Trump sold the voters on the danger of ISIS and Islam when in reality only a tiny fraction of a percent of the population has ever been killed by them.
He then proceeded to dismantle the healthcare system with the blessing of his voters despite the fact that millions of people are killed by curable illness every single year.
Millions of people play the lottery, thinking "somebody has to win!" while completely ignoring the fact that the lottery companies make huge profits.
Ditto casinos: If the wallpaper is gold, there's free drinks and the croupiers are earning wages then you think you're going to win some money in that room? Really....?
All a politician has to do is sell a bigger dream than the other politicians. There's enough stupid around that they'll eventually win.
Trump said he was going to drain that swamp, all he's done so far is sign bills that deregulate business to let them screw over customers/the planet in any way they like.
Corporate profits now come first, priority is given to the companies Trump has shares in.
"Shrewd manipulators" can still be stupid/ignorant.
Mostly what you need to 'manipulate' people is a position of power (or money) and to be a bit of a bully. If you're like that then money-grabbing people will try to be on your side. Look at you, you obviously admire any "millionaire set for life" and want a bit of that to rub off onto you.
A healthy amount of sociopathic paranoia helps, too. Don't be afraid to fire/destroy anybody around you who makes you look bad.
I won't matter. Nobody's going to have the technology to sail to Svalbard and drill through hundreds of feet of permafrost after the zombie apocalypse.
Sure, you can take the car home home and remove it but it had a license plate when you bought it and you have to put it back on again if you go outside your fence.
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Create a dark database so that stolen phones are suddenly valuable again?
It's almost as if you have no imagination.
People are very bad at risk assessment.
Trump sold the voters on the danger of ISIS and Islam when in reality only a tiny fraction of a percent of the population has ever been killed by them.
He then proceeded to dismantle the healthcare system with the blessing of his voters despite the fact that millions of people are killed by curable illness every single year.
Go figure.
Yep. The real problem is that at the end of the day we're only presented with gangsters and conmen to vote for.
Of the 300+ million people in the USA, how did the vote come down to those two?
(Simple: It's the people in suits who decide who we get to vote for)
Nah, we're stupid.
Millions of people play the lottery, thinking "somebody has to win!" while completely ignoring the fact that the lottery companies make huge profits.
Ditto casinos: If the wallpaper is gold, there's free drinks and the croupiers are earning wages then you think you're going to win some money in that room? Really....?
All a politician has to do is sell a bigger dream than the other politicians. There's enough stupid around that they'll eventually win.
It's more likely that the "simple math" is that people who clustered around charismatic narcissists produced, on average, more fit^W offspring.
FTFY.
Why don't they automatically translate them to something more modern then run them in the cloud?
Maintaining these systems is just throwing good money away. Money that we all end up paying via our bank charges.
He wouldn't accept the bribe personally, dumbass.
One of the DeVos family would accept it on his behalf in a foreign bank account then make some more massive "campaign contributions" here in the USA.
Something like that.
It's only one bribe away from reality and you know it.
And "Swamp Draining" was one of his key election promises.
Trump will slap a huge tax on them as soon as more than two arrive on a single ship.
Trump said he was going to drain that swamp, all he's done so far is sign bills that deregulate business to let them screw over customers/the planet in any way they like.
Corporate profits now come first, priority is given to the companies Trump has shares in.
Don't worry, the market will work it out. Some upstart company will...
Nah, the sort of company that does this to farmers will have a large portfolio of dumb patents and an army of lawyers to back it up.
Don't forget that Baby Jesus was a hook-nosed Ay-rab.
(unless you think that Bethlehem was the 51st American state 2000 years ago).
"Shrewd manipulators" can still be stupid/ignorant.
Mostly what you need to 'manipulate' people is a position of power (or money) and to be a bit of a bully. If you're like that then money-grabbing people will try to be on your side. Look at you, you obviously admire any "millionaire set for life" and want a bit of that to rub off onto you.
A healthy amount of sociopathic paranoia helps, too. Don't be afraid to fire/destroy anybody around you who makes you look bad.
Why not taste?
My first thought, too.
Occam's razor says: "Because we're tasty!"
That's the main reason humans prefer any particular food group or (eg.) why we eat cows instead of horses. Why would cannibals be any different?
I won't matter. Nobody's going to have the technology to sail to Svalbard and drill through hundreds of feet of permafrost after the zombie apocalypse.
I fight grizzly bears as a hobby and I have no scars whatsoever despite having both arms bitten off at one point.
I guess we're cut from the same cloth, eh?
It's almost as if you don't actually know what the word "proprietary" means.
I also wonder if they've stored instructions on how to read the QR codes down there.
D'ya think?
I trust the Norwegians to pickle our date. They've been pickling herrings for centuries with great success.
No, but at least he'd ignore it until evolution creates something intelligent enough to read them.
Shiny baubles though...?
I guess so.
Also: Pedestrians don't usually have insurance so he might have to pay to fix his car, too.
"Yemen" is fake news.
Luckily, President Trump is building a wall to keep out the fake stories about "Yemen".
Nothing of value is being lost.
Sure, you can take the car home home and remove it but it had a license plate when you bought it and you have to put it back on again if you go outside your fence.
IOW, your argument is stupid.
Trump supporters don't need no stinkin' schooling.