No more bought-and-paid-for career politicians just means you cut out the middleman. Now you have a billionaire con man at the helm, who's entire life revolved around enriching himself . Brilliant!
Unsurprisingly, he now put together a cabinet of fellow billionaires. How do you feel about Steven Mnuchin, youngest banker to ever have made Goldman Sachs partner, former Soros employee and Hollywood movie producer? He should shake things up, right?
Of course unfortunately things are probably eveb worse, since there is good reasons to believe that Trump is in Putin's pocket.
We can look forward to at least four years of raping the US treasury while the US allies will be left to fend for themselves.
One slight difference - that's not an undisputed fact
Just as the Soviet and East German clandestine work was not an undisputed fact until the wall came down. For god's sake Putin worked as KGB agent in East Germany (Dresden to be precise), and we have a pretty clear idea how much he spends on disinformation.
To put this in the same league as chem trail brain-fuckery is beyond naive. Don't expect Russia to advertise their capabilities. Unfortunately, there is little hope for the equivalent to a Russian Snowden.
And to the extend that Russia ain't that bad, it is mostly that their reach is far shorter, and they can't afford the intelligence and military apparatus the US has. But go and talk to some Chechens to get a reality check.
Yes, the US does a lot of very bad things. And I'd wish more Americans would be aware of it, but that doesn't mean that outside countries don't try to fuck with you.
Your assertions are nothing but ass-backwards American exceptionalism. There is nothing exceptional about the US. It's neither exceptionally good nor bad.
Agreed. Hence my emphasis on changing minds. To me this technology is not so much a large scale practical solution, but something that will hopefully teach a new generation that nuclear energy can be handled responsibly. (And to me that means inherently sub-critical).
This could be a real game changer if it manages to change some minds. We need nuclear tech to cope with the nuclear waste, and this can be done in an inherently safe and responsible way that turns the waste into energy.
I very much hope this example in doing this on the small scale, as with these diamond batteries, will translate into support for bigger inherently safe designs that allow to transmute nuclear waste into lesser problems.
Not walking back anything, as an entertainer his racism wasn't of much consequence. You know I enjoy Wagner operas, too. Despite Wagner's well documented antisemitism.
Can't help it, if you have a reading comprehension problem.
And did minister Mitchell ever lose his job over the way he treated Tarek Fatah?
About as much as Joe 'You Lie' Wilson.
BTW Mitchell is not a cabinet member but a senator. Senators are appointed for life. There's no easy way to get rid of them. Probably easier to abolish the senate all together, which has been under discussion on and off over the years that I lived here.
Last I checked there was no debate about where McCain was born. Apples and oranges, and the Hillary projection has been debunked so many times...
Trump kept the thing alive even after Obama's birth certificate was released. It was a dog whistle and you heard it as clearly as all the other birthers.
You are right that he was elected as a big hearty "Fuck You!" to the establishment. And if he is good for anything then for delivering that message.
Unfortunately, I strongly believe that this is as far as his qualifications go. I see him as a very unstable, volatile individual, not really a bad guy (albeit slightly racist) but mentally on the level of a toddler. The fact that he will have his fingers on the nuclear codes is quite worrisome. One almost has to hope that Trump is a Russian asset, Putin is many things but not irrational.
But even if you subscribe to the "Fuck You!" motivation of his voters, it still does not make for a mandate if more voters support the existing order, and that is what the popular vote shows.
He's not a demon at all. Actually enjoyed him as an entertainer. The man is just dangerously unstable and mentally unfit to be president.
Switch him out for Pence and I am all good. I don't subscribe to any of Pence's political beliefs, but clearly the guy has some governing experience and is mentally stable.
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"A GUY WHO IS DAMN SIGHT SMARTER THAN I AM"
Funny thing is, if I just try to quote this, slashdot throws up a lameness filter for the all caps yelling.
Anyhow, I think I can agree with what you yelled there.
"A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society."
Said the man most responsible for shredding the civil fabric of the country, and mainstreaming white nationalism and antisemitism.
No more bought-and-paid-for career politicians just means you cut out the middleman. Now you have a billionaire con man at the helm, who's entire life revolved around enriching himself . Brilliant!
Unsurprisingly, he now put together a cabinet of fellow billionaires. How do you feel about Steven Mnuchin, youngest banker to ever have made Goldman Sachs partner, former Soros employee and Hollywood movie producer? He should shake things up, right?
Of course unfortunately things are probably eveb worse, since there is good reasons to believe that Trump is in Putin's pocket.
We can look forward to at least four years of raping the US treasury while the US allies will be left to fend for themselves.
Yes, the policy was started by his dad (who was also once arrested at a Klan's rally) but Jr. was aware of the policy and happily went along with it.
As to the birther Hillary origination story, that has been debunked so many times it's not even funny that you still believe it.
Dude you clearly did not live through the cold war. The only think Americans are exceptional at is being exceptionally bad at clandestine operations.
Enjoy your comfortable black and white world.
(BTW just for the record I am not American).
Plenty of dictators came to power through legal means.
From his tweet rants it certainly seems he doesn't understand that he wasn't crowned king.
About time to leave your echo chamber and enter another one, where the MSM gave tons of free air time to Trump and the NYT is down on Hillary:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l...
While I agree with your analysis. "Fuck you!" is not a program nor an issue and can never amount to a mandate.
One slight difference - that's not an undisputed fact
Just as the Soviet and East German clandestine work was not an undisputed fact until the wall came down. For god's sake Putin worked as KGB agent in East Germany (Dresden to be precise), and we have a pretty clear idea how much he spends on disinformation.
To put this in the same league as chem trail brain-fuckery is beyond naive. Don't expect Russia to advertise their capabilities. Unfortunately, there is little hope for the equivalent to a Russian Snowden.
And to the extend that Russia ain't that bad, it is mostly that their reach is far shorter, and they can't afford the intelligence and military apparatus the US has. But go and talk to some Chechens to get a reality check.
Yes, the US does a lot of very bad things. And I'd wish more Americans would be aware of it, but that doesn't mean that outside countries don't try to fuck with you.
Your assertions are nothing but ass-backwards American exceptionalism. There is nothing exceptional about the US. It's neither exceptionally good nor bad.
Agreed. Hence my emphasis on changing minds. To me this technology is not so much a large scale practical solution, but something that will hopefully teach a new generation that nuclear energy can be handled responsibly. (And to me that means inherently sub-critical).
This could be a real game changer if it manages to change some minds. We need nuclear tech to cope with the nuclear waste, and this can be done in an inherently safe and responsible way that turns the waste into energy.
I very much hope this example in doing this on the small scale, as with these diamond batteries, will translate into support for bigger inherently safe designs that allow to transmute nuclear waste into lesser problems.
Not walking back anything, as an entertainer his racism wasn't of much consequence. You know I enjoy Wagner operas, too. Despite Wagner's well documented antisemitism.
Can't help it, if you have a reading comprehension problem.
BTW I am very thankful we have outspoken, progressive Muslims like Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah up here. They provide a much needed reality check.
Oh, we have people like you down here.
Not enough.
And did minister Mitchell ever lose his job over the way he treated Tarek Fatah?
About as much as Joe 'You Lie' Wilson.
BTW Mitchell is not a cabinet member but a senator. Senators are appointed for life. There's no easy way to get rid of them. Probably easier to abolish the senate all together, which has been under discussion on and off over the years that I lived here.
Fair enough. But it's people like you who are responsible for the waning left and the rise of the alt-right. Just so you know.
Nope to that, too. Because I live in Canada and hardly ever interact with heartland Americans outside the series of tubes.
And this McCarthyist definition of "racism" doesn't bother you at all?
Nope.
Last I checked there was no debate about where McCain was born. Apples and oranges, and the Hillary projection has been debunked so many times ...
Trump kept the thing alive even after Obama's birth certificate was released. It was a dog whistle and you heard it as clearly as all the other birthers.
Glad to hear that this helped. And I agree, the NYT was very biased against Hillary.
Would be nice if it'll work that way.
You are right that he was elected as a big hearty "Fuck You!" to the establishment. And if he is good for anything then for delivering that message.
Unfortunately, I strongly believe that this is as far as his qualifications go. I see him as a very unstable, volatile individual, not really a bad guy (albeit slightly racist) but mentally on the level of a toddler. The fact that he will have his fingers on the nuclear codes is quite worrisome. One almost has to hope that Trump is a Russian asset, Putin is many things but not irrational.
But even if you subscribe to the "Fuck You!" motivation of his voters, it still does not make for a mandate if more voters support the existing order, and that is what the popular vote shows.
You've got a point there.
He's not a demon at all. Actually enjoyed him as an entertainer. The man is just dangerously unstable and mentally unfit to be president.
Switch him out for Pence and I am all good. I don't subscribe to any of Pence's political beliefs, but clearly the guy has some governing experience and is mentally stable.
You really don't get the Russian, if you think this is about business. For them it is very much about national security.
You guys are too funny. The concept that a US citizens could be living outside the country doesn't even compute for you.
GNU tool for decades, but the neo-marxist label is new.