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Donald Trump's 'Nuclear' Uncle (newyorker.com)
An anonymous reader writes:
In 1936 a reporter watched Donald Trump's uncle John, an MIT professor of engineering, as he was struck by two high-voltage sparks while demonstrating the grounding of an new X-ray machine which could generate a million volts of power. And immediately after Nikola Tesla's death in 1943, the FBI called John G. Trump to review the scientific papers Tesla left behind, according to a new article in The New Yorker. They joke that now John's nephew Donald "seldom sounds as ungrounded as when he invokes Professor Trump, the younger brother of his father, Fred," while campaigning for president. But while comparing the candidate's statements to the historical record, they conclude that "John Trump really does seem to have been a brilliant scientist," noting that he performed both radar and short-wave research for the allies during World War II and helped design medical X-ray machines.
Trump is surely a very intelligent person.
However, a lot of things go into making us who we are by the time we get to his age, and even the tiniest of silly little things 40 years ago can cause an otherwise intelligent person to pick up some silly and outright wrong logic.
Its all a matter of perspective and his has simply had some bad data feeds which resulted in him becoming what he is today.
The man is not stupid and he is not 'wrong' in every way. He is wrong IN A WHOLE BUNCH OF IMPORTANT WAYS, but not every one.
Replace the word Trump in this post with Clinton, Sanders, YourLastName and it still applies all the same.
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Volt isn't a unit of power..
Can we please stop with the submissions that contain anti-Trump insults disguised as "jokes"? There was just one a few hours ago, for crying out loud!
Look, I don't support Donald Trump, and I don't particularly like his policies. But the last thing I want to read when I come to Slashdot is some snide swipe at him.
He clearly represents the views held by a lot of Americans, perhaps even the majority of them, even if they can't come out and admit this publicly. He will likely be the next president.
If it weren't for that pathetic, childish jab at Donald Trump, this would be a really interesting submission about a very interesting scientific figure from history. But that stupid partisan attack ruins the submission.
Please, Slashdot, can we stop with this nonsense? Can we have objective submissions that aren't peppered with anti-Trump messages?
Not sure what you're implying here, but you would have a very hard time convincing me that, somehow, Donald Trump is not an intelligent and decent person. Despite some of his wacky outbursts, he is in no way unfit to be president of the US, and might be exactly what this country needs right now.
Not sure what you're implying here, but you would have a very hard time convincing me that, somehow, Donald Trump is not an intelligent and decent person. Despite some of his wacky outbursts, he is in no way unfit to be president of the US, and might be exactly what this country needs right now.
I don't know about intelligent or not, since that's very hard to judge, but he's ignorant, not at all decent, and wildly unqualified to be President. He doesn't know about basic aspects of US military and foreign policy, like the nuclear triad which combines with his terrible ideas about using nukes as a serious threat instead of conventional troops. This combines with his general deep misunderstandings of basic issues in international relations http://www.vox.com/2016/3/28/11318722/trump-foreign-policy.
As for being a decent person, decent people don't attack war heroes for being POWs http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317, they don't suggest they'll pay legal fees for supporters who engage in violence http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317, and then lie about it http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/03/15/fact-check-trump-claims-he-never-said-hed-pay-legal-fees-for-rally-attendees-who-hit-protesters/. They don't have such thin skins that they get upset over a comment about the size of their hands and then proceed to reference the size of their genitalia on at a Presidential debate http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/03/04/donald-trumps-obsession-with-size-surfaces-in-crude-ways.html .These are only a few examples.
He's an unqualified, egotistical blowhard. It is a deep shame that the party of Lincoln has been reduced to this.
Few people in his age group understand social media.
Trump on the other hand wields Twitter like a sword with the precision of a scalpel.
Must admit I thoroughly enjoyed when he used these skills to eviscerate the Republican establishment.
Have no opinion on his overall intelligence, but obviously somebody must have gotten under his skin to cry uncle like that.
If you want to criticize McCain for his policy stances then by all means do so. The relevant point that decent people don't do is claiming that because McCain was a POW that this is somehow a problem and an indication that he isn't a "winner." That's reprehensible.
No, they're not, not even close.
You're right - Hillary is a psychopath.
It skips a generation.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Almost, it's more like waiting for a thousand light years.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
This is about as relevant today as the much publicized history of George W. Bush's grandfather "dealing with Nazis".
WTF, are we preparing for a round of "Jeopardy" or something? I'll be happy to see Trump on my ballot come November, but his uncle has nothing to do with it.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Indeed. The worst most heinous criminals of history can have very decent relatives.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I can't parse your first paragraph in a way that makes any sense in context since no one has been discussing any sort of utopia or socialism. Your second paragraph is also wrong: this is a common misconception. Genes can cross over from pairs of chromosomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal_crossover. The only thing of note is the Y chromosome which does exhibit crossing over with the X chromosome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoautosomal_region. So no, you don't have any specific reason to think that they share a chromosome.
Ironically for you, a not-insignificant number of Trump supporters are young minorities.
You spew hatred and lies, pretending to be superior to anyone who dares not feel exactly as you feel. You casually dismiss others as racist, instead of tackling their arguments with rational rebuttals.
There are plenty of reasons not to like Trump. It's a shame you're too stupid and myopic to present anything other than, "UR RACIST!!".. Because you are the reason why he has any chance of being our next president.
You're smug, condescending, insulting, and full of yourself. You're also opposed to Trump, and irrationally so.
I see you, and know that I never want to be as you are. You hate Trump, and so there must be something good about him. He might be Hitler, but you're fucking Satan.
The "left/right" dichotomy actually is part of how the elite rules over the plebs.
And Trump has violated many of the "informal rules".
But I can also tell you that many guys at the FBI and CIA are actually supporting things which run against the elite. To do this effectively and over a long period, they cannot do this overtly. They are not all assholes, most importantly because you can make much more money elsewhere.
we should talk a little about stereotypes and prejudice.
Oh, never mind...
I assume you already discussed a hit job, a honeytrap, a fat bribe in order to remove Trump, eh ?
Let me tell you one thing: If you manage run over the interests of the people one more time, the Final Outcome will be much, much, much more worse than Trump. You better accept this as a healthy correction of your corruptness.
Yeah? How about this?
.They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. They're high school drop outs and white supremacists. And some, I assume, are good people.
When America sends its people to become Trump supporters, they’re not sending their best. . .
Sdelat' Ameriku velikoy Snova!
So Donald Trump's father got the bully gene and not the brilliant gene. That explains a lot.
How about this: When criminals break the law big time, they hop the border. US murderers, rapists, and pedophiles go to Mexico or Canada. Mexican murders, rapists and pedophiles along our border come to the USA.
How about that?
Have you ever actually talked to a Mexican person in Mexico? The LOVE Trump's plan to build a wall and, aside from their corrupt elite, the people want to help us build a better wall (we already have a shitty wall in place that doesn't work). You see, their police and government are corrupted by cartels who run drugs to the USA and so building a better wall will cut off the cartel funding and help Make Mexico Great Again.
Trump also wants to make Syria great again. He's a nationalist. Trump wants to make all nations great so that refugees don't have to flee their countries in the first place. Oh, but Liberals don't give a fuck about the plight of the Mexican people. This is because migrants typically vote left, so they want as many immigrants as possible, and voting stat! Fuck their poor standard of living, and screw our poor out of jobs too, anything for a fucking vote, all the better if it keeps the masses powerless and in check.
Smart people can have relatives whoa re dumb people.
I'm reminded of that every time my tea party relatives in Idaho send me another news item from the right wing echo chamber. Then again, I'm one of the few in my family who has a college education.
Just because he's anti-establishment doesn't make him a better choice. "Out of the frying pan. Into the fire" seems a more apt phrase.
George Washington makes the case that "the alternate domination" of one party over another and coinciding efforts to exact revenge upon their opponents have led to horrible atrocities, and "is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism." From Washington's perspective and judgment, the tendency of political parties toward permanent despotism is because they eventually and "gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just take the derivative and multiply by velocity.
I have to give it to you USA:ians, your elections keep getting more and more entertaining. Remember Bush v.s. Gore? What a sleeping pill.
My predictions for the next few presidencies:
Clinton/Clark 2016
Clinton/Clinton 2020 (Hillary/Bill)
Palin/Trump 2024
Clinton/Clinton 2036 (Chelsea/Hillary)
Musk/Superhuman AI 2040
Superhuman AI 2.0/Mecha-Rumsfeld 2044
Lord Rumsfeld 2048
(Assumes slight reinterpretations of the constitution with regards to eligibility for foreign-born citizens and death robots.)
...uncles.
Ahhhh yeah, one of the best things to come out of this election cycle has been the end of the Bush dynasty.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
In philosophy, this is called means to an end which is a utilitarian morality, which allow for use of individuals as means to benefit the many.
"Wacky" that's one way to put it.
Running on a platform that promises to round up all illegal immigrants while having profited from them certainly seems wacky.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
I disagree. I do not think a desire, plan or action to make illegal immigrants accountable to US immigration laws is at all wacky.
In fact, it's a great idea. Just ask Mexico among the many other nations that have strict immigration policies.
I know what is in those papers. It talks about how you can do wireless electricity for the masses with this one weird trick.
Dude, take your pills.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It's one thing to guard your borders, i.e. "the Trump Wall", but he also promised to expel all illegal immigrants. The kind of intrusive control required to round up all illegal immigrants in the US will create a police state.
Be careful what you wish for.
Normally liberals with shit in their head do not do not warrant a reply from me - but you are so way off your league this time
I am not a White, I am from China
True, I am no longer in my twenties, but old? What? You want to play the game of ageism?
As for the racist bit --- who the fuck is not a racist?
You mean Hillary Clinton is not a racist?
Are you going to tell me the people from NAACP, from the BLM movement, et cetera, are not racists?
Jesse Jackson is not a racist?
Hussein Obama is not a racist?
Just because one calls him/herself a 'liberal' does not make them 'un-racist'
And this important bit that I need to tell ya --- I am a Chinese, a naturalized citizen of the United States of America, and I support Donald J. Trump
If you do not like my choice, shove it!
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Let it go -- he's on a roll!
There is a difference between a strict immigration policy and an impossible-to-access immigration policy, which for the vast majority of Mexicans is precisely the policy the US has. Assuming all strict immigration policies are the same is naive beyond belief, and probably one of the reasons positions like yours get some degree of ridicule.