I understand the utter lack of candidates on both sides we can get proudly behind, but an important distinction to be made between electing a political hack and a dangerous megalomaniac.
Can we really afford to risk further devaluing international relations with a guy who might just say anything?
I think the definition of a candidate's attributes can be accurately gleaned from his behavior and his followers. Trump is a bully who's core support comes from disenfranchised xenophobes.
He says what he thinks.
Trump says what an uneducated idiot would say to his buddy in private company. He attacks detractors like a schoolyard bully with a foul mouth, and he is of zero substance.
The importance of these tech giants backing Apple's play is enormous. Sure, there may be some international sales advantages to standing up to The Gov'T, but, that doesn't suddenly mean it can't be simultaneously good for internet/personal freedom.
If a winning Presidential candidate dies or becomes incapacitated between the counting of electoral votes in Congress and the inauguration, the Vice President elect will become President, according to Section 3 of the 20th Amendment.
Take for example the Scalia replacement blockade that they are launching. What are they planning? To blockade the supreme court appointment until after the next election? However, it's looking like there will be a democratic president so what then?
Because after the election there is a >0 chance of a Republican doing the selecting.
If you believe the present candidates for selection from the one side are unelectable for their morality, intellect, or a position contrary to one dear to your heart, you have to be incensed that the other side is putting forth such poor candidates.
They are. I wonder how many people have spotted the obligatory"Are you sure?" message and went "Whew, thank goodness that fail-safe redundancy was in play."
How about Destroying the relationship between advertisers and consumers?
FWIW, I've had friends attempt to dissuade me from an destructive relationship that had more chance of success than separating advertisers from consumers... they will still reach you, never fear... and I could stand that it occurred on my browsing time, if it didn't cause my machine to slow load. If you want my dinero, make your plea to my advantage, for goodness sakes.
During deflationary periods, people tend to hoard their money. This gives the hoarding populace an incentive to spend, thus helping the economy out of the deflationary spiral.
Workarounds that leave plausible deniability are like the cover story you have ready in your head for when the police pull you over.
Despite your imagined impenetrable logic and Jedi nerves, your explanation will be delivered with much less sense and cool than you imagine, to a seasoned roadside interviewer.
True, and before even that, American ports were teeming with people who were typically unhappy with the governors of their former homelands.
We came by this beautiful system of self-government not because it was perfect, but because we came from places that had other systems in place that worked less well.
Question authority: brought to you by the founders of your free (ish) nation. There is a lot of good to be said for government by representative assembly, but the recipe for fascism only requires that a government's convenience become more important than the rights of its citizens.
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I was backing your play there, Wyatt.
The key is that Bob and Jimbob are whispering these things to each other at the water cooler.
Can we really afford to risk further devaluing international relations with a guy who might just say anything?
He says what he thinks.
Trump says what an uneducated idiot would say to his buddy in private company. He attacks detractors like a schoolyard bully with a foul mouth, and he is of zero substance.
"Hey, I can't get any Jackthreads, either, you entitled little gripers."
Welll, that sucks for sure, but it's a rounding error in annual methane emission calculations.
The importance of these tech giants backing Apple's play is enormous. Sure, there may be some international sales advantages to standing up to The Gov'T, but, that doesn't suddenly mean it can't be simultaneously good for internet/personal freedom.
Maybe, this just isn't toooo good to be true.
yup
If a winning Presidential candidate dies or becomes incapacitated between the counting of electoral votes in Congress and the inauguration, the Vice President elect will become President, according to Section 3 of the 20th Amendment.
So, either way...
Take for example the Scalia replacement blockade that they are launching. What are they planning? To blockade the supreme court appointment until after the next election? However, it's looking like there will be a democratic president so what then?
Because after the election there is a >0 chance of a Republican doing the selecting.
If you believe the present candidates for selection from the one side are unelectable for their morality, intellect, or a position contrary to one dear to your heart, you have to be incensed that the other side is putting forth such poor candidates.
How about Destroying the relationship between advertisers and consumers?
FWIW, I've had friends attempt to dissuade me from an destructive relationship that had more chance of success than separating advertisers from consumers... they will still reach you, never fear... and I could stand that it occurred on my browsing time, if it didn't cause my machine to slow load. If you want my dinero, make your plea to my advantage, for goodness sakes.
Wolfram knows.
So it seems the Captains of (tech) Industry fall prey to the same partisan squabbles that keep the legislative branch impotent much of the time.
B^)
Watching Us.
During deflationary periods, people tend to hoard their money. This gives the hoarding populace an incentive to spend, thus helping the economy out of the deflationary spiral.
We get this proposal to limit some of the freedom of cash transactions, but we can't agree to give up the penny....
Heh. If consumed in appropriate quantities, online porn and video poker should leave you without the funds, time, and energy to do yourself much harm.
Yes. One in a hundred million. Clearly.
It's really not that tricky.
I wonder how limiting my freedom(s) without challenge is somehow ameliorated by phrasing the question that leads to it as:
"Wouldn't you rather be safe, than sorry, with these nose-picking, mother-beating terrorists?"
After all the studies that suggest every single thing I enjoy is bad for me, here's one for the plus column.
~I think he knew that we weren't talking Bay Area cost-of-living in Kalamazoo....
Ask Tracy Morgan if Walmart was involved.
Despite your imagined impenetrable logic and Jedi nerves, your explanation will be delivered with much less sense and cool than you imagine, to a seasoned roadside interviewer.
It's tough to believe a manufactured source of fuel would yet be more economical than exploiting one you just suck out of a well.
We came by this beautiful system of self-government not because it was perfect, but because we came from places that had other systems in place that worked less well.
Question authority: brought to you by the founders of your free (ish) nation. There is a lot of good to be said for government by representative assembly, but the recipe for fascism only requires that a government's convenience become more important than the rights of its citizens.