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Nod and a wink to BLM and Antifa property damage, intimidation and violence.
And yes, a lot of the weaponization of agencies got started under George W, with the Patriot Act. Bush warned about where it might lead, and tried to keep up the appearance that he wasn't abusing the new powers, although I think it's going to be pretty clear that he did abuse them. But Obama came into office with Patriot Act a fact, and acted like a kid in a candy store.
But i think Robert Mueller's championing of "parallel construction," which basically says it's OK to use the CIA and NSA to spy on citizens on U.S. soil, if you can build a case against people without it APPEARING that your wiretaps were illegal. That would be bad enough, but they took it to another level, by falsifying evidence and ramming it through the FISA courts, unopposed, to give themselves justification for the spying.
The amazing thing is that in spite of all these abuses, they didn't find anything that stuck. If there were anything there, Trump would be out of office by now, and nobody would question how it was done for another 10 years, and it would be called a conspiracy theory.
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I'm all for free trade, but not when "free trade" means our trading partners protect their products, tax ours, and we do nothing. Trump is using tariffs, brilliantly, to extract much-needed concessions in foreign policy and trade negotiations. I'd much rather see that, than dropping bombs on people, and the whole "constructive engagement" where we trade with nations who oppress their people and cheat us at every opportunity is very passé. I wouldn't trade with China, at all, if I had my 'druthers. They need to change their ways.
In the situation we're currently in, we can't just turn off the spigot, but we can and must pressure trading partners such as China (and Mexico) to do the right thing, or pay the cost. The last few or several presidents - when they couldn't bully through force of arms - negotiated as though the USA has no leverage and is grateful for whatever bones our partners would throw them. Trump came into office and said "Hmmm. That's a bad deal for us. That's a bad deal for us. And THAT'S a bad deal for us. And why the hell do we keep going to war for no reason?"
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Or maybe Adam Schiff is just really, really stupid and he thought his inside source was giving him actual transcripts, and they were so perfectly damning, so perfectly confirming his low opinion of the president, that he just couldn't wait to find a microphone, because he finally had his Trump-killer. He'd have to be really stupid to rush to a microphone like that, without checking. Very stupid and incompetent. In the end, maybe that'll be what ends up saving the republic. People who can lie and cheat without remorse THINK they're smarter than everybody else, when really there's something MISSING in their brain, or they'd have a conscience. And it leaks out, because they have no awareness. "What does it matter?" "We came, we saw, he died. Ahahahahaha!"
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I think it was Liz Claman's last-second "But he lifted them in North Korea," as the rebuttal to a claim she didn't like. Facts are about halfway in between. Trump OFFERED to lift sanctions, if NoKo did certain things.
But really, it's a specious point the "expert" is making. Trump's wielding sanctions like a sword, to be sure, but he IMMEDIATELY got some assurances that things would change, sooner rather than later, and he immediately extracted some trade concessions that did some of our farmers some help opening-up markets the Europeans had closed through impossible tariffs and outright bans on certain products.
No, Trump hasn't lowered any of the tariffs he's raised. Now is the difficult time, where you have to be patient and SIT on them long enough for them to realize that a U.S. President actually means what he says, and is perfectly willing to take the heat long enough to get the concessions he REQUIRES from them. They're not used to that. They're used to hearing "Red Line," followed by dithering. Trump makes threats that are realistic and nonviolent, and he's perfectly willing to wait them out.
I'm really hoping to see Britain and/or the E.U. crack, before the midterms, so Trump will have something substantial to show for his strategy, and can then lower the tariffs to reasonable, FAIR levels for both sides of the Atlantic. Merkel's posturing, but she's really quite impotent. E.U. will either change their ways, from NATO obligations to trade practices, or they'll be feeling real pain. They've been enjoying trade surpluses with the U.S. for a long time, largely due to protectionist practices of their own, to which the U.S. has never responded in any substantive way.
If she lays ANOTHER big hit on the E.U. economy just to make US hurt, she's going to lose her controlling coalition sooner, rather than later. She's already walking the razor's edge, with a powerful nationalist populist movement that's winning in the polls. And that movement has already swept many E.U. nations, with BREXIT in Britain, and some frankly regressive laws being passed in Denmark, Austria and Hungary aimed DIRECTLY at the Muslim immigrants that E.U. technocrats have Opened their Borders to.
Merkel also got caught out by Trump, for making a HUGE deal with the Russians for their oil, making them richer, while allowing the U.S. to defend Germany from..... the Russians! She's 100% committed to the deal with the Russians, so she's damned if she doesn't and a totally dishonest hypocrite if she does. She's counting on that oil.
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Frank Nash : Hannity's full-on Trumpster. The rest are all over the map. What I don't like is when they go all Victorian, and say that Trump should stop Tweeting. But regular folks LOVE the short and sweet plain speech. The fake shock/distaste for his pithy remarks. Real folks LOVE THAT. Heck, real people, talking to their friends, let loose with far WORSE than Trump. I love that Trump is so openly and persistently critical of CNN in his statements, without actually using the powers of the Presidency AGAINST the press (not beyond his bully pulpit), weaponizing his offices against reporters, like Obama did.
Obama was truly scary when it came to stuff like that. He didn't care if he had the right or the mandate. He just cared that he had the power, and I'm SO glad Hillary didn't follow in his footsteps, because all the pieces were in place, with cronies and fellow travelers all up and down the government.
I think we're going to come to find out that Hillary already had the people she wanted, up and down the bureaucracy, and the power to appoint all THEIR bosses is simply terrifying. Her brand of corruption plus her blatant incompetence and disregard for the law and for other human beings (especially if you cross her!) are horrific. I
As far as its being beneath his dignity as President, in the current climate, if he DOESN'T get down in the dirt and roll around a little (or a lot), he'll be drowned out by the insane attacks. That's a fact of politics. The only thing worse than "swinging down" at a detractor is to "take the high road" and ignore the detractor. That's a KNOWN recipe for electoral failure. When they're slingin' mud 24/7, you're gonna get dirty, regardless. Might as well land in a few good shots. The only thing certain is that you will lose if you don't fight back, just as hard or harder.
Trump really flipped the question, and I love that. Rather than spend all his time with lengthy refutations, he'll plant a counter-meme with a Tweet that took him (and his crew) 5 minutes to compose, or a one-liner in a speech that has everybody appalled, and controls what people are talking about. He forces his opponents to make it all about him, and the minute they do that, they make it about themselves, and it's hilarious how they're trapped, and keep making the same awful mistake in order to somehow "win."
Can't win for losin'.
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@michaelmoorhead762 : Military tribunals will confirm all the worst fears people have about Trump. He must be careful how he goes about this, or be branded a dictator on a mad purge. It helps Trump to have them all stacked against him, even to the point of his being edgy just to provoke them, because it'll make normal Americans root for him. And something these semi-educated journalists look down their nose at is just how regular folks speak to one another.
"Them're good groceries!" is how you REALLY compliment the chef! Horrifying. Trump communicates more on a blue-collar level. Common sense. Simple language. Sound-bite-length declaratory sentences. Trump, as president, probably brought a lot of intel resources to bear, as soon as he was sworn in. Got the straight of a lot of things, and has been preparing the ground, politically, in the general public and within his own administration.
I think they did a Tyrion Lannister thing to leakers, where documents would be subtly altered, pin-pointing leaks by the fine details of the story that were wrong that the reporter just accepted at face value. Dated the 11th? Yeah. That was the fake we floated past so-and-so. Got 'er! I think Trump just sat on leakers and built up the pressure on them. A war of appointments as much as anything, with time on his side.
It's like they've gone radio-silent, especially since Barr took over. But I saw a thing, yesterday, that spoke about how Sessions was quietly plugging leaks. A lot of counter-intel going on, in a clandestine war against never-Trumpers, who it appears will stop at nothing to poke the president in the eye.
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Antonio Perales del Hierro Nice sarcasm. Recognizing the superior policy positions Trump had on immigration, diplomacy, trade, economics, free speech, and the right to keep and bear arms doesn't mean I'm giving him a tongue bath. Not only superior policy positions, but superior deeds. Kim Jong Un barked at Trump. Trump barked back, to the shock and dismay of neocons and neolibs everywhere, and next thing you know, he's meeting f2f with N. Korea's president, and they each cross from North to South and South to North. There was talk of reconciliation and even some steps toward reunification between and of the Koreas.
If not for sniping from neocons and neolibs, we could be on much friendlier terms with Russia, right now. Putin is doing a lot of things right. He still has the same territorial headaches and ambitions that Russian leaders have had since Peter the Great modernized the nation by force of personality and utter ruthlessness. That's always at the core of Russia's will to survive.
I'm still suspicious as hell of them when it comes to Ukraine, Crimea, and all things Mediterranean-related. Part of that is natural distrust of their territorial/imperial ambitions. But right now, all things considered, Russia's doing more right by their people than our leaders are. They honor the religious institutions and speak of a better future. They have a rock-solid currency, backed by commodities. They don't run deficits. That makes them more honest than our government, which has CONDITIONED us not to save, by fiat currency that erodes the value of the dollar every single day. It's outright theft which our government calls "keeping campaign promises."
Still, I don't have much doubt but that Putin's doing his bit to chip away at Ukraine's territory and sovereignty. The USA did an extremely poor job handling the fall of the Soviet Empire. Profiteers - may's well call 'em carpet-baggers - feasted on the bones of the former Soviet Union, turning members of the former Soviet Apparat into oligarchs of a new, chaotic order.
I distrust the unchecked powers of the Russian president. It's one thing in Hungary or Austria or some other European nation of more or less homogeneous composition. It's another thing in a nation the size of Russia. But near as I can tell, without claiming to be a scholar, is that Putin's the closest thing to a statesman amongst the superpowers. Helsinki was Trump, Putin, and a bunch of pretenders.
At the time of the Helsinki Summit, Trump was embroiled in RussiaGate, which has since proven to be totally fabricated. When asked whose intel he trusted more, he said "Putin's." it's plain as the nose on your face. We KNOW that most of the conspiracy theories that got ANY play were conspiracy theories from his opponents. But you of course believe the opposite, because you lack true discernment.
Anyway, free writing is fun.
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That's because you're getting it from teachers who have about ONE crash course in it, PLUS you're used to being spoon-fed and entertained by a live lecture. Live lecture is a one-size-fits-all delivery system that delivers the exact same lesson to the EVERY student at the exact same time. No student is exactly like the one next to them.
Learning is the most individualized experience there is. Public schools condition you not to interact with the knowledge, directly, but through the intercession of a teacher. Most students wait for a lecture on the material before reading their books. Home-schooled and charter-school kids, often more advanced than their own high school teachers, know how to crack their books and learn.
In the future, because of the broken schools, more and more kids are going to get stuff on their own, and just need an expert to facilitate and answer questions, instead of "Everybody got their bibs on? Here comes the next spoonful of knowledge."
There are really GOOD learning products out there, for CHEAP, if you WANT it. Do you WANT IT?
If you local school is going online, chances are good, there's another online product that is FAR SUPERIOR to what your teachers are giving you at the local school. Once we go full online, there's no reason to use the local school over any school in the world!
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Yes, we pay a price for tariffs, no doubt. But if you only think about consumers, you lose sight of the fact that our industries can be targeted, one by one, by one after another foreign country that wants to corner the market on one thing, and we end up buying cheap EVERYthing, only nobody has a job to buy it with. There are also strategic considerations, when it comes to key industries such as steel, aluminum, industrial chemicals, etc. (You can tell almost exactly what a country's fundamental strength is by tracking nothing more than sulfuric acid production. Tells it all.)
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Robert Mueller has long been known as a supporter of "parallel construction." Use the special powers of NSA and CIA to dig up dirt, and then try to find a believable chain of legally-obtained evidence to make the charges stick. And he's always been a VERY aggressive prosecutor, using the weight of his office to crush people. 4 a.m. perp walks are his trademark. In my opinion, he exemplifies the damage a good man can do with the powers given him by the Patriot Act.
9/11 served its purpose. While we were all freaking out, the U.S. Gov't rammed through laws that basically made us a police state. And Mueller's the exemplar of a hard-charging prosecutor can do (get away with), nowadays. FISA was DESIGNED to be abused, and the FBI wasted no time. I bet it gave a lot of police a thrill putting away drug dealers they couldn't've touched without NSA intercepts. Guilty? Some of 'em. But many were no doubt railroaded by blackmail. "We KNOW your kid brother did such-and-such (NSA taps), and if you don't roll over for us, we're gonna go after him.
It doesn't have to be something on YOU or something they can actually prove in court against a loved one. But YOU don't know that. You may even cop a plea to get a 6-month sentence, just to keep your uncle from spending 20 years in jail for tax evasion. There are many ways to leverage illegally/improperly obtained information to bring somebody to heel, to commit perjury (Dershowitz calls it "composing") because it's what the prosecutor wants to hear. "Say this or your wife spends the next 5 years in federal prison."
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Yeah, I'm no expert, but countries DO devalue their currency all the time, in order to dump their products on us. We want a strong dollar and a strong Turkish Lira and Russian Ruble. And we don't want our people to lose THEIR jobs, because some other country, through fiscal and monetary mismanagement (or manipulation), inflate their currencies.
Beyond that, why should we reward a country for stealing its people's savings by such mismanagement? Screw those leaders. Get your financial house in order, start treating your people right, and we'll be your best friend and most honest trading partner.
I actually LOVE the fact that Trump is aggressive with economic sanctions and refrains from force of arms. You don't have to be rooting for Assad or Putin to know that it's a bad idea to support ISIS rebels in Syria, _like_our_last_president_did_. I'm SO happy Hillary didn't get elected. Her epitaph will be "We came. We saw. He died." shudder
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He had no business being top dog at FBI. I just wonder who'll crack, first, and how the media will run damage control in coming months. I think what's likely to happen is the MSM will have to jump on the band-wagon, when other outlets are getting great ratings covering the Spygate Scandal. It's been a long time coming, but I don't think Trump had all his ducks in a row, when he first took office. Didn't know friend from foe in the careerist ranks. He still doesn't in some cases, but the uncertainty amongst the good-old-boy club grows larger, every day.
Every new appointment within the admin. Every new COURT appointment.... Trump's position gets stronger. I don't think he could've gotten a solid investigation launched with an absentee Attorney General, the courts stacked against him, and his own DOJ stacked against him. Getting rid of Brennan doesn't get rid of all his buddies he promoted. The bias and subterfuge had a lot of momentum. The animus for Trump was deep-seated and widespread in his own administration, when he first arrived. And anybody who'd been up to no good, or witnessed abuses without saying anything, had good reason to impede and sabotage any real investigation into the goings-on in the Obama Admin, especially right near the end, when they all realized there was gonna be a new sheriff in town, and it wasn't gonna be his pet deputy.
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@sl66ggehrubt Yes. One of the biggest complaints of blue states is how the other states ruin their gun-control plans and poverty programs. "All the poor people move here! The OTHER states need programs like OURS!" It's THEIR fault we're failing.
And they've never talked about but totally relied on State and Local Tax deduction on the federal form, so that the rich who pay all the high taxes in blue cities and states can no longer get it all back on their federal taxes. Eliminating that one deduction made the blue states and blue cities sink like rocks, BEFORE COVID-19. I think they're trying their hardest to use COVID-19 as an excuse to get a federal bailout, and the rest of the country's saying "Things are tough all over, New York! Now YOU get in line like the rest of us. The blue cities have been receiving free government services for decades, gaming the rest of us with the SALT deduction.
Yeah, all those rich liberals living in the cities with their virtue signaling have been writing that s*** off the whole time and getting every nickel of it back. And they get the best of all the city services, from extra cops for their events, to free infrastructure for their building projects. "We proudly pay our fair share. Go ahead and raise taxes on us. We're fine with that. wink-wink "
The countryside's been footing the bill for lavish, wasteful, and ineffective city programs for a long time. Sadly, even stealing the funds like that, they were still running those cities into the ground.
Personally, I feel that most families, and especially the families that give a darn, would do a lot better with an education funding formula that went to the students, rather than to the institutions. You can have a full-service private school do a better job than PS 109 for that same amount of money. There's a ridiculous amount of overhead in municipal public schools. There's a lot of money, but a lot of overhead. The rural schools can be taken down by one too many special-needs students, and they don't have near the tax base of the city schools, which also get pretty good subsidies.
It's not that we don't spend too much money. We've just let education become a monopoly, with all the pathologies associated with monopolies. They should make schools fight for customer dollars, imho.
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It's more nuanced than that. Antifa extorts businesses to put up Antifa symbols and support Antifa causes, or their businesses get targeted for Antifa vandalism and violence. They can not find themselves on the wrong side of ANY left-right divide, without risking property or physical harm.
I think it's the definition of terrorism, but I think it also fits the definition of old-fashioned extortion racket. Probably have more luck going after Antifa with RICO. Go after one or two rich people or big celebrities that support them under those statutes, possibly. It is a form of racketeering. Just for political gain instead of direct monetary gain.
These are not good people. They use hyena tactics, singling out victims and sending a mob after them. If you watched them go after a picnic in the park, because they didn't like their Christian message, it was brutal. 10 people would gang up on 2 people, as soon as they caught them away from the event on the way to their vehicles. They'd get that 10 on 2 and just follow you, saying mean things and acting threatening, to see if you showed fear, and to bore in on you if you did, and no cops were around. Then the Portland mayor, Ted Wheeler took the side of Antifa, and the cops were ordered to stand down, when they started acting like fools, rioting and looting in the chaos of the rioting.
This is America. Everybody who wants to get up to mischief pretty much can. They're pretty much depopulating the inner city. You're gonna have to move out if you want access to a nice clean grocery store. I think people are seeing what's happening and are going to want to buy local, support their neighbor instead of the big box. Use eBay to shop what's out there.
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@DieselRamcharger : That's not entirely true, although it's more true in K-12 education, where people who can't finish a program will go for their teaching certificate, instead. They go to the high schools and are considered "gurus" if they got a 'C' in an upper-division math/chem/physics course. That 'C' told them they weren't going to cut it in their chosen discipline, but means they're overqualified to teach our children.
I graduated with geology and math degrees and in both disciplines, the ones who couldn't finish took their 'extra' science and math credits and went to get their teacher certification. Then in grad school, majoring in math, the people who couldn't pass the PhD examinations (Prelims) tended to go into EDUCATION, to get a PhD in EDUCATION, 'majoring in math.' With the EDUCATION degree, they were trained to become administrators, so the real math PhD's have bosses who have PhD's in education and/or administration. The least capable of them become the bosses of all of them.
Isn't that the way of things? Can't hold down a job? Become a politician, Bernie!
But don't knock the academic life. You get lots of time off. You get to be creative trying to find better ways of getting through to students. It's a never-ending and always-engaging vocation, if you like to see the lights go on in somebody's head. I'm underpaid for my skill set, until you figure in the time off for Christmas and summer! Then it's about right. I never cared too much about money. Just wanted a job that I'd want to get up for, every morning. And teaching is that kind of job. Until the last few years, when Obama made the whole school system into an SJW nightmare.
In recent years, the bureaucracy has set up one stumbling block after another in the way of actual student learning. It's not nearly as rewarding as it used to be. Instead of upholding standards, the bureaucrats' way of measuring success is students passing their classes, and the easiest way to achieve THAT is to lower the standards and treat students like they're babies. "Let anyone in your class. We'll remediate their lack of skills 'on the fly.'" The OLD way of not passing a student until they UNDERSTAND and can PROVE IT is falling by the wayside. And good teachers are getting out.
Schools, nowadays, are in the business of promoting incompetence. And it's disgusting. And you do no one any favors telling them they can do something they can't. "You're really good at flapping your arms, Johnnie. Now jump off this cliff and show us how good you fly!"
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Democrats triggered the financial meltdown in the name of poor people owning homes. They made it so that anybody with a pulse could borrow a mountain of money for new homes or against the homes they already owned. Before the Democrats stepped in and used force to relax lending standards, those hedge funds were ALWAYS sound investments. But after lending a ton of money to anybody with a pulse, those hedge funds (take 1,000 mortgages and bundle them into one instrument) weren't worth the paper they were printed on. Investment bankers and others thought they were still good investments, like they had been for DECADES.
The irony is that Democrats, to this day, blame Republicans for the collapse, when it was 2-faced, lying idiots like Barney Frank who PUSHED to relax standards on real estate loans. They're like Bart Simpson, breaking a lamp and then blaming somebody else for it. "It was like that when I got here," he'd say.
This is how Democrats roll. They hurt EVERYbody in the name of helping some small group, and then blame everybody else for their ignorant and un-thought-out policies.
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All these "new problems" are being created by the people who promised to solve the "old problems," if we'd just give them more money, personnel and power. This created the "new problems," which they'll need more money, personnel and power to solve. They never solved the "old problems," so they need to keep that power from before, plus these new powers. Any BUSINESS that was run in this way would quickly fail. Government just votes itself more money.
It's like giving the school football team to the school basketball coach with an 0-34 record. Handling BOTH teams, he'll need a lot more assistants, and maybe take on some of the duties of the Athletic Director, just so "things will run more smoothly." In government, failure gets you a bigger budget. It doesn't get you fired. In fact, you will be praised for all the good work you're doing and everyone will agree you just need more money.
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If Trump jacks up the tariffs on Chinese goods to 25%, the river of jobs leaving china will become a flood. And they held the summit in Vietnam, which is EXACTLY the part of the world that will profit, handsomely, if those tariffs kick in, because SE Asia is where those jobs are going, already. And China's economy is already stumbling, because of Trump's threat to carry out the 25% tariffs. And more.
The Chinese have been behaving like thugs in the world economy, and it's catching up to them. Their current policies have all the hallmarks of Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity
Sphere, which seemed like a good thing, when Japan seemed to offering an alternative to European colonialism. But as soon as they got in the door, they proved that their brand of imperialism was far more brutal and exploitative than even the European colonialists prior to that.
For Chinese to compete in the world economy, they need an educated and productive middle class, but you can't maintain that middle class under totalitarian rule. As soon as people start getting educated and build their skill sets, they start questioning authority. China's always happy to crush dissent, but it comes at great cost in economic freedom and growth. They can't compete with us without becoming more like us. There's the same glass ceiling above Chinese ambitions that there was over Soviet ambitions.
I think they underestimated their vulnerability, with things all going their way, offering sweetheart deals to get in the door with many countries in various difficulties, but once in, they show what they're really after and how they operate, and one after another, countries are saying they don't want the Chinese. It turns out that their proposed infrastructure improvements in one country after another are tied to using Chinese companies to build the infrastructure, with control over all aspects.
My big worry was how the Chinese were buying up so much American debt. They thought by doing so that they'd have the U.S.A. at their mercy, and that all presidents would fold like Obama-Biden or Clinton or Bush, in order to finance the welfare-state Ponzi scheme (and the bloated war machine) that establishment politicians can't seem to resist. If the big spenders can't beg to borrow Chinese money, then the deficits on which they rely (at the expense of our children and grandchildren) will eventually sink the USA's economic boat.
Trump changed all that. But if USA doesn't get its fiscal house in order, de-facto Chinese economic hegemony will be close to absolute. Trump's attacking the prosperity side of the equation. We'll see what he can do in the next 6 years to put the budget on a trajectory to fiscal solvency, but economic growth and American jobs are the underpinning of that. Obama was CERTAIN that American factory jobs were dinosaurs, and that there was no bringing them back from extinction. All Trump had to do to bring investment back to the USA was threaten to trade with other countries the way they trade with the USA.
There was INSTANT reaction to those threats. There were sudden announcements of new factories in the USA and jobs fleeing China for parts South, where labor is cheap and tariffs are low.
I don't see the USA farming out its welfare programs to the 50 states any time soon, but in the meantime, it doesn't take huge changes in how Food Stamps and other programs are administered to get things under control. When Alabama passed laws requiring able-bodied welfare and food-stamp recipients to WORK for their benefits, the welfare rolls dropped by 85%. 85%! To see for yourself, just Google "How many food stamp recipients left the rolls in alabama?" You don't have to eliminate the social safety net in order to rein in the ridiculous excesses and high costs.
Other states have (and will) follow suit. But it takes a Republican governor and state legislature to pass those kinds of resolutions. As big-spending-and-taxing-and-regulating states go broke, the tide will turn.
Then, if Trump can keep his promise to reduce the American military footprint, abroad, then the bloated Defense Department can actually work on National Defense, starting with securing our nation's borders! With HUGE SAVINGS for American taxpayers. Reining-in the welfare state AND the military-industrial complex are the two keys to fiscal solvency, and - by an annoyingly and necessarily zig-zag path, Trump is getting us there. He may be the best president we've ever had, in spite of his flaws.
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Reality is not a zero-sum game. New jobs that haven't even been invented, yet, will follow. They always have and they always will. People were horrified that the hand-crafted wheelbarrow market was collapsing, and people were buying wheelbarrows made by mass-production factories. But with the money saved making wheelbarrows more efficiently, there was more wealth for other things. There was no such thing as a job as a "web designer" or "computer programmer" 50 years ago. Think of all the OTHER jobs that exist, now, that didn't, before. Look at how many more people are in media than ever before. Making a living off YouTube, for example.
That being said, arguing for an artificially high minimum wage only HASTENS automation. I say let nature and the free market decide. Don't force the automation forward by pricing humans out of entry-level jobs by requiring they be paid more than the real value of the service or the sustainable wage for such jobs. Minimum-wage jobs are NOT what a responsible adult expects to work at their entire lives and raise a family on. For CENTURIES, if you wanted to support a family, you needed a skill of some sort, and entry-level wages were the least of your concern. The idea of being able to live well off the minimum wage is ridiculous.
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Surplus Sean : Yes. Some people actually want to see our country stolen right out from under us. Ain't gonna fly, especially with the black libertarians becoming a force in politics. If the blacks threw in with the Republicans for an election cycle or two, things would get much better, very quickly. Things at home would get better, and our only worry, then, would be to cut the Deep State off at the knees and start behaving like a civilized country in our foreign policy.
Sick of our Intel Community suckering us into killing other human beings. It's horrific. Detestable. We don't need to back rebels in foreign countries for ANY purpose. Their internal affairs are none of our business. And if other countries meddle, then cut their asses off. Boycott the bastards. Embargo the bastards. Behave yourself and we'll be your best friend. That's the reputation we should strive to achieve, and put our actions where our principles lie: Non Force Principle. Yeah, we'll fight if we have to, but we're not going to impose on others by force.
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Nah. We just have to pick the right battles and use righteous means. That always wins in the long run. To see what I mean, look at Antifa in Portland. When conservatives brought out their alpha dogs to fight against Antifa, they got smeared. That's not the way. They turn you into themselves, and drag you down to their level. Antifa winning EVERY street battle spells the demise of Antifa. There are MILLIONS watching tens of thousands of bullying ignants. We CAN sweep them off the streets, and if we do, we lose.
It hurts us in the streets, short term, but the injustice, cruelty, and plain malevolence of Antifa is out in the open now. They're making their big play. And they're discrediting themselves as we speak.
Yes, Democrat mayors and governors let this go too far, and have misgoverned TERRIBLY. Yes, the worst kinds of people have taken advantage. But the whole world is watching.
Be strong, restrained and above all, be PATIENT. Control what you can in your own little circle, and use force on no one unless they try to use force on YOU. Then smite them hip and thigh, as the saying goes. But don't look for trouble. Don't lash out because idiots are making a spectacle of themselves by lashing out.
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@remisofola270 : That's gettin' old. The U.S. isn't going to war with Iran beyond the economic sanctions. The only issue, to me, is how far their leadership will go to stay in power. Starting a war with the U.S. is a possibility, there. That could energize their people against a common external foe, and make them forget the incompetent government running Iran is the reason why you can't afford (if you can find) eggs at the market. There actually IS a democratic process in Iran. It works slower than in the U.S., generally, and the main danger is that those in leadership will try to stir up a war with somebody, to whip the people back into patriotically supporting them.
The Trump strategy is all laid out for him, already. Park an extra carrier in the vicinity and do nothing with it, The Chinese are in the strange position of wanting U.S. forces ensuring the flow of oil! LOL! The Chinese are in an odd pickle. They've hit the point of diminishing returns for acting like thieves and criminals with their trade dealings and their totalitarian way of operating at home and abroad. You can't generate good enough ideas to compete on the world stage if you keep crushing your critical thinkers. They are constantly dealing with local uprisings at home, because people chafe at the absurdities of command economy.
It's not the being bossed around that kills them (and the Iranians). It's the fact that a family can't afford to buy eggs at the grocery, assuming there are eggs at the grocery. What guarantees reasonably-priced eggs at the grocery is a free market.
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You're not supposed to notice two things:
The 'hockey stick' starts on the coldest year of the 20th Century.
The rapid rise in temps getting us back on the centuries-old schedule, has leveled off.
There's little or no indication that climate isn't doing what climate's been doing for millions of years, and especially since the end of the last Ice Age.
In 1979, the same people were screaming at us to give all our money and authority to the federal government to combat the looming ice age. Now, since that disaster was somehow diverted by our doing nothing about it, we must give all our money and authority to the federal government to combat global warming.
It doesn't matter what "crisis" we perceive ourselves to be in. The same people always want us to do the same thing: Give all our money and authority to THEM, so they can solve all our problems for us. Well, "they" are the biggest threat to the environment, humanity, and life on Earth. Usually it's done an inch at a time. "Give us this ONE tiny bit of extra authority, to help fix this problem quicker." There've been thousands of "just one thing"s over the last 80 years, and it's all led us to the Surveillance State and the weaponization of the financial system against wrong-think.
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It's only smart to hedge against what the bankers might do to us. Diversify.
This includes staying in debt, which is counter-intuitive, but with the government/banks prepared at any moment to inflate the currency, you can end the day with more STUFF that you can pay off with worthless dollars, later. But have some debt, with some nice toys on installment plans. Some gold. Some ETFs. Some stocks. Some bonds. If you can swing it, lock in a 30-year mortgage at the low fixed rates that are available, now, and have been for years. That mortgage payment looks smaller and smaller, in real terms, every year. It's about the only good deal out there for people, and if there's one thing I'd tell a young person is that they should just start NOW and put half of anything they make towards a down payment on a house.
I didn't, and I deeply regret it. I always worked, but as a college student (for far too long), I was paranoid about losing my house if I had to move, because my parents had that happen to them. But my parents were just stupid or inattentive or something. The fact is, I could've gotten into my own place by the mid-80s, if I'd used that "save half" strategy. I didn't know, at the time, how many good property-management companies there are and how easy it is to hire one to give you a small profit on the house you left behind. Once you're into the place, with the right mgmt company and all the proper insurance, it generates a small cash flow all by itself. And you wait for a ridiculously good offer on it.
Anyway, I would've been risking little to save up and buy that little house up on the hill, even though I did settle on the far side of the Continental Divide, chasing jobs for my skill set. By now, that little property would be a place to land when I moved back across the Divide.
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There are a LOT of desk jobs in the city that can be done perfectly well from home, for a fraction of the cost and far less air pollution and energy use. I think that's what companies should want. They're just still figuring out how to get people who get their work done without somebody standing over them all day. Done properly, with proper training and the right people, working from home makes a ton of sense for a lot of desk jobs.
Physical jobs that require a real pair of human hands also exist in urban areas. But our commute culture is for the birds for a big chunk of office workers. We just need to train people differently/better, and maybe living in a box and going to an actual huge office should only be for beginners who need to get certified in-house before they can work from home. COVID turned a lot of people off from remote work because the of way they went about it. They got plunged into the deep end of the pool before graduating from water wing assist.
I feel this is also true for remote learning. The schools tried to move everything online in the '2 weeks to stop the spread.' Teachers didn't like it, weren't properly trained for it, but more importantly, children and families weren't properly prepared or trained for it. In the long run, it's going to be more effective and cheaper for most k-12 to be delivered directly to the home. But until parents get weaned off the free baby-sitting, the lack of one brick building to dump all the kids in for 6 hours a day put tremendous pressure on all the super-Moms, trying to raise kids without any help from a man. But even traditional marriages were stressed because most moms work outside the house, so there's a real reliance by ALL on taxpayer-funded free baby-sitting. No regard was given to the massive impact this had on parents when they locked us down, and now it's being used to convince people to stay with the traditional, free-to-parents setup that is the cause of the deterioration of education.
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But the lady's gotta point, too.
He is kind of echo-chamber-grown, making some pretty incendiary statements. It's gone around various circles of political thought, for instance people talking openly about wishing the president dead, after their side got worked up into a frenzy of dislike and disgust towards Trump. One person goes off, and the next one feeds off that, and nobody but the right were calling people out for how over-the-top it was, because of the depth of the wrongness they felt towards Trump.
What people don't get about Trump is the one thing he's good at is hiring and firing, but especially firing. Things don't turn out well, he's at least smart enough to see that, and move on. Getting good people is hard, even if you're aggressive and smart about keeping the good ones.
It's never about the man, himself, so much as the people he can put around himself. Great generals? It's all about their staff. And maybe the one thing that was good about the general was picking and training staff, even though he was pretty dense about the finer points of strategy and tactics.
I wanna say "Tyrant of Jupiter." ... That was the protagonists' one gift. He could take one look at a person, and KNOW them... Get a 100%-true "read" on the applicant for the job. A total empath.
Anyway, Trump's not the master of anything, except salesmanship. He's a TOTAL salesman. He'll say this, he'll say that, until things are framed in a form he likes, and he'll make a deal. He'll talk all sharp against DACA, and then turn tail, leaving the Democrats in the position of turning tail, themselves, because he's sneaking in long-term solutions, by pushing merit-based immigration.
Really, just a return to a sustainable level, rather than slamming entire neighborhoods and regions with more than they're built to handle. We can do more good contributing to CARE and the Red Cross, ourselves, for the refugees, and put food and shelter where THEY are. We can help many more, that way.
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Adam Schiff is a closet Libertarian, using reverse psychology on everybody, in adherence to the Soros Plan. Wherever Soros goes, traditional, nationalist populism springs up. He vaccinates one country after another. Hungary's on the verge of going full-on Christian theocracy! But maybe he's playing the REALLY long game, knowing that after 20 years of theocratic rule, the people will finally be ready for the Communist take-over!
But assuming my first speculation be correct, he will go down in history as the most hated hero of our time. By pushing the globalist agenda way too hard, he triggered a return to our original understanding of the GOOD in what got us here, most of which is opposed to principles Soros promotes. Mindful of our failings and with our eye on the Good, we serve Soros's evil, underhanded designs, with a return to Reason, informed by Love.
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@danjohnston9037 That's the argument for a "liberal arts education," but the amount of broadening you actually get from a standard 4-year degree program is minimal, especially nowadays, where coursework in activism elbows aside traditional history, literature, and fine arts. I think a one-stop shop for everything from earth science to theater is a pretty cool thing, but when it's become corrupted and is no longer producing reliable knowledge - its primary function - then maybe these institutions need to die back, some, or be replaced entirely.
Also, I guess you're assuming, going in, that a college-prep student is not going to take local, state, American or world history. That USED to be a regular part of the curriculum of every k-12 program. They'd start you out in grade school talking about the history of the town, state and region. Then your last few years, you'd take American History and top it off at the end with World History. Graduating from high school meant you had a passing understanding, already, and were ready to vote.
That is no longer the case.
Speaking as a math teacher at a community college, I'd say close to HALF of my students are under 18, taking college credits in everything up to Calculus III before graduating high school. You'd be surprised at how many kids are out there wiping out their freshman and sophomore Math and English course work before they're 18. But I can tell you they're out there.
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I disagree with Maria. The problem isn't just that there were corrupt individuals in FBI. The problem is the very structure of the FISA court. Our system is based on organized distrust of power, with protections built in so that the defendant gets "discovery" and a chance to defend themselves. If exculpatory materials are left out, then the attorneys involved are in a lot of trouble, UNLESS it's a FISA application. Where there are no protections, there WILL be abuse.
Comey, Strzok, and the rest are definitely corrupt, but in the USA, they should not have been able to do as much damage as they did. FISA is not only ripe for abuse, it violates the U.S. Constitution, and the traditions of Common Law. This time it was Comey. Before that it was Hoover. We're just waiting for the next one, and there WILL be a next one until and unless FISA is shut down or RADICALLY reformed.
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Twitter and FB take more heat from butt-hurt lefties. Triggered snowflakes COMPLAIN about materials they find offensive, and they find anything not of the pure left to be offensive. Conservatives see leftie nonsense, and we just shrug, because it's always been that way, and no reason to be offended, just because you disagree.
Twitter and FB are just reflecting the culture. Conservative speech is hate speech, by definition, and so you have thousands of bitter liberals flagging and complaining about everything conservative. It hurts conservatives, more, because they're USED to being in the minority and hearing PLENTY of opposing views. One of the shocking things to liberals about Hillary's defeat is that they simply couldn't imagine anybody who felt differently than they felt. Everywhere they went, they got the same echo chamber, with the party line at work matching the party line of the evening news and entertainment.
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By far the bigger scandal is the FBI and entire intel community pretending RussiaGate had any foundation, and lying to the FISA court to obtain warrants and withholding exculpatory evidence that would have ended the investigation almost before it began. Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Strzok, and many others should be behind bars. They knew from the beginning that there was no "there" there, but they pushed it and pushed it. Liars and traitors to the country, as far as I'm concerned. but all of them hiding behind "national security" and the Patriot Act, which should be repealed.
We are a nation run by COSSACKS. The terrorists WON. 9/11 was all it took to make the USA a police state, and it took one administration (Obama's) to bring out the BEAST. But make no mistake. George Bush set the pins up for Obama to knock down. Obama merely took full advantage to weaponize federal agencies against his political foes. Tea Party? Sic the IRS on them! Reporters who criticized his admin? Sic the IRS, FBI and even the CIA on them!
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Pure online isn't ideal. It's really hard to get 100% honest assessments. Your big sister can help you on the tests and you receive an unearned 'A.' That's why I insist on in-person, paper-and-pencil tests in all my offerings, face-to-face or online courses alike.
MOST learning takes place OUTSIDE the classroom. I think the ideal is a hybrid experience, where teachers (in person and/or remote) are there to give general guidance and answer questions on-demand. A mix of online content and human assistance would be a better product and cost less. But it would require teachers who can facilitate, and answer ANY question, rather than what I see, which are teachers who spend an hour or two learning the lesson one step ahead of students and give a carefully-prepared lecture, but can't really answer advanced questions off the cuff, especially in math. I've had colleagues ask me basic math questions for the courses they teach, and I always answer them, but in my heart, I'm asking myself "How did this person get this job?"
Yes, students need to learn how to learn better. Some small amount of training is needed. But we're talking about kids who play very complex role-playing games for HOURS. They can figure out how to learn how to use some VERY GOOD online learning products very quickly. And MOST students will be able to do their lessons in much less time than they spend in INSTITUTIONS (You WANT your kid institutionalized? That's the current system.). They can get their social after their lessons, and have a lot more free time to do so!
I HOPE what comes of this failed 100%-online approach by amateurs is that millions of parents will see that there are some great online learning products out there that are better and cheaper than what the local schools are offering, and for THEIR kids, better than the traditional courses to which we're all habituated. They didn't KNOW there were cheap, high-quality alternatives until COVID forced them to it! 100% individualized. 100% self-paced. Maybe your kid's a dreamer. Maybe your kid's a little awkward. Maybe your kid's a little unruly. Maybe the school tells you your kid has ADHD and want to NUMB them with adderol or ritalin.
Chances are good that the dreamer/awkward kid is getting bullied at the local kid's jail. Maybe your unruly/ADHD kid is just too smart to sit still for the BORING classes at school. Boys, especially, might not be ready to sit still all day until their 8, 9 or 10, if EVER. Such kids tend not to have a short attention span so much as they have no patience for stupid. They're interested in what they're interested in and can spend hours on one thing, if it's got their interest. Give those kids lessons that they have to finish before they can go out and play, or work on for a set amount of time. I think you'll find that YOUR kids will progress in their learning much faster and with higher degree of mastery than learning by traditional methods.
You just have to break out of the box.
I think traditional institutions are going to have to down-size.
The only thing you can't get for yourself is hands-on work with high-dollar equipment that an institution can provide. Engineers probably need brick-and-mortar facilities. English, history and the humanities, not so much.
Online testing is an issue. There, even if the test is administered and assessed by a machine, you should have a lock-down computer that denies access to anything but the test, while you're taking the test, with a key that the student needs to provide, and a human to make sure they're not accessing the information on another device. So I'd argue for less money for the classroom lecture and more money for professional proctors and more robust testing centers that the students visit just to take their tests.
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Just in time for Democrats to field a New Savior. "That was Biden. That wasn't us," says the DNC, which has pulled the demented liar's strings from the start.
The New Savior will have no negatives, will be blamed for nothing. That, plus Trump's strong negatives, will likely sweep the New Savior into office. Just wait. The media will be gushing over the new guy or gal, and it'll be like Jesus' 2nd Coming on MSNBC. Just wait for it.
At some point in the next 10 months, the press will pivot on mRNA vaccines and place the blame squarely on Trump, and half the MAGA crowd will turn on him, making him unelectable, when the details of Operation Warp Speed come out. Just wait. It's coming. They're going to blame their authoritarian COVID response on Trump, even down to the censorship, to keep people from questioning the mad push to run medical experiments on all of humanity.
Remember, Trump brought in the Defense Department to that operation. DOD overruled numerous concerned scientists early on. "We need it NOW." Just wait for it.
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A self-professed "anarcho-communist."
He does make a good point about the War on Drugs, though. We make millions into law-breakers, rather than treat them like citizens with a medical condition. If you smoke weed or do hard drugs, you don't want cops around, and you're suspicious of cops.
There's no reason for that. A druggie should just be another intoxicated citizen, who may need to spend the night in the drunk tank. But making the drugs, themselves, illegal, the cops are out there enforcing laws that otherwise good and nonviolent people break every day. And they create an ecological niche for organized crime.
We DO need to stop feeding the prison industrial complex. We do need to stop feeding MS13 and all other drug gangs. Drug abuse isn't something you fix by criminalizing it. Legalize it. Tax it. Install clinics with those funds from purchase of the drugs, right next door to the drug store, which should operate a lot like state-licensed liquor stores.
That's how you grapple with evils like alcohol. Tax it and hold people strictly accountable for their actions.
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Yes, he's terrible, but let's stick to policy, where he's also terrible. His policies are the DNC's policies. Nobody they put forward is worth my vote, because of open borders, transgender ideology, unrestrained growth of government, political persecution of political opposition, unrestrained spending, weaponization of government agencies, ... I'm sure I'm leaving a bunch of things out. Oh yeah. The DNC despises liberty.
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Mainman Mademan : Trump's the first president to meet with the North Korean dictator. Trump stood up to our trading partners in trade negotiations. Trump's cut off our illegal support of ISIS rebels in Syria, and in return, the Iranians will NOT be sending troops to the Israeli border. He's held the line against Putin, without antagonizing him. He's absolutely correct in NOT writing checks our asses can't cash on matters such as the Crimea, which has been in and out of Russian hands for centuries and has a Russian majority population...
Let's see. What else? He hasn't weaponized the powers of his office to railroad private citizens.
He's actually pushing for a SANE immigration policy, and winning the conversation, there. (Wait and see. Immigration will be the decider and the Dems are on the wrong side of this one.).
He's trying to break the education monopoly with school vouchers. Choice in education for all is a right. The current system sends you to the nearest monopoly outlet, and you're stuck with the neighborhood you can afford to live in, when it comes to public education. The biggest obstacle to immediate and profound improvements and cost savings to our young people is the Education Establishment, which only knows how to grow bureaucracy, raise prices, and pander to idiot SJWs.
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If the Supreme Court did its job, it would strike down the entire "Communications Decency Act" as a violation of the U.S. Constitution. The federal government should be silent on all matters related to speech, except in cases of incitement to violence and threats of violence, and even THERE, we already have criminal statutes in every state covering actual violent speech (not the SJW definition). Beyond that, "Congress shall make no law..." Seems pretty clear to me.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
To my simple mind, that means Section 230 is only one part of a piece of legislation that should've been abolished by The Supremes as soon as it passed. Special privileges dispensed to any person or organization violates Equal Protection under the law, also part of our constitution. It's all trash, and these guys are splitting hairs on irrelevancies. I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty good at logic.
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I think it's GREAT that the CCP is finally being held accountable by SOMEBODY in the Free World! It's exposing how un-sound the rotten system they have in China is. We're finally going to stop propping up the dictatorship that's held down some really great people for decades. Hong Kong's a big deal, but there are a billion people under this Communist crime syndicate. The only way they can compete with us is by cheating the international trade system and stealing Western innovations that their totalitarian regime is absolutely unable to produce.
Sure they can spy on us, steal all our stuff, and then invest only on things they haven't stolen, and steal a march, here and there, but people simply aren't as creative under an authoritarian, confiscatory scheme. The only place where they're doing well is in their exports sector, which is the only sector they model along free-market lines. They're gonna lose a lot of that, if USA requires them to play fair or not play at all. Well, they're also doing well is Hong Kong, but they're finding out they can't control Hong Kong without destroying what makes it special.
I've been afraid of what China's been doing for a long time. Only now, with Trump needling them on key issues, am I seeing just how fragile their system is, and how steeped in corruption it is. If it weren't for them cheating in international markets and flagrantly flouting IMF rules they agreed to abide by but do NOT, their economy would have tanked long ago.
For them to compete, fairly, they have to create a strong cadre of educated middle-class workers. But that's the exact thing their system can not allow if they wish to remain in power. They're damned if they do and they're damned if they don't.
Now all I'm worried about is how much harm they're likely to do, if, as I expect, the CCP perceives an existential threat to itself. I worry about all the people - mostly Chinese - who are likely to be hurt.
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It's a weird deal. How do we own what we and Europe have done in the region? We despise regressive Islam, but I can easily imagine Christian war leaders springing up in the mountains and vales of our countries if the shoe were on the other foot and we were beset by Islamic conquerors, who insist on re-drawing the maps of Europe and North America.
Obama got at least part of our turbulent history in the Middle East. I'm pretty sure he had little idea how to set things right, for the present and on into the future. Create a vacuum and something unwholesome invariably takes its place.
The real trick is to somehow disengage, leaving MORE stability and peace in our wake. I'm not sure Trump gets it, but I'm pretty sure Obama was on a one-world, authoritarian setup. I'm all for one world, but it's gotta come from the ground up, with civilized countries voluntarily joining other civilized countries. The trouble is, many nations - often due to colonial mind-set in Europe and creeping into American values - just aren't very civilized.
You can't have open borders when folks on the other side are either bad news or FLEEING bad news, and raised in cultures that don't understand Human Rights of Person and Property. In fact, the West, itself, is busy trying to dismantle human rights in favor of the Greater Good, which is ALWAYS the clarion cry of Protection Racketeers.
But if all countries respected basic human rights, folks would live well and secure on both sides of borders, and borders wouldn't matter. Trouble is, there are too many people who believe in using force to make all things right, and more and more people are giving more and more power to central authority, which is exactly the wrong way to go. Sovereign individuals are smarter and care more for the planet than government hierarchies.
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@susanpepper148 : I'm no lawyer, but YES. Many states require both parties to consent to recording. Sounds like Napolitano is once again talking out of his ass. BUT, if nothing is DONE with the recordings and they never come to light, then "no harm, no foul." It MAY relate more to using those recordings for anything. Certainly not admissible in court in a 2-party-consent state.
And yeah, Google, who OWNs YouTube, to put a mic in a device and not tell anyone is NOT an oversight. It's just dishonest and despicable. Need other platforms than YouTube to step up and take over. Google's a bunch of lying, partisan assholes.
As to the reporting, I'm not sure. Certainly all outlets who repeated the Covington (and the Jussie Smollett) narratives didn't do their due diligence. I'm not sure where it crosses the line into slander/libel, when you simply repeat what others report. But you definitely don't want to watch/read the news from ANY of the outfits who pushed the narratives, because you know they're irresponsible and pumping out Fake News. Basically, EVERYone listed in the Covington suit are bad actors and nobody should be paying any attention to them. Rather than going after them, I think the ultimate answer is simply turning AWAY from them.
Oh. And you needn't shout. And paragraphs are always nice.
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I guess I'm in the minority on this one. Elliott Abrams was in the thick of Iran Contra and other nasty undertakings in Central America in the '80s. He was a big part of covert U.S. actions to supply anti-Sandinistas in El Salvador, in direct contravention of laws passed by Congress. He plead guilty to a MISDEMEANOR charge of lying to Congress about money solicited from Brunei and the whole covert network of crooks and rebels used to illegally supply rebels with guns.
It's the EXACT kind of thing that Trump SAID he was running AGAINST. If this disarray at the top of his foreign and national-security staff of NeoCons persists, Trump is going to lose a lot of his base. The people want a smaller military footprint around the world, and want people to exercise self-determination, rather than have it imposed by US. We should be pals with Venezuela. We should be the best friend all of those countries have. Venezuela is rich in heavy crude. Let them sort things out. There was already a legitimate widespread opposition to Maduro's way of doing things. Let it ripen. Don't interfere.
But I'm still hopeful that the neocon BS we're seeing right now is just posturing by Trump. He's not above planting a thorn in everybody's side, just so he can remove it, later, and get a better deal. Pompeo, Bolton, Abrams... They either Come to Jesus, and fall in line with Trump's overall goals, or they need to go. I was all ready to vote Trump, 2020, but I'll vote 3rd-party, again, if this neocon BS persists.
This might be the ONLY issue I'm going to side with Omar on. I'm also willing to listen to her on some of our wackier positions on Israel. Supporting a sovereign nation's sovereignty is one thing. But making it illegal, here, to even talk against Israel or dis-invest in Israel, which is every American's right? That's some over-the-top BS I hear being pushed in some places, in the guise of fighting anti-Semitism, and I'm not buying it. And, partly due to our own religious traditions, I do think that Israel exercises far too much influence on our foreign policy.
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@mar-a-lagofbibug8833 : LOL! Who's in jail and what did they lie about? There are 5 people, and NONE of them were convicted of crimes related to the RussiaGate investigation. Here we have people we KNOW have abused power, and all you can do is bring up Manaforte, Cohen, Papadopoulis, Flynn, Gates, and the last on this list is in jail for what he did working for Manaforte before Trump's presidency was a gleam in Trump's eye.
You point at all these indictments, many of which could be issued against 70% of careerists in Washington, DC, Foreign Agents Registration Act, that Flynn didn't even know he needed to file, and then he was given a 10-page maze of a form to fill out, when for everyone else in the country, it's a 1-page, simple form, which many lobbyists who KNOW they're working for a foreign government don't file. How many are actually in jail? At most, 3. None of them for anything they did related to the main investigation. If I asked you who won in 2016, you'd tell me Trump came in next to last and Clinton came in 2nd. You're either a liar or an uncritical consumer-and-spreader of lies. And what truth you tell is very distorted. Pathological.
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