(01-26-2020 11:06 PM)ShrackUAB Wrote: How many important people in my career / dealing with my business have I met that later I would say I "didn't know"? Has to be near zero. Like I said, maybe he doesn't know a few people he says he doesn't know, but this is obviously a trend. Any time anything bad happens revolving around a person, he just says he doesn't know them. "I don't know them" is just covering your *** ...or maybe he really does have dementia. And I can understand him meeting a ton of people. He probably meets a ton more than any of us ever will in our lifetimes, but this just happens so often at this point.
My gosh, that number wouldn't be anywhere close to zero for me, starting with presidents and senators and governors and a Texas Land Commissioner. I've met them, but I don't really know them. Although the last time I saw GHWB, he and Barbara actually acted like they really did know me, so maybe they felt like they did, but I never felt that way.
Bureaucrats act like every meeting and correspondence has to be recalled perfectly. I remember a situation where I did some quick and dirty projections for a client in a hurry because I was leaving the next day for France with my son for the 1998 World Cup. Ten years later, I got a phone call out of the blue from a bureaucrat, "Do you remember an email you sent to me in June 1998?"
"Well, no, at least not without a little more explanation."
"You really don't remember it?"
"No, I've slept since then."
"Well, you need to come up to Austin and explain it to us. What day are you free to come up next week?"
"Well, what is this about?"
"I told you, it's about an email you sent me in 1998."
"And what was the email about?"
"Just come up to Austin and we will discuss it."
So we set a date. I get a call from the client involved, they had called him too, and the date that works for me works for him too, so we go up to Austin. At now I know who it was about, but I don't have a copy of the email, or even know what the subject matter was, so I walk into the meeting with no idea what it is about. Turns out that I had made some long-range projections, reality had changed a bit from those projections, and it was a pretty easy explanation. Had the guy not felt the urge to be a bureaucrat, and had just asked me about what he needed to know, we would have been done and dusted with about a five-minute phone call. But he just had to be an a-hole about it because that's what bureaucrats do.
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Recording:Trump talking with indicted businessmen the President has said doesn’t know
