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It's crazy to put it into perspective.
And our collective worries are larger than the size of a tangerine.
That is interesting. If I didn't know better I'd think Trump was a character created by Fleming. A vulgar, rude, brash and narcissistic billionaire who lives in a golden tower, has a shady business history, orange skin and hair tupee, whose family has a German background and changed their name to cover it up, who has a foundation which is supposed to make donations for charity but in fact goes towards personal investments, who plays golf but is not very good at it, etc...
There is plenty of material for a Bond novel here! Bernie Sanders would make a great M.
Ha! That does indeed sound like a stereotypical Fleming villain, right down to the grotesque appearance and Germanic background. Add the Russian connection (obviously Smersh!) and the book practically writes itself. At the end Bond will lead a commando team on an assault on the golden tower, after having seduced the villain's wife and beaten him at golf. And there will be the obligatory scene of Bond having to sit and listen to the villain explain his evil plan: "I have a diabolical scheme Mr. Bond. It's beautiful. It's the best scheme ever. Much better than that loser Goldfinger's. It's yuuuuge..."
Anthony Horowitz? Barbara Broccoli? Are you listening?
;)
But the Canada-EU deal is in place, and can be used as a backdoor in the near future.
I have to give it to you, I 100% agree with that statement.
This uprising with the means that democracy provides is needed and Brexit and Trump only were the start.
The (lower) middle class is finished turning the other cheek, they make themselves heard, finally.
That's the good thing about it.
But okay, let him prove his worth. Let him change things. I doubt he will though. The world is a very complicated place. One of democracy's weaknesses (or strengths?) is that it usually doesn't allow for sudden changes. A dictatorship would have suited Trump better to push his plans through, but now he shall have to shake a lot of hands, please a lot of people and start working on his next campaign. The following years may end up some of the most wasted years in the recent history of America.
I hope I'm wrong of course.
Yes, but with Clinton it would have been upon us for sure. So - there is hope.
There is hope, that in the wake of a closer relation with Russia, other problems will be solved regarding the East and some...the more people realise - finally - that they are much stronger then those, who "seem" to have the power, the more will they use this power and stick it to them - up their very a***.
If they realise, they acted like stupid marionettes, swalloing everything they were fed - and with that I mean ALL, also the seemingly intelligent ones, instead of thinking for themselves, something good might come out of that.
You know the picture of a circle drawn on a piece of paper. Put an ant into it - it will stay within the circle. That's what we do. Break freee of that circle. Its but an illusion!!
You realize they have given the GOP the absolute power of the president, the congress and the senate. The party that has held back America with its conservative, pro elite politics for decades? Who for a period of more than hundred years has done everything in its power to block every wellfare reform promoted by the Democratic party? Who's policy is based on denying the less fortunate basic rights?
If anything this yet again shows how confused American politics is. There is nothing which Trump or his party stands for that will help the American working class, on the contrary it will only make the situation worse. Yet they manically vote for him in the hope that he is their saviour simply because he is a business man?
It is depressing and tragic, that's what it is.
The reason is that the Republicans did everything in the power to make sure it would not work. It has been explained several times on this forum already. And it is one of the factors that won them the election this time. Well played! =D>
Obama's entire period in office has been about fighting against a Republican majority in the senate that has systematically worked against him. That should really be public knowledge by now... Yet he has managed to stabilize the economy somewhat, cut back on the unemployment rate. Not that the middle class watching Fox News has catched up on that though. For them he is to blame for everything Bush left behind. Another Republican masterstroke. =D>
Same overall, but at the end of the day
Had the party you advocate done a proper job overall, none of this would have happened.
There seem to be a lot of people really unhappy. Why is that if everything is so great, that we need to have it 4 more years? Explain that.
Why should I have to explain mandatory things that anyone watching the news (not CNN before you accuse me of that) over the last decade should know?
The Bush administration was a disaster! Expensive, exhausting wars combined with massive tax cuts. How to stabilize budgets? Massive loan deals abroad of course. In the end the bubble burst, the unemployment rate skyrocketed, USA was burried in debt, Obama inherited the worst political landscape since Franklin Roosevelt. In addition to that the Republicans had the senate, and proclaimed their 'job was to make sure he is a one term president'. They failed but not for lack of trying. Those are the main issues the working class has to deal with. I am not making it up. Its common knowledge for those not perverted by conservative American media and propaganda.
What you wrote is indeed common knowledge, which already makes it mainstream, since its painted in black and white.
Politics, as most things, are always multi layered, so we all have points, that come closer to the truth then others.
Trump hit a nerve with many, none with others. Hilary was hated so much -why is that? Caused by the Republicans, too? Its strange, how people stop seeing her fails, caused by nobody but herself. Had she had a clean history, had she cared to actually not be corrupt and I don't even start with ISIS and co, she might have gotten the job.
How come, that a man, almost equally hated with no clean sheat either was elected?
Its an effort to turn the old upside down and hope for something new and better to come out of it. Will that happen?
I have no idea - but neither have any of you. So maybe stop moaning and wait, till there are actual reasons provided by Trump, to do so.
The Reps will alter it now or doing away with it altogether.
The voter gets what he wants.
More fool you!
Exactly! And it's the vote of those who needed the ACA the most. That, in a nutshell, is the tragic and confused paradox I am talking g about and which symbolises American politics.
I am not sure what is more interesting about your constant mentioning of the Saudi Arabian arms deal. 1) Your claim that Hillary and her foundation is the only one responsible party, and the only one guilty. Lets face it, the entire western world is in bed with Saudi Arabia. Even nice boys Sweden and Norway are supplying them with arms and cooperating on oil prices. That deserves a lot more attention and debate, I certainly agree, but it doesn't amount to the USA (let alone the Clintons) alone, it is a general problem. Or 2) your insistence that it has affected her popularity in this election. That topic hasn't been on the agenda at all. The accusations against Hillary are fueled by the general claim that she is a liar, and the business of the email server. Both factors completely blown out of proportions by the conservative propaganda machine.
2) It did affect her, as it was a topic in the emails reg her foindation.
Lets agree to not agree,but we are going in circles here and that is tiring.
I did not go to public high school, private school actually. All my college classes were government and history classes. Straight A student. The fact that people compare Trump to Hitler is very offensive.. I know I am young but I am not stupid. I grew up visiting our capitol and going to compaign/election parties. I know more about politics then most guys around my age.
Not once did I say I hate anyone who is not white. LOL. I won a national and state basketball championship and at one point was the only white guy on my team. I have family members who are mixed, half Mexican and half white.
I have friends who are Muslim and of brown skin. Being here illegally is against the law last time I checked and until you take a visit to the border and see swat teams and tanks fighting cartel members then you have no say.
I respect your views but like I said there's good people coming in across the border and also tons of cartel members are pouring in.
Wanting to strengthen our borders is not racist.