Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "The Atlantic" channel.

  1. A sick man, appointed by the Electoral College -- revenge of the slaveholders of 1789. Two consecutive defeated Republican Presidents have now lost the popular vote but then made President by perfectly Constitutional anti-democratic bodies. The cost of the first was hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives, of the second many tens of thousands of American.
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  2. Not quite. The program Trump has taken to implementing is what a tiny minority, "malefactors of great wealth," wanted -- and oddly is not the program he campaigned on. Trump's campaign persona is what a large minority of Americans can be persuaded they want. What we are seeing is a demagogue for the centuries, a very highly skilled performer who has honed his skills through two generations of posing. He posed as a businessman for thirty years, and managed to destroy one of the great American fortunes, that of his grandfather and father. For roughly $400 million of his own money and $1.9 billion of so-far unpaid debts still on the books from Atlantic city, he learned what? He learned how to pose as a businessman while wasting $2.3 billion dollars. Then through a lifetime of promotion and fifteen year on television, he learned how to take direction on television. In all of this he learned how to manipulate some audiences. Period.
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  3.  @jvh8806  Although Covid did not exist until after Trump became President, President Obama left the government with medical liaison officers in Beijing and an Epidemic emergency apparatus in Homeland Security. Trump abolished both. Obama's precautions were positive, appropriate, prudent. Trump's reaction was negative, inappropriate -- and cost unnecessary deaths of many many Americans.
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  4. It is true that Trump is an egomaniac, but that's not all. He is also an incompetent, a wastrel, and a barstool reactionary dolt. If nobody had ever talked about him, he would have wrecked the country in private in the dark, OK? Is that what you wanted, Mattia?
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  5.  @MercuryRisingFast  The United States has been a democracy in principle since at least the 19th Amendment in 1920, and has been getting pretty close since the Civil Rights Acts of the '60's and onward. It's getting there, and all decent Americans are working on the proposition.
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  6. Anonymous OFlowO, Um, nuthin' the matter with evaluating situations any time.
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  7. Hope the violinist is being paid well. But no, I'm outta here. Bathetic.
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  8. I dunno, don't doorknobs outrun bar codes about three to one?
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  9. Evangelicals are Republicans. Christians are Democrats. Next question.
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  10. Trump looks really, really weird here: he's wearing a sensible, even handsome, tie.
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  11. It's picking itself up, dusting itself off now, or at least trying. 'Course Trump has made America's word worthless and it will take a couple of decades to repair the damage...
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  12. There is no sin and no damnation outside the churches. "Nice little soul you got there, pity if anything were to happen to it" is the extortion racket almost all of them exist on.
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  13. It's no different on a quasi-serious channel like The Atlantic's: you still look silly with those plastic thingies sticking out of your ears.
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  14. Miami doomed? Hell, the whole State of Florida is doomed. The only thing that's going to be left will be Mar-a-Lago, thanks to the wall about to be built by the Army Corps of Engineers. Sea-wall, that is. It's going to be a race against time, but if we assume the Engineers can build the wall six inches a day they should be able to get something like the Hoover Dam built all around the property before Trump's impeachment makes the Executive Orders run out.
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  15. Can somebody please toss him a dog biscuit?
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  16. Nope. In the beginning was the word. It just keeps on. And on. And on...
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  17. Two words: capital levy. Hmmm. That trillion in untaxed overseas profits that Trump just let people put into share-buy-backs on concessionary terms: that would have gone quite a way toward paying for the Cheney-Bush wars. Yeah, I know Bushlet told us to go shopping, that would liven up the economy and presumably repair all the damage from 9/11. How did that work out, GOPpies?
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  18.  @张扬-r6o  What I meant to say, in a critical aside, was a.) the main reason the American Federal government's fiscal situation is a mess is that Cheney and Bush told a lot of lies about finance. These were quite apart from the passel of lies and delusions they spread about the reasons for fighting that particular set of wars. b.) My "9/11" is only a reference to the bin Laden gang's attack on New York. That's all. Nothing subtle. My main point was that vast un-taxed profits are sitting in account books under the notional labels. These may be country names, company names, dates and times, blah-blah-blah. They add up to claiming that the "money" is "abroad." For my next encore, I could tell you about the Conservative party's Goods and Services Tax. This was a reform in the 1970s which for a while gave Canada the best tax system in the world. Other Conservatives later screwed it up...
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  19. "Build a wall"?? If it weren't for immigration, illegals and visa-stretchers included, Donnie Fats would be an incel.
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