Like I said, I think that Trump probably doesn't know the rudiments of how the government functions, much fathom its deeper complexities. You can probably make a decent argument that this matters less than we think, but it does create a situation where the President is depending that much more on the people around him. That requires trusting the President's discernment and intelligence w/r/t to the people he chooses, and I have to think even the biggest Trump homers would have some concerns here.
it was also I who in July said the Dodgers were the best looking team I had seen in years.
Which has the relevance of the silly comment you made to posting jobs numbers
Yes the middle class has been in decline since the early 1980's. Wemcould look at graphs and charts and explanations of graphs and charts until the cow come home.
This isn't some new idea.
A jobs report from 2 years ago doesn't change that.
Unless that single report becomes a piece of a pattern to reverse the gutting of the middle class. Since 1980
The decline from 2016 to 17 speaks only to the fallacious notion that Trump has taken a weak jobs market and turned it around.
Numbers tell a different story
Sturg, it is becoming more and more apparent, you have nothing to say.
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The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
Sigh. I'm sad that people like you make so many decisions in this country
Yeah, there are some strange blind spots here.
The pace of job growth has slowed because we're at full employment.
How'd we get to full employment?
During the Obama Depression, apparently. Seems like we'd have been too busy boiling shoe leather to eat and running around saving our relatives from death panels.
I don't think Trump has good judgment at all.
But i think he does less harm than his predecessors because he's involving government less. Honestly if does nothing else in his Presidency, the regulation gutting and tax cuts are a big win.
Hopefully, more horrible government law will be destroyed, but one step at a time
Tell me more about the retired grandmother
she got 66M votes but was the victim of a targeted foreign propaganda campaign aimed at Libertarians and Greens.
Her opponent netted 62-3 M
Go read a book
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
I'm currently reading "The Innovator's Delemna"
Highly recommended
I'd like to learn more about this targeted foreign propaganda campaign. What was the propaganda?
there is no such thing as "what was the propaganda"
but of course nuance is brushed over if not totally ignored in pseudo intellectual business manuals.
I am re reading Alice in Wonderland and after that planning of going back through Robert Louis Stevenson
then with baseball season -------------- hoping for recommendations of baseball related books
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The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
this interesting take:
Seth Abramson
Verified account @SethAbramson
17m17 minutes ago
Seth Abramson Retweeted Jules
Trump wanted a long-term relationship with Russian business interests and Kremlin officials
so that when he lost he could do what he and Don Jr. always wanted: expand into Russia.
Taking aid helped build a relationship; being seen to be fighting hard to win helped build goodwill.
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
Seth Abramson
Verified account @SethAbramson
1h1 hour ago
A core truth we've learned from the Wolff book that many are overlooking:
the fact that Trump didn't want or expect to be president means he didn't want
or intend to help ANY of those he claimed to want to help, and instead intended
to leave them with Clinton as their president.
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
We really need socialized medicine.
Sigh.
The attack I am referring to, on the ROKS Cheonan, happened in 2010.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...inking-torpedo
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapc...ort/index.html
They even made a movie about it:
Same father, different mother. Call them siblings ... or don't. The point remains.The deal in Malaysia was on his half brother, fratricide, not genocide.
Actually, I was incorrect. VX nerve gas was used in the assassination.Calling it "a sarin attack" is misleading. It was an assassination.
It's the most deadly chemical agent known to man and is considered a weapon of mass destruction (and thusly, internationally banned.)
So, let's call it a "VX assassination" ... does that straighten things out for you?
Or are you disputing that VX was indeed used in the ___ assassination ____?
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...-malaysia-says
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-k...-toxic-n725131
And how, exactly, do you arrive at that conclusion?Very bad indeed, killing one of their own and further ingraining their already terrible international reputation. Politically it was a Win for the world and a double loss for NK.
The North Korean embassy is still open in Malaysia for ****'s sake.
Lol.The nuclear tests? I agree. Btw, how many bombs did the U.S. detonate in the South Pacific? The Bikini and Marshall Islands folks are still living in a radioactive dumpsite.
Spoken like a silly, entitled American who has never been conscribed.Military conscription? Boo hoo.
Why? Do you have any concept of what it entails?Maybe the U.S. should have it.
Yes, the well-being of others is truly hilarious.The Lotte Tower? Okay. Now you made me laugh.
Lol. Now this is a funny.The humanitarian crisis in NK is apparently real,
Believe it or not, there are options aside from sitting there with thumbs up asses. I've written about them, at length, in other threads about North Korea. My take in the context of this discussion is irrelevant, because the issue here is that you can't recognize North Korea as a bad actor. We haven't even gotten to the policy yet.but I say again, what are you going to do about it?
No, they are not.International sanctions are at least partially causing the starvation, just like they were meant to.
Are you just making this up because you think it sounds right? North Korea is just as "isolated internationally" as it was in 1953. They have militarized more rapidly (and meaningfully) over the course of the past 5-10 years than at any point in their history.The country has been weakened through sanctions, isolated internationally and their militarization slowed to a crawl.
A nuke is not obsolete. They don't even need an ICBM to carry it for it to be a threat to US interests.They are using all their resources for a few pieces of weaponry that may very well already be obsolete.
Hold my coffee.The Iraq War fiasco weakened America's military might and has rendered us incapable of launching another anytime soon.
We've known this, and done that, for over 50 years.Yes, they're a rogue state and their every move should be monitored vigilantly, as I said.
When all else fails, steal ideas from the Chinese.But short of rolling in the tanks, which we don't have, or putting a mushroom cloud over them, the options are limited.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/w...rder.html?_r=0
I'm not sure how you think "international condemnation" can be increased to any greater level.Publicly and officially downplay the taunts when you can, and increase international condemnation when you can't.
History proves you wrong.This is always the best option.
We already know exactly where all North Korea's launch sites and bunkers are. And they have dedicated facilities for this type of thing.Covertly you do everything you can to find the launch sites and bunkers. I believe they launch from public airports.
Been there, done that, dude.String them along. Maybe offer some humanitarian aide to ease the pressure. Here's an idea: send them a boatload of crappy American food and let them deal with obesity and diabetes.
I think we'll see Kim visit the White House sometime during Trump's second term."the Japanese ... the Chinese ... the Russians" .... please continue. ....should meet with what's left of our crippled State Dept. and collectively decide what to do about the NK situation? That would be hilarious. Do you really want a President Trump anywhere near a serious international peace negotiation???
Lol. Did you really just write that?Your view on this issue is pure partisan cheerleading, hypercritical on Obama while fantasizing that Trump isn't a bumbling bafoon. Obama was very proactive in seeking out terror leadership. A few hundred drone strikes and his capture of Bin Laden say he was aware of that reality.
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Wow at that last point made on Obama.
Keep falling for it guys...
I worked in Seoul, teaching business English to LG salarymen and Asiana flight attendants, for a time between undergrad and grad school. It was the best job (and most fun) I've ever had in my life.
My significant other is a Korean citizen - we met in Seoul a few years ago. I spend about 3 months of the year in East Asia, split between work and personal excursions.
Have you visited Korea?
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