The Trump Presidency | Biden Inaugurated

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Damien said:


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Glad to see he has his priorities the right way around. :rolleyes:

Untied said:


Are we the bad guys?
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It's absolutely no different to how Blair used to talk about the US and Bush. And some perspective here, while Farage may be happy, apparently Trump ISNT! There's a story on REUTERS about it at the moment, and they are updating it constantly. He's apparently far from happy about the comments referring to the "interventionist times of the past" and May saying those policies didn't and don't work. Although Trump often says he was against the Iraq war, he absolutely wasn't at first and he recently mentioned a few times about missed opportunities to grab Iraq's oil and alluded to it still being possible.

The fear there is he quite simply thinks and feels that he can say and do whatever he wants and that the US can take whatever they want. He, being a bully himself is now going to turn the US in to an even bigger bully, just using the Country as an extension of himself. It's frightening beyond belief that his supporters cant see this, or that nobody is standing up to him. Someone has to, and soon before he causes irreversible damage.
 
How many groups of people has this guy p*ssed off and who is next on his list? I'd imagine it will be a long list.
 
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Organic Potatoes said:
Probably Eskimos; starting all that damn nonsense about polar bears and ice caps and whatnot. Such conspiracy!
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:lol: He has upset the Muslims, Mexicans, the gay population, women, democrats, europe, environmentalists, Meryl Streep.

Just waiting for him to bring segregation back and the US will have nearly completed a full circle.
 
Neutral said:
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/media/stephen-bannon-trump-news-media.html?_r=1
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I know this is stale since its more than 12 hours hold (new world, moves too quick), but was still thinking about this this morning. I'm reminded of Popper's paradox of tolerance, that we must be intolerant towards intolerance if we wish to uphold our tolerant society. This sort of statement should be enough to label the author an enemy of the Republic, which is what I regard Bannon, Trump, Conway and the others. I just wish there was something we could do about it on that basis (legally speaking), but unfortunately there is not.
 
MTF said:
I know this is stale since its more than 12 hours hold (new world, moves too quick), but was still thinking about this this morning. I'm reminded of Popper's paradox of tolerance, that we must be intolerant towards intolerance if we wish to uphold our tolerant society. This sort of statement should be enough to label the author an enemy of the Republic, which is what I regard Bannon, Trump, Conway and the others. I just wish there was something we could do about it on that basis (legally speaking), but unfortunately there is not.
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I think truth and social natural selection will win out here. You can theoretically win a campaign on disinformation but you can't prevent the information you once suppressed from catching up with you in the long run, especially in this age of instant media.
 
Raoul said:
I think truth and social natural selection will win out here. You can theoretically win a campaign on disinformation but you can't prevent the information you once suppressed from catching up with you in the long run, especially in this age of instant media.
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Trump is very fond of Abe Lincoln. Didn't he say something like : You can fool some of the people all of the time ....
 
Silva said:
They're going to close down the consumer financial protection bureau, so you can look forward to more corporate fraud and the banks crashing again in the near future.
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The people's president.
 
PedroMendez said:
There would be multiple ways to improve the system depending on preferences. Either have to make the people more price conscious or move towards some universal health-care system, where the government drives a hard bargain to control costs. There are studies that show fairly well the the price of many health-services could drop significantly, when you have a functioning free market system, where the people are price conscious (that doesn't mean that the government doesn't subsidies people, who can't afford it). But I am a free market guy and aknowledge that there are different approaches that can work. One of the biggest and most obvious flaws of the US system is the way employees are insured. Anyway; nobody is going to touch that, because it is a poisoned chalice. Any substancial reform would piss off way too many people.
The GOP is going to make a bad situation worse. They are so incredibly dishonest about their approach, that it hurts. They try to have the cake and eat it by replacing the ACA with ACA-light: They try to maintain some of the access/subsidies for people with pre-existing conditions but want to get rid of all the parts that try to balance the costs of that (=individual mandate and all that follows). Obama didn't introduce all these flawed parts of the ACA, because its fun. His approach might not work, but there is a logic behind that and just ignoring all of it will make things even worse.
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I do hope they have a better approach but I can see they don't have a plan yet and that was the reason Trump didn't cancel ACA, but the costs of ACA are rising and soon or later some states will refuse to cover any bill the feds don't pay. Obama had good intentions but his plan was made to fail - even Bill was against that.
 
Pexbo said:
I've sent them a message asking if those hands in the background photo are "brown" or just shadowed. I have a feeling the reply won't be too bright.
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Minimalist said:
:lol: Such a diverse research team behind that.

fecking laughable.
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You are right. Don't bother about content. I checked their privilege and found out that they are too white to say anything meaningful.
 
PedroMendez said:
You are right. Don't bother about content. I checked their privilege and found out that they are too white to say anything meaningful.
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AFAIK there's nothing on there about the research team being white. There is however something for each person for who they worked for - which was my real point.

Try harder.
 
barros said:
That was stupid and liberals losing completly their heads because they lost the elections, comparing Syria, Iraq and Yemen with the head cutters, Egypt and Turkey :wenger:
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http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/28/politics/trump-foreign-businesses/



That also comprehensively lists and details businesses Trump has already disclosed here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-s.../docs/trump-fec-financial-disclosure-2015.pdf

Also he's blatantly not putting countries which are vastly inhabited by Muslims, for example Indonesia (200-odd million muslims)

Like I said, the corruption just doesn't stop.

And it has nothing to do with liberals losing their heads.
 
vi1lain said:
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/28/politics/trump-foreign-businesses/



That also comprehensively lists and details businesses Trump has already disclosed here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-s.../docs/trump-fec-financial-disclosure-2015.pdf

Also he's blatantly not putting countries which are vastly inhabited by Muslims, for example Indonesia (200-odd million muslims)

Like I said, the corruption just doesn't stop.

And it has nothing to do with liberals losing their heads.
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maybe because the terrorists are coming from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan?
 
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