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the world is in a thick fog
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" Trump has shown diabolically intelligent political. He was able to embody a new kind of leader to go against his own party, then against his democratic opponent. He was able to take on the role of a new man who was not part of the political elites who have been discredited by two catastrophes that deeply marked the American people: the war in Iraq and the financial crisis in 2008. Never mind that these were largely a result of Republican policies....those who represent the voices of protest anger, whether it be Trump or his European clones, have no idea how to solve these complex problems. They sell illusions, and Trump is the master illusionnist...
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Such protests would be repressed in Russia , China, Turkey, .. D. Trump's America new best friends
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Donald Trump Calls Sleeping Around, Avoiding STDs His ‘Personal Vietnam’ in Resurfaced 1997 Interview
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Trump acknowledges climate change — at his golf course
The billionaire, who called global warming a hoax, warns of its dire effects in his company's application to build a sea wall.
Trump is hoping to have a two-mile stone wall built between his County Clare course and the Atlantic Ocean. According to the Associated Press, the beach in front of the 18th green is eroding at a rate of about one yard per year.
This isn't the first time Trump has been involved in a legal matter involving the environment and one of his Europe courses. In December, Trump lost a third court decision in his longtime battle against the creation of a wind farm near his Trump International Golf Links in Balmedie Scotland.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-climate-change-golf-course-223436
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1 hour ago, heybruce said:
Excellent article from Foreign Policy on why China will be happy about a Trump victory. Difficult to choose which section to quote to wet the appetite of those who like to stay informed, but I will go with the one that states the obvious:
"China no longer faces the prospect of Hillary Clinton, a tough, experienced opponent with a record of standing up to bullies. Instead, it faces a know-nothing reality TV star who barely seems aware that China has nuclear weapons, has promised to extort money from U.S. allies around China like South Korea and Japan, and has repeatedly undercut U.S. credibility as a defense partner. Trump is also exactly the kind of businessman who is most easily taken in by China — credulous, focused on the externalities of wealth, and massively susceptible to flattery." http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/09/china-just-won-the-u-s-election-trump-victory/
American voters elected D. Trump for POTUS much more; and less in consideration of the " commander in chief" side of the token.
And even less as would be "leader of the free world"
So Russia is happy, China eyes this election as a chance.
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Michael Moore's Morning After To-Do List
1. Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.
2. Fire all pundits, predictors, pollsters and anyone else in the media who had a narrative they wouldn't let go of and refused to listen to or acknowledge what was really going on. Those same bloviators will now tell us we must "heal the divide" and "come together." They will pull more hooey like that out of their ass in the days to come. Turn them off.
3. Any Democratic member of Congress who didn't wake up this morning ready to fight, resist and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President Obama every day for eight full years must step out of the way and let those of us who know the score lead the way in stopping the meanness and the madness that's about to begin.
4. Everyone must stop saying they are "stunned" and "shocked". What you mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren't paying attention to your fellow Americans and their despair. YEARS of being neglected by both parties, the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came a TV star they liked whose plan was to destroy both parties and tell them all "You're fired!" Trump's victory is no surprise. He was never a joke. Treating him as one only strengthened him. He is both a creature and a creation of the media and the media will never own that.
5. You must say this sentence to everyone you meet today: "HILLARY CLINTON WON THE POPULAR VOTE!" The MAJORITY of our fellow Americans preferred Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Period. Fact. If you woke up this morning thinking you live in an effed-up country, you don't. The majority of your fellow Americans wanted Hillary, not Trump. The only reason he's president is because of an arcane, insane 18th-century idea called the Electoral College. Until we change that, we'll continue to have presidents we didn't elect and didn't want. You live in a country where a majority of its citizens have said they believe there's climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don't want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage and they want a single-payer true universal health caresystem. None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority agree with the "liberal" position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen (see: #1 above).
Let's try to get this all done by noon today.
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Donald Trump statement on banning Muslims from US has disappeared from his website; The president-elect no longer has the 7 December 2015 statement
By election day morning, the controversial statement had been removed
The page that hosted this speech now redirects to a page call for donations https://www.donaldjtrump.com/
Videos and speeches defending the ban remain on the Trump campaign website.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/muslim-ban-statement-disappears-trump-website/story?id=43433347
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23 minutes ago, Slip said:
I'm not sure I get it here. 90% of the vitriol seems to be coming from the those who support Mr Trump. I guess the rest of the world can only be happy that he seems to be more of a statesman and a more skillful leader of a nation than his campaign suggested he would be. Why don't winners and losers stop bitching (or in some cases protesting in the streets because they don't agree with his previous statements) and give the man a bloody chance to see what he does?
He did win after all.
I think you nailed it when you use the word " vitriol". I think this is what D. Trump projected all along his campaign. And it did work as honey to some of gis core supporters who now sit next to extremist groups and KKK wtill feeling conformtable.
Yous expect a candidate to project intelligence and charisma , but this is no more effective.
Let's see what kind of a dream team he will constitue to realize his Platform. Let's hope.
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5 hours ago, Emster23 said:
Did read where transition dude for EPA is a climate change denier.... David Duke to head Equal Opportunity and civil rights position? Those around Trump are what scares me. And he won't really care as long as they don't take light off of him.
yes, He already knows everything better than anyone else, so his government might be like matriochka : he is the giant, after come dwarfs.
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Trump acknowledges climate change — at his golf course
The billionaire, who called global warming a hoax, warns of its dire effects in his company's application to build a sea wall.
Trump is hoping to have a two-mile stone wall built between his County Clare course and the Atlantic Ocean. According to the Associated Press, the beach in front of the 18th green is eroding at a rate of about one yard per year.
This isn't the first time Trump has been involved in a legal matter involving the environment and one of his Europe courses. In December, Trump lost a third court decision in his longtime battle against the creation of a wind farm near his Trump International Golf Links in Balmedie Scotland.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-climate-change-golf-course-223436
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Anti-Trump Voices Grow Louder In Scotland After Development Rift
Interesting real case / electoral Platform
"He promises the earth, delivers nothing," says David Milne, who lives nearby. "As far as that goes, he's in a good position to be a politician. But as far as the real world goes, no, do not trust this man with anything."
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1 hour ago, Skywalker69 said:
BREAKING: Trump Considering Sarah Palin For Top Cabinet Position.
http://news.groopspeak.com/breaking-trump-considering-sarah-palin-for-top-cabinet-position/
-Minister of Education and Science?
"Trump sitting in the Situation Room making life or death decisions on behalf of the United States."
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6 hours ago, CWMcMurray said:
I am going to be watching really closely on what happens in DNC.. Trust this will mark an end to the Clinton era and hopefully a clear 'changing of the guard'.. Which I believe will make the democrats a stronger and better party in 4 years
Clinton has lost quite a number of votes compared to Obama. Many Democrat supporters abstained (among others Bernie Sanders supporters) or voted for D. Trump.
GOP votes ( 2016-2012 = - 1.7M)
- Romney 2012 : 60.933.504
- Trump 2016 : 59.245.678
DEM votes ( 2016-2012 = - 6.5M)
- Obama 2012: 65.915.795
- Clinton 2016: 59.440.178
(source Unites States Elections Project)
Bill Clinton as POTUS accelerated all financial deregulation begun under Reagan, for example in repealing Glass Steagall Act in 1999 and preparing the subprime crisis that burst in 2007.
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7 minutes ago, expat_4_life said:
Hillary lost when she condemned poor white voters as "deplorables" and labeled them "Irredeemable".
The smear which will live in infamy.
As for him .... Trump - won because he said loudly what many think
So, nothing new
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source : United States Elections Project
Voting age population ( 2016 - 2012 = - 3.7M)
- 2012 : 235.248.000
- 2016 : 231.556.622
Voters ( 2016 - 2012 = - 1.4 M)
- 2012 = 130.292.355
- 2016 = 128.813.000
GOP votes ( 2016-2012 = - 1.7M)
- Romney 2012 : 60.933.504
- Trump 2016 : 59.245.678
DEM votes ( 2016-2012 = - 6.5M)
- Obama 2012: 65.915.795
- Clinton 2016: 59.440.178
Clinton lost and seems to have suffered more from the reduction of the electorate and increasing abstention
Turnout 2016 : 54.2%
FL : 64%, PA 61.4%, NC 63.5% - WI 68.1%
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1 hour ago, Thakkar said:
"If you undermine the moral authority that the government or the military or the police forces have, you win. Then they become the enemy to everybody ... it may not goad you into armed insurgency, but it will goad you into a certain acceptance. And once the guerrillas reach acceptance, they have a path to win."
and also: "Anyone who read the newspapers last year knows that 2015 saw some horrific political violence. "
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2016/editorial-year-living-dangerously
"For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance"
" In a country where the wealthiest and most influential citizens are still mostly white, Mr. Trump is voicing the bewilderment and anger of whites who do not feel at all powerful or privileged."
For many Americans, President Obama’s election, made possible in part by the rising strength of nonwhite voters, signaled a transcendent moment in the country’s knotty racial history. But for some whites, the election of the country’s first black president was also a powerful symbol of their declining pre-eminence in American society.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/us/politics/donald-trump-white-identity.html?_r=1
('NYT on line free on november 8th)
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It seems to me that HRC both is an ambitious woman, and is a woman who has ambition.
I do not expect her to just be the first woman elected POTUS. This would only be a guiness book record.
She - at her age - can decide to leave her footprint in America's history for achieving something really related to her and it may take some time ( not like building a wall). Simply because if not, she might be the first and only woman POTUS or a while.
To turn the page of a new chapter in History, you must not be the first and only, you have to be the first to break the glass ceiling, and open the door to followers.
So let's see, if she wins.
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1 hour ago, Skywalker69 said:
Trump has promised he will leave the US if he looses the election, let´s hope for once he is telling the truth. I am sure Putin can set him up somewhere in Russia, I have heard they have nice golf courses in Siberia.
If he loses, he still can be elected as mayor of a city like Detroit and show what he really is able to achieve . then , 4 years later.. who knows ..?
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Silurian, you are subject to " Election stress disorder"
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2 hours ago, Berkshire said:
Last pitch? Yeah, see how Trump and his supporters treat this handicapped boy....
Trump's core supporters probably see nothing "uncomfortable" in this situation- as they did not either with D. Trump mocking a journalist with disability i a rally - something he denied anyway.
It tells a lot about the kind of soul HE has, and what he - in fact - deeply shares with his supporters parroting him : hate and anger.
" Be a killer - Be a king"
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1203-dantonio-trump-race-horse-theory-20151203-story.html
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26 minutes ago, Skywalker69 said:
New York Times: “Aides to Mr. Trump have finally wrested away the Twitter account that he used to colorfully — and often counterproductively — savage his rivals. But offline, Mr. Trump still privately muses about all of the ways he will punish his enemies after Election Day, including a threat to fund a ‘super PAC’ with vengeance as its core mission. "
So let's hope they'll apply similar safety measures with the nuclear codes for the week end.
"Trump sitting in the Situation Room making life or death decisions on behalf of the United States."
From Barack Obama to Donald Trump in eight years
in World News
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" Can a country in which a person like Trump has a chance of becoming president be really considered great?"
http://inthesetimes.com/features/zizek_clinton_trump_lesser_evil.html