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As we continue to subsidize and criminalize profits I'd wager we will continue to decline
The Trump Presidency
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As we continue to subsidize and criminalize profits I'd wager we will continue to decline
57Brave
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Eric Holthaus
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Jan 1
Eric Holthaus Retweeted Dr. Eric Kaplan
Puerto Rico, Day 103:
—About 1.5 million people still w/o power
—Hundreds of thousands still w/o clean water
—Still a humanitarian emergency
It's New Year's Day. Puerto Rico is still in crisis. One of the worst injustices in American history is still being ignored by leaders.
Verified account @EricHolthaus
Jan 1
Eric Holthaus Retweeted Dr. Eric Kaplan
Puerto Rico, Day 103:
—About 1.5 million people still w/o power
—Hundreds of thousands still w/o clean water
—Still a humanitarian emergency
It's New Year's Day. Puerto Rico is still in crisis. One of the worst injustices in American history is still being ignored by leaders.
His results are so good but his tact is so bad. What a shame.
CK86
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He's been doing it all day today. It's just crazy to me this moron is the president of our country.
VirginiaBrave
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The man is a nut job. And the Republican Congress better grow a pair and remove him from office before the untinkable happens. He has put us all in danger.
bravesnumberone
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Makes a fool of himself every day and half the country follows him in lock step. They value their allegiance to him over the sake of the country and the world. The man is not stable and if people can't see that they're blind.
No. The threat of war is always present, and if NK starts a nuclear war they get obliterated. They know this regardless of what our idiot president says.
Just food for thought. The president is crazy but ISIS has been dealt a near death blow. We may see an overthrow of the theocratic regime in Iran. North Korea willing to open a dialogue with south korea.
If someone told you a year ago those three things would happen or possibly happen you would have thought they were insane. So just all coincidence?
Runnin
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Working for North Korea.
Runnin
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No one can pretend to be shocked anymore. That's exactly what I would expect him to say. It might be frightening if he were an otherwise competent President whose words had real meaning.
Oklahomahawk
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It's OVER 5,000!
The smartest Foreign Policy, and specifically North Korea, scholars will tell you that Trump's twitter antics have actually been quite an asset in dealing with the current regime in North Korea. We have had plenty of the typical FoPo wonks swing and miss at getting NK to halt nuclear progress over the past 25 years. This administration is the first to not be laughed at and taken advantage of. While I don't think this strategy would work with many in the international community, it seems perfect for NK.
We've given the bully detention, suspension, and taken away his lunch money. It hasn't helped. At some point you need someone to walk onto the playground and let the bully know he isn't the only one in the school willing to throw down.
Austin Bay from Strategy Page explains the deliberate strategy behind all of this here, via The Observer and Real Clear Defense - http://observer.com/2017/08/donald-trump-north-korea-diplomatic-military-strategy/.
As an aside, Real Clear Defense is a must scan if you have interest in the current US/Asia happenings. It curates Defense and FoPo articles from a broad ideological spectrum and finds all of the best sources and sharpest minds in those areas.