of his personal brand. The man himself is a company- his value is in his name alone. Whatever other entities he’s involved with carry a second fiddle to himself, he is a survivor. The boat can sink, everyone else on board can drown- he will do what he needs to do he endures. He’s lost many millions of dollars, tanked companies and business deals- but he’s failed up all the way, using his “experience” and name recognition and branding to carry him. People argue wether he’s rich- he eats what he wants and travels where he wants and lives in luxury. Who’s paying, all that- just details. His supreme skill is being able to get what he wants for him.
There are only two sorts of people in that man’s world- people who are helping him get what he wants- and him. You, me, everyone- just assets. Assets to be leveraged as needed. There’s no one “standing in his way” because if you attack him- he martyrs himself or uses your hare as a ticket to dinner with whoever it is that hates you- the enemy of an an enemy and all that. He doesn’t care about borders except for how to use them in law and consciousness as a tool to protect his lifestyle. Money is just as green anywhere in the world. Do you think he cares what country he’s doing business with or what country he’s running so long as it’s a country where that position brings him benefit? He knows who his supporters are. He didn’t care who the votes were coming from as long as they were coming. He never denounced the actual neo Nazis supporting him- he pandered without publicly embracing any completely socially unacceptable extremism he pandered to the base he knew he could reach.
He figured out what the states with the largest pull wanted to hear and what the people with the most power and ability to help him wanted and he offered it to them and they offered support back. Because the man is smart enough to know that by and large people don’t vote for people. Even if you’ve “met” a president you likely didn’t get intimate with them. You don’t know them as a person- and all the voters can’t really know all the candidates can they?
People vote for ideals. They vote for the qualities and philosophies and insecurities they project onto the candidate they choose. And he did a masterful job of putting forth a persona that allowed all the right people to project on to him. People vote on hope not fear. It’s a simple fact. Fear can motivate but hope- that’s much stronger. That’s “the American dream.” Feed people fear of an “enemy” or “outsider,” fear of loss and weakness. Then feed them hope- hope it doesn’t have to be that way. Hope the world can be better and they can feel safe and they can live their dreams.
He, and no one else- ever answered what “make America great again” even means. When was the largest military power, with one of the highest standards of living, per capita and total GDP, one of the best quality medical care that provides the world with not only the most- but the highest quality technical professionals not great? What isn’t great? What used to be great? It’s a very vague and sentimental slogan. That’s why it works. Because anyone seeing that can chose in their mind what they think makes America great and say “this guy is going g to give me that.”
He promised everyone that he would make their exact and personal version of the “American dream” a reality. He spoke to that phycological fallacy that makes us see the past as better in hindsight. But if you stop and think about it- it’s not possible to provide a population as large and diverse as America with what they think makes America great- because we don’t all agree or even come close to agreeing on what that really is beyond freedom and opportunity- both subjective and open to interpretation as is.
A jingoistic masterpiece and some historical brand management at play there. So I must say that you are incorrect when you say he doesn’t care about the company. He does. More than anything else. He just never said it was the company you were thinking of. He said a lot of things and you and everyone else assumed he was talking about what you were thinking. Want proof? A private contractor couldn’t get security clearance to work on a new office building for the DOD if they were $15k in dabs debt. This guy owes millions to a foreign bank that’s been dogging him to pay back and he won’t- and he’s the president with the highest security clearance in the land. How’d he even get that loan to start? Brand management. The man is doing just fine in life- for himself. And his religion holds that god only rewards good people so if you are being rewarded you are doing good. His behavior has made him do very well in life so he has no reason to morally question it.
Convenient isn’t it? He perhaps isn’t as inept as you think. Ignorant? Probably more than you known. Inept? Not unless he truly is chosen by divine providence because the odds of someone floating as high and far as him without knowing this to game people and systems is very low.
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There, fixed it for you.
This is the joke.
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And this is your head
It’s unfortunate he’s the temporary hired head of a ‘company’ with limited room to counterbalance poor decisions or dial back on waste. But it’s obvious that his poor management style came with him.
His border policies especially show an utter lack of acknowledging obvious outcomes (or planning for them) and consistently get to wasteful and expensive crisis fixes, which a more capable administrator wouldn’t have let occur. However, his concern isn’t the health of the company, the value of the project, or any useful ROI really.
I expected he would be expensive; I knew he generated crises to fix as a way of feeling useful and competent. Essentially everything he has done in the regard is an expected outcome - boring and painful.
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