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Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com)
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Friday, succeeding Barack Obama and taking control of a divided country in a transition of power that he has declared will lead to "America First" policies at home and abroad. Reuters reports: As scattered protests erupted elsewhere in Washington, Trump raised his right hand and put his left on a Bible used by Abraham Lincoln and repeated a 35-word oath of office from the U.S. Constitution, with U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts presiding.
Stuff that matters?
Nobody rushing the stage shouting "You are the greatest monster in human history!" while blasting away?
Fuck...
He made a lot of bold promises based on a lot of questionable data.
However he did win, even though most of the media said he never had a chance, so who knows, he is literally just so crazy that it might work. Or we are going be be doomed.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Well hopefully things don't get worse (but they seem to with each president don't they), and if they do, hopefully people do more than whine about it.
He's been sworn in for almost an hour now and no nuclear war....exceeding expectations.
that the crowds are so small.
...and next on the menu is to indict the crook Hillary Clinton.
He is in violation of the emoluments clause as of today. Period.
Stuff that doesn't matter.
That is all.
Less H1-b fraud/abuse, more regular employment for those that want it, and a climate where anyone can succeed - not just those that identify correctly.
Even if one opposes him, one should be hoping for success.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
It was nice knowing all of you.
When the bombs drop sometime in the next week, my last thought will be...
AHHHHHHHH, I'M ON FIRE!
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
I switched on the radio to hear the evening PM programme (I live in the UK). It was wall to wall Trump; a live broadcast of the choreographed event - public spectacle, not news. Have any more been found alive after that avalanche in Italy, what is happening in The Gambia, ... ?
I'm not anti Trump, nor particularly for him. The news was when he was elected, today was just some pomp and ceremony - but not news.
Promotion of an orange tinted Oompa-Loompa game show host and failed casino operator proves we're living in a simulation.
By Trump's logic, the country is an unstable shambles.
This means there is zero room for failure whatsoever.
Any and every backslide in Global standing, economic prosperity or domestic stability should be interpreted as probably cause for impeachment.
Now watch the the EB Green Card cap being abolished. If all the H1Bs get Greencards salaries will go up as they will start jumping around.
**Life is too short to be serious**
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Or should we call him 'Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief'?
Personally I prefer 'President Pussy-Grabber', and I encourage everyone so inclined to refer to him as such whenver possible.
America first policies abroad?, go fuck yourselves, I hope the world finally starts seeing America as the tyrant it is and your allies stop tolerating your bullshit.
I'm interested to see how many of his "day one" actions he'll keep his word on.
For a country that supposedly has a secular constitution there seemed to be more words spoken by the religious representatives than the politicians.
It seems that Islam was not represented ?
In the UK church and state are not separate but the people would not tolerate that much religious representation at a political event.
I am dismayed by the number of times "God" was referenced, sigh.
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Donnie Pussy Grabber. I'll never refer to him as President though, that requires a level of respect impossible for him to attain. Donnie, Trump, umpumpa lumpa and in formal settings Mr. Golden Shower Pussy Grabber
What a complete disgrace and he's completely disrespectful of our country and the rest of the world. Something a real President wouldn't be.
Don't you want to make the America great again?
I didn't vote for the geriatric pussy-grabber.
First, because he's fat and a 2 at best.
Second, because I live in another country.:-)
If Trump had died before being sworn in, would the vice-president elect get prompted or would the Electoral College re-vote?
No really. Some people think America is great because, but it really is a shit hole. I mean really, mass shootings are a regular occurrence, crime is high despite having the largest prison population in the world. The military is supposed to be the greatest in the world but they couldn't even give their soldiers clean water while in Iraq. No real healthcare to speak of. The so called Obamacare was just forcing insurance companies to do things a certain way. It hardly compares to Canada, UK, or EU, all of whom have better life expectancy, better cancer survival rates, and far fewer people going broke for all of it. America has no maternity leave, no paternity leave, still relies heavily on coal for power. The primary and secondary education systems are sub par, and the post-secondary education systems that are half way decent are too expensive for most citizens to afford.
And now they have elected someone who is openly racist. His comments on Mexicans were distasteful at best. His mocking of a disabled reporter seemed like something out of a junior high school drama. And while I wont' necessarily hold locker room talk against him, his public statements are enough to know he is not capable of grasping the nuances of his position. He filled the cabinet positions with people who are incapable of running them.
I honestly don't know why anyone who isn't a foaming-at-the-mouth baffoon would ever want to live in that shithole when Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, etc all exist.
Make America Great Again? It was never really that great to begin with.
Bill Clinton was sitting near the font and there were several women within hands reach (not including his wife obv.).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I believe "God" is keyword for the CIA.
I love how people kept talking about how the debt increased during Obamas 2 terms, often claiming things he didn't have any control over were somehow his fault (like the costs incurred during his first year, that were actually caused by Bush...).
In reality, it doesn't matter, as we will soon see, the debt WILL continue to rise.
Just a little while after Trump was sworn in, I checked the national debt. It was at about $19,961,832,800,000.
It is now at $19,961,850,000,000+
You will notice I'm not pointing any fingers, or blaiming Trump. I'm simply stating something quite obvious.
Regardless of my feelings about Trump (not even in the US so hey, but his policies will affect me as well), I will say this; We will live in interesting times for the next 4 years or so...
It amazes me that people continue to believe Trump is impulsive. There's nothing impulsive about anything Trump does; it's all extremely calculated. If I didn't know better I was say the press were in collusion to spread that myth in order to make people underestimate Trump, but as usual Occam's razor applies and the press are just full of idiots.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
News for nerds? Stuff that matters?
Maybe the latter, certainly not the former. Is slashdot going to just turn into CNN RSS feed. If so I guess I can skip a step and head over to the original content providers.
He showed just how lazy he is and that he doesn't keep his promises since he promised to protect us. The should have stopped this from happening.
We will be lucky if there still is a USA within a couple of years.The Trumpanzee hatefest has begun
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Trump will be remembered, but not fondly.
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I watched him take the oath of office.
He looked grim.
Or impatient.
Or maybe annoyed.
Separation of church and state was actually only ever written in a letter to a Baptist minister who was worried that the government would affect the church, not vice versa. It was always meant to ensure that government could not meddle in the church, NOT to keep the church out of government. Your key word was "tolerate". I think that is a big indicator you are not tolerant as you portend.
45th president 8 more years!!!!
Here's the thing: Everybody is grabbing pussy or dick; it's the human condition.
Im Irish and from what I've seen, there has been an enormous smear campaign against him especially from CNN and all the way back to Jeb Bush who tried to destroy him and fell flat on his face. There's nothing wrong with putting your country first and America's prosperity is good for Europe. My only concern is that he has establishment enemies, liberal extremelist enemies, and radical islamic fundamentalist enemies. The secret service need to be up to the task. I believe he is a good man for the most part.
Trump and systemd... here to stay.
I am hoping many.
Crying is good too.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
While I'll admit that Mr. President Trump's speech offers little hope to me that he will make America whole again, he has only been with in as President, not Fuhrer. It does feel unpleasantly like cresting the first rise in a roller coaster, but at this point we have no real choice but to see where the ride goes . . . and by vigilance and proper engagement in the political process try to keep the ride from going off the rails.
America is definitely not a secular state.
The first amendment says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; "
The government cannot prohibit citizens from exercising their religion. The whole separation of church and state is from something Thomas Jefferson wrote but its not in the constitution or bill of rights. It was their first amendment right to exercise their religious beliefs during the inauguration (as it would be anytime).
Trump for prez!
"Trump raised his right hand and put his left on a Bible used by Abraham Lincoln"
I kind of thought god might smite Trump when he touched the bible. Though I guess ending up with Pence in charge might be worse.
...be full of well balanced debate, thoughtful insights, and courteous discourse.
Dang it, now where did I put my prescription?
I half expect him to crash the economy and not have a fucking clue what to do about it.
Or start a war over something pointless.
The U.S. is almost equally divided after every Presidential election. Why is it that this phrase is only trotted out when a Republican is sworn in?
And a barbarian sat on the throne of Rome.
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Less H1-b fraud/abuse, more regular employment for those that want it, and a climate where anyone can succeed - not just those that identify correctly.
Yes, in Trump's America, anyone can succeed... as long as they were born rich.
Even if one opposes him, one should be hoping for success.
That is true. We're all in the plane he just took over the controls of; we really shouldn't hope for it to crash.
It seems there is ***only*** two kinds of people, those that agree with Trump and those who do not. None will come to a common ground, there will be no trades or bargaining. It will be either you go along with me or you can just f---off. Lots of luck for a united people.
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I think my major concern with the next few years is that he's a bit of a loose cannon. You don't want a loose cannon who's obviously quite sensitive when pushed on things negotiating with other countries or making impulsive decisions that are hard to undo. I doubt he'd start a war (intentionally) but I really think he has to lay off the late-night Twitter. Telegraphing exactly what bothers you to your adversaries isn't a smart move. Sure, you can argue it's all a show, but some of the anger he's displayed with the press, his critics, etc. show that it's very hard to hide his feelings and just keep quiet.
Here's what I'm mainly worried about -- now that Trump's President, the gloves come off of every single loud-mouthed, opinionated angry citizen who loves to moan and complain. By providing an example of "acceptable" behavior via his constant personal attacks on people, I think he's going to signal to everyone that they no longer need to be civil to one another. I know a lot of people who just aren't happy unless they're railing loudly against anyone and anything. Having that be the starting point for any discussion or debate for the next 4 or 8 years is going to lead to further retrenchment of people into their respective camps. I for one can't stand engaging with people who come out swinging, looking for a fight on every little thing...it's just not a personality type I'm interested in dealing with. The world's complex enough already and life's short, so why waste processor cycles arguing pointlessly?
One thing I did like about the Obama years was that he was a very approachable President. Even when the political rancor was at its worst, with a few exceptions he took the high road in these arguments. I doubt we're going to see that very much anymore -- it's going to be years of angry press conferences and sound bites.
No really. Some people think America is great because, but it really is a shit hole. I mean really, mass shootings are a regular occurrence, crime is high despite having the largest prison population in the world.
Violent crime is pretty much at an all-time low. Reading the news is a bit misleading on this score.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Crime_Victim_Chart.gif
So, all the celebrities are going to move to Canada now, right?
Figures!
It is quite ridiculous. It seems that despite political correctness advancements, it would still be impossible for an atheist (that is, anyone who is not terminally insane yapping about jebus and imaginary sky fairies) to become president in the USA.
Lets get this straight, people: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOD!
One has to be pretty drooling stupid to believe in that child-molesting garbage, yet in front of the people who are supposed to be running this country they have these retarded blathering idiots going on about their magic sky daddies and friends.
It is one thing to make a president swear on some 2000 year old book of BS because tradition. But there no excuse for the rest. None at all.
As an atheist it reminds me that I am not represented and that people would still be happy to come at me with their torches and pitchforks.
That's who Trump answers to, not us. :-/
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it is in the bill of rights. that would be amendments 1-10
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Tolerance is indeed the key term. And every time religion gets involved in government, we get laws that try to impose a particular set of religious laws on everybody else.
--- Most topics have many sides worth arguing, allow me to take one opposite you.
We religiously defend the separation of church and state here in the US (except for Christianity).
Canada and Russia which have elections would be...
End of an error. :D
It goes back much farther than that. How about Nixon and Agnew? Also there was Eisenhower and Nixon.
In all fairness no one knows what kind of President Trump is going to be, not even Trump.
I didn't like Clinton but way preferred the devil I knew and voted for her. The Euros upthread under the illusion that Trump is going to be better on foreign policy will most likely learn the hard way. Will he be worse? Who knows. Not even Trump.
It seems that Islam was not represented ?
I am dismayed by the number of times "God" was referenced, sigh.
Well, Islam and Christianity do worship the same god, so.....
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Youre a combative douche, so frankly i hope they do come at you.
Atheism is its own ridiculous religion that even most of us who dont believe in a higher power run from faster than our slightly deluted companions who find some personal comfort in thinking otherwise.
If a president-elect dies AFTER the electoral college, the VP becomes president and picks a new VP who is confirmed by Congress.
On the other hand, if the president-elect were to die between election Tuesday and the electoral college, things get much more interesting. The electoral college would choose (at least initially) but state laws limit their choices. State laws which bind electors but don't account for death make it tricky. Likely, the VP-elect would become president (Pence in this case), and the LOSING VP candidate (Tim Kaine) would become VP.
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Absolutely agree, Hillary was endeavoring to establish a new Cold War with Russia. Over largely baseless accusations, and actions that utterly pale in comparison to what America has done to its rivals and even its allies.
Meanwhile, folks think rich always want war. And perhaps certain wars benefited oil moguls, etc. But Trump is a real estate billionaire. Hotels, resorts, properties. War is NOT GOOD for those type of businesses. First off, tourism plummets, second their buildings are often destroyed. So I suspect that Trump will be far less likely to engage in armed conflict.
I'd be very curious, and laugh my butt off if he stopped our bombings. What would the Democrats say if Trump went 4 years without bombing any countries.
But he won the game. And that was the point. And had it been about the popular vote. Trump would of campaigned differently, focused only on the large cities. And since he would of got almost all of the rural votes by default, he'd only have to swing a few points in a couple of cities. And he could of easily won the popular vote.
But what point is there in winning a few million more votes in California to be popular if it doesn't help you get elected?
If he moves the US embassy to Jerusalem, expect a shit storm in the Middle East.
As happened with Putin in Russia, I'm expecting a fabricated crisis greater than 9/11, which will cause The People to hand their power over to Drumpf.
Trump is certainly *different* from previous Presidents and major candidates in important ways. Some good differences, some bad, and some with both good and bad aspects. We'll see what happens. I've been wrong when I predicted what Obama and Bush Jrs presidencies would be like, so I'm not going to try to predict Trump - we just have to wait and see.
Bad includes his seemingly impulsive Twitter comments to "fight back" against criticism. He probably should have ignored Meryl Streep, for example.
Good includes the fact that he's not dependent on campaign contributors like almost all major politicians are.
We'll just see where the roulette ball lands. I'll oppose any bad policies he proposes and support any good ones.
We did this to ourselves. No matter what it feels like, the fact is our system of government has functioned (and continues to function) exactly as designed. If Mr. President Trump is not likely to make America whole again, the task falls to us, the citizenry of this (long great and still great) nation. We must oppose insanity with calm and deliberate purpose, not with incohate and aimless rage.
Less H1-b fraud/abuse, more regular employment for those that want it, and a climate where anyone can succeed
The whole H1-b thing has already been put to rest. Nothing is going to happen there.
As far as the other two things, those are outside the powers of the President.
Really? Please tell us how not filling the unknown with fairy tails is ridiculous.
How would you like it if you went to watch some important event and they spent a huge chunk of the event talking (or in this case even singing!) about how wrong you and your ways are.
That is the icon of the democratic party on the banner for this story. While Trump has been known to have held both sides of most matters lately, I have yet to see him call himself a democrat - and he most certainly did not have their endorsement to run for president.
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For all the shit Trump gets (deservedly so) he is no tea party asshole. He's as much a Republican as Jesus is an atheist. The real danger to us, is not him but Pence. 4 years are going to pass quickly, but if Trump dies (he's 70 so who knows) we'll have a christian conservative at the head of the country and a senate and house of representatives full of tea party nutholes. That's where the real damage will come from.
I believe "God" is keyword for the CIA.
No, God is what Trump likes to call himself.
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In the rust belt. Full stop. Young people, blacks and Latinos stayed home. If you doubt me 538 had a meticulously sourced article on the subject. Hilary was arrogant. She assumed no sane country would elect Trump. She was wrong, and we're all gonna pay for it. For God's sake people, vote in your mid terms.
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Correction: "Will he back down, or double down?"
Table-ized A.I.
In today's newspaper there's an article that says the new administration still has 3500 (out of 4000) political positions to fill, far more than previous administrations. Has Trump been taken by surprise by his own success?
Lets get this straight, people: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOD!
Share that with Him when you see Him, will you? That aught to make for an interesting conversation with Him.
One has to be pretty drooling stupid to believe in that child-molesting garbage, yet in front of the people who are supposed to be running this country they have these retarded blathering idiots going on about their magic sky daddies and friends.
Because while those "blathering idiots" may be wrong, there really is no harm, right? Just pandering to the brain-dead, knuckle-dragging, mouth breathers out in fly over country, yeah? But if by some weird cosmic chance you are wrong? I fear for your immortal soul. And I will pray for you.
I will leave the torches and pitchforks to the all so-tolerant left leaning politicos. If you happen to be in DC, dodge the molotov cocktails.
But at least he is not from the samey samey backstabbing american politico class and not afraid to to push people noses out.
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Sorry, you're not Atheist. You're anti-theist. If you were truly atheist, you wouldn't care if people believed in FSM, Jesus, Buhdda, or Cthulhu or nothing at all.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
The 'separation' envisioned by the founders was that the state couldn't force you to join a state-sponsored church, not that government leaders had to act like atheists. Even then, some states ran their own churches through quite a bit of the 1800s.
You may be right about the improbability of an atheist being elected, and I, for one, am glad. It isn't like we've had a great many presidents who actually followed Christ's teaching. Some have certainly done a better job than others. If more Christians lived up to what He expected of us, perhaps you wouldn't be so bitter.
God doesn't care about political correctness. He cares about being correct according to His precepts and His commandments. God loves everyone. He just hates what everyone does for part or most of their lives. If you don't wish to avail yourself of His method of reconciliation to Him and try to live up to those standards with His grace covering those times you fail to measure up, that has and always will be your choice. He's laid out the consequences of the free choice you are making. Hearts are rarely converted with torches and pitchforks.
Religion in the government? The USA is a third-world country.
The USA is in great danger... The world too!
Seriously? Can't say I'd noticed. Thanks Slashdot, for reporting the sort of stuff that we'd otherwise miss out on.
Trump already Godwin'ed himself for real days ago.
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She won her current home state of New York, and her home state of Illinois (also Reagan's home state) by pretty large margins. He took 31 decisively, she took 20 decisively, Maine is split, but he has a slight margin.
SHUSH! You'll ruin his narrative!
Next you'll be telling him that there's no separation of church and state in the Constitution, only the guaranteed right to be free to practice religion and the restriction against the state establishing a religion.
When you said, "As the president of the largest democratic nation on Earth it matters for all people on Earth"
You are saying the US is a larger democracy than India because our landmass is larger?
Than the prior statement about the US being the word's largest democracy would have to be Russia or Canada, etc.
If its is by population is not by the US either.
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Did anyone QA the thing? What a trainwreck! Maybe even "Sad!"
I found a dead link (copyright policy link at the bottom, which goes to an unknown server named "edit-45"), two merged sections of his policy plans ("America First Foreign Policy" includes the full text of "Trade Deals Working For All Americans"), and some sort of odd horizontal rule thing going on at "Bringing Back Jobs And Growth."
Where's my news for nerds?
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And it's assholes like you that give the rest of us a bad name. There should be a way to delineate between 'does not believe in a god' and 'fervently evangelizes that there is no god'. I suppose 'asshole' will have to do for the latter.
Sure, I don't believe in any of it either. But I can provide exactly as much evidence to disprove the existence of a god as they can to prove one exists. I would, after all, be trying to prove a negative. I'm secure enough in my own beliefs and identity to be okay with someone else possessing a belief I find to be completely irrational. Provided, of course, that they aren't trying to enforce it's strictures upon me or anyone else without the consent of such. Even then the problem isn't the belief, it's the asshole wielding it.
While not being able to deal with differences in beliefs in a mature manner puts you squarely alongside about 90% of the US population, it doesn't make you right. In fact, as the Trump election shows, vehement attack on the beliefs of the god-fearing tends to cause them to double down. You really want people to give up religion and become atheist? Stop giving them reason to believe that atheists are fucking pricks.
If you're still unable to reconcile your beliefs with the general beliefs of a nation largely settled and founded by what amounts to religious fundamentalists, I'm given to understand that there are more secular countries out there who might be a better match for your beliefs. You're welcome to move to one of them.
It is quite ridiculous. It seems that despite political correctness advancements, it would still be impossible for an atheist (that is, anyone who is not terminally insane yapping about jebus and imaginary sky fairies) to become president in the USA.
With this attitude, you're probably right. Yes, I'm one of the handful of Christians that frequent Slashdot; there are indeed a handful of us. If you don't share the same set of beliefs as I do, that is absolutely you're right. If you are unhappy that there aren't more atheists in government, I completely understand that (to an extent, I'd even agree). If you're going to be insulting and degrading in the process, then you're going to find sympathy pretty hard to come by.
Lets get this straight, people: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOD!
I disagree. I also know that I cannot empirically prove my stance, and thus cannot and will not fault you from arriving at a different conclusion. Telling me what I should believe, however, is the very behavior your post seems to find unacceptable.
One has to be pretty drooling stupid to believe in that child-molesting garbage
Yes, the Christian/Catholic church has had issues with this in the past, and I do not for a moment defend them. However, molesting children is far from a core tenet of the belief system, and millions upon millions of Christians manage to go through life, pursuing their faith, and are successful in doing so without molesting children. Moreover, a spiritual belief system need not be a direct reflection upon intelligence. A successful heart surgeon who has gotten a Ph.D. is, in all likelihood, a pretty intelligent person. If they also happen to believe in Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, or an faith derived from a tribe of Indigenous Americans, that doesn't mean they aren't intelligent or that I wouldn't let them operate on me if I needed open heart surgery, only that they do not share my faith.
yet in front of the people who are supposed to be running this country they have these retarded blathering idiots going on about their magic sky daddies and friends.
1. So don't watch it? Or DVR it and fast forward the religious leaders?
2. For what it's worth, I'm of the persuasion that this is far more a matter of pandering than an intent to set the course for the country. If the majority of people who voted for the winner were another group, there probably would have been people pandering to them instead.
It is one thing to make a president swear on some 2000 year old book of BS because tradition. But there no excuse for the rest. None at all.
See above.
As an atheist it reminds me that I am not represented and that people would still be happy to come at me with their torches and pitchforks.
Has anybody threatened your life on the sole basis of your faith? If not, are you honestly of the persuasion that the only reason people have not done so is because it's illegal? There's some credibility to the point that there are few (if any) atheists in Congress, but would you vote for somebody on the sole basis that they share your views regarding God (or a lack thereof), even if your views were opposite on foreign policy, NSA wiretapping, gun legslation, health care, economic changes, the educational system, and other things that they would actually be responsible to address and legislate?
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They went back in time and managed to divert Helios 685, but it didn't eliminate time travel or the fucked up future.
The problem with you is not your philosophy, it is your attitude.
Let's rephrase the argument:
I despise modern art. I find it to be utter, utter crap. Blobs of color that a 3 year old could paint if they had no taste. However, there are people willing to waste literally millions of dollars on it. There are two approaches I can take to this.
One, I can not go to Modern Art galleries, not purchase modern art, and generally avoid it. This is called "consumer choice" and is the mature approach to the situation.
Or, two, I can go to galleries, berate people to their faces and call them morons, throw feces and urine on their most respected pieces of "art", and petition the government to remove all modern art from all government places, and sue if they won't comply. This is called, "Douche-baggery" and is the choice you and many other atheists and atheist groups have made.
If anyone gets in your face, it's because of your attitude.
Yes, there are a lot of deluded people in the world, but pointing out their delusion does not endear you to them. Don't believe me? Try pointing out to a group of programmers which editor is better, vi or emacs, spaces or tabs, or C++ vs. Java.
And, by the way, the biggest delusion anyone has is that they know the absolute truth and are totally right in any situation, on any social topic.
Life, the Universe, and Everything... in my image.
Now is the hour for every civil suit and criminal charge under the sun to fall upon CHUMP. Let his misery and suffering begin. Use every tactic possible to drive this filth out of government. Zero compromise and zero cooperation and zero attempts to do anything but drive this creep nuts. Impeachment calls every week please from any and all of us. This creep will never be my leader.
There are lots of easy targets about Trump you can go after, but for me, one of the biggest and most important, is the precedent he has set with the tone of his campaign.
Trump was elected, and he was elected even after displaying a very racist, bigoted and xenophobic tone, that attracted white supremacists and nazis to his ranks. Over and over again he displayed behavior that can only be described as bullying, and over and over he got away with it. Then when the Access Hollywood video of him came out, with what he said, and the fact that people didn't care. They didn't care about any of it.
This shows how far the US has fallen when it comes to integrity and morality, and lowers the bar quite low for future politicians. Essentially there is no bar now, and a large segment of the American population wants a "strong leader"(aka autocrat), that will demonize "the other".
Now that Trump has shown that it doesn't matter how much of a scumbag you really are, you can still get elected, all the more power to the vile sociopaths out there with dreams of reaching the presidency.
The US has now become like a third world country, and it will only get worse.
There will be a wall, it will be to keep Americans out of Canada.
God help people who have kids that will go in to wars this clown starts.
But violence is exactly how the church did it. Oh and kudos for the preaching. People always like the idea of being led by zero imagination dogma quoting self appointed authorities. Kill them all and let god sort them out.
If he moves the US embassy to Jerusalem, expect a shit storm in the Middle East.
Yes, it would be terrible to disturb the calm.
Washington sent away the preacher on his death bed. Jefferson edited out what he felt was superstition from his bible. Adams wrote sophisticated sermons refuting much of the senseless dogma accepted at the time. Many founders were Deists. Practically none were fundamentalists. Fundamentalists are mentally lazy. The founders were revolutionary busybodies.
It's not the conservatives that were out on the street smashing windows and breaking things. It wasn't them threatening to shut down the Metro system. It wasn't them throwing the punches at the Deploraball last night.
"I don't shoot my mouth off without knowing what I'm talking about" - by raymorris (2726007) on Thursday December 31, 2015 @09:29AM (#51215379)
Raymorris you shoot your mouth off f'ing up in 2 security fuckups https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5351503&cid=47379233/ & https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5351503&cid=47374033/ + raymorris = scriptkiddie https://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8895203&cid=51726265/
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Tell us how ONLY 'newer script kiddie tools' have stringlength built in (when PASCAL had it for ages - my fav tool) https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8472509&cid=51114383/ YOU BLUNDERING WANNABE!
APK
P.S.=> You like to talk behind others' backs like the gossiping bitch TROLL you are raymorris https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9880997&cid=53312265/ well, here I am letting YOU TALK in those links, showing your FAILS wannabe ... apk
By GDP is a reasonable standard.. although in terms of labeling values, I would say he is the President of the Country with the Worlds Largest Economy.. vs. Democracy. But GDP is a fine standard.
http://www.hawknest.com/
Let the money printing begin.
Swearing is the new America.
Where's AmiMoJo? There's nobody on Slashdot who's more opposed to Trump than AmiMojo, but he hasn't made a single post for this story.
Yea, I'll be sure to do that :P
Also there is no such thing as an afterlife or an "immoral soul."
Excuse me for stating what should be completely obvious.
America just said. "Hold my beer and watch this!"
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
If any writers for Timeless are here, I will personally send you $100 if you end an episode with a star saying "Donald Trump is President?!?"
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
I think the next few years are gonna be pretty danged interesting.
Ferret
Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc
Really? Please tell us how not filling the unknown with fairy tails is ridiculous
Spelling must be an unknown to you, because it's fairy tale.
How would you like it if you went to watch some important event and they spent a huge chunk of the event talking (or in this case even singing!) about how wrong you and your ways are.
If you take offense this easily, I cannot possibly imagine how you survive in any modern society.
It's not a judgement against you or them, but more of a classification of someone who is judgemental.
You have got to be joking, that was one of the more calculated tweets. He knew the press would react immediately to any criticism of anyone black. Except that Trump's criticism was accurate, so it actually weakened John Lewis (who was coasting on a history of civil rights support fifty some years ago until that point with no accountability for current inaction) and also made the press look stupid for fervently protesting against a valid point. Even black women in Atlanta (Lewis's district) agreed with Trump.
And you call that uncalculated... that tweet was carefully chosen in target to increase black support for Trump.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Every VP back to Quayle has been an assassination preventor.
You meant to say:
Every Republican VP back to Quayle has been an assassination preventor.
Slashdot says "Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!" - I don't know why but I'll split up the reply.
Yea right. And Timothy McVeigh wasn't a right wing Militia member that blew up a building and killed an entire daycare's worth of kids.
No-one has said they don't exist.
What he said was:
Because conservatives aren't as hateful and violent as liberals?
Which is correct.
This is the situation in the US:
source.
"Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soil by Group, From 1980 to 2005, According to FBI Database"
Latino: 42%
Extreme left wing: 24%
Jewish: 7%
Islamic: 6%
Communist: 5%
Others: 16%
There is non specifically for right-wing, I don't know what others include, maybe they consider right-wing the norm/need no title and all 16% is right-wing? Even if that was the case the extreme left with 24% is more.
Here in Sweden our security police used to regard the left-wing as the biggest threat and the ratio between them and the right was 9:1 or higher. Last time I saw it they mentioned Islamic threat instead. I assume the left may be a bigger threat to the democracy but Islamic a bigger threat when it comes to deadly violence.
I notice that most of the "militant atheist" crowd is usually mostly angry at the church they were brought up in. Whether it is ranting against the Lutherans, Methodists, Catholics, etc, they will then make the claim that they care if Muslims are discriminated against. Even though Muslims are just as "pretty drooling stupid" and "blathering idiots", the atheists don't attack them the way they do people from the church they are familiar with.
Lameness filter encounter:
Oh, I easily found the problem. I had written "House N______" and that word was the problem. I don't see how a word can be a problem. What you express with it maybe.
Here in Sweden and I assume in many others places too the common picture is that national-socialists are the ones who risk destroying democracy through democracy / by being elected and who can cause fascism and dictatorships because that's the message they have been brought up with all along but back in reality it's those same people who are the real fascists, anti-democrats, racists and sexists who want to limit freedom of speech, don't respect democracy and elections, don't want people to have their vote, think that "he's a middle-class white male!" is a reason to ignore someones opinion / not let them speak / ignore whatever interest that person had. There people call immigrants who are pro actual freedom rather than their socialist dreams house n*, traitors of "their people" and like a few days ago our prime-minister commented about how one woman with immigrant background had expressed her opinion in some foreign magazine about Swedish immigration(?) politics and how that was damaging and it also happen that those same people claim that those who are against their political view are "traitors of the nation"... Sure they aren't fascists and anti-democratic and pro freedom .... Such great "liberal"s and "democrat"s.
by demonizing the other side. This dehumanizes them and allows you to make ridiculous statements like the above post
That's the default method to operate of the left.
The people in charge like it when you do this because it divides people and allows the people in charge to pit the people against each other to their own benefit.
The left all the time talk about how the other side turn people and groups against each other but of course they are the most active ones of doing so against anyone who don't share their socialist view of equal outcome.
Except for the perpetually angry leftist blacks, the average reasonable black citizen agreed with Trump.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
When Hillary gets a quarter million dollars from one Wall Street bank, another quarter million from another bank, and half a million from Time Warner, she depends on those donations. When Trump (worth $4.5 BILLION) gets $500, that's like you and I finding a nickel. He doesn't give a shit about $500.
(I live in Sweden.)
Godwin FTW.
After the 2008 and 2012 GOP disasters (with GOP-assimilated McCain and Romney the Robot), I was hoping it would make the Republicans pull their heads out of their asses. Apparently not. Not only did they decide to double down on political stupidity, the Democrats decided to join them even more.
Political power is in Congress. The only time the President actually has power is during war time. I don't see Democrats generally craving to start wars, which is one way to consolidate power at the top. I don't see Republicans generally trying to get more people to vote which is one way to distribute power at the bottom.
Also, the people in Government are the only people theoretically working for the people of the United States. Everyone else is working for a business, which is working for owners / share holders. Making government more or less effective isn't necessarily a win. Pointing government in the right direction is. In fact, the success of the US comes from the constitution which points government in the right direction. Getting the process to work correctly is a huge win (citizen's united breaks the process because it dilutes votes).
When I look at the anti-citizen, anti-freedom and pro-profit candidates that Republicans usually put in charge (and now more blatantly put in charge by Trump), I just don't see how you equate the two. I didn't see Obama overreaching anywhere. He didn't start any new wars and didn't put US forces into harms way. He didn't destroy any social safety nets and didn't put people in harms way. He didn't cut taxes and didn't keep increasing budget deficits and corporate profit. He acted when Congress, now filled with individuals who are supposed to work for people of the US but in reality work for the wealthy, didn't act.
What has he done that was so wrong?
In the rust belt. Full stop. Young people, blacks and Latinos stayed home. If you doubt me 538 had a meticulously sourced article on the subject. Hilary was arrogant. She assumed no sane country would elect Trump. She was wrong, and we're all gonna pay for it. For God's sake people, vote in your mid terms.
Nate Silver is a smart guy, but he relies too much on the models and not the context or the assumptions.
The actual context is that Hillary lost the popular vote by a small margin, which means that *any* of about two dozen reasons could have flipped the election the other way.
It's like viewing a stack of books one inch higher than another stack, and saying that the reason is a specific book halfway up isn't big enough.
The reality is that Clinton could have done better in any one of : her political dealings during the election (getting debate answers, screwing Bernie supporters, superdelegates, and so on), her financing and backing (Moroccan meeting, Saudi donations, Soros), her image (not attending rallies and letting others do her campaigning for her, coming across as cold and unfeeling, "I feel your pain"), or her past actions (the server, her actions during Benghazi, Russian unfreeze, Clinton Foundation shenanigans).
It's hard to imagine Trump doing better in any of his several categories (meaning: there's nothing he could have done to mitigate).
Pretty-much any one of these would have upped her popular vote by the 1% she needed to beat Trump and win several more electoral colleges. The reliable polls pointed out that she had some 1024 ways to win, while Trump had only four.
538 isn't the oracle of prediction that everyone thinks it is. Nate's basic premise is that "past performance predicts future actions", which has been completely disproven this year.
So for example, Nate predicted that Trump's presidency would go down in flames early last year, predicted 80% chance Trump would lose the general election, and noted that Congressional endorsements are the best predictor of the primary candidate; meaning, Ted Cruse would win the primary.
538 is racking up a long list of failed predictions.
or have they all stroked out or had coronaries since 12:00 EDT 2017-01-20 ?? Bahahahaha... liberals are the best at whining and yelling at people, cameras and comment sections.
What more can I say
... it has come to this.
was he a militia member? i don't remember hearing about that, or the subsequent war against said militia. TM was attacking the Federal government for its role in the Ruby Ridge and Waco massacres.
haha, what a pity show. The gringo's should look to the Russians and the North Koreans on how to do a proper 'Inspection of the Troops'
I'm pretty sure there are plenty of immoral souls
It's "A Game of Podiums"
I am sure you doubted he could win the electoral college and be president. Most folks did. Where as I, touted repeatedly that if the Democrat party cheated Bernie out of the nomination, the result would be a Trump presidency.
So I don't put much stock in your doubts.
You're arguing two things.
1. Is the system rigged, and setup to enable the party orgs. Absolutely. Should it be changed. Absolutely.
2. But that's not what all of you are saying, you're saying that despite him overcoming the challenges of being an outsider to win the Republican nomination. Despite him winning the electoral college when facing a conglomerate of media that were not only actively campaigning for Hillary, but were passing debate questions and strategizing with her election team....that despite him winning inside that corrupt and unjust system. The mere fact, the system is broken and rigged is being used to de-legitimize him.
Yes, the system is rigged, broken, and corrupt. Winning in spite of all that is damn impressive. But if you're going to say the fact that said system is broken makes Trump's election illegitimate. Than it would have also made Hillary's win illegitimate, and all of our recent presidents were illegitimate. In which case, your barking about only one election winner is rather hypocritical. Thus, your argument for Trump's illegitimacy and removal is null.
Well, it cost a lot lot lot less than what the Democrats spent pushing Hillary.
And while that may not be a majority of Americans. Trust me, right now the Republicans view it as a mandate. I mean, they've got the Presidency, Senate, House, soon to have SCOTUS, and the majority of governorships.
Worse, the Democrats, never envisioning they could decline, had enacted several policy changes to their immediate benefit, such as anti-filibuster procedures. Having now lost their momentum, these changes now place them in a far tougher position.
Walks into union shops and factories and exclaims...
"If they move your jobs out of America. I'll make it costly for them to bring those products back into America's borders."
Oops...a big chunk just switched. This is EXACTLY what Trump did in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Trump is an Entrepreneur-President.
Entrepreneurs are a rare breed, successful ones even more so. Most people are not like them, do not get them, do not follow their thinking process and do not respect their ideas EXCEPT in hindsight.
Generally, only other entrepreneurs are able to understand the ways of these weird crazy misfits.
Peter Thiel is one such guy and I think, will be proved right by 2020.
While I am concerned about conservative, anti-gay justices being nominated to the Supreme Court, under Trump (especially while the GOP controls all of congress), I don't think the Supreme Court will repeal gay marriage. One particular Executive Order from President Obama, states that the federal government and its contractors cannot fire and employee because of his or her sexual orientation. This affects me, because the company I work for, is a government contractor and follows this order. If the Trump administration repeals this order (along with many others they have threatened to repeal), I could be fired for being openly gay.
Right after the election, the governor of my state talked to Mike Pence, who basically stated that our state shouldn't expect any more federal help with Medicaid. The company I work for, partially relies on Medicaid payments. While I'm not likely to get fired because of this, I likely will not receive much (if any) in the way of pay raises.
So, does a Trump administration directly affect me? Absolutely. Don't even get me started about my non-white partner.
It is going to be a rough 4 years (if he lasts that long).
Why is it spelled 'polis' instead of 'police'?
A line of motorcycles each with a letter that spelled out INDIANAPOLIS -- couldn't find anything directly relevant via google
North America is now entirely ruled unqualified morons. We have Justin, who has proven to be a completely idiot, in Canada, the son of one of the worst Prime-minsters in history and now the US has Trump.
It's the crowd of Hillary and Barak who believe in a diversity of voices as long as those voices stay within strict racial stereotypes and norms. Otherwise you get called things like Uncle Tom.
> As a European (from Finland, and a Hitchensian socialist and anti-theist) ...
>
> I'm looking out for the interests of my family and me...
That guy is a paid russian shill. A true finnish person never looks for his family in the first place, but the country and its people. They are a patriotic bunch and that's how they survived a millenia of brutal oppression and continous attempts of forced assimilation, first by the vikings and then military occupation under the russian tsardom. (The finnish nation belongs to the uralic-ugric ehtnic group, which is genetically and linguistically different from the nordic and slavic races of indo-european origin, so they were considered inferior by the occupiers.)
> glad Hillary isn't president
Trump is turning America away from its international relations. That means Putin can now freely annex the Baltic States and Finland, including its capital city Helsinki! The present dictator of Kremlin only wants back what previously belonged to the holy tsars, isn't that righteous in the eye of a paid russian shill?
Remember that in 1940 the communist satan Stalin sent one million russian soldiers to invade and occupy Finland. The finns fought bravely in an insanely cold winter war (mercury regularly froze in the thermometer) and lost 25000 of their own people, but on the other hand 200000 red soldiers perished and Stalin had to accept a peace accord with very minimal territorial gains. Even in the "continuation war" part of WW2, the soviet empire of evil proved unable to crush finnish military defences and the USSR eventually had to accept "finlandization", which allowed the small nordic country to remain independent, neutral and practice mildly regulated capitalism (which brought us Nokia for example). That fiasco has been bothering the imperialist-minded russian race ever since.
> I'm looking out for the interests of my family
Surely a lie. The poster would see her wife and daughter(s) gang-raped by russian army platoons if the City of Helsinki fell. That's why WW2 lasted so long in Eastern Europe: as the syphillitic hordes of russian military marched into the baltic area in the beginning of 1944, they began dishonesting the predominantly blonde ladyfolk at gunpoint. That made a million of previously passive local manfolk take up arms and join the Waffen-SS. Suddenly the Reich had many new platoons of werewolf-level motived warriors. The combat situation got so bad that Stalin had to send the infamous pro-rape soviet propagandist and poet Ilya Ehrenburg into exile and print air-drop leafets to that effect, unsuccessfully trying to convince baltic and prussian people to cease resistance.
No, the above paragraph is not a joke. Here is a wallpaper the Reich distributed within its teritory and which proved very effective, because it depicted the NSFW naked truth accurately, converning the antics of russian soldiers:
https://robertlindsay.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/art057.gif
A true finnlander would never want that shame to happen to his mother, wife and daughter(s). Only a russian shill hopes for USA abandoning european alliances, letting Putin occupy every acre from Helsinki all the way to Dover's white cliffs.
How is atheism a religion? Be specific here. What creed is there? What rituals?
I'm an atheist, and I am an atheist because I simply lack belief in God, or by extension in gods. A lack of belief in something is now somehow a belief?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I never used to think that way.
Although right leaning in some ways, I used to have contempt for extreme right wingers like Savage, and Coulter, and Limbaugh. I used to think liberals were nice people, even if I did not agree with them all the time.
But this election has proved beyond any doubt, liberals are violent, hypocrites and completely insane.
Welcome to the age of Fake News Nation, where #PresidentTweety McTrumpy is president-for-life for all the winners in the clash of civilizations.
You know? The one where civilization lost.
A couple of predictions:
(1) He will provoke China, hoping for them to invade North Korea. Won't he be surprised when they take South Korea and Taiwan, too? Make China GREAT again!
(2) If he isn't Bill-Cosby-ed out of office RSN, then he'll dump Pence for VP Ivanka! All in the Family, you know. Putin has already endorsed this one, though he's planning to marry Trump's other daughter.
(3) Iran will continue growing into the power vacuum in the Middle East. Look for YUGE deals with Russia and China!
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Well Hillary does maintain a public and private position, so there's that.
I don't have any mod points right now to mod you SJWs down, so I'll just have to say, Hallelujah!
Every Democrat has a laminated "race card" that they play every chance they get. Now I have a "Kiss My Ass" card and I'm going to wear it over the next four (hopefully eight) years!
Mod me down if you wish, but I'm getting the last laugh. Change your diapers, dry your tears, get your thumbs out of your mouths, go to work, and shut up.
The Republic is safe again. Thank God Almighty!!!!
Old and degraded! Starting too soon to a country near you!
It's the horror comedy mystery western movie "Forward into the Past" starring #PresidentTweety as Jason the 13th pushing America down the rabbit hole to meet Puppetmaker Pinocchio Putin on the quiet eastern front! You'll laugh yourself sick, as you watch the Fabulous Four Oranges of Wrath dancing in the monsoon while they sing their worst hit "The Winter, Fall, Summer, and Autumn of our Discontent." Winner of the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony bloody red badges of avarice for supremely hackneyed cultural references in 8 dimensions!
Don't you wish you could wait for it to never begin?
My allergic Trumpitis is highly acute and inflamed this morning!
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
was being burned on the National Mall today....
https://www.washingtonian.com/...
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Certainly yes, Trump, like anyone, would tend to feel more friendly toward someone who offered him some small token.
Which is different from being dependent on a bank that gave Hillary (and other career politicians) hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In the short term, maybe. But I won't rule out that we can get a "better deal" than what we have now when the war finally plays out.
However, I do think it unlikely that we'll get a sufficiently better deal to compensate for what's lost during the battle. It's like winning a physical war only to realize half your population is dead.
If T is such a great negotiator, why are there still about 500 people richER than him, most of whom don't claim they have super-human negotiating skills.
Table-ized A.I.
Let me preface this by saying I voted against Trump, twice.
Yes, Trump's companies have mortgages on the buildings. Which is why he's not worth $25 billion or whatever, just $4.5 billion (Forbes 2016).
I'd much rather someone own a building that has mortgage payments than be owned by lobbyists. Just sayin.
Word of God: Biff Tannen in Back to the Future II was modeled on 1980's Donald Trump.
I can't wait for the White House to be decorated in gold and tigerstripe / leopard print, with vulgar paintings of what seems to be B-movie characters. Oh wait, the Obama's style wasn't too far off, all that red and gold French Provincial Whorehouse Rococo like some african dictator.
So.. is this 2017-A now? Oh well whatever.. bring it.. 2016 was an absolute disaster for me, I think from here things can only go up.. i hope...
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
The Palestinians already had all the ammunition they needed. Fighting against Israel was pretty much a day one thing since the founding of it.
We're talking about EGO. We outweigh everyone else added together.
Did you not notice???
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
But then I realized it was 100% accurate.
Kudos.
English is awesome.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Trump cares what some people think of him.
FTFY
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Donald Trump is in his 70s. His 3AM tweets are a good indication that he's peeing like a girl... sitting down.
Who knew he is "tweeting from the Throne"???
Exactly what shit was she proposing to start?
The quote you're relying on is super weak:
As President, I will make it clear that the United States will treat cyberattacks just like any other attack. We will be ready with serious political, economic, and military responses.
"Military responses" can mean anything. The military has cyber-warfare capability, so a "military response" could simply be hacking them back. Supposedly, the email hacks were by the Russian _military_ intelligence service, in which case Clinton was proposing a military response to a military action. That's pretty reasonable. Do you seriously think she was planning a conventional military response to cyberattacks?
I don't see the evidence that she tried to *start* shit. I see an excellent case that she tried to *respond* to shit, and maybe it wouldn't be a good response (no way of knowing now), but not responding makes you a more appealing target.
I might add that the current president is also threatening to "start shit with an ICBM and submarine possessing nuclear power". After all, on an international stage, the amount of people for whom shit can get ruined, and the degree to which it can get ruined, is too horrifying to allow him a chance to do so. Don't sleep too easy.
So anybody who ever criticizes or ridicules anything even once and a while has a bad attitude? By your logic nobody should ever say anything to point out problems. Enjoy your unchanging world where nothing ever improves because nobody is allowed to report problems.
You inflicted Trump on yourselves, yes. And you will suffer for that. But what about us? The rest of the world. You inflicted Trump on us too. You will never suffer enough to pay for that.
Oh, no somebodies spiel cheekier don't work! I have to correct all there errors! Whhaaaa.
How do YOU survive when you are too busy nit picking over every little post detale?
Trump is just the first person on the right who found a way to fight back in a long, long time.
Justify this statement.
W00t!
Another appearance of umbrage related to #PresidentTweety?
As in TUSAD (Trump-Umbrage Stress Anxiety Disorder)?
I will be SO disappointed if he actually starts acting presidential because they finally manage to take away his Twitter account.
Then again, his handlers may have to do it when he provokes China into invading Taiwan. The so-called Republicans will have to insist on SOMETHING in exchange for not impeaching him, right?
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
How is atheism a religion? Be specific here. What creed is there? What rituals?
The ritual where we sacrifice babies to the almighty dark lord Athé, of course.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Gorram Slashdot.
That was meant to be Athe, but with an accent on the e.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Trump grab comment was made before he hit the campaign trail.
From Hillbots and other right-wing democrats. The only way they are "left" is being the left hand of the status quo, while the right hand talks shit about "illegal" immigrants. It's all designed to keep those who work for a living divided, so the rich can go on fucking every one over. It should have been a clue during the Democratic primary, where Hillbots were smearing Bernie Sanders and his supporters as white privileged know-nothings who were insensitive on race at best, while being a bunch of Bro misogynists.
This despite Hillary having a much more bigoted history than Trump - discrimination against gays, called black and brown kids Superpredators, wanted to throw refugee kids back to the military junta (that she supported) to "send a message to their parents".
Nazis breathe air. You breathe air. Therefore you are a Nazi. Until you expand your reasoning as to why both circumstances being the same is also wrong, that is all your assertion amounts to.
After the shit show of the last election. Sure, Hilary had baggage. And the right wing press spent the last 20 years vilifying her to the point that a simple insecure email server of the type everybody in Washington ran (see:Colin Powell) helped sink her campaign. But she still shoulda beat Trump senseless. I'm guessing her and her supporters will get tossed out on their asses after a failure of this magnitude. This is defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Because we haven't heard "I'm better than you" from how fucking many of your compatriots already?
Face it, it isn't the people who you deign to look down on who got Trump Elected.
It's self-riteous shitbags like YOU that managed that!
And if you're going to continue being a jackass about it, like those dumbfucks at Buzzfeed (with their "Next Inauguration Day" countdown), you're going to get him RE-elected.
Congrats! Enjoy the fruits of your labor.
You guys used to have techies and sysadmins in your forums. Now all I see are a bunch of code monkeys and lactating SJW's that think NAZ| means National Capitalist Non-Union Party. How far you have fallen. Just scrap it and start over. You Left of Lenin dipsh|ts are contributing nothing to the World.
Trump said he would abolish the TPP on day one of his presidency. This can be the test to see if he is true to his word.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
> On trade, what if trade-wars start and it becomes clear after a while those wars are hurting our economy? Will he back down, or double down?
We've seen in the campaign, he doesn't tend to back down.
> And what will he do if Russia invades more territory? If he keeps ignoring it, we may get Soviet Union 2.0. Those were scary days with too many close calls; we don't want them back.
Same - he doesn't back down.
In some situations, this tendency to double-down rather than back down could lead to some "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" moments. (That was considered very inflammatory by foreign policy people at the time). It may also result in "Mr. Pieto, pay for this wall!", which would be a facepalm.
Lets get this straight, people: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOD!
citation please.
Your absolute arrogance of certainty Trumps reason, you possess no evidence either way.
As an atheist it reminds me that I am not represented and that people would still be happy to come at me with their torches and pitchforks.
Booo Hooo, why don't you go off and cry and wait for the world to say sorry to you. As an atheist any foundation for your moral behavior comes from the bible you criticize, as a nihilist your moral platform is empty as everything is meaningless.
All it shows is that you are too stupid to understand the messages in the bible that are separate from theism. I doubt you've ever read it to have a platform for your position. May God bless you and fuck your depressing ideology.
Hate to go grammar nazi on your insightful comment, but your typos are so consistent I'm convinced you're using some wonky kind of speech recognition software. A simple search and replace would've fixed s/.ould of/&ould have/
To speak of "believing in Buddha" makes it clear that you've no understanding of Buddhism.
If you found out that Clinton announced the closing september would that surprise you?
Surprise!
Islam is not a real religion, so of course it was rightfully not represented.
Trump is a clown. His followers are sheep. Discuss ...
Even black women in Atlanta (Lewis's district) agreed with Trump.
Uh -- correction: that link is to a story involving ONE black woman, who apparently was already a Trump supporter before this week.
And you call that uncalculated... that tweet was carefully chosen in target to increase black support for Trump.
And you have a poll or something to support that? No -- you have an anecdote from one black person who was already a Trump supporter. (So, even for this ONE person, there's no evidence cited of "increased black support.")
Now: what you say MIGHT be true of a few black voters, particularly local folks in the Congressman's district who are fed up with him. But there are people in every Congressional district in the country who are fed up with their Congressman. Outside of Atlanta, I'm pretty certain that all most liberal or moderate people (white or black) saw was a rich white dude attacking a Civil Rights Era hero on MLK day.
Thus, even IF your narrative is true and indicative of some minor loss of support for Lewis in his district, it's pretty certain that the tweet likely incited even more hatred among blacks against Trump for those outside of the district and unfamiliar with Lewis's record.
All I got from that article was an illustration of how an incomplete education paired with misinformation results in an uninformed electorate.
Trump is making slashdot great again!
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
More News for Nerds, stuff that matters...
i am so very tired....
Trump likes rape!!!
Shame on you.
You should re-read what you wrote, particularly this bit: "Here's what I'm mainly worried about -- now that Trump's President, the gloves come off of every single loud-mouthed, opinionated angry citizen who loves to moan and complain."
Your big fear is that a free people might actually be free to speak their minds???
People have always thought and said things that other people disliked. It's a very recent thing in America that average people were intimidated into not speaking their minds. "Political Correctness" does not make people change what they think/believe - it only makes them smile and lie, saying what the "approved" thoughts are rather than what they really think. Political correctness in the USA only dates back to the 1990s when Hillary Clinton got her husband to Bill to bring Donna Shalala (from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, AKA "Moscow West") into the federal government at HHS and she immediately started pushing her "speech codes" into the federal government. The Bush admin went along with the rot instead of stopping it, and then the Obama administration doubled-down on this evil intimidation, and now we have a "snowflake" generation of Americans who are afraid of that most core American thing: free speech.
Relax. Breathe some free air. Think some thoughts of your own. Feel free to say what you think/believe. Most-importantly, tolerate others doing the same and rather than heaping hate on somebody who says something you disagree with, smile and note that his/her freedom is the same as yours and it means you are also free.
1. The words "separation of church and state" do not occur anywhere in the US Constitution or Declaration of Independence. They originated in a letter from Thomas Jefferson (a founder, author of the Declaration, but NOT author of the Constitution) to a church before the Constitution was ratified. In that letter, Jefferson promised that, if they supported this new-fangled Constitution and the government it established, that government would have no power to interfere in their religion. That was the deal. There was NO promise that religion and religious people could not influence government and had such a statement been made then the religious population of the USA would never have approved the Constitution. Oh, and the "deal" has been breached many times by the government which has imposed the Johnson Ammendment on conservative churches for decades.
2. The United States was founded by 12 officially Protestant Chrisitan colonies (which had state-affiliated churches), and one officially Catholic colony. At the time there were a small number of Jews in the US (President Washington made a point of visiting their Synagogue) but very few people of any other religion. The US has been predominantly Christian for its entire history and many Presidents (including Democrat icon FDR) have lead the nation in actual prayers. The nation's founders (who, having written the Constitution CLEARLY understood what it meant) held church services in the Capitol buildngs, and used federal funds to buy Bibles for the troops. There are cultural and traditional reasons to have Christian (Protestant and Catholc) and Jewish leaders and prayers in the public spaces and ceremonies in the US, but there are no cultural/traditional/historical reasons to have Imams and Islam involved. Indeed, the nation's first war after that little breakup with England of course, was against the Tripoli Pirates (the Radical Islamc Terrorists of that time who were murdering and enslaving Americans). American Marines are nicknamed "Leathenecks" because they wore leather collars to make it harder for Muslim fighters to behead them in combat.
The First Amendment prohibits the federal government from ESTABLISHING a church; it CANNOT create a church and then prefer that church and require the population to attend or pay taxes to, etc that "established" church. Our founders, being mostly Englishmen, wanted to prohibit in America what the King of England had done when he created the Church of England and made it the official church of his nation. That's not the same as prohibiting churches or religion, and indeed the Anglican churches were allowed in America. The First Amendment explicitly prohibits limitations on religion and therefore the government is powerless to stop some politicians from inviting a handful of religious figures to pray or read scriptures at a public event.
I am dismayed by people who are dismayed by the mention of God in America; it's evidence of intolerance and poor education.
It was a marketing breakthrough, and you fell for it.
Obama did a bunch of internet-based propaganda efforts to keep his supporters thinking he was their messiah. He put in place online petitions, continually hyped his climate efforts, had NASA hyping a "mission to Mars", etc all to keep you loyal to him.
The simple facts are these:
1. the climate-related activities of the government were not affected in any way by the White House website.
2. Obama ignored any petition he disagreed with. When he did something he wanted to do anyway, and that thing just happened to align with some petition, his supporters were fooled into thinking he was listening to them and their petitions mattered.
3. NASA under Obama was not headed to Mars - he never proposed any budget for such a mission or to build any hardware for such a mission. The rocket NASA is building which might enable some future mars mission was funded and pushed by congress (BOTH parties) over Obama's objections and he tried to kill it every single year he was in office.
were started by Democrats (the Civil war, the Vietnam War) or entered by Democrats (WWI, WWII, Korea) or started by/under Republicans (Spanish-American, Afghanistan, and Iraq) but supported by Democrats. The Democrat party has been on the side of war for every single war in US history.
The point: While neither party fully liable for these wars, the idea that a Republican is naturally a war monger is pure political propganda which Democrats have played with since the 1960s when Lyndon johnson said Barry Goldwater would start a nuclear war (then Johnson won election and dragged us through Vietnam). They accused Reagan of being a reckless cowboy who would start a nuclear war (then he won election and ended up winning the Cold War and freeing millions of people from soviet domination without firing a shot). Now, after a year of Democrats demanding hostilities against a nuclear-armed Russia, it's rather interesting to see all the blather about how dangerous Trump might be...
The Palestinians are the Nazis then.
Go on to Jonesville if you wish.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Perhaps that is why God had Peter record in First Peter
not that there isn't a lot of other good stuff in the rest of the chapter.
Sounds like you don't know that the only people more full of shit than right wing SJW democrats are heterosexual christians who think the world is out to get them.
Believe what you like, when Trump gains 10% more of the black vote in the next election you will understand...
That story was about just one woman, but she's just an example of many.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
That comes nowhere near reflecting everything that went on and you know it.
There is zero indication that anyone considering themselves "Palestinians" lived there. So if you want to play that game...
So that makes you the idiot.
Er, what supposedly went down anything like that. I haven't heard anything remotely like people being forced out of their homes. And you do realize you redundantly said force twice. Idiot.
Citation needed.
Seems like you've been misinformed: https://www.bing.com/search?q=...
For such people of "tolerance", the leftists seem to express it in a violent, intolerant, and [somewhat] inconsistent way.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
There being agreements that Palestinians not seek unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state is something that neither of them should have agreed to. This has recently come to my attention. That's not how achieving nationhood should work.
There are other examples. I assure you, it can be difficult to be a non-Christian in the US.
Wait, what?
You know what happened after Britain withdrew from their mandate, right?
Now I'm not saying it wasn't a 2-sided fight... it was. But the victors of that fight ethnically cleansed an entire population of people under the auspice that they weren't even a fucking people.
That fucking *happened*. Quit trying to rewrite history to justify your horse-shit narrative.
Please cite where there is one - oh, and books of fiction don't count. Please cite scientifically reproducible REAL evidence. Right, you don't have any.
You are too stupid to realize that is all a pack lies. Yes, the universe is a cold depressing place, it is not some ideology, it is the REAL world. Even monkeys don't believe your drivel. May you and your cave dwelling children forever have their heads up their asses.
And, by the way, the biggest delusion anyone has is that they know the absolute truth and are totally right in any situation, on any social topic.
"There is most probably no such thing as god" does not quite deliver the message it should :P
You act as if you have never heard any dissenting opinions against your religions. At least comparisons of editors or programming languages can be made using solid facts and reproducible tests. Might want to look at your own dismissive attitude.
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Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Finally someone who will get at the history of the region instead of offering up nonsense statistics.
I see no need for Israelis to get off the land before the Palestinians declare they are a state any more than the Tories had to leave the United States or indeed the British forces in general before the United States declared itself independent of Britain. In fact, the legitimacy of the United States' claim to evict the British troops was strengthened by their decision to declare themselves independent.
Since you have been pretty forthcoming in another post about what you think happened, what is your play by play as to what happened. All I understand is that Israel was attacked and in a matter of weeks won and put in measures to make sure they were never attacked again.
So you're demanding that Palestinains get to demolish the homes of terrorist IDF personnel who murder and bomb Palestinians? You're demanding that Palestinians have the right to bomb anyone who looks like he might be an Israeli police officer on the grounds that he is a "militant"?
If zionists were held to zionist reasoning, Israel would have ceased to exist by 1950.
America is resilient;
Republic or Democratic President doesn't make much difference;
Then you're speaking on a subject on which you lack the barest, remedial knowledge.
You want to play grammar zionist nazi you might not want to leave a few words out of a sentence in the same post:
Pedant fail.
You were saying?
Germany isn't a race either, yet people still speak of Germans. Idiot.
Ah, another winger who thinks your lack of ability to go on oppressing people means you yourself are oppressed. Sorry you were dropped on the head as a child - early and often.
I live in the county that won PA. We're the only county that removing changes the outcome.
Guess who came thru our area Trump. Guess who did not....Hillary.
hypocrites.
I distinctly recall near the end of the election during one of the debates where the question was basically "If the other person wins, will you accept it?"
Clinton said "Yes of course". Trump said "I'll wait to see the outcome".
After which all democrats the media etc... lost their minds.
As it turns out, perhaps he was just being more honest, as it sure seems like an awful lot of democrats don't really accept the outcome to me.
As for the protests, that's great, your rights and everything. It aways makes me wonder just how many of those people actually bothered to vote. Perhaps they should tie your right to protest to your obligation/duty to vote. I've always maintained that if you don't vote you waive your right to bitch and complain after the fact.
With regards to your specific reply, I think you sound kind of delusional to the point where a tailored response is not worth the effort. However, I recently composed the following somewhat applicable passage for another venue, so I'm including it below. My only direct response to your comment is that my first thought was "The manufacturing jobs are NOT coming back and it doesn't much matter (from a supply chain perspective) which country the newest manufacturing robots are located in." Now here's the imported response:
Some deep thinkers want to encourage other people to think more deeply. However, there are also deep thinkers who prefer other people to think less deeply, the better to manipulate and take advantage of those people.
The worst (and most dangerous) case is people who are shallow thinkers, but who think they are deep thinkers, and #PresidentTweety is one of those people. Trump is not at war with the media. He is at war with reality. Trump wants to create belief in a straw-man fake reality of horror and collapse so he can then claim improvements by tweaking the fake beliefs back towards reality.
At least Duterte killed (alleged) evildoers and Mussolini made the trains run on time! That's not the reality of America. (Well, actually the American trains aren't so reliable, but Trump's supporters in flyover country are the least likely to use trains.)
My favorite sig should make it obvious, but I'm on the side of more deep thinking. You have to think deeply to understand your free choices in a meaningful way and to understand the constraints and their sources. (That's why "freedom of speech" is so confusing to many people, because the "speech" may be opinions or lies just as freely as it may be true.)
So far my best effort at a constructive "solution" is the design of the deep-thinking cap, but it's yet another "morally neutral" tool. While I think I would use the cap to support more deep thinking, maybe I would just use it to sleep a lot. Some people might use it to listen to more loud and mindless music while ignoring other people, even though the cap could be used as a better communication device, too.
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Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Spreading your perverted fantasies around a bit these days, eh?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
That's exactly what happened and I proved it to you. Do you believe that the United States was created because native americans decided to start a war with the native white population and the whites won? The level of willful ignorance is the same.
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Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.