The Trump Presidency

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Quantum Quack said:
Are extreme climate events also being normalized?
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Quite simply... yes. Data suggests they are becoming more normal, as would seem to be expected from climate change. The more often such things happen, the more normalised they become.
Not able to easily post links but just Google"extreme weather frequency" for examples of reports into the matter.
 
Sarkus said:
Quite simply... yes. Data suggests they are becoming more normal, as would seem to be expected from climate change. The more often such things happen, the more normalised they become.
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As is failure to deal with them as was expected of government in the recent past.
The continuing display of incompetence in the handling of the impact of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico, for example, is hardly even news any more.
 
Quantum Quack said:
Has Trump offered any condolences to the victim' families (and Japan generally) of the recent flooding in Japan?
200+dead, massive damage bill etc...
Extraordinary and extreme climate event.

It is worth noting that many national leaders (including Australian) that would typically offer such have somehow managed to refrain from doing so.... why is that do you think?
Are extreme climate events also being normalized?
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Wouldn't that require empathy and/or compassion? Two traits I have never seen him display. A large swath of America has given him a pass on something that was once required of a president. I suppose since the economy which he had nothing to do with is doing grand anything is excusable.
 
Is there a Trumpster around that can translate what he said yesterday?

‘We would make a great deal with the United Kingdom because they have product that we like,” Trump said. “I mean they have a lot of great product. They make phenomenal things, you know, and you have different names – you can say ‘England’, you can say ‘UK’, you can say ‘United Kingdom’ … the fact is you make great product, you make great things. Even your farm product is so fantastic.”​
 
Dr_Toad said:
Let me try: He's a buffoon.

But he's better than an insane old woman.
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soo the american political system is a facist dictatorship.

your saying he is a better facist than she is.

yet there is 2 party where all the money sits...

sounds like post apocalyptic mansplaining
 
Other than Roseanne, I can't think of any female presidential candidate in my lifetime that Trump would have an advantage regarding mental stability.
 
Capracus said:
Other than Roseanne, I can't think of any female presidential candidate in my lifetime that Trump would have an advantage regarding mental stability.
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the entire republican campaign was about normalising the mistrust of women as being mentally unstable by their very nature.

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Dr_Toad said:
"So, you're saying..."

You're an example of mental instability, if you ask me. But since you didn't, it's still relevant.
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Your kidding?
Seriously....
  • A man who sits there pointing a "shotty" at his front door..
  • Mexican border stealing babies from parents with out records being kept.
  • A POTUS that is hell bent on destroying international stability ( world order )
  • Every trade deal and military deal has been compromised.
  • Global trust and faith in the USA at an all time low....

and you wish to accuse someone of mental instability?
Hypocrisy must be your forte!

trying times eh!
and maybe there is some consolation in knowing that you are not the only one...
 
Dr_Toad said:
Let me try: He's a buffoon.
But he's better than an insane old woman.
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He's not a buffoon. That's part of his schtick - his con.
And you fell for it. You bit like a baby sunfish, and that hook is never coming out.
Because to get that hook out you would have to face the fact that you swallowed it.
You got played for chump, right in front of God and everybody, by a standard fascist demagogue and his supporting propaganda wing - a completely obvious, historically stereotypical, right down the middle of the plate, tinhorn Mussolini fronting an organized fascist movement.
And in allowing that, you betrayed your friends and your family and your community and your State and your country. You betrayed every cross in Arlington.
You can't face that.

Meanwhile, it turns out that like everything else wrong with the larger world, Trump is connected to soccer:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...sia-red-card-book_us_5b48e94fe4b0bc69a78700e8
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It was a time when Christopher Steele’s name didn’t mean anything. But what I figured out over time is that this had nothing to do with sour grapes, and the FBI agents who opened the case didn’t really care about losing the World Cup. - - -
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What happened was that the investigation began in July or August 2010, four or five months before the vote happened. It starts because this FBI agent, who’s a long-term Genovese crime squad guy, gets a new squad - - - - So this agent looked for cases that he thought would score points with Mueller. And one of the cases they’re doing involves the Trump Tower. It’s this illegal poker game and sports book that’s partially run out of the Trump Tower. The main guy was a Russian mobster, and the FBI agent had gone to London ― that’s how he met Steele ― to learn about this guy. Steele told him what he knew, and they parted amicably, and the parting shot was, “Listen, if you have any other interesting leads in the future, let me know.”
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It’s tempting to look at this as a reflection of the general U.S. writ large obsession with Russia, which certainly exists, but it’s also a different era. This was 2009, 2010. This was during the Russian reset. It was Obama’s first two years in office. He’s hugging Putin and talking about how they’re going to make things work. Russia is playing nice-nice. The public image is fairly positive in that period. It wasn’t, “Russia’s the great enemy.” It was more like, “Russia can be our friend!”
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The very same FBI agent that he gave the tip on FIFA to was the agent he calls up in 2016 to say, “I have another dossier.”
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This is just a year after the arrests in Zurich, and the FBI and DOJ are feeling very good about the FIFA case, and they’re feeling very good about their relationship with Christopher Steele.- - -
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