Funny how the most fascist leader in US history, the one most likely to turn it into a dictatorship EVER - is also the least qualified person to ever be elected.
So much wrong with that statement I don't even know where to begin. He's not a leader at all, yet. Mussolini-style fascism is more like the progressive ideal than anything Trump has proposed. And if you're using a "modernized and popular" version of racial-based fascism, the only group demonizing a specific racial group for all the ills would be the far-left SJWs, who claim white men are always the problem. As far as least qualified - Chester A. Arthur and Andrew Johnson were less qualified than Trump. Andrew Johnson was a tailor with no education - his wife taught him to read. It sucks that they don't teach history in school any more.
Your mythology about the founding fathers is flat out wrong.
No, it's not mythology, and it's not wrong. Jefferson was very concerned about the new Constitution when he discovered it did not limit terms. All his predictions about corruptions and career politicians have come true. Hamilton was the token statist among the founders, and wanted a much more authoritarian government than the others.
The process for amending the Constitution still exists, and is still used. There's nothing wrong with that. If you want to change it, get involved in changing it. Why hasn't it been changed lately? Career politicians protecting their incumbency is the primary reason. If you really think career politicians are better than citizen representatives, I suggest you read the history of the twenty-seventh amendment, and what happened in the aftermath. Having a "career" as a politician means your focus is on furthering your career. If you're a citizen acting as a short-term representative, you're much more likely to view governance with an eye to being governed.
>money from people by force
yeah, because roads and infrastructure builds itself, and the military pays for itself, and companies try not to pollute out of the kindness of their harts.
What it's used for may include useful items, but that's irrelevant to how it's collected.
I'm curious though why you think only companies pollute, or would.
PS - Yea, this is just how Pence downplayed Trump's "And some, I assume, are good people.” tuning "some" into "most". Or the whole thing about Trump saying he couldn't release his tax returns with people turning "couldn't" into "advised not to". Because clearly even directly quoting the person off their own feed or providing them video proof isn't enough. Seriously, why didn't people vote for Gary Johnson? He could be wrote off in all sorts of ways but he wasn't a belligerent asshole, at least. Oh, right, he supports pot...
Sounds like Pence has been learning techniques from Snopes...
What's more important, Trump saying there may be some connection, or Trump appointing Myron Ebell to head the EPA -- a man who is 100% certain there is no connection? If you define "denying reality" as "not accepting that climate change is really happening", then it has not only survived the election, its adherents are in place to reify the belief in public policy.
I can't find anything that Ebell or CEI that can be logically interpreted as literally "not accepting that climate change is really happening." I believe their stance is more that climate change is a natural occurrence (this is true) and that CO2 from fossil fuels is having no impact (this is almost certainly false).
But considering the radical authoritarian way the EPA has been run for many years, and the pseudoscience they have used as justification in recent years, maybe a similarly radical ideologue on the other side is the right way to balance things out.
Or JFK, who also talked about issues with the military industrial complex and the Federal Reserve's monetary system. Many people believe he was assassinated by the establishment elites in power who feared he would implement some populist reforms.
On the issue of torture, Mr. Trump suggested he had changed his mind about the value of waterboarding after talking with James N. Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general, who headed the United States Central Command.
“He said, ‘I’ve never found it to be useful,’” Mr. Trump said. He added that Mr. Mattis found more value in building trust and rewarding cooperation with terrorism suspects: “‘Give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I’ll do better.’”
“I was very impressed by that answer,” Mr. Trump said.
Torture, he said, is “not going to make the kind of a difference that a lot of people are thinking.”
Mr. Trump repeated that Mr. Mattis was being “seriously, seriously considered” to be secretary of defense. “I think it’s time, maybe, for a general,” he said.
Apparently - in America competence and experience is now actually a disqualifier for holding office. Nobody wants to vote for the "washington insiders"... an odd sentiment you do not find in any other field. Seriously when did you ever hear anybody say "I am having a heart attack -please get me anybody who is NOT a doctor !"
This whole "compare a politician to a doctor" think shows the awful misinformation that the US public has been subjected to for many years. It's the worst kind of false equivalency. Doctors are paid to heal people. Politicians are paid by taking money from people by force. Somehow people can't see the difference.
The US was NOT founded on the idea of professionals making decisions about governing all the people. That was called "monarchy" and they didn't like it (being tyrannical and all), so they came up with the idea of "citizen legislators". In this model, government is run by... the people being governed. The idea is that the people doing productive work in the country and leaders in business had the most knowledge of what government should be doing to help those efforts (and what they should not be doing because it was hurting people or getting in the way).
Why did people forget all that? Are they so used to helicopter parents that they want a parental government that makes all their decisions for them from cradle to grave? Are we a nation of pussies that would prefer to be ruled by an all-powerful monarch? So we need people "competent in government" so they can "govern" us in the most forceful way possible? Shall we all subject ourselves to anesthesia at the hands of a politician, so that we can sleep through their exploration of our bodies and brains with their knives?
Remember who "represents" industry - current businesses, not future business. So all that money to be made in the future, there is no one lobbying the republicans in government on its behalf. Only the forces of the status quo. And they like the status quo. It gives them status.
Are you mad? Every energy company on the planet is all about "green" energy and selling it any way they can. Go watch a few ads from BP, Exxon, etc. Sure, they mine oil and gas, but they are not fossil fuel companies, they are energy companies. They could give a rat's ass how the energy is generated, they just want to make a profit from it. And there is no long-term strategy for making the same profit from fossil fuels - they are limited resources that will eventually run out.
I wish there were some solution to stop acquisitions like this
Trump will stop it. He said Comcast should never have been allowed to buy NBC Universal, and he's already stated he wants to stop the AT&T / Time Warner merger.
No but I do expect the quality of DNS to slip drastically as Oracle downgrade it to the same level as the rest of their products
Don't forget that down the line, if you're using an Oracle product, you're going to need to use the Oracle DNS service because that's the only one they support. DNS connection problems with your Oracle product? Yea, you're not using OracleDNS, so your whole stack is unsupported.
Well that sucks. Dyn bought my DNS provider, EveryDNS a few years ago. Even though they promised to keep providing services for donors, they really made you jump through a lot of hoops to keep it, the services were very limited, and every contact with them was an up-sell opportunity.
I'm sure with this acquisition that promise will be completely broken, as Oracle loves to monetize everything. Time to find another DNS provider. Again.
For those who actually hold a security clearance part of that is not trying to access material you are not cleared for. Sorry that doesn't fit your narrative.
CNN's news report was not targeting the tiny segment of people with security clearances (as low as CNN's ratings are, that part of the viewing demographic is likely ZERO), they were saying that to everyone. There's a good analysis of where they were getting this (blatantly false) idea from over at Pope Hat.
This is the SAME technique that sites like Snopes and other biased "fact checkers" use. If they want to defend someone's statement, they inject some qualifier that was NEVER included in the original statement, and then claim it was "Mostly True", or better. Nobody buys that crap but the other people in the echo chamber they are talking to.
No, the mainstream media is not as bad as the fake news. It's not perfect, but the idea that it is as bad as people who just willfully invent rumors out of thin air and disseminate them as truth is absurd. It's a classic fallacy of the false equivalency.
That's the stuff they're talking about. But it's not the stuff that's going to be targeted for censorship. Gotta get the nose in the tent first.
Don't see any problem with singling a certain company or product out for tax persecution, eh?
Wait until it's the company you work for, or your political enemies are in office
I actually do see a problem with it. What I certainly do not have a problem with, however, is targeting companies (yes, or products) based on specific behavior for tax penalties and/or benefits. It's been done for a long time, and even Obama did it, sometimes even without congressional action at all.
Right. And that could come in the form of a special tariff. I'm told the cost to make an iPhone is around $178. So add a $178 tariff to each one, and it makes the choice very easy for Apple. They can either start making them in the US, providing jobs to Americans
And the Japanese government should charge Toyota several thousand dollars for each car that Toyota makes in the US or other foreign (non-Japan) countries rather than making them in Japan, providing jobs to Japanese workers?
Japan doesn't import US-made cars to Japan. They make them in the US to... get around import restrictions! TADA!
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Funny how the most fascist leader in US history, the one most likely to turn it into a dictatorship EVER - is also the least qualified person to ever be elected.
So much wrong with that statement I don't even know where to begin. He's not a leader at all, yet. Mussolini-style fascism is more like the progressive ideal than anything Trump has proposed. And if you're using a "modernized and popular" version of racial-based fascism, the only group demonizing a specific racial group for all the ills would be the far-left SJWs, who claim white men are always the problem. As far as least qualified - Chester A. Arthur and Andrew Johnson were less qualified than Trump. Andrew Johnson was a tailor with no education - his wife taught him to read. It sucks that they don't teach history in school any more.
Your mythology about the founding fathers is flat out wrong.
No, it's not mythology, and it's not wrong. Jefferson was very concerned about the new Constitution when he discovered it did not limit terms. All his predictions about corruptions and career politicians have come true. Hamilton was the token statist among the founders, and wanted a much more authoritarian government than the others.
The process for amending the Constitution still exists, and is still used. There's nothing wrong with that. If you want to change it, get involved in changing it. Why hasn't it been changed lately? Career politicians protecting their incumbency is the primary reason. If you really think career politicians are better than citizen representatives, I suggest you read the history of the twenty-seventh amendment, and what happened in the aftermath. Having a "career" as a politician means your focus is on furthering your career. If you're a citizen acting as a short-term representative, you're much more likely to view governance with an eye to being governed.
>money from people by force yeah, because roads and infrastructure builds itself, and the military pays for itself, and companies try not to pollute out of the kindness of their harts.
What it's used for may include useful items, but that's irrelevant to how it's collected.
I'm curious though why you think only companies pollute, or would.
What's the other 10%?
PS - Yea, this is just how Pence downplayed Trump's "And some, I assume, are good people.” tuning "some" into "most". Or the whole thing about Trump saying he couldn't release his tax returns with people turning "couldn't" into "advised not to". Because clearly even directly quoting the person off their own feed or providing them video proof isn't enough. Seriously, why didn't people vote for Gary Johnson? He could be wrote off in all sorts of ways but he wasn't a belligerent asshole, at least. Oh, right, he supports pot...
Sounds like Pence has been learning techniques from Snopes...
What's more important, Trump saying there may be some connection, or Trump appointing Myron Ebell to head the EPA -- a man who is 100% certain there is no connection? If you define "denying reality" as "not accepting that climate change is really happening", then it has not only survived the election, its adherents are in place to reify the belief in public policy.
I can't find anything that Ebell or CEI that can be logically interpreted as literally "not accepting that climate change is really happening." I believe their stance is more that climate change is a natural occurrence (this is true) and that CO2 from fossil fuels is having no impact (this is almost certainly false).
But considering the radical authoritarian way the EPA has been run for many years, and the pseudoscience they have used as justification in recent years, maybe a similarly radical ideologue on the other side is the right way to balance things out.
You're trying to determine what his policy positions will be based on hyperbolic twitter comments. It's entertaining, but wholly irrelevant.
Or JFK, who also talked about issues with the military industrial complex and the Federal Reserve's monetary system. Many people believe he was assassinated by the establishment elites in power who feared he would implement some populist reforms.
Don't go to Dallas, Mr. President-elect!
and also stops promoting torture
Me, too, and it seems he already has.
From TFA:
This is not a Troll, folks, even if it hurt your feelings. I guess you're trying to turn this into a safe space.
Apparently - in America competence and experience is now actually a disqualifier for holding office. Nobody wants to vote for the "washington insiders"... an odd sentiment you do not find in any other field. Seriously when did you ever hear anybody say "I am having a heart attack -please get me anybody who is NOT a doctor !"
This whole "compare a politician to a doctor" think shows the awful misinformation that the US public has been subjected to for many years. It's the worst kind of false equivalency. Doctors are paid to heal people. Politicians are paid by taking money from people by force. Somehow people can't see the difference.
The US was NOT founded on the idea of professionals making decisions about governing all the people. That was called "monarchy" and they didn't like it (being tyrannical and all), so they came up with the idea of "citizen legislators". In this model, government is run by ... the people being governed. The idea is that the people doing productive work in the country and leaders in business had the most knowledge of what government should be doing to help those efforts (and what they should not be doing because it was hurting people or getting in the way).
Why did people forget all that? Are they so used to helicopter parents that they want a parental government that makes all their decisions for them from cradle to grave? Are we a nation of pussies that would prefer to be ruled by an all-powerful monarch? So we need people "competent in government" so they can "govern" us in the most forceful way possible? Shall we all subject ourselves to anesthesia at the hands of a politician, so that we can sleep through their exploration of our bodies and brains with their knives?
Remember who "represents" industry - current businesses, not future business. So all that money to be made in the future, there is no one lobbying the republicans in government on its behalf. Only the forces of the status quo. And they like the status quo. It gives them status.
Are you mad? Every energy company on the planet is all about "green" energy and selling it any way they can. Go watch a few ads from BP, Exxon, etc. Sure, they mine oil and gas, but they are not fossil fuel companies, they are energy companies. They could give a rat's ass how the energy is generated, they just want to make a profit from it. And there is no long-term strategy for making the same profit from fossil fuels - they are limited resources that will eventually run out.
Thanks, Donald!
This seems pretty specific. I thought most libs hated TPP as well ?
They did, until Trump came out against it, and now they love it.
It seems that they've decided after 8 years of being just fine with war, they're against that again now, too.
Here's your breakdown from 538
Go away, Nate. You're discredited now. You didn't think you would be able to ride on lucky guesses about one election forever, did you?
I wish there were some solution to stop acquisitions like this
Trump will stop it. He said Comcast should never have been allowed to buy NBC Universal, and he's already stated he wants to stop the AT&T / Time Warner merger.
I've been using Zonomi for some domains for several years. It's not completely free, but damn close to it, and you only pay for what you use.
No but I do expect the quality of DNS to slip drastically as Oracle downgrade it to the same level as the rest of their products
Don't forget that down the line, if you're using an Oracle product, you're going to need to use the Oracle DNS service because that's the only one they support. DNS connection problems with your Oracle product? Yea, you're not using OracleDNS, so your whole stack is unsupported.
Well that sucks. Dyn bought my DNS provider, EveryDNS a few years ago. Even though they promised to keep providing services for donors, they really made you jump through a lot of hoops to keep it, the services were very limited, and every contact with them was an up-sell opportunity.
I'm sure with this acquisition that promise will be completely broken, as Oracle loves to monetize everything. Time to find another DNS provider. Again.
Hypocrites lash out when their hypocrisy is pointed out. News at 11.
NatasRevol is a member of a group defined as "A bunch of racists that post comments on Slashdot".
For those who actually hold a security clearance part of that is not trying to access material you are not cleared for. Sorry that doesn't fit your narrative.
CNN's news report was not targeting the tiny segment of people with security clearances (as low as CNN's ratings are, that part of the viewing demographic is likely ZERO), they were saying that to everyone. There's a good analysis of where they were getting this (blatantly false) idea from over at Pope Hat.
This is the SAME technique that sites like Snopes and other biased "fact checkers" use. If they want to defend someone's statement, they inject some qualifier that was NEVER included in the original statement, and then claim it was "Mostly True", or better. Nobody buys that crap but the other people in the echo chamber they are talking to.
But please, if these aren't suitable to your tastes, find a definition - outside of alt-right sites - that says anything different.
Yes, please only use definitions of groups from people that don't like that group.
No, the mainstream media is not as bad as the fake news. It's not perfect, but the idea that it is as bad as people who just willfully invent rumors out of thin air and disseminate them as truth is absurd. It's a classic fallacy of the false equivalency.
That's the stuff they're talking about. But it's not the stuff that's going to be targeted for censorship. Gotta get the nose in the tent first.
Don't see any problem with singling a certain company or product out for tax persecution, eh?
Wait until it's the company you work for, or your political enemies are in office
I actually do see a problem with it. What I certainly do not have a problem with, however, is targeting companies (yes, or products) based on specific behavior for tax penalties and/or benefits. It's been done for a long time, and even Obama did it, sometimes even without congressional action at all.
Right. And that could come in the form of a special tariff. I'm told the cost to make an iPhone is around $178. So add a $178 tariff to each one, and it makes the choice very easy for Apple. They can either start making them in the US, providing jobs to Americans
And the Japanese government should charge Toyota several thousand dollars for each car that Toyota makes in the US or other foreign (non-Japan) countries rather than making them in Japan, providing jobs to Japanese workers?
Japan doesn't import US-made cars to Japan. They make them in the US to ... get around import restrictions! TADA!